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Ryan O’Hearn on Pirates' Success, Paul Skenes & Viral Traffic Cone Celebration with Mookie _ On Base · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to All and basse.
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  Speaker 2: I'm your host, Bookie Bets, and today we have a
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five All Star Empowers first baseman and outfielder
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  Speaker 2: Ryan or Her.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing, brother, I'm doing good man. Thanks for
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  Speaker 1: having me on. Thanks for coming on.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday you said you don't really do podcasts, so.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah you came on this one. So thanks for
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  Speaker 1: coming on. Bro, Mookie Best asked you to me on
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  Speaker 1: this podcast. You can't say no.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Bro, Thank you sir. All right, before we
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  Speaker 2: get started, we play our first game. It's called make
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  Speaker 2: the Call. I think the best is three out of five.
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  Speaker 2: I want to say three out of five is the best.
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  Speaker 2: So what happens is we're going to show a pitch
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  Speaker 2: on here at ABS. First of all, before we get
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  Speaker 2: Do you like the ABS?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I do. I like the challenge system. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think the challenge system has been has been really good.
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  Speaker 2: It keeps things fair. I mean, I know, I got
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  Speaker 2: some guys are like, you know, it misses by a
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  Speaker 2: tenth of an injury, hits by a tenth bench.
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  Speaker 1: But I think that's the beauty of.
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  Speaker 3: It, right, And I liked that there's like I think
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  Speaker 3: two challenges is perfect, yeah, because if it is less,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it would be you don't want to use
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  Speaker 3: one and you're done.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, it can't be unlimited. So I think, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think it's perfect. Yeah. All right, so you made the call,
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  Speaker 1: and if you miss, I'm a context in. No, you
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  Speaker 1: don't have a good unlocked.
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  Speaker 2: If you miss, you got to answer one of these
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  Speaker 2: questions over here, right, all right.
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  Speaker 1: That's a ball a ball, Okay, I think it's down. No,
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  Speaker 1: that was a quick trigger too. You say you didn't
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  Speaker 1: have your context in, so I mean I was.
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  Speaker 3: Just going off an initial reaction. Let's see, what is
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  Speaker 3: the worst pitch you've ever swung at?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? Yeah, okay, So.
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  Speaker 3: I want to say it was like twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe I swung at the I struck out on the
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  Speaker 3: highest pitch of the season for anyone to strike out.
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  Speaker 1: What happened? It was swinging.
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  Speaker 3: It was Tyler Wells in when I was with Kansas
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  Speaker 3: City in Baltimore. Tyler Wells throws like a really like hoppy,
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  Speaker 3: forcing fastball and then a big curveball at the time,
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  Speaker 3: and I got to two strikes, you know, and I
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  Speaker 3: saw it startway up there, and I was like man,
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  Speaker 3: that's got to be the curveball.
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  Speaker 1: Not the curveball. And it was you saw my head
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  Speaker 1: when you swung at it where you're like, oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 3: I was just laughing because I was like, well, that's
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  Speaker 3: gonna look so bad on camera.
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  Speaker 1: You know. All right, let's go to pitch two. Pitch two,
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  Speaker 1: that's a strike. Yep. I was incorrect on that one.
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  Speaker 1: You were incorrect. How many challenges have you had have
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  Speaker 1: you done this year? Probably five? Four or five? And
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  Speaker 1: how is your success right?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's been pretty good. I think it's like
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  Speaker 3: I'm like three for five maybe, Oh that's pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty I feel like I've I feel like
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  Speaker 2: a three for five, I mean, fifty percent is probably
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  Speaker 2: pretty average.
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  Speaker 3: I burned, like I feel bad when I burned them
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  Speaker 3: earn Yeah, you know, first inning.
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't feel good.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I would never challenge unless it's like egregious.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, not challenge. No.
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  Speaker 2: I try to leave it for the catchers because they,
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  Speaker 2: you know, are pitching the pitching staff.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta leave one for Ouna. You know, I was
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  Speaker 1: gonna burn one. How's his success rate? Is he good?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll check the table. Okay, let's go
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  Speaker 1: pitch three. One for two. By the way, m hm oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's got to be down. It's got to be got
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  Speaker 1: to be down. Carson Kelly is pretty good, but m
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  Speaker 1: two for three. I'll take it.
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  Speaker 2: Two for three, okay, Okay, you got two more pitches
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  Speaker 2: to break the record for best. Make the call, guy,
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  Speaker 2: I gotta go two for two the next you need
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  Speaker 2: to go two for two yet, because the best is
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  Speaker 2: three for five.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Pitch four, Mmm, I think that's in. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: with that angle, you can't change it. You can't change it,
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  Speaker 1: all right, that's in it. That's lucky. That's probably lucky.
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  Speaker 1: It's all right, it's okay. We go. Logan a hoppy heat.
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  Speaker 1: He's pretty good at the challenge system too. Let's see.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh, I don't know on that one. I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna say strike. I think that's a strike.
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  Speaker 1: My gosh, No, you tied it, bro, all right, I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you three for five. It seems like that's the
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  Speaker 1: uh see what we got here? The norm around here.
