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Red Sox catcher Carlos Narváez, Rangers closer Shawn Armstrong · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Sean Armstrong joining us right now on f T. Sean,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for joining us. How you doing, Yeah, man, how
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  Speaker 1: are you guys? We're good, We're good. I mean, just
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  Speaker 1: to get into the combo favorite home run celebration slash
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  Speaker 1: skit either from a teammate or just in general in
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball for you right now.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, i'd have to say probably Garcia for me,
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  Speaker 2: whenever he hits a walk off or a big homer
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  Speaker 2: for us.
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  Speaker 3: I love the energy that he kind of brings. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, we.
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  Speaker 2: Actually had this conversation other in the clubhouse and it's like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, kind of targeted more towards the freem endeavors
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  Speaker 2: thing where you know, got mad.
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  Speaker 3: It's like it's one of those things.
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  Speaker 2: Man, it's like if you're gonna give it up and
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  Speaker 2: you know it's gonna be, you know, an absolute bomb,
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  Speaker 2: like I'm all for it, like Pemph the homer. I
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  Speaker 2: think I think it brings more attention to the game,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, like the younger generation, like.
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  Speaker 3: It's all about the energy.
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  Speaker 2: So like, you know, regardless, it's just part of baseball,
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  Speaker 2: and I think it brings a lot of positivity for
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  Speaker 2: the younger guys.
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  Speaker 4: Should pictures have a skit though, I mean, like only closers,
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  Speaker 4: which will get into the fact that you're a big
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  Speaker 4: time closer. Now we're not in Columbus anymore, but like
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  Speaker 4: you're you're like, should pictures have a skit? Like if
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  Speaker 4: a picture comes off the mound and gives more than
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  Speaker 4: just like the.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's one of those things where
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  Speaker 2: you kind of gotta be yourself. I'm not I'm not
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  Speaker 2: a big urah guy when it comes to the mound,
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  Speaker 2: but uh, I mean, if that's your thing, sure, go
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  Speaker 2: for it. I mean, if you go out there and
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  Speaker 2: kay the side and you know, like that that's part
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  Speaker 2: of your you know, celebration.
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  Speaker 4: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we got a guy, you know, like Crvello
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  Speaker 2: on us. I mean he celebrates after every strikeout. I
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  Speaker 2: mean that's just who he is. But I mean I
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  Speaker 2: think again, he's out there having fun, He's trying to
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  Speaker 2: do his job. And you know, again, if if that's
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  Speaker 2: part of you, like, I mean, I'm off for it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's again it makes the game fun and
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  Speaker 2: brings energy. I'm just I'm just not sure who are
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  Speaker 2: a type of guy when it comes to you know,
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  Speaker 2: coming off the mount.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Well, pictures sometimes they don't always get to
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  Speaker 4: celebrate at the end of their outing. But now that
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  Speaker 4: you're kind of sliding into that closer's role and don't humble,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, like you're you're the guy right now
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  Speaker 4: coming out of the pen to close the game out,
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  Speaker 4: do you need to have your walkout music because that's
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  Speaker 4: kind of the pictures celebration right now, like they celebrate
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  Speaker 4: before they're even before they even get the three outs.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I like the walk up music whenever for
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  Speaker 2: like the answery obviously, I think it kind of sets
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  Speaker 2: the mood, sets the vibe, I mean, just like a hitter.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean I think I don't know about the
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  Speaker 2: whole playing you know, the walkout after every strikeout or
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  Speaker 2: out that's.
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  Speaker 3: Made in an inning.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean i'd be I'd be lying if
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  Speaker 2: I said that I'm a little OCD if they didn't
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  Speaker 2: play my walkout whenever I'm running out onto the mound,
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  Speaker 2: that it might you know, kill the vibes a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean, big walk up component for pictures
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  Speaker 3: and hitters.
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  Speaker 4: All right, So I got to get into your kind
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  Speaker 4: of mindset being a big league closer now, even though
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  Speaker 4: it's really short, you haven't been a big league closer
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  Speaker 4: long because you and I played together in twenty seventeen
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  Speaker 4: in Columbus and you were still coming up, You were
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  Speaker 4: still kind of getting your feet wet. You had a
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  Speaker 4: little bit of time in the big leagues with the
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  Speaker 4: of the Indians at the time Guardians now, and you
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  Speaker 4: had a temper. I'll tell a story after you tell
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  Speaker 4: the story, after you tell me where your tempers at
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  Speaker 4: right now, because I think it's something that everybody needs
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  Speaker 4: to kind of like live on that borderline. Compared to
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  Speaker 4: twenty seventeen, where's your temper at now?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's turned down quite a bit since then.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you played with me. I was a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of a basket case whenever I was coming up
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  Speaker 2: in the minor leagues. And I tell guys that all
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  Speaker 2: the time, and you know, I think I'd be lying
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  Speaker 2: if I said that. You know, my wife and my
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  Speaker 2: kids were kind of the biggest component of kind of
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  Speaker 2: bringing that back down to earth. And then you know,
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  Speaker 2: also training, you know, a bunch of kids outside of
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  Speaker 2: baseball on off the field, you know, like they watch,
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  Speaker 2: you know, kind of what I'm doing every day, and
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  Speaker 2: I think it's kind of those things were practice what
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  Speaker 2: you preach. But uh, controlling the motions is part of
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  Speaker 2: you know, failure is part of the game. And I
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Kratzy you played with me. I struggled with
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  Speaker 2: it pretty bad early on in my career.
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  Speaker 4: Would you mind if you tell the story about the
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  Speaker 4: one time Do you remember the one time where I
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  Speaker 4: almost choked you out because of your temper?
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  Speaker 2: Depends on which one it was, it depends. Was that
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  Speaker 2: in Toledo or is that somewhere else?
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  Speaker 4: No, it was in Columbus. So in Columbus we had
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  Speaker 4: two We had two batting cages, and sometimes Sean would
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  Speaker 4: get he would give up a hit, and he would
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  Speaker 4: have the same reaction if he gave up three runs.
