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Bobby Witt Jr., Carlos Estévez & Cole Ragans @Royals camp · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Aj, I want to bring in our next guest.
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  Speaker 2: Does he need an introduction? Do we do? We not
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  Speaker 2: know who this guy is.
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  Speaker 1: This is only for the podcast crowd because they can't
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  Speaker 1: actually see it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's right, I forgot podcast only. Also, Bobby Witt,
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  Speaker 2: junior super superstar of the Kansas City Royals. And now
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  Speaker 2: I read an article today, You're going from the bench
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  Speaker 2: to a big player on Team USA in the WBC
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  Speaker 2: in a couple of weeks. Excited alighting.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exciting times for sure, just to just say, because
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  Speaker 3: I was there last year and got to witness everything
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  Speaker 3: that happened, got in a couple of games and then
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  Speaker 3: but now it's like you definitely you were like a
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  Speaker 3: pinch runner right on the bes there. Yeah I got
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  Speaker 3: pinch some pinch runs in there, and uh so, but yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's just how how much it means for USA and
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  Speaker 3: just not only baseball but the world. Just because Olympic's
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  Speaker 3: going on too, so it's kind of like a perfect
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  Speaker 3: timing for this to happen, and so it's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: Did you sit when you were when you weren't the
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  Speaker 2: star on that team? Did you kind of just sit
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  Speaker 2: back and they treated you like, hey, just go sit
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  Speaker 2: in the corner and then we'll let you know when
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  Speaker 2: it's time. Or did you learn just learn from what
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  Speaker 2: we're doing or did they include you and all this stuff? Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was included with everything. Those guys in there
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  Speaker 3: were unbelievable Trout, Mookie, Goldschmidt or not all those Just
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  Speaker 3: the list goes on and on with just Branial all
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  Speaker 3: Stars and just being able to be there. I was
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  Speaker 3: trying to take absorb as much as possible, try to
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  Speaker 3: be a sponge in there, but also be a fly
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  Speaker 3: on the wall because I know they got to go
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  Speaker 3: out there, go out there and work and so but
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  Speaker 3: it was it was special just to be a part
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  Speaker 3: of that. And uh yeah, I learned a lot from
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  Speaker 3: it too. And then now I'm able to kind of
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  Speaker 3: go out there and now we really got to bring
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  Speaker 3: back gold.
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  Speaker 2: Better get that gold I need to know about. We
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  Speaker 2: talked to some other guys too about this. But is
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  Speaker 2: there a text bread that you've already had or that
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  Speaker 2: you continued to have from that WBC or did that
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  Speaker 2: kind of get washed away and a new one is
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  Speaker 2: going to start?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, then more so than new one has already started.
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  Speaker 3: And so sorry, I feel like a couple weeks ago.
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  Speaker 3: And so guys are fired up and ready to ready
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  Speaker 3: to get after it. Walker said, there wasn't much on
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  Speaker 3: where I'm in the position player one more texts in there,
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  Speaker 3: and so yeah, guys are fired up, shore we're in
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  Speaker 3: there firing us up.
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  Speaker 2: So already who texts the most? Is it Swarber? And
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  Speaker 2: you're younger? So do you want them to make it
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  Speaker 2: a snapchat thread? Because most like my kids, my kids,
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  Speaker 2: it's all snapchat, like you text them and you're like,
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  Speaker 2: oh go, I see you on your phone all the
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  Speaker 2: time and I never get a text back. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: is it swarms?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's more so guys are gonna start getting
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  Speaker 3: I don't have everyone's number saves yet, just is God
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  Speaker 3: knowing some of the guys who who's texting whatever? But
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  Speaker 3: I got like Gunner's number, a bunch of younger guys
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  Speaker 3: than guys who run the last w BC team, And
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  Speaker 3: so yeah, I got probably half the number save.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, if you don't ask, I don't.
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  Speaker 4: You don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to do that. I feel like I'm
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  Speaker 2: not there's a three five two number? Yes, no, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'll get it. I'll look, what are you? Code is this?
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  Speaker 2: And you try to guess, Yeah, you don't want to
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  Speaker 2: put the wrong thing in there? No, yeah, And then
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  Speaker 2: I looked up where they're from, Like, I don't I'll
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  Speaker 2: just wait. She just asps, Yeah, I might have a
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  Speaker 2: new phone. Who DIDs one tech whereever? Text measures? All right,
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  Speaker 2: who is everyone? I have to do that? Okay, that
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  Speaker 2: is that's amazing. What what are you most excited about
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  Speaker 2: for WBC? Is just reppers putting on the red, white
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  Speaker 2: and blue representing your country. Yeah, what does that mean
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  Speaker 2: to you? Because we just talked with Carlos and he said,
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  Speaker 2: would you say thirteen guys from the Royals are on.
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  Speaker 3: W Yeah, I think Team thirteen or throughout the whole organization.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it's just like pretty cliche, but it just
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  Speaker 3: really just means more representing you're you're Yeah, you got
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  Speaker 3: your name on the back of your jersey, but you
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  Speaker 3: represent to what's in front. And so that's that's how
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  Speaker 3: I always try to play the game. But whenever you
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  Speaker 3: see USA across and wearing the red, white, blue and
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  Speaker 3: playing the national ants for the game, it's just it
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  Speaker 3: just gives me chilled.
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  Speaker 2: Glad it's it's come to mean a lot, but more
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  Speaker 2: than what it did when it first started, which is awesome,
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  Speaker 2: and it's better Olympics.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then winning guts silver last time. So it's
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  Speaker 3: it's just like you got some I don't say there's
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  Speaker 3: really any pressure, but because pressure is a privilege in
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  Speaker 3: a way. But it's going to be gonna be awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Now, your dad was on the Olympic team. What did
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  Speaker 2: they place when he was on the Olympic team for
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  Speaker 2: Team USI pretty sure was silver or bronze? I know
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  Speaker 2: he has the Olympic medal. I can't remember what it was.
