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Austin Jackson's Tiger Territory Debut · Tiger Territory: A Detroit Tigers Podcast

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  Speaker 1: And welcome into another episode of Tiger Territory, part of
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  Speaker 1: the Foul Territory Network, a Detroit Tiger's podcast. I'm Karen
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  Speaker 1: Stickley with me and as always as Cody Stavenhagen.
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  Speaker 2: And joining us.
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  Speaker 1: The third Texas Boy of this Tiger's podcast is Austin Jackson.
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  Speaker 3: Austin Jackson, what's up man? How you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Man? Hey? You know I've been, I've been, I've been
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  Speaker 2: doing good. I'm just I'm glad to be on here. Man.
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  Speaker 4: This is this is a good little thing y I
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  Speaker 4: got going, man, So I'm I'm excited to be a
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  Speaker 4: part of it.
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  Speaker 2: Dude.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the timing is impeccable. So this is our first
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  Speaker 1: podcast of the new year. So we're debuting Austin Jackson
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  Speaker 1: on this new look podcast that we've been doing the
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  Speaker 1: past several months. Be sure to like subscribe wherever you
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  Speaker 1: listen to your podcast and subscribe to us on YouTube
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  Speaker 1: that continues to grow. We're very excited about that, Austin.
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  Speaker 1: I think maybe the best way to art is just
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  Speaker 1: kind of like a little bit of a life update
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  Speaker 1: from you. I know, I know you've been, you know,
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  Speaker 1: still getting you know, still involved in the game. I
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  Speaker 1: remember listening to you with Dan Dickerson when the Tigers
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  Speaker 1: played the Rangers here a couple of years ago. What
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  Speaker 1: is life for Austin Jackson post baseball? And then you
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  Speaker 1: know what you've been up to more recently.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, man, So yeah, I was doing a little broadcasting
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  Speaker 4: there for a little bit with the with the Tigers
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  Speaker 4: with Dan and I just kind of getting my toes,
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  Speaker 4: dipping my toes into it a little bit. I think
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  Speaker 4: at the time I wasn't fully committed to it. But
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  Speaker 4: you got two kids, eight in a six year old
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  Speaker 4: helping coach my little boy. So that's something right there.
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  Speaker 4: Working with eight year olds.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that was pretty that's pretty that's interesting. You're
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  Speaker 2: gonna see some interesting stuff out there.
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  Speaker 4: Been invested in some real estate, have a couple of
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  Speaker 4: rental properties and things like that going, and really just
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  Speaker 4: trying to stay involved in the game, trying to get
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  Speaker 4: back into the game a little.
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  Speaker 2: Bit, you know, with a son, you know, playing the game, you.
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  Speaker 4: See you kind of want to, you know, keep yourself
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  Speaker 4: involved in knowing what's going on. So much stuff is
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  Speaker 4: changing in the game now, so I just want to
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  Speaker 4: I want to know what's going on in the game.
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  Speaker 4: Still and I want him to be up to date
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  Speaker 4: on what's going on. So but that's yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: that's that's been it. I mean it goes by so fast, right,
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  Speaker 4: Like you look up and you're like, wow, now the
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  Speaker 4: game six years here, I am right now.
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  Speaker 5: So so so for those of you who haven't been
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  Speaker 5: falling along, who haven't heard our teases in the past,
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  Speaker 5: Austin is going to be part of the Tiger Territory family.
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  Speaker 5: He's signed on to do you know, a couple of
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  Speaker 5: several shows a month with us, uh, not every episode,
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  Speaker 5: but he will be a recurring co host. So we're
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  Speaker 5: obviously thrilled to have someone with the knowledge, the experience,
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  Speaker 5: someone who is an exciting player, a member a great
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  Speaker 5: Tigers teams. But as a writer, I think I got
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  Speaker 5: to share like the the imagery of the first time
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  Speaker 5: I met Austin, Right So at winter meetings, we're in Dallas,
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  Speaker 5: when we step up a meeting and I wasn't quite
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  Speaker 5: sure what to expect, you know, I was like, all right,
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  Speaker 5: we'll say how this goes. Austin walks in man ten
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  Speaker 5: gallon hat dud country as can be, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 5: all right, this is this is gonna be awesome and
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  Speaker 5: went on to share some good stories. You're you're you're
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  Speaker 5: living You're living out in the country. You got some acreage. Now,
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  Speaker 5: how was tell the people how that's going.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, I'm in the country life right now. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, you I guess I don't. I don't. I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going through a midlife crisis first of all.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just you know what I mean, like sometimes you
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  Speaker 4: got to switch it up, man, And you know, the
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  Speaker 4: tablets and all the you know, the the technology with
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  Speaker 4: the kids, and you know, we didn't have that when
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  Speaker 4: we were younger. You know, we didn't have it like that,
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  Speaker 4: like outdoors, that's that was our playground, you know, and
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  Speaker 4: just you know, having to use your imagination.
