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Pete Alonso joins FT + Ken Rosenthal on Jazz at third, Rushing time · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: And I want to be the best version of myself
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  Speaker 1: because like going deep in the playoffs, playing that type
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  Speaker 1: of baseball is addictive.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Ken, Rosenthal, Ken, I thought you were going
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  Speaker 2: to be in the car. You really can clone yourself.
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  Speaker 2: There are two of you. I've known it for quite
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  Speaker 2: some time. There's no way someone can get as much
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  Speaker 2: work done as you are.
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  Speaker 3: This is your clone.
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  Speaker 4: No, it's actually me Writt.
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  Speaker 5: And what I thought would happened was being in LA
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  Speaker 5: that it would take forever to get to the hotel.
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  Speaker 4: But I got to the hotel. So we're good, awesome
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  Speaker 4: for joining us. Yes, yehick this.
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  Speaker 3: Week real quick?
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  Speaker 2: Can a previous argument between Kratzy and I. Do you
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  Speaker 2: think MLB umpires have a good gig?
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  Speaker 3: I say yes.
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  Speaker 2: Krat said no because they don't get on private jets,
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  Speaker 2: which is such a player thing to say.
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  Speaker 4: It's a hard it's a stressful gig.
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  Speaker 5: I know they are paid reasonably well, not like players,
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  Speaker 5: but paid reasonably well.
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  Speaker 4: But I don't know that I would want that job.
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  Speaker 4: To me.
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  Speaker 5: That's a no win job. No one ever says, hey,
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  Speaker 5: great job. It happens rarely now, but not for me,
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  Speaker 5: And it has nothing to do with a private jet
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  Speaker 5: versus commercial. We're all accustomed to, well not players, but
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  Speaker 5: most of us are accustomed to flying commercial.
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  Speaker 4: And that's fine. It's the gig itself that's hard.
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  Speaker 6: Ken, you are in La Yankees coming into town. What
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  Speaker 6: a beautiful time.
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  Speaker 7: It is a renowned rivalry.
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  Speaker 6: You talked a little bit about the Yankees and how
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  Speaker 6: they had a couple needs in the offseason, what they
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  Speaker 6: wanted to prove, especially you know, the way they hit
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  Speaker 6: against left handing pitching. Talk a little bit about that,
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  Speaker 6: and talk a little about, you know, on an other hand,
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  Speaker 6: about athletes and how athletic they are. And they want
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  Speaker 6: to move him to the middle of the field. Talk
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  Speaker 6: about Jazz Chishen. Why are they making him go to
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  Speaker 6: third base? And rehabit tim it all right?
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  Speaker 4: Well, first of all, left handed pitching. That is interesting.
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  Speaker 5: You would think that last year, as good as their
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  Speaker 5: offense was, they'd be good against lefties, but they really weren't.
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  Speaker 5: Twelfth in the league in ops against lefties, and they
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  Speaker 5: brought in gold Schmidt with the idea that he would help.
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  Speaker 5: Now it turns out Bellinger, left handed hitter, is hitting
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  Speaker 5: lefties two and Aaron Judge is ridiculous against lefties.
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  Speaker 4: His OPS is something like one.
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  Speaker 5: Point six to zero right now, So they are doing
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  Speaker 5: a better job against lefties. And that was one of
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  Speaker 5: the things that they came out of the World Series
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  Speaker 5: last year thinking, Okay, we need to fix that. We
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  Speaker 5: need to get more athletic, we need to get more
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  Speaker 5: strikeouts out of the bullpen. And they really have accomplished
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  Speaker 5: a lot of this, even while losing Won Soto, even
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  Speaker 5: while losing Garrett Cole.
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  Speaker 4: Now, as for Jazz, it seems.
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  Speaker 5: To me that when you have a player like him
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  Speaker 5: who is athletic, you want him in the middle of
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  Speaker 5: the diamond. That's generally where the best athletes play, in
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  Speaker 5: the middle of the diamond.
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  Speaker 4: No disrespect Todd.
