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FT at Phillies camp: Kyle Schwarber, Matt Strahm · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: This team.
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  Speaker 2: When we walk out, we expect to win the game.
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  Speaker 2: So you lose one on a winning streak. You look
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  Speaker 2: around the room, everyone's cussed off about not winning the
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  Speaker 2: game because you expect to win.
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  Speaker 3: Here we go, Kyle Schwarber joining us right now in
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  Speaker 3: foul Territory, making his FT debut. Kyle, great to have
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  Speaker 3: you on, man, And you know it warmed our heart
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  Speaker 3: when we were talking Alec bohone before and we're like,
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  Speaker 3: who you just most excited to see when you get
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  Speaker 3: back to clearword and he's like, Schwarves, he didn't even hesitate.
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  Speaker 1: So how you doing, man?
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  Speaker 3: You brightening everyone's day?
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  Speaker 2: How's it going guys? Sorry Cratzy, I'm not a very
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  Speaker 2: good texter. I know you've reached out a couple of times,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm happy to get on the show with you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Finally.
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  Speaker 4: So glad, glad it finally happened. Glad we got to
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  Speaker 4: see that face. The last text you sent me was
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  Speaker 4: when you had your kid, and now he's driving, so
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  Speaker 4: that's great.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, God, it feels like it, but it's the
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  Speaker 2: way time flies, man, it really is. But I'm happy
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  Speaker 2: to be on you guys have been doing such great
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  Speaker 2: job with the show.
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  Speaker 1: It's really cool to be a part of it.
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  Speaker 5: By the way, this is you talk about how time flies.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I remember when Swarves was a catcher. I
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  Speaker 5: played against Swarves and he was I think it was
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  Speaker 5: his first game he caught in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that was old Schwarves back.
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  Speaker 6: They're catching, and.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got a good Perzinski story. I got a
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  Speaker 2: good story about you. So which one someone told me?
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  Speaker 2: There's plenty of them.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the only one I remember, there's a go
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  Speaker 1: I mean there's a great photo.
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  Speaker 5: Of me sliding into home plate and you're catching and
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  Speaker 5: you're looking at me, and I don't know, it was
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  Speaker 5: like a I think Lester was pitching and Lesser and
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  Speaker 5: I at the time.
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  Speaker 1: Where definitely didn't definitely didn't catch. Less did.
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  Speaker 5: That was im like, I'm like yeah, and Schwars looking
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  Speaker 5: you're looking at me like there was there was.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it was my rookie year. I mean that's
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  Speaker 2: the only time I really caught. But uh, I mean
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  Speaker 2: I'm at the plate, you're catching. I we're playing Atlanta.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, someone couldn't have thrown a more middle probably
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  Speaker 2: more middle strike and you know, no offense he didn't
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  Speaker 2: catch the best and.
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  Speaker 1: The guy balled it. Guy balls it. It's true, guy
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  Speaker 1: balled it.
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  Speaker 2: And you stand up, you throw the ball back and
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  Speaker 2: you know you didn't look back yet at the umpire,
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  Speaker 2: and you go, why'd you ball that?
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  Speaker 1: He goes, well, he goes, why'd you ball?
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  Speaker 2: And I'm sitting there, I'm like, oh, please, dear lord,
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  Speaker 2: like this, don't change his mind.
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  Speaker 1: He can't change his mind.
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  Speaker 2: To a strike, right because I thought it was a
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  Speaker 2: strike and uh. And then all of a sudden, he goes, well,
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  Speaker 2: you didn't get me a good look at it. So
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  Speaker 2: then you turn around, you just start rifling off. You go,
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  Speaker 2: I don't need it to look good if it's right
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  Speaker 2: down the middle.
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  Speaker 1: Like he's not.
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  Speaker 2: He's not wrong, but I'm like, think, goodness, it was
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  Speaker 2: a ball, it would have been like this.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, hey guys, we need to we need to
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  Speaker 2: replay on this.
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  Speaker 6: We need the incoming trick tail thing.
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  Speaker 5: So oh that is so funny, good time, dude.
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  Speaker 6: Just someone else just told that story. Was a j
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  Speaker 6: rowlerd just told.
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  Speaker 2: That story because I was telling about that story, selling
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  Speaker 2: the story in there.
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  Speaker 1: I was telling the story in.
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  Speaker 6: There, but I didn't custle him.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you did, but we're going to keep it,
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  Speaker 1: keep it light. But what is it?
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  Speaker 5: I got to ask because I didn't get to play
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  Speaker 5: with you. I played against you very little when you
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  Speaker 5: first came up. What is it about you that guys
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  Speaker 5: look and I know you're gonna be humble and say,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, but what is it? Because every team
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  Speaker 5: you've been on, everywhere you've gone, people gravitated. I mean
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  Speaker 5: when you were a young kid, like I mean Lester
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  Speaker 5: Ross and these guys Rizzo Brian, they talked about you.
