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Marlins RP Tyler Phillips on dugouts calling pitches + Baseball/softball player/coach Sarah Edwards · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Marlin's reliever Tyler Phillips with us right now. Wow, great
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  Speaker 1: hat dude.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing on the ship. I'm the captain now,
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  Speaker 2: Captain Phillips, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So good as looking for his prop too, I'm looking
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  Speaker 3: for mine.
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  Speaker 4: I don't I think I got rid of it. Actually
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  Speaker 4: I think I got rid of it. I threw it away.
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  Speaker 1: Guys, it's great to have you. Did you just have
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  Speaker 1: that sitting around? Or is this part of like a
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  Speaker 1: are they doing a giveaway?
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  Speaker 5: It was yesterday that a give away. I like to
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  Speaker 5: grab them. I have like four of them in my
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  Speaker 5: locker right now.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 6: Is it a yacht rock? Was it yacht rock Day?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? It was yacht rock Day? Smart man, yacht rock Day.
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  Speaker 6: Who's your favorite yacht rocker?
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  Speaker 3: H m hm.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, I don't know. Does John Mayer count? Like he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't even count.
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  Speaker 6: Slap yourself, slap yourself.
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  Speaker 7: He slaps himself to get ready. That's not a punishment.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know. He needs to learn these things. He
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  Speaker 6: needs to learn if you're going to.
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  Speaker 2: Rock the hat rock, that's what he is. That's me.
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  Speaker 4: You got at least know Christopher Cross, I mean, come on,
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  Speaker 4: I mean he's in every song.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know, you put me on the spot.
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  Speaker 2: You put me on the spot.
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  Speaker 4: Kenny Loggins was a yacht rocker before he became popular.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's on me.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, guys, you're good, You're good, You're young, and you're
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  Speaker 1: a little busy right now. So tell us what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: How is the team looking? And yes, I want to
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  Speaker 1: know about any runnings you've had with Joe Mack. Did
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  Speaker 1: you spend time with him in spring training at all?
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  Speaker 5: I spent a lot of time with Joe. He actually
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  Speaker 5: he caught every one of my bullpends off. He's not
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  Speaker 5: forced him to, obviously, when you're up here, like you
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  Speaker 5: you know what's going on down the lower levels, you
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  Speaker 5: know who's good.
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  Speaker 2: It's huge prosper act.
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  Speaker 5: So once I met him at I met him at
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  Speaker 5: my gym in the off season, and I just told him, hey, like,
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  Speaker 5: you're probably gonna be up at some point soon, so
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  Speaker 5: you're going to catch me every time, like I don't care.
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  Speaker 2: Like Liam Hicks was there too, but he's seen me.
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  Speaker 5: Uh So I wanted to get Joe acclaman and he
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  Speaker 5: always answered the call early in the morning. He was
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  Speaker 5: there catching me and uh did everything I asked, so
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  Speaker 5: unbelievable worker, like hard worker. I heard that he needs
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  Speaker 5: to work on his communication skills when it comes to
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  Speaker 5: answering the phone.
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  Speaker 2: I'm surprised he even made it here today.
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  Speaker 5: But uh yeah, he's He's been great so far, and
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  Speaker 5: I think he has a good understanding for me at least.
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  Speaker 3: Well, tell us more about the communication skills. It totally
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  Speaker 3: just ambushed my real question, Like he doesn't answer his phone.
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  Speaker 2: I heard that that.
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  Speaker 5: I heard that he would have been probably called up
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  Speaker 5: three years ago if he would be answering his phone more.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's three.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, what is he is?
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  Speaker 2: He is?
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  Speaker 3: He does he live in the eighties, Like like it's
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  Speaker 3: not like you have to call like a low hotel phone.
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  Speaker 7: He just doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's I think he's a big gamer man.
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  Speaker 5: I think he likes to likes to play the game
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  Speaker 5: here and there, a game that I don't agree with.
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  Speaker 5: But you know that's a that's that's a different story.
