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Brandon Woodruff’s EPIC comeback · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: I don't know if this is it here or not,
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Speaker 1: but like I know, I needed to throw again for
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Speaker 1: sure in this uniform.
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Speaker 2: So that was a big driver.
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Speaker 3: There.
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Speaker 4: He is Brandon Woodrif Big Woo from the Milwaukee Brewers,
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Speaker 4: back on FT and really most importantly, back on a
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Speaker 4: big league mounds, big Wu. Awesome to see you, man,
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Speaker 4: Congratulations on making it back in great first start. How
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Speaker 4: you doing man, it's been a.
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Speaker 2: Minute, Man's I'm doing good.
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Speaker 1: I've blown off Cratzy quite a few times.
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Speaker 2: Not intentionally, but just yeah, I was laying low. Man.
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Speaker 1: You've tried to have me on there in the past,
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Speaker 1: just like come back on the show, and I'm just like,
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Speaker 1: I really just don't want to, just want to lay
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Speaker 1: low for a little bit.
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Speaker 2: But you know what, I'm back man. Good to see you, Big.
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Speaker 5: I would never have texted you broken to come on
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Speaker 5: the show. I would never have been like, big Woo,
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Speaker 5: your shoulder is not working, come on the show. I
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Speaker 5: would never never, once or seven times texted you that.
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Speaker 3: But right, right, that's funny.
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Speaker 4: Hey, the show's made moves since we last talked to Man,
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Speaker 4: it's it's.
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Speaker 2: You got now. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 4: You've upgradd a little bit since we last were making
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Speaker 4: a little dough a little few more fans. So so
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Speaker 4: since we last had John tell me how life has
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Speaker 4: been up to this point and and how you're feeling, Like,
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Speaker 4: do you feel like a different person once you've actually
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Speaker 4: gotten through the rehab process and now you're like a
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Speaker 4: normal big leigure again on a mound?
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: Well, I've got our son just had his first birthday yesterday,
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Speaker 1: So that's that's new, and that's been fun. And yeah,
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Speaker 1: just just rehab. Man, it's been it's been a long journey.
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Speaker 1: It's it's it's weirdly been a long journey, but it's
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Speaker 1: been a strangely kind of quick. Once you get caught
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Speaker 1: up in this, just like a season, it's like you
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Speaker 1: look up and it's like, man, six months is going by,
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Speaker 1: you know, years going by, just like that. But I
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Speaker 1: mean it's been, uh, it's we can we can get
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Speaker 1: into a lot here, but it's it's been a long journey.
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Speaker 2: It's been. Uh, it's definitely had its ups and downs.
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Speaker 1: But I've definitely got a lot of a lot of
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Speaker 1: family time, which which you don't get during the season.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's probably the best part. Now I want
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Speaker 3: to go through a little bit of the down as
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Speaker 3: you were rehabbing you had an ankle injury and you
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Speaker 3: got hit with a comeback or like, yeah, tell me
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Speaker 3: about your mind, like your process, like what goes through
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Speaker 3: your mind. You're rehabbing, You're almost there, and then boom,
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Speaker 3: these two things happened and you're like, dude, what is
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Speaker 3: going on? I got to start all over again, a
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Speaker 3: different injury. It must have really, it must have hurt.
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Speaker 3: Honestly at the end of the day, you know, physically
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Speaker 3: and mentally, Yeah, no doubt.
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Speaker 1: I mean the ankle thing honestly came out of nowhere.
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Speaker 1: I was getting ready for my last start, and you
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Speaker 1: know what, I progressed.
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Speaker 2: Very well.
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Speaker 1: I mean up and up until that point, I'd progressed
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Speaker 1: very well. And yeah, it came out of nowhere. Couldn't
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Speaker 1: walk for two days basically, and then but I mean
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Speaker 1: it was it was a very minor thing. You just
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Speaker 1: had to get through the first week of getting inflammation
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Speaker 1: calm down in the ankle. And once I did that,
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Speaker 1: it was I mean I kept throwing. I just wasn't
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Speaker 1: able to push off and uh so that was that
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Speaker 1: was that was good. And then you know that that
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Speaker 1: ankle thing probably bled a little bit into Once I
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Speaker 1: got back going, the velocity had kind of gone back down,
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Speaker 1: and it's like, you know, I'm trying everything I can
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Speaker 1: to to to.
