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Geraldo Perdomo & Mookie Betts Share Untold Big League Stories, Test Umpire Skills | On Base, Ep. 42 · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Home Based presented by Geico.
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  Speaker 2: Get More, Get Baseball, Get More with Guico, I am
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  Speaker 2: your host Smookie Bets and today I am joined by
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three All Star and the Diamondbacks shortstop Heraldo Perdomo.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing, Bro, I'm doing group brother, Thanks for
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  Speaker 2: coming on the show.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: So it's Heraldo but with a G.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so g ng L and and so like, it's
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  Speaker 2: not Giraldo at all.
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  Speaker 3: No, he's head out little.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like a nickname would be like Gerald though.
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  Speaker 2: That'd be a pretty cool you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they call me Jerry too, Jerry. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: toy toy is called started with that with that calling
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  Speaker 3: me Jerry.
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  Speaker 1: Just Jerry, Jerry, okay, Jerry with a G.
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  Speaker 3: To Jerry Yeah with a G yeah, but not Jay
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  Speaker 3: g j Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I may start calling you Jerry. Shout out to you,
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  Speaker 2: Tory for the nickname. So first I want to start
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  Speaker 2: off the show man.
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  Speaker 1: We play a game called on base and off Base.
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  Speaker 2: It's like whether you're in or you're out on whatever
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  Speaker 2: the topic is. First topic, you need to wear yellow
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  Speaker 2: on game day? Are you on base or off base?
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  Speaker 2: On that again, you're you're in So what I noticed
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  Speaker 2: that you always wear yellow? And yellow has nothing to
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  Speaker 2: do with the diamondback uniforms. So why is that your
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  Speaker 2: favorite color? No, it's not my favorite color.
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  Speaker 3: But I feel like i've been some lighting, you know,
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  Speaker 3: because we only have gray, red and black. So I
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  Speaker 3: feel since twenty three, Yeah, like I gotta bring some
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  Speaker 3: you know, some sweat.
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  Speaker 2: So yellow yellow, there's no lime green yellow like green neon. Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 2: and your your cleats match it. Yeah, so you when
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  Speaker 2: you go to make your cleats, you make them to
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  Speaker 2: have nothing to do with the uniform.
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  Speaker 3: This is strict. That's just strict. Yeah, I don't, I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want about the uniform. I just I just
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  Speaker 3: want to be like, oh, gonna, if you feel I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna bring light to the team, gonna.
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  Speaker 2: So you're you're yellow brings light to the team. I
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  Speaker 2: guess it's like you're the sun. Yeah, I guess, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the sun.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So all right too, you're pretty quiet on the field,
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  Speaker 2: are you.
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  Speaker 1: On base or off?
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  Speaker 3: Based on that, I think again.
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  Speaker 1: You're yeah, okay, you're you think you're quiet?
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  Speaker 3: I am, yeah, I am. Well, where you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so so you depend the moment. So I
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  Speaker 2: noticed that. That's how we started talking. And I know
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  Speaker 2: you had fun with Kim and other people on base
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  Speaker 2: like when you see your people that you like to
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  Speaker 2: talk to, you enjoy talking to, Like what do you
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  Speaker 2: usually talk about?
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  Speaker 3: You know? First of all most of the time you
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  Speaker 3: said for a bias. Okay, that was that's how weird started,
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  Speaker 3: you know, because I gotta make sure Tory again. He
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  Speaker 3: brought something to me I stored from you when you
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  Speaker 3: was Boston, like something happened there and you know, he say,
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  Speaker 3: you prefer to be in the minor league until whatever.
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  Speaker 3: He told me that story. So that's when I started
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  Speaker 3: approach it to you guys for some advice, you know,
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  Speaker 3: because when I get up, you know, we had a
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  Speaker 3: lot of bed so for me, I couldn't like understand,
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  Speaker 3: you know, being like myself with those guys, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you can come through tough here, right so right now
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  Speaker 3: on baseball, we had a lot of jump players and
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  Speaker 3: they can do whatever we want. Now we can say,
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  Speaker 3: you know, but before it was kind of hard. So
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  Speaker 3: I just tried to approach you guy, like you know,
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  Speaker 3: I remember like somebody said, like oh, but don't be
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  Speaker 3: very very friendly. It's not a friendly I just want
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  Speaker 3: to learn and get like how this level.
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  Speaker 2: Worked, like to ask a lot of questions. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you're talking people. I mean you are friendly, though, you
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  Speaker 2: are very friendly. But look, we're going to talk about
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  Speaker 2: all that and a little bit once we finished this game,
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  Speaker 2: because I do want to. I'll tell you about the
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  Speaker 2: story that toy is talking about. So number three.
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  Speaker 1: Frog Man is the best nickname in baseball.
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  Speaker 3: Now you're out.
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  Speaker 1: So now so that's your nickname?
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  Speaker 3: Right? No? Then you then you start calling me like this, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: so it is your nickname? Then, man it is. I
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  Speaker 3: have so many nicknames you.
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  Speaker 1: Have, okay, Jerry frog Man? Where did frog Man come from?
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  Speaker 3: Man? We was playing again the the New York met
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  Speaker 3: It was like MLB network hoes again and Joe Morrison
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  Speaker 3: started calling up talking to me in Spanish. I said, man,
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  Speaker 3: well you talked to me in Spanish and American. So
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  Speaker 3: I was the player again and I remember because at
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  Speaker 3: home the little frog are cold outside. So for me,
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  Speaker 3: I saw that the block is still cold.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: He asked me, like why you should be saw success decision?
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  Speaker 3: I said, become my My boy is like a frog cold.
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  Speaker 2: That's how they you got ice in your veins like this,
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  Speaker 2: it is, that's that's I don't want I don't want.
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  Speaker 3: To say like ice in my band, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: want to say like something like fun. Okay. So now
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  Speaker 3: they started calling me the frog.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So and then when they call you the frog, do
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  Speaker 2: you answer or no?
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes I just I just laughed. I just laughed. I
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  Speaker 3: think it's funny.
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  Speaker 1: That's hilarious.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: The next one is, uh, Corbyn Carroll can run you
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  Speaker 2: down on the basis. Corbyn Carroll can he can run
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  Speaker 2: you down on the basis. So if you guys started,
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  Speaker 2: if he's if he started like halfway to first base
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  Speaker 2: and you started on first base, do you think he
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  Speaker 2: could catch you. Look there's this right here where he
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  Speaker 2: was running you down.
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  Speaker 1: That's a that's a that's a that's a bad I
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  Speaker 1: look at that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm now you're out now, So you're you're you're you're
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  Speaker 2: just as fast I was.
