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Giants OF Harrison Bader joins FT · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: I like that last photo. There new San Francisco giant
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Speaker 1: Harrison Vader joining us right now. Oh, we need a
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Speaker 1: camera flip. We need a camera flip on. Give me
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Speaker 1: if your vertical horizontal or.
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Speaker 2: Let's see stand by. Yeah, that's it.
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Speaker 1: We gotta yep. There we go, Harrison, have you on?
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Speaker 1: Good to see you. Congratulations on the contract, so give
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Speaker 1: us the goods. How did it all go down? How
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Speaker 1: was the off season of free agency for you this
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Speaker 1: time around?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, good to see you guys too, Thanks for having
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Speaker 3: me free and two is awesome, man. I think, regardless
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Speaker 3: of how long it takes, if you find yourself in
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Speaker 3: a spot with an organization that wants to you, that's
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Speaker 3: gonna play you, and that Davis have a great fan
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Speaker 3: base and a great city, you know, I think it's
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Speaker 3: a win all the way around.
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Speaker 2: So I'm extremely.
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Speaker 3: Excited, My family's thrilled, and I'm just looking forward to
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Speaker 3: getting all going.
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Speaker 1: Man.
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Speaker 3: It's a it's a storied franchise with a lot of
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Speaker 3: superstars around me, So I can't wait to just add
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Speaker 3: everything and anything I can on a daily basis, and
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Speaker 3: you know, get as many ones as possible.
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Speaker 1: Before you ask you a question, I'm being told flip flip.
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Speaker 1: Stand by they said they had it within the green room?
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Speaker 2: Is that it? Hold on?
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Speaker 1: I'm asking them. They're typing, that's it, that's it. That's
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Speaker 1: the one. All right, there we go.
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Speaker 4: Now we see his fashion too, with the ripped shirts
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Speaker 4: and stuff. My wife makes me get rid of those
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Speaker 4: shirts when they get like that. I'm sure yours was
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Speaker 4: really expensive, so I get.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they actually the more holes and rips they have
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Speaker 2: in them, the more they actually go up in value.
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Speaker 2: So that works out.
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Speaker 1: It's like why it means that it's it's more weather,
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Speaker 1: so I pay for the same thing.
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Speaker 2: I get it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but people can tell the difference between the ones
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Speaker 3: that are like worn through, like where over the year,
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Speaker 3: versus like manufactured, So you have to be careful.
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Speaker 4: Okay, I won't. I won't even test those waters. It's
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Speaker 4: not that's that's if I had hair like yours, I
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Speaker 4: would test those waters. The only reason my shirts look
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Speaker 4: like that is because I put them on my clip
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Speaker 4: too many times in a row for them seasons that
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Speaker 4: I played. But my question is, now we're I mean,
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Speaker 4: now we got the full.
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Speaker 2: Now we're getting into it. We're doing it.
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Speaker 4: This is do you take two suitcases. I won't even
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Speaker 4: ask the question I was gonna ask, do you take
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Speaker 4: two suitcases on every road trip?
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Speaker 2: No? I don't. I don't at all.
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Speaker 5: One.
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Speaker 2: I know you just you learn how to pack over
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Speaker 2: the years. Just keep it one. I don't want to,
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Speaker 2: you know, drawing too munch time to myself. I'm bringing
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Speaker 2: two suitcases.
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Speaker 4: Okay, but then there's Aj. Now tell me if this
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Speaker 4: is good or bad? Because AJ dresses, well, he's not
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Speaker 4: like he's not like that. Okay, he's not your status AJ.
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, well he's got the he's got the brown
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Speaker 4: noser shirt. But AJ told us the other day he
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Speaker 4: writes down what his outfits are for a road trip
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Speaker 4: because he travels a lot. He does five he travels
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Speaker 4: every every continent every year, so he writes them down
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Speaker 4: so that he knows what outfits to wear. Excessive or
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Speaker 4: not excessive.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think that's excessive.
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Speaker 3: I think AJ can dress however he wants it, well,
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Speaker 3: however he wants to dress.
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Speaker 2: I think with that.
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Speaker 3: With that, it's hard because you know, you're always on
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Speaker 3: camera every day, so you're gonna have people that are
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Speaker 3: gonna be outfit tracking you and you're gonna get blown
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Speaker 3: up about wearing the same nout for the same suit,
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Speaker 3: so you gotta be careful.
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Speaker 2: Whereas you know, I know the schedule of.
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Speaker 3: How these guys are gonna like take photos of us,
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Speaker 3: which generally happened like Big Series some of Night Baseball
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Speaker 3: Friday Night. So like, I can you know, easily pick
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Speaker 3: out one outphare that I know I'm gonna kind of
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Speaker 3: wear for.
