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Pads closer Mason Miller joins FT · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Padres closer Mason Miller joining us after the first few games.
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  Speaker 1: Big weekend of the season here in MLB. Mason, great
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  Speaker 1: to have you on.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start with the entrance. I think we have to.
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  Speaker 1: I know you've answered some questions about it, but take
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  Speaker 1: us through, like the behind the scenes of everything that
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  Speaker 1: went into Corn popping up as your entrance music.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously Corns a little before my time, so I
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  Speaker 3: had to be a little bit more going into that.
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  Speaker 2: The clubhouse staff Klubbies.
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  Speaker 3: Came to me in spring training right after I got
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  Speaker 3: back from the WBC and they're like, hey, we were
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  Speaker 3: in here last night. This song came on and we
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  Speaker 3: think it'd be great for you. So they threw it on,
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  Speaker 3: and I mean the loud speaker. When you kind of
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  Speaker 3: listen to it on like your phone, you're like, eh,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, but you put it on a loud speaker,
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  Speaker 3: It's like, this is pretty sweet. So I think I
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  Speaker 3: think it turned out all right. The club he's already
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  Speaker 3: said they're gonna they're they're trying to get it even louder.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I think I think it turned out pretty well.
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  Speaker 4: Did you have to hear it in the stadium before
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  Speaker 4: you said okay, yeah, I definitely like this.
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  Speaker 2: No, they get the bump box in the locker rooms
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  Speaker 2: loud enough. Yeah, that captures it.
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  Speaker 4: What's the one klubby? When I was with the Padres,
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  Speaker 4: he might not even still be there. Does he still
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  Speaker 4: ride around on the hoverboard when he's doing laundry?
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  Speaker 2: I think I haven't seen that.
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  Speaker 4: You haven't seen it, Okay, But anyway, those dudes were
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  Speaker 4: always in when I was there. They were always into
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  Speaker 4: heavy metal, So I love that they chose it. But
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  Speaker 4: take us to that moment, Take us to a moment
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  Speaker 4: when you came out there. You knew it was going
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  Speaker 4: to be a different, choreographed light show, all that stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Did you get the reaction yourself? Or is your heart
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  Speaker 4: rate already pumping and you don't. It doesn't really matter
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  Speaker 4: what the music and the lights are doing.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it really matters. I mean, you know
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  Speaker 3: where I played for a couple of years ago, so
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  Speaker 3: that doesn't need I don't need those to get the
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  Speaker 3: juices fun. But man, they do help. I mean playing
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  Speaker 3: it is one of the kind uh sick experience. They
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  Speaker 3: love the ninth inning, they love saved situations. So and
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  Speaker 3: it's the first one a year too, so obviously I
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  Speaker 3: was excited to get out there and and get that one.
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  Speaker 2: Out of the way.
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  Speaker 5: No doubt you got the first. Say for Craig Stamons
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  Speaker 5: first when talk a little about him, was there a
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  Speaker 5: speech afterwards? The excitement, you know, just for him to
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  Speaker 5: get that first went off his back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the first one is that you always celebrate the first.
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  Speaker 3: You have to, you know, that's that's fun, you know,
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  Speaker 3: brings the guys together. Not not really a speech, but
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  Speaker 3: we did put him in the cart, and you know
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  Speaker 3: he's done that before, so he knew that was coming.
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  Speaker 3: But just all good fun with the guys and we
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  Speaker 3: got the first one out of the way. So play
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  Speaker 3: a little more free hopefully this next series and you
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  Speaker 3: know these things get rolling, you know, be the team
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  Speaker 3: that we know we can be.
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  Speaker 4: Do you have to ask the hefe if he's okay
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  Speaker 4: going in the cart or was this like a pre
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  Speaker 4: determined because Craig albern As the players on the Orioles
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  Speaker 4: on his first victory, asked him and he's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I'm down for the boys. Did you guys go as
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  Speaker 4: crazy as you did for other guys? Times when they
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  Speaker 4: when they get in the cart or was it.
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  Speaker 3: Just I think that was actually my I think that
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  Speaker 3: might have been my first or maybe second one with
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  Speaker 3: the padres, so.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty standard, I would imagine.
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  Speaker 3: But it was respectfully, of course, as was Joe just said, hey,
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  Speaker 3: we you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, jump in the cart respectfully. That's okay with you?