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  Speaker 2: And it just hit me one day.
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  Speaker 4: My son is in there on the tablet and he's
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  Speaker 4: you know, just just talking about stuff that I'm like, dude,
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  Speaker 4: what are you talking?
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  Speaker 2: Like, go outside, like what are you talking?
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  Speaker 4: So I just, you know, I wanted to kind of
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  Speaker 4: recreate that with them, and they love it, you know,
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  Speaker 4: they go outside and they get to use their imagination
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  Speaker 4: a little bit man and just enjoy enjoy the land
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  Speaker 4: is peace and quiet. Now what I am starting to
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  Speaker 4: understand though, is I do I like people though, I
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  Speaker 4: still like to see people and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So we out here in the country, you.
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  Speaker 4: Ain't, you know, get a little quiet sometimes, like hey,
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  Speaker 4: I need to see a person though, So I'm you know,
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  Speaker 4: that's one thing I'm questioning.
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  Speaker 2: But no, it's it's great though. Man.
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  Speaker 4: We got chickens, we got longhorns, dogs. You know, we're
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  Speaker 4: thinking about adding a couple more animals to the farm,
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  Speaker 4: so we'll see how that goes. But right now, I
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  Speaker 4: think we're pretty settled in at you know, at with
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  Speaker 4: the animals of the animals that we have.
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  Speaker 2: But it's cool, man, It's it's a cool life. It's chill.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I do all. I got to get out there now
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  Speaker 4: and do do the work myself.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 4: It's uh something about getting out there on the on
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  Speaker 4: the zero turn and throwing the headphone zone and throwing
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  Speaker 4: some beat zone and you know, and just you know,
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  Speaker 4: just it's kind of therapeutic a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: But it'sn't work. Though. It'sn't work.
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  Speaker 1: I say that, yeah, those that have listened to us
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  Speaker 1: from the beginning, No that I'm a I'm a I
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  Speaker 1: love things that connect unexpectedly, like Cody and I going
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  Speaker 1: to college together, and then he gets the job covering
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  Speaker 1: the Tigers, so then we get to do this podcast,
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  Speaker 1: and then you know, I I to go back to
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  Speaker 1: that meeting with Austin.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: He says that he lives in the town where my
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  Speaker 1: wife grew up, so he's like, I was, I was
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  Speaker 1: just there the other day. I was probably in your
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  Speaker 1: backyard helping helping the in laws with some with some
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  Speaker 1: of that work that goes into living on properties like that.
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  Speaker 1: So uh So, yeah, I just I just love it
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  Speaker 1: when things kind of kind of work together. And that's
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  Speaker 1: another reason why I think this is gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: great fit here on on Tiger territory. All right, let's
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  Speaker 1: let's let's kind of go back to your playing career
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, Austin. As Cody said, you were part
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  Speaker 1: of some very memorable Tigers teams. There's a whole generation
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  Speaker 1: of Tiger fans that are younger than us. That's that's
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  Speaker 1: their teams. Those are they're maybe a little too young
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  Speaker 1: for two thousand and six, certainly too young for eighty
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  Speaker 1: four and sixty eight and forty five and thirty five
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  Speaker 1: and and all that stuff. So your era is kind
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  Speaker 1: of their formal years. So I guess, just going back,
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  Speaker 1: if I were to just ask you when you think
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  Speaker 1: about your time in Detroit, what kind of comes to mind?
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  Speaker 1: What's kind of the first what are the kind of
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  Speaker 1: the hits that come up when I just say, what
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  Speaker 1: was it like playing for the Detroit Tigers?
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  Speaker 4: Man, that's crazy you said that though about you know,
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  Speaker 4: people not remember it because, like I do, this cameo
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  Speaker 4: thing and there was a lot of people that were like,
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  Speaker 4: there's a lot of kids at that time. There were
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  Speaker 4: like ten and twelve that watched us, and now you
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  Speaker 4: know they're grown adults, and I'm like, man, that's crazy,
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  Speaker 4: Like that's crazy that they're wanted something now, you know
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  Speaker 4: with kids and they're like, man, I remember you know
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  Speaker 4: this game.
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  Speaker 2: In this game, I'm like, dang, Like that's that's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 4: But no, a lot of the things that I remember
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  Speaker 4: about my time in Detroit. I mean the clubhouse, man,
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  Speaker 4: was it was second to none, Like everywhere else that
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  Speaker 4: I went in my big league career, you know it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was.
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  Speaker 4: It was pretty evident right away that the clubhouse was
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  Speaker 4: like we were so united, like we're a brotherhood, and
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  Speaker 4: I mean and you're like that with with all clubhouses, right,
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  Speaker 4: but you know, it was something about that clubhouse in Detroit.
