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Dansby Swanson on Cubs' clinch, Horton for ROY, playing with Shota, run-in with AJ · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: How many finals of Champagne have you used here today?
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  Speaker 1: Kill Hello Sago. Probably more than ten.
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  Speaker 2: And I learned that with champagne, instead of drinking it, you.
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: Should absorb it with your skin.
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  Speaker 3: It feels better.
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  Speaker 4: Yell me, I mean shout out to show to in Mianaga,
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  Speaker 4: his translator, and Taylor McGregor, who has the best laugh
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  Speaker 4: in all of baseball. T mac Congratulations to the Chicago
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  Speaker 4: Cubs clinching a post season birth. Of course, in the
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty five season, this has been a team, guys
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  Speaker 4: that I wasn't sure how they were gonna fare in
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  Speaker 4: the NL Central. Obviously the Brewers win the division, but
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  Speaker 4: the Cubs have been very strong all year long. AJ
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  Speaker 4: will start with you, being a South Sider, what do
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  Speaker 4: you like about what the North Siders did this year?
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  Speaker 3: Do I have to answer this? They're in. They're in, buddy,
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  Speaker 3: They're in.
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  Speaker 4: Gotta give them their flowers, their props, you will.
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  Speaker 1: You know what?
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  Speaker 5: They've been good all year. Their offense has been really
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  Speaker 5: fun to watch. The pitching is what it is. But
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  Speaker 5: I love Palencia before he got hurt. I think of
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  Speaker 5: in Auga is amazing to watch and listen. If there's
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  Speaker 5: one advice I could give to a young player. What
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  Speaker 5: he said is amazing. There are many times where I
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  Speaker 5: got to celebrate. I wish I just would have enjoyed
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  Speaker 5: the champagne on my ski in and not drink it,
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  Speaker 5: because the next day was hell.
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  Speaker 4: Nah seeing Kirs says, you don't work goggles, you gotta
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  Speaker 4: let it burn, let it barn dance. And there is
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  Speaker 4: Chicago Cubs shortstop dans By Swanson, some of the best
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  Speaker 4: flow in the game, certainly the best beard in the game,
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  Speaker 4: if you will, and a Chicago postseason berth under his belt. Danzy,
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  Speaker 4: thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 3: We appreciate it.
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  Speaker 4: Congratulations.
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  Speaker 3: This has been a fun Cubs team to watch.
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  Speaker 4: Take us through the moment of the final out and
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  Speaker 4: just celebrating with your teammates. I know that the work
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  Speaker 4: is not done, but that's got to be one box
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  Speaker 4: you're happy to check.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously, thanks for having me on. Glad to be here. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's it really is such a cool moment.
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  Speaker 2: You obviously know that this isn't necessarily the end goal
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  Speaker 2: for the season, but it is definitely a big step
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  Speaker 2: and part of the process to achieving all you want
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  Speaker 2: to achieve. I mean, This is something that you talk
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  Speaker 2: about in spring training, being able to get into the
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  Speaker 2: postseason and give yourself the chance, you know, to win
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  Speaker 2: the World Series. So it was really fun being able
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  Speaker 2: to celebrate with the guys. We put in obviously so
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  Speaker 2: much work this season and been a part of all
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  Speaker 2: the different, you know, struggles throughout a year, the highs,
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  Speaker 2: the lows, all those kinds of things to get to
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  Speaker 2: this point. So, you know, it's pretty it's a pretty
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  Speaker 2: special group of guys and very thankful to be a
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  Speaker 2: part of it.
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  Speaker 1: Did you celebrate like you should have celebrated because all
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  Speaker 1: the hard work, all the different things all guys have
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  Speaker 1: been out, come back, still out, whatever it is, Did
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  Speaker 1: you guys celebrate hard or is it something that you
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  Speaker 1: know we still got a game tomorrow. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: a tempered celebration. How how did your clubhouse celebrate it?
