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  Speaker 1: Get excited for this season preview on the Cleveland Guardians.
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  Speaker 1: What we do is we make sure you're caught up
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  Speaker 1: on what they did in the offseason, and then we
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  Speaker 1: spin it forward to see what the projections say about
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six campaign for Cleveland. So first of all,
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  Speaker 1: this isn't going to take long. They added three arms.
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  Speaker 1: Sean Armstrong who they gave some solid money to on
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  Speaker 1: a one year contract, Colin Holderman brought over and Connor Brogden.
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  Speaker 1: And guys, those three, I'm sure we'll turn into studs.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, some of them had good times in their
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  Speaker 1: career already, but we know what Cleveland does with these
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  Speaker 1: types of signings. On the other side, losses include Shane
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  Speaker 1: Bieber mid season last year and Leane Thomas's and part
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  Speaker 1: of the mix for twenty twenty six Jacob Junas, Will Brennan,
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  Speaker 1: Sam Henches and John Kenzie.
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  Speaker 2: Noel's been bouncing around a little bit too.
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  Speaker 1: So those guys are out, but primarily AJ they are
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  Speaker 1: running it back.
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  Speaker 3: Why not? They made the playoffs?
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  Speaker 4: Why not?
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  Speaker 3: Why not run it back?
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  Speaker 2: Well they didn't.
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  Speaker 3: Why not at all?
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  Speaker 5: They don't have a lot of money to spend.
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  Speaker 2: On towards the bottom, and well, they're.
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  Speaker 5: Counting on the young guys to take another step. Remember
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  Speaker 5: when we had Mike turn off on what he say
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  Speaker 5: they were young. We know we're going to be young,
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  Speaker 5: and we're leaning into it. And the younger we got,
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  Speaker 5: the better we got. So they're hoping those young guys
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  Speaker 5: take another step and continue to grow. By the way, sorry,
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  Speaker 5: it's freezing and it's raining here, so I am also
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  Speaker 5: in the rain because Mark doesn't know how to put
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  Speaker 5: a tent up, so I am getting wet as we speak.
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  Speaker 5: So that's just my Cleveland Guardians season preview is they're
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  Speaker 5: running it back because they're young and they expect them
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  Speaker 5: to take the next step. And they're in the division
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  Speaker 5: the El Central where that can work.
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  Speaker 6: I mean it can work because they have good pitching.
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  Speaker 6: But you're looking at the Guardian's projected.
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  Speaker 7: Lineup right here.
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  Speaker 6: When your fifth hitter has an NA on it, he
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  Speaker 6: means you're counting on somebody from the minor leagues to
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  Speaker 6: step up and be your protection behind Jose Ramirez, who
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  Speaker 6: might hit second, might hit third, But Kyle Manzardo is
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  Speaker 6: a solid player. To me, I always look at the
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  Speaker 6: Guardians and I think back to the Edwin and Carnassian signing.
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  Speaker 7: They went out, they got him.
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  Speaker 6: I think it was three years twenty a year, so
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  Speaker 6: three years sixty And was Edwin er karnassiun the most
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  Speaker 6: athletic person, the most versatile person, the most No, he
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  Speaker 6: was a dude that was gonna come in and give
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  Speaker 6: you meaningful at bats and be an aircraft carrier behind
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  Speaker 6: Francisco Lidoor, behind Lannie chisenhol Jan Gomes Like. They already
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  Speaker 6: had guys in that lineup that were going to carry
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  Speaker 6: the weight, and then they added Edwin. That was gonna
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  Speaker 6: be my question to Mike Chernoff if I had a chance, like,
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  Speaker 6: is there a time what's the magic bullet or what's
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  Speaker 6: the like do they have to get a lottery pick
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  Speaker 6: out and go, oh, this is the year we get
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  Speaker 6: to spend it. Because I think there are a lot
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  Speaker 6: of good young pieces to this and their value is
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  Speaker 6: in their pitching. But this lineup was abysmal last year
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  Speaker 6: at scoring runs and are they going to be abysmo again?
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  Speaker 6: What makes me think otherwise? You have an MVP candidate
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  Speaker 6: in Josey Ramirez, and you have a bunch of other
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  Speaker 6: guys who two years ago Yeah, they had a huge
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  Speaker 6: jump in there in their slug which nobody saw coming
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  Speaker 6: and it dropped back down to Earth. So to me,
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  Speaker 6: that's where the adjustment needs to be made for them.
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  Speaker 6: Could they have made a big acquisition? No, I guess
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  Speaker 6: financially not. But at what time can they do that?
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  Speaker 3: You know how?
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes we say the team is built around one player
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  Speaker 1: in the lineup, and if he goes down, they're in trouble.
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  Speaker 1: We've talked about this with guys like Judge. Is there
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  Speaker 1: a team that's more leveraged with the Jose Ramirez your
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  Speaker 1: top three or top five MVP thing?
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  Speaker 2: Aj? I mean no, they need to be a star
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  Speaker 2: every year. Superstar can drop off.
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  Speaker 5: I mean you could actually, I'll actually say this, you
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  Speaker 5: can throw Judge in there too. For me, you could
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  Speaker 5: throw You could throw Aaron Judge for the Yankees if
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  Speaker 5: he gets hurt or has a down year, that's a
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  Speaker 5: that's going to be a big thing for the Yankees.
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  Speaker 5: But yes, Jose Ramiroz and Aaron Judge, off the top
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  Speaker 5: of my head or the two that mean more to
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  Speaker 5: their organization than most.