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  Speaker 6: As being like a leader in the clubhouse. What is
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  Speaker 6: it that you do that stands out?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, that's a great question. I mean I
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  Speaker 1: feel like.
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  Speaker 2: Coming from where I came from as part of it, right, like,
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  Speaker 2: and what my parents did and kind of seeing you know,
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  Speaker 2: my dad was a police officer for you know, over
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  Speaker 2: thirty years, and just the way that he interacted with people.
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  Speaker 2: I think that was kind of a big way of
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  Speaker 2: looking at that, right you know, as a police officer,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of guys come on really bad days. And
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  Speaker 2: the way that you're able to see, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: tell this story a lot. I was at a gas
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  Speaker 2: station with my dad one day, and uh, this dude
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  Speaker 2: tat it up all over the place on his head,
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  Speaker 2: face neck right, comes up to him and I and
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  Speaker 2: then they just sit there having a conversation.
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  Speaker 1: I go, what was that about?
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  Speaker 2: And he goes, oh, I actually rested that guy like
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  Speaker 2: twenty years ago, and he was just talking saying thanks,
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  Speaker 2: blah blah blah. Like think things like that, right, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's just kind of always never judging the any
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  Speaker 2: you know, the cover right, it's always you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to respect someone until you give me a reason
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  Speaker 2: not to respect you. And you know, I think that's
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  Speaker 2: that's the greatest part. And also just being able to
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  Speaker 2: have you know, I like to have fun, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean. I love having fun, Like this game's fun.
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  Speaker 2: This you know what we do. It can be frustrating,
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  Speaker 2: it can be tough. It's the hardest thing to do.
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  Speaker 2: In my opinion. The sports is a hit. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they put us on offense and we don't have the ball,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, you got to be able to try
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  Speaker 2: to find a way to make light and have fun,
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  Speaker 2: but also to have that business side do as well.
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  Speaker 2: But and I think too, it's just the experiences I've
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  Speaker 2: had throughout my career right where you know, I've had
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  Speaker 2: a lot of really good veterans throughout my career. Uh
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  Speaker 2: you know coming into Chicago, like you said, the I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I can name the list of these guys who have
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  Speaker 2: made such a huge impact on my career, Lester's Rossi
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  Speaker 2: uh Rizzo, Lackey, John Jay, Jason Hayward. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: could just keep naming guys and who played Dexter Fowler,
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  Speaker 2: who played such an integral part of me being young
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  Speaker 2: and coming up.
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  Speaker 1: And now you get to that part we're veteran.
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  Speaker 6: I kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Down whatever is sixteen and I feel like right like.
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  Speaker 4: Hang on one set, hang on one sex for your
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  Speaker 4: your your mic is like super We're gonna reset you
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  Speaker 4: because your mic just like became no, no, it just
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  Speaker 4: became all like staticky.
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  Speaker 6: So we'll go to question.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, ask your question, and by the time we know
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  Speaker 3: how to fix it, we'll.
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  Speaker 4: Get it super metallic. I guess it is. I guess.
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  Speaker 4: I guess Kyle is a machine. People are like, how
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  Speaker 4: can he be so nice and perfect and hitting dingers?
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  Speaker 4: I guess he's a machine. And we started hearing the
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  Speaker 4: machine coming out in him there.
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  Speaker 1: M hm.
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  Speaker 4: So really whenever, whenever we get him back, let me
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  Speaker 4: know when Kyle can hear Kyle can hear me. But
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  Speaker 4: I mean, like this guy's been like people need to
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  Speaker 4: look at his baseball reference page because like this dude
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  Speaker 4: had a good career to start his career, and now
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  Speaker 4: what he's done on this Phillies contract has been freaking awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Like what's your question?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, my question? You're talking about like all this stuff,
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  Speaker 4: like all the all the all the guys in every
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  Speaker 4: thing this team right here, we're gonna I was gonna
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  Speaker 4: ask about ping pong? Is that part of like the mystique?
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  Speaker 4: Is that part of like Kyle Schwarber, just like I
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  Speaker 4: have to have some kind of competitive outlet and you're
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  Speaker 4: not the best is what we heard in the clubhouse,
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  Speaker 4: but one it always wants to play.
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  Speaker 2: You love the competition, right, And I mean the ping
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  Speaker 2: pong game has definitely taking a step back. I've lost
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  Speaker 2: too many times, so I'm done giving people the satisfaction
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  Speaker 2: of beating me in it.
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  Speaker 7: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I think anything that we can do about
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  Speaker 2: like having that competitive side to us, that's funny and
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  Speaker 2: the laugh at right because where we don't get you know,
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  Speaker 2: we stink, right, we stink at ping pong, we stink
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  Speaker 2: at golf right, Like, but anytime you can get that
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  Speaker 2: competitive side, do you on something that you're not supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be good at. I think that's fun and that
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  Speaker 2: that's just brings more guys together.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Oh, I think we got the same question turned
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  Speaker 3: to both go ahead, aj.
