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Torii Hunter shares his wisdom and experience with Angels as if he is a "Shaolin monk" · Halo Territory: A Los Angeles Angels Podcast

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Well, hey Angel fans, and welcome back to Halo territory.
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: I'm Mike D.
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: Giovanna, joined by my regular co host Mark Trumbo, and
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: as you can see, we have a very special guest
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  Speaker 1: with us today, Tory Hunter, former Angels outfielder, current special
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: assistant to the Angels General manager. Tory Welcome to the show.
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: How are you doing on this morning of the Angels
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: home opener tonight?
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  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, thank you guys for having me.
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: It's great to be with my old teammate, Mark Trumpbo,
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  Speaker 2: Mike D. G Ivanni. Man, you've always reported the news correctly.
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you guys for having me on the show. All right,
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, this morning I woke up ready to go
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  Speaker 2: open a day. I'm talking to you guys starting off,
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: and then we go to Angel Stadium and take care
• 1:00
  Speaker 2: of business there hopefully. All right.
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: Well, Tori, you were nine time Gold Glove winner, nicknamed
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: spider Man for your ability to scale walls and take
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: home run balls back. I'm gonna put you on the
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  Speaker 1: spot right at the top here. What were your top
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: three catches of your career?
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  Speaker 2: Man? Top three, I would definitely have to put just
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: the moment of the All Star Game in two thousand
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  Speaker 2: and two. The guy that's hitting the ball is Barry Bonds,
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  Speaker 2: and this is my first All Star Game. I'm twenty
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  Speaker 2: five years old, and to be able to take away
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  Speaker 2: a home run on a big stage like that from
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  Speaker 2: one of the greatest hitters that ever played the game,
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  Speaker 2: if not the best hitter they have played the game.
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  Speaker 2: For me, a twenty five year old kid from Pompluth, Arkansas,
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  Speaker 2: to take a home run away from Barry Bonds, definitely
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  Speaker 2: probably my number one. Probably not my best catch, but
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  Speaker 2: it was my greatest moment. And I was ay. Carlos
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  Speaker 2: Lee with the White Sox hit a ball in the
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  Speaker 2: Metro Dome and imp over that baggy fence out there
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  Speaker 2: in center field and stretched out and caught the ball.
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  Speaker 2: The next day, I was so sore, I felt like
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't play, but you know, Trump Brow don't come
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  Speaker 2: out of the game. And then number three, I would say,
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  Speaker 2: with the Angels on Mother's Day, I made a catch
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  Speaker 2: on Mother's Day against the Royals, and I was able
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  Speaker 2: to catch that ball, and I was so pumped up
• 2:25
  Speaker 2: and so hyped that I almost passed out.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, there was some great catches, and then there
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  Speaker 1: was always the one that got away. Game two of
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  Speaker 1: the twenty thirteen ALCS. You're playing right field for the
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  Speaker 1: Detroit Tigers. You're in Fenway Park, Detroit has a five
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  Speaker 1: to one lead. In the eighth inning, You're about to
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  Speaker 1: go up two games to none on the Red Sox,
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  Speaker 1: and upsteps Big Poppy. David Ortiz take us through that
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  Speaker 1: sequence too.
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  Speaker 2: Man, you know what's crazy as a story behind that.
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  Speaker 2: Ortiz and I went to Capitol Grill to night before
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  Speaker 2: and just we're sitting up talking. We're sitting up talking
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  Speaker 2: and uh, he says, hey, I got wasquing Ben WASH's pitches.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, snap, right. So I went back to
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  Speaker 2: the stadium the next day. The day of that game.
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  Speaker 2: It was like, then, why you got to you gotta
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  Speaker 2: change it up on Big Poppy. He said, he has
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  Speaker 2: your pitches and Ben while I was like, man, I
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  Speaker 2: forget that. I always get him out.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: So now Suirsey comes out of the game in the
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  Speaker 2: eighth inning and just struck out the side. We thought
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  Speaker 2: he was going to go back out there, but I
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  Speaker 2: saw Ben Wall running running to the man when I
• 3:37
  Speaker 2: went back out there in the night, and all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden, I'm thinking, like, I hope he doesn't throw
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  Speaker 2: a change up because he knows it. It was an
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  Speaker 2: eighty eight mile an hour change up and Dave Ortiez
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  Speaker 2: hit the ball. I'm like, oh my god, I'm running
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  Speaker 2: after this ball, swearing, pissed off. I'm like, I can't
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  Speaker 2: believe this guy through this pitch. So it now it's
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  Speaker 2: hit and it's in the lights, and I felt the
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  Speaker 2: wall and I'm like, forget this. This is the ALCS.
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  Speaker 2: I've never been to the World Series. That said, my life,
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  Speaker 2: I do not to down this field today. I knew
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna die, but I came back to life
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  Speaker 2: after I got older, when I woke up on the
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  Speaker 2: other side, I came back to life. So and then
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  Speaker 2: the cop, you know, he was right there. He was
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be protecting the service, but but he was
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  Speaker 2: so far away. Man, he had no shot to help
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  Speaker 2: with me. So, uh, it was just a It was
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  Speaker 2: a great effort, great moment for the Red Sox, great
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  Speaker 2: moment for Big Poppy, one of my one of my
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  Speaker 2: best friends in the game. Uh, but that's that's all
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  Speaker 2: our effort and I was thirty eight years old.
