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Inside Shohei Ohtani vs. Mike Trout's Insane WBC Championship At-Bat with Mookie Betts and Jo Adell · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: The greats that you've been around, like Tory, show Hey,
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  Speaker 1: obviously Mike, what of those guys kind of what is
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  Speaker 1: Mike meant to you and what has he taught you
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  Speaker 1: as far as playing the outfield really the whole game
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  Speaker 1: in general.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred percent. I've obviously I've kind of outside of Mike.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like the second longest tenured Angel now, so I've
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  Speaker 2: been around you know, Mike now for a while, but
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  Speaker 2: really just taught me the level of consistency of just
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  Speaker 2: your work and show Hey was unbelievable too when he
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  Speaker 2: was with us, and just being very meticulous about a
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  Speaker 2: routine and committing to something because you know, like you're
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  Speaker 2: going to go out there and there's just going to
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  Speaker 2: be days where it doesn't go your way and you
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  Speaker 2: don't have it going on. There's gonna be weeks where
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  Speaker 2: it's like that, and so it's real easy to want
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  Speaker 2: to switch something up and change something or try to
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  Speaker 2: reinvent the wheel. And these guys are just like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: like we know what works, like you know who you
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  Speaker 2: are as a player. Just commit to that process. So
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  Speaker 2: over the last five and six years of you know,
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  Speaker 2: really being in the big leagues and being around Mike
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  Speaker 2: and these guys, they just show you that level of
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  Speaker 2: consistency and what they do in their routine.
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  Speaker 1: So have you balanced, because at some point you do
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  Speaker 1: have to switch some things up just to keep up
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  Speaker 1: with what's going on. How have you balanced being consistent
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  Speaker 1: but also switching some things up and adding to your
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  Speaker 1: repertoire of whatever it is, whether it's hitting, defense or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Have you balanced that.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred percent? I think I think one of the
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  Speaker 2: big things for me is when I'm getting a little
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  Speaker 2: out of whack, I'm trying to do too much. And
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  Speaker 2: that's normally I'm trying to either if I'm slumping, I'm
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  Speaker 2: trying to swing my way out of it, or you know,
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  Speaker 2: if I'm not feeling too great, it's I'm not seeing
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  Speaker 2: the ball or I'm chasing. And one thing that's always
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  Speaker 2: the constant is to just go back on defense. And
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  Speaker 2: that's like always, that's kind of how I've reverted back to.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of getting back and going at the plate is
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  Speaker 2: like if I can go out and make a big
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  Speaker 2: play or go out and focus on trying to get
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  Speaker 2: it out. If I'm getting out, somebody else is getting
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  Speaker 2: out and kind of trying to have that mindset. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of times things will click back, but really just
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  Speaker 2: shorten up and do what the game's asking. For a
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  Speaker 2: lot of times he's putting me back.
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  Speaker 1: Just play the game, just worry about all the extra things.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be the hero. Just play it, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: then you'll get back into that groove.
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  Speaker 1: And then eventually we'll be the hero.
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  Speaker 2: Yea, all right.
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  Speaker 1: I do want to talk a little bit about Show
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  Speaker 1: Hay and pitching. He's going crazy right now, especially, but
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  Speaker 1: in general, you saw him pitching all the time. What
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  Speaker 1: you got on in pitching, bro.
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  Speaker 2: The thing about Show that you know, gets me going
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  Speaker 2: is the fact that he'll come into spring training. He'll say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: like I want to do this, And most people come
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  Speaker 2: to spring training and they have all sorts of ideas
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  Speaker 2: about what they're going to do, and he just does it.
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  Speaker 2: It's like he came in. It's I remember when he
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  Speaker 2: started messing around with the sweeper for the first time
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  Speaker 2: a couple of years ago, and we were like, it's
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  Speaker 2: like one of the best see the game, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean. It's just it's crazy to see. But really,
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  Speaker 2: just his tenacity and focus when it comes to getting
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  Speaker 2: it done and trying to find whatever he's trying to do.
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  Speaker 2: It's like he finds a way to get it done
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  Speaker 2: all the time. So he's been just a force.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not kind of sometimes not really fair, just
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  Speaker 1: because you know, people say you can do whatever you
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  Speaker 1: put your mind to, right, and it's it's true in
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  Speaker 1: a lot of situations, but like in the big leagues,
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  Speaker 1: it's not. It's not really like you can't just say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw a sweeper and then be the best
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  Speaker 1: in league of throwing.
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  Speaker 2: One time a bullpen and come out and then go you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, you know what I'm saying, Like that doesn't really
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  Speaker 1: work that way, and for him it does. I think
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  Speaker 1: he his rules to life are a little different than
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  Speaker 1: the rest of us, which is cool. I'm glad he's
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  Speaker 1: on our team.
