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Marlins RP Pete Fairbanks joins FT · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Keep Fairbanks is here, Miami Marlin's high leverage reliever closer
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  Speaker 1: joining us right now. Signed a big deal with Miami.
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  Speaker 2: Pete.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations on the deal and tell us how it all
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  Speaker 1: went down, man, and how excited you are to stay
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  Speaker 1: in the Sunshine State.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I told, uh, you know, I was talking to
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  Speaker 4: the radio guys the other day and I, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I met it letting me know that I could never
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  Speaker 4: play for a team that doesn't have a fish mascot
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  Speaker 4: in some capacity.
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  Speaker 3: So I figured that that was like my number one.
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  Speaker 4: I got to make it happen. I got two choices,
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  Speaker 4: and one of them didn't want me anymore. So uh no, look,
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  Speaker 4: we uh you know, had a lot of conversations with
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  Speaker 4: Bendetz throughout it, and you know, the biggest plus, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I think that they're going to be good and really
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  Speaker 4: for us being able to be close. My wife's were
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  Speaker 4: expecting our third kid, so you know, taking some of
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  Speaker 4: the burden off of you know, everything there by being
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  Speaker 4: a drive away versus a long flight.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the more we talked about it was a
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  Speaker 3: was a pretty big positive.
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  Speaker 4: And then you know, being familiar with Mendex and then
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  Speaker 4: you know, getting a first hand look at some of
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  Speaker 4: the good young talent they have.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was hopefully it will be a good
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  Speaker 3: fit for us.
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  Speaker 5: Two things before my question, congratulations, and I didn't know
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  Speaker 5: that a stingray was a fish.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know tarlagenius fish. Eric, it's a cartilagenius fish.
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  Speaker 3: I had no idea.
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  Speaker 5: I had no idea, but thank you for that. I
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  Speaker 5: know it wasn't a mammal, but I'm like, what is it?
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  Speaker 3: Is it a crustation?
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  Speaker 5: Anyway, Take us through the pitch. Take us through the
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  Speaker 5: pitch to go to the Marlins. Everyone's gonna say, oh,
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  Speaker 5: who cares? You know, we got the money that it.
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  Speaker 5: As a baseball player, you don't ever look at your
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  Speaker 5: paycheck when you're out on the mound. What's the pitch
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  Speaker 5: that made you say, yes, I'm going to be a Marlin.
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  Speaker 4: I really liked Mastris and their director of pitching. I
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  Speaker 4: like both of them, you know, and Aaron and I
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  Speaker 4: Aarn my agent. We went in with no kind of
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  Speaker 4: expectations for you know, pitching departments, you know what teams
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  Speaker 4: had to offer, et cetera. Kind of went in, you know,
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  Speaker 4: blight Slate impressed us between those two and the conversations
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  Speaker 4: we had with them, I really liked McCullough and everybody.
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  Speaker 4: And then, you know, I'm decent enough friends with Calvin Fouchet,
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  Speaker 4: who was one of the relievers. I was able to
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  Speaker 4: talk to him a little bit about it, and yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I mean it just they really brought more to the table.
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  Speaker 3: Than than I had anything, you know, in going in
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  Speaker 3: with nothing.
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  Speaker 4: They definitely kind of set a pretty good, you know
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  Speaker 4: standard for me, and I think that they are moving
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  Speaker 4: in the right direction, right. You kind of saw the
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  Speaker 4: the start of it last year, and hopefully I can, uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, help you know, lock down the back end
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  Speaker 4: of things and make a little make a little more
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  Speaker 4: noise and get on the right side of five hundred
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  Speaker 4: and and make a little bit of a push.
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  Speaker 2: Now, when you became that free agent, I know you
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  Speaker 2: picked the Marlins, but was there any other teams that
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  Speaker 2: were on your tail that you were looking like, Oh man,
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  Speaker 2: it's I could go one way or another here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there was more than a handful that we had,
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  Speaker 4: you know, pretty good, pretty decent conversations with and then
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  Speaker 4: you know, kind of by the end we the more
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  Speaker 4: that my wife and I talked about it the more
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  Speaker 4: and more likely. You know, it seemed like that Miami
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  Speaker 4: was going to be going to be the right fit
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  Speaker 4: for us, and we were able to, I think, both
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  Speaker 4: get what we wanted out of it.
