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Kyle Hendricks on tipping pitches, Cubs glory days, Tampa's HR park · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: From my standpoint being an absolutely unbiased Angels player, I
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  Speaker 1: think all the homers we hit were legit, and all
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  Speaker 1: the homers they hit, we're cheek you know. That's that's
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  Speaker 1: how it goes.
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  Speaker 2: Angels hummeled the Rays.
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  Speaker 3: Yesterday, AJ and I were talking about the ballpark they're
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  Speaker 3: down at Steime Berner, and we talked to Ken about
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  Speaker 3: it a little bit. Todd Father, have you seen the
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  Speaker 3: approaches in the past few days, even Mike Trapp. Everybody's
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  Speaker 3: just like yo opo for dables, if you need to right,
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  Speaker 3: if you're righty at everything to right.
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  Speaker 4: Field, the air?
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  Speaker 2: What is it? Is it a what is it a
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  Speaker 2: jet stream?
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  Speaker 5: It's almost like somebody said that when they said they
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  Speaker 5: were going to be playing at that park, Like watching
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  Speaker 5: dudes on the Yankees, like the Beasts, because I would
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  Speaker 5: never go to the games. They would always put me
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  Speaker 5: in like the really good players group. I mean you're
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  Speaker 5: talking like Greg Bird, g Jonkey, ball game, El Gary,
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  Speaker 5: all these dudes that just are like, I'm hitting the
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  Speaker 5: ball to right field and VP and it's just he's
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  Speaker 5: going into Dale Maybury.
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  Speaker 2: Why does it is it a jet stream?
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  Speaker 5: Is that it must be a jet stream? But yeah,
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  Speaker 5: before they changed all of it, before they put everything
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  Speaker 5: out there. The park played fair, but the fence, it
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  Speaker 5: felt like defence was like thirty feet farther back. It
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  Speaker 5: used to be deep in the gaps and in uh
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  Speaker 5: the Florida State League it played huge.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, we've got Kyle Hendricks from the Angels joining us
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  Speaker 3: right now. And I don't know if you caught any
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  Speaker 3: of what we were just going over. But first off, Kyle, great,
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  Speaker 3: tab ya on, appreciate the time.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing great, guys, Yeah, appreciate you having me on.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would love to get your thoughts real quick
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  Speaker 3: because because you just pitched, you were.
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  Speaker 2: Fine down to Steinburner Fields, But what is that park? Like?
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  Speaker 2: What did you just witness from your team?
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  Speaker 3: You you did, no big deal, five shoutout innings, two hits,
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  Speaker 3: two walks for strikeouts, five balls, But what's going on there?
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  Speaker 2: And how was that? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Definitely listening to what you guys were saying there, and
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't agree more. I think from my standpoint, being
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  Speaker 1: an absolutely unbiased Angels player, I think all the homers
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  Speaker 1: we hit were legit and all the homers they hit
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  Speaker 1: were cheap. You know, That's how it goes.
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  Speaker 5: That's definitely how it goes, except you pitchers, you all
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  Speaker 5: sitting a dugout together and you're like, bro.
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  Speaker 4: How did you do this?
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  Speaker 5: My four seam fastball up on the top of the zone.
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  Speaker 4: It's just gonna get rocked.
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  Speaker 5: And the professors are over there, like what you gotta
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  Speaker 5: do is you just gotta sink it and caught it
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  Speaker 5: a little bit, just sick seek a little lower below
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  Speaker 5: the zone. What were the conversations with you starters after
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  Speaker 5: you pitched and before guys pitched?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, man, you know us too well for sure. We're
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  Speaker 1: definitely in a group over there having a conversation of like,
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  Speaker 1: what the heck is going on here? And for me,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's definitely wrong. It's all luck. I'm like
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  Speaker 1: I got through that. It was lucky. I missed some
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  Speaker 1: barrels the day games. I'll say, during the day it's
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  Speaker 1: definitely different. The ball is flying more. There's like a
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  Speaker 1: jet stream out to right field something with the win.
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  Speaker 1: And during at night, during for night games, it seems
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  Speaker 1: to be playing more fair. So I was just lucky
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  Speaker 1: I got a night game, but just of such a
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  Speaker 1: fun series, man, fun for our guys and to go
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  Speaker 1: there and hit homers like that. You know, everybody's loving that,
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  Speaker 1: so we were having a good time.
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  Speaker 6: I want to talk a little about where you're from,
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  Speaker 6: how you grew up. I mean, it's a twenty miles
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  Speaker 6: from Angels Stadium. Now you're playing for him dream come
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  Speaker 6: true growing up there, that's what you said. Talk a
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  Speaker 6: little bit about how cool this is and how you
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  Speaker 6: know your family are excited. Is this for you to
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  Speaker 6: play that close to a ballpark that you pretty much
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  Speaker 6: grew up in your backyard?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent of Todd. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the feeling just surreal, you know, growing up going to
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  Speaker 1: that ballpark with my dad and my mom, just being
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  Speaker 1: a little kid loving the game. That's all it was.
