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D’backs 3B Nolan Arenado joins FT · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: He's actually in the intro there.
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  Speaker 2: Nolan Ironato joining us right now, new member of the
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  Speaker 2: Arizona Diamondbacks. Nolan, great to see you man, and has
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  Speaker 2: the off season going for you getting set up for
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  Speaker 2: a new spot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going great, man, Thanks you guys for having me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited back in talking Stick for spring training, which
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  Speaker 1: is great and uh no, man, I'm excited. Great young team.
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  Speaker 1: It should be fun.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I forgot right, you know, talking Stick pretty well.
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  Speaker 3: Confused, He's gonna get confused. He's gonna go in the
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  Speaker 3: wrong door. He's gonna park on the Rocky Side, and
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  Speaker 3: he's not gonna realize he has to go to the Diamondback.
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  Speaker 3: So he's gonna walk in the wrong door. He's gonna
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  Speaker 3: open the door and there he's gonna go. Wait, these
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  Speaker 3: aren't the Rockies, I remember, Sorry, strong door.
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  Speaker 1: I did drive by. I usually stop at the Starbucks
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  Speaker 1: right there, and then I kind of did go around
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  Speaker 1: the Rocky Side first, and I had to go make
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  Speaker 1: a big of big loop, so I did kind of
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  Speaker 1: toss of the old way I used to.
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  Speaker 3: So is that why you agreed then to go to
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  Speaker 3: the Diamondbacks Because they had the same spring training side
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  Speaker 3: is the Rockies. So you felt at home.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it felt close to home, you know, obviously being
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  Speaker 1: in Scottsdale for sure, But no, I mean I picked
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  Speaker 1: that team because it's, like I said, it's close to
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  Speaker 1: home being in Arizona. You know, I'm from Orange County.
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  Speaker 1: And then also it's a great young team with great
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  Speaker 1: young players, and it'll be nice to be surrounded by
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  Speaker 1: guys like that, and being a veteran player, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as you know, as veteran players, it's nice to be
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  Speaker 1: surrounded by a young group. It makes you feel younger
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  Speaker 1: and kind of just helps you boosts you up a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. And I'm excited about that.
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  Speaker 4: How tough was that was? This decision? Obviously, you know
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  Speaker 4: we hear rumors, but only you go through and actually know, like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: I was really thinking about these different decisions and how much,
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  Speaker 4: how long or how tough was it to weigh those
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  Speaker 4: different decisions.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it was pretty tough. I mean obviously, we
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  Speaker 1: built our you know, we built our family. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we had our babies in Saint Louis. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: had our family there and you know, we had a
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  Speaker 1: great house, great we lived in a great neighborhood. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, honestly, when I opted in in twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: I thought that would probably be where I ended, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I finished my career. But as you guys know baseball,
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  Speaker 1: things happened fast and things change and it just comes
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  Speaker 1: with the territory. And you know, I think with where
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  Speaker 1: they're headed, and I thought a fresh start for myself
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  Speaker 1: would be great also, So you know, I just saw
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  Speaker 1: it as an opportunity to go play show who I
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  Speaker 1: am and I'm excited for the season.
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  Speaker 4: Nolan, How does that work?
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  Speaker 3: Did the Cardinals come to you and say, hey, we
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  Speaker 3: got an opportunity for you or did you or did
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  Speaker 3: they get because you see in other sports, you don't
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  Speaker 3: really say it in baseball very often, right, You see
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  Speaker 3: it in some sports where they say, hey, we'll allow
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  Speaker 3: whoever quarterback to find his own trader. In the NBA
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  Speaker 3: will allow whoever to find their own trade. Did the
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  Speaker 3: Cardinals come to you and say, hey, if you can
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  Speaker 3: find a place you're happy, or did you give them
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  Speaker 3: a list of teams that you said, hey, I'll go to.
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  Speaker 3: Because you know, your situation is so unique where you
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  Speaker 3: said no to Houston from what we heard, right, and
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  Speaker 3: then Arizona came and you said, yeah, I'll go there.
