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Bo Bichette, Sean Manaea and Carson Benge join FT @Mets camp · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: New Met's third Basement Bobachhet with us on foul Tiritory.
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  Speaker 1: How is that sounding? And is everything what you thought
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  Speaker 1: it would be here?
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  Speaker 2: How you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Bo? Hey, what's up guys? Thanks for having me. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it sounds good. I mean it's definitely a new experience,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a new challenge, but taking a head on
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  Speaker 3: and trying to get the best.
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  Speaker 4: That can be.
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  Speaker 2: How's third base? Is it weird?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a little weird. It's a little weird. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: practice is good in the game. He's you know, I'm
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  Speaker 3: trying to get the point where just letting my athleticism
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  Speaker 3: take over, and you know, I mean at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the day, you just got to catch small throat
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  Speaker 3: at first. But you played different position, you start thinking
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  Speaker 3: of like different ways to make it and things like that,
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  Speaker 3: and so those are the kind of things I'm working.
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  Speaker 2: Through different angles.
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  Speaker 5: And how about you made one throw that was like
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  Speaker 5: way back there and you threw it off line like
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  Speaker 5: I've seen every other third basement in the world do,
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  Speaker 5: and the people.
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  Speaker 2: Are like, this isn't gonna go well, Like, dude, give
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  Speaker 2: him a break. It's spring training.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, yeah, I've been making that playing practice
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  Speaker 3: and then I get the one in the game throw
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  Speaker 3: it a little offline, But I mean, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I understand that I'm under a microscope, you know, new position,
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  Speaker 3: big market, the contract and everything like that. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: just trying to take it day by day and get better.
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  Speaker 6: What's the toughest part about making a transition Because I've
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  Speaker 6: asked different shortstops that when you sign, I've asked different
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  Speaker 6: shortstops that have like made that transition, dudes that are athletic,
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  Speaker 6: and it's like they all had different answers.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think just like finding what mentality
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  Speaker 3: works for you over there too. It's just different. You know,
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  Speaker 3: like the hot smashes are a thing, choppers are more
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  Speaker 3: of a thing. So you kind of got to get
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  Speaker 3: in the right mindset. But I think probably seeing the
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  Speaker 3: ball off the bat is a lot different. At shortstop
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  Speaker 3: you can kind of see everything in front of you.
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  Speaker 3: At third it's almost like you can't really look at
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  Speaker 3: the hitter. So that's been an adjustment for me.
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  Speaker 6: All Right, So are you going to become a unit?
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  Speaker 6: Cause if I'm a shortstop my entire life, I'm super athletic,
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  Speaker 6: like just moving a look how cool I am. Now
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  Speaker 6: I'm at third base, are you doing more like bicep curls?
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  Speaker 6: Like eating everything? Put twenty pounds on and hit forty
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  Speaker 6: five bingers this year?
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  Speaker 3: Now, forty five dingers is never a goal of mine.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if I believe that, if I'm in the
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  Speaker 3: right mind frame and having consistent at bats, then you know,
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  Speaker 3: you take care of mistakes and you hit homers. But yeah, no,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not looking to get bigger. If anything, I'm trying
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  Speaker 3: to get more athletic. I feel like, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: can get back to kind of the athleticism I had
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  Speaker 3: when I was a younger kid. And yeah, that's kind
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  Speaker 3: of where I want to get to.
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  Speaker 2: What's it like for your dad?
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  Speaker 5: Obviously everyone knows your dad is Dante and he was
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  Speaker 5: a hell of a hitter, but he teaches a little
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  Speaker 5: different than like a lot of guys. So is that
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  Speaker 5: a struggle when you step into the cage and everyone's like, oh,
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  Speaker 5: lift and your dad's like, no, we don't hit like that.
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  Speaker 3: No. I'm lucky enough to have had some pretty good
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  Speaker 3: success very quickly in my career where people didn't didn't
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  Speaker 3: mess with me. I would say that, Uh, the thing
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  Speaker 3: that people would talk to me about was more like
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  Speaker 3: my load and stuff. I mean, I I just have
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  Speaker 3: a flexible torso so I get in different spots than
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  Speaker 3: most people. But yeah, like I've had people try and
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  Speaker 3: coach that out of me, which that's been a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of a challenge for me. But overall, I've been
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  Speaker 3: lucky enough to be left alone.
