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FT at A’s camp: Lawrence Butler, Brent Rooker · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: People getting older, and we did a new young team
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  Speaker 1: on the rise, So I mean, I feel like we
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  Speaker 1: got a good chance of taking the AOST and playing
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  Speaker 1: through October.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go back on FT Live with Lawrence Butler,
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  Speaker 2: who just signed a nice extension to be part of
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  Speaker 2: this franchise for a while.
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  Speaker 3: Look great to have you on, Thanks for the time.
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  Speaker 2: I do want to get right to base because we
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  Speaker 2: haven't had Yon since then, and it's awesome. Man, we
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  Speaker 2: really enjoyed watching it breakout last year. So take us
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  Speaker 2: through it. When was the first phone call back the
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  Speaker 2: extension and then the last one when it actually was sealed.
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  Speaker 3: What were your reactions and emotions like.
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  Speaker 1: This actually been going on since like the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the offseason, so kind of I mean kind of going
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  Speaker 1: through this for some months now, and I.
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  Speaker 4: Mean it was a long process.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean when we finally got the call that
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  Speaker 1: you know, the initial deal was done, you know, it
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  Speaker 1: was it was crazy. I probably cracked like thirty minutes,
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  Speaker 1: you know, call my mom, called my dad, brother. It
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  Speaker 1: was it was a surreal moment though, you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: a life changing moment, so you know, it was very
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  Speaker 1: emotional for me. But wuld you buy I haven't about
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  Speaker 1: none yet, but I do got a couple couple of things.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going car and I'm gonna watch kind of watch
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  Speaker 1: really they day dy. It's gonna be all go with
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  Speaker 1: the olive face.
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  Speaker 4: All right. Yeah, it's a big you might get it
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  Speaker 4: when their extensions done.
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  Speaker 1: Nah, I'm getting this song whenever they pay me.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I'm wing. You get that first check exactly,
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  Speaker 4: and then what kind of car?
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  Speaker 1: Twenty five V truck lab Okay, I like loud cars
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  Speaker 1: song with some loud exhausts.
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  Speaker 4: You're not going so you're not going electric car? You're
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  Speaker 4: not going test? I ain't really.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the only electric car I get is that Dodge,
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  Speaker 1: that new Banshie Dodge. They coming out with one of them.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a Dodge guy, like I love all the muscle cars.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get the tr X too, but that's later.
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  Speaker 4: That's the second check.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm sure I get an electric car. Gonna
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  Speaker 1: get that that that bangie electric gud.
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  Speaker 4: All right? All right? What's life been like? I mean,
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  Speaker 4: other than buying stuff? I mean when you call your
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  Speaker 4: mom and dad and you say, mom, dad, I just
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  Speaker 4: signed a seven year deal for sixty plus million dollars,
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  Speaker 4: they start crying.
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  Speaker 1: I mean when I first told them, I don't even
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  Speaker 1: think they was they could really gather everything that I
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  Speaker 1: was telling them, because you know, that's kind of like
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  Speaker 1: I'm just dropping it on them out of nowhere. I'm
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  Speaker 1: on the West coast and they live on the East coast,
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  Speaker 1: so it's probably like ten thirty at night. They wind
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  Speaker 1: it down to go to sleep, and I just dropping
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  Speaker 1: on them. So they weren't crying at first, but they
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  Speaker 1: both did tell me later on when they kind of
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  Speaker 1: realized it was happening and stuff like that, they did cry.
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  Speaker 1: So it was.
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  Speaker 5: That was a great moment.
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  Speaker 4: They're not gonna change you. You're not gonna change, right.
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  Speaker 5: No, I'm gonna be the same person.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: I've just got some money.
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  Speaker 4: Now, all right, So don't change. I don't want to
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  Speaker 4: see that swag change.
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  Speaker 1: Nah. The swag is gonna elevate much.
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  Speaker 4: See That's what I'm talking about. Hell yeah, stuff.
