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Cubs closer Daniel Palencia’s emotional rise, Scout doubter motivator · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Here comes Cubs closer Donielle Palencia. Should we play Gasolina?
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  Speaker 1: To introduce Donielle?
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  Speaker 2: How are you doing right?
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  Speaker 3: On right?
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  Speaker 2: How is everything? How's the season going for you?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: You know, just just hobby phone, you know, like right now,
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  Speaker 5: it's just trying to be a key having phone playing baseball?
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  Speaker 6: Just that.
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  Speaker 3: What does that mean?
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  Speaker 7: On?
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  Speaker 3: Hold up?
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  Speaker 7: No, before we get into any any baseball stuff. I
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  Speaker 7: just got asked. He's listed on on everything at five ten,
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  Speaker 7: five eleven, one hundred and sixty pounds. No way that
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  Speaker 7: he weighed one hundred sixty pounds. Okay, no way, no
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  Speaker 7: weigh one hundred and sixty.
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  Speaker 4: That was a long time ago, like they never changing.
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  Speaker 4: I'm still there. I don't know why, but what I
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  Speaker 4: was really excuty, I'm I'm miss twenty.
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  Speaker 7: So oh okay, okay, good good Now in Chicago, one
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  Speaker 7: hundred and sixty pounds, man, I could give him like
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  Speaker 7: fifty steakhouses.
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  Speaker 3: You could go to that. I'll put twenty pounds on.
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  Speaker 1: Him, easy deep this pizza for a night and you're
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  Speaker 1: already at one seventy yeah, true?
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  Speaker 2: What do you got? Crats ahead?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 6: I was just gonna say, what is fun? Like you said,
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  Speaker 6: I'm just having fun. Was there a time when you
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  Speaker 6: weren't having fun playing baseball? Like or what is or
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  Speaker 6: what does that mean for you? Like you're like, yo,
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  Speaker 6: you know, I just come to a ballpark and do this.
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  Speaker 5: I mean last year it was kind of hard for
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  Speaker 5: me because you know, it was like up and down,
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  Speaker 5: and in some point of my career, I was like
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  Speaker 5: I was not having fun, you know, like I pooked
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  Speaker 5: too much pressure on me. Like that happened to me
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  Speaker 5: a lot, Like I want to do my my stuff good.
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  Speaker 5: I want to pitch well. I want to do my job.
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  Speaker 5: But you know, like I was going through the field
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  Speaker 5: and I was like, oh and here again, like just
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  Speaker 5: another day, just paying to pass away. But right now,
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  Speaker 5: like I said, you know, this is my ring. This
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  Speaker 5: is my ring since I was a key. So right now,
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  Speaker 5: it's just that you know, like when I was twelve
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  Speaker 5: years old and I got my practice at two o'club,
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  Speaker 5: I was rightly at twelve. So right now, I just
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  Speaker 5: trained to be that You're not like that key who
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  Speaker 5: lostch played baseball and that's it.
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  Speaker 6: When you were going up and down, when you when
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  Speaker 6: you were going up and down because a lot of
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  Speaker 6: guys I mean, aj was a two time All Star.
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  Speaker 6: He went up and down from the big leagues to
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  Speaker 6: the minor leagues. What kind of advice? And I know,
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  Speaker 6: I get it, you're only twenty five, so you're not
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  Speaker 6: like a veteran. But what can you tell guys, because
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  Speaker 6: you know you were sitting there last year, Like, if
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  Speaker 6: you throw three innings, they're gonna be like whether they're
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  Speaker 6: good or bad, you're probably going down to Iowa. If
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  Speaker 6: someone else throws three innings and you're not available the
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  Speaker 6: next day, you're probably going down to Iowa.