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  Speaker 1: Does that play still kind of keep you up at
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  Speaker 1: night or show up in your dreams?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? No, that play doesn't show up in my dreams
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  Speaker 2: at all. That pitch does, Oh yeah, because uh Ortiz
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  Speaker 2: struck out three times that game. He didn't hit the
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  Speaker 2: ball at all. And then he stepped up right there,
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  Speaker 2: and the night before he told me that's all I
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  Speaker 2: can remember. This guy had his pitches, and trust me,
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  Speaker 2: first pitch eighty eight mile. Now he throws ninety eight. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: So how you sit on that in the first pitch? Right?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you don't, you don't. And now you see what
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  Speaker 3: I have to do with I mean, you caught you
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  Speaker 3: caught almost fifty five hundred balls in your career. That's
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  Speaker 3: fourteenth in history, and this man wants to talk about
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  Speaker 3: the one you didn't catch right.
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  Speaker 2: Just earlier?
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  Speaker 1: How how iconic was this photo of the two v's
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  Speaker 1: of the cop and unfortunately down to.
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  Speaker 2: Did you know, hey?
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  Speaker 1: Did you ever talk to that cop or autograph a
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  Speaker 1: picture for him? Did you ever got you two ever
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  Speaker 1: hook up? After that crazy photo?
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  Speaker 2: I know him before that? Oh? Really? The spoken worst
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  Speaker 2: of Oh yeah, he's a great guy. He had no shout.
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  Speaker 2: I cracked a joke afterwards, and I said, man, he's
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be protecting and suffer. I think people got
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  Speaker 2: kind of serious. I'm like, I was joking. He's like
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  Speaker 2: twenty yards away from the wall. Help me. I was
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  Speaker 2: already dead.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Well, one of the one of the rare
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  Speaker 3: great guys in Boston, at least when you're on the
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  Speaker 3: visiting team. But all right, all right, I got a question.
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  Speaker 3: I got a question. It's a little more serious current,
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  Speaker 3: but can you can you kind of take us through
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  Speaker 3: what your day to day role looks like with the
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  Speaker 3: Angels right now as a special assistant. It's a GM
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  Speaker 3: Perry mnasium.
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  Speaker 2: H Well, I mean I'm there. I'm like a shalllam monk.
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  Speaker 2: And you you walk in the clubhouse, you get there
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  Speaker 2: when they're there, and and I just I try to
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  Speaker 2: be present. You know, you got guys. They have things
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  Speaker 2: going on off the field. You got guys they have
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  Speaker 2: things with finances, with relationships with their family, but also
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  Speaker 2: in baseball they give it. I give them a different
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  Speaker 2: perspective on different things and how to hit, you know,
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  Speaker 2: running a basis, preparing themselves. So I just try to
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  Speaker 2: be available for all the guys, and then if Perry
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  Speaker 2: needs an extra eye on evaluate something or someone. Actually
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  Speaker 2: I'm there for them. They ask questions, but I try
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  Speaker 2: to be available when I'm here and be at the
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  Speaker 2: stadium as much as I can so they can see
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  Speaker 2: me and be and be present for those guys.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's invaluable. I think that you know, I've
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  Speaker 3: kind of wondered too, what is that you know, special assistant?
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  Speaker 3: You see that title and it's not always totally clear,
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  Speaker 3: but it sounds like you're doing it all, which is
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  Speaker 3: cool and really helpful for these guys. One question that
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  Speaker 3: you know, I've been out of the game for five
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  Speaker 3: or six years now, things have changed a lot. Can
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  Speaker 3: you talk about like what the day to day work
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  Speaker 3: looks like that the guys are doing compared to you know,
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  Speaker 3: maybe when you played. I don't see as many guys
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  Speaker 3: out there hitting batt in practice. Some teams rarely do
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  Speaker 3: it apparently, And I'm wondering when when guys are working
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  Speaker 3: on their defense and other things. I mean, I know
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  Speaker 3: what we were used to, but it seems different to
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  Speaker 3: me now. Is it is that true?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? I feel like it was. I think this year
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  Speaker 2: with Kurt Suzuki coming in. Uh, they really tried to
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  Speaker 2: put more emphasis on defense. Uh. The guys are out
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  Speaker 2: with Brady Anderson as the hitting coast. Now, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's gonna have him out there early hitting. I saw trout.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's there at eight in the morning on
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  Speaker 2: the field hitting you know, extra and some guys will
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  Speaker 2: go out with him so he can catch it, get
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  Speaker 2: a break and uh. And the results are showing. Uh
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  Speaker 2: in this early part of the season, and in spring
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  Speaker 2: training he was actually hitting the ball, going back to
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  Speaker 2: hitting line drives and and getting his pistol to hit. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I think he stopped hitting off the machine and and
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  Speaker 2: uh and started going with live arm and uh and
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  Speaker 2: and we definitely see some results. So these guys do work.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they still have a lot of injuries in
• 8:54
  Speaker 2: Major League baseball. Uh. And and you got all this technology.