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  Speaker 5: Does being a closer matter to you? Does being the
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  Speaker 5: guy that is the high leverage inning guy? Does that
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  Speaker 5: matter when you're going through free agency for your first time?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I think it matters in some regard, right,
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  Speaker 4: Like I think that you know, when you do it
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  Speaker 4: for you know, however many years, you definitely you know it,
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  Speaker 4: definitely you hold a little hold on to a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of that. But I think, you know, sometimes the
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  Speaker 4: most important outs are in the ninth inning, right, they
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  Speaker 4: could be earlier, right, those the your eight, your twenty four,
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  Speaker 4: twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven, those are still, in
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  Speaker 4: my estimation, the hardest out outs to get, but they
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  Speaker 4: might not be the most important ones.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, wherever wherever.
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  Speaker 4: It is to to get those outs, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 4: excited to be up to that challenge again after you know,
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  Speaker 4: doing a little bit of it for quite a few
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  Speaker 4: years with Tampa.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you did a little bit of it, that's for sure,
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  Speaker 5: in some big spots and you were pretty pretty successful.
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  Speaker 5: Here's my question. I'm going to put you in a scenario. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: Game one, you guys are winning four to three, and
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  Speaker 5: you get out on the mound, you do your you know,
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  Speaker 5: your stare where you're not blinking at all, and you
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  Speaker 5: look into the dugout or you're listening. I mean you
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  Speaker 5: look into the catcher's mitt. You know, he's looking for
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  Speaker 5: his sign and you're listening, and your catcher's going like this,
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  Speaker 5: looking over and then he hits the button and you're like, what,
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  Speaker 5: wait a minute, nobody's on and he looks over again
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  Speaker 5: for the next pitch. Oh wait a minute. Are you
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  Speaker 5: okay with the guys from the bench calling the pitches
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  Speaker 5: for you? And did that come up when you had
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  Speaker 5: this conversation with the pitching guy, which with Clayton McCalla
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  Speaker 5: of the manager.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we definitely talked about it right as
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  Speaker 4: one of the one of the things that was addressed.
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  Speaker 4: And for me, you know, catcher versus dougout, they're almost
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  Speaker 4: kind of the same in my eyes. It's not me
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  Speaker 4: that's making the initial decisions. So where it comes from
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  Speaker 4: isn't as big a thing, right because I know they
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  Speaker 4: get theirs as long as I get it and plenty
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  Speaker 4: of in enough time to be able to shape to
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  Speaker 4: something that I say I disagree with, Say it's fastball,
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  Speaker 4: I want slider, whatever, as long as I have enough
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  Speaker 4: time to get to that still be able to do
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  Speaker 4: my little, my little rock back and forth antics come
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  Speaker 4: set and throw.
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  Speaker 1: Then you know that's that's no issue to me. H, pete,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to do this in like really basic just
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  Speaker 1: fan looking at how players make a lot of money terms.
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  Speaker 1: It was a unique situation. Raise didn't pick up your
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  Speaker 1: option like you mentioned earlier. Hey, Raise didn't want me.
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  Speaker 1: You hit the free agent market. You did make more money.
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  Speaker 1: So do you look at that part of it? At
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  Speaker 1: least I know you get to join a team that
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  Speaker 1: does want you and say, okay, if I got traded,
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  Speaker 1: let's say to the same team, I would have made
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  Speaker 1: less money. I know it's sounds like kind of simple,
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  Speaker 1: and I know some guys don't love talking about the
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  Speaker 1: financial components, but you did actually benefit from the race
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  Speaker 1: saying you know what, meh, we don't want you back
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  Speaker 1: and we're not gonna kind of take you on and
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  Speaker 1: work on the trade winds for the next month or so.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd say it worked out.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think Aaron and I had an idea
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  Speaker 4: that it could be headed towards the you know option
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  Speaker 4: decline and and you know, be able to kind of
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  Speaker 4: go out there and figure out.
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  Speaker 3: A spot that would be best.
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  Speaker 4: You know, had it been a trade or whatever, I
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  Speaker 4: would have been perfectly fine with however it played out.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, I'm excited to be staying in the
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  Speaker 4: state of the state of Florida and getting to traverse
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  Speaker 4: across Alligator Alley so I can go back and see
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  Speaker 4: my family and hopefully get some wins for the fish
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  Speaker 4: down there.