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  Speaker 2: All right, have you gotten over the World Series yet?
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  Speaker 2: I know you're on a new team. I mean you
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  Speaker 2: guys were this like this close to winning. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I would say I have no choice but
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  Speaker 3: to be over it. You know, like I got a
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  Speaker 3: new season, I'm with a new team, and I got
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  Speaker 3: to turn the page and you know, be in the
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  Speaker 3: present now. But yeah, definitely that was you know, you
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  Speaker 3: dream winning World so on one leg.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I listen. I was like, I wouldn't play them,
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  Speaker 2: but you played so he too.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, I saw what you said next to
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  Speaker 3: a J must not watch me hit.
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  Speaker 2: That's fair, that's fair.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but no, it was definitely, Yeah, make tough one.
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  Speaker 6: What what percentage were you at? Everybody, what what percentage
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  Speaker 6: were you playing at? Because everybody, like AJ does TV stuff,
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  Speaker 6: is like, oh, you know it's probably this or it's that.
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  Speaker 2: Where where would you say you were at during the
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  Speaker 2: World Series.
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  Speaker 3: Hitting? I was totally fine. I had no issues hitting
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  Speaker 3: everything else. I don't know if I'm gonna give a
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  Speaker 3: percentage on it, but I wasn't in a good place
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  Speaker 3: for sure. But I'm feeling good now, so you know
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  Speaker 3: that's all that matters.
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  Speaker 6: All Right, You're gonna have to go and play Philly
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  Speaker 6: either six or seven times this year. What do you
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  Speaker 6: think your reception is going to be like when you
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  Speaker 6: go there?
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  Speaker 3: If I know Philly fans, probably not the best. But
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know. I've never been I've never
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  Speaker 3: been booed by an opposing crowd like that.
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  Speaker 2: So do you need advice. If you need advice, let
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  Speaker 2: me know.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I got that.
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  Speaker 7: I got I look forward to it, man, I look
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  Speaker 7: forward to that's you know, that's in my opinion, that's
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  Speaker 7: you know, that's something actually pretty cool to experience.
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  Speaker 4: I look forward to.
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  Speaker 5: Just say this when you come when they ask you
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  Speaker 5: about just say, hey, I can't hear him. I was
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  Speaker 5: standing on my wallet and they were so far below
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  Speaker 5: me that I couldn't hear that. A low down there. Listen,
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  Speaker 5: Thanks bo we love you. We appreciate you coming all
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  Speaker 5: with us. I've known this guy and he didn't even
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  Speaker 5: remember this since he was like in ninth grade. He
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  Speaker 5: tried to come to the first Academy and we didn't
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  Speaker 5: want him. We said he wasn't good enough, so he
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  Speaker 5: went to a different school. No, I'm just kidding. We
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  Speaker 5: really wanted him. But I met him. I love him.
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  Speaker 5: I was just guy the best, and no, I just
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  Speaker 5: wanted the best for you. So when I said those
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  Speaker 5: things about the World Series, I just wanted you to
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  Speaker 5: be healthy. You get this contract. I didn't know you're
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  Speaker 5: enough and then but I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: But thanks for joining us. We really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: We're chatting now with Sean and Iyah of the New
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  Speaker 1: York match. Seawan, it's great to see you. How's camp
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  Speaker 1: going for you and really for the entire rotation, what
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  Speaker 1: is it looking like?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, things are going great, you know a little different
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  Speaker 8: than last year. Healthy, you know, coming to camp healthy
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  Speaker 8: and I feel good and a lot of I vps
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  Speaker 8: and I think I'll get into a game on Friday
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  Speaker 8: and you'll go from there. But yeah, I think just
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  Speaker 8: watching everyone pitch has been really fun. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 8: got some arms out there, and yeah it's been it's
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  Speaker 8: been really good so far.
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  Speaker 5: What did you change this year? Last year or two
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  Speaker 5: years ago you kind of went to the Chris Sale.
