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Max Muncy Unfiltered: Tarik Skubal’s unique arrival, Shohei Ohtani’s status, Unrealistic expectations · Foul Territory

• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Max. Max Muncy. How come we don't have a Max
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  Speaker 1: Muncy shirt? We got all these players and we don't
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: have one of our favorite guests of all time. We
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: don't have a Max Muncy shirt.
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  Speaker 2: That's on you guys. It's not on me.
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  Speaker 1: What would the animation be? Because you see the Murakami
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  Speaker 1: ones kind of sick. Juniors got a little spicy color.
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  Speaker 1: What would the Max Muncy one be? Just dingers?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, probably. Something basic like that. Not too much flair
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  Speaker 2: when it comes out of me, so.
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  Speaker 1: Glasses or no glasses?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that depends. Lately, it's been glasses. My most
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: recent bobblehead had glasses on it, so I might have
• 0:47
  Speaker 2: to put the glasses on there.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to Sarah about it. Maybe we can get
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: you some old school Chris Sabo rec specs on your
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  Speaker 1: Max Muncy shirt.
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  Speaker 2: When I first started, I got sent a pair of
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  Speaker 2: prescription glasses that were white on the outside and when
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: I put them on uh everyone kept calling me Horace Grant.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome that's awesome um before we get into the
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: Dodgers stuff I have to say this and people don't
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  Speaker 1: know this but I did a Dodger game Braves Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: a couple weeks ago in Atlanta Chris Sale absolutely shoved
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  Speaker 1: and I and I and I and I don't talk
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  Speaker 1: about stuff like this a lot but my son was
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: able to come to the game okay And I think
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: you guys lost. Was it 1-0? I think Drake Baldwin
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  Speaker 1: hit a leadoff homer, and that was it. It was 1-0.
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  Speaker 1: There was a CG by Chris Sale. You didn't play, Max,
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  Speaker 1: so you're off the hook on this one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was throwing 100. No big deal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no. Sale-itis. Way down here. Yeah, no. But I
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  Speaker 1: want to say this about Chris Sale. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: he's a buddy of mine. I've known him forever. He
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  Speaker 1: came out, talked to my son and his teammates. But
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  Speaker 1: Dave Roberts after the game. I talked to him. We
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  Speaker 1: have our pregame meeting. And this just shows you what
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: a class organization I feel like you guys have. Dave Roberts,
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  Speaker 1: I talked to him. He knows my son. He always
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  Speaker 1: asks me about my son. He said, I said, my
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  Speaker 1: son's here. He would love to see you. And he said, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I said, listen, if you guys lose, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: even going to bother. He goes, ah, are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 1: He's like, no, bring him down. I'll come out. And
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  Speaker 1: I get, man, I give that guy all the credit
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  Speaker 1: in the world. You guys just got it shoved. He
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  Speaker 1: came out, talked to my son for like 10 minutes
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  Speaker 1: in his teammates. And then I saw you and I
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  Speaker 1: saw glass now, Freddie and Jason Hayward. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: guys are unbelievable to take two minutes. I know you
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  Speaker 1: guys were as a getaway day. So from the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of my heart, thank all of y'all for coming out
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  Speaker 1: and just speaking to my son. It meant the, you
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  Speaker 1: know what it did for him, Max? It made him
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  Speaker 1: look like the cool kid in school. Cause all his
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: college teammates were there. Like, you don't know any of
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  Speaker 1: these guys. And Freddie comes up and gives them a hug.
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  Speaker 1: Dave's all, you know, they're all giving them a big hug.
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  Speaker 1: So it made him feel like the cool kid. So
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  Speaker 1: thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, man. I mean, That's the thing. Losing sucks,
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  Speaker 2: but it's not the end of the world. You still
• 2:59
  Speaker 2: have to go on with your life. You still have
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: to go home. Be husband, be dad. Be nice to
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  Speaker 2: people at the stadium. Be nice to people all around.
