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Pirates' Ryan O'Hearn joins Bucco Territory · Bucco Territory: A Pittsburgh Pirates Podcast

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? Welcome back to another episode of Bucko Territory,
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  Speaker 1: presented by the Foul Territory Network. I am your host,
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  Speaker 1: Noah Hiles and joining me as always are my wonderful
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  Speaker 1: co host Josh Harrison aka j Hay and platinum Key
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  Speaker 1: aka Mark. And as you can see, we have another
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  Speaker 1: guest on the show. This one comes in the form
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  Speaker 1: of a big free agent signing the Pirates made this offseason.
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  Speaker 1: New left handed power bat Ryan O'Hearn joins the show. Ryan,
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  Speaker 1: Welcome on to Bucko Territory.
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  Speaker 2: Man, what's up Ellens? Thanks for having me, Thanks for
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  Speaker 2: coping me right. Welcome.
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  Speaker 1: So, Ryan, Pirates fans are obviously really excited to see
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  Speaker 1: you take the field on the North Shore this spring.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I've seen you do a couple of interviews already.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully we can give a couple of different questions that
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  Speaker 1: you haven't been asked and dig into everything that is
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  Speaker 1: Ryan O'Hearn, what makes you? And we're gonna get started
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  Speaker 1: right now with one of the biggest diehard Pirate fans
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  Speaker 1: that I know, Mark aka platinum Key Brian. If you're
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  Speaker 1: on Twitter at all, Ryan, I recommend giving him a foul.
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  Speaker 1: He is like the king of Pirate social media. He
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  Speaker 1: just posts clip after clip after clip, just nothing but
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  Speaker 1: Pirates highlights. He's going to be the one to start
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  Speaker 1: this interview, so go ahead, Mark, kick it off.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Ryan, thank you so much for hopping on. I
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  Speaker 3: just want to say Pirate fans are extremely excited, man.
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  Speaker 3: I absolutely love the confidence, the belief in this club
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  Speaker 3: and just the way that you express your goals for
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  Speaker 3: this team moving forward. It's refreshing to hear someone committed
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  Speaker 3: to winning and believing that this is a baseball club
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  Speaker 3: that can do that, that can be competitive. So my
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  Speaker 3: first question is what goals do you have for your
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  Speaker 3: time in Pittsburgh, for you, for the team, whatever.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you know, you can talk a game,
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  Speaker 4: but we still got to go play the games. But
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  Speaker 4: I you know, I believe that what's the point of
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  Speaker 4: joining something if you don't think that you can succeed there,
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  Speaker 4: you know. And I've spoke on it quite a bit
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  Speaker 4: about the roster and kind of looking at what the
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  Speaker 4: Pirates already had coming into the offseason and what they've added,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, I'm a believer in the team that
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  Speaker 4: we could go out and surprise people. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: I've said it a lot, but it really does start
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  Speaker 4: with pitching, in my opinion, And you know, you got
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  Speaker 4: the best picture on earth to start, and then you
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  Speaker 4: know you got great young arms with great stuff behind him,
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  Speaker 4: and so I think that's a great place to start.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, trying to decide where I wanted to
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  Speaker 4: play next year or well this upcoming year, you know,
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  Speaker 4: that definitely was stood out to me.
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  Speaker 2: And as far as goals for the.
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  Speaker 4: Season, you know, I think I have no problem with
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  Speaker 4: stating like, hey, I want to make the playoffs, Like
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  Speaker 4: why why why play a season if you don't, if
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  Speaker 4: you're not trying to make the playoffs, or if that
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  Speaker 4: isn't a goal, you know, I think obviously you got
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  Speaker 4: to take it one day at a time. It's a
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  Speaker 4: long season, and you may have a bad you know,
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  Speaker 4: stretch at some point, but I think the best teams
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  Speaker 4: find their way out of that and find a way
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  Speaker 4: to get that good mojo going and the good vibes.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, as much as you want to talk
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  Speaker 4: about goals right now here in January, we got to
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  Speaker 4: be in that one day at a time mindset doing
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  Speaker 4: whatever we can to find a way to win a
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  Speaker 4: ball game every day, and then you know, hopefully we'll
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  Speaker 4: look back and we'll be right on the custom of
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  Speaker 4: but at the end of.