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  Speaker 3: What can you tell those kids? Because this is the
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  Speaker 3: real thing.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Like I mean, it's hard, it's a heart process,
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  Speaker 5: but you have to enjoy, you know, enjoying the journey
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  Speaker 5: and that's gonna happen. If you got option, you have
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  Speaker 5: to know, like that's gonna happen. And like, like I said,
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  Speaker 5: just trying to enjoin your time there, Like it's just
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  Speaker 5: it's hard, Like it's a hard process, but you have
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  Speaker 5: to be confident yourself and you know like you can
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  Speaker 5: do it and you can stay there. And just trying
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  Speaker 5: to be mentally strong because like I think that's the
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  Speaker 5: hardest part because sometimes for me, I was thinking like okay,
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  Speaker 5: and sucks like why they sent me down so many times?
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  Speaker 5: But you know, like I said, it's just trying to
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  Speaker 5: be mentally strong and talk to yourself and say, hey, okay,
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  Speaker 5: I'm good.
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  Speaker 4: This this is just baseball.
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  Speaker 5: This is a business and it can't happen like you know,
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  Speaker 5: it's I think it's just that, like it's a hard process.
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  Speaker 5: You have to be people around like who you can talk,
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  Speaker 5: you can express your feelings like you know it was.
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  Speaker 5: I know it's a hard process. But you know, like
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  Speaker 5: I think a lot of just going through that and
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  Speaker 5: you know, it just depends on you.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, you're from Venezuela. Most of the Venezuelan guys signed
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  Speaker 7: at sixteen. Why did you not sign until you were twenty?
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  Speaker 7: What did they miss? Did someone not see you? Why
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  Speaker 7: did you not sign until.
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  Speaker 3: You were twenty?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: I was really skinny, and I always been throwing her
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  Speaker 4: like I'm a sixteen I was throwing like nineteen ninety one.
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  Speaker 5: But I was using like these big glasses because my
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  Speaker 5: eyes they are not good. So the scouts they don't
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  Speaker 5: want me like they saw like a great picture, but
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  Speaker 5: they just saw like the skinny guy with big glasses.
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  Speaker 5: Like he's never gonna do it. I remember one scout
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  Speaker 5: from Detroit. He told me like, hey, you're not gonna
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  Speaker 5: You're never gonna throw harder than night.
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  Speaker 4: So just trying to do another team, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: I went to the yards eighteens. I wore hard like
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  Speaker 4: I wor.
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  Speaker 5: I got retired. At some point in my life, I
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  Speaker 5: started working in a food truck and then like I saw,
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  Speaker 5: I saw a friend from my town. He sided with
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  Speaker 5: the giants, like he was like my really close friend,
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  Speaker 5: like we always been in practice together. I was watching
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  Speaker 5: that like come on, I was better than that guy,
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  Speaker 5: Like I know I can be better. So that that
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  Speaker 5: helped me a lot. I done motivate me, and I
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  Speaker 5: started to play baseball again, like throwing long toes and
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  Speaker 5: like you know, like just for just for go to practice.
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  Speaker 3: And then.
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  Speaker 4: I come back to Venezuela.
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  Speaker 5: I got some friends there, like my coach there is
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  Speaker 5: like my dad, and he started to help me a lot,
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  Speaker 5: like hey try again, like you don't have nothing to lose.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, I mean, yeah, you're right.
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  Speaker 5: So we start to work together again, like go to
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  Speaker 5: the GM and go to the track and all the stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Go swimming and.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I think that the hard work payoffs, you know,
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  Speaker 5: like we never gave out, like we were really hard.
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  Speaker 5: All my trainers in Venezuela, they are really go with me,
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  Speaker 5: like they they way call like six am to pick
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  Speaker 5: up my house and go to the field, go to
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  Speaker 5: the track and all the stuff. Like I think it's
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  Speaker 5: just that like at sixteen, you know, what's the moment,
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  Speaker 5: Like probably right now I was a big working and
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  Speaker 5: in an other country in the it was the better
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  Speaker 5: for moment. I'm at twenties because I was more mature
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  Speaker 5: and I can.
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  Speaker 4: Gay more, like you know, like just you know how
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  Speaker 4: in that point you know how much you're gonna lose.
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  Speaker 4: So I think it was that like it just it
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  Speaker 4: was the better for moment.