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  Speaker 2: Of course it was. So he's one of one of
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  Speaker 2: the boys, you know.
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  Speaker 3: That's part of what makes Stem unique and why we
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  Speaker 3: were pretty excited about having him there is you know,
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  Speaker 3: he has that different relationship and not a lot of
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  Speaker 3: teams are a lot of managers are accustomed to having
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  Speaker 3: where you know, he played with some of the guys.
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  Speaker 3: I think the respect and the like understanding level was
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  Speaker 3: a little bit different. Not necessarily better or worse, you know,
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  Speaker 3: but I think that that's a welcome change for a
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  Speaker 3: lot of the guys here.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel it on the pitching side too, with
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  Speaker 1: his experience not just as a former pitcher but a
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  Speaker 1: really recent former pitcher.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think time will tell more. You know, we're
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  Speaker 3: three games into it, so it's kind of hard to tell.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, I don't think it's gonna hurt. There's
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  Speaker 3: no way that it should hurt. You know, he's been
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  Speaker 3: in our position. He's been in you know, stretches where
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  Speaker 3: he's throwing a ton or stretches where he's not throwing.
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  Speaker 3: So I think the just general usage and game planning
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  Speaker 3: of it will be will be great.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Mason, you got to watch a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: the Tigers. They were one of the better teams in
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  Speaker 1: the AL last year. They should be again this year.
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  Speaker 1: One of the conversations we're gonna go over later in
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  Speaker 1: the show is the burst of rookies on the scene.
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  Speaker 1: This looks like one of the better rookie classes that
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  Speaker 1: we've seen in a while. What was your first hand
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  Speaker 1: viewing experience of Kevin McGonagall like for the Tigers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm impressive obviously.
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  Speaker 3: You know they have that entrance to your your big
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  Speaker 3: league career, let alone on an opening day and you
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  Speaker 3: know he's playing several different positions and you know, you
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  Speaker 3: just tip your cap to that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he was putting a lot of good swings
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  Speaker 2: on the ball.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he's all over the dish, which you know,
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  Speaker 3: as a pitcher is pretty annoying. You know, I feel
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  Speaker 3: like with his leg kick, his foots in the strike
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  Speaker 3: und but he covers it inside pitch well. Alway's got
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  Speaker 3: great plate discipline, so you know, I'm not surprised at
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  Speaker 3: all to see him having success given his pedigree, and yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I wish him nothing.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously we're gonna talk about the rookies later, but when
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  Speaker 4: you see a rookie like that come up and I
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  Speaker 4: get it, you got four hits in the first game.
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  Speaker 4: Do you guys feel like as big league pitchers who
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  Speaker 4: are established, you're like, we don't really have a lot
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  Speaker 4: on them. Yeah, we have some double A triple A video.
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  Speaker 4: Does that hurt your ability to necessarily make the best
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  Speaker 4: pitches or could you guys really care less and just
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  Speaker 4: go with whatever you guys got going.
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  Speaker 2: I think each pitcher is going to be different.
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  Speaker 3: I do think there's some truth to seeing you know
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  Speaker 3: what he's had success against and what he's had struggles with,
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  Speaker 3: and then you know you have to kind of extrapolate.
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  Speaker 2: That to the big league level.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if you know he's hitting I think his
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  Speaker 3: his numbers on ninety seven plus, we're pretty good in
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  Speaker 3: the minor leagues. But then you also don't know how
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  Speaker 3: many you know, hit able pitches he's seen at ninety
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  Speaker 3: seven plus either, So you kind of take like everything
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  Speaker 3: with a grain of salt, at least in my opinion,
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  Speaker 3: and for me, I always kind of fall back on,
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  Speaker 3: you know, what I do well and at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the day, like if I execute what I'm trying
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  Speaker 3: to do, you know, if it's a slider below the
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  Speaker 3: zone or a fastball in or fastball at the top, like,
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't really matter who it is. You know, more
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  Speaker 3: times than not, if you execute your pitch, you're going
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  Speaker 3: to have a good outcome. Sometimes they will be you,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, more prolific or players that you know,
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  Speaker 3: we all know who they are, might have a little
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  Speaker 3: bit higher success rate. But those guys that are the
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  Speaker 3: best in the game are still hitting you know, three,
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  Speaker 3: three hundred three twenty so seventy percent of the time
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  Speaker 3: they're getting out.