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  Speaker 6: You bet lead off this year or the fast fast
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  Speaker 6: guy Tray. I don't know what about Leaf do I
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  Speaker 6: want to?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, Joe Madden has ruined your career by making
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  Speaker 5: right that was like, now other teams are like, hey,
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  Speaker 5: let's do it.
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  Speaker 1: The you know it's fun.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I would say I batted there a lot
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  Speaker 2: and there's a comfortability factor there. But also too, it's like,
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  Speaker 2: there's no better feeling than winning a World Series. So
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  Speaker 2: if we feel like that me being in a in
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  Speaker 2: the four hole or being in any other position in
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  Speaker 2: the lineup, that that's going to get us the winning
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  Speaker 2: a World series or helping us get closer to a
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  Speaker 2: World Series and hopefully holding up that trophy.
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  Speaker 1: I want to do it. You know, I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I've seen a lot of winning in my days,
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  Speaker 2: and I've only freaking held the trophy up once. You know,
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  Speaker 2: been to the playoffs every year except for one, and
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  Speaker 2: been a two World Series, so uh, it's hard to
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  Speaker 2: get there, and you want to keep getting back there
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  Speaker 2: and having that experience that you know, at such an
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  Speaker 2: early age where I'm at now, you know times, you know,
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  Speaker 2: time's not on our side, right, You're only getting older
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  Speaker 2: and you're only getting it, you know, years closer to
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  Speaker 2: whenever you're done with the game, and you want to
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  Speaker 2: get back to holding up as many trophies as you can.
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  Speaker 2: So whatever, whatever they want me to do, I'm all
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  Speaker 2: about it.
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  Speaker 4: Eleven eleven is the number. Can you get eleven bags
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  Speaker 4: this year? Yes, it's figure gonna let you do.
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  Speaker 1: It, I hope, So, I hope. So I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Forget the Homers, Yeah, I think I could definitely. I
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  Speaker 2: mean I think my first year here I got over ten,
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  Speaker 2: so you got ten. Yeah, I think I got ten,
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  Speaker 2: and then I then uh uh didn't have the best
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  Speaker 2: running form in twenty three, and then last year actually
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  Speaker 2: had some decent running form. So hopefully this year the
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  Speaker 2: running forms in pristine form that that uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we get that get that base total up because you know, heck,
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  Speaker 2: if I hear it was funny we were. I was
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  Speaker 2: actually talking to j T about it today because we
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  Speaker 2: had a signs meeting today and I was like, guys,
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  Speaker 2: I know my signs. You know, three to zero got
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  Speaker 2: the green, which I never swing anyways.
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  Speaker 1: And then, uh, you know, don't steal.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, JT, what happens if I can get
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  Speaker 2: the second base for you? You know, if I'm on first,
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  Speaker 2: it's a good point. I'm like, what about if I
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  Speaker 2: could get the third base for you with less than
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  Speaker 2: you know, less than two outs? And uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm not gonna be stupid about it, right, Like
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  Speaker 2: I know, I'm not I'm not an idiot, and.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not the fastest human in the world.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, if I feel like that that base
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  Speaker 2: is gonna could be given to you, you got to take
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  Speaker 2: advantage of that.
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  Speaker 4: So have you seen the memes? Have you seen the
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  Speaker 4: memes of you running and Jack Sparrow running, because it's
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  Speaker 4: one that makes me laugh. Does it make you laugh
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  Speaker 4: or does.
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  Speaker 1: It make me laugh?
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  Speaker 2: It does, know, it does make me laugh because it
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  Speaker 2: did look like that, and then it could have looked
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  Speaker 2: like that video was in slow motion, but that was
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  Speaker 2: in real time. So uh yeah, I mean, trust me,
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm not one the shy away from making fun
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  Speaker 2: of myself. I love that, you know. I love the
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  Speaker 2: I love the banter. I love it all. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's it's part of it, right. You gotta keep
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  Speaker 2: things Like I said, you gotta keep things light. You
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  Speaker 2: gotta keep things light in this game. And heck, if
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  Speaker 2: I can make fun of myself and laugh at myself,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's a really good thing.
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  Speaker 5: That's the best advice, by the way, anybody out there
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  Speaker 5: that plays baseball or life in general, if you can't
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  Speaker 5: laugh at yourself, no matter what happens, it's gonna be
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  Speaker 5: a long light. It's gonna be a long baseball career,
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  Speaker 5: but it's really gonna be a long yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean there's I've made way too many mistakes not
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  Speaker 2: to laugh at them.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, so I want one on the Cubs. I know
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  Speaker 3: it's been a minute now, but you know you're with
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  Speaker 3: a team that's had some continuity. Now, first off, you know,
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  Speaker 3: did you think that that was going to be the
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  Speaker 3: spot you rizzo KB for much longer? And what can
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  Speaker 3: you take from that experience when you're with these guys now,
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  Speaker 3: you know, kind of relating back to the top of
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  Speaker 3: this interview where you're like, damn, it moves way too fast.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like you look at it and for me,
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  Speaker 2: especially right like, it's my first your first circuitization, the
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  Speaker 2: team that you get drafted by, and you think that
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  Speaker 2: this is it and then you go, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: get caught up within a year and we're twenty fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: Next thing, you know, we're in a National League Championship
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  Speaker 2: series and we get bounced, and then we're all fiery
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  Speaker 2: or hungry.
