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Untold Details on Teoscar s Return, Wild Vlad Jr. Offer + Mookie s Take on NL West _ On Base, Ep. 34 · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to On Base Live in your Bleacher Report app.
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  Speaker 1: I am your host, Nookie Betts, and this is season
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  Speaker 1: three and I'm super excited. I would have never guessed
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  Speaker 1: that I would be doing this for three years, but
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  Speaker 1: it's crazy. Anyways, I got my boy, tay Oscar Hernandez
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  Speaker 1: Tayo in the building. Yay. Thank he came to Holland.
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  Speaker 1: And thanks for coming on the show. I know you
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  Speaker 1: love your sleep. You know you're not a big morning guy,
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  Speaker 1: So thank you for getting up and doing this.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you for having me here on the show.
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  Speaker 2: It's a pleasure to be here.
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  Speaker 1: I do want to run down a couple accolades. You're
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  Speaker 1: a three time Silver Slugger, two time All Star, and
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  Speaker 1: what I think, my opinion is the best one of
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  Speaker 1: all twenty twenty four World Series champion. So that's a
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  Speaker 1: that's a dope resume. And you're still building right Yeah. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: we're still a couple of shots. You know.
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  Speaker 2: We're trying to run it back this year. Yeah, doing
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  Speaker 2: everything that we can just to get back over there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah we will, we'll talk about that. Uh. To start though,
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  Speaker 1: we had this game called on base or off Base
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  Speaker 1: and it's whether you're in or out, and I got
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  Speaker 1: a couple of things. Wriggly is the most iconic ballpark
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  Speaker 1: in baseball, on base or off base.
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  Speaker 2: On that on base, I think you know it has history.
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  Speaker 2: I used to be a couple of fans. Okay, growing up,
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  Speaker 2: you were growing up. Yeah, who was your guy that
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  Speaker 2: you watched? Of course?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Crazy crazy, Yeah, those years they were amazing. They never
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  Speaker 1: get to win the championship when he was here, but
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  Speaker 1: it's because the other teams were a little better. So Sammy,
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  Speaker 1: Sammy was your that that was like, that was your favorite.
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  Speaker 3: We got in the Dominican.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, trying to imitate he stands oats and and you know,
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  Speaker 2: trying to hear.
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  Speaker 1: Did you ever get to meet him? No, never got
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  Speaker 1: to meet never. Okay, hopefully one day, one day, hopefully
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  Speaker 1: one day you get to meet We'll see, Okay, Sammy,
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  Speaker 1: this is a good guy to uh, comepile it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't mean.
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  Speaker 1: But anyways, being a credentialed photographer is the best post
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  Speaker 1: game career. So yeah, you're on base or off base,
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  Speaker 1: just being a photographer and you got credentials base, you're
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  Speaker 1: on base, so you just want to go around take pictures. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean you saw Griffy, right, you saw Griffy.
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  Speaker 2: He is enjoying life and he's a Hall of Famer.
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  Speaker 2: He has an excellent career. Now he's just doing little
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  Speaker 2: things that nobody thinks doing.
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  Speaker 1: People and and like I can only imagine being Griffy,
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  Speaker 1: And first of all, being Griffy walking in the Masters,
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  Speaker 1: I mean there there's probably nowhere he can walk without
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  Speaker 1: getting stopped. Yeah, and then he's going and taking pictures
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  Speaker 1: and it's like, wow, that's super dope. It is it is.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, like you don't imagine the Hall of Famer
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  Speaker 2: yeah him, Yeah, especially taking pictures in the Master.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a normal being the normal guy.
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  Speaker 3: The he's area.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you can imagine him taking pictures in Baseball
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  Speaker 2: that the world class and all of that, but Master,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, I think that was his way to
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  Speaker 1: so he didn't have to pay to get in there
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  Speaker 1: or something. So that was his way.
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  Speaker 3: That's a question.
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  Speaker 1: But I know he really He's always talked about his
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  Speaker 1: cameras and all the different stuffs around Johnson too. He
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  Speaker 1: takes pictures. Yeah, maybe it's something to it, Maybe they're
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  Speaker 1: onto something. I don't know. We gotta maybe it's not
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  Speaker 1: gonna be crazy if if I do that. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: my way to get in without paying. I just hate
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  Speaker 1: I work here where I would see all right, So
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  Speaker 1: what about this? A fart is always funny?
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  Speaker 3: That's it is? It is, man, did you see that?
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  Speaker 1: What we watched the video with Logan Web Yes, and
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  Speaker 1: I think I watched it hundred times already. So it's
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  Speaker 1: like it's just because you're in there with your boys,
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  Speaker 1: like nobody understands the club house, like you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, So something like that.
