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Marlins RP Pete Fairbanks joins FT + Gary DiSarcina discusses Anthony Rendon on Halo Territory · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Oh, here we go.
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  Speaker 2: Pete Fairbanks joining us right now, heading into the big
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  Speaker 2: opening weekend for the Marlins. They'll face the Rockies.
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  Speaker 3: Pete.
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  Speaker 2: Great to have you on, dude. What's the excitement level
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  Speaker 2: and the weirdness level for you to be doing this
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  Speaker 2: with a different team.
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  Speaker 3: It's a little it's a little different.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you spend what six opening days in Navy
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  Speaker 4: blue and now it's changed a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, the vibes are high.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody's seeming to have a great time, and my personal
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  Speaker 4: excitement level it's through the roof.
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  Speaker 3: After hearing AJ's HelloFresh ad read, I'm just.
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  Speaker 4: Blown away by his ability to convey emotion through those words.
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  Speaker 1: That makes you hungry?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I was gonna say. It definitely makes you want
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  Speaker 5: to go home and make a meal, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing says try a new recipe like that? Like that read?
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  Speaker 3: It was unbelievable.
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  Speaker 5: All right, So what is most exciting about your opening
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  Speaker 5: day with this team? Is it the fact that you
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  Speaker 5: know how to say Sandy's last name? Or is it
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  Speaker 5: the fact that you are out there in a bullpen,
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  Speaker 5: sitting there going I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna get in this game.
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  Speaker 5: I want to kind of see I want to kind
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  Speaker 5: of see Phillips getting this game and punch himself in
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  Speaker 5: the face.
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  Speaker 4: Oh man, you know, I try to divert my eyes
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  Speaker 4: whenever he starts inflicting self harm.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, people got to do what they gotta do.
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  Speaker 3: I suppose.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm excited. Really, you know, it's the over the
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  Speaker 4: over and like arcing, just the vibes of it. You know,
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  Speaker 4: you got a new season start, and thankfully somebody realized
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  Speaker 4: that if you have a dome, you don't have to
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  Speaker 4: play on Thursday and then have a Friday off day.
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  Speaker 4: So I think that that's just you know, propelling us
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  Speaker 4: with all these good decisions to an opening day.
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  Speaker 2: There you go, Hey, did you follow the Raised game yesterday?
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  Speaker 2: Like did you watch any of it? And then, of course,
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  Speaker 2: do you think during the year you'll keep track of
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  Speaker 2: the race based on your history with them and your friends?
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  Speaker 1: Like, how does that go?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? I think in general you track where you're what
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  Speaker 3: your buddies are doing.
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  Speaker 4: If you play for guys for a while, you know
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  Speaker 4: you're don't want to see see how they're doing. Obviously,
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  Speaker 4: Rass made his first opening day start, so I felt
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  Speaker 4: like I was I was going to check into that
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  Speaker 4: one regardless. But yeah, like if Jay's throwing in out
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  Speaker 4: in San Diego, or you got guys throughout the league whenever,
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  Speaker 4: like spring starts, you know, stuff like that, You're always
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  Speaker 4: checking in maybe maybe watching it ining or two see
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  Speaker 4: how things are going.
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  Speaker 6: I know when I when I first played, I set
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  Speaker 6: goals aside and I would send a letter to my brothers.
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  Speaker 6: Is there anything goals wise that you're expecting out of
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  Speaker 6: yourself right now? Is there something that you do before
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  Speaker 6: the season starts that nobody would ever expect or is
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  Speaker 6: it just put my glove on, put my socks on
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  Speaker 6: the same way, and get out there and see what
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  Speaker 6: I can do.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, you know, you always have benchmarks that
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  Speaker 4: you want to hit, right in terms of you know,
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  Speaker 4: the obvious ones with the counting stats, right, you want
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  Speaker 4: to hit your counting stat goals.
