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New O’s 1B Pete Alonso joins FT · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Here we got Baltimore Orioles first baseman, Pete Alazzo, joining
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Speaker 1: us right now on foul Territory. Pete, great to have
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Speaker 1: you on. Congratulations on the deal. And how does the
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Speaker 1: introduction sound to you? It's weird or is it feeling nice?
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Speaker 2: Now?
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Speaker 3: No, it's it's it's awesome.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I'm just I'm just so happy, and I
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Speaker 4: mean it's it's gonna be it's gonna be a great
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Speaker 4: time in Birdland.
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Speaker 3: So I'm stoked.
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Speaker 5: Well, you got all the right words. You say it all.
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Speaker 5: Now it's birdland. Look at you. You like you fit
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Speaker 5: in like a short thumb.
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Speaker 2: I love that.
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Speaker 4: You want to talk about thumbs like you should show
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Speaker 4: the camera. Come on, show the show the camera, show them.
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Speaker 3: Don't start, I want to see.
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Speaker 6: Is it so gross? Pete?
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Speaker 2: You know my thumbs.
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Speaker 5: You know about my thumbs. Don't start?
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Speaker 2: All right?
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Speaker 3: All right, all right, we can start now.
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Speaker 6: Okay, let's go.
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Speaker 2: All right, so let's start. Let's start here.
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Speaker 1: I'll try and keep us on the rails at least
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Speaker 1: for a few minutes of this conversation, please, I'll try.
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Speaker 2: So.
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Speaker 1: Uh, when was the first conversation with Baltimore for you?
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Speaker 1: In terms of front office and everyone. I know you
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Speaker 1: had some time at the winter meetings, but can you
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Speaker 1: just take us through their recruiting process with you?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, So, to be honest, it kind of started early.
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Speaker 4: So it started right at the right at the GM
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Speaker 4: meetings where Mike sat down with my agent Scott and
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Speaker 4: and they pretty much were it's kind of like they
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Speaker 4: just wanted to gauge interest. And for me, I'm like,
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Speaker 4: they got a great talented young core and Camden's a
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Speaker 4: very very gorgeous park. It's a great place to play.
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Speaker 4: It's it's it's always for me, a very enjoyable place
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Speaker 4: to hit. So I'm like, yeah, I mean, if they're interested,
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Speaker 4: I'd love to hear what they had to say. But really,
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Speaker 4: for me, the really the couple points that really drove
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Speaker 4: home that stood out was it pretty much gave me
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Speaker 4: a whole blueprint. Uh, Michael ISAs and then I'll be
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Speaker 4: the manager, Like I just think for I just think
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Speaker 4: for for me, my game and what I can bring
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Speaker 4: to a team.
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Speaker 3: I feel like this is the perfect fit.
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Speaker 6: Did I mean, I mean, obviously Schwarber. Schwarber signs and
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Speaker 6: it comes out that you know, Baltimore was in on
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Speaker 6: Schwarber after he signed, Did you get phone calls? Then?
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Speaker 6: Was the official offer? Because we always hear from free
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Speaker 6: agents and well I love asking free agents this kind
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Speaker 6: of stuff like oh, hey Gauge and some interests, Hey,
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Speaker 6: how you doing, but they never want to actually give
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Speaker 6: the offer once Schwarber signed. Did is that when you
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Speaker 6: got the offer? Or was it out there before? And
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Speaker 6: it was one of a hey first one takes it,
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Speaker 6: first one gets.
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Speaker 4: It, so for it was actually interesting, So they got
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Speaker 4: an So they pretty mu much offered before before our
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Speaker 4: meeting and just to just to like just an initial offer.
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Speaker 4: I won't get into details, but they they were pretty
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Speaker 4: serious right off the rip, and like before even meeting,
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Speaker 4: they would wanted to show how serious we they were.
