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Giants Manager Tony Vitello & Diamondbacks Manager Torey Lovullo · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Manager's meeting.
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  Speaker 2: I saw Tory Lavello on there, the diamondback skipper joining
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  Speaker 2: us right now and FT live in Orlando.
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  Speaker 3: Tori, great to see you.
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  Speaker 1: How's it going down here? And what do you do?
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  Speaker 1: You do you like? You know, you're in the room
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  Speaker 1: and you're like, don't trade him? I really like him?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, uh, yeah's exactly right.
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  Speaker 3: Right, I'm on the wall. I goes traded.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what's going on. So, yeah, we're tight,
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  Speaker 4: We're tight. You know, he's a good player. People are smart,
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  Speaker 4: like they want good players, and of course they're gonna
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  Speaker 4: ask for our best player.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know where that process is.
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  Speaker 4: I just know that that he's a great baseball player
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  Speaker 4: that helps swim baseball game. So yeah, when Mike would ask,
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  Speaker 4: if he asked me, I'd be like, no, don't but
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  Speaker 4: that's not my department. And I don't know where that
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  Speaker 4: that whole process is. But what do I do here?
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  Speaker 4: I I go to the war room, listen for an hour,
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  Speaker 4: get tired of what they're talking about.
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  Speaker 3: They go to meetings.
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  Speaker 4: I walk out, have a little cup of coffee, and
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  Speaker 4: then I go back an hour later. It's the same thing,
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  Speaker 4: and I just end up saying I'm over you, guys.
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  Speaker 4: I got I gotta go take care of stuff. I lie,
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  Speaker 4: I don't tell them what I'm doing. I just have
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  Speaker 4: to take care of stuff. And I just a spirit.
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  Speaker 2: I phase out because you're not making the call. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: obviously you're a big part of the organization. How much
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  Speaker 2: do they come to you? And I'm guessing it's not
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  Speaker 2: here because you just talk to them all the time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: what do you think we should do?
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  Speaker 3: Enough.
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  Speaker 4: I don't make the final decision, but I have a
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  Speaker 4: really big seat at the table and it's part of
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  Speaker 4: it's a discussion week. We talk about different things and
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  Speaker 4: go over what the team looks like, what my gut
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  Speaker 4: feel is. And over the years, I think the strength
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  Speaker 4: of what we do is I accept their thirty thousand
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  Speaker 4: foot view and I give them the guts of what's
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  Speaker 4: going on, Like this is what's happening in the clubhouse.
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  Speaker 4: This is real stuff. The guy has a heart and
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  Speaker 4: a brain. It's not a piece of paper. So let's
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  Speaker 4: combine the thought of what we both are talking about
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  Speaker 4: and make the best decision.
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  Speaker 5: Move forward. How do you get how do you get
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  Speaker 5: your emotions out of the decisions? Because a lot of
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  Speaker 5: those guys in the war room that you're talking about,
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  Speaker 5: they really don't have emotions in it. They have the
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  Speaker 5: paper pen like yep, okay, this guy did this, this, that.
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  Speaker 5: But you say, man, I see how much Gabby Moreno's work.
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  Speaker 5: And I know we were playing McCann a little bit
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  Speaker 5: late more down the stretch, we're trying to make a push.
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  Speaker 5: How do you take your emotions out of it? Because
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  Speaker 5: teams are not built on emotions in the off season.
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  Speaker 5: They're built on numbers, they're built on the war they're
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  Speaker 5: built on their outs above average. So how do you
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  Speaker 5: go in there and take your emotions out? Or is
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  Speaker 5: that when you leave the room when they stop listening
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  Speaker 5: to your emotions.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a good question because I know that you
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  Speaker 4: add human emotion into something. Sometimes you make you make
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  Speaker 4: a bad decision, and I got to make sure that
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  Speaker 4: when I'm way way different things, that I have conversations
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  Speaker 4: with different people to make that best decision move forward.
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  Speaker 4: So I am a big heartbeat guy. I'm a big
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  Speaker 4: like where is his where's his mind?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: You know, the decisions you make will will show what
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  Speaker 4: your priorities are. And I want players that are making
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  Speaker 4: good decisions, with their work habits, with their prep, and
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  Speaker 4: then ultimately going out there and having results. And that's
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  Speaker 4: waited for sure, and I think that's a that's a
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  Speaker 4: bigger part of the game than anything. So the analytics
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  Speaker 4: and the data will show a certain thing, but the
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  Speaker 4: heartbeat of a baseball player is really important. And I
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  Speaker 4: think over the years, I was just saying, Mike Hays
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  Speaker 4: and has now become began to understand that. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it's been ten years we've been together, and he'll give
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  Speaker 4: me that that really good point of view. But I'll say,
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  Speaker 4: hang on, Remember we got a player that's that's really
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  Speaker 4: ready and really hungry, and I want hungry players to
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  Speaker 4: care and that that would trump a lot of things
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  Speaker 4: in my opinion, and they respect my opinion.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, So when you say, you know, Mike Hays and
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  Speaker 6: you and sit down, do you guys cover your eyes
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  Speaker 6: when you see the Dodgers make another move in your division,
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  Speaker 6: get edwin, d back up what they already had, the
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  Speaker 6: two time defending world champions, and here they are, Oh,
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  Speaker 6: we'll just go on and sign a top three closer
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  Speaker 6: in baseball and add him to the list of everyone
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  Speaker 6: we have.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so it started what with Freddy. The next year
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  Speaker 3: it was Mookie.