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  Speaker 3: But I mean, honestly, at this point.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think the people that I've been around
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  Speaker 4: in my career that have really got me into the
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  Speaker 4: process and focusing on the things that you because you
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  Speaker 4: can't control your counting stats, right if you're a hitter,
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  Speaker 4: you can't control if you're going to have six guys
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  Speaker 4: on for your three at bats that day, or if
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  Speaker 4: you're gonna have nobody on right and that's gonna that's
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  Speaker 4: gonna affect your state total throughout the year. So it's
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  Speaker 4: just to focus on the stuff that I can control, feeling,
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  Speaker 4: you know, in tune and being able to show up
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  Speaker 4: to the ballpark, be the same guy every day, and
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  Speaker 4: really focus on the work throughout. That's that's been my
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  Speaker 4: you know, my standard that I'm trying to hold myself
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  Speaker 4: to and it'll be no different this year.
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  Speaker 5: So as a bullpen, have you guys choreographed like your
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  Speaker 5: your stick? Have you guys choreographed You're gonna walk out.
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  Speaker 1: In a line.
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  Speaker 5: Bender is going to be first, Fauchet is going to
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  Speaker 5: be behind you, Phillips is gonna do cartwheels. Is that
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  Speaker 5: kind of stuff discussed or does it happen organically?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I have not been out in the first
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  Speaker 4: in quite a while, And obviously opening day throws a
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  Speaker 4: big wrinkle because you've got to put every single or
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  Speaker 4: organizational staff member out on the line say their name.
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  Speaker 4: So it's definitely definitely a little weirder on opening day.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, I'm planning on showing up after the
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  Speaker 4: bottom of the fourth just about every day, and on
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  Speaker 4: the ones, on the ones that don't have a backway
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  Speaker 4: to the bullpen, I'll go through the field and if
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  Speaker 4: it's got a back way, you will not see me
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  Speaker 4: on the field until I potentially pitch that night.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, now that it's here, how excited are you to
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  Speaker 2: actually be involved in real regular season games that have
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  Speaker 2: the ABS challenge system? And of course I would also
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  Speaker 2: like your take on something that went viral a few
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  Speaker 2: days ago, the amount of play who now have stat
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  Speaker 2: pages with one, two or even three inches off of
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  Speaker 2: their prior height.
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  Speaker 4: I think it'll be I think it'll be good, and
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  Speaker 4: mainly it will be good for the one that I
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  Speaker 4: saw to start off whatever spring training name that was
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  Speaker 4: of a absolute box five middle middle heater that got bald.
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  Speaker 4: So eliminate those I actually and the ones that I see.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't see a ton of challenges yesterday. Maybe it
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  Speaker 4: says I didn't watch enough baseball, but I think it'll
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  Speaker 4: be good. And it's it's nice too. Uh, it's nice
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  Speaker 4: to see the deflation.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: On a personal level, I remember people you know that
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  Speaker 4: I've played basketball with that were like a clear five
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  Speaker 4: eleven and you looked at their roster and at their
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  Speaker 4: roster measurements and their six two, so you know, it's
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  Speaker 4: it's nice to see that it was no different at
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  Speaker 4: the big lead level than it was in the suburban
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  Speaker 4: south and Saint Louis, Missouri.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's I think that's true. What else do
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  Speaker 5: you base players lie about? Because I think it's trash
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  Speaker 5: if somebody lies about your height because you're you're just
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  Speaker 5: it's like, it's not something you need to lie about.
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  Speaker 5: You are what you are, Like, that's it, Like I
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  Speaker 5: can't lie that I have I'm bald, Okay, their height
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  Speaker 5: is your height.
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  Speaker 1: So what else do baseball players lie about?
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  Speaker 4: I think the biggest, by far, the biggest is when
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  Speaker 4: we get asked how we're feeling and we say good.
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  Speaker 4: Probably probably a little bit of fibbing going on there
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  Speaker 4: every day, especially amongst you know, pictures. We we tend
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  Speaker 4: to say that we're good when we are in fact
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  Speaker 4: far from it. But uh, I'd say that's probably that's
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  Speaker 4: probably the biggest is how you're feeling good and you're
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  Speaker 4: they watched your catch play and you're throwing it sixty
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  Speaker 4: four miles an hour to try and get it there
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  Speaker 4: at sixty feet and they're like, this guy's lying through
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  Speaker 4: his teeth.
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  Speaker 6: They listen, we all got a fib a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, who's gonna say that. They don't go good
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  Speaker 3: unless unless.
