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Paul Sewald talks enormous coaching staffs, Swilly’s Angels checkup · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: A lot of the grumblings that we hear from major
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  Speaker 1: media outlets just from the city of Anaheim. With Otani leaving,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's it's hopeful for Angel fans.
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  Speaker 2: We see a lot of hope. We see what the
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  Speaker 2: direction of this ball club can be.
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  Speaker 3: Here we go.
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  Speaker 4: Guardian's reliever, Paul Seawald on with us right now.
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  Speaker 3: Paul, good to see you.
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  Speaker 4: How does that sound, By the way, is it sounding
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  Speaker 4: comfortable at this point, because obviously this is your first
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  Speaker 4: few weeks with the new squad.
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  Speaker 3: Has it going.
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  Speaker 5: Feels great?
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  Speaker 6: Feels comfortable. We're a couple of weeks in Kip's shirt.
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  Speaker 6: Makes me feeling even a little more at home. So
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  Speaker 6: I think we're ready. I think we're ready.
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  Speaker 7: By the way, Paul Swilly Seawold found a new nickname
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  Speaker 7: for We just talked to Swilly and his girls. Her
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  Speaker 7: name was Swilly. So now, Paul Swilly Seawold, I'll take it.
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  Speaker 5: It goes whatever you want, age whatever.
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  Speaker 8: It's just by the way, I know you're in.
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  Speaker 7: I know you're in Baltimore, but like where are I mean,
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  Speaker 7: are you in like Fred's office or not? Fred's a
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  Speaker 7: home guy now or who's who? Where are you are
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  Speaker 7: you in the man.
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  Speaker 6: The hallway, the elevator hallway, like trying to because they
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  Speaker 6: blare the music so loud. So it's like you got
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  Speaker 6: the clubhouse music, and then you got the weight room
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  Speaker 6: office weight room music. It's like there's nowhere in the
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  Speaker 6: clubhouse you can go that doesn't have music. So I'm
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  Speaker 6: trying to be over here away from everybody as far
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  Speaker 6: as I can. We get some elevator chimes in and
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  Speaker 6: out of this of this interview.
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  Speaker 5: I apologize, guys.
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  Speaker 8: It's okay, just lean forward because we don't want to
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  Speaker 8: look straight up your nostrils. We don't want to know
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  Speaker 8: what's don't do that because KiB will be jealous of
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  Speaker 8: all that hair.
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  Speaker 9: So like's some good lettuce right there.
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  Speaker 5: He doesn't need the neutral What does what.
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  Speaker 7: Does Cleveland do that they've developed pictures? You're a veteran
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  Speaker 7: guy who's already has an established career, but their bullpen
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  Speaker 7: has been nasty for the last couple of years since
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  Speaker 7: you've gotten there.
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  Speaker 8: What has Cleveland taught you in your short tenure there?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, first of all, I just want to be a
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  Speaker 6: part of the best bullpen in baseball. I thought, you know,
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  Speaker 6: these guys seem to be nasty enough, maybe they'll rub
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  Speaker 6: on me and it'll be just fine for me. But
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  Speaker 6: mostly it's just been a dedication to trying to figure
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  Speaker 6: out exactly what you do really well win through movement,
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  Speaker 6: your body movement, and trying to get to that spot.
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  Speaker 5: So I think that's been the biggest thing.
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  Speaker 6: There were a couple of yellow flags, I'd say from
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  Speaker 6: what I was in Arizona last year that they're like,
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  Speaker 6: this doesn't look like you know the guy that we
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  Speaker 6: saw when you were in Seattle, when you came to Cleveland,
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  Speaker 6: and kind of just kind of been trying to map
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  Speaker 6: each other out and try and figure out, Okay, this
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  Speaker 6: is how, this is how you used to move, this
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  Speaker 6: is how we're moving. Now, let's try to get back
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  Speaker 6: to that spot. And then just being consistent in just
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  Speaker 6: not relenting what I do really well, and that's so
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  Speaker 6: fastball is at the top and sweepers over the plate
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  Speaker 6: and just make a move as much as I can
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  Speaker 6: and go from there.
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  Speaker 8: Did you drop down a little bit?
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  Speaker 5: Not necessarily.
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  Speaker 6: I think I'm trying to drive towards the plate maybe
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  Speaker 6: a little bit more so maybe that's like, you know,
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  Speaker 6: I'm obviously a drop and drive kind of guy. So
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  Speaker 6: it'll look like maybe I drop down, but it's not
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  Speaker 6: necessarily my arm as much as my body. If I
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  Speaker 6: can get my body down low, that'll make that rising
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  Speaker 6: fastball really effect effective and and kind of get that
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  Speaker 6: va super flat and make it make it give that
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  Speaker 6: rising effect.
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  Speaker 7: Wow, because it looks like you're like throwing almost from
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  Speaker 7: the ground, like you're like way down here and trying
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  Speaker 7: to upshoot the ball, which is awesome.
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  Speaker 5: We call it. We call it thrown from the sprinklers.
