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Jesse Chavez breaking the news on FT that he’s retiring: most memorable matchups & what’s next? · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Major League VET pitcher Jesse Chavez joining us on FT
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  Speaker 1: right now. Jesse, great to have you on the show
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  Speaker 1: here for the first time. Todd five, boy, we had
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  Speaker 1: been hearing about Jesse for a long time. One of
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  Speaker 1: the best teammates in the sport. And remember Todd the
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  Speaker 1: other day, We're like, how have we not had Jesse
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  Speaker 1: on yet?
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate it for having me, guys, Yeah, thank you. Just
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  Speaker 2: try to instill it all the older guys did before me.
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  Speaker 3: That's all.
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  Speaker 1: It's been incredible to follow. So and and then let's
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  Speaker 1: get to you know, how this season has gone. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just the other day outrighted by the Braves
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  Speaker 1: elected free agency. What's next for you?
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  Speaker 3: Uh all?
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  Speaker 2: Honesty, I haven't picked up a baseball since my last
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  Speaker 2: pitch in Saint Louis.
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  Speaker 3: As of now, I don't think we're gonna keep going.
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  Speaker 2: I think this is it time to turn the page,
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  Speaker 2: focus on the next chapter in life and go help
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  Speaker 2: all the young kids all the stuff that I did
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  Speaker 2: so they don't have to take two steps back becuse
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  Speaker 2: they can take those three steps forward.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you've that's incredible for you to come on here
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  Speaker 4: and basically, you know, say you're retirement. And I'm not
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  Speaker 4: going to say you're fully retired because all of a
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  Speaker 4: sudden somebody might give you a call for an injury.
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  Speaker 4: But again, you know, your career has been absolutely spectacular.
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  Speaker 4: Every time I look, I'm like, how's my boy still
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  Speaker 4: playing here? How the heck is he doing it? Because
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  Speaker 4: guess what, one determination too pure athleticism as a pitcher,
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  Speaker 4: and you're a healthy man. You're healthy as can be,
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  Speaker 4: and you threw strikes and you got after vibe. I
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  Speaker 4: appreciate everything you've done for me, even though we played
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  Speaker 4: for a little bit in Texas. We had such a
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  Speaker 4: good time being with the boys. And I'm going to say,
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  Speaker 4: not congratulations. If this is the end, well deserved ride
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  Speaker 4: off in the sunset and your new cars, those old
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  Speaker 4: school cars you've got, and just skate yourself away baby
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  Speaker 4: in California. Let's go.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. I appreciate it, man. That means a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, this has been a great ride, you know,
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  Speaker 2: way more than I expected to from a forty sixon
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  Speaker 2: round draft pick. You know, the thing was is I
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  Speaker 2: was giving a gift early on. I understood it, but
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  Speaker 2: it was how am I going to make it last?
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  Speaker 2: How can I keep it going for this long? And
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  Speaker 2: I always said, I don't want to go out the
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  Speaker 2: way I came in, being able to roll out of
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  Speaker 2: bed and throw baseball.
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  Speaker 3: And fortunately I'm still able to do that.
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  Speaker 2: And like I said, I had a conversation with my
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  Speaker 2: college coach. He's one of the biggest mentors in my life.
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  Speaker 2: Then you go to the background of my family, you know,
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  Speaker 2: my wife and kids being there the entire time from
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  Speaker 2: day one, you know, and then allowing me to go
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  Speaker 2: through this being a knucklehead and just being stubborn with this,
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  Speaker 2: you know, trying to get what we wanted to get accomplished,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to where we're at today. And then the
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  Speaker 2: people that I came across, you guys you tune the booth,
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  Speaker 2: you know, those conversations we had, the talks, you know,
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  Speaker 2: watching you guys go about your business as professionals, the
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  Speaker 2: guys I had my first year in pro ball, all
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  Speaker 2: the way up through till my last day, you know,
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  Speaker 2: all the conversations we had. I still took that and
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  Speaker 2: tried to learn. And you know, this game's still about adapting, right,
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  Speaker 2: So I felt like I went from you know, throwing
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  Speaker 2: ninety one ninety two when I came into throwing on
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  Speaker 2: a hundred and then now throwing, you know, eighty nine ninety,
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  Speaker 2: so I knew how to.