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  Speaker 1: We're young.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we just made some you know, we signed
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  Speaker 2: Hayward and made you know, Lacky came in right like,
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  Speaker 2: then we signed some other pieces and you're thinking like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: like this is the year, right and then you know,
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  Speaker 2: we we win the World Series, you're expecting a lot more.
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  Speaker 2: And then I think that that was just a way
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  Speaker 2: that it kind of put in perspective, right that, especially
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  Speaker 2: where I'm at now, where you don't realize how hard
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  Speaker 2: it is to win actually in this game. And I
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  Speaker 2: mean that that was a great team we had in
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  Speaker 2: the great core we had there for years, and we
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  Speaker 2: are only the reach. We were only able to reach
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  Speaker 2: one World Series and uh, you know, you going back
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  Speaker 2: to I guess the original question, right, yeah, you think
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  Speaker 2: that that team's gonna last forever, you know, you being
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  Speaker 2: the young guy myself, I'm like, dude, we're gonna, we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be here for the rest of our careers, and
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna do great things, and we're gonna, you know,
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  Speaker 2: people are gonna, you know, you know, love us for
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  Speaker 2: the rest of our lives. And then you know, you
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: don't realize there's a base there's a business side the baseball,
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: and yeah, exactly. And I mean I go back to
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  Speaker 2: myself being you know, non tendered, and after the twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty years, I sure you should have not tendered me, right,
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  Speaker 2: I hit one eighty, I didn't do anything that great
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  Speaker 2: in sixty games, and uh, you know, and then the
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  Speaker 2: the you know whatever. Then I think it was a
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  Speaker 2: little bit probably, I guess it was probably a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more shocking after going into twenty one when I
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  Speaker 2: was already gone and everyone's getting traded.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think that was interesting. Uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean.
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  Speaker 2: I felt like the the nucleus was still kind of there,
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  Speaker 2: that they still had a really good team, They had
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  Speaker 2: a really good core of guys. I mean they're they're
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  Speaker 2: great people, but you know, that's the business side of
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  Speaker 2: the game. They made a decision and everyone moved on,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, for me, it happened to be the best
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  Speaker 2: thing in my career that you know, that I was
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  Speaker 2: able to kind of you know, get get a little reset, goes,
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  Speaker 2: get that one year proven deal, and then I found
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  Speaker 2: my way here. And now we're in this window of competent,
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  Speaker 2: you know, competing, and you know, we've been to a
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  Speaker 2: World Series, We've been to an LCS, you know, two
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  Speaker 2: lcs's and uh, you know got bounced last year early that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's like I said, it's hard, right, but
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  Speaker 2: there's also still that you got to have that expectation.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I always say this is my line that I this team,
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  Speaker 2: when we walk out, we expect to win the game.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we play one hundred and sixty two games.
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  Speaker 2: You're not going to win every game. It's just not realistic.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, it's funny when everyone asks the questions
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  Speaker 2: of what's going on, what's going wrong or whatever throughout
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: the course of the season, you know, or say you
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: lose one on a winning streak, you know, you look
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: around the room, everyone's pissed off about not winning the game.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: You know, and because you expect to win. It's just
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: who you are.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: It's in your blood, it's in your DNA, right and
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: you know, you just got to be able to have
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: that focus and have that you know, that want like
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: we always have.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: We've had that.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: There's nothing that's changed from twenty two to now in
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: terms of determination, will aspect, fighting calling. They're trying to
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: get to a World Series and win at there's you know,
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: we just got to be able to go out there.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: We got to play our game, and when we get
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: to a postseason format, we got to be playing really
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: great baseball because it's you know, anyone can win in
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: a series.
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: Agreed.
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: All right, So speaking of winning in traditions of winning
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: and believing you're gonna win Indiana.
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: Football this year?
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: Okay, how about that?
• 16:19
  Speaker 6: You got to do.
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: One of the things I've got to do a lot
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: of stuff in my career, but you got to go
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: on game day. Now, you dressed up like, I don't
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: know what you dressed up. Well, yeah, but you got
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: to go and be the guest picker on game day
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: at an Indiana football game.
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: Did you ever think that would happen?
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Never?
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: And how awesome was it? Because you did?
