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Logan Gilbert, Rob Refsnyder & Gabe Speier join FT @Mariners Camp · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Always a pleasure to have Logan Gilbert on the show. Logan,
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  Speaker 1: of course, a right hander for the Seattle Mariners, a
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  Speaker 1: huge piece of a very formidable rotation for the MS. Logan,
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  Speaker 1: thanks so much for being with us. Great to see you.
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  Speaker 1: I know, everyone shows up to camp in the best
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  Speaker 1: shape of their life. Everyone's ready to go. But you
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  Speaker 1: guys have a lot to be excited about. What are
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  Speaker 1: you most excited about when it comes to this twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six M squad?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the expectations this year just seems a
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  Speaker 2: little different. Of course, we made the playoffs, so a
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  Speaker 2: few years back, broke the streak and for a little
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  Speaker 2: bit it was kind of make the playoffs or win
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  Speaker 2: the division, and things changed last year and we saw
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  Speaker 2: how good we can be and how close we got.
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  Speaker 2: So this year already, a lot of the meetings that
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  Speaker 2: talk has just been the expectations that we see ourselves
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  Speaker 2: as one of the best teams.
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  Speaker 3: Have you recovered from last year? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, feeling good physically, Not physically I'm talking mentally,
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  Speaker 2: because yeah, I mean I was in obviously you know
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  Speaker 2: that I was there for the Alds against Tigers, which
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  Speaker 2: was one of the greatest series I've ever seen been
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  Speaker 2: a part of.
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  Speaker 3: Game five was unbelievable. You guys pulled it out right,
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  Speaker 3: and then you go to the next series against the
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  Speaker 3: Bluejas and have another unbelievable series inner so close. Just
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  Speaker 3: how do you get over that? Yeah, it's very taxing.
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  Speaker 2: It's like the coolest thing to be a part of
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  Speaker 2: that mentally, but also you're it's very high highs and
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  Speaker 2: low lows too, so it takes a while in a
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  Speaker 2: good way. You want to reflect on it and like
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  Speaker 2: let it sting for a little bit and motivate you.
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  Speaker 2: But at the same time, this year, I think we
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  Speaker 2: kind of address it but get past it. At the
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  Speaker 2: same time, we're a new team and expectations to win
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  Speaker 2: it all.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, for someone who's never got a chance to play
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  Speaker 4: in the World Series but lost some tough games, you know,
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  Speaker 4: getting a chance to go to the World Series, what
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  Speaker 4: are those conversations like with your teammates in the offseason
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  Speaker 4: where you guys just continuingly, you know, pushing each other
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  Speaker 4: to just get a little bit better because you know
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  Speaker 4: you were so close to getting over that hume.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely, I think bringing nails back right away was the
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  Speaker 2: biggest thing, and for a moment and the team and
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  Speaker 2: all that, But a lot of those conversations I think
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  Speaker 2: took place right afterwards, just getting back to Seattle Pack
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  Speaker 2: in your locker, Like we're talking about the sting of
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  Speaker 2: being so close and losing, but at the same time
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  Speaker 2: we were talking just different guys whoa cal bryce like
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  Speaker 2: how close we got and also the team that we
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  Speaker 2: have that you know, like I said, let it hurt
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  Speaker 2: for a little bit, but also motivate us and come
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  Speaker 2: up next year and not come up short.
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  Speaker 3: What does that look like? Because he's mentioned bringing back nails, right,
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  Speaker 3: he lost Geno, but then you bring in Donovan. You
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  Speaker 3: have a lot of essentially the same team back that
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  Speaker 3: was really good last year. Now you guys are the
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  Speaker 3: favorites in this division, right, everyone's looking at you guys
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  Speaker 3: to not only be the favorites of the division, but
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  Speaker 3: possibly represent the American League. That's different here for Seattle then,
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  Speaker 3: like you mentioned, so how do you deal with the
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  Speaker 3: expectations and what does Dan say? Dan Wilson say, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's where we want to be. It's fun.
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  Speaker 2: You want the target on your back and it's a
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  Speaker 2: big honor. Like we know we have a good division.
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  Speaker 2: We know the aos stacked. There's a lot of good teams.
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  Speaker 2: Be the top team at the beginning, it's a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: But at the same time, like honestly, it means nothing.
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  Speaker 2: You have to go out there, you have to prove
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  Speaker 2: it every single day. We have to win the games
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  Speaker 2: that matter. And Dan at the Helm, he's the man.
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  Speaker 3: He gets it.
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  Speaker 2: The players love him. He feels like a player still.
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  Speaker 2: He's setting the tone the right way from the get go.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah for someone who was drafted, you know, and his
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  Speaker 4: only pitch for the Mariners, take me inside kind of
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  Speaker 4: your head. You're dugout during Game five when cal Rawly
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  Speaker 4: hits that home run to tie the game, and then
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  Speaker 4: ultimately Gino goes and hits that home run. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I got a chance to play in the postseason.
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  Speaker 4: That was one of the greatest postseason atmospheres I've ever
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  Speaker 4: ever seen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was crazy.
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  Speaker 2: There's the loudest I've heard anything ever any stadium, any game.
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  Speaker 2: The fans in Seattle just going crazy. You can tell
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  Speaker 2: how long they've waited for something like that. All of
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  Speaker 2: us really, like you're talking about getting drafted here in eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: This has been the vision for years of what the
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  Speaker 2: team could be, where we could make it, and for
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  Speaker 2: years it was just kind of like seeing it. We're
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  Speaker 2: almost there, We're almost there, and then last year we
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  Speaker 2: actually got to taste of it that after seven or
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  Speaker 2: eight years, like this is what we wanted to happen.
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  Speaker 2: But at the same time, it can't be a one
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  Speaker 2: year thing. We want to be that team for five
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  Speaker 2: ten years. That every year is right there in the hunt, Logan.
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  Speaker 1: I'm here for the hard hitting questions, only the stuff
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  Speaker 1: that people want to know. You are a knicker style
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  Speaker 1: pant wearing guy, and all of a sudden, you're showing
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  Speaker 1: up in long pants and I need to know, Logan,
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  Speaker 1: what is happening?