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  Speaker 5: But in the Yankees case, DJ Lemayhew is comfortable at second,
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  Speaker 5: and they know Jazz can play third because he did
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  Speaker 5: that last year and a pretty good job of it
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  Speaker 5: as well. So he is on his rehab assignment playing
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  Speaker 5: third base. The expectation is that he will be their
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  Speaker 5: third basement.
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  Speaker 4: When he comes back, and one of the thinking.
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  Speaker 5: Or part of the thinking here is that they don't
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  Speaker 5: know if they'll be able to trade for a third basement.
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  Speaker 5: They may only be able to trade for a second basement.
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  Speaker 5: So if DJ Lemayhew doesn't pan out because of course
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  Speaker 5: he hasn't played much in the last couple of years,
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  Speaker 5: and they want to get a second basement, then they
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  Speaker 5: can keep Jazz at third. This just increases the versatility.
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  Speaker 5: They can go any number of ways.
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  Speaker 8: This is obviously the matchup of the Dodgers getting drunk
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  Speaker 8: after they won and talking on Mookie Betts's podcast as
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  Speaker 8: a writer, when you go in, do you go in
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  Speaker 8: and you're like, all right, normally I have one microphone
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  Speaker 8: that I'm recording stuff on. I'm gonna take two, or
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  Speaker 8: do you feel like this is something that is completely
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  Speaker 8: under the bridge, like water under the bridge. Nobody's even
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  Speaker 8: going to really bring it up from a player's standpoint.
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  Speaker 5: I don't expect to hear anything about that. And Chris Taylor,
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  Speaker 5: of all people, is maybe the most mild mattered guy
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  Speaker 5: in the sport, so for him to say what he
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  Speaker 5: did was really surprising.
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  Speaker 4: And maybe they were a little bit enhanced chemically at
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  Speaker 4: the time. I'm not meaning steroids, I'm talking about alcohol.
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  Speaker 5: So I just don't expect there to be much of
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  Speaker 5: that this weekend. It's not even JUNI yet, actually it
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  Speaker 5: will be by the time the series is over, and
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  Speaker 5: it's early in the season. This is a regular season series.
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  Speaker 5: As for bad blood or anything like that, Judge put
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  Speaker 5: it best. He said, listen, they beat us, It beat us.
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  Speaker 5: Just say what you want. And whether the Yankees have
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  Speaker 5: long memories about it, that shouldn't be what they're worried about.
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  Speaker 5: They should be worried about playing to the best of
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  Speaker 5: their abilities, which is.
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  Speaker 4: Something they did not do in the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: Ken you head in your notes column to the other
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  Speaker 2: day that Seattle could be an interesting team to watch
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  Speaker 2: at the deadline, and they have the games best farm system.
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  Speaker 3: According to Keith Ball.
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  Speaker 2: Jerry Depoto, as we know, has it in him to
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  Speaker 2: be very aggressive.
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  Speaker 3: What do you kind of see them doing?
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  Speaker 2: I know it's still early, but we are kind of
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  Speaker 2: getting to the point where teams are drilling down and
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  Speaker 2: underlying names and they're making phone calls. What could you
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  Speaker 2: see Seattle realistically doing with a lot of that prospect capital.
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  Speaker 5: They seem to be with one team that has a
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  Speaker 5: great needed first base. I believe they're twenty ninth in
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  Speaker 5: the league at ops in first base or twenty fifth.
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  Speaker 4: Something like that. It's not good. It's down there, so
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  Speaker 4: that could.
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  Speaker 5: Be one area that they need to address or try
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  Speaker 5: to address. Right field is another. That they have Luke
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  Speaker 5: Raley coming back and maybe Victor Robust toward the.
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  Speaker 4: End of the season.
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  Speaker 5: They still could use more offense, and their pitching is
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  Speaker 5: getting healthier now.
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  Speaker 4: Kirby's back not consistent yet, Logan Gilbert working his way back.
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  Speaker 5: Bryce Miller will join them, so I can see them
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  Speaker 5: going out and getting a first basement or a corner outfielder.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know that they will need to.
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  Speaker 5: Trade one of their best prospects for that kind of player.