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  Speaker 5: See, I want to ask this question. You've been on
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  Speaker 5: cruise control here. It seems like these last you know,
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  Speaker 5: ten games. I've been looking at here since September sixth
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  Speaker 5: hitters bet oh for thirty twenty three strikeouts. My question
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  Speaker 5: is five walks, man, what's that about?
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  Speaker 2: We got cut down on the walk.
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  Speaker 5: We gotta cut that out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we gotta get back to that. The walk rate
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  Speaker 3: was great in twenty four the walk rate took it
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  Speaker 3: hit last year and watched one in my first outings.
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  Speaker 3: So Uh, that's that's that's up here where we're trying
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  Speaker 3: to dial it in and limit those walks for sure.
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  Speaker 5: And I want to just go and kind of finish
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  Speaker 5: what I was trying to get out here. Like it's
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  Speaker 5: it's really impressive, brot. Let's just call spaders pade. What
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  Speaker 5: you've been doing, how you've been doing it? You face
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  Speaker 5: these batters. I'm sure you have some sort of that
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  Speaker 5: you talk about. Is there. You know, you don't have
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  Speaker 5: to tell me the game plan, But sometimes you when
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  Speaker 5: you throw that hard, do you feel like sometimes I
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  Speaker 5: just got to get it to a spot where I
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  Speaker 5: need to be and I'm going to execute. Or sometimes
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  Speaker 5: do you think I'm throwing this hard? Let me just
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  Speaker 5: grip it and rip it, you know, and hopefully I
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  Speaker 5: get the movement I want to.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's a blend. Each day is different,
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  Speaker 3: y'all know that. You know, sometimes you feel great, sometimes
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  Speaker 3: you don't feel as good. Sometimes it's no thoughts, sometimes
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  Speaker 3: it's all the thoughts. I say, last year, towards the
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  Speaker 3: end of the season, it was kind of like that
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  Speaker 3: flow state and I'm not thinking about anything, just kind
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  Speaker 3: of going out there ripping it, you know, having a
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  Speaker 3: good idea of where the ball was going, a good
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  Speaker 3: feel for pitches, a good feel for misses. I feel
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  Speaker 3: like that's a big part of my game. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: a solo put it in a solo cup guy. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I have a lot of good you know, work on
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  Speaker 3: the edge of the strike zone, but some of that
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  Speaker 3: is playing you know where my miss is that day too,
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  Speaker 3: and and like how it can be effective on the
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  Speaker 3: glove side, but also my miss is going to be
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  Speaker 3: the top, which is going to be a great pitch too.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, now it's a new season, so you know,
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  Speaker 3: everybody's starting at zero, and you know it's a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of everybody finding their foot and some guys are
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  Speaker 3: coming out scorching hot, some guys are coming out cold,
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  Speaker 3: and everybody's freaking out because you know, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna get a hit in your first ten to
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  Speaker 3: fifteen at bats, or you give a couple of runs
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  Speaker 3: in your first outing. It's like, you know, we're all
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  Speaker 3: we're all getting our sea legs under us a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, playing in front of the big league stadium,
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  Speaker 3: there's there's no simulating that in spring training, so guys
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  Speaker 3: are choiced guys are amped up and we're all excited
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  Speaker 3: Baseball's back, all right.
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  Speaker 4: Well, all that excitement and then you guys have off
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  Speaker 4: on Sunday, Mason off on a Sunday. Have you ever
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  Speaker 4: in your big league career had no game on a
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  Speaker 4: Sunday that wasn't a right now?
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  Speaker 3: No, I don't know if I ever ever have. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if I ever will again. This is the
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  Speaker 3: opening day schedule is kind of kind of weird with
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  Speaker 3: you know, we had a Wednesday game an off day
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  Speaker 3: for those guys, and I just kinda up a weird
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  Speaker 3: setup to me. But what we're gonna do. We don't
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  Speaker 3: make the schedule. We just play the game, all.
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  Speaker 4: Right, Well, one of the dudes is playing the game.
