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Cubs pitcher Justin Steele: Recovery life, MVP’ish PCA, Card love · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Where the Cubs are at. Like adding Kyle Tucker obviously
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  Speaker 1: puts you in a great position to you know, win
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  Speaker 1: a division and stuff. But what Pa has been able
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  Speaker 1: to do this entire season has propelled us so much
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  Speaker 1: further than what everybody thought. It was going to.
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  Speaker 2: Great to have you on. And actually I see myself
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  Speaker 2: right behind me. So awesome to see that word right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we have foul territory in the locker room. It's
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  Speaker 1: nice to formally meet all of you. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: I've formally met all you. Also, it's nice to meet you.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, actually I actually think we have met before. Justin
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  Speaker 3: we actually shook hands once, but you don't remember. So
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  Speaker 3: tells you how big.
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  Speaker 1: Of a sorry now I feel. I feel terrible now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm till fine.
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  Speaker 3: You don't listen, don't worry about it. It wasn't It
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  Speaker 3: was in passing. We were in the Cubs locker room.
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  Speaker 3: I think I was with John.
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  Speaker 1: Lest I remember. It's coming back to him. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: coming back to me now. I remember it now.
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  Speaker 2: And Justin he played for the for the White I
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  Speaker 2: do I do know that.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway, let's start here. Uh all right, Jay, you want
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  Speaker 4: to go first?
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  Speaker 1: I was just gonna.
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  Speaker 3: Ask, Yeah, what's life like on rehab?
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing great rehabs, going amazing, crushing it every day
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  Speaker 1: here at the cility. Now, I was just on the
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  Speaker 1: treadmill getting my run in. But go in there and
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  Speaker 1: do my rehab, hopping on doing this interview in the meantime.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean it's going great. Every day I show up,
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  Speaker 1: I just tell them I'm like another week ahead of schedule.
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  Speaker 1: So at this point, I'm like four weeks ahead of schedule.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe a playoff push or something.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, yeah, is there a chance do you do you
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  Speaker 4: have that conversation?
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  Speaker 2: I guess Trevor, you can comment on this after Justin does,
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  Speaker 2: but can you try can you be like, hey, is
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  Speaker 2: there any scenario in the world where I can try
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  Speaker 2: to come back sooner?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, yeah, jokingly, every day I'm like
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  Speaker 1: throwing Monday. I'm throwing next Monday, right, and like everybody
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  Speaker 1: just kind of laughs at it and stuff. But I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm working my tail off. I mean, the first Timy
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  Speaker 1: John I had in twenty seventeen, I was back in
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  Speaker 1: game action at like seven and a half eight months,
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  Speaker 1: was back into afhiliate in nine or ten months. So
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  Speaker 1: I mean when it comes to rehab, I work really
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  Speaker 1: hard at this stuff and want to be back playing
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  Speaker 1: with the team, especially the way they're playing right now
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  Speaker 1: and stuff. But yeah, I mean, everything's going great.
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  Speaker 5: I got a two parter first for it sounds like
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  Speaker 5: you rehab. You like to work hard, but you don't
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  Speaker 5: like to necessarily not be on the mount. I believe
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  Speaker 5: I saw a video maybe your wife took it. You
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  Speaker 5: were in your you were in your brace, and you
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  Speaker 5: were pacing in front of the TV watching the Cubs game.
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  Speaker 5: And I distinctly remember that. By the way, I also
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  Speaker 5: had Tommy John at twenty seventeen and it took me
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  Speaker 5: sixteen months.
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  Speaker 4: So hip the Caps.
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  Speaker 5: I guess, first question, who.
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  Speaker 1: Did your surgery? Meister did this one, and then doctor
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  Speaker 1: Grizzload doctor Grizzlod did the first one. Who's the Cubs
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  Speaker 1: doctor in twenty seventeen? Gotcha?