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Speaker 2: See some VLO.
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Speaker 1: You know, not not only personally, but because I was
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Speaker 1: in a great spot before the ankle thing happened, and
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure the team was wanting to see
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Speaker 1: a little bit more out of me. And you know,
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Speaker 1: I get to the end of the the ankle rehab
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Speaker 1: and I mean, twelve pitches in I get smoked with
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Speaker 1: I think it was one of eight off the elbow,
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Speaker 1: and that was one of those moments where you know,
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Speaker 1: the initial shock of getting hit, I mean it it's
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Speaker 1: stung pretty good. But then walking back to the dugout,
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Speaker 1: it was like, uh, the thought of if there's something
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Speaker 1: broken here, like you know, I'm potentially done for the season.
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Speaker 1: So I had that running through my mind going up
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Speaker 1: to before I got got it checked out, and thankfully
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Speaker 1: everything checked out.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Then it was just getting swelling out and trying to
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Speaker 1: you know, just proceed again. But I mean it was
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Speaker 1: it was you get to the finish line twice and
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Speaker 1: then some unforeseen stuff kind of pops up. But you
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Speaker 1: know what, that's that's live man. That's uh, and that's
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Speaker 1: that's kind of it's kind of the the rehab process
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Speaker 1: and blessing in the skies. Honestly, just give gave me
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Speaker 1: a little bit more time to work on my body,
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Speaker 1: work on my delivery a little bit and just try
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Speaker 1: to get everything as in sync as I could.
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Speaker 2: And you know, hey, I was able to do that
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Speaker 2: for for at least one start here.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I love that you said it was it was
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Speaker 5: a blessing in disguise, like it was something that like
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Speaker 5: I think sometimes guys come back too early from injuries.
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Speaker 5: But I want you to comment on that a little bit.
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Speaker 5: But I also wanted to, like, come on a line,
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Speaker 5: drive back at you. The Paul's got a rubber center,
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Speaker 5: big will Like it's like it's leather string and a
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Speaker 5: rubber center. Like one time, one time, feel the ball,
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Speaker 5: they give you a glove.
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Speaker 2: You talk about hey, like that was just reacting pure reaction.
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Speaker 2: I tried to catch it.
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Speaker 1: I should have kept spinning and I would have took
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Speaker 1: it right off the butt and I would have been
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Speaker 1: good to go. But man, there was there was no
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Speaker 1: getting out of way of that dude, it was. It
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Speaker 1: was smoked. And then I get back to Milwaukee and
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Speaker 1: I'm seeing, you know, I think we're playing the Padres
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Speaker 1: and I think Manny Machado and you know, Fernando and
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Speaker 1: these guys were hitting balls like one o six, one eight,
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Speaker 1: one oh nine, and I'm looking at them come off
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Speaker 1: the bat and I'm like, good lord.
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Speaker 2: Man like that.
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Speaker 1: You don't realize how hard that ball is hit until
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Speaker 1: you sit on the side and see it come off
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Speaker 1: the bat like that. But yeah, there was no escape
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Speaker 1: in that one for sure.
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Speaker 5: Okay, So talk about the blessing in disguise. I talk
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Speaker 5: about I talk about all the time. People are like, well,
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Speaker 5: four weeks, he's going to be back in four weeks.
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Speaker 5: How much do you think, because now you've thrown one
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Speaker 5: game in the big leagues, how much do you think
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Speaker 5: if you can go back to ray before your ankle
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Speaker 5: was hurt, you could have done the same thing at
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Speaker 5: that moment that you did. Now I think it was
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Speaker 5: it a month and a half later.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's crazy. Now I know exactly what you're saying.
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Speaker 1: And I think the tough thing for me this year
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Speaker 1: was going to be how am I going to manage
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Speaker 1: innings to a certain extent, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: Like if I'm feeling good, that that's great. But anytime
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Speaker 1: you have a shoulder injury, any injury, elbow, whatever it
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Speaker 1: is for a picture, the reality is, man, you've got
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Speaker 1: to You've got to somehow manage a little bit. And
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Speaker 1: heck I was, I was on the way back in
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Speaker 1: middle of May, and you know, I don't know how
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Speaker 1: I would have been at this point or what would
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Speaker 1: have happened. And you know, I think back to, you know,
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Speaker 1: before my debut in seventeen, or you know, I was
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Speaker 1: in Saint Louis and I pulled my hamstring before I
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Speaker 1: even picked up a baseball, And I looked.