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  Speaker 4: They keep get wrapping all these really good presents to
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  Speaker 4: the n West and.
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  Speaker 3: It just doesn't let up.
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  Speaker 4: And then it was Yamamoto and Shohey and then Sasaki
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  Speaker 4: last year. So Tanner Scott, you forgot Rander Scott right,
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  Speaker 4: one of the best relievers in twenty four. I know
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  Speaker 4: we got banged up. He probably didn't have a healthy year.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, Glass now it just it's it's endless. And
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  Speaker 4: in my opinion, it's fine. They play within the rules.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody knows what they can and can't do.
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  Speaker 4: I think Andrew's doing a great job of getting the
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  Speaker 4: right players in their docs, doing a great job leading them.
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  Speaker 3: And it's real. So we know that and we're like,
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  Speaker 3: either we can complain about.
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  Speaker 6: It, but that's gonna be my question. How do you
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  Speaker 6: go to your team and say, don't pay attention, guys,
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  Speaker 6: we think we can compete. Because every narrative you read,
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  Speaker 6: every narrative you hear, every player is on social media.
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  Speaker 6: They see things their their mom their dad is like,
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  Speaker 6: oh the Dodgers, where you're gonna beat them? Yeah, So
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  Speaker 6: how do you how do you combat that as a
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  Speaker 6: manager in an organization say no, guys, we can't be
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  Speaker 6: with the Seas.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's my own family too. I'm born and raised
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  Speaker 4: in La So every time someone now's my own family.
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  Speaker 3: That's all over me.
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  Speaker 4: What we talk about AJ is when they come into
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  Speaker 4: the system, I don't want anybody and I go talk
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  Speaker 4: to player development. I don't want anybody to train themselves
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  Speaker 4: to feel sorry for ourselves to say the Dodgers you
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  Speaker 4: do an X and the Podress are real. Why, Like,
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  Speaker 4: we know what they're doing, we know what they're about,
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  Speaker 4: and it's it's proven to be a success, but we
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  Speaker 4: do different.
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  Speaker 3: We do it from within.
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  Speaker 4: The backbone of our system is our player development, and
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  Speaker 4: it puts more on them to develop and know that
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  Speaker 4: they're gonna get a chance. So there's a media buying
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  Speaker 4: when they come in. And our guys never complain about
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  Speaker 4: what the Dodgers do. Ever, I never hear one thing
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  Speaker 4: about it because we talk about it from a very
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  Speaker 4: young age, when they're eighteen or twenty one, this is
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  Speaker 4: what you do to get to the big leagues, and
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  Speaker 4: we going to Dodger Stadium playing tough. Our guys really
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  Speaker 4: step up with the challenge. They embrace it, they love
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  Speaker 4: going in there and compete against.
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  Speaker 3: Him, and it shows up.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we've had some really good years against the Dodgers,
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  Speaker 4: and our payrolls in a hundred you know, one hundred
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  Speaker 4: and thirty, one hundred and forty million dollars doesn't matter
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  Speaker 4: to us.
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  Speaker 3: We just want to go out to Pete Tory.
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  Speaker 5: I got to ask you about Gabriel Moreno. Gabriel Moreno.
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  Speaker 5: Towards the end of the year, there was some talk
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  Speaker 5: about maybe the game calling and James McCann kind of
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  Speaker 5: took some of the some of the bulk of the
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  Speaker 5: playing time after he was brought over. Now James is
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  Speaker 5: re signed, one of the best dudes in baseball. How
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  Speaker 5: does that? How is that conversation? And what is that
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  Speaker 5: looking like for Gabby going into this season? Is he
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  Speaker 5: the starter? Is it a spot that he has to earn?
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  Speaker 5: Does he have to learn and mature in different in
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  Speaker 5: different ways because on paper he had a decent season.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I'm talking to a couple of catchers here, right.
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  Speaker 4: So the game calling portion of it is really really
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  Speaker 4: important in developing relationships with your pitch and getting them
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  Speaker 4: strikes is really really important. So Gabby's evolving, He's gonna
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  Speaker 4: He's gonna get the majority of the time, for sure.
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  Speaker 4: James McCann coming on board whenever we sign him. I
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  Speaker 4: can't remember the exact date change the DNA of our team,
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  Speaker 4: and I think a lot of the success that we
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  Speaker 4: had was directly related to what James mccannon came in
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  Speaker 4: and did for us.
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  Speaker 3: Gabby was still hurt.
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  Speaker 4: I will say this, We're a different team when when
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  Speaker 4: Gabby's on the field, I feel it. There's it's an
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  Speaker 4: impact bat. The catch and release is as good as anybody.
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  Speaker 4: The one part of his game and and I agree
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  Speaker 4: with you, is knowing that the hitters well enough to
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  Speaker 4: call a game and make adjustments. James McCann told me
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  Speaker 4: this because I asked questions of these catchers, like when
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  Speaker 4: did when did you figure it out?
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  Speaker 3: When he got I forget who he came up with.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was the Tigers, right.
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  Speaker 4: I think Alex Avila said to him, hang on for
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  Speaker 4: the next five years.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna take five years.
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  Speaker 4: For you to be who you're supposed to be, to
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  Speaker 4: get to know your pitcher, get to know all the
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  Speaker 4: hitters in this league, what those adjustments are. And I
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  Speaker 4: had some unbelievable conversations with the can where like I
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  Speaker 4: couldn't believe the things that he was thinking about, sorry,
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  Speaker 4: things that he was thinking about during the course of
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  Speaker 4: an at bat, Like I based this guy once before
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  Speaker 4: last year. We got him here, I got him there,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm like, oh my god, like you are really
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  Speaker 4: really good.