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  Speaker 2: Why that got canceled? That didn't work out for me.
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  Speaker 2: I just I just wanted to change it. It's been
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  Speaker 2: like since high school or college that I tried that,
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  Speaker 2: and I always thought I would do it like last
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  Speaker 2: game of a season or something. But I can't bring
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  Speaker 2: myself to not take an outing seriously, even if it's
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  Speaker 2: just my pants. So I figured live VPS probably the
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  Speaker 2: most relaxed setting I could try it out, and it
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  Speaker 2: didn't work.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm back at pants up. Alani you have to
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  Speaker 3: understand that he's tall and skinny, so the short good.
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  Speaker 3: When you're short, it doesn't look good.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine how much taller he would even look in. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you're six six, so long pants it's gonna elongate you
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  Speaker 1: even more. That is a menacing site on the mound looking.
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  Speaker 2: I was told it didn't look good though I was taller,
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  Speaker 2: but didn't look good at the same time. So I
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  Speaker 2: learned my lessons.
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  Speaker 3: So up here, so a lot of up here. There's
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  Speaker 3: a mural of like all the great A lot of
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  Speaker 3: the great, not all of them, A lot of the
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  Speaker 3: great Mariners. Most of them except for Felix, have long
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  Speaker 3: pants on. So would you go the Raula Banya's baggy
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  Speaker 3: look or would you go the Randy Johnson? These are
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  Speaker 3: way too tight, tapered, tight, rolled at the bottom line.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Randy looks good. It's intimidating, but I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if I can pull it off. Cal told me
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  Speaker 2: today they were too tight, that's the problem. So I
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  Speaker 2: think maybe I go backwards with the baggy ones.
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  Speaker 3: Try that out. Yeah, someone showed me a picture of
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  Speaker 3: me from like twenty ten and my pants were like pajamas. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that was the look style, and we were jerseys baggy.
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  Speaker 3: Now everyone's gone super tight. Yeah, and it's like it'll
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  Speaker 3: go back to baggy. It always does it always, it
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  Speaker 3: always reverts back.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I got I got two for you. I want
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  Speaker 4: to know just I mean, obviously win all healthy, best
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  Speaker 4: starting staff in baseball. I want to know about your guys'
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  Speaker 4: kind of friendly competition with each other. You guys always
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  Speaker 4: consistently trying to one up each other. Someone goes out
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  Speaker 4: there throw seven, I'm saying I'm throwing eight. The next
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  Speaker 4: guy's trying to go nine. And then I was kind
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  Speaker 4: of always what's the word envious? I guess I love
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  Speaker 4: the way that you're starting pitchers come out of the
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  Speaker 4: bullpen and your high five routine. Kind of how that
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  Speaker 4: kind of started.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess since I got here really and I
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  Speaker 2: actually just ran into Marco yesterday with the pods now,
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  Speaker 2: but he was the one that was kind of the
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  Speaker 2: older guy when I got here, and establishing the culture
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  Speaker 2: and watching each other's bullpens every single day, being out
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  Speaker 2: there before the game to be ready for the starter
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  Speaker 2: coming in. It's just kind of the culture, at least
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  Speaker 2: on the pitching side, that we do that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I know the hitters have their things too, but we've
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  Speaker 2: always been a tight knit group, and like you're saying,
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  Speaker 2: we the competition and internally is really fun because guys
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  Speaker 2: have really good years that you want to top somebody else.
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  Speaker 2: Guys have really good games that you want to top them.
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  Speaker 2: So it brings out the best side of us.
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  Speaker 3: Because you're you're known as a tinkerer, so you're always trying.
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  Speaker 3: Some people know that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying a couple of things, but I've I
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  Speaker 2: doubt they actually make it out of camp. I'm trying
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  Speaker 2: to cutter right now.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't throw a cutter because everyone throws like.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't twenty four and then I stopped throwing it,
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  Speaker 2: and now I might throw it again.
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  Speaker 3: So what's gonna make the decision?
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  Speaker 2: I guess just the feel I have Ford in Spring.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna try it out and sert.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't work here in Arizona. The difference between Arizona
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  Speaker 3: and Seattle atmosphere is a big difference. It's a huge difference. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: We have smarter people than me behind the computers that
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  Speaker 2: are gonna help me out.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, as long as you listen, as long as you
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  Speaker 3: have that split, I think you're gonna be all right. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: all the chances are a keep throwing that. Do you
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  Speaker 3: ever get tired of beating the crap out of cow
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  Speaker 3: with that split? Never?
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  Speaker 2: That's the fun part of it. Swinging missus okay too,
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  Speaker 2: but I like just bury it on them.
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  Speaker 3: Well yeah, but people swing and miss when it's in
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  Speaker 3: the dirt. Yeah, when it's up here.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Did you ever come to you and be like
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  Speaker 3: dude all the time?
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  Speaker 2: Seriously, all the time I hear him talking behind my
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  Speaker 2: back to it gets back to me.
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  Speaker 3: Does it? I hear it when you? Uh? Was it
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  Speaker 3: the postseason? It was in Detroit series? Was it you
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  Speaker 3: that threw the split and you missed it for a passball?
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  Speaker 3: And it was the first. I think it was the
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  Speaker 3: first the whole year it was. It's not fair that
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  Speaker 3: should go on your record like a knuckleball. Like, no,
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  Speaker 3: if you were a pitcher, you would be on my side.
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  Speaker 3: You would know that it can't ever be our fault, right,
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  Speaker 3: it has to be somebody else. Yeah, but that thing
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  Speaker 3: was so nasty. And I remember the stat when I
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  Speaker 3: looked at the stat and it was it was the
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  Speaker 3: first pass ball he had all year. Yeah, and he
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  Speaker 3: caught like one hundred and thirty games.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't even sound real. And somehow not being up
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  Speaker 2: for a Gold Glove. I don't want to be together,
• 10:57
  Speaker 2: but he, I mean, that's no passball is in a
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  Speaker 2: whole season.
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  Speaker 3: He won the Platinum year ago. It doesn't get it
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  Speaker 3: didn't make sense to me that it wasn't even nominated.