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  Speaker 3: I always understood how to.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if I wanted to stick around, you had
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  Speaker 2: to make make moves, make adjustments, whether it was you know,
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  Speaker 2: moving on the rubber, throwing a different pitch, coming into one,
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  Speaker 2: you know, banging one so it doesn't work because it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't work anymore.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: It was all about that and the conversations I had
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  Speaker 2: early on. You know, I think that's all the boys
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  Speaker 2: are down to you, all right.
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  Speaker 5: I want to go early on. First of all, anytime
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  Speaker 5: I can shout out like a two thousand and two
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  Speaker 5: draft pick, that is the you know, I'm always going
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  Speaker 5: to shout those out because we're part of that. Now.
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  Speaker 5: You got picked much later than me, so it must
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  Speaker 5: have been that I was a much better player because
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  Speaker 5: picked in the twenty ninth round. They waited for you
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  Speaker 5: in the forty second round. So that's that's where it's at.
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  Speaker 5: But we ran across. We never actually got to play together.
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  Speaker 5: We were in spring training together in two thousand and nine.
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  Speaker 5: And the story, because I've had this story on deck forever.
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  Speaker 5: The story is when we got our meal money, we
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  Speaker 5: went out. Do you remember how you got Ryan Domits?
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  Speaker 5: Who else did you get Sean Burnett's? And I forget
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  Speaker 5: who else is meal money? Do you remember we were
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  Speaker 5: all out hanging out and we just got the meal
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  Speaker 5: money envelopes We used to get that meal money envelope
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  Speaker 5: and Todd remembers it was like one thousand, twelve hundred
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  Speaker 5: dollars of cash. Do you remember how you got all
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  Speaker 5: their meal money one night?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, they said Domit. Domitt was the one that came
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  Speaker 5: up with it. Domitt said, Jesse said, would you ever
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  Speaker 5: lick a urinal cookie for all of our meal money?
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  Speaker 3: No? That that no, no, no, no, that that was
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  Speaker 3: that was Sean. That was Sean, not me.
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  Speaker 5: So then you lost it, so that you lost the money.
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  Speaker 5: So you so you gave your meal money away? Okay?
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  Speaker 5: I love I love that. I can't like that's the
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  Speaker 5: lot of stuff, like hanging out with the guys afterwards,
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  Speaker 5: and like, are you gonna miss that now that you're
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  Speaker 5: now that you're done.
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  Speaker 2: Ski, Yeah, I would say that's probably the biggest part.
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  Speaker 2: You know, what we do on the field is what
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  Speaker 2: we're expected of but being able to hang out outside,
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  Speaker 2: talk about life, talk about family stuff, how the kids are,
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  Speaker 2: how's the wife doing, how's everything going off of the field.
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  Speaker 3: So that way, you know, we know when.
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  Speaker 2: We show up when something's going off on the field,
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  Speaker 2: we don't look the right way, we have an empty
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  Speaker 2: face or we you know, we snap a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more when we're going in a conversation or the til
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  Speaker 2: might not be differently. But being able to understand that
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  Speaker 2: and leave the stuff at the field and the stuff
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  Speaker 2: away from the field, which is the family stuff, but
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  Speaker 2: mesh them both to where we can get our job
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  Speaker 2: done at the same time. It's huge, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: so that's how I look at it.
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  Speaker 5: Which time that you signed with the Braves is most
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  Speaker 5: meaningful to you? Obviously this year you got to sign back.
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  Speaker 5: It's your last uniform you' put on. You want a
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  Speaker 5: World Series after I think signing a mind the contract
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  Speaker 5: if I remember right, which yes, there is there one
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  Speaker 5: time that you'll be like, wow, I remember that because
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  Speaker 5: the kids remembered it, the wife remembered it, you know,
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  Speaker 5: or this happened.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty twenty one because it was only offer I had.