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Speaker 2: A camera or whatever, so I don't have to worry
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Speaker 2: too much about it.
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Speaker 3: But if I was on camera every day like you guys,
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Speaker 3: I would probably do something similar.
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Speaker 5: Listen, you just wear a gray shirt every day or
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Speaker 5: I wore actually wore a Florida. I wore a blue
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Speaker 5: one of these yesterday for no good reason other than
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Speaker 5: it looks great with my eyes. And then they said
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Speaker 5: you were coming on, so look for me. I had
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Speaker 5: a black one that I could then wear today because
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Speaker 5: the Gator ater the Gator was coming on, so I
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Speaker 5: had to make sure that I represented two days in
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Speaker 5: a row so people can make fun of me. But
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Speaker 5: one was blue. One who's black. Sorry that you know.
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Speaker 5: They hooked me up with some stuff every once in
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Speaker 5: a while.
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Speaker 3: No, that's not good and I've also learned too that
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Speaker 3: like the better you play, you could just wear whatever
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Speaker 3: you want.
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Speaker 2: So let's just focus on that.
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Speaker 4: The reason I can't wear whatever I want. But anyway,
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Speaker 4: I'm done now, so I don't need to worry about that.
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Speaker 4: My question was gonna be when you see everybody in
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Speaker 4: free agency going off the board and you're hanging around
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Speaker 4: for a little bit, do you look at some of
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Speaker 4: those guys and go, ah, man, like I kind of was.
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Speaker 4: I was hoping to go there, or well, they had
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Speaker 4: called and now they didn't. Now they're not going to
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Speaker 4: call back, because that seems like a reciprocal move. Do
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Speaker 4: you watch it that closely?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely. You know, I like to be involved with
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Speaker 2: every step of this process, and it's my livelihood.
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Speaker 3: It's what I'm obsessed with. It's what my family's obsessed with.
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Speaker 3: So you know, as much as I want answers, I
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Speaker 3: also want to keep them informed. So I always really
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Speaker 3: want to bring them information because as much as my
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Speaker 3: mind might wander, you know, I get to train every
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Speaker 3: day and focus on that, so I kind of get
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Speaker 3: to take my mind off it. Whereas like my parents
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Speaker 3: and my sister and my loved ones, you know, they
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Speaker 3: think a lot, so I've remain informed and I just
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Speaker 3: feel like, you know, the big thing with freeency is
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Speaker 3: like letting your market develop. That was something that you
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Speaker 3: just kind of always hear and people always talk about,
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Speaker 3: and you know, really understanding what that means kind of
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Speaker 3: requires some information, and a lot of it is asking
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Speaker 3: questions on my end, like you mentioned, like why guys
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Speaker 3: go a certain way, how much a team has available
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Speaker 3: to spend, what their true needs are, what they're kind
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Speaker 3: of identifying to teams is what they might need to
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Speaker 3: build their roster in the off season, what they're going
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Speaker 3: to kind of relinquish and salary and what that might
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Speaker 3: free up. So all those other things I just really
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Speaker 3: like to remain involved with. But I think at the
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Speaker 3: end of the day, I think the ball really does
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Speaker 3: take care of you, and you really do ultimately end
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Speaker 3: up where a team kind of needs you, and whatever
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Speaker 3: that looks like, whether it's the beginning of the off
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Speaker 3: season in the middle of the end, I think ultimately
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Speaker 3: you kind of land where you're where you're supposed to.
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Speaker 3: So a lot of that kind of is based on
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Speaker 3: what the team needs. So I'm just excited for the
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Speaker 3: opportunity that I got. I think I land in the
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Speaker 3: perfect spot for me, considering what the Giants stated that
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Speaker 3: they kind of wanted and need based off of last season,
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Speaker 3: And I'm just excited to go to work. You know
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Speaker 3: it's going to be a tall task, but I'm excited
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Speaker 3: to just you know, chip away at it every single day.
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Speaker 2: It's really all there is too.
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Speaker 3: It's just every single day just being my best version
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Speaker 3: of myself on that field.
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Speaker 2: So I'm excited I landed exact where I belonged.
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Speaker 5: Hey, Harrison, why the Giants? What did they tell You're
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Speaker 5: giving us all these reasons? Did they say all that
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Speaker 5: to you? Did they promise you starting in center field?
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Speaker 5: Why are the Giants? Why do you think it's such
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Speaker 5: a good fit for you in your game?
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Speaker 3: I mean, I think anything in sports, specially in baseball,
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Speaker 3: kind of where it's trending in terms of how the
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Speaker 3: game's developed. You know, I really don't believe anything that's promised.