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  Speaker 1: Here's where things get interesting. So we'll start with the
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  Speaker 1: fangrafts projections. On the win totals, and we'll go in
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  Speaker 1: order here so you can see where they put them.
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  Speaker 1: They have the Tigers at the top and here's their
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  Speaker 1: first their own win loss, just seventy five point eight
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  Speaker 1: from Fangrafts. We've gone over the bet MGM number, which
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  Speaker 1: is eighty and a half wins. So bet MGM thinks
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  Speaker 1: they'll be a little better than what Fangrafts has them at.
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  Speaker 1: And I agree with bet MGM here over Fangrafts, but
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  Speaker 1: we can put it next to the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: teams in the division. I can make an easy flip
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  Speaker 1: right here. Whatever call me biased, why, I just don't
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  Speaker 1: see it exactly. We all feel that way on Fangrafts.
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  Speaker 1: Move the Twins down and benham Jam has them lower
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  Speaker 1: than that. But seventy eight point six is where Fangrafts
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  Speaker 1: has the Twins a few games ahead of the Guardians.
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  Speaker 1: No thanks, Guardians won the division last year. That part
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  Speaker 1: should be shocking alone. AJA The Tigers did some things right.
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  Speaker 1: They added to their irritation. They have fromber in there
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  Speaker 1: to hopefully be a one two punch for them with Scooble,
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  Speaker 1: and fromber they added Berlander towards the back end here
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  Speaker 1: to kind of fill the riese Oulsen void that is
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  Speaker 1: placed there when he goes down for the season with
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  Speaker 1: the shoulder surgery. But then it's the Royals, the Twins,
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  Speaker 1: the Guardians, the White Sox. Do you think the Guardians
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  Speaker 1: are only going to be a seventy six win fourth
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  Speaker 1: place team?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 5: I will never been against Stephen Vote and I'll never
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  Speaker 5: get bet against what the Guardians.
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  Speaker 3: Have been able to do.
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  Speaker 5: How they do it, I have no idea, but they
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  Speaker 5: get it done every single year, and they do it right.
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  Speaker 5: They believe in pitching and defense and timely hitting, and
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  Speaker 5: they've done it for what did Mike Cheernof say? They
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  Speaker 5: made the playoffs seven in the last ten years? So
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  Speaker 5: how can you say that they're gonna win seventy six
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  Speaker 5: games when, like you said, Scott, they won the division
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  Speaker 5: last year. I think that numbers low. I think the
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  Speaker 5: White Sex numbers low. I think the Twins numbers too high.
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  Speaker 5: The Royals you can say is about right, and then
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  Speaker 5: the Tigers are you know, they're they're the favorite. So
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  Speaker 5: the numbers you can manipulate a little bit. But I'm
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  Speaker 5: not betting against the Guardians.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think they're a playoff team.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think they're enough of a playoff team in
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  Speaker 6: this division. I think I think I'd flip flop the
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  Speaker 6: Twins and the Guardians. I think the Royals are going
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  Speaker 6: to give the Tigers the biggest push this year. I
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  Speaker 6: think the Royals push to make adjustments. I think they're
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  Speaker 6: going to be a at you know, advantage Jack Kglion,
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  Speaker 6: I think he's gonna make the next step. I think
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  Speaker 6: moving the fences in could hurt them in help them
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  Speaker 6: a little bit. I think it'll be net zero because
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  Speaker 6: both teams get to play on the same fences. But
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  Speaker 6: I truly think this Guardians team, I don't think they
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  Speaker 6: did enough. And I think it took an act of
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  Speaker 6: God for them to be able to make it to
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  Speaker 6: the playoffs last year and win the division, so they
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  Speaker 6: would need to do that again.
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  Speaker 1: I took an act of the Tigers collapsing. Tiger still
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  Speaker 1: made it, and then you also had other collapses.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, too much.
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  Speaker 6: Too much has to go wrong for other teams, and
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  Speaker 6: I don't think. I don't think the Tigers will have
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  Speaker 6: that happen again.
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  Speaker 4: I think they've.
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  Speaker 6: Clearly pushed in areas that I think they should have
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  Speaker 6: added more offense. But we'll talk about that when we
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  Speaker 6: do the Tigers season. But I think this division has
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  Speaker 6: gotten better. I don't think the Guardians have done enough.
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  Speaker 5: Back here on Foul Territory with Kate Smith, Guardian's Closer Extraordinary.
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  Speaker 3: What's it like?
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  Speaker 5: First of all, we get into spring because I hate
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  Speaker 5: just jumping into spring training. University of Hawaii at Manoa. No,
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  Speaker 5: that's not even the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. How
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  Speaker 5: does a Canadian run into it? Or is that Honolulu
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  Speaker 5: is the Honolulu one?
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  Speaker 9: So they have a couple different campuses around the islands.
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  Speaker 9: So Manoa is the one that's just outside Honolulu.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, because I played at the University of Hawaii, the
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  Speaker 5: main one, the Rainbow one. The Rainbow that's it. That's
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  Speaker 5: the one you went to. Yeah, okay, yeah, so oh
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  Speaker 5: so you got to follow my footstuffs.
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  Speaker 4: I guess.
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  Speaker 5: Granted you weren't even born when I played there. I
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  Speaker 5: played there in nineteen ninety seven in the Winter League.
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  Speaker 5: They had Hawaii Winter How does a Canadian end up
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  Speaker 5: at the University of Hawaii?
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  Speaker 6: Uh?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I actually there was a guy that I played
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  Speaker 9: high school baseball with who was a year older than me.