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  Speaker 2: The year, exactly love it.
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  Speaker 3: Are you going to be at Pirates Fats coming up
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  Speaker 3: here next weekend? I know fans are excited to maybe
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  Speaker 3: get a chance to cea hear from you, maybe meet
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  Speaker 3: you briefly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll be there. I'm leading Friday morning.
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  Speaker 3: Excellent, Absolutely love it. So I was going through your
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  Speaker 3: game logs. I noticed you had a home run against
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  Speaker 3: the Pirates in twenty eighteen that was off of Stephen Brolt.
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  Speaker 3: But let me to my next question, and I noticed
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  Speaker 3: that you hit an m or you hit a home
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  Speaker 3: run in your MLB debut, right, yeah, James Shields, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: j oh wow, all right yeah, can you just walk
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  Speaker 3: in to me, James, What was it like being called
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  Speaker 3: up to the show? What was that day like for you?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Man, it was awesome, you know, obviously dream come true,
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  Speaker 4: you work.
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  Speaker 2: I was an eighth rownd.
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  Speaker 4: Pick, never made it on a super high on any
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  Speaker 4: prospect lists, I mean, and then you know, I spent
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  Speaker 4: four years in the minor leagues, got a chance to
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  Speaker 4: get called up in July of twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: My parents made it.
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  Speaker 4: Brother's sister had family there hit that homer off of
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  Speaker 4: James Shields and you know something I'll remember forever.
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  Speaker 3: That's awesome. Then my final question, so I have to
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  Speaker 3: change hats right in. Actually, oh that's awesome. Change hats
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  Speaker 3: here real quick to ask you a question now we go.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a fellow diehard Packers fan. We were talking before.
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  Speaker 3: I hear you're also an owner, owning a couple of shows,
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  Speaker 3: family with season tickets. When was the last time you
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  Speaker 3: were at Lamba?
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  Speaker 4: So Week eighteen of last season, I went to Lambo
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  Speaker 4: with my dad and brother in law and a couple
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  Speaker 4: uncles and we watch the Packers play the Bears in
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  Speaker 4: about minus seven with the wind chill, and it was
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  Speaker 4: they lost, which you know, you never phone losing too
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  Speaker 4: the Bears. But anytime you get a chance to go
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  Speaker 4: to Lamba and watching Packers play is pretty cool. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: definitely a Packer fan. I know we're struggle a little
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  Speaker 4: bit right now, but hey, we'll get him next year.
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  Speaker 3: Awesome, appreciate it. Thank you again for having jumping on here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So Ryan, I'll take over now, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people obviously are familiar with what you achieved in
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore and in the back end of last year with
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  Speaker 1: San Diego, But I want to ask about your time
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  Speaker 1: in Kansas City because it wasn't the easiest start to
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  Speaker 1: your major league career. Right, it was some negative war seasons,
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  Speaker 1: you got optioned. I'm sure you know during that time,
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  Speaker 1: there were a lot of difficult lonely drives back to Omaha. Right,
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  Speaker 1: Can you just take us back to that time and
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  Speaker 1: maybe tell us that those hard times, Oh sorry about that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: can you just take us back to that time and
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  Speaker 1: you just kind of tell us how those hard times
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  Speaker 1: really shaped you into the ballplayer that you are now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you said it.
