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Tommy Kahnle talks free agent life, ALDS G5, Skull’s greatness · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: All right, we are pleased now to be joined by
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Speaker 1: longtime Big League believer Tommy Cainley. Tommy, thank you so
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Speaker 1: much for joining us. How's free agency treating you?
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Speaker 2: Thank you?
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Speaker 3: I'm here, Uh, to be honest, I haven't really gotten
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Speaker 3: into any free agency stuff yet, so I'm sure it's
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Speaker 3: gonna be picking up here in the next few weeks.
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Speaker 3: You know, we got I think the owner of meetings
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Speaker 3: at the end of the month, and uh yeah, it
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Speaker 3: should be interesting. Right now, just kind of enjoying the
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Speaker 3: family time at home. My daughter's birthday is today. She's
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Speaker 3: turning four, so it's gonna be a chaos when she
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Speaker 3: wakes up from nap here.
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Speaker 2: Before the way.
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Speaker 4: By the way, happy birthday to your daughter. But the
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Speaker 4: shirt's tired. And by the way, how are they ranked
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Speaker 4: ahead of Miami? But Miami beat him? It doesn't make
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Speaker 4: any sense bias joining conference anyways.
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Speaker 2: This way.
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Speaker 4: One team beat the other team. And here's here's my bone.
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Speaker 4: I have to pick with you. I see you in
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Speaker 4: the playoffs, right and I and you're on you know
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Speaker 4: you're sitting there, you're on the phone. I just walk
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Speaker 4: up to you and just try to give you knuckles,
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Speaker 4: shake your hand. You don't even acknowledge my existence, you know.
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Speaker 4: And then we walk into the clubhouse in Seattle, and
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Speaker 4: I think the Eagles were losing, so you had. The
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Speaker 4: Phillies lost, the Eagles lost, the Yankees lost, Notre Dame
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Speaker 4: probably had lost that weekend. You were just not a
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Speaker 4: happy person, Tommy. Don't take it out on me because
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Speaker 4: all of your teams were losing at the same time.
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Speaker 2: Okay, thank you. It's that passion, man. I don't tell you.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: He's always there for everything, fandom. I loved it, always
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Speaker 3: there by the way. I love the fact that you're not.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I just walk in there and your teammates
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Speaker 3: were all over.
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Speaker 4: You about the Eagle. I think the Eagles had lost,
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Speaker 4: the Notre Dame had, I don't know they were. They
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Speaker 4: were all over you. I had never seen teammates get
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Speaker 4: on one guy more than they were. Just they just
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Speaker 4: were piling on. It was fun to watch.
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Speaker 3: I've been dealing it with with it for my entire life.
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Speaker 3: So that's from friends from some weird you know, grade
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Speaker 3: school through high school, onto my college buddies, my minor
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Speaker 3: league buddies, everybody Cratzy sure has seen it.
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Speaker 2: He's seen it.
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Speaker 5: You are a target? Why Why are you a target?
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Speaker 5: Why do you think that is?
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Speaker 4: Why?
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Speaker 5: Why do you think that is? Let's tell them to it.
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Speaker 2: I like to wear my stuff. I like to flaunt it.
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Speaker 2: You know, I don't know what ty.
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Speaker 5: You have two lockers. You have two lockers, one with
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Speaker 5: your baseball stuff and one with all your jerseys. So
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Speaker 5: you flaunt your team and then when they win, you say, yeah.
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Speaker 2: I'm baby, it's not wrong. Hey, what are you gonna do?
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Speaker 5: All right? So you ride the highs of your team?