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Speaker 3: You know, you have to prove that thing. You have
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Speaker 3: to prove it every single day. That's something we know
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Speaker 3: in this you know, in this on this zoom right now,
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Speaker 3: is in the game, you have to prove it every
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Speaker 3: single day. And they might you know, say there's an opening,
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Speaker 3: but you know it's your job as that athlete to
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Speaker 3: prove it every day. So so they did mention that
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Speaker 3: they do have a you know, a necessity in center
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Speaker 3: field and they want, you know, a better defensive outfield
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Speaker 3: and everything. So that was mentioned. But you know, you
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Speaker 3: can't take those things for granted. I think the opportunity
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Speaker 3: for me to play as much as possible, which has
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Speaker 3: always been my goal.
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Speaker 2: You know, I want to play every single day.
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Speaker 3: I think that opportunity was best in San Francisco, and
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Speaker 3: that's really what it's about, you know, dollar Sign and
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Speaker 3: everything involved.
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Speaker 2: You know, you want to be a part of a really,
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Speaker 2: really good clubhouse and you want to play as many
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Speaker 2: as many games as possible.
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Speaker 3: You know, you want as many exposure at bats, high
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Speaker 3: leverage at bats, big time situations as possible. So you know,
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Speaker 3: given that I really was simple, Sand fran was exactly
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Speaker 3: where I wanted to be.
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Speaker 2: I can't wait to you know.
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Speaker 3: I've been an East Coaster and spring training for ten
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Speaker 3: ten spring trainings, I think, so you know, San Francisco
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Speaker 3: opened a lot of new opportunities I'm excited to dive into.
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Speaker 3: I get to play in Arizona for spring training. I
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Speaker 3: get to play on the West Coast full time. So
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Speaker 3: all these things they might might see my challenges or
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Speaker 3: something that you know, might be difficult, but I view
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Speaker 3: them as the opposite. I view them as just really
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Speaker 3: good opportunities to prove how versatile my game is, how
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Speaker 3: quickly I can adapt. And you know, I really just
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Speaker 3: want to captivate an already awesome fan base, you know.
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Speaker 2: I want to show them what I'm made of. I
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Speaker 2: want to bring my game to San Francisco and to
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Speaker 2: bring my game to a new lineup. And you know,
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Speaker 2: anytime you get an.
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Speaker 3: Opportunity to be around superstars, or be in a new city,
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Speaker 3: or be with a new manager, I think you should
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Speaker 3: take advantage of it if you have the opportunity. So
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Speaker 3: I certainly did, and like I said many times, I'm thrilled,
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Speaker 3: and my family's thrilled.
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Speaker 2: So I can't wait.
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Speaker 4: I look at trends. When I look at stats from
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Speaker 4: guys seasons and playing against guys, it seems like the
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Speaker 4: better the team's doing, or the bigger the moment you
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Speaker 4: do better.
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Speaker 2: Is there something to do with that?
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Speaker 5: Is there?
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Speaker 4: I mean, Yankee fans kind of remember a few of
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Speaker 4: the swings that you had when you're in the playoffs
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Speaker 4: with them, you look back at your regular season with them,
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Speaker 4: they're like, oh man, you didn't even show up. Okay,
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Speaker 4: like pump the brakes he wasn't quite healthy, but okay,
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Speaker 4: Philly's last year, you guys were coming down. Like it's
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Speaker 4: there's so many times with Saint Louis, the years they
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Speaker 4: were good, Like, there's so many times. Is there something
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Speaker 4: to that?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean I think.
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Speaker 3: I think in those big moments, you just you really
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Speaker 3: dive into your preparation, you really rely so have it
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Speaker 3: on their preparation, you know.
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Speaker 2: I think it's.
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Speaker 3: It, you know, when you're playing for something so much
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Speaker 3: bigger than your own stats.
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Speaker 2: I think I've just kind of found a way.
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Speaker 3: And this is because I've had a lot of really
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Speaker 3: good players around me, especially when I was younger, that
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Speaker 3: I kind of learned from to just in order to
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Speaker 3: take the pressure off yourself, you have to.
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Speaker 2: Think about the team. You know.
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Speaker 3: Some of those really good treatches you mentioned the Cardinals,
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Speaker 3: I mean that that seventeen game winning treat we had
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Speaker 3: in seventeen to sneak into the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: Seventeen games win seventeen one games in a row. I
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Speaker 2: think it was in twenty twenty one was that stretch?
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Speaker 3: Sorry, you know, the entire time, you just like learn
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Speaker 3: that you play better if you think about the team
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Speaker 3: and you think about just passing your.
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Speaker 2: Baton and passing your batton on the line up means
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Speaker 2: a lot of things.
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Speaker 3: You can walk, you can get hit by a pitch,
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Speaker 3: you can grind out a ten.