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  Speaker 1: And now to come full circle twenty thirty years later,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is to be in the stadium playing, having
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  Speaker 1: my family come to the games, it really doesn't even
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  Speaker 1: feel real. So it's just so cool. I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: soak up every minute of it.
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  Speaker 5: Do you feel like if you had played out there
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  Speaker 5: when you were a kid, when you were first coming
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  Speaker 5: up in the big leagues, you wouldn't appreciate it as
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  Speaker 5: much as you do now.
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  Speaker 1: One hundred percent. I think the experience is getting away
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  Speaker 1: from home, you know, leaving that being uncomfortable, seeing how
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  Speaker 1: all that played out, getting the experience of the big leagues,
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  Speaker 1: going throughout the whole country, and now kind of towards
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  Speaker 1: the end of my career being able to come back
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  Speaker 1: with all that perspective definitely made it different. It would
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  Speaker 1: may have been a little overwhelming if I would have
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  Speaker 1: done at the beginning of my career, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: having so many people so close to you, but now
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  Speaker 1: coming back home at the end having that perspective, keeping
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  Speaker 1: it all under control. I'm just really enjoying it so
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  Speaker 1: much right now.
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  Speaker 5: I bring this up all the time because it's players
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  Speaker 5: talking to or ex players talking to current players. And
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  Speaker 5: if you were a rookie out there, would you have
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  Speaker 5: played for free for the first few years until you
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  Speaker 5: figured out the whole like not everybody gets tickets. Now
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  Speaker 5: you're vet, You're like, oh no, we only get like
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  Speaker 5: two tickets, and uh, my wife and her friend are
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  Speaker 5: going to take them.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly right, man. You know, you know exactly how
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  Speaker 1: to play it. In the beginning, you're giving everybody tickets.
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  Speaker 1: So if I would have been at home, that would
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  Speaker 1: have been the problem. You would have been playing for free.
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  Speaker 1: But no, as the years go you kind of find
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  Speaker 1: your group, You kind of find who's close to you.
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  Speaker 1: Those people stay the same. So now to come back home, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you can fulfill a few other requests, but you also
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  Speaker 1: know how to skate around it a little bit. Just
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  Speaker 1: like you said, I want to.
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  Speaker 6: Talk a little bit about when Kratty and I played.
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  Speaker 6: We played against you a lot. I've faced you a
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  Speaker 6: lot of times when you were with the Cubs. For
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  Speaker 6: some reason, I don't know if anybody told you how
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  Speaker 6: to little tell when you pitch. I don't know if
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  Speaker 6: you've ever heard it. Has anybody ever talked to you
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  Speaker 6: about that little an? I'm just being honest.
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  Speaker 4: Have I lost?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm good. Can you still hear me? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: He's got you, gotcha?
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  Speaker 4: You got me? Okay, good? So for me?
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  Speaker 6: Honestly, I guess when you came up you could kind
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  Speaker 6: of see the ball. So so what have people told
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  Speaker 6: you about that? And is that something that you say,
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  Speaker 6: you know, forget about it, I'm just going to pitch.
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  Speaker 6: Or is it something that you kind of tried and
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  Speaker 6: worked on.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's definitely something you have to try to eliminate.
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  Speaker 1: But as the saying goes, I mean, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: pitchers do tip, and once you're a tipper, kind of
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  Speaker 1: always a tipper, that's what they say. So at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, the thought that takes over for
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  Speaker 1: me is a good pitch is going to be a
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  Speaker 1: good pitch. A good pitch can get a good hitter
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  Speaker 1: out a lot of times. But for sure, it's something
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  Speaker 1: you want to focus on. It's something I've always had
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  Speaker 1: trouble with, something we've always been trying to take video
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  Speaker 1: of and make a change. I feel like I've gotten
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  Speaker 1: a little bit better at it, and it's gotten to
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  Speaker 1: the point now where you can notice kind of what
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  Speaker 1: teams are, what hitters see it, and which ones don't,
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  Speaker 1: and that's when you really have to make the adjustment.
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  Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, as a pitcher,
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  Speaker 1: you're really just trying to focus on making one good
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  Speaker 1: pitch at a time and hopefully that plays out over
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  Speaker 1: the course of a season.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but did you watch Todd swing and on deck
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  Speaker 5: circle and go, There's no way this dude should have
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  Speaker 5: a three seventy five batting average. There's no way he
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  Speaker 5: should have a one thousand ops against me, and you go, Okay,
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  Speaker 5: I was probably tipping when I was facing the Reds.