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  Speaker 5: So are you trying So are you gonna go like
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  Speaker 5: Kent to Kolbe this year like Lefty's side arm.
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  Speaker 8: I don't think we're going I think we're going to
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  Speaker 8: the opposite. So, oh, you're going up, You're going more up. Yeah,
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  Speaker 8: I'm not going to be here.
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  Speaker 5: But somewhere in the in the middle, are you still
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  Speaker 5: doing the crossfire?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, until the higher angle. Yeah, just refining it a
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  Speaker 2: little bit.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, So I think last year I was doing a
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  Speaker 8: little too much, like get a little too far down
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  Speaker 8: and crossfier, trying.
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  Speaker 2: To do all that, and yeah, it just wasn't wasn't.
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  Speaker 5: That's one of the craziest things I've ever seen for
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  Speaker 5: people that don't know. I'm sure you know, Scott and
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  Speaker 5: Eric know, but you went like one start and we're like,
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  Speaker 5: you know what, screw this, I'm just gonna start throwing
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  Speaker 5: like Chris Sale. And you did it and you were
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  Speaker 5: super successful.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: To me, that's one of the most wild things, wildest
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  Speaker 5: things I've ever heard in my life.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, sometimes you just gotta I just gotta
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  Speaker 2: try it out see what happens.
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  Speaker 8: And I'm a big field guy, so it feels good,
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  Speaker 8: and you know, it just gives me confidence and then
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  Speaker 8: just like a snowball effect after that, you know. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 8: that was that was one of those things that felt
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  Speaker 8: good and then I just ran with it. So yeah,
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  Speaker 8: if you ever hear a big leaguer say that, that
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  Speaker 8: just means they're supremely talented and much better than everybody
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  Speaker 8: else when they're like, oh, I'll just try this and
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  Speaker 8: then go ahead and have like a cy young second
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  Speaker 8: half of the season. But as a whole, asked or
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  Speaker 8: Scott asked about the group as a whole, how many
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  Speaker 8: conversations were had since the end of last year for
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  Speaker 8: you guys as a pitching staff, the starting rotation about
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  Speaker 8: going deeper into games, about the shortfalls that you guys
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  Speaker 8: had as a group last year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean.
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  Speaker 8: That's uh, that's definitely a like a big point of
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  Speaker 8: the season. Right like last year we started off extremely
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  Speaker 8: well and then you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, toward the end of the season, you know it.
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  Speaker 8: Wasn't and yeah, it's it's no uh, no secret or
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  Speaker 8: anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: That's definitely.
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  Speaker 8: You know, when when the starting pitchers are going deep
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  Speaker 8: into games, Uh, they're doing their job, taking pressure off
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  Speaker 8: the bullpen, you know, and let our letting our offense
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  Speaker 8: work and do do his thing. You know, I think
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  Speaker 8: that's our success. And you know, it definitely starts with us,
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  Speaker 8: uh setting the tone and doing all that and uh,
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  Speaker 8: yeah last year, you know, we we didn't do that
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  Speaker 8: at the end, and it's definitely, uh, you know, it
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  Speaker 8: was frustrating how things ended. But yeah, I think everyone
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  Speaker 8: that was on the team last year going to the season,
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  Speaker 8: you know, we kind of kind of know that.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, I think everyone you know, did good jobs
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  Speaker 2: this offseason. And yeah, I was just going out there
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  Speaker 2: and doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Sean, you're a veteran guy, been in the game
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  Speaker 1: for a minute. It felt like last year, at least
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  Speaker 1: for us as a show, we're covering your team and
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  Speaker 1: we're like, hey, there's some concern about the starting staff,
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  Speaker 1: there's some injuries up right, and it's just like you mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: it was a great start and then things started to unravel.
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  Speaker 1: Did it bother you and did you feel like it
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  Speaker 1: was overblown when eventually the coverage turned to oh well, clubhouse,
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  Speaker 1: So that's why the team didn't perform. You know, and
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  Speaker 1: you've been around the block with some teams, like do
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  Speaker 1: you really look around and say, oh, well, I guess
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  Speaker 1: everyone wasn't best friends at all times and doing you know,
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  Speaker 1: the the Jose Glaciers sing along and the whole thing,
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  Speaker 1: and that's why we didn't make it. So what was
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  Speaker 1: your take.