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Speaker 4: They're like, hey, we're doing this because we're we're actual,
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Speaker 4: like we really believe in you, and we're we want
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Speaker 4: you to really just like hear us out. And then
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Speaker 4: once like once it happened, I was like I was
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Speaker 4: just blown away with with the plan and I mean
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Speaker 4: with what they're trying to do, not just like like
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Speaker 4: the renovations that they're doing in the spring training complex,
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Speaker 4: but in the stadium, and but just from a just
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Speaker 4: on a philosophical level that I just think that they're like,
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Speaker 4: I really get their vision. I see it, and I'm
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Speaker 4: just really I'm just stoked to be a part of it.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I feel like it's a really exciting time,
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Speaker 4: uh to be a part of this organization, and I'm
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Speaker 4: I'm stoked.
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Speaker 5: So I'm I'm texting my son right now because I
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Speaker 5: forgot to tell him you were on the show, and
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Speaker 5: I said, you got any questions for Pete? And he said,
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Speaker 5: Blake and Bake and his boys at school. He said,
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Speaker 5: do you think you made the decision too early and
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Speaker 5: not wait for another offer from another team? I said,
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Speaker 5: And then I told him get back to your studies.
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Speaker 5: So we're good after that.
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Speaker 4: No, it's for honestly, it just for me. Everything it
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Speaker 4: just it just felt like it just felt like a glove.
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Speaker 4: Everything was natural. Everything was to me. This is after everything.
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Speaker 4: It's like, I have no regrets. Everything was just I
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Speaker 4: think it played out perfectly. I feel like I'm in
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Speaker 4: the perfect spot.
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Speaker 6: That's awesome to hear. That's awesome because you got five
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Speaker 6: years to do it. What was some of their pitch?
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Speaker 6: What was some of the that you can tell us obviously,
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Speaker 6: you can't tell us, Hey, they're going to go out
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Speaker 6: and get this, but what was some of their pitch
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Speaker 6: because we're never sitting in those in those meetings as
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Speaker 6: a free agent.
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Speaker 4: Well, to be honest, I just think, I mean, I
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Speaker 4: don't want to get into the nitty gritty because that
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Speaker 4: could be divulging a little too much, But to be honest,
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Speaker 4: I think, uh, I just really like I just feel
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Speaker 4: like everything is just aligned, like just from a connection standpoint,
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Speaker 4: like how how we view the game and and just
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Speaker 4: like the attention to detail in the group, the blueprint
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Speaker 4: in the direction and the commitment from it, not just
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Speaker 4: from the managerial coaching staff side that I'll be like
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Speaker 4: pretty much laid right out. And then Mike, Mike was
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Speaker 4: fantastic the whole way. And uh and all honestly too
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Speaker 4: from the new ownership grew. I think it's everything. Everybody's
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Speaker 4: on the same page, and it's just really it's and
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Speaker 4: for for me, like they're like, hey, like we not
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Speaker 4: just like your talent, your skill set, but what you
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Speaker 4: bring on and off the field could be a tremendous
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Speaker 4: help like not just the player and helping us win games.
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Speaker 4: But like I learned the some incredible leadership skills from
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Speaker 4: mister Fray helping out Phrasers helped me out. And I
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Speaker 4: feel like for them, they're like, hey, like you've played
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Speaker 4: in some pretty high intensity ball games, You've have playoff experience,
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Speaker 4: and you know how to be a professional, and like,
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Speaker 4: not only do we expect you to help like help
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Speaker 4: win with your own contributions, but there are some guys
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Speaker 4: in this team that could help use your guidance and
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Speaker 4: we think culturally are a huge fit for us, and
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Speaker 4: and and for me, it's like like how and again
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Speaker 4: there's oops, sorry almost dropped you, but again, like it
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Speaker 4: is like it just felt really I don't know, it's
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Speaker 4: like for them to really be fully committed and see
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Speaker 4: not just the not just the stuff production wise, but
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Speaker 4: to see what and recognize what I do and how
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Speaker 4: I can help a clubhouse out in that way too.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I'm just really I'm very appreciative of that.
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Speaker 4: And and I'm gonna I'm gonna give everything I got
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Speaker 4: every day.
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Speaker 5: I know you wrote a nice message to the fans.
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Speaker 5: I know how articulate you are, and you're you're you
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Speaker 5: got a smart you're very smart man, and it was
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Speaker 5: very heartfelt. It was beautiful. Let me ask you this though,
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Speaker 5: at the end of the day, forget about the fans
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Speaker 5: talk about like I felt like the Mets really didn't
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Speaker 5: get that much involved with you this offseason, like that
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Speaker 5: that had the I mean home run king over there,
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Speaker 5: you did your job and the Mets fans loved you.