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  Speaker 6: If I can get a strikeout from the sprinklers, that's
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  Speaker 6: how you know, That's how you know them on.
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  Speaker 4: Nice I like that, like that, that's a good way
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  Speaker 4: to put it and good for you know, younger pictures
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  Speaker 4: to understand it that way.
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  Speaker 8: I just see Kip Kip doing the sprinkler.
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  Speaker 9: I actually remember that that I've watched that because I
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  Speaker 9: was like, oh, is he a side arm guy? And
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  Speaker 9: then we watched a little video and I was like,
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  Speaker 9: wait no, but he's still on top of this baseball.
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  Speaker 9: So you're you're just backspinning the hell out of it
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  Speaker 9: from down lower.
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  Speaker 5: Now that's all.
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  Speaker 6: That's all you get that, you know, it's like my
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  Speaker 6: movement makes my body movement makes it look like I'm
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  Speaker 6: going to be a sinker ball guy, and then the
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  Speaker 6: ball kind of has a rising.
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  Speaker 5: Effect and it's just it's just totally deception.
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  Speaker 6: It's one of these things where you see all these
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  Speaker 6: kids and they have their track Man numbers, and their
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  Speaker 6: track Man numbers are just through the roof and I
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  Speaker 6: just don't really have that.
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  Speaker 5: But when you have to, when you have.
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  Speaker 6: To get in the box and you have to try
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  Speaker 6: and square up all up, and you, guys know as
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  Speaker 6: much as anybody like, deception is the king. Like these
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  Speaker 6: guys go out and hit hundred mininar fastballs all the time.
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  Speaker 6: That's not going to do it. You have to do
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  Speaker 6: something that really, you know, messes with your eyes, messes
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  Speaker 6: with your you know, your speeds and that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 5: And that's really what it comes down to.
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  Speaker 4: That's cool and valuable because there are many young players
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  Speaker 4: right now that even I've spoken to who I've said, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: but I don't throw ninety whatever, right, but I don't
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  Speaker 4: throw ninety eight, So probably not going to be a
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  Speaker 4: big leaguer. And it's like, hold up, hold up, there
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  Speaker 4: are people for you to model after, so don't give
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  Speaker 4: up so quickly. I mean, most some of the best
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  Speaker 4: bullpens right now, Paul are thriving off of variety. Obviously,
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  Speaker 4: like you said, you're part of the best bullpen in
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  Speaker 4: baseball over the last year and change. But for example,
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  Speaker 4: the Giants are off to I think for many a
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  Speaker 4: surprisingly good start, and I watched their bullpen over the
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  Speaker 4: last week or so, and I'm like, damn, everything's different,
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  Speaker 4: right the variety that you're getting out of their bullpen,
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  Speaker 4: it's just allowed.
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  Speaker 6: It allows the managers, allows the front office to really
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  Speaker 6: match you up with who you know who is on
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  Speaker 6: the other side and kind of create these pockets of like, look,
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  Speaker 6: Paul throws like this, he'd be really really effective against
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  Speaker 6: these you know, four or five hitters. If we get
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  Speaker 6: those guys in a road that's Paul's perfect spot. Gaddy
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  Speaker 6: does this, cad gets everybody out and you kind of
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  Speaker 6: just go from there and and it makes you know,
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  Speaker 6: it makes voters job easier. It makes you know the
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  Speaker 6: front office have a plan going into a series, and
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  Speaker 6: so if you can give them different looks, it maybe
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  Speaker 6: matches you up where you just can't throw the same seven, eight,
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  Speaker 6: nine every every night and try and close things out,
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  Speaker 6: but it gives you a chance to kind of mix,
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  Speaker 6: mix and match. Maybe when your starter doesn't go, you know,
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  Speaker 6: seven and a third and you can still you know,
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  Speaker 6: you still close the door after five.
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  Speaker 9: I think that's I'm gonna piggyback off that. I think
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  Speaker 9: that's one of the what I found to be one
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  Speaker 9: of most parts about beating in Cleveland. With their front office,
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  Speaker 9: which is usually ranked at the top of the front offices,
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  Speaker 9: they put you into a position to succeed as much
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  Speaker 9: as it can. They don't try to make you something
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  Speaker 9: you're not.
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  Speaker 5: They don't try to.
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  Speaker 9: They're like, what do you do best? How does this
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  Speaker 9: fit into Where can we get the most success out
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  Speaker 9: of it? And I think that's what you're kind of
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  Speaker 9: hinting on. But in your bullpen, like you guys are
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  Speaker 9: off the strong start to nobody's surprised. But talk to
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  Speaker 9: me a little bit about class A start because it's
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  Speaker 9: probably one of the least guys you have to worry about.
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  Speaker 9: But he do you see anything different with him so far?
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  Speaker 9: Because he's already given what the same amount of runs
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  Speaker 9: as he gave up all year last year?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean last year's numbers are probably you know,
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  Speaker 6: even if somebody throws un mind our throwing a hundred.