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  Speaker 4: But he came into the batting cage, and there was
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  Speaker 4: two of them long way, so it was you know,
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  Speaker 4: once you were in one of them, you were safe
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  Speaker 4: to be in the other one. You know, he was
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  Speaker 4: throwing stuff around in the batting cage and he found
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  Speaker 4: a broken bat from one batting cage. He threw it
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  Speaker 4: and somehow it went through the opening and made it
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  Speaker 4: into the other opening, almost an impossible shot, like dude,
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  Speaker 4: perfect type of shot, and the bat hit me. I
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  Speaker 4: was stretching in the other cage and I was sitting
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  Speaker 4: on the ground and it hit me, and he and
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  Speaker 4: shone through it, and he went from like one hundred
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  Speaker 4: miles an hour mad to I am so sorry, like
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  Speaker 4: I am so He's like, you were, you were so apologetic.
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  Speaker 4: And then you came back to me after the game.
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  Speaker 4: He said, I thought you were going to punch me
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  Speaker 4: in the face when you did that. So I saw,
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  Speaker 4: I saw a moment of maturity. And now look at you,
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  Speaker 4: you're just so calm and collected.
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  Speaker 3: Now, yeah, it was. It was a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: a problem back then.
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  Speaker 2: And I mean obviously, you know, I say it all
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  Speaker 2: the time, especially like whenever you're in Bigley camp with
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  Speaker 2: this that year, it's like you came in the clubhouse.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that also speaks to, you know, testament
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  Speaker 2: to you throughout your career too, is every clubhouse you
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  Speaker 2: ever ran, it was like you were there for you know,
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  Speaker 2: ten years, And you know, I think that's a testament,
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  Speaker 2: you know, obviously to my maturity. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: like having guys like you, you know, kind of groom
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  Speaker 2: us in that way.
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  Speaker 3: As we were coming up too. Helped a lot.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I saw red and then I saw an
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  Speaker 2: oh crap moment that this guy's huge and he might
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  Speaker 2: actually kick my ass in this cave. So yeah, thankfully
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  Speaker 2: we didn't in that way and we worked it out.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we worked it out. We're still buddies. But do
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  Speaker 4: the Rangers got a shot? Man? Do you guys have
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  Speaker 4: a shot? Because of where you're at? Everybody like on
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  Speaker 4: shows like this, and you know, AJ and I played,
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  Speaker 4: so we're you know, we're giving it honest, like in
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  Speaker 4: these moments, we know you're looking to the scoreboard, But
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  Speaker 4: do you guys have a Do you guys in the
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  Speaker 4: clubhouse say, well, if we make the playoffs or are
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  Speaker 4: you guys saying when we make the playoffs, like, don't
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  Speaker 4: make plans for October yet.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think we can all like, I think
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  Speaker 3: we all feel it, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously this we've had a lot of peaks
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  Speaker 2: and valleys over the course of the season that hasn't
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  Speaker 2: gone our way, and we've lost some close games that
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  Speaker 2: you know, obviously we'd be sitting in a different situation
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  Speaker 2: if we would have won those games. But I mean
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  Speaker 2: the vibes in the clubhouse right now, are you know,
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  Speaker 2: they're really good. We have i mean seekers coming back,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and then obviously we've had some daggers with
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  Speaker 2: some players that we've lost. But I think that you know,
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  Speaker 2: every young guy that's kind of came up and had
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity is taken advantage. And i'd be lying to you, man,
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  Speaker 2: I think the energy over the past three or four
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  Speaker 2: weeks here has been probably better than it's been, you know,
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  Speaker 2: throughout the main part of the season.
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  Speaker 3: And I think every one of us believe in it, and.
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  Speaker 2: We've all said it, like just get in, and we
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  Speaker 2: got a really good opportunity to do some damage in
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs. So like, I think every single person in
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  Speaker 2: that clubhouse believes that we can get in. You know,
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  Speaker 2: obviously we got to have some other things go our way.
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  Speaker 2: There's you know, Seattle's kind of riding a roller coaster
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  Speaker 2: right now as well. And yeah, I mean we are
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  Speaker 2: scoreboard watching, but the only thing we can do is
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  Speaker 2: take control of what we can control and control one
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  Speaker 2: out at the time, one game at a time, and
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  Speaker 2: try and win each game we got. We got a
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  Speaker 2: heck of a schedule moving forward. We realize that, but
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  Speaker 2: I think at the same time, it prepares us for
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  Speaker 2: playoff baseball to be going against you know, number one
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  Speaker 2: teams in the division throughout the remainder of the season,
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  Speaker 2: I think besides two teams, and you know, they're all
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  Speaker 2: playing for something too. But yeah, we believe in ourselves, man,
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  Speaker 2: and like hell yeah, like we want to get into October.
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  Speaker 2: We want to make a run at it, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: like which we trust everybody in that clubhouse. And again
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  Speaker 2: there's been some times that haven't gone the way we wanted,
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  Speaker 2: but we're playing really good baseball collectively right now.
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  Speaker 1: lost teammates at least temporarily, like Uvaldi Sieger. Send me
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  Speaker 1: in some big names, right. Is it true that they're
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  Speaker 1: calling some of those replacements the little rascals? Is that
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  Speaker 1: a thing more on the TV broadcast or is that
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  Speaker 1: permeating inside the clubhouse?
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, man, that's a first for me. I haven't heard that.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe that's more of a TV thing, But I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: definitely have to ask about that whenever I get there.
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  Speaker 3: Today.
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  Speaker 2: And I mean, but I mean the guys they brought
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  Speaker 2: up man like it, like Freeman, Seeing that kid have fun,
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  Speaker 2: you know, day in and day out, no matter where
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  Speaker 2: he's playing, it's it's a joy to see man like
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  Speaker 2: it fires us up whenever he crosses on play, tie
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  Speaker 2: and run, whatever it may be, and you know.
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  Speaker 3: Jumps in through the roof like he's he's a ball
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  Speaker 3: of energy.
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  Speaker 2: But you know a lot of the guys that we've
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  Speaker 2: you know, brought up right now, like Dyling More stepping
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  Speaker 2: up for Seeger, who's you know, like dealing with that
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  Speaker 2: type of situation.