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  Speaker 1: You've been traded before. What's the craziest trade story you've
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  Speaker 1: ever heard? You know?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe I think those trades that when a guy's playing
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  Speaker 3: the team he gets traded to, you know, he gets
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  Speaker 3: tests to walk over across the stadium like that would
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  Speaker 3: be That would be wild.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like that would be really awkward. That would
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  Speaker 1: be weird. You know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been traded in season before at the deadline,
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  Speaker 3: so like everybody knows it's coming and you show up
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  Speaker 3: and they're kind of like waiting for you. But like
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  Speaker 3: a random trade in the middle of the season where
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  Speaker 3: you go from one dug out to the other, I
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  Speaker 3: think would be the weirdest.
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  Speaker 1: I think that would be.
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  Speaker 3: I remember Bennie when Ben and Tenny got traded from
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  Speaker 3: Kansas City to New York.
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  Speaker 1: We were in New York and that was he.
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  Speaker 3: Was like he he just walked over and he was like, dude,
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  Speaker 3: this is so weird.
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  Speaker 2: How we're going to talk about that? But that's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be later, all right. So I want to get get
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  Speaker 2: it started into it. Pirates obviously been playing great. You
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  Speaker 2: guys have a really young team as well. How's the
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  Speaker 2: vibe everything? Good man, The ViBe's been great.
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  Speaker 3: You know, like you said, we got a young team
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  Speaker 3: and everybody, you know, media, everybody wants to talk about
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  Speaker 3: like all the last few years and now it's been
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  Speaker 3: rough and all this stuff, but man, like the ViBe's
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  Speaker 3: been awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Ever since you came over. Do you feel like you're
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  Speaker 1: a vet? I do?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I do. I mean, I'm I'm the
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  Speaker 3: second oldest guy on the team, which is.
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  Speaker 1: Crazy, which is crazy, and you're thirty two.
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  Speaker 3: I'm thirty two. Yeah, I'll be thirty three in July.
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  Speaker 3: I don't feel like that old.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's not. That's just where the game is now.
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  Speaker 2: And like I said, you got you guys got so
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  Speaker 2: many young guys coming up contributing each and every day.
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  Speaker 2: What do you What are you tell them? What are
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  Speaker 2: you talk to him about? Do they did they come
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  Speaker 2: to you for questions or help or whatever?
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  Speaker 3: No, they do, I mean they you know, it's all
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  Speaker 3: kinds of stuff. But man, just uh, it's supposed to
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  Speaker 3: be fun. Yeah, that's kind of the main thing that
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  Speaker 3: I tell them. Like, you know, I I think as
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  Speaker 3: a young player, like you want to you want to
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  Speaker 3: be a people pleaser, you know, like you want the
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  Speaker 3: front office, the coaching staff, the fans, like you want
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  Speaker 3: everyone to love you, and you want to look good
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  Speaker 3: and like all this stuff. And I'm like, man, it's
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  Speaker 3: gonna look good, it's gonna be right, and you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: play the best when.
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  Speaker 1: You're having fun, right, Yeah, I agree, And it took
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  Speaker 1: me a long time to figure that out. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, well, how does this compare to when you
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  Speaker 2: were with the Orioles, you had a bunch of young guys.
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  Speaker 2: How does this compare to to that? This team compared
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  Speaker 2: to that, I.
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  Speaker 1: Would say it's similar.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's a lot of young guys that are
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  Speaker 3: like first round picks that are like, you know, all
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  Speaker 3: this like super heralda.
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  Speaker 1: They're supposed to be so.
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  Speaker 3: Good, and then they get to the big leagues and
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  Speaker 3: it's you know, they realize how hard it is. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and it's and also it's every day, like you're getting
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  Speaker 3: the every day dog on the mound every day, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and the best defenders in the world every day and
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  Speaker 3: all this stuff. So it's similar. I would say, like
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  Speaker 3: the talent is crazy. These guys, you know, they're you know,
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  Speaker 3: Grip Connor is a great example. I mean he's twenty
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  Speaker 3: years old. Man, he hits the ball one hundred and
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  Speaker 3: fifteen miles an hour, He runs like thirty feet percent,
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  Speaker 3: you know what. All of his tools are just crazy.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like I'm trying to get in it. I'm like, man,
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  Speaker 3: you are so good. Yeah if if anything, like just
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  Speaker 3: like slow it down a little bit, you know, let
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  Speaker 3: it come to you, and.
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  Speaker 1: Then you got every picture throwing a hundred come. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's unreal.
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  Speaker 3: That is the most insane difference I've seen in the
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  Speaker 3: game over the last few years. Like, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: game could be ten to nothing in the mop up guy, mop.
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  Speaker 1: Up guy, he's throwing a hundred. Yeah, he's throwing a hundred.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean, I don't even know how you get
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  Speaker 2: back they're throwing a hundred, But I mean it is
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  Speaker 2: what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So you've gotten to play in some beautiful parks as well,
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  Speaker 2: with the Kansas City, Baltimore and San Diego and P
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  Speaker 2: and C. Now which which not team, but of the
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  Speaker 2: of those ballparks would be your favorite one, Well.
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  Speaker 1: It's not Kansas City. Well it's beautiful, yeah, but it's
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  Speaker 1: defencing now.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I flew out to the track one too
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  Speaker 2: many times. Okay, kat the city is out.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 3: That's a hard one because those other three, you know, Camden, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: San Diego, Petco, Peco and P and CRE are just
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  Speaker 3: like top five. Probably for a lot of people. I
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  Speaker 3: would say probably Peco.
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  Speaker 1: Peco.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I actually really love playing in Peco, and I
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  Speaker 2: love P and C as well.
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  Speaker 1: Same. Yes, that's not taking anything away that No, No,
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  Speaker 1: of course PC.
