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Didi Gregorius | Delivering Happiness with Nick Turturro · Delivering Happiness with Nick Turturro

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  Speaker 1: There he is. My guy. BD Gregorius.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me, man.
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  Speaker 1: Delivering happiness just for you, brother.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, really, it's all about you.
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  Speaker 2: No, you got me here. It's all about us right now.
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  Speaker 2: It's about us. Yeah. Right.
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  Speaker 1: How are you, brother?
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  Speaker 2: I've been good, man.
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  Speaker 3: You?
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: You're a guy that I always liked a lot, you know?
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  Speaker 1: You came in.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta remember you came in, you replaced Derek Jeter
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  Speaker 3: and no one, I'm a hardcore Yankee fan. So the
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  Speaker 3: hardcore Yankee fans, we didn't know anything about you. We
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  Speaker 3: were like, Didi Gregorius, who is he?
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 3: And I mean, it's like, it was a fair question
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  Speaker 3: because a lot of people didn't know. So, and then
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  Speaker 3: people were like, can he even hit?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, it was a tough situation. How
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  Speaker 1: did you handle that?
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  Speaker 2: No, for me, it's just that first month, I will
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  Speaker 2: never forget that. It was terrible. But I got to
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  Speaker 2: know myself and learn to slow the game back down
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  Speaker 2: the way I wanted to and the way that I played.
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  Speaker 2: And that's how I managed to pick back up where
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  Speaker 2: I know how good I can be. And I kept
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  Speaker 2: making adjustments because it's a different league for me. And
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  Speaker 2: we didn't have much of a big league time. But
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  Speaker 2: the experience that I got and the guys I have
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  Speaker 2: on the team that talk to me every day and
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  Speaker 2: help me get better. And that pushed me a lot.
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  Speaker 1: You came over in what, 15?
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  Speaker 2: Correct. 2015.
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  Speaker 1: You were a trade, right?
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  Speaker 2: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: Who did they trade for you?
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  Speaker 2: It was a three-way trade. It was me, Shane Green,
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  Speaker 2: I think Robbie Ray. I can't remember who else.
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  Speaker 1: Robbie Ray was in that trade?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so, if I'm not mistaken.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because you're coming over from, was it the Reds
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  Speaker 1: or the Diamondbacks?
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  Speaker 2: Diamondbacks.
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  Speaker 1: Diamondbacks, okay. But you told me.
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  Speaker 2: No, it was a different trade.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute. You started with the Reds?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I started with the Reds.
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  Speaker 1: And then you went to the Diamondbacks?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got traded to the Diamondbacks. And then the
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  Speaker 2: Diamondbacks got traded to the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have any inkling you were going to be traded?
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  Speaker 2: I had a little bit of a feeling because I
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  Speaker 2: was going... I wasn't between agents. Like, I had an agent.
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  Speaker 2: And then I met... Just met with just another agent.
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  Speaker 2: And he's like, in two weeks, you're going to get traded.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, whatever. Whatever. Cause I talked to
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  Speaker 2: the agent I have, he's like, yeah, I just talked
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  Speaker 2: to the team and they're like, you're going to be
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  Speaker 2: playing every day here next year. And then literally in
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  Speaker 2: two weeks I was traded.
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  Speaker 3: Did Gita just retire in 14?
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  Speaker 2: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Wow.
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  Speaker 3: So you, when you heard the Yankees, were you like,
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  Speaker 3: what was the reaction?
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  Speaker 2: The first thing that went through my head is like,
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  Speaker 2: because I had afro, so I got to cut my hair.
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  Speaker 2: That's the first thing.
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  Speaker 1: I had one in.
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  Speaker 2: High school. That's really because, I mean, I always grew
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  Speaker 2: out my hair like I'm growing out my hair again.
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  Speaker 1: You had afro?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Damn.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, not a big one, but I was getting there.
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  Speaker 3: I can't picture you because I always, you know, saw
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  Speaker 3: you with the short hair or the braids.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I always had a flat top when I was
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  Speaker 2: in New York. Only way I can let my hair grow,
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  Speaker 2: because they're like, oh, you can't have afros. I said, well,
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  Speaker 2: cut the side, it'll keep the top. Right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Were you putting on the pinstripes, were you a little
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  Speaker 1: bit overwhelmed?
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  Speaker 3: Did you feel the pressure of just being a Yankee
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  Speaker 3: and Jeter and all that?
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  Speaker 2: No, because.