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Speaker 5: That had to hurt a little bit.
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Speaker 4: No, I'm todd to be honest, buddy, Like, for me,
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Speaker 4: it's just I I just it's it's okay because I
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Speaker 4: know I gave everything I had every single day.
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Speaker 3: I'm appreciative of it.
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Speaker 4: But I mean, at the end of the day, it's
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Speaker 4: it's for me, I'm just I'm just happy where this
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Speaker 4: is where not just where I'm going to be playing,
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Speaker 4: but where like for me as a for me like
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Speaker 4: this is where my family's gonna be.
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Speaker 3: And they welcomed us with open arms.
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Speaker 4: And that's why for me, it's like I feel like
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Speaker 4: I'm in the I feel like I'm in the right place, uh,
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Speaker 4: And I feel like we as a family are in
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Speaker 4: the right place. And the Orioles like they they have
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Speaker 4: treat like they treated us excellent the whole way. And
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Speaker 4: it's not that the Mets didn't I'm I'm I'm just
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Speaker 4: very like blessed, and I feel like we're in the
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Speaker 4: right again. We're in the right spot. And how could
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Speaker 4: I be salty over that?
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Speaker 6: When did you realize that you weren't going back to
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Speaker 6: the Mets? Was it last off season? Was it this
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Speaker 6: off season? Was it the end of the season.
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Speaker 4: I mean it was like, I mean, it was pretty
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Speaker 4: much when it's pretty much when like like when it
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Speaker 4: came down to like the true negotiating point, and it's like,
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Speaker 4: all right, they're just it's just it's just not going
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Speaker 4: to happen. And and that for me, it's like and
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Speaker 4: for me it's like I I gave everything I have
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Speaker 4: and and I always do, you know, and and it's
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Speaker 4: I just don't take it personal because at the end
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Speaker 4: of the day, it's it's there, it's their philosophy, it's
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Speaker 4: their business decision, and and uh, I'm in a place
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Speaker 4: that where they they see me in their future and
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Speaker 4: in their presence. So I'm I'm stoked to be there
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Speaker 4: and I can't wait to win ball games for the
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Speaker 4: Baltimore Oils.
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Speaker 6: Can you compare your twenty four and twenty five season
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Speaker 6: in the sense of, like how you felt because some
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Speaker 6: people say, you look at the numbers, well, you know,
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Speaker 6: it's a free agent year. Some things got You always
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Speaker 6: are out there playing. You're always the guy who, just
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Speaker 6: like you said, you're always giving everything you have. So
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Speaker 6: that's never that's never in question. Can you talk about
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Speaker 6: how you felt in those two years going through you know,
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Speaker 6: I'm a free agent in twenty four. I've done this
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Speaker 6: before in twenty five, and then you go out and
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Speaker 6: essentially have a career year besides your rookie year like
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Speaker 6: you did in twenty five.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of it didn't really have anything to
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Speaker 4: do with that. A lot of it had to do
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Speaker 4: with really deep diving into kind of like my process
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Speaker 4: because for me, like I did a I totally spearheaded,
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Speaker 4: like the like the biomechanical side of hitting and understanding
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Speaker 4: more of how my body worked, and I pretty much
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Speaker 4: shifted my entire program and basically it helped me understand
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Speaker 4: and know how to twist the dials day to day,
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Speaker 4: not just like swing feels, body feels, but also like
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Speaker 4: from a scouting perspective too. So for me, I think
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Speaker 4: that was the adjustment. And the exciting thing is is
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Speaker 4: that twenty five was the first year and me on
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Speaker 4: my kind of like new program, and for me, I'm
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Speaker 4: just really excited to keep forging down that path. And
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Speaker 4: it's not like things weren't wrong in twenty four. I mean,
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Speaker 4: things were okay, But once I got to the playoffs
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Speaker 4: in twenty four, I was like, man, I want to
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Speaker 4: feel like this every day. How can I replicate it?
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Speaker 4: How can I replicate not just this feeling, but how
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Speaker 4: can I replicate the mechanics and get consistent in those
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Speaker 4: and not deviate. There's got to be some sort of
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Speaker 4: like workouts, activations, treatment for me to feel that way.