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  Speaker 4: He's playing a new position. Castianis is gonna get some
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  Speaker 4: time at first d H For you guys, I know
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  Speaker 4: you missed part of spring with the WBC, But what
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  Speaker 4: are the conversations you're hearing? Like is there a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of a chip on his shoulder? Because I feel
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  Speaker 4: like he's a really good player and I felt like
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  Speaker 4: he kind of got he got a band rep in Philly,
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  Speaker 4: and now all of a sudden he's with a really
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  Speaker 4: good team inserted in this lineup. What are you hearing
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  Speaker 4: from his side?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think he's in a great spot. We've
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  Speaker 3: seen him take a couple of good swings this first
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  Speaker 3: series too. Some of that was off the bench, and
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  Speaker 3: you know that's obviously an adjustment for him, you know,
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  Speaker 3: me personally him, we're talking about a pinch hitting I
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  Speaker 3: think is one of the toughest things in the game,
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  Speaker 3: especially these days.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you're always.
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  Speaker 3: Getting you know, late inning leverage arm type situation, and
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  Speaker 3: as a leverage armor, you know, you know who's on
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  Speaker 3: the bench, you have a pretty good idea, you know,
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  Speaker 3: a spot that a guy might show up, so just
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  Speaker 3: that preparation. But yeah, I think he's in a great headspace.
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  Speaker 3: You know, San Diego is a really hard place to
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  Speaker 3: be unhappy, you know, with the weather and the guys
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  Speaker 3: that we have here. So I think it is a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of like, you know, fresh start and looking
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  Speaker 3: to prove some things, and you know his opportunities are
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  Speaker 3: coming this year and he's going to be ready.
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  Speaker 1: Mason. The story that dominated the weekend was the ABS
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  Speaker 1: challenge system coming to life in regular season games, and
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  Speaker 1: many fans that weren't paying much attention in spring training
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  Speaker 1: or like this is awesome. So what was your experience
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  Speaker 1: like with it in your series? But then also just
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  Speaker 1: checking out some other clips that went viral on social media.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think you know, we're seeing exactly what
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  Speaker 3: we hope to see from it, and you know, some
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  Speaker 3: calls getting overturned in big.
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  Speaker 2: Spots, you know.
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  Speaker 3: For me though, I think we had three challenges and
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  Speaker 3: eighteen pitches the other night, and I kind of expected
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  Speaker 3: that to be the case if a team, you know,
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  Speaker 3: has their challenges still, which you know, knowing how teams
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  Speaker 3: are looking at it, you don't want to burn your
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  Speaker 3: challenges early and be without them the rest of the game.
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  Speaker 3: So good chance they're going to have at least one
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  Speaker 3: and you can't take it with you. So I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: guess there's gonna be a lot of challenges. In the
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  Speaker 3: ninth inning, Freddy Freddy got got one right, he challenged one,
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  Speaker 3: got it right, got to count to two instead of
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  Speaker 3: one to one.
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  Speaker 2: So that was big. Yeah, so early indications. It's good.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't had that backbreaker yet.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I threw a back door slider the cold
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  Speaker 3: Keith that got called strike three. He challenged it, so
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of like you start your loop around the
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  Speaker 3: mound and then you got to stop, and then you
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  Speaker 3: gonna wait, and then it's like, oh yeah it is
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  Speaker 3: strike three, Okay, could keep going. So it's kind of
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  Speaker 3: like that weird disruption of you know, the the natural
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  Speaker 3: flow of the game that we're used to. But I
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  Speaker 3: think objectively, it's going to avoid these I guess egregious
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  Speaker 3: calls that people end up talking about for the next
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  Speaker 3: you know, three days after it came in.
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  Speaker 4: Could you see could you see pitchers being affected by
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  Speaker 4: you kind of hitt it on it a little bit
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  Speaker 4: in the sense of how do you lock back in
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  Speaker 4: after that seventeen to twenty two second delay when you
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  Speaker 4: thought you had something and then you didn't. You all
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  Speaker 4: thought you had to strike out, and now I gotta
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  Speaker 4: keep battling this good hit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think there's if it's egregious, you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna know already, you know, like you're gonna throw it
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  Speaker 3: and you're gonna be you're gonna get the call, and
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna be like would have been last year.
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  Speaker 2: But I know that's the ball, So.
