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Rookie Nick Kurtz on A’s trades, Game of his LIFE, Journey to Bigs · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Hey, we're excited to have A's rookie Nick Kurtz joining
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  Speaker 1: the show right now. Nick, great to have you on here.
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  Speaker 1: Congrats on a great year so far. Still work to do.
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  Speaker 1: First off, want to say hello, and do you feel
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  Speaker 1: like a rookie because you don't look like a rookie, dude,
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  Speaker 1: but do you feel like a rookie in the bigs?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I still think there's a little bit more time for
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  Speaker 3: me to feel this way, but not for too much longer.
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  Speaker 2: I hope.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, good, good, Well, I want to start here just
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  Speaker 1: because it's fresh. How was the trade deadline? You're someone
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  Speaker 1: that comes in as a rookie, obviously you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to be worried about being traded, but how is it
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  Speaker 1: just to be amongst you know, players over the last
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  Speaker 1: few days, are people checking their phones just to see
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  Speaker 1: what's going on because every team makes a trade at
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  Speaker 1: the deadline, so somebody in the clubhouse is going to
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  Speaker 1: be hugging their teammates goodbye.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was weird.
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  Speaker 3: You know, this is the first time I've kind of
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  Speaker 3: experienced the trade deadline at all, and then let alone
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  Speaker 3: in the big leagues, So seeing that kind of go down,
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  Speaker 3: seeing the moves made and then you know, seeing Mason
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  Speaker 3: JP and Meggi goh, it hurts to see. But at
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  Speaker 3: the end of the day, we know it's a business,
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  Speaker 3: so we all understand it. But there's a great guys
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  Speaker 3: and you know we wish them the best.
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  Speaker 5: Nick How does it feel? I have two questions for you.
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  Speaker 6: First one, how does it feel to be the second
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  Speaker 6: most amish guy on a show?
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  Speaker 5: Okay from Lancaster.
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  Speaker 6: Right, you have the nickname big Amish, but the guy
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  Speaker 6: with his hat on backwards, the other guy in his
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  Speaker 6: hat on backwards, is actually amish. So how does it
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  Speaker 6: feel even though your nickname is big Amish, Crats is
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  Speaker 6: actually the one that has done the churning of the
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  Speaker 6: butter and building the barn with his bare hands and
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  Speaker 6: all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So this might be the.
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  Speaker 6: First time in your life you're the second most amish
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  Speaker 6: person on anything you've ever done.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's definitely a new one. I haven't really
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  Speaker 3: met anyone else since I've left Lancaster who kind of
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  Speaker 3: knows about it or has been around it for a
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  Speaker 3: little bit. So it's cool at the same time.
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  Speaker 2: Nice nice. We always try to We always try to
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  Speaker 2: get the we always try to get the facts right.
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  Speaker 2: Where did you grow up in Lancaster?
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  Speaker 3: So it was right in Leancster County, it was. I
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  Speaker 3: was like five minutes from Littitz and then in Lancster
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  Speaker 3: County went to manhatt township in school district area.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so you went to Mannheim. First of all, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not Amish. Second of all, AJ looks more homish than
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  Speaker 2: both of us. Thirdly, we know AJ is turning tons
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  Speaker 2: of butter and Mannheim is not amish. So there's that.
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  Speaker 2: That's not how it churned butter.
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  Speaker 6: Now that we got the facts straight, now I have
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  Speaker 6: to ask him the real question. How does it feel
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  Speaker 6: as a rookie to have the greatest game You're going
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  Speaker 6: to have your career six for six almost five homers.
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  Speaker 6: Missed it by a foot, like this was one of
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  Speaker 6: the greatest. I said, it was the greatest game I've
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  Speaker 6: ever seen by a hitter. So you in your rookie
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  Speaker 6: year had I mean, if you can top this game,
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  Speaker 6: I will salute you for the rest of my life.
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  Speaker 6: But you six for six, four homers, like six runs
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  Speaker 6: RBIs everything.
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  Speaker 5: The greatest game of all time was in your rookie year.
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  Speaker 4: Congratulations, Yeah, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: It's God, it's still when people say that, it doesn't
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  Speaker 3: really still feel real.
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  Speaker 4: That kind of actually did it.
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  Speaker 3: It was a weird feeling throughout the whole game that
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  Speaker 3: you know, it just kind of kept happening, kept getting hits.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I feel like a lot of luck has
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  Speaker 3: to go into a game like that, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: it all kind of came together.
