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San Francisco Giants team preview with F.P. Santangelo · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: I mean right now if you ask guys in the clubhouse,
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  Speaker 1: but that's their closer unless can be a little of
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  Speaker 1: all comes in and just does some crazy stuff like
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Walker's your guy.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we'll get to forum show. We'll have bonus
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  Speaker 2: questions too. But justin Verlander signs with San Francisco, Blake
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  Speaker 2: Snell is gone. What do we think about the rotation?
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  Speaker 2: Big Willy style a damis taking not just his talents
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  Speaker 2: but his personality to San Francisco, and he has got
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  Speaker 2: a lot of it. Bryce Eldridge could finally be the
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  Speaker 2: first guy to crack the thirty homer code for the
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  Speaker 2: Giants since Barry Bonds. He's six seventies a monster. And
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  Speaker 2: then Camille Duval and his struggles last year after being
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  Speaker 2: an All Star in twenty twenty three. So let's start
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  Speaker 2: with the rotation. How are we feeling about Verlander entering
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  Speaker 2: the mixed? Yes, that's great. That does HAP backward shows. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: HAF backward show. Verlander enters the mix, Blake Snell is gone.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of young starting pitching talent in that rotation.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you think they're at?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you guys are gonna love this.
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  Speaker 1: I've been doing a lot of fan fest stuff, and
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  Speaker 1: I've been hanging out with Buster Posey and doing interviews
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  Speaker 1: with Buster and talking to him, and we just put
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  Speaker 1: all those graphics up showing what they did in the
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  Speaker 1: offseason and just talking to Buster.
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  Speaker 3: In his resume and winning three World Series.
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  Speaker 1: He's trying to sign character guys in clubhouse guys, and
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  Speaker 1: he wants that clubhouse to be a tight unit, and
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  Speaker 1: he wants them he wants the opponents to feel the Giants,
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  Speaker 1: whether you win or lose, to feel their presence. And
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  Speaker 1: you guys, think back to Buster Posey's teams at ten, twelve,
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  Speaker 1: and fourteen. Whenever you played the San Francisco Giants, you
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  Speaker 1: knew you were playing the Giants whether you beat them
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  Speaker 1: or not. They were scrappy on offense. They pitched the
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  Speaker 1: heck out of it, they caught the heck out of it.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's what they want to get back to.
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  Speaker 1: And no offense to the past regime and people that
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  Speaker 1: were here before, But there was never a lot of
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  Speaker 1: talk about getting to a World Series.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they have.
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  Speaker 1: Three trophies on the corner and third and kick down there, Aja,
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  Speaker 1: you know that better than anybody, And In the past years,
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  Speaker 1: there was a lot of talk in the media from
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  Speaker 1: brass and front office people about, Hey, we just want
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  Speaker 1: to get to the playoffs. And I think it's super
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  Speaker 1: healthy for a team to talk about, Hey, we want
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  Speaker 1: to win a World Series. I don't care who's in
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  Speaker 1: our division. I don't care how much money they've spent.
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  Speaker 1: That this is the San Francisco freaking Giants, And I
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  Speaker 1: think with Buster at the Helm that they're going to
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  Speaker 1: get back to that. You talk about Willia Damas and
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  Speaker 1: Justin Verlander, those are resume guys, but resume guys that
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  Speaker 1: can still play. And you guys probably know better than
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  Speaker 1: I do because you're more recent in the game. But
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  Speaker 1: I have never heard a bad word about Willia Damas.
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  Speaker 1: Like his clubhouse presence. We can see how he plays
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  Speaker 1: every day, and being a broadcaster, I don't fanboy about
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  Speaker 1: many players because you know you're with them every day
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  Speaker 1: and you respect them and you love what they do
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  Speaker 1: and you live vicariously through them now. But as far
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  Speaker 1: as Willia Damas man, I've loved watching him play from Afar.
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  Speaker 1: I've talked to players that played with him. The clubhouse
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  Speaker 1: presidence he has what a nice guy you guys know,
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  Speaker 1: you can't win with just nice guys, but like he
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  Speaker 1: can play. And I think the fact that Buster's going
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  Speaker 1: after these guys says a lot about the direction the
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  Speaker 1: organization is trying to head, the culture they're trying to
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  Speaker 1: bring back to San Francisco.
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  Speaker 4: He's definitely a leader in that clubhouse, or he could
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  Speaker 4: be a leader in that clubhouse once he joins it.