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Speaker 2: Back on that moment, and I honestly believe, like leading.
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Speaker 1: Up to the official debut in Tampa, like I knew
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Speaker 1: what it felt like all the way up until I
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Speaker 1: threw a pitch, you know what I mean. So I
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Speaker 1: slept a little bit better. I was able to prepare
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Speaker 1: for it a little bit better. And sometimes as a competitor,
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Speaker 1: you get caught up in the moment and you just
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Speaker 1: can't see ahead, you know what I mean, Like you're
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Speaker 1: just you're caught up in that, But honestly, you know,
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Speaker 1: who knows. I really don't have an answer for you.
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Speaker 2: How would have win?
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Speaker 1: How would have felt? All I know is everything let
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Speaker 1: up until last Sunday, And you know, I've I've tried
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Speaker 1: to put myself in the best position and put my
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Speaker 1: body in the best position, and and no doubt, like
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Speaker 1: having that extra time allows you to just keep working
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Speaker 1: on things. And you know the biggest thing I've learned
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Speaker 1: with this injury is time is your best friend. And
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm not obviously not getting any younger, but
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Speaker 1: my body feels great, and.
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Speaker 2: It just takes time. And there's no other way to
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Speaker 2: put it. It just takes time.
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Speaker 1: And there's no magical day where it's like ahh, like
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Speaker 1: I feel great.
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Speaker 2: You know, like you have to work.
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Speaker 1: On your body every day, and as you know, as
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Speaker 1: you get older, it just takes a little bit more
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Speaker 1: time getting ready. And that's okay, and that's kind of
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Speaker 1: where I'm at. But I think everything kind of led
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Speaker 1: up to that day to put me in a good
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Speaker 1: position to be able to perform.
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Speaker 5: One comment, two questions. First of all, that body is
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Speaker 5: not it is not okay, It's just as nasty. Nobody
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Speaker 5: needs to see it. One thing that I want to
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Speaker 5: know is how have you recovered? How have you recovered?
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Speaker 5: But also how good is your stuff?
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Speaker 6: Because I heard you.
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Speaker 5: Talking about your change up. You're like, man, it's been
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Speaker 5: like a year and a half of my change up
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Speaker 5: has been I know what you wanted to say, but
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Speaker 5: you said, dug crap.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, change up has been terrible. How is your stuff?
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Speaker 3: Like?
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Speaker 6: Do you stand over the rubber and go, I got this?
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Speaker 1: Like, let me tell you. I'll let you in on it.
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Speaker 1: Like I've been recovering great. The shoulder has been consistently
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Speaker 1: recovering good now for I mean pretty much the whole year.
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Speaker 1: Each each step I would take, you know, the first
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Speaker 1: outing in Nashville, I was a little beat up after
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Speaker 1: that one, which to be expected. And then it's just
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Speaker 1: continue to make adjustments with recovery in between. And the
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Speaker 1: more the more you do this and let your body
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Speaker 1: know that this is what it's supposed to do, that's
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Speaker 1: what it's used to doing. He kind of just fall
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Speaker 1: into a better groove with recovery. So, uh, that's that's
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Speaker 1: been pretty stable. And you know, I know what to
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Speaker 1: kind of make adjustments on. If I'm feeling something here,
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Speaker 1: feeling something there, I can able, you know, to attack
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Speaker 1: it a little bit better. And so that's been great.
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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what. I walked into the meeting
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Speaker 1: in Miami, and you know, we I talked to Hassi
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Speaker 1: a little bit the day before on the bench and
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Speaker 1: and I was like, look, man, I don't know. I
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Speaker 1: was like, I honestly, I don't know what I've got
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Speaker 1: for you tomorrow. Like, you know, I got too fastballs
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Speaker 1: to change up, curveball and uh and uh and a slider.
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Speaker 1: I was like, the change ups working, we'll throw it
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Speaker 1: if the If the slider's working, we'll throw it. I said,
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Speaker 1: but we're gonna have to identify that in the bullpen
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Speaker 1: pretty early. And then once we get into the game.