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  Speaker 2: You guys got workout program, nutritionists, besides therapists. They got
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  Speaker 2: everything they need. But at the same time, they got
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  Speaker 2: more injuries. And so I don't understand that, but I
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  Speaker 2: think it's they get a lot of days off. They
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  Speaker 2: don't have the like when you're working out, you bench
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  Speaker 2: press two hundred pounds, but if you do it enough
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  Speaker 2: and then you max out. Then you can bench press
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  Speaker 2: two twenty, then you can bench press two forty. I
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  Speaker 2: think these guys got to push themselves to play every
• 9:24
  Speaker 2: day as much as they can if you have an opportunity,
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  Speaker 2: and that'll actually your mind will overtake the body and say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: you got to go out and perform, and it heals itself.
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  Speaker 2: So if you keep you know, baby, and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of these guys giving them days off because they don't
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  Speaker 2: feel right or whatever it may be, then they don't
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  Speaker 2: know how to push through those walls and then you
• 9:46
  Speaker 2: get a lot of injuries that way.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna take a quick break for a
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• 9:52
  Speaker 1: going to talk about Mike Troutz move back to center field,
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: something Tory knows a little bit about, and we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: talk about Tory's work with Joe Adell. We'll be right
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: back with more Halo Territory.
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  Speaker 1: And welcome back to Halo Territory with our special guest,
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  Speaker 1: Tory Hunter. Tory Mike Trout back in centerfield this year
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: after toying with right field for a little bit. You
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: played centerfield mostly pretty much all of your career. In
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: a late career switch to right field.
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  Speaker 2: What is it? You know?
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  Speaker 1: Trout's talked about people have talked about this being easier
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: on your body moving the right field, but is it
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  Speaker 1: really easier on your body? Is there any big difference?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's less running, especially if the dug out is
• 11:22
  Speaker 2: on the first base side. You you don't have to
• 11:26
  Speaker 2: run all the way across the field. But you know what,
• 11:30
  Speaker 2: there are some quick bursts in right field. Some balls
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  Speaker 2: have a little seak, some got some balls have a
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  Speaker 2: cut and you really have to really get after it
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  Speaker 2: for about five to ten steps. In center field, you
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: go after and you can stay as smooth as possible.
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: And that's what I think Trout is talking about playing
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: center field. Actually, it's less on your body because you're
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: able to glide to the ball and uh and without
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  Speaker 2: that quick burst and uh with with Trout having leg
• 11:59
  Speaker 2: injuries and his lower body, I definitely think that center
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  Speaker 2: field and you know what, mentally him playing center field
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  Speaker 2: and be able to be that kid again. I mean
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: he's thirty four years old, I think yeah, and uh,
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  Speaker 2: just be in center field and be that kid again.
• 12:14
  Speaker 2: He still can run, he still can go after the ball. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: It actually probably would help him in his total game.
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  Speaker 2: So allow him to go and be that kid again
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  Speaker 2: and be the Trout that his mind tells him to be.
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  Speaker 2: He then his body will follow. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of backing up bases and
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  Speaker 3: things in the corners too that that people don't always
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  Speaker 3: account for. You know, right field you counted on to
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: bust it, you know, and all the players to first base.
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  Speaker 3: Whether everybody does that, you know, you can judge for yourself.
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  Speaker 3: But uh, you know, I, yeah, played a lot of
• 12:48
  Speaker 3: right field. Couldn't hold your duck, but uh, you know
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  Speaker 3: I would have liked to. Uh, but you know I
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  Speaker 3: never had the speed.
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  Speaker 2: Remote you know.
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  Speaker 3: Part of this is is you have to have the speed.
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  Speaker 3: Center field. Were fast, Yeah, you were really, That's what
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell my daughter.
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  Speaker 2: But down the line, you were my teammate for two years, so.
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  Speaker 3: I know maybe, well I appreciate that even if you're
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  Speaker 3: being nice. Uh, okay, so well, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 3: I know it means a lot. Another thing that means
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  Speaker 3: a lot, I think, probably to you. Joe Adell credited you,
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  Speaker 3: uh with really helping him out, improving his approach at
• 13:30
  Speaker 3: the plate, improving his defense, especially in right field. I
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  Speaker 3: mean I watched well now I watch every game, and
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: he made some tremendous strides and it really seems like
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  Speaker 3: it came after the work you guys did. And I
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: know from you know, doing some coaching and hitting, especially
• 13:46
  Speaker 3: with hitters last few years. When you're not playing, kind
• 13:49
  Speaker 3: of the next best thing is getting credit, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and it's not the credit, but you know, somebody's showing
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  Speaker 3: appreciation for the work you put in to help them.
