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Cheeks out!? Max Muncy takes us inside Dodgers celebrations + Teams using AI to identify pitch tips? · Foul Territory

• 0:13
  Speaker 1: All right. There he is.
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  Speaker 2: Are you, first of all, before we Max Muncy joining
• 0:15
  Speaker 2: us from the Los Angeles Dodgers, are you hung over?
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: Are you sober? Are you recovered?
• 0:23
  Speaker 3: Uh, you know, we're, we're, we're good. We're in a
• 0:24
  Speaker 3: good spot. We, uh, got a nice little workout today
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  Speaker 3: and then, uh, we'll see in Milwaukee.
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: Do you guys have, you guys have today?
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  Speaker 3: What's up?
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: You guys leave today. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to get there early.
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  Speaker 4: Check in and, uh, um, You know, just make sure
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  Speaker 4: you're ready to play.
• 0:46
  Speaker 5: Do you need somebody to talk smack about you guys?
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  Speaker 5: Do you guys need some bulletin board material? Is that
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  Speaker 5: how it goes? Like the off day, you need somebody
• 0:52
  Speaker 5: to be like, the Dodgers, they're washed or whatever. We're
• 0:56
  Speaker 5: talking about, I don't know if you could hear it.
• 0:59
  Speaker 5: We're talking about bulletin board material. Do you guys need
• 1:01
  Speaker 5: bulletin board material? Or is it something that it does
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  Speaker 5: like blip your radar a little bit?
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  Speaker 3: No, you don't need that. And it's like you guys
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  Speaker 3: are saying in postseason.
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  Speaker 4: If you need any extra any extra giddy up, you're
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  Speaker 4: probably in a bad spot.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't we don't need it.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Max, when Dave Roberts said brought up Kike and
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  Speaker 2: Kike said his line like this is what I do.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to use the exact quote because there's
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  Speaker 2: some bad words in there. uh did you look up
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  Speaker 2: and say what about me this is what i do
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  Speaker 2: in the postseason too i just hit homers every single
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  Speaker 2: game and play make unbelievable plays a third when you
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  Speaker 2: put me out there skip.
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  Speaker 4: No no uh you know that's that's kind of the
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  Speaker 4: beauty of where i've been at you know in this
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  Speaker 4: organization on this roster a little bit under the radar
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  Speaker 4: that's how i've always liked it and uh you know
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  Speaker 4: i i don't mind it i'm gonna keep going out
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  Speaker 4: there and doing my thing and you know as long
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  Speaker 4: as the team wins it's.
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  Speaker 3: Always been the most important thing to me and You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's fun. It's fun for me.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like, you know, you're kind of like just the,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the hidden giant a little bit. They worry
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  Speaker 4: about everyone else and you can kind of go in
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  Speaker 4: there and stink attack them a little bit. So for me,
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  Speaker 4: it's always been fun. I like my role.
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  Speaker 3: I've always understood it and I always loved it. I'm
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  Speaker 3: happy with where I'm at.
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  Speaker 4: And then the Kike thing, that's a, you know, that
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  Speaker 4: was a, it's a little bit of an inside joke
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  Speaker 4: on the quote. So I don't want people to think
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  Speaker 4: that that was a bad thing of him saying. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's a little bit of an inside joke. It was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Bad thing. That was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: It was so, I was like a perfect, it was
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  Speaker 2: exactly how I thought Kike Hernandez, if someone said that
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  Speaker 2: to him would answer the question, he nailed it.
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  Speaker 1: Like to me, it's what I do. Like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like that, that was awesome. It was perfect.
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  Speaker 5: I got one more.
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  Speaker 3: All right. What'd you get?
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  Speaker 5: His interview post game. Is he a hundred percent like
• 2:51
  Speaker 5: his interview post game? Cause he's been on here a
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  Speaker 5: couple of times. He said, he goes, Well, you know,
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  Speaker 5: because the question was, you know, your postseason Kike, October Kike.
• 3:01
  Speaker 5: And he was like, I really don't like talking about
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  Speaker 5: it because I feel like I'm getting lucky. Like this
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  Speaker 5: dude has been doing it for like 350 at-bats. Does
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  Speaker 5: he really walk around and think that? Obviously he has
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  Speaker 5: to have confidence. But when I hear that, it makes
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  Speaker 5: me laugh.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, there's just certain– there's certain guys that
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  Speaker 4: when this time of year rolls.