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  Speaker 2: Dies Okay, Krats, I opened up Arena club, put my
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  Speaker 2: own money in there, and I wasn't gonna go big.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 2: We went over the Ruby pack a week ago. This
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  Speaker 2: time I just went for the low level pack where
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  Speaker 2: it's an easy entry point twenty five bucks. You can
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  Speaker 2: get yourself a big boy card. The grail has many
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  Speaker 2: good options. I slice open the pack. We're looking at
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  Speaker 2: it if you're watching us right now, and I pull
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  Speaker 2: a card from the nineteen fifties. Super cool. I enjoyed
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  Speaker 2: the experience looking at it. It's Jim Gilliam, it's the
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  Speaker 2: top set from the mid fifties. It's cool. It's a
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  Speaker 2: Brooklyn Dodger. But it's worth more than the card. Like
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  Speaker 2: I said, I'm gonna sell it back. I got twenty
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  Speaker 2: eight bucks instantly, so I can buy another one of
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  Speaker 2: those packs and try and get what I want.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely, the excitement I heard Kip say before. The excitement's
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  Speaker 6: in the chase. You sold it back. Now you get
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  Speaker 6: to open another one. I enjoy when you slide it
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  Speaker 6: across the screen there and the pack opens.
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  Speaker 2: You know where to go. Arenaclub dot com slash foul
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  Speaker 2: twenty percent off your first lab packer card purchase.
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  Speaker 3: Get after it you and from braveldas you and from
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  Speaker 3: bravel does right sign late.
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  Speaker 7: That's awesome. That is that is the stories that we
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  Speaker 7: like to hear because don't ever give up. You never
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  Speaker 7: know aircrafts. He can talk about that because he was
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  Speaker 7: a lot late round draft pick got to the big
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  Speaker 7: leagues later on in his life. So that those are
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  Speaker 7: the stories that people love to hear. And that's amazing
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  Speaker 7: that you didn't give up. You stuck with it and
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  Speaker 7: you found a way and now you're in the big leagues.
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  Speaker 7: But five years later, So kudos to you and all
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  Speaker 7: the people.
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  Speaker 3: That helped you.
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  Speaker 4: I got a lot of people we have me like
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  Speaker 4: my mom and my dad.
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  Speaker 5: They they wore how like Mike, he always wait up
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  Speaker 5: like Fayai and to make my breakfast to go to
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  Speaker 5: the field. And my mom he always worked hard to
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  Speaker 5: to give me money to go to the field too,
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  Speaker 5: like my coaches in Venezuela, like Jimmy, like I said,
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  Speaker 5: he was like my dad, like.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of guy.
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  Speaker 5: Like I got a friend too, Like we used to
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  Speaker 5: go with practice together and he was like my competition.
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  Speaker 5: Like we both got sixteen. He was throwing ninety, I
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  Speaker 5: was throwing eighty eight. And he was stronger, he run
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  Speaker 5: more faster than me. So we always be like there,
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  Speaker 5: like competing in each other. And at some point I
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  Speaker 5: was like, one day gonna be better than hang than.
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  Speaker 3: It.
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  Speaker 5: Just we became brothers, like he's my brother now like
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  Speaker 5: his right hair. He was hearing my debut and like
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  Speaker 5: we're always doing stuff together. And my coach, my my
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  Speaker 5: personal trainer in Venezuela, Chapin is a que one guy
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  Speaker 5: we called Cheping, and he's like like an old school trainer,
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  Speaker 5: Like he put me to the wrong track, like he said,
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  Speaker 5: like peaching and round tracks almost the same thing, Like
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  Speaker 5: you have to be faster and you have to be strong.
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  Speaker 5: So he helped me a lot, Like I guess some
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  Speaker 5: guys there like I really appreciate for my all my career.
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  Speaker 5: I'm never gonna say thank you too much. They are
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  Speaker 5: great guys.
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  Speaker 6: Do the clubs allow you to work out like that?
