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New Astros Pitcher Ryan Weiss joins Crush City Territory · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: What's up everybody? Welcome into another edition of Crush City
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  Speaker 1: Territory Channeler Room, joined as always by Tyler Stafford and
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  Speaker 1: a very special guest on this Sunday afternoon, New Astros
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  Speaker 1: pitcher Ryan Weiss. Ryan, appreciate you taking some time out
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  Speaker 1: of your off season to talk to us. How are
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  Speaker 1: you doing and have things settled down yet a little bit?
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  Speaker 1: Because I'm sure this off season has been pretty crazy
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  Speaker 1: for you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, first and foremost, thanks for having me, guys. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: in terms of have things settled down, I would say
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  Speaker 2: they have not settled down. I think that's kind of
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  Speaker 2: normal coming back from.
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  Speaker 3: Asia, though.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like you need at least like a week
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  Speaker 2: or two to get your feet like ready from jet lag,
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  Speaker 2: and then it's like there's just been There's been a
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  Speaker 2: lot going on, but it's been a lot of good
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  Speaker 2: so it's hard to complain.
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  Speaker 1: I would encourage everyone that's listening, whether you're on YouTube
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  Speaker 1: or whether you're on the audio platforms, to go give
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  Speaker 1: Ryan a follow on TikTok. I'm not sure, Yes, I'm in.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure how many people. I'm not sure how
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  Speaker 1: many of our pod listeners are TikTok people. But Ryan
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  Speaker 1: is a TikTok guy. His handle is Ryan M. Would
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  Speaker 1: highly recommend giving Ryan a follow for a couple reasons. One,
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  Speaker 1: it allows you to get to know him a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: allows you to really get some insight onto his experience
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  Speaker 1: in KBO and Korea. But I think it also tells
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  Speaker 1: your backstory probably better than you know. We could be
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  Speaker 1: beat around the bush with it. You know, you've got
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  Speaker 1: such a remarkable story of perseverance and kind of how
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  Speaker 1: you have gotten to this point. So I guess I wonder,
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  Speaker 1: given all of that, given everything you've had to endure
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  Speaker 1: going to Asia, everything you had to endure in your
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  Speaker 1: amateur life, you know, before you got to college, things
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  Speaker 1: like that, how fulfilling is it now to have a
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  Speaker 1: guaranteed major league contract in your hands, a place on
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  Speaker 1: a forty man roster, and a spot in a big
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  Speaker 1: league rotation waiting for you when you get to West
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  Speaker 1: Palm Beach.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, in terms of the TikTok stuff, I I can't
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  Speaker 2: take any of that credit. Uh, it is my wife.
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  Speaker 2: She she kills it. She does such a good job.
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  Speaker 2: I probably don't even.
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  Speaker 3: Know how to post. But yeah, I mean in terms
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  Speaker 3: of like the fulfillment.
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  Speaker 2: I think if you asked me that, like a couple
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  Speaker 2: of years ago, I would have been like, this is everything,
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  Speaker 2: But now that's it's just not the I've I just
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  Speaker 2: feel like I've matured a lot, and I don't idolize
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  Speaker 2: baseball the way that I used to think, Like Christ
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  Speaker 2: has just become a huge part of my life and
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  Speaker 2: everything goes goes to him, and so I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be exciting. I'm I'm excited to to get there,
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  Speaker 2: but I've been on a lot of different teams within
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  Speaker 2: the last few years, so I'm just excited to kind
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  Speaker 2: of get to get to know my new teammates and
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  Speaker 2: just talk shop in the clubhouse and honestly just go
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  Speaker 2: in games.
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  Speaker 4: So I have a so, you know, for those that
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  Speaker 4: don't know, you know, and you've been over in both
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  Speaker 4: China and then you know the Atlantic League as well,
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  Speaker 4: and then Korea. So I have a question, like, in
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  Speaker 4: the last two years you were dominant over there, like
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  Speaker 4: you were, you know, just crushing people. What is it
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  Speaker 4: like going from Okay, you know, obviously I've seen your
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  Speaker 4: your college status of you were just ridiculous. You're red
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  Speaker 4: shirt freshman, You're hitting bombs, striking people out or whatever.