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  Speaker 2: That that one was the only offer I had after
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  Speaker 2: being first opening day I was at home from any
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  Speaker 2: affiliate or in affiliated baseball, so to speak, first time
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  Speaker 2: I was ever at home and they were the only
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  Speaker 2: time that the only one that offered. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: I felt I wasn't done. I felt the way I
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  Speaker 2: ended spring training that year with the Angels wasn't right.
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  Speaker 3: Rolled my ankle and had a subscap thing going on.
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  Speaker 2: But other than that, I rolled out of bed one
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  Speaker 2: day and went up top on the basketball court throw
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  Speaker 2: baseball and I felt good. I was like, all right,
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  Speaker 2: let's give it another try, sent some numbers out and
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  Speaker 2: they were the only team that called, and it was
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  Speaker 2: a blessing in disguise.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go back to this retirement thing we talked about.
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  Speaker 4: What is like what told you time to hang up?
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  Speaker 4: Was family?
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  Speaker 5: Was it? You know?
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  Speaker 4: Just been playing for too long?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I want to be home. And my last question,
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  Speaker 4: if you did get the call, you know, in next
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  Speaker 4: week or so, are you gonna say no? You know
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  Speaker 4: what I mean? There's questions you got to talk to
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  Speaker 4: yourself about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I mean if it would be a big
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  Speaker 2: league job, yes, I think it's the way the upbringing
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  Speaker 2: is in minor league systems. Watching it from afar, it's
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  Speaker 2: not about development anymore. It's about you know, who's the
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  Speaker 2: hot hand and let's see what happens. And then I
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  Speaker 2: feel like some kids when they get to triple A
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  Speaker 2: now watching them from on the on both sides, it's
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  Speaker 2: like they think they're the biggies when they're triple A
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  Speaker 2: because they're right there, and that ain't it. It's not
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  Speaker 2: the way it's supposed to be, you know. And I
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna unless I'm a coach. It's the only
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  Speaker 2: way I'm gonna deal with it. Okay, I got you know,
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  Speaker 2: we all got stuff we want to get accomplished, and
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  Speaker 2: that's getting back to the big leagues.
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  Speaker 3: When we're in triple A, you know, and then the
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  Speaker 3: big leagues.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you see the same thing if on other
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  Speaker 2: sides and both sides of it, you know, you want
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  Speaker 2: to be on that side of the coaching side and
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  Speaker 2: instill that little Hey, come on, now, there's one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and sixty two. I know it's tough, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: being able to when you see the end, which is
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  Speaker 2: holding up that trophy, it's a little different.
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  Speaker 5: What's the what's the difference in the players that you've
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  Speaker 5: seen since the beginning of when you got called up
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  Speaker 5: to the big leagues in eight I think was your
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  Speaker 5: first year. Two the guys that are getting called up
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  Speaker 5: this year in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It's just such a quick turnaround, real quick with them,
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  Speaker 2: and they're the process and some of them take it
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  Speaker 2: and understand what it's like to be a professional and
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  Speaker 2: some did.
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  Speaker 3: You just see it differently, I feel, and I you know,
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  Speaker 3: you see, I was one of them too at some
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  Speaker 3: point I assume where it was.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you gotta slap yourself and look in the
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  Speaker 2: mirror a little bit and be like, okay, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 2: let's hold off a little bit. But I feel now
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  Speaker 2: it's more about what we're all seeing on the end
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  Speaker 2: of it, the paycheck.
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  Speaker 3: And not the longevity.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, I mean, give us more on that.
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  Speaker 1: Because you've been through obviously a long period of time
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  Speaker 1: in this game. How do you actually see that from
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  Speaker 1: the preparation, from the info. Do you feel like it's
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  Speaker 1: something that's growing from you know, high school and college
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  Speaker 1: and all of that, or is it a lot of Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you get to a certain team, they're trying to maximize
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  Speaker 1: the arm. The player obviously wants to get the most
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  Speaker 1: out of the arm, but then that leads to a
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  Speaker 1: higher injury risk. You know, what else have you seen
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  Speaker 1: specifically that you think has changed, Like, do you have
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  Speaker 1: any examples where you're like, hey, nowadays, this is what
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  Speaker 1: we're all doing and this is what's leading to this problem.