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  Speaker 6: Let me let me ask you this. This is really
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  Speaker 6: incredible for your congratulations. Sorry, my Mike is playing tricks
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  Speaker 6: on me right now. But my question to you is
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  Speaker 6: what are your expectations now this year coming up? Talk
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  Speaker 6: to me about your goals, expectations and where you want
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  Speaker 6: to see yourself after this year.
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  Speaker 1: I have the same expectations. I mean them paying me
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  Speaker 1: doesn't change what I want to accomplish in my career
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  Speaker 1: or you know, over the course of the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five seasons. So I mean, I still want to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: go out there and put up good numbers for my
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  Speaker 1: team and you know, be a be a factor of
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  Speaker 1: you know, winning games for my team. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I really just want to, you know, be in some
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  Speaker 1: talks of you know, my MVP All Star, you know,
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  Speaker 1: best right fielder.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I really just work to be the.
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  Speaker 1: Best in the game. And that's what I was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: working towards before the contract, and that's what I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: keep working towards after the contract. So, I mean, the
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  Speaker 1: the money in the contract doesn't really change my goals
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  Speaker 1: on the baseball field. Those always be the same, never
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  Speaker 1: forever be the same.
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  Speaker 4: Lot.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have a bold prediction for the A's as
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  Speaker 2: a club this year? I mean, now you've been in
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  Speaker 2: camp for a few weeks, what does this look like?
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  Speaker 1: Playoffs? For sure, I honestly think we can take all
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  Speaker 1: of them teams in the AL West. I mean we
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  Speaker 1: really ain't got I wouldn't say too much competition. We
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  Speaker 1: got some competition, but I mean the teams that were
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  Speaker 1: kind of running it before us starting to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: lose some players, people getting older, and we did a
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  Speaker 1: new young team on the rise. So I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like we got a good chance of taking the
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  Speaker 1: Al West and you know, playing through October.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, you know what. I love that because I've
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  Speaker 4: been picking y'all. Yeah. People were saying, why the a's
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  Speaker 4: I said, because if you, by the way, I can't
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  Speaker 4: call you law dog? Is that your nickname?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just law because Kenny and Dallas kind
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  Speaker 1: of came up with the dog. Really, the Org came
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  Speaker 1: up with the dog part. But it's really because I
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  Speaker 1: played with Matt Lawton.
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  Speaker 4: You don't probably even know who Matt Lawton was people's
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  Speaker 4: outfit or on rightfielder. When I first came up, he
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  Speaker 4: was law dogg to me. So and everyone's like, lot dog.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, I can't call him because I get it.
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  Speaker 1: I get it.
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  Speaker 4: I can call you law them, you can call me. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: everybody thirty thirty for you this year.
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  Speaker 1: For sure, That's what I'm reaching for get thirty bags,
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  Speaker 1: thirty plus Homers.
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  Speaker 4: What's easier thirty homers? Thirty bags? I would say to Homers, really, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: even with the big pizza box bags.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's it's kind of easier to get.
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  Speaker 4: You said, what's one harder or easier? Easier?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I say, I would say the bags because a
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  Speaker 1: lot of these pictures be slow to home. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: can really steal a lot of bases off pictures. I
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  Speaker 1: don't really say a lot of bags are stole off catchers.
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  Speaker 1: Majority of on the stole off pictures.
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  Speaker 4: As a former catcher, trust me, I agree they were
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  Speaker 4: all off the pictures. I've always made good throws, and
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  Speaker 4: I was safe for.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all because I mean, they take a minute to get
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  Speaker 1: the home. So I feel like I can get thirty.
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  Speaker 4: Easier before we let you go. I gotta I gotta
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  Speaker 4: ask you this. No, in your bio it says you're
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  Speaker 4: born in New Jersey. Dodgs from New Jersey. So he's
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  Speaker 4: gonna claim you but you went to but you went
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  Speaker 4: to you went to Joe, You're from Georgia, you went
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  Speaker 4: to Westland, So what do you claim? Tell me?
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  Speaker 1: Come on, I was born in New Jersey in Burlington,
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  Speaker 1: and I moved to Atlanta when I was three months old,
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  Speaker 1: so I have.