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  Speaker 2: It is funny. It is funny. Like you don't imagine
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  Speaker 2: like somebody doing that.
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  Speaker 1: In the middle of an interview, because usually there's like
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  Speaker 1: a I'm not gonna say, like a boundary, but like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: you know we're not gonna play while guys talking on
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  Speaker 1: TV because X Y and Z, Yeah these for a
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  Speaker 1: long long time now.
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  Speaker 2: And when somebody is doing an interview and everybody's quiet quiet,
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  Speaker 2: you hear that.
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  Speaker 3: You hear I really like because it was a big one.
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  Speaker 1: It was it was not like, wow, okay, all right,
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  Speaker 1: so what about this last one? Uncrustables are the best
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  Speaker 1: mid game snack. I don't know, I'm not a big
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  Speaker 1: guy of snacks, so you know a snack guy. No,
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  Speaker 1: so you're off based on this. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you saw, like that's Duran he was eating uncrustables and
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  Speaker 1: then I think castillanos. Yep, he was eating uncrustable I'm on.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say I'm on base, but I'm on
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  Speaker 1: based on uncrustables, I really do. I smashed him. That
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  Speaker 1: was my That helped me get my weight back when
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  Speaker 1: I was sick. And the thing is because we didn't
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  Speaker 1: have that, so we're not used to. Yeah that's fair,
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  Speaker 1: but you do see do you do? You eat seeds though?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes? So is that is that considered a snack? I
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  Speaker 1: don't think so what is What would the seeds be?
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  Speaker 1: It's just something to keep you like, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: it's like gum okay, gum stand snack Okay. So so
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  Speaker 1: when you got the nickname mistress, how did you get
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  Speaker 1: the nickname mister Seeds?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 1: What was it was?
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  Speaker 2: Back in twenty eighteen that's when the team starts celebrating
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  Speaker 2: when they hit homers and all that, And we didn't
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  Speaker 2: have anything in Toronto, but we have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: seats okay, so it's like, okay, so we have all
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  Speaker 2: of this, I'm just gonna throw it to the guy
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  Speaker 2: like he's Homer.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. That's how I started, and it.
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  Speaker 1: Became your thing and it came so you. So but
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  Speaker 1: you're not like you don't eat seeds all the time,
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  Speaker 1: like I feel like I see you eat them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but no, not always.
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  Speaker 2: I use it like the last series, I used it
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  Speaker 2: in Texas to mark my spot because it's uh because
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  Speaker 2: it was terf Yeah. So I don't, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: messure my steps. All right, so let's jump into something else.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me about your this your first off season being
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  Speaker 2: a champ, right, a World Series champ. What did you
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  Speaker 2: do this off season? Like what did you do?
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  Speaker 1: You didn't do anything, nothing with the fam or nothing.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't go anywhere I want to the Dominican for
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  Speaker 2: ten days, took some a little vacation when to meet
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  Speaker 2: the president okay of the Dominican Republic and uh and
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  Speaker 2: that's it. Ten days and that was it. You didn't
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  Speaker 2: get back and started working again. What so, Okay, my
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  Speaker 2: body was a little bit up, So you had I
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  Speaker 2: never played that long that far into it.
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  Speaker 1: And like meaningfulings like there was a lot of It
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  Speaker 1: was a lot going on, a lot going.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so my body was like, you know what, I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna rest.
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  Speaker 1: So okay, and your fami didn't. They didn't. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I know your family was there. Yeah, so they really
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  Speaker 1: got to enjoy. How did they feel about it? Tell
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  Speaker 1: me about their great great They have really good experience,
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  Speaker 1: you know, not only for me.
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  Speaker 3: It was a dream for them to you know, like.
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  Speaker 2: As a member of a family and you in the
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  Speaker 2: big leagues, Like every family wants that. So it was
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  Speaker 2: a great time. We enjoy really good because we win,
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  Speaker 2: right for sure. Uh, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: it was it was worth it, Like all the time
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  Speaker 2: that that we spend as a group, as a team
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  Speaker 2: together outside of the family, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: it paid off.
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  Speaker 1: If it did pay off. And uh, I do want
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  Speaker 1: to say, me and your dad we have the best
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  Speaker 1: conversation of just nothing, like we just looked because he.
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  Speaker 3: Can each other.
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  Speaker 1: We just I don't know enough Spanish and he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: know enough England. So we're just looking at each other like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you doant to join the movie. I know exactly what
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  Speaker 1: you said. He knows what I'm saying. Yeah, your Dad's awesome. Really,
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  Speaker 1: your whole family is yeah, you know, three kids, three
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  Speaker 1: three boys, three boys.
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  Speaker 2: How is that at the house crazy? You know, Mama Jennifers, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it is going crazy.
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  Speaker 1: She has no no feminine energy at all at the house.