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  Speaker 2: Losing is not the end of the world. It sucks,
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  Speaker 2: but you still have to move on. That's how we've
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  Speaker 2: always approached it. You have another game the next day.
• 3:17
  Speaker 2: There's no point in being a jerk to everybody around.
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: Before we get to anything else you brought it up
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: before the season some people said oh yeah they're gonna
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: win 104 games now that you're at the season you
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: guys have 88 you're in the season how hard would
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: it be to have gotten to 104 games when you
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  Speaker 1: think about all that you guys have gone through ups
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  Speaker 1: and downs everything.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah you know um a lot of a lot of
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  Speaker 2: mileage on this team right now um you know you
• 3:47
  Speaker 2: think about the last two seasons that we played obviously
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  Speaker 2: we won but they were also two of the longest
• 3:53
  Speaker 2: seasons in history in terms of when we started, when
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  Speaker 2: we finished starting overseas. And so it's just, it's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of mileage on everybody and to, to show up
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  Speaker 2: and try to win 110 games like that, that would
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  Speaker 2: have been almost impossible to do. It's just not realistic.
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  Speaker 1: Is there something you guys do different than obviously you're
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: getting older, you have more mileage. Has there been new
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: things that the Dodgers have brought in? Like, You talked
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: about the one-time sleep specialists and all that stuff that
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  Speaker 1: have helped you here later in your career, but also
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: all your teammates.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the thing that everyone's been crushing lately is
• 4:33
  Speaker 2: the hyperbaric chamber. I know that's not a new thing,
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  Speaker 2: but we got a pretty fancy one, and guys have
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  Speaker 2: really been crushing that one lately, and guys are starting
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  Speaker 2: to swear by that. So I think there's a pretty
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  Speaker 2: long sign-up sheet to get into that thing every single day.
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  Speaker 1: Is it a single or do they have a hyperbaric room?
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  Speaker 1: Cause I know some places try to do the room
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  Speaker 1: or is it just a single?
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  Speaker 2: No, they got one of those like, uh, uh, I mean,
• 5:00
  Speaker 2: it looks like the Saturn five in there. Um, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's a two seater has the recliners and everything in it. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's a pretty nice one. They got it shipped from
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  Speaker 2: overseas somewhere. I don't know where, but, uh, uh, it's
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  Speaker 2: pretty legit, but it's not a room, but it does
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  Speaker 2: fit two people.
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  Speaker 1: Is he, is it, Is there somebody that you're like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to go in there with them because
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  Speaker 1: every time I'm in there, Freddy farts, so it just
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  Speaker 1: ruins the hyperbaric chamber? No.
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  Speaker 2: You'd have to ask other people that one. You get
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  Speaker 2: in there and you just have a good time. You
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  Speaker 2: have to put the mask on and everything. I think
• 5:38
  Speaker 2: most people just go in there and they watch a
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  Speaker 2: show and they get on their phone. There's not too
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  Speaker 2: much going on.
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  Speaker 1: Did Shohei get it sent over? Did Yamamoto throw the
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: javelin in there? I mean, these are the things that
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: Dodger fans want to know because they don't hear enough
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  Speaker 1: about this kind of stuff, right? So who's your favorite
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  Speaker 1: guy to sit in there with? Is there a guy,
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: you know, like who's your favorite guy? Do you watch
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: the same show? Do you guys have like headphone splitters
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  Speaker 1: where you guys watch the same movie?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know what kind of phone
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  Speaker 2: you're still rocking these days, but there's not too many
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  Speaker 2: splitters out there.
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  Speaker 1: There is. I got one right here. Look, look, right here. Look, splitter. Look.
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  Speaker 1: Two for one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's not too many of those out there these days. No,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, everyone just kind of does their own thing.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing special going on. It's just a, you know,
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  Speaker 2: reclining seat. You just get in there and you just
• 6:28
  Speaker 2: kind of relax for about 45 minutes and then you
• 6:31
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• 7:34
  Speaker 1: I got to talk. You brought him up, Freddie Freeman.