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  Speaker 6: No yes, yes, listen, listen, you lost your swag dog
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  Speaker 6: with me with it.
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  Speaker 1: Family in New Jersey and they do come watch me play,
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  Speaker 1: like when I go to New York.
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  Speaker 5: And stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: So I say.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly, yes, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So you claim both, claim both, and we're happy with that.
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  Speaker 2: We We're friendly with Georgia and New Jersey. We got
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  Speaker 2: no problems with that. So yeah, a good yeah, awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 2: We'll catch you during the year too, but wanted to
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  Speaker 2: get you, you know soon after the extension. Thanks for
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  Speaker 2: joining us, man, good luck. We'll talk to you soon,
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  Speaker 2: coming off the big extension in the off season. Brent,
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  Speaker 2: great to have you on man and big act to follow.
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  Speaker 2: We had Lawrence Butler like ten minutes ago, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: give me some bold prediction.
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  Speaker 3: What are you seeing? And he's like, playoffs? Sure, can
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  Speaker 3: you double down?
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  Speaker 5: We like where our team's at. We got we've got
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  Speaker 5: good players, we've got a good, good vibe, we've got
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  Speaker 5: good culture. We're gonna go out there. We're gonna play hard,
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  Speaker 5: we're gonna get We're gonna put a good product on
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  Speaker 5: the field.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, I mean, here we go.
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  Speaker 5: I'm more media trand the Lawrences. We like our teams.
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  Speaker 5: We like where our teams that we got really good players.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of guys have gotten a lot better, a
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  Speaker 5: lot of guys are playing with a lot of confidence.
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  Speaker 5: Right now. We're gonna we're gonna go out there, We're
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  Speaker 5: gonna compete. And I like where I like what. I
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  Speaker 5: like our chances of having a pretty good team this year.
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  Speaker 6: I'll be honest with you. That's a great answer. But
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  Speaker 6: your boy stuck out a just and saying, hey.
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  Speaker 5: If you've had both me and Lawrence on, you should
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  Speaker 5: know the difference in me and Lawrence's personalities. So we
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  Speaker 5: are we are very very close, very very tight. We're
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  Speaker 5: very different people. I am not nearly a swagon.
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  Speaker 4: And I asked him. I'm like, you just signed signed
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  Speaker 4: the extension. I said, what's you gonna do for the
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  Speaker 4: swag game?
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  Speaker 5: He goes, I can't imagine I can with that, what
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  Speaker 5: with what he's already got rocking, Like you put a
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  Speaker 5: few extra million in his pocket. I can't imagine he's
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  Speaker 5: gonna pull out. So I'm excited to see.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Brent, I mean, obviously we've talked to you about
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  Speaker 2: you know, numbers, and you're definitely an analytical brain. Do
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  Speaker 2: you look at projections for the team? I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: feel like that's the right way to ask this question,
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  Speaker 2: Like do you look at at what you know the
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  Speaker 2: publications say about the team in terms of the ones
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  Speaker 2: that have numbers projections? And even does the front office
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  Speaker 2: point out anything that you know numbers spit out for
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  Speaker 2: what the team should look like this year, like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: this team should be really good in these categories and
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't love us in these categories, So here's what
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  Speaker 2: we should do to improve on that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we are. We're very aware as a group of
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  Speaker 5: what we did well last year, what we didn't do well.
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  Speaker 5: We know what areas we need to improve on to
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  Speaker 5: win as many games as we want to and be
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  Speaker 5: in the position that we want to, and we also
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  Speaker 5: know what we did well and we're going to do
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  Speaker 5: our best to continue to excel in those areas. You know,
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  Speaker 5: we we hit a lot of homers last year and
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  Speaker 5: we produced a lot of runs that way. We think
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  Speaker 5: we can do that again with the guys in our lineup.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we know defensively, we we have to work
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  Speaker 5: through from last season. We've a lot of guys have
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  Speaker 5: put in a ton of work to get better there.