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  Speaker 2: I know it wasn't goal. But is it silver? Or
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  Speaker 2: is a brown? M I run it is that? Tell us?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I brought to Show and Tell when I was in
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  Speaker 3: like elementary school and like kindergarten, so I don't I
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  Speaker 3: can't remember from there i'd sitting on the show.
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure it's silver. Now I don't know. Sorry,
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  Speaker 2: Are you the same? Would you? Would it be cool
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  Speaker 2: if you were the same number as him, because then
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  Speaker 2: you both have Team USA jerseys. I know you have
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  Speaker 2: your number for the Royals, but did you ever think
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  Speaker 2: about doing that or something cool? Like that. Now I
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  Speaker 2: never really thought of that.
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  Speaker 3: Last WBC, I was number fifteen, and then kind of
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  Speaker 3: growing up, they got wore seventeen on the like eighteen
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  Speaker 3: U USA team and then now pretty sure I'm seven,
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  Speaker 3: and so yeah, I set up.
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  Speaker 2: He's got his own number, Kratz. By the way, he's
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  Speaker 2: got his he's got his own number. Now he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: need he doesn't I need his dad's number anymore. He's
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  Speaker 2: got his own number.
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  Speaker 3: It's like it I read score number growing up, thirty six, okay,
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  Speaker 3: I was like more of a pictures Yeah for the
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  Speaker 3: short s shortstop.
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  Speaker 2: Totally so fast. Guys can't have thirty six. And by
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  Speaker 2: the way, would you play in the Olympics if they
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  Speaker 2: did it? Yeah, I think that was it twenty eight
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  Speaker 2: I think in La.
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  Speaker 3: I love like growing up, I always watched the Olympics,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's winter, summer Olympics, and I just thought it
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  Speaker 3: was really really cool just to kind of see that,
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  Speaker 3: like I said, to get to represent your country on
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  Speaker 3: a bigger stage.
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  Speaker 2: And so would you be okay if you uh, if
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  Speaker 2: they stopped the season for ten days or whatever it
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  Speaker 2: was for guys to go play for their teams and
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  Speaker 2: then come back.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't, I know, just with the hockey they
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  Speaker 3: do that because but I think hockey already has that
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  Speaker 3: a longer like All Star Break. Yeah, already and so
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  Speaker 3: but I don't really know how it works. So but yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's perfect in that it's in that All Star break wins.
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  Speaker 3: But I mean when I have to move the All
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  Speaker 3: Star Game away, but or I don't know whatever, I'm
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  Speaker 3: here for it though. I'd love to see USA in
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  Speaker 3: the middle of the season, whenever all the pitchers are primed.
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  Speaker 3: You get the best of the best Japan. All the
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  Speaker 3: guys go to Japan with Carlos and that team you know,
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  Speaker 3: whoever it is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it would be. It would be an incredible exhibition
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  Speaker 2: and spectacle for the game of baseball that way. Love
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  Speaker 2: and it's in the USA. It's going to be cool too, true,
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  Speaker 2: All right, since you're the face of the Royals, Salve
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  Speaker 2: is gonna be pissed. But Salve's career is almost over
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  Speaker 2: and they finally moved the fences in. Do you feel
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  Speaker 2: like you were the final straw to say, listen, guys,
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  Speaker 2: we need to move these fences in. Because Salve complained
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  Speaker 2: about it back in twenty fourteen when he and I
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  Speaker 2: played together there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and whenever we had our zoom call, kind of
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  Speaker 3: saying everything. I know someone was saying, I wonder when
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  Speaker 3: Moose and Haws are going to tweet out something or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: It is just whenever those guys are kind of get online,
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  Speaker 3: Gordo and all those dudes. But yes, sal there. Everyone
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  Speaker 3: was excited. But I knew we were gonna have the
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  Speaker 3: zoom call, so I kind of texted everyone be like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: we may or so for the pictures, Hey we might
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  Speaker 3: be having a call about the fences being moving in.
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  Speaker 3: So if that happens beforehand or whatever, just don't be
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  Speaker 3: shocked with it. But I think everyone was goodbye it.
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  Speaker 3: It's not nothing crazy. But obviously it was tenn sacrifies
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  Speaker 3: into Homer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, for sure. So they turned triples into
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  Speaker 2: doubles for you too. That's all right, okay, I still
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  Speaker 2: you tell your fast Still.
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  Speaker 1: Well, here's another change for this coming season, Bobby, you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be able to do this. Last year, if you
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  Speaker 1: did this, and I know you didn't do it, you
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  Speaker 1: would get kicked out of the game. I'm tapping my head.
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  Speaker 1: But this year it's a real thing with the ABS
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  Speaker 1: Challenge system. So here's my question to me, I've been
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  Speaker 1: covering you for years. You're definitely a very humble guy,
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  Speaker 1: but you're you're a superstar in the sport, right You're
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  Speaker 1: the guy on the team, and you're the guy where
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  Speaker 1: they saved one of those challenges for that eighth inning
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  Speaker 1: ab where you think you might have gotten squoomis and
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  Speaker 1: you need to use it. Do you feel like you
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  Speaker 1: need to go through spring training and get used to
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  Speaker 1: being known that, like, hey, we're saving these sometimes for
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  Speaker 1: you no offense to the eight or nine hitter in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth inning, but it could be a huge moment
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  Speaker 1: in the game and they're gonna want you to do this,
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  Speaker 1: and it's no coach involvement. So that's my question is
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  Speaker 1: I feel like there are other superstars in the game
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  Speaker 1: too that are very humble, But do you recognize like
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  Speaker 1: they're saving those challenges for years sometimes?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it just comes down to the situation,
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  Speaker 3: knowing what's right and then being one hundred percent with
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  Speaker 3: it if it's a ball or whatever. It is, just
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  Speaker 3: knowing trying to figure out to know the zone. How
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  Speaker 3: well you know the zone, then really practice it in
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  Speaker 3: either spring training or there's ways to do it with
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  Speaker 3: the track man or whatever it is and the cage
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  Speaker 3: or whatever, and just try to really just hone in
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  Speaker 3: on knowing the zone but no know what a strike
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  Speaker 3: is and then know what what's not a strike really
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  Speaker 3: and just actually to just talk to some of the
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  Speaker 3: other guys that guys were in Triple A up and down,
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  Speaker 3: that had dealt with the abs and everything. It just
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  Speaker 3: gets get to know their knowledge. Talk to the Triple
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  Speaker 3: A hitting coaches, talk to the Triple A coaches or whoever,
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  Speaker 3: and just get to kind of fill it out with star.