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  Speaker 3: On all of that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, yeah, you've been around.
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  Speaker 8: You're not you're not best friends with every single one
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  Speaker 8: of your teammates and that's okay, you know, it's it's
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  Speaker 8: not always like that, even in twenty twenty four. You know,
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  Speaker 8: we're not now all of us are best friends with
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  Speaker 8: each other. But the excuse me, that doesn't mean you
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  Speaker 8: can't be a good team, right, And you know, things
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  Speaker 8: were very frustrating last year, and I take you know,
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  Speaker 8: a huge part of that. You know, it was definitely
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  Speaker 8: a huge part and the reason why you know, the
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  Speaker 8: Mets didn't perform well, obviously being injured at the beginning
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  Speaker 8: and then you know how performed at the end. You know,
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  Speaker 8: just wasn't That's not how successful teams win. And yeah,
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  Speaker 8: it's you know, it's different coverage, different, you know, new stuff,
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  Speaker 8: but you know, at.
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  Speaker 2: The end of the day, we just weren't performing.
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  Speaker 8: And I don't think I had anything to do with
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  Speaker 8: you know, the clubhouse vibes or anything like that, you know,
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  Speaker 8: I don't. I don't think that was the main reason
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  Speaker 8: why we were like not performing as well as as
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  Speaker 8: we could have.
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  Speaker 2: It just happened to be like that. Listen.
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  Speaker 5: I've been on good teams that didn't get along, and
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  Speaker 5: I've been on bad teams it got along great.
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  Speaker 2: So when you win, everything is fine. If you win.
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  Speaker 2: But you guys didn't have any skits last year.
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  Speaker 5: You didn't have the OMG, you didn't have grims, you
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  Speaker 5: didn't have the pumpkin.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you didn't have all that stuff. You were just
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  Speaker 2: kind of van Ella made. Do you guys need some
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  Speaker 2: skits this year?
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  Speaker 5: If you talked to to Bo and Simeon and some
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  Speaker 5: of the new guys and said, man, we.
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  Speaker 8: Need some skits y'all, maybe I haven't brought that up yet,
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  Speaker 8: but now that you bring that up, yeah, maybe we'll
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  Speaker 8: uh want to do that.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you guys had the EyeBlack with the numbers,
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  Speaker 5: you had all that, you had all these things though.
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  Speaker 8: We were you know, we did all the things. So yeah,
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  Speaker 8: maybe maybe that's one reason why.
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  Speaker 5: All right, well, I mean you've got to start now
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  Speaker 5: at spring train. You got to start practicing your skits. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: maybe the day we'll start it up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: No, if you if you throw strikes and strike people out,
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  Speaker 6: that's that's the best skit that you can that you
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  Speaker 6: can ever have. Twenty twenty four, you guys had your
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  Speaker 6: starting rotation. You guys stepped up. You had, you know,
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  Speaker 6: that career year platform year for you to get that
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  Speaker 6: nice free agent contract. Jeremy Hefner was your pitching coach.
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  Speaker 6: Now you have a new pitching coach and Justin Willard,
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  Speaker 6: am I correct on that? Yes, he has to learn
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  Speaker 6: this staff, he has to learn you guys, how hard
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  Speaker 6: is that as the pitching coach? Because in other sports,
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  Speaker 6: like in football, if you have a brand new offense,
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  Speaker 6: some coordinator, defensive coordinator like that's talked about a lot,
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  Speaker 6: how hard is that for you? And how hard obviously
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  Speaker 6: we'd have to ask him, but how how easy has
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  Speaker 6: this transition been for him? Coming in for somebody? And
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  Speaker 6: Jeremy Heffner, who to me that you guys had one
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  Speaker 6: blip in the radar in the last two years and
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  Speaker 6: you know he was gone.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, I think as a as a pitching coach,
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  Speaker 8: like you said, it's it's not an easy transition. But
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  Speaker 8: I think what he's been doing, what he's been showing
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  Speaker 8: in spring training has been you know, nothing short of
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  Speaker 8: incredible so far. You know, it seems like he's gone
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  Speaker 8: out of his way to you know, get to know guys,
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  Speaker 8: get to know the routines, get to know you know,
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  Speaker 8: what you know, makes makes them click, makes them work,
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  Speaker 8: and you know, as far as like what he's able
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  Speaker 8: to do, and right now in this moment, I think
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  Speaker 8: he's doing a you know, a very very good job.
