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Gavin Lux on being traded from Dodgers to Reds, Tito’s chair · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: This is the last thing we need is Ellie to
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  Speaker 1: go down or get sick whatever. But he's a gamer.
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  Speaker 2: Man gets puked and rallied and then I think he
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  Speaker 2: had a home run.
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  Speaker 1: Next step bad.
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  Speaker 3: We got red slugger Gavin lux joining us right now,
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  Speaker 3: mister walkoff? How you doing man? And and this is
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  Speaker 3: this is a holiday. It's a national holiday. It's national
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  Speaker 3: chicken strip is now a media member today.
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  Speaker 1: Strip up, baby, Luxey? What's up?
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  Speaker 2: Man?
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  Speaker 4: Been a minute, dude to see a ben your color.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 3: You look good.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it. I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think? What do you think, Gavin? You
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  Speaker 3: think he's gonna be able to kick it in the
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  Speaker 3: media world.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's He's smart. Man. Ross is good at everything.
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  Speaker 2: I should probably hire him as my financial advisor too,
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  Speaker 2: But that's the topics for a different day. He's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be fine. Ross is really smart.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Leuxy, appreciate that, man. How's everything going, dude, How's
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  Speaker 4: it's fun to see you man, Fun to see you Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: hitting walk offs, getting celebrated all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 4: How's how's the season?
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  Speaker 1: It's going good? Yeah, I think just kind of getting
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  Speaker 1: adjusted off the rip.
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  Speaker 2: There new Ward first time getting traded all that, but
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  Speaker 2: I played against a lot of these dudes in the
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  Speaker 2: minor league, so kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Already knew a lot of guys over here.
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  Speaker 2: And then obviously having Tito as your manager, as you
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  Speaker 2: guys probably knows one of the best managers you can
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  Speaker 2: probably have in the history of baseball.
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  Speaker 1: And this guy just gets it. And so I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm having a great time. Man.
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  Speaker 2: We started off slow, but I feel like June, we've
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  Speaker 2: kind of turned a corner a little bit, and it's
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  Speaker 2: a fun group to be a part of.
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  Speaker 1: Man young and play hard and play the game the
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  Speaker 1: right way.
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  Speaker 2: So it's it's been an easy adjustment for me, at least, Kevin.
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  Speaker 4: One thing that was funny for me, Man, when I
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  Speaker 4: got traded out of LA, and you might feel the same,
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  Speaker 4: let me know, is is I felt still so young
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  Speaker 4: because that team was so veteran, with you know, Kershaw
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  Speaker 4: and Justin Turner, Exceto walking around. And then I found
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  Speaker 4: myself on the Blue Jays who looked at me like
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  Speaker 4: I had all the answers for one that was coming
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  Speaker 4: from LA who has all the answers, but too, I
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  Speaker 4: was one of the more veteran guys on that team
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  Speaker 4: and now here you are kind of in a similar
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  Speaker 4: situation with you know, a few seasons under your belt
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  Speaker 4: and the really young squad over there looking to make
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  Speaker 4: some noise. Like how are these kids looking up to you?
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  Speaker 4: And do you feel like you're ready to take on
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  Speaker 4: that role, because I'm not sure that I was.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, like you said, it's a total, total different.
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  Speaker 2: I guess like Presidence clubhouse wise, you know, obviously, like
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  Speaker 2: you said, in La, you got pretty much everyone there
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  Speaker 2: feels like it's like ten years already in and I
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  Speaker 2: think just kind of being around and I've gone through
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  Speaker 2: a lot of ups and downs and injuries and been
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  Speaker 2: through a lot kind of ringer wise, so I think
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  Speaker 2: just kind of being able to just talk to guys,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like and obviously trying to win, like play
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  Speaker 2: winning baseball and whatever it takes to do to win
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  Speaker 2: the game that day, situational hitting, playing clean defense, right
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  Speaker 2: on the bases, right, all that stuff. But I think
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  Speaker 2: just day to day in the clubhouse, just you got
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  Speaker 2: a little more responsibility on your hands to you know,
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  Speaker 2: this is the right way to do things, this is
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  Speaker 2: the right way to play the game.