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: You made good picks, right, Yeah. I think I finished
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: the top top picker. Yeah, And it's just so happened
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: to be that I decided to pick against Notre Dame,
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: who knocked out Indiana in the playoffs.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: I took it. I took Navy over Notre Dame. And
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know why.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: I was the sick and I needed an upset, right,
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: I needed to I needed some sort of upset, you know.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: I didn't just want to keep picking favorites because it
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: was kind of a favorite week that week, and there
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: was like one there was one pick them between I
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: think it was LSU and A and M, and it
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: was A and M at home, and I went with
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: A and M. But I was like, man, I need
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: like legit upset, so I went with Notre Dame. But yeah,
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: what a cool experience. I mean, you know, you always,
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: you know, every Saturday, always wake up and you turn
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: it on and you're sitting there watching and then you
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: got to go to the field. But to be able
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: to have that experience, you know, I was at my
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: farm and I got a text saying, hey, it was
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: like on a Tuesday or Wednesday, like, hey, do you
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: want to be the guest figure Absolutely signed me up.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: So it was funny.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: I actually was dressed up originally in khakis and a polo,
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: and then I show up. I get there to the
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: field and I go to my equipment guy in college,
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: he still works there, and you know, they say, hey,
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: we got a bag, you know. So they gave me
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: a football jersey. So I put the jersey on and
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: I was like, well, do you got candy stripe pants.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: It's like, oh yeah, I got some. Back here he goes,
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: what do you want to helmet too? I'm like absolutely,
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: you know. Like so that ended up being totally thrown
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: together on the spot and then yeah, go out there.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: It was awesome. It's it's kind of crazy how quick
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: it is, you know. So they get you miked up.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: I got to talk to porso that was awesome. And
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: then you know, they put you They take you out
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: to get ready to go on set. And then you
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: go on set, you shake everyone's hands. They're like, all right,
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: we're back with the guest picker.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, here we go, Like, gott gotta
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: get this thing dialed in.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: And you know have notes. No, so they give you
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: your picks. Luckily, you know, they don't make you give
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: scores or anything. So I was kind of worried about
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: like having to put scores up there, Like I'm like,
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: I don't know what the scores is going to be, right,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: we can give our best guests.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: But so it's luckily this picket.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: But I will say, it was like we get done
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: and then they go, all right, thanks everyone, we're and
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: it's noon kickoff and we got done with that, like
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: eleven fifty eight, they're they're taking this thing down. Everyone's
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: heading out, and I'm like, that's it. They're like, yeah,
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: I'm like perfect. So you got to watch the game
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: and watch Indiana beat Washington and had a great time.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Uh And then yeah, I went up to Indiana or
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: went up to Notre Dame watched Indiana get beat in
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: the playoffs.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: But it's such a cool experience.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: I've never seen that, you know, three years of Indiana,
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: never saw the stadium packed, and it was such a
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: cool experience to see how you packed out and the coach,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: you know, six got these guys in a really good
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: spot and hopefully they can keep it going all.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: Right, two quick ones to end here and then we'll
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: let you go. How big was that helmet they put
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: on you? Was it a big helmet?
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Who's got a bigger head? Mir or you?
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Well, that's what I'm asking.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm out of half. I'm out of half, but.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: You still have hair, so yeah, I still got a
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: bigger head. But I'm taller, but I'm taller, so that
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: so that taller.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Yes, I look at when he would stand up behind
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: the plate then catch for Milwaukee.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: We played because you're never in the minor league, so
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: we never really got to play a ton against each other.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: But that was the one year. But how this is
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: super random because he was on earlier for us? How
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: perfect is JT? Real Muto? Like, is there any does
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: he have any flaws?
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: He's he's he's pretty good at a lot of a
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: lot of things. So it's you know, it's Captain America, right,
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Like the All American football player.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: I mean the guy in the golf course. He's a stick.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Uh you know, he's you know, he catches, you know,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: he runs the bases like he's a like he's a
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: center fielder. He's got power, he's got a cannon, right, like,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: the guy doesn't really do many things wrong. Yeah, I
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: mean he doesn't. He doesn't do anything wrong. He plays
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: the game the right way. And I mean, and he's
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: good at poker.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: He's good.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, is this not any things he's not good at?
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: I'm sure if you put a basp on his hands,
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: he'd be draining three pointers.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: And I'm looking.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: I got it to try to find the one thing,
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: like the one sport that he's bad at, so that
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: I can exped it.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: I need it, expose him, expose him and let us know.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna try. Trust me.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: That might be my mission this year is to like
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: maybe like bring out a pick a ball paddle and
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: try to work this guy or something.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: Nope, that's not it. That's not a board game.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: There's got to be some board game where he's or something. Yeah, yeah,
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: something random. You'll get him. You'll get him, although he
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: is really smart. But Kyle, this was awesome. Man, really
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: enjoyed the conversation. Hope you had fun with it. Thanks
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: for obviously giving us some love and good luck the
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: rest of the spring training. We'll catch you during the season.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Appreciate it, guys, Thanks a lot.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: Thanks Kyle, we've got All Star Matt Strom that sticks forever,
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: That sticks forever.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: That sound good?
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean World Series champion's not a lot better.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: M How does that happen this year?
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: I mean we just last year we ran into a rocket.
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: I mean, I know it's no excuse, but we just
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: got to put together good baseball at the right time.