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Speaker 4: And I kind of found a process and the off
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Speaker 4: season going into twenty five and pretty much stuck to
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Speaker 4: it the whole year.
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Speaker 3: And I feel like I have a.
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Speaker 4: Great not just awareness but direction of how to attack
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Speaker 4: each day.
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Speaker 3: Dude, that's that's salad.
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Speaker 5: And I think year in and year out, you know
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Speaker 5: when I tell you how smart you are, that grew
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Speaker 5: and grew as you saw more pitching, as you got developed,
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Speaker 5: and you understand everything else. You have a new baby boy, man,
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Speaker 5: congratulations first and foremost. I think that's the way with
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Speaker 5: everything in perspective, talk about being you know, father now
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Speaker 5: to a young boy, and you know you got at
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Speaker 5: least five years in Baltimore to raise him up and
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Speaker 5: show him the ropes over there.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I honestly, I'm I mean, he's three months and
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Speaker 4: it's really it's really a treat. But man, I can't
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Speaker 4: wait till he starts walking, running around, and especially when
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Speaker 4: he gets old enough to start swinging the bat around.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 4: I mean I always watched you Todd, like with in
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Speaker 4: a bunch of other guys, like bring their kids in,
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Speaker 4: like get to hip balls off the tee after the
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Speaker 4: game and just kind of do all that fun stuff
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Speaker 4: while you're still in your uniform. I'm visualizing that and
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Speaker 4: seeing it, like I don't know, like it's gonna be
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Speaker 4: really special to have those moments when he gets older
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Speaker 4: and even now, like it's just it's it's really such
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Speaker 4: a treat.
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Speaker 5: Good.
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Speaker 6: I love to hear the end part of that there,
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Speaker 6: because don't ever wish it forward. If you ever seen
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Speaker 6: the movie Click where he just clicks it all forward,
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Speaker 6: don't do like he's going to be at the field,
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Speaker 6: he's going to be pooping his pants at the park.
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Speaker 6: Like it'll be great, Like you'll have those times right now.
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Speaker 6: Enjoy the fact that that little nugget doesn't move anywhere.
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Speaker 6: That's my only parent parental advice.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, because when they start getting up and moving around,
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Speaker 4: that's when you got to play zone defense.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure of it.
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Speaker 6: Yes, what if some of your goals you're a guy
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Speaker 6: that has an opportunity to hit five hundred home runs
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Speaker 6: and I know you're going to say the team, Oh,
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Speaker 6: the team, we want to win the World Series. I
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Speaker 6: get that. Or you wouldn't be really in this if
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Speaker 6: it wasn't for the team stuff. Your personal goals. You're
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Speaker 6: going to spend five years in Baltimore. What kind of
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Speaker 6: personal goals are their numbers? Are there things besides like
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Speaker 6: games play that you like, are really zoned in and
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Speaker 6: locked in on the knowing the fact that you're going
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Speaker 6: to be there for five years.
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Speaker 4: I mean it's a there's a comfort in that. But
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Speaker 4: despite and this is the thing, like every year, regardless
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Speaker 4: of contracts, like situation like sucking sucks, and you want
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Speaker 4: to play the best of your ability every year, whether
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Speaker 4: it's free agent or you're going in ARB or you're
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Speaker 4: trying to hold on and hold on and stay in
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Speaker 4: the big leagues. It doesn't matter. You still want to
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Speaker 4: play your best every year. That's just the competitive nature
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Speaker 4: of it. And like personally, yeah, like I think for me,
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Speaker 4: like it's I know, them a long ways away from
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Speaker 4: like those like big numbers, but cratsy to be honest,
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Speaker 4: like my my goals to play one sixty two every year,
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Speaker 4: uh and be and or get close to it, or
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Speaker 4: be as healthy as I can so to give myself
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Speaker 4: an opportunity to to chase those I mean to chase
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Speaker 4: those like things later on in the career. It's like
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Speaker 4: right now, I'd like to think I'm in the kind
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Speaker 4: of like the kind of the the center, the middle
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Speaker 4: or the meat of my career, and I want to
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Speaker 4: be able to like just out outlast and endure and
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Speaker 4: and really just see how long I can play. And
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Speaker 4: it's not just like it's not just from a year
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Speaker 4: to year thing, but it's also like how long age wise,
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Speaker 4: Like I'd love to be. I'd love to be like yeah,
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Speaker 4: like forty and going into and going into my last
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Speaker 4: big league season. You know, like that'd be great, but
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Speaker 4: you got to you gotta earn it, not just not
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Speaker 4: just perform, but you have to stay healthy.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. My my question you next is, I know you
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Speaker 5: have all these maybe designs and stuff going on with
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Speaker 5: this new team. You have any new cleat or shoe
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Speaker 5: or anything coming up. I feel like it's time to
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Speaker 5: get things going here with you. Man with the Polar Bear.