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  Speaker 6: You've got blood coming from your arm or you out
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  Speaker 6: of broken arm. But like, I'm all right, now, are you?
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  Speaker 6: Are you a nap guy before the game?
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  Speaker 2: Like?
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  Speaker 6: Is there anything you do before a game before you
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  Speaker 6: get out there? Not a nap guynutes?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what it is. I've never been good
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  Speaker 3: at napping. I do usually read for thirty minutes pregame.
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  Speaker 4: That's my kind of my mental clarity time, get everything
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  Speaker 4: you know, sue the edges out and get everything nice
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  Speaker 4: and re last before I really start trying to lock it.
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  Speaker 3: In once the game gets going.
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  Speaker 1: What are you reading right now?
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  Speaker 3: I'm rereading Dune.
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  Speaker 4: I started Messiah again because obviously the big trailer for
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  Speaker 4: Dune Part three dropped, So I'm ripping through Massaia again
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  Speaker 4: and then I'll probably read some of the spin offs
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  Speaker 4: just depends on my level of locked into that. As
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  Speaker 4: as we hit the we hit the hype train for
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  Speaker 4: the upcoming movie.
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  Speaker 5: When you read, when you reread a book, because I
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  Speaker 5: am not a rereader of books, do you skip over
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  Speaker 5: parts you know are slow to get to the good parts?
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  Speaker 3: Not usually.
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  Speaker 4: I am a very fast reader, so there's always a
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  Speaker 4: chance that I missed something in my in my prior
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  Speaker 4: read of it. But I think it's it's definitely interesting
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  Speaker 4: to go back on a reread, regardless of what it is,
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  Speaker 4: and just to see what stands out a second time
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  Speaker 4: versus what you picked up on more so like the
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  Speaker 4: first time. So it's definitely interesting to see, you know,
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  Speaker 4: how that how that works. And then it's also like
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  Speaker 4: in for the Dunes series, it's interesting to go back
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  Speaker 4: six books where you're first introduced to a couple of
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  Speaker 4: characters and you kind of you know, get to see
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  Speaker 4: how that their their plot lines and their their storylines unfold.
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  Speaker 5: Let's make sure we point out your humble brag. Hmm,
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  Speaker 5: I'm a fast reader. Let's let's let's let's pump the
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  Speaker 5: brakes on that. Okay, so like are that there's no, yes,
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  Speaker 5: I'm a super slow reader.
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  Speaker 1: Terrible reader.
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  Speaker 2: There's a way to test that test.
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  Speaker 5: There's a stat cast. How fast are you? How fast
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  Speaker 5: can you read?
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  Speaker 2: We put both of you wet, both of you down
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  Speaker 2: in a vacuum, in the same kind of scenario, right
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  Speaker 2: at a table, and we say, hey, read three chapters.
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  Speaker 2: Let us know when you're done, and then we'll test
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  Speaker 2: you on it. And if you pass both path the test.
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  Speaker 2: And Pete got the three chapters done five minutes quicker
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  Speaker 2: than you, then he was quicker.
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  Speaker 1: Not gonna happen. It's not gonna happen.
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  Speaker 4: Do you read each individual word or do you read
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  Speaker 4: a sentence, or do you read a paragraph, or do
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  Speaker 4: you read a page?
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  Speaker 5: If the words aren't bouncing off the page, then I'll
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  Speaker 5: read each individual word. If they're bouncing off the page,
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  Speaker 5: I just got to skip to the next page, and
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  Speaker 5: I hope I catch up to what was happening.
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  Speaker 2: They're bouncing off the page, then I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: You might have used code foul.
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  Speaker 2: For something to get a little uh, you get a
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  Speaker 2: little extra life anyway. Sorry, krats infiltrating.
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  Speaker 1: No, No, you're good. You're good. All that to be said?
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  Speaker 5: Are you just about the Mande movie and a new
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  Speaker 5: Mando move Mandalorian movie coming out or is that kind
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  Speaker 5: of just on the back burner for you right now
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  Speaker 5: because it's opening day and you want to stay looked in.
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  Speaker 4: Honestly, I've been basically all of the New Star Wars
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  Speaker 4: stuff has not done it for me. I've just maybe
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  Speaker 4: it's you know, I'm older now, I'm not as locked in.