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: And I mean we have we definitely have the club
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: to do it. I know, obviously the postseason, the last
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: three years of the postseason has regressed, but if you
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: look at the overall of what we've done as a
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: team throughout one sixty two, that's gone, that's gone in
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: a positive direction. But now you just need to figure
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: out how to formulate that together.
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: No, just I'm thinking of it because what you just
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: said is is wow to me because what he said
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: was the team has gotten better. But you and I
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: thought about it for a second. I was like, you
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: know what it has the postseason has gone the wrong
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: way because it's twenty two year in the World Series
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: twenty three, and then last year obviously the Master Series
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: that I had to cover in Uh. I just I
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: can't believe you didn't get the Game five. It was
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: I was sitting and doing the games, and I'm like, oh,
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: this is going five and you guys are gonna have
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: wheels at home, ye in Philly in the bank, and yeah,
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: but what's the attitude. I know, toppers talk to you guys,
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: what's the attitude? Does he say anything? Hey, guys, like
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: I know, but let's just do it again.
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: No, I mean, I don't think it needs to be said.
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: I think all sixty guys in that clubhouse right now. No,
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: it's World Series or failure. Like, I mean, that's just
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: as blunt as it is. That's what it's gotta be,
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: just for how it's finished the last two years, three
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: years technically two for me.
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: But yeah, if you pitch, you've pitched the spring right, yeah,
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: n twice? Are you do you do?
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: Are you multiple inning guy in spring training? Back to
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: back day guy in spring trink? Because some every reliever
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: is different.
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: So my thing with I would rather do a multiple
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: inning than the back to back. I think the back
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: to back, like the adrenaline helps you in the regular
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: season of the back to back, so like once you're
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: out there, it's.
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: It is what it is.
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: But I I am spring training like the multiple over
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: the back to back, but I mean I don't.
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: I don't care either.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: You pull your do you pull your vet card and
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: say I'm gonna throw in the third inning, even though
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: during the regular season, I get like the seventh of
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: the age.
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: No Stubby the other day my first out and he said, hey,
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: do you know what inn and he got I said,
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: whenever the phone rings, So it doesn't it doesn't matter
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: to me. And I just I mean, this is a
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: clubhouse veterans. I don't even feel like one.
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: You're like a rookie. Yeah, yeah, So it's I'll keep
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: my head down.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Mag give us the bullpen report because there's been some turnover.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: What have we got this year? And how much are
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: you gonna miss? Obviously even just hanging out with Yeah,
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Jeff Hoffman and SEVENS was there towards the end of
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: last year.
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: Yeah no, I mean, uh, Hafey. Hafey was my catch
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: partner for the last two years, so uh adjusting there.
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: Romano has been a good good fit for me so far,
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: and I mean he's had an unbelievable track record in
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: the big leagues too, so to add him to our bullpen, obviously,
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: the losses were big, but I think he's a.
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: He's a big addition. That's gonna help us a lot.
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: And uh, you know Alvi's looking like Alvi, So that's
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: that's gonna be huge for us.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: How was that catch partner thing picked out? Because that's
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: not that's any small that's not small potatoes like Haffy.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: You and Haffey. You guys were all stars together and
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: now like is there is there pressure on Romano?
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: No? So I like to think of myself as an
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: easy catch partner. I liked just I don't Again, I'm
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: worried about pitching. I'm not a big weighted ball guy.
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: I'm not into all this this stuff. They'll not gonna
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: put a water pack on my back or anything like that.
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: But you know it's, uh, I'm easy, so whatever Romano needs.
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: The one thing I won't do is I'm not gonna
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: play long toss, so he doesn't do that.
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: So we're clicking so far.
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: All right, forget baseball, you're lefty. I want to get
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: into cards, yeah, because I've never been. I mean, I
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: was into cards when I was like ten to twelve
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: years old, and I still have a ton. They're all
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: worth nothing now.
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: Right like I thought I was.
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: I definitely thought that I like I was gonna retire
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: because I had like a eighty two Tops traded Cali
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: Ripkin card and I was like, Oh.
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: This thing's gonna be worth a billion dollars. I still
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: have it.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: It's somewhere in a you know, shoe bosses, but you're
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: a big collector. Yeah, okay, we do a thing with
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: Arena Club. And you said you have your Arena Club too,
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: slab packs and all that. So to the people out there,
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: explain what those are because I'm still learning.
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so what Arena Club is?
• 26:17
  Speaker 7: Pash So like Arena Club is like an idea around
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: the repacking. So like that's kind of been big in
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: the hobby where everyone has all these cards, some valued,
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: some not, and other collectors that just PC the Phillies
• 26:31
  Speaker 7: don't want the Dodgers, so they create these repack items
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: and you have a whole chase card system. Arena Club
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: does a really good job of showing you what's available
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: and what's been hit, and that's why I like them
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: a lot. But they're they're just they're fun chases of
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: all products in one kind of thing. Because like if
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: you open Tops Chrome, you're only getting Tops Chrome, but
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: Arena Club.
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: You could hit a Bowman.