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  Speaker 3: Around, they know how to lock it in a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more.
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  Speaker 4: And he's definitely one of them. You know, it goes
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  Speaker 4: to the preparation, goes to mindset, it goes to experience.
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  Speaker 4: There's a whole bunch of things that go into it,
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  Speaker 4: but he has all of it. And, you know, there's
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  Speaker 4: arguably no one more prepared than he is in the postseason,
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  Speaker 4: just the amount of homework and stuff that he does
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  Speaker 4: and his ability to lock it in this time of year.
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  Speaker 3: It's second to none. And, you know, it's very infectious.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot of guys that try to see what
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  Speaker 4: he does and they start realizing how much it works.
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  Speaker 4: And so they start trying to take after him. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's just one of the key pieces that
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  Speaker 4: we have.
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  Speaker 5: Do you feel like making a move like– you said it.
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  Speaker 5: You're like, oh, I came off the bench. I didn't
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  Speaker 5: start two of the games. Do you feel like bringing–
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  Speaker 5: or putting Max Muncy on the bench is a panic move?
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  Speaker 5: And the reason I ask that is because a lot
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  Speaker 5: of managers that are now eliminated didn't make moves that
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  Speaker 5: the manager– that people were like, wow, we should have
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  Speaker 5: done this. Isn't all the moves in the postseason– to
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  Speaker 5: win no matter who's doing what and no matter where
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  Speaker 5: they are or what they have done it's to win
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  Speaker 5: that night.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah you're trying to win you know every single game
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  Speaker 4: but you you can't you can't ever plan ahead with
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  Speaker 4: the exception of like a few moments you have to
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  Speaker 4: win in that moment right there you can't try to
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  Speaker 4: say well we're trying to set up this and that
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  Speaker 4: and you know we're trying to move forward with the
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  Speaker 4: you have to do everything you can for that night
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  Speaker 4: to when you saw it last night with the guardians
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  Speaker 4: they brought in gavin williams to close out the game
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  Speaker 4: um you know you would think he'd be starting game
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  Speaker 4: five but you have to do what you have to,
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  Speaker 4: to win that game. And you know, for, for, for
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  Speaker 4: me coming off the bench, it makes it that much
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  Speaker 4: tougher for the opposing manager, because the way doc writes
• 5:01
  Speaker 4: the lineups, you have certain spots where you'd slot me in,
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  Speaker 4: in a pinch hit role. And it makes the opposing
• 5:05
  Speaker 4: manager have to think, you know, do I want to
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  Speaker 4: bring in this reliever to face these two righties? Knowing
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  Speaker 4: one of them is going to get pinch hit for,
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  Speaker 4: do I keep the lefty in there, which is a
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  Speaker 4: better matchup for some of our guys. And, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I think you saw that in game three, They used
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  Speaker 4: every single lefty they had in the pen before going
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  Speaker 4: to a righty. And, you know, that's just part of
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  Speaker 4: the chess match that Doc likes to play. And, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I think it makes it easier on him knowing that
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  Speaker 4: I'm on board with it 100% of the way. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not complaining about, you know, whether I'm starting or not.
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  Speaker 4: You go out there, you're going to have an impact
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  Speaker 4: on the game either way.
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  Speaker 2: So you're saying you wouldn't be upset if you didn't start. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: because there's been players that have come out and said,
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  Speaker 2: I'm mad if I don't start. But that's good to
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  Speaker 2: hear that that's not you, Max. I would never ever
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  Speaker 2: expect you to say something like that. The other day
• 5:56
  Speaker 2: when you guys clinched, it was Marcus's birthday. Did you
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  Speaker 2: guys do anything special for Marcus after you guys clinched?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we got off the plane and flew back home.
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  Speaker 1: Laughter That was it? There was no singing? There was
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  Speaker 1: no anything? No cake?
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  Speaker 2: And Marcus is Mookie, by the way, so for people
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  Speaker 2: out there that don't know. Nobody did anything special for him?