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  Speaker 2: I'd say somewhere in the middle. You celebrate at the
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  Speaker 2: field hard in terms of spring champagne and doing those
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  Speaker 2: kinds of things, but not so hard afterward because we
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  Speaker 2: do have a game today and there's a lot more
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  Speaker 2: things that we obviously want to accomplish, And I really
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  Speaker 2: feel like a big part of our team is getting
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  Speaker 2: back into the rhythm that we had earlier in the year,
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  Speaker 2: and I feel like recently we've been getting closer to
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  Speaker 2: that point, and so you want to be able to
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  Speaker 2: keep that same momentum moving forward and that we're obviously
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  Speaker 2: not trying to take, you know, any steps backwards.
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  Speaker 1: Was there any one person, because your season you're like,
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  Speaker 1: well whatever, I know what a World Series champagne tastes like.
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  Speaker 1: Was there anybody And I asked this of the Phillies
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  Speaker 1: just the other day after they had celebrated that really
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  Speaker 1: like celebrated. I'm not saying like got super drunk. I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about was like wow, like really soaking this in
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  Speaker 1: and telling everybody this is so awesome. More than somebody else, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, I will say, it was just really cool seeing
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  Speaker 2: you know whatever, staff members or people that haven't had
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  Speaker 2: this kind of opportunity, whether it's in their career just
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  Speaker 2: in a while. And I think the biggest thing to
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  Speaker 2: kind of just hit me yesterday was not taking any
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  Speaker 2: of it for granted, right, Like, this game is incredibly hard,
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  Speaker 2: this game comes for everybody, and being able to just
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  Speaker 2: enjoy and soak up the moment when you get them
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  Speaker 2: because getting to the postseason is obviously a huge challenge,
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  Speaker 2: and it's not something that just every single time. Now,
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  Speaker 2: obviously we want it to and we feel like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you feel like as a player that you always have
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  Speaker 2: a chance to win at the highest level, and sometimes
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  Speaker 2: things just don't fall your way. And I think that
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  Speaker 2: we as a team yesterday just kind of realized like
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  Speaker 2: we should never take any of this for granted and
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  Speaker 2: just continue to pursue what's in front of us.
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  Speaker 4: Dansby, do you have fans around Wrigley offering Kyle Tucker
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  Speaker 4: the use of their calf. How do we get Kyle
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  Speaker 4: Tucker back in that lineup? I know it's a huge
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  Speaker 4: void on the impact he has on this team, but
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  Speaker 4: let's get this guy healthy, right. The Cubs can go
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  Speaker 4: so much further when you have that guy healthy and
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  Speaker 4: back on the squad.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, he's obviously proven, you know, throughout his
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  Speaker 2: career that he's a top player in this game. Just
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  Speaker 2: is that bats are so consistent, His ability to draw walks,
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  Speaker 2: put the ball in play, drive the ball in the air,
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  Speaker 2: He just assuming things well. He obviously plays a really
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  Speaker 2: good right field, runs a base as well. Makes our
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  Speaker 2: team better makes our team deeper and just provides that
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  Speaker 2: kind of like stable at that each and every day,
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  Speaker 2: you know, whenever he's in the lineup. So, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're we're definitely anticipating on getting him back. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know when exactly that's going to be, but I know
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  Speaker 2: that he makes our team better.
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  Speaker 3: Dansby, does your phone work? Is your phone does? Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Because I swear you told me to text you to
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  Speaker 5: come on and I didn't get even I didn't even
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  Speaker 5: get an f off like that would have been happy
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  Speaker 5: with an f off, but you know, instead I got
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  Speaker 5: a crick got it. I didn't even get a cricket
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  Speaker 5: like I could have.