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  Speaker 9: He ended up going there before I did, so there
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  Speaker 9: was a little bit of a president there already. And
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  Speaker 9: then I went to the Tournament twelve in Toronto, which
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  Speaker 9: is a big tournament that Jase put on for all
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  Speaker 9: sorts of Canadian baseball players coming up. And that's where
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  Speaker 9: the Hawaii coach saw me pitch there and then had
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  Speaker 9: me out for visit it.
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  Speaker 4: And not too long after.
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  Speaker 3: That, I was from Canada and you go to Hawaii though, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's automatic.
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  Speaker 9: Right, Well, I mean I knew that I wanted to
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  Speaker 9: be somewhere that you could be year round outside. I
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  Speaker 9: had had enough of the rain and the indoors batty
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  Speaker 9: cage is thrown into a net and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 9: So that's one of the things I was looking for
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  Speaker 9: going to college.
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  Speaker 5: You know, when I played for the Bananas last year,
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  Speaker 5: I caught a kid that went to uh Hawaii. Really
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  Speaker 5: Arch is Arch daddy afy Arch Jeez, I forgot it
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  Speaker 5: and I just blanked on his last name.
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  Speaker 4: But he pitched at Hawaii.
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  Speaker 5: And then I played with Colton Long, who obviously was
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  Speaker 5: a Rainbow Warrior legend forever. But I won a title
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  Speaker 5: there too, so it's okay, we have that in common. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: when you get when you go grew up in Canada,
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  Speaker 5: how do you get into baseball? I know the Blue
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  Speaker 5: Jays were.
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  Speaker 3: Popular or art now they're more popular probably than ever.
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  Speaker 5: But when you grow up in Canada, how do you
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  Speaker 5: end up getting into baseball when it's so hockey prevalent
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  Speaker 5: and it's hockey hockey, hockey.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 9: Uh So both my parents played college basketball. My dad
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  Speaker 9: grew up just aside Toronto, so he was a fan
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  Speaker 9: of the Jays and then moved to just outside Vancouver.
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  Speaker 4: And so.
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  Speaker 9: They also are both pee teachers, and they emphasized just
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  Speaker 9: playing sports and trying them. So I played basketball and volleyball,
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  Speaker 9: I did a little bit track and field, and I
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  Speaker 9: played baseball. Really I played all four, like multiple sports,
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  Speaker 9: all the way up until my senior year of high school.
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  Speaker 9: And so I just it happened to be baseball as
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  Speaker 9: one that I loved. It was also the one that
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  Speaker 9: I had the most potential in to develop and progress
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  Speaker 9: the next level.
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  Speaker 6: Who's your guy? Who's your guy that you followed that
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  Speaker 6: you were like, I kind of liked that? Or were
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  Speaker 6: you not a big baseball fan while you were coming
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  Speaker 6: while you were growing up?
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  Speaker 9: I would say that I had other interests than just
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  Speaker 9: watching sports all day. But my dad would always tell
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  Speaker 9: me to watch Roy Halliday and.
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  Speaker 4: The way he pitched.
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  Speaker 3: You pitched nothing like Roy. No, I know, you're as
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  Speaker 3: big as Roy was, but Roy.
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  Speaker 5: Was more of like a sinker, curveball lit a cutter.
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  Speaker 5: You're just like rare back, here comes a forcing.
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  Speaker 9: But that was also before I, you know, I really
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  Speaker 9: developed my strength and understood that and stepped into my own.
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  Speaker 9: It was just more so hearing the stories about how
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  Speaker 9: diligent he was with his work ethic and and you know,
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  Speaker 9: how disciplined he was and things like that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he was he crutch, I think creps. Did you
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  Speaker 3: play with him in Philly?
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  Speaker 6: I played with him in Toronto well, coming up through
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  Speaker 6: the Blue Jays and then and then played with him
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  Speaker 6: in Philly for three years. And you're one hundred percent
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  Speaker 6: like very very humble and like he does. He just
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  Speaker 6: assumed everybody was going to work just as hard as
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  Speaker 6: he did. And nobody ever ever got to that point.
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  Speaker 6: People say that about people, but I watched it and
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  Speaker 6: I he lived it out like he was diligent.
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  Speaker 7: In his work like crazy. It was awesome to see.
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  Speaker 3: Are you playing you playing WBC. No, you turned down Canada?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah I did you had to?
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  Speaker 3: Or did you?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 4: No, it was my decision.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, well what goes what goes into that? Because Freddy
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  Speaker 5: Freeman also turned down Canada? Right, so what goes into
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  Speaker 5: that decision of I'm not going to play? And you
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  Speaker 5: did it before, so it's not like it's just your
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  Speaker 5: first one.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 9: In twenty three it was a phenomenal experience, Like that
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  Speaker 9: was my first experience pitching in major league stadiums in
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  Speaker 9: front of sold out crowds in that kind of environment,
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  Speaker 9: and I had so much fun and enjoyed that. So
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  Speaker 9: just this year, being at kind of where things architecturally,
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  Speaker 9: I didn't feel that it was wise for me to
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  Speaker 9: take that time away, and so I wanted to make
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  Speaker 9: sure that I was here and completely president focused on
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  Speaker 9: the year coming up.
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  Speaker 6: Talk about here, talk about being a guardian, because when
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  Speaker 6: I was in the organization twenty seventeen, they had a
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  Speaker 6: very strict protocol on relievers. You would play high A
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  Speaker 6: and then you would finish the season in Double A,
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  Speaker 6: Double A for a whole season, and finish the season
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  Speaker 6: in Triple A. Did you appreciate the slow trudge or
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  Speaker 6: because your path went a little quicker than some other guys.