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  Speaker 2: Like he talks to the minor leakers. Oh yeah, no way,
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe that crats. Can you believe only there
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  Speaker 2: to signs out. He goes there to find out. He's like,
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  Speaker 2: what were you guys doing down there? I barely was
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  Speaker 2: in the minor leagues. I don't really know what that is.
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  Speaker 2: But honestly, that we've promoted you as a superstar, what
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  Speaker 2: do superstars superstar hitters work on in the offseason? What
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  Speaker 2: do you what did you need to work on this offseason?
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  Speaker 2: Because we asked pitchers all the time. Oh, you know
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  Speaker 2: this guy, he's working on a new change up grip.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I'm not gonna tell anybody what did you work
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  Speaker 2: on this offseason?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it was just to try to be
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  Speaker 3: as consistent as possible, just with try to limit those
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  Speaker 3: highs and lows as much possible and just try to
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  Speaker 3: keep it get better and better each and every day mentality,
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  Speaker 3: and so but taking it one day at a time.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of how I went through the off season.
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  Speaker 3: But then just knowing just try to you want to
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  Speaker 3: simplify things as much as possible, just because pitchy is
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  Speaker 3: getting better and better, but then also know that you
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  Speaker 3: got to get better, so whether it's getting stronger mentally, physically,
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  Speaker 3: and then but also just trying to say as consistent
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  Speaker 3: as possible and go through things in the off season
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  Speaker 3: that are make it harder than the game. So whenever
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  Speaker 3: you feel like all right, your swings off, whatever it is,
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  Speaker 3: all right, what's off? What'd you do there? And then
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  Speaker 3: fix it and off season so whenever it pops up
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  Speaker 3: in season, you know what you're doing and know how
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  Speaker 3: to kind of get back on that get the track
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  Speaker 3: where you want to be.
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  Speaker 2: You're ever jealous of anybody that does something in the
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  Speaker 2: offseason in the sense of like dudes come back to
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  Speaker 2: spring training, he put on twenty pounds of muscle, and
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  Speaker 2: You're like, I lift it every single day. How on
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  Speaker 2: earth did I not put on twenty pounds? Like is
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  Speaker 2: there anything You look at other guys and you're like, oh, man,
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  Speaker 2: what I was trying hard? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I've always like going in off season like oh you
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  Speaker 3: want to put away? You want to put away, and
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  Speaker 3: then I put on weight and then it's like it's
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  Speaker 3: the same that I've always been and I feel great
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  Speaker 3: no matter what whatever it is. So like this offseason,
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  Speaker 3: just like try to eat better, sleep good, make sure
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  Speaker 3: I'm mentally in a good spot, and then go out
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  Speaker 3: there and kind of work hard the way I've always done,
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  Speaker 3: and go to the place I train at and just
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  Speaker 3: get through a healthy offseason and see kind of where
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  Speaker 3: I'm at.
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  Speaker 2: I feel really good.
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  Speaker 3: It feels strong, and just being able to kind of
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  Speaker 3: stay healthy for one hundred and sixty two plus games.
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  Speaker 3: That's ultimate Goald And it starts kind of back in
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  Speaker 3: November when I start training.
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  Speaker 1: Kay, what about the base running, Bobby, I know last
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  Speaker 1: year you said that was a big focus for you,
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  Speaker 1: and I think sole and base percentage wise, it was
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  Speaker 1: either a career high or was up there. So do
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  Speaker 1: you feel like you made stride the way you wanted
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  Speaker 1: to write? You're you're supposed to be your harshest critic
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  Speaker 1: on all of that. How did you feel that was
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  Speaker 1: for you? And what are you thinking coming into this
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  Speaker 1: year on that front?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I think I thought it was better. And there's always,
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  Speaker 3: like you said, always room for improvement, but just figuring
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  Speaker 3: out little things to my starts or whatever my jumps.
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  Speaker 3: That's what something kind of did more in this offseason,
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  Speaker 3: Just how can I get faster on that first step
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  Speaker 3: and then use my kind of natural given speed and
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  Speaker 3: let that kind of take over. But then just really
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  Speaker 3: just being able to, like you get more comfortable just
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  Speaker 3: playing baseball, And I feel like each and every year
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  Speaker 3: you get more comfortable, you get more confident, and you
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  Speaker 3: get better with your routine. I think that's what I've done,
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  Speaker 3: like defensively, offensively, and then base running last year, and
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  Speaker 3: then I still think each one's going to keep getting
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  Speaker 3: better every year until I don't know who knows when.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: How you practice base running in the ausome.
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  Speaker 3: Just more like reactive drills like those type of things,
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  Speaker 3: and really do you a drop?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Little things like that, just with like things flashing, like
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  Speaker 3: tossing up a different color ball or running reactive stuff
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  Speaker 3: against another guy, chasing a guy, whatever it is, and
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  Speaker 3: just trying to and then always like timing it and
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  Speaker 3: see if you're getting better throughout the offseason.
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  Speaker 2: So it's it was good crowds and I let you
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  Speaker 2: chase us, but you'll catch us too fast, so we can't.