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  Speaker 2: Like sing to him on the plane or anything?
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  Speaker 4: No, our gift to him was we were going to
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  Speaker 4: soak him in champagne.
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  Speaker 3: We told him that before the game, and we made
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  Speaker 3: that one happen.
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  Speaker 5: All right, that's a good gift. That's a great gift.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like you can just do what you want.
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  Speaker 5: You saw Scoogle's interview, or maybe you didn't, or maybe
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  Speaker 5: you were part of it. Is there something with you guys,
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  Speaker 5: or is there a culprit of the beers in places
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  Speaker 5: he can't mention? Is that like this year's thing for
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  Speaker 5: you guys, or is somebody the culprit of that?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how that started, man. I'm not going
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  Speaker 3: to lie.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think there's a video of Kike shoving a
• 6:58
  Speaker 4: champagne bottle down someone's pants when we clinched the division. Yeah,
• 7:02
  Speaker 4: I don't know who or how that started, but that's
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  Speaker 4: kind of become a thing this year. Yeah, that interview
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  Speaker 4: was great. with, with David Vasse who we all, we
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  Speaker 4: all love and we love to joke around with. Um,
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  Speaker 4: and it just cracked me up that he was trying
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  Speaker 4: to get a question out for like five minutes and
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  Speaker 4: he just couldn't, he just couldn't do it. And, uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Scooble was great in that interview also, just
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  Speaker 4: some of the comments he was making and, uh, yeah, it's, it's, it's,
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  Speaker 4: those moments are fun.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, did you see the video of someone
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  Speaker 2: was naked behind the, to plastic. And as you guys kept,
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  Speaker 2: all you saw was two cheeks.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know who it was. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to know who it was, but all you saw,
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  Speaker 1: everyone was like.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to tell you. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 3: tell you who it was. I know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to know. Please don't, please don't tell
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  Speaker 1: me who it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was just absolutely hilarious that the camera was perfectly
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  Speaker 2: positioned that every guy that walked in was like, wait, there's,
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  Speaker 2: I just see two cheeks behind the plastic sheet.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, talk about.
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  Speaker 4: So on that, on that note, I want to ask
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  Speaker 4: you a question, AJ jockstrap, With no sliders underneath.
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  Speaker 5: Never.
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  Speaker 1: Never. Never. Never in my life. I can't.
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  Speaker 2: So I was a, I was a sliders, the old
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  Speaker 2: tool shed, cotton sliders, jock strap over it.
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  Speaker 1: And that was it.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't put anything else on. That was my, and
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  Speaker 2: then I put socks on and let's go to battle. Right.
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  Speaker 3: But the people, the tool sheds are still key.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, people now put the, put the, uh,
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  Speaker 2: just the jock. I would see people just wear a
• 8:31
  Speaker 2: jock and go, I'm like, ow, as a catcher, man,
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  Speaker 2: that's going to rub down there a little bit. I
• 8:36
  Speaker 2: don't need that rash coming home being like, how'd you
• 8:39
  Speaker 2: get that rash, honey?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that to me is one of the weirdest things
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  Speaker 4: about that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no sliders underneath. Yeah, this got way off
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  Speaker 3: topic real quick. Sorry about that one.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 5: This is what we're here for. Because, like, you can't
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  Speaker 5: do that. I've never, yeah. The only time I've ever
• 9:01
  Speaker 5: done that is when you do a tarp slide and
• 9:03
  Speaker 5: nobody's in the stadium. But anyway, you can't play a
• 9:05
  Speaker 5: game that way. Josue DiPaolo, his cork popped early. Was
• 9:12
  Speaker 5: that a party foul? Did you guys get on him
• 9:14
  Speaker 5: for a party foul? I mean, I didn't even know
• 9:16
  Speaker 5: he was allowed to drink alcohol. I thought he was
• 9:18
  Speaker 5: under 21. No, he's 21. He's 21. okay, who made
• 9:23
  Speaker 5: it just barely, just barely made it. Do you guys
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  Speaker 5: get on him for that? Or is there something else
• 9:27
  Speaker 5: as a rookie, but who's also a huge, like could
• 9:30
  Speaker 5: be a huge piece of this team moving forward. How
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  Speaker 5: do you guys treat him during this stretch? I just
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  Speaker 5: saw that video.