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  Speaker 6: Do you think it was something that maybe I could
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  Speaker 6: have gone faster.
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  Speaker 9: No, I'm I'm I think the timing was perfect in
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  Speaker 9: its own way, because when I came in this organization
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  Speaker 9: like I was, I was eighty eight to ninety two,
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  Speaker 9: I didn't have very good off site pitches. I had
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  Speaker 9: maybe topped out at ninety four, and I didn't know
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  Speaker 9: my you know, didn't know my strengths, didn't know how
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  Speaker 9: to pitch, didn't know how to like try and read
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  Speaker 9: hitters and work to my strengths in that regard. And
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  Speaker 9: so every subsequent season was I was learning something, I
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  Speaker 9: was developing something. I was building on that foundation that
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  Speaker 9: I have been, you know, working with with the staff
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  Speaker 9: here and trying to trying to take advantage of the
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  Speaker 9: resources they provide and dig in and just continue to
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  Speaker 9: build and build and build. So it never felt like
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  Speaker 9: it was slow or like I was Stocker should have
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  Speaker 9: been moving on for me.
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  Speaker 4: The whole whole, you know, way I viewed it.
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  Speaker 9: Was this is where I am because there's something that
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  Speaker 9: I need to learn and work on in order for
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  Speaker 9: me to move to the next level.
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  Speaker 4: And stick.
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  Speaker 6: The Gardiens have proven that they can create starting pitchers.
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  Speaker 6: But obviously you're a reliever. At what point did you know?
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  Speaker 6: At what point were you in Hi A Double A,
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  Speaker 6: Were you like dang, like, I think I get what
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  Speaker 6: they're saying, and I think this is going to be
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  Speaker 6: dominant in the big leagues because you have only dominated
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  Speaker 6: since you've been up in the big leagues.
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  Speaker 9: It was probably, I would say that it was probably
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  Speaker 9: when I was in Triple A. There there was an
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  Speaker 9: adjustment period when I got there, but then there was
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  Speaker 9: there was a stretch down the end of the year
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  Speaker 9: where I was starting to see things coming together and
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  Speaker 9: I was starting to pitch and feel like I was,
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  Speaker 9: you know, understanding that I have a complete arsenal on
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  Speaker 9: how to use it and to really work with my
• 15:47
  Speaker 9: strengths and also compliment them with my other pitches and
• 15:50
  Speaker 9: roll from there.
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: When you start figuring it out, you come up to
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: the big leagues. You have an incredible rookie season in
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: twenty four right, I mean under a two VR a
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: way more strikeouts than aning's pitched, and everyone's talking about
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: you. You go in the postseason, you dominate, You get to
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: you get to become a legitimate person that people talk about,
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: and they say, oh, no, we don't want to get
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: to Kate Smith coming into the game in the seventh
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: or eighth inning because you had Class A behind you.
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: Stuff happened with Class A. Then you get thrown to
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: the closer's role. How do you just jump from a
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: seventh eight inning guy to oh, my gosh, I have
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: to get the last three outs of a game.
• 16:27
  Speaker 9: I think that the biggest thing comes down in my faith.
• 16:30
  Speaker 9: My identity is not in in how I perform or
• 16:34
  Speaker 9: what I do. That's temporary. That's going to be taken
• 16:35
  Speaker 9: for me at some point, whether I want it to
• 16:37
  Speaker 9: be or not. And so it really is that's the
• 16:41
  Speaker 9: thing that I'm going to be anchored on. That's the
• 16:43
  Speaker 9: thing that I am stable in and steadying. And when
• 16:46
  Speaker 9: I pitch, I get to go out there and just
• 16:48
  Speaker 9: compete and have fun. So regardless of the context there,
• 16:51
  Speaker 9: I'm sure there was a there was an adjustment. Yes,
• 16:53
  Speaker 9: it's a it's a different situation, there's a different energy
• 16:57
  Speaker 9: in the ballpark, but it's fun and it's it's an
• 17:00
  Speaker 9: opportunity that you know, I got to pitch in last
• 17:02
  Speaker 9: year that I'm grateful for and so I'm going to
• 17:05
  Speaker 9: make sure I'm doing everything i can before the game,
• 17:08
  Speaker 9: after the game, between the next game, during the offseason
• 17:11
  Speaker 9: to prepare and put myself in the best position to,
• 17:14
  Speaker 9: you know, step up and fulfill that responsibility. If they
• 17:17
  Speaker 9: if the phone rings and my name is called.
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: Explain that because you were a rookie, explain you know
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: your faith and what the feeling, the feeling that you
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: have because you were a rookie in some of the
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: biggest spots and it was like, lou get kid up,
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: like he's coming in in the playoffs. Yes, we're talking
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: about closer and regular season now on a consistent basis,
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: but in the playoffs, tell us how your heartbeat was rolling,
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: and tell us like the enjoyment, because on the mound
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: it looks like you're just like that was cool.
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: That was a fun game. Thanks for letting me play.
• 17:51
  Speaker 9: Guys, No, there's no doubt it is. It is so
• 17:55
  Speaker 9: much fun. And the anticipation that's a very real thing.
• 17:59
  Speaker 9: Like that energy builds in the bullpen as as we're
• 18:02
  Speaker 9: watching the game and how things progress, like everyone's aware
• 18:05
  Speaker 9: of what's going on and you know it's a close game,
• 18:08
  Speaker 9: it's back and forth. It's gritty, like we're we're bought in.
