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Vinnie Pasquantino joins FT · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: One more thing, because I think this will play well
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Speaker 1: into our next guest. John Hayman wrote, congratulations to the
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Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers for reaching the playoffs with an eight and
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Speaker 1: nine record. If MLB ever had a team in the
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Speaker 1: postseason with a four to seventy one winning percentage, they'd
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Speaker 1: never hear the end of it. And there were great
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Speaker 1: comments because there were tons of football fans going after him,
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Speaker 1: but then they were baseball fans countering that would be
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Speaker 1: the A's or the Braves this past season making it
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Speaker 1: to the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: This apems a lot of foot teventy six win.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it happens in football, but he was just saying
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Speaker 1: they would be uproar in baseball, and I do agree.
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Speaker 3: I think they would three win. Two thousand and six
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Speaker 3: Cardinals won the World Series.
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Speaker 1: They were about five hundred, and that's the one example
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Speaker 1: that was brought up. The other examples were crap. People
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Speaker 1: were bringing up a ton of twenty twenty examples like
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Speaker 1: Brewers and Astros. I'm like twenty twenty really, and then
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Speaker 1: also the week one that I saw for many there
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Speaker 1: were like there are plenty of stretches where teams go
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Speaker 1: eight to nine in baseball I'm like, that is completely irrelevant,
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Speaker 1: Like just them.
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Speaker 4: That would be like a football team going one and two,
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Speaker 4: not even let's see seventeen, that's about a tenth. So
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Speaker 4: that'd be like a team going one and one, going
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Speaker 4: too and you're like, oh, no, they can't make the
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Speaker 4: playoffs because they went on.
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Speaker 3: Too every no idea.
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Speaker 5: What we're talking about, right, the Jets.
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Speaker 4: I mean if they compared the Jets to a baseball team,
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Speaker 4: that'd be like, they never make the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, then you know what, it's perfect timing
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Speaker 1: to bring in our next guest who likes that team.
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Speaker 1: Here he is, Vinnie Pasquentino joining us right now. We
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Speaker 1: might start there, dude, do you think that how you doing?
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Speaker 1: First of all as your offseason? Then I'll get to
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Speaker 1: what we were just talking about.
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Speaker 5: Going very well, progressing the way i'd like it too.
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Speaker 5: The football season is over for the Jets, so I
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Speaker 5: can relax now.
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Speaker 6: They got the way to pick.
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Speaker 3: By the way, do you see what I'm holding up?
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Speaker 3: A zero? Their team had zero interceptions for the whole year.
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Speaker 4: That's impossible to have and you have a defensive guy
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Speaker 4: as the coach.
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Speaker 3: How do you have Sorry, I know it's a baseball show.
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Speaker 3: But they had zero.
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Speaker 4: You would think like a gaball would get deflected and
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Speaker 4: somebody would catch one.
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Speaker 3: Somewhere.
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Speaker 5: There's a stat about the It's like a stat that said,
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Speaker 5: like who am I?
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Speaker 6: And it gave a list.
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Speaker 5: Of stats that all the quarterbacks combined had what their
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Speaker 5: numbers were against the Jets. It was like thirty six
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Speaker 5: touchdowns to zero interceptions, like whatever, a thirteen and three record,
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Speaker 5: fourteen and three record. The guy would have won the
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Speaker 5: MVP if you could have just played against the Jets
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Speaker 5: every week.
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Speaker 6: It was pretty embarrassing.
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Speaker 5: Defensive head coach, no interceptions, playing man defense with like
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Speaker 5: fourth string cornerbacks.
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Speaker 6: It's it was fun fun to watch. I'm glad it's over.
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Speaker 7: Where does that equate to baseball? Where does that equate
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Speaker 7: to baseball?
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Speaker 3: Jet?
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Speaker 6: We talked about it this morning.
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Speaker 5: That exact example would be like having like Hia guys
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Speaker 5: come up to the big leagues and not bunt or
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Speaker 5: do anything and just tell to just go bang like
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Speaker 5: it's just not going to happen. It's not that they're
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Speaker 5: bad players, it's just they're not ready for it just yet.
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Speaker 3: But what is uh?
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Speaker 4: What was the game where the Jets blocked the field goal?
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Speaker 4: Was it the Bucks game and they thought they were
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Speaker 4: gonna win and Aaron Glenn ran down the sidelines and
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Speaker 4: then the guy and they baker.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was oh man, I.
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Speaker 6: Feel you have to watch that one.
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Speaker 5: Nothing works out because we were still playing.
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Speaker 6: So it's fine, it's fine. I'm over it.
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Speaker 5: The season is long in the rear view now and
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Speaker 5: we're excited to look forward.
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Speaker 1: Good to tie this into baseball, Vinnie, do you think
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Speaker 1: that MLB fans would go nuts if a team made
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Speaker 1: the playoffs with a sub five hundred record like we
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Speaker 1: see in football.
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Speaker 6: Well, fans go nuts for anything.
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Speaker 5: When the one seeds make it to the World Series,
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Speaker 5: it's because they spend too much money and they buy
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Speaker 5: the wins. If a six seed makes it to the
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Speaker 5: World Series, it's because they didn't have a buye and
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Speaker 5: they were you know, they were continuing to play. So
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Speaker 5: it doesn't matter what you do, say or react to anything.
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Speaker 5: People are going to complain. So you just got to
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Speaker 5: keep moving forward and know that people are going to
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Speaker 5: complain no matter what.
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Speaker 1: Yes, they will find a way and actually embrace the
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Speaker 1: complain because it just means that they're passionate and they're fans.
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Speaker 6: Right, fanatic? Right?
