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A's C Shea Langeliers joins FT · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Here comes as catcher. Shay Langeleier is joining us right
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  Speaker 1: now on ft SHA. Great to have you on the show,
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  Speaker 1: oh man. Some of our guys really love you. Trevor
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  Speaker 1: May was just on what yesterday. He always talks about you,
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  Speaker 1: so you you are a well liked, well talked about
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  Speaker 1: man on this show over the course of the years.
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  Speaker 1: Just wanted to let you know that as I say
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  Speaker 1: hello and butter you up a little bit. Has it going, man,
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  Speaker 1: h going good?
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me?
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  Speaker 3: Of course. Has the season going for you so far?
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  Speaker 1: With the team here all getting settled and for you
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  Speaker 1: off to a nice start at the plate too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's early, still early in the year, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: tough to start with six on the road, three at home,
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  Speaker 2: six on the road again, two East Coast trips right
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  Speaker 2: right off the gate. But you know, we're getting our
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  Speaker 2: feet under us. Like I said, it's still early and
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  Speaker 2: we're just you know, trying to get into the group.
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  Speaker 4: Shait, where are you?
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  Speaker 2: Where are you right now? I am uh Mickey Mickey
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  Speaker 2: Morbido's office.
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  Speaker 4: Oh tell Mickey, I said, Hi, Mickey. Tell Mickey's favorite
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  Speaker 4: players is Ie and just see.
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  Speaker 2: What his answer is. Please all right, I'll let him know. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Micky will be like, oh, that's son of a gun.
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  Speaker 4: I promise you. I love Mickey's He's one of the
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  Speaker 4: all time greats. It's still sticking around.
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  Speaker 2: Talk.
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  Speaker 4: I just want to know about your fast start, dude,
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  Speaker 4: like we always, I mean, your nickname has always been
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  Speaker 4: bang of leers for your homer. But let's talk about
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  Speaker 4: these homers you're hitting. I mean, are you gonna are
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  Speaker 4: you going cal RAWLEI on us, You're gonna get to
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  Speaker 4: sixty benish second to judge an MVP like Cal.
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  Speaker 2: Did last year. I mean that would that would be awesome. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, I just uh been feeling good at the plate.
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  Speaker 2: I think the biggest thing for me is just like
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  Speaker 2: when I feel strong and I'm early and on time,
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  Speaker 2: that's when that's when the good things happen. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: just trying to keep it simple and not trying to
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  Speaker 2: do too much.
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  Speaker 5: No no, no, do too much. Like this seems like
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  Speaker 5: just just enough. But how do you as a catcher
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  Speaker 5: continue that through the season. Because we were talking about you,
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  Speaker 5: but I think it was like two or three weeks ago.
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  Speaker 5: I think you're the most underrated catcher clearly in the game,
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  Speaker 5: let alone one of the more underrated players because people
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  Speaker 5: just don't see without you having a hot start like this,
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  Speaker 5: people are like, I wonder who the catcher for the
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  Speaker 5: A's is because you haven't gott an extension and all
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  Speaker 5: that stuff. But how do you continue it and really
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  Speaker 5: put your name on the map for like national media,
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  Speaker 5: not just baseball fans.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, obviously, catching is a very physically demanding position.
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  Speaker 2: I think pretty much every catch, I'll tell you, the
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  Speaker 2: only day that you feel one hundred percent is probably
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  Speaker 2: opening day, and then there's always something after that, So
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  Speaker 2: you're just kind of, you know, grinding, grinding with your body,
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  Speaker 2: just trying to get through it. And then kind of
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  Speaker 2: like in the box, it's that any given day something
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  Speaker 2: can feel off, feel different, so you're always searching for
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  Speaker 2: that feel. And at the end of the day, you're
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  Speaker 2: just going out there and competing whatever you're working on
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  Speaker 2: in the cage. You can't be thinking about that out there.
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  Speaker 2: It's just competing, competing with the guy in front of you.