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  Speaker 4: But I feel like you've had this kind of career
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  Speaker 4: where you've gone from okay, top of the team, like
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  Speaker 4: I'm the lead guy, to just a guy in the
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  Speaker 4: minor leagues and not even making it, then going back
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  Speaker 4: being this huge part of this team over here to
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  Speaker 4: now being on an Astros team where you know that
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  Speaker 4: that's not gonna be the first fifteen names on opening
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  Speaker 4: day that anyone is you know, thinking of, not in
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  Speaker 4: a bad way, but just that's the way that the
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  Speaker 4: team is set up. How do you, like, I could
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  Speaker 4: just who you are in the clubhouse depending on the
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  Speaker 4: people you're around. Does that make sense? Like it do you?
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  Speaker 4: How do you fill those roles?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I think that's I mean, that's a really good question.
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  Speaker 2: I think the younger me, uh, try to be a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more like a chameleon and try to fit
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  Speaker 2: in in different areas.
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  Speaker 3: But now like, I'm just gonna be me. If you
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  Speaker 3: like that, great if not.
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  Speaker 2: Like, everyone's different, so it's like you're you in some regard,
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  Speaker 2: like everybody, every one of your teammates is your coworker,
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  Speaker 2: but at the same time they can become your brother.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like it's it's a it's a very interesting dynamic.
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  Speaker 2: And I think going to Indie ball and then going
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  Speaker 2: to Korea, I think that really was like super weird,
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  Speaker 2: going from thirty five guys with thirty guys that speak
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  Speaker 2: fluent English to nobody speaking fluent English or maybe like
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  Speaker 2: one or two guys, And so I was pretty blessed.
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  Speaker 2: There's a couple guys on my team that in Korea
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  Speaker 2: that spoke really good English, and that was really cool
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  Speaker 2: because they're English. Last year they like was okay, but
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  Speaker 2: this year, because they got to practice a lot, it
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  Speaker 2: got a lot better. So that was pretty cool to
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  Speaker 2: kind of witness. But yeah, I would just say be
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  Speaker 2: myself and and hopefully hopefully that's good enough.
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  Speaker 1: You last pitched an affiliated ball in Stateside, You last
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  Speaker 1: pitch an affiliated ball in twenty twenty three. Yeah, how
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  Speaker 1: different are you now? How different is the pitcher now?
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  Speaker 1: That was from when you were here in twenty twenty three?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, first off, when I was in twenty
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  Speaker 2: end of sorry, most of twenty two and then twenty three,
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  Speaker 2: I was a reliever. I don't like being reliever. I
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  Speaker 2: believe that I'm a starter. We had some really good
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  Speaker 2: prospects that were coming up with the d Backs, and
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  Speaker 2: I kind of hit like a little I kind of
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  Speaker 2: hit a struggle in twenty one and that kind of
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  Speaker 2: kicked me to the bullpen. And those guys are doing
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  Speaker 2: really well now, I mean that's just kind of nature
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  Speaker 2: of the game. And they were thrown better than I was,
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  Speaker 2: so they deserved that spot and they earned it. And
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  Speaker 2: so being able to go act to being a starter.
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  Speaker 2: I like the routine. I like knowing I'm gonna get
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  Speaker 2: the ball every five or six days, and I I
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  Speaker 2: like knowing that I'm gonna be able to flip the
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  Speaker 2: order over hopefully on a good day four times worst
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  Speaker 2: case three, right, But that's I just like to compete,
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  Speaker 2: and I hate going to pitch for one ning or
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  Speaker 2: two innings because once I get a sweat going, I'm
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  Speaker 2: like all right, like now we're in rhythm. Like now
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  Speaker 2: we're kind of in the zone. Like sometimes it takes
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  Speaker 2: a little bit for starting pitchers. So yeah, I would
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  Speaker 2: just say being a starter is uh has been a
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  Speaker 2: lot a lot more freeing for me.