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  Speaker 2: But Peco is like, it's just a beautiful stadium, bro,
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  Speaker 2: it's a beautiful state.
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  Speaker 1: Is like the fans, it's like the greenest grass I've
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  Speaker 1: ever seen. You know, it's just a well, there's perfect
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  Speaker 1: every day stage.
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  Speaker 3: There's like thirty more thousand people behind right center and
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  Speaker 3: the gall It's just a great atmosphere.
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  Speaker 2: Man, have you ever been a part of a moment
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  Speaker 2: kind of like this, Johnny you remember in Johnny Kuito
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  Speaker 2: in twenty thirteen or the crowd was screaming his name.
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  Speaker 1: We got it, we got it pulled up as well.
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  Speaker 1: That's cool.
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  Speaker 2: Well this is a great I mean in at the
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  Speaker 2: rate you guys are going, this is coming.
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  Speaker 3: This is the goal right here, this is the atmosphere
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  Speaker 3: we want to play in. I mean, there's nothing like
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  Speaker 3: playoff baseball.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing like playoff baseball. Oh well we left seven
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  Speaker 1: field factic. That's not.
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  Speaker 2: Moments like that, Like what's have you been a part
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  Speaker 2: of any moments like that in San Diego.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you had to you're you're.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I've had some big homers, some big moments,
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  Speaker 3: but nothing nothing.
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  Speaker 1: To that extent. You know, I've only hit singles in
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. What about the moments for other people or whatever?
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  Speaker 3: Like I hit the ball in twenty four in the
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  Speaker 3: playoffs that if it wasn't for the Great Wall of
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  Speaker 3: Baltimore that year would have been a home Oh.
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  Speaker 1: I think about that and the Great Wall of Baltimore.
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  Speaker 1: That was definitely the Great Wall of Baltimore. That. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: that completely changed that field?
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  Speaker 3: Man?
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  Speaker 1: Did they completely changed it? Did they ever say why
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  Speaker 1: they did that?
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  Speaker 3: Apparently because you know, the Yankees got massive right handed hitters,
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  Speaker 3: so they tried to do That's like what everyone kind
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  Speaker 3: of thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: What they were saying. I mean, well, hey, look listen,
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  Speaker 1: it didn't work. Yeah it didn't. It kind of hurt everybody,
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  Speaker 1: but it is what it is. I do want to
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  Speaker 1: find out. You were the team DJ correct? How did
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  Speaker 1: that come about? On what team? Oh? You're a team
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  Speaker 1: DJ for multiple teams? I was.
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  Speaker 3: I was DJ for Baltimore, for Baltimore okay in uh here, Okay, so.
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  Speaker 1: You're a team currently the team DJ for here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I'll pass it, you know, pass the
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  Speaker 3: ox a little bit. But for the most part.
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  Speaker 1: How did they come about? Though? You just do? You
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  Speaker 1: just claim it? Like hey, okay? Uh.
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  Speaker 3: In Baltimore it was Bratish, I believe, and then Bradish
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  Speaker 3: went down and then we needed somebody, so you stepped up.
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  Speaker 1: I stepped up. That's a lot of responsibility, it is. People.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you can't watch videos on your phone? No, no,
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  Speaker 2: you can't. Yes, you can't do anything but play music, right, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So what what's your how do you how do you
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  Speaker 2: do with playing you know, different ethnicity all this other
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  Speaker 2: stuff like what do you do? You just download different
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  Speaker 2: playlist or what do you Well?
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  Speaker 3: So I got the bus Bangers playlist, which is my
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  Speaker 3: own that's copy readed.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, but uh and is that Spotify, Apple Music, Spotify Spotify?
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  Speaker 3: And I just try to like make everybody happy, you know,
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  Speaker 3: so I spread it out.
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  Speaker 2: Is it like research at night as far as like
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  Speaker 2: downloading other songs or okay?
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  Speaker 3: At this point, I mean, I got a playlist that's
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  Speaker 3: been cooking for like three years now, so I just
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  Speaker 3: go to the very bottom where they like offer suggestions
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  Speaker 3: and I like that. I like that, but I mean
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  Speaker 3: I think you just you know, And the other thing
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  Speaker 3: is you got to keep them guessing. Oh like sharp turns.
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  Speaker 3: We're going like drake to contry to salsa to you
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  Speaker 3: know whatever, just keeping gas.
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  Speaker 1: So if you were going in the World Series Game
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  Speaker 1: one right now, okay.
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  Speaker 2: What five songs would be the first five that you
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  Speaker 2: play to get the boys going?
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  Speaker 1: That's such a hard question.
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  Speaker 3: All right, three songs, all right, three like just good bangers, bangers,
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  Speaker 3: these are going to get the boys going.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna go. I have to say DMX
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  Speaker 1: because I like anything DMX, just some sort of DMX,
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  Speaker 1: some sort of DMX, yeah, because I think that just
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  Speaker 1: gets you hyped.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you know, so we've got DMX probably some like
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  Speaker 2: some sort of e d M like guys moving.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, there's something with some energy. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we're getting ready for the World Series. So it's got
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  Speaker 1: to be upbeat.
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  Speaker 3: It's got to be something upbeat and then like a
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  Speaker 3: classic sing along, like let's all sing.
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  Speaker 1: Together and like unified before we go out on point?
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  Speaker 1: Do you have one of those that's a classics sing
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  Speaker 1: along that that's all sing along.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, mamas, don't let your babies grow up
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  Speaker 3: to be cowboys, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, have no, I wouldn't know.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's a country song that if you heard it
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  Speaker 3: you would sing along because.