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Speaker 5: How did you did you ride the highs of your
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Speaker 5: season this year? We talk about it, We talk about
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Speaker 5: it all the time. You you know, the Tigers were
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Speaker 5: nails the beginning of the season and then struggled in
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Speaker 5: the second half. Everybody knows it. Did you feel like
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Speaker 5: your struggles were part of your personal struggles were part
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Speaker 5: of the team struggles. Did you feel like it was
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Speaker 5: something that you were starting to get worn out? It
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Speaker 5: was the most innings you had thrown in a season
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Speaker 5: since I think nineteen, But before that it was like
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Speaker 5: when you were a baby, Like what was it that
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Speaker 5: for you personally kind of made the struggles? But then
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Speaker 5: also like how do you during that time, how do
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Speaker 5: you try to get back to like being you, being
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Speaker 5: the Tommy Kinley that had like a one to five,
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Speaker 5: one seven ERA in the first half of the season.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I think it was a culmination of everything. I mean, I,
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Speaker 3: like you said, it's been six years since I pitched
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Speaker 3: as much and basically pitched an entire season, So I
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Speaker 3: think I probably got a little tired. I know, Uh,
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Speaker 3: I was fighting through like a little bit of a
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Speaker 3: calf thing, so I don't know if that had anything
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Speaker 3: had to do with it, but there was a culmination
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Speaker 3: of that. You know, shoulders starts barking a little bit
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Speaker 3: here and there, But overall I felt, you know that
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Speaker 3: I could, you know, keep.
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Speaker 2: Going out there and contributing.
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Speaker 3: But uh, at the same time, you know, obviously that's
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Speaker 3: when we started our little trajectory down.
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Speaker 2: So it was, uh, it was going hand in hand.
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Speaker 3: But I don't think, uh, you know, our struggles kind
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Speaker 3: of affected me personally. I just you know, I tried
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Speaker 3: to keep all the guys, you know, upbeat, like, hey,
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Speaker 3: like this this stuff happened.
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Speaker 2: Like you know, you're on good teams. I've seen this happen.
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Speaker 2: You go through spells where you lose you know, five.
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Speaker 3: Six, seven, eight, nine games in a row, and then
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Speaker 3: next thing you know, you flip switch during the corner
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Speaker 3: and you're back off. But I felt like, you know,
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Speaker 3: it happened a couple of times. Maybe it's just snowball
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Speaker 3: too much for us, and we just never kind of
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Speaker 3: really regained that, like just the magic that we had
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Speaker 3: those first couple of months. It kind of flashed here
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Speaker 3: and there in the playoffs, I feel like, but it
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Speaker 3: just never really culminated to the team. We were those
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Speaker 3: first you know, three four months of the season, and
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Speaker 3: I mean I was, you know, not generally too happy
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Speaker 3: with my performance in July.
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Speaker 2: Obviously, so.
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Speaker 3: Looking back on it, I mean, obviously that one month
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Speaker 3: was killer, But overall, I feel like, you know, I
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Speaker 3: finally pitched an entire season, you know, being able to
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Speaker 3: contribute and helping the team. Maybe not through that time,
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Speaker 3: but overall, you know, the entire season, I feel like, I,
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Speaker 3: you know, I did a pretty good job.
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Speaker 2: Maybe the numbers.
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Speaker 3: Don't show it, but hey, I feel like, you know,
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Speaker 3: I stuck with it, hung in there. You know, mentally,
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Speaker 3: it's tough to go through times like that, so to
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Speaker 3: come out of it after you know around later August,
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Speaker 3: I think is when I started to kind of re
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Speaker 3: regain that form again, and it tried to help these
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Speaker 4: I think y'all did a great job. You guys went
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Speaker 4: through what you went through. Then you beat Cleveland, you
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Speaker 4: beat them to go to the next round, and you,
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Speaker 4: you know, whatever you want to say about the next
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Speaker 4: series was one of the best series I was ever
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Speaker 4: a part of. Those five games are unbelievable, like ups
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Speaker 4: and downs and ins and outs and twists and turns.
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Speaker 4: But what does it mean Because you mentioned you were struggling.
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Speaker 4: I know this when I talked to Hinch, he never
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Speaker 4: lost faith in you, right, and he would still put
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Speaker 4: you out there. He puts you in situations. So what
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Speaker 4: does that mean as a player that even though you think,
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Speaker 4: oh man, I'm really kind of struggling, but Hinch just
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Speaker 4: kept running you out there in all kinds of situations.