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  Speaker 5: So like, there's certain guys that you look at and
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  Speaker 5: you're like, man, like, if I had ever gotten a
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  Speaker 5: hit off, you'd be like, golly, Catcher must have told
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  Speaker 5: him what was coming.
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  Speaker 1: No, definitely not true. Definitely not true. Anybody I get out.
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  Speaker 1: I chalk it up to luck. But you talked about phrases,
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  Speaker 1: his swinging the nown deck circle. But then you go
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  Speaker 1: look at the video and it's just barrels everywhere. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so you gotta you gotta trust the information, trust the video.
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  Speaker 1: You see Yep, there's barrels all over the yard. So
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  Speaker 1: again you just try to maybe not let him beat you.
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  Speaker 1: And I would have been probably better off walking him
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  Speaker 1: more at the time.
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  Speaker 4: But go ahead, No, that's boloney. At the end. I
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  Speaker 4: didn't I didn't know, and I'll be honest with you.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't know about it when I was with Cincinnati
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  Speaker 6: because I didn't trust.
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  Speaker 4: Anybody and if they would tell me.
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  Speaker 6: And then as I got older, I'm like, I need
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  Speaker 6: this help as much as possible. And I'm gonna tell
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  Speaker 6: you the one time I saw I was with the Mets,
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  Speaker 6: I came in and I think I pinched it. I
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  Speaker 6: hit a double off the wall against you, and they're like,
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  Speaker 6: I'm telling you, when his hand goes up, you're gonna
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  Speaker 6: either see his it was either curled or straight. I
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  Speaker 6: forget what it was. And I had everyone and sometimes
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  Speaker 6: you still can't even hit it. Like the worst part
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  Speaker 6: for me when I knew what was coming and I
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  Speaker 6: still couldn't hit it. That's when you know you have
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  Speaker 6: to think about retirement, because that's but that was that
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  Speaker 6: was probably the only time I had it. But it
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  Speaker 6: was just always something that came up. Watch his hands,
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  Speaker 6: watch his hands. But sometimes you were quick you couldn't
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  Speaker 6: see it. I'm like, that's it, man, I need to stop.
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  Speaker 1: So that's all, Yeah, exactly, totally. It's part of the game.
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  Speaker 1: And you're right, some guys love it. Some guys don't
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  Speaker 1: want to know anything about it, and so for me
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  Speaker 1: to focus on it fullheartedly is tough. But like you said,
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  Speaker 1: you notice the kind of keep up and you notice
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  Speaker 1: the guys that are really getting it, and that's when
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  Speaker 1: you have to change. And once you make one different,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes they'll abandon it, go to a different setup. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you just really got to stay on top of it
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  Speaker 1: as a picture.
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  Speaker 4: For sure.
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  Speaker 7: That is right in the sweet spot right there. So
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  Speaker 5: All Right, so, oh, what tips does Kyri and Paris
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  Speaker 5: have because he clearly knows exactly what's coming. And how
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  Speaker 5: is it to watch as a teammate, Like, you're like,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I saw you a little bit, like, not
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  Speaker 5: too much, but you're he's a beast right now?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, man, what he's doing is so fun to watch,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it goes back to the changes, the
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  Speaker 1: adjustments he was willing to make, and the work he
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  Speaker 1: put in the off season. He absolutely got after it.
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  Speaker 1: He came in. I didn't see him or know him
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  Speaker 1: that well obviously last year, but looking at some past
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  Speaker 1: video hearing some things about him from all the guys here,
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  Speaker 1: he clearly just got after it in the offseason, worked
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  Speaker 1: so hard, changed his swing, made big adjustments, and you're
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  Speaker 1: seeing it pay off right here. I mean, the confidence
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  Speaker 1: level is obviously sky high. You guys know from playing
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  Speaker 1: when confidence is up, you're gonna have a really good
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  Speaker 1: chance every time up there. So I mean, he's been
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  Speaker 1: a huge piece for us so far this year.
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  Speaker 5: It's been awesome to watch swing changes happen all the time.
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  Speaker 5: Pitching mechanics, you're always tweak stuff. Did you ever try
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  Speaker 5: because he went to the teacher man stuff and you
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  Speaker 5: know it's that back leg, you know, coming through the
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  Speaker 5: ball judge style, and it's working out for him. Did
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  Speaker 5: you ever try to hit like a gimmick thing as
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  Speaker 5: a pitcher where it's like everybody starts throwing the weighted
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  Speaker 5: balls and you're like, I am gonna throw this ball
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  Speaker 5: upper ninety ninety point seven, ninety point eight, Like, did
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  Speaker 5: you ever get into any of those gimmick things and
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  Speaker 5: what year did you do it?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: You know, for me, I throw eighty five. I don't
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  Speaker 1: throw hard at all. I can't be one of those
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  Speaker 1: guys searching for Vilo, you know, So the gimmick's never
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  Speaker 1: really connected with me, just because I think I'm that guy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just completely different. I don't throw hard at all.
