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Tyler Glasnow on his return, Ohtani’s quirks, Attending the ESPYs · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Hey, we've got Tyler Glass now back in action. Too
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Speaker 1: great to see you back, dude. How you feeling and
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Speaker 1: how was the return for you?
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Speaker 2: Ma'am? It was good.
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Speaker 3: I feel really good, just iron and all that stuff out,
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Speaker 3: just back to being healthy and I feel really good
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Speaker 3: right now.
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Speaker 1: I liked your quote the other day after Friday Start.
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Speaker 1: Obviously people want to know, hey, you change anything mechanically,
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Speaker 1: and you're like, I'm just trying to be athletic and
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Speaker 1: just not look at anything. Does that mean take it
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Speaker 1: back a little bit to I don't want to say
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Speaker 1: little kid days, but just not listening too much or
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Speaker 1: studying much and just going out and kind of doing
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Speaker 1: what naturally feels right delivery wise.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's kind of like a meet in
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Speaker 3: the middle situation. I think like when you go through
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Speaker 3: the same injury year and you're out, you kind of
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Speaker 3: have to figure out something. And I think I just revamped,
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Speaker 3: like really like a lot of stuff this offseason, and.
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Speaker 2: It felt good in the beginning.
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Speaker 3: And I just think like when you make huge changes,
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Speaker 3: your body's not used to something like that, especially when
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Speaker 3: you're trying to throw really hard. So I think it's
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Speaker 3: kind of like a meet in the middle thing. I
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Speaker 3: think trying to overcook what I was doing before and
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Speaker 3: like get really crazy backbend and putting like a ton
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Speaker 3: of strain on my arm probably.
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Speaker 2: Wasn't the answer.
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Speaker 3: And I think what I did this offseason also is
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Speaker 3: probably too far on the other side of the spectrum.
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Speaker 3: So I think a lot of it is eliminating thought
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Speaker 3: pitching and then throughout the week trying to just iron
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Speaker 3: out the things I need to But when I go
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Speaker 3: out and that like every five days, I just got
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Speaker 3: to go out and compete. It's just too hard in
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Speaker 3: this lead to go out and try to like do a.
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Speaker 2: Bunch of other stuff.
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Speaker 3: So it is just when I am in between the lines,
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Speaker 3: just try to compete as much as I can and
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Speaker 3: then worry about the other stuff after.
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Speaker 4: Nice. So you think it's good to see by the way,
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Speaker 4: it's been a minute.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, but no, I got traded over the Dodgers and
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Speaker 5: made a lot of information for me. You know, I'm
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Speaker 5: struggling at the time, but you were, you know, dominating
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Speaker 5: throwing the ball well in Tampa. What are some things
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Speaker 5: that they put like they kind of showed you that, hey,
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Speaker 5: you could do this a little bit.
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Speaker 4: This way and this way that added.
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Speaker 5: On, and it was some of the things you're talking
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Speaker 5: about maybe pushing too far the wrong way that might
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Speaker 5: have caused some of the injuries to flare.
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Speaker 2: It.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think a lot of it. Like
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Speaker 3: I kind of came over and they were pretty good
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Speaker 3: about like they weren't trying to change much. I think
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Speaker 3: maybe like or pitch usage and like maybe some in
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Speaker 3: between weak stuff. I think a lot of the changes
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Speaker 3: I made this off season were just kind of out
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Speaker 3: of my own frustration of always getting hurt, and so
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Speaker 3: I think I just looked at like some talk to
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Speaker 3: a bunch of different people, maybe some biomechanic guys, and
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Speaker 3: like they all had different opinions, but all of the
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Speaker 3: similar things they said I tried to take into the
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Speaker 3: off season, and I just think it was it felt
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Speaker 3: really good, like it was designed to make my elbow
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Speaker 3: feel good, and it worked, and my shoulders shuttered hurting,
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Speaker 3: So it just kind.
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Speaker 2: Of was like I couldn't. I don't know.
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Speaker 3: It was just one of those situations where I'd rather
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Speaker 3: go out and pitch well and be athletic as opposed
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Speaker 3: to just trying to like figure out a way to
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Speaker 3: keep my elbow healthy.
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Speaker 2: But I think, like I said, if.