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  Speaker 2: Man, it was like it was a brotherhood.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we were there was no clicks, you know, everybody,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we everybody got along. You know, everybody got along.
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  Speaker 4: Were from all different walks of life. You know, we
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  Speaker 4: we we just messed really well. And I think that
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  Speaker 4: when we started kind of adding some different pieces in there,
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  Speaker 4: some other veteran presen veteran press its uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: that just kind of changed the clubhouse even more in
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  Speaker 4: a good way.
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  Speaker 2: That you know, they were bringing their.
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  Speaker 4: You know, their knowledge, their expertise, their you know, experience
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  Speaker 4: over to a clubhouse that was already really you know,
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  Speaker 4: closely knit. And dude, it was it was just it
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  Speaker 4: was unreal. Like you you enjoy going to the to
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  Speaker 4: the clubhouse. You know, you enjoy going to work because
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  Speaker 4: you know you're about to cut up. Did we cut
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  Speaker 4: up so much in that clubhouse?
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  Speaker 2: Dude? We hey, it was it was crazy, man. We
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  Speaker 2: we just it just made it made you know.
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  Speaker 4: All the daily grind of baseball, it just made it,
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  Speaker 4: you know, that much easier to get through. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: obviously we're playing the kids game, right, but there's some
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  Speaker 4: you know, there's some ups and downs with throughout the season,
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  Speaker 4: and when you got a group of guys there that
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  Speaker 4: that are essentially your brother because you're there with those
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  Speaker 4: guys more than you are basically with your family. And
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  Speaker 4: when you that that that group, man, they just they
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  Speaker 4: they helped me for sure through some tough times. And uh,
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  Speaker 4: I mean just the laughs and the memories that you know,
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  Speaker 4: I always share it with that group. You know that
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  Speaker 4: that was that was that was really big my time there,
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  Speaker 4: and uh, there's the times I'll never forget.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 5: So so I was gonna ask, like the kind of
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  Speaker 5: the cliche question, like you played with Mickey and Verlander
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  Speaker 5: and Shureser and you played for Jim Leland, and we
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  Speaker 5: can talk about the greatness of all those, but but
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  Speaker 5: you got me thinking, and I think what I really
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  Speaker 5: want to know is, just like, who's the funniest dude
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  Speaker 5: you played with in Detroit?
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  Speaker 2: Man? I mean it's a there's a few.
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  Speaker 4: Now like my my when I first got there, Inge
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  Speaker 4: is he's probably one that that uh that took me
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  Speaker 4: under his wing a little bit and you know, just
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  Speaker 4: kind of showed me, showed me the ropes. But he's
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  Speaker 4: sneaky funny though, like like like weird, you know what
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Like it is that weird funny where it's
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  Speaker 4: like you gotta he has to trust you.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta know him.
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  Speaker 4: He's not just gonna come up and open up to
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  Speaker 4: you like like that, Like you know, he has to
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  Speaker 4: trust you, and he has to you know, make sure
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  Speaker 4: you ain't. You know, you're not gonna be one of
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  Speaker 4: those guys that you know, you're telling.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's business like that. That dude he was.
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  Speaker 4: He was awesome man and and super funny, super down
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  Speaker 4: the earth dude.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 4: Then wow, it's just wild man like he that dude,
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  Speaker 4: like he kept it lose man and and honestly that
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  Speaker 4: was that was big for me when I first got
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  Speaker 4: to Detroit because you know, I'm trying to prove myself.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's a lot of a lot of you
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  Speaker 4: know pressure there to you know, try to prove myself.
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  Speaker 4: So he was one that you know, really really tip
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  Speaker 4: minus wing but super funny dude I played with.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Andy Dirks is actually sneaky funny too.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's like that country funny like you know, like
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  Speaker 4: I'm you know, like I said, he got like this
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  Speaker 4: little grunge to him a little bit. Uh, Prince, Prince
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  Speaker 4: Fielder is hilarious, man. Prince's funny that that that dude.
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  Speaker 4: We still keep it touch a little bit and we listen,
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  Speaker 4: we crack up every time.
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  Speaker 2: Like there's there's not a dual moment me and Prince.
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  Speaker 4: So like me and Prince, I don't know, we kind
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  Speaker 4: of have similar personalities a little bit, so we're like
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  Speaker 4: we're we kind of we're like on that same page
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  Speaker 4: where like, uh, you know, you got you know, there's
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  Speaker 4: a serious meeting going on right now, and you know
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  Speaker 4: you'll cut you know that one friend you got that
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  Speaker 4: you'll cut your eye and it's like, don't look at me.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, Like don't do that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Like like like the teacher or the man, like
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  Speaker 4: they'll say something and they'll say it wrong or kind
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  Speaker 4: of like stutter and then like the dude to cut
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  Speaker 4: you cut you out.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, oh gosh, like why did I do that?