• 26:52
  Speaker 7: Tops chrome definitive, like all all the products in there,
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: and they usually are higher value, and the hits from
• 26:59
  Speaker 7: the hobby boxes.
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: So it makes it my cards and you're like, eh, bad.
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: And like, I mean, James Would, I mean you never know.
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: I need James would have a big year. You look
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: at that card you have of James Wood.
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: The Mookie Betts version of that card sells for about
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: four hundred bucks.
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: Let's go James Would. It's gonna take five or six years,
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: but I got I got nothing. Yeah, I would. I'd
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: believe in that kid. So he's he's an athlete.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: So give us some other names that we should be
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: keeping an eye on this year, Like who are you
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: watching and seeing if their card is going to pop
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: based on performance?
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: So that's actually that's another way of collecting. I don't
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: get into that that much. They call it prospecting. I
• 27:42
  Speaker 7: call myself for a pack rat. So I enjoy the
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: the chase, so to speak. I mean everyone's obviously chasing
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: James Wood rookie card in Top Series one right now,
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: and Dylan Cruz, so I.
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: I enjoy that.
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: I don't really collect individual player other than my own cards,
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: but or people who've taken me deep that's gotten out
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: there plenty. But uh, but yeah, so I'm more I'm
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: more of a pack rat. I don't get into the prospecting,
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: but I'd say around camp here, I think Aid Miller.
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: Would be a good card to pick up.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that kid, Yeah he's legit. Adam Lynn was
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: telling me all about how good he is. But what's
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: the what's the one card of you that you don't
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: have that you're like, I need it?
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that would be my one on one rookie super
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: Fractor auto I have. So like another part of collecting
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: is completing the rainbow where you get all the parallels,
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: and I have all of them except my one on one.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: Unfortunately, Middle Reliever one on one rookie cards usually end
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: up in like an eight year old's car seat or something,
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: and so.
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: You don't know where it is, no idea, no wow,
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: maybe maybe in someone's bike spokes or something.
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: I was fortunate enough that, uh, I just did a
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: signing with tops and some people now on Twitter are
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: sending me So if anyone out there finds my one
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: on one, yeah, we might be able to make a deal.
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: Just because I want to have it, no doubt. Was
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: like they took everything in my power to put it
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: back in the box, Like well they even notice that
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: this isn't in there.
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: I just I just keep it out.
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you wouldn't believe how many players have asked me, like, hey,
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: would they know if I kept it? Absolutely bro Like
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: you notice how they put it in the box between
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: it's just by itself, like they'll know it's gone.
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: But but yeah, so a lot of guys are interested
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: in there one of ones.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: One thing I never got into collecting my own cards
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: because there was like a billion of them, Like it
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: was just I was the common card that everybody actually
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: does put in their bike spoke. But one thing I
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: got was the print the Stadt Yes, and my uncle
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: gave that to me, and that was pretty cool. It's
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: like super rare, but it was what they made my
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: card out.
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: Of, right, And I think, so I believe if I'm
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: not mistaken. There's four different ones. It's like magenta, yellow, black,
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: and then like a reverse one. So like my favorite
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: one is that reverse one where I'm throwing right handed,
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: looks like right handed, so it's like that's kind of cool.
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: I like I like tracking down those printing plates.
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: All RIGHTA aw are there? It is? All right?
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: So I gotta I was telling this story. So the
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: Paul Skiings thing obviously is a huge deal this offseason.
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: So one day I my wife somehow sees this on
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: Instagram and she's like, I want that card. And so
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: one day randomly she goes, we're going to the card
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: shop and I go, we I know we have one
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: in Orlando. I don't know where it is, so we
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: start so I google it. It's like, oh, they're at Target,
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: and they're at Walmart. So I start hitting targets. They
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: don't they don't really have they have like the little
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: one single backs like the retail yes, And I'm like no, no, no,
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: So I call. I start calling around and I call
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: a guy I know in Chicago and I say, hey,
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: can you get some of these?
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: Hees?
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, how many you want? I was like, you know,
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: how many can I get? He's like, well, they'll only
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: lie you just buy five at a time or whatever.
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: I'm like, all right, I'll take five. They'll ship them
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: to me. So then I start calling Orlando card shops
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: and some of them have them, and I go so
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: I had to. I was driving all over Orlando looking
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: for these, and then I finally find a card shop
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: across town. Drive over there, I walk in. The guy
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: has three boxes, so I'm like, okay, I'll take three.
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: And then I'm digging around.
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: He's like, wait, yes, exactly what he and he had
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: a white Sox hat on, and I'm like, he's like,
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: I'll tell you what I'll do. I have one more
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: in the back that I was holding, but I'll give
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: it to you if you signed something for him.
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: I'm like sure, you know. Of course he's still charged me,
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: Like yeah, we kicked that for free, right, So.
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: Not only did was I involved my whole family then,
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: and then we took the boxes home and I think
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: I ended up with like twelve boxes of these, okay,
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: and so we're digging, so we were like one one
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: box a night. Yeah, So me and my son and
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: my wife we sit down and we start doing this
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: whole thing, and we played the game like who can
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: make the best team?