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  Speaker 6: Mind our cutters are unsustainable, right, you just we have
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  Speaker 6: pretty good there's pretty good hitters in this league too,
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  Speaker 6: and eventually they're gonna get you know, they're gonna get
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  Speaker 6: onto a pitch. And you know, I was listening to
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  Speaker 6: the broadcast the other day and they're like, well, you know,
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  Speaker 6: the books out on him. It's like, well, the book,
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  Speaker 6: the book's been out on him. He throws hunter, mind
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  Speaker 6: our cutters. There's nothing you can do. It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 6: if you have the book or not. I just think
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  Speaker 6: he hasn't necessarily been perfectly crisp with his command. You know,
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  Speaker 6: obviously he has better stuff than about anybody on the planet,
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  Speaker 6: but it still comes down to throwing the pitch you
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  Speaker 6: want in the location that you won. He's missed a
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  Speaker 6: little bit over the middle. I would say, you know,
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  Speaker 6: I've been throwing ahead of him. So I'm in the
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  Speaker 6: clubhouse and I'm kind of watching these games, and there's
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  Speaker 6: there's a few pitches over the middle of the plate.
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  Speaker 6: And like I said, it doesn't matter if you throw
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  Speaker 6: one hundred, if you throw in the middle of the plate.
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  Speaker 5: These guys can get a good swing on it.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think there's any sort of concern if you
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  Speaker 6: look at the stuff, If you look at the movement,
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  Speaker 6: it's exactly the same as last year. It just as
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  Speaker 6: a matter of making sure that he's getting ahead more often.
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  Speaker 6: He's throwing his pitches exactly who he wants to, you know,
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  Speaker 6: that high cutter as well as the low slider, and
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  Speaker 6: kind of mixing and matching rather than maybe leaving both
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  Speaker 6: of them, you know in the in the the down
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  Speaker 6: third kind of hurts his ability to kind of try
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  Speaker 6: and change that high level and change that that spacing.
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  Speaker 6: So I will give the ball to Class A every
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  Speaker 6: single time we have a save opportunity, and the night Thinny.
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  Speaker 6: The rest of the season, I think the Cleveland Guardians
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  Speaker 6: are gonna do just fine. So just maybe maybe he
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  Speaker 6: was a tad luckier than he could have been last year,
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  Speaker 6: and maybe a tad unlucky in a in a three
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  Speaker 6: week sample size. But if you guys want to get
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  Speaker 6: in there and face him, go ahead. But other than that,
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  Speaker 6: I think we're going to be just fine having him
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  Speaker 8: Sure don't, Sure don't.
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  Speaker 9: But you talked about these hitters in the league, so
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  Speaker 9: I'm gonna bring up one of them for you guys.
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  Speaker 5: That you guys have had lately.
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  Speaker 9: Angel Martinez coming out when he's gotten called up, he's
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  Speaker 9: been a little bit of a firestarter for you guys.
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  Speaker 5: What have you seen out of him so far? Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: you know, it's funny.
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  Speaker 6: Judas and I are in the bullpen and we have
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  Speaker 6: no you know, first impressions. We have no this is
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  Speaker 6: our first impression of everybody, right, I don't have any
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  Speaker 6: preconceived notions of what the Cleveland Guardians were like last year.
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  Speaker 6: And and you know, laying going down, and you know,
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  Speaker 6: we bring him up and he's just been absolutely fantastic.
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  Speaker 6: And he just keeps getting on base, and he's he's
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  Speaker 6: kind of hitting for power. He's got you know, a
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  Speaker 6: few doubles, a few triples, playing really good center field defense.
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  Speaker 6: He you know, he's fast, unbelievable guy, teammate like he
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  Speaker 6: just it's just it's just a classic Cleveland Guardians player.
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  Speaker 6: And and it's been fantastic since he's got up. Our
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  Speaker 6: offense really started to click, especially around him and Arius
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  Speaker 6: and so those guys had a gigantic series against Kansas
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  Speaker 6: City and they're fantastic game last night. So Angel has
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  Speaker 6: been fantastic. What in addition, to uh to a team,
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  Speaker 6: especially you know when we're missing Lane for a.
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  Speaker 5: Couple of days with that injury. So that's what it's
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  Speaker 5: up it's about.
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  Speaker 6: It's it's just making sure that you know, the guy
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  Speaker 6: doesn't have to take the spot for your starters, really
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  Speaker 6: fill in really well, and you know you're not missing
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  Speaker 6: when you have a couple guys.
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  Speaker 5: That are injured.
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  Speaker 6: So he's been, uh, he's been better than advertising nothing against.
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  Speaker 6: Our front office can not really sure how I didn't
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  Speaker 6: make the team out of camp, but we're excited to
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  Speaker 6: have them right now.
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  Speaker 8: Paul. How many coaches do you guys have on the Guardians?
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  Speaker 5: A million? We have a million coaches.
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  Speaker 8: Them all and their and their positions.
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  Speaker 5: No way I could, Dave, No.
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  Speaker 6: I had a hard enough time in spring training making
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  Speaker 6: sure I knew the four pitching coaches, the special front
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  Speaker 6: office people that you have to know, and the training staff.