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  Speaker 1: You just okay, so that's you would play those three songs.
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  Speaker 1: Is just a random group. It is super random. But
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  Speaker 1: that's the that's the unique.
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  Speaker 3: But the thought behind it was like, all right, some
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  Speaker 3: like some DMX, like some you know, like maybe some
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  Speaker 3: d M and then maybe like something that we can
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  Speaker 3: all sing.
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  Speaker 1: And then you bring the boys together and then you
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  Speaker 1: go out on there, let's go play.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, speaking of of of going out on the field
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  Speaker 2: and come camaraderie and all these type of things. I know, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: Schemes bought Connor Griffin a bounce house for his birthday.
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  Speaker 1: What was that for? Why did he do that? So
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  Speaker 1: that's hilarious fun It is.
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  Speaker 3: Funny, and I think it's just you know, because he's
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  Speaker 3: he's so young, and he's like, I.
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  Speaker 1: Mean, that's kind of everybody in the.
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  Speaker 3: That is such a Paul skiings like dry sense of humor.
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  Speaker 1: I just show up and random randomly bottom like a.
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  Speaker 2: And he that he he uh, randomly showed up to
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  Speaker 2: a literallygue.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah that was so cool that that's super dope. Yeah
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  Speaker 1: what did he say? Did he just he just pulled
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  Speaker 1: up or was he was just finished feeling generous that day.
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  Speaker 3: Or he just saw him and just rolled up on
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  Speaker 3: off the man. And I think if it were up
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  Speaker 3: to him, like nobody would have found out about.
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  Speaker 1: It, Yeah, which I think is the cod Is he
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  Speaker 1: going to nobody's.
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  Speaker 3: In the right exactly, everybody's you know, the phones out
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  Speaker 3: and everything. But yeah, he uh, you know, I think
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  Speaker 3: he wanted to be low key, which you know, what's like,
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  Speaker 3: I've driven by Little League practice before and I've been like, man,
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  Speaker 3: it might be fun.
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  Speaker 1: To go out there, just like I feel like he would.
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: It would be so fun. Yeah, But I'm with him, like,
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: I don't want to do it for all the extra
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: I want to do it just to hang out with
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: the kids and you know, kind of give back because
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: we were a kid that day.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: It's like the purest form of baseball. Man, it's like,
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: you know, just fun. You don't even know a difference.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: It's not a job. There's not a worry in the world,
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: like just playing ball.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, so I do want to talk about y'all's celebrations.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: You have the well the cone. Oh yeah, what is
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: what is the I've seen the cone? What does How
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: did that originate?
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: So in spring trading fanatics made a shirt that said
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: hoist the cone, Hoist the cone.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: And I think it was supposed to be hoist the colors.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: Hoist the colors, right, likening colors. That's that's that was.
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: That's what like the rumor was like it was supposed
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: to be like a pirates like like whatever whatever, and
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: they misprinted it or they hoist the cone. So they
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: printed his T shirt that said hoist the cone, and
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: we were like what you know. So then there was
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: like some you know jokes in spring training like oh,
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: we should get a traffic cone, like you know, just
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: and it kind of went away, like and nobody really
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: talked about it. And then our on our second series
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: of the year in Cincinnati, Jake Mangham went and found
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: a traffic cone, brought on the dog.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Oh and here we go.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: He brought a traffic hone he had there's no way
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: he picked it up. He had to take that from
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: the street.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: No, he took it.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: He took it from somewhere in the stadium, like he went,
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: he went and found a stadium worker and was like, listen,
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: I need a traffic cone. The guy was like, all right,
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: let's go get on. Got a traffic cone. And then
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: you have the the welding hood or whatever.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: I'm assuming that's because we're in Pittsburgh, right, A lot
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: of Okay, so you guys got a couple different that one.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: That one was more like premeditated.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: That one was more like, you know, hey, I mean
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: everybody has their like gimmick now, you know, like their
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: home run chain or jacket or in Baltimore we had
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: the hydration station whatever. So you know, we were just
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: kind of brainstorming, like what we're going to do this year,
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: and then Steel City man like and that's you know
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: what's cool about that welder's mask is that's like a legit,
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: like a guy used that for like forty years.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Or like something crazy. Somebody gave him. That's that We
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: got that from Steel Mill. Like, That's that's why it
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: looks like that.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: It's not you know, it's not painted up pretty with
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: like a P on the front.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: That's what I thought.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: I thought, well, I thought it was like somebody just
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: gave it or whatever.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: You just went and bought it. But no, that's legit.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: They sent us that. That's super dope. Yeah that's cool.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: And then you got I've seen I see in yesterday.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: I saw a lot of people probably like two or
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: three cones throughout the stadium to after home runs, which
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: I think is pretty deep.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: How do you like the city of Pittsburgh?
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: Is it?
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Is it? You know?
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Do you get to hang out much or do you
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: just kind of go home to the field?
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: You know how it is?
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: I pretty much go home and then go to the field.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: I got a baby at home, So how is the baby?
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: It should be six months here?
