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FT at Mets camp: Francisco Lindor, Carlos Mendoza, Brett Baty · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Everything that I'm that I got not only from Buni,
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Speaker 1: from a lot of people that I know from the Yankees.
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Speaker 2: He was like, what a great human these guys. You know,
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Speaker 2: these guys special.
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Speaker 1: You know, everybody sees what he does on the field,
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Speaker 1: but it's just the quality of the perch.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if he's the one that's doing the
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Speaker 3: music in the clubhouse, but the music in the clubhouse
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Speaker 3: when I was in there was awesome. So Francisco, Lindor, welcome,
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Speaker 3: thanks for coming on, Welcome to FT.
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Speaker 4: What's up, Francisco. Great to have you on, man, and
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Speaker 4: great to see you. Obviously. We always love to do
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Speaker 4: this during spring training. Hey, you've got a game today.
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Speaker 4: That first five in the lineup looks pretty fire. Is
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Speaker 4: that what we're gonna get opening day?
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Speaker 5: Oh? No, play short stop?
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Speaker 3: So you don't manage.
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Speaker 5: I don't. I don't manage. I don't.
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Speaker 3: But they got you in front of they got you
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Speaker 3: in front of so though, yeah, them will come over
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Speaker 3: and say, I want that spot. You guys gonna have
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Speaker 3: like a wrestling match.
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Speaker 5: No, no, no wrestling match. I'm five to nine. I don't wrestle.
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Speaker 3: I love her.
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Speaker 6: Frank Frankie's wide from chest to back. Man, Frankie's wide.
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Speaker 6: Don't get it twisted. My boy is yeah, yeah you are.
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Speaker 6: Let me tell you this. Yeah, I was gonna tell
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Speaker 6: you this, speaking of bit of lover dog Frankie. I
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Speaker 6: had two different uh stants with Frankie. One was early
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Speaker 6: with Cleveland and he was just he was hurt. And
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Speaker 6: I remember I'm older than Frankie, but it just he
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Speaker 6: has such a wise aura, such an old soul, right,
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Speaker 6: such a helpful soul. And now I remember him giving
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Speaker 6: advice on sacrificing that bats early this season. Do you
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Speaker 6: remember this, Frankie. We talked about like sacrificing that bats
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Speaker 6: and when I'm not feeling good, I'll just pick I'll
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Speaker 6: take ten, ten to fifteen that bats and just go
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Speaker 6: I'm gonna just try to hit a line drive at
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Speaker 6: the shortstop. And then when I got over there with
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Speaker 6: you guys are the mess, it was like, what do
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Speaker 6: you need?
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Speaker 7: You need shades?
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Speaker 6: You need Beg's even though I'm like a double XL
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Speaker 6: this dude, Like, I just want people to know how,
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Speaker 6: I mean, how amazing of a teammate, how caring and
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Speaker 6: giving this guy is, so the aura that you got
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Speaker 6: right now, I just want to tell you, man, I
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Speaker 6: appreciate it, and I want people to know that about you.
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Speaker 5: Thank you, Thank you, appreciate that. Yeah, we all, you know,
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Speaker 5: we grow and we turning every year. We hope we
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Speaker 5: better ourselves. And Cleveland was a younger version of myself,
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Speaker 5: you know, And yeah, it was just I was fortunate
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Speaker 5: enough to come up through the system and play with
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Speaker 5: guys that were much more advanced than me. So I
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Speaker 5: learned and just you got to sacrifice something sometimes to
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Speaker 5: get something out of it, you know. And then I
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Speaker 5: get put in a situation where I have a lot
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Speaker 5: of things blessed with all the items, I guess, so
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Speaker 5: you know, share the share the love, Share the love.
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Speaker 3: Who is who was that guy that you feel like?
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Speaker 5: Michael Brandley? Michael Brandley was so amazing. Michael Brandley and
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Speaker 5: then Michael Wielis also helped me a lot too. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: just hanging out around those guys. I mean, I came
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Speaker 5: up and the first thing that Frank concept to me
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Speaker 5: is like, hey today somebody lost the job. Be smart
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Speaker 5: how you act in the clubhouse. And Mikey Vilas, who's
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Speaker 5: playing short sut of time, he said, then you know
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Speaker 5: it's your turn, and he pushed me every single day
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Speaker 5: to be better than That helped me a lot.
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Speaker 3: Did they give you a hard time? Like, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 3: of course, but you give these guys a hard time.
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Speaker 5: I Uh, I talk a lot of ship.
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Speaker 2: That's what I mean.
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Speaker 5: Like if if talking crap it's a hard time, then yeah, but.
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Speaker 3: That but that But that's what they did to you.
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Speaker 3: Normally those vets, you reciprocate that onto the other guys.
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Speaker 3: So like if I asked Biento when he comes in.
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Speaker 5: Here, yeah, is he gonna say, yeah, I'll a lot
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Speaker 5: of crap ran Frankie kind of gets on me a
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Speaker 5: little bit. Yeah, No, for sure. And there was there
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Speaker 5: was some some players that talk crap, but they have
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Speaker 5: my back and they wanted they legitamly wanted the best
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Speaker 5: for me. And others talk crap because they just they intimidated. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: I guess I don't know they.
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Speaker 3: Were they were so.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I try to be the one that talks and
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Speaker 5: also push the players to be better and be there
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Speaker 5: for them and back them up whenever I got to
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Speaker 5: back them up.
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Speaker 7: Okay, and you you are a leader.
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Speaker 6: But let's get to the fun stuff, right And I
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Speaker 6: want to just talk about this because everything now me
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Speaker 6: being on this side. When I make a statement of common,
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Speaker 6: I always speak from experience, right. So I made a
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Speaker 6: tweet during the one So Fatacy and I said, Hey,
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Speaker 6: I'm gonna be real with y'all, Like, I just personally
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Speaker 6: think that the New York Mets is more of a vibe, Like.