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  Speaker 3: That takes time. So what happens?
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  Speaker 4: I think Gabby's got to figure this out. He's got
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  Speaker 4: to get some time, he's got to pay attention to
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  Speaker 4: the right things, and he's going to be just fine.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, you brought it.
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  Speaker 6: You brought him a can back, which I huge, which
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  Speaker 6: I was shocked he wasn't signed.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, you guys brought him in late.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah he was. I don't believe it either.
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  Speaker 6: It was weird because I have I had people call
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  Speaker 6: me asking if I knew him, and I knew him
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  Speaker 6: from when he was the White tux.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I was like, everything I've heard from about this guy
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  Speaker 6: is amazing. So to hear that confirmed is great. And
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  Speaker 6: then can you bring in Mike Soroka?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: As is he going to be a starter?
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  Speaker 3: Is he going to be a swingy?
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  Speaker 7: Guys?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I can't officially comment on Mike Soroka I will
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  Speaker 4: say that we have been in touch with Mike Soroka.
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  Speaker 1: Because I know how to get around there.
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  Speaker 2: Just you've faced him, tell me about what you've seen. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know you're allowed that you are definitely allowed,
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  Speaker 2: just like I would ask you about Dommoto.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, what do you from this guy?
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  Speaker 3: That's good?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I thought and you guys taught him. Well, I think
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  Speaker 3: it's a good combination.
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  Speaker 7: I thought it was done, so I apologize.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he uh, you know, he's got a real
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  Speaker 4: good breaking ball, four up fastball, and he's made adjustments
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  Speaker 4: off of that. There's cut you know, there's a slider
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  Speaker 4: that's in play now. So he's a four pitch mixed guy.
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  Speaker 4: The loves to compete, and you know, there has been
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  Speaker 4: contact with him, for sure. I had a chance to
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  Speaker 4: talk to him. Seems like he's very highly intelligent. He
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  Speaker 4: knows how to pitch. And you can just tell when
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  Speaker 4: you're sitting down with people, and not not just Soroka,
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  Speaker 4: but anybody that I've talked to on zoom or face
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  Speaker 4: to face this offseason, you can you can tell when
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  Speaker 4: they're starting to connect the dots. It's not it's not
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  Speaker 4: just I'm gonna be good. I'm lifting, I feel great,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm gonna be faster than be Like they give
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  Speaker 4: you a reason why when they and how and why,
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  Speaker 4: and they just answer the questions. You can tell when
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  Speaker 4: you're talking to somebody that's gonna have a good year,
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  Speaker 4: and I think, I think this might be the case.
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  Speaker 2: I have one quick here, follow up on him because
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  Speaker 2: he's been through a lot, right, he had the crazy
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  Speaker 2: injuries early on, he was kind of a buting star quickly. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think he has as much heat on the
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  Speaker 2: on the fastball these days, but the secondary pitches, at
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  Speaker 2: least from this past season when he was on the mound,
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  Speaker 2: looked like they've improved a ton. And like we're talking
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  Speaker 2: about like he figures out the whole mix and had
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  Speaker 2: to pitch over or had a throat.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he gave himself the right to learn new pitches.
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  Speaker 4: It used to be for a curveball. Off of that,
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  Speaker 4: it's ever you know, the sink was in play too.
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  Speaker 4: But he started to understand who he was, what was
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  Speaker 4: going to make him successful. So he took a step
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  Speaker 4: back and said, hey, I've got to do this to
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  Speaker 4: be better than I am.
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  Speaker 3: And that's where I give players a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Of credit because I know when I was a player,
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  Speaker 4: I was scared to death to make an adjustment, like
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  Speaker 4: I knew what I knew, and that's all I was
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  Speaker 4: going to go down with.
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  Speaker 3: The best players are able to make adjustments, and sounds
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  Speaker 3: like he's ready to do that.
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  Speaker 5: You have a conversation with Kotel Marte since the season ended,
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  Speaker 5: or right at the end of the season, because we
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  Speaker 5: heard a lot of reports about controversy. It didn't show up,
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  Speaker 5: went to the dominic or went home? And when is
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  Speaker 5: the house robbery? All that stuff, things that we're just
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  Speaker 5: getting secondhand. Do you have conversations or have you had
• 11:18
  Speaker 5: conversations with him, especially when you start seeing a guy
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  Speaker 5: who's ten and five rights are coming up could be
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  Speaker 5: on the market.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I have. I've had many conversations with him and
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  Speaker 4: a fair ask. Yes, there were some things that happened
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  Speaker 4: throughout the course of the year that were crystal clear,
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  Speaker 4: and I think all I could do at that point
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  Speaker 4: is creating awareness to have a conversation and talk about
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  Speaker 4: what it looks like to move this ball forward so
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  Speaker 4: he could be a better version of himself.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he had some emotional things that he was dealing with.
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  Speaker 4: You know, there's a fan in Chicago shouting some things
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  Speaker 4: to shouting some things out him that really hit him
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  Speaker 4: deep and hard. That's a real human emotion. His house
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  Speaker 4: getsken into when he's at the All Star Game and
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  Speaker 4: had I don't know, half a million, maybe a million
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  Speaker 4: dollars worth of stuff stolen.