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  Speaker 2: That wouldn't be a fair fight for us. Before we leave,
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  Speaker 2: before we let you go. I know you're a big
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  Speaker 2: baseball card collector. You have all your cards I got,
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  Speaker 2: and is there one that you have in God that
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  Speaker 2: you really want?
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  Speaker 3: There's my one of one super Factor of the tops update.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm in contact with the guy and that will
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  Speaker 3: complete like the rainbow of all my rookie cards of
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  Speaker 3: the card I'm looking for.
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  Speaker 2: So that's it, So okay. Then that brings you to
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: the next question. What does that person ask? What do
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: you laugh for?
• 13:50
  Speaker 6: Like?
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: Because I mean true, they're probably like, hey, give me
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: a million dollars. You're like, well, let's slow down.
• 13:54
  Speaker 3: More so like trade back, like cause like I don't,
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to ever sell the card. So I'm
• 13:59
  Speaker 3: like I got a bunch of cards that I've gotten bought.
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: Let's work out of trade that I'll bring you to
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: you come out to Kansas City, get you your whatever
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: it is, like, just kind of make it something special,
• 14:08
  Speaker 3: something memorable for him, but then also put him in
• 14:11
  Speaker 3: a position where he's going to be good for whatever
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: he needs.
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, that's good because I don't even know
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: what Because people ask me all the time, hey do
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: you have all your cards? I'm like no, but I
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: know you're way more into it than I mean a
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: lot of your the younger MLB players are way more
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: into mat Strong. Obviously you and him can talk for
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: out really sure about about that since he's come over.
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: I just I just want I don't know how that works.
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: So they DM you on Instagram or Twitter or whatever
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: and say, hey Bobby, I have your one on one.
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: How do we work that?
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So I have a card account it's called beat
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: Ups Cards that I'll go and like look through the
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: dms and see I clicked through them and see, oh,
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: this guy has one of the cards they want. Let's
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: see if I can make a trade, or I'll send
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: it to another guy to reach out to him and kind.
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: Of third party or whatever, and so just try to
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: make it easy and efficient. Good. Look, do they have
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: USA cards coming out?
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: I know they did it the last time, but it
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: was like the fall year, so I'm assuming they will.
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: Will they do all the refractors? Yeah? Cool, I'm gonna
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: get one in. I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna try
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: like the Paul schemes one of one. I'm gonna try
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: and get the Bobby Wit one on one and then
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna hold it hostage like crazy for that go.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: I will hand signed jerseys and twenty sign back.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: Daily FT appearances. Now, we wouldn't do that to you, Bobby.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us. Enjoyed camp, the
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: rest of camp and then of course the WBT. We're
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: super excited and thanks for sharing some time about how
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: that's all going to look.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: Appreciate you man, Thank you guys.
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: There he is.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: He led Major League Baseball in SABS last year. Carlos
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: the Step is joining us right now, the Rose closer.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: Carlo is great to have you here on the show.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. How's camp going for you so far?
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: Man? He's going good, you know, getting back on track,
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: getting ready for a season. Yeah, planes like this and Dominican.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: Well we'll hear to so hold like that. Well these
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: often instead of I'd take my earpiece out so I
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: could hear you, because there we had fighter jets flying
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: over again for like the fifth time. They you ever
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: stop yourself when you're in PFPS and they start doing
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: all the tricks. Oh yeah, you just watch them. Yeah,
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: we do watch them, you know when whenever we're doing
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: condition or something, they start going with you stop buying.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: By the way, I saw y'all's conditioning this morning, that
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: condition y'all ran. How much different it is? I all
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: ran like five ten yards. They were all a pitch
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: walking ragons. And but oh well we ran five ten yards. Friends,
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: We are so tired. It was. It was a light day,
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: let's say it like that. But it is coping with
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: different Oh my god, you remember all these holes eastern
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: holes and run for distance.
• 16:45
  Speaker 7: All the time and all the time. The remember the mile?
• 16:48
  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, those those were good ones. Those were
• 16:51
  Speaker 7: different ones. How much better is it now? It is
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: a lot better because they got a lot of that.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: You know, the science, How you to you?
• 16:59
  Speaker 7: What can you do to you? Use your muscles better
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: what you actually need. We're going into the field to
• 17:03
  Speaker 7: pitch all this stuff, and you know sometimes you still
• 17:07
  Speaker 7: miss it to get the body moving again and all
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: the stuff. But at least it's not seven days a
• 17:12
  Speaker 7: week anymore.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Where are you at at this point in camp? Where?
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Where does where does the closer get to? Because everyone's
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: like starters, they're working up, they're they're throwing it up
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: down by this point. Some we're going to WBC, so
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: they're doing the you know, they're doing this and that.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Where are you at at this point? Right now?
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: I got a live VP coming up because you know,
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: I gotta get ready for WC two, So I'm through
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: a few bullpens already getting off the pump to face
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: hitters tomorrow.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: And then from there we'll see. When do you go
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: on the twenty eighth? And you guys, are you guys go?
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Where you go? Minigan Republic? Do you train in Dominica?
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: We go Miami.
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: We gotta go to Miami and uh we trained on
• 17:54
  Speaker 7: the first and then we'll flight the same day to
• 17:56
  Speaker 7: the Minigan Republic. We got practice day in two games
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: there and then we come back. Okay, so you got
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: a lot of trout a lot of them, so you
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: gotta be ready, ready or read? Are you the closer
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: for Dominican?
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: I wish. I don't know, but we'll see hopefully. Who's
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: the way Who's I forget, who's the manager all the pools? Oh,
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: so Albert, you gonna go to Albert to Albert.
• 18:15
  Speaker 7: Listen, I'm not gonna say anything. I'm just gonna show
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: up waiting for whatever. Hey, Albert mean, I'll be in
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: the heath. He has an idea what he's doing, so
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: I'll see.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: We'll figure out how important? How important are those two games?
