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Chris Sale & Sean Manaea on FT in NYC · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: As much as I love it, I know the fans
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  Speaker 1: love it. You know.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's a time and place and you know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe we uh, you know, have another chan or you know,
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  Speaker 2: another song or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: That'd be that'd be really cool.
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  Speaker 3: Chris Sales getting miked up right now, So bear with
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  Speaker 3: us for just a moment, and I'm gonna have to
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  Speaker 3: fix this so it doesn't look like I'm a cyborg.
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  Speaker 3: There we go, but we're gonna talk to Chris in
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  Speaker 3: a moment, and we'll have some other guests flowing through
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  Speaker 3: here too. But ask him, gave a great speech.
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  Speaker 1: You did give a great speech. I didn't know you
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  Speaker 1: were so inspirational.
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  Speaker 4: Here we go bead emotion and tricking if you got
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  Speaker 4: it right emotion.
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  Speaker 3: How was that for you? I think you know the
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  Speaker 3: part that hit home for me was and you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: say it better than I do, because I don't remember
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  Speaker 3: it word for word. But when you do feel like
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  Speaker 3: you're down, don't show them that you are down.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I just think that along the way, right
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  Speaker 4: along this journey, there's there's a lot of ups and downs,
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  Speaker 4: and the people that are there the entire time, you know,
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  Speaker 4: everyone's there for the parties, right, and everyone likes the
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  Speaker 4: good times. Everyone's there for the celebrations, but you know,
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  Speaker 4: when you're down and out, a lot of those people
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  Speaker 4: aren't there. And you know, for for me, this was
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  Speaker 4: this was almost like a recognition of everybody that got
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  Speaker 4: me here because I'm nothing without them. I really am not.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not sitting here.
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  Speaker 1: I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I don't achieve what. I'm not who I am, I'm
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  Speaker 4: not where I'm at.
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  Speaker 1: I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I just know, I truly believe none of this happens
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  Speaker 4: without the people that I have and just my family,
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  Speaker 4: my friends, my teammates, doctors, trainers, I mean, coach, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: the list goes on and on. So this was this
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  Speaker 4: was I appreciate this a lot because I feel like
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  Speaker 4: this was just just a really big group effort to
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  Speaker 4: get me, get me here.
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  Speaker 5: Chris, your story so inspiring, what you overcame, what you
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  Speaker 5: accomplished this year. And I wonder what was the low point,
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  Speaker 5: what was the moment when you thought, I just don't
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  Speaker 5: know if this is coming back.
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  Speaker 4: Oh man, that's that's that's a tough one because there
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  Speaker 4: was a lot just surgeries and rehabs, and it was tough. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I don't. I don't know if if there was, like
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  Speaker 4: a particular instance. Twenty twenty was tough, just because you know,
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  Speaker 4: you're going through surgery for the first time and and
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  Speaker 4: dealing with that, and then twenty one missing more time,
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  Speaker 4: twenty two feeling like I was ready to go getting
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  Speaker 4: you know, the finger clipped off, and then uh, twenty three,
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  Speaker 4: it's like, Okay, we're back, We're starting the season. We
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  Speaker 4: had a good off season, you know, blah blah blah,
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  Speaker 4: and then the shoulder thing happened. So uh, there there
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  Speaker 4: was just a lot. Again, I think that all of
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  Speaker 4: those things make me appreciate this moment more and just
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  Speaker 4: again appreciate the people.
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  Speaker 1: That got me here. Did you always feel it was there?
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  Speaker 4: No? No, I mean there was definitely times of doubt.
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  Speaker 4: There were times where I thought I was done, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and and shoot, I I before, like I said, I've
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  Speaker 4: said it before. Before I got traded, I was planning
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  Speaker 4: on being done. This was gonna be the last year.
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  Speaker 4: It is gonna get everything I got. I bought a
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  Speaker 4: new truck, We're gonna get an RV and we're gonna
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna go travel. So I still got the truck.
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  Speaker 4: We don't have the RV. But uh, those plans got
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  Speaker 4: pushed back a little bit, thankfully.
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  Speaker 1: They can wait.
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  Speaker 2: What happens if you've got this award two three years
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  Speaker 2: into your career?
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  Speaker 1: How different would that speech have been? Because you mature,
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  Speaker 1: everybody matures. You go through you said it, You go
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  Speaker 1: through the tough times to be able appreciate this.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt, And I think, yeah, I think what
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  Speaker 4: you said. It's just you appreciate it more. When when
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  Speaker 4: I was younger, it was it was it was a
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  Speaker 4: little bit different. Things just came a little bit more natural.
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  Speaker 4: You don't you know how it is when you're young.
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  Speaker 4: You don't have to put as much in to get
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  Speaker 4: as much out right.
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  Speaker 1: And so yeah, I.
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  Speaker 4: Think I think being being here and going through what
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  Speaker 4: I went through and learning things that I've learned and
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  Speaker 4: doing things the right way made this moment more special.