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  Speaker 1: And I've actually enjoyed it a lot.
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  Speaker 2: It's been fun to kind of be on a younger
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  Speaker 2: team a little bit, and and in a different situation.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of, I don't know, refreshing a little bit
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  Speaker 2: at times. And but I mean there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: good players here, man, that know how to play the
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  Speaker 2: game the right way. And I don't think anyone's looking
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  Speaker 2: at me like, hey man, what what do we do.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, no, we know how to play winning baseball already.
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  Speaker 2: And I think there's just it's a long season, so
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  Speaker 2: there's ups and downs and just being you know, kind
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  Speaker 2: of supporter in the clubhouse for the younger guys that
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  Speaker 2: might not have had to go through struggles daily or
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  Speaker 2: you know, you don't get a hit for thirty straight
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  Speaker 2: at bats or your first time on your il, whatever
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  Speaker 2: that may be, and just trying to be supportive.
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  Speaker 5: Man, Kevin Well, a different role for you, which is
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  Speaker 5: kind of awesome, and going from LA to since a
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  Speaker 5: different role for you last time your walk off. First
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  Speaker 5: of all, were you happy that Ellie didn't run first
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  Speaker 5: the third because it got you the opportunity for the
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  Speaker 5: walk off? And then second of all, when you hit
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  Speaker 5: the walk off, did you know it right away, and
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  Speaker 5: why why don't they rip your shirt off anymore? Like
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  Speaker 5: the Easter rip guy's shirt off. You were kind of like, no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to show off my eight pack.
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  Speaker 2: I mean originally I was like, day, we had to
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  Speaker 2: go first to third on that, and like, you know whatever,
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  Speaker 2: but it should happen, so we won either way.
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  Speaker 1: So it is what it is.
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  Speaker 2: But now he's been carrying us on his back for
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  Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know, I kind of got jammed, man.
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  Speaker 1: I think I probably broke my bad. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how hard I hit. It wasn't hit real hard, but.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, off the bat it was like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's a that's a blue pad and and I'll take it.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean I would have loved to have
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  Speaker 2: my jersey ripped off. I don't know, man, maybe it's
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  Speaker 2: too tight and they couldn't get it off.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but no, that was a good win. Man.
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  Speaker 2: The Yankees are good, so to take two from them
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  Speaker 2: is huge for the momentum that we kind of got going.
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  Speaker 4: I love the reaction.
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  Speaker 1: Gavin.
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  Speaker 4: You you you just turn around and let them all you
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  Speaker 4: as opposed to like running around the outfield, making him
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  Speaker 4: chase shy. I thought that was great, man, they all
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  Speaker 4: just hit you at once. It almost looked like the
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  Speaker 4: college World Series dog piling away. How about when you
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  Speaker 4: like look out on the field and your your short
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  Speaker 4: stuff's just thrown up in shallow left field. You were
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  Speaker 4: in the dugout at the time, Like if you're standing
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  Speaker 4: at second base, third base, They're like, what's the play?
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  Speaker 4: Do you run over and be like, dude, you okay?
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  Speaker 4: You kind of like let him get it out first.
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  Speaker 4: I mean it was like I think the feel in
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  Speaker 4: Saint Louis.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you guys know how it is day game
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  Speaker 2: Saint Louis in the summer, Like it's not it's not fun.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was like field was one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: six out. But yeah, I was in the dugout and
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  Speaker 2: I was kind of getting loose, warming up for for
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  Speaker 2: like a pinch hit spot because I think a lefty
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  Speaker 2: started or maybe not whatever I was, I was getting
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  Speaker 2: warmed up and the game stopped on the overhead view
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  Speaker 2: and the camera in the cage.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, what is going on? So I
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  Speaker 1: ran out.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh my god, Ellie just yacked like a
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  Speaker 2: gollons worth of water all over left field, and.