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  Speaker 4: I was waiting for it to happen because, uh, I
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  Speaker 4: saw him shaking the bottle the whole time. Doc was talking, um,
• 9:44
  Speaker 4: you know, he still had the top on there, but
• 9:45
  Speaker 4: he kept shaking it. And I was just like, man,
• 9:47
  Speaker 4: that thing's gonna pop any minute. And then it popped
• 9:48
  Speaker 4: right into his face. So I just started, I just
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  Speaker 4: started laughing. Um, You know, just a young guy, super
• 9:54
  Speaker 4: excited to get going, but you can't start shaking the
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  Speaker 4: bottle until it's right at the time.
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  Speaker 3: Otherwise it's going to, to pop real quick.
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: Max, usually the old guys have the problem with popping
• 10:04
  Speaker 2: too early, but that's a whole different thing.
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  Speaker 1: Usually the young guys can keep it in.
• 10:08
  Speaker 2: But speaking of DePaula, DePaula and Freeland have had this
• 10:13
  Speaker 2: Max Muncy candle that they are– St. Muncy that they're–
• 10:16
  Speaker 2: are you trying to steal the White Sox Pope's thunder?
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  Speaker 2: What's happening with this thing?
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 4: So that goes back to, you know, I did the
• 10:24
  Speaker 4: podcast with Mookie Betts, his, his podcast, you know, is
• 10:28
  Speaker 4: it off base or on base?
• 10:29
  Speaker 3: I can't remember what it's called, but.
• 10:32
  Speaker 4: One of the segments we were talking about, there was
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  Speaker 4: a Freddie Freeman candle that someone had sent in or
• 10:39
  Speaker 4: sent a picture in. And we were talking about how
• 10:42
  Speaker 4: much we would love for there to be like 30
• 10:44
  Speaker 4: of those candles in Freddie's locker, because we know how
• 10:46
  Speaker 4: much he would hate it. And, we were on the
• 10:49
  Speaker 4: road during that podcast. And when we got back home,
• 10:52
  Speaker 4: there was a candle in my locker. Uh, and I
• 10:55
  Speaker 4: think there was a couple other people also, but, um,
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  Speaker 4: so I just showed up in the locker and Alex
• 11:00
  Speaker 4: Freeland grabbed it during the, the home series and was
• 11:03
  Speaker 4: holding it up and I didn't know he was doing it. And,
• 11:05
  Speaker 4: you know, he was just holding it up and I
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  Speaker 4: hit the home run and he's kind of taken it
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  Speaker 4: and ran with it since then. And, uh, you know, he's, he's,
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  Speaker 4: he's been having a real good time with it. Um,
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  Speaker 4: you know, as I was saying, after the, after we
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  Speaker 4: clinched in Atlanta, um, You know, the guys that aren't
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  Speaker 4: active on the roster, they're equally as important, you know,
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  Speaker 4: to getting everyone in the right mindset.
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  Speaker 3: We kind of call them the vibe guys, the vibe crew.
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  Speaker 4: We've been doing it the last couple of years and,
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  Speaker 4: you know, they play just as much a role as
• 11:34
  Speaker 4: anyone in helping us win because they keep the dugout
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  Speaker 4: in the right mindset. They keep, you know, the energy high.
• 11:39
  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter what the situation is in the game.
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  Speaker 4: Those are the guys that are out there making sure
• 11:42
  Speaker 4: everyone's staying positive and, you know, trying to bring the
• 11:45
  Speaker 4: energy in the dugout. And, you know, for us, a
• 11:48
  Speaker 4: team like us who doesn't necessarily always play with energy
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  Speaker 4: or in a regular season, just to have those guys
• 11:52
  Speaker 4: that are constantly bringing the energy up in the post season,
• 11:56
  Speaker 4: you know, they, they're just as important as anyone else
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  Speaker 4: in my mind. They're, they're part of the reason that
• 12:01
  Speaker 4: we keep winning is we just, we found a, you know,
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  Speaker 4: a formula that works and, you know, obviously they want
• 12:06
  Speaker 4: to be active. They want to be playing. They want
• 12:08
  Speaker 4: to be out there helping us win, but they're helping
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  Speaker 4: us just as much by keeping the energy high in
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  Speaker 4: the dugout. And, you know, they're, they're vital to us.