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  Speaker 5: Depends who it is, of course. But the reason I
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  Speaker 5: wrote the item I did today was because they do have,
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  Speaker 5: as you said, Britt, this amazing group of prospects.
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  Speaker 4: Really many of them are middle infielders, so.
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  Speaker 5: If they wanted to trade one of them, they could
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  Speaker 5: probably get something pretty good. And I thought, well, the Mariners,
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  Speaker 5: they don't spend much money, maybe they won't want to
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  Speaker 5: trade prospects.
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  Speaker 7: But no.
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  Speaker 5: My understanding is they've done this before. They did it
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  Speaker 5: to get Louise Castillo, and they did it to.
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  Speaker 4: Get Randy a Rose Arena. They will not be afraid
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  Speaker 4: to do it again.
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  Speaker 8: Talking about trades, I want to go back to the
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  Speaker 8: Dodgers and Dalton Rushing. We talked about it. When they
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  Speaker 8: called him up, I felt like it was a bad move.
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  Speaker 8: Scott felt like it was a good move to replace
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  Speaker 8: Barns with Rushing. But to me, you have a prospect
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  Speaker 8: in the minor leagues not playing, and now he's up
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  Speaker 8: in the big leagues and he's hit a small sample
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  Speaker 8: size two point fifty.
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  Speaker 7: Did you do you.
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  Speaker 8: Believe that there's a possibility that the call up kind
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  Speaker 8: of shows hey will trade you a big leaguer instead
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  Speaker 8: of just a prospect, and that could have been part
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  Speaker 8: of the reason why they brought Dalton Rushing up.
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  Speaker 5: I don't believe it is Eric after asking some people
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  Speaker 5: about this, it's kind of an easy interpretation, a logical
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  Speaker 5: interpretation to think, just what you said, this guy's going
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  Speaker 5: to be their trade piece. But they designed their team
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  Speaker 5: so they would not need to overpay at the deadline.
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  Speaker 5: So they're not going to trade Dalton Rushing for a
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  Speaker 5: one year starting pitcher, even a two year starting pitcher.
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  Speaker 5: They're not going to trade in for a position player
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  Speaker 5: of any kind unless it's somewhat of comparable service and ability.
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  Speaker 5: And the whole thing is they don't expect to need
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  Speaker 5: starting pitchers or position players. They need a right hand reliever,
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  Speaker 5: and they got one yesterday and Alexis Das and that
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  Speaker 5: can be an ongoing thing.
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  Speaker 4: We'll see where they end up with that. But Rushing,
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  Speaker 4: in their.
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  Speaker 5: View, is a guy who is going to give them
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  Speaker 5: the ability to rest Will Smith, who has had trouble
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  Speaker 5: in the second half the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 4: He's been really good again in the first half.
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  Speaker 5: Now they can rest in more. Rushing has an offensive
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  Speaker 5: capability that most catchers don't have quite frankly, and next year,
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  Speaker 5: if Michael Confordo leaves as a free agent, they can
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  Speaker 5: maybe even put Rushing in left field, though they'll be
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  Speaker 5: reluctant to give up on him as a catcher. So
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  Speaker 5: I don't see him getting traded, and if anything, he
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  Speaker 5: is going to be part of their teams going forward.
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  Speaker 6: I want to ask a little about prospects. Now, it's
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  Speaker 6: not a prospects. He's been around for a long time,
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  Speaker 6: Craig Kimberl. He has a one point five for ERA
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  Speaker 6: and triple A. You know, there's been word about David
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  Speaker 6: Robertson too as well, maybe going to a team. Is
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  Speaker 6: there anybody looking for a reliever? I know there's a
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  Speaker 6: bunch of teams out there. I mean, I feel like
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  Speaker 6: he could fit anywhere right now with that kind of er.
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  Speaker 6: I know it's triple A, but think about giving this
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  Speaker 6: guy a shot. You never know what can happen.
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  Speaker 5: There are teams looking for relievers, and Arizona comes immediately
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  Speaker 5: to mind, and there are others as well.