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  Speaker 4: There was a lot of hard times in some down
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  Speaker 4: years in Kansas City, you know, where I was just
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  Speaker 4: trying to fight to stay on a major league roster,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, I credit a lot of those the
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  Speaker 4: difficult years is you know, I really appreciate getting to
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  Speaker 4: play now because it's been taken away from me before.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, when someone tells you, hey, like you're
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  Speaker 4: not on the team anymore, you go on Triple A whatever,
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  Speaker 4: and after that happens a few times like you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's you realize how hard it is to stick in
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  Speaker 4: the major leagues. And I learned a lot of lessons
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  Speaker 4: on the bench in Kansas City. I got to watch
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  Speaker 4: a lot of baseball, that's for sure, and learn from
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  Speaker 4: coaches and and kind of figured out how to stay
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  Speaker 4: sharp as best as I could, and that like pinch
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  Speaker 4: hitter role. And then you know, maybe you get one
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  Speaker 4: a b a night, one start a week, you know,
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  Speaker 4: whatever it may be. You learn to embrace your role.
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  Speaker 4: You try to be the best teammates that you possibly
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  Speaker 4: can and just make the most of it. And yeah,
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  Speaker 4: so I think those times in Kansas City definitely shaped
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  Speaker 4: me in ways and kind of prepped me for my
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  Speaker 4: next opportunity to get regular playing time.
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  Speaker 2: And when I got to Baltimore, I was like ready
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  Speaker 2: to go.
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  Speaker 4: So I think when I was on the bench a
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  Speaker 4: lot like I took advantage of that time and I
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  Speaker 4: tried to get better as best as I could without.
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  Speaker 2: Playing in that many games.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, I think a year after years of
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  Speaker 4: that and learning from hitting coaches in the off season,
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  Speaker 4: and then by the time I got to or I
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  Speaker 4: got to Baltimore in twenty three and I got a
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  Speaker 4: chance to play quite a bit. I was just ready
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  Speaker 4: to rock and it seemed like So, you know, I
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  Speaker 4: definitely credit those down years in Kansas City because without
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  Speaker 4: those times, I don't have the same resilience. Probably I
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  Speaker 4: don't have some.
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  Speaker 2: Of the skills that I have now.
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  Speaker 4: And definitely on the mental side of it, being able
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  Speaker 4: to stay, you know, locked into the game, not give up,
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  Speaker 4: you know, just overcome some tough times I think have
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  Speaker 4: really benefited me in the last few years.
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  Speaker 1: You talked about embracing your role. What type of role
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  Speaker 1: do you hope to have for this Pirates team.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I want to hit in the middle lineup. I
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  Speaker 4: want to drive in runs. I want to play wherever
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  Speaker 4: they need me on any given night. I know how
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  Speaker 4: baseball is nowadays. There's a lot of different lineups and
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  Speaker 4: guys rotate and they keep that DH spot moving and so,
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  Speaker 4: you know, whatever they need me defensively, I'll be ready
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  Speaker 4: to go. And then as far as hitting, I want
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  Speaker 4: to I want to play every day. You know, I
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  Speaker 4: want to face lefties, righties. I want to hit the
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  Speaker 4: middle lineup and drive me runs. I don't want to
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  Speaker 4: strike out. You don't want to hit some balls in
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  Speaker 4: the river I want to do whatever we got to
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  Speaker 4: do to help the team win.
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  Speaker 1: Have there been any conversations about where they anticipate you
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  Speaker 1: playing the bulk of your innings this year?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not super specific.
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  Speaker 4: This just kind of told me like a similar role
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  Speaker 4: to I've had what I've had the last few years,
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  Speaker 4: which has been you know, first base, DH, you know,
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  Speaker 4: right field whenever they need me. But you know, I'm
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  Speaker 4: in I'm thirty two, but I'm in pretty good shape.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like I can go out and play wherever
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  Speaker 4: they need me.
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  Speaker 1: And then my last question for you is I was
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  Speaker 1: doing a little recon. I was talking to Andy from
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  Speaker 1: the Baltimore Banner, who says hello, and he was telling
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  Speaker 1: me about your cool bat you had for the All
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  Speaker 1: Star Game and and what it kind of meant, how
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  Speaker 1: it was a little bit bigger than just you know,
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  Speaker 1: about yourself, and it's a cool baseball story. Just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to give you the opportunity to kind of tell that
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  Speaker 1: story a little bit and what what it signified.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So at the All Star Game, I used a
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  Speaker 4: bat signed by all the players on the newtown Edgemont
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  Speaker 4: Challenger team, which is a group of guys that are
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  Speaker 4: you know, they have some disabilities, but they love the
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  Speaker 4: game of baseball. And I've made appointment to go up
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  Speaker 4: and see him every off season and you know, go
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  Speaker 4: to their practice. My agent coaches them, works with them.