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  Speaker 1: But it's funny you brought that up. One of the
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  Speaker 1: things was the weighted balls. After my injury. I had
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  Speaker 1: a shoulder injury in twenty one twenty two. Coming back
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  Speaker 1: from that using using the weighted balls just to cut
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  Speaker 1: down my volume, so using it more for warm up,
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe searching for a little vilo. That'd be
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  Speaker 1: great if you get it, but more so just cutting
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  Speaker 1: down the volume. I'm a guy that likes to throw
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  Speaker 1: a lot. I think that was the cause of some
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  Speaker 1: of these little injury stuff. You want to be out
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  Speaker 1: there and be consistent and be that guy for your
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  Speaker 1: team every fifth day. So yeah, I've I've kept up
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  Speaker 1: with the times, as they say, as much as you
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  Speaker 1: can stay with the way the ball's gotten new information.
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  Speaker 1: I think you have to keep adapting with the times,
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  Speaker 1: but know what's right for you. Of course, at the
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  Speaker 1: end of.
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  Speaker 5: The day, adapting with the times. You've seen some IVY
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  Speaker 5: leaguers take jobs in the front office. I want to
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  Speaker 5: this is kind of like a two part question. As
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  Speaker 5: an IVY leaguer, do you look at like front office
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  Speaker 5: jobs but also as a strike throwing person who can
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  Speaker 5: throw the ball down in a way and get a
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  Speaker 5: lot of outs. If you took over an organization in
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  Speaker 5: that sense, like a Chris Young or a Craig Breslo
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  Speaker 5: type of way, would you be okay or able to
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  Speaker 5: teach pictures to throw strikes and locate because everybody and
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  Speaker 5: their mother teaches dudes to throw harder, and who cares
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  Speaker 5: where it goes because you are the poster child of
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  Speaker 5: somebody who has been able to succeed in this game
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  Speaker 5: where everybody says velocity is the only way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great question, man, and there's there's definitely
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  Speaker 1: a lot to that. So I think at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, if you can command the baseball and
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  Speaker 1: throw it where you want to, that's going to be
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  Speaker 1: the best results. Now, of course, if you can do
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  Speaker 1: that at one hundred miles an hour, you're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a lot better than a guy at ninety miles an hour.
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  Speaker 1: So I think you have to have a good balance
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  Speaker 1: with it. Number one is you have to know who
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  Speaker 1: you are. Number one is a pitcher. So yeah, somebody
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  Speaker 1: taking over front office, they just need to know who
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  Speaker 1: their personnel is, who they have as their players. From there,
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  Speaker 1: I think you put in the work on the side
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  Speaker 1: and the preparation. Maybe you chase below, maybe you're working
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  Speaker 1: on things mechanically, yeah, to throw harder, and then you
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  Speaker 1: have to somehow when you're about to deliver the ball
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  Speaker 1: change your focus to that command. You know, find the glove,
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  Speaker 1: find your area where you're trying to locate. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have to be pinpoint. For some guys, maybe they're thrown
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  Speaker 1: to a big area, but at least they get it there.
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  Speaker 1: I think I've seen it here honestly with the Angels
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  Speaker 1: in the past few years, I think they were going
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  Speaker 1: down that path of throw your best pitch all the time,
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  Speaker 1: use your stuff, let that take over. And this year
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  Speaker 1: they brought in a few guys. Sal f Asano it's
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  Speaker 1: been a big one man, he's just the way he
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  Speaker 1: talks about pitching, the way he talks about the game.
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  Speaker 1: And then Travis Darnelt. They work together for years together,
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: but bringing them both over here together, one coach, one
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: player obviously, but just the words they use, how they
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: approach the game, how they approach pitching. They have found
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: that balance, you know, that really good balance and knowing
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: who their guy is, using their stuff the right way,
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: and then also teaching command. So I think you can
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: find a good balance and use both and that's when
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: you get the best of both worlds and you see
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: guys really take off, and that's guys that dominate the game.
• 14:49
  Speaker 5: But could you teach it? Could you look a kid
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: in the eye that throws one hundred miles an hour
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: and go, hey, bro, this is what you need to
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: do to command it. Could you teach it? Because you
• 14:59
  Speaker 5: always talk about it. Hits, like great hitters usually aren't
• 15:03
  Speaker 5: great hitting coaches. Terrible hitters are great hitting coaches. So
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: could you teach a kid who throws a hundred to
• 15:10
  Speaker 5: have command? Because that is golden the golden egg.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: Yes, Okay, I totally got you here, and I honestly
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: I don't have confidence in myself to do that.