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  Speaker 4: Even Atlanta could use some bullpen help. But for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 4: no team has come for Kimberle yet. And I don't
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  Speaker 4: know what his underlying metrics look like.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe they're not good enough for teams the way they
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  Speaker 5: are evaluating him right now, but he is succeeding.
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  Speaker 4: A triple A.
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  Speaker 5: And for all those people out there, I know what
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  Speaker 5: they're thinking, Oh, Greg Gimble, he's washed up. He was
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  Speaker 5: really good in the first half last year, and I
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  Speaker 5: don't know if it was over use or what.
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  Speaker 4: He did collapse in the second half.
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  Speaker 5: The Oriols did release him, but he kind of proved
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  Speaker 5: in the first half he could still be a high
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  Speaker 5: quality reliever.
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  Speaker 4: So I would expect at some point some.
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  Speaker 5: Team is going to contact his camp and say, listen,
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  Speaker 5: we're ready to bring him to the big leagues right now.
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  Speaker 5: And at that point, because he has a rolling opt out,
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  Speaker 5: the Braves will have the ability either to bring him
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  Speaker 5: to the majors or to let him go.
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  Speaker 4: And at some point I would think that's going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd like to see him pitch again.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully he'll get another chance for relievers are so sad,
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  Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens. Ken, Thank you so much
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  Speaker 2: for the time. Have fun of the series. Sure to
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  Speaker 2: be a good one. A big, huge, huge, huge series
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  Speaker 2: Red Krats. We can't say it enough, huge huge series.
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  Speaker 2: Dodger Tankies, Ken Rosenthal. I'm assuming you have this Saturday.
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  Speaker 4: Game, Ken, we do, Britt, Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Saturday Fox game.
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  Speaker 4: Awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks so much, Ken, have a good rest of your weekend.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks Britt.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back, Found Territory, Pete Alonso, bridgerol and Aircrafts.
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  Speaker 3: Tod Frazer here with you, Pete. Where are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm in my backyard, so I'm gonna be right after this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be heading in the yard.
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  Speaker 3: Awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for taking some time. That looks like a nice,
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  Speaker 2: like serene little yard you got going on there.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for saying for us. We really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's really nice. So it's good. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's great vibes, and we actually have a sunny
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  Speaker 1: day today. The weather's been very subpar in the Northeast
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  Speaker 1: this spring, so we're really excited that, right. I'm I'm
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  Speaker 1: personally excited that we actually have sun today.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I feel that, Pete.
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  Speaker 2: It's been brutal here in the Mid Atlantic as well, Pete,
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  Speaker 2: I want to I want to get right to it.
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  Speaker 2: It feels like, obviously you had such a huge start
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  Speaker 2: to the season and the Mets did as well. It
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  Speaker 2: feels like some of the vibes from last year, where
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  Speaker 2: you know, you kind of saw the culture and the
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  Speaker 2: turnaround and how much fun you guys were having down
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  Speaker 2: the stretch, it feels like a lot of that has
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  Speaker 2: kind of carried over to this season. I mean, is
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  Speaker 2: that is that an accurate read by me? Like when
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  Speaker 2: you look at this team that like really seemed to
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  Speaker 2: pull for each other last year, it feels like Carlos
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  Speaker 2: Mendoza has done a great job and kind of and
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  Speaker 2: the players as well, and recreating that because it would
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  Speaker 2: have been really easy with some of those injuries you
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  Speaker 2: guys had early on to have a rough start again,
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  Speaker 2: but you guys came out of the gate really strong.
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  Speaker 1: Well to our core. With this group of guys, I
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  Speaker 1: think we're just a resilient bunch and for us, we
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  Speaker 1: know what it takes too. Kind of we've done a
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  Speaker 1: great job at understanding our assignment every single day because
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  Speaker 1: over the course of the season, what we don't want
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  Speaker 1: to happen, want to let happen is complacency kind of
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  Speaker 1: set in. So like last year, all of us were
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  Speaker 1: kind of a little like, Okay, let's not wait till
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  Speaker 1: a doubleheader on Monday when no one else is playing baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Let's let's kind of capture as many games early as
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  Speaker 1: we possibly as we possibly can. So we've been really
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  Speaker 1: on it every single day. The front office ownership brought
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  Speaker 1: back a lot of the similar guys that were part
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  Speaker 1: of that successful chemistry, and I mean it's the chemistry
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  Speaker 1: and that and and our talent that's really been been
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  Speaker 1: the two main factors that are have been keeping us performing.