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  Speaker 4: The only thing that I do need to go I
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  Speaker 4: need to see Project Till Mary. Still it's a great book, hopefully.
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  Speaker 4: I've seen that. The movie was great and it did
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  Speaker 4: a pretty good job, though they missed a couple of
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  Speaker 4: important plot points. But other than that, that's about all
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  Speaker 4: that I'm locked into right now.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, there you go. We got a couple more questions
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  Speaker 2: for Pete. Wow, this timing worked out perfectly.
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  Speaker 3: Pete.
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  Speaker 2: We are on TV. You're seeing like the whole deal
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  Speaker 2: today we're on TV. By to the Marquee crowd. Have
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  Speaker 2: fun with the Nicol Hornet press conference, all right, and
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  Speaker 2: we continue here.
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  Speaker 3: That was that was good?
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's money flying right right now. Yeah, lots of
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  Speaker 2: extensions and there was a TV crowd that had to
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  Speaker 2: go do their thing. Okay, a couple more here at
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  Speaker 2: the finish line, Can you give us a glimpse of
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  Speaker 2: what to expect with the Marlins and what you've seen
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  Speaker 2: now for spring training in terms of some of the
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  Speaker 2: young talent that they've got, and also just in terms
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  Speaker 2: of some of the similarities and the differences from the Rays.
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  Speaker 2: The funny thing to me is they get like the
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  Speaker 2: very clear cut, Hey, Marlins have brought in some people
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  Speaker 2: from the Rays led by Peter Bendix. You're one of
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  Speaker 2: the few guys that now has gotten to see both
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  Speaker 2: shades here. So do you see it like do you
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  Speaker 2: see this next young, great raised team that you were
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  Speaker 2: a part of five years ago?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the similarities they're definitely there, you know.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that you know, with a you know,
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  Speaker 4: a budget constraint and how you have to build out
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  Speaker 4: the team and how you can't miss you know, I
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  Speaker 4: can definitely see you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, the shades of that.
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  Speaker 4: As far as what to expect, I think we got
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  Speaker 4: a lot of guys that are played with a lot
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  Speaker 4: of energy and a lot of you know, hopefully, I'm
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  Speaker 4: gonna drop it now that that we're going I don't
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  Speaker 4: know why that giant alert just popped up. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: put it out there. I'm gonna put my I'm throwing
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  Speaker 4: my hat early. I'm gonna give We're gonna go Connor
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  Speaker 4: Norby pump today. Right, We're gonna put it out in
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  Speaker 4: the world and if he lets me down, he'll never
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  Speaker 4: hear the end of it.
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  Speaker 5: You're throwing your hat in a ring first day because
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  Speaker 5: in the bullpen people might not know. You throw your
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  Speaker 5: hat out and you and you call your shot. Are
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  Speaker 5: you good at that? Are you good at that? Or
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  Speaker 5: are you just like Junior Camonaro and you just figure
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  Speaker 5: you'll be you'll be right, Like a third.
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  Speaker 3: Of the time we uh, we went through it. We
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  Speaker 3: used to have a little trophy.
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  Speaker 4: That we would we would give it to whoever had
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  Speaker 4: it had the most recent call. And there was a
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  Speaker 4: stretch in which I hit very early and then we
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  Speaker 4: did not successfully call a home run for like two
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  Speaker 4: and a half months. So you know, maybe we were
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  Speaker 4: just betting on the wrong horses. But you know, we've
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  Speaker 4: there seems to be people that are good out of it,
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  Speaker 4: good at it, like Edwin Ucetta, and there are people
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  Speaker 4: who are bad at it, like Garrett Clevenger. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it's all all it just depends on which horse you're
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  Speaker 4: back in that day.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, that's good. That's good. Last one from me, super Rando.
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  Speaker 5: You're in Miami. Did you go out and touch the
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  Speaker 5: sculpture the home run? Well it's not now the home
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  Speaker 5: it's just the Marlin sculpture.
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  Speaker 4: No, that thank you for reminding me, though. I got
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  Speaker 4: to go out there and see it one of these days.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe show up early. Take a selfie with the Marlin statue.