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: There's two exhibition games you're gonna play in the Dominican
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: just because you get the whole team together. I played
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: for I was at Ague Lucco. I think you played
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: for the Totos. Yeah, okay, you're gonna play. Are you
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: gonna play those games in Santa Domingo? And health that
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: for you guys and your and the country of the deal.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: And it's gonna be so cool. He's really it's really
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: importantly because uh, they the way that they go about
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: the total BC team, the country, how much they org
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: us is. It's really cool that we're able to give
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: them back that you know, a few games, the exhibition games,
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: so they still in the mood of you know, WC
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: mood and just uh, just you know, having our backs.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: It feels really cool.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: So the DR hasn't won since twenty thirteen, exactly, it's
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: been a while. It's been a while. I mean in
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: the US at least one in twenty seventeen. So we
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: can't make much fun in the US as he can
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: in the DR. What does it mean? What did it mean?
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: And what does it mean for the DR? If you
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: guys were.
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: To win again, Oh man, it'll be amazing because the
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: competition is just getting crazier and crazier, you know, is uh,
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: they're more of a the other teams to Venezuela's are
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: looking a lot better.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: He's looking a lot better.
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: You got Puerto Rico, United States, Japan, and it's like
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: there's a lot more competition and if we can step
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: up and win it, that that's gonna speak volumes of
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: what a small country, a small island can do in
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: this giant of a game and Basley that is baseball.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Hey, Carlos, I saw a recent podcast that you were
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: on and I just want to commend you for telling
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: some stories that I think really hit home for people.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: I think because the pod was in Spanish, so I
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: just want to bring one or two things up from there.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: I think this one would really hit home with our
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: audience and our guys will like this because I didn't
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: tell them this beforehand. Can you explain what happened when
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: you had a showcase to tryout for the Pirate and
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: how it, oh in person, really affected you one way?
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: I don't want to.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: I don't want to like bring out the tears already.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, hey, do what you gotta do. But I
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: think it's so important. We have so many players that
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: listen to this show, and that story is wild. You know,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: there's a there's a load to that story in a
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: high So if you don't mind sharing.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, man, Rther.
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: We were talking about a tryout showcase Sunday morning. I
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: had to show up like at seven am. That's basically
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: my only off date throughout the the week.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: And uh I show off to the to the Pirates
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Complex whatever we we get the whole day just waiting
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: the showcase stars. Like at ten.
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: They moved me down a few times because I was
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: an older guy. I was eighteen and a half an
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: older guy doing tryoutsund there, and when I got to
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: the mound, I got ready, I'm throwing them. All I
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: have was ninety ninety two and I was doing the same,
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: just throwing strikes at ninety ninety two, throwing my pitches,
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: and uh, the director stops to try out and he's
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: walking towards me, and I think it's gonna tell me
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: something good, you know, like maybe they.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Canna sign me. Yeah, I and uh, and he comes
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: in and he he he had a bad choice of
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: words to tell me.
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: I don't know if I can say it live, you can,
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: you can on here? Okay, all right, yeah, you only
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: do you get who the hell brought this? Basically city
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: player here?
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Really? Yeah, I'm like whatever, do I just walk up?
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: I just walk out. I went back and sat with
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: my running shoes on, and uh, dude, I was eighteen,
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: almost eighteen and a half already, and man, I had
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: tears on my eyes. Yeah, damn did this? You think
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: you're doing pretty good? You're like, I'm throwing straw.
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: At that moment, I was like, I'm done with baseball.
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: I'm not playing baseball anymore. And then I've been on
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: my run is shoes and I run ten poles, you know,
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: that's yeah, and I want to run ten poles. And uh,
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: actually they agent basically the guy that was that they
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: call it Buscone, but uh, for us, we call it agent.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Down there, when I was with my head down, sitting
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: on the dugout, he ties me on the shoulder and
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: he tells me, hey, get up, go round. Anyways, you're
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: gonna play in the big leagues. Who curs?
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: And that dude, I get goosebumps every time I talked
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: about all that. And uh after that, I signed a
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: few months later, and here we are. Wow, that's a
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: great that's a great that's a great story because you
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: never know, every one of us has been told you
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: can't do this, Yeah, but to hear it like yeah,
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: and then you're eraging.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: That that one got me good. That one. That one, Yeah,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: most people need to hear that.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: It was kind of he was a breaking point where there,
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: you know, I was like, I'm done with me.
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: So I'm all you know, eighteen down there is really
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: old nowadays, and uh, back then, it was still like
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: if you were not sixteen and you were not good enough,
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: you were not gonna sign. So for me, it was
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: it was rough, I mean, but I was ready to
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: go to college and be done with baseball.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, what were you gonna do? You go to college? Where? Where?
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: And what were you? What were you studied in the capitol.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: I was gonna go in, uh, into college to study.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: I was going to be a civil engineer. You're gonna
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: build bridges? Yeah, wow, okay, that's what I was going for,
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: roads and bridges. Yeah, I mean, good to you. It's
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: not people that have been to the dr they need
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: some roads and bridge there you go. Everyone's got to
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: see honestly. That's that's why I was that. That was
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: my main focus.
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: And I was trying to do something for you know,
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: impact the community or something like that. And uh, I
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: thought that was the right way outside of baseball.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: You can still buy roads and bridges now with all
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: your money. Yeah, you just don't know how to build
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: them exactly. You know. Now you have to hire somebody
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: to do Yeah.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: I have to that.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Hey, there was another one from that combo and krattwill
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: like this. He's mister Philly for us and he played
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: for the Phillies. Obviously you did too. I heard there
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: was you know, a hot dog that that lost it
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: lost its way.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, it's funny because I was there in
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Colorado and Ian Kennedy was pitching.
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: I'll warm it up, you know if we take the
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: leader in the game and uh mcmanni's here and he's
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: he's he's playing thurfer like he's with the Yankees now
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: and uh at the time, he was kind of struggling
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: with you know, fastballs and stuff, but he was hammering
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: breaking balls and uh, I saw were bullban catcher, Okay,
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: get down, like if he throws a curveball in the South,
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: we're going to take the lead. And you know how
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: the fans and Philly are always paying attention to what
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: you do. They always paying attention to the game. And
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: they saw me saying like doing that, doing the signs
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: and right away, man curveball, like man hits a homer.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: We take the lead.