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  Speaker 4: He's very close with a lot of the families. And
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  Speaker 4: I've come to love the boys over the years. Uh
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  Speaker 4: They've made out, made it out to games in Philly
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  Speaker 4: to see me play.
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  Speaker 2: They came out to Baltimore last year.
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  Speaker 4: So when it came to the All Star Game, they
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  Speaker 4: all signed a bat for me and you know, made
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  Speaker 4: this awesome video and you know made it really special
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  Speaker 4: that I could rep those boys and give them some
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  Speaker 4: love on on the biggest stage at the All Star Game.
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  Speaker 4: But uh, a lot of love for those boys. Man,
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  Speaker 4: the Challenger Angels. They're great people. They really do bright
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  Speaker 4: in the day. Like anytime I get a chance to
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  Speaker 4: see him, my face hurts from smiling when I would
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  Speaker 4: go to leave, just because they like, they bring great
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  Speaker 4: energy and you can tell how much they love baseball.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, just human angels is what I call them.
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  Speaker 4: So uh, definitely they got a special place in my heart.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome.
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  Speaker 6: All right, here we go.
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  Speaker 7: First off, welcome again Ryan as Noah and you know,
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  Speaker 7: my boy Platinum Key said, welcome, appreciate you coming on
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  Speaker 7: the show. And I just got a couple of questions
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  Speaker 7: for you. I feel like I've learned a lot just
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  Speaker 7: listening to Noah. Noah and Mark asked you a couple questions.
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  Speaker 7: But my first question is going to be kind of
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  Speaker 7: piggybacking off of what Noah asked you about your role
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  Speaker 7: on this team. Obviously you said you want to hit
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  Speaker 7: in the middle of the lineup, you want to drive
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  Speaker 7: and runs face right, hes face lefties. Listen to your
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  Speaker 7: story very very very similar to mine to where I
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  Speaker 7: was on that express back and forth between trip Lela
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  Speaker 7: in the Major League, you know, three years before I
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  Speaker 7: got a chance to play every day, just wanting that
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  Speaker 7: opportunity and listening you speak.
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  Speaker 6: You know, you speak with a lot of confidence because
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  Speaker 6: you've been through the ringer.
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  Speaker 7: So I wanted to ask about your role, not that
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  Speaker 7: it is part of your role, but do you foresee
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  Speaker 7: with this being a younger offensive team that you can
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  Speaker 7: kind of take on a little bit of that leadership
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  Speaker 7: role to kind of help these guys make, you know,
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  Speaker 7: some of those adjustments that you know, as you said,
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  Speaker 7: you learned a lot on the bench, you learned from
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  Speaker 7: hitting coaches. I saw myself, you know, learn a lot
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  Speaker 7: of those moments, and whether I wanted to or realize
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  Speaker 7: it or not, I think I was able to give
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  Speaker 7: a lot of information to guys that otherwise may have
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  Speaker 7: not been through what I had been through.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not going to roll up in there
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  Speaker 4: like giving speeches like hey, I'm a guy listening to
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  Speaker 4: me talk, But you know, I'm I'm want to help
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  Speaker 4: out and you know, build relationships with all the guys
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  Speaker 4: as much as possible. If I feel like something needs
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  Speaker 4: to be said, I have no problem saying it. Like
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  Speaker 4: you said, we've uh, you know, seen a lot of
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  Speaker 4: baseball and you kind of seen how you know, good
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  Speaker 4: work and how maybe not so good leaders work. And
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  Speaker 4: you know, if I feel like I'm there's something that
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  Speaker 4: needs to be said, like I said, I'll say it.