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  Speaker 2: My only thing I see differently is the way the
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  Speaker 2: training is how me and I talked to the strength
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  Speaker 2: coaches all the time, so I'm always in there. And
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  Speaker 2: it was about them communicating with their off season coaches
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  Speaker 2: how it was and how it was like before. If
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  Speaker 2: you had an off season coach or facility you went
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  Speaker 2: to to train, they were in contact throughout the season
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  Speaker 2: as well. I mean, call me if I'm wrong, right,
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  Speaker 2: Frage Katsy, If you guys went to one of those,
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  Speaker 2: they had contact just to understand where you were coming from.
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  Speaker 3: And I feel like that's kind of a lost art
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  Speaker 3: in a way.
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  Speaker 5: Why do you think that is? I mean, I know
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  Speaker 5: teams want to keep guys healthy, Yeah, I do think it.
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  Speaker 5: Do you think it's an ego? Do you think it's
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  Speaker 5: a front office saying no, we got to leave these
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  Speaker 5: guys alone. Where do you think it is? Because you
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  Speaker 5: said it's about money, Well, if it's about money, the
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  Speaker 5: only way you can most guys can make money is
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  Speaker 5: by longevity and staying around, So you better figure it out.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, And I feel I don't know what happened
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  Speaker 3: with that.
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  Speaker 2: Because before, I mean, now there's other there's everybody's getting
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  Speaker 2: involved now and it's fine.
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  Speaker 3: You have you have drive Line.
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  Speaker 2: Now on baseball you have Maven and Baseball, and that's great.
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  Speaker 2: There's other facilities that are in it, but they're.
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  Speaker 3: In contact with the teams.
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  Speaker 2: But if a guy goes to a private place and
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  Speaker 2: they're not in contact and then he gets hurt, then
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  Speaker 2: what do you do to an off season? I don't
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  Speaker 2: like that the player being questioned about that doesn't make
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  Speaker 2: sense because they're trying their hardest to get prepared for
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty two.
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  Speaker 4: No doubt about it. That's that's a long way. Hey, listen,
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  Speaker 4: we all know, and it's more than one hundred and
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  Speaker 4: sixty two. It's another month, month and a half at
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  Speaker 4: spring training. It's not for everybody, as we know. But
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  Speaker 4: my question to you, you kind of inklinked this a
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  Speaker 4: little bit ago, would you end up being a coach
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  Speaker 4: if the opportunity came to as well. Are you some
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  Speaker 4: guy that's gonna want to do something like that in
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  Speaker 4: a couple of years, maybe next year, a year, whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would love to. I'd love to help these
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  Speaker 3: guys out.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I feel like I was given a lot
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  Speaker 2: more than I should have and to go back and
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  Speaker 2: give it, give it back for however long I can.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think that would be great conversations I
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  Speaker 2: can have with them, you know, just on the field
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  Speaker 2: about how off the field preparation can can take over
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  Speaker 2: and it make it a lot easier once you step
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: between those lines, you know, the philosophical talking, you know,
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  Speaker 2: easing them through it, understanding who they are as a person,
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  Speaker 2: so that way, now when they get on the mound,
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  Speaker 2: they're that person and not trying to be somebody that
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  Speaker 2: they're not or trying to be.
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  Speaker 5: I should say, Yeah, you might be the most valuable
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  Speaker 5: hire that anybody in any organization has if you can
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  Speaker 5: get that through to front offices. I don't know if
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  Speaker 5: it's even players, because players are like, well, the front
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  Speaker 5: office said, if I'm not throwing ninety seven every pitch
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  Speaker 5: that they're going to send me down and you're like, actually,
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  Speaker 5: here's what you actually need to do. You just need
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  Speaker 5: to get out. When you're in a big leagues, you
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  Speaker 5: need to get out. So if you anyway, if any
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  Speaker 5: organizations are listening to FT, Jesse Chavez is now willing
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  Speaker 5: to sign a one point five million dollars coaching contract
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  Speaker 5: per year and he will get your boys a eighteen
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  Speaker 5: season career, every one of them. But that that doesn't
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  Speaker 5: seem to be a value to teams.