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  Speaker 3: And those are big pills for human being to swallow.
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  Speaker 4: And he's not exempt from the feelings that we have
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  Speaker 4: sitting down talking.
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  Speaker 3: He's he's very emotional and I'm fine with that.
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  Speaker 4: So, yeah, we probably did need to have a different
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  Speaker 4: type of conversation, and he got very private and withdrawn
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  Speaker 4: through that time, and I understand that. I just, you know,
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  Speaker 4: wish communication had been a little bit a little bit better,
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  Speaker 4: But we learned from it and I don't think anything
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  Speaker 4: like that will ever happen again.
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  Speaker 6: How do you replace Gallon and Kelly and what are
• 12:35
  Speaker 6: teams getting if, yeah, when they signed these guys, because
• 12:39
  Speaker 6: you have you have Rodriguez, you have fought, you have
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  Speaker 6: Ryan Nelson.
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  Speaker 7: Now you might have another picture. We can't talk about him.
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  Speaker 6: But how do you first of all, how do you
• 12:49
  Speaker 6: replace those guys and the teams that if it's not
• 12:51
  Speaker 6: the Diamondbacks signing those guys.
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  Speaker 3: What are they getting in these two guys.
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  Speaker 7: Allen had a weird year for me.
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  Speaker 3: You bring them back, That's what I say.
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  Speaker 4: Im back, Yeah, I'm all for Yeah, yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Gallon had a really really weird year.
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  Speaker 4: I think at the trade deadline, I remember he came
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  Speaker 4: in and I have great conversation with him.
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  Speaker 7: Usually he's a great to talk to because he's like
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  Speaker 7: very in depth.
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  Speaker 4: Oh man, It's like, yeah, you're I'm not as smart
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  Speaker 4: as is that. And when it gets really intimidating when
• 13:18
  Speaker 4: he comes in he starts asking his quends, I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: oh my god. But he came in post post All Star,
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  Speaker 4: post trade deadline, and I think he was he was flushed,
• 13:29
  Speaker 4: like he's like, I didn't get traded. I'm the last
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  Speaker 4: one here and what happened. It kind of took on
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  Speaker 4: that tone and I just listened to him.
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  Speaker 3: I think he was frustrated. It was a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of humble pie.
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  Speaker 4: But from that day forward, I just said, look, you
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  Speaker 4: have a new season, man, Let's go from August one
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  Speaker 4: forward to.
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  Speaker 3: See how dominant you can be. And he turned it around.
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  Speaker 4: Prior to that, there was a lot of tinkering, a
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  Speaker 4: lot of a lot of curiosity about his stuff.
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  Speaker 3: He's gonna come out right. He's elite, he's a great
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  Speaker 3: human being, he's a great teammate.
• 13:56
  Speaker 4: I have nothing but great things to say about Zach Gallen,
• 13:58
  Speaker 4: and same with Meryll, Like these.
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  Speaker 3: Guys know how to pitch man.
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  Speaker 4: And what's hard for us in Arizona is we have
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  Speaker 4: to say goodbye to that type of player.
• 14:08
  Speaker 3: You know, it's just worth It's a sign of the times.
• 14:10
  Speaker 5: It's what we are. We know it.
• 14:11
  Speaker 4: Get back to the old Dodger, you know, not complaining
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: about them signing free agents, Like we just know that
• 14:18
  Speaker 4: players are gonna grow up and move on, So we're
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: accepting of it as a possibility.
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: And I wish him nothing but the.
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: Best wherever they both land, I wish him nothing but
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: the best or great pitchers are great.
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: Why didn't he get traded? Why didn't he get traded?
• 14:30
  Speaker 8: Why didn't he?
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: Did you trade it, Kelly? Yeah?
• 14:32
  Speaker 6: I mean, heck you traded Jordan Montgomery trade.
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: I think because of the time year he was having,
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: I think the ask was a little low. I'm assuming
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: that I don't I Mike didn't really make me aware
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: of it. It was probably, you know, we just don't
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: want to give him away. I think that he was
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: very average the first four months of the season, but
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: I think he's gonna be just fine.
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: I think wherever he winds up, I'm still gonna hope,
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: be hopeful that it's with us. Wherever he ends up
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: gonna be fun.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: I've got one more for you yet. So there are
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: a ton of new managers entering the game this season.
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: Your thoughts on the mix of hires that we saw,
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: and then specifically, are you gonna get in any fun
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: barking matches with Tony Vaytello. I'm sure you've seen some
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: highlights from the college days.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. A couple of Talian guys. Let's
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: go out it right, That's how I feel about it.
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: I'm I'm really excited for him. You don't really see
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: this crossover right very often. I'm sure it's happened in
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: the history of the game. I don't know where it went,
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: but a very successful college coach high baseball.
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: IQ looks like he's a connector of people. He's one
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: of the boys.
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: He's in the trenches with the guys, and I think
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: that's what the players want. The players want to know
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: if the manager's in or out. If you're in the players,
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: the players are gonna play for you. If you're out
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: and put yourself on a different level, we're gon be
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: like little lukewarm on you.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: I seen footage of him running the stands of like whatever,
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: crowdsurfing with fans like players love that.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: So I think he's gonna be just fine.
• 15:59
  Speaker 7: I want to see do that.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: I promise you I will. Something big will happen this year.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: IM gonna be crowdsurfing, Yeah, surfing.
• 16:06
  Speaker 7: I can't wait for that.