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  Speaker 1: And also our pitching staff has been nasty so far.
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  Speaker 1: So it's been it's been great. It's been great team
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  Speaker 1: complete win baseball.
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  Speaker 7: I think you hit that perfectly.
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  Speaker 6: You know, coming in you think about the Mets and
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  Speaker 6: what they either picked up one Soto as you know,
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  Speaker 6: and the worry was about the pitching staff, but they
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  Speaker 6: have absolutely done their job. Kudos to the coaching staff
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  Speaker 6: too as well with the pitchers. I want to talk
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  Speaker 6: a little about the off season. You know, coming in,
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  Speaker 6: uh all you think about little free agency, you know
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  Speaker 6: what's going to go on, and understandably it took a
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  Speaker 6: while for you to figure out where you were going,
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  Speaker 6: took a while to get you know, a contract done.
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  Speaker 7: Nobody knows what goes on in your mind.
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  Speaker 6: You know, talking to you in the off season a
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  Speaker 6: little bit like, hey, everything's going to work out. I'm
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  Speaker 6: feeling good. And it did eventually it did. You're back
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  Speaker 6: with the Mets, where I think, in my opinion, I
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  Speaker 6: think you wanted to go. But is there something in
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  Speaker 6: your mind right now? Like since you're playing really well, dude,
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  Speaker 6: it's been fun to watch, Like is there a little
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  Speaker 6: chip on your shoulder?
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  Speaker 7: Is business as usual right now? Knowing like, hey, I'm
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  Speaker 7: just going to tack the game like I know how to.
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  Speaker 1: Can't necessarily focus on on the big on the big picture,
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  Speaker 1: so every day it's just do what you can go
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  Speaker 1: want to know every single day, capture as many wins
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  Speaker 1: as possible. And for me, I I where I'm whether
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  Speaker 1: I'm hitting three or four in the order, I know
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  Speaker 1: that how I perform is going to have an impact
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  Speaker 1: on the team, and I want to be the best
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  Speaker 1: version of myself because like going deep in the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: playing that type of baseball is addictive, Like I honestly
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  Speaker 1: there's that's the ultimate and in order to get back there,
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  Speaker 1: I want to be able to do my part. And
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  Speaker 1: I mean that that type of baseball, that type of
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  Speaker 1: run that we had last year, it's it's addictive because
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  Speaker 1: for us it ended, and it's like, man, I want more.
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  Speaker 1: We want to go to the next level. And collectively
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  Speaker 1: as a group, it's how locked in not just myself,
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  Speaker 1: but every single guy is, and how focused everybody is
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: to capture the most out of every single day. It's
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: really it's really been a tremendous group effort.
• 15:51
  Speaker 8: Did you learn this last year? Because everybody saw it's
• 15:54
  Speaker 8: going to be your free agent year and nobody knows
• 15:57
  Speaker 8: what it's like to go into a free agent year
• 16:00
  Speaker 8: until you actually go into it. And now technically you
• 16:04
  Speaker 8: have another free agent year. So did you learn all
• 16:07
  Speaker 8: this in your free agent year last year where you said,
• 16:11
  Speaker 8: no pressure on myself. I didn't get off to the
• 16:13
  Speaker 8: start that I wanted to. Okay, maybe we'll go day
• 16:17
  Speaker 8: by day. Were those thoughts creeping in during the season.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: No, I mean, to be honest, like every year, I
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: mean it's the big leagues. Like you want to succeed
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: every single every single day, you gotta you gotta come
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: with it. You got to be ready to attack, because
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: if you're not ready, the game will the game will
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: expose you. And and for me, last year, I felt
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: that I just I just don't think my swing was
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: in a very consistent place where it's like there'd be
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: some days where I had it. So like for me,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: I think having a complete season is about just stacking
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: good quality at bats and stacking good days where I
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: feel like myself. I'm not trying to force anything. And
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: for me, it's it's all. I think I've cleaned up
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: a ton of I mean, no one's perfect over the
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: course of the year, but I feel like I've cleaned
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: up a ton of my mechanics. I feel like I'm
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: way more efficient. Uh, there's less uh, there's there's way
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: less extra movement. I feel like I'm I'm just really
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: efficient right now, and and I think I'm in a
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: really good spot day to day.