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Speaker 7: It's more if it's his personality more.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 6: I was kind of insinuating really the Latin culture, right
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Speaker 6: you there, Sugar there, like some of my former teams
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Speaker 6: that I just know, Like I know how y'all get
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Speaker 6: it in right. The music is gonna be playing loud,
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Speaker 6: people are gonna be smiling. It's gonna be a different
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Speaker 6: type of energy, right, still professional, but a care free
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Speaker 6: energy for you having one And I see clips you
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Speaker 6: guys smiling ear to ear talk about him being in
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Speaker 6: that clubhouse now and talk about the vibe like how
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Speaker 6: is it? And then having Pete back as well, But
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Speaker 6: how is the vibe having a guy like wan So
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Speaker 6: in the clubhouse, guy that.
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Speaker 3: You know for years.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, the vibes are good.
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Speaker 3: The vibes are good.
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Speaker 5: Everybody's going to get spot, everybody's ready to compete. And
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Speaker 5: like you said, I think I think you you tweeted
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Speaker 5: something or is that it's not. Is it called tweeter?
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Speaker 3: Is Twitter? Well? Ex Twitter?
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Speaker 5: Yeah you made dykeman. I think you said it. I
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Speaker 5: think right, Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 7: I said, I said said Queens is gonna be like
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Speaker 7: the Daman.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so he saw it.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, And I didn't take it, you know, in the
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Speaker 5: wrong way. I don't think no one has taking it
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Speaker 5: in the wrong way. I think it's just it's the reality.
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Speaker 5: You know, there's a lot of it's it's like a
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Speaker 5: culture thing. But it's not just like I don't want
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Speaker 5: this to turn into like, oh we all lines. You know,
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Speaker 5: that's not how how it is. You know, it's about
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Speaker 5: It's about the culture that Stern's and Mendoza and we
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Speaker 5: are in the Cohens and we're trying to have here.
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Speaker 5: It's about having fun, respect each other, respect the game,
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Speaker 5: and go out there and enjoy it, you know, don't
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Speaker 5: back down for many challenges, and and while we at it,
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Speaker 5: we're gonna enjoy it, you know. I mean last year
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Speaker 5: we had a concert in the middle of the year.
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Speaker 3: But not just a concert put on by by your teammates.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, and it was fantastic. We loved it. We
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Speaker 5: had I don't think that's gonna happen this year. Okay,
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Speaker 5: I can't have any singers in the team, I said
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Speaker 5: right now. But it's it's just everybody's enjoyed coming to work.
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Speaker 5: And I think that's one step that you have to take,
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Speaker 5: you know, or if you want to be in a
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Speaker 5: successful franchise, in a franchise that is going to win
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Speaker 5: the word series, you know, you have to love to
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Speaker 5: come to work.
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Speaker 3: You have to come together, love to come together. And
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Speaker 3: I think you've built that. So as as soon as
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Speaker 3: you got to the Mets, how many days was it
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Speaker 3: until you started recruiting wand when you were playing against Like,
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Speaker 3: what was the first time that you remember saying something
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Speaker 3: to wand like, I know, I know you're at the
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Speaker 3: Nats right now. And then he went to the Padres
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Speaker 3: and then he went to the Yankees and he finally
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Speaker 3: became a free agent. Remember the first time you remember
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Speaker 3: like just like just dropping like a text, just dropping
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Speaker 3: like something at a game.
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Speaker 5: We never really talked about it. I did talk to
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Speaker 5: him and on the base path, you know, like on
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Speaker 5: the basis whenever he was with the Nationals, but we
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Speaker 5: didn't really talk about Hey, when you become a free agent,
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Speaker 5: I'll see y out here. I never really talked about that.
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Speaker 5: I did tell him years ago about being smart and
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Speaker 5: going through a process, but it was when I was
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Speaker 5: in Cleveland. It wasn't even like, hey, yes, we're going
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Speaker 5: to be teammates. It was just like, be smart. You
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Speaker 5: just go through a process, you know, don't skip steps
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Speaker 5: because everything's going to work out.
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Speaker 3: Just helping him, Just helping another guy, helping another player.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna let you go. But I have to ask you.
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Speaker 3: You were one inning away from winning a World Series?
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Did last year? Sting almost as much saying goodbye?
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Speaker 5: It sucks, you know, like that feeling of like you
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Speaker 5: you in you in the moment, you feel like you
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Speaker 5: can capture the moment, you can finish it, and saying
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Speaker 5: goodbye just sucks, you know. So, yeah, is things twenty
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Speaker 5: sixteen or the Yeah, it hurts. I hate loosing. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: it hurts.
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Speaker 3: That's good. Francisco, appreciate you. We got the hefe.
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Speaker 2: I don't know about.
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Speaker 3: Aj is not. You're the heafe. You are literally the
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Speaker 3: hefe this year and last year, you guys did. Carlos Mendoza,
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Speaker 3: thanks for coming on, kid, I appreciate you. Yeah, what's
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Speaker 3: going on, are you tired?
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Speaker 2: No, well, I just got done throwing BP.
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Speaker 3: So but I'm good a manager that throws BP cam.
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Speaker 3: This cam Maven's on. That's your camera over there. When
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Speaker 3: he asked some bad questions, that's where you can ask.
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Speaker 2: I remember throwing the cam launching balls.
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Speaker 6: You know, hey, hey, hold on, Cratzy, do me a favorite, Mandy,
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Speaker 6: can you tell these guys about my pop?
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Speaker 7: Just do me a favorite? You remember Chicago?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if it was in Chicago or
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Speaker 1: was in Detroit.
