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Dodgers OF Alex Call joins FT · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: World Series champion Dodgers outfielder Alex Call joining us right
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  Speaker 1: now on FT.
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  Speaker 2: Alex, great to have.
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  Speaker 3: You on the show.
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  Speaker 2: We appreciate the time. Great shirt. How's life in the
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  Speaker 2: off season and being a champ?
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for having me on. Guys. It's uh, it's been
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  Speaker 4: a blast, just kind of soaking it up.
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  Speaker 5: We're getting, uh, you know, ready to rock and roll
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  Speaker 5: here pretty soon, you know, but yeah, I've just been
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  Speaker 5: trying to soak all soak it all in, enjoy every moment,
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  Speaker 5: you know, still kind of pinching myself. It's been a
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  Speaker 5: it's been an amazing year and couldn't be happier to
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  Speaker 5: be where I'm at and with this organ Uh, just
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  Speaker 5: a great group of guys too.
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  Speaker 6: What is an off season for a guy who got
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  Speaker 6: traded over there and isn't the like, isn't one of
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  Speaker 6: the superstars? Nobody says, wow, look at this lineup, you know,
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  Speaker 6: Freddie MOOKI, Alex Call show, Hey, what is the what
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  Speaker 6: is the off season for you as a World Series champion?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 6: Are you called to do signings and go to dinners
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  Speaker 6: and they're like, oh, we got Alex Call And You're like, well,
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  Speaker 6: it's because you couldn't get Freddy Freeman. That's why you
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  Speaker 6: got Alex called. Nothing against Alex call, but just some
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  Speaker 6: people don't some people never get the feeling or understanding
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  Speaker 6: that there's twenty six dudes on this roster and not
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  Speaker 6: every one of them is the marquee name guy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I've had different signing events.
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  Speaker 5: I'm working out a deal with a Chevy local Chevy
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  Speaker 5: dealer in LA.
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  Speaker 4: Shout out Felix Chevrolet.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, there's a lot of you know, there's a
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  Speaker 5: lot of things that come with it, and yeah, it
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  Speaker 5: takes a full team to make it happen. But certainly,
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  Speaker 5: you know, grateful to just have a place in the lineup.
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  Speaker 5: You know, whenever my name gets called with Freddy and
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  Speaker 5: Mookie and Show Hey, and you know, the list goes
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  Speaker 5: on and on.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 5: When I started Game four the World Series, it's like
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  Speaker 5: I need that lineup card because I my name is
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  Speaker 5: in it in the World Series next to all these guys.
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  Speaker 5: It's something that's like how many people get to actually
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  Speaker 5: say that, you know, how many people actually get to
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  Speaker 5: do that and experience that, and you know, praise God
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  Speaker 5: that I'm one of them.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, not many people get to experience it.
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  Speaker 6: But also not many people get to put together pro
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  Speaker 6: big league at bats because when I always talk about
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  Speaker 6: it as a catcher, when you're preparing in the playoffs
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  Speaker 6: for a lineup, people don't add don't put as much
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  Speaker 6: time into preparing for Alex call and you're at bats
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  Speaker 6: the amount of pitches per at bat? Did you say
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  Speaker 6: when you went in, I just got to be me.
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  Speaker 6: I'm just because that's the kind of at bats that
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  Speaker 6: I saw when you when you played for the Nats.
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  Speaker 6: The at bat you just never you had a like
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  Speaker 6: kind of relentless at bats for a team who wasn't
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  Speaker 6: winning games. Is it easy for you to be you
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  Speaker 6: on a team that was trying to win all their games?
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  Speaker 6: Because it really to me, it really showed that you
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  Speaker 6: have an understanding of the strike zone all the way
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  Speaker 6: back to the Phillies, the Phillies at that bats you
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  Speaker 6: had against the Phillies and then going into the World
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  Speaker 6: Series too, adding that value. Was that just you being you?
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  Speaker 3: Or you were you?
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  Speaker 6: Like, okay, I got to be somebody different now than
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  Speaker 6: with the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, that I was. The message was really clear
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  Speaker 5: once I got here. It's like, hey, we got you
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  Speaker 5: because we like what you do and so keep doing you.