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  Speaker 3: It's been a lot more fun. Is that?
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  Speaker 1: Is that what me the astros so attractive to you
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  Speaker 1: is because I mean they have opportunities to start. This
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  Speaker 1: is not this is a place that obviously needs rotation help.
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  Speaker 1: And just in general, your conversations with the Astros what
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  Speaker 1: intrigued you the most about them because you had you
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  Speaker 1: had substantial interest from from a lot of other teams
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm, yeah, I would say, uh, I think the
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  Speaker 2: the way that Dana was speaking, just the the way
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  Speaker 2: that he kind of showed that he believes in me
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  Speaker 2: and that he he kind of, for lack of a better term,
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  Speaker 2: like he knows what he sees, and like I believe
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  Speaker 2: in myself and I know there's a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: that believe in a lot of other guys, but I
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  Speaker 2: I do best when when someone really believes in me,
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  Speaker 2: and when I know the coaching staff and the team
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  Speaker 2: is behind me.
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  Speaker 3: That really helps when.
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  Speaker 2: I whenever I'm in a situation where it's like, oh, you,
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  Speaker 2: if you don't do well today, you might be out
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  Speaker 2: the door, Like that's a different kind of pressure. Like
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  Speaker 2: I'd rather pitch in a championship setting to where it
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  Speaker 2: like it really matters and like, oh, your life's on
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  Speaker 2: the line, you know what I mean, Like I don't
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  Speaker 2: I don't really think that's fun, and that's kind of
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  Speaker 2: how it is in the minors, and so I was
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  Speaker 2: I was very willing to go back overseas. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we my wife and I, we love it over there
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  Speaker 2: in Korea, and so we just at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the day decided that it had to be a really
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  Speaker 2: good opportunity in the States and.
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  Speaker 3: And that's kind of what it was. So that's why
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  Speaker 3: we that's why we decided to do it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna ask. I mean, obviously I would
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  Speaker 4: assume that you love playing overseas. You wouldn't keep doing
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  Speaker 4: it if you didn't want to do. The city that
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  Speaker 4: you were in is Dejon Jean.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, So I've I've googled the you know, just trip
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  Speaker 4: Advisor things to do. Do you have a Dujiano World story?
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  Speaker 4: Do you know that place? I do not, Dude, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: well it's number four. So if you get back over there,
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  Speaker 4: it looks like Disney World, but it's an amusement park.
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  Speaker 3: I'm more of like a like we like to do
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  Speaker 3: a lot of things.
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  Speaker 2: But in terms of like restaurants, the nine, it's uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of right outside of Aison outstanding. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the Crean barbecue there's it just doesn't mess around. There's
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  Speaker 2: just no there's no comp for it. It's it's unreal.
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  Speaker 4: So, I mean what you're you're like, what are you
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  Speaker 4: doing other than I mean obviously I know what you're
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  Speaker 4: doing during games, but like what does what does life
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  Speaker 4: look like you for you just living over there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it just depends what if we have an off
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  Speaker 2: day and we're home that next day, then we can
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  Speaker 2: one of one of the bullpen catchers and eye and
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  Speaker 2: with my parents that ever, we went fishing one day,
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  Speaker 2: just kind of scoping it out, kind of seeing what's
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  Speaker 2: out there, just visiting different places. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of bakeries, uh over there, Like sun
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  Speaker 2: Shin Dan is like a really famous bakery in Dejon.
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  Speaker 2: So we go there and just kind of walk around
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  Speaker 2: and just kind of try to learn stuff. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's so it's so different. It was cool when we
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  Speaker 2: were in Seoul just being able to go to the
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  Speaker 2: different museums and and things that they have out there.
