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Tigers rookie Brett Callahan joins FT to talk about his historic debut · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Let's get to know Brett Callahan of the Tigers.
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  Speaker 2: He's a rookie.
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  Speaker 1: About a week into the show, Brett, thanks for joining us, man.
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  Speaker 2: How's the first week going for you?
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  Speaker 3: Having fun?
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's been a crazy week, a long week.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much for inviting me on. I've been
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  Speaker 4: looking part of this.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, here, man, would it be more comfortable if I
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  Speaker 5: just went like this the whole time?
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  Speaker 3: Like the Hawk at Saint Joe's like a hole for people.
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  Speaker 5: W don't know you went to Saint Joe's and the
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  Speaker 5: hawk at the basketball game flaps his wings or her wings.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not sure who's in the hawk uniform for the
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  Speaker 5: entire game.
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  Speaker 3: Correct, Yes they do.
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  Speaker 4: And when I tell people I'm from Saint Jose, they
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  Speaker 4: kind of look at me questioningly, and then I say, oh,
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  Speaker 4: the hawk with the wings, and then that's when it
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  Speaker 4: clicks for people.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And so you invited your your head coach, your your
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  Speaker 5: history teacher. What if the hawk had showed up in
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  Speaker 5: a game and spent the entire game because we play
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  Speaker 5: a little long baseball games are a little bit longer,
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  Speaker 5: and the Hawk just showed up and just I don't
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  Speaker 5: think you guys played the Phillies anymore, but just stayed
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  Speaker 5: out there and left field the whole time.
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  Speaker 4: That'll be a'll be a tough workout for the Hawk.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't envy him.
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  Speaker 3: That'd be legendary. That'd be legendary.
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  Speaker 5: Tell us about tell us about your debut, not not
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  Speaker 5: just like playing or the feelings, yes, we want to
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  Speaker 5: hit on that, but also the you know, the support
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  Speaker 5: that you got in that game from different people along
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  Speaker 5: your your way, your journey through baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So, I mean it was it was amazing. It was
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  Speaker 4: like an unexpected call up, and you know, I was
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  Speaker 4: kind of rushing to get people like there that could
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  Speaker 4: see me, and the Tigers did a great job of
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  Speaker 4: handling that, like getting my family out to see me.
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  Speaker 4: My dad and ended up missing his flight, so there
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  Speaker 4: was a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Of some uh, some.
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  Speaker 4: Problems for everyone getting in, but you know, they got
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  Speaker 4: my family here and and then like it just it
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  Speaker 4: just turned out to be and not to be a
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  Speaker 4: really great day, just being able to like be in
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  Speaker 4: that be in that locker room with all the players
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  Speaker 4: and meeting a lot of the new guys, or not
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  Speaker 4: new guys, but new guys. For me, I was the
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  Speaker 4: new guy, and uh yeah, I just think I think
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  Speaker 4: one of the one of the coolest moments was like
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  Speaker 4: after I hit the triple, like justin Verlander like came
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  Speaker 4: up to me and and just like high fired me
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  Speaker 4: and the dougout and he was like, man, that was huge,
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  Speaker 4: like congrats, and obviously he was talking about it being
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  Speaker 4: my first hit.
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  Speaker 2: But I also think like scoring those first two runs
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  Speaker 2: in that.
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  Speaker 4: Game in a big like divisional game, like coming down
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  Speaker 4: the season, meant a lot to him and it meant
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  Speaker 4: a lot to the team and I and I thought
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  Speaker 4: that that was really cool, like actually like really playing
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  Speaker 4: for something meaningful at this point in the season.