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Speaker 5: Isn't that some the definition of fans fanatic? They just
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Speaker 5: go crazy for everything as they should.
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Speaker 1: Yes, well on that topic, I mean, obviously you're a
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Speaker 1: big deal in Kansas City and you love Kansas City.
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Speaker 1: But maybe you love Kansas City too much. Now I
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Speaker 1: think we have the video of this, so it sounded
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Speaker 1: like you were adopting a real football team temporarily and
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Speaker 1: then that didn't work out for you either. This is
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Speaker 1: you on FS one saying that you're officially a Chiefs fan,
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Speaker 1: and I was told that since you did that, they
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Speaker 1: went three and eight. We're not superstitious, We're not blaming
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Speaker 1: the Chiefs destruction on you, but is it disheartening to
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Speaker 1: adopt a new team that then falls apart?
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Speaker 5: So all you can do is go with the data
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Speaker 5: that has been provided to you, and me being a
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Speaker 5: fan of your team is bad news. I have supported
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Speaker 5: the Chiefs for years, gone to plenty of games, gone
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Speaker 5: to many of playoff games, but this was the first
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Speaker 5: year that I publicly, like on national TV, said I'm
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Speaker 5: all in on the Chiefs and this is what happens.
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Speaker 5: So I would not want me to root for your
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Speaker 5: football team basically publicly. So yeah, it's been tough. It's
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Speaker 5: been tough. I'd like to just see some winning football
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Speaker 5: for a team that I like, and it's gonna happen
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Speaker 5: one day. I'm going to keep the faith, and you know,
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Speaker 5: we just keep faith.
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Speaker 4: Two things, to get the priests that bust the field
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Speaker 4: for the Steelers last night to come to the Jets
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Speaker 4: and just bless their locker room maybe.
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Speaker 3: And second of all, can we show that clip again?
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Speaker 4: I want to know who has the worst look, you
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Speaker 4: or Nick Right in that video, because you have your look.
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Speaker 4: You're going for the Nick Right haircut and look right
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Speaker 4: there in this video, like what's happening there?
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Speaker 5: I wish I would have tied my hair up that day.
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Speaker 5: I didn't realize how to the side it looked. I
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Speaker 5: thought like when I left makeup, it was backed, and
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Speaker 5: then I guess I had shook my head or something
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Speaker 5: and it completely moved to the side. Not my best,
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Speaker 5: not my best to look. But but as you can see,
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Speaker 5: I cut my hair rectified the situation. Yeah, so we're
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Speaker 5: going short hair now, don't have to worry about anything.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, but isn't strom gonna be pissed that you were
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Speaker 7: on the same show as him. It looked like Matt
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Speaker 7: Strom and now you guys got him back with the Royals,
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Speaker 7: Like yeah.
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Speaker 3: Like, is he gonna have to cut his hair?
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Speaker 5: Like?
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Speaker 7: Is that is that a Royals thing this year? Like
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Speaker 7: are you guys all Samson locks or getting taken off.
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Speaker 6: India?
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Speaker 5: Cut his hair? So he's got short hair now, I've
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Speaker 5: got short hair now. So Strom is the only one
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Speaker 5: that I can think of that has long hair. So yeah,
6:43
Speaker 5: you know, he'll have to adjust. Maybe we're gonna make
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Speaker 5: We're gonna become the Yankees and short hair. We do
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Speaker 5: what we did in the minor leagues. Short hair, no beard,
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Speaker 5: wear your socks up. I just go back to nothing
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Speaker 5: but rules. Yeah, just as many rules as human possible
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Speaker 5: We're gonna do.
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Speaker 4: Is that why Curtaro got an extension? Because he said,
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Speaker 4: no TV, no fun, all rules, cut your hair, and
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Speaker 4: then they signed him to a three year extension with
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Speaker 4: an option.
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Speaker 3: I mean, is that why what they needed?
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Speaker 6: That's right?
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Speaker 5: We just yeah, he also came out. I just saw
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Speaker 5: it before I got on the show. I checked my Twitter.
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Speaker 5: He told me that I called him and told him,
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Speaker 5: you're welcome. Uh, that is not how that conversation went well.
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Speaker 5: He goaded me into telling him you're welcome. I said congrats,
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Speaker 5: and he's like, oh, really, I should be saying thank
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Speaker 5: you to you. And I said, yeah, okay, you're welcome.
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Speaker 5: So that was a good thing.
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Speaker 6: That was a good.
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Speaker 5: He looked it sounded like I called him, was like,
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Speaker 5: hey man, you're welcome.
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Speaker 6: Congrats.
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Speaker 5: Actually that is an extension you just got.
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Speaker 4: That is what you actually should have done. You should
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Speaker 4: have been you're welcome for my second half. So therefore,
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Speaker 4: you know, now I'll take a little pay a little
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Speaker 4: cut of that pay raise you just got.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, but if I'm going to say you're welcome for
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Speaker 5: my second half, I better apologize for my first half.
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Speaker 5: So that's why I just I just stay out of
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Speaker 5: all those conversations.
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Speaker 2: We've got qu later this week, so we'll talk to him.
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Speaker 5: Actually, i've got you tomorrow. He's coming to see me tomorrow.
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Speaker 5: So you guys have him this week. I have him tomorrow.
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Speaker 5: We'll see how that can.
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Speaker 3: Where are you watch? Where are you located?
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Speaker 6: I'm in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Speaker 3: He's gonna watch.
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Speaker 4: He's not really Yeah, he's not really coming to see you.