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Speaker 4: I mean, as for me as a former player, I
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Speaker 4: would say, all right, this guy believes in me. Maybe
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Speaker 4: I am still pretty good.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely. You know, I went through probably a
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Speaker 3: few weeks there where I kind of just got kind
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Speaker 3: of pushed to try to just get me into different
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Speaker 3: situations to try to get that form back. But he
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Speaker 3: was really you know, he kept going to me, and
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Speaker 3: I wanted the ball I mean, it's not like I'm
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Speaker 3: gonna shy away from it. It obviously going out there
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Speaker 3: and not performing is that's that's the that's the name
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Speaker 3: of the game is you know, perform. But uh, it
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Speaker 3: was it was I think I got mentally worn out
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Speaker 3: a little bit. He he we had a talk after
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Speaker 3: the season. He definitely agreed with me on that one.
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Speaker 3: I feel like it just kind of snowballed a little
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Speaker 3: bit too much, and and then I it was just
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Speaker 3: too late by then, and I was just kind of,
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Speaker 3: you know, looking up at the scoreboard a few times
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Speaker 3: here and there and just going, oh gosh. But he
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Speaker 3: did believe, you know, he kept getting me in there,
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Speaker 3: and later in the season I started pitching those late
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Speaker 3: in scenarios again. So it it definitely turned around, which
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Speaker 3: was the positive part of the season. But obviously I'm
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Speaker 3: still you know, not too fin it like my overall season,
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Speaker 3: because I feel like I can avoid that that month
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Speaker 3: if I just recognize it sooner and you think, you know,
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Speaker 3: I've been in the league for over ten years now,
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Speaker 3: I would have probably figured that out by now.
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Speaker 2: But still learning, so that's.
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Speaker 5: Always always making adjustments. I want to go to that
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Speaker 5: game five I want to go to what you're watching.
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Speaker 5: You're watching your offense. And I joked about it on here,
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Speaker 5: like had the Tigers continued to play, I don't know
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Speaker 5: that you guys would have.
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Speaker 2: Scored a run.
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Speaker 5: Do you see a difference in hitters approaches when it
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Speaker 5: comes to extra innings in the playoffs, because normally you
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Speaker 5: get a run around second and it's like, well, you
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Speaker 5: know what, this is probably going to be done here,
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Speaker 5: oh blooper base it, Okay, we're going Do you see
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Speaker 5: a difference because when we got into extra innings in
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Speaker 5: that game, but when you guys, we I was just
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Speaker 5: watching the game. AJ was sleeping on the broadcast. Is
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Speaker 5: there like a are you sitting in the bullpen? Like,
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Speaker 5: go can I get a line drive from somebody? It's
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Speaker 5: like strike out, pop up, strikeout, pop up, ending over.
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Speaker 3: I mean you've been in the bullpen, you know, you know,
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Speaker 3: we we definitely have a lot of stress balls down there.
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Speaker 3: Maybe a couple of times I was like that, but
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Speaker 3: still just like sitting there just waiting, you know, trying
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Speaker 3: to enjoy it. I know a lot of the other
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Speaker 3: guys seemed a little bit stressed out. I mean, it
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Speaker 3: makes sense you're younger. I was like that when I
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Speaker 3: was young, in those playoff situations, like you're ever gonna score?
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Speaker 3: Like can we get it done? But you know, I
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Speaker 3: kept believing, you know, these guys are gonna get it.
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Speaker 3: But uh, you know, obviously we didn't push one across.
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Speaker 3: You know, the crazy amount of scenarios for both teams
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Speaker 3: to you know, push it across sooner.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, it was, Uh, it was definitely.
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Speaker 3: I could see the stress and it was getting bigger
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Speaker 3: and bigger, so it was mounting. So it sucks, it does,
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Speaker 3: but you know, it was a It was a hell
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Speaker 3: of a run. I wouldn't change anything again. It was
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Speaker 3: I had a blast with these guys.