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  Speaker 5: I love that you said that just make my career
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  Speaker 5: just validated my entire career of not playing. So I
• 12:21
  Speaker 5: appreciate that.
• 12:23
  Speaker 3: Can you explain?
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  Speaker 5: Cause not everybody's been to a 2018 to probably 2022
• 12:30
  Speaker 5: game at Dodger stadium for Max Muncy. Why it says
• 12:33
  Speaker 5: funky on your chain, on your candle. If you can
• 12:35
  Speaker 5: see the picture, I'm sure you've seen the.
• 12:37
  Speaker 3: Candle, but. Yeah. So the, the, DJ Sevier and Dieter
• 12:46
  Speaker 3: Ruhl and those guys.
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  Speaker 4: Started whenever I hit a home run they started playing
• 12:51
  Speaker 4: Brass Monkey song from the Beastie Boys and they would
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  Speaker 4: they started changing the lyrics to it to say instead
• 12:59
  Speaker 4: of Funky Monkey they started saying Funky Muncy and they
• 13:03
  Speaker 4: ran with that for several years so anytime I hit
• 13:05
  Speaker 4: a home run they'd play that song and it had
• 13:07
  Speaker 4: the lyrics changed on it but I'm not sure if
• 13:10
  Speaker 4: they got in trouble for that one or not because
• 13:11
  Speaker 4: they haven't done it for a couple of years but
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  Speaker 4: That's how Funky Muncy came about.
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  Speaker 5: When we played you guys in 18, that is still
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  Speaker 5: ingrained in my 17 and 19 year old son's head.
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  Speaker 5: And they would tell me about it, but you know,
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  Speaker 5: I don't always hear the music and stuff when I'm playing.
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  Speaker 5: So afterwards, I mean, to this day, I told him
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  Speaker 5: Max Muncy is coming on the, and they're coming on
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  Speaker 5: the show and they go, ah, Funky Muncy, now Funky Muncy.
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  Speaker 5: And I was like, so cool that it came up
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  Speaker 5: on the chain. I got a question for you. You
• 13:42
  Speaker 5: guys are always in the playoff. You'll always be in
• 13:44
  Speaker 5: the playoffs until you quit playing because I think you
• 13:47
  Speaker 5: are the stir that stirs the drink, the straw that
• 13:50
  Speaker 5: stirs the drink. But what if you guys got to
• 13:53
  Speaker 5: choose your opponent? In the new proposal by Major League Baseball,
• 13:57
  Speaker 5: they're thinking of having the highest seed choose your opponent
• 14:02
  Speaker 5: for the next round of the playoffs.
• 14:05
  Speaker 4: I get it, but I say this all the time.
• 14:08
  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter who you play in the playoffs. Everyone
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  Speaker 4: is good.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone can go on a run. Anyone can get hot.
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  Speaker 4: You can run into a certain pitching staff in just
• 14:15
  Speaker 4: a couple of games. You know, it really doesn't matter. And,
• 14:18
  Speaker 4: you know, I point to last year with us against
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: the Reds. You know, everyone wants to say how much
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: of a mismatch that was. But like Hunter Green could
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: have easily thrown seven innings, you know, one hit baseball
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  Speaker 4: against us. And all of a sudden we're in a hole.
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: You know, it just it doesn't matter who you play.
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: Any team in the postseason is good. You play 162
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: for a reason because it weeds out. you know weeds
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: out the frauds and the teams that are actually legit
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: makes the postseason and um you know so the idea
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: of picking your opponent i understand it but i just
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: don't think it would work out how people would want
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: i mean there's been several years where we felt like
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: we had the favorable matchup and then we went out
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: there and got stomped you know and it's uh it's
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: just it's just how it goes when you when you
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: get talked.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: Over max you know you guys would have picked If
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: you could go this year, you would have picked an
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: AL team. You would have said, hey, we'll take the
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: Astros in the first round. Then we'll take the Guardians
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: or White Sox in the second round. If you could
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: switch leagues, I'm just saying. But in the National League,
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: I would think this is– listen, this is the matchup
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: I want to see. This is like the heavyweight fight
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: in the National League. The two best teams, the two
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: teams you swept the Brewers last year. The Brewers are ready.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: Murph's all fired up. Man spent four days with Murph.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: He's got all his little catchphrases ready to rock and
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: roll against the Dodgers. They've got Mizorowski.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: Of course. I mean, he's, I mean, I don't know
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: how well, you know, Murphy's hilarious by the way.