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  Speaker 2: You want to know something that's funny, Join are lot
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  Speaker 2: of our PR people. She was like, yeah, they texted
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  Speaker 2: me about you getting on the show, and I literally said, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I really meant to text AJ back about Pittsburgh was
• 6:52
  Speaker 2: going to be impossible, but Cincinnati would be good. And
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  Speaker 2: I said, please please let him know that that is
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  Speaker 2: where my brain is at, because I know that when
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  Speaker 2: I get on this show, he's going to bring it up.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 5: Also, it's a lucky day. I'm in Cincinnati, you're at
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  Speaker 5: the hotel. I'm at the ballpark. Something's wrong with this
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  Speaker 5: picture here, right. You should be here working out. I
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  Speaker 5: should still be at the hotel. But you could have
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  Speaker 5: just come on live with us. You could have sat
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  Speaker 5: next to me. There's a chair I could have pulled up,
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  Speaker 5: you know, you could have had your cubby blue on
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  Speaker 5: and we could have talked about this in person.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the game is still in six hours, okay, we
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  Speaker 2: still got a little bit of time. Got a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of time.
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  Speaker 5: I figured you'd have to work. You had to work
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  Speaker 5: out the champagne, all right. But what I really want
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  Speaker 5: to know is PCA. What's going on with PCA. PCA
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  Speaker 5: had an unbelievable first half, gone a little bit up
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  Speaker 5: and down here in the second half. Can he turn
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  Speaker 5: this around and be the force that he can be
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  Speaker 5: that we've seen him?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, I mean, well, as you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there are times and moments where this game just can
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  Speaker 2: almost feel easy. To some extent, everything seems to go right.
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  Speaker 2: You're just in a very confident headspace. And Pete was
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  Speaker 2: such a driving force of our team in the first half.
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  Speaker 2: I think just the beauty of the game of baseball
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  Speaker 2: is it presents so many challenges and opportunities throughout a
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  Speaker 2: one sixty two that you're you're bound to go through
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  Speaker 2: moments where you're not as good as that you want
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  Speaker 2: to be. And you know, especially as a young kid
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  Speaker 2: with all the talent the world, guy like Pete, you know,
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  Speaker 2: goes through something like that, and it's it's a really
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  Speaker 2: good opportunity for him to like learn how to come
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  Speaker 2: out of those or how to come out of that
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  Speaker 2: kind of funk. And you know, if you look at
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  Speaker 2: his A bats over the last three or four games,
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  Speaker 2: they've been really, really good. Been hitting the ball hard
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  Speaker 2: and hit the ball on the gap and putting together
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  Speaker 2: just solid at bats of people on bas So definitely
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  Speaker 2: think he's on his way out of whatever funk he
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  Speaker 2: was in because you know, he's a special player, he's
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  Speaker 2: a special talent, and he makes our team a lot better.
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  Speaker 1: When do you see somebody that's super energetic and I
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  Speaker 1: have no idea what he's like in the clubhouse, how
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  Speaker 1: did he handle those ups and downs? Because it's part
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  Speaker 1: of the reason why some guys in baseball are like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: everything's fine, and I'm not going to show any emotion
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  Speaker 1: because when things are good, it's great. When things are bad,
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  Speaker 1: I look the same. He's not. He didn't seem like that.
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  Speaker 1: He seems like he is like, go get it, hit
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  Speaker 1: the wall whenever he needs to. But when things go bad,
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  Speaker 1: how what type of level of energy did you see
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  Speaker 1: from him?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I think the one thing I've tried to just
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  Speaker 2: remind him on is, you know, one of his superpowers
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  Speaker 2: is his passion and love for the game, and just
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  Speaker 2: to continue to remind him, regardless of whether things are
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  Speaker 2: good or bad, that you can still impact the game
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  Speaker 2: in different ways. Like you can if you're not hitting,
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  Speaker 2: you can still go catch the ball. If you're on base,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you can still run the base as well,
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  Speaker 2: you can still run the bass hard. You can help
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  Speaker 2: impact the team's performance without just hitting. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's one of the reasons why he's the way he
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  Speaker 2: is and the way that he impacts your team, because
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  Speaker 2: he can go get it in centainfield just as good.