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  Speaker 3: For sure.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I do want to ask you something. I
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  Speaker 6: do want to ask you something about I know how
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  Speaker 6: emotional it can be getting called up. You're you're obviously
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  Speaker 6: living your dream. You want to go out there and
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  Speaker 6: perform show that you're worthy of being out there. But
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  Speaker 6: you find it a little bit easier where the Detroit
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  Speaker 6: Tigers are at in their season, where you are going
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  Speaker 6: out there trying to get wins and maybe you can
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  Speaker 6: deflect the focus off of yourself a little bit and
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  Speaker 6: just go help this team win some games.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, like that's that's the main goal and
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  Speaker 4: and it's and it's really cool to be able to
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  Speaker 4: do that, and like, like I said, like playing these
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  Speaker 4: meaningful games and and you know, the fans really want
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  Speaker 4: to win, Like obviously they care about my debut and stuff,
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  Speaker 4: but the main focus is the game and getting things done.
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  Speaker 4: And I think when I get out on the field,
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  Speaker 4: like I can kind of forget about everything that's going
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  Speaker 4: on and just be locked in on on performing and
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  Speaker 4: doing doing what I need to do is to help
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  Speaker 4: the team win.
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  Speaker 5: What's the hardest part since you've gotten called up? Is
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  Speaker 5: it the fact that you got to try to find
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  Speaker 5: tickets for everybody, and you got to stop answering all
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  Speaker 5: the text messages of everybody that's texting you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, seriously, Like going out there and playing on
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  Speaker 4: the field, like that's all like muscle memory. Like it's
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  Speaker 4: a little bit overwhelming and getting out there and seeing
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  Speaker 4: all the fans, but once you step in the box,
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  Speaker 4: it's just a reaction. But definitely answering all the text messages,
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  Speaker 4: Like my phone's just been blowing up, and I mean
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  Speaker 4: it's like everyone that I've ever known, everyone that I've
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  Speaker 4: played baseball with, went to school with like my parents' friends.
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  Speaker 4: I don't even know how all these people have my number,
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  Speaker 4: and it's just hard to go through that.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to go through that.
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  Speaker 4: And and there's a lot of people there that like
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  Speaker 4: are really deserving of like some kind of a response,
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  Speaker 4: who played a role in like getting me here that
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  Speaker 4: Like I hope that And now I'm hoping that I
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  Speaker 4: haven't missed anyone responding to them, like just because of
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  Speaker 4: the overwhelming amount of texts and messages. But I definitely
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  Speaker 4: appreciate all the support. It's just crazy how things have
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  Speaker 4: changed from just a few days ago.
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  Speaker 6: kind of sharing players journeys about maybe not going to
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  Speaker 6: the biggest schools or not being first round draft picks.
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  Speaker 6: So tell me a little bit about your your journey
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  Speaker 6: to how you got the Saint Joe's And do you
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  Speaker 6: know that you were the first Saint Joe's product to
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  Speaker 6: hit a home run in the major leagues.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was that was mentioned in an interview but
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  Speaker 4: uh after right after that game, which I thought was
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  Speaker 4: really cool.
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  Speaker 2: But my response to that was, there's there's a.
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  Speaker 4: Lot of actually a lot of really good players from
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  Speaker 4: Saint Jose that are coming up in the minor leagues,
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  Speaker 4: and so it's cool that I could be the first,
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  Speaker 4: but I think that I think that there will be
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  Speaker 4: some more soon.
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  Speaker 2: But going back to like I came up, like I'm from.
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  Speaker 4: Delaware, and there's not many major leaguers from Delaware at
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  Speaker 4: all all time, and like I I mean, I probably
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  Speaker 4: know most of most of them and have met most
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  Speaker 4: of them, which is pretty cool, like like it's a
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  Speaker 4: small communities. But I also think, like the fact that
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  Speaker 4: I am from Delaware, like it means a lot to
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  Speaker 4: like the state and like the baseball community in that state,
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  Speaker 4: because there's a lot of really good players who who
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  Speaker 4: maybe just because.
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  Speaker 2: We're from Delaware, we're a little bit like under.
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  Speaker 4: Recruited and didn't have like like the best opportunities and
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  Speaker 4: and never never were able to get as far as.