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  Speaker 3: Hellman, who's been huge for us coming down the stretch.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it's kind of throw and through
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  Speaker 2: the guys that have stepped up, and you know, there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of energy, but the little rascals haven't heard it.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm gonna have to ask about that when I get.
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  Speaker 7: There, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So our teammate Ken Rosenthalo, of course writes for The
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  Speaker 1: Athletic as well, put this in his article from this morning.
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  Speaker 1: David Murphy, former Outbuilder now Rangers TV analyst dubbed them
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  Speaker 1: the little rascals. Cody Freeman, Alejandro Zuna, Michael Hellman and
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  Speaker 1: Dustin Harris.
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  Speaker 7: So there you go.
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  Speaker 3: The more you know, perfect, I like it.
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  Speaker 4: That's why you come on here. You find stuff out.
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  Speaker 4: You don't watch, you don't watch your own games. You
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  Speaker 4: just sit in the pen getting ready to throw. Well,
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  Speaker 4: why do you think that energy is a thing? I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you guys have some dudes that have some serious resumes,
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  Speaker 4: some nice backs of the baseball card. Do you feel
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  Speaker 4: like sometimes too many veterans or too many like solidified
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  Speaker 4: guys kind of become a little malaised during the season,
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  Speaker 4: not that they're not playing hard, but just that energy
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  Speaker 4: that you're talking about of a guy who's like, I'm
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  Speaker 4: in the big leagues, Like, here we go, let's get it.
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  Speaker 2: I think the difference Man and upset it is like
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  Speaker 2: it's not like a we're not a hoorrah team, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like and as far as that goes, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: obviously we have guys that are at times like you know,
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  Speaker 2: Garcia's homers and stuff like that in big time situations.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it fires us up.
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  Speaker 2: But I think that it's more of the standard that
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  Speaker 2: the front office is set for us, and that's the
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  Speaker 2: expectation to win. And I think that with the resume
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  Speaker 2: that our guys do have, and coming off you know,
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  Speaker 2: the twenty twenty three World Series and then last year
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  Speaker 2: being the season they wanted after winning a World Series.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just more of like the expectation of
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  Speaker 2: the standard here is to win baseball games, and we.
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  Speaker 3: Never get too high, we never get too low.
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  Speaker 2: And it's like whenever we were going through it, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a stretch we were losing games, like nobody's sitting around
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  Speaker 2: complaining and you know, like or whatever it may be
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  Speaker 2: about playing time or being optioned or whatever, it's like
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  Speaker 2: you still come to the field one day at a time,
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  Speaker 2: you know, take care of your business, to your routine,
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  Speaker 2: and have the expectation to win ball games. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: like you know, de grim Vivaldi, those guys they're not
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  Speaker 2: they're not big hoorai guys either. The expectation and whenever
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  Speaker 2: they get the balls to get a w and whenever
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  Speaker 2: things on the go o their way, they're right back
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  Speaker 2: in the pen, you know, the next day, talking to
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  Speaker 2: whether it's delivery, scouting reports, tipping pitches, whatever it may be,
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  Speaker 2: trying to find the next advantage to win the.
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  Speaker 3: Next baseball game.
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  Speaker 2: And again I don't spend a lot of time with
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  Speaker 2: the hitters obviously, but it seems like they're all and
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  Speaker 2: they're kind of doing the same thing, their same routine.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean, I don't I wouldn't say that
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  Speaker 2: it's like, you know, anything like that. I just think
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  Speaker 2: that it's just an expectation and that's a standard, and
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  Speaker 2: that's something that you know whenever I signed see why
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  Speaker 2: express you know, from the first conversation on is we're
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  Speaker 2: here to win a World Series.
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  Speaker 3: We're here to win baseball games. That's our expectation.
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  Speaker 2: Is no like if we make the playoffs, if we
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  Speaker 2: get there, it's like our we're here to win, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, like that's the one common.
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  Speaker 3: Goal, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And obviously it's a long season and we put ourselves
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  Speaker 2: in a good spot going down this last stretch, and
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  Speaker 2: we just got to control what we can control.
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  Speaker 4: Army, Can you tell me as we get in a
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  Speaker 4: little bit of your journey to becoming the closure of
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  Speaker 4: the Rangers, can you tell me every number you've ever
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  Speaker 4: had in the big leagues?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, probably fifty one with Cleveland, thirty seven with Seattle,
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  Speaker 2: forty three with Baltimore, sixty four with Tampa. I think
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  Speaker 2: I was forty three with Tampa two, maybe forty six,
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  Speaker 2: forty six. I do not know my number in Miami,
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  Speaker 2: and then my number here is forty three in Texas,
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  Speaker 2: and then I do not know my numbers in Saint
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  Speaker 2: Louis or Chicago.
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  Speaker 3: To be honest with you, forty three good core.
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  Speaker 4: That's pretty good. Forty three, sixty four and thirty, but
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  Speaker 4: that's pretty good. All of those stops, all of those
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  Speaker 4: stops to get you to the point where you are
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  Speaker 4: right now and a team that's on the brink of
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  Speaker 4: doing something awesome in the playoffs. What part of that
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  Speaker 4: journey do you feel like was like essential to be
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  Speaker 4: able to get you to where you are right now
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  Speaker 4: to have success, Because if people look at your career numbers,
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  Speaker 4: they're gonna be like, dang, how'd this guy bounce around
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  Speaker 4: a lot? It's the life of a I don't even
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  Speaker 4: know what I'd call you, Like a middle not a
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  Speaker 4: middle reliever because you throw a way too hard to
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: be a middle reliever and have too much anger, but
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: just a just a non closer, a non closing reliever
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: to bounce around like you had. With the career numbers
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: that you have, which of those stops. Do you feel
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: like was essential to put you in the place where
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: you're at right now?