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: I have to ask this question. Did Freddie annoy the
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  Speaker 1: crap out of everybody last night because he had to
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: DH for the first time in five years? Instead of
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: him being over there at first base, hugging every guy
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  Speaker 1: that gets a hit, slapping them all in the butt, hey,
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: way to go, way to get a hit, man. Was
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: he in the dugout wearing everybody out last night? It's
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: the first time he had DH in five years.
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  Speaker 2: No, he was, if anything, he was quieter than normal,
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  Speaker 2: you know, because I don't think there was anything to
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  Speaker 2: take his mind off of his at-bats, so. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he's always been adamant he doesn't like the DH. And
• 8:08
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of us that feel that way. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when you DH, you don't really entirely feel like you're
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  Speaker 2: part of the game. You know, because when you get
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  Speaker 2: to flush your back and go focus on defense, it
• 8:18
  Speaker 2: kind of, you know, makes things a little bit easier. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he's always been adamant he doesn't like DH. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he had that one last night.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so we just showed his stats. The biggest stat
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: on the board, if we can show that number again
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: with Max's face, it would be great. Do you see
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: the biggest– do you know what the biggest stat on
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  Speaker 1: that board is for Freddie Freeman? Do you know which
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  Speaker 1: one he cares about the most?
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  Speaker 2: The average. Yep.
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  Speaker 1: 297. He wants to hit 300 so bad. And I
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  Speaker 1: talked to him about this when I saw you on Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: He's like the one guy that I've ever heard in
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  Speaker 1: the recent game. Everyone's worried about OPS and homers and,
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: you know, slug. And he's like, I just, if I
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  Speaker 1: know if I hit 300, I'm having a great year
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  Speaker 1: because that means I'm slugging. I'm getting on base. So
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: how different is that to hear a guy actually say,
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  Speaker 1: I want to hit 300?
• 9:06
  Speaker 2: Well, he wants to hit 300 the right way by
• 9:09
  Speaker 2: driving the ball and, and, uh, you know, it's, it's
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  Speaker 2: one thing to say, I want to hit 300 and
• 9:15
  Speaker 2: then you're slapping the ball around and it's nothing to say,
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  Speaker 2: I want to hit 300 and you're hitting the ball
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  Speaker 2: in the gap almost every single time. And, um, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's what, that's what Freddie's always done is you're going
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  Speaker 2: to look up there and he's going to have 40,
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  Speaker 2: 50 doubles a year. He's going to have 20 home runs.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, it's a lot of slug in there for
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  Speaker 2: a guy that's going to hit 300 also. And, um,
• 9:33
  Speaker 2: you know, that's just, he, he's always said it, that's
• 9:36
  Speaker 2: his standard. Uh, anything below that is not up to
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: his standard and that's how he feels. And, You know,
• 9:42
  Speaker 2: he's been doing that for a very, very long time.
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: For a long time. But you've watched him for years now.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think he could hit 40 if he said
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: and put his mind to it? I want to hit
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  Speaker 1: 40 homers. Obviously, those things would kind of go down
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. Or do you think that's maybe not
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  Speaker 1: possible for everybody? He would have to.
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: Change his swing, but he could easily hit 40. That,
• 10:03
  Speaker 2: that power is no doubt in there. Um, but he
• 10:06
  Speaker 2: would have to change his approach and his swing. And, uh,
• 10:09
  Speaker 2: he's never going to do that. But if he ever
• 10:11
  Speaker 2: had a year where he's just going to show up
• 10:13
  Speaker 2: and be like, yeah, I'm going to try to hit
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  Speaker 2: 50 home runs this year. He could easily do it. Um,
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: That power is in there. He's going to tell you
• 10:20
  Speaker 2: it's not, but when you watch him hit the ball,
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: he hits it so hard all the time. That's just
• 10:26
  Speaker 2: something that not everyone has in them. He's hitting balls
• 10:28
  Speaker 2: 112 into the gap. If he just changes his swing
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: and he gets a little more loft on that, he
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  Speaker 2: would hit 40 home runs without a doubt.
