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Guardians 1B Rhys Hoskins joins FT + Cam Schlittler calls out fan behavior ahead of Red Sox series · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Let's talk Guardians with Reee Hoskins joining us right now
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Speaker 1: on ft rees.
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Speaker 2: Great to see you, man, How you doing. You having
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Speaker 2: fun there?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, having a lot of fun. Winning's fun. Playing with
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Speaker 3: really good players is also fun. So yeah, we're off
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Speaker 3: to a good start. See we can keep it going.
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Speaker 3: It's good to see you guys.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, great to see you, dude. What's it like out there?
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Speaker 1: I mean you've hit a few different organizations. If you're
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Speaker 1: sitting with someone there, like what makes Cleveland different? What
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Speaker 1: would be one thing you noticed there that you maybe
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Speaker 1: haven't seen elsewhere, haven't seen accentuated the way it is there.
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Speaker 3: I'll probably give an easy answer here and say Jose Ramirez, Yeah, no,
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Speaker 3: just just great energy. And I think that kind of
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Speaker 3: rings into the managers offs to a voter, right like
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Speaker 3: I've gotten I've gotten a chance to for some really
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Speaker 3: good managers. And he's right up there with with Rob
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Speaker 3: Thompson and Pat Murphy. So yeah, really good vibes to start.
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Speaker 3: Kind of forget what it's like to play in the
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Speaker 3: cold after being in the Dome in Milwaukee the last
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Speaker 3: few years. But yeah, we're we're off to a good
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Speaker 3: start and see what we can keep it going.
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Speaker 4: Like I said, Yeah, so you've gotten soft playing in
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Speaker 4: the Dome. I get it. I get it. That's fine.
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Speaker 5: But you've played with you've played with m vps before.
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Speaker 5: Compare jose Ramirez to those guys. I'm not saying one's
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Speaker 5: better or worse, but Compare them to Bryce, Compare them
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Speaker 5: to Yelly. Compare like the different guys that you've seen
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Speaker 5: up close on a day in and day out basis.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think you know, you said Yelly
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Speaker 3: and you said Bryce and Cutch like those different guys.
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Speaker 3: Those guys are a little different than Hosey because Josey
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Speaker 3: does everything. I'm not saying that those guys don't do
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Speaker 3: that everything, but he plays a premium position. I think
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Speaker 3: he had eight bags last week, five homers and also hits,
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Speaker 3: you know, from both sides of the plate.
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Speaker 6: So I've played.
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Speaker 3: Against him enough and now you know, I've gotten to
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Speaker 3: play with him for five to six weeks to like,
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Speaker 3: I just don't see a week part of his game.
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Speaker 3: And that's you know why he's consistently one of the
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Speaker 3: top two or three players, and the league or the
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Speaker 3: American League picked, you know, take your pick every single year.
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Speaker 3: That he's that he's been in the big league, So
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Speaker 3: just broke the games record for you know, this organization.
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Speaker 3: Like he checks all the boxes.
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Speaker 4: Reece.
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Speaker 7: Why did teams pitched him? This is not a knock
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Speaker 7: on anybody else in the lineup. But what why why
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Speaker 7: do you ever throw him a strike? You just said
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Speaker 7: he had five homers, eight or eight storm the whole
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Speaker 7: deal last week. And this is not a knock on
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Speaker 7: anyone hitting behind him. Trust me, I hit behind Barry Bonds.
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Speaker 7: They walked him two hundred and seventy times. So why
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Speaker 7: why do teams ever throw hose? Well, listen, I get
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Speaker 7: two outs nobody on. But in a big situation, I'm
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Speaker 7: not throwing this dude anything close to hit.
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Speaker 4: I'm making him chase one over his head.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good question. I hope teams don't exactly
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Speaker 3: figure that out, you know, for this for the sake
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Speaker 3: of us. But you know, just his presence in the
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Speaker 3: box like makes makes pictures do things that they're not
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Speaker 3: trying to do. Quite frankly, I think that's how the
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Speaker 3: psychology of hit or verse picture works. They know that
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Speaker 3: they make a mistake to him that you know that
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Speaker 3: he's gonna make them pay and sometimes you end up
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Speaker 3: getting you know, more pitches in the heart of the
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Speaker 3: plate because of that.