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  Speaker 2: It's not better than anybody else in the league. He's
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  Speaker 2: obviously got really good instincts on the bases and has
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  Speaker 2: stolen a lot of bases for us. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: my biggest reminder for him and just really any young player,
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  Speaker 2: any player in general, is the more that you can
• 10:24
  Speaker 2: kind of bring your unique superpower to the table. The
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  Speaker 2: better off will be as a group and will ultimately
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  Speaker 2: help us win games. Crats.
• 10:33
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• 11:33
  Speaker 4: Dan's be congratulations to you and your beautiful wife Mallorie
• 11:36
  Speaker 4: on the announcement that you guys are expecting your first child.
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  Speaker 3: That's so awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously a power couple in sports, but certainly in the
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  Speaker 4: Chicago area. If your beautiful child only gets to have
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  Speaker 4: the athletic prowess of one of the parents, who do
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  Speaker 4: you want?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I'm gonna well, I mean, of course, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: say my wife's if.
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  Speaker 4: You want to stay married er er.
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  Speaker 2: She just she's got something just special about her as
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: as an athlete. You know, we it's finny. We kind
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  Speaker 2: of talk about it. You can you can watch people
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  Speaker 2: play and tell if they kind of have it. And
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  Speaker 2: she's just one of the rare breeds of athletes that
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  Speaker 2: just has it. Just her competitive instinct, her fire to win,
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  Speaker 2: her commitment, determination, along with the athletic ability is is
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  Speaker 2: pretty incredible to watch. So if if our baby can
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  Speaker 2: get a little bit of that, then we'll be in
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  Speaker 2: good shape.
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  Speaker 1: Name three sports that she can beat you in and
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: three sports that you can beat her in? Obvious obvious
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  Speaker 1: ones can be used.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we can start with soccer. We're going to start
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  Speaker 2: with that. Any bit of conditioning that's like over maybe
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  Speaker 2: like one hundred meters, you know, any bit of like
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  Speaker 2: running event that involves a little bit of you know, endurance.
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  Speaker 2: I would say she's got me on past that, though, Man,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I got a pretty good athletic you know,
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  Speaker 2: skill set as well. Over here, Okay, got a pretty
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  Speaker 2: good jump shot, good ping pong player, you know you
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  Speaker 2: can do. You know, I'm very multifaceted, shall we say, uh,
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  Speaker 2: with sports, So I'll give her those, But past that,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I will say, this isn't really a sport,
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  Speaker 2: but our household gets after it with uno and she
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  Speaker 2: typically beats me more often, you know, than I beat her.
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  Speaker 4: She's making you draw four like on top of each other.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, she's got she's got some good strategies.
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  Speaker 1: That's a sport. No, that's all. That's all part of
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  Speaker 1: the competitive Like I hope you're attracted to each other
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  Speaker 1: because of your competitiveness, because that plays like there's I
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  Speaker 1: bet there's so you could take her in a sprint, though,
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  Speaker 1: but after one hundred yards, she's got.
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  Speaker 2: You one hundred. Like the longer it goes, the less
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  Speaker 2: my chances are that I'm going to continue to hold on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, falling falling behind? All right, well somebody that's not
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  Speaker 1: falling behind Kate Horton. Does Kate and Horton win the
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year or how do you tell? How
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: do you sway people's votes that maybe don't see Kate
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  Speaker 1: Horton on a regular regular basis?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Number one, I think being able to truly like
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  Speaker 2: anchor a rotation as a rookie is incredibly impressive. And
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  Speaker 2: to do it on a team in a second half
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  Speaker 2: when you're most needed, you know, I think he has
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  Speaker 2: the lowest cra among starting amongst any starting pitcher in
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  Speaker 2: the second half. Uh, and being able to consistently rely
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  Speaker 2: on somebody of you know, rookie status to go out
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  Speaker 2: there and basically shove is incredibly impressive. I know there's
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  Speaker 2: some other guys that have had some really good years,
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  Speaker 2: but for him to do it on a on a
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  Speaker 2: team that's excuse me, on a team that's going to
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  Speaker 2: the postseason, and being that consistent force and the way
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  Speaker 2: that he is is I think really all you need
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: to know it's it's not fully just about oh, he's
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: not punching out this many per nine. He doesn't want guys.