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  Speaker 5: So we we like where we're sitting there. And then
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  Speaker 5: from pitching staff wise, you know, I think just with
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  Speaker 5: the additions that we made and and Jeffrey and then Savvy, Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: that's that that's gonna help us out of ton. So,
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  Speaker 5: like I said, we like where we're sitting. We like
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  Speaker 5: where we're at. We we were hoping to outperform any
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  Speaker 5: expectations being put on us from from the outside because
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  Speaker 5: internally we're very optimistic.
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  Speaker 4: So I keep saying tilling her, but I think you
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  Speaker 4: guys are going to make the playoffs and make a
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  Speaker 4: run because I love your team. I love you guys
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  Speaker 4: have been I love you brought in, I love the extensions.
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  Speaker 4: I talked to your manager, I was a teammate of mine.
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  Speaker 4: I say, Cots, what do you think. He goes, well,
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  Speaker 4: have you seen all the projections or you know, seventy
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  Speaker 4: two wins?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he likes yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So is he using that in the clubouse Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he brought that up, And I think
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  Speaker 5: it's just a motivating tool, right. It's the people who
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  Speaker 5: are pretty good at predicting, or tend to be pretty
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  Speaker 5: good at predicting wins have us like seventy seventy two wins.
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  Speaker 5: We think we're better than that, and we're excited you
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  Speaker 5: out there and then kind of prove that you guys
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  Speaker 5: are way better. I think we're better than that.
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  Speaker 4: I think between you, law Shay's going to take the
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  Speaker 4: next time. Wilson's going to take the next time.
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  Speaker 5: You got to watch out for Shaite like Shae offensively,
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  Speaker 5: this camp has.
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  Speaker 4: Been he hits, he hit bombs. He's always so.
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  Speaker 5: Impressive, man. His approach is refined. He's taken some steps
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  Speaker 5: forward from last year. Look for it's weird to say
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  Speaker 5: I'm lumping JJ in that category too, because JJ is
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  Speaker 5: doing damage his camp, but is going to have a
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  Speaker 5: big year. Both those guys in such good years last
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  Speaker 5: year that's weird to kind of talking about those guys
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  Speaker 5: as the breakout guys because they're already very, very good
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  Speaker 5: major league players. But I look for both those guys
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  Speaker 5: to do a lot of good things this year. I've
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  Speaker 5: been thoroughly impressed with the camps that they've had.
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  Speaker 4: Is there anything JJ can't do?
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  Speaker 5: No, J is he's such a good player. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: he turned himself into a really good center for the
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  Speaker 5: last year. I think he's gonna hit for more power
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  Speaker 5: this year. I think he's looking like he has a
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  Speaker 5: little more bat speeds, swinging a little more aggressively this
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  Speaker 5: campany did last season. But he's so good back to ball.
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  Speaker 5: His approaches are so advanced. He knows what he's doing
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  Speaker 5: and there and everything's do too much. So, like I said,
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  Speaker 5: JJ's not going along with Shade that I think are
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  Speaker 5: gonna be big catalysts for for our team going forward.
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  Speaker 6: Let me ask you this, talking about your team moving forward,
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  Speaker 6: has there been anybody in camp, a young guy that
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  Speaker 6: you're gonna be like that You're sitting there, You're like, Oh,
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  Speaker 6: this dude has the potential of fitting in right away,
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  Speaker 6: or we might see this guy in a couple of months.
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  Speaker 6: Is there's anybody that you're like, Wow, this spring train,
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  Speaker 6: this guy's kind of taken off, and uh, we're gonna
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  Speaker 6: need him down the road.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Kurtz is impressive, man, big kid, really advanced field
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  Speaker 5: to hit, really advanced approach, plays really good first base.
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  Speaker 5: Probably the most raw juice that we have in the organ.
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  Speaker 5: As far as his power goes, I mean, it's the
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  Speaker 5: ball hard, it's the ball far. You know, he's he
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  Speaker 5: came out of college already advanced. So I think he's
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  Speaker 5: gonna expect him to play well wherever he starts to
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  Speaker 5: kind of push the envelope. And I like Max Monty
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  Speaker 5: a lot. I've talked about him several times. Yeah, right, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I like a younger Max Monty a lot, the one
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  Speaker 5: on our team. He's really good athlete, really good ballplayer.