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Speaker 5: Can you see why he wants to stay in Cleveland.
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Speaker 5: I mean he signed I think three extensions now if
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Speaker 5: I'm not incorrect, And you see him on a day
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Speaker 5: in and day out basis in the freaking freezing cold,
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Speaker 5: you guys can see your breath. He doesn't like the cold,
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Speaker 5: but there's short arms to his short arms just allow
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Speaker 5: him to not ever get cold in Cleveland and want
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Speaker 5: to go to another city to see free agency.
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Speaker 6: No, I think.
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Speaker 3: You know, obviously he's been here his whole career. There's
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Speaker 3: a certain level of comfort that you gain from being
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Speaker 3: around the same people and you know, living in the
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Speaker 3: same home, you know, during the summer for X amount
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Speaker 3: of years straight. So I know that's a huge thing
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Speaker 3: for him. But he also just takes a lot of
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Speaker 3: pride and you know, some of the the numbers that
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Speaker 3: he's been able to put up and and you know,
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Speaker 3: etching his name into some of the record books here
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Speaker 3: in this organization.
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Speaker 6: He just takes a lot of pride in that.
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Speaker 3: And then you know, I haven't gotten a chance to
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Speaker 3: play here a ton yet, But people talk about the
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Speaker 3: fans and what they mean to him and what he
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Speaker 3: means to them, and that's something I think he takes
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Speaker 3: a lot of pride into.
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Speaker 5: There's a Reye. Hoskins interview. But I have one more
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Speaker 5: Jose Ramirez question, because I think he's the most underrated
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Speaker 5: player in the game. Have you played him in Mario
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Speaker 5: Kart yet? Because he is elite in Mario Kart?
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Speaker 3: I haven't yet. I do know that I've heard that.
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Speaker 3: I'll wait my turn. I got to get some more
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Speaker 3: practicing though, too.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I mean I.
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Speaker 6: Grew up in the nineties. I think I have to
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Speaker 6: love Mario Kart.
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Speaker 2: You know, I agree? What are the What are the
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Speaker 2: kids playing?
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Speaker 6: Though?
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Speaker 2: Like some of these younger guardians kids, what are they playing?
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Speaker 3: I'm not a gamer, so I couldn't really tell you.
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Speaker 3: Good to tell you let's.
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Speaker 7: Hit on some of those kids, I mean the latter
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Speaker 7: Britdo you guys have some kids that have come up
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Speaker 7: this year and really done some special things. What stands
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Speaker 7: out to you about some of the as you call
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Speaker 7: him kids, I mean, you know they're listen, they're young
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Speaker 7: enough to be my kids, So I guess I can
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Speaker 7: call him kids. You're not quite that old yet, Reese.
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Speaker 7: So what stands out about some of these kids, I
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Speaker 7: think just.
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Speaker 6: Their eager their eagerness to get better.
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Speaker 3: I think a lot of them realize that they're going
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Speaker 3: to have some good opportunity up here at the big
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Speaker 3: league level.
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Speaker 6: And they don't want to waste that.
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Speaker 3: And obviously with youth comes a lot of energy, but
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Speaker 3: also comes some some mistakes on the baseball field. But
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Speaker 3: you know, their their willingness to kind of keep their
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Speaker 3: head down and you know, learn from some of the mistakes.
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Speaker 3: Is why I think we've gotten off to a good start.
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Speaker 3: We're getting, you know, a lot of good production from
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Speaker 3: a lot of different guys, and I think that kind
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Speaker 3: of helps a young team accumulate wins.
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Speaker 5: The best piece of advice you have for a young
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Speaker 5: player gone through what you've gone through in your career.
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Speaker 5: I won't even consider you like a salty vet. But
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Speaker 5: just like a vet.