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  Speaker 5: I think he just like, isn't good on his phone,
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  Speaker 5: is what I heard. He always answered me, so I
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  Speaker 5: had no issue with him.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so so you guys were at Kressy. I'm assuming
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  Speaker 3: with my guy Jake Bruno and and Liam Hicks was there.
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  Speaker 5: Dude, Jake Bruno, that's a name right there. He's my
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  Speaker 5: triple A bullpen catcher. Love that guy.
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  Speaker 6: Bruno.
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  Speaker 3: Bruno's the assistant coach at the high school that I
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  Speaker 3: coach at. So Bruno's my my guy. He was down
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  Speaker 3: at Kressey with you. What does all of that mean
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  Speaker 3: for a young guy like Joe Mack or even a
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  Speaker 3: guy like it's not like Liam Hicks is like a
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  Speaker 3: you know, Cagy Vett. What does it mean to be
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  Speaker 3: around those kinds of guys in the offseason? Do you
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  Speaker 3: think that increases their level of readiness for when they
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  Speaker 3: get to the big leagues or is it just kind
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  Speaker 3: of like, well that's what everybody does now, they go
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  Speaker 3: to Kressy and around everybody.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think for sure it increases it
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  Speaker 5: from the standpoint of like you're around season vets. You know,
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  Speaker 5: like some of the big names that are there early
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  Speaker 5: in the morning. I mean, you got Sures or of
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  Speaker 5: Berland or all these guys. I think Joe caught a
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  Speaker 5: few of them. But you can't show up late, you
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  Speaker 5: can't mess around, like those guys are very meticulous about
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  Speaker 5: what they're trying to do with their craft and their
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  Speaker 5: bullpens as well, and there's constant communication between the catchers
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  Speaker 5: and all the all the pitchers thrown in there. So
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  Speaker 5: I think it just gives you a little bit more
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  Speaker 5: sense of like being comfortable once you get here. I
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  Speaker 5: know that's I know that could be controversial, like people
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  Speaker 5: don't like it's the big leagues.
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  Speaker 2: You have to earn it.
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  Speaker 5: But I do want my catcher to show up and
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  Speaker 5: not be timid, and I want him to come to
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  Speaker 5: me and try to ask me what pictures I'm looking
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  Speaker 5: for and what my tendencies are. So I think being
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  Speaker 5: around those guys and just catching bullpens constantly throughout the
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  Speaker 5: day and hearing all of these different ideas from guys,
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  Speaker 5: I think that it's super valuable for them.
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  Speaker 1: Thoughts on when when you're talking to a catcher and
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  Speaker 1: communicating with one during this time period now with the Marlins,
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  Speaker 1: how he's getting calls from the dugout. How does that
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  Speaker 1: whole process work when a guy is coming up here
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  Speaker 1: now for the first time.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's a different one man, Because in between innings,
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  Speaker 5: I tend to go to the coach. Now, Rob in
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  Speaker 5: there and I'll just ask him about calls and I'll
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  Speaker 5: tell him what I was thinking. But it's really good
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  Speaker 5: when the catcher, if he's not up to bad obviously,
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  Speaker 5: it's really good that they get into that conversation as well,
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  Speaker 5: and we just kind of spit all together because at
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  Speaker 5: the end of the day, like the coach, Rob, he's
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  Speaker 5: gonna he's gonna put his suggestion down, Catcher's gonna call it.
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  Speaker 5: And if I'm shaking, like with the pitch clock now,
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  Speaker 5: like I need those guys to be on the same
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  Speaker 5: page as me and know who I'm who I'm going
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  Speaker 5: to be throwing the curveball to. Let's say so, it's
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  Speaker 5: a lot of a lot of conversation, but the catchers
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  Speaker 5: and Rob are talking constantly. I'll talk with them, Like
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  Speaker 5: even Ramirez yesterday, like he came out he was hitting.
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  Speaker 2: He said, hey, I don't know what you and Rob
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  Speaker 2: talked about, but what do you want to do here?