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Six months and that's your only one.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're just getting we're just figured it out. Yeah,
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: haven't haven't been out a whole lot. But you know,
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: we went to the zoo the other day. Like the
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: zoo was cool.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: But I like the city.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Man. The neighborhood I'm staying in is beautiful. It's like
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: one thing about this area that's cool. It's like the
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: hills and the grass and like the scenery is actually
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: like really beautiful.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: It is a beautiful city.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: And then obviously you're adjusting to the boys and that's
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: that's been awesome. How I know this is your what Royals.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Then you went to the Orioles Padres. How is adjusting
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: to this team different than those?
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: It was similar?
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: You know, it was really easy, honestly, Like I think
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: when you have a spring training with the group of guys,
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: that makes you so much easier. Like, you know, the
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Padres were really welcoming to me, like they were great,
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: and I enjoyed my time there, But I will say
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: it's hard to join like a group that's been grinding
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: together all year. Yeah, you know, they made it really easy,
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: but I could see like it could be hard because
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: you're walking into like, you know, they've been together all year,
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: so you're the new guy.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: You're the inside jokes and all the stuff. You're just yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: you just fake laughing.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Like what And then you know, going when you did
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: join the Padres, you were right in the middle of playoffs.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Did that make that tougher? That was awesome?
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: I enjoyed that, yeah, because you know, like we had
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: expectations in Baltimore last year going into the season and
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: then it just we just didn't play well and then
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: we were out of it. And then it was like
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: a month of just like, man, I'm just it's all
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: like I'm getting traded.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: I know, I'm getting traded. That's all I felt like
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: I heard all day.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: It was like and then to go to a place
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: that was like in the thick of it with a
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: good team and like I could just kind of like
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: slide in the middle there just.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Be like a guy.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: I don't feel like I had to I don't know,
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: like talk on the bus or like do anything. And
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: I was like, man, this is awesome. And playing you
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: guys in some big series. Man, like that's that was
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: like big time baseball.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: What it want to be a part of.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: You know, do you feel like that's I mean, obviously
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of great rivalry, so I'm not trying
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: to put us ahead of anybody. Do you feel like
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: that's the best rivalry or would you say, like the
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Boston Yankees.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think that Dodgers Padres is probably a
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: better rivalry right now than you know, historically Yankees, Red
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: Sox obviously, sure, but like where we're at right now, yeah,
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: you know, yeah, because those are the two like heavyweights,
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: you know, definitely in the West and pretty much in
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: the you know, well, I don't know.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: This year, there's a lot of good teams in there.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of really good teams.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, you guys have four four teams above five hundred,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: so you guys are I mean it may not necessarily
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: be quote unquote a rivalry, but every game is you know,
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: kind of matters.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: It matters.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: But you know, those games last year at the end
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: of the season Dodgers Padres were intense, though, like for sure.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: And it's fun. It was fun.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: It's fun, but it's really hard because every out matters.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: You know, you know, you're playing it against a good team.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: It's like mentally exhausted. Yeah, say after after the game,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: you're more mentally after the game. I'm like, yeah, yeah,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: mentally Okay.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: So you you like to say you're kind of a
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: late bloomer.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Why why do you say that? Yeah, I mean I
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: think definitely my baseball career.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Okay, So growing up. Let's let's go, let's let's do
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: their timeline growing up? Did you play only baseball? You
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: play football? You look like a football player.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: See I played football in like probably up until I
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: got to high school and then we moved from Florida to.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Texas, playing football.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah what Yeah, yeah, you would think they asked me
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: to play football, and I watched the practice, but you
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: didn't want to play.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: I was like, nah, so the Texas football is that's
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: a different a different thing.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: That's a that's a different analytic. I don't blame.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: I was also like real skinny in high school. Okay,
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: I was like probably six two, same like height now,
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: but I was.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Like one hundred and thirty pounds. I was like real
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: skinny basketball. No, dude, so you only play baseball?
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: I would I was a kid in basketball that like
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: would like steal the ball, be on a fast break,
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: and then just like launch it off the back.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Can't make up. I could rebound like pretty good, but
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: more of a facilitator.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, so you only play baseball through high school
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: and you guy recruit.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, what made you feel like you're a late
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: bloomer bro you got?
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so, like I would say, like my senior or
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: my junior year of high school, like I didn't even
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: play that much. Oh really, and then my senior year
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: I was an All American. Oh so there was like
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: a like a gross burt like uh, just a you know,
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: everything kind of changed and then you know how back
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: when we were coming up, it was like you got
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: recruited between your junior and senior year high school.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: That was it, you know, and I got mono. I
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: didn't even played.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: I played one tournament that summer and then didn't play
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: at all.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: I got sick.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: So then, uh, you know, I had one offer Sam
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Houston State and they were like, hey, man, like you know,
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: we'll give you the scholarship whatever.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: And then by the end of my.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: Senior year, they were like, buddy, you're gonna play every day,
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: like and then it ended up it was a perfect storm.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: I got to like right when I things started to click,
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: like I just had this great opportunity to play.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: And and then so but I'm not hearing the late
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: bloomer part. What makes you think, yeah, bloomed late.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: I mean everything was late, you know, like I didn't
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: I didn't have like I mean, I.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Picked like.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: Puberty wise, I was late, you know, and got as
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: far as baseball goes, like I it took me a
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: while to like figure it out at the at the
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: big league level.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: I struggled and in Kansas City for years and it took.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: A lot time.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: I mean I mean, I feel like when you came
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: it was like right in the middle of the game,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: changing going from what I would say like regular baseball
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: with the guys throwing regular for seam slider or sinker
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: slider or whatever, to the game adjusting to now everybody
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: has three fastballs and they all throw one hundred. You know,
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: so it's kind of it. I feel like you came
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: up right in that, and so it's kind of hard
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: to figure out a league that's.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: In the shift, man, Yeah, the shift was changed. I
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: couldn't figure out how to hit a ground ball the.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Shortstop for the life of me. I mean, you can't
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: bro nobody's.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: Standing over there, and I'm like, how can I knock
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: get the ball over there?