• 17:22
  Speaker 8: How much pressure is on Wan Sodo? How much pressure
• 17:25
  Speaker 8: do you feel? Honestly? You know it might not be
• 17:27
  Speaker 8: words that he says, but when you have that type
• 17:31
  Speaker 8: of contract, how much pressure do you feel like is
• 17:34
  Speaker 8: on him to be something that he doesn't have to be.
• 17:37
  Speaker 8: He just needs to be Wan Soda.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah. To be honest, I I don't know, And I
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: don't think anyone could ever put themselves in issues because
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: he's the He's got the largest contract in all sports,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: you know, so that's I mean, no one. He's kind
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: of like on an island in that aspect. But I
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: think the for him, like he's all about winning and
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: that's the most important thing. Even though he's not having
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: the the necessarily the type of season he wants to
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: have and he knows he's capable of. He's been. He's
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: been very present. He's been I mean, you see it
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: every single day. He's so consistent, so level headed, and
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: that's that's what you want out of a out of
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: a superstar like that. He's the same whether he has
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: a good day or bad day. And for me, like
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: that's you know, Juan Soto is gonna is gonna rake.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: You know he's going to have a great season.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Pete probably too, too selfless to say abou Pete's on
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: track to have a career year right now as we
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: stand on a cur like on your current pace, you
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: would have a new career high and doubles, walks, ops ops,
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: plus a bunch of things. But I don't want to
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: ask you about you, because I know guys like talking
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: about other people. More so I want to ask you
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: about Francisco Lindor, who a guy who I feel like
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: has kind of embodied who the New York Mets are.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: He seems to be the and soul of this team.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: You read about him going to guys lockers, you see
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: fans singing his bat song. What do we miss about
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: playing with a guy like that? And what does he
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: like to have as a teammate.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Oh, he's been He's been great. I think the one thing,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: like all those things you can check off the boxes,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: but the one thing that I respect and love the
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: most about him he shows up every day. He's the
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: type of guy that's willing to strap it on no
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: matter what. It doesn't matter how he's feeling and he
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: wants to play one hundred and sixty two games.
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: I want to talk a little about family a little bit.
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: You and Hallie are expecting a child, and I think
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: that's beautiful. But my question to you, first off, congratulations, right,
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: because I know how many times I bugged you over
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: the years when you're gonna have a child.
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: Let's go, let's go start popping away, Let's go.
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: You know what I mean. It's a beautiful thing. Hopen
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: for healthy and happy. That's all I asked for for you.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Have you thank you.
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: Found a room in house?
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: Have you moved stuff out of your rooms yet to
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: get that that room ready further for your new baby
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: or what?
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: We have we have so after yeah, so we last
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: last oct and the hurricane hit, we were kind of
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: forced to remodel everything because we had Mother Nature install
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: about a two and a half foot saltwater pool in
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: our in our in our house. So we after all
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: the renovations and stuff like that, we we uh, we
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: definitely made made space for uh for the baby.
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: All right, Pete.
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: I got to ask congrats, by the way, but I
• 20:38
  Speaker 8: got to ask about something that was my nightmare when
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: I played my nightmare that I would have when I
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: was playing, and it would wake me up at night.
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: Was I show up late for the inning? Now as
• 20:50
  Speaker 8: a catcher, they're not starting without you, But it was
• 20:52
  Speaker 8: always like I looked down, I had the wrong cleats on,
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: I had the wrong color socks on. So when you
• 20:59
  Speaker 8: ran came running out and the first base coach threw
• 21:04
  Speaker 8: your first basemans mitt and then they called a ball
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: on Senga, that was like my nightmare just coming to
• 21:13
  Speaker 8: real life. And I'm sorry you had to deal with that.