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  Speaker 3: But that's I beat the drump for the m v
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  Speaker 3: P all year, so should have been. Yeah, but you're biased.
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  Speaker 3: I'm biased of a catcher, I get it. But yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that was one of the craziest stats.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I think he should have gotten it. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: cal there's no reason that cal If I understand it.
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  Speaker 1: Went's Aaron Judge, but come on, I mean, and logan
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  Speaker 1: to that horn for him. I mean, this is a
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  Speaker 1: guy that the home runs. Everything he's doing, not to
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  Speaker 1: mention everything he's doing behind the plate to get you
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  Speaker 1: guys through a game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, nobody's done it all like him. People have had
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  Speaker 2: good seasons, but he did everything at an elite level
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  Speaker 2: that if it doesn't go to him then then it's like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how. I don't know how it ever
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  Speaker 2: goes to a catcher for for doing every piece of
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  Speaker 2: what he's doing. Nothing against Aaron Judge. I still have
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  Speaker 2: to face him this year at some point. So got him.
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  Speaker 2: Great player. Can't say anything bad, but cal Cal is very,
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  Speaker 2: very good.
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  Speaker 3: I think he was well deserving.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was just gonna say, I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we give cal a lot of credit for what he
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  Speaker 4: was able to do offensively, but just I mean, you're
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  Speaker 4: someone who works with him every single day. You're pitching staff,
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  Speaker 4: and I mean you got five monsters and your pitching
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  Speaker 4: staff all throwing, you know, from different angles and different stuff.
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  Speaker 4: You know, just kind of like Alana said, just kind
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  Speaker 4: of give him his flowers for what he's able to
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  Speaker 4: do behind the plate as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's so good at it, knowing what works for
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  Speaker 2: different people. Arsenals approaches sequences also like what gets you right.
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  Speaker 2: He knows the language to use with us that makes
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  Speaker 2: us the best version of ourselves. It's hard enough focusing
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  Speaker 2: on your own career, I know, and I only have
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  Speaker 2: to play thirty times a year. He's playing every single
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  Speaker 2: day and worrying about twelve other guys thirteen other guys too,
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  Speaker 2: and then putting up sixty homers.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's unreal. It'll be fun to see what he does.
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  Speaker 3: Do you a yeller at her? Or you? You need
• 12:50
  Speaker 3: kind all to come out there and yell at you.
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  Speaker 3: Are you a joke? Do you need a joke? What
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  Speaker 3: does he put his arm around you and coddle you?
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  Speaker 3: What does he do for you?
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  Speaker 2: He's been saying he thinks I need a joke here
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  Speaker 2: and there, and I keep telling him that that's not
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  Speaker 2: that's not the I he knows when it get on
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  Speaker 2: me at the right times. I like that he knows
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  Speaker 2: he has good feel for the people in the situation.
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  Speaker 2: It's not all the time you prefer. I like when
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  Speaker 2: he when he brings some attitude every once in a while.
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  Speaker 3: So if he comes out of your mask on it,
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  Speaker 3: puts his glove over his face, he's like, you suck,
• 13:18
  Speaker 3: what's wrong with you? And then you're like laughing, and
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  Speaker 3: you know what he's saying, you need that every once
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  Speaker 3: in a while. I agree with that. I agree, okay, Logan.
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: Gave's fires up after you. What's something we should know
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  Speaker 1: about Gabe that we don't know?
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  Speaker 3: Oh Man, something about Gabe.
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  Speaker 2: Gosh, I'm trying to think if I know anything about Gabe.
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  Speaker 3: Oh so oh no, no, Aloni, this is perfect starting pictures.
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  Speaker 3: They can't hang out with the bullpen guy. They're the five,
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  Speaker 3: they're the group five. They have to stick together. Saved
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  Speaker 3: like twenty runs a year for me. So I can
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  Speaker 3: only say good things about him. Uh, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a son that's been out here. He's one
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  Speaker 2: hanging out at the field every day. Maybe asked about
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  Speaker 2: that or Team USA. He's got a lot going on.
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  Speaker 2: He loves a sauna back at home.
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  Speaker 3: He's big. Did you have any I didn't hear much
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  Speaker 3: nont here much.
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  Speaker 6: I hear much.
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: I mean skiing scooble web. Gilbert would have been a nice.
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's some good other pictures. I can't hold a grudge.
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: It's true, true, Logan, thank you, You're a pleasure to
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: talk to, get to know. I'm glad you made the
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: decision on the pants. Appreciate that. Good luck this year.
• 14:32
  Speaker 7: Man.
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: We can't wait to see you guys back in that postseason.
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I appreciate it. Thanks for having me on.
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to foul territory. Everybody. You can see that
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: we are at Mariners camp of course today A J. Pierzinski,
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: Kevin Palara, Alana Rizzo with you, and Rob Refsnyder sitting
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: next to Aj. Nice to see Rob in an M's UNI.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: Not quite used to it yet coming over from the
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: Boston Red Solide. Rob, good to be with you. You
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: guys were just talking off camera about the fact that
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: you know you're still doing it. Kevin said that if
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: he had that swing, he'd still be playing too. What
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: are you excited the most about in terms of getting
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: going with the M's obviously a team that has sites
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: getting back to the postseason.
• 15:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean you can kind of feel the the
• 15:13
  Speaker 6: excitement even though like kind of the sense of urgency
• 15:15
  Speaker 6: even in spring training. They had such a great run
• 15:18
  Speaker 6: last year and added some some really good pieces with it,
• 15:21
  Speaker 6: with like Donovan and things like that. So now it's
• 15:24
  Speaker 6: a it's an exciting camp and you can kind of
• 15:27
  Speaker 6: feel it. You know, everyone's pretty focused and yeah, definitely.
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: What have they said to you as far as role
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: wise on this team? Are you're gonna do what you
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: normally do just bash lefties, play kind of all around
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: the outfield and just mash. Yeah, I mean Jerry Justin.
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: Dan's communication has been pretty pretty amazing honestly all off season,
• 15:44
  Speaker 6: even in camp, so a lot of looks against lefties
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: and mixing in the outfield. So yeah, but the communication
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: has been, you know, incredible so far.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: Hey, Rob, what changed for you?