• 14:41
  Speaker 5: Take a selfie and make sure a selfie is just
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  Speaker 5: with you in it, because some people call selfies with
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  Speaker 5: other people in it.
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  Speaker 1: That is not a selfie.
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  Speaker 3: It's a nussy. Yeah, it's an ussy. Yeah. Shout out
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  Speaker 3: to that posh kid. Shout out to that posh kid
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  Speaker 3: from ted Lasso.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, you're a jam. Great to got up with you
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: before the big weekend. Have fun with him, dude, we'll
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  Speaker 2: be watching. We'll catch you soon.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate it, guys, Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: That's what he said.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he said.
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  Speaker 1: That's what he said.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he said. We have so many shows and
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  Speaker 2: so many guests that joined those shows, so we'll try
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: and keep serving them up to you throughout the season,
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: and let's go to Halo Territory. Gary di Sarcina joined
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  Speaker 2: those guys and said.
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  Speaker 1: This.
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  Speaker 3: My time with the Mets. I got to coach third base.
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  Speaker 7: My last three years there, and I got to know
• 16:35
  Speaker 7: Anthony and we played them, what sixteen seventeen times a year,
• 16:40
  Speaker 7: and he never missed any games and he was always
• 16:42
  Speaker 7: out there. Had a good relationship with him, talked to
• 16:45
  Speaker 7: him about pretty much everything buck baseball. I'd ask him,
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: you know, how can you rate Jacob deGrom? Nobody hits him? Well,
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: how do you do it? And he wouldn't. He just
• 16:54
  Speaker 7: kind of have the self deprecating humor, and he was
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  Speaker 7: just like I just always had this respect for as
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  Speaker 7: a person. I could tell like, I'm like, God, this
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  Speaker 7: guy's so successful, and I could see the reason he's
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: successful is because he has other things going on in
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: his life. And when he went to the Angels, at
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: first I thought he was going to do really really well.
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  Speaker 7: It did fit well out there. I think he's from Texas,
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: be close in her home. And then I got let
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: go by the Mets and I went to the Nationals
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  Speaker 7: and I started asking around about Anthony. I started asking,
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  Speaker 7: like the people in our world who really matter at work,
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  Speaker 7: the trainers, the travel and secretary, the clubbies, the weight
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  Speaker 7: room guys, and I just started asking, like, you know,
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  Speaker 7: what the hell happened to Anthony? How come he he
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: left here? I just couldn't. He's this quality, quality player.
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: He was a World Series champion, and to a t, everyone,
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: no matter who I asked at that level, was like,
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  Speaker 7: Anthony's a great guy. We all loved him, but we
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: all knew baseball wasn't his top priority.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: He wanted to be with his family.
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  Speaker 7: And they would say to me, the Angels are going
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: to regret it because that's not his thing. Man, He's
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: good at baseball, but it's not his love. It's not
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: his passion. His family and friends is his passion. So
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  Speaker 7: I just started wondering, like, did somebody with the Angels
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  Speaker 7: not do their homework? Did somebody do their homework and
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  Speaker 7: voice their opinion and get shut down?
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  Speaker 2: So very very candid Gary Di Sarcina on the nose, Yeah, crats.
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  Speaker 2: And we've talked about this topic a ton because there's
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: been developing storylines when he's out and then there's the
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: buyout or whatever it ends up being here he's not
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: part of the team anymore. Two things that I take
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: one is I have a hard time with the Oh
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: he's more into his family. Everyone's into their family. I
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: don't feel like that's a fair excuse. I think it's
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: just more on the side of he doesn't love ball
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  Speaker 2: like most people do, and that's okay, But that's a
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: guy where you should do your homework and make sure
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: you're not throwing the bag at him. And I don't
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: think the homework was done. Now, putting the positive spin
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  Speaker 2: on it, I think this is going to be a
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  Speaker 2: blessing for the Angels organization. It was awkward for the
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  Speaker 2: last few years. You have to answer the questions he
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: was around the team at times, and it can drag
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: you down, even if it's not a bad dude. Right,
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  Speaker 2: if there's one guy who's there who's just like, oh,
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: fuck it, I don't want to be here, you tell me.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that would affect my high school basketball team.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure it affects a major league team.