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: Oh, I love Murph. I talked to him all the time.
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: I love him.
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: Um, but you know, they've got Miz lined up. They've
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: got Henderson. You guys have Scooble and Snell. Why is
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: Yamamoto not pitching game one?
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: Uh, well, I'm not, you know, I stuck that in
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: there on you. Yeah.
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: You're trying to get me in trouble. Uh, I'm not
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: the guy to, uh, ask on that one.
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: Um, But if I was to give an educated guess,
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: it just has to do with rest patterns and, you know,
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: all that kind of stuff. You know, you kind of
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: saw that with the Braves a little bit with Chris Sale.
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: You guys pitch all year on a certain rest pattern
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: and a certain schedule, and you don't necessarily want to
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: change that just because it's the postseason and get guys
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: out of rhythm. Not saying they can't do it. Obviously,
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: we saw Yamamoto throw on no days rest last year.
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: But you want to have, you know, you want to
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: go about things the best way you can. And when
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: you're able to line things up as, as we are,
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: and as the brewers are, you're going to line them
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: up to what works best to your advantage that you
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: think at least.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: And that's how we're doing things.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: You guys play Sunday against the Mizorowski. Are you preparing
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: for your Mizorowski at bats? Or is that like, Oh,
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: I got to shut it all off until like, it's
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: like we play the day before. So you get ready
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: on Saturday. Like, is there too much, preparation going into
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: game one?
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: Um, no, I mean, the, the thing with us is you,
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: you know, you kind of leave the starter for the
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: day of you spend the days leading up to the series,
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: preparing for everyone else, the bullpen, you know, defense, kind
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: of all that stuff. And we've always done a good
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: job of that to where, you know, you're, you're focused
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: on the entire team aspect. And then when it's the
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: day of that's when you focus on the starter, because, um, yeah,
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: I feel like if you're just focused on the one
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: guy for like three straight days, then all of a
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: sudden you're, you know, you have your approach for that guy,
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: but then it's hard to completely flip the approach the
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: next day for whoever you're facing that day. And so,
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: you know, we've always done a good job of kind
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: of just, you know, you leave the starter for the
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: day of and, you know, you go about it that way.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Max, how do you prepare?
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, I know Miz and we heard all about like,
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: the Red Sox were in Tampa using the trajectory, trying
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: to get ready for Cam Schlittler, and he shoved it
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: up their butt, right? Is there a way you can
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: simulate what the Miz does? Because he comes from a
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: lower angle, even though he's tall, he comes from like
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: a really weird low angle, and it kind of just
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: almost upshoots the ball.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: And again, it's 104, 105 miles an hour.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: So is there, does the trajectory machine, can it simulate
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: even all that with the difference in how he throws
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: compared to what it is in real life?