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  Speaker 3: I guess I would love to help out and do
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  Speaker 3: that would be great.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they're just a lot of things that I
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  Speaker 2: can I think I can help them out with from
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  Speaker 2: the mental side of it, just being able to being
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  Speaker 2: in every situation, being a swing man, throwing in highlighted
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  Speaker 2: situations and throwing the worst situations you can being down nine,
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  Speaker 2: which is you know, highlights of situation.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, a position player doesn't have to come
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  Speaker 3: in and pitch facts.
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  Speaker 5: Now in retirement, you get a lot better at things.
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  Speaker 5: You you don't ever have to deal with arms hurting.
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  Speaker 5: I don't ever have to deal with Jason a slider
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  Speaker 5: in the dirt. So one of the other reasons I'm
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  Speaker 5: glad you were on is because we get to show
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  Speaker 5: my one at bat that I got against you and
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  Speaker 5: when I went deep Sauce, I mean, I mean, I
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  Speaker 5: mean it's so far back that it's it's unbelievable throw
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  Speaker 5: a win. The wind was the wind was blown out
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  Speaker 5: and regularly that. But we're not even gonna really talk
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  Speaker 5: about that.
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  Speaker 4: You're having a perfect spot too, Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Over the fence, that's the perfect spot. But when you
• 15:10
  Speaker 5: face Todd, you're one for seven off of Jess Was.
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: Stuff was moving everywhere, but I couldn't everywhere.
• 15:22
  Speaker 5: Is there one at bat? Is there one at bat
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: from your career that you look back on and you
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: go that isn't memorable at bat or that is like
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: a game changing at bat. I remember, I used to
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: have a theory that if I hit a home run
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: off a guy, they were either getting released, sent down
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: to the minors, or not. So you stuck around. So
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: I want you to make sure you know that. But
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: is there one for you where you're like, dude, I
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: just battled I don't know, Albert Poolholes, Mickey Cabrera, like
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: something where you're like I belong in the big leagues,
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: or that meant that at bat will always I'll always
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: remember this pitch.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: You know, there's two that makes okay, there's two, they're
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: two tied.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: It was the second out in the what was it
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: the twelfth inning in Oakland when we played eighteen innings
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: against Yankees.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: To finish that ending.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: When I came in with second and third and went
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: out to finish that inning, my mind was like, okay,
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: shoulders can drop. Now you are, you're reinvented. Now you're
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: this is who you are, now who I'm. What I
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: throw now, it's what I throw then through then and
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: I was like, okay, now you can go with it.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: Now, let's run with it.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: And then the other one was was Mickey the one
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: when he broke my leg, because that proved to me
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: that you know, no matter how long you've been around,
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: he still can't throw four the same pitches to a
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Hall of Famer wouldn't make sense, you know. So I
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: think that those two kind of stood out to me
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: that I was like, all right, back to being a
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: bigger game. I mean, the first pitch of my career
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: in the big leagues. I mean, you're numb to the fact.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: You don't really remember that one. You know, you just
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: know you were there, so that one kind of really
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: didn't officially say I was a big leader because you
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: don't know how long it's gonna last, but I would
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: say those ones kind of solidified it for me.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Hey, you had a special relationship with the Braves, and
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Braves fans obviously had you know, multiple stops there. So
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: what was it like. I mean, you're fresh off the
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: field right now announcing your retirement, So what was it
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: like this year with Atlanta? Obviously I know that didn't
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: go as well on the field for the team, but
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: just take us inside what it was like to be
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: part of the org this year?