• 15:20
  Speaker 6: No.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: I think, just like you said, I'm so locked in
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: on my process. I know how my body works, my
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: mind works. That's what I'm trying to follow and go through.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: If I were to go down that path, I think
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: it would take me, you know, some time. I would
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: have to make some adjustments, really dive into that part
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: of the game if that's really what I wanted to do,
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: and to get out of it. But you're You're absolutely right.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: It's it's really hard being a coach. You have to
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: have the guy on the other end here in your words,
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: you know, and connecting to that. Sometimes just the way
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: you put things, you know, the certain words you use
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: connect certain ways to different guys, So I think coaching
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: is a whole different world and teaching guys. But again,
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: I love the role I'm in playing. I love competing
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: and focusing on my teammates. You know, the conversations that
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: we have together, like in the dugout, in the clubhouse,
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: all that about pitching. That's the stuff I love. And
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: I feel like that's a little bit of teaching coaching,
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: which is all amongst ourselves.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: Right now, Kyle, this is your first year in the
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: BIGS on a non Chicago Cubs team, So was it
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: weird to make that transition? And do you do any
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: reminiscing now that that chapter of your career has closed?
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: For example, we spoke to Schwarber a few weeks ago
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: about this and he had a really good answer about
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: how it went so quick and so many things happened
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: so well, And obviously I think you were the longest
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: tenured guy from the twenty sixteen Champs to still go
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: through your cub's career obviously after that for another almost decade.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: But what's it like now to look back.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Schwarbs said it exactly right.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: It goes so fast, It goes extremely fast, especially for
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: a lot of us, and we were young, that young
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: core that was coming up. We were twenty four twenty five,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: going to the playoffs and then winning the World Series
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: in the first couple of years. You're just like, oh
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: my gosh, this is this is what happened in the
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: big leagues, right, And it's completely not true. It's so
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: hard to do that and to get back there every
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: single year. And so that's where the reminiscing comes, is
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: realizing how good of a group we had year after year,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: the core, the veteran leaders, how much I learned from
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: John Lester, John Lackey, Jake Arietta. I would have never
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: been able to do any of this without learning what
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: I did from them. So yeah, there's so many memories,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: and when it's all over, I'll be able to look
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: back more and really reminisce more on all that. Just
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: for this year, Like you said, I'm super excited where
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: I'm at. And I think, to answer the second part
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: of your question, I think it was more weird for
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: almost everybody else. You know, the change coming to the Angels.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: You guys know playing. I mean, when you're growing up,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: you're moving teams, you're going here and there, you're always
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: playing for somebody different, seems like high school through college,
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: So it was almost more strange to be in one
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: place for that ten year stretch or whatever it was.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: That was almost more strange coming to a new team,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: new guys, that's what you're used to, and especially coming
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: back to a hometown team somebody I just grew up
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: watching and playing it. I felt very comfortable right at home.
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: You are all you young cubs, actual cubs in the
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: big leagues. Who goes back to Chicago and gets the
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: most beers paid for? Like, who's the guy out of
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: that whole crew that is like, oh man, like everybody
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: loves this guy more than everyone else.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that one's pretty clear.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Riz Riz is mister Chicago Anthony. He's the mister Cub.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: I think he was there. He was there from the beginning,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: you know, and he saw some of the losing. He
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: was there for the couple really bad years, and then
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: a year or two in for him, it really changed
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: and it clicked and he seemed to be the catalyst.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: He was always the leader, the guy keeping us where
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: we needed to be, even keel. He knew when to
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: get guys loose, when to get serious. Uh. He just
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: really had a good grasp on the team and the
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: city and the fans and everything they meant and what
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: it would mean to win in that city. He understood it.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: It seemed like the most So we call kind of
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: followed his lead, and from there, I would say on
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: the pitching side, it would be John Lester. I mean,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: he was just an absolute legend and what he did
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: for that for that club was amazing.
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: Last question here, Mike Trout started off a little slow.
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: You know, he goes all of a sudden, he's gonna
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: get going. Two homers yesterday. I texted him earlier. I
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: said there were a couple of cheapies, but he said
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: he'll take thee. There's no such thing as a cheap
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: home run. I was kidding exactly exactly. Do you how
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: do you see him going? Is he going to kickstart
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: this team moving forward?
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Here?
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: Big game yesterday, three guys with two home runs. If
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: Mike Trout goes, does this team go?
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Absolutely? I Mean, you guys know who he is as
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: a player, one of the best players to ever play
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: the game, future Hall of Famer. So that's been so
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: cool for me to just see his process and there's
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: no reason I can understand the reason why he is
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: as good as he is. He's the first one in
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: there every single day, working his tail off.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: What he puts in, he gets everything out, and for
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: sure he been in the middle of our lineup like that.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: If he's going and he's hot, I mean, we're gonna
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: be really really good for this entire year. But I
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: think you've seen it at the start of the season.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: We've used so many guys, so many different guys have
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: been the hero for us. From KP. Paris, Like we
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: were talking about, up and down this order, up and
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: down this lineup and the pitching we've had. It's taken
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: everybody for some of these wins we've had. So that's
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: the really cool part seeing the young guys come through.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: That's what's going to pay off when we get down
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: to the stretch, you know, in the August, September hopefully
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: when we're in it. But if Mike's going on as
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: good as he is as a player, he can carry
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: a team on his own, all right.