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Speaker 3: I can go in like the middle ground and find
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Speaker 3: a way to compete and stay healthy and just like
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Speaker 3: take care of all the recovery stuff in between the week,
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Speaker 3: which they have a really good grasp on, and like
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Speaker 3: our training room and strength coach guys are awesome.
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Speaker 2: So I think it was just I guess a little,
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Speaker 2: a little halfway thing. I guess if that makes any sense, I.
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Speaker 6: Want to stick on this for one more question about mindset.
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Speaker 6: I think people what people don't understand is when people
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Speaker 6: go through trials and tribulations and their job or their profession,
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Speaker 6: how hard it really is. Now for you, you're very strong
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Speaker 6: in your mind, you're very technical, you're analytical, you understand
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Speaker 6: the way you pitch, But can you tell, like the
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Speaker 6: just regular person out there, you know, what is really
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Speaker 6: going on in your mind during all these things, injuries,
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Speaker 6: getting on the mound, having to face some of the
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Speaker 6: best hitters in the world. You know, I do talk
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Speaker 6: about changing things, but how do you keep this in
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Speaker 6: the right location.
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Speaker 3: I think it definitely is one of those things that
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Speaker 3: comes as you get a routine and you learn yourself,
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Speaker 3: and like you go through the ebbs and flows. The season,
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Speaker 3: you understand how to navigate like all that up and down,
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Speaker 3: and I think when you add, like for me this year,
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Speaker 3: when you add something else that's like completely brand new,
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Speaker 3: it's just another element of something to think about. And
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Speaker 3: it's like probably a picture's worse night, or like just
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Speaker 3: not a picture's it's not like conducive to being a
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Speaker 3: good picture. I think, I'll you do what you can
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Speaker 3: during the week, and then you try to eliminate thought
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Speaker 3: when you get on the mound, and then if you
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Speaker 3: have all these other external things you're thinking about and
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Speaker 3: all this other added stuff, it just it makes it
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Speaker 3: a lot harder. But I guess kind of to what
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Speaker 3: you're saying, it is, it's a lot like you're trying
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Speaker 3: to navigate how you feel, how the other lineup responds
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Speaker 3: to your stuff, and then all the other things going on,
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Speaker 3: and it is just like a process of elimination and
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Speaker 3: trying to simplify the game as much. And I think
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Speaker 3: in a world where there is a lot of added information,
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Speaker 3: you want to take that and you want to understand
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Speaker 3: it and you want to simplify it. But I think
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Speaker 3: like the ticket for anyone, especially if they're not in
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Speaker 3: like a great place is just eliminate thought, go out
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Speaker 3: and play in the backyard and just try to simplify
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Speaker 3: the game as much as you possibly can.
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Speaker 2: Probably for a picture and a hitter.
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Speaker 3: I can't speak on what a hitter goes through, but
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Speaker 3: I'm assuming simple is always pretty pretty good.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna take us in a different direction. A tall
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Speaker 1: dude who has burst on the scene and been talked
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Speaker 1: about a lot so far. I wanted to get your
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Speaker 1: thoughts on Jacob is ARASKI if you got to see
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Speaker 1: some pitches from him, maybe catch a start from the
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Speaker 1: mizz and then what were your thoughts on him getting
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Speaker 1: into the All Star Game.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a I mean, he's a freak.
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Speaker 3: I think I saw a quote that their manager said,
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Speaker 3: he's just like so green, still got the goo on him.
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Speaker 2: He's like a fetus or what. I don't know what
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Speaker 2: he said. That's what I took from it.
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Speaker 3: And he really, I mean, he moves incredibly well, super long,
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Speaker 3: and like very he times it up extremely well. And
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Speaker 3: I think for being how young he is, it's really
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Speaker 3: hard to do. And even there's are times that like
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Speaker 3: being a long, kind of hard throwing guy, it's it's
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Speaker 3: it is really hard to time up. But it seems
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Speaker 3: like his stuff is really consistent. He always has that
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Speaker 3: like hard slider sitting a hundred seems like a really
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Speaker 3: good dude. But yeah, I was super impressed. When you
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Speaker 3: pitch against us, you think he struck out twelve dudes.