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  Speaker 1: She's the only only female.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. God, she's the queen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's the queen.
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  Speaker 3: Still the queen.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's the three side. Like are you playing ball
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  Speaker 1: and stuff all the time? I got my one son
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  Speaker 1: and he wants he wants to like hit and throw
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  Speaker 1: and everything. All my kids three, the two oldest one
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  Speaker 1: they don't. They don't care about baseball really. The little
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  Speaker 1: one is it is the one always finding the ball,
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  Speaker 1: throwing to me. I can throw it back, okay, you know,
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  Speaker 1: playing around. So I got three. Maybe one is going
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  Speaker 1: to be a baseball player. I don't know, maybe none.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So and then you were on a one year
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  Speaker 1: deal and then end up signing back with us, and
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  Speaker 1: then you so all that we kind of added and
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  Speaker 1: added and added, like how did how was that for you? Like?
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  Speaker 1: How was that for your perspective of seeing something like that?
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  Speaker 3: It's great?
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  Speaker 2: You know, as a player, you feel really good when
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  Speaker 2: you have just win the Wall Series, you signed back,
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  Speaker 2: and before you sign back, they keep signing like Superstar.
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  Speaker 2: It's like it's Nell, they signed Rookie, they sign Porto,
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  Speaker 2: and they're just trying to make everything better and better
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  Speaker 2: because winning is great. Yeah, you know, my first first
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  Speaker 2: time winning a Wall Series, I was part of the
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  Speaker 2: Houston Astros in twenty seventeen.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't there.
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  Speaker 2: I got traded, but like getting that feel is great,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that's what the front office get.
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  Speaker 3: They want to keep winning.
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  Speaker 2: They want to keep putting good players on the field
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  Speaker 2: so they can have a better chance. And as a player,
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  Speaker 2: it feels amazing to see the organization doing that.
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  Speaker 1: And the culture. I think the culture that we've.
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  Speaker 2: Built, it's getting better and better because the players that
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  Speaker 2: they are bringing in, it's it's like, Okay, this is
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  Speaker 2: the player that we want, this is the player that
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  Speaker 2: we need. This is the players that it's gonna put
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  Speaker 2: together really good season and we can make them run
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  Speaker 2: by tools.
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  Speaker 1: So that's ah, that's why you gotta love being a Dodger. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So and then obviously, as you know, we we came
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  Speaker 1: up pretty much together, and we were in the Al
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  Speaker 1: East together and you know, how that that division was.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you make a lot of place on me. So
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  Speaker 3: I remember all of.
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  Speaker 1: Us, but that division we used to beat up on
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  Speaker 1: each other with all of us, like everybody was really good.
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  Speaker 1: And so now the NL West, it's kind of the
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  Speaker 1: same way. Guys that we have a lot of really
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  Speaker 1: good teams in this vision, and it makes it tough
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  Speaker 1: because you got to show up every day. Like not
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  Speaker 1: that you didn't before, but like now it's even more
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  Speaker 1: reason to like, man, you know that it's pressure, but
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  Speaker 1: no pressure. Yeah exactly. It's like you can't just really
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  Speaker 1: coast through the season because you know these teams are
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  Speaker 1: really good and their coasting is winning a lot of
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  Speaker 1: ball games as well. And so how does that? Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's you know, it's it's great. I enjoy it. I
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  Speaker 1: enjoy competing. Yeah, honest, you know it's good to win.
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  Speaker 2: And trust me, if I if I can win one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and sixty two, yes good. But for me, it's
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  Speaker 2: more like the excitement of baseball. It's not about just
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  Speaker 2: you win and win and win and win and win
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  Speaker 2: and winning. Like if if you don't feel the pressure
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  Speaker 2: from the other teams, I don't think.
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  Speaker 1: You enjoy it, right, And it's hard. It's the most
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  Speaker 1: I agree, because that's and that is kind of like
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  Speaker 1: the WBC field, where like you're playing against a really
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  Speaker 1: good team or the game really means something every day.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, I like.
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  Speaker 2: The competition, because that's what I said last year when
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  Speaker 2: when everybody was talking about the Padres and I like this,
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  Speaker 2: it was fun.
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  Speaker 3: It was fun. I like the pressure.