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: I think Buster vetted that Busters and Buster is a
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: brilliant GM.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: He's got great players and.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: They they vetted that it's gonna be great.
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: And the young blood that's coming in, you know, I
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: know Washington, the Nats hired a very young very.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah that's awesome. We have your tear on before you,
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: did you? He like he's thirty three. He could be
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: Mike Club.
• 16:31
  Speaker 8: He could be our kid.
• 16:32
  Speaker 7: You might be your grand kid, but he could definitely
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: be my kid.
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: I'm looking at him.
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: I don't feel that I'm not that much older, but man,
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: I'm looking at you.
• 16:40
  Speaker 7: I feel like I much.
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: Yes, I don't. You know.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: When I was thirty five and just retired, I'm like,
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: why can't I do this? Like I felt like I could,
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: like put me in there. I feel like I could manage.
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of things that that take place, and
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: he's had that experiences as a young minor league manager.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: He's gonna be just fine. And uh, like I said,
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: you just gotta get the players to play for you.
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: Whatever whatever that means is different. Inside of every clubhouts.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: You got to find out how they go out there
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: and give you their absolute best.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: And I'm sure he's got that that down. The x's
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: and o's.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: We all we're all baseball minds, like, okay, of course, yeah,
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: I might pinch hit this guy over this guy. I
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: might make a pitching move at this time a little
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: bit different, but it's all it's all pretty similar.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: It's how you relate to players and connect and create
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: a culture. That's the most important thing.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Tory, good to see you, Thanks for the guys. What
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: craft you got one? Go ahead?
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: I asked Blake. I asked Blake when the first time
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: he was gonna Blake but Terra, when the first time
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: he was gonna get thrown out with all the new
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: challenges and everything is tory develop going to go the
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: whole season with no ejections.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: I don't know, look that remember the good old Matt
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: arguments you used to get with the first base up.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: Say if you missed it, no he's out, like whatever.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Like that doesn't happen anymore, right, I don't know.
• 17:55
  Speaker 8: I probably I'm.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: Good for two or three of a year. You can't
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: argue anything.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Something will happen.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, something will happen. It always happens. And whenever, whenever
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: I decided to go, I go to.
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: Make sure Yatti's not around, because Yachty was.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: I made a big mistake. Yai is the best. I
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: just said something I probably should, right, and Yati's so good.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: He was getting balls as far off the.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: Plate, and I'm like, come on, you can't make ball strikes,
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: like just be fair to us.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: And I said a few other things, and Yadi was like, I'm.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: Sorry, yai ya, he's one of the best. But anyways,
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: they take a lot of it away from you. I
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: think when the when the start to mistreat the players,
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: and I got a pick player.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: That's where I got the line. I'll get thrown out
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: of the game every time.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Then yep, I disagree with where you play, you'll get bounced.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: What's up?
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: He hau.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, did you ever watch yell it is? I don't
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: think were you on? He ha?
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: I was as what.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: They had a school scene. Do you remember Minie Pearls.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: She had the price tag from her straw hack.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: She was a teacher and she had a school scene
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: with ten to fourteen year olds and I.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Was one of the one of the suits.
• 18:59
  Speaker 8: Did you have a line?
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: I did have a line. What was your Oh my god,
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: let's see. She said, Tory, how's your baseball team? Come along?
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: And my line was.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: Good, teacher, nobody has beat us tight us or scored
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: against us. And she said wonderful. And I said, well,
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: we play our first game next Saturday, so it's plastic.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: It's smart though.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, right, everyone's undefeated on opening day. Yeah, yeah, there
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: you go. Yeah, my dad PRODUCEE Off for twenty five years.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: You say that to the wrong person, they fall over
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: their chair laughing. They're like, oh my god, here you
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: said to somebody who's born in the South. They're like, dude,
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: I still watch that show.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: It's serious.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: It's still late at night and I'm zoning in.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: My parents, my grandparents, my great grandparents, we watched it
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: every Sunday night.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: So just spend some where you're from.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really cool. That's what people are asking about.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: But Tory, great to see you. Thank you by extended time.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Uh ft Fami will be right back. Hey,
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: we're back lab in Orlando with New Giants manager Tony
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: by Tello. It's a pleasure to be able to introduce
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: you that way.
• 19:57
  Speaker 8: Thank you.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: How you doing.
• 19:58
  Speaker 9: It's still awkward to hear it that way, but as
• 20:01
  Speaker 9: the days go by, getting a little more comfortable with everything,
• 20:04
  Speaker 9: and this is certainly a part of the experience.
• 20:06
  Speaker 8: Didn't know what to expect, but uh, this is eventful.
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah, welcome to winter meetings, Welcome to the big leagues.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Like I told you, thank you.
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: I appreciate this is a different animal than SEC media
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: days and that whole thing. But when Buster Posey called you,
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: were you like, wait, do you have the wrong number?
• 20:24
  Speaker 9: Well, originally our conversation stemmed around our players. We had
• 20:27
  Speaker 9: a tennessee, whether it was through the draft or trade stuff, so.
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: It was it was already interesting.
• 20:34
  Speaker 9: I guess is the best way to say talking to
• 20:35
  Speaker 9: a guy that's in his category, you know. But then
• 20:40
  Speaker 9: from then when the first text came across about hey
• 20:43
  Speaker 9: give me a call, I kind of had an inkling
• 20:46
  Speaker 9: what it was about.
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: And there was a lot of different emotions.