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  Speaker 5: And that really just took the pressure off of me, because,
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  Speaker 5: you know, when your name gets called and they're like,
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  Speaker 5: you're going to the Dodgers, I'm like, the Dodgers are
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  Speaker 5: the best team in baseball, they're the prohibited World Series favorites,
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  Speaker 5: and at the deadline they want Alex Call on their team.
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  Speaker 4: And I felt really validated by that.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I've you know, I've been grinding through my
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  Speaker 5: career and just trying to establish myself as a major
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  Speaker 5: league baseball player and you know, to have some success
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  Speaker 5: and kind of keep rolling the years together and then
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  Speaker 5: to get traded for by an organization like the Dodgers,
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  Speaker 5: with the pedigree that they have and the championship team
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  Speaker 5: that they already had, it was really cool. And so
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  Speaker 5: for them to say, hey, we love what you do
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  Speaker 5: and we want you to keep doing it. Don't try
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  Speaker 5: to be anybody else. That's exactly what I set out
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  Speaker 5: to do and was able to, you know, take some
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  Speaker 5: good at bats when it counted and you know, contribute
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  Speaker 5: to our team, and that was it was really cool.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, for me, it's just about Hey, how is
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  Speaker 5: at the most basic element baseball is about getting on base,
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  Speaker 5: So get to first base somehow, and then how do
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  Speaker 5: you do that? For me, It's like, okay, I need
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  Speaker 5: to swing at strikes, which is again very elementary. But
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  Speaker 5: if you swing at strikes, and not only strikes, but
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  Speaker 5: your strikes the balls within the zone that you like
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  Speaker 5: the best, not the ones on the corner or the
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  Speaker 5: ones maybe not in your hot zone. So be really
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  Speaker 5: picky about those pitches. And then if you don't get
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  Speaker 5: one and you get to two strikes, well now it's like, Okay,
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  Speaker 5: I got to cover the whole zone. I'm not going
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  Speaker 5: to expand, and I'm absolutely battle to make this guy work.
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  Speaker 5: So hopefully, yeah, when when the lineup turns over and
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  Speaker 5: we get back to the top, it's like he's maybe
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  Speaker 5: feeling a little bit extra tired, and I hopefully was
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  Speaker 5: a part of that reason, you know, to make him
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  Speaker 5: work a little bit harder. And you know, it's it's
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  Speaker 5: kind of a fun role. It's kind of a it's
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  Speaker 5: kind of a niche that I've carved out, I feel like,
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  Speaker 5: and just have really found that, Oh yeah, teams actually
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  Speaker 5: do value that. There is there's a lot more than
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  Speaker 5: baseball than just hitting home runs and just you know,
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  Speaker 5: doing all this extra stuff and feel really comfortable in
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  Speaker 5: that role.
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  Speaker 3: Dude, you hit that perfectly.
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  Speaker 7: I was going to ask you some differences from Nationals
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  Speaker 7: to Dodgers.
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  Speaker 3: You can hit on that a little bit. I think
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  Speaker 3: you kind of hit on most of it.
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  Speaker 7: But also after that, if you got anything else you
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  Speaker 7: want to say about that, tell me a little about
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  Speaker 7: your offseason. Right now, it looks like you're in rare form.
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  Speaker 7: You just probably got done working out. Is there anything
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  Speaker 7: specific that you're working on, something that you may be
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  Speaker 7: struggled with that you're trying to do better at, or
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  Speaker 7: something that you do great at you're trying to do
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  Speaker 7: even better than great at.
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  Speaker 5: Especially Yeah, Now, for me, it's always working on well, one,
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  Speaker 5: getting healthy. You know, at the end of the year,
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  Speaker 5: your body's feeling a little bit. And that was the
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  Speaker 5: longest season I've ever played, so I had some nicks
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  Speaker 5: and knacks that were getting rehabilitated and feel really great.
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  Speaker 5: But then on top of that, it's just making sure
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  Speaker 5: you get bigger, faster, stronger, and then with more specifically
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  Speaker 5: with my swing, with my approach. I think you know,
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  Speaker 5: I was one of the best two strike hitters in baseball,
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  Speaker 5: sure that I want to continue to have. But then
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  Speaker 5: from there, I want to make sure that when I
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  Speaker 5: get into advantage counts, maybe a little bit more room
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  Speaker 5: to take a chance to.