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Speaker 2: Pitch that bad. I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I mean, we know the Couless examples, but I think
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Speaker 3: it really comes back to just just being super prepared
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Speaker 3: for how can I help my team win as much
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Speaker 3: as possible, and it takes all the pressure off yourself.
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Speaker 2: It kind of relieves any you know, individual duty you.
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Speaker 3: Might have, and you know, the glory kind of doesn't
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Speaker 3: come from a big home run in a big situation
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Speaker 3: and simply comes from just doing your job and being
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Speaker 3: a part of a team win, which once I finally
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Speaker 3: bought into at a at a younger age. I think,
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Speaker 3: you know, sliding into these new clubhousets and these big
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Speaker 3: moments with new teams that I really don't have a
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Speaker 3: lot of familiarity with, I think I just learned how
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Speaker 3: to turn myself over to the game situation, and a
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Speaker 3: lot of times those game situations require you to be
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Speaker 3: totally selfless and just be a good basic player for
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Speaker 3: the you know, for the guy to left in tier
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Speaker 3: right in your clubhouse. So yeah, I think I'll have
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Speaker 3: a lot of those with the Giants, and I'm looking
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Speaker 3: forward to it.
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Speaker 4: You couldn't have had a better transition getting traded over
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Speaker 4: the Phillies last year. The fan base loved you. I
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Speaker 4: get it. You didn't get to play in the playoffs
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Speaker 4: like you wanted to because of injury. Is there was
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Speaker 4: there a time at the end of the season you
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Speaker 4: packed your stuff up, you went home, and you said,
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Speaker 4: most likely I'm gonna be back in Philly because of
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Speaker 4: all that happened, all the transpire. Couldn't have done more.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 4: It was like you were in a tryout and you
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Speaker 4: just killed it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely no doubt about it. I thought that there
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Speaker 3: was a really good chance to be back in Philadelphia.
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Speaker 3: But at the same time, I've been around for long
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Speaker 3: enough and heard a lot.
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Speaker 2: Of enough stories.
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Speaker 3: Some other players have gone through similar situations, or they've
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Speaker 3: even been with an organization for six or seven years,
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Speaker 3: and you know it didn't work. Out the way they
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Speaker 3: wanted to, So I certainly also prepared myself for that
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Speaker 3: in the off chance at the time it wasn't gonna
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Speaker 3: work out. But again, that's that's what the game is,
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Speaker 3: that's what life is about. Life is about preparing for
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Speaker 3: things and having them go a different direction, and it's
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Speaker 3: about how you can pivot to keep the energy going
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Speaker 3: in the right direction to still manage to be successful.
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Speaker 2: And that's why I've.
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Speaker 3: Always said, you know, I've it's always been my dream
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Speaker 3: to be a major League baseball player. And you know,
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Speaker 3: the uniform is obviously nice, but that's a by product
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Speaker 3: of the preparation. It's a by product of the work.
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Speaker 3: That's why I really learned, I think, at a young age,
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Speaker 3: to always just keep my allegiance to the baseball.
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Speaker 2: You know, I keep my allegiance to the work behind
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Speaker 2: the scenes.
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Speaker 3: I always take care of the baseball in the field.
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Speaker 3: I always treat the game nicely, always talk about the
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Speaker 3: game nicely. You know, pour your love and your your
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Speaker 3: soul into the game. And you know, if the allegiance
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Speaker 3: to the ball, you know, all these trades that might happen,
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Speaker 3: or you know, being let down by not going to
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Speaker 3: a team you might have wanted to go to. All
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Speaker 3: of them are kind of secondary because at the end
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Speaker 3: of the day, you still get to go out there
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Speaker 3: and suit up in whatever uniform and go out there
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Speaker 3: and play, you know, the game that you love, and
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Speaker 3: you get to entertain fans, and uh, you know, that's
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Speaker 3: really what it's all about. So as excited as I
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Speaker 3: was to be in Philly and potentially back, truly I
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Speaker 3: think I went through a great learning lesson and I
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Speaker 3: was a great reminder that life always for you know,
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Speaker 3: constantly reminds us, you know.
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Speaker 2: These these these lessons. So I'm thrilled.
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Speaker 3: I'm excited, and I'm certainly with an organization, and I
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Speaker 3: landed in a place that that definitely wants me from
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Speaker 3: sendate porad of time, which is something that you know,
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Speaker 3: I've had now for the first time in my career.
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Speaker 3: So again, I'm thrilled, and I really just can't wait
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Speaker 3: to put those callers on and go out there and
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Speaker 3: compete with a locker room full of full of superstars.
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Speaker 2: So I'm excited.