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  Speaker 5: You know, there is a there's a stopping point part
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  Speaker 5: way through Alligator Alley now, so in case you get sleepy,
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  Speaker 5: or you're afraid, or you want to see alligators, there's
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  Speaker 5: like a lookout tower that you can stop at.
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  Speaker 4: It you need perfect perfect That would be my number
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  Speaker 4: one spot to want to view an alligator was halfway
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  Speaker 4: through my drive back home.
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  Speaker 5: If people haven't done the Alligator Alley drive, my suggestion
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  Speaker 5: is don't but to see to see a newborn, to
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  Speaker 5: see your family, that's a that's a big change. You
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  Speaker 5: had said in your Remind me if if I'm wrong.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe I heard it wrong, but in your radio interview,
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  Speaker 5: I think it was a radio interview, you said your
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  Speaker 5: relationship or the way you talked to Peter Bendex, did
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  Speaker 5: you have a relationship before from when he was.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well I always called him, I always called him
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  Speaker 4: my fellow Pete. Okay, yeah, you know you always see
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  Speaker 4: those guys around right, you're you know, and then I'm
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  Speaker 4: a talkative guy for the most part. So I try
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  Speaker 4: and try and build whatever relationships you can, whether it's
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  Speaker 4: you know, front office guys, your teammates, staff members, et cetera.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they're all all people that matter in an
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  Speaker 4: organization and you ought to, you know, do your best
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  Speaker 4: to to form those relationships. So I definitely say the
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  Speaker 4: familiarity definitely makes things easier right when you're you know,
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  Speaker 4: looking for for a landing spot, Knowing what you're going
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  Speaker 4: to get from the people in charge, definitely, you know,
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  Speaker 4: can make a transition that much easier in my eyes.
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  Speaker 2: How does it feel you know your free agent? This
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  Speaker 2: year you finally you know, got your deal or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: How does it feel now next year you're going to
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  Speaker 2: be free agent too? Does that change your mindset on anything?
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  Speaker 2: Or is it the same kind of focus you have,
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  Speaker 2: same outcome, same kind of goals that you have going
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  Speaker 2: on into this year.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's all it's all the same, right,
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  Speaker 4: We're still trying to not give up any runs and
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  Speaker 4: win baseball games, and now you know we're doing it
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  Speaker 4: with with a different color steam on. But you know
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna approach it just like we did last year
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  Speaker 4: and go out and lock some games down and then
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  Speaker 4: hopefully repeat the whole process again next December.
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  Speaker 1: So you spent seven seasons, including that your first season,
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  Speaker 1: I know, a little Texas and then Tampa Bay seven
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  Speaker 1: seasons with the Race. Brandon Lau spent eight seasons with
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  Speaker 1: the Race. Both are now gone over the last few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: That's a really really long tenured Ray. What is the
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  Speaker 1: key to longevity with the Rays? Like for a player
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  Speaker 1: on the Rays right now who's like, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I just got a sick house on the beach.
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  Speaker 3: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: How do I stay here for a team that basically
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  Speaker 1: turns their whole roster over every three years aside from
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  Speaker 1: one or two guys.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's I'm not sure how I figured out
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  Speaker 4: of all the people that I expected to stay there
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  Speaker 4: for a long time. I didn't expect myself to be
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  Speaker 4: on that list just given uh, you know, the bullpen arms.
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  Speaker 3: We typically are the ones that are the most have
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  Speaker 3: the most turnovers there.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, I don't know, find some success and hope
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  Speaker 4: for the best is typically what we were doing.
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  Speaker 1: I have the answer, you sign an extension if they
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  Speaker 1: offer you one and get a no trade clause in there.
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  Speaker 1: But they don't really do that, so otherwise I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, actually that does make sense, right because
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  Speaker 1: Bilaud did do that.
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  Speaker 3: I forgot.
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  Speaker 1: He did actually sign an extension really early on in
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  Speaker 1: his career and then kept getting the club options picked up.
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  Speaker 1: So that would be the answer, right, Hey, yeah, those
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  Speaker 1: early extension offers be.