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: What was going on? My guy?
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Well, so the ending ended, and I mean honestly I
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: had to. I mean I think with like the clock now,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: it's really really quickly. I didn't get a chance to
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: uh use the use the men's room, and I had
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: to take a number one. And by the time I
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: knew it is I think it was like what like
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: a minute ten seconds. By the time I was finished
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: and running out in the field, they got me on
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: a pitch violation. So I was like, oh, sorry, boys,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: that's that's really it's not it's not that deep.
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: Oh this happens, that's tough.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: Was it fair though?
• 21:58
  Speaker 8: Did you did you plead your case? Were you like,
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: look like this is like, come on, guys, we just
• 22:03
  Speaker 8: the pitch clock is for the time of the game.
• 22:06
  Speaker 8: And they spent five minutes talking about it, so they
• 22:09
  Speaker 8: delayed the game when they could have just been like,
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: all right, here we go. PiZZ back.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Thing has struck them out anyway, so it all evened outs.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: Okay, did you get teased a bunch feete or no?
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: Sorry? What was that?
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Did you get teased a bunch after the inning?
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: Uh? No?
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: No, no, so I used so in between before I
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: got out, I had to Yeah, that was that was it.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: That was it? So I mean again, something stupid again,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: and it is what it is.
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: Hey, listen, that's that's that's part. You know, we've all
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: been there in no situations. It's not stupid. That's just
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: human nature. That's what happens. Sometimes you gotta run, you
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: gotta go. You got if you want a piece of
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: chocolate or you know, if you're hungry, you gotta you know,
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: you're looking for something certain anyway, Home run, derby Dog,
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: it's getting close. Have you been asked to do it
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: again or what's your thoughts on that?
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: No, I haven't been asked. I mean, I know Atlanta
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: is a really great place to hit, but got to earn,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: got to earn the to be an All Star to
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: get there. So for me, you gotta keep hammering.
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think you're on your way.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Last question that I'll let you go, but we we
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: were all with Rob Thompson earlier and asked him kind
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: of about the strike zone. I'm wondering, as a hitter,
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: does the way the umpires called the zone, how it's
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: different this year?
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Does that factor in it all?
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Can you let that factor in it all to your
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: psyche when you're when you're at a plane at all.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, they're gonna call what they're gonna call. Like
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: for me, it's it's regardless of what happens. I as
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: a hitter, you just naturally adjust. I For me, I
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: if the balls over the plane, I'm gonna swing. If
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: it's not, I'm gonna take so. Or or if it
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: looks like it's gonna be a ball, I'm gonna take so.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: That's seaball hit ball if it's.
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: In my area.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: If it's not, then I'll just just take it. That's
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: That's really all I got.
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: Yeah, love love every second of that. I got.
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: My last two questions, well one a comment afterward, Who
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: is there a guy on first base you have over
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: there that's giving you some really good conversations like one
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: where you walk away.
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: Like I didn't know that about him?
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: Man, Pretty cool, dude, Are you like, what the heck
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: did we just talk about?
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, talking with Freddie it's always it's always really enjoyable.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: But I mean, yeah, a lot of it, a lot
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: of it. Now it's it's just like, hey, like whatever, Hey,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: good swing, But that's about it. Nice swing. Glad you
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: had a single, not of Homer, gotcha?
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: Gotcha all right? And then my last thing. You know,
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: my son is your favorite player of all time. He
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: wanted to let me. I told him you were coming
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: on the show today. He said, it's simple, keep raking, Pete,
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: don't stop.
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: So I gotta tell you. That's what he told you,
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: So keep going. You know Blake loves you.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Blakester's the best. Tell him tell him, I said,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: he up.
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: That will do.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Thanks so much, Pete, We appreciate it.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: We will make sure you get to the stadium on time,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: so we'll let you go. Thanks for showing us the backyard.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Enjoy the sunshine and good luck for the rest of the season.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Thank you guys, thanks for having me on. Peace guys,