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  Speaker 2: I like the osmosphere that is around when these two
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  Speaker 2: teams face each other. It's not gonna be like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the Padres are gonna win.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, who knows, and it's gonna I think it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: it'll make it fun, just because as we go through June, July, August,
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  Speaker 1: when the season really gets long, yeah, you can't really
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  Speaker 1: allow that to happen because there's there, these teams are
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  Speaker 1: constantly winning games, and so it really kind of makes
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  Speaker 1: you perform each and every day and put more effort.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes sometimes you feel like, oh we just I think
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna win today. We're not gonna you know, play
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  Speaker 2: hard or you know, play at the max level. But
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  Speaker 2: now the thing shift like it used to be in
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  Speaker 2: the in the American League now is nationally Yeah, yeah, it'sion.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not even just our division.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a lot of real everybody's playing really really
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  Speaker 2: good basement like just in general, just just like going
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  Speaker 2: by playing the Nationals, they played really good baseball US.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, every team and every team, every team that
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  Speaker 1: is going to face US, it's going to take out
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  Speaker 1: of them the best because they want to win.
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  Speaker 3: They want to beat the Dodger. You know.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's not it's not like with the villains. It's
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  Speaker 1: just like everybody wants to win. Yeah, exactly. And those guys,
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  Speaker 1: even though they can you can argue that the teams
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  Speaker 1: are not putting a product out on field X, Y,
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  Speaker 1: and Z. I'm not here to debate that, but I
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  Speaker 1: know those boys in that clubhouse they want to win. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: everybody wants to those boys. It's not the player's fault, No,
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  Speaker 1: it's not. Those boys want to win. And so when
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  Speaker 1: it shows up on the field, like every every player,
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  Speaker 1: the goals on the baseball if it wants to win,
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  Speaker 1: they want to win.
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  Speaker 3: I don't, I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I never met a player that said, oh I don't
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  Speaker 2: like to win. No, nobody says we played this to win.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, you know, speaking of winning, you did the
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  Speaker 1: home run Derby. Last year I did and you won that?
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  Speaker 1: How was that? Like I hadn't even really you know,
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  Speaker 1: the season kind of kept going, so we didn't really
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  Speaker 1: get to talk about it. But like that, but I
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  Speaker 1: was that, like were decided to do it? Why did
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  Speaker 1: you even decide to do it? It was great. I
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  Speaker 1: always uh like one of my favorite thanks uh watching
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  Speaker 1: baseball when I was like little, it was that it
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  Speaker 1: was the deby And I always when I make it
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  Speaker 1: to the big leagues, I always talk to the guys.
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  Speaker 1: I want to be in the derby one day. But
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't that popular time. Okay, then you got popular.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but uh, last year, I talked to my engine,
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  Speaker 2: I took to the team. I talked to Isuel Little Petts,
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  Speaker 2: I talked to him. I talked to everybody to see
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  Speaker 2: if I can get into the okay, and the lot
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  Speaker 2: like the very last chance I get, yeah to be
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  Speaker 2: in the nervy and.
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  Speaker 1: It was a great experience. It was I was nervous, Ah,
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  Speaker 1: you're nervous, Okay, nervous Okay, But it was great, especially
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  Speaker 1: when after I win it that everybody was saying that
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  Speaker 1: I was the first Dodgers to win so that makes
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  Speaker 1: makes it even more special. So it was great, good experience,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, maybe I'm gonna do it again. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'll start maybe, Okay, but if you're not in the
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna go. I'm not over there just for the Yeah, okay, okay,
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  Speaker 1: that makes sense. Well let me you just gotta keep
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  Speaker 1: doing your things and you'll be okay. So real quick,
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  Speaker 1: I do want to ask Show, Hey just had his
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  Speaker 1: baby girl. Do you have any advice for him, Like
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  Speaker 1: if you were going to give some dad advice to
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  Speaker 1: Show Hey, what would you tell him.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like I told him, so I'll let you
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  Speaker 1: think about it. I told him my dad advice was
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  Speaker 1: you should show I said, Show. I don't really have
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  Speaker 1: real advice because there's this is your experience, but like
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: you should just go and accept that you're not going
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: to sleep for the next ten years, Like there is
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: no sleep, So instead of trying to sleep, just accept
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: that you're not gonna just get up. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. Yeah, that does one thing that that was
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: my advice for Show. Enjoy everything. Yeah, you're gonna enjoy it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna have to. Yeah, And I think about way,
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  Speaker 1: it's not gonna help. Yeah, just like if you have
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: to wake up in the middle of the night, just
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: wake up, just get up, just get up. If you
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: have to do something, just do it. And and that's
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: that's life. If you think about it, it's gonna get worse.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Don't think about it. The show is gonna be good.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, just do whatever it takes to keep the
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: baby quiet and sleeping. I bet I wonder like that
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: little girl like her her her mom played basketball and
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: her dad is show times I kind of athletes. She's
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: gonna be But anyways, we'll see so you right.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: But she's gonna be special.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: She's gonna be special.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be jeans are really really good.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Uh, tell me about like baby tail until and then
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: how you grew up, and then how you kind of
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: came through a little bit about your store because I
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: don't think a lot of people know you know your