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Speaker 3: His stuff was just electric. And then I guess as
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Speaker 3: far as the All Star Game goes, I think immediate
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Speaker 3: reaction is like five games. That's not a ton of
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Speaker 3: time to go into an All Star Game. But I
6:15
Speaker 3: think after like, you can't I if anyone is in
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Speaker 3: his shoes and he's like that disgusting, And then the
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Speaker 3: league asked you to go to the All Star Game,
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Speaker 3: like of course you're going to do it. So no,
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Speaker 3: I don't think anyone can fault him for it. And
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Speaker 3: I also think I heard that like they asked a
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Speaker 3: bunch of guys to go, and I think a lot
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Speaker 3: of guys value the four days off and.
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Speaker 2: We're just like I on like a short notice. I
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Speaker 2: don't want to go pitching the All Star Game.
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Speaker 3: I think a lot of guys like six weeks before,
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Speaker 3: like a month before the All Star breaker, like all right,
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Speaker 3: what can I do during all you were thinking about
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Speaker 3: all this time you get off.
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Speaker 2: It's such a long season. It's just hard to like
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Speaker 2: go in and do it. And he was willing to
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Speaker 2: do it.
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Speaker 3: He was fresh five starts like whatever, and he's nasty.
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Speaker 2: Why not do it again? Who cares? True?
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Speaker 6: I got two questions. I was going to ask this one.
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Speaker 6: But since you brought up to All Star break, is
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Speaker 6: there something you think we could change for the All
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Speaker 6: Star Break? Maybe give it a week off so all
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Speaker 6: those guys that actually get picked can at least come
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Speaker 6: and show up and pitch for an end, because it
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Speaker 6: seems like it's always the pitchers that get screwed out
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Speaker 6: of a you know, a nod to be on the
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Speaker 6: All Star Game. What do you think about that?
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Speaker 2: Or is that just too far fetch?
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Speaker 3: No, I'm down to a week All Star break would
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Speaker 3: be amazing. It's just it's such a long season, like, yeah.
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Speaker 2: It's for springing.
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Speaker 3: Everything's like eight nine months crazy with especially if you're
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Speaker 3: in the World Series in the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: It's just such a long time.
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Speaker 6: Uh.
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Speaker 3: And I do think that week break like you can
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Speaker 3: navigate however you want. If you're a guy who needs
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Speaker 3: to throw, you can go throw applios or whatever. Take
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Speaker 3: a couple of days off, do this, do that. But
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Speaker 3: when you go it's because it's not I think a
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Speaker 3: lot of times too, you need like that emotional or
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Speaker 3: like the mental recharge.
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Speaker 2: And when you go to the All Star.
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Speaker 3: Game, it's like home run Derby and then all that
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Speaker 3: media and then you go into the All Star Game
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Speaker 3: and then you have you have to fly home, so
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Speaker 3: you basically get one day off and then you have
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Speaker 3: that workout the day before the break's over, so you
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Speaker 3: get like, it's not like you get penalized. For me,
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Speaker 3: I think like if you are an All Star, you
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Speaker 3: end up just like never getting a break. So I
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Speaker 3: do think you if you extend it like through or
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Speaker 6: And then the question along the other lines that we
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Speaker 6: were talking about Clayton Karshaw, what have you learned from him?
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Speaker 6: You know, through injuries and watching how he comes back
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Speaker 6: and how cool was it growing up watching him and
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Speaker 6: now seeing him getting his three thousand strikeout.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's honestly one of the most like impressive people
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Speaker 3: I've been around in baseball, I think having him be
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Speaker 3: in that organization for so long, like you can definitely tell.
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Speaker 3: I don't know where the culture was like established, but
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Speaker 3: I think a lot of it is like within him,
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Speaker 3: like the way he goes about his week and the
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Speaker 3: way he just goes about competing, Like though he's not
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Speaker 3: only a player, he seems very much like a like
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Speaker 3: a coach and a front office guy, Like so much
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Speaker 3: revolves around I think what he.
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Speaker 2: Thinks, because he's so highly re.