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: It was probably hard.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, like I said, you were facing guys throwing
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: ninety five to one hundred, Like you don't really have
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: time to try and like try and hit a ground
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: like it's hard enough just.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: To hit it.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, I could talk about pitching nowadays for a
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: long time because it is crazy. It's like three fastballs.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: It's there are no guaranteed fastball counts, no left on
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: left change ups, like everything is different.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Stuff that you never even thought of the.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Rules of like you know, the big leagues the last
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: ten years, like the quiet like oh three, ah, you're
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: getting a heater, Like lefties don't throw change ups to
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: lefties like like things like that, like they don't exist anymore.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Like yesterday, yesterday Lao got to three to zero count
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: against Showhy and.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Back in the day, like three zero count, bases loaded,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: two outs.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Oh I'm taking this like he's got to throw a strike, right,
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: But now Lao swinging Yeah, three tozerho, bam double.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: That's your shot, that's your chance, because if.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: You go three to one, you're not guaranteed to get
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: another fastball. No, you may really may not be guaranteed
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: to get a fastball three zero at that point.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: No, I've seen three to zero sweepers.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: I've said, yeah, and that's just a different game, man,
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: It's just a different game. So in twenty twenty three,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: you were a part of the Orioles. They had went
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: through a little drought, a little playoff drought.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: How was that? That was cool? Twenty three?
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so much fun. That team won one hundred one games.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Playoffs were brutal. We got you know, we ran into
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: a buzzsaw with the Rangers, but that year was awesome.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: And then so now are you going to use what
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: you learned or what you went through there to kind
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: of help guide these boys?
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's a plan. You know. I'm I'm
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: not like telling anybody.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: What to do, but like if you have anything that
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: you're you know, if you have any questions like or whatever,
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: I'm here for everybody.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: With there being so many young guys, is it is
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: it like more you stay out of the way or
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: you kind of feel not an obligation, but like we'll
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: just use obligation for lack of better terms to help
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: guide them.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Man, I think it's more like, you know, I talk
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: to everybody, like I want to talk to everybody, and
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: you know like just kind of like be myself, like
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: you know, try to you know, enjoy getting to everybody
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: in the relationships and stuff. But I also like don't
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: want to like be like telling barking out any kind
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: of like hey this is what it's like. You know,
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: this is going to be that guy that's just not me,
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: you know. But like man, sometimes it's it's more about
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: just like listening, you know, like being their form and
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: and if there's ever an opportunity to like be like, hey, listen,
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: I went through the same deal and like this is
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: like I wish I would have known this at the time.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: So like I get a chance to do that. A lot,
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: you know, we got I've been I've seen a lot
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: of different angles of being I've been like the twenty
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: six guy on the roster, I've been the three hole hitter.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: So like, I feel like I can relate to guys
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: and wherever they're at in their careers.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: I feel like when I, you know, now starting to
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: see some of our young guys. We do have a
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: very veteran team, but starting to see some of the
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: young guys, especially in spring training. Because I have three kids,
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: and I'm not saying they are kids, but I kind
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: of view it that way. And I don't tell them
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: what to do because I.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Want them to live their own life and experience their
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: own experiences. But I've learned to like sometimes they do.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: You do need a little guidance.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Sometimes you see something going on and it's like, you
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: know what, I'm just going to offer a suggestion. You
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: do whatever you want to do, because you're going to
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: do whatever you want to do anyway. But it seems
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: like when I started to do that and kind of
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: view it that way and just suggest things and just
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: kind of be there whenever they're there.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: They have questions.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: It seems like I've developed good relationships with the young
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: guys out.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: There was a guy that through the first pitch the
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: other day. I don't even mister fanatic or something due
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: I saw him.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: I don't even know who that guy is. And our
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: young guys like, dude, I know exactly who that is.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: And I really like I'm old because I have no
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: idea who this guy is.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: I had never heard of that guy. I've never heard
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: of him, you know. But I guess that means we're
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: we're out of touch. But I guess we're old. I
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: do have a question. You hit your first hit was
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: a homer.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then a couple of days ago there's a
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Brayden Montgomery.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: He hit a homer. Which one would you Which one
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: do you think is a better debut? A homer first
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: at bat or a walk off homer. I mean, I
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: don't think it's close. It's not a question.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think a walk off homer for your first game,
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Braden takes it. I mean, I feel like he what
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: a day, man, unbelievable, you know, like you're you're on
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: cloud nine for at least a week, yeah, minimum a week.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: I like what he said after to well, I didn't
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: see what he said. I was. I watched quick pitch
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: in the morning. Okay, okay, I like what we said after.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: He was like, you know, it's all downhill from now
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: from here, which I thought was cool.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: It is. I mean, it's it's kind of true me,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: but it is what it is. What it is. So
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: we do as you know.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you know, but I do play
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: a lot of other sports, but we have one sport
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: in common. I play basketball and football kind of growing up,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: so we don't have that in common. But golf, Yes,
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: you're a golf guy. I'm not very good, but I'm
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: not very good.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: So I'm an eight, oh your eight. Okay, that's that's
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: pretty good solid, I mean as good as you know.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: But it's okay in the world world, it is a
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: good a good handicapped d play throughout the season or no.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm playing in Denver on Thursday. Okay. So do
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: you like to play off days? Road off days? Mainly?