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  Speaker 5: Uh so yeah, Keith Meister also did mine, So good
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  Speaker 5: good luck trying to speed that timeline on. That guy
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  Speaker 5: is maybe one of the one of the most intense
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  Speaker 5: people I've ever met. But my question is, what is
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  Speaker 5: the hardest part about going through this process, especially again,
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  Speaker 5: especially in the big leagues with how good the team is. Like,
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  Speaker 5: what has been the most difficult part of going through it.
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  Speaker 1: Probably just being away from the team and also not
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  Speaker 1: being able to do like normal activities that I like
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  Speaker 1: to do, Like playing video games is something I like
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  Speaker 1: to do all the time, so I haven't been able
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  Speaker 1: to do that. Really, I've really been getting into collecting cards.
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  Speaker 1: That's something I've been able to really get into. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean the hardest part is being away from the
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  Speaker 1: team by far, And you know, I just want to
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  Speaker 1: be in the locker room with the guys, even if
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  Speaker 1: I'm not able to play, just you know, picking spirits up,
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  Speaker 1: you know, telling people good job and whatnot. That's by
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  Speaker 1: far been the hardest part. But there's also been a
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  Speaker 1: lot of positives' you know, watching my son grow up,
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  Speaker 1: taking him to school each morning or summer school or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, yeah, there's there's negatives and positives. So you
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  Speaker 1: just got to weigh it.
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  Speaker 3: Justin can you explain to the people out there and
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  Speaker 3: explain it to me. You didn't have full Tommy John
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  Speaker 3: this time, correct, You had like a did you do
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  Speaker 3: the bracing or did you do something even different?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so the UCL repair from my first one. The
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  Speaker 1: tendon or ligament was still in good, good shape where
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  Speaker 1: it connects to my form muscle, my form flexer. Both
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  Speaker 1: of them came off the bone together, so he had
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  Speaker 1: to go in and put a brace on the bone
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  Speaker 1: and then like wrap it around. He showed me a
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  Speaker 1: picture of all of it. It was I have a stomach.
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  Speaker 1: I have a week's stomach when it comes to that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And he was like very excited to show me, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm write out of surgery. I'm like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if I need to be looking at this
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  Speaker 1: right now. But it was.
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  Speaker 5: Quite He's got a notebook, he's got like he's like
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  Speaker 5: you want to take.
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  Speaker 1: He's excited, he's excited to show you.
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  Speaker 5: It's like a favorite thing to do surgery. And you're like, dude,
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  Speaker 5: that was me six hours ago. Like I don't want
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  Speaker 5: to see that. That's hilarious. That is so funny.
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  Speaker 1: I know. I was like, I was like, you enjoy this,
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  Speaker 1: don't you? And he was like, oh, this is art.
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  Speaker 1: I was like yeah, I can tell yeah, oh yeah.
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  Speaker 5: She had the she had the brakes, or you had
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  Speaker 5: the you had an evulsion where it games wholly off
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  Speaker 5: and then he re attached it on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was. He could called it a revision repair.
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  Speaker 1: So not a Tommy John surgery, just a revision repair
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  Speaker 1: of the Tommy John surgery and the flexor.
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  Speaker 5: Uh did you get it?
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  Speaker 6: So?
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  Speaker 5: Did this did this require no? So, no ligament out
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  Speaker 5: of anywhere?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 5: No, okay, I think thank god, that's the worst part.
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  Speaker 5: So so good. So Uh but the first time, did
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  Speaker 5: you have it either wrist or the knee.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he took it out of my saying the left arm,
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  Speaker 1: so I didn't have to rehab. No, you never had.
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  Speaker 1: You never had to be Yeah. And if it would
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  Speaker 1: have been the case this time, he would have took
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  Speaker 1: it out of my right arm, so it would have
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  Speaker 1: been another like easy process.
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  Speaker 3: Great new pictures, Your pictures you should have got out
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  Speaker 3: of like a cadaver, don't they I thought they.
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  Speaker 6: I just thought they just take them out of like.