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  Speaker 3: And that was really neat to see. Maybe if you,
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  Speaker 3: if anything click with Joe that you can talk about. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: was it more mental?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe? Yeah, I definitely think it was more mental. I
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  Speaker 2: think he's maturing. Uh. He's he's listening to more wisdom
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  Speaker 2: and uh, and he's able to separate, you know, what
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  Speaker 2: works for him and what doesn't work for him, So
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  Speaker 2: you can give him a lot of options and whatever
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  Speaker 2: doesn't work, he's he's mature enough to throw it out
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  Speaker 2: the window and and keep the things that does. And
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  Speaker 2: I think that's just maturation over time. He's uh, he's
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: starting to gather the right information. He's starting to shoot
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: the ball the other way a little more, uh, so
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: he could cover the whole field. This guy has tremendous
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  Speaker 2: a tremendous amount of pop, you know, maybe the highest
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  Speaker 2: exit velocity on the team, uh, majority of the time.
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  Speaker 2: And uh and the ball that flies out the right
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  Speaker 2: center field, he has more power than most people I know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe not you, Trumbo, but this guy has some thumb
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  Speaker 2: and right, he's got some and Uh. And if the
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: you know, the last two or three years we're in
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: the outfield, all he wants to do is get better defensively.
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  Speaker 2: Hitting is like it has his ebbs and flows, it's
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: up and down, and defense should never slump. And I
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: told him, you want to play a long time play
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  Speaker 2: defense because if he can be relied upon defense. When
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: you're struggling at the plate and you're not good at defense,
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  Speaker 2: then you're not good at all of the team. But
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  Speaker 2: when you struggling at the plate and you actually saved
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: runs on defense, you actually can keep yourself in the game.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes making good plays on defense can carry over
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  Speaker 2: to your offense. So uh, he wants to get better defensively,
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: and you can see the improvement in the last two
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  Speaker 2: or three years.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, Mike, Uh, you don't get enough credit for your
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: throwing arm. I think you know, everyone talks about your
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: you know, the the acrobatic players, the you know Robin
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  Speaker 3: home runs, But I mean you had literally the most
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  Speaker 3: accurate throwing arm that I played. I mean I played
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: first base. So part of the time you're counted on
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: to cutballs that have you know, side spin, not online.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes you're going to cut them if the runner might
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  Speaker 3: be safe at home and the batter runner is going
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  Speaker 3: to just run into that silly out. But with you,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think I cut. I can't remember
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  Speaker 3: cutting anything. They were always right on the money, perfect
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  Speaker 3: one hot never overthrew the cutoff man either, which really
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: speaks to like fundamentally sound baseball. And you know, it
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: pains me to see these outfielders throw these you know, grenades,
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: and I'm not saying the angel players, but around the league,
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  Speaker 3: it just like, and that's been as an outfielder that
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: is in your control, but you were I just wanted
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: to point that out that you're throwing arm just doesn't
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: get enough credit because strong and accurate.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: I'm probably the one of the last guys that actually
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: took infield at six fifteen before the game started, you know,
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: And they kind of took that out of baseball. So
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: we had to throw with Tom Kelly with the Twins.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: If you missed the cut off man, he will take
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: you off the field in front of all the people
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: and say, get off the field. You're not ready, right,
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: So we always had to take the field and it
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: was a serious thing. And so we have to be
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: fundamentally sound with the Twins. Kirby Puckett was one of
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: the guys say, I need you to be accurate. You
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: got a strong arm, but be more accurate. And my
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: only way you can be more accurate is one hop
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: the base. So I learned to throw hard and one
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: hop the base, which keeps it accurate. So when the
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: ball bounces, it only bounces a small disbursement and you
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: can make the player, you know me, trying to throw
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: the ball all the way to the bass. It's one
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: hundred and ten percent, which doesn't exist. And actually you're
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: throwing it. You're off, but your arm looks good. It's
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: for show, but you're not You're not getting any dope.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: You're not getting making any money. So you're not throwing
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: anybody out because they have to reach up and come
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: back down. That's too much time for them to be safe.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: So one thing I teach when I'm in the outfield
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: with the guys the last three years with the Angels
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: is hey, one hop base and not try to throw
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: the ball all the way. So we're doing that from
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: the minor leagues all the way to the major leagues.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Be more accurate. You'll be more accurate if you can
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: just one hop that base with with your strength.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: One follow up on Joe Tory. You know he has
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: struggled a bit moving to center field, and he's a
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: lot better of for right field. Theer's a guy who's
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: played both, so well, how would you sort of coach
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: this guy up right now and when he has to
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: go up, you know, shift over to center field.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Joe's a big guy. You know, people don't understand. Jon's
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: about six', three you, know and and he's, jacked and
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: AND i think he's just a big body. Kid center
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: field is a place where if you need to Give
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: trout a, rest you can put him in center. Field
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: he can hold it. DOWN i don't think he's a
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: true center, fielder BUT i think he can hold it
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: down right. Phield it just seems like that's a better.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Fit his arm is strong enough to throw guys, Out
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: he's able to get to the. BALL i think he's
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: more comfortable on right, field and, uh sometimes where guy's,
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: comfortable you got to allow him to play over. There
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: he's not hurting the team playing at right. FIELD i
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: would even try to stick him in center field for
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: as a mainstay at.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: All, yeah switching gears a little bit you interviewed for
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: the man managerial job with The angels last. Fall how
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: do you feel about that, process how it played out
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: and the outcome and are you still interested in becoming
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: a major league? Manager?