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  Speaker 3: I was jogging right there. I knew, I knew, I
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  Speaker 3: knew its core easy, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, Okay, Okay, okay, And he's fast.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah he can probably can't get me. Yeah more he
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  Speaker 3: can get me especially that Yeah that yeah, he was
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  Speaker 3: like running like you know, flying flying, Yeah, he was flying.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So the last one, there's an art to turning
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  Speaker 2: a double play, Like, there's a lot of technique to
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  Speaker 2: turning a double play.
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  Speaker 1: Are you on base or off off? Based on that?
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  Speaker 3: I mean?
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  Speaker 1: And so tell me, tell me about that.
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  Speaker 2: Because the Diamondbacks, you guys lead, lead the league in
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  Speaker 2: turning double plays. And I know I've been out there
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  Speaker 2: a thousand times to Arizona. I see you guys do
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  Speaker 2: your early work and you're always constantly working on turning
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  Speaker 2: double plays. So what is it about turning double plays
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  Speaker 2: that you guys have figured out or that you do personally?
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  Speaker 3: For me, I feel it's a gift. But to the
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  Speaker 3: end of the day, you gotta you have to know
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  Speaker 3: who is your partner. You know, you have to know
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  Speaker 3: what you what his best past to catch the ball.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I got Marte. You know Marte the last
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  Speaker 3: four years, so I know exactly what I had to
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  Speaker 3: throw the ball to him because he got a really
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  Speaker 3: good hand. And you know, we don't communicate every time
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  Speaker 3: like you know, anticipate, And I feel it's a gift.
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  Speaker 3: To the end of the day's a give, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And so do you think that your personal relationship has anything.
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  Speaker 3: To do with Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, like I said,
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  Speaker 3: I know him for the last four years, so we've
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  Speaker 3: ben't practiced some different Like you know, man play sut
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  Speaker 3: st it's hard, especially like you know, you gotta anticipate everything.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you gotta. You got the experience now, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's way even than the outfield. But when you know
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  Speaker 3: you partner, when you know where you have to throw
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  Speaker 3: the ball, well you know who's running, I think it's
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  Speaker 3: made way easy.
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  Speaker 2: And and so during spring training, like how did you
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  Speaker 2: learn where he likes the ball?
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  Speaker 3: Doing spring training? Yeah, doing spring training. Yeah, we men
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  Speaker 3: way sometime we through like forty oh Eddy Grandball together
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  Speaker 3: young and spring training sometimes more than that. You know,
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  Speaker 3: that's how you started learning, like the chemistry. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the chemistry.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's how he liked it with us.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we've had some injuries and whatnot, so there's
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  Speaker 2: been a couple of different people playing second base, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, playing with multiple second base it gets kind
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  Speaker 2: of hard sometimes because Tommy is a little shorter, so
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  Speaker 2: I had to throw a little lower where Mickey Rojas
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  Speaker 2: is a little bit taller, but you can kind of
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  Speaker 2: throw it anywhere for him. And then Alex Freeland right now,
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  Speaker 2: who is a young guy. He's just now learning, like
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  Speaker 2: really learning to play second base. And so yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: really it's kind of tough.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of its kind of tough because you got alternates. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: majority of the time.
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  Speaker 1: So what do you do?
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  Speaker 2: What would your what would your advice be for me?
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  Speaker 2: Knowing that I'm playing with multiple second base.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the first question, you gotta gotta tell him,
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  Speaker 3: like what are the best spot for that? Okay to
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  Speaker 3: catch the ball? You know, whatever make it feel more
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  Speaker 3: comfortable on the base, that's where you gotta throw. I
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  Speaker 3: told Martell, like, what are you gonna get the ball?
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  Speaker 3: He always told me like, oh, I gotta be on
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  Speaker 3: front or give me a little be on the back.
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  Speaker 3: It's the pendagram ball, you know. But for you, like
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  Speaker 3: I said, like, you gotta you gotta know where they
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  Speaker 3: spot to make a good throw and and be accurate.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you gotta be you. You are amazing athlete.
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  Speaker 3: And I and I told you like last year, like
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  Speaker 3: you definitely can play short styp but sometimes it's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of work and mentally people don't know, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's more mentally like I feel like in the outfield.
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  Speaker 3: I never play outfield, but I feel I can be
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  Speaker 3: good because you got more free you know, you free
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  Speaker 3: or whether you probably can deal with a fan, but
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  Speaker 3: a short start, you catt anticipate every play, every you
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  Speaker 3: gotta be in ball on every play like equation.
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  Speaker 1: The captain, you know, and and it's.
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  Speaker 3: Like the quarterback, you know, the whole. Yeah. So that's
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  Speaker 3: that's the point. And people like you you start playing
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  Speaker 3: short star, right it was before you sign.
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  Speaker 1: It was I was at when you signed, so even
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  Speaker 1: but then I didn't I.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't really get to learn, you know in high school,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they don't learn learn a whole lot, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, learn a little bit. But you know, then
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  Speaker 2: I immediately moved to second base and so I was, yeah, that's.
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  Speaker 3: Right, you know, And so it was gonna hard. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but like I said, like you're an athlete. The only
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  Speaker 3: the only difference is just the mental spot, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like how to be and boling every play. I've been
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  Speaker 3: playing short on my whole life, and sometimes, like you know,
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  Speaker 3: I missed it up majority of the time. I mean
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  Speaker 3: sometimes yeah, but you know, I was like tried to
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  Speaker 3: anticipate every play, like yes, yesterday, I get confused, you know,
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  Speaker 3: because we play a lot on the whole to you guys,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, I realized you guys have like Mark,
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  Speaker 3: Yeah you saw March straight up fire step, I mean
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  Speaker 3: stay fight six. And I went to my infield coach
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  Speaker 3: and I said they only had two Mark and they
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  Speaker 3: don't have like cha fight six, Like what are you
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  Speaker 3: supposed to do? Because I feel like this, this feels
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  Speaker 3: a little bit like tiny and do you feel more
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  Speaker 3: way playing the whole? So man, I was like baby, like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, frustrated. Even I played like a couple of
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  Speaker 3: times here, I mean a lot of time, but I
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  Speaker 3: was kind of like frustrated, Like how because I was
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  Speaker 3: closed by the third baseman. Yeah you feel like that, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: And so like you see, I remember the lines right
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  Speaker 3: just to thin I can catch the ball like on
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  Speaker 3: my feet, but how the third bay was playing it
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  Speaker 3: made me like confused.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's good to know that even playing your
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  Speaker 2: whole life and you still get confused sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: This year especial this year there's been some situations that
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  Speaker 1: I've had no idea what to do.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just out there infield in man it first and third.