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  Speaker 3: That was Cody and I in college, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean.
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  Speaker 4: So that was being Prince Man. Like me and Prince
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  Speaker 4: we just had a real cool bond. And that's the
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  Speaker 4: dude that I really, uh to this day, really still
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  Speaker 4: keep it touching me too.
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  Speaker 2: So I was.
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  Speaker 1: I was going back because this is sort of like
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  Speaker 1: a common uh occurrence. We've talked about it several times
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  Speaker 1: on this Podcas Cass and Cody's written about it. There's
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  Speaker 1: been like an E sixty about it. But the the
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  Speaker 1: Almardo Galarraga near perfect game, should I've been perfect game?
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  Speaker 1: That's a that's a prominent part of your highlight reel
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  Speaker 1: there there in the ninth inning in Austin. And so
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  Speaker 1: I'm kind of curious we we've heard from from Cody's
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  Speaker 1: reporting other stuff that's been going on about like you know,
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  Speaker 1: what they remember from that game and then uh, some
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  Speaker 1: of the fallout from it. I'm curious, like you're, you're
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  Speaker 1: on the field, You're there, you know, you're, you're, you're
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  Speaker 1: how much of that is going through your mind in
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  Speaker 1: the moment about like, you know, this perfect game and
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  Speaker 1: then you know the play itself and I'm thrown a
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  Speaker 1: lot at you and then just your reaction when the
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  Speaker 1: safe call comes. I'm curious your recollection of that uh
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  Speaker 1: kind of monumental you know day in Tiger's history.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, that that was, like I can't.
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  Speaker 4: I remember just that that whole you know, just the
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  Speaker 4: way I felt like it was yesterday. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm glad I got schooled earlier in my in my
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  Speaker 4: baseball playing career on what to do when something like
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  Speaker 4: this is happening, because like, like before, I would.
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  Speaker 2: Go up and like talk to the picture.
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  Speaker 4: I'd be like, man, you hey, you're doing They're like, dude,
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  Speaker 4: what you can't say that?
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, why he got her killing? Like he's throwing
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  Speaker 2: a no hitter. They're, bro, what what are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Like I didn't know, you know, I didn't know.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, I'm glad I got schooled on that
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  Speaker 4: because you know, that whole time in in the in
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  Speaker 4: the dugout and just seeing how everybody is just trying
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  Speaker 4: to act like we don't know what's going on when
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  Speaker 4: we all when we all know what's going on, like
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  Speaker 4: a bunch of growl men walking around like like robots,
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  Speaker 4: like we like we're not not.
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  Speaker 2: Like like we're not a part of something that's crazy
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  Speaker 2: right now.
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  Speaker 4: But I remember being on deck. I think I forgot
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  Speaker 4: who was hitting.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I might have been Don Kelly, I think, or I
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  Speaker 4: don't know who it was, but I was on deck
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  Speaker 4: and I remember or I don't know if they struck out.
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  Speaker 2: I think they got out, and I.
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  Speaker 4: Just remember I was just walking down the stairs and
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  Speaker 4: I was like, I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have
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  Speaker 4: to make a play right here, Like I'm telling myself
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  Speaker 4: that so I can be ready.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't really thinking like right like like right now,
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  Speaker 2: you about to have to make a play.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just I'm sure everybody's saying, hey, get you know
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  Speaker 4: you gonna have to you have to make a play,
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  Speaker 4: Like get ready. That's what you're telling yourself as a player,
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  Speaker 4: because you don't want to be out here like not focused,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, just had that little lapse real quick.
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  Speaker 4: And so I'm like, hey, you're gonna have to make
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  Speaker 4: a play or I'm putting my bat in there, I'm
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  Speaker 4: putting my helmet on, you know, in the in the
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  Speaker 4: the helmet fe or whatever, and I'm just like, dude,
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  Speaker 4: you know you gotta be ready. You gotta be ready.
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  Speaker 4: You gonna make a play right here. You gotta make
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  Speaker 4: a play. I remember talking to Brookie or outfield coach.
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  Speaker 4: He was like, hey, we're gonna play a little.
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  Speaker 2: Shallow I'm like, what, we ain't even gonna play shallow?
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  Speaker 2: Like what you mean?
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  Speaker 4: Like it's four twenty back there, somebody somebody shot I
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  Speaker 4: can't get back. So I'm like, all right, whatever, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I understand it now obviously why you would want to
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  Speaker 4: play You're trying to take away the little blue pit.