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  Speaker 4: So how does that start? How does that conversation start?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I started I like the end of the season,
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  Speaker 1: like right before the season ended. Me and him met
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  Speaker 1: and we talked about, how, give me a list of
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  Speaker 1: teams that you'd be willing to and I gave them
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  Speaker 1: the teams that you know i'd be willing to leave,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that I would move to. And it's just
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  Speaker 1: kind of like some of those teams are interested, some
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  Speaker 1: of them aren't. Some of them don't want to give
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  Speaker 1: up what they want, you know, all those things, the
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  Speaker 1: money and all. You know, it's a pretty complicated process,
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  Speaker 1: to be honest with you, but you know, honestly, having
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  Speaker 1: a full note trade cause is probably the greatest thing
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  Speaker 1: for a player to have. And I just thought, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I knew that I didn't play great last year obviously,
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  Speaker 1: dealt with some injuries, and I also didn't perform the
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  Speaker 1: way I wanted, so I could see how teams some
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  Speaker 1: teams didn't want me, So you know, I just wanted
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to go somewhere, and Arizona showed interest pretty early,
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  Speaker 1: and I saw that as a place that you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've played in Chase Field for so long. Obviously playing
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  Speaker 1: with the Rockies, I know the NLS, and I felt
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  Speaker 1: very comfortable, and obviously moving my family there was kind
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  Speaker 1: of a no brainer.
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  Speaker 4: It's playing third part of that and the part about
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  Speaker 4: Chase Field. I looked up your numbers at Chase Field
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  Speaker 4: your first two years. You were kind of since then,
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  Speaker 4: You're right, you kill it in Chase Field. See, I
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  Speaker 4: get it. You feel a little feel a little sexy
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  Speaker 4: in that sense. But playing third did that matter a
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  Speaker 4: lot because we heard we heard possibly a Padres moving
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  Speaker 4: to first base. And when you're having those discussions, do
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  Speaker 4: they say, hey, you know this team would want you,
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  Speaker 4: but it's as a first baseman and that's part of
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  Speaker 4: your decision.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there was definitely comfort in like playing you know,
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  Speaker 1: just sticking at third base and that's what I want
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  Speaker 1: to play. But I was very open playing first. I
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  Speaker 1: like it. I love taking grumble I mean, I love
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  Speaker 1: taking grumballs anywhere, but I love teaing grumballs. At first.
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  Speaker 1: I would do anything, you know, whatever they asked. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't mind, you know, Like I said, Arizona was just
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  Speaker 1: a place that showed the most interest and uh, it
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  Speaker 1: was obviously one of my yesses of the team listed
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  Speaker 1: that I sent, and uh so I just said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you can get it done, then I'm
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  Speaker 1: good to go. So if Arizona would a told me me, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we need you to play first base, I would have been like,
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  Speaker 1: that's no problem. I would have no problem with it.
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  Speaker 4: I know what happened.
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  Speaker 3: You wanted to live in the same city for spring
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  Speaker 3: training and the season.
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  Speaker 4: That's smart.
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  Speaker 3: That's like going to Arizona. Yeah, definitely, And so you
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  Speaker 3: can get home too if you need to get home
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  Speaker 3: in your class. But I mean, I know we're harping
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  Speaker 3: on this, but it's just such a unique situation. Last year,
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  Speaker 3: the rumors were you're going to Houston, and then you
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  Speaker 3: say no, and then everyone's like this, Nolan ar Not
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  Speaker 3: is a terrible human being because he doesn't want to
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  Speaker 3: go to Houston.
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  Speaker 4: He doesn't want to win. Right.
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  Speaker 3: I've known you for a long time. I've known nothing
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  Speaker 3: about other than you want to win, and you're a
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  Speaker 3: great dude, and you want to compete and you teach
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  Speaker 3: young guys and you come to work every day. Do
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  Speaker 3: those feelings hurt you a little bit when you see
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  Speaker 3: that stuff? Because someone that knows you from the outside.