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: And the people on the bullpen was juice.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: With Bullship like you're a picture. You jinxed them, you know,
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: so they were on me crazy when I was When
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: I was walking down the steps, there was a kid
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: he couldn't be older than thirteen fourteen, and he was like, oh,
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: I help your fucking trip, big arms, whoa and going yeah,
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: well all right, you're like, where are your parents at? Yeah,
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: rich your mom and daddy. I just walk away. I
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: did what I had to do. The next day, I'm
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: warming out doing my pants in the bullpen and I
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: think it was a I think I don't know if
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: it was a day of like one dollar hot or
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: something like that, but there were a lot of hot
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: dogs flying over there, and I got smoke on the
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: back of the head with a with a hot dog.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: I knew what it was. And you know there that
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: people that those like those fans are on there are
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: always the same. And I was like, all right, good
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: sport al, right, whatever, why bad? I got you. Next time,
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: I'll see you.
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: And then when I got traded to Philly, Uh, the
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: story came up, someone you know, brought it up and
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: I said it like how it happened, and they loved him. Man,
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: they were they were going crazy about it.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Was walking the film. Yeah, I got an early taste it. Yeah,
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: there you go. It's to have taken him bite to
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: the hot dog you showed them. But yeah, that's right.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: So it's not always just the fans that give you
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: a hard time. Can you tell us the Troy Tulowinski
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: story about how he kicked you out of the weight
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: room and then he uh and then you got a
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: little bit of revenge.
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: But uh, I went uh I went into I was
• 26:26
  Speaker 7: uh squatting in the in the thlubhouse, and uh I
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: didn't know that was his corner. You know, but back
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: in the day a lot of the older guys had
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: their stuff. Then you know, I don't know he's superstitious
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: or whatever, but I was working out on that corner.
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: I'm I'm squatting and uh.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: So wait, hold up, hold up. So in this weight
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: room he had like a corner that was only his
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: that he could use.
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: I don't really know because I was my my first
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: year around there. Okay, okay, so I'll walk in there
• 26:55
  Speaker 7: and uh I see he said, all he stopped down
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: there and I'm just lifting.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on, and uh he walked in.
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: He was like, hey, pety leaguers are about to hit
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: the weight room. I'm like, I kind of didn't understand
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: at the beginning. It was like, oh, okay, this is
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: but right, I'll see you and just you know, walk
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: out whatever, and uh jasp be uh the trainer for
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: a Rockies. He was you know, he was talking, you know,
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: giving me ship whatever. I'm like, Okay, next time I
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: seen him on my I might go in. I'm only
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: fastals like I'm attacking him. I ended up walking him
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: because of how much I wanted, you know, to get
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: him out. I ended up walking my thing.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Uh. I think I went in. I don't check Saul
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: or he didn't swing. I swear I thought Brogie's bad.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: I think I didn't or something like that. But I
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: I know I ended up walking him for how much
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: I wanted to want to lower that hansshle Yeah, you
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: want to revenge? Yeah, And then after I hear retired,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: I'm like, come on, man, I wanted to face him again.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: You already hit him though.
• 27:51
  Speaker 7: No, No, I don't want to hit him. He's just
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: get him out. I don't, yeah exactly, I'm not on
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: that side. I just want to get you out.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Getting out is much worse than, trust me as it
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: hitter than getting hit. It is someone that got hit
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: a lot of much other get hit, then get the
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: making out break abat all that stuff. All right, you
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: have one of the most iconic closer celebrations, so where
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: did you learn the is that street fighter? No kamiha ma?
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: How dragon Ball seat? See, I don't know what that is.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: I was gonna say moretal Kombat, not well what a
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: tamehammahama kamihame?
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: How he's a he'sn't a like a final attack from
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: a Japanese adamant okay that Uh into the Midican Republic.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: We grew up watching that. Yeah, there you go. There
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: you're going to the Minican the Republic. We grew up
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: watching that all over And uh then I played for
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Anaheim that they have a giant Japanese community, and uh,
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: we were trying to bring something to celebrate whenever we
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: finished and it since we had a good Japanese media
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: and everything, well, I brought out that celebration because the
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: owner of dragon Ball, he died on a on twenty
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: fourth beginning of twenty four, and uh, I just started
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: doing it, you know, as a thank you for what
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: the show always showed us that the restlands like, you know,
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: the hard work. All this stuff is like he's reflecting
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: on that show to me, and I decided just to
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: start doing it because of the pooping guy, Maniel Campbell.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: It was like man you watch Dragon Ball with it.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Two Japanese people here, they love it. They're thinking, I
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: like it. If you start doing it now, he's sticking around.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: He's gonna stay rid of it now. No, no, no, no,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: it's stuck now it does. Yeah, I mean it's not
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: the I don't know if it's the Fernando right the
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: shoot the Yeah, that was that was cool too. I
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: mean I wish I knew. I wish I would have
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: known that. That makes the story even better. Yeah, but
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: just now you got rex other after every game was
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: come on, uh oh.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: I got I got one more for a Carlos. You know,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: I know you've been pitching well with the Royals, but
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: did they have to do you like that and bring
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: the fences in coming up this year? When when you
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: saw that news, We're like, guys.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Come on, I mean, if if I'm telling you that
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: I didn't really mind it, I'm lying because he was
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: a huge park to pitch at. But at the same time,
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: he's I don't think he's it will make a difference
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: on the gaps and all the stuff. But in the
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, I still get a pitch,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: and you know, I just I pitch on the road
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: on smaller fields, and I still gotta make the adjustment.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: I just gotta get used to him. It's just, uh,
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: it's just a big list. You gotta make the adjustment
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: with whatever you get thrown, and you just gotta be
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: ready and make sure you're ready to show up and
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: compete every day. But fuy way call you pitched in Colorado.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: I mean they bring the fences in ten feet of coffin.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: It's still way higher, y way bigger than it was
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: in Colorado.