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: Because we were teammates in twenty seventeen in Toronto and
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: you kind of bounced around and then you end up
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: in Boston and find a home there for a couple
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: of years. You know, what's changed with you? Swing wise,
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: mentality wise, because you know, you were one of those
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: guys that was kind of a four A player and
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: now you know, four years later, you're one of the
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: best left handed you know, specialists in the game.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess, uh.
• 16:21
  Speaker 6: I mean at that time, I had really no like
• 16:23
  Speaker 6: identity as a ball player. I was I was mixing
• 16:25
  Speaker 6: in a bunch of different positions and really kind of
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: lost with my swing and really what I wanted to
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: focus on and kind of what I knew I could
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: handle what I couldn't. So, you know, at that time,
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: I was just searching, honestly, and but I had some
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: really really good teammates at you know, with with Kevin
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: and Steve Pierce at the time helped me a lot.
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: I don't think he really realized how much he helped
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: me at the time, but he really wanted me to
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: just kind of simplify it. And then you know, I
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: met some incredible hitting coaches. Kevin Knows, uh, Pete Fatsy
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: with the Red Sox, Uh, Cody Atkinson Uh. Now I
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: think assistant with Toronto, a couple others. I'm leaving a
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: couple out, but Borgs hitting coach now with the Nationals.
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: So without those guys, I'd be, you know, at home
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: doing something else. So a lot of credit goes to
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: those hitting coaches.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, man, was the one approach?
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: Was it in like twenty seventeen. It was big on
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: just like I don't know, it was like pull side air,
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: but no one really knew how to teach it. So
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: we had all this information and my assuming was just
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: super underplane. So underplane, I mean a lot of golfers
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: out there, I'm sure it's just I was just hooking
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: the ball to the left as already I was just
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: underneath the ball and then through contact my bat was
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: rolling up through the zone and just super super just
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: high up through the zone, so a lot of top spins.
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: So anything I pulled was either at the shortstop or
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: over the shortstop's head, and then I would catch it
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: deep and I would flush it to write, but I
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: didn't have the juice hit it out to write, so
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: it was just a whole lot of nothing. I always
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: did an okay job of controlling the strike zone, so
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: I think that helped me stay in Triple A and
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: get some some ambassing Triple A. Just working through those things,
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: just having I guess, like competitive at bats but without
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: those hitting coaches, and getting my swing a little bit
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: more flat through the zone and learning some things I
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: could handle some things I couldn't. Yeah, like I said,
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: I would be, I'd be doing something else.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Rob do you play to the park obviously you're going
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: from Fenway to Tea Mobile or do you just stay
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: within the same approach and not try to adjust too
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: much based on where you're playing.
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: I think it's important for younger players to realize who
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: you're facing. You know, AJ Kevin can talk about it.
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: Just there's some some pictures out there that it doesn't
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: match up with your swing and for you to try
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: to do certain things to those pictures, it's just not
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: any You're not going to have any success. So just
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: kind of realizing the pictures you can maybe take a
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: chance on, and then the pictures you realize, you know
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: they're going syncer away, change up away, like you're going
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: to kind of bury your head and try to drive
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: it in the four hole, hit over the second basement's head.
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: Also if you're not feeling that great that day and
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: you're kind of leaning off working the counts and trying
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: to get on base for the big guys in the order.
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: So just trying to play that kind of game within
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: the game has helped me a lot, especially as a
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: kind of platoon not playing every day. You got to
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: pick those kind of battles.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: You're you're like the perfect guy for me that I
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: have conversations with players, especially veteran players for winning teams.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: You know what your role is, right, You have a
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: specific job on the Mariners to hit lefties, play your
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: positions when you get in there, and then you also
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: help the young kids. You guys don't have a ton
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: of young kids, but the young kids you can help
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: out and show them how to be a bench guy
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: or show them how to how to make adjustments like
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: you did. I think teams that win have guys like you,
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: and that's why you're so valuable.
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: I appreciate it. Yeah, you know, awesome coming from you.
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: But yeah, I just think, you know, I've you know,
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: when I play with Kevin in twenty seventeen, I was
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: really searching kind of you know, staying afloat, and I
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: had some incredible veterans just take time out of their day.
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: And you know, I wasn't a father at the time,
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: but like these guys have kids, they have a lot
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: of responsibilities, places to be, and for them to take
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: extra time even away from the ball park through text
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: or phone calls, just to help me out. I mean,
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: I'm just always been so I guess gracious and thankful
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: for that. So anytime I can pay it forward. And
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: you know, I've had a couple guys kind of reach
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: out this camp and it's been cool, kind of digging
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: a little bit deeper and some of their their numbers
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: and things like that. Their approach. I think the easiest
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: thing you can do is adjust your approach in today's game,
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: because pictures are just so dang good.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, to kind of piggyback on that. You know, I
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: know how difficult it be to be a platoon guy.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: You know what's kind of your preparation to stay ready,
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: locked in every single day? And is there someone that's
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: kind of helped you, you know, learn how to be
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: the best at that position.
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: Trying to think of some some great I mean fatsy in.
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: You know, I still searching for a lot of different things,
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: but in twenty two I met Pete and just you know,
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: keeping it simple, but I think a j can talk
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: about it. We're always searching for a feeling or like
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: feeling really locked in and as a platoon, as.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: A harder is a guy that doesn't get to play
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: every day.
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's important that the younger players know
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: and and things like that that that's just not a
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: reality in our role. You're not going to play. There's
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: days where I don't play for seven or eight days.
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: So I think, you know, mixed BP, which MIXEDVP is
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: just sounds like it is. It's just you know, I
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: never really know what's coming. So never getting too comfortable
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: in the cage I think is important because you're never
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: going to feel that comfortable in the game. So mixed speeds,
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: different angles and things like that have been really really
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: important for me. I think being an't about my time
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: on the road. There's usually in one cage, so I
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: try to get in there early, do my routines, to
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: stay out of some people's way, and just make sure
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: I have enough time to get my routine in and
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: things like that. But a lot of mix vp and
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: making sure I'm super slow and early and on time.