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  Speaker 2: If you get a ground ball to your right, you
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  Speaker 2: got to go home. But if it's right at you,
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  Speaker 2: you have to look at the look at the guy
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  Speaker 2: at third makes he's not going, didn't try and turn.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lot of process. It's a lie a lot.
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  Speaker 2: It's so I mean, but I mean it is, it
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  Speaker 2: is what it is, so so far, and the season's
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  Speaker 2: not done. You have a month left and you've already
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  Speaker 2: set the record for the most rbs by a shortstop.
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  Speaker 3: That's true.
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  Speaker 1: And I met in diamondback syst. Yeah, way did you
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  Speaker 1: know that?
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  Speaker 3: I think? So?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So tell me about that, Like is that special?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like every player you know play
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  Speaker 3: this game, you know, so support our family to guess
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  Speaker 3: on the war and all this stuff. But I never
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  Speaker 3: I never realized. I never taught. And when I was
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  Speaker 3: close to doing that, I you know, Tony put me leadoff,
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  Speaker 3: hit lead off. I said, man, because I remember on
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  Speaker 3: twenty three I was like for w I yeah, like
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  Speaker 3: petty and nine with two months before the star break
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  Speaker 3: and he put me lead off and I just only
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  Speaker 3: like ga only one in yeah and two months. But
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  Speaker 3: for me, it you know, made me feel proud on
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  Speaker 3: myself or my hitting coaches or my family, you know,
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  Speaker 3: all the process we've been through in the last three years.
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  Speaker 3: So that's why I've been I've been proud more by
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  Speaker 3: myself just for my hitting coaches.
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  Speaker 2: That shows, you know kind of it's it's it's cool
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  Speaker 2: to see because your whole time being up, I think
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  Speaker 2: I've pretty much have been here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and seeing where you started to where you are.
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  Speaker 3: Now since since twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean to where you are now, it's like
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  Speaker 2: a huge difference. You're a completely different player.
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  Speaker 3: You have.
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  Speaker 2: Just like you look comfortable playing instead of like you're
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  Speaker 2: trying to figure out how to play. It's like, no,
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  Speaker 2: I know what I'm doing now, or I have an
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  Speaker 2: idea of what I'm doing, and so especially hitting in
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  Speaker 2: the box. Obviously defense is one another thing, but in
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  Speaker 2: the box, it just you just look a lot more comfortable.
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  Speaker 2: Your bats are always, you know, always good, and you
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  Speaker 2: just have a really a really good idea of what
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  Speaker 2: what you need to do and it's showing obviously. And
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  Speaker 2: then earlier this year you were hurt, right or I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if you're still hurt with your your bone
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  Speaker 2: bruise in your hand.
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  Speaker 1: How is that.
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  Speaker 3: Feeling, bro, It's feel horrible.
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  Speaker 1: It feels horrible.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I still have abandon the bone bruise. I've been
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  Speaker 3: like the last three months.
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  Speaker 2: But so so is there do you have to go
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  Speaker 2: in the training room? What do you have to do
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  Speaker 2: already every day for with that?
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, I don't want it in my hand. I just
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  Speaker 3: let it go to you know which hand is my
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  Speaker 3: left hand?
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  Speaker 1: So does that when you catch ground balls? Does it hurt?
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  Speaker 3: He's hitting me like twice this year?
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  Speaker 1: Really okay?
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  Speaker 3: But he hit me more when he left hander, I
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  Speaker 3: mean right hander handed pitcher, Like yeah, when when you
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  Speaker 3: face now, just today it was like I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Paying like a lot when you hit right handed?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, right handed? When I hit right handed? Allah, Bro,
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  Speaker 3: I I never had like something like this before. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I got her on twenty twenty four last year by
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  Speaker 3: aniskol surgery. But and I played after I get out
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  Speaker 3: of the surgery, like two morrows. When I come back
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  Speaker 3: to the field, I still kind of I never had
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  Speaker 3: any experiment like this in my hand. How I was
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  Speaker 3: feeling with my knee, that's how I feel my hand.
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  Speaker 1: Oh really?
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  Speaker 3: And start I think like three months ago, for like
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  Speaker 3: it's come from nowhere. It just I was just hidding
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  Speaker 3: and started like getting like sore or sore. And I
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  Speaker 3: remember I was playing. I don't remember the team, but
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  Speaker 3: I make diving diamond stop to the middle of the
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  Speaker 3: field and my hand gets stuck. So my hand was
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  Speaker 3: like and that angle. So after the game, it was
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  Speaker 3: like I was really in pain. So I played for
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  Speaker 3: like two weeks a stray and was like really in pain.
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  Speaker 3: And I said, I thought it was mohammed my hammabon
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  Speaker 3: because I got hammebone surgery in my right hand, so
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  Speaker 3: I had yeah, I had the same, the same feel,
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  Speaker 3: and I just talked with my train. I said, man,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's my hamma bun and they check. I said,
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it's your hammy because if it was
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: something broken, it won't be able to swing it. I said, man,
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: trust me, I feel betting comfortable. So I get the
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: X ray see the skin and murai and they show
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: it was a bomb bruise. So they asked me like
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: I asked him, like what the deal? So what I
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: supposed to do? So, well, you can go to the
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: ale or you can play through that pain, because it goes.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: It's gonna go anywhere. It's gonna be more high or less,
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: because it's gotta go. It's go out with rest right
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: and with the spy. We was at that moment, you know,
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: like everybody was closing the race, and you know, Gino
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: was here, Naylo was here, all those guys was here.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: So I said, I gotta learn how to play with Sorner.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: So especially I told Tory, like, I want to play
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: one hundred sixty two games this year. You know, I
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: don't want to hit take me out of the field.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: And they tried to give me some day off and
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: I just said, no, I want to I'm gonna play.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: Learn how to play through that, bro. And sometimes like
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: I came to the field with like some pain, like
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: so painful. I tried to get injection. They're like and
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: my hand and the doctor tried to find the spy
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: and he couldn't find it really, and they tried me
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: to do it, and I said, okay, what they're gonna help.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: I said, they're gonna help anything because it's my bone.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: You know, it's a bone, Bruce. I can't do anything
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: about it. I said, Okay, I gotta learn to play
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: through this and that's how I've been playing the last
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: two months. But even really well, like I said, that's
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: gam man honestly, because you know, have you been feeling
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: bone Bruce before? Yeah? Absolutely, and oh that's the point
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: like on my hand and he did again left it
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: like I feel like you know, we don't. I don't
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: face so many lefty often and I feel like more
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: comfortable hitting against right hand the pature. Think about it,
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: how I've been feeling the last three month every time
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: you got to fade lefty guy like is now yeah
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: this guy?