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  Speaker 8: Seems like every day, every time you talk to him,
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  Speaker 8: every day he's prepared. You know, if you have any
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  Speaker 8: any sort of questions, you know, if he doesn't, you know,
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  Speaker 8: he'll point you in the right direction. Stuff like that,
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  Speaker 8: which you know is kind of like the baseline. But
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  Speaker 8: you know, spring training, you know, it's a little bit
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  Speaker 8: different kind of like routines and stuff like that as
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  Speaker 8: you would in season. So you know, ultimately, you know,
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  Speaker 8: you won't won't know until we get there. But as
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  Speaker 8: far as you know, I'm conservaive spring training and you know,
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  Speaker 8: all the guys has got to go.
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  Speaker 4: Jog.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's been doing a good job. Sean, you
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  Speaker 2: know you have to go.
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  Speaker 5: But since you didn't win the Good Guy Award last year,
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  Speaker 5: Clay Homes, your teammates stole it from you from the
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  Speaker 5: New York writers, were you trying to win it back?
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  Speaker 5: When you went and saw Indiana State play against Miami
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  Speaker 5: and you sat in a bullpen during the game.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you talk about?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 5: What do you talk about with a college kid when
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  Speaker 5: you're sitting in the bullpen, You're you're just like hanging out,
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  Speaker 5: Like I mean, look at you, You're just like down
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  Speaker 5: there hanging out. You couldn't get your j couldn't get
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  Speaker 5: you a pullover to wear, you had to go street clothes.
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  Speaker 2: Well I didn't.
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  Speaker 8: I mean I planned to go out there, like I
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  Speaker 8: knew they were going to be down there in Miami,
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  Speaker 8: and I'd seen Indian State played and since I left,
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  Speaker 8: so it's been you know, twelve thirteen years, and this
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  Speaker 8: is as closest they they'd been to anywhere I played.
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  Speaker 8: So I was like, you know what, I gotta gotta
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  Speaker 8: make the drive. Let's go see the boys support him,
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  Speaker 8: And yeah, you know, I just sat there and I
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  Speaker 8: got a.
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  Speaker 2: Little bored just sitting there like watching it.
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  Speaker 8: I was like, I have nobody to talk to, and
• 14:24
  Speaker 8: so I was like, you know what, I'm just gussing
• 14:25
  Speaker 8: if I can get down into the into the bullpen,
• 14:28
  Speaker 8: and you know, I asked the coaches and they were
• 14:30
  Speaker 8: totally cool with it.
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: So I was like, all right, any of them know
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: who you were? Yeah, as soon as I walked down there,
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: not the coach, you know, the players.
• 14:37
  Speaker 8: Okay, down in the bullpen, they saw me like so yeah,
• 14:42
  Speaker 8: I sat down there, and you know, they you know,
• 14:44
  Speaker 8: had some great questions. I just talked about, like in
• 14:46
  Speaker 8: Indiana State baseball, you know.
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: A range of topics as you do in the bullpen.
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: And yeah, it was awesome.
• 14:53
  Speaker 8: I I wasn't trying to be like viral or anything
• 14:57
  Speaker 8: like that. It just, I don't know, it just happened
• 14:59
  Speaker 8: to be and it was cool to kind of just
• 15:01
  Speaker 8: relive that, you know, the college called days in college moments,
• 15:05
  Speaker 8: and yeah, these young guns have a different vocabulary than
• 15:09
  Speaker 8: I do.
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm now that I'm now the old guy that's
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: a screaming at the cloud. I guess so, but no,
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: it's it was.
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: It was awesome.