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Speaker 1: And then I get into the you know, picture catcher
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Speaker 1: meeting with Hooky and the coaches, and I'm like, all right,
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Speaker 1: I said, you know, we'll just figure it out once
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Speaker 1: we get out there. And uh, you know, it's kind
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Speaker 1: of lined up exactly how the whole rehab is going.
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Speaker 1: I pop in for a rehab for a day. I
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Speaker 1: don't know a soul in the lineup. I show up
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Speaker 1: and I try to pitch. And you know, that's what
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Speaker 1: I've always prided myself on. You know, I've had the stuff,
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Speaker 1: but I always wanted to be a pitcher. And because
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Speaker 1: as as you get later in this game, that's that's
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Speaker 1: one day it's going to help you out. So I
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Speaker 1: have no doubt that approaching it that way, and rehab
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Speaker 1: helped me the other day. And uh, and I mean
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Speaker 1: I did video work, I did all the stuff. But
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, once you get to the big leagues,
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Speaker 1: stuff ticks up a little bit. And then I get
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Speaker 1: I start warming up, start getting in the pen and
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Speaker 1: pre game and the body's moving a little bit different.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean as far as metrically and stuff like,
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Speaker 1: I pay attention a little bit to that stuff, and uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, slight differences, nothing crazy. But I did not
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Speaker 1: have a change up pretty much the whole rehab process.
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Speaker 1: It was very, very, very hit or miss. And but
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Speaker 1: once I got out there, man on that mound and
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Speaker 1: and it's kind of like a weird place. It's I'm
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Speaker 1: very comfortable out on that mound, and the body starts
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Speaker 1: moving a little bit different. You get a big league
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Speaker 1: hitters in the box and things change. So I had
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Speaker 1: no expectations, none, And I said that, look, I've got
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Speaker 1: no expectations, you know. Quite frankly, I didn't care if
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Speaker 1: I gave up six seven runs whatever.
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Speaker 2: It was.
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Speaker 1: Just going through what you go through for almost two
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Speaker 1: years just to get back on a big league mound
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Speaker 1: is is pretty cool in itself. So yeah, I really
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Speaker 1: didn't care how it went. But you know, it's just
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Speaker 1: icing on the cake of kind of how it did go.
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Speaker 1: So I definitely enjoyed that day and the day after,
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Speaker 1: and you know, but it's back to work.
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Speaker 2: You got to get ready for a note ball club,
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Speaker 2: all right.
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Speaker 6: Well it's not all about you. How did Jonie handle this?
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Speaker 6: Your wife?
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 5: How did she handle this? Because I'd be remiss to
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Speaker 5: not ask how he she handled all this? Because I
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Speaker 5: saw when you guys were dating, Now you're married, you've gone,
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Speaker 5: She's gone through your entire process, going through rehab.
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Speaker 6: We suck like we suck.
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Speaker 5: As players human beings when things aren't going well.
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Speaker 6: How did she handle it?
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Speaker 2: Oh? Man?
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Speaker 1: Uh, I gave a lot of folks, some some gray
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Speaker 1: hairs in this process. And honestly, it's tough being you know,
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Speaker 1: just being at home and seeing when the team's on
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Speaker 1: the road and you're rehabbing at home, and you see
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Speaker 1: what those families go through and those wives go through
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Speaker 1: with those kids when when you're not around, and then
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Speaker 1: when you're there full time, you know, sometimes it wears
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Speaker 1: on you more more than it does at the field,
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Speaker 1: you know what i mean, just being around the field.
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Speaker 1: Then she's had to listen to all my crap, you
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Speaker 1: know what i mean, coming to the house thinking my
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Speaker 1: shoulder was done, thinking, you know, having the bad days
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Speaker 1: and uh and just sitting there listening and then some
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Speaker 1: days just telling me to shut up and suck.
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Speaker 2: It up, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: And and that's real too, Like it's it's it's not
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Speaker 1: easy on on your significant others for sure. And and
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Speaker 1: then honestly, you get to that point and like the
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Speaker 1: day before Miami, like it was it was one of
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Speaker 1: those you know, you have those thoughts like I don't
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Speaker 1: know what it's going to be, Like.
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Speaker 2: I know, I know when I'm.