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: AJ knows what I'm talking about, and you've watched it.
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  Speaker 1: He would hit the ball. He was one of those
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: guys that would hit the ball, and you wouldn't see
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: it from behind the dish. It just means that he
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: hit it perfectly square more than Anybody besides Howie Kendrick?
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: I know that's a random name, but anyway, Howie Kendrick
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  Speaker 1: always felt like squared the ball up. But my question
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  Speaker 1: is for the guy that he replaced last night, Shohei.
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  Speaker 1: When there's a guy like Shohei, obviously you've mentioned it
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: so many times. He does his own thing because he
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: has so many things, his regimen, all that stuff. When
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: he's not in a lineup, do you go up to him?
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: Do guys go up to him? to check on him?
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  Speaker 1: Do you just kind of let him be? Is it,
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  Speaker 1: how does he handle those days and how do you
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: guys as good teammates and friends handle those days?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, yes. Um, yeah, you know, you, you, you, you
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  Speaker 2: let him be like, I mean, you just, you don't
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  Speaker 2: do anything different. He's, he's part of the team. You,
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: you interact with him when he's there. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's always trying to do his thing, make sure he's
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: ready to go. And, He had the cleats on last night.
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  Speaker 2: He was ready to come in if he needed to.
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  Speaker 2: He was actually having a good time last night. He
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: had an infielder glove out there trying to protect Dino
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  Speaker 2: from line drives into the dugout. I was having a
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  Speaker 2: little fun whenever I threw the ball in. I was
• 11:53
  Speaker 2: acting like I was pitching to Shohei. We were having
• 11:55
  Speaker 2: a little fun last night. The answer is yes. You
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  Speaker 2: just do all the above. You don't act like it's
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  Speaker 2: any other day. He's part of the team. He You
• 12:07
  Speaker 2: talk to him. You have fun with him. And then,
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: you know, he does his thing. You let him do
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  Speaker 2: his thing. But it's not like you do anything different now.
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: Well, one guy that's part of the team now is
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: Tarek Skubal. How's he fitting in? He pitched pretty well
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  Speaker 1: last night. He's doing okay. It's like every start he
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: gets a little bit better, a little bit better, a
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: little bit better. Does he fit in okay? I mean,
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: I'm sure he does. A two-time Cy Young Award winner.
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  Speaker 1: Lefty throws 100. I mean, I feel like he'll fit
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  Speaker 1: in good on any team.
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  Speaker 2: He fits in amazingly. Um, yeah, he keeps getting better.
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  Speaker 2: And I think part of that is us learning, you know,
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  Speaker 2: how he likes to navigate the games and, um, you know, he,
• 12:45
  Speaker 2: he's been with the same group of guys for his
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  Speaker 2: entire career. And then you come to a new spot and,
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: you know, not only does he have to learn, we
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: have to learn how he does things also. And, you know,
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: a lot of times that's, that's what pitches he likes
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  Speaker 2: to throw in certain situations, how he navigates games, how
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: he taps guys and, I feel like each game he's
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: gone out there, we've been more and more on the
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: same page with that. The only way I'd say he
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: maybe doesn't fit in is he's super normal on his
• 13:12
  Speaker 2: start days. He'll come up and talk to you and
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: you wouldn't even know that he's starting. He'll joke around
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  Speaker 2: with you. You guys know what I'm talking about. Starting
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: pitchers on their start day tend to have a special routine.
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  Speaker 2: He's just the most normal person ever on his start day.
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  Speaker 2: He just... He's joking around. He's talking to guys. At
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  Speaker 2: no point is he ever like, all right, I got
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  Speaker 2: to lock it. Leave me alone. He's just, even in
• 13:36
  Speaker 2: between innings, he'll be in there just cracking jokes. And
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  Speaker 2: it's like, this is not what we're used to from
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  Speaker 2: our starting pitchers. When our starting pitchers are going, it's usually,
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  Speaker 2: you know, code red, stay away, let them do their thing.