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  Speaker 4: What what what means more to you if you go
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  Speaker 4: out and catch a shut out? I think sev Sevy's
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  Speaker 4: pitching today, right, Let's see Sevey goes out, gives you
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  Speaker 4: seven and the relievers come in, give you two shutdy
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  Speaker 4: and you go for four with a couple of punches whatever.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, you guys win five to nothing, seven nothing.
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  Speaker 4: Or you go out and you hit two homers and
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  Speaker 4: you guys still win, but the pitchers struggle. Which one
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  Speaker 4: means more to you?
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  Speaker 3: Still?
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  Speaker 4: Now you win in both. So I'm not gonna say like,
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  Speaker 4: you win and lose, cause I I I know as
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  Speaker 4: catchers were not happy hit guys like you know, there
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  Speaker 4: are those guys.
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  Speaker 2: So which one means more to you? Give me the
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  Speaker 2: shuddy every day of the week. Perfect games. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: get the U you get the pitchers in the flow,
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  Speaker 2: you get the starter into the you know, into the
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  Speaker 2: game feeling good, and then the bullpen comes in strong
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  Speaker 2: and you throw a shut out. That's that's always the
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  Speaker 2: best say.
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  Speaker 5: They never tell. They never talk about how many shutouts A. J.
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  Speaker 5: Prazinski had. They only talk talk about his two thousand hits,
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  Speaker 5: the fact that he played every single day. What would
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  Speaker 5: it mean to what would it mean to you to say,
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  Speaker 5: beginning of the season they come in and they go, Shay,
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  Speaker 5: we want you to play like one hundred and ten
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  Speaker 5: games to keep you fresh? Is that more of a
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  Speaker 5: slap in the face than moving down in the order
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  Speaker 5: than anything else.
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  Speaker 2: I don't, I don't know about a slap in the face.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess you could. You could look at
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  Speaker 2: it multiple ways, right, Like they're trying to keep you fresh,
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  Speaker 2: they want you to perform well, feel good. But at
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  Speaker 2: the same time, it's like, I want to be the
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  Speaker 2: line up every day. I want to play, I want
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  Speaker 2: to I want to help the help the team win.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean, I don't think i'd look at
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  Speaker 2: it as a slap in the face.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Well, then we'll talk about what was almost
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  Speaker 5: a slap in the face. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 5: saw the highlight of Jorge sol Lair charging them ount
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  Speaker 5: charging redholl A Lopez, what is your thought process in
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  Speaker 5: a situation like that? Have you ever been in a
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  Speaker 5: situation like that? And what did you do if you were?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean from I've only seen the videos, don't
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  Speaker 2: know like the backstory and all that or anything. I
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  Speaker 2: haven't really got caught up. But there was there was
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  Speaker 2: one game when I was in Lowa in twenty nineteen,
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  Speaker 2: in Rome, Georgia, we cleared the benches twice in one game.
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  Speaker 2: Then the first time we cleared, I was I think
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  Speaker 2: I'd just gotten out, like gotten back to the dugout,
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  Speaker 2: was putting on my shin guards, realized that our guys
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  Speaker 2: were running out the dugout, so I ran out of
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  Speaker 2: the dugout with one shint guard on. So it was
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  Speaker 2: caught completely off guard. But yeah, I think in that situation,
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  Speaker 2: it's just from what it looked like to me, it
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  Speaker 2: kind of caught everybody off guard except for Solayer and Lopez.
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  Speaker 2: They were they I guess they kind of knew it
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  Speaker 2: was going down or like they were getting into it.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it just seemed kind of like a weird situation.
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  Speaker 2: So hold up.
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  Speaker 4: So you were with the Braves at the time in Rome,
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  Speaker 4: So this is the Braves thing. The Braves just like
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  Speaker 4: to fight everybody. Is that what you're saying?
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  Speaker 2: Put that out there.
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  Speaker 4: The Braves want to fight everybody?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, not that. I think it was just
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  Speaker 2: one of those, uh, just tempers flared and low. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there's a bunch of like early twenty year olds out
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  Speaker 2: there on the field and not really knowing what's going on.