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  Speaker 1: Just let me just be Didi.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because I will never forget this. So I had
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  Speaker 2: one of the coaches when I was with the Diamondbacks,
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  Speaker 2: and he always used to tell me, Steve Sacks, he
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  Speaker 2: always used to tell me, don't ever forget who you are.
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  Speaker 2: Always be yourself. Always be yourself. And when I got
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  Speaker 2: there in the first month, I'm trying to do everything.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, dude, slow the game back down. And that's
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  Speaker 2: when I started picking back up to where I want
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  Speaker 2: to be. And then that's how I managed to keep
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  Speaker 2: everything under control and enjoy the game.
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  Speaker 1: Right. And 15 was, you know, you had to find
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  Speaker 1: your way in 15.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And that was a rough year.
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  Speaker 3: If I remember correctly, we got like eliminated in one
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  Speaker 3: game or something.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, wildcard. Against the Astros, right? Dallas Keuchel.
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  Speaker 1: Keuchel?
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  Speaker 2: Yep. The beard.
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  Speaker 1: I freaking hated that beard. He shut us down. I
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  Speaker 1: could never stand the one game.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how you guys felt, but I felt
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  Speaker 3: like you play 162 unless you're tied for the division.
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  Speaker 3: All right, I can understand that in the old days.
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  Speaker 2: You play one more.
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  Speaker 1: One stupid game anybody could win. And I was like, I.
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  Speaker 2: Never liked that game. But that's like, for me, it
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  Speaker 2: was the trail of it.
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  Speaker 1: It's what?
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  Speaker 2: It's the trail of the game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like you said, you play 162. It takes one game
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  Speaker 2: for you to advance. Or you can go home.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.
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  Speaker 2: So it's also, it's a fun, it's a fun if
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  Speaker 2: you win. I mean, it sucks if you lose. Right.
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  Speaker 2: But at the same time, That's what you play for.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: But you don't play just to make it to the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: You play to win the whole division, win everything. Right. So, like,
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't for us, like, the years that I've been there,
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't like a surprise for us that we're going
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  Speaker 2: to be in the playoffs. We know we're going to
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  Speaker 2: be in the playoffs. And we have to make it, like,
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  Speaker 2: all the way through.
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  Speaker 1: What was the turning point? Was it in 16 or what?
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  Speaker 3: Like you started winning the fans over, you're winning people
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  Speaker 3: like me over. I like, you just started figuring it out, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: 16?
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  Speaker 2: I would say second way through 15, I started to
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  Speaker 2: pick up. Yeah. So I think first, first half of
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  Speaker 2: the year, I think I had like one something maybe
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  Speaker 2: or two something. And then second half, I think it
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  Speaker 2: was the best I've ever hit. And that's, since then
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  Speaker 2: it's just kept building.
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you something.
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  Speaker 3: You were good in the big moments. You know, when
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  Speaker 3: it's like, not everybody comes up big under pressure. Like,
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  Speaker 3: I saw you in Cleveland, you had two big home runs. No,
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  Speaker 3: you were freaking huge in the big moments. And not everybody, like,
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  Speaker 3: when you do that in New York, and you do
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  Speaker 3: that as a Yankee, people recognize that.
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  Speaker 1: And they were like, wow, Didi could play under pressure.
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  Speaker 1: And then in Minnesota, in New York, when we were behind,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you went deep off Berrios. I think it was, man,
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  Speaker 1: the place went bananas. Yeah. I mean, you had that.
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  Speaker 3: I just think some guys have it and some guys
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  Speaker 3: don't in the big games.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think that's about?
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  Speaker 2: I won't say some guys don't. It's just when it's
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  Speaker 2: your moment, it's your moment. I feel that I always
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  Speaker 2: believed in that. But also, I always play the game
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  Speaker 2: like I know I'm going to be in a big
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  Speaker 2: situation every time I come up there. It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 2: who's on or who's not on. But for me, I
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  Speaker 2: feel like Every at-bat is big. So, like, when a
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  Speaker 2: certain situation happens, it should be not catching you off guard.
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  Speaker 2: Because you're anticipating, you're preparing yourself for moments like that
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  Speaker 2: the whole year. And once it happens in that moment,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, hey, I'm trying to do my job. Any
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  Speaker 2: way as possible. So, I mean, that's all you try
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  Speaker 2: to do.
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  Speaker 3: And you were part of that 2017 team, which I think,
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  Speaker 3: for me... in the last, that's a damn good team.
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  Speaker 3: That's a fun team because you had Judge coming of age,
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  Speaker 3: Gary Sanchez coming of age, you had Todd Frazier, you
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  Speaker 3: had you, you had Greg Bird who was, we thought,
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  Speaker 3: you know, yeah, this was a wonderful, fun team and
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  Speaker 3: you guys were so close, man.