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  Speaker 3: Cost controlled, be cost Yes.
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  Speaker 1: That is the way exactly I like it.
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  Speaker 5: All right, go ahead, rats, So you're leaving the American
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  Speaker 5: League East. I kind of have a two part question here,
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  Speaker 5: but it kind of coincides which stadium are you're gonna
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  Speaker 5: miss the most and which one are you going to
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  Speaker 5: miss the least.
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  Speaker 3: I would say everyone to miss Boston both the most
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  Speaker 3: and the least. Oh, go ahead, explain because you get
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  Speaker 3: outs that aren't outs there. But it's also like a
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  Speaker 3: great ballpark in.
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  Speaker 5: Atmosphe nothing to do with nothing to do with the fact,
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  Speaker 5: Oh right, what were you just say? Oh, nothing to
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  Speaker 5: do with the fact that when you put your arm
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  Speaker 5: up that a fan can actually touch your arm when
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  Speaker 5: you're warming up. It has nothing to do with that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, knocking to miss the bullpen.
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  Speaker 4: Or hitting my head in the dugout whenever I would
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  Speaker 4: walk down the steps and i'd like go to like
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  Speaker 4: the bench, and it's so short that without fail, I
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  Speaker 4: was either fired up in a positive or negative way.
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  Speaker 4: And I hit my head on that so many times.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean it's a great atmosphere, fun place
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  Speaker 4: to play. The bullpen suckers, So you know it's positives
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  Speaker 4: and negatives.
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  Speaker 5: That's fair. So I'm taking you to your new stadium.
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  Speaker 5: What do you think about the home run statue that's
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  Speaker 5: now outside? Should they move it back inside?
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  Speaker 3: You know I'm always down for a home run gimmick.
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  Speaker 4: However, I think the statue serves a great purpose on
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  Speaker 4: display outside where I don't have to see it as much.
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  Speaker 5: What if it was a strikeout statue and.
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  Speaker 3: Let's bring it right back inside, right back inside.
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  Speaker 4: If it goes up every time somebody punches a ticket,
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  Speaker 4: let's get that back in there as soon as possible.
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  Speaker 5: Anything for k Dogg's I like it.
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  Speaker 3: I like it. That's right.
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  Speaker 5: Hey.
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  Speaker 1: Last one for me, Pete. Have you spoken to anybody
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  Speaker 1: on this team? Did anyone reach out, whether it's from
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  Speaker 1: a coaching or player perspective, and if so, can you
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  Speaker 1: give us any unique insight that you learned so far?
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  Speaker 1: We know it's a very young team and you have
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  Speaker 1: the Peter Bendix connection, who was in the front office
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  Speaker 1: with the Rays and now is trying to make his
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  Speaker 1: raise version of the Marlins here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, has some people reach out. I talked to Calvin
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  Speaker 3: vasche He.
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  Speaker 4: I actually talked to him earlier today about living situations,
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  Speaker 4: and he was mad that I didn't give him any
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  Speaker 4: credit in helping me make my decision on my last
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  Speaker 4: media session. So I'd just like to reiterate to Calvin
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  Speaker 4: that I still give him no credit with decisions that
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  Speaker 4: I've made.
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  Speaker 6: He thinks he was influencing what like wing, that he
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  Speaker 6: that he had some sway on me in this in
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  Speaker 6: this whole process, and I'd like to tell Calvin that
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  Speaker 6: that's not the case.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm very excited to see him.
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  Speaker 5: I love that you people don't know who Calvin is,
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  Speaker 5: but that you call him Calvin. That makes me laugh.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, his name is Calvin, and a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: don't call him Calvin.
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  Speaker 1: Is his real name Calvin, and it's and we're going.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no. Calvin is a different person than
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  Speaker 3: Colin Poche.
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  Speaker 6: Oh oh okay, these are to These are two separate individuals.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, good job, crats Uh did you have one
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  Speaker 1: more or no?
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  Speaker 5: I'm good you're.
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  Speaker 1: That we've made Calvin feel even worse. Gee, don't show
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  Speaker 1: him this. Happy New Year, dude, Congrats on the deal,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: For joining us.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate the time, dude, and we'll talk to you in
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  Speaker 1: spring training.
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  Speaker 3: Chris, guys, appreciate it. Happy New Year.