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  Speaker 5: I love his swing. A ton of bats beat. I
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  Speaker 5: think he's gonna help us out at some point too.
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  Speaker 4: All right, so we gotta we're gonna talk off the
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  Speaker 4: field stuff in spring training. There's a lot of things
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  Speaker 4: that happened in spring training. There's a golf there's a
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  Speaker 4: golf swing of view that has been Yeah, it kind
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  Speaker 4: of went viral, and Mookie Mookie kind of took a
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  Speaker 4: shot at you.
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  Speaker 5: He did, I mean, you do.
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  Speaker 4: There is a little Charles Barkley maybe pause at the top.
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  Speaker 5: I like the pause. It gives me time to organize.
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  Speaker 4: So is that a broken golf swing.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think it's that bad. It could definitely be better.
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  Speaker 4: But sixteen.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's Scott still there. I had it was like
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  Speaker 5: fifteen feet left, Penn. Hi missed the putt, but I was.
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  Speaker 5: I was pleased with the shot.
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  Speaker 4: Did they throw did they when you missed the putt?
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  Speaker 5: Uh? The people with my group dead?
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 14:09
  Speaker 5: Of course, of course your Yeah, but yeah, I would
• 14:13
  Speaker 5: have loved that. But yeah, Mookie went off script a
• 14:14
  Speaker 5: little bit, took a shot. I was okay with it, though,
• 14:18
  Speaker 5: Uh no, and he's now he's in Japan, so yeah,
• 14:20
  Speaker 5: I can't even Yeah. I texted him a little bit
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: after he said he found out obviously wasn't the original script,
• 14:26
  Speaker 5: and he found out it was I was the guy
• 14:28
  Speaker 5: after him, So he decided to go rogue a little
• 14:30
  Speaker 5: bit and take away the nice compliment that I was
• 14:32
  Speaker 5: supposed to get throw in the out of nowhere insult.
• 14:36
  Speaker 5: But I was okay with it.
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: Your boy, Vinnie Vinnie Pasmentino broke justin fields to the Jets.
• 14:41
  Speaker 5: I saw that.
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: How did he know?
• 14:43
  Speaker 5: I don't know how that was he just I haven't
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: talked to about it. Was he just taking a shot
• 14:47
  Speaker 5: in the dark and happened to be right?
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: Or he actually I don't know. I don't know. I'm
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: not a Jets, I'm not an NFL guy, so like.
• 14:52
  Speaker 5: I don't really know all the the doings and the
• 14:54
  Speaker 5: carousel that's happening right now. But I saw that he
• 14:56
  Speaker 5: broke in and I was kind of impressed with him.
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: I like Adam Schefter, Yeah, he was all good for time.
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: Maybe he's got maybe he's got sources. Who knows.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: I'll jump in, Uh, Brent, I want to ask you
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: about the ABS system with the challenges have have you
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: personally been partaking in it? And I feel like you're
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: someone now, You've got some dirt in your spikes, You've
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: got good play discipline.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: What would be your feedback?
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: Do you you know, give me a grade system on
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: it and anything you think that they need to work
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: on before implementing it.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: Most likely in twenty six.
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: I have only played one game with it, and it
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: was in Vegas.
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: Because you guys don't have it here. It on every
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: spring stadiums, so it's only nothing on the road.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: Besides that, well you're not playing on Yeah.
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: I played. The road game I played was in It
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: was against the Angels at their place, so they didn't
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: have it either. So I want to played one game
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: with it in Vegas. I mean, it's been going well
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: so far. I think. I think there's a lot been
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: a lot more challenges that are right than wrong. I
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: feel like the hitters when we challenge pitches, I have
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: a pretty good idea of the zone. Maybe if the
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: stats don't line up with that, but from what I've seen.
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: The one game I did play, I took a three
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: to one pitch that I thought was a ball. I
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: didn't challenge it, and I struck out the next pitch,
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: so I went back and looked at it and it
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: was a ball I should have challenged. So I just
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: had to learned to trust myself a little bit more.