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: Right, but it had to be the special cars.
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: So you get all this cards out, but then you
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: start getting like there's an all star cards, there's a
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: red card, a green card, a yellow car to a
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: blue card, an autograph card.
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: And you're like, man, there's a lot more cards.
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: And then of course I spent like a lot of
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: money and got nothing, got no fall scheme. Some kid,
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: some ten year old kid in California found it. Yep,
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: that gets rich for life. Yeah, I call them. They're
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: my slot machines. That's what That's what boxes are to me.
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: I'm not I'm not one to go to the casino
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: or anything.
• 32:09
  Speaker 7: So I'll take a box of cards back and roll
• 32:11
  Speaker 7: the dice with that my gambling.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: What does your showroom look like, because our showroom's coming started.
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: Cards everywhere.
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: I think they're talking about an arena club, a club,
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: So I mean I've gotten I've gotten pretty lucky in there.
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: I actually have. I think I saw it the other day.
• 32:31
  Speaker 7: It was like forty cards or something like that in
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: my arena club over the last I don't know.
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: I think it's been like.
• 32:38
  Speaker 7: Six months they've been sponsoring the Card Life or something
• 32:40
  Speaker 7: like that. But I got a few rookie cards of
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: Otani in there that are pretty cool, a couple of
• 32:45
  Speaker 7: low numbered one so too autos, and then some prospect stuff.
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: But I would say the.
• 32:51
  Speaker 7: Rookie show he has probably been the highlight of the
• 32:53
  Speaker 7: Arena club so far.
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: Can't go wrong with that one.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: More for you on this, Matt, Yeah, how does how
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: does a card really rise in pop?
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: Obviously, like you mentioned prospecting, But for someone like Shoeo Tani, like,
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: will it continue to rise if he wins more World
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: Series titles? Obviously he should be a Hall of Famer,
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: et cetera.
• 33:13
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, no, I mean obviously it's it's all about
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: hype in today's cards. When I mean you'll see, I forget,
• 33:22
  Speaker 7: who is the White Sox kid that had an unbelievable
• 33:25
  Speaker 7: start a few years ago? Oh, you're talking about Latin
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: guy Mercedes. So if you go back and look at
• 33:31
  Speaker 7: his card sales from the month before the season, is
• 33:34
  Speaker 7: card selling for a dollar twenty five and then that
• 33:37
  Speaker 7: month of his hype he sold for one hundred and
• 33:40
  Speaker 7: twenty two bucks And so the same card dollar twenty
• 33:43
  Speaker 7: five to one hundred and twenty two bucks. So a
• 33:45
  Speaker 7: lot of the selling for profit is hitting the hype.
• 33:48
  Speaker 7: But I mean, in my opinion, you can't go wrong
• 33:51
  Speaker 7: with future Hall of Famers show. Hey, Mookie, Freddie Freeman,
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: Mike Trout, Harper, Like you just can't billion.
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, angry. Maybe I'm trying keep them hungry, you know. Yeah,
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: we got we got business. That was my question.
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: How do you know when to sell these cards? Because,
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: like you said, they go up and down, up and down, right,
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: So how do you like?
• 34:11
  Speaker 7: If you ask my wife, she tell you, I don't
• 34:13
  Speaker 7: know how because I don't sell it.
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: So yeah, I always tell it, like.
• 34:16
  Speaker 7: When I I was fortunate enough to hit the one
• 34:18
  Speaker 7: on one Gunner Henderson and his rookie card and uh,
• 34:22
  Speaker 7: telling her how much we think it's worth, and she goes,
• 34:25
  Speaker 7: it's worth nothing, You're not gonna sell it. I was like,
• 34:27
  Speaker 7: that's fair. Smart, It's worth whatever my daughter sells it
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: for when I'm in the grave.
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: I guess smart lady, Smart lady.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: Well, Matt, we appreciate the time.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Man, this was good. This was good.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: We needed to catch up, especially because these guys have
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: some education to do.
• 34:41
  Speaker 7: Yeah, anytime you need some card and no, no, no, no,
• 34:45
  Speaker 7: that's that's in a safe.
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: I don't know what to do with that is your cards? Right? Yeah.
• 34:48
  Speaker 7: So, actually, the Hall of Fame reached out to the
• 34:51
  Speaker 7: producer of the card Life and they they're opening up
• 34:54
  Speaker 7: a card exhibit.
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: At the Hall of Fame.
• 34:55
  Speaker 7: I think it's supposed to be open this summer, but
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: they're opening that up and they trying to work out
• 35:00
  Speaker 7: something with him to come shoot an episode on that,
• 35:03
  Speaker 7: and then I think we're gonna give them my belt
• 35:05
  Speaker 7: for their card display, so that'd be cool.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: That's awesome, dude. Well, we'll be looking for it, and
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: obviously good luck this season. We'll catch you during the year.
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: Okay, thank you, appreciate it. Guys,