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Kyle Gibson on retirement decision · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Hey, congratulations to Kyle Gibson, who just announced his retirement
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Speaker 1: from the game and joins us right now in FT Kyle,
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Speaker 1: good to see you.
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Speaker 2: Congratulations man. How does it feel?
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Speaker 3: Thank you guys, appreciate it. It feels awesome. You know,
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Speaker 3: I've missed out on a lot of family time, as
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Speaker 3: these guys know, and I mean you've traveled around called
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Speaker 3: a lot of baseball games and you know as well.
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Speaker 3: So it's been good to jump right in and be
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Speaker 3: a dad to our four kids. I'm out visiting my
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Speaker 3: parents right now in Indiana, so seeing them and seeing
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Speaker 3: a couple of grandparents and doing things that I haven't
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Speaker 3: been able to do for a long time. So it's
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Speaker 3: been a lot of fun.
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Speaker 2: Was the decision tough when you made it?
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Speaker 1: Did you want to try and come back again for
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Speaker 1: this season and even next or were you, like am
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Speaker 1: thinking about it? Because I know you started up ramping
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Speaker 1: up late with the Orioles and then they three right
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Speaker 1: into the fire.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the whole late spring training was kind
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Speaker 3: of weird, honestly, you know, I think that was that
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Speaker 3: was a tough decision for me to leave home at
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Speaker 3: that point because I had missed all spring training basically,
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Speaker 3: and you know, was getting more acclimated to being home
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Speaker 3: in March and what that looks like. So you know,
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Speaker 3: I wanted to go play when when I ended up
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Speaker 3: signing with the Oarls and talking to the Orioles, and
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Speaker 3: you know, it's hard to go to the Rays. You know,
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Speaker 3: that was a place that I'd looked at probably the
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Speaker 3: last four or five years that possibly play in there,
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Speaker 3: and just really loving what they do with pitching. So
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Speaker 3: I kind of decided, you know, let's let's go there,
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Speaker 3: spend three weeks with with them in the minor league system,
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Speaker 3: see if there's a few things I can adjust and
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Speaker 3: work on, and see what happens at the end of it.
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Speaker 3: And I threw the ball really well, felt awesome physically,
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Speaker 3: and they're just for whatever reason, timing age, whatever it is,
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Speaker 3: there really wasn't the opportunity that that I thought was
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Speaker 3: going to be there when when I had thrown the
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Speaker 3: ball well, So came home just so happened to my
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Speaker 3: opt out date lined up with the family lake trip
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Speaker 3: that my wife and kids have gone by themselves on
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Speaker 3: with their family every year. So I drove down to Arkansas,
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Speaker 3: went to the lake trip and started thinking over the
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Speaker 3: next couple of weeks what it was going to look like.
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Speaker 4: Has there been a moment, Has there been a moment
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Speaker 4: when you've looked at Elizabeth and gone.
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Speaker 3: You still like me being here?
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Speaker 4: Or is it like, you know where she's like taking
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Speaker 4: care of the kids and then you hop in You're like,
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Speaker 4: I want to be helpful and you're not as helpful.
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Speaker 3: Yes, gratty. That happens every year and this this is
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Speaker 3: no different. You know, I normally disrupt timing, disrupt schedules,
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Speaker 3: and I did it in the middle of the year
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Speaker 3: two or three times now. So yeah, I sat down,
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Speaker 3: probably I don't know, a week and a half ago
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Speaker 3: and started, you know, writing some thank yous and stuff
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Speaker 3: that I want to post and you guys, wait, are
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Speaker 3: you sure you want to do this? So yeah, I
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Speaker 3: mean there's I think those questions are always gonna come up,
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Speaker 3: you know it. Everybody asked you know about you know,
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Speaker 3: when to retire, and you know, she kept saying, well,
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Speaker 3: if you want to keep pitching, you know, you know,
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Speaker 3: keep playing. I said, I'm always gonna want to pitch.