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Speaker 1: Tommy Trek Skoubahl is in all likelihood going to win
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Speaker 1: his second consecutive American League sign award tonight. What did
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Speaker 1: you learn about he? Look, we all know he's great,
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Speaker 1: but what did you learn being a teammate of his,
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Speaker 1: watching him, being around him every day, especially compared to
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Speaker 1: some of the other greats you've been teammates with, like
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Speaker 1: the Garrett Coles.
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Speaker 5: Of the world.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, his involvement definitely with the younger guys, he's same
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Speaker 3: as I've seen, you know, with other side, young guys
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Speaker 3: around the league, you know, Kershaw, Garrett. I'm sure I've
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Speaker 3: played with quite a few others that I can't even
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Speaker 3: think of off the top of my head. But it
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Speaker 3: his involvement with the younger guys and just with the staff.
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Speaker 3: You know, they're always working with each other, you know,
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Speaker 3: kind of throwing things off each other, you know, back
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Speaker 3: and forth. But just his you know, every day he's
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Speaker 3: in there and doing the same, you know, the routine.
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Speaker 2: It's always routine.
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Speaker 3: I think it's that's one of the things we need
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Speaker 3: to teach younger kids today is that routine is a big,
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Speaker 3: big thing in baseball.
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Speaker 2: And I mean I have a routine.
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Speaker 3: I know, younger I try to teach the younger bullpen
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Speaker 3: guys to have a routine, you know, keep the same
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Speaker 3: thing every day. Every once in a while, you straight
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Speaker 3: from it. I mean there's nothing you can do about it.
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Speaker 3: You hit with like a quick phone call.
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Speaker 2: But overall, like scooball like, I just thought his routine
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Speaker 2: was pretty flawless.
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Speaker 3: So I mean, he just he kept it and obviously
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Speaker 3: you see him, he's phenomenal. It was incredible to watch
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Speaker 3: him all year. I mean, he's a big left. He
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Speaker 3: throwing one hundred. It was insane. So it's a disgusting
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Speaker 3: change up. So I get to admire that while I'm
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Speaker 3: out in the bullpen watching him pitch. So I truly
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Speaker 3: enjoyed watching him pitch.
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Speaker 5: All right, Well, your routine when the season ends is
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Speaker 5: to not pick up a baseball and not watch baseball.
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Speaker 5: Did you get to see any of the World Series
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Speaker 5: or did you not see any of them?
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Speaker 2: So I could admit that I probably watched Oh boy,
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Speaker 2: maybe one inning, two innings maybe, But how hard was it? Uh?
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Speaker 2: Pretty hard? I just was like, I don't even feel
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Speaker 2: like watching this.
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Speaker 3: Just walked, just went, and I was down here watching
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Speaker 3: it late night, and I said, nah, I'm done.
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't just play video games? Can you can? You?
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Speaker 5: Can you get into that a little bit because I
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Speaker 5: know the years that I lost. I don't know about
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Speaker 5: aj the years that I lost in the DS or
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Speaker 5: the CS. And I love baseball. I love watching baseball.
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Speaker 5: I love watching baseball as much as you love watching
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Speaker 5: all the other sports that you watch. But it was
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Speaker 5: so hard for me to watch it, not because I
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Speaker 5: was jealous, but because it was like, no, I should
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Speaker 5: have been there. And then I'm like, I'm exhausted from
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Speaker 5: what we did play and all that stuff. Can you
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Speaker 5: can you delve into that feeling at all since it's
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Speaker 5: still kind of fresh the World Series just ended.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, Cratzy.
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Speaker 3: You know you you you lose in a playoff series
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Speaker 3: like that, and it's just it's tough.
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Speaker 2: You know, obviously you don't want it to go that way.
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Speaker 3: But I come home, you know, I decompress, and like
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Speaker 3: you said, I I don't watch baseball. It's after Game five,
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Speaker 3: Like I said, I think I watched one two innings
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Speaker 3: of the World Series maybe, and uh, I just didn't
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Speaker 3: want to deal with it.
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Speaker 2: I didn't want to watch it.