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: Last one, Todd and I played with Mike when he
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: was nineteen, and obviously you know we've kept in touch
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: all stuff. He was on the show and he said,
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: you know, guys, I'm just you know, it's not I'm
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: not nineteen anymore. No more wings and Pepsi's. Has he coke?
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: I thought he was a pepsi coke guy?
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: Sorry?
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Sorry?
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: Sorry?
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: Is he off of those? Because if he's off of those,
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: then I might start taking my m VP picks to
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: the So have you seen him drink a drink of
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: coke and eat wings since you've been on the team yet.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen it. I honestly did not even know
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: that about him, So I haven't seen it once.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: O wow, because I heard I heard it was I
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: heard it was it was fruit loops a coke because
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: I thought pepsi fruit loops coke. And then he'd go
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: out to the line to stretch with everybody and he
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: was like, I'm just out here hanging out and I'm
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: gonna go hit two days.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah he was. He was twelve.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: He was, he was twelve.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: And you know why it's coke because the way he
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: says coke coke.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Wow, that's Jersey.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like like HOGI what the heck is that crap?
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Not a it's a hope now you know?
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Now you know, only fancy stuff with him macholtes or
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: whatever he's doing. Now for a little caffeine. Uh, Kyle,
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: this was awesome man, I hope you enjoyed it. Thank
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: you for jumping on with us. Have fun with the angels.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: The new squad off to a great start.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: Go ahead, kid, I appreciate you, guys.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Man, it was awesome. It's good seeing you guys.
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  Speaker 3: the mount MLB players are cheap, breaking news, not all
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: of them. Some of them ball out, and most ball
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: out in one or two categories. Maybe it's cars, maybe
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: it's vacations, maybe it's dinners or food. But they also
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: love to go back to their core, back to their roots.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: And if you remember, years back, Zach Grank went viral
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: for complaining about Chipotle's guacamole price hike, which was still
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: sub two dollars. So Bridgeroi put together this awesome article,
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: and the Athletic called MLB players even pay to read
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: this article.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: You stay rich.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: By being cheap. Now, cheap is what some players call
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: the C word. Ace Pitcher TJ. McFarlane says he likes
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: to use the F word frugal, okay, and then Stephen
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Kwan said it's that old cliche, you stay rich by
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: being cheap. A couple other examples here and then we'll
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: get some more from our friends sitting next to me.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: So there are accounts like Spotify, Netflix, etcetera. Subscriptions they're
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: borrowing from everybody. Sometimes this was good. You would hear
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: in the clubhouse a phone hooked up and ads playing
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: between songs, meaning you didn't sign up for the premium account.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: And with Merridfield in this story goes guys with yel
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: you're a big leaguer making millions of dollars and you
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: can't pay twelve bucks for the premium account. Even Glass
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Now is going to be on with us on Monday,
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: so maybe we can ask him. He said, there's something
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: about buying an app. I just don't want to give
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: them the two dots. There's clothing, lots of old clothing.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Are just all the free stuff. Clay Holmes said he's
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: cheap about flights because you don't really know how much
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: they cost until the offseason. So this article really hits
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: lastly on cars. Some guys spend all out on that category.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: And then there's Matt Vierling still driving his twenty twelve
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: forod Escape from College, which broke down on the highway
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: in September.
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: That ain't it your car can't break down.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: That's your line.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: Your car can't break down. You can't have anything that
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: you're not willing to spend money on. That's going to
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: be a detriment to your career. Food trainers, sleep, your lifestyle.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: You got to spend money on it. Everything else. You
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: can look at me as cheap, frugal, whatever you want.
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: I always say that I'm cheap, and my wife's.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: Like, you're not cheap.
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: You just might not spend everything, but you're not cheap,
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: Like I just I'm a simple man. But I think
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: also the minor league signing for one thousand dollars, it
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: puts it in there and it kind of ingrains that
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: in you, and you're like, I don't need other things.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: I don't need. I don't need excess. That's my biggest thing.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: And then when you're first coming up, you have no
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: kids and everything else, that's the time where it's like,
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: all right, let let's let's control what we buy. In
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: my opinion, some people might think they're around, oh, let's spend,
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: and then we have no control what you you try
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: and spend. I mean, I'm not a guy that's gonna
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: go out to the mall and spend hundreds of dollars
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: on clothes or anything. I've I've got some of the
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: same shirts since I was in high school.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: I have the same jacket I bought.