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  Speaker 1: All those three games in New.
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  Speaker 3: York when you came back and then kind of got
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  Speaker 3: blown out, I think game six and then game seven,
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  Speaker 3: whatever happened, happened. But that was a, I really liked
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  Speaker 3: that 17 team. You know, I thought you guys were
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  Speaker 3: going to get there. I didn't know if you were
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  Speaker 3: going to win it.
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  Speaker 2: I think, I think what made that 17 year team
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  Speaker 2: good was 16.
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  Speaker 1: 16?
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  Speaker 2: Because 16, we had a bad record halfway through the
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  Speaker 2: year and it traded away everybody. So what happens, you
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  Speaker 2: traded with all the guys, you get young guys, they're hungry.
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  Speaker 2: They're want to put their name on the map. So
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  Speaker 2: for next year.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And that's literally what happened. Judge came up, Gary came up,
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of guys came up in that, that, and
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  Speaker 2: that span.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then we ended up being, I think half or
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  Speaker 2: one game out. And then that led to 17.
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  Speaker 1: Led to 17. You missed the playoffs that year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But they got rid of everybody and then they let
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  Speaker 1: the kids play.
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  Speaker 2: Kids play, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let me ask you. So Judge came up in 16.
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  Speaker 1: He struggled like mightily.
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  Speaker 2: You know, like a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Like a lot of guys do. It was a short,
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  Speaker 1: you know, small sample.
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  Speaker 3: Did you see in 17, did you see, wow, this
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  Speaker 3: guy is going to be a star?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, in 16, it was hard to tell.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you see it in 16 because there's a
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  Speaker 2: reason why you're up here. Right. There's a reason why
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  Speaker 2: you're up there. And I tell a lot of people this.
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  Speaker 2: I like everybody that's on my team. Even if you're
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  Speaker 2: not on my team, I like your story. Because everybody
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  Speaker 2: got there in their own way. So you put up
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  Speaker 2: good numbers in the minor leagues. You got to figure
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  Speaker 2: it out in the big leagues. If you struggle, like
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  Speaker 2: my first year of pro ball, I hit. 150. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not ashamed to say it. I hit 150, but I
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  Speaker 2: was also, I was 18. First time playing 40 games
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  Speaker 2: in a year. So, I was, I was waiting 140. So, like,
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  Speaker 2: I had no muscle, nothing, so I'm learning. And, I
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  Speaker 2: struggled early. I think that also helped me in my career.
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  Speaker 2: And I was spoiled coming up to the Reds system
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  Speaker 2: with the hitting coaches and infield coaches that I had.
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  Speaker 2: With the Reds? With the Reds, yeah. I had Barry
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  Speaker 2: Larkin as my infield coach. Wow. They'll take him to
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  Speaker 2: almost 200 ground balls every morning in spring training. And
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  Speaker 2: then I had Ken Griffey Sr. as my hitting coach,
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  Speaker 2: then manager for like four years, three years in a row.
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  Speaker 2: So it's, and then I had Delaney DeShields who will
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  Speaker 2: let me hit up the machine with a bat, barrel
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  Speaker 2: like this big. It's like, you're the leadoff guy, all
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  Speaker 2: he wants you to do is make contact. So every
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  Speaker 2: day I'm like this. Literally every day. hitting one hand,
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  Speaker 2: one hand, one hand, learning top hand with him. So
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  Speaker 2: that's always tell people like I was spoiled because I
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  Speaker 2: had all those guys that have a lot of experience,
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  Speaker 2: had a big career in the big leagues and know
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  Speaker 2: about adjustments and all that stuff. I was 20 and
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  Speaker 2: Griffey used to tell me, he goes, before you know it,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to mess around, hit 10 to 15 home
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  Speaker 2: runs and you don't know. You're going to what? 10
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  Speaker 2: to 15 home runs a year. In the minor leagues,
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  Speaker 2: I barely hit five because I was lead up there.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, don't worry about it right now. It will
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  Speaker 2: come up later in your career. It'll happen. And so
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  Speaker 2: I was like, okay. And then all I did was go.
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  Speaker 2: Meaning what?
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  Speaker 1: Then you'll figure it out?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because then you figure it out. You go into yourself,
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  Speaker 2: learn your power, and then learn how to drive the ball.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. You played both in the American League and National League.
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  Speaker 3: What would you say was, even though you had more
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  Speaker 3: success in the American League, what Is there a difference
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  Speaker 3: in the leagues? Because now they're so, you know, integrated.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if there is, but.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, when I got up... What's the better league?