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: You know, I mean I'd be lying if I said that,
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: you know, all of them weren't essential. I mean, they're
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: all a piece to the puzzle, you know, Cleveland being
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: able to have the bullpen and the starting rotation. They
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: kind of groomed me and set the standard of what
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: it's like to be a big leaguer and also what
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: it's like to be a veteran and a presence towards
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: younger guys.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: I mean that was huge.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: Uh, you know obviously when I was in Baltimore and
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: experiencing the struggles and the struggles as a team as
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: a whole like that, I mean, that's that's a learning curve.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: Going to Tampa and learning the kind of like the
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: whole philosophy of analytics and motion capturing, kinetrax and you
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: know everything that Kyl Snyder and that group does like
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: kind of grooming me to really fully understand that type
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: of data. And then I mean, I think you can
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: buy in all of those they're all essential, But I
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: mean I think that the biggest thing for me was
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: probably Tampa and the culture that that front office built
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: through a clubhouse and the standard that that pitching staff
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: held for every single individual, and then Snyder's ability to
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: individualize every single pitcher that stepped in that clubhouse. So
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: like just like understanding that it's not a one size
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: fit all, that every single person is different, every single
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: person gets out differently, and you know, like just and again,
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: the culture.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: The culture is a big thing, man. I mean, I
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: think we can all agree.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: To that when it comes to baseball, Like if you
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: don't have culture, you don't have a vibe, you're not
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: gonna win a lot of baseball games. And that's that's
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: a big part of everything. But you know, career as
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: a whole man, I think that's kind of what has
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: really groomed me to their like never get too high
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: and never get too and you know, like I've said
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: it before, I got a toattooed on me, like never
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: fear failure. So a recording of God, God's plan, It's
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: gonna happen, like felare is a part of this game.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: Learn from it, and anytime you get the baseball, treat
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: it like as your last.
• 17:14
  Speaker 7: I love that.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: I love that. I felt like anytime you got the
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: baseball and I used to say, you and Trevor Bauer,
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Mike Clevenger used to play catch against each other.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: You guys didn't play catch with each other. You played
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: against each other like you would be like fifty feet
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: away from each other and just throw as hard as
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: you could. So I like that. That's a good, good mantra.
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: Every time you got the ball. Your birthday's coming up.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: Do you feel like your birthday, which is on September eleventh,
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: is overshadowed every year? Or do you feel like farther
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: and farther we get away from that terrible day in
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: our history, you get to celebrate it more. Because I
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: remember you said that one time when we played together
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: that you were like, you guys get to celebrate your
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: birthday all the time, and mine gets overshadowed by September eleven.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: And you were like, but that's okay, Like I feel
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: like it's kind of fair.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: I mean it's a you know, one of the worst
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: disasters in American history, So I mean, rightfully, so that's
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: going to take the cake.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's just another day. Man.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: The older I get, you know, turning thirty five this year,
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: it's like, cool, you know it's another birthday, and you know,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: actually being in New York, I'm actually thinking about going
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: down to the uh you know where the trade centers
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: and everything were on on on our off day in
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: New York. So like that'll kind of be cool to
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: kind of go there where it happened, and then also
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: kind of, you know, celebrate my birthday on an off day,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: but go see some history and see some cool things
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: I've never been to before.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: That's actually a really good idea, really good idea to
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: go check it out around their Freedom Tower. But yeah,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that birthday on nine to eleven. That's
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: tough because it's a somber day you know, in the
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: country too, right, so you're kind of like, yeah, I
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: want to celebrate, but also this day is for.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Remembering, right absolutely.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, well report back. It's definitely a good spot.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: I highly recommend to check it out. Shawn. Awesome, great
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: having you on here. Thanks for the time, and keep
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: doing your thing.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: Good luck.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: We're watching these last few weeks here, we're scoreboard watching
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: with you.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: I appreciate it, guys, thank you for having me.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: All Right, we've got Red Sox catcher Carlos Snarbias with
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: us right now on foul territory, Carlos, how's life with
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: the Red Sox?
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: So boys, how are you doing? Really good? Really good?
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: Hearing in suck Gramando right now?
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Oh you got any uh, you got any suggestions for him?
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: Krats on what to do out there.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: I had never been to Sacramento. I'm nope. I only
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: International League guys. So I hear there's a lot of
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: good place, good places. What are guys doing? Not really
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: the day place you want to have like an off
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: day or something. I don't think, but.
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: I mean, we just got here last night.
• 19:55
  Speaker 8: Is my my first time here, actually my first time
• 19:57
  Speaker 8: going into the West Coast the whole the whole season around.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: So nice rookie year. You're always getting out You're getting
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: out there. You remember your first you remember your first
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: first flights across the country. Did we have did we
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: have any turbulence or were we good?
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: No?
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: No turbulence on this flight?
• 20:18
  Speaker 8: Oh my god, bro, no no more, please, no more.
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: That was that was really tough when we went to Minnesota.
• 20:24
  Speaker 8: But it was like like forty minutes, like really Trulans.
• 20:27
  Speaker 7: That was bad.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: Was there was there certain guys who were like was
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: there anybody crying on the plane, because I know, now
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: this is a gross generalization, but I know some Latin
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: guys whenever there's turbulence, they stopped playing cards. They just
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: sit there and they're like, oh please please. Was there
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: anybody that was really taking the turbulence tough?
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: Bro?
• 20:50
  Speaker 8: We literally started like just I mean joking about it
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: the first ten minutes, and then after damn fifteen, it's like, okay,
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: this is serious, and everybody stop playing cards, is just
• 21:01
  Speaker 8: like back in their seats with the seatbelt on it,
• 21:04
  Speaker 8: and it's like, okay, just just I mean just silent totally,
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: you know what I mean, Like nobody's talking for the
• 21:11
  Speaker 8: next twenty minutes. Some people like, you know, I like
• 21:15
  Speaker 8: yelling like hey, what what is that?
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: Like what I like? But it was, I mean fun,
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: but like a scary moment at the same.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Time, Carlos, was anyone yelling out any jokes trying to
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: lighten the moment and be like if we all go down.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I hated playing with so and so, I loved playing
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: with so and so. I don't know, just somebody trying to.
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: Look out there.