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: You guys also get so much free stuff, so that's
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: that's also as well.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but there's cheap cheap dudes. Ross Ollendorf we would
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: go golfing and he would hit We get thirty golf
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: balls at the range and you get there broke range
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: balls that say range on it. He would hit eleven
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: or twelve balls, pick the rest of them up, put
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: them in his cart. I said, I am not golfing
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: if you are golfing with balls. I said, every time
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: I see your ball on the on the fair way,
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: rough anything, I'm taking it and I'm throwing it near
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: the into the closes. That was the That was the move.
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: I was like, no, shant, what did he say.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: He was like, dude, don't do that.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: These are the balls I'm gonna use.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: But Trevor May covered this topic on May Day, so
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: let's get Trevor's thoughts.
• 27:31
  Speaker 8: But basic, the baseball players, we find a brand and
• 27:33
  Speaker 8: then we just buy that round because a lot of
• 27:35
  Speaker 8: us are big. I'm currently right now. I'm six five
• 27:37
  Speaker 8: two d and sixty five pounds. Like, there's only certain
• 27:40
  Speaker 8: clothes I fit me right. So I hear this a lot.
• 27:43
  Speaker 8: But one of the guys who made the best quote,
• 27:46
  Speaker 8: Ryan mont Constas, says, I never get new clothes. Basically,
• 27:49
  Speaker 8: they we just all get like our golf pants, and
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: we get our one shirt and we wear it until
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: it falls apart or we get too fat, and then
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: we put on something else. So, uh, these guys don't
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: buy clothes. Francisco does. So everyone's got their stuff. I
• 28:01
  Speaker 8: like buying computer stuff. I don't buy cars, So everyone's
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: got their things. Also a lot of people came from
• 28:06
  Speaker 8: blue collar backgrounds like me, and their parents are stilled
• 28:09
  Speaker 8: this in to us, and you're told from the moment
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: you signed, don't lose all your money, idiot. But everyone's
• 28:15
  Speaker 8: got their things. And I just think it's hilarious that
• 28:17
  Speaker 8: we all give each other crap. It's one thing that
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: you got to talk openly about in a clubhouse is money.
• 28:21
  Speaker 8: Guys give each other crap all the time. Like I
• 28:24
  Speaker 8: once asked Franciss Glendor if I could just borrow a
• 28:26
  Speaker 8: million bucks, He's.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: Like, Venmo, absolutely, yeah, absolutely, there's some duds that here's
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: here's the biggest thing. If you're cheap, that's different than generous.
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: You can be you cannot spend on frivolous things. But
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: generous dudes are the ones that you're like, whoa, Like,
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: that's that's really cool. Like stories like CC Sabbathius some
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: of the tips that he gave to dudes. Now, I'm
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: not going to put his business out there, because his
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: tips were ridiculously awesome. He was always so generous. You'd
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: go out to eat, he would always pay for the food.
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: There was it was it was almost like if you offered,
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: he'd get pissed. What like you seriously stop, don't even
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: offer so that you're like I'm not gonna offer, Like
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: thank you, I appreciate it. Like there's dudes that are
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: don't aren't gonna waste their money, but are so generous,
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: And those are the guys that like stick out in
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: my mind.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: Are there any guys Obviously we're not going to get
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: a name because then it's gonna go nuts. That made
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: a ton right that you played with where you were like, yo,
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: this guy has to chill. I need to sit with
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: him and take him to dinner or something and be like,
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: you can't take it all inside the grave with you.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: You need to enjoy yourself.
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: There's both extremes.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: Okay, there's guys like, oh, I don't know, my wife's
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: gonna get mad at me.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: I'm like your wife, brother, you made this money. You
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: can do whatever the heck you want with it.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: And what is she gonna get mad about?
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: Like you're getting at the bottle of wine for two
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: hundred bucks out of dinner when you've got a hundred
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: million career earnings.
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: One hundred mil. Was always like the one where you're like.
• 30:00
  Speaker 9: Undred millions and we're splitting a one hundred and fifty
• 30:04
  Speaker 9: dollars tab right down the middle. You had that guy
• 30:06
  Speaker 9: when you were yeah, or like I'll get the cab
• 30:10
  Speaker 9: when dudes making a hundred million, like I'll get it.
• 30:13
  Speaker 9: Like the way I always saw it was, Todd makes
• 30:18
  Speaker 9: more less than me. I should pay for what he
• 30:22
  Speaker 9: he whatever we're doing together, somebody makes more than me,
• 30:27
  Speaker 9: he would pay like it. But also the dudes that
• 30:30
  Speaker 9: make a lot more than everybody. Everybody thinks, oh well
• 30:33
  Speaker 9: he made so much, like he should just pay for
• 30:36
  Speaker 9: my thing. He should just pay for that thing for
• 30:38
  Speaker 9: me and you would be. You would like those people
• 30:42
  Speaker 9: be crushed. Those people be crushed with it, like so
• 30:45
  Speaker 9: many people asking for money, Like there's so many stories.