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  Speaker 3: Cadaver and stuff. I don't know, you guys don't know
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  Speaker 3: what You guys are crazy pitchers.
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  Speaker 6: What do you do though? What do you do?
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  Speaker 3: The teams in Saint Louis. You're clearly in Chicago in
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  Speaker 3: the in the are you in the Chicago and the.
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  Speaker 1: Cubs I'm in Arizona, Arizona.
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  Speaker 6: Oh you're in Arizona.
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  Speaker 3: What the heck do you do in They're like, what
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  Speaker 3: the heck do you do? When they're on? Do you
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  Speaker 3: I know there's the video? Do you watch every game?
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  Speaker 6: And are you grinding through?
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  Speaker 3: And you're saying like, man, if I was pitching, I
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  Speaker 3: would have thrown this pitch. I would have thrown that pitch.
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  Speaker 3: Or are you you try because I know some guys
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  Speaker 3: try to disengage and some guys try to be there
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  Speaker 3: for their guys.
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  Speaker 1: So during season, when I'm with the team, I obviously
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  Speaker 1: watch all of our games that we're playing, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't watch any other baseball games. Really, I'm just paying
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  Speaker 1: attention to what our team's doing. Since I've been down,
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  Speaker 1: I've been watching so much more baseball, and especially when
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  Speaker 1: the Cubs are on, I'll have them on the TV
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  Speaker 1: in the women room and kind of like what he
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  Speaker 1: was saying, I'm pacing back and forth. I'm telling my wife,
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  Speaker 1: like what should be happening, Like I'm calling I'm like
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  Speaker 1: calling the mountain visits before they happen and stuff. And
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  Speaker 1: my wife's just like she finds it hilarious. She's videoing
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  Speaker 1: me all the time and posted it and stuff. So
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I mean when the cubch Gome's on,
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  Speaker 1: I'm literally right in front of the tv, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with the dog or with my son, and I'm watching intensely,
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  Speaker 1: just you know, trying to get the dub.
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  Speaker 2: I love that, Hey, question for you, it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: going back to the surgery for a moment. We've had
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  Speaker 2: Keith Meister on this show and he's talked about, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the arm injury epidemic that we dealt with in the sport.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, it's very real. You guys had to start
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  Speaker 2: your season a little bit early in Tokyo. Do you
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  Speaker 2: think that was difficult for you? I know you can't
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  Speaker 2: really put any math to it, but is it worth
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  Speaker 2: even asking someone like your doctor, Hey, can something like
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  Speaker 2: that throw me off?
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  Speaker 4: Or is this something that was going to happen regardless.
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  Speaker 1: I think this was something that was gonna happen regardless.
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  Speaker 1: I think I've kind of been dealing with it for
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  Speaker 1: a while. I've had some aisle stints in the past seasons,
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  Speaker 1: and it was the same thing that I was feeling,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it's just gradually gotten obertime. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: the moments before this one, we were just kind of
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  Speaker 1: doing what we could to maintain it and you know,
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  Speaker 1: keep me pitching and stuff, and yeah, this time it
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  Speaker 1: just kind of got to a point where, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's the beginning of the season. Do we really want
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  Speaker 1: to push it six more months and whatnot? But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think the Tokyo series had, you know, any
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  Speaker 1: bearing on it.
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  Speaker 2: If you're a card collector, even if you're not, and
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  Speaker 2: you just want to find a new way to collect,
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  Speaker 2: Arena Club is the spot. AJ just opened up a
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  Speaker 2: slab pack. He screen recorded on his phone so you
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  Speaker 2: can all see what he just experienced.
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  Speaker 4: Take us through it.
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  Speaker 6: It was simple.
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  Speaker 3: I just clicked on which slab pack I wanted, clicked
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  Speaker 3: by now boom, bought it card. Little pack starts spinning,
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  Speaker 3: you hit open, and then it goes off psychedelic on you.
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  Speaker 6: It's a little funny, and then the card appears and
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  Speaker 6: I got a Robin Yelt Rookie car.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you did it awesome.