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Speaker 2: It was one VP.
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Speaker 1: This guy was like launching balls like one ball after
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Speaker 1: I'm throwing to him like money BP.
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Speaker 3: That's some good.
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Speaker 6: He get me paid, Mandy, Mandy got me paid. I
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Speaker 6: just want to say this too. I know guys, I
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Speaker 6: started to show out with Baseballism shirt. You know I
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Speaker 6: have my Tony Gwin. But when Mandy sees me, he's
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Speaker 6: always very judgmental of my fit, right, but not but
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Speaker 6: not in a bad way. It's usually very common.
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Speaker 2: You're gonna.
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Speaker 6: So I just Mandy, I just want you to know
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Speaker 6: I just put this on for you right now. I'm
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Speaker 6: gonna take as soon as you're done, but just for you,
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Speaker 6: my guy, because you know, I know you love and
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Speaker 6: appreciated good clean.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta give him an eighty on a scouting ring.
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Speaker 2: I always, I always put an eighty.
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Speaker 3: I was in your clubhouse and we were talking about scouting,
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Speaker 3: scouting scales and different you know, the sixth and seventh tools, right, Cam,
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Speaker 3: Cam can be an eighty. That's fair. If you put
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Speaker 3: it on him, you're the hat.
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Speaker 1: Like I said, you know he was. He was pretty impressive.
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Speaker 1: You know, he's clean, he's Yeah. So how you guys doing.
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Speaker 3: We're great, We're great, But we're here to talk to you.
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Speaker 3: The elite recruiter of all time. You got one Soda
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Speaker 3: to come and play for your team. It was not Steve,
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Speaker 3: it was not David. It wasn't me, It wasn't you.
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Speaker 3: How much? How much? How much do you feel like
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Speaker 3: what you helped create with the players. I know the
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Speaker 3: players create the atmosphere, helped bring one soda over. Everyone
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Speaker 3: will say it's the money, But to me, you gotta
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Speaker 3: want to come and play somewhere.
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Speaker 1: And you got to give credit to the players, you know,
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Speaker 1: because you just said it. That's what he starts, creating
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Speaker 1: an environment where people are really looking forward to come
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Speaker 1: to work. You know how you know, he's a long season.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 2: And this is our family.
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Speaker 1: Here, you know, and they created that a place where
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Speaker 1: everybody feels welcome, everybody is treated the same with respect
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Speaker 1: and things like that.
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Speaker 2: And at the end of the day, we keep it
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Speaker 2: fun too.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 1: They get after you know, they prepare. Uh, they hold
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Speaker 1: each other accountable, but we keep it fun. And just yeah,
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Speaker 1: you mentioned Juan Soto. Uh, you got to give credit
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Speaker 1: to a lot of people, obviously our owners, Uh, Steven
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Speaker 1: Alex and Uh, he wasn't easy.
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Speaker 2: You know, he wasn't easy. Uh, David pretty busy off
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Speaker 2: season for him as well.
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Speaker 1: But I'm glad that we were able to to get
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Speaker 1: Juan and now he's he's a man.
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Speaker 3: All we've talked about even when I first came on,
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Speaker 3: I was in the clubhouse and I'm like, geez, like
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Speaker 3: the vibe Like you guys, we just said the word vibe, vibe,
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Speaker 3: vi vibe all the time. Has there been any and
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Speaker 3: you even kind of alluded to it, Has there been
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Speaker 3: any moments where you've had to be like, well, whoa, whoa,
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Speaker 3: like we're squashing this. You guys had a lot of
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Speaker 3: gimmicks last year. You guys had pumpkins, you had, you
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Speaker 3: knew all about Grimace, you got like you've seen OMG's concert.
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Speaker 3: Linda Ord was just sitting here. Francisco was just sitting here,
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Speaker 3: said he said, seriously, we had a concert for me.
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Speaker 2: That was like because I didn't know what was happening.
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Speaker 2: I knew, hey, we're winning today.
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Speaker 1: Iglacis is singing, so but I'm thinking it's in the clubhouse.
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Speaker 2: He's in the lock.
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Speaker 1: You know, before we know it, we have fireworks and
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Speaker 1: we're having a concert.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, wow, I think this is little too much.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad we want the next day because I was like,
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Speaker 1: what if we lose two or three in a row here?
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Speaker 1: And now it becomes well, that was the concert, you know, right,
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Speaker 1: so but yeah, we had everything, But I think that
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Speaker 1: one right there kind of was like.
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Speaker 3: You felt like you had to say like you didn't
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Speaker 3: say something, but you were aware of it. But did
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Speaker 3: you ever have to say something where I was like,
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Speaker 3: all right, we're getting a little a little outside because
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Speaker 3: you have to have parameters of some kind. I'm not
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Speaker 3: talking about no facial hair policy.
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Speaker 1: But now it wasn't you know, as a group, it
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Speaker 1: was more like individual conversations, you know, like hey man,
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Speaker 1: like there's a lot of people talking about this and that,
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Speaker 1: Like we.
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Speaker 2: Got to go play baseball.
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Speaker 1: You know, you got to prepare, you got to go
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Speaker 1: out there, you got to compete, and we got to
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Speaker 1: get the job done.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 2: That's that's what it's all about. You know, you got
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Speaker 2: to go out there and you got to get the
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Speaker 2: job done.
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Speaker 1: So it wasn't like oh am I dressing the hitters
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Speaker 1: or I am addressing the team or the picture. No,
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Speaker 1: it was more like one on one conversations. I was like,
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Speaker 1: hey man, we know we've got a lot of noise
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Speaker 1: and this, and we got to go play baseball, you know,
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Speaker 1: And that was basically it.