• 21:39
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean when we land, I don't know who's
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: saying I think it's ref nited. I say, like, oh
• 21:44
  Speaker 8: my god, twins are so are so fun right now,
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: because I mean, if we make through this and we're
• 21:50
  Speaker 8: gonna we're just about to play the series against Minnesota,
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: it's like, okay, if we if we get through this,
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: we're gonna we're gonna wing everybody.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Now, yeah, exactly, exactly survived. Hey, tell us, tell us
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: about what it's like to catch some of these guys
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: that have been shining this year from the pitching staff.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: And of course we're gonna start with Garrett Crochet and
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Kratz said, that's your cy young pick, so he already
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: voted for you.
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: That's my that's my pig too, So we're good. Bro.
• 22:25
  Speaker 8: Now he's a he's a he's a different piecet bros.
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: He's an animal. He's always prepared, I always said in
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: interviews late. His preparation is into the next level. Like
• 22:37
  Speaker 8: he's as soon as he's finished one start, he gets
• 22:39
  Speaker 8: the off day, and right after that day, he's he's
• 22:43
  Speaker 8: prepared his next auting, like taking notes. Scar Reports asked
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: me questions about it, and sometimes I go like, gee,
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: it's like we got three more days, so let me,
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: let me figure out, let me get the scar report,
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: and we talk tomorrow. So always he's he's always a head,
• 23:00
  Speaker 8: of course, I mean besides his his skills, his pitches
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: are elite, fast, elite. His quarter is the lead sweeper,
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: change up like every once in a while, but those
• 23:11
  Speaker 8: two main pitches, wills and the sinker a little more
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: to a leftist and to arieties to get back and
• 23:17
  Speaker 8: count two.
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: So last two ordeans for him is being a little rough. Uh.
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: You got a lot of misfires trying to trying to
• 23:24
  Speaker 8: go back back foot with the counter and the sweeper
• 23:27
  Speaker 8: and ended up like out over to variety.
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: So he's he's work, he's he's working on that. I
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: know he's not. He's not. He's not happy about it.
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: But like we got him Tony and hopefully, hopefully it's
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: going to be a good one.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: But how do you know? How do you know he's elite?
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: You have like four minutes in the big leagus like
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: you you you talk, you talk, you really do, and
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: you command like that presence like you've been in the
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: big leagus and it looks like these pictures they follow you.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: Who do you did that too? Or who do you
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: give like, how do you know like he's the elite
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: because other people tell you, or it's because you're a
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: student of the game and you watched a lot of games.
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: I mean, I watch a lot of games. Of course,
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: I'm I'm a rookie, you know what I mean. But
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: I always ask questions. I have really good mentors throughout
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: I mean my Orch experience, but I mean a really
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: good mentor. When it was my time with the yankeestory,
• 24:27
  Speaker 8: Trevino helped me a lot. He was my guy there,
• 24:31
  Speaker 8: Gary Cole bro he helped me a lot. Like last
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: year especially, I called him a lot. I call him
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: his his rehab assignments in the minors when he was
• 24:41
  Speaker 8: trying to get to the big least again, So we
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: got a lot of conversations about the game plan and stuff.
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: So I just see bees I mean, and it's like
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: the same type of preparation and focus as I mean
• 24:57
  Speaker 8: Gary cole had in the moments. So it's of course,
• 25:01
  Speaker 8: it's we are at the end of the.
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: Season right now.
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: I mean, we're seeing a lot of pitchers right now,
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: and Broke Creche is one on the top right, I
• 25:09
  Speaker 8: mean top three right now. That's my piag we got
• 25:13
  Speaker 8: like I don't know, three or maybe three more outings
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: for him, So we gonna we're gonna make this ruin
• 25:19
  Speaker 8: to be to him getting in the into the.
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: SI War.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Time for your weekly Arena Club segment where we see
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: what AJ pulls from a slab pack and we go
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: pull Emerald pack this week. AJ looking for something big.
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: Always, I'm always looking for the big thing next.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Big things, got big money, big money.
• 25:41
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• 25:42
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• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Dave Winfield card from nineteen seventy four, seventy four tops
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: card from this Emerald pack. Estimated value three hundred bucks.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: You could sell it back for two seventy sold sold.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: I feel like you are into more of the current players,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: be accurate, like d my show room.
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: I have a Robbin you out, I have a Griffy
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: Rookie car.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Oh that's true, So I mean I have some.
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: Older vintage players. Bob Gibson.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you have Gibson.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: So I know I disagree Scott, But Dave Winfield for
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: that amount of money back, I'm reselling it.
• 26:16
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• 26:18
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• 26:25
  Speaker 5: Do you ever get on him about his pants and
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: why he tight rolls his pants at the bottom? Why
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: don't you ask no one ever talked to him, what
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: the hell's wrong with your pants?
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: Dude? Yeah?
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: I asked him about it one time and told me, like,
• 26:36
  Speaker 8: in high school, I think it's this is right. In
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: high school, he's always told so his his pants never
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: fit him, like like longwise, so he's on one day
• 26:47
  Speaker 8: he just put it like that, and it's like he
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: keep it and he's speeching right now in the biggies
• 26:52
  Speaker 8: like that. I used told me, like, bro, you're in
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: the big league. You can make your pants however you want.
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: I said, I know, I want to keep like this.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: So yeah, the reason nobody says anything is because he's
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: six foot seven. Who wins in a fight him or
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: all this? Chapman, I got it.
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: That's like, but I gotta say, choppy, bro, choppy workout
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: every day. He's I don't know, he's another beast right there,
• 27:19
  Speaker 8: so probably choppy.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: Okay, what is it like catching him right now? I
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: caught him backing let's see, I'm seventeen, and then again
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: in spring training, and then twenty Also, what is it like,
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: what is it like catching him on the heater that
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: he's on right now, fifty straight batters that he faced.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: You think he's so good you didn't even want to
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: catch the one strikeout so he could get four strikeouts
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: last night.
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: I told him, I told him yesterday, like, Bro, you're
• 27:49
  Speaker 8: still making history. You got a four strikeout night and
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: in it's safe. So it's like, no, that bitch West grows.