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  Speaker 6: Like that was enough for me. I'm still trying to
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  Speaker 6: get the hang of it. We have you know, Kip
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  Speaker 6: has been here. You understand they have somebody for everything
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  Speaker 6: to make sure that you're you know, we have an
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  Speaker 6: extra trainer from any team that I've ever been on,
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  Speaker 6: we have an extra pitching coach for any team I've
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  Speaker 6: ever been on, I assume that we have an extra
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  Speaker 6: hitting coach from what you know, what normal organizations have.
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  Speaker 6: It just allows nothing to fall through the cracks here.
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  Speaker 6: And that's you know, that's what really, what I've seen
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  Speaker 6: in the you know, the couple of months of spring
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  Speaker 6: training in a couple in a couple of weeks, is
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  Speaker 6: that if there's an issue, we have somebody that's going
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  Speaker 6: to fix it, and we're going to make sure that
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  Speaker 6: you have somebody to support you. That's just the resources
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  Speaker 6: feel feel expanded here from other teams that I've been on. Him,
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  Speaker 6: I'm really embracing and I think I think lots of
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  Speaker 6: these guys. I tell these I tell these youngests, you,
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  Speaker 6: you don't know how good you have it with some
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  Speaker 6: of this training staff. Like it's about as good as
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  Speaker 6: it gets. So I think it's just we just have
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  Speaker 6: anything you can need. Cliveland, It's done an amazing job
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  Speaker 6: to make sure that you have that resource.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, can you know who your pitching coaches?
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  Speaker 5: Right? I do know who my pitching coaches are, Guests.
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  Speaker 8: It is Carl Willis.
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  Speaker 6: Carl Willis, Joe Tors, and Brad Goldberg, and the bullpen
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  Speaker 6: coach is Caleb Longshore.
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  Speaker 8: And who are your bullpen catchers?
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  Speaker 5: Ricky Pacioni and Eric Rodriguez.
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  Speaker 6: Okay now, and then from there I cannot It's funny.
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  Speaker 8: Who's your major league field coordinator director of defense strategy
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  Speaker 8: and base running.
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  Speaker 5: That's Kai Korea.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah now tell me, yeah, yes, everybody is seriously the
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  Speaker 11: longest title again major league feel cool.
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  Speaker 6: I does everything like he does everything like so that
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  Speaker 6: I mean, he deserves the title that's that long because
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  Speaker 6: he's doing everything that's amazing.
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  Speaker 8: That is I don't know. I would have to get
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  Speaker 8: name tags for like the first month.
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  Speaker 6: I suggested that they gave me. So they gave me
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  Speaker 6: a sheet of everyone who's employed by the Guardians. It
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  Speaker 6: was like I was like, all right, these are like
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  Speaker 6: one hundred and fifty people's names.
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  Speaker 5: There's no way I'm going to get that. So it
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  Speaker 5: was like the first week I was like, I took
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  Speaker 5: it home.
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  Speaker 6: I was like, all right, training staff, training staff, training staff, coaches, Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 6: I think I got that. And it's like I got
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  Speaker 6: one a week that I'm like, oh yeah, yeah, I'll
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  Speaker 6: learn that day. By the end of the year, I
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  Speaker 6: will know everybody, but it's gonna take me a little
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  Speaker 6: bit of time.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's crazy. Okay, So I have a couple of
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  Speaker 4: follow ups here. First off, whether it's here or probably
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  Speaker 4: in prior stops, have you experienced or ever seen and
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  Speaker 4: other players trying to play the politics game so that
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  Speaker 4: they're not hurting feelings. When there's a lot of coaches
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  Speaker 4: we were talking about earlier, it feels like it could
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  Speaker 4: be even more so with hitting coaches, like, Oh, I
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  Speaker 4: really vibe with this coach, not the head guy, and
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  Speaker 4: I got to play the game so it doesn't feel
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  Speaker 4: like I am belittling him.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah that's I mean, that's a real thing. And I'm
• 13:22
  Speaker 6: not gonna name the teams that have been on or
• 13:24
  Speaker 6: the coaches that this is involved in. But it's hard
• 13:27
  Speaker 6: when you don't connect with what we would call the
• 13:31
  Speaker 6: head hitting coach or the head pitching coach, but you
• 13:35
  Speaker 6: gel really well with somebody else. But then it's like
• 13:40
  Speaker 6: the head pitching coach, it's his name who's on the line.
• 13:43
  Speaker 6: Right If the pitching staff isn't doing well, he's the
• 13:45
  Speaker 6: one who's gonna get fired. So he wants to make
• 13:47
  Speaker 6: sure his thumbs is on this or thumb is on
• 13:49
  Speaker 6: that and make sure that, like I have my eyes
• 13:52
  Speaker 6: on everything that's happening. It's like, well, I don't know,
• 13:54
  Speaker 6: Like we're just not speaking the same language. It makes
• 13:58
  Speaker 6: it very difficult. So that's a real thing, and it's
• 14:00
  Speaker 6: just it's difficult, and the most important thing is to
• 14:04
  Speaker 6: make sure that nobody has ego.