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: It was a yeah, cool organic viral moment, so it
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: was fun to watch. Well, it was great to see
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: you man, great to catch up. We'll get you right
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: to your meeting. I appreciate you. We'll talk to you
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: during the year.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: Sounds good. Thanks so much, guys.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: Matt's outfielder Carson Bene up next in Port Saint Lucy. Carson,
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: great to have you on the show. Has camp for you, man.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: It's got to be a lot of fun so far.
• 15:45
  Speaker 9: Right, definitely, you know, meeting all the guys, getting around
• 15:49
  Speaker 9: new faces, just being around everybody again. It's just really
• 15:53
  Speaker 9: fun and looking forward to see what this season hasn't sotore.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: For me, dude, you were hitting bombs out there.
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: I was watching your beef even Simmy and was comment
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: commenting on your VP. I told Marcus, I'm like, wait
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: till he's our age though, because you lose the excitement
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: of being in BP every day. But yeah, I mean,
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: tell me about just meeting these guys meeting you know, Sodo,
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: I know is not here, but he was here earlier,
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: right Marcus, Simmy and Francisco Lindor. When you walk into
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: the clubhouse and you see these guys what's that feeling like?
• 16:23
  Speaker 9: Well, I mean, at first it was kind of a
• 16:25
  Speaker 9: surreal you know, like watching all these guys as I'm
• 16:28
  Speaker 9: in college or growing up and then just being in
• 16:31
  Speaker 9: the same clubhouse as them is pretty surreal. But I
• 16:35
  Speaker 9: think as time went on, it's kind of feeling more
• 16:37
  Speaker 9: and more normal, getting more and more comfortable.
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: But Soto, he's been all the guys have been great.
• 16:43
  Speaker 9: They've all taken me under their shoulder and just let
• 16:47
  Speaker 9: me know right I'm wrong, what to do, what not
• 16:49
  Speaker 9: to do, And I'm really blessed to have that.
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: All Right, First of all, you never lose the joy
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: for BP, only AJ lost a joy for it. And
• 16:57
  Speaker 6: how do you stay fix that, fix that ice like that?
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: How do you stay comfortable but also stay yourself because
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: sometimes when guys come into Big League camp, it's like, oh, crap,
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: is this guy gonna make fun of me for this?
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: Or is this guy gonna like how do you? How
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: do you keep that balance?
• 17:17
  Speaker 9: You know, I came into the camp, you know, just
• 17:20
  Speaker 9: trying to be the best version of myself that I
• 17:22
  Speaker 9: can be, and in my meeting, they just told me.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: To be myself.
• 17:25
  Speaker 9: So I feel like that just helped me get more
• 17:27
  Speaker 9: comfortable with it, and you know, I feel like being
• 17:30
  Speaker 9: myself is the best way to go about my business,
• 17:34
  Speaker 9: not trying to be anything I'm not. So I feel
• 17:37
  Speaker 9: like with that, just being myself has always been one of.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: My core values. Is that part of it the mustache and.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: I just I just shaved a little bit so it's
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: pop a little more, but it looks good.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Hey, Carson, So the Mets did a lot this offseason, right,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: a lot of shoppling, a lot of new additions. How
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: much did it mean to you that they kept a
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: lane open for an outfield spot for you to be
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: able to earn that, Because often with a prospect, even
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: a highly rated prospect that doesn't matter right, a team
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: will just still say, hey, they're gonna have to break
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: their way through. You're gonna have to do that. But
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: they put you in a position where it's not like, hey,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: there's three guys that would be really difficult to suddenly sit.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: There is a lane here for you to play every
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: day very soon.
• 18:24
  Speaker 9: You know, I feel the competition in right field is great.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: Everyone's mashing right now.
• 18:30
  Speaker 9: So being able to compete with all those guys is
• 18:34
  Speaker 9: really special, and being able to learn from them and
• 18:38
  Speaker 9: see how they go about their business.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: I think will help me tremendously.
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: You went to Oklahoma State Holidays, Josh is a coacher,
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: Matt is around there all the time. Then you had
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: Jackson and Ethan running around that place all the time.
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: Do you ever call it Jackson Ethan and be like, Hey,
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna well maybe Ethan, not Jackson. I'm gonna be
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: in the big league soon with y'all right into the holidays?