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good and that makes it tough though, No,
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: I'm glad.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: I'm proud of God to the end other day because
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: he being helped me a lot. Tru always will he
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: always will help me.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: And and like you said earlier, going back a little
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: bit early in the season, well, going into this season,
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: you guys had some really high expectations.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you had Geno, you had Naylor.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Obviously yourself, a couple of other guys, Meryl Kelly, other guys.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: And then as the season started progressing, uh, you know,
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: some guys, some guys got injured, and then some trades happened,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: and you know, the season now looks like what it
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: looks like, and so was it how how tough was
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: it to to kind of get through that, I mean
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: seeing saying goodbye to guys, you know, seeing the injuries
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: and whatnot, and you know, just kind of the season
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: not looking exactly how you saw it at the beginning
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: of the year.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Bro. It was very tough because and I remember a
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: sprint trainer. The thing was calling like, you know, to
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: get some starting pitching. We had like a seven a
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: starting pitcher and sprint trainer. So Spring trainer started getting
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: people like her. And when the season started, like as
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: you say, like we had a lot of expectations and
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: you know, the first guy I think got her was Puck,
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: a J. Puck and the second guy was Jmar So
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: we lost our closer in the settupment, we can say,
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: and man, it was it was. It was kind of tough,
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: you know, being out with those guys. And then we
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: lost Corbyn byrn, so it was it was it was tough. Yeah,
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's been tough.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Tough.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: You know, we was trying to figure out how to battle,
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: how to fight through those injuries, and we started getting
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: more pitching, more pitching out and then when the tray
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: was like approaching, you know, people start getting like, you know,
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: like thinking about it, like what what are they gonna do?
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: Are they gonna sell it? Are they gonna buy? Bro?
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: We went to Pitchburg and we scored the first game
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: in eleven inning. We want that game, one to nothing
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: in eleven inning. The next two game we got shut out,
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: you know, and they was started asking like what's going
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: on with us? You know, and I guessing like people
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: was worrying about to get Trey, you know, like a
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: king a navy. And we went to the to Detroit
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: and we got swept wes currently like fire run and
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: three again. You know, it wasn't us. So that's when
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: you know, when Gino got Trey. Uh great, chick, may
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: all those.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Guys tell me about Geno? I know, uh, bro here
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: the best.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah you you you enjoyed picking a lot of people's
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: brains and Gino it's gotta be one of the best
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: people personally and baseball wise.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: What did he What did he teach you?
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: How to play every day? The important to play every day,
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Like people don't realize how much important is for us
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: playing every day in the field.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: It's so hard to play everything.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: It is so hard, but to the end of the day,
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: help you to your career. One of my favorite players
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: was corek and Jr. Of what he did, you know,
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: playing every day? So Gino since he can't hear last
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: year he teached.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Me that and so what is it about playing every day?
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Like what did he tell you? How to prepare or
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: just simply mentally?
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Mentally? It was more mentally, yeah, like how to prepare
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: my body, how to be healthy every single day, you know,
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: especially that guy like I going to the free agency
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: next year, you know, and he always say that because
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: like the most important is how other teams see you
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: when you play every day. You know. He told me,
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: like it's playing important when you play every day. Then
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: that guy I play only one hundred a games. Yeah,
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: you know, you got more value when you play every day.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Playing the outfield is one thing, but playing shortstop every
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: day like that mental that mental side that the mental
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: side of playing shortstop every day is really really hard.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Like it's something that I've had to learn this year.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: And you know, physically, you know, physical is one thing.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: You know, we work out, everybody works out, not everybody
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: takes care of their body. But I do a really
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: good job and take care of my body. But even
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: even with that, like just showing up every day knowing
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: that you have to take ground balls, you have to
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: work on two or three different, three or four different
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: aspects of what could possibly happen. And you know, because
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: in the outfield I would go, I would take my
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: ground balls. I would shag a little bit, shag like
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: a group and then go in like you.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Know, yeah, that's what I want. I said, that's that's
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: the harder part and play short stuff like you gotta
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: prepare yourself every single day everything.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Day game like day games like com zone changes, field changes.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: I love to to, you know, to catch boy every day.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: But sometimes men, you feel your body like I gotta
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: take the day this day and sometimes like man, we're
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: half and again. You know, it's it's kind of it's
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: kind of hard, like that's what I told you, Like
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: people don't realize how the infield prepare, especially.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Short stuff, especially short it's hard.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: Like for me, like I like to to get a
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: flip fungo every single day and you know the spiel
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: of the ball something you gotta go for a slow run.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: You know, it's it's hard. It is hard. It's a lot.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: The thing that for me this year that.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: I really have noticed since I've been playing short every
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: day is going from city to city and how much
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: the field changes.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Bro like the changes a lot every day.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: I feel. I feel that's the worst part on playing
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: on the infield, because you gotta know the field where
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: you're playing.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Yes, it's so important.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: It's different when you're playing Cincinnati, play here.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Then you play here, then when you go to Texas
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: or you guys turf on the infield and then it gets.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: The grass and then oh, Toronto, bro or Toronto exact.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: When the that grassy turf is way harder than us. Yes,
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: the bowl bouncing more.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: And so you have to take these ground balls just
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: to even see and who knows, you may have got
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: in at two in the morning. You have to go
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: to the field go early because you can't take these
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: ground balls during VP.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: I don't like it.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: I don't like any person.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: I don't like it doing the MVP. I like to
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: do early. I want to do it when I do
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: all my stuff, you know, I gotta like we was
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: in Milwaukee last years and that feel, you know, it's
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: kind of like trink it the infield. Sometimes you think
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: the boy is gonna be slow, but that l play
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: faster and he's hard. The infiel is hard, so I
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: gotta go early to check all the dimension of the infield. Sometimes,
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: like you you saw me, like I get down like
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: a squad. It's don't be gonna tie you. It's because
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: like I'm I'm thinking about, like what are you gonna do?
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: If he he hit me this grumble in this area,
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: then I know it's really bad, you know, Like I'm thinking,
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: like sometimes I worry about it, like how am I
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: gonna do it?