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  Speaker 1: He stayed in the game. So I mean he's a
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  Speaker 1: warrior for it.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's hot a shit, and that it's miserable and
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, I was like, oh God, like, this is
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  Speaker 2: the last thing we need is Ellie to go down
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  Speaker 2: or get sick whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But he's a he's a gamer man. The kid puked
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  Speaker 1: and rallied and then I think he ate a home run.
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  Speaker 6: He's pretty good. By the way.
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  Speaker 5: We got to stop on the S word. Sorry, Gavin.
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  Speaker 5: We're on TV, so I love it. It doesn't bother me,
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  Speaker 5: but there might be certain people out there that it
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  Speaker 5: that it does bother. Pete Rose didn't care. I promise
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  Speaker 5: you that Pete Rose did not care. But there's certain
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  Speaker 5: people out there that.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, mother, Mother, I'm sorry, Mom.
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  Speaker 6: I understood, understood all right.
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  Speaker 5: Now I gotta ask you this last night was the
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  Speaker 5: debut of Tito's fishing chair.
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  Speaker 6: Did you have anything to do with his new chair?
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  Speaker 6: And why won't he sit in it? Why won't he
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  Speaker 6: won't sit in it? They got in this nice fancy
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  Speaker 6: chair and Tito still won't sit in the chair.
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  Speaker 1: I mean he might be scared he's gonna fall off it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know, but.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a fit they screwed in like a
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  Speaker 2: fishing boat chair. And I guess he had it in
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  Speaker 2: Cleveland too.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know, but I guess if Tito
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  Speaker 1: wants a fishing chair, what do you do? Say no
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  Speaker 1: to him?
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm like, so him, and I'm like, why
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  Speaker 2: did we put it in if you're not gonna sit
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  Speaker 2: in it?
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  Speaker 1: So I don't. I don't know, but it's kind of sick.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't. It's like a five foot tall
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  Speaker 1: fishing chair that is cushioned. I don't. It's probably better
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  Speaker 1: than sitting on a.
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  Speaker 4: Bench, Devin, how about you know, there's just like some
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  Speaker 4: overlap between my career in yours as far as where
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  Speaker 4: we're at, and you know, I'm five years ahead of
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  Speaker 4: you now. I just wonder, like when you went from
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  Speaker 4: LA to Cincinnati, I went from LA to Toronto, and
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  Speaker 4: you know, it just it ended up being such a
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  Speaker 4: good thing for me that I got new eyes on me,
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  Speaker 4: even though I feel like the Dodgers had set me
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  Speaker 4: up for success and had really unlocked a lot of
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  Speaker 4: things in me, I'd kind of gotten stale in what
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  Speaker 4: I was doing over there, and you get over to
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  Speaker 4: like new coaching, new ideas and new things like and
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  Speaker 4: and I kind of I kind of took off to
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  Speaker 4: another level. And and I think that's a big reason.
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  Speaker 4: Why have you noticed that with with changing to a
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  Speaker 4: new organization, new coaches, have they unlocked anything in you
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  Speaker 4: that maybe you weren't thinking about a few years ago?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think sometimes, like you said, whenever you get
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  Speaker 2: a new voice or get around different people with different
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  Speaker 2: thoughts or even like different terminology on stuff hitting, it
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  Speaker 2: might be the same thing that you heard before, but
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  Speaker 2: it's said in a different way.
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  Speaker 1: That makes more sense.
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  Speaker 2: And for me getting around Chris leaka are hitting coach
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  Speaker 2: on I didn't really think about my posture a lot
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  Speaker 2: and in my swing too.
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  Speaker 1: Much, Like a lot of it.
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  Speaker 2: Was more like that passed off lower body stuff all that.
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  Speaker 2: But kind of like my posture and my setup I
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  Speaker 2: never really thought about much for whatever reason.