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Speaker 4: No, I I actually I actually started this regardless. I
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Speaker 4: wanted to have cleats that were Northern Light themed because
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Speaker 4: in the North Polars Polar Bears, and I wanted to
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Speaker 4: I wanted to keep it on on theme and on brand.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Todd.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so we're doing we're doing Northern Light. Yeah, we're
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Speaker 4: doing Northern Light team cleats this year.
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Speaker 5: Beautiful, beautiful. I'll tell I'll tell Blake He'll be waiting
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Speaker 5: for a pair for the season to come up this
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Speaker 5: year and we'll be we'll be even.
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Speaker 2: How about that?
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Speaker 3: Even Stevens.
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Speaker 6: Pete, you don't know him, You don't know him anything,
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Speaker 6: don't don't don't let us weird like.
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Speaker 4: No, it's not for him, it's it's for it's for Blakester.
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Speaker 4: So anything for Blakester.
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Speaker 6: Okay, Okay, that's fair, that's fair. Who are you looking
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Speaker 6: forward to getting into camp seeing? Is there one guy
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Speaker 6: on the Orioles that you're like, Man, I've kind of
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Speaker 6: watched this guy for a little while. I kind of
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Speaker 6: want to see what what he's like day in and
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Speaker 6: day out.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean obviously, I mean obviously there's some great
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Speaker 4: young talent, I mean Gunner Gunner Rakes. But what I'm
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Speaker 4: really interested is I want to see Tyler O'Neill's workout,
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Speaker 4: workout regime. Okay, I mean that's that's behind the scenes,
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Speaker 4: that's behind the scenes, no one sees it.
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Speaker 3: But I just want to.
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Speaker 4: I just want to watch that guy work out, just
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Speaker 4: just one time, just see what he does.
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Speaker 6: Are you gonna are you gonna keep up with them? Like?
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Speaker 6: Are you because I heard he's a one twenty five
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Speaker 6: dumbbell press guy, Like are you that?
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Speaker 3: I want to see it?
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Speaker 6: Are you there? Though? But are you going to be
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Speaker 6: able to lift with him? Because my strongest mammals on earth?
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Speaker 4: That's fine, But I just want to I mean again,
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Speaker 4: I just want to be a spectator.
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Speaker 6: First shirt on or shirt off? What's you're like?
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Speaker 3: So the list?
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Speaker 4: The list, it will be So I I sole I
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Speaker 4: stole some swag from Harrison Vader. So it's cut sleeves
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Speaker 4: and then cropped like the old like the old football
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Speaker 4: to a day, the to a day under that go
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Speaker 4: under the pets.
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Speaker 6: Okay, okay, that's bad from me, Pete before you want
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Speaker 6: to go Scotty. You got a baseball one mind?
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Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, Well this is celebration wise, so I mean,
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Speaker 1: you've probably seen what the Orioles do and I don't
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Speaker 1: know if they'll run it back again, but you know
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Speaker 1: they're they're all drinking from the funnel stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: So it's kind of a two part question like have
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Speaker 1: you seen what they do? And will you bring someone
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Speaker 1: that you know brings something to the table there.
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Speaker 2: But also it felt like two years ago the.