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: I play a decent amount throughout the year. It's just
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: kind of how I clear my head. It's the best, man.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: I will go out. Usually I go.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Seven thirty eight in the morning, and then I'm usually
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: back home by twelve o'clock because when you go that
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: early morning, you can just zip around.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: That's like the number one thing that I can't get
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: out of bed for golf, Like I'll get up early
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: in the winter, I'll play in the cold yep.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Like, yeah, it's something about it, man, I love it.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: And once baseball is over, like it's kind of all
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: i'mna have is you know, because I'm not running up
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: and down the court anymore. Pickleball. Maybe have you ever
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: played You've played in like tournaments, right, a couple. I
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: have a club back home.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: I've played in a couple of tournaments, and then I've
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: played in the MX before the AT and T tournament.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: That's a different thing. Those are those are those are different.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Those are different that because it's not your it's not
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: what you're used to, you know, so to tee off
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: and then what you see on TV, like there's a
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: line and it's like dude, I will hit you, I
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: will shake it and I hit you.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: But I mean you.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: But I mean once you do it a couple of times,
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: you get used to it and then you can kind
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: of channel that competitive edge, you know.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: And I think so like baseball, you know, you're hyped
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: up and you got anxiety or whatever, like.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: You see it and you hit it, man, like you
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: just let it rip. Yeah. Yeah. And golf, I've been
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: standing over.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: I played in wits Mayfield's tournament a few times, and
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: I'm not good enough to be playing where the every
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: shot matters and the you know, there's no gimmes and whatever.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: It's a different type of you know, stress man, because
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: you're like, you know, like what if I shanked this
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: ball and then.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be so embarrassing.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: You can shank it and then you can just like
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: all right, you know what, I'm gonna go, y'all finish.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: No, not in those tournament, Oh no, you gotta go. Tyler,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Clipper's gonna be waiting for you on the green, like, yeah,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: I'm mad at you. Who's the best golfer on the Pirates.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: I would say probably Mitch Keller. He's nasty. I think
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: he's good. Yeah, I haven't played with him yet.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: We're playing Thursday, Bubba Chandler says he's a good golfer,
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: but he's also and like I've.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Heard that it's not real. No, so I'll give you
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: a report.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: We uh we got will Smith Smithy, I think is
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: like he's like a plus one or something.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: He's he's been playing golf, He's answer. Some of our
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: coaches are are zeros, and so that I when I
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: get to go on the road, I'm a one, okay,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: and I get to go play with them, and it's
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: super competitive.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: Like we we we we keep tally of who won,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: and you know, everybody cares about it. So, I mean,
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: because we have a lot of people that play golf.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: If you had a dream for some dream for some okay,
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: who would it be? It could be business, It's a
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: great question whatever.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: For you know, I think I got to bring my dad, Pops,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: you Pops, me and my dad. I mean Tiger Woods.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Tiger Woods. I mean, who wouldn't say tiger Woods?
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: Okay, and maybe maybe Aaron Rodgers stars.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: So how did Aaron Rodgers make this this dream force?
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: Well, I grew I grew up. I'm a Packer fan,
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: Packer fan, so I grew up watching Aaron Rodgers play
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers is on the mind a little bit because
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: he's signed with the Steelers here, so I've been kind
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: of following that a little bit. And then I know
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: he played in the the AT and.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: T golf or whatever.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: So okay, So if you still Roger, if you could
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: choose your your your caddy, who would be your caddy?
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Oh that's a great question.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: Maybe like a like a mental skills guy, like someone
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: who's gonna keep me dialed in, like Brian Kane or
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: something like that.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: So mental skills guy, just keep you give me locked
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: so he doesn't have remember this fun stuff too.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well he might golf. I don't know. I
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: saw I saw him a golf course one time.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: So that that doesn't mean he knows how to read.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, what do you say, Brian? Who the mental
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Brian Kane?
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: Brian Kane, I don't, I'm not I'm not in to
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: I'm not in touch with But Brian, you're the caddy.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: That's a random shot up. Yeah, I mean, hey, he'll
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: probably na it's your guy.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, okay, So let's I want to build. There's
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: a game that's online and started with basketball. Well we're
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: gonna do with baseball.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: We're gonna build one hundred and sixty two and oh
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: team okay, all right, so we have to spin the
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: wheel and I think you choose. Uh do you do you?
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Are you a baseball nerd or no? Yes? Okay, So
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: you'll have to choose who your team is.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Okay, So I got to pick Texas rand do you
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: need you don't need your glasses or anything.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: I'm good. Okay. Oh these are guys that have played Yeah, anybody,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: anybody one hundred and sixty two and oh.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: So I'm just picking one player, one player out of
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: this list. I mean I'm taking Prince Fielder.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Prince Fielder, yeah, Prince Fielder first base or DH DH
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: DH okay. The California Angels. Oh this is nineteen nineties, okay,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: I mean Tim Salmon, Tim Salmon out and right anahi,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: I mean Angels.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: Oh man, I want to pick Mo Vaughn, but I
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: already got a d H.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: All right, I'll take I'll take X nine at second base.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: The Giants, Oh gosh, Barry Bonds, come on Tampa. Oh,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: this is the twenty twenties.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, I mean I gotta take Brandon lu but
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: I already got a second baseman, Can I make him
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: play third? No?