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  Speaker 1: And he kind of helped me.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, when I'm at my best, I'm like kind of
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  Speaker 2: like hinged a little more and not just like in
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  Speaker 2: my legs and my torso's upright, so I'm kind of
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  Speaker 2: a little more like cracked at the waist and hinged,
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  Speaker 2: and it kind of helps me use the ground better
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  Speaker 2: and and control my my gatherer load and just puts
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  Speaker 2: me in a better spot, uh body wise to get
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  Speaker 2: my swing off. And but yeah, like you said, just
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  Speaker 2: sometimes it's refreshing getting around new people, new voices, and
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  Speaker 2: just trying to to hear what guys thought or or
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  Speaker 2: had to say. And but that's one thing that stands
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  Speaker 2: out that kind of for me made sense. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Oh we lost Oh we've got that?
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  Speaker 6: Where'd we go?
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 6: You lost? Your hat?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 2: The I'm on of like a timed I'm in a
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  Speaker 2: back room. I think there's like a timed light. That's
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  Speaker 2: my fault.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the lights we've had that happen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta like that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, all right, So I have two more
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  Speaker 5: questions for you before you get one.
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  Speaker 6: Chase Burns last night? How good is he?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, can you put him in the Hunter Green
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  Speaker 5: Andrew Abbitt Nicolodolo conversation as after that performance?
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  Speaker 6: After one performance? Because that stuff was good.
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  Speaker 2: I mean his that first inning, I felt like a fan,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I was just kind of in the dugout and.
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  Speaker 1: Like wow. I mean just the stuff from the side.
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  Speaker 2: I got one live that bad off in spring, and
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  Speaker 2: it was like this, this kid's like ready now, like
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  Speaker 2: pretty much right out of college. And yeah, I think
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  Speaker 2: you can kind of slot him in with all those
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  Speaker 2: other guys. Uh, not only just the stuff, but like
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  Speaker 2: his mound presence. I mean, he just he was relaxed. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, didn't show any crazy emotion, but like he
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  Speaker 2: came to the dugout and I told our our GM Brad,
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  Speaker 2: I was like.
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  Speaker 1: Man, like he's he's a quiet kid, he's.
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  Speaker 2: A great kid, but he gets on the mount and
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  Speaker 2: it's like he's trying to kill you. Like you can
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  Speaker 2: see in his eyes, like in a serial killer way,
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  Speaker 2: like he's trying to like he's not scared, he's going
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  Speaker 2: right at you. And I mean the stuff paired with that,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, I mean he's special. And to do what
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  Speaker 2: he did against one of the best lineups in baseball
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  Speaker 2: right out of the shoot there, it's pretty fun to
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  Speaker 2: watch man.
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  Speaker 6: By the way, you knew you knew he was gonna
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  Speaker 6: shove against Yankees were on the Dodgers last year. By
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  Speaker 6: the way, what what what is? What is? What is
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  Speaker 6: right here?
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  Speaker 1: What is what is what do we got tattoo?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: What is?
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  Speaker 6: It looks like a guy in his underwear? What is
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  Speaker 6: that thing? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Long story, I got a couple of them, goes up
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  Speaker 2: armed back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a long story. We could get into this.
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  Speaker 6: Can we see it? Can we because all I see
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  Speaker 6: is a guy in tidy whitey So can we like see? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's it's it's a it's a Bible verse
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  Speaker 2: and it saw him twenty three and kind of depicted
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  Speaker 2: and then it goes.
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  Speaker 1: Up out of my back.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, getting.
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  Speaker 1: You see the Yeah, better shirt next time?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, right, next time, walk off, riped shirt off, everyone
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  Speaker 3: sees the full artwork.
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  Speaker 1: It's a better idea exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Gavin, this was awesome man, thanks for doing this.
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  Speaker 3: You want to give Strip a rating on your way out?
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  Speaker 3: Should we do the MLB grading scale? So where was
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  Speaker 3: he at?
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you a ten?
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  Speaker 2: Strip baby on and off the field.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you man, Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Good to see you. Yep, you guys as well. Appreciate you.