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Speaker 5: All right, Harrison, you're with the Twins last year. What
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Speaker 5: what do you make of what's happening in Minnesota? Derek
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Speaker 5: Falvey brought you in. Now he's gone. The Twins fans
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Speaker 5: are up in arms because they switched owners from Joe
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Speaker 5: Polaud to Tom Tim, Tom Poll whatever, Tom Tim polad
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Speaker 5: forget which one it is, right, But what what was
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Speaker 5: your experience like in Minnesota? I played in Minnesota forever ago.
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Speaker 5: It was a great place to come up in, a
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Speaker 5: great place to play. So what was it like playing
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Speaker 5: in Minnesota obviously before you got traded to Philadelphia.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Minnesota was great, It really was. I will tell you.
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Speaker 3: The playing surface is one of the best I've ever
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Speaker 3: played in, hands down. The batter's box is fantastic, The
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Speaker 3: batter's eye is fantastic. The outfield grass, the shape of
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Speaker 3: the field, the way the sun would play, I mean
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Speaker 3: all these things, and there was a fantastic playing service.
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Speaker 3: So I mean I loved every second of truly just
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Speaker 3: simply playing the game there and then listen outside of that,
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Speaker 3: I mean, what is there to say. You know, it's
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Speaker 3: outside of my control. You know, I was brought there
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Speaker 3: to do one thing, and I was I was playing
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Speaker 3: left field and play centerfield. When when Buckney today, which
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Speaker 3: I'm thrilled wasn't often because he hasn't been healthy for
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Speaker 3: a long time. And I've always said that Bron bocks
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Speaker 3: and is probably my favorite player in baseball. So being
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Speaker 3: up close to him, being close to Carlos Creo, you know,
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Speaker 3: I've known Christian Vasquez for a while, so I got to,
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Speaker 3: you know, be with him every day. I mean, there
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Speaker 3: was a fan tastic experience, you know, outside of ownership
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Speaker 3: and moves and trading everybody at the deadline.
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Speaker 2: You know, I don't have anything to do with that.
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Speaker 3: I think it just goes to show you that it's
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Speaker 3: just so important to have your own team behind you
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Speaker 3: at all times. Whether that's a hitting coach, whether that's
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Speaker 3: an analytics guy or a biomechanist, whether it's a support
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Speaker 3: system and you know, loved ones, family members, whatever it is.
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Speaker 3: You know, you just never know how quickly and drastically
15:23
Speaker 3: things might change on that field, whether it's your teammates
15:27
Speaker 3: or you know, the decision makers, ownership groups, you know,
15:32
Speaker 3: all the noise that might happen as quickly as a
15:34
Speaker 3: as a drop of a pin. You know, you have
15:37
Speaker 3: to still have the team behind you to get you
15:40
Speaker 3: prepared for that game. So again, it was a good
15:42
Speaker 3: reminder knowing that my team behind me as solid as
15:45
Speaker 3: they come. You know, I designed it that way because
15:49
Speaker 3: I've been traded for a number of years now, where
15:51
Speaker 3: I've been on one year deals for you know, past
15:54
Speaker 3: three seasons.
15:55
Speaker 2: So I realized how important it was to have my
15:56
Speaker 2: people behind me. So listen, I wish everybody.
16:00
Speaker 3: I wish everybody luck in their in their ventures, if
16:02
Speaker 3: they stay in baseball or not. Everybody that met in
16:04
Speaker 3: Minnesota was fantastic. I mean everybody says how nice people
16:08
Speaker 3: from Minneapolis are.
16:09
Speaker 2: That is absolutely true. So yeah, I'm not a blast man.
16:13
Speaker 2: I really was. As I say, it was a gift.
16:15
Speaker 3: So you know, I wish that organization all the best.
16:18
Speaker 3: I wish the ownership group all the best. It's still
16:20
Speaker 3: a lot of players there that I played with that
16:22
Speaker 3: I love and respect, so I just want them to
16:25
Speaker 3: ball out and be successful.
16:26
Speaker 2: So yeah, you.
16:27
Speaker 5: Were just one of like the whole team that got traded.
16:29
Speaker 2: So you know, it's okay, eleven guys crazy.
16:32
Speaker 5: They're all spread out all over the league now, and
16:35
Speaker 5: now you're in San Francisco. One of your buddies from
16:38
Speaker 5: from way back is Pete Alonzo. You guys went to
16:39
Speaker 5: college together, played in college together. You got to play
16:42
Speaker 5: with them then in New York. What were your thoughts
16:45
Speaker 5: on him and his free agency? You know, you mentioned
16:47
Speaker 5: having a team behind you and and all the things
16:50
Speaker 5: you were just talking about. But Pete Alonzo, you know,
16:52
Speaker 5: setting records in the Mets for home runs, he went
16:55
Speaker 5: to free agency, they signed him to the one year deal.
16:57
Speaker 5: Then he gets another free agent job and they seemed
17:01
Speaker 5: like there was no interest there. He ends up in Baltimore.