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  Speaker 3: I know that's not true. I know you want to
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  Speaker 3: win and I know you want to be on a
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  Speaker 3: good team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, obviously, I think I think when trade
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  Speaker 1: stuff like this comes up and you have a full
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  Speaker 1: no trade and you know, you obviously wish it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: come to the public, but it's just going to because
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's part of the business and it just
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  Speaker 1: you know, things get shared. I have the utmost respect
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  Speaker 1: for Houston. I've said this so many times. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they traded Kyle Tucker, Bregman wasn't going back. There was
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things that I was just a little
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  Speaker 1: hesitant at the time. And I respect all those players
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  Speaker 1: that are there and that organization. They're they're great. But yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I didn't enjoy the things that people were
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  Speaker 1: saying about me, but you know, you kind of just
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  Speaker 1: block it out. You know, it's just one ear and
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  Speaker 1: out the other. I I know who I am, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know me. I think my teammates know me so,
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  Speaker 1: and people are in the league know who I am.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, I try not to show nobody up
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  Speaker 1: or just spect me, but you know, it's my life
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  Speaker 1: and I have a family, and I got to make
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  Speaker 1: the decisions for it, and it wasn't an easy one,
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  Speaker 1: but it was the one I went with.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned this several times. You get to go play
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  Speaker 4: with some young players who from Afar, since you're only
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  Speaker 4: played against them on the Diamondbacks, are you like, I
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  Speaker 4: don't want to see this guy play one hundred and
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  Speaker 4: sixty two games like this is this is legit. It's
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  Speaker 4: no shade to anybody else. But you have to choose
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  Speaker 4: which in your teammates you're gonna like more before you
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  Speaker 4: get there. So that's what I'm asking to do.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean Corbyn Carroll special, I mean I think
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  Speaker 1: when you he's one of the players that you play
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  Speaker 1: against that makes you pretty uncomfortable on a baseball field
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  Speaker 1: playing against him, because he could really run. He's gonna
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  Speaker 1: get the extra base, he's gonna steal bags, and he's
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  Speaker 1: got serious power. So like players like that, they're rare
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  Speaker 1: to come by. I think he's one of the top
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  Speaker 1: you know, I know he was a top ten, they
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  Speaker 1: voted him top ten, but I think he's like top
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  Speaker 1: five player in the game, position player, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And I just think the stress he causes for other teams.
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  Speaker 1: If he hits a ground ball, you have to get
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  Speaker 1: rid of it quick. Extra bases. Like I said, stealing
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  Speaker 1: base is in power. It's just a pretty special player
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  Speaker 1: and I'm excited to watch him go about it his business.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard great things.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, I've played against Katel for a long time and
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  Speaker 1: he's special. And then obviously I'm excited to play the
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  Speaker 1: left side with Perdomo, who's an absolute stud. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: these guys are good. They got some great players, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Moreno's got a chance to be great. It's with great players.
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  Speaker 1: So but Corbyn Carroll, for me, is one of the
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  Speaker 1: best players in the game. So I'm excited to watch him.
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  Speaker 3: Damn, you should be on the PR team for the
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  Speaker 3: Diamondbacks right now. This got me pumped up. You got
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  Speaker 3: me pumped up to go. I mean, wow, I can't
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  Speaker 3: wait to go to Diamondbacks.
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  Speaker 4: Cam.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I'm super excited about this team because listen, hey,
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  Speaker 3: you guys get any kind of pitching. Perdomo is one
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  Speaker 3: of the most underrated people you mentioned him that you've
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  Speaker 3: ever seen. Look up his war for all those analytics
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  Speaker 3: moving out there, you won't be you won't believe it
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  Speaker 3: when you see a plus. The way he stood up
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  Speaker 3: for Marte last year was absolutely awesome when he had
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  Speaker 3: problems with his mom and people were wearing him out. Unbelievable, unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: I want to go back to you, just here for
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  Speaker 3: a second. People are saying, you're you're on the you're
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  Speaker 3: on the decline, right, how do you fight that? I
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  Speaker 3: played till I was forty years old. My year thirty
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  Speaker 3: nine I had or thirty eight I had a great year.
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  Speaker 3: My year thirty nine four, turning forty, I absolutely stunk.
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  Speaker 3: It was my last year. How do you fight the
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  Speaker 3: decline that people say, Oh, his defense is falling off,
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  Speaker 3: he didn't have any power anymore.
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  Speaker 4: How do you fight that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's not easy. I mean the fact
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  Speaker 1: that you played till forty is awesome. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna want to do that. That's hard to do.