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Speaker 3: I want to, Like you said, it's just stuff that
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Speaker 3: goes through your head, like we should be there. I
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Speaker 3: I know it, but you know, it's just one bad pitch,
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Speaker 3: one bad play in the infield, one bad play in
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Speaker 3: the outfield, you know, hit somebody something crazy, but it's
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Speaker 3: just and you start your mind starts racing. So it's
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Speaker 3: just kind of a I don't want to even think
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Speaker 3: about it. It's over, like there's nothing you can do now.
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Speaker 2: You know. It took me probably till the next day
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Speaker 2: to really you know it's over like.
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Speaker 3: That, I can't there's nothing I can do about it.
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Speaker 3: Like it's the game's over. It's done. So I like
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Speaker 3: come home watch football obviously that's it's football in the air,
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Speaker 3: and I come home. I just watch football and basketball
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Speaker 3: and having a grand time and then basically just getting
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Speaker 3: ran over by my kids.
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Speaker 2: Twenty four to seven.
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Speaker 4: In video games, you forgot the video games, forgot the
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Speaker 4: end the video games and the video so stuff. Forget
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Speaker 4: the most important thing. Now, you went through a little
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Speaker 4: bit of not an easy free agency last time you
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Speaker 4: were out there. Do you think because of that, you're
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Speaker 4: more like to sign the first deal that comes your
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Speaker 4: way or are you gonna rely on your agent and
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Speaker 4: try to wait it out and get the best deal?
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Speaker 4: Because spring training, right, you have to find a place
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Speaker 4: to live in spring training. You got to figure out
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Speaker 4: a place to live in the season. All those things
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Speaker 4: add up. Is it easier just if the first team
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Speaker 4: comes to you and whatever team that is, and says, hey, Tommy,
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Speaker 4: here's a one year deal, whatever number, and you're like, man,
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Speaker 4: maybe I should take this instead of wait, even though
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Speaker 4: it might be someone saying don't take it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely you know, I have discussions with my wife.
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Speaker 2: That's first. Is kind of.
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Speaker 3: Once you do get the offers, you kind of have
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Speaker 3: to weigh them. And I generally at this stage in
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Speaker 3: my career, you know, one thing has eluded me, and
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Speaker 3: my agent knows this is, you know, winning a world series.
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Speaker 2: So it's not and.
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Speaker 3: Everybody can't do it. I mean, you've done it. It's
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Speaker 3: definitely not easy. So that would be the last domino
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Speaker 3: that I would like to, you know, check off the
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Speaker 3: list before I right off. But it's definitely in my
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Speaker 3: mind it's definitely location. Location helps because obviously family, you know,
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Speaker 3: where the team's at. Money is obviously a factor, but
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Speaker 3: you know, there's always things that can change me. And
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Speaker 3: I feel like at this stage, I'm older now and
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Speaker 3: you know, times ticking, so I'm not I don't think
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Speaker 3: I'm just gonna jump on the first first thing thrown
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Speaker 3: out at me. I kind of want to just get
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Speaker 3: teams in there and see who's interested in kind of
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Speaker 3: pick and pry from there and see what they're doing
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Speaker 3: out in the market and all that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 3: So it's definitely like a I feel like there's a
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Speaker 3: lot of things going on for me at this stage
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Speaker 3: of my career, I just don't want to jump on anything.
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Speaker 3: And but I mean, obviously, if you don't, sometimes offers
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Speaker 3: go away. So I mean it's gonna it's gonna be
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Speaker 3: a it's gonna be interesting free agency this time around.
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Speaker 3: So I definitely we'll see at the end of the
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Speaker 3: month kind of how it starts. The weigh out, so
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Speaker 3: I haven't I know, I'm gonna have a discussion here
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Speaker 3: probably within the next few days with my agent just
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Speaker 3: to see what what what we got going here.
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Speaker 4: Okay, so you do pay attention a little bit, so
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Speaker 4: that's not true. You do pay attention a little.
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Speaker 2: With what I would staying with the free agency stuff,
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Speaker 2: I will.
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Speaker 3: Obviously O Okay, you know all that.