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Speaker 1: Mets had as Krafts calls them, tons of gimmicks, but
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Speaker 1: it kind of worked like you guys, you guys had magic,
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Speaker 1: and then last year guys didn't have it. So did
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Speaker 1: you learn anything from the experience of gimmicks where it's
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Speaker 1: like we have Mandy on the show all the time,
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Speaker 1: so he's like, oh that was too, Like that was
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Speaker 1: fine for that one time, and it's so many so
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Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, so maybe there's a space between
18:10
Speaker 1: like eight gimmicks and zero gimmicks that actually works and
18:13
Speaker 1: it's a winning formula.
18:18
Speaker 4: You just got to find something that works it's like
18:19
Speaker 4: all right, I it's like, Okay, this pair of batting
18:22
Speaker 4: gloves I wined out, so it's the batting glove's fault
18:26
Speaker 4: that the defender was there. So I'm just going to
18:28
Speaker 4: get another color pair and it'll work that time. It's
18:31
Speaker 4: like you just don't know what's going to work until
18:33
Speaker 4: until it happens. Or it's like, oh, I tied my
18:35
Speaker 4: right shoe today, that's why, that's why I swung at
18:37
Speaker 4: three balls in the dirt, or it's like.
18:39
Speaker 3: Oh, you know what I had.
18:40
Speaker 6: I don't know.
18:41
Speaker 4: I had eggs today and I had three hits. It's
18:44
Speaker 4: the eggs that did it, you know. It's it's honestly,
18:47
Speaker 4: there's it doesn't matter whatever method of the madness.
18:50
Speaker 3: It's like you just gotta.
18:51
Speaker 4: Find what works, whether it's whether it's a lot or
18:54
Speaker 4: a little, and it's it's case dependent.
18:57
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's no such thing as a bad gimmick. If
18:59
Speaker 6: you're getting knocks and you're getting w's.
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Speaker 4: Right one like again, like it's a I mean, it's
19:06
Speaker 4: it's only cool.
19:07
Speaker 3: It's only cool if it works.
19:09
Speaker 6: That's fair, that's fair, and no such thing as a
19:11
Speaker 6: bad hit. I like that, all right, I got one
19:13
Speaker 6: hard hitting Mets question, and I got one fun what
19:15
Speaker 6: they end for you. But you've seen the fact that
19:19
Speaker 6: they haven't brought that they traded Anmo, they didn't bring
19:21
Speaker 6: Diaz Edwin back. You're not back. Did you foresee that
19:26
Speaker 6: coming last year? How the season ended, or is it
19:30
Speaker 6: something that you've been surprised about.
19:34
Speaker 4: I mean, that's just that's it's kind of like a
19:36
Speaker 4: philosophical thing where it's like, hey, that's just what they
19:39
Speaker 4: wanted to do. But if you think on it, like
19:42
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five, it just it just.
19:44
Speaker 3: Came down a one game.
19:46
Speaker 4: You know, it came down to one game, and there
19:49
Speaker 4: was a ton of guys hurt where I feel like
19:51
Speaker 4: if they weren't that would have put us in a
19:53
Speaker 4: better situation. And you can't control injuries, like we had
19:57
Speaker 4: a ton of arms that that weren't necessarily healthy, and
20:02
Speaker 4: it's just you know what that that plagued us.
20:04
Speaker 3: And and again is like, uh is a one is
20:08
Speaker 3: a one is a one game? No?
20:11
Speaker 4: Not in the playoff situation, where I feel like maybe
20:14
Speaker 4: if it was like I don't know, but again, I
20:17
Speaker 4: don't want to go down that rabbit hole because it's
20:20
Speaker 4: again that's I it's not my choice, not my decision.
20:24
Speaker 1: Yep, Hey, you might have a decision for the World
20:28
Speaker 1: Baseball Classic. I haven't heard about you yet. I know
20:30
Speaker 1: you played on the twenty three team. I remember Mookie
20:32
Speaker 1: Betts was telling us how you had the best one liners,
20:34
Speaker 1: like you were the funniest guy on the team, and
20:36
Speaker 1: there were a lot of funny guys. So in addition
20:38
Speaker 1: to what you can bring on the field and USA
20:41
Speaker 1: trying to get a title back and all those pitchers joining,
20:44
Speaker 1: do you have any news, had there been any conversations.
20:47
Speaker 1: A lot of the other spots are filling up, but
20:48
Speaker 1: first base is looking a little bit open.