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  Speaker 4: You know, really try to drive the ball a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: And so just kind of working that into my routine,
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  Speaker 5: working into my approach, work through some counts, like, hey,
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  Speaker 5: let's do some advantage counts here, Okay, we'll go back
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  Speaker 5: to two strikes, all right, let's get back to the
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  Speaker 5: advantage counts, and just kind of work on that advantage
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  Speaker 5: count mindset because for me, I keep it pretty simple.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just trying to hit the ball right back up
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  Speaker 5: the middle, right around the second basement's feet, and that
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  Speaker 5: just gives me the most room for air with my
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  Speaker 5: swing to cover every pitch in every part of the zone,
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  Speaker 5: especially with two strikes. But at the same time, I
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  Speaker 5: know that I got a little bit more in the tank.
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  Speaker 5: And I think that's been the message that's been communicated
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  Speaker 5: by the Dodgers as well as like, Hey, we're gonna,
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  Speaker 5: you know, give you a little bit of freedom to
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  Speaker 5: try and test these advantage counts a little bit and
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  Speaker 5: you know, go for it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I hit some dangers. That's what they're saying. Advantage
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  Speaker 6: counts or no advantage.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 6: One of the things Todd asked and you didn't answer,
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  Speaker 6: did you just get back from working out?
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  Speaker 5: I did you just get back when we're out? And
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  Speaker 5: the other thing that I've got going on. I have
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  Speaker 5: a my my daughter is two weeks old today. So
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  Speaker 5: my second child is two weeks old today. She woke
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  Speaker 5: up at five point thirty this morning and did not
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  Speaker 5: go back to bed, you know, So the day started
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  Speaker 5: about then and went to uh actually just the Dodgers
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  Speaker 5: facility in Glendale, worked out and just got home, and
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  Speaker 5: so I'm in the I'm in the garage still because
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  Speaker 5: this is the quiet space. I have another a two
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  Speaker 5: year old son at home as well, who's he's uh,
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  Speaker 5: you know, loves to play with daddy. When Daddy comes home,
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  Speaker 5: that means it's time to go in the backyard and
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  Speaker 5: go crazy. So this is my nice quiet space where
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  Speaker 5: I can, you know, have a nice conversation with you
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  Speaker 5: guys without being interrupted.
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  Speaker 6: I was gonna more say about you working out. You're
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  Speaker 6: working out on a Dodgers outfit. What happens if you
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  Speaker 6: need gas? What happens if you need to stop, do
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  Speaker 6: you wear the Dodger's shirt outside? Because we have this
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  Speaker 6: conversation sometimes on the show because some people be like, oh,
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  Speaker 6: you can't billboard, you can't be a billboard, and I'm
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  Speaker 6: just like, it's another shirt and it's comfortable.
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  Speaker 4: No, I don't.
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  Speaker 5: I don't usually wear any Dodgers gear unless I'm going
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  Speaker 5: to the facility. So I've been working out at the facility,
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  Speaker 5: so I threw on the Dodgers gear. But yeah, I've
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  Speaker 5: always been and actually I see with the Dodgers, the
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  Speaker 5: LA logo is so like prominent.
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  Speaker 4: It's like such a brand, you know.
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  Speaker 5: You actually see a lot of guys wearing like the
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  Speaker 5: Dodgers logo, and that was kind of something that I
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  Speaker 5: felt like was new because most of the time, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: you don't really wear your team hat around. But it's
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  Speaker 5: almost like the LA brand is so like, like the
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  Speaker 5: Dodgers brand is so intertwined with LA and the culture
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  Speaker 5: and the fans that it's almost like, hey, if you
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  Speaker 5: want to wear a Dodger hat around, like that's totally cool.
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  Speaker 5: It's almost been like the the vibe that I've been getting,
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  Speaker 5: it's it's been a really unique experience playing for LA.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, the fans are unlike anything I've really experienced.