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  Speaker 1: But you know your body when you play a lot
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  Speaker 1: of games, as you know, and you know better than
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  Speaker 1: I do, being a cat you could both of you
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  Speaker 1: guys being catchers. It's just the wear and tear on
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  Speaker 1: your body.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I took my defense really serious and I played hard
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  Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball. And I think there's
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  Speaker 1: some things in my off season training program that I
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  Speaker 1: had to change that I felt I was a little
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  Speaker 1: late to recognize that. I'm hopeful that will come into
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  Speaker 1: fruition this year. As far as like taking care of
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  Speaker 1: your hips a little better, making sure your lower back
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  Speaker 1: is feeling good, your core is strong. I mean I
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  Speaker 1: always kind of did that, but it was easier when
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  Speaker 1: you're younger. When you get older, it has to be
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  Speaker 1: like something you're super focused on. So I changed a
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  Speaker 1: lot of way I went about my business this offseason,
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  Speaker 1: changed my diet, and I feel better. I feel great
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  Speaker 1: right now. I've been working hard changing some things in
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  Speaker 1: my swing, and obviously I think those things that I
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  Speaker 1: think are going to be huge for me, because this
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  Speaker 1: offseason I felt really good, So I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I got to go out there and do it. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: I could sit here and talk about all I want,
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  Speaker 1: but uh, there's some things I'm doing this off season
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  Speaker 1: that I don't usually do, as far as like challenging
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  Speaker 1: myself getting on the machine earlier, just just making myself
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  Speaker 1: a little bit uncomfortable in the cage and see if
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  Speaker 1: my swing breaks down, and trying to like make sure
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  Speaker 1: I can able be able to counter that when the
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  Speaker 1: season starts.
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  Speaker 4: Compare where you were the last two off seasons to
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  Speaker 4: where you are now. Do you feel like you're advanced,
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  Speaker 4: because at this is the point in the off season
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  Speaker 4: where every year ione's like I'm the best. I might
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  Speaker 4: not even make it out this year. Yeah. Where compares
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  Speaker 4: physically how you feel, because that's really the only thing
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  Speaker 4: that gets in the way when you get older is
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  Speaker 4: how do you feel you're playing through something the whole time,
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  Speaker 4: or your body feels like I'm resting, I'm ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I think this is the first off season
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  Speaker 1: where I didn't stop working out when the season was over.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously getting hurt had a lot to do with that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, usually after a season, you know, you take
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  Speaker 1: like two weeks going vacation or whatever. Offseason. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we had a baby, so I didn't really have a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot of time to take a break, but I
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  Speaker 1: also made sure I didn't. I just kept lifting and
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  Speaker 1: kind of being in the gym every other day and
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  Speaker 1: kind of you know, like four days a week and
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  Speaker 1: just kind of just making sure my body feels good.
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  Speaker 1: And I think as I've gotten older. That's what I've
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  Speaker 1: needed to do. When I'm younger, I could take you know,
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  Speaker 1: two and a half weeks off and get in the
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  Speaker 1: gym and be like, all right, I'm pretty sore, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm good to go. Like I think, as you get older,
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  Speaker 1: you just can't take too much time away from the
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  Speaker 1: gym or working out or just sweating and you know,
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  Speaker 1: doing some things because I don't know, you just feel
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  Speaker 1: old when you just feel a lot older when you don't.
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  Speaker 1: So just those things. I've been really focused on that,
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  Speaker 1: making sure I'm not taking two days off. And it's
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  Speaker 1: really been I think it's been paying dividends. Is offseason
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  Speaker 1: and I'm hopeful that it'll be a great year.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, welcome to old age. And okay, yeah, it only
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  Speaker 3: gets worse. Okay, it doesn't, trust me. It doesn't get
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  Speaker 3: any easier. Even when you stop playing and you're sitting
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  Speaker 3: off stop. It crats when you sit at home and
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  Speaker 3: you're just like, oh, I've played for so long, I
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  Speaker 3: have so many gold gloves, and you're like, I don't
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  Speaker 3: want to go work out today. And then a month
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  Speaker 3: goes by in your and you look in the mirror,
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  Speaker 3: you get you know what, the worst is you'll see
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  Speaker 3: you'll get the you'll get the picture with your family
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  Speaker 3: and you're you'll have like a belly and you're like,
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  Speaker 3: I gotta get back in the gym. So don't ever
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  Speaker 3: stop doing that. I'm just telling you, just don't ever
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  Speaker 3: stop because that day, that day comes for all of us,
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  Speaker 3: except for maybe scoy Bron, who will be jacked until
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  Speaker 3: he's he's dead. Yeah, just understand that that day never
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  Speaker 3: never ever goes away. All Right, when you get the
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  Speaker 3: spring training, what's your role going to be on this team?