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: That's the most important thing. Staying behind the baseball, just
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: so you know, just not not trying to do too
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: much when you're up there is really important. I'm saying
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: a bunch of cliches, but that's really my routine. And
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: and being okay with not feeling locked in all the
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: time or ever, because it's it's it's really hard to
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: even do when you're in every day, every day guy.
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: So just making sure I'm behind the ball and when
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: I'm in the in the batter's box is just like
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: what I want to do to the baseball, not like
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: where my hands, where is my foot? There's my toe tap?
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: Because strike one, strike two really fast.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: It's almost like being comfortable with the uncomfortable rob and
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: I think what I think about you, it's almost like
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: a Swiss army knife and that utility role of kind
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: of being able to I mean, and you have more
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: time as a corner outfielder than you do uh as
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: an infielder, but you can do it all. Do you
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: think that's I know, what's valuable. But do you think
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: that type of thing has been able to elongate your
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: career and and really find a place for yourself because
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: you can do so much.
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: I'm not I'm not exactly sure how I stay in the.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Game for this long, but because you can hit, because
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: you hit your teammate and you can play there.
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: But you know, honestly, being receptive to coaching and h
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: but knowing yourself is important, you know. I think when
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: I was younger, it's you know, you can you can
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: almost be too coachable, not having identity, so making sure
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: you're surrounded by people that that can help you identify
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: things that you're that you're good at and things that
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: you can work on. But yeah, just being receptive to
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: coaching and then always kind of pushing the limits in
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: the off season and the even season of like you know,
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: a training a certain way and things like that. I think, shoot,
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: my first year was in twenty fifteen in the major leagues,
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: and from twenty fifteen to now, how much like development
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: in the major leagues is going on. It's it's wild.
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: It's just it's constantly pushing the envelope and things like that.
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: So I think that's the biggest growth I've seen in
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: our game is just like you know, you're you're in
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: a coach's office at one thirty before a game and
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: you're kind of figuring out things you can get do
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: to get better that day. But also it's important that
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: you have a staff that recognizes and Dan said that
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: in our first meeting, like the most important thing is
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: the game at seven, so making sure you're ready for that.
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: So it's a huge balance and I think that's why
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: you see so much staff now.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: It makes sense. It's tough, all right. Before to let
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: you go, I have to ask you this. I didn't
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: know this about you. So I just found out that
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: you were actually born in Korea. Yeah, but you grew
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: up in the US. And as the Olympics are going on,
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: the figure skater who was born in China just won
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: a gold medal for the US. Right, So if WBC
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: would you play for Korea or would you play for
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: the US. And then if they do happen this year,
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: let's say they play each other somewhere down the road,
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: what were you root for?
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: It's a great question, man, It's a tough question to
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: end it on.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: No.
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I was adopted in Korea, born in Korea, and
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: then I grew up in south southern California. Both my
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: parents are are white. My dad's six foot eight. I
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: used to go to Lakers games and uh he looked
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: like Tilt Jackson.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: So he like, would you say Phil Wareons? Yeah?
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah, all the all the guys had a couple of pops.
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: Uh no, on the on the JumboTron. He'd always like
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: he would get on it sometimes as like to looklike, yeah, So,
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: I mean, I don't know. I almost want to go
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: play in Korea in kind of when I was floundering
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: in the minor leagues a little bit and maybe like
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: twenty eighteen. But to answer your question, I have no idea.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: But yeah, so then then it leads me to one
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: more question. Sorry, if you went and played in a couple.
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: Of good corner outfitters for Team USA, I know I understood,
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: but it was it this year judge and jeez, they
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: have every Roman judge who's in center.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Jeez, it's everybody, anybody, you can think of everything. Yeah, yeah,
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: I don't think you're out Iron Buxton. Yeah you're not
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: running those two. Yeah, they're stacked. So if you went and.
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: Played, I don't think I'm pitch hitting for any of those.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Even if they brought in a left I think. Okay,
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: I think if you if you were going to go
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: and play in Korea, because I I didn't think about that,
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: would you count as a because you know, they can
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: only have so many for as.
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Would you count as a formal because you're you're born.
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: I'm sure the team would try to get me as
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: a non foreign, but I don't know. That's a good question.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: We have to figure that one out and let you know. Yeah,
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: hopefully you don't have to worry about unless you want
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: to go like Adam Jones did at the end of
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: his career and play a couple of years ago.
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah he did Japan, right, Yeah, Yeah, Now I know
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: a couple of guys playing right now, Bobby dollbacks in Japan,
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: and yeah, I mean a bunch of guys are coming
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: back though as pitchers, and yeah, and getting a nice
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: little pay day. Okay, well thanks Rob, Yeah, thanks guys.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Gabe Spire now joining us from the Seattle Mariners, And
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: I just want to say this before we get into this.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: He's a lefty, so he probably would have dominated me,
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: but his cousin, Justin Spiers, I was three for eight
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: off of So I'm just gonna say that I own
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: the whole Spire family. Okay, I'm just gonna I'm just
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: gonna put a whole umbrella over the entire Spire pitching family.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: That three seventy five feels pretty good. So I owned
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: the whole family.
• 27:41
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm gonna have to show this clip to Justin.
• 27:44
  Speaker 8: Let him have a rebuttal hair. But I mean, man,
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: I guess you know we'll never know.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, right, like sinker cutter guys, I could hit those Yeah.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: A j There's a reason I'm sitting here now because
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: the guy's like him. He used to eat my lunch.
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: I used to have to come off the bench and
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: pinch it against this guy, you know, go on the
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: on deck circle.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: They'd bring him in and.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: Then he just he just punched my ticket.
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: So I thank you for that.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 28:11
  Speaker 8: Oh, I guess you're welcome. I'm sorry, I don't know
• 28:14
  Speaker 8: what to say.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: I'm happy. I'm happy. Man.
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: Life's good.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: Life's good. Have you seen his strikeout numbers, like justin
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Joel was it thirty twenty one to one strikeout to
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: walk ratio last year? So he was punching everybody's ticket
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: last year. It's fun.
• 28:30
  Speaker 8: Strikeouts are my you know, it's the most fun you
• 28:32
  Speaker 8: have out there is striking guys out.