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  Speaker 2: And then right after that experience, I saw the little
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  Speaker 2: buy back and you said, NA, hold on to this
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  Speaker 2: for now.
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  Speaker 6: Hold on is robbin me outs in the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 3: He's not getting any more rookie cards, so I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: stick with it for a little bit so you have
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  Speaker 3: the price might start just going up a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, you can track that, and of course if you
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  Speaker 2: do want to do the buy back, then you can
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  Speaker 2: instantly sell it right back to Arena Club. Get yourself
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  Speaker 2: another slab pack, buy card, whatever it is. This is
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  Speaker 2: the spot for collectors these days, and you can use
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  Speaker 2: the code foul foul to get yourself twenty percent off
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  Speaker 2: your first slab pack or card purchase at arenaclub dot
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  Speaker 2: com slash foul.
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  Speaker 5: We can talk about surgery all day. I know that
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  Speaker 5: it gets old after a while. I'm sure you've talked
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  Speaker 5: about it quite a lot recently. So I actually have
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  Speaker 5: a pitching question because, to be honest, when I watch
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  Speaker 5: you pitch, I am fascinated. The way I try to
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  Speaker 5: like figure out what type of pitcher a guy is
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  Speaker 5: is by looking at the metrics on the pitches, and
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  Speaker 5: you are kind of an outlier in that it seems
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  Speaker 5: like you have variations of all of your pitches, so
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  Speaker 5: correct me if I'm wrong. When you are going out
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  Speaker 5: and like, for example, your slider, you have the one
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  Speaker 5: that's bigger the one that's smaller, the one's a little harder.
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  Speaker 5: Are these are these different grips or is this just
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  Speaker 5: like slight adjustments you're making in the grips to get
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  Speaker 5: that get the type of pitch you're trying to do,
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  Speaker 5: because it seems very very purposeful, like sometimes it's the cutter,
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  Speaker 5: sometimes it's slider, even though they move similarly, just it
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  Speaker 5: seems like you're doing it on purpose. Is that? Is
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  Speaker 5: that what's happening.
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  Speaker 1: When things are going well, I'm doing it on purpose,
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  Speaker 1: Like when I have command of all my pitches, if
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  Speaker 1: I'm in a groove and know where everything's going, Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing it on purpose. At that point, there's definitely
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  Speaker 1: outings where you know you're a pitcher, we definitely don't
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  Speaker 1: have our best stuff. Sometimes I'm just trying to throw
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  Speaker 1: strikes and you know, make competitive pitches, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: you definitely have your outings like that. But definitely, when
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the zone and stuff, I'm there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of intent behind what I'm doing. It's the same grips.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just manipulating the ball in different ways, kind of
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  Speaker 1: just having when you're in a groove, you have like
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  Speaker 1: maximum feel for your pitches and stuff. So just depend
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  Speaker 1: on what the hitter's telling me, where's swing pass going.
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  Speaker 1: The catcher's also paying a lot of attention to what
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  Speaker 1: he's doing, Like if we're constantly busting them in with
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  Speaker 1: my forcing cutter on the inside part of the play,
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  Speaker 1: talking about rieties, you know, they're wide open, they're looking
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  Speaker 1: for the slider, the cutter. You know, let's just go
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  Speaker 1: to the other side of the plate, back door the cutter.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like it's a mile off the plate, ends
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  Speaker 1: up coming back fresh strike. I mean, obviously, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: this is when you're in a groove and you're feeling good.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, there's definitely some intent behind it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: taking taking some miles per hour off the slider to
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  Speaker 1: get him more out in front, throwing a harder one
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  Speaker 1: to make it look more like the fastball, and all
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  Speaker 1: that tunnel and stuff. So just a bunch of nerd stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Justin when I watch you pitch, you remind me of
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  Speaker 3: John Lester pitching. Did he help you with anything? Did
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  Speaker 3: you kind of formulate your game around what he did?