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  Speaker 2: You know, maybe they could have elsewhere. And then.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and then I ended up going to San chose
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  Speaker 4: obviously and not there's not a whole lot of players
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  Speaker 4: in the major leagues from Saint Chose. But Jamie Moyer,
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  Speaker 4: uh went to Saint Jose and obviously he was in
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  Speaker 4: the big leagues for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: And so.
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  Speaker 4: I mean it's not maybe like a pipeline, but there
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  Speaker 4: is some some history there.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think.
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  Speaker 5: Do you do you think that do you think the
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  Speaker 5: the renovations that they've after you left from the baseball department,
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  Speaker 5: my son was getting recruited by Saint Joe's. He went,
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  Speaker 5: he went there, saw all the renovations and stuff. Do
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  Speaker 5: you feel like that will help Saint Joe's be more
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  Speaker 5: of a pipeline? And Jamie Moyer, like, I get it,
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  Speaker 5: like people aren't gonna be like, oh man, I want
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  Speaker 5: to throw eighty four like Jamie Moyer. But Jamie Morier
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  Speaker 5: played in the big leagues for like one hundred years.
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  Speaker 5: So I feel like that's that's a shining light for
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  Speaker 5: Saint Joe's.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So, I actually haven't seen the renovations in person yet.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I've been back to the campus, but I
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  Speaker 4: haven't had like I haven't gone through and seen like
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  Speaker 4: the new turf facility. But I definitely think that that's
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  Speaker 4: something that we'll we'll bring in more players. Like like
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  Speaker 4: when I was there, we're hitting in an indoor cage
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  Speaker 4: on in the pool.
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  Speaker 2: In the pool area, it.
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  Speaker 4: Was like ninety degrees and humid. So now I guess
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  Speaker 4: they have a nice like turf facility that's indoors with
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  Speaker 4: cages and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And I definitely think that will be a draw.
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  Speaker 4: I know that it's been tough like competing now with
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  Speaker 4: with like the nil money and keeping players there, but
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the transfer portal is a thing. When I
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  Speaker 4: was there, and I always like, I guess my sophomore
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  Speaker 4: year I could have transferred out, But I just never
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  Speaker 4: really saw the point. Like I loved Sancho's. I thought
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  Speaker 4: it was a great community, and I thought that I
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  Speaker 4: had a great opportunity there to get drafted. I didn't
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  Speaker 4: really see a point in going going anywhere else. Yep, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's really cool that your son was getting recruited there though.
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  Speaker 2: I guess you've met coach Hamburg.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, coach nine and coach Hamburg. Yeah it was.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we're just north of Philly here, so I
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  Speaker 5: gotta ask who is your team? Did you go north
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  Speaker 5: and you were a Phillies fan or did you go
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  Speaker 5: south and you were an O because you're kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of kind of in the middle, closer to closer to Philly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was a Phillies fan growing up for sure.
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  Speaker 4: So I mean I've obviously I've seen you play. I know,
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  Speaker 4: like Kyle Gibson's the host of the show. Sometimes I've
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  Speaker 4: seen him play. And it's cool to be here, like
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  Speaker 4: talking to some some former Phillies and being in Philadelphia
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  Speaker 4: for college during like that, like twenty twenty one, twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty two, twenty twenty three, like when they were good
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  Speaker 4: and like in the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: It was really really.
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  Speaker 4: A cool time there in the city, like to be
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  Speaker 4: there and see how the fans like back them up.
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  Speaker 6: We glossed over this real quick. But you said your
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  Speaker 6: dad missed his flight.
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  Speaker 3: Did he have a.
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  Speaker 6: Reason why he missed his flight? And did he end
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  Speaker 6: up making it there on time? And I'm assuming you
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  Speaker 6: still live in Delaware, so I imagine there's not a ton
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  Speaker 6: of flights scheduled out of Delaware Airport.