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: When I get up the middle sometimes and there's been
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: a lot of people at second base, I sometimes I
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: get worried because there's a lot of cleat marks, and
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: where those cleat marks are that's where the ball takes
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: bad hops.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: So like you said, I'm like, Okay, if he hits a.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Ball around this area, I have to go because if
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: I don't go, that ball will take a bad hop,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: and I don't want it to take that bad hop.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: So I have to go, or I'm little off to
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: the side, all right.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: You know, a freshly dragged field old the first inning,
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: or you know, whenever they drag it like Okay, I
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: don't have to play so aggressive because the ball.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Is you know, it's going to be pretty sm.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: It happened to me on the Detroit I have make
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: two aer on one play fielding arrow and throwing arrow
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: because the ball gave me on the front. But I
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: was I was talking with Marte during that plass a man.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: I was talking like, hey, to my right side, these
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: things feel really bad. If you get a grumble, like
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: a hush up, I gotta tack this ball with two hands.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: I was talking like doing that bad and literally like
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: pin second later, give me that grumble. They catch a
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: Roger And I was like, I see the grumble like happening,
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: and I said, I gotta go get it. So when
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: I went for the ball, I wasn't toss bat like tough,
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Bown and I make fielding arrow and the ball get
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: in front when I throw it, bro it was like
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: over the face.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: It happens.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: You see, like how hard it is for us, like
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: a judgment and all those those.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Field cities, different climates, all that, all the time stuff
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: you talked about Marte, how's it playing with him? He's
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: like probably one of the top second basement now he
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: is top second basements, in the in the in the league.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: How's it playing with him?
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: It's amazing, bro, what he can do when he healthy. Yeah,
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: it is. It's something like you gotta enjoy it, you know,
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: you gotta see it and enjoy the show. Yeah. Yeah,
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: you're gonna put a good show on both sides, both
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: sides of Sila. You know everything. He's he's an amazing player. Yes,
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: I love playing with him.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: I love, I love, I love really I love getting
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: to talk to him and everything.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: He's just a really a really good person. Yeah, and
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: so I can only imagine playing with him. It's gotta
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: be a lot of fun.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: And especially like, uh, all the process have been through
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: since he lost his money. Knows, it's hard. It's been
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: hard for him. And I'm I'm glad. I'm proud for
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: him because he he'd been doing a great job and
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: hat some fun.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and now it's time to bring relief and
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: get more baseball, get more with the guy code. We're
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: gonna take a look at some some moments that were
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: caught on camera. So this first one, the Giants scored
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: a run against the Cubs on a ball that hit.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Off the the runners head. So let's see this. It
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: hit off the runner's head. So I didn't see this,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: so let me see this.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: So you always see something oh wow, okay, you always
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: see something new.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: I've never seen the.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Hard part on that. That's a narrow for yeah.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, he made it.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: That's a that's a perfect throw the first baseman and
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: that's Tuck. Okay, Tucker, he's got to wear an era. Golly,
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: that's a tough error right there.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Boy, I know he was pistol up.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Happy. Yeah, he will happy. Okay.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: The next one is speaking of the Giants. A fan
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: showed up at Oracle Park on a boat. They have
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: boats in the I I think I saw that. I
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: haven't seen this. So oh he just came to the
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: park on a boat. He didn't had to get a ticket.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: That's the best way.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Did he have to get a ticket?
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: I don't think. So good for him. That is big.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: That was amazing stuff right there.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: Boy.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: So I wonder if they came and found him.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: They gotta put that clean the Hall of Fame.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's amazing. That's that's some rich people's stuff right there.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: So all right before no, I know they stand out
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: there for the to catch like a home or.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: Getting into the field.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, So and then obviously we all know shoreb
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Head he had a four homer night he uh he
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: now has forty nine. He's forty. I feel like he
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: hits forty and fifty every year.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: Bro the last yek yeah, being like forty, I guess yeah.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: I wonder how many homers he had that can hit.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Oh and Gino had a four homer Oh yeah this
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: year too.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: He got he got three against the same picture. I think,
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: uh Holmes from the oh the Bread.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I know you're talking about so like when
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: you're seeing I know obviously this is amazing. I don't
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: want to discount this, but you got to see Witness
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: one live, right, So how was that like when you
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: after you hit three?
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: Right? What do you I was, I was in the
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: dog out. He said he going to hit the numb
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: before he said no, no, I told her, Okay, he
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: said he coming for the four. Yeah, he's coming for that.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Did he say anything?
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: He didn't say an, he didn't say he didn't say anything.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: It was like four astraight man and.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: And none of them were They're not like lucky homers.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: They're like it was a bomb.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: He was all bomb bomb, Yeah, and I wont I
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: wonder what it's like. I mean, I've had some three
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: homer games, but going for the fourth.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: Never, I never asked him like if he got that
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: in the mind in his mind to hit the number four,
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: like thinking about like, oh I got another shed through
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: hell four.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: I've had so I've had six three homer games. Never
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: six six three hold games and on the fourth what
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: what a power?
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: What a power? Heater? No?
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Hi, I don't know thirty nine.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: I don't know how your number.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: I don't know how many numbers. How many home runs
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: I have?
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: Do you have?
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: How many hits? I don't know.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: I don't pay attention to it because it's so long,
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: and my goal is to be in the Hall of
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Fame and so like in I feel like in that
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: process the numbers are kind of irrelevant just because I'm
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: playing every day, the numbers are going to constantly change it, right, right,
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I don't really I'll look at it in
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: the end, but you know, just like to your point, like,
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: I'm just really the only way I'm really going to
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: be able to get there is by playing every day.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: You have to be available every day. To put up
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: whatever stats whatever it is.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: We don't know the stuff. We just know that stuff.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: How we do it this year, right, you know exactly.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: We got to see this coreboard sometimes, like to see
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: how the pitch are throwing or throwing. Obviously we gotta
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: see our stuff.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: But I feel you you know what I'm saying, it's
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: just like stuff. Stuff like that is just I mean,
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: it changes all the time, you know, it changes from
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: one day to the next, and so there's no real
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: point in paying attention to it when I'm just a
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: very process oriented person and so I I love just
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: sticking to my process and letting them letting the results
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: be the results, like they're they're gonna it's it's gonna
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: be there in the end, like you're gonna get your
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: hits or you're gonna.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Whatever kind of player you are.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: I remember Dustin Pedroia told me this my first year,
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: maybe that was my second year, and he was like,
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: whatever kind of player you are. If you're a too
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: eighty hitter, you're gonna be somewhere around to eighty at
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: the end of the at the end of the year.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: If you're a three hundred hitter, you're gonna be somewhere
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: around three hundred at the end of the year. So
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: that was one thing that.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: I heard the Sorry, I heard the same Toory from
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: Beltra Okay, the same thing that I told Andrews. Like
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: belt was hitting like one hundred and something in the
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: beginning of the year for like the first three months
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: two months, and he was like, seeing guy, I was
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: hitting like three forty. And he told Andrews. Andrew told
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: me that story. He said, you see those guys like
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: to the end of the year, they're gonna he exactly
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: what they're supposed to hit to the end of the season.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: And I was hitting I'm gonna hit three hundred to
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: the end of the year. And that's exactly how he
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: did it.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Go Yeah, that's exactly how it goes.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: So how that make you feel? What is in your
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: mind after the second homer? You got this second homer,
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: got career.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Three homer games.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: After the second homer, you know you're going for it,
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: or just because you didn't really go for it, It's okay,
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: to be honest.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: The fourth one, yes, not the third, the third one.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: The fourth one is like, okay, how many times are
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: you going to get to three homers?