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Uh, WELL i really enjoyed the process the last two
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: years with With perry AND. Uh we sat down and
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: we had great. Conversations some of the things that you,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: KNOW i would, do some of the THINGS i wouldn't,
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: change some of the PEOPLE i would, change some of
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: the GUYS i would, keep you. Know AND i gave
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: my my honest opinion and uh and and we we
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: we had great. Conversation it's, just you, know it didn't
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: work out and uh for some. Reason and AND, Uh
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: i'm not sad about. IT i stayed in The. ORGANS
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: i love the. Organization it's something THAT i really want to,
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: do is uh be a part of. It and Uh
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: and when the opportunity came presented itself to be a,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: manager possible, manager you, KNOW i, said you know, what
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: If i'm gonna do, Anything i'll. MANAGE i don't know
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: IF i want to coach full, time but IF i
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: can manage and create the team that THAT i can,
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: see you, know AND i can see that wins and
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: give them the fundamentals that they need to go out
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: perform on a day to day. Basis Like Mark, trumbull
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: the it's the small, things, uh even in business right,
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: now it's the small things in the business, service you, Know,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: uh the customer experience and all these different, things those
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: small things that people forget about because they looking at
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: the big. Thing the you, KNOW i definitely think that's
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: what keep customers coming. Back in, baseball if you fundamentally,
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: sound you can field the, ball turn the double, plays
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: throw the guys, out be more accurate at the, plate
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: have good two strike, approach battle at the, plate trying
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: to do less to get. More you do all these little.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Things that's what actually wins game because when you get
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: to the, playoffs that's what. Matters during the, season if
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: you're hitting bombs and you're doing all those, things it
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter because you're gonna face a one to two
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: and the three. Starter if you don't have if you're
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: not fundamentally, sound you're not gonna. WIN i don't care
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: what you. Say SO i think if you teach that
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: droughout the, SEASON i think that. Works and that's something
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: THAT i wanted to bring to The, angels bring back
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: to The, angels BECAUSE i GOT i think we got
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: to a point four or five years ago where we
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: had launch angle guys swinging for the. Fence you, know
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: defense was. Terrible i'm telling you. Now five years AGO
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: i could not stand watching. It The. Angels, wow now
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: they actually getting. There they're actually getting. There they turned the.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Corner no one really talks about that stuff. Anymore we talk, About,
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: hey the small, things play the. Games the. Controllables that's
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: What kirchuzuki always talks. About the controllable control of the
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: things that you could control and throw out the other
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: things that you.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Can you do have a lot of business interest In,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Texas but if another opportunity to interview for manager's job comes,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: up you're going to pursue.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: IT i don't, KNOW i don't. KNOW i really love
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: What i'm doing right. Now that opportunity came AND i
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: took try to take advantage of. It it even came
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: up with the twins as, well and uh and and
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: that didn't work out as. Well but AND i understand
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: that you, know you have a. Catcher catchers they seem
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: to be more of a manager. Manager But i'm a baseball.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: GUY i got a PhD in this. Game trumpbo got
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: a PhD in this. GAME i know how to play this,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: game AND i know THAT i need a short, stop
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: a second base of the third. BASEMENT i need everybody around.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Me you build a team around. You that's what they.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: DO a pitcher, coach a bitch, coach a formal manager
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: that helped you go through the. Process IF i build
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: a team around, me doesn't matter what what you throw at,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: ME i. GOT i got a great team and a
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: team THAT i trust uh as as my. Staff so
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: THAT'S i think a lot of guys can be, managers you.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Know BUT i think it's just a notion that people
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: think that catchers are. BETTER i don't.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Know, No you're right about. That they got. It it's
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: like a built in you, know this guy's got you,
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: know got the got the goods or. Something i've interviewed
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: for a couple of things, too more on the hitting.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Side but you know it didn't get. Them you don't know,
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: Why like you, know you come, away who knows what
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: what somebody is looking? FOR Sodj thanks for the Hot
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: tomali questions.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: There that was? Hot that was so?
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Hot, yeah, okay all, right all, RIGHT i gotta.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: EVERYTHING i just. Said it was. Great now you're acting
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: the hot.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: QUESTION i always love WHEN i asked you a question
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: and you say that's a hot.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Is a good?
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Question all? Right not so not so? Hot not so?