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  Speaker 2: But at the time, I'm like, dude, what did we
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  Speaker 2: do it? And you know, lo and behold you go
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  Speaker 2: out there, you're playing shadow. You're looking you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, at the at the at your corner, guys, and
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  Speaker 4: just like you're trying to figure out the spacing.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: That's what you know, you always do that. You're trying
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: to figure out your space.
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: And everybody knows pretty much, you know, everybody's range out there,
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: you know.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: So I'm just looking over.
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: I'm making sure that I'm you know, guys, know that
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: you know our spacing is is correct, and you know
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: we're playing shallow. Hey, we're in Fellas, We're trying to
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: take away a little blue pit. We ain't nobody's thinking that.
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: Nobody's about to crush one barrow one up to the
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: fence right now, you know. And the first for the
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: first pitch, wasn't it the first pitch dude cracks one
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: like and I just I just remember I got a
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: great jump on it. And honestly, when he hit it,
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: I'm not even kidding. I was like, I'm I'm catching
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: this ball unless it's over the fence. Like there was
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: no doubt in my mind when he when he hit
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: it that I that I wasn't gonna get to it.
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: I just didn't know if it was gonna go out,
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: and I didn't know if I was gonna have to
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: try to rob it.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: But I like the way I broke on.
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: It, like it's so much adrenaline pumping through your veins
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: right there, like you you don't even know what you
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: just did, Like I look, you know, you throw the
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: ball in and you look like what I just ran
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: that down from where I was at. Yeah, I did that,
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: But hold up, that's one out. That's what out, Like
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: you gotta so you gotta keep it cool. Like I
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: wish I would have did something different. Thinking back, I
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: was like I should have beat my chest or something,
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: But I wasn't thinking like that. I was like, hey,
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: because what if something What if you do that and
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: then they hit you another one, and then you you know,
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: you muff it and then how you're out here beating
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: your chest and you just let the air. So I
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: threw it in and I walked in calmly. I was like,
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: come on, we gotta we got or dude, all right,
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: it's went out. Let's let's keep our let's keep our composure.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: So it was, it was, it was. It was a
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: super like surreal moment, especially at the at the end
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: of the you know, the call right like it was
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: in my in my from my point of view, I'm like,
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: you're out no matter what, Like you can step on
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: the bag and run past the bag and he could
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: have caught the ball and you had all y'all had
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: an all day to get hit. Don't try to be
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: a hero now you out. See you tomorrow, Like do
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: it tomorrow.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: But that was seriously, I mean, from my point of view,
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I get it.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: It was a it was a it was a close play,
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: like we try to act like it was like, oh,
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: there's no chance, like it's a close player.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: I get it.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: But I mean he was out right like he was out,
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: and it was it was I think it was it
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: was more surprising, you know.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Then it was it was like I was just I
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: wasn't like shocked.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: I was just kind of like surprised, like what what
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: why would you whoa why would like it wasn't that
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: close to where you couldn't call him out. And then
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: just the the chaos after, you know, it was, uh,
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: you know, the fans were going crazy.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: You know, the team was going crazy.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: You know, we were trying, you know, a couple of
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: us trying to get at him a little bit, you know,
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: we guys and and keep guys calm. You know, I
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: kind of felt bad for him a little bit, but
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: I'm like, dude, there's just just no way, Like I'm
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: not gonna mess it. I'm calling, like I said, you
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: are out, buddy. I'm sorry. We could talk about it tomorrow.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: You out. You know.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: So it was it was crazy going to the clubhouse.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: It was crazy.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: You know. It was you know, you had some guys
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: that were mad. I don't know why.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: I didn't know what to be if I was mad,
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: I was trying to hold guys back or Miggie was
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: going crazy, and he's you know six four these two,
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: so try to do something with that. When he get mad,
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: you know, it's like I'm good. So I just remember
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: him and Lloyd McClinton. We're walking up the tunnel, walking
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: upstairs to the to the locker room, and I'm.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Like, man, y'all, you know, y'all break it up. I
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: grabbed Lloyd. He turns around and looks at me. He's like, chat,
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: get out of my way. And I'm like, I'm like,
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: I'm good on that. Like I don't.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: I don't have that in me when when somebody eyes
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: do that, it's like, I don't want none of that.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: And uh, you know, and do We get to the
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: clubhouse and everybody, like I said, it's just very chaotic,
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: and then Amando comes in super calm, just like, hey guys,
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: we won the game. And it was like it's just
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: like this calmness went over the clubs, like you're right,
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: you're right, you know, like at the end of the day,
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: you're right. And then to see you know, everything the
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: next day and then you know, meeting at home play
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: like that, and you.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Know, seeing how emotional this is emotional time. I get it.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: He was, you know, visibly he was. He was emotional
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: about it.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: You know, he's getting some he got a lot of
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: stuff that is he shouldn't have got. But you know,
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: it was just a very you know, you don't see
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: that very often, so it was everybody was pretty emotional
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: about it, but it was it was awesome. It was
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: awesome to be a part of that because there was
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: there were so many plays made during that game. Like
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: I went back and watched it, and a lot of
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: those plays you know, yes, they like we're supposed to
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: make those plays as as you know, professionals, big leaguas,
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: but those players get zooed all the time, you know,
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: like some of those plays get you know, those little
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: choppers that coming in, dude is hustling real hard. They
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: just beat it out or but everything was just going perfectly,
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: and you know, like I said, I watched it, I
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: was just like, dude, this that was that was you know,
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: that was special.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I rewatched that game a few years years ago.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: It's actually spent a day with Armando and wrote a
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: big story about it, and like, man, yeah, it's one
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: of those things we could talk about for thirty minutes.