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  Speaker 4: So we we do live in Delaware, but we're like
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  Speaker 4: probably like thirty five minutes from the Philadelphia Airport, So
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  Speaker 4: that's where they flew out of like just it's just
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  Speaker 4: right up ninety five.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, my dad, So it was a whole debacle,
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  Speaker 2: it sounds like.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm glad they kind of kept me out of
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  Speaker 4: it when they didn't really text me too much. But
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  Speaker 4: I guess he had the genius idea of putting his
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  Speaker 4: laundry in the wash shit like six point thirty when
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  Speaker 4: the flight was at it was like close to ten, And.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, it was a whole debacle.
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  Speaker 4: My mom and sister actually ended up leaving without him,
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  Speaker 4: and they made it to the airport, okay, But there
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  Speaker 4: was an accident on ninety five, and I guess he
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  Speaker 4: was delayed and ended up missing flight.
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  Speaker 2: So my sister and mom got here on the.
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  Speaker 4: Same flight leaving from the same place, and he he
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  Speaker 4: was stranded in Philadelphia, so he had an early flight
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  Speaker 4: the next day, so he did get here, but he
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  Speaker 4: actually ended up just staying. He slept in the airport,
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  Speaker 4: which okay, to each their own, but he slept in
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  Speaker 4: the airport that night and made the flight and came
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  Speaker 4: came up to Detroit the next day, made it time.
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  Speaker 1: So so now there are jokes for life within the family,
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  Speaker 1: like what was being thrown out there within the text,
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  Speaker 1: like hey, how clean is that shirt right now? Like
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  Speaker 1: what was getting thrown around?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I was just hoping like he wasn't smelling,
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  Speaker 4: like I don't know, you've all seen the movie The Terminal.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe I'm just thinking about like Tom Hanks, like sleeping
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  Speaker 4: in the airport.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, chair, I don't know. It was pretty crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Like I said, they weren't texting me too much, Like
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  Speaker 4: I didn't actually know that that was all. I knew
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  Speaker 4: he missed the flight, but I didn't know everything that happened.
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  Speaker 4: I think that they're just wanting me to focus on
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  Speaker 4: the game in my first day, So I'm appreciative of that.
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  Speaker 4: But now like talking to my sister and my mom
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  Speaker 4: my girlfriend who are on like a text chain together,
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  Speaker 4: like I just can't believe it.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds sounds it sounds crazier than my day. Really.
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  Speaker 1: So I know we got into it a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: but can you take me through behind the scenes when
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  Speaker 1: it's a pretty quick call up right, and all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, you eventually get yourself into somewhat of an
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  Speaker 1: historic situation. Definitely for Tiger's player, and I think even
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  Speaker 1: historically there haven't been many that do a little first
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  Speaker 1: pitch triple action, right, So nobody in one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fourteen years in Detroit history and that franchise, and then
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  Speaker 1: let's see in all of Major League Baseball, it's since
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  Speaker 1: pitch track and began in nineteen eighty eight to record
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  Speaker 1: an RBI triple on the first pitch of first MLB
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  Speaker 1: played appearance. Third player to do that. Ever, So backtracking
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  Speaker 1: for a moment, did you even get like the really
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  Speaker 1: good scouting report on the pitcher? And like, did you
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  Speaker 1: get to do everything you wanted to do? Or was it, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you here to get everything you need after day one,
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  Speaker 1: but you just got to get here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, so I was.
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  Speaker 4: I actually got the call like around like one o'clock
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  Speaker 4: the day before, so I guess that would have been Saturday,
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  Speaker 4: so I did have time to get there.
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  Speaker 2: And and I did.
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  Speaker 4: Have like like a good scouting report and stuff, and
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  Speaker 4: I know what the pitcher had. I mean, I guess
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  Speaker 4: this is obvious for everyone, but like you really want
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  Speaker 4: to get that hit as soon as possible, we'll probably,
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  Speaker 4: like you never.