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: What did the Holidays do to help you get to
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: where you are now?
• 19:02
  Speaker 9: I'll talk to them every now and then, you know,
• 19:04
  Speaker 9: not to not like an everyday basis, but like in
• 19:08
  Speaker 9: the off season, just like being around then. I feel
• 19:11
  Speaker 9: like has helped me a lot. Especially Matt. He's a
• 19:13
  Speaker 9: great resource for me.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: That wasn't a right fielder though he was, but he
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: wasn't he could hit, Yes, thank you, that's yes, That's
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying. But did did did? What do they do?
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: Because Matt Holiday knows how to hit right yeah, and
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: Josh Holiday is a great college coach. And then you
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: have the other two sons that obviously were the first
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: first round picks and you were a first round pick.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: What did Matt say to you.
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: What was his advice that Matt said to you or
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: Josh said to you that said, hey, this will help
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: me now in my big ley career.
• 19:40
  Speaker 9: You know, I've just been hearing the same thing from
• 19:42
  Speaker 9: them over and over. Never change for yourself and you're
• 19:46
  Speaker 9: gonna be good.
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: What about what about some of the other guys that
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: have been in your shoes but just a few years ago.
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: Do you feel like you get more or do you
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: think you'll get more if you haven't yet? More advice
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: from like a Brett Baty, like a Mark Viento, so
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: I know he's go and play for WBC, but like
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: then like a Juan Sota who made it up to
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: the big leagues at nineteen and hasn't looked back since.
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: But like Brett Baty's had that up and down. Different
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: guys have had the up and down. Who do you
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: think you can get more good advice from? Because it's
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: more recent.
• 20:21
  Speaker 9: I feel like any of those guys are a great resource.
• 20:23
  Speaker 9: You know, they're all willing to talk about it, willing
• 20:26
  Speaker 9: to talk me through it. But you know, being able
• 20:30
  Speaker 9: to have guys like that who are willing to have
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: my back is just really special.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Hey, Carson, gonna kind of throw you a different kind
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: of question here. So one of the other top prospects
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: in the sport, Max Clark, like dropped a fly ball
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: the other day and then social media just goes crazy like, oh,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: he has too many chains on. I don't know if
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: you caught that at all. I mean, you've got some
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: ice on now, do you think that's ridiculous? And people
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: are just trolling? And he spoke about it and kind
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: of backed it up like really, that's what we care
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: about here and said he's going to be him. And
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: we see tons of guys in the bigs with with chains,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: all kinds of you know, ice and accessories that they
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: wear that relate to them and sometimes it's from a
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: family member, whatever it is. So just wanted to get
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: your take, you know, on that and if you caught that,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: because it starts to get to a point where some
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: you know, people are just bullying online.
• 21:19
  Speaker 9: In my mind, yeah, I feel like he's probably got
• 21:24
  Speaker 9: He's got a lot of like social media attention, a
• 21:26
  Speaker 9: lot of followers, all that.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Since high school.
• 21:29
  Speaker 9: So I feel like he's been the same throughout his
• 21:31
  Speaker 9: whole like up and coming. As for chains, I don't care.
• 21:35
  Speaker 9: Where as many as you want.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, your's just thick.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I like it. I just got her yesterday.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Hi.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, But where as many as you want, you know,
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: be yourself. That's that's what he's doing. All right.
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: You were picked in twenty twenty four. Last year you
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: played in hi A, Double A and Triple A. Are
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: any of your teammates from those levels in big league
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: camp with you? And if they're not, they're over on
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: the minor league side. Do you talk with them and
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: they like, hey, let's go out to dinner and you pay?
• 22:08
  Speaker 9: Oh no, not yet, not yet, but I definitely do
• 22:11
  Speaker 9: still talk to him.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 22:13
  Speaker 9: We got quite a big group of guys that I've
• 22:16
  Speaker 9: played with over the last year here in big league
• 22:19
  Speaker 9: camp and then quite a few more over on the
• 22:21
  Speaker 9: minor league side. But I still talk to everyone. Keep
• 22:24
  Speaker 9: good relationships, you know, they're all friends.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: And special to me. Who are you living with, Nolan McClain.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: He's not here, So you're living by yourself.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: Living by myself.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: You have to pay rent by yourself? Then no, you
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: got it? Oh you still split it?