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  Speaker 4: But the fear is just the same fear of any
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  Speaker 4: free agent that signs in San Francisco. Is his power
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  Speaker 4: going to go out?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 4: Will the well, the pot, well the park and the
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  Speaker 4: do coming in? The Marine layer coming in squashes power
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  Speaker 4: like everybody else's.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it might.
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  Speaker 1: I think you have to like take the numbers, at
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  Speaker 1: least the power numbers in Milwaukee. Right.
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  Speaker 3: That's a launching pat Eric, you know that.
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  Speaker 1: And now you're playing in San Francisco and baseball is
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  Speaker 1: meant to be played in the warm weather, and you're
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  Speaker 1: freezing your butt off every time. I remember when I
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  Speaker 1: signed with the Giants, I was at Candlestick, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: really aging myself.
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  Speaker 3: But the first month in April, I turned to JT.
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  Speaker 1: Snow in the dug Guy, I said, how the hell
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  Speaker 1: do you guys do this like I'm freezing my ass
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  Speaker 1: off very night. This is tough, but you get used
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  Speaker 1: to it, so maybe you water down the numbers a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. Eric, But like when you think about I
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  Speaker 1: know it's not twenty ten, and this making me sound old,
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  Speaker 1: but the Giants never won a World.
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  Speaker 3: Series by hitting home runs.
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  Speaker 1: They were won a World Series by having a great
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  Speaker 1: starting rotation, having a great bullpen, catching the baseball on defense,
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  Speaker 1: and getting timely hitting. So I know there's a big
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  Speaker 1: beast down south that signed everybody in baseball and is
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  Speaker 1: if any World Series champions, And you know that's a
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  Speaker 1: daunting task for anybody in the Nation League West. But
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  Speaker 1: when you talk about the success the Giants have had
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  Speaker 1: in the past, I think they're trying to recapture that.
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  Speaker 1: Although you can't live in the past, right the game
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  Speaker 1: has changed, analytics, new rules, but the formula is there
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  Speaker 1: and you guys have won before and you know what
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  Speaker 1: it takes. And a lot of times it's not about
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  Speaker 1: the numbers, it's about the people you have in the clubhouse.
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  Speaker 4: Efie, I got to go to the prospects now. Though
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  Speaker 4: you just mentioned that they're not a home run hitting team.
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  Speaker 4: The last guy to hit thirty homers, there was this guy. Right.
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  Speaker 4: If you don't know who this guy is, it's twenty five, Okay.
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  Speaker 4: They got a guy in the minor leagues, Bryce Eldridge,
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  Speaker 4: that's six foot seven. He's supposed to be a monster.
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  Speaker 4: Will we see him in twenty twenty five at first base?
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  Speaker 4: And will he be the guy to Jake break the
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  Speaker 4: giants curse of nobody can hit thirty homers.
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  Speaker 1: He's a grown man. He sees nineteen years old, or
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  Speaker 1: maybe he's twenty now, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: He's six foot.
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  Speaker 1: Seven drops bombs if you guys, I've only seen video
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  Speaker 1: of his swing. But the video of I swing that
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  Speaker 1: like this guy can hit. Now, everybody there knows. As
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  Speaker 1: an organization, it's a big chance. You're taking a big
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  Speaker 1: chance on a nineteen year old or a twenty year old.
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  Speaker 3: Call him up.
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  Speaker 1: But when I was in DC, Mike Gruzzo called up
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  Speaker 1: Mon Soda when he was nineteen. Mike Rizzo called up
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  Speaker 1: Bryce Harper when he was nineteen, And that thing could
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  Speaker 1: go either way.
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  Speaker 3: Right, if you have success here we go get you up.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't, maybe you set him back a few years.
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  Speaker 1: But from whatever, everything I've heard the video that I've seen.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's a grown man, Like he looks
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  Speaker 1: like he's thirty years old. He's six foot seven, he's
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  Speaker 1: got the big league body. He's not skinny and gangly,
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  Speaker 1: he's all filled out.
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  Speaker 3: AJ.
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  Speaker 1: I heard your story about JT. Snow and Barry Bonds
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  Speaker 1: the other day. They're actually sending JT down to spring
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  Speaker 1: train to work with Bryce Elders. I guess reports areways
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  Speaker 1: a little rough at first base. But you guys, know,
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  Speaker 1: if you practice your defense and you care about your defense,
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  Speaker 1: and you work at it every day, and you got
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  Speaker 1: a guy like Will Clark a JT. Snow helping you out,
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  Speaker 1: I think the upside's really good on the defensive side.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it's gonna be a tough decision.