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: Look, the trajectory is amazing. It can mimic pitch shapes
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: really well. It changes the, you know, the arm angle. Um,
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: so you're getting, you're getting release points and, and pitch
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: shapes and all of that stuff, uh, where the trajectory fails.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: And I think you guys would understand this, like when
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: it comes to off speed, right. It'll have the exact
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: same shape, but it's not, uh, you know, none of
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: the off speed ever has the parachute effect on a machine.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: There's just no way to create that just the way
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: guys can throw certain pitches. And the other thing I
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: can't create is extension. Um, so the machine can move,
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: you know, up and down side to side, but it
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: can't move any, it can't move forward. Um, and so
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: the extension part is where it's the tricky one. And, uh,
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: you know, just as the years have gone on, the
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: more we've understood, uh, you know, we understand extension. There's
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: just not any way to really replicate that. You can
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: move the machine closer and it still doesn't feel the
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: same as when you're facing a guy with extension. Just,
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: you know, it just feels like he's releasing the ball
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: in the catcher's glove basically. And, um, you know, it's,
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: it's a difficult challenge for sure.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Max, I'm sure you saw, because I know you pay
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: attention to the other series besides your own. I'm sure
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: you saw the whole thing with the Brewers and Mason
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Miller thinking he's tipping and that whole thing in the
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: ninth inning when he came in every time. And I'm
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: not asking you to get into specifics with certain guys,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: but how prevalent is this going on? Because you talk
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: to teams, they say, oh, our guy's not tipping, but
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: then he comes out and next time and he completely
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: changes where his glove is or whatever after this is
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: brought up so how much do you guys i mean
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: how much do teams not just the dodgers how much
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: do you think teams take a time to look at
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: this and try to find the smallest edge.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah i think it's becoming uh you know way more
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: and more prevalent um you know, I've heard of, I've
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: heard of a couple of teams and I'm not naming
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: teams or names, but I've heard of a couple of
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: teams starting to use AI programs to.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: You know, you plug in, you plug in pitches and the.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: AI program points differences and, you know, where the glove
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: is and all this other stuff and hand position and all,
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: you know, and all this kind of stuff. And I
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: think that's what you've been starting to see with some
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: of the first and third base coaches. You know, I
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: think a lot of that has been going on and
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: you know, it's, it's just part of the game.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: It's always been part of the game.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: Obviously the technology is a lot greater now, so you
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: can get advantages a little bit easier, but.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just one of those things that's always been
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: part of the game.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: And, you know, that's part of where being a baseball
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: player comes into the equation. I don't think being a
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: baseball player gets talked about enough. Obviously there's a lot
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: of guys that have talent. A lot of guys have skills,
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: but being like a true baseball player and, you know,
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: you guys, you guys played back in the day when
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: there was no pitch calm and, you know, like, figuring
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: out signs on second base used to be an art
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: like being able to you know okay i'm gonna look
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: at the first three signs memorize those we'll pitch the
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: throw okay it wasn't any of those let's go to
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: the next three maybe it's gator signs maybe he's chasing
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: too like that wasn't art and the guys that were
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: really good at that have become really good at pitch
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: tipping and um you know it's just one of those
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: things where it's just it's kind of an art within
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: the game that i don't think it's talked about enough.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: What do you get more i'm not like go through
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: your head and think about all the tipping and everything
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: do you guys get more from pitchers or get more
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: from catchers or position players moving ahead of time.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: I mean there's a little bit of everything there was
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: actually a situation uh for me in um game two
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: against the braves where i was facing uh uh you
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: know fuentes and i had a two strike count and
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: uh you know obviously he has an elite fastball um
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: I look out and right before the pitch, I see
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: Dubon kind of sprint to his left. And so in
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: my head, I went, Oh, he's throwing a fastball away.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: And then he threw a change up. And so Dubon
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: actually fooled me with that. And I don't know if
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: that was on purpose or not. Um, you know, so
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: for me, I.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Look for everything.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: And so when you get something like that, it's kind
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: of like, Oh man. And, uh, you know, I kind
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: of shot myself in the foot with that one. Cause you, you,
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: you take a chance, but sometimes when you're facing guys
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: that have a beat stuff, you have to take chances.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: You know, you, you have to flip the coin a
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: little bit and, um, You know, with how hard everyone
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: is throwing these days, you can't really just react. Like,
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: you almost have to guess pitches. And when you're doing that,
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: you have to take any advantage that you can.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Agreed. Agreed. Wait, what? My hat changed.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Sorry.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: I don't know if Max can see that or not. But, Max,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: thank you. Max, thank you so much for doing this.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: We appreciate it. You're one of our favorite guests.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: And by the way, if you have a tip, don't