• 18:11
  Speaker 9: We're completely aware of what's going on there. But that
• 18:16
  Speaker 9: was one of the big lessons I took from the
• 18:18
  Speaker 9: WBC in twenty twenty three was going into pitch in
• 18:21
  Speaker 9: for the first time in a sold out stadium and
• 18:25
  Speaker 9: looking back on it and being like, oh, that was
• 18:26
  Speaker 9: that was fun? Like I actually I enjoyed that, Like
• 18:29
  Speaker 9: there was There's no part of.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: Me that was like that was awful.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: I never want to do that again.
• 18:32
  Speaker 9: But it was seeing that actually, for whatever reason, there
• 18:35
  Speaker 9: is something in me that thinks it's fun to be
• 18:37
  Speaker 9: in those situations, and so I just I, you know,
• 18:39
  Speaker 9: I enjoy that and I look forward to it. And
• 18:43
  Speaker 9: it's really I think as simple as that is that
• 18:45
  Speaker 9: I enjoy it.
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: Are you going to have a walk out song or
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: walk out theatrical performance.
• 18:52
  Speaker 9: I think that's up to the media team how they
• 18:54
  Speaker 9: want to do that. I'm that's not That's not what
• 18:57
  Speaker 9: I know how to do. But yeah, there will be
• 18:59
  Speaker 9: a song. I have some choice you have to pick. Sure,
• 19:02
  Speaker 9: they're not gonna run you out there just so, but I'm.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Not gonna go make the video myself, not make the video.
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: But you get to pick the song right and then
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: right now it's what fire fired up.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: You're gonna stick with that, right?
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: I think I'm gonna switch it.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: You're gonna switch Breaking News two?
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: Not sure yet?
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: So dang, I thought we had something there. I thought
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: we had something. I've been done a lot of Guardians games.
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: The last few years because you guys, uh, you guys
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: have been good, so I've had to. I've been there
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: for for a Budge, had many many means with Tito
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: before Voter got there. Now I just sit there and
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: listen to Voter talk for like twenty minutes. He fires
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: me up.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: He does have an act for that.
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: Yes, who's your favorite? Who's your favorite? Walk out of
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: the other closers in the league? Active, active, war or past?
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: I think that I I I like Howsley looking out
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: to Hell's bells.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but so you stole that. You can't. You can't.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: It doesn't work. I'm sorry, it doesn't work. No, because
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: I was Trevor Hofflin, So you can't. I get it.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: But there's got you gotta go highway to Hell. You know,
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: there's got to be another strong with Hell and it
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: Besides Hell's bells. We just can't go, you know, like
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: I told him that too when we got him on,
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: I'm like, Brian, I love you, but you can't. You
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: can't steal Trevor Hoffins. Sure, and it's iconic. He's in
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: the Hall of Fame banks hundred saves. He laughed, and
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: he still went with it. He really didn't listen to
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: me very well.
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: All right, Kate, I got I got one last one
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: for you. You guys still do the beep test in
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: spring training? No we don't, Okay, no you don't do it. No,
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: we don't do it.
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: Did you ever do it when you were a minor leaguer?
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: I did it in high school. That was the last time.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: What's the beep?
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: Terrible question?
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: They used to do the beep test in spring training,
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: and basically, you have to get you have to get
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: to the to the end point and back before it
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: beef twice. Anyway, it was a big It was a
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: big Guardians when I played for him. It was an
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: Indians thing. So terrible question doesn't apply anymore. I figured
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: you would have won because pitchers usually competed for it.
• 21:10
  Speaker 9: And then they shortened the time between beeps. You gotta
• 21:12
  Speaker 9: be running faster and faster and faster.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, we didn't have I never had that, so
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: I don't even know. I never even ran a sixty
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: when I was playing. So I one of the funniest
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: I thought, beep test is like to check your hearing.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: No, okay, all right, I had no idea. All right,
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: before I let you go, I gotta ask you this. Uh.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: Sebrowski was here and he's a Canadian born and he's
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: a giant, like you, What the hell are y'all putting
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: in your water?
• 21:38
  Speaker 9: But there's been comments that we might switch our bullpen
• 21:41
  Speaker 9: into an offensive line or something.
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: And so I mean every Canadian I'm looking at a
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: list of active Canadians are all gigantic. So what I
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: mean besides you and Sebrowski and then Quantrell's big, Romano's
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: a big guy, Pavetta's a big guy, Brash is a
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: big guy.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: You guys are only pitchers, so I mean you have
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: nailor right, So he's he's the token, uh position player
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: in the Canadian group. Everyone else is just gigantic pictures.
• 22:05
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I can't speak to them, but I drank a
• 22:07
  Speaker 9: lot of milk growing up. Maybe that has something to
• 22:09
  Speaker 9: do with it.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: Okay, all right.
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: That's okay. Hey, last one, you and I.
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: This is the first guest we've ever had on the
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: show that we're starting our fourth season here in March.
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: You and I are the only two that have ever
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: been on the same show that went to a Mennonite
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: high school. I went to a Mennonite high school in Pennsylvania,
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: Christopher Dock Mennonite High School. You went to a men
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: in high school clearly farther away in BC.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: Mm hmm, that's wild. No school dances at those men
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: in night high schools.
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: There was no.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: Site your amish like Crats. Dude, do you have a
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: horse and buggy growing up like Krats does?
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: Totally different?
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: No, totally, I know.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: Sorry, I'm just we always give Crats because he's from
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: rural Pennsylvania where there's a lot of.