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Speaker 3: So this has a lot more to do with wanting
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Speaker 3: to be around you and the kids more and wanting
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Speaker 3: to be around my parents and grandparents and and her
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Speaker 3: family more because I'm always gonna want to play baseball,
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Speaker 3: you know how that is, competing and doing that. There's
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Speaker 3: just nothing like it.
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Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't ever want to have to
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Speaker 4: see another slider again. So maybe maybe it's different, Maybe
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Speaker 4: you're built different. But you said, you said the Oriols,
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Speaker 4: you said, you said, you know, the opportunity wasn't quite
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Speaker 4: what I thought it would be. Can you explain that
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Speaker 4: a little bit more?
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Speaker 3: Uh, the Orioles was that opportunity was was a good one,
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Speaker 3: you know. There there was a little bit of me
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Speaker 3: that was we had talked to him probably ten or
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Speaker 3: twelve days prior to me signing, and I don't know why.
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Speaker 3: There was just something about it that, you know, at
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Speaker 3: the time ten days prior that I wasn't, you know,
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Speaker 3: as comfortable with it. Could have been that everybody in
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Speaker 3: our family was sick and we were going through the
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Speaker 3: middle of a tough time just trying to get healthy.
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Speaker 3: But and then we talked two weeks later, you know,
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Speaker 3: towards the end of the march, I felt a lot
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Speaker 3: better about it and really enjoyed my time back there.
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Speaker 3: I love those guys, you know, a great organization. You
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Speaker 3: enjoyed being you know with both the minor league tams
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Speaker 3: that I was with, and sure the four starts didn't
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Speaker 3: work out, but you know, that's a really good group
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Speaker 3: of guys, you know it kind of then going to Tampa,
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Speaker 3: you know, that was an awesome situation, the one that
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Speaker 3: I just wasn't really sure about to have too. It
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Speaker 3: was just after, you know, I had a couple of
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Speaker 3: chances after I opted out of Durham and then just
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Speaker 3: the opportunities didn't seem like they were quite what I
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Speaker 3: was looking for. Whether it was you know, only a
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Speaker 3: bullpen kind of a short term you know, inning situation
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Speaker 3: maybe like you guys are talking with the Braves, just
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Speaker 3: wasn't really one that seemed like a long term. Hey,
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Speaker 3: you're going to be one of the guys here for
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Speaker 3: the next four months and let's go after.
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Speaker 4: This, Kyle.
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Speaker 5: Was there a moment. Was there a moment when you
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Speaker 5: were like, Okay, I'm done. I know you said that
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Speaker 5: you're at your opt out date coincided with your family's
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Speaker 5: late trip. Was was there a moment when you're in
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Speaker 5: Durham or in Baltimore wherever you were when you're just like,
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Speaker 5: I don't want to do this anymore because listen, I
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Speaker 5: mean I had to retire.
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Speaker 3: Crafts had to retire.
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Speaker 5: You know, there is there a moment when you just said, ah, man,
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Speaker 5: you know, whether it was at the lake, maybe you're
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Speaker 5: at the lake with the family and you're like, this
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Speaker 5: is kind of cool. I don't have to work, I
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Speaker 5: don't have to go to pitch every days from now right.
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Speaker 5: I don't know, because I think we all kind of
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Speaker 5: have that moment now, you know, not all of us
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Speaker 5: get to Hardly anybody gets to go out on their
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Speaker 5: own terms and have the tour and do all that stuff.
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Speaker 5: But was there a moment when you said I'm okay
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Speaker 5: without playing baseball.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I think going into last year, I was actually fine
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Speaker 3: if last year was my last year playing, you know,
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Speaker 3: being you know, living in Saint Louis, playing with Saint Louis.