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: That's what you do.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: So you're not just but you're not just a lefty specialist.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: I mean you punch lefties and righties thout.
• 28:40
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, you know, it's taking some work to
• 28:44
  Speaker 8: get to that point. I you know, righty's always have
• 28:48
  Speaker 8: hit slightly better off of me, and this last year,
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: just having that four seam that I could throw into
• 28:55
  Speaker 8: them and up really was a game changer for me.
• 28:58
  Speaker 8: It was, you know, I would I think there were
• 29:00
  Speaker 8: some pretty big splits there early on, but last year
• 29:02
  Speaker 8: I was able to kind of clean those up. And
• 29:04
  Speaker 8: I think that that's I attribute that to the forcing
• 29:06
  Speaker 8: fastball to arieties for ninety seven.
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean that helps.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's insane. Sorry A j But you
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: guys are just talking about the strikeout to walk ratio.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Only one other picture of the three hundred and sixty
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: one pitchers were better than you, and that guy just
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: won his second cy. Young. I mean, you've got to
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: take a lot of pride in that. I mean, being
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: able to strike guys out, because in this game, which
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: has changed so much over the course of the year,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: is to either you know, guys strike out or hit
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: home runs. But you are just dominating regardless of who
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: you face. I mean, you got to take a.
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: Lot of pride in that, yeah, for sure, you know.
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: And and coming over to the Mariners, they they preach,
• 29:48
  Speaker 8: you know, dominate the zone. And I think I got
• 29:51
  Speaker 8: to thank them a lot because they showed me the
• 29:53
  Speaker 8: numbers on just you know, getting ahead of guys and
• 29:57
  Speaker 8: just being on the attack, being on the offense as
• 29:58
  Speaker 8: a pitcher, I think that's really hew And just limiting
• 30:01
  Speaker 8: free bases is so huge and just really challenging guys,
• 30:05
  Speaker 8: and you know, you find yourself in a lot more
• 30:07
  Speaker 8: to strike counts when you're you know, on the attack,
• 30:09
  Speaker 8: and then once you get to two strikes you can
• 30:11
  Speaker 8: kind of go from there and maybe expand a little
• 30:13
  Speaker 8: bit and you know, it worked out last year and
• 30:15
  Speaker 8: I you know, hoping to carry it into this year
• 30:18
  Speaker 8: as well.
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was gonna be my question. The Seattle Mariners.
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: What have they done for you? And it sounds like
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: it's been more of a mentality than it has been
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: you know, physical adjustments.
• 30:28
  Speaker 7: Yeah, no, absolutely.
• 30:29
  Speaker 8: I remember when I got claimed off waivers coming to
• 30:32
  Speaker 8: the Mariners, I was expecting, you know, we want you
• 30:34
  Speaker 8: to grip your slider a different way, we want you
• 30:35
  Speaker 8: to throw add new pitches and whatnot. But it was
• 30:39
  Speaker 8: quite the opposite. It was really you know, we claimed
• 30:42
  Speaker 8: you off waivers because we like what you're doing already.
• 30:44
  Speaker 8: We just need you to throw it in the zone
• 30:45
  Speaker 8: more and be more aggressive. And and you know, I
• 30:49
  Speaker 8: wouldn't say it was easy for me, but I really
• 30:52
  Speaker 8: just kind of put all my marbles into that basket
• 30:55
  Speaker 8: of really just attacking and and then you know, the
• 30:59
  Speaker 8: results fall and confidence followed, and then I was kind
• 31:02
  Speaker 8: of able to, you know, just have that snowball effect
• 31:05
  Speaker 8: and and really just keep attacking guys. And you know,
• 31:09
  Speaker 8: it became easier and easier as I went. I guess
• 31:11
  Speaker 8: That's what I'm trying to say.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: Kay, did you know that we were teammates for about
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: two months. I didn't realize this, not even months, about
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: three two weeks.
• 31:17
  Speaker 7: Really when you were brave, Oh my gosh.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you were really a brave, but you
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: were like a brave. So teople that don't know Gabe
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: was traded. You came up. You were originally with the
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: Red Sox and you got traded to the Tigers for Cesspadoes,
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: which is kind of nice. Yeah, that's cool, and for
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: Rick Pricello and then you went to the Diamondbacks right
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: for Ian Kroll, Ian Croll and you for cam Maven.
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's I went to the Braves in that trade.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And then two weeks later they traded you and
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: Shelby Miller for Dansby and Er and Aaron Blair. Yeah,
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: your teammates technically for those for about two weeks.
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: That's crazy.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: I didn't know that.
• 31:54
  Speaker 8: I mean, yeah, I never wore a Brave Braves jersey
• 31:57
  Speaker 8: in my life, you know. I was part of that organize,
• 32:00
  Speaker 8: like you said, for two weeks in the off season. So,
• 32:02
  Speaker 8: but that's funny.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: So good thing you don't get tattoos of all the
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: teams you've.
• 32:05
  Speaker 8: Been No, no, no, because I would have be covered. Yeah.
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, how crazy of a journey if you you mentioned
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: going from you know, getting claimed off waivers to the
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: Mariners now about to pitch for Team USA. You know,
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: could you envision that maybe four or five years ago.
• 32:22
  Speaker 8: No, you know, it's it's it's been crazy for me
• 32:26
  Speaker 8: to kind of take a step back and reflect on,
• 32:29
  Speaker 8: you know, how I've gotten to this point. It's been
• 32:31
  Speaker 8: a windy road, but you know, I wouldn't change it.
• 32:35
  Speaker 8: I've I've made a lot of good friends in each
• 32:38
  Speaker 8: organization I've been with, learned a lot from different coaches
• 32:40
  Speaker 8: in each organization I've been with, And you know, it's
• 32:44
  Speaker 8: it's the road I've been on. Like I said, it's
• 32:46
  Speaker 8: been windy, but it has gotten me to this point,
• 32:47
  Speaker 8: so I wouldn't change it. It's been learned a lot,
• 32:51
  Speaker 8: and I'm happy to be a Mariner. I feel at
• 32:53
  Speaker 8: home here and hopefully I can pitch here in a
• 32:56
  Speaker 8: Mariner's uniform for a long time.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Day Big Sonica logan Gilbert told us your big sauna guy,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: So I need to know how particular you are when
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: picking out the sauna. What are the things you have
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: to have?