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Speaker 3: Vet, you know, I think on the hitting side, but
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Speaker 3: you can spin this, I think to anybody that plays
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Speaker 3: his sport. But I always try to remind guys. I
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Speaker 3: had Jay Bruce tell me this, but he was just like, yo, dude,
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Speaker 3: you just got to keep getting to the batter's box,
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Speaker 3: like some some of the hardest parts of this game
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Speaker 3: or what happens in between the times that you're in
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Speaker 3: the box because of the failure, right, and we maybe
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Speaker 3: don't talk super nice to ourselves all the time, but
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Speaker 3: the game has a way of presenting kind of the
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Speaker 3: same situations even if you fail at them to you.
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Speaker 3: So as long as you keep getting up there, you know,
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Speaker 3: supporting your teammates in between, and things tend to work out.
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Speaker 6: The talent tends to come out.
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Speaker 5: We see a lot of small market teams locking up
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Speaker 5: their young guys, pirates, brewers, blah blah blah, on and
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Speaker 5: on and on. You're with a lot of young guys
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Speaker 5: in a small market. Again, what do you have to
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Speaker 5: say about the extensions that these guys are being offered
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Speaker 5: or even signing based on what happened in your career.
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Speaker 5: We're right before free agency, everybody knows you tore your
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Speaker 5: ACL and it hasn't gone as well since you've hit
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Speaker 5: free agency up until now. But what how what's your
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Speaker 5: viewpoint on it? If a young guy comes up to
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Speaker 5: you and says something to you about that.
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Speaker 3: I think every you know, every guy finds himself in
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Speaker 3: their own circumstance. I know that's probably a cop out answer,
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Speaker 3: but every everybody has different things going on, you know,
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Speaker 3: off the field or you know different just yeah, like
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Speaker 3: I said, just different things that if they feel like
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Speaker 3: it's going to put them in a nice position to
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Speaker 3: allow them to have a successful career or you know,
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Speaker 3: take care of family members, like nobody can nobody can
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Speaker 3: say that's a bad thing.
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Speaker 6: I think.
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Speaker 3: Think what I always try to tell guys is just
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Speaker 3: like make sure you have all the information.
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Speaker 6: You know, what things are you maybe passing up? What
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Speaker 6: are you giving up?
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Speaker 3: You know if you take something like this, But also
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Speaker 3: like what are you you know, why is this a
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Speaker 3: good thing for you? Just making sure that you're going
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Speaker 3: through the full exercise of should I say yes, should
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Speaker 3: I say no? But I think each guy has its
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Speaker 3: own circumstance that you can't put throw a blanket statement
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Speaker 3: on on you know, the extension idea.
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Speaker 4: Reece.
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Speaker 7: You've played now the last couple of years for two
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Speaker 7: of the smaller market teams, Milwaukee and Cleveland. Is what's
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Speaker 7: the similarity between the two because both every year, oh,
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Speaker 7: they're not going to be any good, and then boom,
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Speaker 7: both of them make the playoffs. Both of them do
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Speaker 7: something to surprise everyone. What's the similarities between the two organizations.
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Speaker 3: I think it starts with pitching and just like belief
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Speaker 3: in young players. I think the development and scouting in
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Speaker 3: both places probably is a little bit ahead of some
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Speaker 3: other places around the league. And I think that's why
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Speaker 3: you see young players on both teams be put into
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Speaker 3: position and then also succeed at a young age.
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Speaker 6: In the league.
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Speaker 3: So just like a really big emphasis on letting young
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Speaker 3: players play, but also finding value in areas of the
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Speaker 3: game that maybe some teams don't do that because of
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Speaker 3: you know, let's call it star personnel that they have.
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Speaker 3: Maybe just some different things are important, taking the extra base,
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Speaker 3: getting dirt ball reads, bunting. Obviously, I was on a
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Speaker 3: team in Milwaukee that loves to bunt and cast some chaos.
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Speaker 3: So just some different ways to play the game, all
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Speaker 3: are effective. And I think it just depends on the
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Speaker 3: personnel that you have trying to figure out how to
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Speaker 3: win the most games.