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  Speaker 2: But he's the complete opposite. So if there is a
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  Speaker 2: way he doesn't fit in, I would say that. And
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: that's just as a joking manner.
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: Two things on what you just said. One, Scooble is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Last year in the playoffs when we had him, he
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  Speaker 1: pitched twice. And before the game, you know, we go
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: in the clubhouse, and he walks right up and gives
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: me a hug, says hi. And I'm like, dude, aren't
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: you starting today? He's like, yeah, yeah. It's just another day.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, that's, like you said, very different.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. It's very weird. It's very weird. It's not normal.
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  Speaker 1: And it reminds me of Mark Burley. Mark Burley was
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: the same way. And then the second thing that you
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: said that was interesting is you said we do scouting reports.
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: Are you in on those meetings? Are you in on
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: the scouting report meetings? Because you said we a couple
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: of times. I'm like, oh, Max is breaking down film.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: He's telling them what pitch to throw.
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: No, I say we as an organization. I'm not involved
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  Speaker 2: in any of that. But, you know, that's just I
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: always say we as an organization. Yeah, I have nothing
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: to do with those meetings. Come on, man.
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: Never know hey we let your main die call pitches
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: for uh mark burley from right field sometimes so i
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: don't know if you're out there at third base like
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: curveball curveball fastball you know i mean i.
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• 15:00
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• 15:08
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• 15:10
  Speaker 2: and Sometimes I'll just be like, that's maybe not the
• 15:13
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• 15:15
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• 15:20
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• 15:22
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• 16:57
  Speaker 1: there anything we're talking about? One last thing on Scooble.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Was there anything that you've seen him like you said
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: he came from one organization that he came in and
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: was like, you guys got this many of this or whoa,
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: this is so cool. Has he been to like a
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: kid in a candy store with anything?
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit, but I mean, that's not, that's
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: just because every organization does things differently. And that's not
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: saying one does it any better than the other. Obviously
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: I think we do it the best, but like, you know,
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: it's just every organization does things differently. And I think,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: you know, one of the obvious ones for him was
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: you come in and the players have their own plane
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: with how we travel. And, you know, that was a
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: big one for him, especially with, uh, You know, the
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: rumor we had heard from Detroit was they have a
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: new plane now, but the old plane they used to
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: have couldn't fly cross country. They'd have to stop halfway
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: and refill, you know, so for the players.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: You guys haven't heard that one before? No way. There's
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: the Red Wing. It was the Red Wing Tiger plane.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: It couldn't go all the way across country.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: I think they got a new one a couple of
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: years ago, maybe. But yeah, you know, that was always
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: the rumor we'd heard. And he confirmed it was that,
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: you know, if the flight was longer than like four
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: hours or something like that, they'd have to stop halfway
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: and refill because the aviation rules are you have to
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: have a certain amount of fuel when you land. And
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: the plane would be under that threshold. It wouldn't be
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: out of fuel, but it'd just be under the threshold
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: for the aviation rules.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Huh. That's interesting. I love that. First of all, I
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: don't want any plane underneath the aviation fuel limit. Cause
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: you never know. Sometimes you're going to make that circle.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: I don't want that thing to be like, you know,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: sometimes you get to, you get in your car and
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: it says like two miles and you're, you're like, am
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: I going to make the gap? I don't want that
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: in a plane, like a car. I can just kind of,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: The other thing though, I mean, they're in the central.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: So I think that only would happen like once or
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: twice a season. You know, when you're in the central, your,
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: your flights are real short. You're not making a whole
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: lot of cross country flights on like, you know, every
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: flight we make is literally cross country. So it's, it's,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: it's not the same.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Very true. Very true. I heard the Marlins one time