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Speaker 3: You know, I had the option for this year, but
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Speaker 3: we were as a family, we were good if that
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Speaker 3: was our last year, and I really was until I got,
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Speaker 3: you know, the opportunity with the Orioles, even as the
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Speaker 3: fake spring training and not being in spring training kind
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Speaker 3: of drug on I was okay if that was it,
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Speaker 3: you know, But once I started playing, I never had
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Speaker 3: that moment where, oh, a bad start, you know, I
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Speaker 3: just need to retire, or I'm a little bit more
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Speaker 3: sword day, Oh I just need to retire. Probably didn't
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Speaker 3: actually happen until probably after that lake trip, when I
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Speaker 3: got home and I had to decide am I gonna
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Speaker 3: play catch? Or am I gonna go throw a bullpen?
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Speaker 3: Or what am I gonna do here? And I still
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Speaker 3: felt good, and every every time the kids went to
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Speaker 3: bed and it was my time to go work out,
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Speaker 3: I was like, you know what, I don't know that
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Speaker 3: I really want to go do this anymore right now.
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Speaker 3: So I think it was probably more, you know, a
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Speaker 3: week or ten days after that opt out, I kind
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Speaker 3: of had, you know, come to the point before I
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Speaker 3: called my agent. I talked to Elizabeth and the family
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Speaker 3: and I was like, you know, I don't think I
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Speaker 3: want to do that anymore. I don't want to sit
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Speaker 3: and search and jump in and out of the house
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Speaker 3: and go to this team and you know, maybe get
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Speaker 3: defaided and then go find another team. And I felt
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Speaker 3: really good about how the results matched up in Durham,
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Speaker 3: and that's really what I was looking for. Just get
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Speaker 3: back to feeling how I knew I could feel. And
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Speaker 3: if there's not an opportunity, you know, there's not an opportunity.
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Speaker 3: And I was good with that.
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Speaker 4: Maybe if it was rainy at the lake, maybe you
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Speaker 4: would have been like, maybe come back. But I'm sure
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Speaker 4: it was nice, the water was clean, everything. But your
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Speaker 4: track record speaks for itself. Like people don't understand health, longevity,
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Speaker 4: pitching every day. Did you feel like the Orioles could
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Speaker 4: have given you a litle bit longer of a leash
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Speaker 4: than I think four starts because of the fact that
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Speaker 4: you are a thirty to thirty two starts. However many
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Speaker 4: starts you're allowed to get, you get at the end
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Speaker 4: of every year. It comes kind of comes out in
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Speaker 4: the wash, like you just that's what you do. Do
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Speaker 4: you feel like four starts was just not enough or
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Speaker 4: was it a chaotic time on a team that wanted to,
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Speaker 4: you know, make the playoffs and you were kind of
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Speaker 4: caught in a wash on that one.
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Speaker 3: I think everything you just said is probably the case, right, Yeah,
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Speaker 3: I mean I think if I look back in my career,
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Speaker 3: every year, I probably had four of the thirty two
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Speaker 3: starts that I really wish didn't happen, and it just
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Speaker 3: so happened that, you know, three of those were right
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Speaker 3: there in the first four starts of the year. You know,
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Speaker 3: I still felt really confident that I could get guys out,
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Speaker 3: still felt really good that I could go pitch and
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Speaker 3: be successful. And I think, like you said, that the
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Speaker 3: Orioles were at a spot where they needed to make
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Speaker 3: a decision. You know, they needed a bullpen guy for
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Speaker 3: that next stay after my last rough one, and I
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Speaker 3: just happened to be the guy in the crosshairs that
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Speaker 3: they needed to make the move. So I think they
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Speaker 3: would have liked to have given me more starts. I
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Speaker 3: think they probably thought to themselves, it's going to even out,
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Speaker 3: and I feel like I probably would have looked just
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Speaker 3: like the guy that's been there the last ten or
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Speaker 3: eleven twelve seasons. But you know, it's the decision that
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Speaker 3: they had to make at the time. So that's just
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Speaker 5: All right, I'm always fascinated by this question. Now, what
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Speaker 5: what do you do all day? Because people ask me
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Speaker 5: all the time, Oh, you're retired, you must have all
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Speaker 5: the time in the world. I'm like, I'm way more
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Speaker 5: busy now than when I played. So, now, what what
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Speaker 5: do you do all day? Just sit around right, feed up,
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Speaker 5: eating bond bonds, do nothing right.