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  Speaker 3: Because I caught him and he was heaters in heaters
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  Speaker 3: in heaters in cutters in cutters in and then like
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  Speaker 3: you said, once he got the right he's especially looking
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  Speaker 3: for that pitch. Then he would go to the back
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  Speaker 3: door cutter of the slower curveball and heck, eventually he
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  Speaker 3: even threw some changeups which were unheard of.
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  Speaker 6: So did he did? You kind of put your game
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  Speaker 6: out there and say, man, John Lester is a.
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  Speaker 3: Great role model for what I can do.
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  Speaker 1: Well. Not long after the Cubs drafted me, they signed
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  Speaker 1: John Lester, So I was watching a lot of him,
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  Speaker 1: you know, pitch with the Cubs in the big leagues
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  Speaker 1: and stuff. So I mean we're very similar, like in
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  Speaker 1: our athleticism or arm path how we pitch and stuff.
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  Speaker 6: You can throw the first, you can throw the first.
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  Speaker 6: You can throw the first.
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  Speaker 5: Got that on him?
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  Speaker 6: You're one up.
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  Speaker 1: It's not it's not great.
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  Speaker 6: No, you can do it. You can't do it though,
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  Speaker 6: So you're one up on Johnny.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, that's funny. But yeah, I mean, just watching
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  Speaker 1: him coming up through the my leagues and stuff, I
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  Speaker 1: definitely took a lot of what he what he did
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  Speaker 1: and implemented it into my game. And once I got
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  Speaker 1: to the big leagues. You know, he was always texting
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  Speaker 1: Rossy Collin Rassey and you know, giving his input on
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  Speaker 1: what I should be doing and stuff. And I remember
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  Speaker 1: when I first got to the big leagues, he uh
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  Speaker 1: got a hold of Rossie and was like, hey, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I like what Stewie's doing. Just come to like pound
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  Speaker 1: the fastball in and then it will unlock everything else.
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  Speaker 1: And that was about the time I kind of took off.
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  Speaker 6: Nice.
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  Speaker 3: Nice, all right, you mentioned you watch all the Cubs games.
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  Speaker 3: They just played the Mariners. Cal Rawley's the hottest dude
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  Speaker 3: on the planet right now, hitting homers.
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  Speaker 1: Not being talked about enough.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree he should be MVP. Diff definitely a discussion.
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  Speaker 3: But when you're watching these games, you're pacing around, are
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  Speaker 3: you going don't throw.
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  Speaker 6: That pitch because he's gonna go deep again? Don't know.
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  Speaker 6: You gotta get it in, you gotta get it way
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  Speaker 6: off the plate in there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not guilty of that. I will say that. I
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  Speaker 1: would say there's more of like I talk about the
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  Speaker 1: intent of pitches and what I'm wanting to do and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But just because like I'm kind of what Trevor was saying,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a little bit different as a pitcher than most
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  Speaker 1: what I would throw is not what most people would
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  Speaker 1: throw on certain occasions now, like with Jamo for instance,
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  Speaker 1: Like I know jim O pretty well, Like I know
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  Speaker 1: when he's gonna throw that back door cutter before he
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  Speaker 1: throws it, so like that kind of stuff, Like I'm
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  Speaker 1: I can tell when he's about to throw it, or
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna throw the slider and stuff like that. So
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  Speaker 1: in that capacity, I.
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  Speaker 2: Do, Okay, I'm gonna go right to another MVP caliber
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  Speaker 2: player in show Heyo Tani, because I think that you
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: were into trying out to way status if you ended
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: up going to school.
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  Speaker 4: Do I have that part right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I was going to college. Do both?
• 14:07
  Speaker 4: Okay, So what's your appreciation level?
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: And do you monitor or keep track of what Showhy's doing,
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: because obviously it's so unique, But to me, it's not
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: just the two way. It's that he's coming off all
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: these surgeries. There's nothing for them to point to, and
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: I feel like most of the time they're just like, hey,
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: what do you want to do?