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: You know, maybe on the anniversary of the game, maybe
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: maybe we will since since since we got you going forward. Yeah, yeah,
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: I guess another thing that's endless stories is Jim Leland
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: goes into the Hall of Fame this past year. Another
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: person I've you know, always been fascinated by what was
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: it in your mind that made Leland a successful manager?
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: And everyone's got a funny Jim Leland story, Yet do
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: you have any better top of mind?
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Man? There was that?
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: I mean, who, I have a few I probably can't share,
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: but I think his ability to connect with each and
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: every player, you know, like, obviously that's that's you know,
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: a big important role for a manager to be able
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: to connect with his players. But he just had a
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: unique ability, a unique way of doing it that just made.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: You feel just as big as of.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: Miguel Cabrera or Justin Verlinder, Like he made everybody feel
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: like their role was important, which it was. You know,
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: they're every you know, everybody has a role and everybody
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: has to play their role well. And he just had
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: this unique ability of making you feel like your role
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: was important. And you know from from you know, from
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: my time with him, he just he had this whole
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: different side. I think that people didn't really realize. You know,
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: he you see all the highlights of him, uh, you know,
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: in the umpire's face and you know, just you know, yelling,
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: doing all that, but he had a different side to
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: him that I think people kind of misunderstood a little bit.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Didn't know he could sing.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Jim Leelan can sing Hey, let me tell you something,
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: Jim Lee can cut a little rug out there.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Now. Hey. I heard him get on it one day
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: and uh, in spring training, I said, what, don't stop it.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: But it was also, uh, you know, when I first
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: got to spring training in twenty ten, he like, right,
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: just just getting settled in, just putting my stuff down,
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: and he, uh, he calls me in the office like, Austin,
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: come here.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, man, what was.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: He about to say? Like I just got here, I
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: ain't did I what did I do? And he said,
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: He's like, you know, sit down, sit down. He's like, hey,
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: we don't we don't want you to be Curtis Grandison.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: I'm like what He's like, we want you to be
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Austin Jackson.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: Man, I'm talking about the way like that that took
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: off my shoulders. And you know, because there were it
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: was it wasn't like I wasn't scared to be in
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: that position. But there's a lot of nerves, you know,
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: there's a lot of just the unknowns of yah, man,
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: like you know, I'm I'm looking at guys that I
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: watched growing up, you know, and I'm it's like, man,
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: I'm just trying to fit in, just trying to make
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: sure I'm not stepping on those toes doing anything like that.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: I was confident in.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: My ability, but it was more of just like how
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: do I fit into this this, you know, to the
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: big leagues.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: You know, I've never done this before.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: So him saying that right away, just right off the jump,
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: and kind of instilling some confidence.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: In me, like we want Austin Jackson.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: Like him saying that right there, lets me know, like,
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: all right, hey, jack you go out here and be yourself,
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: you know, don't try to be something that you're not.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Go out here and be yourself. Show what you can do.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: And I mean that, like I said, just his ability
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: to do that I think put instilled this confidence in
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: his players. I think he was he was able to
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: do that at a you know, at an unmatch rate.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: So well, sticking with the twenty ten theme here, I
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: was curious. I went and did some research, and I
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: was curious at how much you might remember off the
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: top of your head there Austin so uh, do you
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: remember your major league debut? Now you got to hit
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: that day, your first major league hit? Do you remember
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: the picture that it was off?
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Ah? Man? Uh? Righty sinker, heavy sink? Uh Latin guy?
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Was what was the name?
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: Man?
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: I can't remember? With the Royals? Right with the Royals? Uh? Sink?
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Had that kitchen sink? Man? Get what did it start with?
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Give me the.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: First initial r U and the last initial t.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: A.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: I don't know, Rob Tahada.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, that's right, that's right.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, little trying to throw that little sink on them hands.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: I just sucked them hands in.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: It, Burrel, That is exactly what you did in there.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: There were two runners on and they scored, so those
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: were your first RB I do you remember who scored
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: on that hit?
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Uh? Was it was it? Sizemore? Ye? Was it? Uh?