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  Speaker 3: Because it's not like the Diamondbacks are young, but they're
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  Speaker 3: also not ten year vets, kind of like some of
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  Speaker 3: the lot of the guys you had when you first
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  Speaker 3: got to Saint Louis. So is your role going to
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  Speaker 3: be a mentor to? I mean, Marte's got time, Corman
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  Speaker 3: Carroll's got time, a lot of these guys. If you
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  Speaker 3: don't have some time, right, these guys have a few years.
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  Speaker 3: So are you gonna be more of the leader type?
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  Speaker 3: Are you gonna be more sit back and watch and
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  Speaker 3: then wherever they put you, because that's it's it's a
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  Speaker 3: different team then, not young and not old.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, I think you know obviously when I first
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  Speaker 1: get there, get to know a lot of these guys,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I kind of I went there last week
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  Speaker 1: to kind of try to get to know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the coaches and some of the players, but definitely, uh,
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  Speaker 1: probably be a little bit more quiet, watch the way
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  Speaker 1: everyone works, get to know them, but you know, obviously
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  Speaker 1: be a mentor at them and and just be there.
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  Speaker 1: But also, you know, I have a job to do,
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  Speaker 1: and let's play a good third base. And I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: to play with these guys. You know, my expectations or
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  Speaker 1: they're always high, maybe higher than what they should be,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, I don't you know, that's the only
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  Speaker 1: way to go, I guess, and my expectations go out
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  Speaker 1: there and play and help this team win ball games.
• 13:37
  Speaker 4: All right. No, when you were in Saint Louis, and
• 13:40
  Speaker 4: obviously you already mentioned it, you opted in back in
• 13:42
  Speaker 4: twenty two, did you see the team dynamic? Did you
• 13:47
  Speaker 4: see it change that it was going to change as
• 13:50
  Speaker 4: much as it did. And had you known that ahead
• 13:53
  Speaker 4: of time, were you like, eh, maybe I wouldn't have
• 13:56
  Speaker 4: stayed there or would it have been different? Everybody knew
• 13:59
  Speaker 4: Yachty and Wayne, Right, we're gonna be gone. But did
• 14:01
  Speaker 4: you think the ORG was going to change the way
• 14:04
  Speaker 4: that it did.
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: No, definitely not. I mean, you know, the Cardinals, I think,
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: you know, I've seen twenty two was so much fun
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: watching Albert do his thing, being you know, we were
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: a really good team. Then obviously in twenty three we
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: signed Wilson, who was a good signing, and you know,
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: I thought we were just gonna be good. You know,
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: I think the Cardinals have always found a way to
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: be good, even when on paper it may not look
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: like they're gonna be great, but they you know, we
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: always found a way and they always did. And I
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: think I didn't expect that this turnaround to be the
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: way it has been. You know, I thought twenty three
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: was obviously extremely tough. The first losing season and I
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: don't know how many years, so that was extremely disappointing.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: But you know, I think, you know, it's just changes
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: happened fast. I don't know, it's hard to even explained.
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, it happened so fast. It was like twenty
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: two won the division. You know, obviously we got we
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: lost the Phillies, but we felt like we were really
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: good that year twenty three going in, we thought we
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: were going to be pretty good too, and then all
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, you know, losing season and then everything
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: kind of changed after that. But no, I didn't expect
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: it for sure, and I was actually kind of surprised.
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: I don't know if the new schedule got to us,
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: and you know, you don't play the division all the time.
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that was part of it, but
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm not sure what happened.
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's okay, you're not You're not there anymore.
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: We don't have to worry about the Cardinals anymore.
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: Snakes now we're snakes now, all right, speaking of being
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: a snake, And this is kind of a weird transition,
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: so don't get mad at me. You played for Team
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: USA twice, okay, Yeah, now you're on the other team.