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  Speaker 5: They are so passionate. Everybody cares about baseball as basically
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  Speaker 5: the number one, which is really refreshing.
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  Speaker 4: So it's been really cool.
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  Speaker 7: I want to ask you a little bit about Shoho Tani.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know if you have any good stories. We
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  Speaker 7: saw him last night talk a little bit of English
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  Speaker 7: at the Awards show. How is he with communications with
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  Speaker 7: you guys? And uh does he talk much in the
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  Speaker 7: in the locker room? We don't really hear much about it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean show is great. He's uh, he's so humble,
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  Speaker 5: He's so amazing. You know, it's crazy that we played
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  Speaker 5: the same game. But yeah, he uh.
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  Speaker 6: He does.
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  Speaker 4: He does really good well with English.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's he's more comfortable obviously in his first
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  Speaker 5: language when you do interviews and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, he'll joke around, you know.
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  Speaker 5: You know, just I think my favorite story is just
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  Speaker 5: he's in the I'm I think I'm on the bench
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  Speaker 5: that game. He's dhing, hasn't had any hits that game,
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  Speaker 5: and he's like, come on, do something, do something. You know,
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  Speaker 5: he's laughing with all the coaches and next to bat
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  Speaker 5: home run. So it's just like, you know, he he's
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  Speaker 5: a different animal, He's a different cat.
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  Speaker 4: It's so much fun to watch, I mean, Game four.
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  Speaker 5: Of the NLCS against the Brewers, you know, six shutout,
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  Speaker 5: three homers, one left the stadium. It's like you're just
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  Speaker 5: watching it on the and you're just like, this is
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  Speaker 5: amazing and it's so cool to be to be a
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  Speaker 5: part of it and just have a front row seat
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  Speaker 5: at it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, so much fun.
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  Speaker 6: He takes advantage, he takes advantage of advantage counts, just
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  Speaker 6: like you're trying to work on. He's been working on
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  Speaker 6: that too, Alex. So that's good, you guys, are you
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  Speaker 6: guys are the same same? You guys are working on
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  Speaker 6: the same thing. Somebody who didn't play in Game seven
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  Speaker 6: until the end, How surprised were you that Yamamoto went
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  Speaker 6: out there? Like were you in it? Did you see
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  Speaker 6: any of the like conversations or anything, And and when
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  Speaker 6: he went out there, were you like this is crazy?
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  Speaker 6: And then he almost lost the game for you guys,
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  Speaker 6: obviously ends up being the MVP.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you literally can't say enough about what that
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  Speaker 5: guy did. Just such an incredible performance. Uh just grit
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  Speaker 5: and you know, willingness to go out there for the team.
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  Speaker 4: It was it was incredible. I honestly didn't.
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  Speaker 5: I was trying to like focus on like, you know,
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  Speaker 5: like my role, my routine, like how I'm getting ready
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  Speaker 5: because I might go into the game at some point,
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  Speaker 5: getting ready to go in, so like that kind of
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  Speaker 5: keeps you focused on, like now all the external stuff
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  Speaker 5: like as a fan, like you would worry about once
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  Speaker 5: you're out of the game. Like when I came out
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  Speaker 5: of the game against the Phillies, It's like, Okay, my
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  Speaker 5: job's done. Now I can just like be on the
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  Speaker 5: edge of my seat and like my heart's pounding way harder.
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  Speaker 5: Versus when you're still preparing to go in the game,
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  Speaker 5: you're like, okay, what am I gonna do?
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  Speaker 4: I'm rolling through the situations in my head.
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  Speaker 5: But then like you're still watching the game, you're like, wait,
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  Speaker 5: Yamamoto's down there, he's warming up. It's like, oh, man,
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  Speaker 5: he's he's he's really warming up, like he's going to
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  Speaker 5: go in. And then helpe, here he comes, and it's like, man,
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  Speaker 5: didn't wait, how many pitches did he throw last night?