• 30:48
  Speaker 7: Yes, yes, oh I got yeah, yeah he was. He
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: was crazy out there.
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Oh, Carlos here the man. Thanks for doing this. This
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: is really fun. Fans will love hearing those stories, will
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: put them up on socials and all that. To hope
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: you enjoyed it. Good luck, the rest of camp will
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: catch you during the season.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, thank you guys for having me back
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: here in surprise at Royals camp with stud Pitcher. Cole
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Reagan's for the Kansas City Royals. And I just want
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: to know, have they appointed you opening day startering?
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: No they have not. Why not? That's above my away. Yeah, no,
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: I haven't said anything yet, so we'll see what happens.
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: How's the rotator cuff shoulder? Yeah, everything's good. I feel
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: as good as I ever have. You know, made the
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: made the three starts at the end of the year,
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: so kind of clear conscience going into the off season,
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: you know, Phil, Like I said, Phil, as good as
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: I ever have. What's the how's the villa? Everyone wants
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: to know. How I haven't thrown my first lives on Thursday,
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: so you know, get the adrenaline, get a heater in there.
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: But bullpens, it's been it's been solid. It's you know,
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: I think we're in a good spot. Do you are
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: you an iPad checker guy for every pitch? Do you
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: have the coach? And I mean I'm not going to
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: say I don't check it, but I mean there's I'm
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: looking at a lot of stuff on there, so you know,
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: release look at I look at release height a lot.
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: Just I just want everything to be pretty same, the same. Yeah. Yeah,
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: So like if my fast fall is a you know, six'
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: three release, HEIGHT i want my slider to be there
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: and not like dropping down or you, know Because i've
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: had tendency to do that in the. Past so it's
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: making sure everything's coming out of the same.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Slot can you feel it when it's? Not are you,
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: like oh, yeah it was definitely this was definitely, Lower
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: and then you look at the iPad and it's half
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: an inch, lower a full inch, Lower like what's the?
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: Discrepancy, YEAH i think when you, like WHEN i get
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: extreme like a couple of, inches, uh you, Know i'll feel.
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: It but sometimes it's just like, oh like you, know
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: you start looking at like just with your eyes the
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: movement of the pitch like that was pretty, good and
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: then you'll near arm slots not the, same and it's, like,
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: well that's that's not gonna. Work so, yeah you can't
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: tell that. Much you.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: CAN'T i MEAN i know that people, say, oh he
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: drops his, arm like unless it's like it's a, year
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: that's this little bit of like from here to like, here.
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: They, say like within two or three, INCHES i think is.
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: Fine so it's just trying to keep it within that that.
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: Window cole whose? Day whose day is?
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: It people that have had an electric arm and is
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: that or have actually stood in the box against big
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: hitters or the they the like the they who read
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: the iPad and have never thrown a.
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: Baseball it's it's like my pitching coaches and. STUFF I
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: i you, KNOW i trust them pretty. Good so just
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: kind of you, know see, what see what they have
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: to say about, it pick their bins about, it you.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: KNOW i mean OBVIOUSLY i have a good idea of
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: where my stuff should, be but just kind of bouncing
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: ideas off each.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: Other all, Right, well this is the time of year
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: where everyone's, like, oh what's the new pitch? Grip and
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: you're talking about the. iPad have you tried anything new
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: this offseason or because of you, know the health issues
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: that you had a little bit last. Year is it
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: just stay healthy and be my dominant.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: Self, yeah it's more so just stay. HEALTHY i haven't
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: really added. IT i haven't added any new. Pitches i've tinkered,
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: with like my slider, grip just trying to get you, know,
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: consistency you, know throw it a little bit, harder not
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: as much depth on. It but other than, that you,
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: know pretty same same. Repertoire do you go sweeper or
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: do you go? Slide just like a gyro LIKE i,
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: like you, know there was a.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Guy Named Ice caves though gyro and it didn't do.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Anything you should get, Whack so you don't want To, no, no.
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: No it's, Like i'm just wanting like a little bit of, movement,
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: something you, know more, vertical right than, yeah like just. Something,
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: YEAH i don't want like, THIS i want more like yeah.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah so and a little. WHILE i tried it twenty
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: twenty one or twenty twenty. Two it worked for my
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: first LIVE, bp and THEN i could never throw it
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: for a strike, again SO i banged. It, yeah, Smart,
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: NO i got.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: One of the things you. Did you went to tread
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: to work on some like post, pitch post, outing recovery.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: Stuff is it stuff that you already knew and now
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: that you're, like all, Right i'm just going to actually
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: lock into it or is it actually like something new
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: that you're, Like, OKAY i feel the difference When i'm doing,
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: this But i'll see what happens WHEN i take it
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: into the. Season.
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so like a week after the season, ended you,
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: know flew up, there did like a, mocap threw off the,
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: mountain and then did like a movement, assessment and basically
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: the movement assessment they have they call them, correctives and
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: it's basically you have this you, know twelve to fifteen
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: movement stuff that you. Do you can do it pre,
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: Lift LIKE i use it as like my warm up
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: BEFORE i go out to stretch and. Throw and it's
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: basically just like you, know some of its ankle, mobility
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: some of it's like t spine, stuff shoulder. Stuff like it's,
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: basically you, know whatever kind it's tailored to me on
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: WHAT i. Need, so like coming off of you, know
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: the shoulder thing last, year it was it, was you,
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: know let's get some range of motion back in the.