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  Speaker 1: What if he goes into camp and he hits four
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  Speaker 1: fifty with like seven or eight home runs in Scottsdale, Like,
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  Speaker 1: what are the Giants going to do then?
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  Speaker 3: And I think that's possible. So we'll see that.
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  Speaker 1: All the reports are that this guy's the real deal
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  Speaker 1: and he's kind of a guy you can build your
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  Speaker 1: franchise around.
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  Speaker 3: At first base.
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  Speaker 4: We already talked about how they're going to start the games.
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  Speaker 4: But Camilla Duvall was an All Star in twenty three,
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  Speaker 4: led the league in saves. Last year in twenty four
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  Speaker 4: didn't go too well. The whip was at one and
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  Speaker 4: a half as Zra was in the close to the fives.
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  Speaker 4: Is he going to be able to get the opportunity
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  Speaker 4: to regain the closer role and two sees that opportunity
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  Speaker 4: and get back to that all star form?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Walker is pretty bad ass. So you guys have
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  Speaker 1: seen him with this stepping into the third base, dugout
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  Speaker 1: the crossfire. He's digging the role he's He's got like
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  Speaker 1: a walkout lights thing going already, and at the highest level,
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  Speaker 1: you get the job done.
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  Speaker 3: It's your job.
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  Speaker 1: Camillo had a weird season last year, man, I don't
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what was going on.
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  Speaker 3: He's always got the.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care body language, which is great when you're
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  Speaker 1: pitching really well and the bases are loaded in the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of the ninth and Tranquilo Camillo's his nickname, and
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  Speaker 1: he's super calm.
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  Speaker 3: But when you're when.
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  Speaker 1: You're not dealing and you have that body language, it
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  Speaker 1: could be taken the wrong way. So hopefully he figured
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  Speaker 1: some things out in the off season. His fastball command
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  Speaker 1: wasn't there last year, his slider command wasn't there last year,
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  Speaker 1: and it got to the point where Bob Milvin had
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  Speaker 1: to put somebody in that was getting the job done,
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  Speaker 1: and that was Walker. And he's as dirty as anybody
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  Speaker 1: I've seen a long time. So the Giants need him though.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if the Giants are could do anything and
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  Speaker 1: get to October Baseball and get to the playoffs and
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  Speaker 1: do what they did in ten, twelve and fourteen, they
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  Speaker 1: need a guy like that in the back end because
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  Speaker 1: when he was an All Star, he was unhittable. He
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  Speaker 1: was throwing one hundred and two miles an hour with
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  Speaker 1: like a ninety six mile an hour wipebout slider. But
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  Speaker 1: confidence is everything, and for some reason last year Camillo
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  Speaker 1: div all lost his confidence.
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  Speaker 4: You brought up You brought up Ryan Walker. Ryan Walker
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  Speaker 4: is actually coming on tomorrow, And what do we need
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  Speaker 4: to know about? What do we need to ask him
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  Speaker 4: somebody that's watched him a lot closer than we watched him,
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  Speaker 4: because only times I've seen him, he's been the opener.
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  Speaker 4: Now I hear he's no longer going to be the
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  Speaker 4: opener guy. Maybe a dark horse All Star if he's
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  Speaker 4: allowed to close for the entire first half.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Man, first of all, have one hundred questions ready because
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna he's not gonna be talking a lie, super shy.
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  Speaker 3: But he's a great kid.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 3: He's like one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet
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  Speaker 3: in the whole world.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, yeah, I don't know that the world knows
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  Speaker 1: about him yet, but yeah, that would be a good,
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  Speaker 1: sneaky pick for an All Star. I wouldn't want to
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  Speaker 1: hit against some right handed and I definitely well left handed.
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  Speaker 1: I definitely wouldn't want to hit against some right handed
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  Speaker 1: when he's throwing behind you with that nasty sire and
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  Speaker 1: his velocity upticked as a closer. I just talked to him.
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  Speaker 1: He was We did a fantasy camp down in Scottsdale
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  Speaker 1: for the Giants, and he came and talked to all
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  Speaker 1: the fantasy campers one day.
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  Speaker 3: Just the sweetest kid in the whole world.