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Hold up, don't tell me now? Uh it was? It wasn't?
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: It wasn't layered? Was it?
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: No?
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: It was? Was it Santiago? Yep?
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, got Sizemore and Ramon Santiago, longtime longtime tiger,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: multi time tiger.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Uh. Do you know who drove you in for your
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: first run?
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Was it wasn't? Was it Sandy.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Now it was the next batter. There's your hint. It
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: was the next batter?
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Is a layer?
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: No, fellow outfielder next to t.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: K don Kelly? No? Was he that? Yeah? He was?
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Who Oh No, I couldn't have been because he wouldn't. Man. Wow,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: But what was it? Magleo? No?
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: No, right before right right right between you and Magleo
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: and the line up there?
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: Who I'm trying to think was it who was playing
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: the outfield though?
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Switch hitter? Yes? Uh? What's his name? Oh? I know
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: his name. I'm over here drawing a blank man. Uh uh,
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: what's it? Uh?
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Actually he's a switch hitter. He's just a lefty. I'm
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: sorry I misremembered. Okay, now confused, Giant Damon?
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: I was Damon Damon. Damon drove you in.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Back to back doubles that ending in ten inten Yep,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: all right, I don't know.
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: I didn't know it either, Austin or I would have
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: gave you some heads.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: That caught, all right?
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: Last one?
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Well, last one, last one.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: This one probably be easy, of course, And I hope
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: you get it right after I said that, your first
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: home run? Who'd you get your first home run?
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Off of was it Cody yep?
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Kobe Lewis over here, Kobe, Yeah, uh inner Field yep.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: In Texas.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: So that must have felt felt good to do that
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: in your home state, not too far from grew up.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that was good.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: I had all my people there too, so it was yeah,
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: that was that was perfect. It was awesome to do
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: that in front of a lot of a lot of
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: friends and family people I went to high school with.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: That was that was pretty sweet. Austin.
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: Another thing, I think it's hard to talk about your
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: career without mentioning just the trades you were a part of.
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: They're kind of crazy to read back the first one
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: that brought you to Detroit. Now I'll read it off
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: for the listeners, like Phil Coke and Austin Jackson go
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: to Detroit as part of a three team trade Tigers
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: and Curtis Granderson to the Yankees. The Tiger sent Edwin
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: Jackson to the d Backs. The Yankees sent Ian Kennedy
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: to the d Backs, and then the d Backs send
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: Max Scherzer and Daniel Schlair to the Tigers. And then
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: in fourteen, the Raised trade David Price to the Tigers.
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: Three team trade Detroit sends Drew Smiley and one Willie
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: Adamis to the Rays. The Tigers send You Austin to
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: the Mariners, and the Mariners send Nick Franklin to the Rays.
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: Two real blockbusters. Man, what was it like to just
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: look back and I don't know, just kind of have
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: the knowledge that you were a part of deals like
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: that with with some big time players.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: I mean it was cool, man, it was.
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: I think when you at the time, you know, you're
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: not don't really process it, man, You're you're you're kind
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: of just trying to figure out what the next move is, uh,
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: you know, trying to set things up in whatever city
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: you're gonna be at. But I think, you know, now
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: looking back at it, man, it's pretty cool. There's some
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: there's some pretty good players in those trades, man.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: So you know, I was, you know, I'm glad to
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: be a part of that.
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: You know, obviously wasn't always excited to be traded, right.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: But I think when you look at the names, you're like, hey,
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: you know, it was some names in there, though.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: It was It wasn't some uh some nobody's you know,
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: it was it was some good uh, some some good
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: great players in those trades and I was a part
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: of it.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: So say what you want to say.
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: First time. First time must have been jarring, right, You're
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: a young guy. You're trying to make it. Like how
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: did you find out you were getting moved? And what
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: happened next?
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: I found out. I remember I was staying at A.
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: I was in a loft uh in Dallas, in downtown Dallas,
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: and you know, I'm this whole the all off season
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: was me, you know, getting training ready.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I remember my.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: Hitting coach uh in Triple A, asked me if I
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: was ready, you know, if I was ready for the
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: big leagues, and I was like, yeah, I'm ready for
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: the big leagues.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Like I don't want to be here no more, Like
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: you know, what kind of question is that? But but
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: uh uh Wagner Wagoner Wagner, butch Wagner Winneger.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: Anyways, great dude, But I just I remember so in
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: the off season, you know, the training you kind of
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: you know, you use something in the off season to
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: kind of you know as fuel, and that was that
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: was my fuel.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: You know, just you know, you know, you set.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: That that goal to to you know, play for the
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: New York Yankees in the outfield. So that's how I trained,
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: you know, I was, I was on it, and I
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: remember getting a call, you know, I remember sitting.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: In my in my lost. I don't know, I don't
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: know what I was doing.