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  Speaker 5: So, I mean it's it's a little different, but uh,
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  Speaker 5: Robing them are always they're always on top of it.
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  Speaker 6: Tyler's that way.
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  Speaker 4: You have an Apple Watch on so you can get
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  Speaker 4: the calls right now, so you can get the steps.
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  Speaker 4: Oh so still a curveball, So still a curveball here.
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  Speaker 5: Just I've been asked, I've been asking them to give
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  Speaker 5: me my own PitchCom but yeah, I should just use
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  Speaker 5: this right.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you could do like college where all the college
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  Speaker 4: kids have the wristband and they just all go like
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  Speaker 4: this all the time, and they're like.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, herdball.
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  Speaker 6: Okay. That's maybe changs a lot, which is fine.
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  Speaker 4: But I find it interesting that Ramiro just they had
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  Speaker 4: to come ask you what you and the coach talked about.
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  Speaker 4: Now he's in triple A, so maybe you should have questions.
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  Speaker 2: That is a tough one. I think he was.
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  Speaker 5: I think he was on deck or up the back,
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  Speaker 5: and I think he saw me go over and talk
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  Speaker 5: to him. I just had some questions about some ideas
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  Speaker 5: that I had during a net bat.
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  Speaker 2: I think ultimately I agreed with what Rob was calling, but.
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  Speaker 5: I gave him what my backup plan would have been,
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  Speaker 5: and I just wanted to see what he thought and
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  Speaker 5: why he went to something, because I'm I'm constantly trying
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  Speaker 5: to learn myself, and you know, it's.
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  Speaker 2: It could be as simple as I do. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know that was your fifth pitch, like I don't.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think you should be going out there and
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  Speaker 5: throwing Bryce Harper your your forcing fastball, which is metrically
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  Speaker 5: not great, and it's your fifth pitch.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to go get him with your best stuff.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, there could be a little overthinking on
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  Speaker 5: my end, But like I said, there's conversations. A lot
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  Speaker 5: of it happens with the pitchers and Rob now and
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  Speaker 5: Rob will talked with the catchers as well, but if
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  Speaker 5: they're around, it's a it's a three way talk.
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  Speaker 3: Have you ever come out of the bullpen and been like, man,
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  Speaker 3: I just I don't I don't really feel like I'm
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  Speaker 3: spinning my curveball.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I don't feel like the ball's coming out?
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  Speaker 3: Well yes or no?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I have yeah, okay, so do you have a do
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  Speaker 3: you have a signal? Do you have a signal to
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  Speaker 3: the bench guys for seamer no bueno today?
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  Speaker 7: Like, how do they know? All they're going is by paper?
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  Speaker 3: Says his four steamers was hit up and away to
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  Speaker 3: Bryce Harper because he can't touch ninety five plus up
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  Speaker 3: and away. So we're gonna stay out of here.
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  Speaker 7: And you're like, my arm is killing me when I
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  Speaker 7: try to extend up and away. Let's go with the curveball.
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  Speaker 7: Oh wait, no, pitch clock's over ball one.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the thing they can get a little finicky
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  Speaker 5: with it is obviously they're not the one receiving the ball.
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  Speaker 5: I have seen the catchers give them a look and
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  Speaker 5: like like no, like I want this one. So like,
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  Speaker 5: for example, my splitter one game, it was the only
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  Speaker 5: pitch that I had in the zone that was working,
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  Speaker 5: and I think they were trying to get to some
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  Speaker 5: other pitches and I just I didn't have any of them,
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  Speaker 5: and I don't remember who was catching, but I could
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  Speaker 5: see them like kind of urging like no, we're gonna
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  Speaker 5: go with the splitter regardless.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a dictator here.
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  Speaker 5: I knew what pitch was working, so I was going
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  Speaker 5: to shake to get to that splitter anyway. And whoever
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  Speaker 5: it was catching, I think they could sense that as well.
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  Speaker 5: So even if I did shake, they were going straight
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  Speaker 5: to it and you could see that we were on
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  Speaker 5: the same page as well.