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Speaker 4: What does Steven vote like in that clubhouse? Is he
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Speaker 4: hands on?
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Speaker 5: Because we play We played together, and I knew what
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Speaker 5: he was like as a teammate, but as a manager,
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Speaker 5: you just never know, Like, this guy was super awesome,
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Speaker 5: funny and he's in the clubhouse being funny. Now as
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Speaker 5: a manager, is he hands off and is he like, you, guys,
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Speaker 5: go do it?
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Speaker 4: Or is he coming in there and yucking it up
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Speaker 4: with the boys?
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna guess is pretty similar to the way he
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Speaker 3: was as a player. I don't think that you can
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Speaker 3: just really turn that off, especially in a clubhouse setting.
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Speaker 3: But I think he does a good job of letting
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Speaker 3: his players, you know, police and not manage, but police
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Speaker 3: and just create an environment that guys want to be
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Speaker 3: a part of. I think, you know, playing against him
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Speaker 3: a little bit of my career too, it seemed like
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Speaker 3: he was unbelievable at that creating that environment for guys
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Speaker 3: to succeed. So he definitely leads us in that regard
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Speaker 3: and make sure that we're ready to play the game.
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Speaker 3: But you know, he's also aware enough that a lot
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Speaker 3: of those good things, a lot of that secret sauce
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Speaker 3: comes from players initiating that.
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Speaker 4: Reece.
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Speaker 7: Recently, you're one of your old guys decided to get
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Speaker 7: engaged on the field Austin Hedges. Did anyone say, hey,
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Speaker 7: Austin like this, No, don't do it. This is a
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Speaker 7: bad idea. You shouldn't do this on the field. You
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Speaker 7: sho this more privately. Did anyone say anything to him,
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Speaker 7: Because most of the time, as a player, when people
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Speaker 7: get engaged on the big screen, they do the one knee.
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Speaker 7: Everyone's like no, say no, say no. Did anybody say
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Speaker 7: to Hedgie like, hey man, maybe this ain't the best
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Speaker 7: idea in the world.
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Speaker 6: No, he was pretty dead set on it. You know.
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Speaker 3: We kind of let Hegi do Hedgi things because that's good.
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Speaker 3: It seemed to put him in a good position so
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Speaker 3: far in his career and his life. I think I
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Speaker 3: think Lexi's a Cleveland gal, so I'm sure there's there's
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Speaker 3: a little bit of good history there for both of them.
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Speaker 3: And we didn't see the actual question, but a big
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Speaker 3: group of us we're kind of hanging out in the
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Speaker 3: dugout waiting for him to you know, kind of.
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Speaker 6: Wave us out and we got to celebrate with him.
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Speaker 3: Cool life moment for them, and I hope they had
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Speaker 3: a wonderful night afterward, got got to spend some time
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Speaker 3: together after the day game.
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Speaker 5: Wait, wait, he had the ring? I heard he had
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Speaker 5: the ring for a long time. Was there like was
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Speaker 5: he waiting for like a win? Was he waiting for
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Speaker 5: a day where he got like two hits because you know, Hedgie,
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Speaker 5: Hedgie ain't in two hits for a while, So what's
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Speaker 5: what was he waiting for? Was he like, nope, drop dead,
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Speaker 5: We're doing it on April nineteenth.
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Speaker 3: I think he just picked a day that we were
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Speaker 3: going to be home and also home the next day obviously,
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Speaker 3: you know, the day game allows us to have a
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Speaker 3: little bit more time.
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Speaker 6: So yeah, he was.
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Speaker 3: He was dead set on it as for tomorrow, even
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Speaker 3: if we lost. Obviously, I think he said this post game,
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Speaker 3: but like a win and on that day just makes
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Speaker 3: everything a little bit better. So you know, worked that
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Speaker 3: worked out for race.
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Speaker 5: Are you a good wedding gift giver? And do you
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Speaker 5: think you've been on the team long enough to be
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Speaker 5: invited to their wedding?