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Speaker 4: He's really coming to to go to Broadway. I mean,
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Speaker 4: let's be serious. Yeah, he's just pretty much. I think
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Speaker 4: he's flying in tomorrow morning and then flying out, so
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Speaker 4: we'll see. I'm gonna put him through the ringer tomorrow.
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Speaker 4: I might make him work out too, and yeah.
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Speaker 7: What's he gonna do? What's he gonna do?
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Speaker 3: Like?
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Speaker 7: Is he gonna spot you on the bench? Is he
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Speaker 7: gonna like? Is he gonna hold your hips while you
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Speaker 7: while you backsquash?
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Speaker 3: What's happening?
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Speaker 6: Whatever?
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Speaker 5: Whatever he can handle, we're gonna find out. I might
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Speaker 5: make him hit some fungos.
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Speaker 3: Well, we'll see, are you gonna.
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Speaker 6: Am I gonna have him do what.
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Speaker 4: Call balls and strikes when your dad throws VP to
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Speaker 4: you because the other day with you and your.
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Speaker 5: Dad, Yeah, and objectively speaking, that was a ball. Like
9:09
Speaker 5: the fact that what I almost had a reply like
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Speaker 5: to everybody tweet where I wanted to say, this is how,
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Speaker 5: this is why players should not look online after games because.
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Speaker 6: People have no idea.
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Speaker 5: There were so many people saying strike, so many people
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Speaker 5: saying ball you won. You can't tell in the video
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Speaker 5: because of depth perception, but there was people calling me
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Speaker 5: like Buddy Pal, different derogatory like things to say to
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Speaker 5: somebody being like that, take a seat, pal, grab some
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Speaker 5: pine buddy, like Okay, First off, I had to explain
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Speaker 5: we were doing live at bats. Second off, grow up,
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Speaker 5: don't come you know, I'm just I'm just having a
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Speaker 5: little bit of fun online. Don't need to be mean
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Speaker 5: to me. It's you know, whatever, whatever it was a ball.
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Speaker 2: That is what happens when you throw things out of me.
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Speaker 4: They need a track man, dingy whatever the track man. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: whatever the hell, They're all right, righty wherever you're doing that.
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Speaker 6: I've been.
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Speaker 5: I have recently dabbled into the world of TikTok. I
10:13
Speaker 5: still don't watch anything on it, but I post videos
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Speaker 5: of me hitting and stuff like that on there so
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Speaker 5: that there's an entire video of us doing live at
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Speaker 5: bats and the second swing he makes me fall down.
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Speaker 5: He still can't make me swing and miss, but I
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Speaker 5: did maybe slip on the turf very slow curveball and
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Speaker 5: fell all the way to my back, which was exciting.
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Speaker 5: But I do have good video that I sometimes post,
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Speaker 5: but that that day I was feeling froggy, so I
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Speaker 5: posted some bad video.
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Speaker 1: I like that, but everyone needs that so they can
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Speaker 1: look at that and go look a big leaguer fell
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Speaker 1: on a swing.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna make it.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I mean, like if if the ball cross film plate
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Speaker 5: where I said it did, which is the picture on
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Speaker 5: the left, and you think that that is a strike,
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Speaker 5: which pratch, you might think it's a strike because you're
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Speaker 5: a catcher and then live at bats, you guys, Oh,
10:57
Speaker 5: you're both catchers.
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Speaker 7: A J.
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Speaker 6: You're a catcher too.
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Speaker 5: Sorry, you guys call everything strikes and live at bats,
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Speaker 5: So maybe it would be then.
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Speaker 7: But I think the A B S is going to
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Speaker 7: protect me there. Oh you're excited about the A B S.
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Speaker 7: A AJ is trying to look at it. AJ is
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Speaker 7: like AJ had over two thousand hits. Yes, he caught,
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Speaker 7: but he's definitely he's definitely more in the hitters.
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Speaker 4: I'm just trying to find the ball in that picture, Like,
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Speaker 4: where's the ball that's the outside corner.
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Speaker 3: Left shop.
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Speaker 5: I mean, it's over the plate. I agree with it
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Speaker 5: is one hundred percent over the plate. People too, there's
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Speaker 5: definitely hundred percent.
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Speaker 3: Is it a fastball a breaking ball? That's a breaking ball.
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Speaker 6: It's a fastball. That's a ball that's up.
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Speaker 7: Get the bat off your shoulder and swing one time.
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Speaker 7: This is the off season. This is when you start
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Speaker 7: like expanding your zone one time, Vinny.
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Speaker 6: That's right, that's what.
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Speaker 5: But the funny part in the video is a lot
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Speaker 5: of people in Kansas City like to at me because
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Speaker 5: my walk rate has steadily gone down every single year.
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Speaker 5: But then my second or third at bat on the
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Speaker 5: video I posted, I walked, and I look at the camera.
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Speaker 5: I'm like, people in Can't City, you are going to
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Speaker 5: like that because it's all that matters nowadays. Fellas you
12:13
Speaker 5: look at all the data, you look at all that
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Speaker 5: just walk you walk, That increases your floor apparently by
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Speaker 5: a ton. Do a lot of damage. Doesn't really matter,
12:21
Speaker 5: but I talk about that all the time.
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Speaker 3: Walk and steal bases.
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Speaker 4: Walk and steal basis the more if you steal ten bases,
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Speaker 4: your war goes up like four runs. Just because you
12:32
Speaker 4: stole ten bases, even though it could be fifteen to
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Speaker 4: nothing and you're stealing third with two outs and they're
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Speaker 4: not watching you.
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Speaker 3: Doesn't try to be more positive.
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Speaker 5: I'm trying to be more positive, so I don't want
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Speaker 5: to get into war or else I might have a
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Speaker 5: panic attack.