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: Hot here we.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Go uh.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah So i'm watching other Day Matt. Chapman he has
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: some direct words for his first, Baseman Casey. SCHMID i
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: don't know if you saw it or, not but it's
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: some pretty direct. Feedback he felt like the play should
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: have been. Made in, ADDITION i also read a pretty
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: cool article the other day on The dodgers Where Dave
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: roberts was talking how important it was to Get Clayton
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: kershaw's buy in early, on at least as the team.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Leader kershaw being the you, know unequivocal leader of The,
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: dodgers and if he bought, in the other guys would buy.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: In so you've talked About Kirby puckett being a big
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: mentor to you and, showcasing you, know his, leadership AND
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: i didn't know, him SO i don't know if you
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: know WHAT i saw from you, was you, know close
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: to what he did or. Not but you you were
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: one of a, kind you, know you're not going to
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: be able to replicate. That as far as, LEADERSHIP i,
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: mean hundreds of guys have benefited from having you on their,
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: team and you, Know i've never seen anybody as good
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: as it than. You BUT i guess my question is
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: in this in this current, game the were the analytics
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: and and a lot of teams going. YOUNGER i, mean
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: guys are getting big deals that are in DOUBLE a right,
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: now and it seems to be a. THING i, mean
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: is leadership as important as it's always been in the.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: GAME i think it. IS i see playoff teams they
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: have a pretty clear leader usually if not more than.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: One and what do you what are your thoughts on.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: THAT i definitely think that you have to have wisdom
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: on your. SQUAD i mean every business, model EVERY uh
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: team that you know about that is one or or
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: going to the next, level they've always had wisdom amongst.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Them AND, uh AND i think just having a great
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: you just can't have the wisdom without the talent as.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Well so you got to have some talent with your.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Wisdom so you got to prove that you can go
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: out there and play every, day AND, uh they got
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: to watch you fail and see how you, react and
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: if you can bounce, back and the quicker you bounce,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: back it builds up their. Leadership and, uh you, know
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: most leaders don't say that they're. Leaders they let other
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: people say that they're. Leaders and and and in this game,
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: TODAY i think it can't be analyzed and you can't evaluate,
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: it so they don't that leadership is like the last
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: quality that they're looking for because of analytics and. Data
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: that's what they're looking more, at what what you're not
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: doing and what you can. Do but as far as,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: leadership it's like the last quality that they're looking. For
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: and BUT i think it should be something that You
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: i'll take character THAT i can teach you all the
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: fundamentals and teach you the. Game if you in a
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: professional ram in minor leagues and you come to the major,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: league if you've got great character and great leadership, SKILLS
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: i can teach you how to hit and how to
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: play the game the right. Way SO i would definitely
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: take the character or the leadership skills, first and THEN
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: i can teach you whether it's in business and whether
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: it's in this. Game BECAUSE i think if you got great,
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: character that shows that you know you're gonna represent me
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: off the, field and for The, angels it shows that
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: you're gonna treat people with love and respect around, you
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: and you're gonna make people around you. Better and that's
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: what good leaders. Do they make you better even when
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: they're going through rough.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Times, tory how is your perspective on the game changed
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: since you, retired especially watching it now from the front office.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Side oh, Man i'll tell you. What one thing that the,
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: abs the abs is kind of it's cool because now
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: they're getting it. Right but the abs, also When i'm
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: watching it doesn't allow the players to. Swing they're thinking
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: that they're supposed to be, balls and that's not how
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: the game should be. Played you should be ready to
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: hit no matter. What AND i think they're getting more
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: lax because if it's even an inch off the, plate
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: they're like tapping their. Head i'm, like you should have
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: been swinging at. That it's can protect the, plate you,
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Know and so it's kind of like it's kind of
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: like a push and pull good and. Bad you, know
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of good in. It you, know we
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: all KNEW Cd butler was, bad but now we really.
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: See so you get some guys that exposed but at
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: the same, time it's not about.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: That it's really showing those guys. Up i'm be honest with.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: YOU i like a lot of the umpires as as. People,
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: uh but it's really showing those guys up a. Lot and.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Uh but at the same, TIME i think it's heard
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: the hitter because they're not aggressive. Enough. There there's it's two.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Lacks they if it's, close they're taking pictures down the
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: middle thinking that they're gonna get a. Walk i've never
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: seen so many backward backward kds in my life this,
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: year it seems so to.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: Me it seems kind of, awkward to be, Honest AND
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: i know the umpires are not happy at. All i'm not.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Sure and maybe there was a memo that went out talking,
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: about you know how they're trying to actually judge these
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: pitches and some of these you know that are so
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: borderline their, strikes but they you, know they're they're barely
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: in the. Box and you, know guys are getting a
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: lot of flat for either challenging the wrong ones or
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: not challenging other ones that you, know, confusion and we'll
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: have to see as it. GOES i think it's brand,