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: had a plane that didn't have air conditioning on it.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Yelly told me about it. He had like him and
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Jeff Mathis, but never like having to land and then
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: take the bird back up in the air.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean that, that happens more often than you
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: think that's happened to us a couple of times where
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: the AC just broke and you know, there's nothing you
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: can do about it. You just have to kind of
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: wear it. Um, I remember one time, this was years ago,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: we had a flight out of Arizona and the AC
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: wouldn't work until we got the plane into the air.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: So we had to sit on the bus until the
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: plane was fully loaded, ready to go. We sprinted up
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: the steps, they closed the door and we took off
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: and it was about 120 degrees on that plane. That
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: kind of stuff happens all the time. It's just machines.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: They don't always work exactly how you want them to,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: but you kind of have to deal with it. That's
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: part of the grind of baseball is the travel. You're
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: traveling so much and you're doing it so often that
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: not everything goes perfect all the time.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: As your travel director told us, Scott Akasaki, when he
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: was on here, you guys have two planes now. So
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: if one doesn't have AC, you guys can get on
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: the cooler plane and make it out there. But I
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: got to ask you, what does it feel like? And
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: do you think about it? Did you think about it
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: when you were getting close to milestones? For instance, milestones
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: for home runs, milestones for this season and your contract
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: over a certain amount of plate appearances, then another bonus season.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: kicks in, do you think about it or all of
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: a sudden do you look up at the scoreboard and go,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Holy cow, I passed that. Obviously the home runs are
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: a little bit different. Yeah.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Um, I try not to think about it. Um, you know,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: the home runs, you obviously have those in the back
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: of your head, you know, you're approaching certain guys and
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: you're approaching certain spots on the leaderboard. Um, you know, the,
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: the incentives one, uh, I knew I had that one
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: built in. I didn't know when it was going to
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: kick in. Um, cause I don't pay, I don't pay
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: attention to how many play appearances I have, but, uh,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: you know, that, that was, that was a fun one
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: for me. And the guys have been having a lot
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: of fun with that one. Um, you know, if I
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: have a pop-up, they go out, that sucks. You just
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: made a certain amount of money on the pop-up. No
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: big deal. But, uh, uh, yeah, it, I try not
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: to pay attention to that. Cause then I just feel
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: like you're putting on, on necessary pressure on yourself that,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: you know, we already have so much pressure playing where
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: we're at right now that you don't need to add
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: any more to it.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Okay. So I got to ask, first of all, if
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: I don't, I'm going to bring this up and you know, whatever,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: you're real close to being the all time Dodger leader
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: in home runs. Did you know that?
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: The LA Dodger?
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, yes.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm, I'm, I'm quite a ways away from Duke
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Snyder who all of his were in Brooklyn. So, but yeah,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: For the LA Dodgers, yeah, I'm getting close to EK.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: I know that. He always jokes around about it. Like
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: I said, I try not to think about it. Obviously,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: you do. It's impossible not to, but that'd be a
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: pretty cool one for me to get if I'm able
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: to do that.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Okay. That was kind of my point is I know
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: EK very well. He's going to be pissed. If you
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: break that record, he's going to, he's going to say, Oh, Max,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: I'm so happy for you, but he's deep down. He's
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: going to be pissed. I know. Cause if you asked
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: a lot of people who the, who the LA Dodgers
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: home run record was, I don't know that a lot
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: of people outside of hardcore Dodger fans would know that
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: it's Eric Karros.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Um, I don't know. I think you'd be surprised. A
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: lot of Dodger fans know that it's Eric Karros. Um,
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: He played so well for so long in Los Angeles,
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Rookie of the Year. I believe he was the first
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: one of the four or five in a row that
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers had. I can't remember the order of it,
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: but they had a really good stretch there where they