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  Speaker 6: Well you said, you know, the old school stuff, like
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  Speaker 6: that's how you got to be able to throw one
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  Speaker 6: hundred miles an hour. Are the cubs like no, no,
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  Speaker 6: we want you to lift like the way we want
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  Speaker 6: you to lift. Or do they allow you to lift
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  Speaker 6: strong and for speed like you said, you're cha makes
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  Speaker 6: you chappin?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean the first moment they don't like it
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  Speaker 5: because I mean I was doing some pretty casey stuff
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  Speaker 5: like normally the people don't do that. But it works
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  Speaker 5: for me, you know, so at some point I say, hey,
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  Speaker 5: this is what it works for me. Like I like
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  Speaker 5: to work hard, I like to throw long toes, I
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  Speaker 5: like to to get stronger.
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  Speaker 3: I like to be fast.
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  Speaker 4: So sometimet I just say, like, let me be me,
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  Speaker 4: just that, let me be me and trust me, and
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  Speaker 4: I got. I got this.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so sorry, I got I gotta hit this again here.
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  Speaker 6: I played with the rod as Chapman played against him
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  Speaker 6: for a while. Obviously he's probably one of the best
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  Speaker 6: closes of our generation. He does exactly that. I'm not
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  Speaker 6: telling you how to work out. I'm not telling you
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  Speaker 6: just tell the Cubs.
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 6: But there is no picture that I've ever played with
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  Speaker 6: or played against that is bigger, stronger, faster than Eroaldus Chapman.
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  Speaker 6: So are you faster than pc A Nico.
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  Speaker 3: Or Ian happ Uh?
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  Speaker 4: Pc A chans Nico. I don't know, maybe half maybe
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  Speaker 4: grown you're not. Yeah, maybe half maybe, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: But I can grow.
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  Speaker 5: I know I can grow like I used to rown.
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  Speaker 5: I used to run like the four hundred meters and
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  Speaker 5: you know, I always loved it wrong because that's the
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  Speaker 5: way I can go up.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I like I like that way.
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  Speaker 3: I like it.
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  Speaker 4: I like it.
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  Speaker 3: I hate to run by the way. I absolutely hate
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  Speaker 3: to run. So you have you have that ahead of me.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, But I know what I want to know is
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  Speaker 7: when they became when you became the closer, the closer,
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  Speaker 7: what was that like?
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  Speaker 3: And then what's the difference in closing out the night? Then?
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  Speaker 7: And then I am not a Cubs fan. So then
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  Speaker 7: you after you get the third out, you gotta hear
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  Speaker 7: that dumb song?
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  Speaker 5: Do you do?
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  Speaker 3: You cover your ears when they play that song?
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  Speaker 2: You have to give the context and why you knows
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  Speaker 2: I play for.
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  Speaker 3: The white song, So I don't like that. So when
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  Speaker 3: they play that song, do you no? You know?
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  Speaker 5: Like in my debut the Closer, it was Arber Ashlai,
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  Speaker 5: And since I came to the big he was like
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  Speaker 5: my big brother. Like I was watching that guy close
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  Speaker 5: against I was like, I want to be like hang
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  Speaker 5: like he's Venezuelan too. And he was helping me a lot,
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  Speaker 5: like how to rest, Like he take me to dinner.
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  Speaker 5: He talked to me, giving me advice all the time.
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  Speaker 5: So at some point I was telling, hey, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 5: come for you.
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  Speaker 4: I want to be the closer.
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  Speaker 3: This year.
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  Speaker 4: We'll be talking a lot too, Like he texted me
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  Speaker 4: every day.
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  Speaker 5: About like just be confident, you said, I nobody can
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  Speaker 5: do that, and just try to throw the ball in
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  Speaker 5: the middle like you throw und you try so throw
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  Speaker 5: the first wall in the Miliana said, like it's not easy.
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  Speaker 5: He hundred and like right now, like boy guys like
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  Speaker 5: Bryan Presley, they helped me a lot too, with all
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  Speaker 5: the mindset you know, like you know that.
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  Speaker 4: In the evening, just one swing can change everything.