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  Speaker 1: But like, his velocity went from ninety five ninety six
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  Speaker 1: to ninety seven ninety eight, And he was a guy
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  Speaker 1: that just the adrenaline of the ninth inning. He embraced
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  Speaker 1: it some guys. You've caught those guys where they've kind
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  Speaker 1: of run from the spotlight in the ninth inning and
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  Speaker 1: they don't like the responsibility of being the last guy
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  Speaker 1: in the mount and shaking hands after the game.
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  Speaker 3: He embraced it, he loved it. His confidence grew every
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  Speaker 3: single outing.
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  Speaker 1: And I think if you, I mean right now, if
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  Speaker 1: you ask guys in the clubhouse that that's their closer,
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  Speaker 1: unless camilev Alt comes in and just does some crazy
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  Speaker 1: stuff like Ryan Walker is r guy.
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  Speaker 4: All right. I was going to ask you something completely different,
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  Speaker 4: but now since you brought it up, fantasy camp, I
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  Speaker 4: don't care what's going So it's fantasy camp. Did you pull aami?
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  Speaker 4: Did you play in? What position? Did you play?
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  Speaker 3: I didn't play. I was a coach. I was a
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  Speaker 3: skipper skipper. I was a skipper.
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  Speaker 4: J T.
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  Speaker 1: Snow was a skipper, George Kantos and Jeremy Affelt and
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  Speaker 1: we drafted players. You guys, it was like real life
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  Speaker 1: fantasy like league. And these people love baseball more than
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  Speaker 1: we do, like we did it for a living, right.
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  Speaker 1: They're just so passionate about the game. They love the game.
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  Speaker 1: And I said, sure, I'll do it. The giants kind
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  Speaker 1: of put me in charge of from the players side
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  Speaker 1: of it, of getting coaches and round the guys up.
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  Speaker 1: So we went down there in scotts Stale. We're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: free trip to Scottsdale. This is gonna be fun.
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  Speaker 3: From a selfish tampoint you guys, It's the.
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  Speaker 1: Funnest week I've had in years. These people love the game.
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  Speaker 1: We had kangaroo court every morning, and in the big
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  Speaker 1: leagues or even in the minor leagues, that kangaroo court
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  Speaker 1: can get weird, right because guys have egos and you're
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  Speaker 1: finding for stuff and you're like, all of a sudden going, ooh,
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  Speaker 1: this is gonna this is gonna cause a little team dissension.
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  Speaker 1: It was so organic down there that we laughed so
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  Speaker 1: hard we cried every morning. We played games in the afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't I've never been to one. Like, I highly
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  Speaker 1: recommend fantasy camp to anybody.
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  Speaker 3: It was really cool. We all had a blast down there, and.
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  Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, the competitive juices start coming out.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a doctor, a lawyer, a father and a son,
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  Speaker 1: a brother and a sister, a husband and a wife.
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  Speaker 1: But they put that scoreboard on and there's runs up
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  Speaker 1: there and I was yelling at umpires like we had
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  Speaker 1: side bets going on games between the coaching staff.
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  Speaker 3: It was pretty cool. We had a blast, all right.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you brought up the team to the South. And
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  Speaker 4: one of the questions that Scott Brown always asks on here,
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  Speaker 4: why even play the games? I mean, they're gonna go
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  Speaker 4: one hundred and sixty two and oh so why should
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  Speaker 4: why should they even play any games? Why should the
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  Speaker 4: Giants ever just just forfeit their thirteen games and move
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  Speaker 4: on right?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, just go straight to the World Series. Just fast
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  Speaker 1: forward to October. We all sit at home and do
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  Speaker 1: nothing for six months, and then we watched the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: play I don't.
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  Speaker 3: Know the Yankees, and then we just watch what you get.
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  Speaker 1: No one's ever won a World Series in January. No
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  Speaker 1: one's ever won a World Series in February. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they look great on paper, they're defending world champs.
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  Speaker 3: The thing I like the most.
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  Speaker 1: About them is with all the superstars they have, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's Freddy or Mooky or show Hey, you go down
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  Speaker 1: the list, those guys play the game the right way.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they all check their egos at the door.
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  Speaker 1: They're in to win. I mean, obviously they're taking care
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  Speaker 1: of for the rest of their life. But we've all
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  Speaker 1: been in situations where those big contracts sometimes change people.