• 14:06
  Speaker 5: It's just like, nobody needs the credit for me pitching.
• 14:09
  Speaker 6: Really well, that's really when you get great coaches that
• 14:12
  Speaker 6: are like, look, if you if you are.
• 14:15
  Speaker 7: Listen, phone call uh oh, his agent Kyle kra Is
• 14:25
  Speaker 7: calling him. He's the director of team communication.
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: We need the director of Oh there we go. Okay.
• 14:31
  Speaker 6: I first of all, I'm gonna call him out because
• 14:39
  Speaker 6: he's so stupid, Kip.
• 14:40
  Speaker 5: That was your boy, Meryl Kelly calling me.
• 14:41
  Speaker 6: Well, I'm on this interview right now, like like he
• 14:44
  Speaker 6: doesn't know that I have my phone out ready to
• 14:46
  Speaker 6: like I don't.
• 14:47
  Speaker 5: Know what he's doing. He said, to say what he
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: texts me?
• 14:50
  Speaker 6: He said, yeah, you devil people or whatever whatever he's
• 14:53
  Speaker 6: calling calling me in the middle of this. So that's
• 14:55
  Speaker 6: Merrill Kelly's fault. Everybody who's watching guy needs to know
• 14:58
  Speaker 6: to just watch watch fount Territory.
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: Listen, text me when I'm done.
• 15:01
  Speaker 9: So I followed to talk about his great start the
• 15:03
  Speaker 9: other day.
• 15:06
  Speaker 6: Another sun Devil. Hey, my brother is one. But you guys,
• 15:10
  Speaker 6: you guys can know you guys can talk about that
• 15:12
  Speaker 6: another day.
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: Those those of us.
• 15:14
  Speaker 6: Are trying to do some work around here, right. He
• 15:19
  Speaker 6: doesn't know how to talks. He doesn't know how to talk, Scott.
• 15:22
  Speaker 6: That's part of his problem.
• 15:23
  Speaker 8: Oh.
• 15:25
  Speaker 7: By the way, by the way, since we're talking about
• 15:27
  Speaker 7: the Sun Devils, since I was in Phoenix, I didn't
• 15:29
  Speaker 7: realize that what happened that old they used to have
• 15:30
  Speaker 7: the stadium in Tempi and now they're at Phoenix MUNI like.
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: What they're at.
• 15:35
  Speaker 9: It used to be past our stadium that was raided
• 15:37
  Speaker 9: in Tempe by the basketball stadium.
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: Now they're at the old Oakland UH.
• 15:41
  Speaker 9: Spring training place at Phoenix Municipal.
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: I'm I'm a package Miss Packard.
• 15:49
  Speaker 6: We had I had to face Jason at Packard when
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: they had an extra special home field advantage where they
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: paid off the umpires and that was that was a
• 15:55
  Speaker 6: tough situation to have to say.
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: I mean, I don't I mean, I don't know.
• 16:01
  Speaker 6: No, it must have just been that they were really
• 16:02
  Speaker 6: good and then the umpires are just really bad.
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: When you go there, that must have just been what
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: it was. Man, did someone get off them? Somebody did
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: get a home or hit off of done?
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: Wow?
• 16:15
  Speaker 9: Old Packard was an airport. That was the ball flew
• 16:17
  Speaker 9: out of that place.
• 16:19
  Speaker 8: Wow.
• 16:21
  Speaker 7: Okay, so you guys go. You guys are Baltimore now, No,
• 16:23
  Speaker 7: I got to ask this Paul. This is completely last
• 16:26
  Speaker 7: one because you guys go to Pittsburgh. You go to
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: Pittsburgh next. Sean just scheduled to pitch. Are you excited
• 16:32
  Speaker 7: to see him pitch in person? Have you seen him
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: pitch in person already?
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: We beat him last year. He pitched when we went
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: there last year and we beat him.
• 16:41
  Speaker 7: It's not it's nothing. It's like when you faced Arizona State,
• 16:44
  Speaker 7: they beat you. You used to beating guys.
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: No, I mean he's he's incredible and we you know,
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: we have the same agent. So I am as big
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: of a Paul Skans fan as anybody because it benefits
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: me just as much that he's pitched as well. But
• 16:57
  Speaker 6: and he's as good as any picture we have on
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: planet or so he's a lot of fun to watch.
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: I enjoyed the first couple of innings when I'm you know,
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: I'm inside working out or doing whatever I need to
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: do pre game, so I kind of get to see
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: a little bit of these of these great pitchers pitch
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: the first couple of innings. But we just gotta drive
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: that pitch count up and hopefully gets the pen and
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: play some guards ball late.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: There you go, exactly guards ball bull holds it down.
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, it is sparky. There he is this
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: led to that's the same. That is good. That is
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: you're exactly right.
• 17:37
  Speaker 9: I got kicked I got kicked off the lucky twice.
• 17:40
  Speaker 8: Oh I don't really, I don't really claim them. Amazing.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Well, Paul, this went exactly as planned.