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Speaker 3: And I think just the mentality of like always go
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Speaker 3: out and try to toe the rubber whenever you can,
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Speaker 3: don't always have to feel perfect, And like the way
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Speaker 3: he grinds in between the week, like he works extremely
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Speaker 3: hard still, And I think the thing that impresses me
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Speaker 3: the most about him is like the intensity he brings
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Speaker 3: to start day every week. And I think when you
10:21
Speaker 3: play with enough guys from like when they're a rookie
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Speaker 3: to the end of their career, I think like there
10:26
Speaker 3: are a bit of maybe changes, Like you have the
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Speaker 3: intensity or like the nervousness, and like that energy is
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Speaker 3: there when you're younger, and I think you learn to
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Speaker 3: like manage it and then maybe towards the end, you
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Speaker 3: don't have as much fire, I.
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Speaker 2: Guess if that's the right word I'm looking for.
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Speaker 3: But like to this day, his routine going into the
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Speaker 3: training or before, like everything he does has been, from
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Speaker 3: what I've heard, like pretty much the exact same as when.
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Speaker 2: He was a rookie.
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Speaker 3: And it's not like I think a lot of people
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Speaker 3: assume that it comes like he's a very talented pitcher obviously,
10:57
Speaker 3: but I think people assume it's just like an easy
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Speaker 3: thing for him, Like when you see the the like
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Speaker 3: not the stress, but like the intensity that he takes
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Speaker 3: every single fifth day, Like this isn't a walk in
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Speaker 3: the park for him at all, Like this is a
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Speaker 3: very like the season is stressful. He's got all like
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Speaker 3: tons of kids like he's and he's so good at
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Speaker 3: like being a dad and juggling that, and every single
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Speaker 3: thing he does in his life is very like just good.
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Speaker 3: He does everything at the highest level. So I think
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Speaker 3: just watching someone navigate a season and like a life
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Speaker 3: the way he does is like very very impressive. I
11:32
Speaker 3: haven't really played with someone as dialed in as him.
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Speaker 3: I played with a lot of really good veterans who
11:39
Speaker 3: do it like their own way. But he's just kind
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Speaker 3: of like a he's just a freak, like I don't
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Speaker 3: even it's so hard to explain, but he really is
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Speaker 3: just like he's everything is just so dialed in.
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Speaker 5: So the one question you grew up a Dodgers fan,
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Speaker 5: did you did you ever tell him like, hey, I
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Speaker 5: watched you as a kid and make him feel older
11:55
Speaker 5: because he got me good and I should up and said, oh,
11:57
Speaker 5: I'm not the greatest starter anymore. So that was I
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Speaker 5: would hope you gave him a few jabs about being
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Speaker 5: being old.
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Speaker 3: I uh, when I first got over there, they asked, like,
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Speaker 3: who's your favorite player growing up? And he's like, I
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Speaker 3: don't know, always five years older than me, and I
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Speaker 3: was like Clayton Kershaw used to watch him with my
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Speaker 3: dad in high school and like Barnes would probably make
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Speaker 3: so much fun of me, just like and we are
12:16
Speaker 3: all like locker buddies. And he would just be like, hey,
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Speaker 3: remember when you said Clayton was your favorite player, and
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Speaker 3: he's like kind of your age and you'd always just
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Speaker 3: like so I think doing that, like just being so
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Speaker 3: young and watching him, I think made him feel pretty old,
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Speaker 3: just being like you're my favorite player.
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Speaker 2: I've watched until I was like a young kid. So
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Speaker 2: he's probably like, oh, that's kind of weird.
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Speaker 5: But yeah, no, that's that's perfect because I did that
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Speaker 5: with Wayno. When I came into Saint Louis, I was like, hey,
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Speaker 5: I remember watching you growing up in the World Series.
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Speaker 5: He's like, dude, I was only like twenty three in
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Speaker 5: that World Series and he's I think he's six.
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Speaker 4: Seven years older than me. So no, that's perfect. Hey.
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Speaker 5: One thing I realized when I got over there is
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Speaker 5: the culture that they have there, and you kind of
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Speaker 5: alluded to it with the way Clayton goes about his
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Speaker 5: business and all that. The way that they include everybody.
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Speaker 5: You got so many superstars there. You know, we had
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Speaker 5: the post series win when you you know, everybody was
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Speaker 5: saluted on you know, Player of the Game and stuff
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Speaker 5: like that. What are the vibes like that when you
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Speaker 5: when you guys win series and stuff like that. I
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Speaker 5: know that Micgi Rojas always puts on a show for everyone.