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: backstory and kind of how you became.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Kid Babs god like man where they didn't play baseball
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: to be in this spot that I am right now,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: a little town that not many people where where I'm from,
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Dominican Republic.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: My mom b Now that's the name of the town,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: my moon, my my mom, my moon, my mom. Yes,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: so it's like, uh, not much going on over there
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: besides play and study and you know, just enjoy life,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: playing on the street, playing old kind of games outside,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: not much much. And then so you got you were
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: eighteen you signed. That isn't that kind of late.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: It is late.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: You were eighteen when you signed. And so this was
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: because usually it's sixteen, right, sixteen there is, that's one
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: of the big signing. It's like a drop here, okay,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: But when I was sixteen, I wasn't good. I started
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: playing baseball at fifteen to get ready to sign. That's late.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: That's usually they start like twelve or thirteen, right, So
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: I start really late. But I love baseball. So if
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I have, if you asked me, what skills do you
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: have back then, none besides loving the game.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: So I like to play. I love to play. But
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: it was like it was hard. I mean it was not.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: It is hard still hard.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: To you know, to be ready at age of thirteen
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: fourteen and be ready, don't try out and all that,
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: like your kid, you baby, And nowadays it's I think
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: it's getting even harder because of age.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: You do not even think about it. What you want
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: when you're twelve.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: You don't have idea. If I go back, when I
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: was twelve, I was still playing in the street like
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: we no no shoes, and then these you don't know
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: what you want and now they're getting all of those
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: kids thinking about millions and millions sign and it just
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: had messed.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: But going back, I spent three.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Years doing tryouts, getting ready, preparing myself to see if
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: I can sign a professional contract. And when I turned eighteen,
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: that was twenty ten October I turned eighteen, and then
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: I told my family, I tell my manager over there
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: in the Dominican that the twenty eleven it was going
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: to be my last year of doing tryouts and practicing
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: and trying to uh sign. So in February I signed
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: with the Houston Astros and that's when everything starts.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: So if you didn't sign, let's say that that year happened.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: What were you What was your plan? I think I
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: will be an engineer, Oh engineer maybe I don't know,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: but something that has to be with numbers and in
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: that area of professional So you don't have to worry
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: about that now. So then you signed, I know you signed.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: You signed for twenty thousand dollars. Twenty thousand dollars you signed,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: and then what was the first like, what did you do?
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Did you come over? You came over and started playing
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: rookie ball or no, I played in the Dominican.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, you played in that year twenty eleven playing the
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Dominican only that year and then the next year came
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: to the States and that's when my career start. That
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: same year I got called up from Rookie Bowl to
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: low A and then thirteen low A again and high
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: A and then fourteen hi A double A, and then
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: fifteen double A and then sixteen double A again.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: And triple A in the bigs.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: That's that's that's when I make it to the Bagless
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: in two thousand sixteen.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: And I remember seeing when you came up and I'm like,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: know who this guy is?
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: You know whatever?
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: You were a superstar with y I was all right,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: I was, I was doing all right. So you got
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: an MVP and everything. So tell me about uh. I
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: kind of spoke of the WBC and you know the Olympics.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: The Olympics are coming to l A and so hopefully
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: you're playing in the Olympics. I mean, if I'm I mean,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: there's so many people, man, if there's I mean, yeah,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: I would see and my plan if yeah, have you played? Yeah,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I played last year, last time. And tell me about
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: you like your experience with the WBC, Like how much
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: like do you really like? Is that like? Because to me,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: the WBC is like.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Is the ultimate, that's the ultimate st Yeah yeah, like
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: now I went in the Winter lead in the Dominican
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: I went in the Mount of Leagues. I went, well serious, yeah,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: so now I want to win.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: You guys, and you guys are always really really good,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: so obviously you would do it if they asked you, right, yeah, yeah,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: for sure, for sure. And I mean, yeah, you guys,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I mean always representing your country.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: It's the best thing you can do.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Do you have like a lot of friends and family
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: that come for that outside of the regular.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Fan yes, yes, you know Dominican people there.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Say it seems like I'm not saying the World
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Series is more important or less important. I'm not making
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: making that a point, But is that WBC feeling is
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: not close? Not? Then it's close. I don't think it's
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: close to maybe because the World Series is like a
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: seven game series.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: It's I don't think two years ago I played with
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: the WBC and I play against per Weekend and Nezuela.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: None of the games that we played last year in
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: the water, it was not even close.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Do you think it's because it's like a it's like
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: a one game, it's you know, or if it was
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: a series, would it feel different?