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: I don't know if, of course this is my first time,
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: my first year catching him. I didn't see him like
• 28:02
  Speaker 8: when he was I don't know in twenty eight when
• 28:05
  Speaker 8: he was throwing like one o five. But right now,
• 28:07
  Speaker 8: to me, how he's pitching, how are looking from behind
• 28:11
  Speaker 8: the play?
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: He's on his peak.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: Bro.
• 28:13
  Speaker 8: He can throw ninety nine when he wants, he can
• 28:16
  Speaker 8: throw ninety five. He can get the split down, he
• 28:18
  Speaker 8: can throw the slider. Yesterday he got a couple of
• 28:21
  Speaker 8: days off and his fastball wasn't there, so we were
• 28:25
  Speaker 8: lean a little more on the houspy and the spin,
• 28:29
  Speaker 8: so we got the slider and and the split. It
• 28:32
  Speaker 8: involved early, so it's like he's able to do that, bro,
• 28:37
  Speaker 8: and his age, like thirty seven years old, he's able
• 28:40
  Speaker 8: to this day, Bro, the slighter is the pitch we
• 28:43
  Speaker 8: can throw sliders. This day is the split we can
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: throw split. And this day is the fast one. You
• 28:48
  Speaker 8: may see ten fast in a row. So it's like
• 28:51
  Speaker 8: he's the pitcher, like he can do that right now,
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: and he's always prepared and he's he's not his business. Bro,
• 28:56
  Speaker 8: He's been in a in this live for a while
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: and he knows when he when he needs to.
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: Come like right away throwing a hundred.
• 29:04
  Speaker 8: He he will do it when he trying to command
• 29:06
  Speaker 8: and trying to manage his his worklow, he can throw
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: ninety five and then as the bats going through ninety nine,
• 29:13
  Speaker 8: you know what I mean.
• 29:14
  Speaker 7: So it's a it's a different animal. So proud to
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: just just got him at.
• 29:20
  Speaker 8: This at this time of the year for him, you know,
• 29:24
  Speaker 8: like social history what he's doing fifty batters in a row.
• 29:29
  Speaker 8: So I just I just feel feels blessed, blessed to
• 29:32
  Speaker 8: be behind the playwind.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Hey Carlos, did you hear about that story where he
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: goes in spring training, Oh, I think I'm gonna actually
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: spot my fastball now a billion years into my big
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: league career. Did you hear about that. It looks like
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: you did from your smile, And what did you think
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: when he finally realized I'm not just gonna throw it
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: towards the play, I'm actually going to aim this thing
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: a little bit.
• 29:56
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean it's kind of kind of it's kind
• 29:58
  Speaker 8: of crazy because I mean, when you are a catcher,
• 30:01
  Speaker 8: you want to call fast all away fast well le
• 30:03
  Speaker 8: fastball opinion, especially with the pitch come so now, I
• 30:06
  Speaker 8: mean he's after he's being a lead for a while
• 30:10
  Speaker 8: and he's just saying like, okay, and I'm actually locating
• 30:13
  Speaker 8: my fastball now in when I want it away when
• 30:16
  Speaker 8: I want it. It's like, okay, just I mean, I don't,
• 30:19
  Speaker 8: I don't. I don't know why you didn't before. Let's
• 30:21
  Speaker 8: do it, you know. So it was I don't know
• 30:24
  Speaker 8: his his pitching. We com picching now and every pitch
• 30:28
  Speaker 8: had had an intent probably I don't know all decoration
• 30:33
  Speaker 8: on him what he's succeeding, succeeding right now, but he
• 30:37
  Speaker 8: was a big, big adjudgment for him.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: Bro, he throws two fastballs and people don't don't know this,
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: but it's fastball. When he goes glove side into a righty,
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: it cuts correct and then when it way, it's sinks
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: it runs away from the righty or into or lefty.
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: Yes, yes, yes, it's more like a runner.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: But yes, nobody.
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: Yeah, he throw both. He throw both, so.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: He throws the sinker and sometimes also.
• 31:07
  Speaker 7: I think that's that's that's a misfire. You gotta be
• 31:10
  Speaker 7: ready for it.
• 31:10
  Speaker 8: And you you as a catcher, I mean you know
• 31:13
  Speaker 8: it's tough for like, especially with him, like with his
• 31:16
  Speaker 8: wind up and his mechanics. Is it's gotten you fast.
• 31:20
  Speaker 8: So those those into a too already misfires.
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: We want to go up away with the sinker. It's
• 31:28
  Speaker 7: not a sinker.
• 31:28
  Speaker 8: It's more like a like a runner with the force
• 31:32
  Speaker 8: in sometimes cuts, So you gotta be ready for it.
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: Like as a as a hitter, I don't know. I
• 31:37
  Speaker 8: never faced him, so I don't I don't want to
• 31:39
  Speaker 8: face him. I want to catch him. So like it's
• 31:42
  Speaker 8: going on you fast, and he got he got controls.
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: Of all his pitches.
• 31:47
  Speaker 8: He he can't control the fast, but he can control
• 31:49
  Speaker 8: the sinker, the slighter the split. So the split is
• 31:53
  Speaker 8: the most difficult right now because you don't know where
• 31:55
  Speaker 8: it goes.
• 31:55
  Speaker 7: But it's nasty, like you got we fund it.
• 31:58
  Speaker 8: You gotta swing a miss with that pitch, so you
• 32:01
  Speaker 8: keep callinghim. But sometimes cuts down sometimes aren't fade down,
• 32:05
  Speaker 8: so he's like, you gotta be ready for it.
• 32:06
  Speaker 7: But the common thing with the split is going.
• 32:10
  Speaker 8: Down always, So that's why it's a good pitch. You
• 32:13
  Speaker 8: can find swinging and miss there, so we continue to
• 32:16
  Speaker 8: call it. But that's what happened yesterday. That's plea was
• 32:20
  Speaker 8: like ninety two and cuts down a little bit, and
• 32:23
  Speaker 8: they previously that he throw me was like more straight down,
• 32:26
  Speaker 8: So it just it's just something you gotta be ready
• 32:29
  Speaker 8: for it.
• 32:29
  Speaker 7: But it's nazy, all right.