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  Speaker 4: Would you now, do you know what the rule what
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  Speaker 4: the first rule of catching is if you're catching, because
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  Speaker 4: you said you were in the dugout, so were you
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  Speaker 4: catching it? Have you ever caught when a guy is
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  Speaker 4: charged him mount?
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  Speaker 2: I have not, but I know you're not supposed to
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  Speaker 2: let him get to the picture.
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  Speaker 4: That's right, rule number one. No matter what happens, if you,
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  Speaker 4: if you die in this fight, Shay, at least go
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  Speaker 4: down dying knowing that he didn't get any licks on
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  Speaker 4: your picture. Okay, so make sure that if it ever happens,
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  Speaker 4: you don't better get there, like if you get a
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  Speaker 4: spike to the throat or something. But at least you
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  Speaker 4: stopped him from beating up your picture.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. If I if I die, I die, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: Walt Weiss and tackle him, take.
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  Speaker 4: Him Downe't go mess with Wis.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, do not mess with Walt Wisse.
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  Speaker 3: Wait?
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  Speaker 4: What years were you with the Braves?
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  Speaker 2: So I got drafted in twenty nineteen by the Braves
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  Speaker 2: and then I was traded the first day of camp
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so you weren't there for the was gonna ask
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  Speaker 4: if you were there for the Donaldson thing, But I
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  Speaker 4: think that was before.
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  Speaker 2: That Uh, yeah, I think it was the year before
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  Speaker 2: or maybe I was in I was in low Way
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  Speaker 2: when that happened.
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  Speaker 4: Got it okay, so that wouldn't surprised you then, Okay.
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  Speaker 5: But you're gonna go out and you're you know, AJ's
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  Speaker 5: a guy?
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  Speaker 4: Not exactly. I didn't say die. I go out there
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  Speaker 4: and die.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, that's exactly what you said.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we'll clip.
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  Speaker 5: But either way, either way, is there a guy in
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• 8:34
  Speaker 5: talking about Miguel Olivo, I like, one of the largest
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  Speaker 5: men in the league, super strong, and he caught him
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  Speaker 5: from behind and held his arms. The fight I got
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  Speaker 5: in was with Prince Fielder, like another monstrous dude. Is
• 8:48
  Speaker 5: there a guy in the league that you look at
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  Speaker 5: and you go if he charges, like, we're kind of
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  Speaker 5: pretty good, Like I'll get there at some point, but
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  Speaker 5: we're good like not getting in the way. Is there
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  Speaker 5: one guy?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, there there are some guys. But I
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  Speaker 2: think it's just like it goes back to what age
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  Speaker 2: I said, you gotta do what you gotta do. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you got to get in the way somehow, try to
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  Speaker 2: get him to the ground and not let him get there.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we're at We're in New York right now.
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Judge is huge, so that would honestly probably be
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  Speaker 2: pretty terrifying. But I try to do it what I
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  Speaker 2: gotta do.
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  Speaker 4: You know, listen eron again. If Aaron Judge picks you
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  Speaker 4: up and grabs you by your your hair ees to
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  Speaker 4: eat you. You didn't get to the picture, just remember
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  Speaker 4: that doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: I got in the way, Yeah, and then you wait.
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  Speaker 4: For the big guys to get there, like Nick Kurtz
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  Speaker 4: and Rooker and those guys.
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  Speaker 2: You let those guys get there. I'll just keep the
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  Speaker 2: mask on.
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  Speaker 4: Keep always also another great point, always go veritec and
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  Speaker 4: leave the mask on, like right, you don't want to
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  Speaker 4: ruin your face, right, So if they punt you, then
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  Speaker 4: they hit the mask and then they break their hand
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  Speaker 4: and you get to beat them up.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: We get in a fight with the Yankees because John
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  Speaker 1: Carlos stands one of the strongest on the planet.
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  Speaker 3: But you can't open the bag of chips.