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Speaker 3: So, by the way, more positive.
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Speaker 4: And you know Eric greg Is, he said that pitch
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Speaker 4: was not even like close to being a ball. If
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Speaker 4: you saw the ninety seven game with the Braves and
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Speaker 4: the Marln like that was that was like right down
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Speaker 4: the middle then that game.
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Speaker 3: So you're like arguing the wrong way here.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right, that's right. Shit, Yeah, I can't win
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Speaker 6: them all.
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Speaker 7: Was Vinnie was born in ninety seven a that game
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Speaker 7: of that game, just like he was. He was a baby,
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Speaker 7: like literally a baby in the month of October. So
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Speaker 7: that doesn't apply. That game doesn't apply. But he's probably
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Speaker 7: seen the highlights. But those highlights of your dad thrown
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Speaker 7: to you. How often have you done that? Because so
13:23
Speaker 7: many times people are like, oh, man, you know, I
13:26
Speaker 7: want to take a couple of pitches and BP and
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Speaker 7: I just want the ball. Can you just get it
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Speaker 7: right down the middle? How many How long have you
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Speaker 7: been doing that? And obviously you own your dad because
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Speaker 7: you're a big leaguer and he's not, But how long
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Speaker 7: have you been doing that?
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Speaker 6: Uh? We've been going live like that my entire life.
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Speaker 5: Like, to be honest, I think it's one of the
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Speaker 5: reasons that I am able to control my swing and
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Speaker 5: miss because my entire life we've been doing these at
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Speaker 5: bats where he's trying to make me as uncomfortable as
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Speaker 5: humanly possible. His face quote, especially what I'm not hitting
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Speaker 5: well is you can't walk your way out of a slump.
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Speaker 5: So he's always like the point of the the point
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Speaker 5: of the live at bats is like, be aggressive, get
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Speaker 5: your pitch, let it rip, and then get to two
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Speaker 5: strikes and just be a prick.
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Speaker 6: So like, that's kind of what I learned my entire
14:17
Speaker 6: life with him was.
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Speaker 5: Basically, just try to do some damage or less than
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Speaker 5: two strikes, and you get the two strikes, be a prick.
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Speaker 5: And so the goal he has always tried to beat
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Speaker 5: me one but to make me swing and miss, which
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Speaker 5: he hasn't done in a few years. And we just
14:32
Speaker 5: have a good time with it. We try to keep
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Speaker 5: it light. We talk a lot of a lot of
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Speaker 5: crap to each other, Like there's points where we are
14:37
Speaker 5: yelling at each other, as you can imagine too strong
14:43
Speaker 5: minded people trying to get one up on each other.
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Speaker 6: So we have a good time with it. And he
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Speaker 6: lives right down the road now.
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Speaker 5: He's a coach at spring Hill High School here in Nashville,
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Speaker 5: so he's got a field that we can get to
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Speaker 5: whenever we want, and the weather's been pretty nice, so
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Speaker 5: we get out there.
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Speaker 6: I might text him and try to get out there today.
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Speaker 6: See see what I got for him?
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Speaker 3: Very nice. I love it.
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Speaker 4: Like my son talks shit to me all the time.
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Speaker 4: He just told me that he could beat me in
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Speaker 4: a home run derby right now, and I said, listen,
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Speaker 4: I haven't. I haven't touched a bat in like five
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Speaker 4: plus years. Actually made fun of me because I played
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Speaker 4: for the Savannah Modanas and I hit a ground ball right,
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Speaker 4: and I hadn't touched a bat for like five years, right.
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Speaker 4: And he's like, he's like, I'll beat you a home
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Speaker 4: un derby. And I'm like, listen, you don't want that smoke, Okay,
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Speaker 4: you just don't. You never forget how to do it right.
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Speaker 3: So it's fun.
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Speaker 4: It's fun to have father son little shit talking back
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Speaker 4: and forth.
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Speaker 3: I'm all for it. Here's my question for You're playing.
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Speaker 4: For Team Italy right in the WBC this year coming
15:39
Speaker 4: up is Jack cagleone?
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Speaker 3: Is he going to be on that team with you?
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Speaker 4: And can you figure out how to get that gigantic
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Speaker 4: Italian guy to hit? Because he was unbelievable Florida. Now
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Speaker 4: can you get him to figure it out with Kansas
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Speaker 4: City please.
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Speaker 6: Uh yeah, we're working on it. So one.
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Speaker 5: I do believe he's playing on Team Italy. I think
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Speaker 5: it's been confirmedially, but he's playing. I've been working the
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Speaker 5: phones pretty heavy, so I'm laughing thinking about some of
16:10
Speaker 5: the people that I've called and things that I've done
16:11
Speaker 5: to try to get him on the team.
16:13
Speaker 3: But it's, uh, can we can we get some? Can
16:16
Speaker 3: we get?
16:17
Speaker 5: Like there's a certain there's a there's a certain young
16:20
Speaker 5: left fielder or right fielder for the Boston Red Sox
16:23
Speaker 5: that I sent a voice memo to. I don't know
16:27
Speaker 5: him at all, sent a nice voice memo to of
16:30
Speaker 5: just describing the situation of him walking walking up to
16:33
Speaker 5: the plate playing for Team Italy.
16:36
Speaker 6: So we're still the phones.
16:37
Speaker 3: Are we talking about a guy named Roman?
16:40
Speaker 6: It's very Italian name. Yeah.
16:43
Speaker 5: So it's going to be a very left handed hitter lineup.