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: So you're like a trader because you went to Puerto Rico.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: So I know your mother. Your mother's Puerto Rican So
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: I'm not I'm not getting on you at all. But
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: it's pretty cool that you can play twice for USA
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: Gold and Silver and now you get to go play
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: for another team. That's pretty awesome, right.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean obviously playing for usc USA was great.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: I've already had some pretty harsh dms coming at me
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: by some people. But uh, you know what, you know,
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: this will be the last time I get to do this,
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: Yachtie asked me, and honestly, that fired me up. He
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: asked me at the end of it last year, our
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: end of last season, and it kind of fired me up.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: And I've been paring, preparing this whole off season for it,
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: and uh, I'm excited, and you know, I'm excited to
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: represent my Latin side that I have. You know, I
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: got the Cuban side, I got the Puerto Rican side,
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: and obviously my mom, so you know, I'm excited. My
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: mom is super punk. But I'm not too concerned about
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: everyone's feelings. Like I said, this will be the last
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: time I get to do this, and I'm excited to
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: open up in Puerto Rico and help his team win
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: and play with some great players.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: Wait, wait, tell us about some of those d ms
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: where any of them you're have any of your USA
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: teammates been the ones that have reached out to you
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: giving you a hard time? Or is this just all
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: all narps?
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: No? Yeah, yeah, it's just all random. I had one
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: guy sent me him my USA Jersey. He threw it
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: in the trash. I'm like, all right, And then I
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: had a couple other people say I'm a trader, and
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: I'm like, listen, I mean I didn't get asked to
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: play for USA, and well, actually the USA team there's
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: only a few guys on that team from the twenty
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: three team, and uh, listen, I mean it's baseball. It's
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: not a big deal. But I'm excited to play for
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Puerto Rico and if we end up playing USA, I
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: think that'd be pretty cool.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: By the way, let's just first of all, don't read
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: the comments. That's the lesson on FT today, because we've
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: already had a Yeah.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: My brother, my cousins get get a laugh at it.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: They always send me like the funniest things when people
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: rip me and stuff like that.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's fun. As long as you can laugh
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: at it, then it's fine. Then you can oh, yeah,
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: for sure. But if you take him too serious, don't
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: read the comments. But yeah, what you said, well, what
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: you said right there was exactly the point. USA didn't
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: ask you. And nobody says, you know, to yachty right
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: because as Adam Wayne Wright once told us, YACHTI has
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: a neck tattoo, and you don't mess with guys with
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: neck tattoos, right, So if Yachty calls you and says
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: you have to play, then you have to play.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta listen, man, he's uh he's the kabayo man.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: You gotta listen to him when he talks, you listen.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: And uh. I love Yadi.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: He's one of the best people of smartest people I've
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: ever played with. And it was an honor for him
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: to ask me, and the fact that he thought about
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: me it fired me up.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: And by the way, before we let you go, first
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: of all, I played with the Yaudia, I love Yadi. Also,
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: I never realized you had such like the so Cal
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: surfer guy accent. Like all the times I've had conversations
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: with you, I've never really caught on to like the
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: so Cal surfer, but with your whole vibe today I applauded.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: I I tipped my cab and I applaud it today.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, I just I mean, I didn't just yeah,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm I just came on here and just yeah, man,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Thank you.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: No, it's it's it's cool.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: I wish I wish, I wish, I wish I had
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: that that vibe, okay, instead of the superintense I can't
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: get enough, you know, But the so cal vibe is
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: something I guess.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: You grew up in the off season. Man, you know
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: the O first haven't come yet and all that stuff.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Sleep, you sleep a little bit more calm. I want
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: to go back to ya.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Sleeping great right now, I'm sleeping great. Right now?