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  Speaker 1: So that's his krypto that you just dangle it on
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  Speaker 1: thee anything else, you're in trouble, Okay, so don't get
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  Speaker 1: tackled or anything, but just say.
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  Speaker 2: Open these.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, how's the staff, how's the young a staff that
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  Speaker 1: you're working with. I know there's a few bets in
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  Speaker 1: there too, but just run through some of the guys
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  Speaker 1: that you're working with, some of the you know, changes
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  Speaker 1: that you've seen, especially ones that you actually saw Carrie
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  Speaker 1: through from spring training to the regular season. I know,
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  Speaker 1: some guys, especially nowadays in today's sport, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: almost like every guy shows up, they want to do
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  Speaker 1: something different.
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  Speaker 3: And try it out.
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  Speaker 1: Have you seen anything from there actually translate now to
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  Speaker 1: the first couple of starts.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's just always like like you said
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  Speaker 2: the pictures, it's kind of like hitters too. We're always
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  Speaker 2: looking for that next edge, that next way to to
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  Speaker 2: get better, take that step forward. But yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 2: it's you got like like it comes to mind, like
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  Speaker 2: Jacob Lopez had a had a great rookie season last year,
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  Speaker 2: where where he's trying to build off that j T
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  Speaker 2: Gins had had some success. He's looking to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: keep keep getting better and take that next step forward.
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  Speaker 2: It's just it's always like it's the it's the simple
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  Speaker 2: things that that people like make complicated. It's just refining
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  Speaker 2: your craft, understanding that wearing the zone you have success
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  Speaker 2: and attacking that. And you know, at the at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day, like hitting, hitting is the hardest
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  Speaker 2: thing to do in all of sports. So the picture
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  Speaker 2: should be aggressive and attack to strike zone.
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  Speaker 5: And it's your job to tell him to how to
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  Speaker 5: do that, right, Like you're the You're the constant, You're
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  Speaker 5: the constant voice he needs to hear when you hit
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  Speaker 5: the button and it goes, it goes to basketball ball.
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  Speaker 5: But you're playing in Sacramento for your second year. You're
• 11:44
  Speaker 5: out there every single freaking day and it gets hot.
• 11:48
  Speaker 5: One are you glad that they didn't put turf in?
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  Speaker 5: And two have you guys figured out some things that
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  Speaker 5: helped that I wish I had learned that last year
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  Speaker 5: at the beginning of the year.
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  Speaker 3: And so incremental.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think there's really anything that we
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  Speaker 2: wish we would have known. It's just kind of like
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  Speaker 2: as this season went along, as everybody saw the ball
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  Speaker 2: flies there, it's a it's a hitter friendly park. You know.
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  Speaker 2: There there were some heat things here and there with
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  Speaker 2: the playing surface, but I mean it's hard to expect
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  Speaker 2: the playing surface to be, you know, perfect when when
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  Speaker 2: more on the road, the Triple A team's playing there,
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  Speaker 2: and then when we come home, there's a game on
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  Speaker 2: that field every single day. So I mean, the ground
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  Speaker 2: screws working their tails off trying to keep keep that
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  Speaker 2: thing in shape. But yeah, it does get hot, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm from Texas where it gets really humid too
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  Speaker 2: and hot, so like, at least at least the humidity
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  Speaker 2: is not a thing. And you know, it's a little
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  Speaker 2: easier to deal with drier heat.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, dry heat, I like that.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 5: The biggest question for me when I look it to
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  Speaker 5: up and down this lineup, everybody's got extensions except for you,
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  Speaker 5: like a guy that in my opinion and AJ's opinion,
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  Speaker 5: the lynch pin of the team is the catcher. Short
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  Speaker 5: stop is great, center field is great, all that stuff.