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Speaker 3: Good. Yeah, pop that ear piece in if you can
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Speaker 3: so you can hear cam. He'll talk to you right
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Speaker 3: out of that camera and into your ear. Now you
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Speaker 3: got me, Mindy, I got you.
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Speaker 6: Uh So, you know, I know it was your first year,
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Speaker 6: but you know through my experience talk of certain guys
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Speaker 6: or our leader of leaders of men, you know, guys
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Speaker 6: like yourself, just being able to be around you for
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Speaker 6: that year and getting to know you and having conversations
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Speaker 6: with yourself. Guys like Pat Murphy guys like Boonie, guys
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Speaker 6: like Terry Francona and now yourself.
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Speaker 7: I know it's only one you're in, but you know,
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Speaker 7: I want to ask.
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Speaker 6: You, you know, what do you think it takes to
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Speaker 6: you come into a clubhouse and you know, Garner, gainer respect,
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Speaker 6: you know.
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Speaker 7: How did you grab that clubhouse?
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Speaker 6: Because I'm I'm a believer that the captain isn't the
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Speaker 6: best player.
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Speaker 7: I think it starts with the manager.
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Speaker 6: And I've always thought being around you, you will be
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Speaker 6: a great manager because of how you communicate, because of
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Speaker 6: how you, you know, show empathy and and let people
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Speaker 6: know you've been in their shoes before.
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Speaker 7: I think that's a very special trait.
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Speaker 6: What is it for you that qualified or made you
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Speaker 6: feel confident about going across town to manage, you know,
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Speaker 6: or franchise like the New York the New York Mets.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I appreciate you saying that means a lot. Can
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Speaker 1: It starts with trust. You got to earn the trust
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Speaker 1: from your players and they got to be able to
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Speaker 1: trust you, and that takes time. That doesn't happen overnight.
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Speaker 1: And I knew coming in with the players that I
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Speaker 1: had on that roster, established players elite players, so I
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Speaker 1: knew hot work to do. I needed to develop the
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Speaker 1: real relationships. I needed to earn their respect, you know,
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Speaker 1: I needed I needed them to trust me as much
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Speaker 1: as I needed to get to know them.
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Speaker 2: They needed to get to know myself.
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Speaker 1: Having honest conversations, you know, coming from he's just telling guys.
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Speaker 2: The truth, you know, like straight shooter.
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Speaker 1: You know, at this level, guys know when you're bs them.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's easy, and uh, again, it takes time
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Speaker 1: to develop this relationship. And for me, it wasn't just
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Speaker 1: sprint training. He was getting out of the gate and
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Speaker 1: we didn't play well, but being myself understanding that it's
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Speaker 1: a long year, you have good players, and just again
17:43
Speaker 1: being myself, let the personality, let the coaches do their job.
17:47
Speaker 1: So for me, it was more like earning that trust.
17:50
Speaker 1: And I felt like we got to a point, especially
17:53
Speaker 1: after the first couple of months where guys were like,
17:55
Speaker 1: all right, you know, it's not just Mandy talking to
17:58
Speaker 1: me in sprint training and how great And no, uh,
18:02
Speaker 1: he wasn't easy, and uh, you know, I'm just I'm
18:06
Speaker 1: glad that we were able to click and again having
18:12
Speaker 1: honest conversations cam you know, being humble, uh, and being consistent,
18:17
Speaker 1: understanding that it is a hard game and uh, you know,
18:21
Speaker 1: guys will struggle at times, and yeah, and there's gonna
18:24
Speaker 1: be times where you need to pull him aside and
18:26
Speaker 1: with respect hold him accountable. And there's some tough conversations.
18:30
Speaker 1: But as a player, you appreciate that you want honesty,
18:33
Speaker 1: you want you want you want people to shoot you straight,
18:36
Speaker 1: and that's how you earned their trust.
18:38
Speaker 3: I've seen you as a bench coach. I've seen you
18:40
Speaker 3: as a manager now and I didn't have you as
18:42
Speaker 3: a manager, but I've seen you off the field with
18:44
Speaker 3: your family. I can attest if anybody asks you're the
18:48
Speaker 3: same guy as you say consistency. Yeah, yeah, But did
18:52
Speaker 3: you ever ask your old have you since one signed?
18:56
Speaker 3: Have you asked your old buddy Boonie any like particular
19:00
Speaker 3: about one like, hey, does he like this? Does he
19:02
Speaker 3: not like this? Anything that you like? In conversation that
19:06
Speaker 3: you got? Yeah?
19:06
Speaker 2: No, not in details, you know. It was more like
19:10
Speaker 2: what do you got?
19:11
Speaker 3: You know?
19:11
Speaker 1: And everything that I'm that I got not only from Boonie,
19:14
Speaker 1: from a lot of people that I know from the Yankees.
19:16
Speaker 2: He was like, what a great human this guy is?
19:19
Speaker 2: You know, this guy is special.
19:20
Speaker 1: You know, everybody sees what he does on the field,
19:22
Speaker 1: but it's just the quality of the person.
19:25
Speaker 3: Uh.
19:25
Speaker 1: And that's what we're seeing here so far in that
19:27
Speaker 1: you know, last couple of weeks that he's been around
19:30
Speaker 1: every day. That is a humble guy. He's human. Uh
19:34
Speaker 1: And that's basically you're gonna love him. You know, this
19:37
Speaker 1: guy is great.
19:38
Speaker 2: He he he wants to be.
19:40
Speaker 1: The best out there, and that's what we're seeing so far.
19:44
Speaker 1: So that was basically the messaging that I got from
19:47
Speaker 1: him and from a lot of people, from from the Yankees.
19:49
Speaker 3: Is it weird? That mean? Did he come in and
19:51
Speaker 3: he say, you know, I'm probably gonna be here longer
19:54
Speaker 3: than you?