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  Speaker 2: So so yeah, I mean that is where it gets
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  Speaker 2: a little difficult.
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  Speaker 5: But I think they also have like in game reports
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  Speaker 5: where they can see what pitches in the zone, and
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  Speaker 5: like you said before, it's just a little difficult when
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  Speaker 5: it comes to the pitch clock now, but again that's
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  Speaker 5: on me to have ownership of what I want to throw,
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  Speaker 5: and I'm just gonna have to shake.
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  Speaker 3: I know we asked you this before, and I'll probably
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  Speaker 3: ask you again. The ninth inning doesn't matter. We did
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  Speaker 3: a whole segment about the fact that there's less saves
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  Speaker 3: across the game now than there ever has been the
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  Speaker 3: ninth inning. Are those three outs exactly the same as
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  Speaker 3: when you get the same hitters in your lane that
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  Speaker 3: the sheet says, Okay, Tyler Films is supposed to come
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  Speaker 3: out of the pen, regardless of where Pete are Banks
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  Speaker 3: is this is his lane. Is it the same getting
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  Speaker 3: those three hitters in the ninth.
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  Speaker 2: In I think the sensors are just a little heightened.
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  Speaker 5: You can you can like feel that feel that saved
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  Speaker 5: under your belt, you know. But I mean, when it
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  Speaker 5: comes to me, my role is I'm very I'm a
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  Speaker 5: very versatile picture. You know, I've started, I've I've closed,
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  Speaker 5: I've been length. We're trying to preach with me is
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  Speaker 5: just say, man, like, if it's ten to nothing, if
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  Speaker 5: it's if it's a one run game, like you're going
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  Speaker 5: out there treating it like it's zero zero. I do
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  Speaker 5: think that the adrenaline is through the roof. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I think when we were in La, I came in,
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  Speaker 5: Pete had a little issue. I came in basis loaded.
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  Speaker 5: He came out with the with the injury. I didn't
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  Speaker 5: feel good. I think I was one day off of
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  Speaker 5: like forty seven pitches, you know, trying to get out
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  Speaker 5: of it, and then through again the next day in
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  Speaker 5: the ninth and again arm wasn't feeling great, but the
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  Speaker 5: villa was.
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  Speaker 2: It was pomping out there.
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  Speaker 5: So uh, I think just the fact that the hitters
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  Speaker 5: feel it at the end of the game, those guys,
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  Speaker 5: like even I it's the heart of the lineup, They're
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  Speaker 5: going to try to be a little bit more scrappy.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, like the senses are definitely heightened.
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  Speaker 5: But for myself, it's whatever inning is, whether it's the
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  Speaker 5: first or the ninth. Like I'm coming in there and
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  Speaker 5: treating it like it's the ninth.
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  Speaker 3: When they make a closer routine for you because you
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  Speaker 3: do close or you do the f you throw the
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  Speaker 3: first or the seventh, should you only have that routine
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  Speaker 3: when you're out there closing a game. It's only a
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  Speaker 3: ninth inning and doors open, you need your routine.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I do the same thing every single day.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not a show up late like in the third
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  Speaker 5: or fourth inning. Guy, I'm out there first pitch. I
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  Speaker 5: start getting ready on the third inning, and you kind
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  Speaker 5: of just watch the game.
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  Speaker 2: I'll have a general idea.
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  Speaker 5: Of what relievers we have that are up and down
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  Speaker 5: based off of who through the day before. But you know,
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  Speaker 5: I'm like I said, I'm trying to be ready from
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  Speaker 5: first pitch on.
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  Speaker 2: You never know what's going on. I don't think the
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  Speaker 2: routine would change at all.
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  Speaker 5: It just the timing of which I do It might
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  Speaker 5: be a little different, but yeah, I'm getting going from
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  Speaker 5: the third inning on and just doing little things here
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  Speaker 5: and there, just staying ready to keep an eye on
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  Speaker 5: the game.
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  Speaker 2: Grats.