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  Speaker 5: Those extension talks for you, what do they Is it
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  Speaker 5: a distraction for you? Is it something that you want
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  Speaker 5: the team to visit more? How do you approach it
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  Speaker 5: as a player off season and in season?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think for sure, I think in
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  Speaker 2: season it could definitely be a distraction. Obviously, the goal
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  Speaker 2: is night in, night out. You want you want to
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  Speaker 2: go out there performing your best and and come away
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  Speaker 2: with a win. Right, But I mean all everything is
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  Speaker 2: going to work out the way that it's supposed to.
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  Speaker 2: It's not something that that I'm overly concerned about. Obviously.
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  Speaker 2: I love the organization, love the guys, love the staff.
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  Speaker 2: I want to be here. I want to win with
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  Speaker 2: with these guys. But yeah, like I said, it's not
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  Speaker 2: something I'm worried about. Are concerned about. It all work out, Hey, Shae.
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  Speaker 4: One guy that got a nice contract is is Sevy,
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  Speaker 4: who you said was pitching tonight. Have you had to
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  Speaker 4: talks with him?
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  Speaker 2: One?
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  Speaker 4: Have you said, hey, let's we got to figure out
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  Speaker 4: how to pitch in Sacramento because his numbers were not
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  Speaker 4: very good in Sacramento. I got a little better as
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  Speaker 4: the year went on. And two did you watch the
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  Speaker 4: World Baseball Classic and where he was throwing a hundred
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  Speaker 4: and say to him, hey, man, we need that during
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  Speaker 4: the regular season, not just for the dominic game.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, he looked, he looked really good in the WBC,
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  Speaker 2: And like, are we known? Like that's he's got that,
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  Speaker 2: he's nasty, he's got he's got the arsenal, he's got
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  Speaker 2: the stuff. It's just, yeah, it's just going out there
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  Speaker 2: and competing, you know, and then some Knights are they're
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  Speaker 2: gonna gonna be rough nights of the nights, we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of success. It's just kind of trying
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: to be as consistent as possible and be the same
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: guy every day. But yeah, I think it's it was
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: kind of a curveball for Sevy pitching in Sack that
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: first year, just because there's certain things you get accustomed
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: to when you're in the big leagues. Like he in
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: between things, he's a guy that likes to go back
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: into the clubhouse of the weight room or the batting
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: KHB in the air conditioning, sit down, relax, look at
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: the iPad kind of like rewatch that last inning where
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: we didn't have anywhere for him to go in Sacramento,
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: Like he's not going to go all the way back
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: to the clubhouse behind the left field wall, so he's
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: kind of just still sitting out there in the heat
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: in the dugout. He's got all the like there's you know,
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: there's twenty six guys in the dugout just walking around
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: like everybody's kind of in everybody's way, so there's a
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: lot of things to adjust to on the fly, and
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: we were trying to figure like he was trying to
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: figure that out. We were trying to figure out a
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: way for him to be more comfortable and have more success.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: And I think when the second half of last year
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: showed that like, we started to figure it out.
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: Wait, I need to I need to know what his
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: what his setup looks like. Because when we played together
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: in New York, he had his chair and then on
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: the chair there was two towels, there was an extra
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: jersey hung behind him, there was a cooler filled with
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: his drinks in the cooler, and then there was towels
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: to the right. Is it's still the same because that
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: was young Sevy. This is older Sevy now.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: Couldn't couldn't have just I have the picture better myself.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: It's the exact same.
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: Does he have the does he have the towel in
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: front of him where he puts his feet down, if
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: he takes his cleats off, or does he not do
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: that anymore?
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: I haven't. I haven't seen that one. But he's he's
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: got the towels in there, he's got his own waters
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: and his cooler, he's got he's got the chair, he's
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: got the extra jersey, he's got all that stuff.
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like a whole throne. It's like a game.
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: But anyway in game, the abs Now that you're kind
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: of you're kind of in it. You're not a full
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: season in or even a quarter of the season in.
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: But what have you noticed from it? And have you
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: had any good stories where like a pictures like, Bro,
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: why didn't you do this like you told me I could?