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: He split it?
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: Oh wow, I was generous of them. Yeah, all right,
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: did Nolan know you pitched. Also, yeah, we went to
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: Oklahoma State together.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Oh you guys were there together. Oh okay, So do
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: you miss pitching?
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: I do. It was fun. I just like going out
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: there and competing.
• 22:52
  Speaker 9: But I also don't think my attention span could be
• 22:55
  Speaker 9: in the dugout for a few days at a time.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: So you're a leaver.
• 22:58
  Speaker 9: So I like I like, well a little bit about
• 23:01
  Speaker 9: the little closer. And I started some games, but I
• 23:04
  Speaker 9: always hit in the games I pitched, so it's nice.
• 23:08
  Speaker 9: But like throwing and then like down for five days,
• 23:11
  Speaker 9: four or five days, I don't think that would be
• 23:14
  Speaker 9: for me.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got to be in the one day.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Well, Nolan obviously has found himself pretty quickly here in
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: the big leagues. So I got a couple Nolan questions
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: for you. Let's start with this, How crazy is the rise?
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: You know, people talk about you, you work hard, you
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: do your thing, You've been able to follow what he's doing,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden it's Mets shining off
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: season conversations about him being one of the top starters
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: in baseball already. Stuff wise, Boom World Baseball Classic might
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: pitch in the title game if they make it. So
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: what have you observed from the rise here from someone
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: who I think was kind of still figuring things out late? Bloomer,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: He wasn't you know, all the rage at sixteen seventeen
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: years old?
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Didn't you pick up pitching a little late too?
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: In college?
• 24:01
  Speaker 9: We always knew he had the grossest stuff on the staff,
• 24:04
  Speaker 9: so it was never a stuff issue.
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: But uh, I mean for him, I feel like it
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: all happened so fast.
• 24:10
  Speaker 9: Like I'm pretty sure last year he wasn't in big
• 24:13
  Speaker 9: league camp and then bang, he's up there making an impact.
• 24:17
  Speaker 9: So I feel like seeing that is just like how
• 24:20
  Speaker 9: fast your life can change.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah he was pitching.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was pitching and hitting, and then they're like,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: all right, dude, you're you're too good on the mound.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: You gotta just pitch right, last one here on him.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Give us one thing we got to know about him,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: because we we we haven't you know, obviously, learned much
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: about you and him yet, but one thing, like it
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: could be funny roommate thing. Give us, like one quirk
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: does do the dishes like.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: Clown.
• 24:46
  Speaker 9: His clown loves his video games, loves his jokes.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Are you a video game guy too? What do you
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: play Call of Duty?
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: Rocket League? Rocket League's like.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: What is it? Rocket League? We drive around the car? Yeah,
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: the best?
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you made the game. I'm not bad.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: You know that Rocket League? I don't know.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: My buddy made.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: I know Call of Duty I know, but I don't
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: know the Rocket League.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, rocket League? Just car soccer.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: You know you play on teams?
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like two B two three three?
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Can you play online? What's your gamer? Text?
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: For people out there will know? I don't say it
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: unless you want.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: People to know, probably something like sea baby.
• 25:27
  Speaker 9: Okay, baby, I think I'm c baby.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: What's your rank? G C Two's not good?
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: It's up there. It's not quite like at the top.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: It's not, but it's up there.
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: He's not he's not consistently pinching the ball on the wall.
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: But I mean, I'm I'm gonna let you. I'm gonna
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: let you play in my in my stadiums if you
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: want to play.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Okay, I don't even know what that means, but it
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: sounds fun.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Well, Carson, this was great, great getting to know you.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Appreciate the time man, good luck the rest of case.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: The way.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: He just picked up chess too, just picked up chess
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: he told me a week ago. So I said, stay
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: away from like Will Benson, Joey Vato. Stay away from
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: those guys. I'll take all your money.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Cars with soccer and chess. All good, Carson, thanks man,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: great talking to you, Thank you you too.
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: Nice meeting you.