16:48
Speaker 5: So I'd imagine we will be seeing some a lot
16:51
Speaker 5: of left handed pictures in the WBC. But we'll we'll
16:54
Speaker 5: see what happens. Ned Coletti's putting together a cool team.
16:58
Speaker 5: So he's working the phones all the time. I'm working
17:00
Speaker 5: the phones all the time, and we're we're looking forward
17:03
Speaker 5: to uh to breaking some hearts down in Houston.
17:06
Speaker 6: That's the that's the that's the goal.
17:09
Speaker 3: When do you play there?
17:10
Speaker 6: Wait?
17:10
Speaker 3: What do you know? Who do you guys play USA?
17:12
Speaker 3: Down there?
17:12
Speaker 6: And we do?
17:13
Speaker 5: So? I think it's I'm on that car. Oh you
17:17
Speaker 5: are so March six, seventh, ninth, and tenth, We've got
17:20
Speaker 5: I want to say it's Brazil, the UK, United States, Mexico.
17:26
Speaker 5: So I would imagine it's in the power rankings would
17:31
Speaker 5: be USA, Mexico and then the three of us right there. Yeah,
17:37
Speaker 5: I don't know how you would. I don't know how
17:39
Speaker 5: you would rank the three of us, but I'd imagine
17:42
Speaker 5: it's a top too heavy and then see what happens
17:44
Speaker 5: with the other three and maybe we find a way
17:46
Speaker 5: to do it again like we did in the last
17:48
Speaker 5: in the last classic, and find a way to advance.
17:51
Speaker 4: What was the voice memo that you left Roman? Like,
17:53
Speaker 4: how does that go? How does that phone call go?
17:55
Speaker 4: And then second, I want to know how did you
17:57
Speaker 4: get Mike Piazza fire? That's my because you guys had
17:59
Speaker 4: a good run of Mike Piazza is not coming back
18:01
Speaker 4: as a manager.
18:03
Speaker 5: Yeah, Blake, but Terra was on that staff. Blake was
18:05
Speaker 5: basically the manager of that team.
18:08
Speaker 3: Oh because Mike.
18:09
Speaker 4: I saw Mike no long ago and he yelled at
18:11
Speaker 4: me when I He's like, take it easy on my guy, Blake,
18:13
Speaker 4: but Terra and I was like, I think he's great.
18:15
Speaker 4: I don't know what you're talking about. So now that
18:17
Speaker 4: you say that, now it makes sense why Mike defended
18:19
Speaker 4: him so much.
18:20
Speaker 5: Yeah, Blake is the man. Piazza is the man too.
18:23
Speaker 5: There was a lot of things that happened are in
18:26
Speaker 5: the front office, so to speak, for Team Italy. So yeah,
18:33
Speaker 5: some some things changed and and that's about it.
18:37
Speaker 6: That's that's all I really know.
18:39
Speaker 5: Some things changed and uh, and now it's a little
18:42
Speaker 5: bit of a different dynamic. But we're you know, we're
18:44
Speaker 5: really excited about having ned. We're really excited for Francisco
18:47
Speaker 5: Savelli to be the manager. I believe Jorge Pasada is
18:50
Speaker 5: on staff. Uh it's a he's not Italian, but he's
18:54
Speaker 5: he's gonna be there for to help out.
18:57
Speaker 6: So we are.
18:58
Speaker 5: We're excited about the opportunityy to go compete with the best.
19:03
Speaker 1: Make sure that you have a lead against Great Britain
19:07
Speaker 1: before you get to the ninth do you know who
19:08
Speaker 1: their closer is?
19:09
Speaker 6: Yeah? Is he playing or what?
19:11
Speaker 3: Oh?
19:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I haven't checked recently.
19:13
Speaker 4: I'm just trying to figure out how our rold As
19:15
Speaker 4: Chapman gets to Great Britain when he's from Cuba.
19:17
Speaker 3: Like that doesn't that does somehow that doesn't make sense?
19:20
Speaker 7: But tell him no, tell him no. Who's going to
19:23
Speaker 7: be the one to tell him no?
19:26
Speaker 6: Yeah, nobody's nobody. He can play for USA, I think
19:28
Speaker 6: if he wants.
19:29
Speaker 5: Yeah, Poppy, yeah exactly, just yeah, just bring him out
19:34
Speaker 5: there in the ninth and he'll finish the game for you. Yeah,
19:37
Speaker 5: we're going to try to hold a lead against the
19:39
Speaker 5: UK especially and try to keep him out of the game.
19:41
Speaker 6: That's that's a good plan.
19:43
Speaker 2: Mm hmm exactly. Well, we're looking forward to it, dude.
19:46
Speaker 1: Hey, one other Royals question for a we saw earlier
19:49
Speaker 1: this offseason, Mike call Garcia picked up a nice extension.
19:53
Speaker 1: Can you just tell the world a little bit more
19:55
Speaker 1: about him? Of course, we're a baseball show, so you
19:58
Speaker 1: got to mention probably not enough, but you know what's
20:01
Speaker 1: it like watching him this past year?
20:04
Speaker 6: Yeah?
20:04
Speaker 5: Well, anybody that had played with him knew that that
20:07
Speaker 5: was in there. I played with them like I played
20:11
Speaker 5: with them in rookie ball and then in High A
20:13
Speaker 5: and then a little bit in Triple A. So I
20:16
Speaker 5: had seen it, you know, back since twenty nineteen. He
20:19
Speaker 5: got all the tools. I mean, he's a because of
20:23
Speaker 5: who our shortstop is, obviously we have one. I mean,
20:26
Speaker 5: Mikel is an unbelievable shortstop too, so it's awesome to have.