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: What what? Yeah? I mean obviously, I think we all
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: know pictures think everything's to strike as they should. You know,
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: they're out there, they're out there competing, they're the ones
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: with the ball. So like I I, we want them
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: to think that way. We want them to think aggressively.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: Uh abeyes it is. It's been interesting. It's something that
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: we're gonna keep getting used to. I think the the
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: tougher part from he is kind of understanding where the
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: top of the zone is. I think that one's the
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: one that kind of changes the most here and there.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: I think I've got a better general idea of where
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: the bottom of the zone is on each individual guy.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: And then the thing, the thing that I've noticed that
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: comes into play the most is where these guys are
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: standing in the box, if they're all the way in
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: the back, if they're at the front, Because like as catchers,
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: we move up when they move up, we move back
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: when they move back, And that eight and a half
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: inch back mark on the plate for the bottom of
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: the zone doesn't change. So like I could be closer
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: to that, I could be further away from that, and
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: that kind of changes the perception of where the bottom
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: of the zone's at all.
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: Right, last one for me, do you think cal Riley
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: should have been the MVP?
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Yes? And that's that's I'm not I'm not taking anything
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: away from Aaron Judge. Aaron Judges, you know, the best
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: player in baseball. It's either him or Scholeton, and everybody
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: knows that. I just think when a catcher puts together
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: a season like that, just knowing, like like we all
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: know the grind of what we go through through in season.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: He's got all the pitching meetings, doing all the scouting.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: He's catching night to day games. There was there was
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: a game we were in Seattle. He caught the first
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: two night games, came out, caught the third game day
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: game at like twelve thirty one o'clock. Whenever it was
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Logan Gilbert was on the mound. He blocked like fifteen
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: splitters in the dirt and hit two Homers that day.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: So it was like he's just he was he's doing
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: he was doing things that catchers have never done before,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: and in my opinion, I think that that should have been.
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: The m v P.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: Say, by the way, Aaron Judge is going to hear
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: what you just said, and he might charge the catcher. Now,
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: he might go. I don't know if you if you
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: ever saw the Izzy al Kintara where he dropped kicked
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: the catcher, you might be careful. You better when Aaron
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: Judge walks up. You just better say hi, mister Judge,
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: Yes you deserve the m v P.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Please don't kill me. He put me on that catcher's
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: interference last night, so maybe he he already got that out.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: Oh he already knew what you were going to answer.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Yeah, he's.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: A catcher, Scott, we're catchers. Did you get through these things?
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: Don't even feel it next day?
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: That's right, Shay.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: People that don't know you were drafted. You went to Baylor,
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: you were drafted by the Braves, So did you go
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: to the Brave and say, listen, I have to wear
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: green and gold, so you have to trade me to
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: the Athletics so I can just keep my wardrobe green
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: and gold for my whole life.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: No, it was it was kind of like, you know,
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: it's one of the one of those things. I was
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: just caught off guard, you know. I think twenty twenty
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: two is the the lockout had just ended. The non
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: forty man guys were already already there at at the
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Spring Trading facility, so I was already there for a
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: couple of weeks. But then the lockout ended, so Big
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: League camp started. We just had like our big compliance
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: meeting where it was like an hour long roll in
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: like the huge theater or whatever. They're talking through like
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: the rules and like social media and stuff like that.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: And then we had just started doing day one catcher's
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: work and then I got called into the office and yeah,
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: I guess you guys know how they do it just
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: kind of rip it off like a band aid, just
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: like because the whole deal that off season was if
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: if Freddy Freeman was going to come back or not,
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: and obviously we all he wound up signing with the
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Dodgers and they needed a first baseman, so they went
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: and got metals. Good for you.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Wow, there you go. Well, the green and gold looks
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: good on you. I'll tell you that. Keep doing ud. Yeah,
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: it's fun to watch.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: I love listening to you three just talk all about
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: the catcher's perspective throughout this, you know, last twelve.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Minutes, so I really appreciate it.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Dude, thanks for joining us, and good luck tonight and
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: the rest of the way until we catch up again.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Appreciate it. Thanks guys, thanks for having me.