• 33:09
  Speaker 8: Oh, it has to be a traditional sauna over infrared.
• 33:13
  Speaker 8: I like the actual heater with the rocks and you
• 33:16
  Speaker 8: can throw the water on it and steam it up
• 33:18
  Speaker 8: in there. But yeah, no, the Mariners have one in
• 33:20
  Speaker 8: the clubhouse, and I was in there quite a bit
• 33:22
  Speaker 8: and and it didn't force me, but I really wanted
• 33:26
  Speaker 8: to get one of my own to put in my house,
• 33:29
  Speaker 8: and and I did. I pulled the trigger and got
• 33:32
  Speaker 8: one installed in my house and I'm in there every night.
• 33:35
  Speaker 8: It's it's part of the routine now, it's relaxing. I
• 33:38
  Speaker 8: feel like it helps with my recovery. And I get
• 33:41
  Speaker 8: my wife in there too. It's it's become a little
• 33:44
  Speaker 8: u you know, ritual of ours. So it's a good
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: time and I really do enjoy it.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: Are you super particular a lot of it? I wonder
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: if you have like an exact temperature or you like
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: it has to be at two hundred and one degree.
• 34:00
  Speaker 8: Well, yeah, it's like normally I go two hundred for
• 34:04
  Speaker 8: twenty minutes and bored.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: Though because I try to do it, because I can't
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: take my I'm afraid my phone's gonna blow up in
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: the sauna. Yeah, for twenty minutes.
• 34:12
  Speaker 8: I you know, breathe, work on my try to like
• 34:15
  Speaker 8: meditate and relax, you know, the first ten minutes, and
• 34:17
  Speaker 8: when it's two hundred degrees it's it's really hot in there.
• 34:20
  Speaker 8: In the first ten minutes is relaxing, and then the
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: next ten minutes is a bit of a grind and
• 34:24
  Speaker 8: you really gotta kind of dig deep, work on your
• 34:27
  Speaker 8: breathing and all that. But when you get out, you
• 34:29
  Speaker 8: just feel so refreshed. And I do it at night
• 34:31
  Speaker 8: before bed, so it helps me fall asleep off faster
• 34:35
  Speaker 8: right to bed, or just I mean I should I
• 34:36
  Speaker 8: rinse it off, because if you go.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: Sauna right to bed, there's no way your wife's allowing you.
• 34:41
  Speaker 7: No, no, no, no.
• 34:42
  Speaker 8: I I probably go in and then have about an
• 34:45
  Speaker 8: hour before I go to sleep. It's I, you know,
• 34:48
  Speaker 8: cool off, and cause even if you you rinse off,
• 34:51
  Speaker 8: you're still sweating after, so you need to take a second.
• 34:53
  Speaker 8: I like to stretch a little bit because you're you know.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: You're hot in the sauna.
• 34:57
  Speaker 8: It's not quite big enough. I gotta like a two
• 35:00
  Speaker 8: persons onner. So there's a there's a couple of things
• 35:03
  Speaker 8: I can do in there.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: But the other day I was in one and it
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: was a it was at a country club and there
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: was a guy in there stretching and it was like
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: the most awkward thing. I'm in the corner, sitting there
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: in the corner, all all scrunched up, and he's like
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: bending over, touching his toes with just a towel. I'm like,
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: this is really awol.
• 35:21
  Speaker 7: You should get your own then you don't have to
• 35:22
  Speaker 7: worry about that.
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: Hey that that that playoff share money made a little
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: easier to buy that sauna, I'm sure.
• 35:30
  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, oh yeah, that's always nice, you know it is.
• 35:34
  Speaker 7: It's a like it was.
• 35:36
  Speaker 8: I was just telling somebody earlier, like the postseason it
• 35:38
  Speaker 8: was like the best part of last season, absolutely, but
• 35:42
  Speaker 8: also the hardest part. You know, I've never pitched in
• 35:44
  Speaker 8: the postseason, and you know, I've been done in the
• 35:47
  Speaker 8: end of September every year, and that extra you know,
• 35:49
  Speaker 8: three weeks of baseball. It's tough on the body and
• 35:54
  Speaker 8: all that. But like I said, also the best part
• 35:56
  Speaker 8: of last season. But you know, that playoff share it
• 35:59
  Speaker 8: was nice to see hit the Bay account and so yeah,
• 36:01
  Speaker 8: I can't complain about that.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: I had asked Logan about, you know, being in the
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: dugout when Cal Rowley hit that home winning Game five.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: It was one of the best atmospheres, you know, I'd
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: ever seen in a baseball stadium.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: Were you still in the.
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: Bullpen during that time?
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: And what was kind of that view from the bullpen?
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: Where had you already come in the game.
• 36:19
  Speaker 8: I had already pitched. I was in the dugout. But yeah,
• 36:22
  Speaker 8: I mean, Cal he did it all season long. It
• 36:24
  Speaker 8: was like, you know, at times it's almost expected for
• 36:28
  Speaker 8: him to go yard, but I mean, that was such
• 36:29
  Speaker 8: a big moment, and you know, super happy for Cal.
• 36:33
  Speaker 8: He's he hasn't changed at all. You know, some people
• 36:35
  Speaker 8: hit the limelight and they changed a little bit. He's
• 36:37
  Speaker 8: he's been the same guy. He's you know, he's the
• 36:39
  Speaker 8: leader of this team. He's a grinder back there in
• 36:42
  Speaker 8: the plate, and you know he hits from both sides
• 36:45
  Speaker 8: of them. He's just so special, such a special player
• 36:47
  Speaker 8: and so special for this organization, this team.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Dabe, tell me about the tats I think you have
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: on your knees, right, I can see some tats.
• 36:55
  Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah, I've got up both my thighs. I've
• 37:01
  Speaker 8: got one on my shin here, I've got my arms.
• 37:06
  Speaker 8: I was kind of going hard there for a little bit.
• 37:08
  Speaker 8: I haven't had one in a couple of years now.