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: Well tell him when you see him today that I
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: never had any problem catching him or heading off him,
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: and he'll he'll know exactly what you're talking about. But
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: my question was going to be on that split, because
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: I remember the first time I ever caught that split.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: He threw it one time in a bullpen in twenty seventeen,
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: and it's like a it's like a knuckleball sometimes, like
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: the way it comes out, and then in eighteen he
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: started throwing it in spring training. I remember catching him
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: in twenty then and thinking I don't like, I didn't
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: even want to call it. Do you ever sit there
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: and go just like you said, like it's gonna be nasty,
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: do you ever sit there and go I don't know,
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: Like this is a one run game. I know this
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: will get the strikeout, but I gotta keep it in front.
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure where it's gonna be. Do you ever
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: hesitate or you're just like now whatever?
• 33:19
  Speaker 8: We got this yeah right now at this point though,
• 33:22
  Speaker 8: But early on this season, I remember one series we
• 33:25
  Speaker 8: went again to Milwaukee that was like maybe early June.
• 33:29
  Speaker 8: There's split wasn't there. It was like he was throwing that.
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: On the deer, like so it was bad. It was bad.
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: I remember where I cool Istory like one day.
• 33:39
  Speaker 8: I think it was a safe in Milwaukee or not
• 33:41
  Speaker 8: a safe because I think we lost those three games.
• 33:43
  Speaker 8: But it was one game there and he is knocked
• 33:46
  Speaker 8: down like so bad out front.
• 33:49
  Speaker 7: I just blogg and got it, got me into the throat.
• 33:52
  Speaker 8: So it's like okay, wait after the game, like I
• 33:54
  Speaker 8: just went on him in his logo and said like,
• 33:57
  Speaker 8: hey bro, this is clarid. You're gonna throw again in
• 34:00
  Speaker 8: December at you house. We're never gonna throw this is
• 34:02
  Speaker 8: split again. And then and then he got a little
• 34:05
  Speaker 8: I mean, he joked, but then he was like, Okay,
• 34:08
  Speaker 8: you're gonna see that. I'm gonna, I gonna, I'm gonna
• 34:11
  Speaker 8: fix this this pitch.
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: Bro.
• 34:12
  Speaker 8: Like literally two weeks after he started throwing the split.
• 34:16
  Speaker 8: I think we were in New York, the first series
• 34:19
  Speaker 8: in New York, and we threw one to Bolpy. I
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: remember that one, and we threw him out with that
• 34:25
  Speaker 8: one said like, okay, bro, this is split place. And
• 34:28
  Speaker 8: after that, brother, like that was early like mid June probably,
• 34:31
  Speaker 8: and after that the split is being amazing. Like I
• 34:35
  Speaker 8: don't I don't, I don't hesitate that that that pitch anymore.
• 34:38
  Speaker 8: Like I said, you gotta be ready because you don't
• 34:40
  Speaker 8: know where it goes. But like it is nasty, it
• 34:42
  Speaker 8: is nasty, and like you you find swing a miss,
• 34:46
  Speaker 8: but now don't don't, don't don't hesitate early June probably
• 34:50
  Speaker 8: may but now but no.
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: Now, all right, So you were the Yankees and then
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: you get traded to the Red Sox. What is that?
• 34:59
  Speaker 7: Like?
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: What is that feeling of constantly being surrounded in the
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: Yankees organization of Red Sox suck? Red Sox suck, And
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: all of a sudden you're like wait a minute, I
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: just got traded to them. I just spent all this
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: time saying how much the Red Sox suck, and now
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: I love the Red Sox and the Yankees suck. Take
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: us through that emotion when you got traded, but you
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: got traded to the Red Sox.
• 35:24
  Speaker 7: No, bro, it's not a secret, like how's how's this rivalry?
• 35:28
  Speaker 7: You know what I mean?
• 35:29
  Speaker 8: Like of course when I was over there, like you
• 35:32
  Speaker 8: always see the Red Sox as as.
• 35:34
  Speaker 7: They see it, you know.
• 35:35
  Speaker 8: So when I when I got traded, I wasn't Venezuela
• 35:38
  Speaker 8: playing Winter Bowl. Actually I remember it was the h
• 35:42
  Speaker 8: that day, so it was the last day of the
• 35:45
  Speaker 8: Winter meetings.
• 35:46
  Speaker 7: So I just keep my phone on ring just in case.
• 35:50
  Speaker 8: And I went to a bayroom and my phone, my
• 35:52
  Speaker 8: phone was was ringing. Somebody was calling. I didn't think
• 35:57
  Speaker 8: the answer. I didn't have the number safe. So then
• 35:59
  Speaker 8: like findnes after my phone keeps kids training, So I said, okay,
• 36:03
  Speaker 8: I just pick it up and it was somebody from
• 36:07
  Speaker 8: the Yankees telling me that it was trade to the Rex.
• 36:10
  Speaker 8: So I was like okay, I just said I just
• 36:12
  Speaker 8: sat like okay, like this just happened. Just ninety years
• 36:16
  Speaker 8: with them, so it's like, Okay, I guess this is good.
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: Uh, And then I look into the news.
• 36:23
  Speaker 8: That was the same day that the character check got
• 36:26
  Speaker 8: got traded to here to to Boston, so it's like, okay,
• 36:31
  Speaker 8: this is this is interesting, like the thing is is
• 36:34
  Speaker 8: making move and they want to and I just I
• 36:37
  Speaker 8: just part part of it at the moment.
• 36:40
  Speaker 7: So it's like really cool for me. Of course, like
• 36:42
  Speaker 7: a lot.
• 36:43
  Speaker 8: Of emotions, Like I don't know if I was happy
• 36:46
  Speaker 8: or not at the b at the beginning, but then bro,
• 36:50
  Speaker 8: like I just I just continued to play over there.
• 36:52
  Speaker 8: That was December twelfth, I think, and I was training
• 36:56
  Speaker 8: really good in the off season.
• 36:58
  Speaker 7: I just finished my program.
• 37:00
  Speaker 8: I I just want just want to be ready and
• 37:03
  Speaker 8: get get ready to to spring training.
• 37:06
  Speaker 7: So that was happy bro.