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  Speaker 2: Like when you're walking into it, you're like this, like
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  Speaker 2: it's just so much bigger than you. And it's like
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  Speaker 2: it's just really cool because there's way more history in
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  Speaker 2: Korea than there is in America, which is like for
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  Speaker 2: Americans it's probably wild to think about.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean it's it's just super interesting, super cool.
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  Speaker 1: Did you enjoy the nickname that you got in Dejon
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  Speaker 1: you are? You are Dejon Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was that was tough. I mean, especially being
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  Speaker 3: a follower like it was.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's obviously an honor, but like, I
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  Speaker 2: don't put myself in that same category at all. So
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  Speaker 2: it was like when people are, oh, you're like saving,
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  Speaker 2: It's like, y'all need to chill, Like, I'm just I'm
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  Speaker 2: just Ryan, Like I'm not I'm not even rying the
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  Speaker 2: baseball player. I'm just Ryan, Like I'm just trying to
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  Speaker 2: go out there and try to win a ball game.
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  Speaker 2: And so like when people were doing that, it was
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  Speaker 2: like it was kind of a way for me to
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  Speaker 2: lead them towards Christ in a little bit, like just
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  Speaker 2: trying to give God the glory. But at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day, I'm like, y'all need to like, y'all.
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  Speaker 3: Need to chill.
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  Speaker 4: How the long hair and beard isn't doing you any
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  Speaker 4: favors that.
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  Speaker 2: Yourself only Like right here, if I show you the
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  Speaker 2: side and you'll start judging me it's pretty bad.
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  Speaker 1: But as someone that as someone that pitched affiliated ball
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  Speaker 1: for as long as you did and then went to
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  Speaker 1: kb oh, how can you compare maybe the talent level.
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  Speaker 1: I know, you haven't pitched the big leagues yet, but
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  Speaker 1: you've pitched Triple A, You've pitched extensively in Triple A,
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  Speaker 1: Double A. How would you compare the talent in KBO
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  Speaker 1: to affiliated ball and kind of what do you think
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  Speaker 1: maybe as you get back into affiliated ball and you
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  Speaker 1: get to the big leagues, what do you think maybe
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  Speaker 1: the biggest adjustments will be for you going from that
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  Speaker 1: league back to the big leagues.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean in terms of the baseball we all
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  Speaker 2: kind of know how baseball is nowadays. It's more like
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  Speaker 2: they like fans and owners, like they want to see
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  Speaker 2: home runs. And I haven't been there in the last
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  Speaker 2: two years, so I can't speak too much of how
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  Speaker 2: the last two years have been. But they just play
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  Speaker 2: like solid, fundamental baseball. If there's a guy on second,
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  Speaker 2: they're trying to push him over or like they're trying
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  Speaker 2: to like have something to the right side. And so
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  Speaker 2: that kind of taught me to like, Okay, I gotta
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  Speaker 2: go in. I gotta go out Like you can't out
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  Speaker 2: stuff people like. I mean, you still can, like if
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  Speaker 2: you've got really good stuff, you can, but it just
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  Speaker 2: it just kind of allowed me to pitch more. And
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  Speaker 2: so I think the biggest adjustment coming back to the
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  Speaker 2: States is probably just going to be having a lot
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  Speaker 2: of guys that can speak English in the clubhouse.
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  Speaker 3: It sounds crazy, but that's just what it is.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be weird not having a translator by my
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  Speaker 2: side at all times.
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  Speaker 4: I think your your first batting practice with Jordan Alvarez
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  Speaker 4: might sound a little different than than some.
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  Speaker 3: Of the ones.
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling you that he's got Jews, but there's there's
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  Speaker 2: some guys out there that can.
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  Speaker 3: I can hit it too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, did you have a pre existing relationship with anyone
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  Speaker 1: with the Astros? Do you know anyone as you're walking
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  Speaker 1: into this clubhouse?