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: I don't know. It's it's a tough, little like gap
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: of times. It's not like it's not like a mountain
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: visit necessarily, but it's like closer to that than it
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: is a normal, you know, pitch pitch gap between with
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: the timer. For me, I think I'm just trying to
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: take it as like, you know, we don't get to
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: just step off as much times as we want, So
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: that's just like, take a moment center yourself. I'm trying
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: not to stare at the board the whole time, honestly,
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: I want to see it when day it comes in.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: But if you sit there and you turn around and
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: you stare up at the board, and you're centered on
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: the board, and you're staring at this bright LED screen
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: and then you turned back around and you got to
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: lock back in on like the hitter and what you're doing,
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: I just feel like, visually that's difficult, but I think
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: person to person that don't very that's.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: A good point.
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: I liked that. I didn't think about the LED screen blinding.
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: You get off your screens, kids, I liked it. So
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: you're getting off your screen, all right. I got two
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: WBC questions. First one, some people kind of felt like
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: it was viral and didn't know what was going on.
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: You got your medal and you took it right off.
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: I saw some of your other teammates doing it. When
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: you guys got your second place metal, can you go
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: through that moment and kind of like think, explain to
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: us what you guys were talking about leading up to that,
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: and then when you've got your metal, what your thought.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: Was there really wasn't any discussion prior to it, so
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: I don't know, you know, at least for me, that
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: was I didn't come there to finish second place. Nobody did.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: And it's in no way a slight to our competitors
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: or anybody that were playing, or anybody that you know
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: didn't get a chance to play for that medal. But
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: you know, as competitors, I feel like the expectation is
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: to come there and win. And I also feel like
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: with baseball, that's not something that we're super accustomed to.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: I don't really remember getting like a runner up or
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: like on field presentation for second place since like Little League,
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: So I just kind of felt it felt a little
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: bit weird, and you know, I obviously finishing second isn't
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: why we came there. You know, the silver medal was
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: is still you know, something that was I'm sure desired
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: by a lot of teams, but that had been just
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: kind of our discussion like throughout the whole time. It's like,
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: you know, the target felt like it was kind of
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: on our back, and you know, we had every intention
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: of you know, living up to that and winning the gold,
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: but unfortunately weren't able to. So I think it was
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: just just some in moment, you know, disappointment that that
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: kind of showed out there. But you know, like I said,
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: not any any of his flight towards you know, the
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: other team, the competitors, or anybody that fell short.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: All right, can you shed some light on the availability
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: because we found out after the game that you were
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: available if you guys, you were available to save the
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: game if you guys were winning. Kind of feels like
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: an oxymoron. If you're winning, the game would be over
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: as the home team. So can you give us the
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: shed some light on act your actual availability for that game.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going into the tournament just talking with the Padres.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: The plan was to not go three out of five
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: at all.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: And AJ said to me, he was like, hey, you know,
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: so if you pitch in the quarterfinals in the semi finals,
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: you're cool.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: With not pitching the finals.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: And I just told him at that point, like, hey,
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: we'll just cross that bridge when we get there. You know,
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: hopefully that doesn't come to that. So of course it
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: did through the quarterfinals, semi finals. I'm sure he knew
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: I was gonna call him an ash. You know, we
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: talked to we talked to the pitching the pitching guys
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: here too, and you know, they trusted me, and I
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: told him I felt good, you know, and they said,
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: we're okay with you being available for a save only,
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: which I agree, you know, looking back, save only, like
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: that's always a tough part. Like closer pitches a tie
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: game normally at home, but also during the season. You know,
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: unless it's September, probably if you've had your your closure
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: goes two of the last four days, you're probably gonna
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: run somebody else out there in a tie game in
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: the ninth you know, the save only verbiage is pretty common,
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: so I don't think it was super surprising. I was
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: just glad that they allowed me to be available because
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: I totally expected it to be a no because that's
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: how we came into the tournament. But obviously would have
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: loved to get the chance to pitch. But we're surrounded
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: by a lot of guys down there that you know,
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: our best at what they do as well, so you know,
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: I don't I'll take the you know, there was a
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: bad option down there, you know, but obviously I would
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: have liked to be in that game too.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, well said now a helpful explanation. Yeah,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: and Garrett Wicklock and company. Not too shabby. We had
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: wed some good arms down there for Team USA. I
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: know it hurts, but thanks to the explanation and also
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: did great start to the season. Love the entrance, so
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: let's roll that. Great choice and thanks for joining us.
• 20:27
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• 20:29
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• 20:30
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