20:32
Speaker 5: I mean, I think it would be fair to say
20:34
Speaker 5: we have the best left side in the league, not
20:37
Speaker 5: to begrudge anybody else, but especially defensively. I mean, two
20:40
Speaker 5: gold Glovers on one side of the field. That's pretty special.
20:44
Speaker 5: So Mikel's coming into his own. He got that nice,
20:48
Speaker 5: nice extension there, and he's going to be around for
20:51
Speaker 5: a long time. I mean, you've got two guys anchoring
20:53
Speaker 5: the left side of the left side of the enfield
20:55
Speaker 5: that are each like twenty five twenty six years old.
20:57
Speaker 5: So future in Kansas City is definitely bright with those guys.
20:59
Speaker 5: And everybody's really happy for him because Mikel's the man.
21:03
Speaker 5: He's been working so hard for so many years to
21:05
Speaker 5: you know, try to get something like this and be
21:08
Speaker 5: able to support his family better. And he was able
21:10
Speaker 5: to do it, so we're pumped for him. I can't
21:13
Speaker 5: wait to see I would imagine this is just going
21:15
Speaker 5: to help him get better, So it's gonna be awesome.
21:18
Speaker 4: By the way, well, there's three things I have for you. One,
21:22
Speaker 4: next time I see you and I do a Royals game,
21:23
Speaker 4: don't big league me. I know you're watching ODU football
21:26
Speaker 4: last time, but I mean you wouldn't even look up.
21:27
Speaker 5: The Yeah versus Indiana, I would like to say Old
21:30
Speaker 5: Dominion versus Indiana, and they took him to the wire
21:32
Speaker 5: in the first half.
21:33
Speaker 6: I don't know Indiana number one team in the country.
21:35
Speaker 5: Sorry, sorry that I'm locked in on the Monarch.
21:39
Speaker 3: I mean, who isn't.
21:40
Speaker 4: I mean, you could have given me a thousand guesses
21:43
Speaker 4: and I never would have got their nickname. So I'm
21:44
Speaker 4: glad there's one Oduth. The other thing is, have they
21:48
Speaker 4: had any extension talks with you? And then also, can
21:53
Speaker 4: the Royals compete for the division with the Tigers and
21:56
Speaker 4: the Guardians and of course the White Sox this year?
22:01
Speaker 5: So I guess in order, yes, kind of not in
22:06
Speaker 5: a few years. So no, I mean it depends on
22:10
Speaker 5: how recently you're talking. But yes to an extent, but
22:13
Speaker 5: not really, and then I think we can compete for
22:17
Speaker 5: the division. And obviously the goal going into the year
22:19
Speaker 5: is that. I go back and forth on what the
22:22
Speaker 5: goal for going into the season is other than to
22:24
Speaker 5: win the World Series, because the goals to get into
22:26
Speaker 5: the playoffs, right, I mean wine into the playoffs. No,
22:30
Speaker 5: I'm saying like, no, I'm saying, like, obviously goal number
22:33
Speaker 5: one win the World Series, but win the Winning the
22:37
Speaker 5: division I think is really important. But I don't really
22:42
Speaker 5: have any reason to say that it's that important because
22:46
Speaker 5: you get into the playoffs anyway, So I guess the
22:49
Speaker 5: buye is important, but just getting in is the most
22:51
Speaker 5: important thing. But I think there's a lot of pride
22:53
Speaker 5: in winning your division, and that's what we want to do.
22:55
Speaker 5: We want to we want to go through this like
22:57
Speaker 5: we don't really want to play spoiler. We want to
22:59
Speaker 5: be on the other end of that where it's like,
23:01
Speaker 5: you know, this is our division, we want it, We're
23:03
Speaker 5: going to take it. I've never been in a position
23:06
Speaker 5: to win the division. I'd like to be in that spot.
23:08
Speaker 5: So in twenty four I think we had tied for
23:11
Speaker 5: the lead in the division at the end of August
23:14
Speaker 5: and then went on a little bit of a cold
23:16
Speaker 5: streak and you know we're out of it. So this
23:19
Speaker 5: year we went eighty two and eighty, but you know,
23:21
Speaker 5: we kind of got eliminated with a week to go
23:23
Speaker 5: and then it was just playing for pride at that point.
23:25
Speaker 5: So I think for us, goal one win the World
23:28
Speaker 5: Series and then goal to find a way into the playoffs.
23:30
Speaker 5: But I think like there's a secondary goal in there,
23:32
Speaker 5: which is like, you know, we want to be the
23:33
Speaker 5: Kings of the Central We want to go through the year,
23:35
Speaker 5: win the division, be able to celebrate that, and then
23:39
Speaker 5: you know, move towards the next goal of winning the
23:41
Speaker 5: World Series. So I think that I think that's just
23:43
Speaker 5: a mindset of we just want to go in and
23:45
Speaker 5: we want to be consistent every day, do what we
23:48
Speaker 5: need to do, and you know, look up at the
23:50
Speaker 5: end of the year and we're right where we want
23:51
Speaker 5: to be.
23:52
Speaker 7: Yeah, you're not playing the season right now. What are
23:55
Speaker 7: the Royals need to do? What are the Royals need?
23:57
Speaker 7: Do we hear all the well, you know, JJ Piccolos,
24:00
Speaker 7: they need to add slug after the top four in
24:02
Speaker 7: your lineup. You know, it was a little bit of
24:04
Speaker 7: a downfall. How do you approach that question when asked like,
24:09
Speaker 7: what do you need to add because you guys added
24:11
Speaker 7: into you last year but you lost singer talk is hey,
24:15
Speaker 7: you know what, maybe you could lose another picture starting
24:17
Speaker 7: picture if you added some slug. Do you look at
24:21
Speaker 7: it that way? Do you look at it and go, Man,
24:22
Speaker 7: I love every one of my teammates, but I would
24:24
Speaker 7: love to see another dude that hits thirty plus like me.