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  Speaker 5: So right now everything is about confidence and talking to
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  Speaker 5: myself about and the guy I got this, I can
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  Speaker 5: do this, like that can beat me, like it's just me.
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  Speaker 4: I guess us.
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  Speaker 3: I like it. I like it all right.
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  Speaker 7: Who is your favorite player growing up? Which Venezuelan was
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  Speaker 7: your favorite player growing up Venezuelan?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Like I used to watch a lot of Franciscos
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  Speaker 5: Uh me obviously, Uh guys like to Felix and Carlos
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  Speaker 5: and Brano, Like I love that guy, like I love
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  Speaker 5: the way like his patient, Like I love the way
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  Speaker 5: like he pitched her all the time. I remember I
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  Speaker 5: watched that guy in Venezuela and Winter Bowl and he
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  Speaker 5: was a great guy. I remember in Whatareya in Venezuela
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  Speaker 5: he was there. I was throwing like ninety six ninety
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  Speaker 5: five and he was telling me through the scout, like
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  Speaker 5: what do you think he's side?
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  Speaker 4: That guy? Like he's throwing hard than me at that age,
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  Speaker 4: So just do it. And that's stay in my mind.
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  Speaker 4: Like if a guy like that is telling that, like
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  Speaker 4: I can do this, I got it.
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  Speaker 7: I like it.
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  Speaker 3: I like it.
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  Speaker 7: But you forgot somebody and they live in Chicago and
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  Speaker 7: they have a microphone. His name is Ozzie gian So
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  Speaker 7: he's gonna see this clip and next time you see Ozzie,
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  Speaker 7: he's gonna yell at.
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  Speaker 3: You for not saying that he was one of his
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  Speaker 3: favorite players.
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  Speaker 7: So I don't know if you know Ozzie or not,
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  Speaker 7: but Ozzie will see this and he will get angry
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  Speaker 7: at you.
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  Speaker 3: So just the heads up old for him.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, but still Ozzie thinks every Venezuelan that come up
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  Speaker 7: through the every league Ozzie Gean was his their favorite player.
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  Speaker 7: No matter if it's now fifty years ago before Ozzie
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  Speaker 7: played in the big leagues or one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 7: years from now and no one knows Ozzie is, he
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  Speaker 7: still thinks that every ven as well.
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  Speaker 3: I guy thinks Ozzie Gean is the best player.
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  Speaker 2: Nope, nope, no for his time.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know have you met Ozzie? Have you met Ozzie.
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  Speaker 4: Not really no, not really.
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  Speaker 3: Good. Keep it that way. That's good. To keep it
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  Speaker 3: that way, that's good.
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  Speaker 2: Stay on the north side.
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  Speaker 4: Go No. I play against Hanging last year winter ball,
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  Speaker 4: but I never I never made it.
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  Speaker 6: Oh okay, yeah, How excited are you to be able
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  Speaker 6: to be the closer for the WBC team?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: Very exciting?
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 5: For me, it's how elinor like put that uniform. Like
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  Speaker 5: it's just I just hope to get a chance to
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  Speaker 5: play for the team Venezuela.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 5: But we got great grocers too, like like I he's
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  Speaker 5: the I mean, he's my goal right now. So I'm
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  Speaker 5: just happy to be there. If they gave me the
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  Speaker 5: opportunity to be there, I'm gonna be so happy. Like
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  Speaker 5: I'm just gonna do my best stuff to try to
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  Speaker 5: win that championship.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 6: We read something the fact that you lost fifteen pounds
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  Speaker 6: before the season.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: You came in.
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: You're physically in better shape. Everyone hears, fifteen pounds, best
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: shape of my life, all that stuff. You're doing a
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: great job this year, so it's showing that it's helping
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: out what was the hardest food for you to give
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: up when you had to lose fifteen pounds, because everybody
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: hears the fifteen pounds and they're.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Like, wow, he's doing good. But what was the one
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: food that.