17:05
Speaker 5: What was going on with Pete Alonzo? Because he seemed
17:07
Speaker 5: like the perfect guy to fit in to the Mets forever.
17:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.
17:13
Speaker 3: I mean his trajectory definitely had his number being hung
17:17
Speaker 3: up there, There's no doubt about it. But again, I
17:19
Speaker 3: mean I think, you know, they're just countless examples of
17:22
Speaker 3: guys that have gone through the process and they don't
17:24
Speaker 3: you know, they don't get that callback to continue their
17:26
Speaker 3: careers there.
17:27
Speaker 2: You know.
17:27
Speaker 3: So I don't want to speak on his behalf, but
17:30
Speaker 3: you know, in training with him every single day and
17:32
Speaker 3: being around him every single day and just knowing him,
17:35
Speaker 3: you know, again he his focus is just to be
17:37
Speaker 3: the best base of here he can and I'm sure
17:40
Speaker 3: he would have loved for it to be with the Mets,
17:42
Speaker 3: given his career path and given the records, like you mentioned,
17:46
Speaker 3: what he's done there, and the fans how much they
17:47
Speaker 3: love him.
17:48
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm in New York. I know the fans love.
17:50
Speaker 3: Pete Alonzo, but it didn't shake out that way, and
17:53
Speaker 3: knowing his personality, he's wanted to just put his head
17:56
Speaker 3: down and go to work.
17:57
Speaker 2: So again, it just kind of comes back to the
17:59
Speaker 2: feeling of.
18:00
Speaker 3: It feels really good to be wanted by an organization
18:02
Speaker 3: that he got a fantastic deal with the Orioles. I
18:04
Speaker 3: think that's a really strong young team with a fantastic core.
18:08
Speaker 3: A lot of players on that team that I respect.
18:11
Speaker 3: I respect everybody, but some level of talent. Those guys
18:13
Speaker 3: just sit at a different table. So he's surrounded by superstars.
18:16
Speaker 3: I know he's excited and he's gonna do damage at
18:20
Speaker 3: that stadium, There's no doubt, so the way the stadium
18:22
Speaker 3: is constructed.
18:23
Speaker 2: So as much as he may have loved.
18:24
Speaker 3: To be back with the Mets, you know, the game
18:27
Speaker 3: had had a different a different route for him, and
18:30
Speaker 3: I know he's fully embracing it because we've been training,
18:33
Speaker 3: you know, every single day in preparation for spring training,
18:36
Speaker 3: so I'm excited to see what he does. He's still
18:38
Speaker 3: hung on to one of the colors. He still has
18:40
Speaker 3: orange in his uniform, so that's a win. So I
18:44
Speaker 3: just I'm excited for him. There's a guy who's you know,
18:47
Speaker 3: you're potentially gonna hit five hundred plus from on to
18:49
Speaker 3: the magic level.
18:49
Speaker 2: I think we know how incredible that is. So I'm
18:52
Speaker 2: just looking forward to seeing his journey continue. And you
18:56
Speaker 2: know I'll see him, I'll see him on the line.
18:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, Harrison, can can you help us settle a
19:01
Speaker 1: debate here? So I want to ask you one more
19:04
Speaker 1: question about your time with the Mets and with Pete.
19:07
Speaker 1: We debate the measurement of how many gimmicks are okay
19:11
Speaker 1: for a season the Mets. Carlosman Doz is on the
19:14
Speaker 1: show all the time, and he's mentioned, you know, a
19:17
Speaker 1: little too corporate. In twenty twenty five, they were whatever.
19:20
Speaker 1: I don't know what the exact words. I don't want
19:22
Speaker 1: to use, you know, his quotes or misuse him. But
19:25
Speaker 1: we debated, like I loved it all right, Iglesias with
19:29
Speaker 1: the song and Grimace and Pete had his own things
19:32
Speaker 1: run in And you've been around clubhouses like say the
19:35
Speaker 1: Yankees that are a little more straight edge for lack
19:38
Speaker 1: of a better term. So in your mind, how much
19:41
Speaker 1: can that help?
19:42
Speaker 2: Right?
19:43
Speaker 1: And the Mets had many other issues and pitching blah
19:46
Speaker 1: blah blah from twenty twenty five. There was a difference
19:47
Speaker 1: from twenty four to twenty five, but just you experienced
19:50
Speaker 1: twenty four, So can you take us inside what that
19:52
Speaker 1: was like and if you felt like that truly helped
19:56
Speaker 1: the vibes and if there's a line for how much
19:59
Speaker 1: you can do that.