24:30
Speaker 5: Well, I think publicly, and it's what I'm about to say,
24:33
Speaker 5: is I just work here.
24:36
Speaker 6: Hey, I know where I'm going to be in the lineup.
24:39
Speaker 6: I know I'm going to do my job every.
24:40
Speaker 5: Day, and I know that I need to go beee
24:42
Speaker 5: a good baseball player. But I think you look at
24:45
Speaker 5: it and you're like, okay, where where are ways that
24:48
Speaker 5: we can improve? And I think every single human being
24:52
Speaker 5: alive has thoughts on where a team or an organization
24:55
Speaker 5: can improve, and it just you try to find the
24:58
Speaker 5: right mix. It was clear that we were target being
25:00
Speaker 5: outfield at the end of the season with the moves
25:02
Speaker 5: that we've made with is it Isaac Collins? Is that
25:07
Speaker 5: how you say his first name? Okay, so it is
25:10
Speaker 5: just Isaac. I heard a different pronunciation of his first name,
25:13
Speaker 5: and I had no idea. I think that's what I heard,
25:18
Speaker 5: was like, like, I'm.
25:20
Speaker 1: It's greatest like parades, No Isaac Collins, Layne Thomas, Lane Thomas,
25:28
Speaker 1: not letting Wayne Thomas.
25:29
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right, thank you.
25:31
Speaker 5: Oh and I and I also think and I didn't
25:34
Speaker 5: answer this question, and I'm sorry, but yes we are.
25:36
Speaker 5: We are working with Jack to unlock everything of his
25:41
Speaker 5: because it's some of the like some of the power
25:44
Speaker 5: that that guy has is.
25:48
Speaker 6: It's ridiculous.
25:49
Speaker 5: So it's kind of a funny spot for me because
25:51
Speaker 5: I'm grooming my replacement so to speak, as the as
25:56
Speaker 5: the next few years go on. But I love that
26:00
Speaker 5: role of being a guy that can hopefully help him
26:02
Speaker 5: unlock his potential and clean up on some of the
26:05
Speaker 5: decision making, because I think that was that was kind
26:08
Speaker 5: of the main point for him, was it was a
26:09
Speaker 5: little bit of overaggression. But I think I'd rather have
26:12
Speaker 5: that at this point of somebody's career than under aggression.
26:14
Speaker 5: He's ready to go up there every time. He's not scared.
26:16
Speaker 5: So for him, it's just it's honing in on the
26:19
Speaker 5: strike zone, honing in on the right, you know, picking
26:23
Speaker 5: your spots to try to do damage versus doing the
26:25
Speaker 5: job in front of you, and just kind of just
26:27
Speaker 5: kind of growing him as a player because he's got
26:30
Speaker 5: all the tools. Now it's just about, Okay, you're a
26:32
Speaker 5: few years and moved from college. Now you've been in
26:34
Speaker 5: the professional system. I just think he got rushed a
26:37
Speaker 5: little bit, but he deserved to be rushed, and I
26:40
Speaker 5: think this year will be a great year for him.
26:42
Speaker 5: Carter Jensen, if those are the two young guys that
26:45
Speaker 5: we got right now that I think that are really,
26:47
Speaker 5: you know, going to take that next step forward and
26:49
Speaker 5: help us out a lot.
26:50
Speaker 7: How much power I love when I hear players that
26:52
Speaker 7: like I don't see on a daily basis, when players
26:55
Speaker 7: are like in all of somebody else's power, how much power?
26:59
Speaker 7: Compare him to somebody you've seen we're talking about VP,
27:03
Speaker 7: so that.
27:04
Speaker 5: I don't have another person to compare it to, because
27:06
Speaker 5: like Salvi's got ridiculous power, but he doesn't hit outside
27:08
Speaker 5: all the time. I haven't seen a whole lot of
27:10
Speaker 5: other guys hit on the field, But in Saint Louis,
27:13
Speaker 5: he was hitting balls off of the grass in center field,
27:16
Speaker 5: like on a line. It was the dumbest thing I've
27:19
Speaker 5: ever seen like, I'm trying my best to just hit
27:21
Speaker 5: the ball out pull side, and he's hitting two irons
27:25
Speaker 5: off the grass, like the top of the grass in
27:27
Speaker 5: center field, and we're all just sitting like, what the
27:31
Speaker 5: the heck is going on? This doesn't even make sense.
27:35
Speaker 5: He's got the he's got the biggest hands I've ever seen.
27:37
Speaker 5: He's jacked like, he's got everything you want. And it'll happen.
27:41
Speaker 5: We're just waiting for it to happen. And when it does,
27:43
Speaker 5: it's gonna be Uh, it's gonna be special.
27:46
Speaker 2: He has been talking him up for years.
27:49
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, it's just it's known him and I've
27:52
Speaker 6: known him.
27:52
Speaker 3: I've known his fiance forever. Yeah.
27:56
Speaker 4: Actually ran into him in Florida, Georgia this year, but
27:59
Speaker 4: I don't remember, but I know I saw him. You
28:02
Speaker 4: know what was said. But I did talk to him.
28:05
Speaker 3: It was weird.
28:06
Speaker 4: I talked to him because he was at the Florida
28:07
Speaker 4: Florida played Jacksonville on Friday night before in baseball and
28:11
Speaker 4: he was there at the game, and I was like,
28:12
Speaker 4: what is he?