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Speaker 4: No Notre Dame losing again to the Coast Guard or
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Speaker 4: whoever else like you. But by my favorite part, by
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Speaker 4: the way, I know we we got to get but
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Speaker 4: my favorite part was the team. And I asked you
18:03
Speaker 4: this question, have you ever been to a game at
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Speaker 4: Notre Dame? And you said no? And I was like,
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Speaker 4: typical Notre Dame fan because I lived in Chicago for
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Speaker 4: years and they were, oh Notre Dame fan. They can't
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Speaker 4: name five players and they've never been to a game there,
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Speaker 4: so you're not a real fan. Now, let me get to.
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Speaker 2: I can name way more players on Florida than you.
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Speaker 4: Go, fine, but that's not true. That's not true. That's
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Speaker 4: one hundred percent not true. But what I want to
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Speaker 4: know is in the playoffs when we and we we
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Speaker 4: always get to meet with the managers and we have hints, right,
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Speaker 4: and he says, oh, when Tommy throws that one fastball
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Speaker 4: and he strikes him out comes in the dugout and
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Speaker 4: so see see see, so you're known for your change up,
18:36
Speaker 4: but you threw a couple of fastballs and you punch
18:38
Speaker 4: some tickets with these fastballs. Is it true that you
18:40
Speaker 4: come in the dugout and you say, see, guys, I
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Speaker 4: can't throw ninety five and I can't strike out guys
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Speaker 4: with my fastball.
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Speaker 3: I will say there's times, yes, this year I did
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Speaker 3: come in and kind of nudge them a little bit,
18:53
Speaker 3: all the you know, the coaches and you know players
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Speaker 3: and stuff.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, I.
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Speaker 3: Mean at the end of the year, you know, I
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Speaker 3: look back on it, I do wish that I threw
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Speaker 3: more fastballs. I think it just was playing so much
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Speaker 3: better this year that we could have utilized it way more.
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Speaker 3: I especially in that last outing. I feel like the
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Speaker 3: Crawford the single, I gave up the kind of like
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Speaker 3: blue pit to write. I don't know if it was
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Speaker 3: a blue or not. I maybe I have no idea,
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Speaker 3: but it just felt like, you know, the I threw
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Speaker 3: a change up almost off off the ground and he
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Speaker 3: sticks the bat out there and it's at the right field.
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Speaker 3: I feel like, you know, you buzz a fastball. He's
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Speaker 3: probably see you later. But you know, I felt like
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Speaker 3: that was a lot throughout the year I was giving
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Speaker 3: up kind of like those you know, ass out hits.
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Speaker 3: Guys are just reaching out there and just kind of
19:43
Speaker 3: like scooping it over the second basement into right field.
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Speaker 2: Stuff like that.
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Speaker 3: So I feel like those are the times that you know,
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Speaker 3: you come out and let the ninety five eat, even
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Speaker 3: if it was I mean, I think I got Bobby
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Speaker 3: earlier in the year on a ninety four just literally
19:59
Speaker 3: right down the middle, because I guess people just.
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Speaker 2: Just don't expect me to throw a fastball these days, So.
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Speaker 4: No, they don't, they don't. And and by the way,
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Speaker 4: I wasn't gonna bring up the last inning, so thanks
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Speaker 4: that you did it.
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Speaker 2: What are you gonna do?
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Speaker 4: I know, but it was it was. It was great
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Speaker 4: everything I know, but I was such a great game
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Speaker 4: and it was so exciting. And then I'm like, I
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Speaker 4: don't want to bring it up because you know the
20:24
Speaker 4: way it went. So you brought it up. I'm glad
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Speaker 4: you've moved on. But it was all of a series.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was. I mean that obviously.
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Speaker 3: I can't do anything about that any now, so I
20:34
Speaker 3: can talk about it obviously, But what are you gonna do?
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, Tommy, thank you so much for joining
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Speaker 1: us today. We really really appreciate it. And best of
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Speaker 1: luck and your free agency journey this offseason.
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Speaker 2: All right, thank you guys. Awesome, See you boys,