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Speaker 5: Is he still is he still holding the court for everybody?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we go so if we win a series,
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Speaker 3: we all group up and we take like a postgame
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Speaker 3: shot and then if we win, if we sweep a series, we.
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Speaker 2: Do another one after. But yeah, Migi Row is like.
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Speaker 3: A huge, huge piece of our team. He's the mite guy.
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Speaker 3: He does our post game or like series win speeches,
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Speaker 3: and then whoever is like the player of the series,
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Speaker 3: we'll get up to say something and then they'll.
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Speaker 2: Pass it on to the next guy to the next series.
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Speaker 2: But that's like a huge thing.
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Speaker 3: I feel like like if a team's not doing they
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Speaker 3: should definitely do. I think I came from Pittsburgh to
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Speaker 3: Tampa and kik Kiirmeyer was a guy in Tampa who
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Speaker 3: did that, and it was very like I think to
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Speaker 3: the course of like the ups and downs of seasons,
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Speaker 3: like always having a routine.
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Speaker 2: To where if you win, like something to celebrate and
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Speaker 2: like to call guys out for doing well is like essential.
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Speaker 3: And I think seeing that for the first time they
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Speaker 3: come in to the Dodgers and seeing how like iron
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Speaker 3: out and like buttoned up it is, and it's just
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Speaker 3: everything seems to like fit in place, and there's like
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Speaker 3: a I don't know, I guess I'll plan for everything.
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Speaker 3: It's like it's super essential for a winning team. I
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Speaker 3: think just to like celebrate the small wins and Miggie
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Speaker 3: Rowe's phenomenal and the mic, and I think a lot
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Speaker 3: of people always look forward to the meetings and like
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Speaker 3: the wins after just to be able to do that.
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Miggi's one of the best.
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Speaker 2: Yeah for sure.
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Speaker 1: All Right, so I'll get you one on the current status.
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Speaker 1: It's a rut for the team. I mean, it's not
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Speaker 1: gonna get covered much on this show because we see
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Speaker 1: the talented roster and they're still clear of first place
14:44
Speaker 1: by several games. It's not like the team's cruising through
14:48
Speaker 1: the padres are on the Dodger's tail. But my question
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Speaker 1: for you is how do you observe a veteran team
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Speaker 1: like this, that is talented, that's been here year after year,
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Speaker 1: go through the balance of a tough stretch and saying, hey,
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Speaker 1: we got to fix this and get it right. But
15:04
Speaker 1: also we probably should just be doing what we've been
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Speaker 1: doing for most of our careers because the organization makes
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Speaker 1: the playoffs.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's there's always like a point in
15:16
Speaker 3: the season where you're in a rut, Like we had
15:18
Speaker 3: them last year when I was here for my first
15:20
Speaker 3: year here.
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Speaker 2: I know in seventeen I think they lost like eleven.
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Speaker 3: In a row and then went to the World Series.
15:25
Speaker 3: So I think it's not like a super big panic moment.
15:28
Speaker 3: I think people understand when you're not playing good, it
15:31
Speaker 3: like sucks and it's not as like great in the clubhouse.
15:33
Speaker 3: And I think it's just at this moment, we're not
15:35
Speaker 3: really clicking on like any of the cylinders. And I
15:38
Speaker 3: think it's just kind of like how baseball goes, Like
15:41
Speaker 3: you can be hitting well, not pitching well, then it
15:43
Speaker 3: flips around then the bullpen's dominating and hitting is a
15:46
Speaker 3: little bad or defense. It's just kind of like the
15:48
Speaker 3: ebbs and flows of like things are good, things are bad,
15:51
Speaker 3: and then like it's just the I guess like the.
15:54
Speaker 2: Law of chance or whatever.
15:55
Speaker 3: It's like probability is just like at some point all
15:58
Speaker 3: of them are going to be on a downswing and
15:59
Speaker 3: it's just so and city right now. But I guess
16:03
Speaker 3: it makes you realize like when you have bad moments,
16:05
Speaker 3: like when we do start to play good again, it's
16:07
Speaker 3: like it makes you appreciate it a lot more, like
16:09
Speaker 3: you can't have like the good happy series when Mickey
16:13
Speaker 3: ro speaks like speeches without like I don't know, just
16:17
Speaker 3: like appreciating when it's good and when it's bad, and
16:19
Speaker 3: it's just right now we're just in a rut.