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  Speaker 5: And and then for him, like you're just on the
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  Speaker 5: edge of your seat, like, Okay, what's gonna happen? And
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  Speaker 5: then they had guys in scoring position. He gets a
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  Speaker 5: strikeout and he gets a double play, and it's just
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  Speaker 5: like blows your mind and then before you know what,
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  Speaker 5: you're rushing the field as World Series champs and dog
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  Speaker 5: Pilon on him, you know, and just another great guy,
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  Speaker 5: extremely humble, very diligent, hard working, very routine, very impressive
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  Speaker 5: stuff that he does day in and day out, and
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  Speaker 5: so it's really no surprise that he's able to, uh,
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  Speaker 5: you know, put up a legendary performance like that.
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  Speaker 4: It's truly incredible.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 6: I should have been able to do the research before this,
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  Speaker 6: but I haven't. How many games in left field have
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  Speaker 6: you ever played?
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  Speaker 4: Uh? I don't, I mean a lot.
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  Speaker 6: Plenty a lot, right, yeah, plenty. Do you let Andy
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  Speaker 6: pa Haes dunk on you like Andy Pies dunked on
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  Speaker 6: Kyk in the play to save the game, or do
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  Speaker 6: you knock pa Haes over? Because you've been in the
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  Speaker 6: gym and you're you know, you're staying fit and Todd
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  Speaker 6: said you're looking fit.
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  Speaker 5: You know that that's a crazy play. I don't know
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  Speaker 5: what you know I would have done in that situation.
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  Speaker 5: I as long as the ball gets caught, I don't
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  Speaker 5: care if I get dunked on and post rides the
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  Speaker 5: rest of my life, because you know, I'm sure feels
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  Speaker 5: the same way. But what absolutely, uh, you know, amazing
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  Speaker 5: play by Andy. Oh, here's my little boy, bring a man, daddy.
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  Speaker 5: Daddy's doing an interview right now. Can you go into
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  Speaker 5: your grandma?
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  Speaker 4: There we go.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, that's her office. That's her office.
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  Speaker 3: Make sure.
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  Speaker 4: Office got broken into?
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  Speaker 5: Sorry about that, but yeah, I mean amazing played by
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  Speaker 5: Andy and just really couldn't you know, I can't put
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  Speaker 5: into words what what that meant?
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Well, ninth inning of this conversation, since the kiddos will
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  Speaker 1: take over soon hopefully, I want to ask thank you
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  Speaker 1: about the Playmakers Classic in Arizona. We're going to be
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  Speaker 1: out there. We'll bring special coverage on FT. It's a
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  Speaker 1: super meaningful event for us. We talk about it pretty
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  Speaker 1: frequently to our groups that wanted to get your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on the Playmakers Classic. And of course your attendance to
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  Speaker 1: anyone that's on the Arizona side for spring training is
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  Speaker 1: able to make it. As you can say at the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of February eighteenth, but wanted to get your thoughts.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm super excited for the Playmakers Classic. This will
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  Speaker 5: be my first time going because I've been in Florida
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  Speaker 5: the last few springs. But you know, the Players Trust
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  Speaker 5: does amazing work and I'm super excited to be a
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  Speaker 5: part of I'm an Ambassttter forum just you know, helping out,
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  Speaker 5: encouraging guys whoever wants to get involved, give back in
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  Speaker 5: the community to get things started, just to encourage them
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  Speaker 5: and support them.
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  Speaker 4: So they do a really great job.
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  Speaker 5: I did a camp last July with the players the
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  Speaker 5: Players Trust. They put on an amazing event in my
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  Speaker 5: hometown when I went back to play against the Twins,
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: just a tremendous time. They did such a great job
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  Speaker 5: helping me and supporting me with something that I was
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  Speaker 5: really passionate about and giving back to the place where
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: I grew up in my community. So yeah, Playmakers Classic
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  Speaker 5: is gonna be a great time. It'll be great to
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: see guys out there and really gonna have fun.
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  Speaker 6: Do you have any idea what to expect since you
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  Speaker 6: haven't been to one yet and I was at one
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  Speaker 6: two two years ago. Scott Or three years ago. I'm
• 16:25
  Speaker 6: not sure two two, two years ago, any idea what
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  Speaker 6: to expect.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's gonna be fun. There's gonna be a
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  Speaker 5: bunch of different games. I think there's some like ski ball,
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: like a bunch of other things, casino games, probably good
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: food and good times. I mean I saw some of
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: the guys who went last year, you know, they said
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: it was a great time and you know, really looking
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  Speaker 5: forward to getting out there supporting a great cause.