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: And we're gonna use it.
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: Did you forget? You can go on?
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: No. I thought about it, and I was like, I
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: don't know for sure, and I don't want to look
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: at it.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: Because I saw somebody the other day. Was it to tease.
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: Maybe that didn't realize that he could do. He didn't
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: know what to do. He's like it was too late.
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, but it's tough sometimes because mine, the one
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: I'm talking about, was below the zone, so like by
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: the time I track it and look back, the catchers
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: already like snatched it up. So I just have to
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: kind of trust your gun and sting with where you
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: think it crosses. I feel like, yeah, and I know,
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: I mean end game and we're not using it like
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: in the season. I feel like whenever I think the
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: pitch I take as a ball is I go back
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: and look at it and on me is a ball.
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: So I just gotta trust myself. I think if we
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: ever do implement that.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: Next year story, next year you'll have it.
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure it seems like we're headed that way.
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: Let me let me ask you Thiss Vegas. You were
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: just spotted I at the Vegas game, the hockey game
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: the other day with a couple of the players too
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: as well. Just talk a little bit about, you know,
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: the trend of how you know Las Vegas is coming
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: into its own with you know, some new teams there
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: and eventually, you know, you guys heading over there, talk
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: a little about that, and you know, either you're excited
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: or you know what your mindset is about that.
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we think it's gonna be awesome once we get there, right,
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: I mean, we went to the hockey game. If the
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: fan base there is great, the energy and excitement obviously
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: is top notch, high level, So we're looking forward to that.
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: We've seen the stadium renderings, you know, we've we've seen
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: some more renderings that obviously haven't been released yet that
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: also look great. So the reception we got from the
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: city during the big lea weekend there, you know, meeting
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: all the people involved with the stadium and the planning
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: and the move and all that stuff was really really positive,
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: really exciting, and we think it's gonna be a really
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: really good place to play once we're there.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: You guys have the patch in your arms, you guys are.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we got we got the patch. That's the Las
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: Vegas some kind of Tourism commission or something, so it's
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: it's our sponsorship patch. And met with those people while
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: we were there and the people on the board and
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: talked about how excited they were to have us and
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: all the benefits there will be for us as players
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: once we're there, and it's it's very exciting.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: Like I said, well, before you get to Vegas, you
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: have to go to Sacramento. I know we're not allowed
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: to say you're the Sacramento age even though you're playing
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: in Sacramento, right to me, is strange, Right, that's not
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: your problem. How's it gonna play? Have you got I
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: know you went there and you've done some stuff pr
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: stuff there too, but have they given you any new
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: info on how it's going to play and what's going.
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: To be like in terms of like how the field
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: itself is going to play. And we were thinking like
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: league average as far as hit her picture friendly kind
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: of right in the middle. It was the most picture
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: friendly PCL Park, But that doesn't mean a lot, and
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: you know when you compare them to the other stadiums there.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: So best guest right now is about league average. You know,
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: we'll see in the first month or so how it
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: plays and make adjustments from their.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: First time you hit one to like right center in
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: the catches it. Well, I don't Vegas.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: It will certainly be more header from than the coliseum.
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: I think we know, especially at night, especially at night,
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: especially the right Center if we went to blow in
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: from there, but it'll be more header from the Oakland.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: It will be I think about league average. So you
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: don't see how it goes.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: Have you seen the clubhouses?
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: And I have seen it early July or sorry, early
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: January when all the infrastructure was up. I haven't seen
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: it since you know, it's been closer to finish. But
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: the facilities for us are gonna be great. They're gonna
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: be I mean, they're in left field, that's the downside
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: of it. But as far as what we have their amenities,
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: training room, weight room, food room, catching all that stuff.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: It should be. It's gonna be brand new, and it
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: should be. It should be very.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: If you're okay, is there a cage close to the dugout?
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: There is not?