16:21
Speaker 2: But we'll get out of it. It's it's still we
16:23
Speaker 2: have a lot of a lot of baseball left.
16:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're in mid July. So I'll get to a
16:28
Speaker 1: tiny question here. I mean, obviously we don't get to
16:30
Speaker 1: talk to him, most people don't. You do, So what
16:33
Speaker 1: do you have for us on him this year? Like
16:35
Speaker 1: something different with him where we're following what he's doing
16:38
Speaker 1: on the field, but anything different with him, or any
16:41
Speaker 1: recent conversations that are worth pointing out. You know, our
16:44
Speaker 1: whole audience is just dying to get something on him
16:48
Speaker 1: because you know, you just don't get a lot of access.
16:50
Speaker 1: We know he's busy trying to get back to being
16:52
Speaker 1: a five to six inning starter while still hitting every day.
16:56
Speaker 3: I don't know, I think like he what are some
16:59
Speaker 3: things he reads? Comics books on the flight? Do you
17:02
Speaker 3: guys know That's the thing. I guess I don't know.
17:04
Speaker 3: Maybe you guys know that. Yeah, he's like super He's very.
17:07
Speaker 2: Like I don't know, like not.
17:10
Speaker 3: I don't think he has many distractions going on, Like
17:13
Speaker 3: he'll we'll have like a five hour flight, and he'll
17:15
Speaker 3: read like comic books the whole time. Like I think
17:17
Speaker 3: he likes the like the story and the arc, and
17:20
Speaker 3: it's kind of interesting to me. I think it's really
17:22
Speaker 3: kind of fascinating for him to just go and like
17:25
Speaker 3: especially a world of like iPads and TikTok and crazy stuff.
17:28
Speaker 3: He's kind of still going old school comic books. And
17:30
Speaker 3: he just wrote that book like de Coyotu Saves Opening Day,
17:34
Speaker 3: So like, clearly he's doing stuff away from the field.
17:39
Speaker 3: And then the other thing, what else could I say?
17:42
Speaker 3: I think, what's what was impressive to me about he
17:44
Speaker 3: went and pitched his last time shoved was like sitting
17:47
Speaker 3: one hundred and had like a bunch of k's just
17:49
Speaker 3: they had no chance. And I think he went oh
17:51
Speaker 3: for four that day, And I think just going up
17:53
Speaker 3: and be like, hey man, great job like pitching, he
17:55
Speaker 3: was like no, like oh for four. I think like
17:58
Speaker 3: the I think the standard he holds himself too is
18:00
Speaker 3: extremely impressive.
18:01
Speaker 2: I think.
18:03
Speaker 3: It's such a hard thing to do to go out
18:05
Speaker 3: there and pitch multiple innings and then go out and hit.
18:08
Speaker 3: And I think, just like I said, I guess the
18:11
Speaker 3: standard he holds himself to to where like both of
18:13
Speaker 3: those have to be ironed out for him to feel satisfied.
18:15
Speaker 2: He's like pretty impressive to me, very very impressive.
18:19
Speaker 6: Last one here. So you were at the sb's front
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Speaker 6: row next to Freeman. There you got some, Yeah, you
18:26
Speaker 6: got some.
18:26
Speaker 2: You got some.
18:26
Speaker 6: One there Shane Gellis was doing the monologue that showed
18:29
Speaker 6: you a little bit your laugh and had a good
18:30
Speaker 6: time talk to us about that.
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Speaker 2: How cool was that? Yeah? That was awesome.
18:35
Speaker 3: I mean, like I knew when I heard Shane was hosting,
18:37
Speaker 3: I was like, I gotta go, and it's in La,
18:39
Speaker 3: like I have to somehow get there. And I kind
18:41
Speaker 3: of knew it was gonna be a little like a
18:43
Speaker 3: crazy moment on the mic, just because he's that type
18:46
Speaker 3: of comic. And I've always loved comedy like my whole life.