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: Also of dudes that I know are making the minimum. God, Like,
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: you're in debt from this season. You just made five
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: hundred thousand dollars. And unfortunately a lot of Latin players
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: are sending a lot of money home. That's not the
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: unfortunate part. No, they're sending money home and they're supporting
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: other people, and then they're going out and buying all
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: the same stuff that the dudes who are making fifty
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: sixty million dollars are buying, and you just can't afford that.
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: Like it it, It stretches really thin. Greg Zahn once
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: told me, he goes, your career earnings should be about
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: a third because your career, if it's ten years long,
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: compared to everybody else that's a thirty year, forty year
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: career at their job, you're cutting your earnings in a third.
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: And all of a sudden, it makes you realize, yes,
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: you make a lot in a short window, but you're
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: pretty much useless to society after you're done. So all
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: that money is stretched out, so you can't live above
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: your means.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: And I finishing with this just I was always a
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: guy brought up.
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: Just always at least offer, whether you know you're with
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: that guy or not, or if I'm paying for it
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: or you're paying for the meal, like hey, what do
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: I owe? You want me to get the tip? Just
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: at least in the back of your mind you kind
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: of know, like when you go out with these certain guys,
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: excuse me, they're going to take care of it. But
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: even if you're like, hey man, you got this sure,
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: like you know it's great even hanging out with you.
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: I didn't mind that at all.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: I feel like it's pretty obvious in some cases where
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: you know, guy's been in the leagues for a while
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: and I've been in the big leagues for a while,
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: and he's made money, and then it's like here comes
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: the league minimum guy or whatever, like you're mentioning. It's like,
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: all right, yeah, obviously I'm handling this bad boy.
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: But it doesn't work like that always, right, not always, don't. Hey,
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: everybody's gone through this. That's why it's such a great story.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: It's relatable. Oh my gosh, plenty of stories in my
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: life where I'm definitely like I don't like Benmo all that.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: So I'm just like I got it. Oh, I'll be
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: and I'm good.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: But I'm saying like where I've had a dinner somebody
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: and their dad.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: I'm out with both of them.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: They're dumb rich in banking and it's two and one
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: and they're like so split and I'm like yeah, but
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: I'm like jeez.
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah, like I'm picking up what like I can't.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: Hey, so it's fifty to fifty with three and one
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: on one side with two and me that you speak up,
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: you speak up. I'd be like, hey, I do actions.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: I do actions like we're not I'm not doing that again.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. Oh yeah, no, I that
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: dinner again. I wouldn't take it. Just it felt weird.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: I'm like, whatever, I don't care for that one time period,
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: but I don't feel like I should be paying for
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: someone who's got you know, thousand x my my worth
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: or more whatever.
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: You're overpowered at the table. Like I wouldn't have dinner
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: with them again that it would just have it. Yeah,
• 33:40
  Speaker 6: that's what I mean. Like that would probably be my
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: thing and the last argument I have like with people
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: and you guys might think this is wrong, but nobody
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: cares cash anymore.
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: Like I go to a.
• 33:49
  Speaker 6: Restaurant with my boys and their wife's like four or
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: five couples, you know, say the bills one hundred dollars each.
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: Just say back, I.
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: Put, you know, one hundred and whatever thirty forty bucks
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: with the tip, Like what are you doing?
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: I'm like, what do you mean? What am I doing?
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: They're like, just put your card down. And I've had.
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: Arguments with this guy every time. I'm like, bro, I'm
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: carrying cash. You could take my cash or not. I'm
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: putting the bill on. I'm getting out here, Like what
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: are you doing? Like do you carry cash? I always
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: ca yeah, how about you?
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: I do not carry cash anymore, but you know, I
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: barely most of the time. I don't even have a
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: wallet anymore. Obviously I'm going to dinner or something. But
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: I mean I got everything, yeah, and I didn't know.
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: But at a restaurant, like you know, with ten people
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: all that, well we just do that.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: If everyone's just like whatever.
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: Valet car, I just think of you know, what happens
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: when you go to a nice place. Maybe there's a
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: valet service, maybe there's other things.
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: That's actually one of the last ones that most ballets,
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: though now do have a QR code.
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: So you can seriously that you live in New York too,
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: you know all that.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, I'm I'm almost forty.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: There's people younger than me that have never seen a
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: freaking nickel in their life.
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: I'm telling you, they'll know why money's laying around. Wonder
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: if that can go on my vend Huh, you.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Got to do it. So anyway, all right, we'll swing
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: back ft FAM.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: Obviously, if you've experienced any of these stories or anything
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: you'd liked from the story, comment below let us know.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: But that was pretty cool, well done by Brit Gieroli.
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: Really good story.