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  Speaker 2: So but.
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  Speaker 1: You had your chance, you had him. Sorry about it,
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  Speaker 1: but I do want to talk about and then him
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  Speaker 1: having obviously two of the best in the game as
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  Speaker 1: far as show Hey and Trout, how did it go
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  Speaker 1: show Hay then Trout or Trout then show Hey.
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  Speaker 2: I think for the most part it was show Hate
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  Speaker 2: leading off, and then Trout was second.
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  Speaker 1: How was that when you when you're in the lineup
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  Speaker 1: and you see show Hey Trout.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, I'll tell you right now, it's great. You
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  Speaker 2: know you're gonna get something good to head because those
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  Speaker 2: two dudes are going to wear him out, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean, you're hanging out behind that and you're like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm in good shape. But I mean it's it's special.
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  Speaker 2: And the crazy thing is about like Show too, was
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  Speaker 2: like think about that he pitched. He would lead off
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  Speaker 2: right and work the count just like you would if
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  Speaker 2: you were any other position player, and then go out
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  Speaker 2: and throw seven innings with three heads and no runs,
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  Speaker 2: and we expected it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I had to like wake myself. I'm like, hey, like
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  Speaker 2: this is ridiculous. Sitting on the bench expecting a guy
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  Speaker 2: to go and do this in a major league game
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  Speaker 2: is insane.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I see now is like, you know, if
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't get a hit or it doesn't maybe have
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  Speaker 1: a couple bad games, it's like, well, what's wrong with
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  Speaker 1: Show Hey? Well, I mean he did just go seven innings,
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  Speaker 1: you know, two hits. He does have a point seven
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  Speaker 1: e ra a. You know, you forget like all the
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  Speaker 1: other ways that he really affects the game, And so
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  Speaker 1: would you how would you rank that As far as
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  Speaker 1: like duos show Hey and Trout, I would say for me,
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  Speaker 1: that's got to be like I would say probably top
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  Speaker 1: top three or four duos ever, you know, like back
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  Speaker 1: to back those two there. There can't be that many
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  Speaker 1: more duos that are better than show Hey and Trout.
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  Speaker 2: Dude. It was it was silly like sitting back and
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  Speaker 2: watching it and then you get like it. For me,
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  Speaker 2: I was I got used to being a part of them,
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  Speaker 2: just like being out there and it's like this is
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  Speaker 2: wild And there was a time where pull host was
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  Speaker 2: out there. Oh yeah, you know too, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean. For us, it was just just having that
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  Speaker 2: that's about the star started is I mean, that's that's
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  Speaker 2: big time. That's big time for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Back in twenty twenty three, I know you probably remember
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  Speaker 1: watching the WBC and you saw show Hey and the
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  Speaker 1: Mic showdown right this epic? Did you Was there like
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  Speaker 1: a group chat or something going on when when that happened, Well, I.
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  Speaker 2: Think nobody knew what to say. I think that's kind
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  Speaker 2: of what the vibe was because we were all sitting
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  Speaker 2: watching the game and it was like, well, we can't
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  Speaker 2: say what a punch out, you know, what I mean,
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  Speaker 2: because it's like, because it's Mike, are we going to
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  Speaker 2: get you know, you get our bags packed, They're going
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  Speaker 2: to send us out of here. You know, we don't
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  Speaker 2: we don't want to talk about it, but I mean
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  Speaker 2: you want to talk about two of the best players
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  Speaker 2: that were just going like just like a class of Titans.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was pretty unreal.
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  Speaker 1: Was it weird when they got back to camp?
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody was cool.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody was cool, and it was just talked about it
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  Speaker 2: all for sure. But it was good for baseball. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Like that's what everybody got out of it was just
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  Speaker 2: the experience of seeing that you're not going to see
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  Speaker 2: that every day, you know what I mean, like Mike
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  Speaker 2: wearing USA, you know, show hey with Japan like one
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  Speaker 2: on one, Like that's that's what everybody came to see.
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  Speaker 1: So that was that was really amazing. And then when
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  Speaker 1: you know, being there, you kind of take it for
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  Speaker 1: granted because you don't even really pay attention to that.
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  Speaker 1: You're just playing the game, right obviously you know that
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  Speaker 1: the teammates, but you're not really paying attention to the
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  Speaker 1: to the whole thing. You know, Like what just happened,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because things like that don't ever really happened
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  Speaker 1: and so forth to happen and we're not looking back
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  Speaker 1: on it like that.
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  Speaker 2: Was kind of you don't recognize them, you're in it,
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  Speaker 2: you're competing in it, and then you look back and go, wow,
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  Speaker 2: at the moment was huge.
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  Speaker 1: That was huge. Yeah, it was huge.