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: new so you, Know i'm all for, accuracy but with this,
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: One i'm not seeing it. Yet If i'm being, honest
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: it doesn't feel like the game THAT i. Knew and nobody,
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: gives you, know whatever about my opinion of WHAT i
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: want to, Watch BUT i don't. KNOW i do, thinking
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: and there's been a lot of storylines about. It if
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: that's what they're looking, for you got, it all? Right all,
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: Right my last question for, today but it's it's my personal.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: Thing and you were a career two seventy seven. Hitter
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: over seventeen, years you average twenty one homers eighty two.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: RBIs BUT i vividly remember you talking about that you
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: could count On Tory hunter to hit two, eighty to
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: hit twenty home runs and drive in eighty eighty. Runs
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: and If i'm, MISTAKEN i, apologize BUT i feel like
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: you said, that you, know and that was but you
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: were saying that that's what you held yourself too every,
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: year and you were dependable and teams could count on
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: that at least from, you if not more the batting.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: AVERAGE i think that you know you do the best you.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: CAN i always wanted to hit to. EIGHTY i never got,
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: there BUT i wanted to do, it AND i wasn't. Satisfied, Whatever, no, no,
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: no it's part of the part of the, deal had
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: the home. Runs BUT i thought it was AND i
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: still think it's very. Important do you think it's still
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: important to try and hit for high batting.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: AVERAGE i think it's very important to hit for high bat.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: Average if you've got a high bat average and you
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: got runners in scoring, POSITION i want you at the.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: PLATE i don't want the guy that swings and whales
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: at you, know and rarely hits the ball. Consistently IF
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: i can have A riots at the plate every time
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: with a running scoring position the NiFe, ENDING i Want
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Luisa riots at the plate because he's gonna make contact
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: and give me a chance to jump up and. Down
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: and SO i still think that trying to make contact
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: and trying to get that average up is very. Important
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: AND i think with the you know that spell in
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: five years, ago six years, ago where we got into
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: that launch launch angle and the exit velocity and all
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: these different, THINGS i think the average suffered a. Lot
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: but guys are getting paid for. That so if guys
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: are getting paid for, that and these players see that
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: they're getting paid for, this but hitting two forty two
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: thirty with forty home runs and sixty RBIs if they
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: getting paid for, that why WOULDN'T i try to do?
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: It SO i can't fault the players on. THAT i
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: fought the, philosophy AND i think that philosophy is starting
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: to change and come. BACK i think you saw With
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee brewers who went out there hit and, run, ran
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: and they bunted the. Ball they played the game the
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: right way and end up making themselves a playoff contending.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Team and uh, SO i think you're going to see
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: a lot of teams change that you saw it in the,
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: playoffs the way they played the game With Blue jay's
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: and it was all the little things that actually hurt
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: them and on both. Sides BUT i definitely think that you,
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: know when you when you talk about the small things
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: hidden for average is a thing THAT i will want
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: it to play opposed to trying to wait for a home.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: RUN i want to see. ACTION i want to see,
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: movement And i'm pretty sure the fans want to see
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: the same thing as.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: WELL a lot of hits on the ground. TOO i
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: mean it's like the ground ball hit kind of you,
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: know it's not as popular and, whatever but that's how
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: you keep your batting average up is getting those ground ball.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: Hits you, know you hit them, hard sometimes you don't
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: hit them. Hard they all, count especially and you Mentioned
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: joe using the whole. Field there's there's a lot of
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: hits over there in that, fororehole you. Know but but
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: it's not going to happen with a swing that's trying
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: to hit the, fields foul, pole get off if that's your.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: Goal so SO i think that that's kind of What
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: i'm getting. At and you talked about, it you said
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  Speaker 3: it better than, me but it is, IMPORTANT i, think
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  Speaker 3: and hopefully it is coming back. Around AND i like
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  Speaker 3: Watching Stephen. KUAN i like Watching. Arias these guys have
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: nothing in common with, me but they you, know it's, like,
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  Speaker 3: MAN i like, THAT i like. That look at that punch.
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  Speaker 3: Single that's. COOL i think it's really cool.
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  Speaker 2: That big hit with that big. Hit runners and score
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  Speaker 2: position you want that guy to, play you. Know for,
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: me it was a two seventy two eighty hitter that you,
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Say but, MAN i was a, hybrid you. KNOW i
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: was a guy who led off the first couple of,
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: years SO i, was you, know sending tables and then they,
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: say this guy has the mentality to hit, third, fourth and.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Fifth it doesn't matter where he. Goes he has some.
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  Speaker 2: Mentality he's ready to. Go so they put me fourth and,
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  Speaker 2: fifth you, know with the twins AND i AND i
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: hit Behind David. Ortiz that was his protection for a long.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: Time and so NOW i didn't have an. Identity so
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: when you see me had to eighty to seventy and then.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Twenty and IF i wanted to swing like these, GUYS
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  Speaker 2: i probably would have hit thirty and, forty BUT i
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  Speaker 2: would have my average would have. Suffered. Right but if
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: IF i, say you know, WHAT i don't want to hit.
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  Speaker 2: TWENTY i want to just get, ME i could have
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  Speaker 2: hit three, hundred you, know AND i did it a
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: couple of times in my later and later in my.
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  Speaker 2: Career uh so IT'S i was a hybrid AND i was.