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: How much did you drop little hints different times that
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: you had talked like it wasn't I mean, it can't be.
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: It can't be completely out of the blue, like man,
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna go and call Tony. Yeah.
• 21:03
  Speaker 9: No, I think originally it was, but there there maybe
• 21:07
  Speaker 9: was one closer to that time where we, you know,
• 21:10
  Speaker 9: we were sharing ideas about how we see baseball, but
• 21:14
  Speaker 9: more importantly, how you would like your team to be
• 21:16
  Speaker 9: portrayed on the field. And I think, you know, it
• 21:20
  Speaker 9: all seems seamless to me because you acquired Drew Gilbert
• 21:24
  Speaker 9: because you like his intensity. The questions asked me about
• 21:27
  Speaker 9: Gavin Keelan were more about, you know, is this guy
• 21:31
  Speaker 9: as competitive as you know the other guys.
• 21:34
  Speaker 8: You've had in your program, or what you want?
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 21:36
  Speaker 9: And then kind of started to pick up on some
• 21:38
  Speaker 9: hints that were being dropped there as as calls got
• 21:41
  Speaker 9: closer to that whole deal what you've.
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: Only been doing this for a month.
• 21:46
  Speaker 9: Now, Yeah, I mean it was October twenty second was
• 21:50
  Speaker 9: the day where.
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah, what's been the biggest thing besides this? The media
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: hasn't been. Have you been overwhelmed by anything? Players, meetings,
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: phone calls, anything that's just been.
• 22:02
  Speaker 8: Like, I think the biggest thing.
• 22:04
  Speaker 9: When I left Tennessee or was about to, I thought
• 22:07
  Speaker 9: everybody would be in a better position. I mean, I
• 22:10
  Speaker 9: like that I get some credit for it, but it
• 22:13
  Speaker 9: was a coaching staff there that was pretty special that
• 22:15
  Speaker 9: helped players get better, and the elements are at Tennessee
• 22:19
  Speaker 9: to win regardless.
• 22:20
  Speaker 8: Of who the head coaches.
• 22:21
  Speaker 9: To be honest with you, but the guy I thought
• 22:23
  Speaker 9: was most suited for it was the guy they gave.
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: It to, Josh Islander.
• 22:27
  Speaker 9: And so I thought everybody was gonna wave by and
• 22:29
  Speaker 9: say good luck and things would be great. And it
• 22:32
  Speaker 9: got a little tumultuous there for a little bit, so
• 22:35
  Speaker 9: just getting through the old job stuff and onto the
• 22:38
  Speaker 9: new job stuff.
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: It was heavy.
• 22:41
  Speaker 9: But since then it's more exciting than anything. I mean,
• 22:44
  Speaker 9: right now, everyone walking around this hotel is oh and O.
• 22:47
  Speaker 9: So there's nothing to be too depressed about.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: I've got one for you from a historical perspective, this
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: is essentially a first right for you to jump over
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: to take over a major league team like this coming
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: from the college ranks. Your job is to win games
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: for the San Francisco Giants. But do you feel any
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: type of onus to perform for the next Tony Vaytello
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: to be able to make a jump like this and say, hey,
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: there are some super talented managers that should be managing
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: at the major league level and.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: We should take more bits and pieces from that.
• 23:20
  Speaker 9: I think a bigger just trading back and forth in general,
• 23:23
  Speaker 9: whether it's ideas or personnel or people or you know,
• 23:27
  Speaker 9: technology now like it or not. I think the more
• 23:31
  Speaker 9: seamless it is, the better and the more likely it
• 23:33
  Speaker 9: is to.
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: Occur more often. There's already been some.
• 23:36
  Speaker 9: Coaches obviously, whether it's strength coaches or pitching coaches that
• 23:39
  Speaker 9: have you know, made the jump, if that's what you
• 23:41
  Speaker 9: want to call it. But at the end of the day,
• 23:43
  Speaker 9: it's all baseball. It's all competing. I know the big
• 23:46
  Speaker 9: leagues is way different. I'll have to hit you up sometime.
• 23:49
  Speaker 9: You made a mistake of giving me your number. No,
• 23:52
  Speaker 9: I'm happy to do it.
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: I'm not going to tell you where I got your
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: number from.
• 23:55
  Speaker 9: But I know how competitive you are and the game
• 23:57
  Speaker 9: you played is baseball, So yeah, as you get to
• 24:01
  Speaker 9: a higher level, some of the things should increase, like
• 24:03
  Speaker 9: talent that's on the field. But for the most part,
• 24:05
  Speaker 9: I think the more seamless it is, the better off
• 24:08
  Speaker 9: everybody is.
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: Did your players in college call you coach?
• 24:14
  Speaker 8: Can you say that again?
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: Sorry? Did your players in college call you coach? Yeah?
• 24:20
  Speaker 9: V was often, but yeah, coach. We were playing Auburn
• 24:25
  Speaker 9: Sonny Desera was SEC player of the year and you know,
• 24:30
  Speaker 9: was competitive on the field back and forth, and their
• 24:32
  Speaker 9: guys started yelling at me and saying Tony, and I
• 24:35
  Speaker 9: took offense to it. I grew up in a household
• 24:37
  Speaker 9: where my dad, you know, was a disciplinarian, and I
• 24:41
  Speaker 9: thought Bob Knight when he got fired it was for
• 24:43
  Speaker 9: the wrong reason. Some kids said hey night to him
• 24:46
  Speaker 9: and he grabbed them on campus and that was the
• 24:48
  Speaker 9: last straw. So I think I know what you're getting at.