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  Speaker 2: The pitchers were still hitting when I got up. So
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  Speaker 2: it's different. Yeah. So also, if you're hitting in front
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  Speaker 2: of a pitcher like I used to when I was
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  Speaker 2: with the timebacks, it's like some days they're going to
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  Speaker 2: pitch you, some days they're not, depending on the situation.
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  Speaker 2: So I also had to learn that. And then when
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  Speaker 2: the DH came, it was a little bit different because
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  Speaker 2: now the whole lineup is clubbing. So it's a completely
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  Speaker 2: different thing.
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  Speaker 3: But do you think there's, do you think like one
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  Speaker 3: league is more stronger than the other or what do you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what's your feeling?
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  Speaker 2: Like right now?
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  Speaker 1: No, just like.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, when I was playing?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, when you were playing. What did you think? Like,
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  Speaker 1: what would you say was... Like, for you?
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  Speaker 2: So, the only thing that was different for me is internationally,
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  Speaker 2: the pitchers were hitting. The other pitchers were getting more strikeouts. Okay. So,
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  Speaker 2: for me, the pitchers on the national side would get, like,
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  Speaker 2: more strikeouts. I won't say more, way more, but at
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  Speaker 2: least maybe five or six more, you can say, than Americans.
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  Speaker 3: I just wonder, like, the brand of baseball, do you
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  Speaker 3: think it's crisper in the National League than the American League?
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  Speaker 3: Or it's kind of not that far different today?
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  Speaker 2: No, today I don't know. Today, it's different baseball.
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  Speaker 1: It is, right?
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  Speaker 2: It's different baseball, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You like it?
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  Speaker 2: I won't say I hate it. But do you like it?
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  Speaker 2: It's a little bit different. Let's go with that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, you've gone over to Mexico and you're playing
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  Speaker 3: over there and you said it's highly competitive. And what
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  Speaker 3: is it like there? What's the spirit like? What's the
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  Speaker 3: brand of baseball like in the Mexican league? You said
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  Speaker 3: similar like high-end AAA?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's basically like 4A. I call it 4A because
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  Speaker 2: you have a lot of guys that are up and
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  Speaker 2: down here in the States. They're out of options and
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  Speaker 2: then the team don't want to pick them up so
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  Speaker 2: they go to Mexico and play. You have guys that
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of big league experience that are also there.
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  Speaker 2: You have guys that are young. They didn't make it
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  Speaker 2: to the big leagues. But we'll try to get picked
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  Speaker 2: back up so they can go to affiliated teams. So
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  Speaker 2: for me, it's been like 4A because there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of guys with experience. You see, you get a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of guys throws 100 down there. Nasty cutters, nasty curveballs. Pitching,
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  Speaker 2: know how to pitch with elevation and all that stuff too.
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  Speaker 2: And we got really good hitters over there too. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: It's more contact, contact. So Pitchers who are not getting
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  Speaker 2: a lot of strikeouts, because guys love making contact over there.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what I think the game shied away here
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  Speaker 2: from the interstates. You do? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Do you like the new rules? Do you like the
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  Speaker 1: pitch clock?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it makes a big of a difference.
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  Speaker 1: Not much, right? What about the challenge now? Hitters are challenging.
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  Speaker 2: The strike zone?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you see that couple calls, you're like, hey.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if it's close, yeah, but if it's too
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  Speaker 2: far off, then I'd definitely challenge that.
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  Speaker 1: You feel like you could still play in MLB?
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  Speaker 2: If they give an opportunity, I can never say no. Right.
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  Speaker 2: But it's up to them, so that's out of my hands.
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  Speaker 1: I understand that, yeah. Why do you think that is?
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  Speaker 3: Why do you think sometimes somebody that's had a great
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  Speaker 3: track record, that you know they could still do it,
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  Speaker 3: why they shy away and.
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  Speaker 1: and don't give you another shot?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, right now, I don't know, to be honest.
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  Speaker 2: But I think it's more of the way the game
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  Speaker 2: is going. They just want young guys.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And young guys, so they can lock them, or guys
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  Speaker 2: that have, like, long extension. If you look, those are
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: the ones that are actually playing. Otherwise, you're out of
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: the game. If you don't have a long-term contract or
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: you're young. Right. I don't think it's basically it's about
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: hitting cause it's not much of a hitting or defense.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: The value of the game has changed. So it's a
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: little bit different now from when we were playing.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: Who was some of the toughest pitches you faced when
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: you was a Yankee?