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  Speaker 3: CONFUSED i would say you were very, talented because it's
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: hard to do. Both and with The, troit you, know
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: you were hitting in the top of the or If
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: i'm not, mistaken With detroit and hit for a higher
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: average AND i don't want to say set on the,
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  Speaker 3: table but maybe a little, bit and had thirty boxers behind, you,
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  Speaker 3: YEAH i, KNOW i, Know yeah he.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Did, yeah he didn't look. Confused the night you hit
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  Speaker 1: three bombs In anaheim and had a chance for. Four oh, man.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that that, day that DAY i was on. Something
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  Speaker 2: i'm telling you, DRUG i would have hit.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: Thirty all, right tell you we're going to close the
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: show with a not Hot. TOMALI i don't know if you,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: remember but about fifteen years ago you were one of
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  Speaker 1: the GUYS i interviewed for a STORY i wrote about
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  Speaker 1: players and their special relationships with their. Gloves and you
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: said you would name your. Gloves what would you name your?
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Gloves how would you name? Them and what would prompt
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: you to switch? Gloves maybe when one of them was
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: acting up a little.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: Bit, well well you know when the glove. Was WHEN
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  Speaker 2: i first meet my. Glove oh, man it sounds really,
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  Speaker 2: bad but WHEN i first meet my, GLOVE i GIVE
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: i give them a warm bath in a, microwave, RIGHT
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: i put. IT i dipped them in, asana a jacuzzie
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: and a warm. Jacuzzi THEN i put them in a,
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: microwave and THEN i massage her for a long, time my,
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: glove and massage it for a long, time right to
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: actually mold and make, it make her the WAY i
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: want to and, uh and THEN i go out AND
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: i perform with the, glove and the glove does what
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: is gonna? DO i always celebrate. IT i put it
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: on a pedestal on top of my locker and let
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: people see the gold on. It and WHEN i make an,
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: error IF i make an, ERROR i actually put it
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: back in The Michael waves and donate it to.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Charity so you didn't donate many?
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  Speaker 3: GLOVES i.
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  Speaker 2: DIDN'T i didn't donate a lot of, gloves But i'm
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: pretty SURE i donated about twelve or.
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  Speaker 1: Fifteen and didn't you have names for? Them and how
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: would you name your?
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Gloves, well you KNOW i, have, uh Susie. Q you,
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: KNOW i don't. KNOW i always liked that. NAME i
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: heard it maybe in the, story and it was SUSIE.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: Q SO i named my first glove SUSAN. Q AND
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: i always tell, guys go get SUSAN. Q they'd be,
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: like who is? That and then some of my clubhouse, guys,
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  Speaker 2: twins they always, knew AND i got SUSAN. Q you
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: want me to take her? Up? So, UH i love that.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: Name and that was my first, glove Susan. QU i
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: had one, Name, Bertha Big. Bertha it sounds. Strong you
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: don't want to mess with Big.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: No i'd like. THAT i WISH i could have borrowed Big.
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  Speaker 3: BERTHA i think that's WHAT i was. MISSING i figured
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: out WHY i. WAS i was limited out. THERE i
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: didn't have A Big.
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  Speaker 1: Bertha if memory, said there was also A cocoa and
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: A delicious in, there as AS i, Recalled.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: Hey coco And delicious was good as. Well but those
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: that's another. Story that's what a lot of how do
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: you know all this?
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: Stuff?
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Mate that that was a fun, story fun story off the.
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  Speaker 2: Record that was off the.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: Record, hey can you clarify one? Thing AND i might
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: be late to the party On trout's, GLOVE i don't
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: see a trapeze? Currently is got rid of? Okay all?
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: RIGHT i wasn't. Crazy MAYBE i think it was this.
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: Year if it was last, year well you, know he
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: wasn't playing a ton of d last. Year but but
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: that's a big to. Me you used a trapeze your whole,
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  Speaker 3: CAREER i. Believe, yeah and he to this, POINT i
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: seen an h web out there or.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Something, YEAH i mean he's catching the ball and he
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: looks good out. There to. ME i don't. THINK i
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: don't know what you guys, think BUT i think he
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: looks good out. There he's making the play and and
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: uh and he seems.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: Comfortable so, no in the win the other, day but that's.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: That that Was. Chicago the wind was blowing like.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: It was.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: Nuts it was. Nuts but he looks great and he's,
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: happy he's, smiling he's stealing. Bases it looks Like Mike
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: trout of, uh you, know years. Ago so if he
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: keeps it, up, man, Great, yeah and, yeah it's.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: Good you can.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: Tell you can tell it's good for he's having fun
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: and that's that's what you want to. See we're having.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: Fun we've been told our podcast lacks. Energy it's not
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: gonna lie energy, today it's not GONNA i found the. Solution, no, No,
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: well thank you.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: Very, Much.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Tory can you come back three times next?
• 39:11
  Speaker 7: Week Budget buck AND i gotta wait for it to go.
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: Through we didn't just show you what?
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: What but, yeah we better we better close this show
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: right there on a high. Note Tory, hunter Former angels
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: outfielder now special assistant to The, gym thank you for
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: joining us. Today we really appreciate it having you. On
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: please like and. Subscribe that's gonna be it For Halo,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: territory and we'll see you out there this, Weekend, Tory
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: we'll see you next.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Time thank, you, guys