20:02
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it goes back to that classic thing
20:04
Speaker 3: of like, you know, as long as it works, it's
20:06
Speaker 3: not weird or you know, I think whatever whatever it takes,
20:11
Speaker 3: whether it's gimmicks, whether it's songs, whether it's a playoff pumpkin,
20:16
Speaker 3: I think whatever it takes is what's necessary, you know.
20:20
Speaker 3: And I think it really just goes back to like,
20:23
Speaker 3: you know, chemistry. Chemistry can certainly build towards winning championships,
20:28
Speaker 3: you know, And we didn't win a championshipther year, but
20:30
Speaker 3: we got really close. And team chemistry, locker room chemistry,
20:33
Speaker 3: clubhouse chemistry is tremendously important, you know.
20:38
Speaker 2: I think front offices do their best to build.
20:42
Speaker 3: The the biggest, you know, the like the best, high character,
20:46
Speaker 3: positive chemistry clubhouse, and I think a lot of times
20:49
Speaker 3: that will translate into wins.
20:52
Speaker 2: You know.
20:52
Speaker 3: I think energy is everything on that field individually, what
20:55
Speaker 3: you bring to the stadium every day, how you go
20:57
Speaker 3: to sleep at night, and how you communicate with your
20:59
Speaker 3: teammates on the field.
21:00
Speaker 2: I think energy is everything. Chemistry is everything.
21:02
Speaker 3: So specifically in twenty twenty four, we had we had
21:06
Speaker 3: the chemistry going.
21:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that was a special year.
21:10
Speaker 3: I mean I I still get messages and whenever I'm
21:16
Speaker 3: like walking around if there's a Mets fan, you know,
21:18
Speaker 3: I'm getting you know, the oh my god chant, you know.
21:20
Speaker 2: A couple of years later, and it all started.
21:23
Speaker 3: From you know, the players, And I think when your
21:25
Speaker 3: front office, when your manager gives the players the right
21:29
Speaker 3: and the ability to truly govern their clubhouse and govern
21:34
Speaker 3: the chemistry and protect the energy of the clubhouse and
21:38
Speaker 3: protect the chemistry of it all, you know, I think
21:41
Speaker 3: good things can happen and you know, fun things that
21:43
Speaker 3: the fans can engage with. So now it's not only
21:46
Speaker 3: us on the field that are in the energy, but
21:48
Speaker 3: now it's the fans that are living it, you know,
21:50
Speaker 3: in the stadium and maybe when they go to work
21:52
Speaker 3: that week or they come back, whatever it is. I mean,
21:54
Speaker 3: we were kind of captivating with a lot of stuff
21:57
Speaker 3: we did, which is so much fun. And I think
22:00
Speaker 3: think the guys in the clubhouse, the players are the
22:02
Speaker 3: ones that kind of dictate that for better or for worse,
22:05
Speaker 3: So it can work both ways obviously.
22:07
Speaker 2: So that was just a great team.
22:08
Speaker 3: I'm happy to have been a part of it, and
22:10
Speaker 3: I definitely learned a lot about myself and how I
22:12
Speaker 3: fit into a clubhouse as a result of that season.
22:14
Speaker 3: So that really wasn't inviable and invaluable.
22:16
Speaker 2: Year for me.
22:18
Speaker 1: Boom Mic drop Crafts. It's settled. You're not allowed to
22:20
Speaker 1: reply on that one. Harrison gets the last word on kids.
22:23
Speaker 5: We need some skits and.
22:25
Speaker 1: They need to bring it back. Yeah, maybe we'll.
22:26
Speaker 5: Get it, but no, you gotta have all. You know,
22:28
Speaker 5: San Francisco, they're gonna love your skit. Dude. Come up
22:31
Speaker 5: with all kinds of crazy skits out there and just
22:33
Speaker 5: see see which one sticks. Every day, have a contest
22:36
Speaker 5: with like some of the young kids, like make Bryce
22:38
Speaker 5: Aldridge come up with a skit every day and have
22:40
Speaker 5: the veterans vote on it and see which one sticks.
22:42
Speaker 5: I don't know, come up with some fun like that.
22:44
Speaker 2: One hundred percent.
22:45
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, listen, I mean, it's just it's just such
22:47
Speaker 3: a great opportunity to be able to get into a
22:49
Speaker 3: new another another clubhouse, man, you know, like that's what
22:52
Speaker 3: it's about. I mean, is there a version of this,
22:55
Speaker 3: of this ride and this journey where maybe I would
22:57
Speaker 3: have loved to have been a Cardinal my entire career,
22:59
Speaker 3: Like sure, absolutely love San Louis more than anything. However,
23:02
Speaker 3: the game did not have that in store for me.