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: I think even more. I think it would be worse. Worse.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it would be worse. It's just like
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: it's like you guys facing Japan. Yeah, it was that's crazy, dude.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: And like you imagine, imagine the US facing the Dominican
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Republic on the final or Venezuela. Really, any any Latin country,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be crazy because I think there's like that.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: That's how you know the league is so good, because
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what country you look at, it's it's
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: going to be insane, you know what I'm saying. Anyway,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: like any team that you play, any team put against
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: the US or Japan, Japan or it doesn't matter, Yeah,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be crazy. So I really I really do,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: uh you know, I really would like to play about
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: what about for the Olympics.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Would you want to play in.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: The Olympics and you got to play that premium? What
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: is that?
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: That's part of the I play that in fifteen.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: So you got to play in the Olympics. Yes, that's
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: some countries have some chances to make it to the
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: World Classic playing that. Okay, okay, okay, So did you
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: play any other sports growing up?
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: Basketball?
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: You play bowling? You ain't never tell me you bowl?
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: You're not now you bowling?
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: Basketball?
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: That you said? No, no, no, no, no, we don't have that
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: in the minute volleyball okay. So okay, so basketball, like,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: who who have you watched any of the playoffs or
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: anything like or not? Not? Really you're not like you
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: don't really like not yet. Okay, so you wanted to
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: get closer. And then so do you know have you
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: do you watching like regular season games or anything?
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: No?
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: So you just like basketball, you don't watch it? Okay, okay,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: So you like shooting and only watch baseball? You only
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: watch baseball. Yeah, A lot of people call me crazy
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: because you play baseball. You play and then go home
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: and watch it and watch I watch it sometimes I
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: watch it. Sometimes I've been watching a lot of basketball.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: I watch a lot of other players. I don't watch myself.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Oh of course. Yeah, like you're watching your homeboys. Like
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: when you're watching, you just watching, appreciate just for everything, Okay,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter who's playing.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I can watch it.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: It didn't matter who's I love baseball, Yeah, you love
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: based and so so yeah, I mean, so it's And
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: then tell me about a little bit about I know
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: last year we kind of talked when you play left
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: field last year and now you're playing right are is
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: that a little more comfortable for you since you came
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: up and you played right a lot more.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: I mean obviously last year it was the second time
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: that I played left field. I was feeling more comfortable. Obviously,
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: it's not like regular position right field is. I used
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: to be a center field and in my legs, so
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: now that I have played all three, obviously center is
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: the one that is more comfortable. Right that's an outfielder.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: If you if you played center before, that's the one
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: that you're gonna feel like the perfect one because you
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: see everything.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: You see everything so much. But right fields my position
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: in the big leagues.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: And yeah, it's way more comfortable playing there than playing
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: the left field.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: And that was that was a big reason. You are
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: a huge reason why I'm playing short because I wanted
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: you to. I want you to come back. And I'm like,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: you know what, Yeah, we talked about it. I wanted
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: you to and I'm glad you he held your word.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: That's my dog. You know.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: I try everything just sticking back, even if I have
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: to play left field.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: I wanted to come back, yeah, And I mean you
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: saw it and we want and everything, and what was
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: it that made you really want to come back? Outside
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: of just like us winning the World Series? It's just
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: the group, you don't. It's like I never feel that
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: before really, So like when you like we were together
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: and everything, yeah.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: Uh, you guys were there.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: For everybody, not only for me because it's just like whatever,
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: but for everybody. And when you like I always say this,
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: and like in every interview that that I get to do.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: I always says when you see Mookie, when you see
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: you Freddy Show, he like Kershaw, Like for mbps, the
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: way they work, the way they prepare, the way they
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: they go about the business.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: It's it's like it's crazy.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: I ain't pay attention, okay, And it's.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: Like I wanted to be part of that for many years.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: So it's like I don't want to lose that because
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: I have learned so much from those guys, not even
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: from those guys like like Will like Merbody, like everybody.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: It's it's like the culture of the Dodgers is like that,
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: like everybody is the same. Like you guys treat everybody
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: the same, you don't. You guys don't act like you
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: guys have win everything in baseball. There's not a single
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: war that you have.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: Not won it. Yeah, but I mean and.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: You still like doing things that a rookie do, like grinding,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: working hard, discipline and and a lot and having that
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: on my side, it's it's it's yeah, that makes I
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: would agree. I think just the culture would and you
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: might have it.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: When you were were in and bust them the first
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: years when you had all of those like Superstar on
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: the team, when you came up to the bigies, and
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: that was you know, I kind of grew up, and
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: I mean I just this is kind of I grew
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: up and you know, whatever it.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: Is, what it is, you know.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: But anyways, I got some fan questions. You want to
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: take some fan questions? Yeah, all right, So since you
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: watch a lot of baseball games. The question is who
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: are your favorite players and teams to watch right now?