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: You have a bullpen card that takes you out, and
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: then I'm gonna.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: Have to figure out how to what I'm gonna do.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: I'm not a hit between a Bats guy, but I
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: am gonna go up to the weight room and and
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: stay loose that way between a Bats guy, and that's
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: not the dugout. So I don't know how feasible it
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: is to walk down the left field line to get
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: out there between a bass or finding just come up
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: with a new setup in the dugout. So the first
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: week or so will be me trying to make adjustments,
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: figure out what my teams could take.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: Y RP. Ricky Anderson. Didn't he have a bike that?
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: He was right?
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I probably put one in the corner the out. Yeah,
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: I can probably do that. You get a peloton, Yeah,
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: maybe like a little cubic like an office cubicle in
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: the corner to give me some my almost space over
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: there and ride a bike in the corner or something.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: I'll figure something out.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Hey, Brent. Last one for me.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: We had an extended combo with one of your new
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: teammates last night, Luis Savarino. It was fascinating. He was
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: talking about how he thrived and broke out again last
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: year after struggling in twenty twenty three with the Yankees,
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: and one thing he pointed out, which he learned more
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: about via free agency, was multiple ways that he was tipping,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: including his looks. Have you noticed that in the past
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: or did you did you even know about this? Or
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: my breaking news to you right now?
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: And a kind of with him, so he.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: Said, especially with gut runners on base, he would come set,
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: and if he looked to second and then just went
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: right home, it was an off speed pitch. If he
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: if he would come he would come set, look at second,
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: and when he looked at third before it was a fastball.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: Okay, And so he knows that now obviously.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's like, I've been working out. I think he
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: found out last time he went from the Yankees. So
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: they told him, like, if we had this on you,
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: and he said, also he didn't get into what he
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: was doing with his glove. So like say there's a
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: first and second back he would come set and if
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: he if he went home looking at second, it was
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: a breaking ball off speed or change up. And if
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: he would come set and then he'd look at the runner,
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: third base coach or whatever, and you go, it was
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: a fastball. So the hitters were able to pick up
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: that's interesting. Well, yeah, I mean we're excited to have him. Obviously,
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: he was really really good last year and he's gonna
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: be an anchor top for rotation. But that's the days are
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: signing guys. Yeah, I a trade for springs. I mean,
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: there's a lot of guys that brought in.
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: It just it's a sign that the communicate said, like
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: front office, the people who make the decisions really like
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: what we have here, and they think we're pretty close
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: to being pretty good, which we feel as players as well.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: So bringing in addition, I mean, you're right, you're not
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: gonna go sign big free agents if you think you're
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: far away. It doesn't make a lot of sense. So
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: that it tells us that the feeling we have as
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: players is shared throughout the organization, from top to bottom.
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: With the group that we have here is the right one,
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: and we're excited to kind of get out there and
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: and show that. Like I said, the team that we
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: have together is one that can win a lot of games.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: I can't wait.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: My sleep. It has been my sleeper pick all year.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: I'm sticking with it after being here and talking to
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: these guys.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: Love it.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Brent on our way out, what's one thing we got
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: to ask mar Kotte because apparently he's coming up in
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: like ten minutes.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: Oh, what do we have to kick him with?
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: What do you guys make fun of him for? There's
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: got to be something.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: Perfectly hairy? He's great. I don't know. Did you ask
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: law Mason?
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: No?
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: No, I just I just thought of this I.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: Mean I played with No he's great. He's awesome. He's awesome,
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: He's done a great job.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna ask him. I want to know why he
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: bends his hat so much.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: He does be in the hat.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: It's like super bad.
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: He doesn't they did it? Did he do that when
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: he played?
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: Yes, he was always like, I don't know why it's
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: so bad.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: And he wears the low profile hats too, like the
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: older school and yeah, don't like sit up t how
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: he likes like.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: Will Venable for the White Sox as a flat Burmmer
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: is like the Japanese little leaguers that have like the vah. Yeah,
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: he's the same way.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: That's the insight in But we were looking for a
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: right good to see you, man, I have on the
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: rest of the camp.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: We'll talk to you during the year.
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: We'll do