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Which is not very very off.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: So like if you get to three, it's like you
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: have to try for the fourth, but then you hit
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: three without trying. So it's like it's that balance of
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: figuring out like Okay, if you go up there and
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: try think about how many times you went up there
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: to try to hit a homer and.
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: Actually did it well, it is in your mind. Definitely
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: your mind, because sometime I've been getting like a lead
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: off homer. Yeah, my first about homer and then I say, man,
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: talking with God, like man, I never hit two of
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: my career, so oh yeah, I would like I guess mighty,
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: like you know, like thinking about it, like what about
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: if you happened that's about you know, what about you
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: my last back? You know, it's kind of like cool,
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: how how we think at the same time, Like you
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: hit since career three homer, like going through the four
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: like I see he hit four against Pitcher. He gave
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: the last back again, position player, that's heat pop up.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he pop he said, like oh if you
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: see the interview, he said, oh I wish I wish
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: him try that heat my last about for home for
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: the fair? You know, yeah, you just try to be
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: like natural, like he tried to hit a home that
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: was Papa against position player.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: And so you have to really just stick with the process.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: And that's that's what I've really learned going into the
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: next point, Like it talks about like you enjoy really
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: having on the field, and I've learned that through playing shortstop,
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: like how to have fun on field because you don't
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: really have fun. It's hard to have fun playing shortstop
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: because there's so much that you have to think about,
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: so much that you have to do.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: But I've learned that if I just get lost in
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: my process, right, get lost in.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Stuff that's not baseball, if that makes sense, like my moves,
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: like my practice, getting lost in that it helps me
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: to where when it's time in the in the eighth
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: inning and it's two outs and a man at second
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: and third, like I can still have fun going after
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: the ball the same way then it was in the
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: first inning.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: And So I think I want to hear from you
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: your perspective on having fun and is it a process
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: that you can now not think about baseball to have
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: fun or how is it for you that you get
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: to have so much fun on the field.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Just enjoy what I'm doing. You know what you do,
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: like having fun with you guys. Sometimes our picture like
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: been throwing a lot of fastball and I said, man,
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: if he throw this boat to this guy right here,
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: you want to be a bomb. And sometimes I scream wow,
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: you know, like even if it's our picture. But for me,
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: I just I just tried to have fun. We don't
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: matter how how in my day go don't matter, like
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: what I went through at home, Like when I go
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: to the field, you try to have fun, doesn't matter
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: how I gonna do it. I'm gonna have fun for sure.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: I don't. I don't. I don't care if you're going
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: off for three with three strike out, I'm gonna have fun.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: I'm probably gonna have fun because see Marte, see plays
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: all the side and see Corvin, Carol Hill, Homer. You know, like, bro,
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: this thing fun with other people other people. Yeah, yeah,
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: I bro, I'm goo with you. Man. Yeah, you know
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: you gotta you gotta ask show. I kind of like, uh, don't.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: One time in Japanese, Yeah, and he told the evil
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: coach yeah evil yeah, yeah, you know, he like, do
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: you do you see how he called me? Yeah, he
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: called me dumb, said he start laughing. You know, like
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: I like to have fun like with stuff like that.
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: I want to. I tried to. I want to make they, Oh,
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: they got happy, you know, even if he got hard day.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: You know, I tried to make that guy smiley.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: I feel like when you take don't think about yourself
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: and you try and make everyone else happy. And obviously
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: you don't want to be the person that that only
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: does stuff for other people, but you do invest, you know,
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: positive energy and other people.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: I feel like you've got to learn this, like the
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: situation like when you're gonna do it?
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, that's part of it as well. I want
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: to go back to young Jerry again. Shout out to
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: toy for the great nickname. So you from the d
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: R and tell me from there did you play any
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: other sports?
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: Basketball?
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Basketball? You played basketball? So when did you stop playing basketball?
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: I still playing basketball?
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: You still?
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Okay?
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: So then you signed at what age?
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: Sixteen years old?
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: At sixteen?
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: Who did you sign with?
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: Make sure that the viewers don't know my bad okay?
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: So sign with the diamonback sixteen years old? And when
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: did you come over to the States.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: Two thousand and seventeen for intuitionally okay for instructions. Yeah,
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: that was my first time.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Did you stay over? You didn't have to go back
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: to the.
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: I get back to the art after the intuitionally.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Okay, so then you come over and how is your
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: minor league experience? Did you love it?
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: I love it, but I have some in Spain brother,
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: And then it teached me to grown or the player
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: I am right now? You know how to deal with
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: some time with coaches, you know, you know, we've been
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: through a lot of stuff when we are minor le
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: and especially like my fish year here and you to
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: stay no English, right, I gotta do like beans. I
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: don't know how to say beans at least I gotta
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: say cheecken. But it was like just pointing, you know,
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: it was really hard to I judge on this culture,
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: you know, and how to on my teammate there was
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: there was both Blacky. They just teach me and help
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: me how how to deal with different situations.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: Did you have to go to like English classes, a
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: lot of English class Yeah? And so when would you
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: do that before the game or like on the computer?