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: And nobody like particular, but like who do you? Who
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: do you enjoy watching me? Compounding Bloodie? Okay, he got
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: five man? Did he buy you? So he gotta buy
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm trying to let him enjoy that for sure,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: for sure. But we we're gonna get together. Okay, he
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: already buy when he won AM v P and twenty
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: twenty one on the Ulstar Okay, yea yeah.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: And homeron David was the next year I think that
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: he won. Yes, the next year in Seattle, he bought
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: me a backpack, did he?
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: I bet gonna buy you a chain?
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: Got your back a bit?
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Okay, So he wants he wants to buy me a
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Richard Merely, Oh god too, that's a lot. That's a
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: that's a lot.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: I say, just used to give me the money.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: It's okay, give me the money. You should definitely take
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Richard Milly. That's a shout to you, Laddie for Aufred Richard.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: From But the Blue Jay is because of him Bowl
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Springer for sure.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: You know all those guys.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: I played with him for for a long time.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: And I like to watch.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, I watch every everybody I know, but tell
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: me one and okay, so what about one team that
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: you're like, Man, this team is really good like that
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: you know that you like watching right now? Yeah?
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: Uh, the Cops, the Cups, they're playing really good baseball.
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: The Padres.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: I know a lot of fans don't not gonna like that.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: But they were good last year too, Yeah, and they
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: better this year, I think. And Austin, Oh yeah, Watchlane,
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: really good baseball, you know.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so what about this? It says you
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: talked about how you like pressure and you enjoy playing
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: with pressure. You know, it's make some more fun. What
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: was the pressure like in Seattle of the year after
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: the Mariners broke the playoff drought?
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: Uh, it was normal, you know.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: We when I played there, we missed the playoffs. We
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: missed the division by one game. I was twenty three.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: But but but there are a lot of fans that came.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: I feel like Seattle has loki a really really good
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: fan base. It's it's it was great. It was packed.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Unfortunately we missed the playoffs by one game. Texas and
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: Houston were tight in first place in Houston win the
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: division because they win the series against Texas and the
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Raglu season, so we missed, we missed that opportunity by
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: one game.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: And it was it was sad. It was so.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Disappointed because like when that happened, you go back and
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: you see the games that like, you think about the
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: games that we lost during the season. During the season, yeah,
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: that's why, and then you think about, wow, we really
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: missed the the playoffs.
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: By one game.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: And it happens to me twice now, by one game,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: by one game.
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: So it was the year.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you, I think you were here ready,
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: but it was the year the Tampa Yankees, Boston and
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: the Blue Yays win more than ninety two games.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: I may have been still, I don't remember where year
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: it was it was, I don't remember, but.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the division four teams win ninety something games
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: and we missed the playoff by one game. The Yankees
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: and Boston were tied and for the walk car so
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: they have to play one game.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I wasn't here. I think K was there
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: that year, Yes, there, Yeah, so it happens to me twice.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: So so okay, So speaking of pressure, then do we
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: The question is do we feel like there's more pressure
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: after winning a World Series, or more pressure from fans
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: after winning a World Series, and I don't feel that way.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: I don't really feel that way either. I do feel like, uh,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: obviously we haven't been we've been, we haven't been hitting great,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: and we haven't the the baseball.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: That we know we can.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we haven't at all. But I mean, but I
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: also as part of it, and I think, but it's
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: a long sea, it's a long seat.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: It is gonna happen or we're gonna struggle when when
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: it's not the pitching, it's going to be the hitting.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: When it's not the hitting is.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Gonna You know, when you make a run and you
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: win ten games, that's when everything's cleaning. Pitching is doing
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: their job, the hitters are scoring a lot of runs, and.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Right now we're not doing that.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: We're not doing that.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: We're not hitting right now. No we're not.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: We're having good we're picturing really good.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: But we're not hitting. No, we're not.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: And it's normal. But we're gonna get it. Yeah, I
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: think at some point, if we all still understand we're
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: playing besides the hitting, we're playing really good baseball.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: I think that good difference pitching is there, like the
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: regular things we're doing the regular things, they're just not
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: We're just not hitting hitting, which is cool.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: I mean that's part of it. Obviously we would like to.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: But also we understand, like this is a process. Yeah.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: As a player, when you understand that you're gonna fail more,
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: it's that's when everything becomes easier.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: But sometimes being a fan, they don't understand that. They
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: just see movie the Superstar that he has to hit. Yeah,
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: when they see Freddy the Superstar, he has to hit.
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  Speaker 2: Show me will like months like all of those guys,
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: it's just like, but.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna happens.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's part of the game and it's understanding and
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: we know it's a long season. But the but the
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: good thing is we were not coasting through it either,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Like we're still showing up every day doing everything we can.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Women had all the other things. We understand everything right now, so.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: It'll be all right.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: That's that's whatever. I'm not even think about.