• 37:11
  Speaker 8: I had my son two years ago and and that
• 37:14
  Speaker 8: slowed the tattoo process down a little bit.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: Go full body? Well, would you go full body?
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: You know, it's hard to say. I mean, it's I
• 37:22
  Speaker 7: think I would.
• 37:24
  Speaker 8: I don't know if I would have like my neck
• 37:25
  Speaker 8: and face done, but you know, I'd like to continue
• 37:28
  Speaker 8: on my arms, maybe creep onto the my chest a
• 37:30
  Speaker 8: little bit or something like that, but full body probably not.
• 37:34
  Speaker 7: But are you I definitely want more.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: What about your left arm? Did you tat your because
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: a lot of guys won't tat the arm that they
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: throw with. Do you have them on your left?
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 37:43
  Speaker 8: The first tattoo I ever got was on my left arm.
• 37:46
  Speaker 8: It was right here as my grandpa had passed away,
• 37:48
  Speaker 8: and I got a little remembrance tattoo for him. But yeah,
• 37:52
  Speaker 8: I mean I have I think I have more on
• 37:54
  Speaker 8: my on my left arm than I do on my right.
• 37:56
  Speaker 8: So I need to go under my right and even
• 37:58
  Speaker 8: it out. But I said, it's just slowed down since
• 38:01
  Speaker 8: I had my son. It's just it's just not as
• 38:03
  Speaker 8: much of a priority now, I guess. But I do
• 38:06
  Speaker 8: need to make some time and go get more because
• 38:07
  Speaker 8: I do.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: I do want more.
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: Is there a Team USA one coming here soon?
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: If you guys win the gold?
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: Uh?
• 38:14
  Speaker 8: You know, I haven't considered that. Maybe if we win
• 38:16
  Speaker 8: the gold, you know, I'd have to consider it, but uh,
• 38:19
  Speaker 8: I'm not going to commit to anything just yet.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: How excited are you for it? Talk about how excited
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: you are to pitch for the USA.
• 38:25
  Speaker 8: So excited I mean to to be able to wear
• 38:28
  Speaker 8: USA across the chest and play the game I love
• 38:31
  Speaker 8: is is a dream come true. You know, we were
• 38:34
  Speaker 8: talking about it earlier. I never really expected this, so
• 38:38
  Speaker 8: it was a bit of a shock to me to
• 38:39
  Speaker 8: get the call, and when I did, it was it
• 38:42
  Speaker 8: was a no brainer for me. I mean, just such
• 38:44
  Speaker 8: a such a cool event to be a part of
• 38:47
  Speaker 8: and to be in that locker like I feel like
• 38:49
  Speaker 8: it fully hasn't hit me yet. But once I feel
• 38:51
  Speaker 8: like I put the jersey on and get in that
• 38:52
  Speaker 8: locker room with some of those guys, it's gonna be like,
• 38:54
  Speaker 8: oh my gosh, this is this is crazy. And you know,
• 38:58
  Speaker 8: I've talked to some of the guys in the clubhouse
• 38:59
  Speaker 8: that have played in the WBC and they just say
• 39:01
  Speaker 8: it's it's an experience like no other, and just just
• 39:05
  Speaker 8: looking forward to getting to going.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: Who are you most excited about meeting?
• 39:09
  Speaker 8: I mean Clayton Kershaw, is you know tired, Yeah, but
• 39:13
  Speaker 8: he's playing I know, no, he he jumps to the
• 39:16
  Speaker 8: top of my mind for sure.
• 39:17
  Speaker 7: Just you know, arguably the best picture of our generation.
• 39:20
  Speaker 8: And just just to be able to shake his hand
• 39:23
  Speaker 8: and and you know, talk to him about pitching is
• 39:26
  Speaker 8: something I'm really looking forward to.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Curse is a great guy, first ballot. Hall of Famers
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: certainly gave the text thread I heard the chat for
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: the WBC has been lit as the kids say Corbyn.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Carrol was saying that some of the hotel choices are
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: a little suspect. But what other things are you guys
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: talking about in that chat? What can you share with
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: us about the conversation so far?
• 39:48
  Speaker 8: Just everyone's really excited, you know, everyone's throwing the America
• 39:52
  Speaker 8: gifts out there, and you know, I think I've seen
• 39:54
  Speaker 8: some Kenny Powers ones and if you guys know, you
• 39:57
  Speaker 8: know it's he's a just a funny show.
• 40:00
  Speaker 7: But yeah, it's just, uh, it's super light.
• 40:02
  Speaker 8: You know, guys are having fun, super excited about it,
• 40:05
  Speaker 8: and it's it's just cool to you know, have some
• 40:09
  Speaker 8: of those guys in my phone, you know, like honestly
• 40:11
  Speaker 8: like to see Clayton Kershaw texting, like and I'm getting
• 40:15
  Speaker 8: text from Clayton versus position players text right, yeah, so
• 40:19
  Speaker 8: our our text that is just the pictures. And you
• 40:21
  Speaker 8: guys just you just don't want to be part of
• 40:22
  Speaker 8: the team, you guys. Yeah another name, yeah, you know,
• 40:25
  Speaker 8: like just to it's wild. You know Andy pettit's the
• 40:28
  Speaker 8: pitching coach. I have Andy Pettitt's number saving my phone now.
• 40:31
  Speaker 8: It's just, uh, it's just kind of crazy, how how
• 40:34
  Speaker 8: all this is going, and uh just really excited.
• 40:37
  Speaker 6: That's awesome.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: That's great.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it is awesome. What an honor well earned,
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: the well deserved game, thanks so much.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: Hold on, all these guys are walking by and they're
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: all jacked. Wait only sees Kershall walk around those shirt
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: on it, He's gonna be like, wait, wait, this is
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: what they look like.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Is an interesting uh like kind of a dad bod.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: But you know what, hirsh has earned every ounce of
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: that dad whatever the heck he wants to do.
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: Okay, I agree with that. I agree with that.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: Gabe. Good luck man, have a great season. It's such
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: a pleasure to get to know you. Can't wait to
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: see you guys, what you do this year. Thanks for
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: being with us
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you for having me and I appreciate it.