19:56
Speaker 2: He didn't say that, but he didn't say it. Okay,
19:58
Speaker 2: he doesn't have to say it. You know, once you
20:00
Speaker 2: get on this man like.
20:02
Speaker 3: They're already they're already on the way.
20:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, that's that's that comes with
20:08
Speaker 1: the territory, you know. You know, Uh, I'm just glad
20:11
Speaker 1: that I got him.
20:12
Speaker 2: I got him here. I'm here with.
20:13
Speaker 3: Them, so we'll roll with it.
20:16
Speaker 6: Good good, Hey, Mandy, So you talk about last year,
20:20
Speaker 6: a lot of a lot went right when you talk
20:22
Speaker 6: about starting pitching and you talk about Sevy having a
20:24
Speaker 6: great year for you guys, Uh, can Tana was good
20:27
Speaker 6: as well. Now you've got a familiar face, you know
20:29
Speaker 6: that that you're back with in Clay Holmes. It's gonna
20:32
Speaker 6: be in the starting role. He's look great thus far.
20:35
Speaker 6: Are you concerned about the early injuries? I know it's
20:38
Speaker 6: you know, it's a long season. You know, I seen
20:41
Speaker 6: you guys just sign uh my old teammate. Uh, he's
20:47
Speaker 6: an innings eater.
20:47
Speaker 7: He's gonna gobble up a lot of innings.
20:49
Speaker 6: He had a really good good year last year, really
20:51
Speaker 6: kind of shine out of the pen. What are your
20:54
Speaker 6: expectations as far as kind of commanding and controlling the
20:57
Speaker 6: staff and getting getting things back in order.
20:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we feel good. Listen.
21:01
Speaker 1: You hate to see two guys go down before March.
21:06
Speaker 1: You know, but we kept talking about our death. We
21:10
Speaker 1: kept talking about, you know, some of the guys that
21:13
Speaker 1: we were able to bring in, whether it was a
21:14
Speaker 1: Griffin Kennon, you know, Paul Blackburn coming from that freaking injury,
21:19
Speaker 1: Clay Holmes making that transition, Senga, you know, this is
21:23
Speaker 1: a guy that we didn't have last year and knock
21:25
Speaker 1: on wood. Right now, everything is trending in the right direction,
21:29
Speaker 1: so I'm really looking forward to watch Senga pitch for
21:32
Speaker 1: a full year. David Peterson took a huge step forward
21:36
Speaker 1: last year. Lord McGill, this is a guy that I'm
21:39
Speaker 1: really excited about this year.
21:42
Speaker 2: He's been in the league.
21:43
Speaker 1: Now he's up and down, but this is a guy
21:45
Speaker 1: that throws sis at ninety six ninety seven.
21:47
Speaker 2: He's got really good stuff. Like he should be.
21:51
Speaker 1: A guy in this league, and you know we're counting
21:54
Speaker 1: on him. So, yes, we lost montas Manaya should be back,
21:59
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully by the end of April.
22:01
Speaker 3: Uh.
22:02
Speaker 1: He's you know, trending in the right direction as well.
22:04
Speaker 1: I know, I know there's people people talking a lot
22:07
Speaker 1: about our rotation. We feel good with what we have
22:09
Speaker 1: in camp. We feel good with our rotation, we feel
22:11
Speaker 1: good with our depth. We add it Orna. Uh so, uh,
22:16
Speaker 1: we still got long ways to go before we break camp,
22:18
Speaker 1: but uh, we feel good about it.
22:20
Speaker 5: Camp.
22:21
Speaker 3: Spring training should be over now.
22:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm ready to go.
22:23
Speaker 3: It's too cold up there.
22:24
Speaker 1: You don't want to now, true, But yeah, man, the
22:28
Speaker 1: other day we're playing, I was like, Wow, it's like
22:30
Speaker 1: three thirty Man seventeen is like in the sun here.
22:33
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, we felt it that day, trying to keep
22:36
Speaker 2: Gibby awake.
22:37
Speaker 3: Gibb is Gibby was one of my old managers too.
22:39
Speaker 3: I have so many good Gibe stories. I'm glad I
22:41
Speaker 3: got to connect with them. Mandy. I'd like to tell
22:44
Speaker 3: ft fam We're gonna be joining us on a regular basis,
22:47
Speaker 3: hopefully during the season. Right, So, if you're a Mets fan,
22:51
Speaker 3: are Mets up people? We appreciate you joining us, but
22:55
Speaker 3: we're we're we're excited, thanks for joining us today, but
22:58
Speaker 3: we're excited to run the season with you.
23:01
Speaker 2: That's right, looking forward to it all.
23:03
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Speaker 3: I mean we got I mean, first of all, a
24:10
Speaker 3: little swaggy, but Brett Bady obviously we're gonna have to
24:13
Speaker 3: talk about the car. Sneaky big guy. Like I feel
24:16
Speaker 3: like we say this all the time in spring training,
24:18
Speaker 3: but sneaky big he even came in with sleeves.
24:22
Speaker 9: Hey, they make these gym shirts a lot smaller than
24:25
Speaker 9: they need to be.
24:26
Speaker 3: Stop, they make the weights a lot bigger. You're pushing
24:29
Speaker 3: the weights around, but appreciate you coming on.
24:31
Speaker 9: Yeah, thanks for having me first timer, right, first time.
24:34
Speaker 9: I've been watching y'all for a little while. I'll love
24:36
Speaker 9: the show, so first time.