• 37:08
  Speaker 8: Like after I mean the first time I got I
• 37:10
  Speaker 8: got into into into for my yers, it was really cool,
• 37:14
  Speaker 8: like everybody was so happy with me, like it was
• 37:17
  Speaker 8: really good welcoming and I just I just feel home
• 37:20
  Speaker 8: from from day one. So that was crazy, like how
• 37:24
  Speaker 8: how I was seeing the Red Source and now from
• 37:28
  Speaker 8: purday I feel home here Like it was such a
• 37:31
  Speaker 8: special and now it's the opposite, you know what I mean,
• 37:34
  Speaker 8: you see you see over there and you want to
• 37:36
  Speaker 8: beat them.
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: That's it's easy to switch to want to beat them.
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: What did they tell you coming into the season. What
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: did the Red Sox tell you coming into the season?
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: Because Connor Wong and had a really good year last year,
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: did they say it was gonna be a split? They
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: say it was gonna be a platoon? Did they say
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: it was going to be you know what they liked
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: from you that they saw that they wanted you to
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: continue to do over here with the Red Sox.
• 37:59
  Speaker 7: Yeah. No.
• 38:00
  Speaker 8: At the beginning on Sprint twenty, I just I just
• 38:02
  Speaker 8: was fighting to get to get the job, you know
• 38:04
  Speaker 8: what I mean, like to get the second spot. Uh
• 38:09
  Speaker 8: I was already in the village with the Yankees, but
• 38:11
  Speaker 8: I never made my you know what I mean, my
• 38:13
  Speaker 8: from day one in the Big Grey, So I was
• 38:16
  Speaker 8: fighting for the spot. I had the new like two
• 38:21
  Speaker 8: days before we break camp.
• 38:23
  Speaker 7: So I don't know at the moment, I mean, Connor
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: was a guy.
• 38:27
  Speaker 8: I just want to help him and work together. Uh so,
• 38:34
  Speaker 8: and then unfortunately that happened to him early early on
• 38:38
  Speaker 8: the season. It was nobody left, you know what I mean,
• 38:41
  Speaker 8: Like I just I used to accountability on that one
• 38:44
  Speaker 8: that that I.
• 38:46
  Speaker 7: Was playing a little more more time.
• 38:48
  Speaker 8: So it was like, I don't know, like maybe in
• 38:51
  Speaker 8: April I think it was so and then you know,
• 38:55
  Speaker 8: I mean he went back and we we just keep
• 38:57
  Speaker 8: working together, you know what I mean, Like I don't
• 39:00
  Speaker 8: we never okay, you're you're the starting now or you're
• 39:02
  Speaker 8: the backup now. We're just from day one, we're gonna
• 39:05
  Speaker 8: work together as a team. We always been tall like
• 39:09
  Speaker 8: from from ac as a team. When you want to
• 39:12
  Speaker 8: win a word ceio of when you want to accomplish
• 39:15
  Speaker 8: big things, everybody gotta be involved, you know what I mean.
• 39:18
  Speaker 8: From als, We're here, the guys center play right now.
• 39:21
  Speaker 8: So it's like everybody got to be in the same boat.
• 39:24
  Speaker 8: I'm gotta be ready to win games. So like I said,
• 39:27
  Speaker 8: like I've never been told I know you're going to
• 39:29
  Speaker 8: be the starting now, you're gonna be the back up whatever,
• 39:31
  Speaker 8: like from from from day one, the the goal is
• 39:34
  Speaker 8: the same work work together.
• 39:37
  Speaker 7: But yeah, that's that's basically what happened, all right.
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: Last one, who's better you or your cousin Omar, Because
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: I'm sure when you first got the big leagues, people
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: were like wait a minute, did Omar Nervaas get taller
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: and he changed his name? What's up with that? So
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: who's my horror? Man?
• 39:59
  Speaker 8: I thin I've been hearing that like, oh you're home
• 40:03
  Speaker 8: or whatever. No, I mean not now, but for some
• 40:06
  Speaker 8: months it was the same thing everywhere I went. But
• 40:10
  Speaker 8: I remember bro Omar has having had nine years in
• 40:13
  Speaker 8: the big list. I gotta say him, bro I just,
• 40:15
  Speaker 8: I just, I don't have my four year yet, so
• 40:18
  Speaker 8: it's like I gotta say him.
• 40:20
  Speaker 7: I gotta. I gotta respect.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Seniority for now, for now. But the career, the career
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: is young for you. So we're excited. Man, you've got
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: a great personality. This was really fun to hear some
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: of your stories, especially about Chapman and all the other
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: guys that you're catching. So thanks for joining us. Don't
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: be a stranger. This was really good. And good luck,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: good luck in this last little stretch here we'll be watching.
• 40:43
  Speaker 8: Thanks Carlos, thank you, bro I I just I give
• 40:46
  Speaker 8: me like one moment, I just want to say thank
• 40:48
  Speaker 8: you to Aja. I just see him when I was
• 40:50
  Speaker 8: when I was young, seeing him catching and of course Eric,
• 40:53
  Speaker 8: I don't know every if you remember we meet him
• 40:56
  Speaker 8: the Yankees. I was so young. You were there, but
• 40:58
  Speaker 8: I was I don't know, right in rookie ball. But
• 41:01
  Speaker 8: you guys are always fun to watch. And I remember
• 41:05
  Speaker 8: Eric always had the smiling your face, always always always joking.
• 41:11
  Speaker 8: That was that was really cool to see when it
• 41:13
  Speaker 8: was at that age. So thank you guys, no doubt.
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: No doubt.
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: By the way, you can smack Veritech for me when
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: you see him, I will.
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, just.
• 41:29
  Speaker 7: Just like that.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, don't just smack him on unannounced. Definitely give him
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: this disclaimer.
• 41:38
  Speaker 7: Yeah, take a video. I'm gonna take a video away
• 41:42
  Speaker 7: like that. Hey bro, this is from.
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: From a yes exact. We have a long history, so
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: we know each other for a long long time. So
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: really good guy, really good guy.
• 41:54
  Speaker 7: Thank you.