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: had four or five Rookie of the Year in a row.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: He was just such a solid piece in the order
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: for them for so many years. I know Dodger fans
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: still still love him very, very much. And so I, I,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: I bet you most of them would know that he's
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: the leader.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah. Hardcore Dodger fans. But if you ask Joe
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Schmoe off the streets, he wouldn't know it. And also
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: before Mike Trout came along, he was the all time
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: leader in home runs from a guy from New Jersey.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: So we have some New Jersey people on this show
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: that would not have guessed that either.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Cause I would not have known. I would not have
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: known that he, I didn't know he was from New Jersey.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: He just, he seems like he fits in with California
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: so well that I would have, I would have bet
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: that he was from California.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, he was born in New Jersey, but he's
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: a Manhattan Beach guy, so he's got the hair, the
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: whole deal.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: The flow is great. The flow is great on him still.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: All right, before we let you go, I know the
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: crowd says one more question. Ken Rosenthal did a great
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: article on you about the A's and how your journey
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: went through the A's, and you know, you were going
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: to be a first baseman, but you might've been an outfielder.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: You might've been a catcher, whatever it is. Can I
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: just say this? I would have loved to have seen
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: you run around the outfield. That would have been fun
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: as hell for me to watch. It would have been,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: it would have been just like if I had to
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: play the outfit, except you're way more athletic and you
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: would have dominated me in the outfield. But like, if
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: they would have come to me and say, you want
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: to play the outfit? I would've been like, uh, maybe.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Hey, I had about a solid month in right field
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: there when, uh, Josh Reddick broke his thumb or his
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: wrist or something. I can't remember. He got hurt. I
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: can't remember what it was, but I played about a
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: solid month. And, uh, in right field. And that was
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: in numbers wise, that was actually my most consistent time
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: when I was in Oakland. Um, I think for that
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: month I hit like two 50 with two or three
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: home runs, uh, uh, kind of basically doing what I
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: was doing now. And then when Reddit came back, I,
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: you know, I, I, I got the boot and that's
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: more than understandable. And, um, but you know, that was
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: when I was actually playing my best and most consistent
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: when I, when I was playing right field in Oakland. Um,
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: and I felt like, you know what, I felt like
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: I did a really good job out there. Um, I
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: don't know what the metrics say, Um, I know the
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: metrics hated me when they put me in left, but,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: you know, I felt way more comfortable in right field.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: And I think that had to do with the fact
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: that my entire career up to that point had been
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: spent on the right side of the infield, whether it
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: was first base or second base. And, um, you know,
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: I think just, you see the ball a certain way, um,
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: on certain sides of the field, whereas, you know, now
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: I bet if I got put in left field, I'd
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: probably be better than if I was in right field
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: because I've spent so much time on the left side
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: of the infield over the last, you know, five, six years.
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  Speaker 1: Shoot. Think about if you had played that whole time,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: how long of a run that would have been to
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: right field in Oakland. That would have been terrible. Oh,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: my gosh.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: But I didn't care back then. You know, I was
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: happy to be playing.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: You wanted to be in the big leagues. It's better
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: than being in Sacramento. Oh, wait a minute. Anyway, but
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: my question, last question for you is how– identical your
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: left and right splits are versus lefties versus righties. And
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: maybe it's a product of this season. Things are going
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: a certain way. What do you attribute it to? Is it,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: are you a traject guy? Is it just because you're
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: older and you've had tons of reps and you're no
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: longer just a strictly platoon besides when sale pitches, which
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: is a good day to take off. What do you
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: think attributes to it?