24:38
Speaker 3: Appreciate that. That makes me blush. I made him blush
24:41
Speaker 3: about being a little bit big. He made me blush
24:44
Speaker 3: about f t a little bit of ft love. But
24:48
Speaker 3: obviously the biggest thing. You've said it right before we
24:51
Speaker 3: came on. Here are you looking around the league to
24:54
Speaker 3: see who number seven is so that the Mets can
24:57
Speaker 3: pick them up because now you're number seven. You had
24:59
Speaker 3: twenty two and Juan Soto did a little did a
25:03
Speaker 3: little Christmas in in February.
25:06
Speaker 9: Yeah, he did. And whoever in the league wants to
25:08
Speaker 9: sign with us, who's number seven next year? Feel free?
25:12
Speaker 9: Number sevens available. But no, I mean he was unbelievable
25:16
Speaker 9: about it. Yeah, he was unbelievable about it. He texted
25:19
Speaker 9: me right before his press conference and was like, hey,
25:21
Speaker 9: it's twenty two available and I was like, yeah, you
25:24
Speaker 9: go for a brother, and then he was like, I'll
25:26
Speaker 9: take care of you. And then got down here to
25:28
Speaker 9: spring training and he surprised me with that one day.
25:30
Speaker 9: So it was unbelievable.
25:31
Speaker 3: But all the number sevens out there have to understand
25:35
Speaker 3: the price is gonna go up because I've heard of
25:37
Speaker 3: and cam might might be able to cam Maven who
25:40
Speaker 3: your ex teammate might be able to let you know,
25:43
Speaker 3: lay into this a little bit like rolexes and I
25:46
Speaker 3: you know, a creative one was like a five twenty
25:48
Speaker 3: nine for their kids. Oh you're too young for that
25:51
Speaker 3: kind of stuff. But like, like, this is a legit vehicle.
25:55
Speaker 3: So is the price gonna go up for the next
25:57
Speaker 3: number seven?
25:59
Speaker 7: No?
25:59
Speaker 9: I mean I don't even know about all the unwritten
26:03
Speaker 9: rules or anything. I was just I was blown away
26:06
Speaker 9: by what by what he did that was that was incredible,
26:09
Speaker 9: And partly our travel secretary. It goes back to him too,
26:13
Speaker 9: because he was he was pushing for for the research
26:16
Speaker 9: and everything, and he ended up asking me for my
26:18
Speaker 9: car insurance like the day before, and so I was
26:21
Speaker 9: a little fishy. That's not normal, that's not every Yeah exactly,
26:25
Speaker 9: He's like, get let me get your license and let
26:27
Speaker 9: me get your car insurance and I'm gonna need you
26:29
Speaker 9: available at ten am tomorrow. I was like, that's a
26:31
Speaker 9: little strange.
26:32
Speaker 3: The travel director. The travel director is not always asking
26:36
Speaker 3: big leaguers for there. Did you have to go out
26:38
Speaker 3: to your car to get your insurance car because you'll
26:41
Speaker 3: just you'll just keep it on your person.
26:43
Speaker 9: Yeah, luckily I had a screenshot of it on me.
26:45
Speaker 9: He's like, I need it quickly. I need it quickly.
26:47
Speaker 9: He's like, I'm on the phone with somebody. I need
26:49
Speaker 9: it quickly. I was like, all right, i'll get it too.
26:51
Speaker 9: I was out at BP actually, and he's like, I
26:54
Speaker 9: was like, when I go in, I'll get you.
26:55
Speaker 3: Don't worry about it, all right, all right? I like it?
26:59
Speaker 7: Hey, so Bread, the car was nice. Before I get
27:02
Speaker 7: to it.
27:02
Speaker 6: As I'm sitting here, listen and I'm like, all that bread,
27:05
Speaker 6: Sodo couldn't just put you.
27:06
Speaker 7: On his insurance. I mean he couldn't. Hey like, hey,
27:09
Speaker 7: put me on your insurance. Appreciate the car back.
27:12
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying right there? Enough money, bro,
27:18
Speaker 6: add me to the insurance bro. I'm just saying, you
27:20
Speaker 6: know what I mean. So uh, but no, all jokes aside.
27:24
Speaker 6: I want to get straight into it. You know, as
27:26
Speaker 6: I look at this roster, we know what one Soto
27:29
Speaker 6: has been. We know how huge it is for him
27:31
Speaker 6: to come to that organization. Uh, it's it's extremely huge.
27:34
Speaker 6: I think to get Pete back, I think.
27:36
Speaker 7: His his bad.
27:37
Speaker 6: What he does and what he's done for New York
27:39
Speaker 6: is extremely big. I continue to say that you are
27:44
Speaker 6: the guy in my eyes that I that I think,
27:46
Speaker 6: that I hope that I want to see take that
27:49
Speaker 6: next step I think you have. When I watch your tape,
27:51
Speaker 6: when I watch your film, you literally the the the game.
27:57
Speaker 7: The potential is oozing out of you. Right, what do
28:00
Speaker 7: you do?
28:01
Speaker 6: What do you need to do to take that next step?
28:04
Speaker 6: Because I believe you have the type of guy to be.
28:06
Speaker 6: You could be a guy who'd be going, hey, I
28:08
Speaker 6: need that number one day, you know, I mean you
28:10
Speaker 6: could be as what what do you need to do
28:14
Speaker 6: to take that next step?
28:16
Speaker 3: Yeah?
28:16
Speaker 9: Well, I think first step is showing off the versatility
28:20
Speaker 9: so I can make this roster. I've been working at
28:23
Speaker 9: second base, I've been working at third base, and I
28:25
Speaker 9: actually took a few groundballs at shortstop today. Been doing
28:29
Speaker 9: picks on the backfield at first base, just trying to
28:32
Speaker 9: show off all the versatility so I can make this
28:34
Speaker 9: roster and really show what I can do on the
28:37
Speaker 9: field for sure. But then once I get there, I
28:40
Speaker 9: think it's I think it's about staying within myself. Whenever
28:44
Speaker 9: I'm doing stuff at the most simplest form, I feel
28:47
Speaker 9: like I have the most success. So right now, my
28:50
Speaker 9: approach in spring training have I've had a little bit
28:52
Speaker 9: of success to start, is to swing at strikes and
28:55
Speaker 9: take balls and really keep a really simple pro up there.