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  Speaker 6: For sure. Are you competitive? Because that's what I was
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: gonna say, there's a bunch of games. Are you a
• 16:57
  Speaker 6: competitive person off the field, because not everybody is. Sometimes
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: they play non chalant, they played cool.
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  Speaker 5: I mean I think, uh, I've learned to manage the
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: competitive spirit. You know, if you get me on the
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: ping pong table, there might be a different animal that
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: comes out. But for the most part, I stay pretty
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: reserved and I try to just enjoy the game. But
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  Speaker 5: a few you know, maybe ten years ago when I
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: was in high school, would have been a completely different
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: competitor coming out of me for no matter what, no
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: matter what game it was. But now I just try
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: to enjoy the entire experience and win or lose, just
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: have a good time.
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  Speaker 3: Have you played Kershaw on ping pong and did you
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: beat him?
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: If you have, I did not get a chance to
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: play Kersh in ping pong. Okay, what about you?
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  Speaker 3: No, I haven't.
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  Speaker 7: I would love to play against him, I would I
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: would be a good match.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there we go. He has no clue about life.
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  Speaker 7: Last thing for you, I want to talk a little
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: bit about your your project, your charity got going on here,
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: the Call for Freedom Project. Why don't you give that
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: a little plug and talk a little bit about that
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  Speaker 7: a little more.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I appreciate that. So January is National Human Trafficking
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  Speaker 5: Prevention Month. I partner with IJM. They're an amazing organization
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  Speaker 5: that takes care of helps prevent human trafficking around the world.
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  Speaker 5: Make sure they work with local law enforcement to really
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: make sure that the predators who are doing this are
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: getting caught, and they're working with the justice system to
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: actually get these perpetrators processed and put in jail, behind
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: bars so they can't just pay off the cops. A
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: lot of these you know third world countries, they've got
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: you know, tough living conditions, they've got corrupt corruption running
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: through their system. And so IJM goes in there, sets
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: a system, partners with them to actually get the process
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: going to where we can get these criminals locked up
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: so they can't continue to do these horrific crimes. And
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: so it's an amazing, amazing organization that I'm super happy
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: to be, you know, shouting out and supporting and doing
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  Speaker 5: anything I can to really help this important cause that's
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: been near and dear to mine and my wife's heart,
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: because really no one should have to do that, and
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: the goal is truly to end slavery in our lifetime.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: Did you get connected with IJAM through PO Because my
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: wife and I we got connected with IJAM through Pao
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: and then now we've moved on to another company, i mean,
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: another charity called Worthwhile. But did you get connected with
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: them through there?
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's where we first first learned about them.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: And we went to PO back in twenty sixteen and
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: we've been going for the most part ever since. And
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: so it's been a while that we've uh kind of
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: knew about the work that they were doing, but you know,
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: really want to just get involved and kind of put
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: the pedal to the metal anyway we can.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: And so.
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: Being able to just try to raise awareness and use
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: my voice in my platform to you know, speak up
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: for those who might not have one. And so getting
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: this work done is really important.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: And that's Professional Athletes Outreach for PAO. Crawts likes to
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: use acronyms all day and then I have to be
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: the one that actually explains, of.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: Course what they are. That's part of my job.
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: My wife, my wife and I were on the board
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: for a few years there, so I forgot I used
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: it as like it's just an acronym, and then I
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: didn't explain it.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Sorry, people, I got you, I got you.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Alex really appreciate the conversation. It was great to have
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: you on and we'll see you at the Playmaker's Classic
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: next month.
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: All right, thank you guys. I really appreciate you having
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: me and uh yeah, we'll see you guys.
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: Then see you then young boy in the house right now.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: And then Dodger say, we'll see it Dodgers fan Fest,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: which is going to be wild too.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: They will see you there. Thanks Alex.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: All right, appreciate you guys.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: See you there you go.
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  Speaker 7: Kratzy, you go first. I've been going first on the
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