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  Speaker 1: And to their credit, Man, they move runners over, they
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  Speaker 1: get guys in, they play good defense, they run the
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  Speaker 1: bases aggressively, intelligently.
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  Speaker 3: They're all in for doc.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, as much as you'd like to hate the Dodgers, man,
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  Speaker 1: I think they won the World Series last year because
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  Speaker 1: they played baseball the way it's meant to be played.
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  Speaker 3: They played the game the right way.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Fie, last thing before you go, you said something,
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  Speaker 4: and before we got on fantasy camp, you said you
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  Speaker 4: think the Giants can make the playoffs. Now, Plakota, who's
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  Speaker 4: not always the greatest at predicting things, put out their predictions.
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  Speaker 4: They We're going to dig into them a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Seventy seven point nine wins. How can they win more
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  Speaker 4: than that in a division with La Arizona and San
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  Speaker 4: Diego probably better than them, or you know, La and
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  Speaker 4: you know, people can make an argument they're better than
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  Speaker 4: where the Giants' roster is right now. How can they
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  Speaker 4: be better than this projection of seventy seven seventy eight
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  Speaker 4: wins and make the postseason and make the Giants fans
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  Speaker 4: happy again.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah those predictions. You guys know, a lot
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  Speaker 1: can happen during the course of a six month season.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't look good, right. They haven't had some great seasons.
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  Speaker 1: They've done so many things where you watch them on
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  Speaker 1: a nightly basis and I'm up in the booth doing
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  Speaker 1: games and we'll go to commercial. I'll turn to my
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  Speaker 1: partner and go like, what are we doing? Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: there's another base running mistake. They threw to the wrong base.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't keep the double play in order. So saying
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  Speaker 1: all that and then talking to Buster and being around
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the players this winner. They're all in
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  Speaker 1: Scottsdale together. The whole team's been down there for about
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  Speaker 1: a month or so.
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  Speaker 3: Half the guys live there.
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  Speaker 1: They've been practicing, you know, on their own together, so
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  Speaker 1: they get to know each other. They get know Willia Damas.
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  Speaker 1: Willia Damas is turn the double plays with Tyler. Fitzgerald
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  Speaker 1: is going to move to second base. And I think
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  Speaker 1: if they play fundamentally sound baseball, and if you do that,
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: you guys have been on teams that have done that,
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: you don't have to have the most talent to get
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: to October. You don't worry about any other teams. You
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: isolate yourself and you're like, it's all about us in
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: this clubhouse. But if you play fundamentally sound baseball, you
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: take your walks and hand the baton to the next guy.
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: You run the basses smart, you're aggressive on the basis
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: they're going to steal a lot of more bases, or
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: try to this year. You play good defense, you catch
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: the ball, you throw strikes, you got a good back
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: end of the bullpen.
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: You could win a lot of games.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: And if you play fundamentally sound baseball, you look up
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: after six months and you've won a lot more games
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: than you lost.
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, do you need the horses?
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: Do you need the Freddie Freeman's, the Mookie Betts, the
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: Ronald mcuna juniors?
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: Do you need Juan Soto?
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to have the horses to win a
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: world championship, but to get to the playoffs and to compete,
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: and I think that's a key word. Compete on a
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: nightly basis and play the game fundamentally sound and make
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: sure that the broadcasters up in the booth aren't losing
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: their mind during commercial breaks because you're doing silly things
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: every night, and you play consistently, fundamentally sound baseball. You
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: got a chance to play in October. No matter who
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: you are. I think you know you guys see it.
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: I don't, at the risk of sounding old, Nobody runs
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: the bases anymore in the big leagues. Nobody gets guys over,
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: Nobody bunts anymore, nobody takes their walks anymore, well not nobody,
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: but most guys want to hit, and so I think
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: if you play the game the right way, you got
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: a chance to win at the major league level. But
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: that's the key, right getting guys to buy into like
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: hitting at eighteen hopper to second to get the guy
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: over and be an over one.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: Or you can run the bases like drunks and get
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: to the World Series like the Yankees did. But the
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: National League's a better league, so you just can't get
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: away with that in the National League. But FT, thanks
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: for providing some optimism and for the backwards, and good
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: to see you man. It's been a minute. We called
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: some some Nats games back in the day for YouTube
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: and all that, so appreciate the time.
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: Good to see you, Scott aj eric Man, thanks for
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: having me out as a pleasure, it's a privilege.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: You guys do a great job. I watch all the time,
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: so thank you.