23:05
Speaker 3: So you have to pivot and you have to keep
23:07
Speaker 3: it going because I know, you know, I can make
23:09
Speaker 3: an impact not only in my own game on a
23:11
Speaker 3: team's win, but also a lot of young players. The
23:13
Speaker 3: same way when I was coming up in the Cardinal,
23:15
Speaker 3: those guys looked after me, guys you know, took me aside.
23:17
Speaker 2: We went to dinner and they saw I was struggling,
23:19
Speaker 2: and they asked me that are you okay? You know,
23:21
Speaker 2: stuff like that. So it's just so.
23:22
Speaker 3: Important to just constantly be that positive energy, that that
23:25
Speaker 3: vibrating energy that you know, guys turn to when things
23:28
Speaker 3: get tough, because it's so easy to play this game
23:30
Speaker 3: when everything's going right.
23:31
Speaker 2: You know, it's how quickly.
23:32
Speaker 3: Can we minimize what's going wrong to get back on track?
23:34
Speaker 3: And I just really do try to pride myself on
23:37
Speaker 3: being one of those guys and it's.
23:39
Speaker 2: A team effort.
23:39
Speaker 3: So you know, I get to do it again in
23:41
Speaker 3: a new clubhouse, and I can't wait to just dive
23:43
Speaker 3: into it all and see how it all shakes out.
23:45
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's incredible. So you know, what a gift, right,
23:49
Speaker 2: what a gift?
23:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, we're excited for you, dude.
23:52
Speaker 2: No, no way you got that for you.
23:53
Speaker 5: By the way, no way you got any of that
23:55
Speaker 5: from Soly just saying.
23:59
Speaker 4: I want to lie.
24:00
Speaker 2: I learned a lot from Selly. I learned a lot
24:01
Speaker 2: from Selly, but.
24:05
Speaker 5: Not that positive like, hey, you guys are good, because
24:07
Speaker 5: I've seen his meetings after games. They're not like, hey,
24:10
Speaker 5: you guys are good.
24:11
Speaker 3: Definitely, well you know, yeah, but you know a lot
24:13
Speaker 3: I got it from you know, you know, Brad, Brad
24:15
Speaker 3: I get, I get.
24:15
Speaker 2: I get everything. I get everything from Brad. I get
24:19
Speaker 2: everything from Bad. I've said is coless times.
24:20
Speaker 3: I still have Brad's voice in my head in between
24:24
Speaker 3: pitches of that bad sometimes just to reel me in
24:27
Speaker 3: to get the job done. I mean, you know, I
24:29
Speaker 3: got a lot from Sully, but man, I still I'm
24:33
Speaker 3: still learning from Brad to this day. So you know,
24:35
Speaker 3: you know, a shout out to Brad.
24:37
Speaker 1: Brad, just real quick, who's Brad smartest guy in baseball?
24:42
Speaker 2: Hands down, hands down, smartest guy in baseball?
24:46
Speaker 3: Was was a pro scout for it nineteen years prior
24:49
Speaker 3: to coming to Florida, I believe it was, and he
24:54
Speaker 3: was just assistant baseball coach at University of Florida. And
24:57
Speaker 3: everyone who has been around him AJ knows him. He's
25:02
Speaker 3: just just an incredible base online just keeps it so simple,
25:05
Speaker 3: just to rill it all in there.
25:06
Speaker 2: So again, shout out to Brad whitson.
25:09
Speaker 1: There you go, Yeah, he got a nice minute on
25:14
Speaker 1: a on a promo cut there.
25:15
Speaker 2: I like it.
25:16
Speaker 5: By the way, Scott, for people that don't know, he's
25:18
Speaker 5: the scout the drafted and signed me. So that's why
25:20
Speaker 5: he's the smartest guy.
25:22
Speaker 2: That's a good connection. I didn't realize that. That's cool.
25:25
Speaker 5: Yeah, I like that. Still talk to him to this day,
25:28
Speaker 5: Still talk to him to this day.
25:30
Speaker 2: I spoke from a couple days ago.
25:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. There's your UF promo video right there.
25:37
Speaker 1: So enrollment through the charts after those two minutes. Un
25:42
Speaker 1: thank you for joining us. Always really good to see you.
25:45
Speaker 1: We'll catch it, some of us will be out there.
25:47
Speaker 1: Congrats on the deal man.
25:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you. I really do appreciate you guys, and
25:51
Speaker 2: I talk about the game. I watch you guys a lot,
25:53
Speaker 2: and I think everything you guys say is correct. So
25:59
Speaker 2: I watch you guys, and I'm looking forward to seeing you.
26:01
Speaker 1: First person ever say angels always correct. We'll take it
26:06
Speaker 1: on it.
26:07
Speaker 2: Thank you, guys are on it.
26:08
Speaker 1: Thank you. We're working hard and appreciate it. Thanks Harry,
26:11
Speaker 1: as soon as you do.