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Max Muncy, Mookie Betts React to Shohei Ohtani's Exchange with Dalton Rushing · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Seeing Smitty not there, I think we I I in specific,
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  Speaker 1: took for granted how much he carried for us spent
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  Speaker 1: on the pitching side, and now seeing Rush kind of
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  Speaker 1: going through it and seeing like how hard it is
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  Speaker 1: for him and how he's stepping up and he is,
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  Speaker 1: He's doing his best. Like he's from he needs experience, right,
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  Speaker 1: and this is this is the experience. And I feel
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  Speaker 1: like he's learning on the fly. He is getting better.
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  Speaker 1: He's getting better, and it takes a little time, right,
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  Speaker 1: But you know, seeing not having Smitty and seeing what
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  Speaker 1: he did on the for the pitching staff on top
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  Speaker 1: of hitting, makes.
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  Speaker 2: Me really appreciate.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, Will Smith really does do a lot for us,
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  Speaker 1: and now having Rush trying to step in and do that, that's.
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  Speaker 2: Really hard for him, especially being a rookie.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, let's start by saying Rush is doing an
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  Speaker 3: amazing job. He's doing amazing, an amazing job.
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  Speaker 4: But like you said, it does make you appreciate exactly
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  Speaker 4: what Will does. And you know Will was the same
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  Speaker 4: when he was at that stage. Will had to learn
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  Speaker 4: and you know Will had to learn with kersh you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, which is much tougher, a little bit tougher.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I mean, you know, and I think, but
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  Speaker 4: I also think that's one of the things that was
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  Speaker 4: good for for Will And I think, you know, you
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  Speaker 4: look at what Rush is doing with Shohey and with Yama,
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  Speaker 4: like it's good for him to understand. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: we talked about this in the enfield all the time,
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  Speaker 4: like why we call in certain pitches and his situations
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  Speaker 4: and you know, not that we're second guessing anybody, but
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  Speaker 4: you just you start getting this feel for the game
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  Speaker 4: that I think Rush is still learning. You know, sometimes
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  Speaker 4: it's okay to get away from what the sheet is
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  Speaker 4: telling you, you know it. And that was the thing
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  Speaker 4: that I think Will learned with Cursh a lot, because
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  Speaker 4: I mean, what's Kursh throwing. He's throwing a fastball slider
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  Speaker 4: and it's going to be into right handed better mm hmm. Well,
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  Speaker 4: there's a lot of times when Will look at the
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  Speaker 4: sheet and be like, well, we can't throw a slider
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  Speaker 4: to this guy. He hits it, and it's like, that's
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  Speaker 4: what Kursse is gonna throw.
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  Speaker 3: That's his best pitch. He needs to throw it.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that he'll will learn sometimes it's okay
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  Speaker 4: to go off script and you know, do things that
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  Speaker 4: maybe the data says is not what you should do.
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  Speaker 3: And I think, you know, that's one thing that.
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  Speaker 4: I that we we'd agree Russia's learning, especially with Show Hey,
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  Speaker 4: Show he wants to throw certain pitches and certain locations
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  Speaker 4: and maybe the data says that's not the best thing
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  Speaker 4: to do. But you know, when the picture is convicted
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  Speaker 4: and doing that, you have to go off what the
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  Speaker 4: picture wants, especially when it's a guy like show Hey, Yama,
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  Speaker 4: you know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean really everybody in our staff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, at some point, you know, he'll be when Snelle
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  Speaker 1: and all these guys get back, like, he'll be catching
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  Speaker 1: all these those guys and like, you know.
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  Speaker 4: There's times where hey, that's probably not the pitch you
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  Speaker 4: should throw, but that's what the picture really wants to throw,
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  Speaker 4: and so you got to let him do it, and
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  Speaker 4: you got to make sure you're behind them. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: I think that's that's one of the things that Russ
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  Speaker 4: is learning. And it's Yeah, it does make you appreciate
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  Speaker 4: Will because Will's grown so much in that a aspect
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  Speaker 4: of it that you know, there's no second guessing what
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  Speaker 4: he's calling back there, and the pictures have given full
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  Speaker 4: trust to Will and you know, I feel like Will's
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  Speaker 4: hardly ever shaken off.
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  Speaker 3: Like yeah, it's very very few times. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: we go to Will.
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  Speaker 4: One of the things I love when when Y'ama was pitching,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, I know you've seen this, Yama goes
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  Speaker 4: to his Pitchcolm right, and he'll call pitch and he
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  Speaker 4: looks at Will and he's like, yeah, you know, he
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  Speaker 4: wants to make sure Will thinks it's a good picture
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  Speaker 4: to throw. But and then that's where Will is like,
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  Speaker 4: if that's what you want to throw, then.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, that's that's the best picture for sure. I knew.
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  Speaker 1: And then I know I want to speak a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about that. The situation in Minnesota with with Rush
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  Speaker 1: and show. Hey obviously we all, you know, everybody kind
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  Speaker 1: of saw it. That was that was really kind of
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  Speaker 1: a I feel like a huge.
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  Speaker 2: Moment for Rush there.
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  Speaker 3: When they go down and whatnot.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we got to go down and look at
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  Speaker 1: me and you down we're just being nosy.
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  Speaker 3: Hey wait what y'all doing down there?
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  Speaker 1: That's what I was being nosy, man, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: was really just kind of seeing how this is going
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  Speaker 1: to play out, you know, like what was what was
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  Speaker 1: possibly going to be said, I think it was.
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  Speaker 3: A good I think it was a good growing moment.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, you know, obviously you don't want any
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  Speaker 4: of that to happen with your teammates, But I think
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  Speaker 4: it's a good growing moment for both guys because you know,
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  Speaker 4: Show is not always going to be able to throw
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  Speaker 4: to Will and you know, for Rush, he's got to
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  Speaker 4: learn that there's and this is one of those moments
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  Speaker 4: where it was like, hey, sometimes Show wants to throw
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  Speaker 4: a pitch that maybe isn't the best pitch to throw.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that's what Rush was kind of learning
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  Speaker 3: in that moment.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, sometimes things can speed up during the game,
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  Speaker 4: and I think that's a little bit what happened there.
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  Speaker 4: And again, like we've said before, it's experienced that you
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  Speaker 4: just you learn how to deal with that the more
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  Speaker 4: you've been in those types of situations.
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  Speaker 1: And what I what I really enjoyed was like how
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  Speaker 1: Rush later on took to accountability and he knows, he
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  Speaker 1: knows he he knows that he has a lot on
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  Speaker 1: his plate.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, he really knows it.
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  Speaker 4: You're being you're you're the catcher for a staff that's
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  Speaker 4: you know, first in baseball for a lot of categories,
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  Speaker 4: so you know, yeah, that's a lot on your plate,
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  Speaker 4: and he's done an amazing job handling it.
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  Speaker 1: He's done, he's done a great job handling and handling it.
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  Speaker 1: And I think, uh, you know, he'll he'll just keep learning,
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  Speaker 1: He'll just keep learning, and then a sweet he comes back.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure he'll learn even quicker. You know.
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  Speaker 4: Look, not one of us knew how to handle that
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  Speaker 4: situation at that stage.
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  Speaker 3: No, No, we all had to learn, everybody does. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: how many times?
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  Speaker 4: How many times were you've peeking around the corner and
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  Speaker 4: I was breaking a bat down in the tunnel or something.
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  Speaker 2: You know, which I love, by the way, I loved that.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, like we've all been we've all been there.
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  Speaker 4: You have to learn, you have to grow, and you
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  Speaker 4: can't do that until you've experienced it.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, that's just that's what he's going through Noway,