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  Speaker 2: Guys don't seem to hit him hard. He gets quick outs.
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  Speaker 2: He makes our team better. He's got this like competitive
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  Speaker 2: just I'm here to handle business that not many guys have. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean he would have my vote if I have
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  Speaker 2: a vote, And you know, I think it's as simple
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  Speaker 2: as that.
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: Hey, Dansby, what's it like playing with Shoda every day?
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  Speaker 5: I mean that guy's interview last night was awesome where
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  Speaker 5: he said champagne is better on your skin than it
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  Speaker 5: is in your mouth, and it makes your skin feel better.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he just says things.
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  Speaker 5: Every time he put a mic in front of him,
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: he says something that is absolutely hilarious. What's it like
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  Speaker 5: being around a guy like that every day?
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  Speaker 2: Oh Man? Show does the best. He's got such like
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  Speaker 2: a clever, witty way about him. But I think just
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: from a from actual baseball perspective, he's he's such a
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  Speaker 2: joy to watch because he just does a couple of
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  Speaker 2: things really well, knows what he does really well and
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  Speaker 2: basically just kind of goes up there and alt does
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  Speaker 2: it from what everyone else is trying to, you know,
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: counter him with, and he's got you just can rely on.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: He works hard, he wants to be involved. He does
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  Speaker 2: like to trash talk from the dugout, which is awesome.
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  Speaker 2: He likes, you know, chirping and and kind of ask
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  Speaker 2: some of the other starting pictures about some good you know,
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  Speaker 2: trashed so you can get from the dugout. So he's
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: always bringing a little bit of something for you each
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  Speaker 2: and every day. And me and him got to know
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: each other a little bit last year and obviously more
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  Speaker 2: so this year. But he's always got good jokes that
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  Speaker 2: he's always just kind of got some up asleep.
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  Speaker 4: It almost feels Dansby like he's like a college teammate
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  Speaker 4: of yours. He just seems to have like that playfulness
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  Speaker 4: about you. What was it like when you were at Vanderbilt?
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: One of our colleagues here Unfelt Territory justin Long wants
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: to know a little bit more about your Vanderbilt career.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: And do you you look back at that now and
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: see how much more you can appreciate that time in
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: your life because not everybody goes that route. Are you
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: glad that you did?
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Oh? I mean, it's probably second or third best decision
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: in my life. And one is obviously after convincing Mallorie
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: to marry me. Was that just it really really molded
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: me into the player and person I am now. I
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: feel like I had a lot of kind of just
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: like natural gifts, but once going there, CORPS just brought
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: out all the best in me and just taught me
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: so many different valuable lessons about leadership, about being a
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: good teammate, and just how to play the game the
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: right way and some of the things that already somewhat knew,
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: but he was able to just kind of sculpt and
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: mold me to be a better version of that. The
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: amount of guys that played with their just the brotherhood
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: that you create with one another is real, you know,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: it truly is something that lasts a lifetime. And I
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: think it's just pretty evident in how people continuously rep
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Vanderbilt that you know, I've never heard anyone that's gone
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: there say anything bad about their experience. There really is
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: more than just baseball. It's about growing, you know, these
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: these college kids in demand and CORPS it is the best.