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  Speaker 2: I was. I was in spring training with Christian Walker
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  Speaker 2: in twenty two with the d Backs, but I wasn't
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  Speaker 2: there for long.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I got I got to send out pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 1: So fur Astras fans that are listening to this have
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  Speaker 1: have not really seen you pitch, have not really you know, know,
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  Speaker 1: much about your arsenal, kind of how you get guys out.
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  Speaker 1: Describe yourself as a pitcher, describe you know what you
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  Speaker 1: give us your arsenal, and give us kind of maybe
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  Speaker 1: what you think your strengths are when you're on the mound.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I foreseen fastball, slider, curveball, and then
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  Speaker 2: change up. So I mean pretty I feel like pretty
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  Speaker 2: standard like a lot of guys. But I just try
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  Speaker 2: to compete in the zone. I don't like walking guys.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like giving up free bases.
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  Speaker 3: I really just want to. I just want to.
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  Speaker 2: Compete, really, and if I get beat, I want you
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  Speaker 2: to beat me. I don't want to beat my I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to give you three bases. I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to hit you. I don't like that's just not fun.
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  Speaker 2: But nobody wants to watch that either, So yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: just I just like to compete, no matter who it is.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's what That's probably why I'm still
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  Speaker 2: playing this game, is just because I like to compete.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I got I got news for you. You also throw
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  Speaker 4: a sinker. You just might not know it yet, but yeah,
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  Speaker 4: sometime sometimes it'll go a little bit. Yeah, that's not
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  Speaker 4: that's part of we're in the uniform here. I think
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  Speaker 4: they just that just comes standard in the in the
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  Speaker 4: locker room, they throw a sinker at you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, probably, Yeah, I was gonna ask. So, Like, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: the astros are pretty renowned for they get pictures and
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  Speaker 1: they make them better. They get good pictures and make
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  Speaker 1: them great. They get average pictures and make them good.
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  Speaker 1: Like they they have got a track record of doing
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  Speaker 1: this for the past ten years. I guess I wonder
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  Speaker 1: when you were talking to them, when you were negotiating
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  Speaker 1: with them, or maybe even you know, when you got
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  Speaker 1: up here to take your physical and you got to
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  Speaker 1: meet some people, were they able to or did they
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  Speaker 1: offer you some insights as to what they may I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if tinker's the right word. Just some things
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  Speaker 1: that they want to try with you. Some pitch shape,
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  Speaker 1: some pitch locations. Did you guys talk about that at
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  Speaker 1: all or is that gonna that gonna wait till spring training?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm that's probably gonna wait till spring I know
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  Speaker 2: at least that first, just kind of putting faces to
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  Speaker 2: names and just getting introduced to several people and then
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  Speaker 2: just trying to learn learn each other, learn how each
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  Speaker 2: other work like there's some guys that don't like coaching
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  Speaker 2: at all, and that's and that's fine. They do really well,
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  Speaker 2: and there's some guys that want everything. I'm just I'm
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  Speaker 2: kind of a guy. I'm very culfortable. I'll just if
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  Speaker 2: you got if you have a reason on why you
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  Speaker 2: want me to do something and why it might work,
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  Speaker 2: then let's just be mature, have a conversation about it
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  Speaker 2: and and kind of see where that goes. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm super interested. I know that it's a great organization,
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  Speaker 2: and I mean it's gonna be it's gonna be exciting.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how they like, like you said, they
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  Speaker 2: get it. They just get guys better. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how they do it. So I'm I'm kind of eager
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  Speaker 2: to see how that how that goes down. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: hope hopefully they can they can help me and I
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  Speaker 2: can help them.
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  Speaker 1: It's one thing you keep mentioning about, you know, being
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  Speaker 1: in KBO is you know you didn't have a bunch
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: of people around you that that spoke English? Did you
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: get did you learn any Korean?
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  Speaker 3: Can are you?
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  Speaker 1: Can?
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  Speaker 4: You?
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  Speaker 1: How how is your Korean?