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  Speaker 2: Know when when you're not gonna have chances.
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  Speaker 4: I kind of joke about this, but like I was
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  Speaker 4: in the Little League World Series in twenty thirteen, and
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  Speaker 4: I didn't have a hit, Like I went to zero
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  Speaker 4: for four. So I tell people I was in the
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  Speaker 4: Little Leagald Series and their first question is, oh, did
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  Speaker 4: you hit a home run?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 2: Like, did you get any hits? No? So I did
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  Speaker 2: get hit by pitch.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, hey, like, probably less players have been hit
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  Speaker 4: by a pitch in the Little leag World Series. Then
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  Speaker 4: got a hit, so but yeah, it's definitely. I was like,
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  Speaker 4: I need to get this hit out of the way.
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  Speaker 4: And I've had a pretty good track record with my
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  Speaker 4: first step bats in leagues, Like in college I hit
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  Speaker 4: a homer in my first step bat, my first bat
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  Speaker 4: in pro ball in the Florida or in the FCL,
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  Speaker 4: I had I had a double off the wall my
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: first step at.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: This year in Double A, I hit a home run.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: So so I've had a good track record with with
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: first of bats. And I'm not saying like obviously you
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: never you don't know something's gonna happen.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: But I had a good feeling. I was like, I'm
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: I'm good.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: At this, so so it was it was amazing though,
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: And when I stepped into the box and they made
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: like the announcement like and making his major league debut,
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: like I had no idea that was going to happen, and.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: And like I had chills and stuff from.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: It, and yeah, I just I got a I got
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: a first pitch curveball, which I kind of like the
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: curve curveball, Like I was able to see it pop
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: a little bit, and it was still still pretty early
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: on it.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: It wasn't like a beautiful swing. I didn't really barrel it.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: But right when I saw that ball going down the line,
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: I knew, like I was thinking three and I said this,
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: but yeah, it was just please don't trip, Please don't trip, like,
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: don't mess this up. My legs were like a little
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: at shaky when I when I got around second, I
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: was running out of steam. My helmet fell off. I
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: was still getting used to that that big league like
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: one flap helmet. But I made it there, and yeah,
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: I was just got to third and I was so
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: fired up. It was amazing. But then I had to
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: turn right back around. I heard, you know, Billy Boyer
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: or third base coachman. He says, hey, you're going on
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: contact here at third base, And that locked me right
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: back in because that's kind of a tough tough position
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: to be put on, put in your first time on
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: the basis in the big leagues, but it worked out.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: So you're a You're a you're a Little League legend,
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: little League World Series legend clearly because you went oh
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: for four. Matt Wilkinson made his debut this week also
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: he was a little League legend. So what was more
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: nerve wracking being in the Little League World Series as
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: a twelve year old or your debut?
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: Man, I mean such different different points in the life. Like,
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: I mean, probably my debut, but when I was eleven
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: in the Little League World Series that was also completely
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: overwhelming experience.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: Amazing, It was an amazing experience, but it was also
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: like kind of a tough week for me, Like I
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: don't know, I just I had I had to deal
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: with all stuff that week too, so but yeah, totally
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: different experiences. Obviously, the big league debut is probably when
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: I when I rank them, like a bigger moment and
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: more nerve wracking, but the Little World Series had different
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: pressure as.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: That's fair.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Well, hey, we'll leave this inner you with you knowing
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: that Eric Kratz played you know, in the major leagues
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: for quite a bit of time, and on your first
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: pitch you already accomplished something that he never did, which
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: was a triple. No triples in Kratz's career, so you've
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: already got a one up on one of our hosts.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: This was great, though, I hope you enjoyed it, Brett,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Man, appreciate it.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you so much for having me, having me.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Of course, yeah, it was great. Good luck the rest
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: of the way and we'll catch you soon.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Okay, thank you absolutely