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  Speaker 1: All Right. I gotta ask you, I know you wanted
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  Speaker 1: to say. And we got a guy standing behind us here.
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  Speaker 1: He hit a few homers, a.
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  Speaker 4: Couple, I would you, Oh, man, Well, it depends on
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  Speaker 4: when he had caught me.
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  Speaker 1: I will say this.
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  Speaker 4: I've actually talked about him a lot. I was like, man,
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  Speaker 4: I missed you by what what was your last year?
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  Speaker 1: Seven?
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  Speaker 4: I missed you by three years and out of love
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  Speaker 4: to stare down that barriwer. Hey, listen, I've given up.
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  Speaker 4: Homer is the worst, so it would have been all right.
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  Speaker 3: We've got Good Guy Award winner Sean and Iah with
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  Speaker 3: us of the New York Match, which probably feels good
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  Speaker 3: to say.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of months ago you hit the market, and
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  Speaker 3: now you're officially back. I think you're at FanFest, right, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because he came over and gave you I was like, yeah, no,
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  Speaker 2: go way back, you know, Okay, cool?
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 3: The question I've been excited to ask you about is
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  Speaker 3: so Chris sales here right, Yeah, I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: you saw him, yeah, but if you do, are you
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  Speaker 3: going to go up to him and be like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you heard this story. I was
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  Speaker 3: watching you. I'll let you tell it. But it's really cool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I have some money that I need
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  Speaker 2: to give him to, uh, you know, compensate him for
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  Speaker 2: all the work he's something with. But no, yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 2: definitely excited to to meet him because I haven't actually
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  Speaker 2: I've just seen him from Afar. But you know, I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to step in any toes alert something like that.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm definitely very excited too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah please, Okay, is it crazy to think that, like,
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  Speaker 3: because just tell me you're watching him right during the
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  Speaker 3: season and you're like, hey, I feel like I should
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  Speaker 3: take a couple of pages out of that book.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean to me, it just kind of like a
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  Speaker 2: white bulb went off where I was like, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: like it felt something felt like good and comfortable, and
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  Speaker 2: that's something I've been searching for for a long time,
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  Speaker 2: and like I've been watching him do it for such
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  Speaker 2: a long time, and I was just like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: let's just just try something like that. And yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: mean it was it was the one thing led to
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  Speaker 2: another and here we areselves.
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  Speaker 1: And you said it was comfortable.
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  Speaker 5: But how difficult is it to make that kind of
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  Speaker 5: adjustment in the middle of a seasonw did it come about?
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  Speaker 2: I mean to me, it didn't feel like a huge
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  Speaker 2: drastic difference. It Like to me, it actually felt like, uh,
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  Speaker 2: everything was easier, Like I felt like before it was
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  Speaker 2: like i'd be a you know, like the the Yankee game,
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  Speaker 2: the game before I was throwing I'd just be like
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  Speaker 2: every pitch just felt like I feel like I can
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  Speaker 2: get more out of it, you know, just nothing felt right.
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  Speaker 2: And then you know, since I made that switch, it's
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  Speaker 2: like I could care less about like the feels and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: It's just like I have like one thought and then
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  Speaker 2: just try and throw a ball as far as I can,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, you know, just very simplified everything, which kind
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  Speaker 2: of unlock something.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you realize that's not real, Like do you realize,
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  Speaker 1: like it's not easy? Everybody does that. Like I watched
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  Speaker 1: somebody hitt and I'm like.
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  Speaker 6: A couple of good swings at VP over the game,
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  Speaker 6: same result that easy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, to be fair, he's not the only
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  Speaker 2: person I've ever tried to emulate or try and so
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  Speaker 2: I've definitely gone through iterations of uh, you know, Sure's
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  Speaker 2: or lens to come like all you know, all these
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  Speaker 2: like greats where I'm like, oh, these guys are good,
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  Speaker 2: I might as well try it out, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: nothing nothing sucking.
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  Speaker 7: Linsem Sale is like as far away as you can get.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, well he was like straight over the top
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  Speaker 7: downhill Sales, like stepping over behind you, throwing it over here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that was more when I was growing up, and.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, you know, since Pro Bowl have kind
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  Speaker 2: of try to be my own person. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's uh, there's greats for the reason. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: told this story real quick one time on the show.
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  Speaker 2: But in fifteen, you were in spring training with the Royals. Yep,
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  Speaker 2: I was there, and I remember watching it. You know how
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  Speaker 2: you were kind of like a you know, with the
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  Speaker 2: younger guys.
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  Speaker 6: So all the good pitchers pitched first, and then you
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  Speaker 6: went out and pitched, and then the next day that
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  Speaker 6: you threw a pen.
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  Speaker 1: You were with like some of the big dogs.
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  Speaker 6: And I remember telling our Cody Clark our bullpen catch
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  Speaker 6: at the time, I said, do you see how much
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  Speaker 6: farther that guy is because you all threw it at
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  Speaker 6: the same time on the A pack and your arm
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  Speaker 6: your hand was that much farther out in front of
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  Speaker 6: everybody else's.