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  Speaker 3: Mine's pretty bad? Mine's pretty bad.
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  Speaker 2: I pretty much only know the bad words. And then
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  Speaker 2: my wife, she's pretty she's pretty fluent. Actually, she could
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  Speaker 2: probably hold like a fifteen to twenty minute conversation in Korean.
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  Speaker 2: Like it's super impressive. But yeah, I'm pretty worthless in
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: that regard.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: I think that's how I am with spent with Baseball
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: Spanish at this point, I know enough baseball Spanish to like, like,
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: I know what people are saying. I know again, I
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: know the curse words, but I don't think I know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I know much else.
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  Speaker 3: Did they?
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  Speaker 1: So, did the team give you an interpreter when you
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: went over there? Did you have to bring one on
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  Speaker 1: your own?
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  Speaker 2: No, that would be really hard. I wouldn't even know
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  Speaker 2: how how I would navigate that. Yeah, they provided one
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: last year, and then I ended up having the same
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: one from last year that I did this past year,
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  Speaker 2: So like a year and a half with the same
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: I was. It was really cool. I mean, you just
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: get to know each other and it's kind of funny,
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  Speaker 2: like that dynamic when he comes to the mountain, because
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: like him and I just joke around all the time usually,
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: and then it's like when it's time for him to
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: be serious, I'm like just kind of look at him like,
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: are you gonna like say something weird or like you
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  Speaker 2: can like actually deliver the message.
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  Speaker 3: But but he was really good. I mean, I I
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: don't think.
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  Speaker 2: I could have had this success out there, definitely without
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: my wife, but without without him.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he was he was awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Do you have a favorite K pop Demon Hunters song?
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: Golden? I mean it's It's election of course.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, yeah, I'm with you.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: One thing that's always been interesting to me and I
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: think we're seeing more and more as Japanese players obviously
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: become more prevalent and are covered more widely in the States,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: is the way that well, certainly the Japanese media but
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: also just I think Asian media at large covers the sport.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: They they ask very specific questions like they want to know,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: like specifically, like why you threw this pitch in this
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: like they are it's a very different way if.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: You over there, like they don't and that, and it's
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: really cool like that that's how they treat it. It's like, Okay,
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: the how you pitched today was good, not like oh
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: your game was good, you know what I mean?
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: Like they like accounts matter, and then.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: That's why I wanted to ask you, like, again, I
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: don't know how much media exposure you got. I mean
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: you did obviously state side, But what was the difference
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: in kind of the questions they were asking you and
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: kind of what they wanted to know about what went
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: on in the game, Because you know, from my vantage point,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: like when I go into a clubhouse after a game,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: like I'm I'm searching for the why, like why did
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: this happen? Why did this guy have such a good game,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Why did this guy have such a poor game? Or whatever.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Like it's like if you've ever been in a scrum
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: talking to Otani or talking to Yamamoto or any of
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: these guys, it is the way they cover and talk
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: about the game could not be different than the way
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: American media doesn't.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's honestly, like it's it's beautiful way they do it.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: They think about a different And I think I would
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: say it was easier for me because like I just
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, it was the catcher that did all the
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: hard work, Like he's the one that like on the
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: bus rides, like I can see him on his phone
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: just like looking at the next team for.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: The next game.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: And it was like catchers are just different, like they
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: just love baseball and the the reason on why he
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: wants to throw a certain pitch and why, like I
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: don't really question it. I'm a kiss guy, keep it simple, stupid,
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: So like I just really try to trust the catcher
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: and if if I shake and he puts it down again.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: I'm like all right, like I'm sorry, like dang, I'm sorry, and.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: So I mean, I just I mean it was pretty
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: much them, like they're the reason why I had success.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: So it was I feel like those questions were easy
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: for me to navigate because I'd be like, oh, it's
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: my catcher.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's always It's has always been interesting to me,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: like sharing press boxes now with a lot of Asian
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: media and a lot of like especially Japanese reporters that
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: that come in and certainly think about the game in