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: How was before the game before the game before they
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: always been before the game. I remember two doing eighteen
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: my first time playing the stay like my English teacher was.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: She was American and she only speak English. So how
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: you gonna learn if you, like, I don't know exactly
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: what she's saying, if you don't have like, how you
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: gonna learn if you have conversation with her. So that's
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: that's something that I talked with the with the boss,
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: like the English boss, because she was Bi language, and
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: I said, we needed more more English teacher. They gotta
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: be Bi language. So when I went to Hia, my
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: teacher there, she was speaking both language. So that's how
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: I been like, you know, getting like way way better.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: When I went to the team double, it was a
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: saying like she speaks Spanish. So for me, it was
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: like very very like very good process because she can't
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: explain to me whether I were men. You know, I
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: feel I still learning, you know, I feel like I
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: still work in my English because we never stopped learning. Yeah,
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: so it always likes something new. Yeah, it's like I'm
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: proud right now, like we do anything.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I'm very proud of you.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: Well you're proud you talk to me all the time,
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: I know, but I didn't. I mean, like when we're
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: talking on the field, like to be able to come
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: on and yeah, so I'm gonna tell you about the
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: story that Toy was talking about when I first came up, right,
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: like to your point, earlier veterans were around the league,
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: like veterans kind of randomly, there wasn't that many.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: Young guys coming up.
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: And so what what year was debut?
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: My debut in fourteen?
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: That was fourteen, And so I remember coming up and
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: I'm just like you, like I love talking, I love
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: I love my boys like I really love my boys,
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: especially at the field, like you just you just grow
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: to love them like you're with them more than your family.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: And so all my boys were in double A. I
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: started in Double A and then I went to Triple A,
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: and we all kind of moved together in Double A
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: and Triple A. And then I got the call to
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: the big leagues and we had a lot of veterans there,
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: and I remember, like it was they weren't playing great.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: And in Boston, if you're not playing good, like the
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: fans are, you know, be right, And so it was
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: just a kind of like a bad situation in the
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: locker room just because guys, you know, the team wasn't
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: playing great. And I remember coming up like I was.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: I think I may have been the only rookie maybe
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: another guy, but I did not enjoy it at all.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: I really hated it because there was just a lot
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: of just saltiness going around. And I'm not saying there
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: I understand. I definitely do understand now, But I remember
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: going to Toy and tell him, like, I don't want
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: to be here. I want to get sent down. Can
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: you tell them to send me down so I can
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: go have fun playing baseball? And you know, he really
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: just kind of talked to me and kind of was
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: like my dad, like yeah, and and like that's how
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: our relate. I mean, our relationship started prior to that,
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: but that was that story. And like you're lucky you
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: get to have someone like Toy just because, I mean,
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: the energy that he invests in every player is unbelievable and.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: I don't even know how he has that kind of
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: bandwidth to do stuff like that.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: And I remember talking to him about my wife and
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: talking to him about baseball and just about just anything.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: And this is during the game, Like we he would
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: just stop whatever he's doing and we would talk during
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: the game. And so I'm sure he does that with
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: you guys.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, he does, he does, definitely he does. Yeah,
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: it was it happened to me the sain like Q.
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: But I didn't, you know, I didn't express myself. I
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: just I was like very frustrated, like I'm the top
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: of guy with If I feel something, I said it.
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: But sometimes I know, like you know, I gotta shut
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: out my mouth, you know. And we had some player
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: on twenty two, twenty one, like man, I say, I
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: don't have him phone right right here. I gotta I
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: gotta go down, like on twenty twenty two, even in
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: mind only, that was my worst season as a player,
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: you know. And I put a lot of pressure on
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: myself that year, you know, but I didn't. I didn't
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: expread myself twenty o. The coaching, probably my engine, probably
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: my family, you know, but you know that that helped me.
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: That helped me, Like I think Toy feel that and
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: he told me your story. Yeah on twenty two. That's
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: when I came to you in twenty two, and I
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: asked all those questions, you know, like how to deal
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: in different situations because I situation minor league. But it
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: wasn't like this like we are players, you know. It
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: was like when coaches and all this stuff, but no
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: with like veteran guy.
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and like you said, the times are different.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: Back then was you know, more veterans, and now it's
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: more young guys. So it's a little easier to express yourself.
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: Let me tell your story. I'm twenty twenty. We were
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: playing the alternate side, you know, because call the pandemic
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: and all boongarden. I got hurt. I think his back.
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: He was her so he was throwing the altar side.
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: I was leading off and literally like I would like
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: to work on my skill. You know, I was working
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: on my bunning. Okay, yeah, but I didn't know he
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: was hurting his back, you know. So you know this bro.
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: The first I tried to bond. The first try, I
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: didn't bump, and he like, I see his expression, but
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: you know, I'm innocent and I had no idea what's
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: going on. He told me the first boat right here
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: to my hair. Yo. The second time he threw like
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: right in the middle of my bunning and I was safe.
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: So when he went to the dog out, he was
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: like screaming like you know, I wasn't I wasn't there.
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: And second bait was three out and I remember just
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: Barfield the boss and mind. He run to me like
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: he don't do it. Don't do it, yo, what do
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: you mean like, don't just don't do it? Yo? What
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: do you mean don't bond against him? Yo? This is
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: my that's how I am, that's me.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: That's part of your game, part of my gain.
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: So that happened that year. So on twenty one and
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: during spring training, I gotta face him. Oh gosh, So
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: he was like he was he was literally done. And
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: we saw me in the on deck circle and he said,
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: oh one more hit it and he was like first
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: pace ball, second pagball. But I was told his story
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: to the old player like Eski was there, Peralta was there,
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: Martelle was there, and Drew I was there that year
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: twenty two and on twenty one. Sorry, and I was
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: like you know too, oh you know what's coming to all?
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: Like heater, I was like seeing my boy, like I
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: want to cross this guy because I don't forget what
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: he did to me. And Bro literally like I think
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: that's the hard ball. Even through that year ninety five
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: right here, oh he hear me, man, Bro he killing
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: me all those guys was passed, you know. And he said, oh,
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: I'm done.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: He said, so I was were the first two pitches away?
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: It was away? Yeah, I said, okay, he coming with
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: that with that carter like middle end right now, I
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: gotta be ready. Bro, he naive us for that. No,
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: it's okay, it's okay. Well, you know, like he was,
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: I was like, different guy and I'm twenty two. When
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: I started playing for him, he came to me and said,
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. That was the best part. Like because people
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: think about Bomb was a bad guy. He's seen a bag,
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: but he was bro. He was a great person, Like
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: he was a great teammate. And he came to me
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: and Bro, he said, oh, I'm sorry, you're like, I
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: hear you. I hear him purpose And because I thought
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: it was a different guy. You know, he thought I
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: was like cocky and like, you know, like I'm hilarious
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: whatever he's gonna call me. But you know, we get
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: like a really great relationship. And just sometimes when he
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: was speeching, you said, just playing by you like be you, Hey,
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: what are you thinking this in this situation? You know,
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: like thats how I feel in those last two years.
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: You know, it was it was funny. It was funny.