• 22:58
  Speaker 9: When I told my wife that when we were dating,
• 23:00
  Speaker 9: she was like, I told her parents, I think he
• 23:02
  Speaker 9: might be Amish.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: No, I'm not.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Okay, that's good, but your faith based. We love that.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: So all the best, good luck, and I can't wait
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: to see what song you pick and what entrance that
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: you choose yourself when you come out to.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: The to the mount.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: We have Hunter Gaddis here with some of the best
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: flow not only on his head but also on his
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: chin right in all of Major League Baseball. And can
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: we do we call you a setup guy extraordinary as
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: Kate Effecion officially taking the closers, and you're the setup
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: for Kate.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: Now, hey, I'll take whatever. I just I just like
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: the job.
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: You just like a job or the job. I like
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: the job you started at one point, Yes, I used too, the.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: Job of starting, or the job of relieving.
• 23:49
  Speaker 10: I like reliving. I like the spur of a moment
• 23:52
  Speaker 10: going a game.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Did you throw a bullpen today?
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: I did not? I think one yesterday.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: And did you use the iPad and all the tools?
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: Oh? Yeah, all the technology?
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: Do you?
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah? Oh?
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: Man, man, man man, So are you the the throw
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: one pitch? And then I'm I gotta see what I.
• 24:06
  Speaker 10: Threw that only if I'm specifically working on something okay.
• 24:10
  Speaker 10: Otherwise otherwise I don't touch it. If I feel good
• 24:13
  Speaker 10: and it comes out good, good location, I don't look at.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: What are you looking for? I always asked.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: Yesterday we're in Kansas City and we had Reagan's and
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: Waka and Stevian and you're like, Okay, what are you
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: looking at? So when you pick up the iPad and
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: you throw a pitch and you're like that was it? Oh,
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: and then you say, oh, it's ninety seven point eight
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: with this vert or horizontal? Are you looking for a
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: specific metric?
• 24:34
  Speaker 10: Yeah, not exactly vert or velo per se, Like like
• 24:39
  Speaker 10: if it if it comes out good, like it and
• 24:41
  Speaker 10: it feels good, I'm not gonna look at it, okay,
• 24:43
  Speaker 10: because the only thing the numbers could maybe tell me
• 24:46
  Speaker 10: is that it wasn't good.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: It's like, if it feels good, I'm gonna rock with it.
• 24:49
  Speaker 10: But uh, it's more like if I'm coming around the ball,
• 24:53
  Speaker 10: like on the side of my fastball and I'm not
• 24:55
  Speaker 10: getting that it doesn't feel like I'm getting that vert
• 24:57
  Speaker 10: I'll go look at the spin direction, say, am I
• 25:01
  Speaker 10: on the side of it? Am I truly behind it?
• 25:04
  Speaker 10: And if it just feels weird that day, but I'm
• 25:05
  Speaker 10: still behind it, good, Just look at it a couple
• 25:07
  Speaker 10: of times.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: Just make sure Hunter.
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: So many people are looking at like the screens and
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: the numbers, and you guys have six coaches watching each
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: bullpen like there's so much going on. Do you feel
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: like that lends to arm health for pitchers, or do
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: you feel like it is something that could could make
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: guys more susceptible to injuries, especially younger guys who are like,
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: everybody's watching me. Every pitch is videoed, it's all in
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: the iPad. I have to throw my mac's best pitch.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: Ever, I mean, it can definitely add to it.
• 25:46
  Speaker 10: I wouldn't say, you know, it's easy to do it,
• 25:49
  Speaker 10: especially the first time. It took me a couple of
• 25:50
  Speaker 10: years to like, you know, get over. Hey, everybody's watching.
• 25:54
  Speaker 10: The numbers are on me. But once I realized, like, hey,
• 25:58
  Speaker 10: those numbers are there to help, just you know, hurt you.
• 26:01
  Speaker 10: Like you're throwing eighty eight in the bullpen and then
• 26:03
  Speaker 10: it feels good and everything's coming out good. You know,
• 26:06
  Speaker 10: that's just as good if you're throwing hard and it's
• 26:09
  Speaker 10: you know, it looks just as good to me. It's
• 26:11
  Speaker 10: just it's just a bullpen to me. It's always just
• 26:14
  Speaker 10: a bullpen to you. Well, what about when you're warming
• 26:16
  Speaker 10: up for a game. Okay, well let's say now you're warming.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: Up for a game. Is you don't care?
• 26:21
  Speaker 10: No, the only thing I care abouts on the mountain
• 26:23
  Speaker 10: in the in the field in the game.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: So when you're warming up to come into the seventh
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: eighth inning, right in a game, do the coaches stand
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: there with the iPads.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: No?
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Not in the game, No, no, not in the bullpen. No, okay,
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: So you warm up.
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: So the first pitch of the your outing whatever, let's
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: you throw a four seamer up right and the guy
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: swings and misses.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Are you a creeper of ninety seven point six twelve
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: inches of vert?
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: For sure? Look good?
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: Not every time you hide it, or you just because
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: the guys who just would hide it were worse than
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: the guys that would just go.
• 26:59
  Speaker 10: Okay, baifically. I don't have to turn around behind you. No,
• 27:03
  Speaker 10: it's a it's up broad behind the cutcher. So it's
• 27:05
  Speaker 10: a little it's a little maybe you get the ball back,
• 27:07
  Speaker 10: catch it up here.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: A little peak.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: And because I remember when they first started doing that,
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: we would yell at the picture.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: Four you don't have to look ninety two?
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: What uh? You know?
• 27:17
  Speaker 10: In high school and college, like I didn't have the
• 27:19
  Speaker 10: velos like on boards and stuff. So I finally started
• 27:22
  Speaker 10: like being able to look at it. I looked because
• 27:24
  Speaker 10: I I like it especially if you throw hard, Yeah,
• 27:26
  Speaker 10: it's fun.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: It's fun. Yeah.