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Speaker 3: I don't think I've been on the team long enough,
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Speaker 3: you know, Well, we'll try to crack that roster as
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Speaker 3: we go throughout the year.
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Speaker 4: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I don't think I'm a terribly good gift giver, So
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Speaker 3: I'll give the credit to my wife on that, as
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Speaker 3: I should with a lot of other things. But she
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Speaker 3: she tends to take care of us in that regard.
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Speaker 7: Smart That's reset's the smartest thing you've said in this
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Speaker 7: entire interview, is what you just said right.
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Speaker 4: There in Cleveland? Do you know what the race they
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Speaker 4: have on the field is? Do you know the race
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Speaker 4: they have?
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Speaker 3: I do know about the hot dog race my daughter.
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Speaker 3: It's my favorite. It's my daughter's favorite thing about the game.
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Speaker 3: So we definitely know about the hot dog race.
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Speaker 7: Okay, So when I come to a game in Cleveland,
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Speaker 7: am I allowed to dress up as a hot dog
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Speaker 7: and try to run you over again? Like I did
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Speaker 7: when I was the sausage in Milwaukee? And you tried,
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Speaker 7: you almost got run over by the train on the tracks,
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Speaker 7: but luckily I was nimble enough to get around you.
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Speaker 7: So have you recovered from that? And will you be
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Speaker 7: nervous if I run the hot dog race?
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Speaker 3: A little nervous, yeah, but I feel pretty good about
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Speaker 3: the hot dog suit versus sausage suit. So you know,
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Speaker 3: if you run into me, you probably feel like you're
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Speaker 3: running into a brick wall.
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Speaker 7: That's why I went around you. You cost me the race.
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Speaker 7: You cost me the race because I had to go
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Speaker 7: around you.
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Speaker 3: For sure, it has to be someone else's fault. But
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Speaker 3: hey man, let's let's let's make it happen and we'll
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Speaker 3: get you some redemption.
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Speaker 7: Wait, do I go ketchup mustard? Relish or onion?
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Speaker 4: And they have four? Right, they have ketchup mustard?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no relish. But now there's a spicy a spicy mustard.
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Speaker 3: That's the change that might fit you a little better.
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Speaker 3: A spicy mustard. Okay, that's yeah, that's fairy.
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Speaker 5: I like that. That's a good analysis. That's a good
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Speaker 5: scattered report on what condiment AJ would be spicy mustard.
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Speaker 5: Not many people like it, but the people who do
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Speaker 5: and get to know.
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Speaker 4: It really like it. Good for you. Do you have
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Speaker 4: any gray poopong?
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Speaker 5: Yes, and overly and thinks they're overly rich, but really
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Speaker 5: is just an old Florida redneck at heart. But my
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Speaker 5: question is about another young guy, Parker Messex almost no
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Speaker 5: no bid. I heard from someone in your clubhouse that
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Speaker 5: you said at the beginning of the ninth whoa, he's
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Speaker 5: got a no?
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Speaker 4: No? Is that true or not true?
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Speaker 6: Come on, man.
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Speaker 3: I did realize in a fifth though, and I was
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Speaker 3: opening the clubhouse or up in the weight room, just
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Speaker 3: kind of trying to stay ready for the game, and
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Speaker 3: I noticed and I was like, well, I got to
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Speaker 3: stay in the dugout. I'm as ready as I'm going
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Speaker 3: to be. If I have to pinch it in this game,
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Speaker 3: I can't leave. So I didn't say it out loud,
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Speaker 3: but I did have the thoughts. I know that the
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Speaker 3: line is typically you got to say that out loud, and.
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Speaker 6: Now what A this guy's nasty man?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's I think he's going first tomorrow, so we
18:16
Speaker 3: feel like we got a good chance to win when
18:17
Speaker 3: he's on the mound. And I think the whole world
18:21
Speaker 3: kind of got to see that, you know, the other
18:22
Speaker 3: night when he took that into the ninth.
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Speaker 5: Was there anybody in the dugout who like didn't pee
18:27
Speaker 5: the whole time because they're like, well, I can't move, Like,
18:30
Speaker 5: was there any like residual effects from.