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  Speaker 1: He was like, yeah, that guy was a pretty high pick.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be good. I'm like, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: can tell.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome. Yeah, I uh, you know, go back to
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  Speaker 2: those uh those days. You know, it's it's really cool
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  Speaker 2: seeing how far of h a comes since since those times,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so and you barely got you know, terrible
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  Speaker 2: paycheck this offseason. Right now, we you know, very excited
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  Speaker 2: about that. Uh, and you get to go back to
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  Speaker 2: New York. Yeah, success, Yeah, very excited about that. Love
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  Speaker 2: the love the city, love the organization. So I'm just
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  Speaker 2: super happy to be back here.
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  Speaker 1: When you run into free agency, Sean, how did you
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  Speaker 1: approach it?
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  Speaker 5: Was that the priority to get back to New York Mets?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think.
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  Speaker 2: Like talks and everything like that, they just kind of
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  Speaker 2: everything wind up with, uh, coming back to New York. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you know last year was great, and you know, I think, uh,
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  Speaker 2: just everything that was on the table, it was just
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  Speaker 2: kind of like a no brainer for us. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: once we hammered out all the like little details, it
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  Speaker 2: just kind of, you know, made a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, at the end of the day, it was
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  Speaker 2: a it was a pretty easy decision. I would say,
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  Speaker 2: what are.
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  Speaker 1: You most excited about to go back?
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  Speaker 2: Like actually getting to go back, I mean working with
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  Speaker 2: hef and the rest of the pitching staff and the
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  Speaker 2: you know, analytics department. I feel like we got like
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  Speaker 2: a very good system going on. Towards the end of
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  Speaker 2: the season, it was like, you know, I pitch, I'd
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  Speaker 2: go in, I'd ask everyone how like my stuff looked,
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  Speaker 2: and then you know, from that it would just be
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  Speaker 2: kind of like, is there anything like I needed to
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  Speaker 2: work on like objectively going into this next start? And
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  Speaker 2: then you know, kind of hammered that out in the
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  Speaker 2: like bullpen that week or something like that, and then
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  Speaker 2: uh just kind of build off that. You know, so
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  Speaker 2: just like the system that we had, I feel like
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  Speaker 2: we can you know, just keep improving upon that. And
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  Speaker 2: then it's just nice to be back with a group
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  Speaker 2: of people that you've you've known and rount accustomed to.
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  Speaker 7: We got to ask we'll OMG be back next year.
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  Speaker 7: You guys carry it over the next year.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, you know, I I as much as I love it,
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  Speaker 2: I know the fans love it. You know, I think
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  Speaker 2: there's a time and place in twenty twenty four is
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  Speaker 2: I hope we have some kind of like.
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  Speaker 1: Remembrance of it.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, maybe you know, maybe Grimmace comes out and
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  Speaker 2: dances to it or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, maybe we uh you know, have another chance or
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  Speaker 2: you know, another song or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: That'd be that'd be really cool for the I.
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  Speaker 6: Black with the pictures all like you guys had a
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  Speaker 6: lot of gimmicks. You guys a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 6: of skits.
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  Speaker 2: As you guys are well aware, the baseball community is
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  Speaker 2: very superstitious, and uh, in those times when they're needed,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it makes a lot of sense. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean we had Stebby like wearing fifty nine like
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  Speaker 2: through the airport one time, and I was like, that's dedication.
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  Speaker 1: You know. It was like, it's super funny.
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  Speaker 3: So one more quick one because you've got the asses.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure a million times today, Pete come back, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, I I genuinely hope so, but.
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  Speaker 7: Asked Scott Scott was just ask Scott.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Scott, I met, I work out with him.
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  Speaker 1: I see him every day.
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  Speaker 6: So yeah, text about because it's a big thing in
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  Speaker 6: New York, like texting yeah number.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you've talked to Pete about it.
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  Speaker 3: You're you're with them every day in Tampa, right, Yeah, Okay, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we work out.
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  Speaker 2: I just wanted whatever's best for feet and so at
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  Speaker 2: the end of I have not yet, but yeah, hopefully
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  Speaker 2: will he signed your thousands baseball, your thousands strikeout? Since
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  Speaker 2: you punched his ticket on you know, I hope So
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what that conversation is, Like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: is that is that an awkward conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Was if you came up to me, punched me out,
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  Speaker 1: I'd be like, yeah, learned about five hundred of the
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  Speaker 1: career home run or something like that. You know, like,
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  Speaker 1: who are you looking at?
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  Speaker 6: I had Brandon Belt signed my first big league strikeout.
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  Speaker 6: I struck him out and signed it for me.
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  Speaker 1: So you need to get one to sweet.
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  Speaker 3: And you tell him I'm the Good Guy Award winner.
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  Speaker 1: So that great to have you. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: Guys know what you guys do so