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: So when you when you punch your guys ticket, you
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: ever look up and be like you just pointed the scoreboard.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: I never, I liked. I like to strut around, catch
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: my breath.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Okay, you're tired for that pitch clock?
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah? Run No, what's more?
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: What's more disappointing absolutely getting on one like you're like
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: that came out good? Looking up? Oh it was actually
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: two miles an hour slower. Or giving up a little
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: bleeder base hit that you should have made the play on.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: It matters.
• 28:02
  Speaker 10: I mean in the game, I'm just trying to get
• 28:03
  Speaker 10: three outs. If I'm throwing ninety, if I'm throwing a hundred,
• 28:07
  Speaker 10: three outs, three outs to me, you.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: Know you want to strike everybody.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: I want to for sure that three outs and a
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: zero on the board. That's my goal.
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: So if you give up like three piss missiles, three,
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: you know, three line drives, you're like, oh, let's fine,
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: three outs, three ounces of zero three. I may not
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: be the happiest, but three three ounces there on the board.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: I like it. I like it. What was what was
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: it like when you went from starter reliever?
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: You say you like relieving more. To me, you come
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: across as more of a reliever than a star. Most
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: starters don't look the way you most relieve. You have
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: a reliever look right, which is great.
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: I think every reliever should look mean and tough and
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: as nasty as they possibly can, because when you look
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: out there as a hitter, you look at the guy
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: and you're like, oh, look, how cute he is. Meanwhile,
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: you know I want a guy that's out there snarling
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: and breathing fire. So what was that trends like for you?
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: Did they did the guardians come to you and say, look,
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: we tried to get starter, we think your stuff plays better,
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: or did you go to them and say, I think
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: I'd be better as a reliever.
• 29:08
  Speaker 10: I was this spring training of twenty four. I prepared
• 29:12
  Speaker 10: the off season as a starter, you know, building up
• 29:15
  Speaker 10: doing forty to fifty pitch bullpens and whatnot. And then
• 29:19
  Speaker 10: we started games. I think I do an inning here
• 29:22
  Speaker 10: through two innings, kind of building a starter, and then
• 29:24
  Speaker 10: it was just like, hey go get one inning, Hey
• 29:26
  Speaker 10: go get one inning, Hey go get one inning. I
• 29:28
  Speaker 10: was like, okay, probably not starting, you know, made the team.
• 29:32
  Speaker 10: They told me I was be in the bullpen, not
• 29:34
  Speaker 10: no set roll, no nothing, just when my name's called go,
• 29:38
  Speaker 10: And that's what I did. And I've really enjoyed, like
• 29:41
  Speaker 10: spur of the moment every day I can be in
• 29:43
  Speaker 10: the game and it's a lot more fun to me.
• 29:47
  Speaker 10: We just talked to Mike Turnoff and I had to
• 29:48
  Speaker 10: ask the terrible question in the room, but he said,
• 29:52
  Speaker 10: you guys were pretty pissed when the whole class A
• 29:54
  Speaker 10: thing came out. You're actually somebody who's down there in
• 29:58
  Speaker 10: a pen with him when that all came out. What
• 30:01
  Speaker 10: were your emotions and did it galvanize you as a
• 30:04
  Speaker 10: group in the bullpen?
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 30:07
  Speaker 10: You know, at first it was just kind of like
• 30:09
  Speaker 10: a stun moment. Uh kind of just let it be,
• 30:16
  Speaker 10: you know. I just kind of swept it on the rug.
• 30:18
  Speaker 10: I still had a job to do every single day
• 30:19
  Speaker 10: showing up, and I just tried to control it I could.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: That's a very that's a very veteran answer on Yeah.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Well wait, I have a followed just on the season there.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: What a well, Okay, so this is kind of the
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: fan in me here, hunter, and it's getting more to
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: how Yeah, you guys certainly were galvanized. You came back
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: from a ridiculous deficit to take the Tigers down for
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: the division. I know the postseason didn't go the way
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: the team wanted it to go, but the regular season
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: is a freaking marathon, and usually when you see double
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: digit deficits that late in the season, you're like, yeah,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: we're toasted.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: So here's my question.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: We're not going to throw any player under the bus,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: but you don't have to say the name of the player.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: There had to be one person at one moment that
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: joke at least like, well, it's not our year, We're
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: not winning the division. It's something right like, did you
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: guys actually look the entire time, and every single person
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, we got this. We got this, guys,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: fifteen in the back of the Tigers, We're getting them.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Like there had to be some moment of whatever it's
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: called brevity or something. We're like, all right, not this time.
• 31:30
  Speaker 10: You know, I did one hundred percent honest, I'd never
• 31:33
  Speaker 10: heard anybody say that we were out of it by
• 31:35
  Speaker 10: any means. The voter did a real good job of
• 31:38
  Speaker 10: talking to us each shit every day and just keeping
• 31:41
  Speaker 10: our spirits up in the down moments, just you know,
• 31:44
  Speaker 10: to take it one day at a time, and then
• 31:47
  Speaker 10: it kind of it got I mean we had a
• 31:50
  Speaker 10: tough time, tough stretch where it was like not as
• 31:53
  Speaker 10: easy to show up to the park for sure, and
• 31:55
  Speaker 10: then once when you got there, it was game time
• 31:57
  Speaker 10: and it kind of goes away, and then we got
• 31:59
  Speaker 10: hot and started rolling for us and it was a
• 32:02
  Speaker 10: lot of fun to end it.