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Speaker 3: I think there was a couple of us. Yeah, No,
18:34
Speaker 3: I think there was a couple of us line line
18:37
Speaker 3: in the bathroom. When we got into the clubhouse. Everybody
18:42
Speaker 3: was going to get a new piece of gum or
18:44
Speaker 3: that type of thing. So, you know, like like we
18:47
Speaker 3: baseball players, everybody's trying to figure out how to do
18:49
Speaker 3: their part.
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Speaker 2: It's good staff.
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Speaker 4: I don't believe in it.
18:54
Speaker 2: What do you believe?
18:55
Speaker 4: I don't believe in that Jinks stuff. That doesn't matter.
18:58
Speaker 4: I don't believe in it.
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Speaker 5: You're easily the most superstitious of all four of us
19:03
Speaker 5: right here.
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Speaker 4: I don't believe in that one. It doesn't matter if
19:06
Speaker 4: you don't believe in it or not. Reece, you can
19:10
Speaker 4: say it. Listen. I played with Mark Burley.
19:12
Speaker 7: Mark Burley threw a perfect game after telling me he
19:14
Speaker 7: was gonna throw a perfect game, and he talked about
19:16
Speaker 7: it for nine innings into my face as he was
19:18
Speaker 7: throwing the perfect game. So at that moment of my life,
19:21
Speaker 7: at that moment of my life, I lost all belief
19:24
Speaker 7: in superstitions of perfect game. And then about a year
19:26
Speaker 7: later I called Phil Humbers and I was superstitious as
19:29
Speaker 7: hell and did the exact same stuff. So take that
19:31
Speaker 7: for what it's worth.
19:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, you just got it.
19:35
Speaker 4: It takes what it takes.
19:36
Speaker 6: Sometimes you can talk about it. Sometimes you can't.
19:38
Speaker 7: I know this as a broadcaster. If it's happening and
19:41
Speaker 7: I mention it, and then of course it always happens.
19:44
Speaker 7: Then the other guy look at you and say it's
19:46
Speaker 7: your fault.
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Speaker 4: Scott. You said it. You brought it up, and.
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Speaker 2: So will social media if you check it. Beware, beware, Reese. Great,
19:53
Speaker 2: catch it up and your man really enjoyed the combo.
19:54
Speaker 2: Hope you did too. Good to see it.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, great to see you, guys. Appreciate the time, and
20:00
Speaker 6: we'll see you around.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you'll see mister spicy Mustard soon. That's right, Thank you, brother.
20:05
Speaker 2: Appreciate it all right, guys.
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Speaker 8: I'm looking at Goody, and I'm thinking, Goodie, what do
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Speaker 8: you think is that close? Because we're not I'm not
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Speaker 8: trying to challenge anything.
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Speaker 6: I don't want to challenge anything as well.
21:19
Speaker 8: And so it was just a natural reaction like Goodie,
21:21
Speaker 8: like what do you think, Goodie? And then the umpired
21:24
Speaker 8: and I get it.
21:24
Speaker 6: It's I can't.
21:25
Speaker 8: I got to come up with a different signal maybe
21:27
Speaker 8: of like Goodie that I thought that was good, and
21:30
Speaker 8: then I did it again on accent like I didn't
21:32
Speaker 8: even mean to challenge it the next inning. I think
21:35
Speaker 8: I did the next inning and where I'm like, hey,
21:36
Speaker 8: what do you like?
21:37
Speaker 6: Is that close?
21:38
Speaker 8: And then he challenged. I'm like, oh, I don't want
21:40
Speaker 8: to burn a challenge there. I was just asking Goodie.
21:42
Speaker 8: But so I have to come up with something so
21:45
Speaker 8: I can communicate with Goody, like I thought that was good.
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Speaker 4: What do you think?
21:47
Speaker 6: Because I do not want to challenge anything personally.