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  Speaker 4: I don't really consider myself like the most vocal leader,
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  Speaker 4: but you know, there's a time and a place and
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  Speaker 4: anything that I can pass along to these guys and
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  Speaker 4: then I'm all for it and like and I want
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  Speaker 4: to learn from them as well.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's you never stop learning in this game.
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  Speaker 4: It's not like I've got to a point where it's like,
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  Speaker 4: all right, I figured everything out.
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  Speaker 2: Because that's completely false, you know.
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  Speaker 4: But I think good players, especially at good offenses and
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  Speaker 4: meetings and things like that, everybody talks, you know, because
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  Speaker 4: maybe some guy in the room has had success off
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  Speaker 4: a pitcher that I just can't figure him out, and
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  Speaker 4: you know, like to be able to bounce that off
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  Speaker 4: each other and you know, figure out a way that
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  Speaker 4: you can go get this guy. As a team is
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  Speaker 4: everything seems like the best offenses I've been on are
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  Speaker 4: you know, they talk to each other. So yeah, if
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  Speaker 4: I can assume something type of leadership role, like that's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: If not, like you know, I'm just gonna roll up
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  Speaker 4: in there and be myself and really looking forward to
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  Speaker 4: get to know the guys and see what they're all about.
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  Speaker 7: You're not for sure, I totally understand everything you're saying,
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  Speaker 7: and sometimes, as you said, you're not the most vocal guy.
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  Speaker 6: And you don't have to be everything that you said.
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  Speaker 7: I'm sure it's gonna show on the field because you said,
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  Speaker 7: wherever they want you to play, wherever they want to.
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  Speaker 6: Line you up, you ready to go.
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  Speaker 7: And trust me from somebody that played in Pittsburgh, that's
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  Speaker 7: that's something that's already gonna have the fans, you know,
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  Speaker 7: rooting for you. And I've played against you and i
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  Speaker 7: know what you bring. So that's something that I'm excited
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  Speaker 7: to see and to hear you speak about. But we
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  Speaker 7: also know baseball is a game of adjustments, man, And
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  Speaker 7: just like you are mentioning, you've played for a few
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  Speaker 7: different organizations, I have as well, you know, being traded,
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  Speaker 7: going through free agency. There's a lot of things that
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  Speaker 7: go on behind the scenes that you know, to the
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  Speaker 7: naked eye or to the everyday fan might not notice,
• 15:57
  Speaker 7: but to us it means everything because we're big on routines.
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  Speaker 7: And what do you think has been your biggest adjustment
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  Speaker 7: changing from organization to organization?
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  Speaker 6: Is it the coaching?
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  Speaker 3: Is it?
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  Speaker 7: You know, getting with a hitting coach, knowing how to
• 16:10
  Speaker 7: you know, say oh oh I need to do first
• 16:12
  Speaker 7: base or outfield like that was one of my biggest
• 16:15
  Speaker 7: adjustments was knowing that I am specific to I like
• 16:18
  Speaker 7: to go in a cage at a certain time before
• 16:21
  Speaker 7: the game, and I'm getting there. So when I got
• 16:23
  Speaker 7: traded and I signed, you know, I kind of had
• 16:25
  Speaker 7: to find my footing with guys that.
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: Were already there.
• 16:29
  Speaker 7: What would you say has been some of your most challenging,
• 16:32
  Speaker 7: you know obstacles when you say going from you know,
• 16:35
  Speaker 7: Kansas City to Baltimore to San Diego and obviously now
• 16:38
  Speaker 7: here Pittsburgh but a little different territory.
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: But you know, they all are saying, you know, you're
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: changing different places.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure. I mean, you know, I'm moving from organization.
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: Organization is tough because you know it's like you go
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: from one place where you know everybody's name and the
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: whole building to somewhere different and you're the new guy
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: and you got to adjust. But uh, I mean, in
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: my experience, for the most part, like all baseball players
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: seem to be the same, you know.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: Like you got your gamblers, you got you know.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: You got your like whatever it may be. Like guys,
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: they tend to fall in the same categories. You find
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: your boys, the ones you hang out with on the road,
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: like all of that so and then at the same time,
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: you know, you got your coaches, like who's my guy?