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: Oh, from day one it was great.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: I mean back you could go back to twenty ten
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: until now. It's all being open arms. Anybody that comes in,
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: you're welcomed.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: You're part of the crew.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Whether you're you've got making your debut or you've got
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: fifteen years in, You're welcome no matter what statue you
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: are as far as what you've done in the game.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: And that's the best part about it.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: That makes it easier for you to show up every day,
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: show up with a smile, and go out and do
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: your business. And that's you know, that's a testament to
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: the organization and up top to being able to do
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: that year and year out and put that type of
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: lineup and that type of roster together to where they
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: all feed together.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: They all feed off of one another.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: The conversations that they have, aren't afraid to have because
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: that's what you're going to have to have in order
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: to be successful. The tough ones. Never a questioning conversation.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: It's always a meaningful and a moving forward conversation. So
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: that's something that we all leave at the door, which
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: is our ego and understanding what we want to get
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: accomplished today is when we step out into that dugout
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: up those stairs, there's one thing, and that's get a
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: w for that night, and you know, do our best
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: to be able to contribute to you know, what we
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: wanted to do in twenty one year and you're out.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: And that's awesome for Alex to do that for us
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: and the coaching staff, the training staff, you know. And
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: fortunate part about us this year was we got hit
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: by the injury bug. And in a year where you're
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: going in, you're looking at it like, man, it seems
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: like another special year, you know. But sometimes our motto
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: was we always thought we could thrive in adversity, and
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: we still can.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: I gotta ask it because everyone always asks me this.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: I need you to name in order, you can sons
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: minor league teams because I always have to put in
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: my minor league teams in order. All your big league teams,
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: can you name them from start to finish, from.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Start to finish, Let's go Pittsburgh Tampa Bay. But it
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: didn't count because it's an off season move.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: I didn't suit up. Does that count?
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: No, that's I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Yep, okay,
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: all right?
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: And then Atlanta, Kansas City, Toronto, Oakland, Toronto, the Dodgers,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: the Angels, the Rangers, the Cubs, Rangers, Angels. In spring
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: training of twenty one, Braves, Cubs, of twenty two, Braves, Angels, Braves,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: twenty three was Braves spring training, twenty four was the
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: White Sox and the Braves. Then this year was the Rangers, Braves.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: He did it, He did it. Wow, Wow, Wow.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: That's how you deliver under pressure. That is impressive. To
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: go through it like that. Baseball player memories are just different.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: I was very impressive with PESSI well, dude, we appreciate
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: having you on. I mean, last thing, does it feel
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: like a weight off your shoulders? Like, how do you
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: feel when you, you know, come on here and say, hey,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm calling it from someone who did this for
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: a long time and who didn't give up and bounce
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: around to teams? Like, does does it feel like you're
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: ready for the next chapter, whether coaching, hanging out with fam,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: the whole thing.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: I mean it's one that we've been talking about obviously
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: for some time, but every time I come up to
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: throw baseball it feels great, so I might as well
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: give it another try, you know what I mean. So
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: I feel like now it's all the conversations I've had,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: you know, this year and you know last year as well.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: In the last years, I feel like I felt like
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: they were in the coaching capacity. So I feel like
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: now it's finally time I got the hitch out of
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: the system, got all the throws out of the system
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: that I needed to get out of so that way
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: I'm not looking at a TV and biting my fingernails.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: I feel like now it's time to be like, all right, let's.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Write some things down and get moving forward with what
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: we want to get accomplished now, and that's help kids
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: get you know, get their tenure, you know, and eventually
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: hold up some hardware, whether it's a Cy Young whether
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: it's a really really year award, whatever case may be,
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: and then eventually hold up another trophy as a coach.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: And I feel like I'm capable and well aware of
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: enough to do that for him.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: That's awesome, man.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, very goal oriented, super inspirational Jesse. This was really cool.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Thanks for doing this on here, and thanks for everything
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: that you've done in your career, bringing a lot of joy,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: a lot of success to a lot of ball clubs.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: And we'll be talking.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: Man.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: We're here every day, so we'll be talking.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: I'll be watching.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: I appreciate you guys, Thank you, thank you, Thank you
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: guys for sure time and thank you.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Appreciate you.