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: Steven Vote's one of my good friends. We played together
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: several different stops. What does he do that you think
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: other managers? And I get it, you haven't had other
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: manager a ton of other managers in the big leagues,
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: But what does he do that brings you guys together
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: or what's his like most endearing trait? But then you
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: also have to say, what's the one thing that's really annoying.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: That he does.
• 32:31
  Speaker 10: I mean, he's really good at just being personal with everybody.
• 32:35
  Speaker 10: He knows everybody really well. I feel like, you know,
• 32:38
  Speaker 10: we know him really well. Just when it's time to
• 32:41
  Speaker 10: joke around and how fun, I mean, that's gonna be
• 32:43
  Speaker 10: the time, and he'll do it. And then when it's
• 32:45
  Speaker 10: game time, I think he's like a different person. He's ready,
• 32:48
  Speaker 10: he's locked in, and I just feel like he's locked
• 32:51
  Speaker 10: into the game. But then you see him the clubhouse
• 32:53
  Speaker 10: after and he's hot, like high fiving, smiling and just
• 32:57
  Speaker 10: real personal. But the only thing I guess to say, like,
• 33:01
  Speaker 10: I don't know what you said. I was like, don't like,
• 33:03
  Speaker 10: I don't know if that's the words. It's not that
• 33:04
  Speaker 10: I don't like anything about him, but We'll be having fun,
• 33:08
  Speaker 10: have a fun, and then I'll have to snap out
• 33:09
  Speaker 10: of it, and he's like, oh, I'm your manager.
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: I gotta got my job.
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, welcome, welcome to life in the corporate hierarchy. Yeah,
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: it can only it can only be a player, so
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: long in the fun stop exactly Not I understand that. No,
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: I'm just kidding. It actually gets better as you get older.
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: All right, I have two more before we let you go.
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: One you said, vote gets to know you personal. So
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: what what does he talk to you about?
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: Uh? Golf? Really? Yeah, we both enjoy golf. I love
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: golf and it's just my Uh So.
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: Now that you're done, it's eleven fifty two, are you
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: going to play fifteen? And hear that mark here, that's
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: good man two fifteen tea time.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: Ma, It's unbelievable. Some of us can't ever get out
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: of here.
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: You gotta get it in when you can. That's right.
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: I know someone's got some of us gotta You know,
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: we gotta work twice today, Hunter. We can't all just
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: throw a bullpens yesterday and take it easy. And then
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: the last for me, we had Kate on or we
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: had Kate on.
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: I talked to Kate.
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: He said he has a new song he's coming out to.
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: I'm a firm believer that only the closer gets the
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: walkout song and the fire entrance. You're not a closer yet,
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: you might be someday. Do you think it's okay for
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: setup man to get the fire entrance in the song?
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: For sure?
• 34:23
  Speaker 10: I think anybody should go, sir, we're playing a game
• 34:28
  Speaker 10: for the fans out there to enjoy. I think a
• 34:30
  Speaker 10: good intro and everything.
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: Why not?
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: Oh man, I was liking you too, and then you
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: went ruined it. Oh come on, now, I'm not talking about.
• 34:40
  Speaker 9: No.
• 34:40
  Speaker 7: It's fun.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: It's like can you imagine? Can you imagine?
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: It's like maybe like five years from now, like Edwin
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Diez isn't a closer anymore, and he's like a fifth
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: inning guy, and like the starter gets like just destroyed
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: and it's like ten two and it's like burn up, like,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: oh here, gos, it's funny.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: Do you have to have the lead when you come
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: in to have the music?
• 35:04
  Speaker 10: I don't know if you necessarily have to, but it's gotta.
• 35:06
  Speaker 10: It's gotta be a good, enjoyable game for the fans.
• 35:09
  Speaker 10: That's I mean, that's why we're there, That's why they
• 35:11
  Speaker 10: show up. Okay, I mean give it to it Hunter.
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: My last question, I asked Kade this, but off camera,
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: I asked Kad Smith this, does the boneyard, the plane boneyard,
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: which is right next to Goodyear, does it freak you
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: out at all? Because when I played there, freaked me
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: out because planes will take off and land there, But
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: it's all decommissioned planes that are there, and I'm like,
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: who is flying those? I feel like it's like the
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: bullpen guys of of pilots?
• 35:40
  Speaker 7: Am I right or wrong?
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 35:43
  Speaker 10: I've never even thought about it. You put way more
• 35:45
  Speaker 10: thought into it than I have. I just see planes there,
• 35:48
  Speaker 10: I don't.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: I actually just think it's cool that they're all there.
• 35:50
  Speaker 10: It is kind of cool to see her unless you
• 35:52
  Speaker 10: gotta play catch here and you got planes in your
• 35:54
  Speaker 10: someone's letting go of the ball right into a white plane.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: That's not too funny.
• 35:57
  Speaker 10: But now I see a bunch of the small planes
• 36:00
  Speaker 10: I like take off and on a weddy day, even
• 36:03
  Speaker 10: like today, you're not in there. You're not a flyer. No,
• 36:06
  Speaker 10: I feel like I'm already over the weight them in
• 36:08
  Speaker 10: those days.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: Hunter, this was great. Thank you for the time. Enjoy camp,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Enjoy your tea time. Think of a j you know
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: at every tea time that he doesn't get to enjoy,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: and feel really bad for Him's.
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: Got a grind man, teams players.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: He chose to be a catcher, that's his loss.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: And now he's chosen to be a broadcaster for really
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: a number of networks, Ours, box, et cetera.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: So he's a busy man. So enjoy your free afternoon,
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: all right, Appreciate it.