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: a different way. But it's it's certainly it's I think
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: beautiful is the perfect way to say it, because they
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: they appreciate the art of the game when I don't
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: think I don't think that gets appreciated a lot, just
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: in the in the coverage state side.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a it's more like talent here.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: I feel like it's like they're just super talented, whereas
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: there it's like your pitch is on and the way
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: you can spin the ball and manipulate the ball, like
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: they even the players out there, the ones that don't
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: speak English, are coming up and asking questions and it's
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: like that's that's like a very vulnerable place to be
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: as someone who doesn't know the language, like asking a
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: question and understanding the answer.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: So I mean, they just love to learn. I mean
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: they love to learn out.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: There, and they don't really have a lot of pride,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Like if a guy's working on another pitch, like he's
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: not afraid to work on two other pitches but not
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: use them, Like they're just not afraid.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: All right, Well, Chandler, you're going to be in there,
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: so I'm going to text you like a two and
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: a half minute long question to ask Ryan after his
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: first start, just extremely detailed every thought on the game.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: We'll see who's catching me.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: I do wonder, you know, Tyler, just reference after your
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: first start that will be your major league debut. Has
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: that has that kind of hit you yet or or
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: do you think it'll maybe wait till like the day
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: it actually happens.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Nah, I think when I was on the forty mate
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: with the d Backs, I was I mean, I was itching.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: I was itching to get up. Same with the Royals,
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: I was itching.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: I put so much thought into it's gonna sound funny,
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: but like what I was gonna wear to the stadium
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: on my debut, Like I like, I was like all
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: into it, and now I just like I think I
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: thought about it too much to where it was like unhealthy,
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: and like that's why going to create was so good
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: for me, because I just completely removed myself from like
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: all of that. And so I mean it's like I said,
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: it's gonna it'll be cool, I think, But like I'm
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: just I just want to pitch. I just want to
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: compete and hopefully we win. Like that's really all all
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: that matters at the end of the day.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I'm curious, what, what what allowed your mind to shift?
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Like was it simply going to Korea or was like
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: what what out you to make that draft such a
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: drastic change, because that does seem pretty like a drastic
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: difference in the way of thinking.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just think I was idolizing it. I don't
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: think I was as secure in myself and and and whatnot,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: and I was just idolizing the thought of being a
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: big leaguer, and I was like, it's really like I'd
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: rather be a better person, which I try to be.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: I'm probably not, but I try to be a better person,
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: and then like baseball will be what it's gonna be,
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: and I'm just gonna I'm just gonna trust in God
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: and trust that whatever plan he has is what I'm
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: supposed to do. And if this is where he wants
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: me to meet, then I just want to be able
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: to impact people around me.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: And yeah, like what I want to say, I probably shouldn't.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: So yeah, that's that's probably what It's probably good.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Good answer media training already. I don't know, Ryan, this
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: has been excellent. I appreciate you taking We appreciate you
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: taking time to talk to us today. We told you
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: we keep you fifteen to twenty minutes. We're going up
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: to twenty two minutes now, so we like to be
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: like to be true what we say. So that's about the.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: Shortest Chandler's done, actually, because normally he lies and then
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: we're here two and a half times what he says.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: So he got you out on time today. He didn't like, Yeah,
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: that's what he was.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Okay, don't put words in my mouth. Come on, that's
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: not cool.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Ryan.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Again, this was excellent. Again, if you want to see
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Ryan and his wife's work on TikTok, Ryan M Ryan
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: m Weiss on TikTok. I think that will allow a
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: lot of you to to really appreciate kind of what
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: it was like in KBO, what Ryan, kind of how
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Ryan got to this point and you can know a
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: lot more about him before reporting to West Palm Beach
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: in February for spring training with the Ashers. Ryan, this
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: was great. Thank you so much for the time, and
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: enjoy the rest of your off season.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: Sounds good, guys, Thanks for having me all right.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Thanks Ryan,