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: You're like, I just want some arepas.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: Something I get all I love, like their eyes, the
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: hot dogs, the venezuela and Holt dogs like I used
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: to bear allow, the like the cachapas, all the hamburgers,
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: like I had to say thank you to my mom
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: and my girlfriend, like they always.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: Trying to make good food for me, like always I
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: came to practice.
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: From the practice, sorry they are My food was ready
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: and they always trying to be healthy food.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: So I had to say thank you to them.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: All right, last one for you on my side. You're
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: in the thick of a playoff race.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Rights are in a good position right now to crack
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: a postseason spot. I had a huge, huge doubleheader win
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: over the Brewers yesterday. What did you know about Milwaukee,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: you know heading into this series and the way that
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: they had been playing, and how crucial was it for
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: the team to pick up back to back wins yesterday?
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: The Brewer's day hard team. I'm not gonna lie like
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: they are pretty good.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Like they are.
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: They are doing the little stuff of baseball. I think
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: that's that why that's why they are winning so much.
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: But you know, we got a great thing. Like since
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: the first game, I was ready to be to beat
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: those guys like that was my mindset, like I can
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: let this guy big me, like when I be in
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: the playoffs. You know, like some days ago I was
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: talking with you and and he told me, like, bro,
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: I've been watching you like since twenty three so I know.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: I know you are a really good pitch. I know
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: you throw hard. It's just like you have to come down.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: Yourself when because when you get a walk, you sometimes
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: just pretty odd too much.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: So ah, right now I think we are a really
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: good team, like we are chasing the worst.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: Is like that's the goal for for all the years
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: and right now just trying to be to be there
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: for the team and held the team all this guy
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: they always have my bar, like they always telling me that.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: So I want to be there for how the team
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: and every week, you know, just being there and and
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: have phone you know.
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: Okay, the last thing, do you have anything to say
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: that would you say Tiger scout that said you could
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: have pitched the big leagues? Do you have any do
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: you ever see him now and do you ever see anything?
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Like ha ha I.
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: I saw again, but I would love to watch that
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: guy and and by dinner like thank you, Like that
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: helped me a lot.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: Like when he told me you're not gonna never throw
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: more than I, I.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: Was like, come on, it's just you can priticize the
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: future teachers, like you know what I had to do
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: to work every time, Like the people doesn't know how
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: how I love I am this game, Like I really
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: can die for this game, like this is my life,
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: Like I really love this game. I can play every
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: day like I just like I said, it's just trying
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: to be a key having fun, like I love this
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: game like I'm leaving my ring I chose and.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: That that's great answer.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Donielle. This was a great conversation. I hope you enjoyed it.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: And just so you know now, your story as you,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: as you are well aware, motivates others. That's why we
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: love doing these kind of conversations. We talked to you
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: more players in the game than any other platform out there,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: So thanks for sharing your story.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Really good stuff. Great to meet you on here for
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: the first time, and good luck. We'll be watching.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: I did want to recap that conversation. I thought that
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: was really good and that's the kind of reply that
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: fans live for. At the end, I will die for
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: this game. I love this game. Hey, it's the anti
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Anthony rendon't answer it is. Red's like, you know, I
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: don't care. This is one of a million things. This
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: is not the main focus of life for Donielle. He's like, no,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: this is this is who I am. My identity is
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: this game right now. So that stuff resonates.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: That was a great story about how he That's why
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: I wanted to know why he didn't sign until he
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: was twenty. And the guy said, you'll never throw over ninety.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Now it does one hundred. And he doesn't weigh one
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: hundred and sixty either, by the way.
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean the fact that he then said, you know,
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: then he had to lose pound, so he doesn't weigh
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: one hundred and sixty.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: But it's funny that it's five to eleven one sixty.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: That's good ship though.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: That's great guy. It's a great interview.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: You're not going to throw over ninety, He's like a few,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: I'm going to throw one hundred.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: He wouldn't work. What do you say.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: He was working at a food food truck, food truck.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Dominican, the Dominican, Yep, he's from Venezuela. I didn't think
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: that was a left I thought those guys were like enemies.