28:13
Speaker 3: But I guess, you know whatever. He went to see
28:15
Speaker 3: some of his old teammates and coaches and.
28:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, you visit the team and say he is.
28:19
Speaker 3: He is gigantic, by the way, gigantic.
28:22
Speaker 4: And and listen, Vinnie, if you ever need somebody to
28:25
Speaker 4: come to Nashville for a couple of days and throw
28:27
Speaker 4: to you or you know you and rook and you know,
28:30
Speaker 4: maybe hit some VP with you guys work on your swings.
28:33
Speaker 4: I'm available, you know I. You know, I stayed dirt downtown,
28:36
Speaker 4: maybe in the gulch. I probably will be a Broadway
28:39
Speaker 4: I might also miss. I'd be like Johnny Manziel, just
28:42
Speaker 4: not show up to college game day because I was
28:44
Speaker 4: out too late. But at least I was there for
28:46
Speaker 4: a purpose and I can write it off as a
28:48
Speaker 4: work expense.
28:49
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's perfect.
28:50
Speaker 5: You do whatever you need to do, open invitations whenever
28:53
Speaker 5: you want.
28:54
Speaker 6: We'll be there. We uh.
28:56
Speaker 5: It's it's that time to start getting ready. So the
28:58
Speaker 5: vibes are pretty good in the in the in our
29:01
Speaker 5: facility this morning, me Brenda Donovan, Griff O'Farrell, who's a
29:04
Speaker 5: minor leaguer with the Orioles. We were getting after it.
29:07
Speaker 5: Group two, Jake Berger, Brandon Law, Carson d Martini who's
29:10
Speaker 5: a minor leaguer with the Phillies. We uh, we got
29:15
Speaker 5: some good things going here in Nashville, So it's a
29:18
Speaker 5: it's good. Rooker will be here in a few weeks.
29:20
Speaker 5: We've got it's a it's a fun group to be
29:23
Speaker 5: around BP and it gets it gets fucking loud in
29:26
Speaker 5: that cage, which is awesome. So it's a it's a
29:30
Speaker 5: great environment and I love it here, so come whenever
29:33
Speaker 5: you want.
29:34
Speaker 3: But by the way, I do have a question.
29:35
Speaker 4: Do you take time off after the season before you
29:38
Speaker 4: because you're talking about getting after it it's January fifth,
29:41
Speaker 4: did you take any time off?
29:45
Speaker 6: I took a month maybe.
29:47
Speaker 5: I I like hitting, so I just have a good time.
29:51
Speaker 6: Like I'm not always working on stuff.
29:53
Speaker 5: I just like I go out there with my dad
29:54
Speaker 5: or or whatever I'm doing, Like I'm not always working
29:57
Speaker 5: on something.
29:57
Speaker 6: Sometimes I just want to rotate a little bit. So
29:59
Speaker 6: I like off.
30:00
Speaker 5: But I don't love golf, uh So I don't get
30:02
Speaker 5: a lot of rotation in unless I'm hitting.
30:04
Speaker 6: So I just like doing it.
30:06
Speaker 5: So this I probably started hitting two weeks or so
30:08
Speaker 5: before Thanksgiving this year of just kind of getting in
30:11
Speaker 5: there moving around a little bit. But my body feels
30:16
Speaker 5: phenomenal right now, which I'm happy with. So it's uh,
30:19
Speaker 5: it's It's been a slower but longer build for me
30:22
Speaker 5: this year, and a lot of that has to do
30:24
Speaker 5: with the WBC, and I sucked mys WBC, and I
30:26
Speaker 5: prefer to be a little bit better this time. So
30:29
Speaker 5: I'm trying to figure out how to not be dogshit
30:33
Speaker 5: the first month of the season, and so I'm hoping
30:38
Speaker 5: maybe hitting a little earlier will help my timing a
30:40
Speaker 5: little bit, so then I could be a tick better
30:42
Speaker 5: in the month of this year. Look up my stats
30:48
Speaker 5: in the Dominican Republic. I don't think they'll have me back.
30:51
Speaker 5: So I got kicked off that island. I got kicked
30:53
Speaker 5: off that island so quick. So if I could just
30:58
Speaker 5: be in July and August all the time, I'm I'd
31:01
Speaker 5: be a pretty good player. Sadly, there are more months
31:04
Speaker 5: to the season than that, and we're and we're working
31:06
Speaker 5: on reckfining those issues and making it better all year round.
31:09
Speaker 3: Just do what I did, No hit until the spring training.
31:11
Speaker 4: Just go the whole off season, don't pick up a
31:13
Speaker 4: bat until the first day of spring training.
31:15
Speaker 3: I did it many times. Those were some of my
31:17
Speaker 3: best years.
31:19
Speaker 5: Maybe maybe one day. I don't think I'm mentally tough
31:22
Speaker 5: enough to do anything like that. So I gotta I
31:25
Speaker 5: gotta feel somewhat good walking into spring.
31:27
Speaker 4: No, it made me feel better final season because I go.
31:31
Speaker 2: No.
31:31
Speaker 4: I would go up there in my first spring swing
31:33
Speaker 4: and spring training, I'd be like, well, let's see how
31:35
Speaker 4: the season is gonna go.
31:36
Speaker 3: This year, I rolled it over and I was like, shit.
31:41
Speaker 2: AJ was living a movie. So keep doing your thing.
31:43
Speaker 6: You stay on the track.
31:45
Speaker 2: Many great to catch up dude. We're excited for the WVC.
31:48
Speaker 2: We'll catch you soon.
31:49
Speaker 6: Okay, Yeah, appreciate it, guys. Thanks