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: Great one seconds, one second, Scott, it was great.
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: It was great to see you. But I do have
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: I do have one thing for you, Scott. Those action
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: figures you guys came up with you. You really think
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: you really.
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: Think a lot of your your arms, don't you? Thank you? Yes?
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: Answer, easy answer here.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: You know you know those checks that the umps were getting,
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: those college jumps, the AI gets the same checks from me,
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: the same checks.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: I say, all right right out, thank you?
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: Makes sense? But makes sense absolutely all right.
• 18:20
  Speaker 8: We just had a camera, we did. Why did Kimp
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: have a camera around his neck?
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: You saw that with anything else.
• 18:29
  Speaker 8: The sky on there.
• 18:31
  Speaker 9: You take one trip across seas and that's your whole personality.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: It's true that they go through your socials. So hey,
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: I'm not that good.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: I don't control the AI yet, but apparently you can
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: pay you off.
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: So the answered, okay, all right, just need it. I
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: just needed to clarify that. I just need to.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: Clarify exactly, so same checks h Paul.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Good having you on, man, appreciate it.
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: Thanks for having you, guys, Thanks for having.
• 18:57
  Speaker 7: Enjoy the potato Brendon Baltimore. By the way, the potato bread, wait,
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: we eat healthy around here.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: Age. It's changed a little bit. Okay.
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: I used to go to Baltimore and they had the
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: potato bread. It was I'm like, what is a potato bread?
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: I never understood it is the only place said it
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: was like yellow bread, but it was a potato bread.
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: I don't know. Something in Baltimore.
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: Crab cakes and football. That's all we got in there.
• 19:20
  Speaker 9: Yeah, and Bethan my best.
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: We'll do we'll do. Appreciate it, guys.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: AJ it is time for people to get some new clubs,
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: and to do that they need to go to their
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: local PXG for a fitting, right.
• 19:34
  Speaker 8: No doubt.
• 19:34
  Speaker 7: I was there today. I've been there before. Last time
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: I was there, they gave me this killer gap.
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: Weedge.
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: Look at that sweet spot, Scott, it is worn out.
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: That is right in the sweet spot right there. So
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: I went and got it. New clubs today, new irons.
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: But more importantly, I got this bad boy. I got
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: me a new putter. This is my old putter.
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: It's on order.
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: Yes, that's my putter cover PXG Mustang putter. Now I'm
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: going to the Allen putter. They talked me into it
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: because I was draining some putts today. Bob, the guy
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: who helped me out. He helped me with my irons.
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: He got them up perfectly. But then we went to
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: the putt and green. I was draining them puts because
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: that's the most important part of golf.
• 20:05
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• 20:07
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• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Hey, our next guest is Swilly.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: You can follow her on basically any social media platform,
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: talking ball, talking Angels at Swilly Sports s w I
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: L L Y Swilly. Great to have you on and
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: I would ask you how you're doing, but I have
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: to imagine it's pretty good as you follow the Angels
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: very closely, and this looks good right now.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, first of all, thank you guys so much for
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: having me on. Super stoked to be here, super stoked
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: to talk about Angels baseball.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean the vibes are high.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Look, we're two games above five hundred, Like I'm right
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: in the wave while I can okay, like things are good.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Vibes are high.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, can't complain to give people an idea of your
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: personality and how you are also unfiltered like we are
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: on this show. Can you comment on what you saw
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: over the weekend with Mike Trout and the fan interaction
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: and how you said at one point that Trout's a
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: much better person than you.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys saw that, huh So yeah, I mean
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: I think that that's really it.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: I think Mike Trout is a much better person than me.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: The fact that he met with this father and son
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: duo after the father basically ripped the ball out of
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: his glove was very noble and very Mike Trout esque.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, you guys know exactly what type of athlete,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: what type of person he is. He's constantly interacting with fans,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: signing autographs, meeting people, giving back, which.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's very much him. And again, I
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: just I don't know if I would be quite that
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: good of a person.
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: So yeah, really, speaking of bad people, I know. You
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: just tell me this is yes or no? You're over
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: twenty years old?
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: Correct? Yes?
• 22:13
  Speaker 8: I am okay.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: That's a nice question.
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: Okay, No, I know what I'm saying.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Nicest question of the day.
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: Ye over? Are you over twenty three years old?
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: I am over twenty three years old?
• 22:23
  Speaker 8: Aja, I am okay.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: Good.
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: I just want to know because most Angel fans that
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: are over twenty years old. The fact that you came
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: on this show is just such an honor to me.
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: Because most Angel people that are over twenty and remember
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: anything from two thousand and five, they usually don't want
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: to speak to me, So thank you for coming on
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: and speaking to me, as you know, somebody that remembers
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: what happened twenty years ago.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Wow, I mean an honor for you that. I mean
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: that just my head is the size of my room now.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: But no, I mean, look coming. So I was an
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: athlete for a long time too, and obviously, like I
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: clearly did not play on the level that you did.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: But like there's a difference between who somebody is on
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: the field and who they.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Are off the field.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: You're competitive, you're playing for the game, You're playing for
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: your team, like you, like people are just athletes, especially
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: are different. Like it's just different. Like of course I
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: feel some type of way about two thousand and five,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: but like.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: I know that you're not like a super shitty guy.