21:51
Speaker 1: That's Michael Lorenz under the Rockies, trying to figure out
21:54
Speaker 1: how to let his catcher Hunter Goodman know like should
21:57
Speaker 1: be challenged that way, guys, I know you guys are
21:59
Speaker 1: both catch or what if he does something else like
22:03
Speaker 1: taps somewhere else on his body for a check.
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Speaker 7: Here's the thing is the catcher thought it was a strike,
22:07
Speaker 7: he would have already done this, So Michael Lorenzen doesn't
22:10
Speaker 7: need to ask.
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Speaker 2: You don't want the picture to help at all.
22:13
Speaker 7: As I told Adam later and on Saturday night, pictures
22:15
Speaker 7: should never be allowed to challenge.
22:17
Speaker 1: But can't the picture just like say hey, like I thought,
22:19
Speaker 1: you don't even.
22:20
Speaker 4: Want because she'll know if I go like this he
22:23
Speaker 4: knows right away.
22:24
Speaker 5: Yeah, hey, j did you ever give Did you ever
22:27
Speaker 5: give a signal to your bench when the ball was
22:30
Speaker 5: on the plate or umpire miss the call?
22:33
Speaker 4: Of course?
22:33
Speaker 5: Well was it always the same your entire career or
22:35
Speaker 5: was it different at different times?
22:36
Speaker 4: It just depended on who I was with and who
22:38
Speaker 4: the coaches were.
22:40
Speaker 5: And the one year I had I had a sign
22:42
Speaker 5: where I would I would pull on my helmet. Normally
22:45
Speaker 5: it was like I would just I would just adjust
22:47
Speaker 5: my mask. What if that was your sign? What if
22:50
Speaker 5: your normal sign was just and you were just used
22:52
Speaker 5: to it all the time. I guess you would stop.
22:55
Speaker 2: But you switch it, guys, there's a million things you
23:00
Speaker 2: can do.
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Speaker 4: Stop. I don't understand why this is such a big deal.
23:03
Speaker 4: You stop.
23:04
Speaker 2: But okay, let's fast forward.
23:05
Speaker 1: Even if they're like, you know what, we're gonna let
23:07
Speaker 1: Lorenzo in a couple times a game, just communicate with
23:09
Speaker 1: Goodman and be like, oh I think that might have
23:11
Speaker 1: been something.
23:11
Speaker 2: Okay, great, so don't tap your head.
23:13
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying, do something else.
23:15
Speaker 1: I mean, he's indicated that, but he's like, maybe I
23:17
Speaker 1: have to change it. It's like, we love Michael, but no,
23:19
Speaker 1: you definitely have to change it. The umpire is just
23:21
Speaker 1: doing his job, and the catcher also is confused.
23:25
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're four or five starts into the season. How
23:28
Speaker 5: do you not how do you not have that?
23:29
Speaker 4: Like, oh, I gotta stop doing that.
23:31
Speaker 5: That's That's where I'm kind of like, how did we
23:34
Speaker 5: get to this point where like he hasn't done this
23:36
Speaker 5: the whole year, or like guys who like touched the
23:40
Speaker 5: back of their hat, Like, you just can't. You can't
23:42
Speaker 5: go on an auction and have an itchy face because
23:45
Speaker 5: you're like, no, right, I know, I was just itching.
23:50
Speaker 1: You can't do the timeout signal if you don't have
23:52
Speaker 1: one in other sports back for a few minutes. Can
23:59
Speaker 1: you of the board of Schlittler there and the note
24:03
Speaker 1: from Joel Sherman.
24:07
Speaker 2: So Cam.
24:08
Speaker 1: Schlitzler said a subset of Red Sox fans continue to
24:11
Speaker 1: harass him in his family, on social media and as
24:14
Speaker 1: the writer. He gets ready for his first Fenway start
24:16
Speaker 1: as a Yankee, he already is throwing heat. There's a
24:20
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff in there. He's like saying he's not
24:24
Speaker 1: nervous about it, blah blah blah, but he doesn't like it.
24:26
Speaker 1: He's been very vocal about this since last year, which
24:29
Speaker 1: was his first year. He's been really freaking good so
24:32
Speaker 1: far in the bigs. The only thing I'll say, it's awful.