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: You play with YACHTI now you're gonna play for yachty.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: Do you think he can manage? Not? Can he manage
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: a team? And like does he know the x's and o's,
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: But can he do two interviews every single day for
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: one hundred and sixty two days plus spring training? Where
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: is that? Like? Is there something that's like ah, man,
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: Like I don't know, Like he's just so intense and
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: locked onto the field.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Absolutely he can. Being around him, he is really intense.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: And I wouldn't be surprised if there are some bad
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: questions being asking those interviews, he would let them know,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: like that's not a good question, but he would He
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: would most definitely be really good at it. He knows
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: he loves the game of baseball. He's the smartest man
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: I've ever been around. He would absolutely be great coach.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: I really do believe that. You know, he's smart or
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: he knows what people he wants to have surrounded by him.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: He's not someone that that I've seen so far, even
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: because he's coaching in you know, Venezuela. He's coached, he's
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: been trying to coach all the time. You know, he
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: wouldn't surround himself with people that aren't smart either. He'd
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: make sure he's surround himself with some of the best
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: coaches to make sure he's constantly getting better and learning.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Like he's like that, he's he's he's a special one
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: for sure. I Mean I don't know, I wasn't all
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: playing with him and like he was like managing while playing.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: I mean it was like he's so smart, like he
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: was above and beyond everyone else. I Mean, he was
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: thinking like the way coaches think now, Like you know,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: like I don't know how it was back in the day,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: but like teams are not afraid of walk guys now
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: because they like they just love the matchup against you
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: know whoever. Yeah, he's been doing that, Like he's been
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: all over those things, like way before everyone else. He
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: you know, he just thinks outside the box and he's
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the smartest baseball guy I've ever seen.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: No on last one, let's go off the field, so
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: I'll give you the floor here wherever you want to
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: go with this. But but I'd say you're a wine
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: aficionado or a huge fan involved business wise, so just
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: want to lay out whether that's you know, what your
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: world and wine is like, or a favorite bottle or
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: just your passion. We always like to get something off
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: the field that you're really into, and I think that's
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: the lay up.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Diamond and Keys our wine. We're really excited
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: about it. I don't know. Yeah, you guys got that. Well,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: thank you. Well. I appreciate you guys doing that. Yeah,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: and uh, it's it's a great cab. Obviously I'm biased.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I think it's the best cab out there. I know
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: some great ones, but it's really great. And obviously teaming
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: up with Klay Thompson and Joe Harden and Joe McLean,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: these guys that they work extremely hard on it and
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: we think it could be really great. I would, Uh,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: if I see you guys in spring training, maybe I'll
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: bring you guys a bottle. You guys can let me know,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: you can give me an honest critic. But we're really
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: excited about it. We're just trying to keep it moving
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: and get it out there. But it's it's very good
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: and we're excited for the future. I love that. How
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: can people get their hands on it? Can?
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Can you order cases?
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: You got to be in stores for it. No, you
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: can order cases online and stuff like that. Yes. Absolutely, Okay,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: I know my dad's watching. He's gonna order a case.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: That's I'll be expecting a case in my front door
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: in about a week.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean absolutely, if you and you could be honest,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: you can let us know what you guys think. We're
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: we feel very good about it. But yeah, we will
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: definitely get some bottles out to you guys.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: But by the way, hold on, before he goes, I
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: have to ask him one question. He was the first
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: guy that didn't wear his team colors on his batting
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: gloves and his shoes. Because if when you remember you
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: were at the Rockies, you had like the color shirt
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: on that you have now on your cleats, right, it
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: was like and I was like damn. I was like, damn,
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: how come he gets to make all these cool colors,
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: and I can only be black and white because like
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: I was with the white Sox or black and gray, right,
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: But now you're with the Diamondbacks and they have every
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: color under the sun uniform teal orange had purple blue.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: So what color are you gonna pick to represent the Diamonds.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm old school in the sense
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: of like the bait because like when I first got
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: called up, obviously you guys know, like the shoe had
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: to be fifty percent black or like whatever the team
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: color had to be. The base had to be black.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: It couldn't be like just some random color like it
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: is now. And I'm kind of still like that. I'm
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: not a big like white shoe. Like obviously the teal.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: I added the teal to the black because it made
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: the Rockies color because purple and black kind of just
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: looked the same, so that's why I added it. But
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: with the Diamondbacks, I'm definitely gonna have teal in my cleats.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: I still have a black bassed shoe. I'm you know,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm thirty four, Like I can't be
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: wearing like neon colors out there. Like some of these
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: young guys can who are nasty and they could fly.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just kind of old school like that.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: So the base would be good. But I'll have the
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: teal and I'll make sure the flash is still out
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: there though on the shoe. There you go, Hey, and
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: Where he's back.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Tell them, Oh they know, well, I tell them all
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: the time. We need it back. All right, Well, we'll
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: be in camp.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: I just was told February twenty sixth, not me, but
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: AJ will definitely be there, So stop by and AJ
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: will pass the line on the show.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Awesome, okp Polar Kevin Pillar will be there.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Okay, there you go. Well, yeah, we enjoyed it. Thanks
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: for the extended time and great to catch up with you.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: We'll see in camp.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much. You guys have a going
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: all right, you too, have a good one. That's Nolan
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Iron not out diamond Back, third Basement. See you