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Speaker 3: Sit at the pool, like, so what do you do
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Speaker 3: all day?
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Speaker 2: So?
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Speaker 3: You know, anybody that has kids and works a lot, right,
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Speaker 3: I mean you come home, your kids have a schedule.
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Speaker 3: And that's been one thing that's been really cool for
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Speaker 3: me is you know, we've got an eleven year old,
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Speaker 3: eight year old and a five year old and two
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Speaker 3: year old, and the eleven year old eight year old
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Speaker 3: are deep into sports, deep into their activities and I
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Speaker 3: miss a lot of it, right, So the cool thing
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Speaker 3: for me is I've just been able to jump in
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Speaker 3: and be a part of it. So I haven't had
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Speaker 3: to figure out what to do, you know, for the
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Speaker 3: last month, you know, I haven't had to figure anything out.
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Speaker 3: So I'm just gonna enjoy jumping right in and being
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Speaker 3: a dad and being a husband. And then I'm sure
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Speaker 3: there's gonna come a time here in a couple of
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Speaker 3: weeks when they go to school and now I'm like, okay, uh,
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Speaker 3: three of the four here are gone. Uh what am
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Speaker 3: I gonna do today? I did end up getting a
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Speaker 3: new tractor right after we opt I opt that out.
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Speaker 3: So that's gonna be something I'm gonna run around. There's
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Speaker 3: a tree that needs to be cut up, but that's
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Speaker 3: only gonna take a day.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 3: You know, there's gonna be things that that are gonna
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Speaker 3: need to be done. But we'll see when the kids
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Speaker 3: go back to school, you know what that's gonna look like.
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Speaker 4: I can see gibbee as the kids are going back
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Speaker 4: to school, like, you guys wanna stay home and like play,
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Speaker 4: stay home and play with me because that's that's home.
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Speaker 4: And they're like, no, we want to go to school
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Speaker 4: see our friends.
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Speaker 2: What are you?
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Speaker 3: What are you good at?
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Speaker 4: Man? Because because as a player, everybody, your entire family,
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Speaker 4: your friends, everything revolves around your schedule. I have to
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Speaker 4: go get my workouts in. I gotta hey, I'm going
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Speaker 4: to the field. Hey it's my start day. Are you
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Speaker 4: guys getting tickets? It's all about you. You you, and that's
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Speaker 4: the one thing that you do. What are you good
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Speaker 4: at that? You're like yeah, and don't say pickleball because
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Speaker 4: that's that's weak. That's a week week.
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Speaker 3: No, I know nothing to sit there and hang my
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Speaker 3: hat on and be like, oh man, I'm gonna go
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Speaker 3: do this five days a week and feel really good
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Speaker 3: about it. You know, one thing I'm trying to do
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Speaker 3: is I'm trying to learn how to work on some
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Speaker 3: engines and do some car work. Our kids are older
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Speaker 3: to race a little side by side you TV's in
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Speaker 3: the summer. My father in law is the mechanic on
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Speaker 3: all of those, and they're, you know, at times, are
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Speaker 3: fairly easy to work on. I am not mechanically inclined,
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Speaker 3: but I need to be able to be able to
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Speaker 3: wrench a few things here. So for the next rest
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Speaker 3: of this summer, I think I'm gonna try and see
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Speaker 3: if you can give me a little bit of a
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Speaker 3: crash course on what it looks like to work on
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Speaker 3: these a little bit more, fix a few things so
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Speaker 3: then next year he didn't have to do as much.