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: Out of it.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't I legitimately would not be where I am
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: today without Corpse in the program. And you know, the
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: other coaches, Coach Jewett, Coach Brown just it truly is
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: the best place in the world.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: All right, where does this rank? We talked about the team,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: we talked about other guys on your team, your wife.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Where does this season rank for you? In the sense
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: I get it, you guys won the World Series, so
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: you don't know where this season is going to go.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: But as far as just your playing, how well you're playing,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: the way things are going for you, and just the
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: way you feel coming to the ballpark every day.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Man, it's it really is difficult to rank teams and
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: seasons because they're all so drastically different. And even if
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: you have I think that's the beauty about sports is
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: you can have the exact same team year to year,
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: but the vibe and the environment is a little bit different.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: You have to kind of recreate, you know, different standards
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: and culture to be able to get the most out
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: of a group. So I don't rank them. I will
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: refuse to rank them. But I very much enjoy winning.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: I always have, and so anytime a team I'm part
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: of is winning at a high level, I'm pretty happy. Here.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: Let you go, first of all, should diego Pavia? Let
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: diovonn go on a date with his mom?
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Hey, the boys are playing some good ball down there,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: all right, So whatever kind of stuff they got working,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: I'm good with it.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: So Yesovon should be able to go on a date.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: Oh look at you.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: Always it's okay. So now's so now. So now I
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: want people to know how much you've changed. Okay, because
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: when I played with you in twenty sixteen, you know,
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: you were the resh hot rookie coming out up here,
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: this and that and didn't speak. Now you're giving guys
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: lessons PCA on how to stay the right course and
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: all this. You know, it's just amazing how people change
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: over time. But here's the thing I have. If your
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: last game ends the way my last game ends, and
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: there's a young rookie on second base that doesn't score
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: on a hit that they should score on and I
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: could have had my Derek Jeter moment, would you still
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: be mad at him?
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing. Say, look, this is good base running. Now,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: that's great base running, So you can't.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: You could have scored so easy. Look you barely made
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: it to third. Look what are you doing?
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Go back first? Brother? If he catches that and I'm
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: going to third and I get him free out, it's
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: everybody there, and I'm just not just mine. You look,
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: I'm celebrating.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: I like, it's my Derek Jeter moment. What are you doing?
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Even snit's over there going.
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: That's why we let him go in free agency because
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: he didn't score on that hit from Prazinski.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: You're always going to hold that one over my head.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: But I would be proud.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: It's all I got, It's all I got it.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: I'd be proud of a young player knowing how to
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: run the bases properly. You know, the fundamentals, playing the
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: game the right way. That's that's the most important thing.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: And so that's the part.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: Taught you that didn't he yeah, oh yeah, another guy's moment.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: I see I see.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, it's about it's about the team.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: See exactly that we were losing a hundred games.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Not in that case, it was all It was clearly
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: all about age. It was clearly all about a J
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: and that was great base running for kids who watched it.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Don't be don't be an AJ in this situation. Be
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: a dance. The balls in front of you, you can't go,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: and it's not freezing the line. Drive you go back
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: on the line, driving it's not about you looking like
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: looking like Jose rayis running around the base.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Is like, look at me. It's all about me. Who
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: was my last game and I last a bat and
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: I knew it.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: So anyways, I appreciate dansyfore the fact that he got
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: to third on that ball and didn't get thrown out,
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: and also the fact that, uh yeah, that's all I
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: got on him because I don't know. He was a
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: good teammate, He was a good kid, and it worked
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: out because they went on to win the World Series
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: like four or five years later, so apparently something did.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: He did something right.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: We make that joke. We make that joke all the
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: time about like, yeah, when I was a young kid,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: you know, it was like me or JT or anybody
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: like I didn't speak unless spoken to, you know, like
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: I didn't even think about opening in my mouth.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: But you were good. He was good. I will give
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: him this. He was good. He was good as a rookie.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: So somebody taught him right.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: He did the right things except for the base running,
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: but everything else he did right and has turned into
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: obviously a start.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: Dan's be good luck. It's been a lot of fun
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: watching you guys. In Chicago or the course of this season.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: Best elected us the way in this postseason push. We
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: appreciate you taking the time and honestly, more than anything,
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: best of luck to you and Mallory and the health
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: of that beautiful baby. And thanks you're taking the time.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: To be with us. Thank you all. I appreciate it.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me on