• 23:20
  Speaker 8: So yeah, I.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: Watch it, watch it.
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: Yeah, careful, terreful. I want to tell you a story.
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: This is this is where how much Angel fans love me. Okay,
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: So it was like later it's like two thousand tannish
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: years and years later, and the White Socks were terrible
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: and the Angels are terrible, you know whatever, And I
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: have some friends sitting in Anaheim in the stands and
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: I come up to bat and the whole stadium boos.
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: Me friends sitting there and the two guys sitting in
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: front of him. One of them looks at the other
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: one and goes, why are we booing this guy? And
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: the guy goes, I don't know, did he do steroids
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: or something?
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: I guess.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: I didn't even know.
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: No idea.
• 24:03
  Speaker 7: So great, good, But I figured I figured with Angel fans,
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: I'm even we blew it in two thousand and two.
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: I mean, Outam Kennedy, I love you, Adam. You hit
• 24:10
  Speaker 8: three home runs in one game.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Right, I mean, come on, that's the best year ever
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: for the Angels.
• 24:16
  Speaker 8: I know, That's what I'm saying.
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: We lost in the LCS to them, right, so then
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: we beat them in five.
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: It was it was a makeup.
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: It was a makeup even now, right?
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Good trade?
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah? I love it.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: What a story. Fans are so funny.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: I mean I've even heard fans where, like, you know,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: people will like, you know, boo Jose Altuve or like
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: boo George Springer and it's like, why are we booing
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: these guys? And like that's a whole different topic in
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: and of itself, but like I don't know fans.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Fans are funny. They make me laugh.
• 24:44
  Speaker 9: Well, I hate to change the topic from booing aj
• 24:46
  Speaker 9: because we could spend all that, but uh, I'm gonna
• 24:52
  Speaker 9: I want to get your your insight now on the
• 24:54
  Speaker 9: Angels right now? What's been working for them so far?
• 24:56
  Speaker 9: Talk us about Kiren Parris, a healthy trout Adele, all
• 24:59
  Speaker 9: these guy seem to be clicking right now with the
• 25:01
  Speaker 9: new manager. Can you break it down what you've seen
• 25:04
  Speaker 9: so far as working for this team.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there's so many things. I think from
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: like a macro perspective, I think we're finally starting to
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: see this plan that Perry and the front office have
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: put together of forming a young core. Right you have
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Logano Hoppy behind the dish, who you know you're going
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: to get passion, and you know you're going to get
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: somebody that's.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Going to hit the ball hard and just be such
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: a leader.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: I think in the endfield you have Zach Netto, who
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: is intripla right now, hopefully getting the call up here soon.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: They wanted him to play back to back days. It's
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: short for a full nine innings, and I.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Think he's about to do that today, not totally sure.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: But if we have Zach Netto at short, who is
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: an electric player, underrated in my opinion, had a five
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: war season last year, you now have Kien Parris, who
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: you mentioned. I mean, I could talk about Kiri in
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Paris for a very long time. His story has been super,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: super inspiring, super fun to watch so far. A debuted
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: at twenty one years old, didn't see immediate success, took
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: his talents to Saint Louis to meet with the teacher man,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: who I'm sure you guys have talked about before, worked
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: all off season to change his swing, and now we
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: see a twenty a two to fifty five WRC plus,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: which is tied for the highest in Major League Baseball
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: with forty played appearances, one of twenty five guys with
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: five or more home runs, and at twenty three, he's
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: showing that he has potential to be a solid player. Obviously,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: the streak isn't going to last. That's just not how
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: baseball works. But I think we are seeing a glimpse
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: of what this young core can do. And I mean
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I think we have some really fun veterans that are
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: at the helm of it all too. I mean, you
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: have Kenley and the bullpen who, from what I've heard,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: is watching every single bullpen who during spring training was
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: watching a ton of batting practice. You have Darneau behind
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: the dish, you have Kyle Hendricks on the bump, and
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: all of these guys have been there before, right, So
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: I think a combination of all of that is super,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: super fun and exciting to watch. And then, like you said,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Mike Trout is healthy. Mike Trout is doing Mike Trout things.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Obviously the average is a little bit lower than we'd
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: like to see, but he's still walking a ton, so
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: his ops is just fine. I think I'm pretty sure
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: it's above eight hundred right now. So yeah, I mean,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: I think the team is going in the right direction.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: And I think with a lot of the grumblings that
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: we hear from major media outlets just from the city
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: of Anaheim with Otani leaving, I think it's it's hopeful
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: for Angel fans.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: We see a lot of hope. We see what the
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: direction of this ball club can be.
• 27:40
  Speaker 8: Swelly, I feel weird calling a Crown woman.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: You can my real name is Sarah. You can call
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: me either. I respond to both, doesn't matter to.