18:48
Speaker 3: Me and my family have always been like really big
18:51
Speaker 3: fans of whatever, Like the more vulgar, the better, I think,
18:54
Speaker 3: just because comedy is kind of that thing if you
18:56
Speaker 3: can laugh about it, like and you can make anything funny,
19:00
Speaker 3: I think, there's like really no no rules.
19:02
Speaker 2: So I loved it.
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Speaker 3: I heard he was hosting, and I went, me and
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Speaker 3: my wife went and sat there and it was incredible.
19:10
Speaker 3: It was a little I think in the moment, and
19:11
Speaker 3: like especially being there with a lot of the front
19:14
Speaker 3: row section was like a ton of athletes and like
19:16
Speaker 3: a pretty good amount of like WNBA player, So it
19:18
Speaker 3: was a little tense he was making all those jokes,
19:21
Speaker 3: but I think it was like good spirited, like he
19:25
Speaker 3: was just I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I think if I was a WNBA player, i'd be
19:27
Speaker 2: a little annoyed.
19:28
Speaker 3: I guess, but it's just you kind of know what
19:31
Speaker 3: you're gonna get with him, and like if you go
19:32
Speaker 3: watch Tires or any of his stand up specials.
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Speaker 2: Like that's what you're gonna get.
19:36
Speaker 3: And I think ESPN was just like, oh, let's get
19:38
Speaker 3: the ratings and the and the clicks and stuff after.
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Speaker 2: But he did a really good job.
19:42
Speaker 3: And I think too sitting there watching like having to
19:45
Speaker 3: perform as a baseball player and then relating that to
19:48
Speaker 3: him having.
19:48
Speaker 2: To go up and perform.
19:49
Speaker 3: And I listened to his podcast before too, and like
19:51
Speaker 3: he'll talk about like how nervous he is before.
19:53
Speaker 2: And I just think he killed it. He like went
19:55
Speaker 2: up and did a good job.
19:56
Speaker 3: And I think to go up there and say all
19:58
Speaker 3: that crazy shit is it's crazy.
20:01
Speaker 2: It's like it's got to be pretty nerve wracking. So
20:04
Speaker 2: I mean it was.
20:05
Speaker 3: It was a really good time, and it was just
20:06
Speaker 3: nice to see like all those athletes and like people
20:09
Speaker 3: go up and speak and perform and anything like that,
20:13
Speaker 3: like award show, especially like with athletes.
20:16
Speaker 2: It was it was a super good time and I mean,
20:17
Speaker 2: I would do it again. It was awesome.
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Speaker 1: It's ballsy, even though that's his job. So I got
20:22
Speaker 1: one follow up for you. You know, he's doing this
20:25
Speaker 1: for his career. He's done a billion stand ups, but
20:28
Speaker 1: this one's different. You're in front of the top athletes
20:32
Speaker 1: on the planet, and he's a big sports fan. So
20:36
Speaker 1: my question is, do you think that most athletes in
20:40
Speaker 1: the room that you're around know the gist of how
20:43
Speaker 1: comedians operate and how he specifically operates. It might sound
20:47
Speaker 1: like a dumb question for someone like you who's paying
20:50
Speaker 1: attention to his career, someone like me, but I wasn't there,
20:53
Speaker 1: so I'm trying. I would love to read the room
20:55
Speaker 1: and be like, do they understand that he is an
20:58
Speaker 1: unhinged comedian and he has brought here to do just that,
21:02
Speaker 1: And I mean, whatever you believe his beliefs are like
21:05
Speaker 1: he genuinely is paid to just like stir the pot.
21:08
Speaker 2: That is his job, and it's accepted.
21:10
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there. I think people know of then
21:14
Speaker 3: they do, and then the people that don't know of
21:16
Speaker 3: them are probably like, well, I didn't sign up for this.
21:17
Speaker 3: Like I'm sure there's a little bit of both, but
21:20
Speaker 3: I think like if you do, where's any sort of
21:22
Speaker 3: concern or like how I mean that if there are
21:24
Speaker 3: people that work like you can figure it out, like
21:26
Speaker 3: you're like, all right, Shane Gillis is hosting, you know
21:29
Speaker 3: what I mean, Like you can you can draw the
21:31
Speaker 3: line to like see kind of how he is. But
21:34
Speaker 3: I'm sure there were some people that aren't don't know
21:36
Speaker 3: anything about Shane Gillison.