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: Who am I gonna work with in the cage every day?
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: Which strand coach? So I kind of like line up
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: with my day and all that, you know. So I
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: have things that I do throughout the day that you
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: can do anywhere. And I think you just at that,
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: you know, you know what to do, you know how
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: to get yourself ready to do your work, and you know,
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: you make relationships along the way. And then, uh, I'll
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: say one thing when I try. When I got traded
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: to San Diego last year, it's like you only get
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: two months with the group, and it's like, I don't
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: know if I'm gonna be here after this.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Season or not, But uh, you know, you try.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: I try to learn somebody's name, Like every week, somebody
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: in the in the building, somebody knew every week.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: Just because.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: You know, just treat people with respect, man, treat people right,
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: learn their names, learn about them. And I think ultimately
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: that's gonna translate the more comfortable you feel somewhere, the
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: more people you get to know, the better you're gonna feel.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: And then play out on the field. So I get
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: two years. You know, as it stands right now, I
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: get two years with the Pittsburgh Pirates. I can't wait
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: to get up in there and learn everybody's name, learn
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: about them. I'm excited I get a spring training to
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: kind of break that in because we all know how
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: important spring training is, you know, you that's where you
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: really make your your bonds to start the season and
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: you get to know these guys, and so I'm looking
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: forward to that, and I'm looking forward to Pirates fast
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: as well. There's gonna be a ton of guys out there,
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: so it'll be cool to get to know them a
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: little bit. Hopefully we can grab dinner or something. But yeah,
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: for me, and like you know, man, it's all about relationships.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: The more comfortable you feel, the better you get to
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: know everybody. That kind of stuff translates out on the field.
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely.
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: And another thing that I'm gonna piggyback just to go
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: with adjustments and a lot of people already know. But
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: you recently have a big adjustment. You know, you just
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: had a brand new baby girl. So adjustments are also
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: gonna be made on the road, and uh, these are
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: things that you know a lot of people you know yes,
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: they know you had your kid, but it's also an
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: adjustment for you, your wife, you know, baby girl, and
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: just one of those things where what do you think
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: the biggest adjustment is gonna be? Obviously we know sleep,
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: but is it gonna be you know, is it gonna
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: be sleep? Is it gonna be being away from them?
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: Because I know for me, I can miss sleep. You know,
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: I felt like I played better when my family was there,
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: so that was one of the biggest adjustments. So what
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: do you think is the biggest adjustment possibly this season,
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: you know, adjusting to life with you know, a new
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: kid or being away from that kid, missing those moments
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: because these are these are real life things that happen.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you know that there's it's that's something
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: I haven't experienced yet. And you know, going on the
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: road and being away from your family definitely just got
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: harder for me because I got this baby at home.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: But you know, and that's.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: Gonna it's gonna be tough, there's no doubt about it.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: But you know, luckily, man, I have a great wife
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: and she's she can hold down the fort. I got
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: in laws, I got my parents come to town and
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: help out quite a bit. We got a great support system,
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: so that's definitely gonna help. And my wife's like I said,
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: my wife's great.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: She gets it. She knows the business. She's been with
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: me for years.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: Man, We've gone through this, uh these seasons together where
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: it's like I gotta go on the road, she stays home,
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: that kind of thing. So it's gonna be hard. It's
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: gonna be an adjustment, for sure. But you know, I've
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: seen guys go through it, and I know it wears
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: on them, and uh so I'm gonna just deal with
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: it the best that I can.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: You know, there's nothing else that we can do.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: And hopefully I'll be still playing by the time Harper
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: is old enough to come and come on the road
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: and all that.
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: Oh yeah speak that it two exist, that's for sure.