• 24:50
  Speaker 9: But that game in twenty twenty two is where I
• 24:53
  Speaker 9: came to grips with the fans and the other teams
• 24:56
  Speaker 9: players call me Tony, So I'm good with whatever you
• 24:59
  Speaker 9: want to call me as long a is. You know,
• 25:00
  Speaker 9: it's relatively respectful and it's going to help us win games.
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: Okay, well you kind of you kind of alluded to
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: it because they're not going to call you coach anymore.
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: And the sures heck, never met anybody they call manager.
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: So it might be skip or something like that. But
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: what I was going to get to was, is there
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: anything that Buster Posey has said, Look, I saw you
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: do this in college, you can't do it here? Or
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: is he letting you be who you are? Like everyone
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: we just talked about with somebody else, crowdsurfing. I think
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: we're talking to Tory Levello. Saw you CrowdSurf and he's like, yeah,
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure I'm going to CrowdSurf at some point
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: this year. So is there anything that Buster said, hey, hey,
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: pump the brakes on this, or is he said go
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: for it? I trust you.
• 25:47
  Speaker 9: No, And I think if that came up, it'd be
• 25:49
  Speaker 9: worthy of a debate upstairs with all the people that
• 25:51
  Speaker 9: are meeting of whether that's appropriate or not in that moment.
• 25:55
  Speaker 9: I guess self defense coming up as or defending myself
• 25:58
  Speaker 9: is when you are compact, ve you hamstring yourself so
• 26:02
  Speaker 9: much when it comes to enjoined victories because you're always
• 26:06
  Speaker 9: onto the next thing and you're guarded and karma and
• 26:08
  Speaker 9: all that bs. And that was a moment where there
• 26:11
  Speaker 9: was no more games to play that season, so I
• 26:13
  Speaker 9: was like, the hell with it, I'm gonna get my
• 26:14
  Speaker 9: money's worth. Uh So, if that were ever to occur again,
• 26:18
  Speaker 9: you know, maybe that would happen. But for the most part,
• 26:22
  Speaker 9: the group has been it's been a collaborative vibe and
• 26:25
  Speaker 9: it's definitely a been.
• 26:26
  Speaker 8: A be who you are type of deal.
• 26:29
  Speaker 9: So I think that theme will stay consistent as long
• 26:31
  Speaker 9: as nothing gets too crazy.
• 26:33
  Speaker 8: What yours a twenty four that you guys won the world? Yeah,
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: I'm a Gator fan. They've had their share of success.
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: You've kind of ruined it for them, but that might
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: That leads me to my next question. Like I've watched
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: I watched a lot of SEC baseball. Obviously, being a
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: Florida fan, you've been known to go out in the
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: other teams a little bit, you know, whether good bad,
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: however you want to. You can't do that as much now,
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: are you gonna be able to reel it in your
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: emotion and the fire that you have. You can't be
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: wearing fur coats and doing the whole daddy has.
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: I mean, that was not my idea.
• 27:09
  Speaker 9: No, I agree, And yeah that's another moment post, you know,
• 27:13
  Speaker 9: championship or whatever. They threw that on me without my doing,
• 27:16
  Speaker 9: and I'm not too big of a fan of that stuff,
• 27:18
  Speaker 9: but it's part of the game. And I think I
• 27:20
  Speaker 9: had to adapt to what the players were starting to do,
• 27:25
  Speaker 9: and to be honest with you, I don't know that
• 27:27
  Speaker 9: I could adapt to some of the things that are
• 27:29
  Speaker 9: starting to go on now at high school level and
• 27:32
  Speaker 9: at college levels.
• 27:33
  Speaker 8: To an extreme.
• 27:33
  Speaker 9: So I've kind of got my own set of of values.
• 27:37
  Speaker 9: But I'm going to lean on people that have been
• 27:38
  Speaker 9: in the big leagues and ask him what's a little
• 27:40
  Speaker 9: corny and more suited for college and what's more appropriate
• 27:44
  Speaker 9: for the And I think at the very least the
• 27:47
  Speaker 9: respect level I have for the best players on the planet,
• 27:49
  Speaker 9: because as a recruiting coordinator, you're always in awe or
• 27:53
  Speaker 9: appreciation of a guy who's good, Well, these are the
• 27:55
  Speaker 9: best players, and then just walking around here, I don't
• 27:58
  Speaker 9: even I don't know. Maybe I got to make an
• 28:01
  Speaker 9: adjustment shaking hands with guys like Pat Murphy is awkward
• 28:04
  Speaker 9: to me at this point.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: All right, I've got one for you on players.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: So from what you can share, what's the most interesting
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: thing a player has said to you so far on
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: your current team, right, like something on a phone call?
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: And then the follow up also is how do you
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: approach talking to Rafael Devers. I've known him for years.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: He felt hurt from a situation last years. With a
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: new spot, this is a chance for someone manager wise
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: here not from San Francisco but from Boston. But manager
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: has come in here and be like, yo, you're my guy,
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: got you for whatever? Eight seven eight years? This is
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: the plan?
• 28:36
  Speaker 9: Yeah, no, with a little bit of excitement as far
• 28:38
  Speaker 9: as talking to Devers and also following Gilbert's lead, he
• 28:42
  Speaker 9: and Drew became close for whatever reason, so.
• 28:45
  Speaker 8: I could see guy's a mad man. Yes, yes he is.