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: Things like that.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Somebody asked me, would you would I want to do
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: the home run derby again? No, absolutely, I I did
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: it that one time and uh it was in seat
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: went bloody one yeah and three. Yeah, and it was
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: I mean it was I know, and I should have
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: did it in l A. But I just wasn't ready,
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: you know. I just you know, like I was not
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: ready and I really wasn't ready in Seattle either. But yeah,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I won't do it. It is hard, Yeah, hard.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: I mean you're swinging at like seventy percent and you're
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: hitting homers. If I don't swing at ninety five percent
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: every time, it is not going over the fence. And
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: you see me hit VP, I do not hit home
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: runs and VP. Yeah, but you just won the home
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: run derby, bro. Yeah, but it's different, I know it is.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. I don't have that different. I
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: just got the game ones, the ones that can go
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: like three thirty five. You know what I'm saying, three sixty.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: You know that's why I'm max out sixty ball twice
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: as us. Yeah, and it counts the same. So that's yeah,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: that's but no, I'm not doing it, Okay. So it's
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: just tail. You love Sammy Sosa. If you could assemble
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: a four person home run derby with legends, who would
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: it be? So you? So you and four other people.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: If you're all going against each other legends Homer, and
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: who would you want? Who would you want to do it?
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: I mean it's wonderful. Okay, so that's too bloody senior,
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: bloody senior.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Three, they can be all dominici. Okay, okay. Four what else.
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: You Griffy?
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, Griffy Okay. I would have said, Barry Bonds, but okay, whatever,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: yeah Barry.
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  Speaker 2: I mean no, I get it, I get it.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: I get it for sure. That would be uh man,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: that I would I would pay to see that. I
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: think Griffy. I think Griffy could do it now. But
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: the way the way that home Raby is right now,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: I don't think. No, maybe not, he couldn't do it now. No,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: but I think I think Griffy, if you gave him
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: a ten limit, he could do it now. Oh yeah,
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: still yeah, all of those guys, I bet they are
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: still Yeah. All right, I got I got questions, I
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: mean questions, I got time for two more. Oh. People
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: are asking about the which one of us had the
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: idea for the celebration for this year for show Hayes thing.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: I don't remember who came up what it was. I
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: think I think it was just there. It was during
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: the meeting. You didn't know what what what this? You
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: didn't see it. No, you weren't there. Look at you
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: know now I know. Oh, but at first you didn't
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: know what it meant. But when the seasons start, everybody
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: started doing this. And it was just because some reporters
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: came to me and asked me, like what this means,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: and I said, I don't know. Now I know it
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: has to be with show, but I don't know if
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: it's from Google balls because he has a partners of
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: something with partnerships. I don't know. Yeah, that was I
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: just remember it may have been my idea. And then
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: that reported showed me the video the commercial, the commercial
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: it made. I don't remember whose idea it was, but
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: we said we were going to do it, and uh
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: he I think he had to walk off Homer that day. Yeah,
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: it was on his that's what it was.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, somebody didn't and on the field, Yeah it was him.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: It was him. So but so now you so you
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: were doing the celebration you didn't even know what it was. Yes,
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: good for.
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: Everybody's doing it.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: So whatever with my boys, whatever they want to do it, Okay, Uh,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: let's see one more. Who's the funniest player on the Dodgers,
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: But you already know who that is. Yeah, that's not
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: even a valid question. So I mean they love kicking
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: people do lucky. I didn't realize how I really love.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not like, yeah, they like Mook. They love.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: He's a fan and I get it.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: I get it. Everybody love.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: So all right, brother, Well, thank you for coming on
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: the show. Uh being the first episode of season three? Wow? Special?
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: I know you sure we're special. Also, we got what
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: this is? One of four years, one of four one
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: of four years with the option is the four years? Okay,
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: we'll see one four. I still got years after that. Bro,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I know. But anyway, how you gonna
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: do it either? Man, I'm playing once a week. Everybody
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: keeps saying, oh yeah, you say this is a lot
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: of steal and then this. Trust me, I'm not gonna
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: play more bass after this, man, Now out it's gonna
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: out will be. I don't even know what position I'll
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: be at a plate then, boy, I guess it's gonna
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: have to be third base. And I can't do I
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: can't keep running all the way out there.
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: On the fiel.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: You'll be fine, yeah, we'll we'll be all right. So
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: but anyway, thank you man, thank you for having men.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: It is pleasure, of course. Thanks for coming on, and
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: I love you brother.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: The first one is the first podcast in English that
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: I have listen. First podcast. First shout out to you,
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: tell okay, it's really special and I say yes because
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: it's you.
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: I love going on me too. Thank you.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, guys, thank you for joining and we'll
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: cat you next time.