24:36
Speaker 1: We don't condone it. The only thing I will say
24:37
Speaker 1: is doesn't like every player and deal with some of
24:41
Speaker 1: this stuff.
24:41
Speaker 7: Everybody for deals with something. Everybody, I mean announcers deal
24:44
Speaker 7: with it.
24:44
Speaker 4: I get it.
24:45
Speaker 7: Every time I do a game on Saturdays, people come
24:47
Speaker 7: at you and just you got to tell people to
24:51
Speaker 7: get off of it. Then you got to tell your
24:54
Speaker 7: family and friends. The man, he'sier said than done. I
24:57
Speaker 7: get it. It should not be like this. You should not.
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Speaker 4: If you go after somebody on social media. I'm sorry
25:04
Speaker 4: you suck.
25:05
Speaker 2: You suck, but it suck if you do it.
25:07
Speaker 4: If you don't do it, out.
25:08
Speaker 2: Don't need to do it, I know. But people are
25:10
Speaker 2: gonna see that and then just go harder. That's just
25:14
Speaker 2: how the you have to mom's.
25:15
Speaker 1: Basement people work, Yeah, just ignore it or write, but
25:19
Speaker 1: it sucks.
25:20
Speaker 4: Your family has to deal with it. People have to
25:22
Speaker 4: deal with it.
25:22
Speaker 2: Just sucks, but it's not their job.
25:24
Speaker 1: So the one thing is, like, I know everyone likes
25:25
Speaker 1: to be like, oh I have to show everyone every
25:27
Speaker 1: single thing I'm doing, Like you don't have to participate,
25:31
Speaker 1: or you can have a burner account where you actually
25:33
Speaker 1: spend your time on there and no one knows how
25:35
Speaker 1: to reach you. KD and many others. Wasn't there the
25:38
Speaker 1: NBA GM who had a burner? There's so much of that, So, yeah, Kratz,
25:43
Speaker 1: is it the best answer? No, But the one thing
25:45
Speaker 1: I'm sure of is we're nowhere close to being able
25:48
Speaker 1: to police or catch that. So the only great answer
25:50
Speaker 1: right now is you're a family member of his, just
25:55
Speaker 1: don't have it, I mean, or don't look at it,
25:58
Speaker 1: whatever it is. It sucks, but it's really the only
26:00
Speaker 1: thing that you can do because then they can't really
26:02
Speaker 1: reach you from there. Somebody is like, you know, finding
26:05
Speaker 1: your dress or your number or whatever you can get
26:07
Speaker 1: the cops involve on that.
26:08
Speaker 2: Social media kind of tough.
26:11
Speaker 5: We had a line. Just don't fans. I hope you
26:14
Speaker 5: don't cross the line. But people like family friends of
26:18
Speaker 5: Cam Schlitler, sorry, like, just be family and friends with him,
26:22
Speaker 5: don't necessarily be a tweeter with him, don't be a
26:26
Speaker 5: social media cohort or anything, and get off of it
26:30
Speaker 5: because people just are relentless.
26:32
Speaker 4: We hate the Mets.
26:33
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure that's going to be on Twitter today
26:36
Speaker 5: that FT hates the Mets. I could really care less
26:39
Speaker 5: about the Mets.
26:40
Speaker 1: I think you're going to be okay today. I think
26:42
Speaker 1: Mets fans right now hate the Mets. So everyone's greeting
26:46
Speaker 1: together as they're watching, whether you're a fan of them
26:49
Speaker 1: or not.
26:50
Speaker 5: Scott hurt people, hurt people, Okay, So right now Mets
26:54
Speaker 5: fans are hurt, so they'll come at they'll come at
26:56
Speaker 5: AJ more than me, because.
26:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh I don't that.
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Speaker 1: Ten years ago I was on MLB Network and I said,
27:02
Speaker 1: I think they might be wasting my Trat's prime. Those
27:05
Speaker 1: people don't bother me anymore.
27:07
Speaker 2: Bye too soon.