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: Do an inning? All right, we'll do an inning in
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: a real game instead of a SIME game.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: Well, you got to think about with him, it's hard
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: for him to like get to a minor league affiliate
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: and like do rehab starts. I was actually thinking about
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: that because I was like, why are they just going
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: straight to him like one inning start, one inning opener,
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: or whatever the way they did it. And I was like, well,
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: I guess it'd be really hard to like send him
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: to a minor league affiliate or somewhere else to get
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: the work done. Like one if people catch window that,
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: it's going to be a circus because he's literally one
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: of the biggest athletes on Earth right now. And just
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: to kind of answer your first question, know that, I mean,
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: he's the modern day Baby Ruth. He's the greatest player
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: we've ever seen. We've never seen somebody do what he
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: does at this level, and the hardest thing is staying healthy.
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: Like that's the thing that's most impressive about what he's doing,
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: is he's when he's able to do both sides of
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: the ball. Staying healthy is by far the most impressive
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: thing that he's doing when he's able to do that,
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: because I only throw every fifth day and it's hard
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: to stay healthy, Like it's one hundred and sixty two
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: games is such a long season, and for me, that's
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: by far the most impressive thing about it.
• 15:31
  Speaker 6: All right, justin I got to ask you for Misissippi.
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: My daughter went to Mississippi State, so I have a
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: little bit of insight here, even though I have a
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: Florida shirt on. Now, your dad played football at Alabama?
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: Who do you rootless? Because I need to know. These
• 15:43
  Speaker 6: are the questions that I need to know. Who do
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: you root for?
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: I'm a diehard Bama fan. I don't root for Mississippi schools.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: Oh, okay, is that weird growing up Misissippian rooting for Alabama.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: I mean everybody where I grew up knew who my
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: dad was and stuff, so knew the explanation already and stuff.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: But I mean, yeah, definitely going to school, you know,
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: in high school and stuff, the rivalries and whatnot, it
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: was it was always interesting. College football is religion where
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: I grew up, so it's a big deal.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: Of course, these Northerners, they don't get it. These people
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: from New Jerseys, you just don't understand. It's different. It
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: just it just means more, as they say in the commercials.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I've been to a few Alabama games and
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: it is an unbelievable sph.
• 16:23
  Speaker 6: I've been to the Iron Bowl, a few times. It is.
• 16:25
  Speaker 6: I was an Alabama LSU two years ago. It is.
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: It is one of the best atmospheres in the world,
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: and if you haven't been to one, you gotta go.
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: So I needed to know that. So thank you. And
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: by the way, go Gators.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: There you go, don't I don't. I'm open to criticism
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: by Go Gators. This Jack Jack Kaggling on, I'm really
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: excited watching him play in the big leagues right now.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: I know he went to Ford and stuff, but I mean,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: I feel like people don't realize that that guy's got
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: a hundred in his back pocket. That guy was throwing
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: like one hundred miles an hour. So I'm really excited
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: to see what he can do.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're gonna see it in the outfield.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, he made a sick catch other day too
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: against the wall, but we're gonna at least get to
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: see the canon in the outfield.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: And just please be at Florida State. Please please have
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: Alabama be Florida State opening week, please, because the quarterback
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: FORFSU was already talking smack and I saw that and
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: I'm not a Florida State fan. My my wife went
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: to Florida State, so we have arguments, but please just
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: win Week one.