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Speaker 1: Right and I'm and I'm good, like I'm I'm good
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Speaker 1: but it's like it's been almost two years, man, I
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Speaker 1: you know, and then you that stuff sets in and
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Speaker 1: it's like, look enjoy the moment. And she gave me
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Speaker 1: the best advice. Uh, we were sitting at dinner the
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Speaker 1: night before. Just just go enjoy it, have fun. You've worked,
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Speaker 1: you know, too hard to be so hard on yourself,
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Speaker 1: and you know, sometimes you need to sit back and
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Speaker 1: you need that and sometimes you need that tough love.
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Speaker 2: And she was able to provide that for me. And
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Speaker 2: you know, it was funny.
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Speaker 1: I could hear I didn't know exactly where she was sitting,
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Speaker 1: and you know, her and my daughter Kyler, she hadn't
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Speaker 1: seen me throwing, you know, two years, so she barely
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Speaker 1: even remembers it. Last time that I threw in twenty
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Speaker 1: three and of course our son bo who just turned one.
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Speaker 1: But I could hear her screaming, you know, over the
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Speaker 1: dugout after that first strikeout, and so I mean there
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Speaker 1: was a lot of emotion for her and just to
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Speaker 1: kind of see I mean, she's she's seen everything behind
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Speaker 1: the scenes, she's seen the worst of the worst, she's
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Speaker 1: seen the good day, she's seen everything. So it was
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Speaker 1: it was a big day for her and my family
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Speaker 1: as well. So it was, yeah, pretty cool.
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Speaker 5: All I'm looking I asked you, I got to ask
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Speaker 5: you about the contract that you signed with the Brewers.
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Speaker 6: You got hurt. One other teams were one of our
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Speaker 6: teams were.
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Speaker 5: In the mix, and what is that like, it's kind
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Speaker 5: of a unique mutual option two that's coming up, and
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Speaker 5: I get it.
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Speaker 6: All that stuff's for later. It's the end of the season.
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Speaker 6: You got to keep going.
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Speaker 5: But one of their teams were in the mix to
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Speaker 5: sign you to basically they had to sign you to
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Speaker 5: rehab you and hope you made it back for where
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Speaker 5: you're at right now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, as soon as I was non tendered, I probably
17:22
Speaker 1: over half the league reached out to my agent, you know,
17:26
Speaker 1: and it was it kind of happened like all real fast,
17:30
Speaker 1: and a lot of teams were hot on me from
17:33
Speaker 1: the beginning, and then kind of free agency, you kind
17:37
Speaker 1: of hear this and then then it kind of slowed down. Uh,
17:40
Speaker 1: didn't hear much. But I knew from the beginning. After
17:42
Speaker 1: after I was non tendered, I wasn't gonna sign until February.
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Speaker 1: I knew that, you know, from the beginning, So I
17:49
Speaker 1: was very patient with with everything and you know, I
17:54
Speaker 1: don't want to get in too much of the specifics
17:57
Speaker 1: with with certain teams and stuff, but I mean there
18:00
Speaker 1: was definitely a few teams there at the end, and
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Speaker 1: obviously the Brewers and you know, and it and it
18:07
Speaker 1: happened pretty quick with the Brewers there at the end.
18:10
Speaker 1: But you know, some teams approached it in a different way.
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Speaker 1: You know, they didn't want to sign me for two
18:17
Speaker 1: years and then essentially rehab me and if you know,
18:20
Speaker 1: things go well and then and then lose me. So
18:24
Speaker 1: there was different teams approached it different ways with the
18:27
Speaker 1: with the rehab. But as far as with Milwaukee, like
18:31
Speaker 1: I knew for me, I knew I needed to throw
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Speaker 1: again in this uniform, and I knew that that was
18:38
Speaker 1: important to me, and and and a big driver for
18:42
Speaker 1: me in that whole process was I gotta balance. One,
18:45
Speaker 1: you got to balance the money and one you gotta
18:47
Speaker 1: balance putting yourself in the best position, uh medical wise,
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Speaker 1: to be able to continue to continue my career, uh
18:54
Speaker 1: later down the road. So our pt here, Brent Hester
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Speaker 1: has had three of these injuries that I've had, So
19:02
Speaker 1: that was a big factor for me. He understood, you know,
19:06
Speaker 1: kind of what that took to rehab this and you know, honestly,
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Speaker 1: a lot of the teams great medical staffs, like you know,
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Speaker 1: it's it's It was good to see the other side
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Speaker 1: of it, you know, I know it was non tendered
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Speaker 1: and whatnot, but I was able to see kind of
19:22
Speaker 1: what other teams had to offer.