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: But yeah, the support system is definitely big. And before
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: we get out of here, I'm gonna ask you one
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: more question, because, as I said, routine, all these things
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: kind of tie into each other. I'm a very picky eater,
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: So switching team the team, you know, you're gonna have
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: certain staples and cities of food that you should eat
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: and should not eat, different clubhouses, and my question was
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: honestly gonna be. Are you like a superstitious person as
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: far as what you eat before the game, because me
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: being very picky, I would every team I went to,
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: I needed a smoothie before the game with no banana,
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: any fruit, but no banana, and I would do like
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: a peanut butter and jelly or something like. I couldn't
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: eat much before games where I got some teammates, It's like, nah,
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: I need that grilled chicken with you know, rice and
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: this or that. So do you have anything that you
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: have to eat or you just kind of go with
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: the flow.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: I'm going with the flow for the most part.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: Like I don't want to I want to eat something
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: that's gonna feel like you know, it's gonna stick to
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: my ribs like I'm gonna I don't want to feel
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: like I'm hungry at all during the game, and like
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: I like to snack a little bit during the game.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: But no, nothing like that. Where did this superstition come from?
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: By the way, did you eat something like no?
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: Like, no, it wasn't a superstition.
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: I just could never eat before game just because I
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: wasn't hungry and it would take me like an hour.
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: I was a very hot energy guy. So you know,
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: once the game is ready, you know, I'm like, I'm
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: ready to play, you know, and it's like now I
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: don't want nothing. You know, if I wouldn't playing, I
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: think I would eat more. But when I wouldn't play,
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: I was like, let me get a smoothie and then
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: I would eat after the game. But you know, everybody's
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: different and it wouldn't necessarily a superstition. But I know
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: some dudes that are like, oh, I went four for
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: four because I had, you know, baking eggs and pancakes
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: for breakfast.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna do the same thing to morning. I'm like, naw,
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: you just hit good pictures, bro.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, dude, I mean honestly, Like for me, it's day games,
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: like day games. If I show up and I'm like donut, sausage,
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: egg and cheese, some like just not eating super healthy
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: in the morning, like second inning.
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: I'm like dying.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: I feel like, but if I show up, like, you
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: gotta make that decision right when you get to the yard,
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: Like I'm gonna do it, d you know what I mean,
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: Like I'm gonna have a couple eggs with no bacon.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna have like green juice and like something healthy.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: Then it's like, damn, all right, I started my day
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: with good decisions. I'm gonna go to the gym. I'm
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: gonna go do my pool workout, like I'm gonna get
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: it ready to go, and then you're thanking yourself in
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: the sixth inning, you.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Know what I mean?
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: Like I feel good today, but there are those days
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: where I show up in that sausag jake and cheese
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: is looking for like next thing. I know, I got
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: an old fashioned donut in my mouth, and I'm like,
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: damn it, this is gonna be a grind today. But
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: every now I just try to eat stuff that makes
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: me feel good.
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: You know, everything's good in moderation. But yeah, that's all
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: I pretty much got for you. Best of luck this year, man,
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: And more than anything, you know, I just wish health
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: to people that are playing. You know, a guy that
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: played for thirteen years, you know, play with a lot
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: of guys that didn't get to play as long, that
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: didn't have as many injuries or more. I just like
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: to wish people good health because I know if you're healthy,
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: you're gonna do what you do, man. And I'm excited
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: to see you where the where the black and yellow
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: and put on for the four one two. That's the
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: area code of Pittsburgh if you didn't know.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: All right, Josh, thank you so much.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: I always enjoy watching you play competing against you.
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: So I appreciate having you on the show.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: For sure. Yeah.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: I think that stands for all of us that Ryan,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: thanks so much for coming on, and thank you for
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: you know that that last answer that was that's valid
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: even for us who cover baseball. You know, you go
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: down press dining, you see the suits and everything. It's like,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: oh man, I'm gonna have to grind through writing this
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: game story X trainings.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I got it. Yeah, I'm gonna have.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Bad questions in the postgame pressors now because I like crap.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: During the game.
• 24:28
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