29:01
Speaker 9: But yeah, I mean, I'm excited for this year. Man.
29:03
Speaker 9: We got a lot of good talent, a lot of
29:05
Speaker 9: good guys. The clubhouse is great, so I'm excited.
29:10
Speaker 3: Do you look around do you look around to see
29:13
Speaker 3: other teams that need a third baseman? You said versatility,
29:17
Speaker 3: and you're like, oh, well maybe I could play or
29:19
Speaker 3: is that not anything in your in your realm, in
29:22
Speaker 3: your in your thinking.
29:23
Speaker 9: I mean, it's always hard not to. But at the
29:26
Speaker 9: end of the day, like I I got to be
29:28
Speaker 9: where my feet are. So that's with this team. That's
29:31
Speaker 9: with this club, and I just want to make this
29:34
Speaker 9: club better in every part of the game and stuff.
29:38
Speaker 9: So any way I can do to to help this team,
29:42
Speaker 9: I want to do that and I want us to
29:44
Speaker 9: win a World Series.
29:44
Speaker 4: So well, a lot of fans were requesting we get
29:48
Speaker 4: you on here Bratt and we don't always go dive
29:51
Speaker 4: in this deep, but they really want to know, like
29:53
Speaker 4: take take us inside the mind of the swing and
29:56
Speaker 4: the adjustments and stuff like that. So can you give us,
29:59
Speaker 4: you know, admitt it on and what you're thinking about
30:01
Speaker 4: this year and you know if it's all driven from
30:04
Speaker 4: you and people you know that you work with in
30:06
Speaker 4: the off season, or how much gets influenced by players,
30:09
Speaker 4: you know, guys like Lindor Sooto or anyone else on
30:12
Speaker 4: the team that help you out with like finding that
30:14
Speaker 4: kind of perfect swing that you feel like is right
30:16
Speaker 4: for you.
30:18
Speaker 3: Yeah.
30:18
Speaker 9: Well, I mean we're all we're all chasing the perfect
30:21
Speaker 9: swing and it doesn't exist. But I would say I
30:25
Speaker 9: made a lot of I made a lot of swing
30:26
Speaker 9: adjustments this offseason, but I think the biggest thing that
30:30
Speaker 9: I did was just simplify everything. I went back to
30:34
Speaker 9: square one and really tried to shorten my stride, really
30:39
Speaker 9: tried to quiet the head down a little bit, the
30:41
Speaker 9: sway back and forth. I'm keeping my top hand on
30:46
Speaker 9: the bat for longer so it's stronger. And then also
30:50
Speaker 9: just the approach thing. I think I personally, I think
30:53
Speaker 9: the approach thing is is bigger than the swing mechanics,
30:56
Speaker 9: because I think you could have I mean, I take
30:59
Speaker 9: the example Hunter Pence all the time he had a
31:02
Speaker 9: really funky swing, but I mean he had it looked
31:05
Speaker 9: like he had a killer's mentality in the box, and
31:07
Speaker 9: I think that was huge for him. So I think
31:10
Speaker 9: you can kind of swing however you want. It's just
31:13
Speaker 9: more about the approach for me, and I think simplifying
31:15
Speaker 9: my approach swinging at strikes, taking balls and just trying
31:18
Speaker 9: to put the barrel on the ball is huge for
31:20
Speaker 9: me this year. Do you know Hunter, I don't.
31:23
Speaker 3: Well, you hit it right on the head. Yeah, a
31:25
Speaker 3: killer approach, right, and a brutal looking swing. The only
31:28
Speaker 3: thing that was worse than his swing was his on
31:30
Speaker 3: deck swings. He would swing so hard that his belt
31:35
Speaker 3: by the time he got up to the plate would
31:37
Speaker 3: be like his belt loop would be over there. So
31:39
Speaker 3: you're exactly right, Uh huh, killer mentality. One of the
31:42
Speaker 3: most positive people that I've ever seen. You go down
31:45
Speaker 3: to Triple A and speaking of killer like, you think
31:49
Speaker 3: it's sixteen dingers in like two hundred at bats?
31:51
Speaker 9: Yeah?
31:53
Speaker 3: Is your no nothing else for you to prove down there?
31:56
Speaker 3: And is it possible for guys to still get better
31:59
Speaker 3: in the minor league in your.
32:00
Speaker 9: Position one hundred percent. I mean, I'm not gonna complain
32:05
Speaker 9: one day about playing baseball for a living no matter
32:09
Speaker 9: where you are. That's kind of how I look at it.
32:12
Speaker 9: As long as I can play this game, I'm gonna
32:14
Speaker 9: be happy playing it wherever I am. Obviously I want
32:17
Speaker 9: to be in the major leagues helping a major league
32:18
Speaker 9: team win, but I'm gonna be where my feet are
32:21
Speaker 9: so and you can. I feel like you can always
32:24
Speaker 9: get better no matter you're playing a Sunday league game,
32:27
Speaker 9: you can do something better in that game. We're we're
32:28
Speaker 9: all trying to perfect the swing and it's never gonna happen.
32:31
Speaker 3: So, okay, I appreciate that. Cam's got one for you.
32:35
Speaker 6: Okay, Yeah, yeah, two questions for you, because I'm listening
32:38
Speaker 6: to you talk about your approach and your tweak and
32:40
Speaker 6: you say something that I really love. You said, I'm
32:44
Speaker 6: really trying to hold my whole keep that top hand
32:47
Speaker 6: working as long as possible. And I and I you know,
32:50
Speaker 6: I coached this. I've got a seventeen year old son.