19:24
Speaker 2: And and.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of a lot of great medical staffs
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Speaker 1: out there. But I knew I had to throw again
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Speaker 1: in this uniform. And that's honestly what was a big driver.
19:34
Speaker 1: And and and getting things done here. And you know,
19:40
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is it here or not,
19:42
Speaker 1: but like I know, I needed to throw again for
19:45
Speaker 1: sure in this uniform.
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Speaker 2: So that was a big driver.
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Speaker 3: I love that mindset is a huge thing in this
19:49
Speaker 3: whole baseball People don't understand how hard it is, especially
19:54
Speaker 3: what you went through last question here before we let
19:56
Speaker 3: you go. I'm looking at this lineup, pitching wise, top
19:58
Speaker 3: to bottom, old and all. You got a plethor of
20:01
Speaker 3: really good pictures. But the guy I'm thinking about is
20:04
Speaker 3: is the myths big nickname, Jacob Misowski. I mean, talk
20:08
Speaker 3: to me a little bit about him and what he's
20:10
Speaker 3: brought to the table for the birds.
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Speaker 1: Oh man, look, he he deserves all the hype, like
20:16
Speaker 1: he you know, I've I never got to really watch
20:20
Speaker 1: him in spring training, but man, like I saw him
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Speaker 1: a little bit in Triple A when I would go
20:27
Speaker 1: rehab and then kind of just seeing that transfer over
20:31
Speaker 1: to here and just learning a little bit about about
20:34
Speaker 1: the background. Great kid, super humble, uh, everything in between.
20:40
Speaker 1: And obviously you see the stuff and all the hype
20:42
Speaker 1: surrounding it. I mean it's I mean, it's one hundred
20:45
Speaker 1: to one hundred and two coming right at you, and
20:47
Speaker 1: he's got a nasty two nasty breaking balls and.
20:52
Speaker 2: You know he's he's flying high. Dude, Like, if he
20:55
Speaker 2: really hones us.
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Speaker 1: In and and and and really understands himself, I think
21:00
Speaker 1: that's the next next step for him, is just really
21:03
Speaker 1: understanding like this dude has a superpower, man, and if
21:06
Speaker 1: he really learns how to hone this thing in, it's
21:09
Speaker 1: it's gonna be something pretty cool.
21:11
Speaker 2: So great kid, he's wanting to learn.
21:14
Speaker 1: He's always uh, he's he's always smiling in the clubhouse.
21:18
Speaker 2: So that's that's great.
21:19
Speaker 1: You know, we we give him some crap, you know,
21:21
Speaker 1: just as a new guy, but man, he's the Brewers
21:25
Speaker 1: found a good one in him for sure, and hopefully
21:27
Speaker 1: he uh he continues to do what he's doing. But man,
21:30
Speaker 1: he's yeah, I mean it's I mean, come on, like
21:32
Speaker 1: it's it's one hundred, like every pitch, like it's, you know,
21:37
Speaker 1: fastball pre surgery seventy percent of the time, Like if
21:39
Speaker 1: I had one hundred, it's probably a good ninety to
21:42
Speaker 1: ninety five percent of the time I'm throwing fastball for sure.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Man, that slider special too. There's some bilo on that
21:48
Speaker 4: on that slider, So don't sleep on that, right. Slider's
21:52
Speaker 4: like nineties touching ninety seven. It's ridiculous, isn't that crazy? Gosh, Yeah,
21:56
Speaker 4: it's fun to watch. You got a good staff that
21:58
Speaker 4: you're joining back in for so good luck this weekend.
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Speaker 4: Awesome to see you, Brandon. Thanks for the time and
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Speaker 4: now you can't be a stranger again. You're back, so
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Speaker 4: keep doing against the world.
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Speaker 2: Missed these chats.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you guys. Just can't wait to come back
22:14
Speaker 1: on and thanks for having me. It was a good
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Speaker 1: see you guys.
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Speaker 5: You too.
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Speaker 4: Congrats again on the return.
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Speaker 2: Good luck this weekend. Talk soon. Thanks