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: After that, it's all.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: Good, Okay.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: I got one fan question here on chap BCC. Lance
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: asked how fun has it been watching Pete Crow Armstrong.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, to see his rise obviously has been insane.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: We're we're just talking about Otani being MVP caliber. I mean,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: in my opinion, I think is the favorite right now.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: The way he's playing where the Cubs are at, Like
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: adding Kyle Tucker obviously puts you in a great position
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: to you know, win a division and stuff. But what
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Pa has been able to do this entire season has
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: propelled us so much further than what everybody thought it
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: was going to. I mean, he's playing an MVP caliber
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: D fence. He's the best defender on earth. Like, I've
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: never seen someone play the outfield the way this kid
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: plays it. And the pat is obviously coming around. He
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: has twenty one homers already anyways, a Bucks seventy, So
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: like the hype on him needs to continue to go up.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you look at him and you're like, oh, I
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: mean he's got a lead speed. He's going to be
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: a slap hitter and just get on base all the time.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: It's like, ah, no, his power is insane.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: What past Chicago athlete would y'all compare him to?
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: Bringing the others, especially a j as.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: Far as as far as Derek Rose, Dereck Rose comes
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: to my mind. No, I don't do that because Derek
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Rose his career ended abruptly, Like that's what I was
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: thinking of it before.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: More like, yeah, he was electric, true, true dynamic.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah I was gonna yeah, yeah, I can see that.
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: But just listen.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: I've been clear for him to win MVP the whole
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: year since it started, So I'm behind you on that one.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: Listen. Everyone's already's like show, hey, show, hey.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: This and that, But I'm like, listen, PCA with what
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: he does on defense is unbelievable, and if he keeps
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: swinging the bat, it's it's incredible, No doubt.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: I got one more than Trevor will finish. You were
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: on the Marquee broadcast recently, so we're seeing some pictures
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: pop up on games. I know Garrett Cole was on
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: the Yankees broadcast the other day. How was that experience
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: for you? And I know we're years and years away,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: but do you ever have any broadcast thoughts on your mind?
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: For post career. If not, what would it be.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I definitely enjoyed doing it, especially, you know,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: just going back to Chicago, visiting everybody, saying hello to everybody.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: It was nice, getting on the broadcast and doing that
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: and stuff. I don't know if it's something I would
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: do in the future or not. It just depends on
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: how everything plays out and stuff. But I'll keep that
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: door open. I guess love that.
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: Love that so much.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: It's fun. It's fun, especially when you get to talk
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: about pitching all the time. It sounds like you like
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: talking about pitching, so maybe there's something out there. Although, uh,
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: let's talk about the cards real quick. You mentioned you've
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: been collecting cards a lot since surgery. Is this is
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: this Is this a hobby you already had or is
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: this like, Hey, I'm going all in on this.
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: So, my dad, my brother, and myself used to collect
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: cards when we were growing up. We would always go
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: to the local flea market when we were kids and
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: get cards that way, and then obviously buying them at
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Walmart and stuff. And then when twenty twenty happened, you know,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: the hobby really, you know, ignited again and I got
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: back into it started going through my old cards, started
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: you know, looking over what they were worth, and really
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: got back into it, and it's kind of just taken
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: off since then. I mean, my collection's insane at this point.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: It's been spending way too much money on it, honestly.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: But you know, it's all right.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: You'll be all right, Hey, you'll be right by the way,
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: armand armand and the chat said PCA is Jonathan Taze
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: from the Blackhawks. I'm going Patrick Kane from the Blackhawks
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: because PCA seems like he has a little more wild
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: streak in him than what Tays did, and Kane was
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: known to have a little bit of a wild streak.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: So I'm going more Patrick Kane than I am with
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: a taste. The only thing I'm rooting against, sorry, is
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: you guys winning three World Series.
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: Sorry, like the Blackhawks did, I apologize.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: I unfortunately don't know a ton about hockey, although I
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: do have a Wayne Gretzki and Connor Bdard rookie card.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Other than that, I don't know very much about hockey.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: But I mean, Mississippi hockey is just not a thing.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: There's no high school as teams for it or anything.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: So but yeah, those are the two hockey cards I
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: have there.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: You go well, Justin.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: This was awesome man, Great to have you on, great
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: getting to know you. Thanks for making your FT debut here.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Good luck with the recovery in the rehab and we'll
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: check in with you down the road.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Thanks for having me, guys. Pleasure to meet y'all.