32:53
Speaker 6: You know, a lot of guys are chasing, you know,
32:57
Speaker 6: lift and chasing launch.
32:59
Speaker 7: There's a in the Mets or he used to be.
33:01
Speaker 7: Is Colin Hessler still with the Mets organization by any chance?
33:04
Speaker 9: You know, he was our Triple A hitting coach last year,
33:08
Speaker 9: but he's now with the Red Sox.
33:11
Speaker 6: Can you did he give you anything? Because I think
33:13
Speaker 6: that guy is incredible. I think his philosophy and I
33:17
Speaker 6: and I got with him towards the end of my
33:19
Speaker 6: career and I wish, I wish I'd have met him
33:21
Speaker 6: a little bit sooner. And I listen you talk about
33:23
Speaker 6: the top hand. Did you guys have any conversation, because again,
33:27
Speaker 6: you did dominate triple that he was there.
33:29
Speaker 7: Can you just add can you just add anything today
33:32
Speaker 7: about him? About that?
33:33
Speaker 5: Oh?
33:33
Speaker 9: Yeah, oh yeah. I mean he's huge. He he was
33:37
Speaker 9: my Double A hitting coach as well, so he's been
33:41
Speaker 9: a very instrumental part of my career. He has some
33:44
Speaker 9: of the best mixed VP that I've had in my
33:47
Speaker 9: whole career. I mean it's like he's sinking it, he's
33:50
Speaker 9: cutting it, he's throwing sliders, he's doing everything. He's he's
33:53
Speaker 9: really good at mix VP. But yeah, we I mean
33:56
Speaker 9: we work a lot on One of my biggest struggles
33:59
Speaker 9: was inside pitch and and we would work on that
34:02
Speaker 9: white line drill almost that Robbie exactly where he's throwing
34:06
Speaker 9: it at your front hip and you got to keep
34:08
Speaker 9: it fair and stuff like that. But I mean, he
34:11
Speaker 9: was huge for me, and he he was a big
34:13
Speaker 9: proponent on the top hand, staying on the bat and
34:16
Speaker 9: everything like that. But yeah, he was really good for
34:19
Speaker 9: me for sure.
34:20
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, Brad, I'm gonna jump in with my
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Speaker 4: last one for you, then Krats will finish here. So
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Speaker 4: I know you worked with Troy till Lwitzki at one
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Speaker 4: point on d Is that right?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, that's correct.
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Speaker 4: Okay, So how I just wanted to know how is
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Speaker 4: he as a coach. Obviously he was a star player
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Speaker 4: for a while and then he was training Mookie Betts
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Speaker 4: a little bit at shortstop this offseason.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I know, I wish I would have known that
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Speaker 9: I would have gone over there and worked out with him,
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Speaker 9: but I haven't. I haven't, uh, I haven't gone over
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Speaker 9: to Texas in a little bit. But when I did
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Speaker 9: go over there, he was great. He was great for sure.
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Speaker 9: He would he would take me through the footwork stuff,
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Speaker 9: the hand stuff that he used to do, and he
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Speaker 9: would just I love picking his brain about shortstop third
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Speaker 9: base stuff like that, how he always used to throw
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Speaker 9: on the run and just be athletic. Love picking his
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Speaker 9: brain about that. And then we also did some hitting
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Speaker 9: stuff together when I went over there too, So yeah,
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Speaker 9: he was awesome.
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Speaker 3: All right, we'll transition right into that. I got a
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Speaker 3: couple of quick hitter questions for you too. Who was
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Speaker 3: the guy? Do you have a good story about a
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Speaker 3: guy that you met him baseball or non baseball that
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Speaker 3: you were like, WHOA, like I met that guy because
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Speaker 3: you were talking kind of about Mookie there, like is there.
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Speaker 9: Some yeah, maybe, yeah, maybe in twenty twenty three, so
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Speaker 9: I guess two years ago. I got called up from
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Speaker 9: Triple A, like two weeks into the season and hit
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Speaker 9: a little I was facing Dustin May in La. It
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Speaker 9: was like my first game hit a little punch shot too,
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Speaker 9: just like right over Freddie and I get to first
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Speaker 9: or whatever, He's like, I gave you that one right there.
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Speaker 9: I gave you that And I was like, no, you didn't.
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Speaker 9: And I was like iron that or something like that.
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Speaker 9: And but we just got to talking and I was like, damn,
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Speaker 9: this is this is Freddie right here.
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Speaker 3: It's Freddy.
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Speaker 9: It was cool.
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Speaker 3: It was cool. That's a cool that's a cool moment.
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Speaker 3: All right. If you had two rookie rookie cards that
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Speaker 3: you could have, whether you collect baseball cards or not,
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Speaker 3: two rookie cards that you would be like, yes, like
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Speaker 3: I need these entire history of baseball.
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Speaker 9: Oh, history of baseball, not recent. I mean, the Pittsburgh
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Speaker 9: Pirates are gonna give me something crazy for the for
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Speaker 9: the Paul Skans, right, They're gonna give me, yeah, get
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Speaker 9: the sweet and everything. My girlfriends from Pittsburgh, so that'd
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Speaker 9: be perfect. Okay, So Paul Skins cards, Yeah, Paul Skans No,
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Speaker 9: probably a I was a huge fan of Josh Hamilton
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Speaker 9: growing up, just living in Texas. Would I would want
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Speaker 9: one of his?
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Speaker 3: For sure?
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Speaker 9: Lefty swing, sweet lefty swing.
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Speaker 3: I like that. Yeah,