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Speaker 3: But our five year old is going to be in
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Speaker 3: it here soon hopefully, and they have a lot of
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Speaker 3: fun doing that. So if I can take a little
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Speaker 3: pressure off Randy and having to wrench all these little razors,
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Speaker 3: that's gonna be something I'm gonna try to get good
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Speaker 3: out here over the next four or five months. It's
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Speaker 3: gonna take longer than four or five months, whom I can't,
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Speaker 3: but I'm gonna try and work on that a little bit.
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Speaker 4: Nice little grease under your fingernails, all right, Yeah, to
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Speaker 4: thank it after it. Two things, favorite teammate and everyone
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Speaker 4: else is gonna be pissed at you because you said
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Speaker 4: this person and craziest teammate.
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Speaker 3: Oh man, I'm gonna go position player and pitcher for
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Speaker 3: favorite teammate because I can't. You know, I wouldn't have
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Speaker 3: had the career I had without you know, Kurt Suzuki
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Speaker 3: behind the dish for the first few years in Minnesota.
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Speaker 3: That guy showed me the ropes on you know, how
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Speaker 3: to be a pro. You know how to make adjustments
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Speaker 3: on the mound, how to take a plan that you
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Speaker 3: created and adjust to that plan. You know. He told
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Speaker 3: me one time in twenty fourteen against the Tigers when
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Speaker 3: they're trying to clinch the division. In the third ding,
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Speaker 3: he goes, Hey, we're gonna throw fastballs until they start
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Speaker 3: respecting your fastball. I'm like, are you kidding me? We're
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Speaker 3: gonna throw Meggie and Victor and all these guys just heaters. Well,
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Speaker 3: I look up in the fifth inning and I haven't
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Speaker 3: thrown her off speed pitch for the last three eating
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Speaker 3: so he was a special one. And as a pitcher,
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Speaker 3: oh man. Uh, Mike Pelfrey was that guy in in
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Speaker 3: Minnesota for me that kind of showed me the ropes.
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Speaker 3: And if it's not him, it's Lance Lynn. You know,
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Speaker 3: he's another Indiana guy that really got to enjoy getting
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Speaker 3: to know and being teammates with a few different times.
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Speaker 3: And you know, I would say as a pitcher, he's
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Speaker 3: he's the guy who's the craziest. Was Lance was Lance
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Speaker 3: the craziest? Oh man? Uh No, I feel like had
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Speaker 3: I been teammates with him, you know, pre children, uh
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Speaker 3: and and pre that maybe I've heard that, you know,
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Speaker 3: from his his own words, he settled down a little bit,
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Speaker 3: so he might have been craziest teammate. Oh man. Shoot,
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Speaker 3: I don't know I've ever been asked that question. Chratsey,
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Speaker 3: Quite honestly, you know, I don't know that anybody really
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Speaker 3: wants their name out there as the craziest teammate. Had
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Speaker 3: quite a few guys who are pretty damaging to equipment
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Speaker 3: when they make outs. You know, I feel like that's
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Speaker 3: that's the crazy part to me. That's I don't know
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Speaker 3: how you position players did it, quite honestly, but man,
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Speaker 3: I don't know. I'll have to do some I'll have
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Speaker 3: to answer that question next time I'm on here. If
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Speaker 3: you guys have me back on, you put me on
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Speaker 3: a spot with a crazy teammate. Maybe I'll think about
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Speaker 3: it here before we're done.
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Speaker 1: Fine, Yes, homework, homework and then and then we'll talk
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Speaker 1: about it again at some point.
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Speaker 2: My last one. You pitched for the Oriols in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty three. They were awesome. They won one hundred one games.