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: Like, can you name like three guys that'd be like,
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: Oh shit, these guys scare me.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, and that's scaring me, but I don't really want
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: to say scare. Charlie Morton when he was with Houston.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: Charlie Morton?
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, when he was with Houston throwing a hundo and
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: it's moving like a bowling ball. Did you like facing lefties?
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: I did not care. No, I didn't care. Lefty or righty,
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: it didn't matter for me.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Didn't matter?
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: No. I think I had like two years that I
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: had better against lefty than righty. Really? I hit better
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: against left-handed pitchers than right-handed pitchers.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because you kind of hung in there, right?
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: What was the World Baseball Classic like? A lot of fun?
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: It's a lot of fun, even though this year wasn't
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: the best. What happened this year? We were in a
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: tough pool. We were in a pool with Venezuela, DR, Nicaragua,
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: and Israel.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: So you're from where? Curacao?
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: So I was born in Netherlands.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Netherlands.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, born in Netherlands. I grew up in Europe.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: It's in Europe?
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Netherlands is Europe. In Europe.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: So then... So you're European? Yeah.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Like me. We're both European.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm Italian, but.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: And a lot of other... It's funny. We could be cousins.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Me and Didi. So you're European, but Curaçao is where?
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Curacao is in the Caribbean. But it belongs to... The Netherlands.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: The Netherlands, yeah.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: But what do you speak? What's the language?
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: In Curacao, Papiamento.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: What is that?
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Papiamento.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: What does that sound like?
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: It's Portuguese Creole. What's that? Portuguese Creole. So it's a
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: mixture of Portuguese Creole. Portuguese. Wow.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: That's exotic.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's mixed with English, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, French words.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: It's a wild language. Yeah. So, like, give me something, like,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: you know, how's it going?
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: How does it sound like? Conta cubo. Conta cubo. Conta cubo. Yeah.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Conta cubo.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Conta cubo. Wow, cubo. Oh, yeah. It's kind of like Portuguese. Portuguese, yeah.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Spanish influence.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Right. Right.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Because, you know, the Spaniards went everywhere, right?
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Well, they did. They went all over.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, my wife's Filipino and they got
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: a Spanish name. And there's nothing Spanish about them.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: It's true.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Not really. Except their name. So how did you get
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: the name? I go, obviously you took it from some Spaniard.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: You look Asian.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Asian. Yeah, I get it. I get it. I get it.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: What makes you happy, Didi? What brings you happiness?
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Life.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Life?
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Life. Happiness. I mean... You're a creative spirit, right? Yeah,
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: I try to create my own happiness. Yeah. That's how
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: I go with that. Stuff that I can control myself,
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: so I don't have to worry about somebody else making
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: me happy if I can control my own happiness.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: You know, I think you're a Yankee. Even though you
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: play with a lot of teams, I think people, when
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: they think of you, you know, when they think of
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: a player, they'll say, oh, he's a Red Sox. He's
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: a Met deep down. I'm like, even though you didn't
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: start with the Yankees, when you hear the name Diddy Gregorius,
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: he's a Yankee.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: No, because you had your best moments there.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, my best moment was with the Yankees, yeah.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: And the Yankee fans love you. I mean, I know
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: I do.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, you know, some players just, they have
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: that way about them. And I hope the Yankees still
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: embrace you that way.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I still go every now and then. I have
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: some fun over there, yeah. I haven't went to the
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Yankee Stadium yet.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: That new one?
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: No, no, I mean, I went there, but I haven't
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: went to, like, any games. Oh, any games? Yeah, I
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: haven't went to any games.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: You don't follow them right now?
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: No. No. That's all right. If it's on TV, I
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: see it, I watch it, but I'm not going to
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: look for something.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: You root for them?
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's a team that gave me the opportunity to
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: play for a lot of years and front a lot
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: of people, so.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: You got to remember the good stuff.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. You got to remember everything that comes with it. Yeah.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Now, listen, I'm glad I got to sit down with
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: you because you're somebody that was a favorite of mine,
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: plus on a 17 team and, you know, replacing Jeter.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: You won me over, a lot of people over. And
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: we were sad to see you go when you were
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: in Philly. We were like, I felt like that was
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: a mistake.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: But anyway.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Hey, that wasn't in my control. I know. I get it.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I'm in show business, so a lot of things are
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: taken away from me, too, that are like, oh, why
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: did you leave? I go, they don't want me no more.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: They're lost, or whatever. They're a decision.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Things happen, you know?
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I get it, brother. Hey, I appreciate you, man.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Thank you, man. Thank you.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: You were a gentleman. Nice watch, too.