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: tell anybody because if they change teams and they'll tell
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: the pitcher and then you'll lose that tip. So just,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: you know, you kind of got it. It's kind of
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: like one of those weird things. Like you can't tell everybody.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: And who do you trust that you can tell? Oh,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: I can't tell that person because he's a free agent
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: and he's going to run it. So just if you
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: do find one, you just don't, don't.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: Or the pitch come or the pitch come. If somebody's
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: pitch comes too loud, don't tell them, Max. Okay. That
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: happened this year. I don't know if you saw that.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: I don't know how that happens anymore. We've, we've been, we're,
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: we're a couple of years into this pitch comp thing now.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: And I think, uh, you know, if you have a
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: two out or someone can hear it, then, uh, you're
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: really just oblivious to it because, uh, yeah, that's something
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: that I feel like we're very mindful of that, you know,
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: our first baseman that habit for pickoffs and stuff, they're standing,
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: you know, five feet away from the bag while, while the,
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: you know, the calls coming in and then they shuffle.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: Back to the bag.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: And, uh, yeah, that's, uh, that's, that, that's one where
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: you're just oblivious. If you, have something as stupid as
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: your pitch comments too loud.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: But by the way, Freddie, Freddie don't have no pitch calm.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Freddie's just standing over. He's not even paying attention. I've time.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: He's talking to the other guys. Hey man, nice hit, dude. Oh,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: you've just drove in the go ahead run, dude.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: That's cool. In the night.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: Give me a hug.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: So I'm so happy for you. So Freddie's not paying
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: attention to no pitch calm, by the way. And also
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: the reason I.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Love Freddie's mindset.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: I love Freddie's mindset on that. Just because, you know,
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: I know you guys have heard him say it, but
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: this game is so hard. And, you know, Freddie's always
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: going to congratulate you when you do something good in
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: this game.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: And, you know, just one of the true good guys.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: in the sport for sure.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: True.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Roger McDowell used to wear him out about, gosh, Roger McDowell,
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: our pitching coach in Atlanta, used to just get so mad. He,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: the guy get a winning hit, like in the ninth
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: inning and Freddie B over there, man, let's go to this.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: I'm going to get you a drink, man. I'm going
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: to give you the Gatorade bath. And Roger is old
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: school as they come, but be so angry. And by
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: the way, the reason y'all can't hear the pitch count,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: the pitch calm in LA, because those damn speakers are
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: so loud in center field, it drowns out.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: You could have whatever, you could have a rock concert.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Going on at home plate and you barely be able
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: to hear it because those damn, speakers blasting so max
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: thank you so much.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: Man good luck man that's the best it's one of
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: the best parts about dodger stadiums we got that sound
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: system out there you know it's a it's a 200
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: million dollar sound system basically and uh you know everyone
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: everyone loves it you come in there the ground is
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: shaking it's it's just uh you know you got the
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: bass going on and uh you know you really had
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: a lot of guys really take that in consideration when
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: they're choosing walk-up songs i'll say that oh.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: I need bass like you gotta go like to like
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: magic mike back in the day dj magic mike and
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: just have pure bass like where he used to shake
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: your car. You shake the, you can buy, get on
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: the Richter's tail at Dodger stadium. If you have enough
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: base in your zone, that'd be, that'd be pretty sweet.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: By the way, enjoy the haunted hotel in Milwaukee.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Just going to cuddle with some ghosts. It's not a
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: big deal.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: If my TV turns on at night, I know he's
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: a friendly one. He just wants to watch a little
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: sports center.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: It's all right.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: That's right. And by the way, if you go to carnivore,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: ask for my knife. Okay, please. That's all. That's all
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: I asked for.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: You have a knife.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Why wouldn't I? Why wouldn't I have a knife?
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: Max, you can have a knife there, too. You can
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: have a knife there.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: You're going to have to explain this to me now. Like,
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: they just have a knife waiting for you?
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: No, I'm just kidding. They do have knives, though, for
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: people if you go there enough. But, like, people in
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: the brewers, people in Milwaukee will say, like, Vassallo, you
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: don't know who Mike Vassallo is. He's the PR person
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: for the brewers. We went there this past week, and
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: he's like, do you use my knife? I'm like, there's
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: no way you have a knife. He's like, of course
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: I have a knife. So, anyways, it's different.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: It's a different place.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: Okay, so you're not important enough to have a knife.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: That's good to know.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: No, I don't go there enough. I didn't spend a
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: lot of time in Milwaukee. I tried to avoid it
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: as much as possible. So, you know, it's okay. I'm
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: over it. Anyways, Max, thank you so much. MLB on
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