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: Shoulder my ankle mobility isn't you, know, Great so it's
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: like working on that a little, bit some hips stuff
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: things like that, basically and and you, know you just
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: kind of some of the stuff is pretty. WEIRD i
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: guess you could, say like you're when you first, start
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: you're just kind of like what AM i? Doing but
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: in the, end it's, like you, know you start doing.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: It a couple of months later you're, like, WOW i
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: can actually notice that this is you, know help. Me
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: you take time? Off, yeah SO i TAKE i take
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: two weeks off from. Throwing that's. It, Yeah, yeah, gosh it's.
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: CRAZY i JUST i BUT i like to do that
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: because THEN i get to like ease myself into. It
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: so it's like first couple of. Weeks i'm at like
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: sixty seventy five. Feet i'm not throwing any off, speed
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: Like i'm just you, KNOW i might mix in some change,
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: ups But i'm not really throwing many breaking. Balls i'm
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: just kind of like nice and easy and then that,
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: WAY i, can you, know start moving back slowly and
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: it's not LIKE i don't feel rush and then you,
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: know you got bicep barking or something like. That who
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: catches YOU i play catch? With like When i'm throwing,
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: pins or just in? General who plays? Catches your dad play?
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: Catches no cole sands with the. Twins we grew up,
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: together so we've we've been throwing he's not catching your? Bullpens, No,
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: no we Usually so we have a mixture of. Guys
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: there's a there's a couple of pro ball. Guys there's
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: some guys up AT fsu that will you. Know, YEAH
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: i live In. Tallahassee, yeah interviews.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Over guys out for the rest of the. Interview so
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: let's bring in mister.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: Whatever what was your school crat?
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: University you, know you, know everybody knows it's a, Powerhouse
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: but what's the longest you ever took? Off because we
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: just had this conversation the other. Day what's the longest
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: you ever Said i'm not throwing a, baseball not because of,
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: injury but because of like it's just, time it's time
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: to take.
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: Off, Yeah, so like right AFTER i got, DRAFTED i
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: would take off till like the beginning Of. December but
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: THEN i the OLDER i, got the more it was,
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: LIKE i feel Like i'm like kind of flying through
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: this like every spring. Training you, know my arm's like,
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: achy kind of barking Because i've kind of had to
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: like fly through the throwing program a little bit in my.
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: Standard you, know everybody's a little. Different but so THEN
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: i just started to kind of you, know starting a little,
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: earlier take a few weeks off and kind of ease
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: back into it that, way you, know the arm kind
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: of stays. Moving you, know it gets a little bit
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: of a, break but then it's like the arm stays.
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: MOVING i feel like for, me like the LONGER i take,
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: off it's then it takes longer to like figure out
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: mechanics and you know all that kind of. Stuff AND
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: i didn't like how that felt.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Cool i'm curious how often does the team check in
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: with you during the off, season and what are the
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: conversations like they making sure you feel? Good are they
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: going over anything that you're working? On who do you talk?
• 38:57
  Speaker 7: To?
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah SO i talked To, sweeney our pitching, coach a good.
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: Bit you. Know we'll shoot text back and, forth have
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: some calls like this year where there was a like
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: a minor mechanical thing we were working, on so LIKE
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: i would shoot him some video and you, know ask him,
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: like how do how does this? Look you, KNOW i
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: feel Like i've you, know made a good stride and
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: we just kind of like talk about that run through
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: that kind of stuff because we had been talking about
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: at the end of the off. Season so we Probably
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: i'll shoot them, video you, know every other week something like.
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: That we'll have like a phone call probably you, know
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: two or three times an off, season but usually just
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: shooting text back and. Forth what's your least favorite part
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: of spring? Training mm. Hmm all the? Meetings, yeah we
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: got another meeting coming. Out yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah a
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: lot a lot of. Meetings so, NO i don't fall.
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: ASLEEP i got early. Training i'm, Like i'm.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: Everybody.
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: Does yeah, yeah, no it uh you got to be,
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: up yeah it. Is, yeah It's are you a? Napper?
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: Cole do you? Nap one of the things THAT i always,
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: said guys go home from games and then they take a,
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: nap and then when the season, starts people'll be, like
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: what they take, Naps but the season starts then and
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: you're like four thirty your normal nap time during spring
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: training is LIKE, bp are you a napper in? Spring so.
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: Every now and THEN i, am BUT i try to
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: like fight through it because IF i take a, nap
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: Then i'm Gonna i'm not falling asleep that night AND
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: i wake up the next, day Then i'm, tired and
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: it just it starts it all over, again and then
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: you want to nap, again AND i try to just avoid.
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: It like whether that be just like get up and
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: like go sit outside or, SOMETHING i don't. Know just
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: try to stay. Away that's the greatest.
• 40:52
  Speaker 7: THING i.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: Tried to eliminate them. All right before we let you,
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: go we Had vinie On Team. Italy not going to
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: get into. THAT i want to know, now since You're
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: Florida State tallahassee, guy do you And jack trash back and?
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: Forth? No not, really because HE i didn't go to F,
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: SU i didn't go To. Florida but, YEAH i mean
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: kind of hard to it's kind of hard to talk.
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: TRASH i, means got a really, good really good baseball,
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: team football, teams you, know Beat alabama and then it
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: just kind of went. Downhill so that Was, yeah that
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: was tough to. WATCH i thought we were going to
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: be national champions for a, second and then everybody got
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: humbled really. Quick it all came crashing.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: Down, hey call last.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: ONE i know it's early in, camp but can you
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: just throw a name out pitching staff. WISE i, mean
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: it could be a young guy, too he's not even ready,
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: yet but anybody that we should keep an eye on
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: this spring to watch when spring training games.
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: Start Mm james. McArthur he's been hurt for a little,
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: while but he's back and he looks freaking. Good pump
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: to see him face some headers and get in the game.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Action, yeah it's been a, Minute, Okay, YEAH i like
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: that good. Name, Well, cole thank you for the. Time
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: it's good to see. You enjoy, camp stay awake during
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: the meetings and we'll catch during the.
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: Season. YEAH i appreciate you. Guys thank you