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  Speaker 5: Definitely affects a major league team. But I don't know
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: if he was there that much. I mean, when you're hurt,
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: if unless you say no, I want to go with
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: the team like I want to be with the guys.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: I want to make sure I'm there with the what
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: we're seeing he didn't want to do, like he's barely around.
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: He's doing his work. Now, you know, if there's a
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: dude that's like negative Nelly on the bench gives zero value, Like,
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  Speaker 5: that's not Those aren't the kind of guys you want
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  Speaker 5: around him. So if he wasn't around the guys, I
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  Speaker 5: don't I don't feel like it's a distraction.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody's like looking down the lineup and like, oh, man,
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  Speaker 1: I wish we had Rendon. He would really kill this
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  Speaker 1: guy here.
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  Speaker 5: No, I think I think they had given up on
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  Speaker 5: him as as teammates. You have to just move on.
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  Speaker 5: That's the that's the ugliness of baseball. No matter if
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: you're done as a high school freshman and you don't
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: play on a JV team anymore, they're still going to
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: have games. Or if you're a big league All Star,
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: future Hall of Famer, as soon as you're off the field,
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  Speaker 5: they're still having games.
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  Speaker 1: The game moves on. So I don't think it was
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  Speaker 1: as big of.
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  Speaker 5: A distraction as it was just an absolute crater of
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: a contract that he could have given them ridiculous amounts
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  Speaker 5: of value.
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: And here's the nature of the whole beast here. Major
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: League baseball is what, it's a job. Some people treat
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: it as a job. A lot of people don't don't
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: get me wrong. They love the every part of the game.
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: They want to play. Some will play for free, that's
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: how much they love it. But there's others out there
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  Speaker 6: really treat it as a job. Oh I gotta go in, Okay,
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: let me get this job done. When the game over, shower,
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: grab something quick, leave. Not working out. There's guys like that,
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: and you got to take them for what they are.
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  Speaker 6: And that's just the nature of the beast. And it's
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: not everybody. It's a select few, and guess what, it's
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: tough to change their minds. It's part of it. But
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: some people treat the game like a job. I want
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: to get paid. I want my nine to five or
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: whatever it is. They come one to eleven, whatever it is,
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: and they go home. Fine, they're happy to be home.
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: Wake up, all right, I gotta go again. So some
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: people do that. That's that's just the sucky part of it.
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  Speaker 6: But that's life.
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  Speaker 5: And for people who say, well, he got the contract
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: and then he just gave up. No like this this
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: feeling about baseball, whatever it is, if we're accusing him
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  Speaker 5: of this. To me, it was happening his entire career.
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  Speaker 5: It shows how freaking good he was because I didn't
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: love baseball more than my family, my faith. But then
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: they came in and I really really like baseball, like
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: I love it, and I sucked, like I did not
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: play very good in the big leagues. So for him
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: to do what he did and to not have to
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  Speaker 5: put in, you know, the extra like, oh man, I'm
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: so locked in to making the adjustments all that stuff,
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  Speaker 5: he was really good. That's why I think people forget
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: is the fact that if a guy truly is and
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  Speaker 5: that's the narrative that he has led us paint because
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: he hasn't he hasn't changed our opinion of it. If
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: his if he truly was not really enamored with the
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: game and just went out there and played because he
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: can make some money doing it, like it shows he
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: was really good. Because it takes a lot to focus.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: It's kind of like Todd. Todd was really really good
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: and he's like, you know what, I don't know if
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: I need to like look at the analytics stuff. And
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: people could be like, oh, Todd, how could you not
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: look at that. Todd's like, well, I'm gonna go out
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: and hit. I'm gonna go out and hit, and I
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: don't need that stuff like different guys levels of abilities
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: are really like it shines through when you see different
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: things like this come out about Rindom.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Well said, and for more on that conversation, it's great interview.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Halo Territory is the spot if you're watching right now,
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: just like you did for us yesterday with Bluebird and
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: just throw a little love, a little sub at Halo
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Territory wherever you get your podcasts and also on YouTube,
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: go for it. Mike Di Giovanna and Mark Trumbo run
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  Speaker 2: the show. Yeah you can see they had Mike's Sosia
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  Speaker 2: on a prior episode