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  Speaker 1: I think we might have created it for him too,
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  Speaker 1: where it's like you get the I am the captain
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  Speaker 1: now line from the movie and then he comes out
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  Speaker 1: to whatever, what's your song?
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  Speaker 2: It's Mother by Danzig, So there we go.
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  Speaker 6: You need to change.
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  Speaker 4: You need to go to like smack that or smack
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  Speaker 4: my bleep up something like that.
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  Speaker 2: That wouldn't be bad.
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  Speaker 5: Honestly, I've I've tried to get them to do some
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  Speaker 5: like openers before I come out of the gate and
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  Speaker 5: put some funny stuff on there.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, he can't. He can't really do a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the stuff that I want to do, you know, PG.
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  Speaker 7: Thirteen choreographed.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I don't like that. I'm so used to
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  Speaker 2: the clubhouse. I just want to. I want to. I
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  Speaker 2: want to be a little crazy out there. I wish
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  Speaker 2: it could be.
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  Speaker 1: I wish they could be like, you know, like a
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  Speaker 1: quick disclaimer before it starts, like like like old school
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: when you're watching like thebo and they're like, hey, like
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  Speaker 1: this content, blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 3: Here's they used to have topless dancers. They used to
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: have topless dancers at Loane Depot. If somebody can do it,
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: you know, Tyler Phillips now entering the game, Tyler Phillips
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  Speaker 3: and just hear muffs everybody under that.
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  Speaker 5: I do have a pretty cool like video that we
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  Speaker 5: took on media day where I am slapping myself and
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  Speaker 5: then I run past the camera. I don't I don't
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  Speaker 5: know if they if they want to show that to
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  Speaker 5: children or whatever. I've been trying to talk to them,
• 14:47
  Speaker 5: but honestly, it's not a bad idea.
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  Speaker 2: I might I might see if they could put like, hey, you.
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  Speaker 5: Know, like a parental advisory thing up on the up
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  Speaker 5: on the board. That would be kind of sick, even
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  Speaker 5: if it's not for me, even if it's for Pete
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  Speaker 5: when he's back.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, let's just put that up. I think that's kind
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  Speaker 2: of intanmiditing, and.
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  Speaker 1: To be honest, I think it would be I really
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  Speaker 1: like that. All of that stuff is entertaining now and
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  Speaker 1: we need it.
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  Speaker 2: We need it.
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  Speaker 1: The TV audience too, that's not there, so.
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  Speaker 2: Well, good luck that is what goes. We'll be looking
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  Speaker 2: for it. Dude. Yeah, we're entertainers. That's what I That's
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: what I want to see.
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  Speaker 5: Like we're ball players, but we're also entertainers, so I
• 15:20
  Speaker 5: want it to be fun.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you understand that that's an important part, and
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: I think we're getting into that more and more as
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: a sport.
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: So keep doing your thing. Captain Phillips, good to see you.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for the time. As always, we appreciate it. Yeah,
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: Sarah appreciate you. Guys.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, we're excited for this one. Joining us LIB right
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  Speaker 1: now is Sarah Edwards, who has had a really cool
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: journey through the game, and by the game, I mean
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: softball and baseball. Former Phillies coach, also the first woman
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: to be an on field coach in Asian Pro Baseball,
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: among many other accolades. Sarah, it's great to have you
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: on here and thank you for joining us. Can you
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: give our fans like a little more context on your
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: journey through the game so far.
• 16:07
  Speaker 8: Yeah, thank you guys, and nice to mutual.
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  Speaker 2: So.
• 16:11
  Speaker 8: I'm from Long Island.