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: But and I remember, you know, my agent at the
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: time he was telling me, you know, like, hey, there,
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: You're getting traded.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: And I was upset. Man, I was.
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: I was like, I was not feeling it because that's
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: what you know, I didn't understand at that time.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: I didn't understand. I was like, what do I do wrong?
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: I went out here and did everything they said that
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: uh you know what they they asked me to do.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: You know, I feel like I conformed a lot more
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: probably than I than I wanted to. And so it was,
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: you know, I was confused, you know, I didn't understand.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: I'm like, man, this is crazy, like I'm getting traded,
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: like like I did something wrong. It's like, see, no,
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: you don't understand, like this is an opportunity. And I
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: was like, well, what do you mean? He said, so,
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: did you set out just to make it to the
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: to the big leagues with the Yankees?
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: I was like, I mean no, I wanted to make
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: it to the big leagues. He was like, this is
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: your opportunity, and I was like bad, Like I like
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: that quickly it changed my mind.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: So but but obviously, you know, once you find out
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: who you traded for, it's like, oh okay, whoa y'all,
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: Like I'm I'm stepping in them shoes right now. So
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: like now to training, got to pick a.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Little bit more. You know, It's like it's like, oh, okay, like.
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: You stepping in for you know, you stepping in for
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: a fan favorite man. How you cut however you want to?
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: Curse is the man, you know. So it was it
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: was something knowing that hey, you know you are You're
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: good enough for them to think that you know that
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: you're replacing an established center fielder right now and you
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: ain't got no big league experience and they think you
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: can come in here.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: And do that job.
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: So you bet not disappointed, you know. Like that's that
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: was my mindset. So Curse is the great guy, by
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: the way.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: He he reached out to me really early in that
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: in that process, and uh, you know, had none but
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: good things to say about Detroit.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: So he was he's a good he's a good dude.
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: Man, Yo, nothing against enough tlly Felee's but you got
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: jips out of Rookie of the Year, like one war
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: your rookie season. If that vote were today, you would
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: win it in a lamb slid.
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: Listen, I the deal with I guess you know, it's
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: just like I understand that, you know, it was it
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: was fifty was he was what he got? What was
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: this his uh his final uh stat fifty to fifty.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Saves forty forty.
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: Okay, I get it, man, But you know, I'm like,
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: I'm out here every day. You know, I'm like, man,
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: I'm out here every day, man, Man, Like y'all don't
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: see it. Y'all don't see how they lost about fifteen
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: twenty pounds out here. Y'all don't see the grind down here,
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: Like my cheeks are touching right.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Now, like I'm starving. Man. But it was it was
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: cool though, you know it was that was a that was.
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: A cool uh you know experience too, you know, just
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: being a part of something like that, right like, hey man, your.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: First year, you know, you you're doing something to be
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: to be uh, to be in this. So that was cool.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: But I agree with you.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Though, Yeah, you're just ahead of your time. Why don't
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: we Why don't we wrap up with this, Austin. I
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: think one of the cooler things that the Tigers do
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: is the Willie Horton African American Legacy Award. And last
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: last season, now I can say last year, since it's
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: January second, last year, last season, you were recognized by
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: the Tigers given that award. I wish I wanted to
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: see if you would just kind of shed some light
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: on what it means to receive recognition like that, especially
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: tied to someone who is as beloved as anyone who's
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: ever put on the uniform and William Horton.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: I mean you said it right there, man.
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: I think you know, just being attached to something that
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: mister Horte is attached to is a great honor.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: He's he did so much for me and you know,
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: my time there and uh it was things behind the
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: scenes that he that he helped me so much with
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: just the day, like just a little daily nuggets that
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: he would throw me. But as far as their award,
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: you know, it was it was such an honor to
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: you know, be able to go back to be able
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: to receive that award with with you know, all the
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: legends there and just all the rich history, the Detroit
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: legends that that that were there, and and just to
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: be a part of that and and in that that community.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: Man, it's it's awesome. It meant so much.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: I had my family there, and uh it was. It
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: was a great honor, man, I was.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: I was.
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: I'm super blessed to to be able to you know,
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: just you know, be mentioned and then and receive that award.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: And man it was it was.
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: It was an awesome time to get back to Detroit
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: and receive there and see their award.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Absolutely well said all right, well this was a lot
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: of fun and this is only the beginning, so uh
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: really happy you're a part of the team. Austin want
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: to encourage everybody to like subscribe rate wherever you listen
• 37:07
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• 37:09
  Speaker 1: so you can watch us in addition to listening to us.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: And like I said, I want to thank Austin for
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: joining the team and Cody for his time. So for
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Cody Stavenhagen, Austin Jackson, I am Kieren Steckley. Everybody have
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: a great day.