20:51
Speaker 4: I mean I haven't really, I really haven't had any cover.
20:56
Speaker 4: I mean it was really brief with d Ro, like
20:58
Speaker 4: is during the year last year. Because yeah, I mean,
21:01
Speaker 4: I'd love to do it. I mean it's I mean,
21:03
Speaker 4: it's a it's a sick tournament. It's a great event.
21:06
Speaker 4: I think it's phenomenal for the sport. But yeah, they
21:10
Speaker 4: haven't I mean that I haven't heard anything, but again,
21:13
Speaker 4: love to do it. So yeah, Doro, if you want
21:15
Speaker 4: to give me a call, it's fine, that'd be great.
21:19
Speaker 2: Wow, first base wide open. D Ro call him.
21:22
Speaker 6: I'm surprised you have your Did you change your number?
21:25
Speaker 6: Because I know somebody changed their number last offseason, but
21:28
Speaker 6: maybe they don't have your new number.
21:30
Speaker 3: That's what it is that you know. That's probably right, Kratsy,
21:34
Speaker 3: it's probably right.
21:35
Speaker 1: If they watch this, I promise you that, so you
21:37
Speaker 1: might get a phone call. But Krat's fenished strong for.
21:40
Speaker 6: Us, all right, a strong one. But you went to
21:43
Speaker 6: Florida Orange, went to the Mets Orange. How on earth
21:49
Speaker 6: can you play Let's see, you're gonna be thirty five?
21:52
Speaker 6: How can you play the last seventeen years in orange?
21:57
Speaker 6: Some people go never, they never play an orange and
21:59
Speaker 6: they look terrible and orange? How can you play in
22:03
Speaker 6: orange for seventeen straight years?
22:06
Speaker 5: You know what?
22:07
Speaker 4: The baseball gods they had, Like, that's just the way
22:10
Speaker 4: that the stars of a line, you know, I mean
22:12
Speaker 4: the baseball gods.
22:13
Speaker 3: That's just my journey and path.
22:16
Speaker 4: Like, all right, you're gonna wear orange for a really
22:19
Speaker 4: long time and that's fine, and that's okay.
22:23
Speaker 6: Love it.
22:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, Hey, it's great. It's easy.
22:26
Speaker 1: You can just stick to one color for everything that
22:28
Speaker 1: you have around life. You know, maybe if you've got
22:31
Speaker 1: the man cave that you're decorating. We know what color
22:33
Speaker 1: is going to be. The color scheme. It makes life
22:36
Speaker 1: really easy on that front.
22:38
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean orange. It's it's a fun color.
22:43
Speaker 4: And yeah, I mean it's just it just happens to
22:47
Speaker 4: be a part of my uniform.
22:48
Speaker 6: Yeah. Hey, one last thing, let's give four thumbs up
22:53
Speaker 6: for the Orioles, all of us, all four of us
22:56
Speaker 6: at one time.
22:57
Speaker 3: It.
22:59
Speaker 1: Come on, this is how you're to home run kids
23:01
Speaker 1: without actually holding the bat. Come on, Todd, home run
23:07
Speaker 1: without the bat. I'm gotta have one of those. Come on,
23:10
Speaker 1: show us your superpower. Pete said, he's only coming on
23:14
Speaker 1: if you show him a thumb on the way out.
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Speaker 5: Number one.
23:18
Speaker 2: We're number one. Oh wow wow. Okay, we'll save it
23:22
Speaker 2: for the.
23:24
Speaker 5: Wait to wait to wait till I see you again.
23:26
Speaker 2: Cratzy.
23:28
Speaker 3: I love, I love. It's good heat. It's such good heat.
23:31
Speaker 3: I love it. Pete.
23:34
Speaker 2: Awesome to have you on here. Thank you for joining us.
23:36
Speaker 1: We'll try and get Todd to give you a thumbs
23:38
Speaker 1: up for the next conversation. Have a great holiday and
23:41
Speaker 1: we'll talk to you.
23:41
Speaker 2: We'll see you in spring.
23:43
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, Happy holidays, guys, Happy New Year's and
23:46
Speaker 4: we'll see it camp.
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Speaker 1: Thank you sounds good that I appreciate you.