• 16:13
  Speaker 9: I played Division one softball at Buffalo and then at
• 16:16
  Speaker 9: Hopstra and then started my overseas softball journey, got my
• 16:20
  Speaker 9: Italian passport to be on the Italian national team, and
• 16:24
  Speaker 9: played about five years of overseas ball before getting noticed
• 16:28
  Speaker 9: by a Phillies recruiter on LinkedIn because I was doing
• 16:31
  Speaker 9: a lot of coaching in my travels, coaching for the
• 16:33
  Speaker 9: clubs that I was playing for, and just kept my
• 16:35
  Speaker 9: LinkedIn up to date, and that's kind of how I
• 16:37
  Speaker 9: got picked up by them, had my first I'm in
• 16:40
  Speaker 9: pro Ball Pro Baseball with them, and then coached in
• 16:44
  Speaker 9: the Japan Winter League. During that time, I was also
• 16:48
  Speaker 9: a recruitment manager for Baseball Jobs Overseas, which is an
• 16:51
  Speaker 9: online international recruitment service for players and coaches who want
• 16:56
  Speaker 9: to go around the world like I did, and so
• 17:00
  Speaker 9: at the Japan Winter League. That's how I got acquainted
• 17:03
  Speaker 9: with the manager of the CPBC Brothers, and that's how
• 17:07
  Speaker 9: I got the job as a hitting coach in Taiwan.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: All right, start playing or coaching, because you kind of
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: did both. You play, you coach at the same time.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Most people go playing, playing, playing, and then only coaching.
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: And for me, I say, thank.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: God, I'm not playing anymore because there's a lot going
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: on when I'm playing.
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: But for you, playing or coaching, which is better?
• 17:30
  Speaker 9: Ooh, that's a tough one, I think. I mean, I
• 17:33
  Speaker 9: like bouncing back and forth. I know that that's very unorthodox,
• 17:36
  Speaker 9: but it kind of I just assess whatever opportunities are
• 17:42
  Speaker 9: presented to me at the time and then pick the
• 17:43
  Speaker 9: one that seems more fun. So sometimes that's coaching, sometimes
• 17:46
  Speaker 9: that's playing. But I really enjoy both a lot. I
• 17:49
  Speaker 9: think that going from one to the other makes me
• 17:52
  Speaker 9: better on both sides of it. Like I think having
• 17:55
  Speaker 9: still kind of a player mind makes me a better coach,
• 17:59
  Speaker 9: and also so being able to coach and really keep
• 18:02
  Speaker 9: learning and reinforcing my beliefs makes me a better player
• 18:05
  Speaker 9: when I go back to to strapping the cleats on.
• 18:08
  Speaker 9: So for now, like, I'm turning thirty this year. I'll
• 18:11
  Speaker 9: keep doing it probably for the next couple of years,
• 18:13
  Speaker 9: and then eventually we'll have to be forced to just
• 18:17
  Speaker 9: coach because my body will not be able to handle
• 18:19
  Speaker 9: it anymore.
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: Now, you're still young.
• 18:23
  Speaker 10: Play as long as you can, Play as long as
• 18:24
  Speaker 10: you can. Yeah, so you've been all right, So you've
• 18:27
  Speaker 10: been You've obviously been in the States, and then you've
• 18:30
  Speaker 10: been in Europe and in Asia, so you've seen you've
• 18:33
  Speaker 10: seen our sport in three different really parts of the world.
• 18:36
  Speaker 10: Do you see differences in European baseball and softball and
• 18:40
  Speaker 10: in Asian baseball and then in the States, Like, do
• 18:43
  Speaker 10: you do you see differences between how the countries play
• 18:46
  Speaker 10: and which one would you say you prefer?
• 18:50
  Speaker 9: Of course, Yeah, there's a lot of differences. In Europe,
• 18:53
  Speaker 9: it's very much at an amateur level for the most part,
• 18:56
  Speaker 9: like the local players, unless they're on the national team
• 19:00
  Speaker 9: and have really made a name for themselves in this game,
• 19:03
  Speaker 9: they go to school or they work and then you know,
• 19:06
  Speaker 9: in the European leagues, we play on the weekends to
• 19:08
  Speaker 9: kind of accommodate that.
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  Speaker 8: In Asia it's a lot more advanced.