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: That was good. It was funny in the moment, like
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: everybody laughed because you know, everybody story they knew, but
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: the same the same way they get pissed because they say,
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: what about you if you got hurt?
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but he wasn't gonna hurt you. He just that's funny.
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: So before we before we I let you go, we
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: gotta go to the field. I want to play because
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: you you you're one of the few hitters that have
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: more walks than strikeouts, and so I want to test
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: your skills with guessing balls and strikes. So we have
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: a game on here. It's called Master of the Zone.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: Master of the Zone.
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: So what happens is they're going to show a pitch
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: and you're gonna have to guess if it's a ball
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: or strike.
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: All right, let's see it. I'm probably when I lost.
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: Let's see, bro, that's down.
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: That's down.
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's down.
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: That's that's ball.
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: He's seeing that. Somebody's gotta be that's ball.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, okay, okay, all right, so let's see uh
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: pitch to pitch too, Bro.
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: I'm the real A B S. You are, I'm the
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: real A B S. Yeah.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: Okay, so maybe there's another nickname. We can come up
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: with a B S.
• 50:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah something. Okay, next pitch, No, that's all Yeah, that's
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: that's that's the way.
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's way easy for you.
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah that was yeah, that was that was easy.
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: We gotta give us some closer pitches than this.
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: Bro.
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: We got the We got a B S here man.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: That's why Abs is here. He he's gonna hold it
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: down for us. Oh, that's like Chris say or something.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: That's gotta be a strike. That's the top of the zone.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: That's that's the top of the zone. I'm going top
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: of the zone Okay, okay.
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: Can you see the pich again again? He called ball?
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: He called ball. We gotta go with him. But can
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: I see the pitch again? Uh?
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: I don't think so that's a ball? Top of the zone? Strike? Hello,
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: want nothing, mook.
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: That's on his big bro? Who hit it? Who was
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: it hiting? I don't know. That's like clearly in the
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: zone though, I didn't set see that again.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: Okay, next bitch, Oh what you got, I'm going it
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: went around the zone.
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: So you say the ball, I think it's the ball,
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: ie to okay.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: Let's see it. I think it went around. It's a slider.
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: Can't it can't clean the I knew it, okay, all right?
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: Oh it was down to it is?
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, she is down down a way. I went, I
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: went off down the way.
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, we got a couple more three two three two.
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: Oh man, let's see justing up them. That's the right.
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: That's that's just right. Yeah, that's just right.
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: That may have been a homer.
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: It's lighter hanging. Yeah, light hanging. Yeah, like that's it is.
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: You don't miss that pitch.
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: I have a lot this year, but it has gotten better,
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: you know, get better.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: Left, lefty left, that's all.
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: That's a ball, that's all. That's clear ball.
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's nowhere near slider.
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a slighter Yeah you know that heater is it? Yeah?
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: You can tell, Oh you can look at the are
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: you looking at the stance and you can tell by
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: the stands. How do you know what sharer?
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: I mean? You say it?
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: Oh it says it right?
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah it is?
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, what more?
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: What that's a strike?
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: I think that's a strike. That's right on the corner.
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: Bag.
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: That's a strike that's in the corner. All right, So
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: one nothing I want so it looks like, yeah.
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: You didn't. You didn't let me see the pitch again. Well,
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: can I see the pitch again? Okay?
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: So what was too quick when Gallan threw a strike.
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: To me yesterday? What if I said, hold on, I
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: didn't see that one. Can you rethrow it? You think
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: that would work?
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: No, but you can challenge not right now? Right now?
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: So I guess you know what I'm saying.
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: So one nothing to me. I want you know what
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: I'm saying.
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: I give you that one.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: I'm master of the zone.
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: I'll give you that one, all right.
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: But anyways, uh Jerry frog frog Abs, thanks for coming
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: on the show man again.
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Toy.
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: I remember when you first came and talked to me.
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: I went and talk, as you know, I always go
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: talk to Toy and uh, he he was like, hey,
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: just just bear with him. He's gonna he asked you
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: a lot of questions. But he really loves you.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: And I didn't know what I did to make you
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: like me or whatever, but he always told me like,
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: pour into you.
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: And you know, I feel like I love when you
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: come ask me questions and anybody really I think that's
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: the reason why you're good now and you're gonna keep
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: getting better because you're so inquisitive and you really want
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: to learn the game. You really want to be good,
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: like you genuinely want to be good at the game
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: and have fun and all these other things. So you
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: have a lot of positive things going for you. Obviously
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: have uh toy and a great, great group of guys
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: around you. So just keep keep being you man, keep
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: having fun, keep finding a way to impact the game
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: like you always do. And the most important thing, I
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: think is just to keep pouring in the others, keep
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: pouring on the others, and you know.
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: That really just takes pressure off yourself as you as
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: you know, and.
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: As you keep becoming a vetman. Whenever you see a
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: young kid, when Jordan Lawler or whoever these guys have,
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: we had so many, we have so many young Yeah
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: you are, you are, but you've been around, been around
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: you ask a lot of questions your wives beyond like
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: your baseball years, and.
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: So I feel like that's that's the the most important
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: for john't player like me, Like the majority the majority
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: of the players, they character to approach you guy. You know,
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: I always say it, like the way I always been learning.
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: Is just listening to my olders, you know, listening to
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: you guys. I've been watching a lot of interview of
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: like old players, you know, Like that's the way I've
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: been learning this games, you know, because they might the
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: most probably sixty eighty percent is mentally. Yeah, and you
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: know it is like, how many are you being in
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: the league. This is my.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: Eleventh seasons eleven, that's.
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: My fourth season. You've been You've been like seven years
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: more than me. Like, yeah, I still I still like learning.
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: You know. That's why I I don't get scared. I
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: don't get shy to come to you and ask you, like, hey,
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: even if feeling he didn't good, even if I play
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: good defense. You know, all we're gonna come to my
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: olders because it's some question gonna be you never, bro,
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: You're never still learning exactly. You will learn something new.
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: That's why.
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: That's why you'd be great man to just just keep
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: doing your thing and appreciate them. We'll be playing against
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: each other for a long time, so it is yeah,
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: all right, man, Well, since you're still young, you got
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: to get to the field early.
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: And I don't really so yeah, you you you gotta
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: get on the first bus.
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: Still dog, No, that's true. That's true. That's true. That's
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: the deal. Yeah.
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: So anyways, I'll see you over there man. And again,
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: thank you guys, and thanks for watching. On Bass presented
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: by Geico, Get More Baseball.
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: Get More with Guico. Thank you, Jerry, I've seen it
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: a little bit appreciated.
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: My brother