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Um, This year, I think we had some injuries to
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: certain guys that would normally play against lefties, and so
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: I got a little bit more at-bats off left-handed starters.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: In the past, when I played every day, I always
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: felt like that was when I did well, was when
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: I faced a left-handed starter. Because you're getting two or
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: three at-bats off the same guy, and The starter mix
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: is obviously a lot different than a reliever mix. And
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: unless you're facing a guy like Sale, then it's just
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: like you're facing a closer the entire game. But in
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: the past, when I wouldn't start against the lefties, I
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: would still face the left-handed bullpen guys. And their only
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: job in the big leagues is to get left-handers out.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: And so me not having great numbers against lefties, it's like, well,
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: that should be understandable. I'm having to face... the only
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: lefty I'm getting to face is Jojo Romero or Jake
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Deakman or, you know, guys like that. And it's kind
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: of like, those are hard guys to get hits off
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: of for anybody. You know, you look at what Freddie
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: or Shohei does against those guys and it's, and it's
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: not great either. You know, so this year, you know,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: with the injury to Kike and, and, and a couple
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: other guys who would normally take that playing time, you know,
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: I had to be slobbed in there against a little
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: bit more lefties. And I, I just feel like when
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: you face a left-handed starter, you're, going to have a
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: little bit more success than uh when you're just facing
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: the bullpen guys and um you know that's just kind
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: of how it's gone for me this year i just
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: feel like you get more reps you get more comfortable
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: you get you know you're not you're not diving out
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: as much when you're a little more comfortable seeing that
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: ball come closer to you and um you know for
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: me that's just really been been all it is is
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: uh you just get to get more comfortable with.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: It by the way thank you for saying that. I
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: used to get so mad when I wouldn't play. And
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: then they'd be like the eighth inning and they had
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: the lefty warming up and they'd say, Hey, go pinch
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: hit for the, you know, the backup catcher in the
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: eighth inning. And I'm like, but you know, the lefty's
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: coming in to face me and we like those chances better.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: And then they'd say, well, you don't really hit lefties
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: well late. Well, I've sat there for eight innings and
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: then they bring in some side-arming lefty that's throwing sliders
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: that break 400 feet across the plate or throw a hundred. Oh,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: I don't know why I can't hit these guys. I don't, I,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: it's like, ah, so thank you for saying that.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Those guys are tough on righties also. And you know,
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: it's like they're, they get righties out, but their whole
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: job is to get lefties out. Like that's the whole
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: reason they're in the bullpen is they come in to
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: get lefties out. Um, that's what they're supposed to do. And,
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: you know, and that's just, uh, you know, I've had
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: so many conversations with Doc that, you know, we both
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: agree that it's never been a platoon for me. It's just,
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: we have guys that are on the roster to hit lefties.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: And that's also a good chance to give me, you know,
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: half a game off or even a full game off
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: and just keep me healthy for the entire season. And
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: that's something that we've been really, you know, kind of
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: focused on this year is trying to stay healthy for
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: the whole year. And, um, And, you know, that was
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: always an easy way to do it of being like, well,
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: let's get you, you know, you might come in and
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: face the righty later in the game. So let's get you,
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: you know, five or six innings off your feet. And
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: that way you're ready to go for the last two
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: or three innings. And we'll get you a favorable matchup.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: But yeah, so I want to make that very clear
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: that like we've never felt like it's been a platoon,
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: even though it kind of looks like it. It's just
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: it's a way to help keep me healthy.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Wow. max keep doing what you're doing on and off
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: the field man you're one of our favorite guests for
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: real you always come on you're always solid uh thank
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: you for helping my son with his glasses he's my
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: son's gonna be rocking.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: The max hey did he get him yet he got
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: him the other day he didn't get oakley's though he
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: got some other company i don't know what they're called
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: but he liked them the way they remember you're telling
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: me that so he's he got him uh when i
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: just saw him i was in vegas with him this
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: weekend i delivered them to him so i can't wait
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: for him to wear them on the field and tell
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: me how they go so so you know max thank
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: you well thank you.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: So much just Yeah. Like, I mean, just remember, like
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: I tried to tell him, it's going to take him
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: a couple of weeks to get used to those things. It's, uh, uh,
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: you know, it took me a solid month, maybe a
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: month and a half just to, you know, finally feel
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: like I got to throw them on and there was
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: no difference, but, uh, yeah, it's going to take some time.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: He's just got to stick with it and, you know,
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: they'll help him out for sure.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, thank you again. I mean, between you and
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Tommy fam, you guys should be eye doctors as much
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: as I've talked to you all about glasses and contacts
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: and stuff. I appreciate, I appreciate, I appreciate both of
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: you guys.