• 19:11
  Speaker 9: It is a professional level, you know, Japan, Korea, Taiwan,
• 19:16
  Speaker 9: but they are technologically a little bit still behind compared
• 19:19
  Speaker 9: to the game in the States. Also, just the players
• 19:24
  Speaker 9: are different. Their style of play is a little bit different.
• 19:26
  Speaker 9: There aren't as many power hitters. There's nobody hitting forty
• 19:30
  Speaker 9: homers in a season, so the game play itself is
• 19:35
  Speaker 9: adjusted for that.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: And of course, all right, switching from baseball to softball,
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: softball to baseball, is that difficult because I have a
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: seventh grade daughter and I coach my son's high school team,
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: and there's sometimes Now if you remember being a thirteen
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: year old girl, your dad knows nothing. I know nothing, Dad,
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: you don't even know softball, So what are you even
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: talking about?
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: But how hard is that? Like transition back and forth?
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  Speaker 9: I think at first I was in denial of it,
• 20:09
  Speaker 9: and I was like, the swing is the swing. It's
• 20:10
  Speaker 9: all the same, you know, like pitching is different, but
• 20:12
  Speaker 9: the swing is the same. But I think, you know,
• 20:14
  Speaker 9: if you're comparing men and women, we have a different
• 20:17
  Speaker 9: center of mass. We obviously have different muscle mass and
• 20:20
  Speaker 9: things like that. And the bat is lighter in softball,
• 20:23
  Speaker 9: so you do swing it differently. You can move weight differently.
• 20:29
  Speaker 9: So it took me a long time to admit, like, Okay, yeah,
• 20:31
  Speaker 9: they are very different sports. But I do think that
• 20:34
  Speaker 9: like earlier, you know, with the Phillies, when I first
• 20:37
  Speaker 9: started out, I think my strongest point was that I've
• 20:40
  Speaker 9: been in the box with the game on the line
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: and things like that. So like the mental part of
• 20:44
  Speaker 9: it was the same for me and still is. So
• 20:48
  Speaker 9: I think when I go back and forth between softball
• 20:50
  Speaker 9: and baseball, there are physical adjustments to make, but I
• 20:53
  Speaker 9: still feel like the same player inside.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, I mean I think that's I think that's awesome.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: I think that's a that's a good I'm gonna actually
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: I'm actually clip that and I'm gonna send it to
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: my daughter, so it might give me a little bit
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: of street cred, but it's making me sound like I'm
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: listening to her also nice.
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it was the same way. I think if you
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: could get out and.
• 21:22
  Speaker 9: Somehow play men's softball, you might be able to walk
• 21:26
  Speaker 9: in her shoes a little bit better, and then I
• 21:28
  Speaker 9: think she would maybe respect.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: You for that.
• 21:31
  Speaker 10: I like that, all right, Sarah, So let's take us
• 21:36
  Speaker 10: let's let's let's talk about ten years from now. Sarah Edwards.
• 21:40
  Speaker 10: Everything goes exactly how you have it drawn up to go,
• 21:44
  Speaker 10: exactly how you want it to go. Where where is
• 21:46
  Speaker 10: Sarah Edwards in ten years? What's your dream job? Where
• 21:49
  Speaker 10: do you Where do you want to be? Where are
• 21:50
  Speaker 10: you're aspiring to get to?
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: Dang, that's so tough.
• 21:55
  Speaker 9: I never was someone to have like a five year,
• 21:58
  Speaker 9: ten year plan or anything like that, But you know,
• 22:00
  Speaker 9: I have aspirations and I just hope to be somewhere
• 22:03
  Speaker 9: that I feel like I belong and I feel like
• 22:05
  Speaker 9: I'm contributing to something really great and bigger than myself,
• 22:09
  Speaker 9: a winning environment.
• 22:10
  Speaker 8: I want to stay in the game, whether it's baseball
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: or softball. I don't know, but.