• 28:48
  Speaker 9: But you know, getting to know each of those guys
• 28:50
  Speaker 9: is exciting for me. I'm pretty fired up about the
• 28:54
  Speaker 9: diversity that exists in Big League baseball. I've become an
• 28:57
  Speaker 9: avid traveler. It's my hobby, which is probably foolish because
• 29:01
  Speaker 9: recruiting and playing baseball you're flying as is. But I'm
• 29:05
  Speaker 9: excited about that parted about as much as any Uh.
• 29:08
  Speaker 9: And then talking with the current players as far as giants,
• 29:12
  Speaker 9: do you want to go get a drink, you know,
• 29:15
  Speaker 9: you talk about the twenty four championship or other moments.
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 29:19
  Speaker 9: There were a lot of times and a lot of
• 29:21
  Speaker 9: invitations to have more fun than I actually did have.
• 29:24
  Speaker 9: But when you're in college, you have a different representation
• 29:27
  Speaker 9: of the program and who you are. And so yeah,
• 29:30
  Speaker 9: one of the first guys I ever met was you know,
• 29:32
  Speaker 9: was over a drink and it was a good conversation.
• 29:34
  Speaker 9: And getting to know those guys is something I'm again
• 29:37
  Speaker 9: excited to do.
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: Our current big league managers too boring.
• 29:43
  Speaker 8: I don't think if you meet them in person, I mean, yeah,
• 29:48
  Speaker 8: not again.
• 29:49
  Speaker 9: A lot of my experiences watching the playoffs, our guys
• 29:53
  Speaker 9: are we're so wrapped up in what we're doing in
• 29:55
  Speaker 9: college baseball. You don't get to see Game eighty three
• 29:58
  Speaker 9: in the middle of the summer what necessarily is going on,
• 30:02
  Speaker 9: you know. But I think back when I grew up,
• 30:05
  Speaker 9: the managers were like Bobby cox White he hears all
• 30:08
  Speaker 9: dating those are guys. You would almost just as likely
• 30:10
  Speaker 9: have a poster on your wall of those guys as
• 30:13
  Speaker 9: you would a player. I think there is a little
• 30:16
  Speaker 9: bit of a little bit of a missing chunk there
• 30:20
  Speaker 9: between who those guys were maybe in today's game. And
• 30:24
  Speaker 9: that's just an observation as a fan, you know. And hey,
• 30:26
  Speaker 9: maybe I was just a lot younger back then and
• 30:28
  Speaker 9: looked up to those guys even more then I look
• 30:31
  Speaker 9: up to some guys.
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: Now, Okay, before we let you go, I have two
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: quick with things. One Max Suer's or I asked him
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: about you. He said you're the best. So I'm told
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: because I love Max, I appreciate that he gives me
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: a if he gives me a good endorsement, and.
• 30:42
  Speaker 9: He's pretty critical, he's very he can be very opinionated.
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: Yes, also, and he gave you a good endorsement, so
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: I have to respect from max'es.
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: And then I brought this up earlier.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: You walked out with.
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: Morgan Wall and had to be one of the coolest
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: things of all time. I signed with Tennessee at a
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: high school. I never went there. I signed out of
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: high school and went to the minor leagues. But I'm
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: not a voluntare your fan. So now you have a
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: different shade of orange, Will you throw all that ugly
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: assed creamsicle orange out where you.
• 31:06
  Speaker 9: Actually keep some Well, that was the first thing my
• 31:08
  Speaker 9: dad said to me, was how much gear they have.
• 31:10
  Speaker 8: They're a little upset about it. I've already sized up.
• 31:12
  Speaker 9: I've got some items where the orange kind of meets
• 31:15
  Speaker 9: in the middle, and I'm a little i didn't grow
• 31:17
  Speaker 9: up with a lot of money, so I'm hanging on
• 31:18
  Speaker 9: to that stuff. And then, yeah, I'm gonna be cheering
• 31:21
  Speaker 9: for those guys. They had to go get jerolim in
• 31:24
  Speaker 9: from Florida. I mean, I know, I know Chuck and
• 31:26
  Speaker 9: I work together at TCU, and I'm happy for him
• 31:28
  Speaker 9: and his family. I think he'll do great things there.
• 31:31
  Speaker 9: But just a lot of close ties with Rick Barnes,
• 31:34
  Speaker 9: a basketball coach. I'm super excited they've got a newer
• 31:36
  Speaker 9: coach with women's basketball. So I was in love with
• 31:40
  Speaker 9: the place and still am.
• 31:41
  Speaker 8: Sorry to relay that.
• 31:43
  Speaker 7: Sorry, it's a beautiful place.
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: Yeah, the country music's no matter where you're working.
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: One last quick one for you. Will you wear your
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: College World Series ring in the presence of big leaguers.
• 31:58
  Speaker 8: I've never worn it.
• 31:59
  Speaker 9: I don't know time will come that I will, but
• 32:01
  Speaker 9: I've I've I've never worn it, and uh with the
• 32:04
  Speaker 9: moving boxes, I first got to locate it and then
• 32:07
  Speaker 9: uh we'll put it somewhere in a condo and uh.
• 32:10
  Speaker 8: One of those days will come and it's a long
• 32:11
  Speaker 8: way from now.
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: That I put it on.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Well, we're looking forward to many more combos about the giants.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Great to see you and you.
• 32:17
  Speaker 8: Congratulates, appreciate you guys.