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: First base is only though?
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: All right, never mind, Sorry, you ain't making the cut,
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: all right, I'll take Kevin Arrow at third.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: I mean Marlo's twenty twenty. Mmmm? What do I need?
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: I need a shortstop, a centerfielder, catcher in a first
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: base I will take I'll take Stours. Can Stowers play center?
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Stowers and center? Okay? Since he reads Christopher Negron,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: did I see he's our bedg coach. I'll take Oseglasias?
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, oh short stop? Okay, that's purely for vibes,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: purely Yeah, great vibe guy. Yeahs a great, great player. Great.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Do you bump any of his songs? You know? He
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: makes me sometimes? Okay? Okay, yeah, you gotta two more?
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: Okay, cat your first base, Jeff Bagwell first base, sold okay,
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: legend and definitely YACHTI.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: I thought it's a pretty good squad. It's a good squad.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: One hundred and thirty eight and twenty four. That's that's you, guys.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: That's our projection.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I feel like I ain't mine. That's great.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: I'm taking that. Yeah, one hundred and thirty eight games
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: that's let me look at this team. That's an interesting team,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: that's for sure. But yeah, I like it. Okay.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: And before we leave, before we wrap up, I do
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: a food review, and so we got it's called a
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: Bourriqua hot dog from PNC Park. I've had cheese curds.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: Gave those a six. Korean hot dog gave that a seven.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: So now we're going to go with another hot dog?
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: All right? Got uh? All right? Are those fries on
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: the on the hot dog? The stick fries? You remember
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: in school we used to get those? You want to
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: try it? No? Really? Yeah, you're you You're not a
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: mustard disclosure. I cannot stand mustard. You don't like mustard?
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Hate it? Why don't you like mustard? I mean I
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: had a bad experience as a kid with mustard.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: With mustard, and so what what what bad could possibly
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: happen with mustard?
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: I thought I was having like it was like little
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: burger sliders, and I thought it was just like meat
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: and cheese. But in my kid brain, but it was
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: like meat and mustard. But the yellow I thought was
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: like American cheese. So I took like this huge bite
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: expecting a plane burger, and it was mustard.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Up and it was terrible. Oh so you haven't even
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: like given them the second chance. I did.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: I tried it again when I was older, and I
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: was I was like, I still hate it.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: It just it just traumatized you.
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: And I've had and I've had teammates know that I
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: don't like mustard over the years, and like you know,
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: when a guy hits his first homer, first win, and
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: we do the.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: I've had. I've been attacked with mustard before. So you
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: don't even like touching mustard.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: It grosses me out, man, really, Yeah, it's just mustard dog. Yeah,
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: it's gross.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, so we got this is a bourriquah.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: It looks like a chili cheese, well chili mustard hot dog. Hey,
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: it's a Puerto Rican square and inspired hot dog with
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: a Pittsburg twist. So freedo beef deli kraud, yellow mustard,
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: American cheese, ketchup, braised onion potato sticks.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: You got it man, Yeah, I'm get in there. Who
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: send me a little prayer? What do you got? It's
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: pretty good? Yeah? Yeah, I think it's pretty good. Better
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: than you thought.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wasn't sure, but it was pretty good. Get
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: them pretty good. I'm gonna give that eight point seven. Wow,
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: that's pretty good.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Really.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: I mean I don't know that I would go order
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: it because it has a lot going on, but now
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: that I've tried it, I would.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Okay, you know, Okay, that's a higher score than I
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: thought you were gonna go. Yeah, it was.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: I mentally I had prepared to give it five. But
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: panc Park, you guys did pretty good with this. So
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: shout out to the Puerto Rican community for inspiring this,
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: and shout out to panc Park for little Pittsburgh.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: I don't know what what twist Pittsburgh put on it.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: I think the fries on it is the Pittsburgh that
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: is that what it is. Well, they do good with it. Hey,
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: you should I get it? No Mustard, Yeah you should
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: get it, no Mustard, I mean give it, give it
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: a shot. Yeah.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: So anyways, before we wrap up, brother, thank you for
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: coming on the show. I remember when I first I
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: was in I don't remember where I was, I don't
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: remember what what team I was on, but I remember
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: seeing your name. I don't know who this guy is.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: When you were was when when you were with the Royals,
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: And I'm just start seeing your name over and over
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: again and then watching them from the other side. You
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: just got You've gotten better and better and better and better.
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: And now I feel like you're like a staple. You know,
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: You're like a staple through whatever team you play on,
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: wherever you go, whatever you do. You're just a dude,
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: you know. So it's it's been a pleasure to watch.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: And so I just keep on leading them boys. Man,
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: you know what you need to do. And good luck
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: with your six month old.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: Thank you, man. Trying to get some sleep? Are you
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: getting sleep? Yeah, a little bit and getting a little sleep.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: I got my wife some warrior but yeah, but hey,
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: thank you for having me on. Man, I appreciate it.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: You should do more podcasts, bro, You've got a lot
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: of personality.
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll do for specific things, but no, I say
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: to you though, Man, I always, you know, enjoyed watching play,
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: looked up to you as a players.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: It's cool to sit down and talk with you.
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: So and you know what another thing is moving from
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: rightfield to shortstop, man, Like, that's nobody understands how.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: Hard that is. Yeah, it was where it's rough, but
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: that's really good. It is what it is.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: So all thanks for of course, thanks for coming on
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: and we'll cut you guys next time on on base.