• 22:16
  Speaker 9: Maybe, like I think, you know, I've won championships in
• 22:20
  Speaker 9: my career, and I consider myself a winner, and I
• 22:23
  Speaker 9: know what it takes to win, especially on the mental side,
• 22:27
  Speaker 9: which I think is why I've been able to survive
• 22:29
  Speaker 9: in this game for so long, even without the resources
• 22:32
  Speaker 9: and everything that that baseball has, like softball really lacks
• 22:37
  Speaker 9: a lot.
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: And so I think as a forty year old.
• 22:42
  Speaker 9: I would be happy with maybe a head coaching position,
• 22:44
  Speaker 9: whether it's at the collegiate level or professionally and just
• 22:48
  Speaker 9: somewhere that we're all just pulling in the same direction
• 22:51
  Speaker 9: to win a championship.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Hey, Sarah, can you give us more context on the
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Phillies and how that when and what you learned and
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: you know who you're able to work with their.
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: Yeah. I loved my time with the Phillies.
• 23:09
  Speaker 9: I obviously was very green and had a lot to learn,
• 23:12
  Speaker 9: and I think I stepped in it the right way
• 23:15
  Speaker 9: knowing that I had more to learn than to give.
• 23:19
  Speaker 9: But the funnest part for me was just mingling with
• 23:22
  Speaker 9: the Latin players and learning Spanish and learning how the
• 23:25
  Speaker 9: game is different to them and how passionate they are
• 23:28
  Speaker 9: about it, and they just they still play like little
• 23:30
  Speaker 9: kids because they are They're like, you know, they play
• 23:33
  Speaker 9: like they're ten years old even though they're eighteen, nineteen twenty.
• 23:38
  Speaker 9: And actually Felix Reyes, who I saw is on the
• 23:41
  Speaker 9: thirty Man right now for the Phillies, he was he
• 23:44
  Speaker 9: was one of my rookies, so that's really cool to see.
• 23:49
  Speaker 8: But I learned.
• 23:54
  Speaker 9: Basically, we had Luke Merton as our hitting director at
• 23:57
  Speaker 9: the time, and he put forth a nominal system for
• 24:01
  Speaker 9: us to kind of get these kids just to learn
• 24:04
  Speaker 9: a little bit more and becomes more students of the game,
• 24:07
  Speaker 9: because at that point, a lot of those Latin players,
• 24:09
  Speaker 9: they just were so raw and they're so talented, but
• 24:12
  Speaker 9: they don't they weren't used to thinking for themselves yet.
• 24:15
  Speaker 9: So just kind of giving them the building blocks to
• 24:19
  Speaker 9: become more autonomous like players and be able to continue
• 24:24
  Speaker 9: throughout their whole careers with a good base of knowledge.
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: All right, Sarah.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Last one, the FCL where you were had to be hot,
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: so if you had a good time, you were sweating.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: I appreciate it that you're still smiling about that experience.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: But I have to ask you. When my daughter's team,
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: when they get hit by a pitch, I always say,
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: it's okay, it's a.
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: Softball, and it's still hurts.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: So getting hit by getting hit by a baseball and
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: getting hit by a softball, which, by the way, I
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: have played in the men's league. In my very first
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: at bat, I hit a danger so it was not
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: slow pits fast pitch, but my dad, I've been around
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: fast pitch softball for a long time. My dad pitched
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: for thirty years. So anyway, is it a little bit
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: softer than a baseball?
• 25:13
  Speaker 8: No, I think it.
• 25:14
  Speaker 9: I think softballs are harder than baseball technically, but why
• 25:17
  Speaker 9: are they called why?
• 25:20
  Speaker 8: I think they were maybe at one point.
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: Soft Okay, well witness.
• 25:26
  Speaker 9: Either way, we got to eat it. You can't, you
• 25:29
  Speaker 9: can't show pain. You got to eat it no matter what.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, krat, We're not changing the name of the sport. Sarah,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: You're great. Thank you so much for joining us. Great
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: to learn more about what you're doing, and for anyone
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: watching follow Sarah on social media to to kind of
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: see her path through baseball, softball, playing, and coaching. Appreciate you, Sarah,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you guys,