• 27:49
  Speaker 8: Me, Okay, Swilly Sarah Sarah Swilly, which one was better?
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: Okay, I have to ask you about one of the
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: Angels all the time.
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: You know, lightning rods of lightning rods. Mister Rendo, you're
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: an Angels fan, deep down to the core. What is
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: the true Angels fans thoughts on Anthony Rendon? Now, you know,
• 28:07
  Speaker 8: we have media guys on here and they're not going
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: to give us.
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: A true answer, and we have players that come on
• 28:11
  Speaker 7: here and they give us the teammate answer, which I
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: respect the heck gout of course. But as a true
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: Angels fan, what is the feeling amongst Angels fans on
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: Anthony Rendou?
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Well, I think lately, at least over the last week
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: or so, I think that we have started to make
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: this connection of we're nine and seven. Obviously, we've had
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: a really good start. The last couple of games have
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: been a little tough, but we had a great start.
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  Speaker 2: To the year, and he's not in the clubhouse.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: I tweeted about this a couple of days ago, and
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: a lot of people seem to think, well, maybe it's
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: just a coincidence, but maybe there is some sort of
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: tie between the two. I have heard that the vibes
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: do seem to be great in the clubhouse, and maybe
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: some changes based off of who's in there and who
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: isn't in there. But I think we as a fan
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: base generally are ready for the rendown experiment to be over.
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  Speaker 2: And I know that sounds harsh, but I just.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: It sounds harsh, like this isn't like I feel I
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: feel bad saying. I mean, if like, look, because this
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: guy is a major league ballplayer. He's seen so much success,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: He's won a World Series, and he is making a
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: ton of money. But I think that as a fan base,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: we're ready to move on.
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really you don't work for the team, like
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: you can say, hey, this has been a disaster contract.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: But but seriously, I mean, you've got a lot of
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: good things going for the team right now, like you
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: can say, hey, this has been a disaster. You know,
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: it's it's bad vibes everything around. It's been a mess. Obviously,
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: he's not happy with his situation and he's hurt. Like
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: it would be best if everyone moves on at this
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: point and just the contract and goes home.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: So I feel like that's totally fair. There's a personal shot.
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  Speaker 1: There, absolutely not like I said, this guy is a
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: major league ballplayer and has seen so much success, Like,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: who am.
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  Speaker 8: I to him?
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I think that it will be mutually beneficial
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: when either the contract runs up or if he retires,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: or whatever the case may be.
• 30:23
  Speaker 9: Can I get an update on the current kind of
• 30:26
  Speaker 9: pulse of this, the cell phone policy in the locker room.
• 30:29
  Speaker 9: I feel like all the guys are pretty on board
• 30:31
  Speaker 9: with it from the sounds of it that they don't
• 30:32
  Speaker 9: have a problem with it. But well, actually, what do
• 30:34
  Speaker 9: you think about it? Obviously with the younger generation, everybody's
• 30:36
  Speaker 9: on their phones all the time. How do you feel
• 30:38
  Speaker 9: about it too?
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think it's great.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Like, look, if they're seeing success and you know, guys
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: like Logan or Hoppy are like, yeah, we love it,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: We're on board with it, then who cares?
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Like, I don't care what they're doing.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: As long as everybody is bought in and everybody's on board,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: who cares?
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  Speaker 8: Like?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's great.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: And I do think that phones and social media can
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: be a distraction. And you know, it's not like they
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: walk into the stadium that they're playing at and they
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: have to drop their phones in a bucket, like, they
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: can still use them, it's just when they're in the
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: clubhouse hanging out, connecting with each other, they don't have
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: to use them, which means they're forced to talk to
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: each other and interact with each other and you know,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: play ping pong or football or.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Whatever it is. So if it's working, who gives a shit.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: I don't care. If it's working, it's.
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: Working, Yeah, well you got your characters. You're big, you're
• 31:30
  Speaker 8: big on the social You need them clicking on your stuff,
• 31:33
  Speaker 8: so you need.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Honestly, I hope to God that they're not looking at
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: my stuff. I hope they're not paying attention to social media.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: I think that that, well.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, rendn't. Probably is a good point.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: I think it's good for these young guys, Like if
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: they go online and see all of these people that
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: are saying things about who they are as a as
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: a baseball player, when they probably haven't even picked up
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: a bat in however many years, or they hardly even played, like,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: I don't want them to see that stuff because confidence
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: is important when you're young in major league baseball.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: So that's right.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, And I haven't picked up about years and I'm
• 32:09
  Speaker 8: still able to say whatever.
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  Speaker 4: Well, but they're not all made like you. I just
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: recommend for some of the young players texts for mom.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: Those are usually the best ones. You were great today.
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: It's okay. I know you hit into a double play, but.
• 32:25
  Speaker 8: Yeah, my mom, don't send me figures that I love you.
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  Speaker 5: This great.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much for joining us. Great to have
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: you on. We'll have you back. Everyone.
• 32:35
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• 32:40
  Speaker 3: Thanks Willy, Thank you guys so much.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate it.