21:37
Speaker 2: We're like, whoa, that's pretty gnarly.
21:39
Speaker 3: But I think the sps have had kind of a
21:41
Speaker 3: history of doing like some some crazy hosts, Uh what's this?
21:47
Speaker 3: Norm McDonald did it a while ago, So I think
21:49
Speaker 3: it's not like so it's it's been done before, so
21:53
Speaker 3: it wasn't crazy.
21:54
Speaker 2: I think it's just kind of how it is.
21:56
Speaker 3: And like there's even like the other award shows, like
21:57
Speaker 3: Ricky Gervais says, like crazy shit, it just this kind
22:00
Speaker 3: of it is what it is and like it's I
22:02
Speaker 3: don't know, I just think it's in in the world
22:04
Speaker 3: of comedy too.
22:05
Speaker 2: It's like the I just don't think there are really.
22:08
Speaker 3: Any rules, and that's what's good about it in my opinion,
22:11
Speaker 3: Like it's just if you laugh, it's it's funny. And
22:14
Speaker 3: I understand it could be like offensive sometimes, especially people
22:16
Speaker 3: who don't know or like didn't sign up for it. It's
22:18
Speaker 3: probably a little shocking, but it is what it is.
22:22
Speaker 3: I mean, ESPN made the decision, and I think it
22:25
Speaker 3: was good. I don't know about like the ratings and stuff.
22:27
Speaker 3: It was a little tense in the room. Like I said,
22:28
Speaker 3: I got a lot of people. I don't know if
22:30
Speaker 3: like laughed as hard as people did at home, but
22:33
Speaker 3: I think it.
22:33
Speaker 2: Probably worked out for them ratings wise.
22:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you look up the monologue afterwards, how many
22:38
Speaker 1: views the whole thing. They definitely got the pop that
22:41
Speaker 1: they were looking for. That's my thing. And I'm like,
22:44
Speaker 1: it's not as if they announced him twenty four hours before,
22:46
Speaker 1: you know they So if you don't know the gist,
22:49
Speaker 1: then agent publicists whatever would probably be the one to say, hey,
22:54
Speaker 1: just so you know, you might get made fun of.
22:57
Speaker 8: At a pretty intense level. Are you good to go?
23:00
Speaker 8: You're signing up for this or I'm forcing you to go.
23:02
Speaker 8: You're not getting paid millions of dollars to show up
23:04
Speaker 8: to it. So anyway, yeah, I was curious how the
23:05
Speaker 8: room was because from my view, like, yeah, it was
23:08
Speaker 8: just fascinating case study. But I could talk about that.
23:12
Speaker 8: But anyway, Tyler, awesome to have you back on. Good
23:14
Speaker 8: to see you, dude. We'll catch you down the line.
23:16
Speaker 8: And ha did Lance do on his hosting debut looking great?
23:20
Speaker 2: It was awesome. This is I always love coming on
23:22
Speaker 2: the show.
23:22
Speaker 3: It's cool to just have a bunch of like older
23:23
Speaker 3: like players and stuff come on too. And and you
23:26
Speaker 3: were one of the first people I've ever seen pitch
23:27
Speaker 3: when I was with Pittsburgh.
23:28
Speaker 2: You were opening the Gay Starter. It was a rough
23:31
Speaker 2: game for you, but I mean, well we all got rough.
23:33
Speaker 4: Guess that the Twins then.
23:37
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I think it was Twins opening day. I
23:39
Speaker 3: think you gave up, like you were doing really well.
23:41
Speaker 3: You're shoving and I think you gave up a grand Slam,
23:43
Speaker 3: but you ended up shoving that like you.
23:45
Speaker 2: Did a lot of a lot of years. But yeah,
23:47
Speaker 2: it was. It was just sick to watch you pitch
23:48
Speaker 2: over to day. I was in the bullpen, rotten Away
23:50
Speaker 2: or wherever I was watching you.
23:51
Speaker 4: It was just, Yeah, they were hiding you somehow.
23:55
Speaker 2: I don't know what they were yet.
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Speaker 8: Hour on that, but maybe in the off season. Tyler
24:02
Speaker 8: Good catching up dude.
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Speaker 2: Al Right, see you guys. Thanks for having me.