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Speaker 1: I know the playoffs didn't work out the way you
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Speaker 1: guys wanted to ran into a hot Rangers team. Then
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Speaker 1: you were just on this Oriols team I know for
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Speaker 1: a shorter period of time. How difficult was that when
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Speaker 1: you were that I don't remember. I think you were
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Speaker 1: still there when they made the manager change too, and
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Speaker 1: almost everyone I've spoken to just loves Brandon Hyde or
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Speaker 1: How tough was that to navigate the you know a
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Speaker 1: couple months that you were there when this team was
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Speaker 1: supposed to be good again and it was probably the
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Speaker 1: biggest disappointment of a team in baseball this year.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you want to talk about a wild day, you know,
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Speaker 3: we had a it's a wild twenty four hours we
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Speaker 3: had a team meeting at Friday night. I actually pitched
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Speaker 3: the day he got fired, So I got a message
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Speaker 3: about thirty minutes before I was heading to the parque.
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Speaker 3: We got a team meeting at the park. You know,
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Speaker 3: he got relieved that day. I went on, pitched, pitched terrible.
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Speaker 3: I got relieved of my duties later that day. So
15:33
Speaker 3: what a twenty four hours that was. Everybody loves Brandon
15:38
Speaker 3: Hyde man, He's he was so much fun to play for.
15:42
Speaker 3: I'm sure that was a tough decision for a lot
15:43
Speaker 3: of people in that organization because he was beloved by
15:47
Speaker 3: a lot of the front office, community, people, players, everybody,
15:51
Speaker 3: and it was it was kind of a tumultuous season there,
15:54
Speaker 3: you know, I think between some injuries, between some players
15:57
Speaker 3: struggling and starting off cold. I think Anthony Santander was
16:03
Speaker 3: somebody who did a lot for that locker room. So
16:06
Speaker 3: that was something that was a jolt to the system.
16:09
Speaker 3: And it was just kind of the perfect storm in
16:11
Speaker 3: a negative way, quite honestly. And then how it how
16:15
Speaker 3: it is in other places I've been unfortunately. You know,
16:17
Speaker 3: when they make changes, you know, they normally start at
16:20
Speaker 3: the top, and Hyder was kind of the guy to
16:22
Speaker 3: go and see what that does. But you know, it
16:25
Speaker 3: was it was a wild couple months. Obviously, it wasn't
16:27
Speaker 3: what I thought, you know, March twenty fifth, whenever I
16:29
Speaker 3: signed with him, was gonna happen. Because they still have
16:31
Speaker 3: a really good roster, still have a lot of great players.
16:34
Speaker 3: We'll see what this deadline brings. But you know, it's
16:37
Speaker 3: it's still a really good group of guys that that
16:39
Speaker 3: was just really going through. You know, I heard you
16:41
Speaker 3: guys talking about the Braves before I came on here.
16:43
Speaker 3: They're a team that's kind of going through it, a
16:46
Speaker 3: really good team going through it, and the Oora was
16:48
Speaker 3: the same way. You know, Baseball is so funny because
16:51
Speaker 3: nothing is guaranteed. And that's why, you know when you
16:52
Speaker 3: guys talk about the Royals making trades and kind of
16:55
Speaker 3: quote going for it. When you have a chance to
16:57
Speaker 3: make the playoffs as a player, you want to go
17:00
Speaker 3: for it every time. I understand front offices have their
17:03
Speaker 3: ideas and their plans, but you just don't know when
17:06
Speaker 3: it's going to work out, and sometimes injuries derail what
17:09
Speaker 3: you think is going to be your chance, and then
17:11
Speaker 3: you don't have a chance. So I feel like you
17:12
Speaker 3: always need to take advantage of when you have a
17:14
Speaker 3: chance to make the playoffs. Go try man, Go make
17:16
Speaker 3: the playoffs and see if you can do something special.
17:19
Speaker 1: Well said, the winning window always closes sooner than almost
17:22
Speaker 1: everyone expects it to.
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Speaker 2: Kyle, Thank you so much, great stuff man. Great to
17:26
Speaker 2: have you on. Obviously we would love to have you
17:28
Speaker 2: back and congratulations. Enjoy the fan time.
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Speaker 3: Appreciate you guys.