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  Speaker 4: But thank you, Yeah, luck, what luck?
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  Speaker 2: There ain't no luck, dude. You got six sits.
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  Speaker 5: And four homers in this ball right here.
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  Speaker 2: You missed the other one.
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  Speaker 6: You missed by like a foot where You're like, dude,
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  Speaker 6: if you would have got five homers, think about you'd
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  Speaker 6: be going to cooperstowne right, your hat, your helmet, your bat,
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  Speaker 6: your spikes.
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  Speaker 7: I think it already did some of this stuff.
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  Speaker 8: I'm sure it probably did. But like, dude, that's not luck.
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  Speaker 8: That's like the greatest game I've ever seen. If I
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  Speaker 8: could have got six sits.
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  Speaker 6: In a game ship for hopea kits, it for crats,
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  Speaker 6: that's a month's worth of hits.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, six hits in a game, I'd barely got
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  Speaker 8: six and bats in the game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess maybe in a little bit LESSU but
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  Speaker 3: they still got throw it where you look, and you said,
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  Speaker 3: I got to make good swings on it. But when
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  Speaker 3: things are going good, you know they're going good. So
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  Speaker 3: that's kind of the way baseball works in my opinion.
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  Speaker 3: The ups and down, seeps and flows and all kind
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  Speaker 3: of I don't just happened in one game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah I don't. I don't get six hits in VP.
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  Speaker 2: But the real questions, now, okay, we got to ask
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  Speaker 2: the really tough questions. What's tougher the big leagues or
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  Speaker 2: the ACC?
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  Speaker 4: The big leagues for sure?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah you sure? Are you sure? Because I mean we're
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  Speaker 2: kind of seeing like we kind of asked this question
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  Speaker 2: with Paul Skins, like the SEC his era was worse
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  Speaker 2: in the SEC than it was than it is in
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  Speaker 2: the big leagues. You were just in college. You didn't
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  Speaker 2: play in the minor leagues, and you talk like you
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  Speaker 2: came on and you were talking about You're like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's just it's luck. Some of this is
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  Speaker 2: all this stuff was the ACC. Was the schedule you
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  Speaker 2: played in college and the development you had in college
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  Speaker 2: able to put you in this situation or you just
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  Speaker 2: the freak from Lancaster.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think the coaching staff and kind
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  Speaker 3: of the adjustments I've made in college kind of helped
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  Speaker 3: me get to you know, the high draft pick and
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  Speaker 3: stuff like that.
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  Speaker 5: What was it like playing for Tom Walter?
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  Speaker 2: I know him.
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  Speaker 6: He's a great guy. So he's he's he's awesome, He's
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  Speaker 6: developed a great program. So what is he like playing
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  Speaker 6: for Tom Walter at Wake Forest.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's awesome. You know, like you said, great guy.
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  Speaker 4: He's done so much stuff in the past.
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  Speaker 3: You know, donated you know when I first committed there,
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  Speaker 3: right after he donated the kidney to the to the player,
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  Speaker 3: and after seeing that's kind of the kind of person
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  Speaker 3: he is. He cares about you more of a human
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  Speaker 3: being than just a baseball player. So that was really
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  Speaker 3: what brought me to Wake and then playing for him
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  Speaker 3: for three years was you know, he kind of showed
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  Speaker 3: that every single day, so it was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: So your last season in college ball, I think, did
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  Speaker 1: you have.
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  Speaker 7: Did you have an injury early in the season.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I struggled early and then got hurt for like
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  Speaker 4: two weeks, was out and then.
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  Speaker 1: Came back okay, and then you raked. I mean you
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  Speaker 1: were like, I think, yeah, I'm looking at some of
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  Speaker 1: the numbers insane. So the point is when you got
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  Speaker 1: drafted fourth overall, are you one of those guys it's like, great,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to the d a as I'm happy. Or did
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  Speaker 1: you look back, like to the first three teams? Are
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  Speaker 1: you sure? Are you sure?
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  Speaker 5: You know?
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  Speaker 1: Like there's even some guys I think Bregman right whears
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  Speaker 1: number two because he wasn't number one overall? Did you
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  Speaker 1: have that mentality at all in your brain? Like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I felt like I was the best hitter in college
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  Speaker 1: baseball and three other teams didn't feel that way.
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  Speaker 3: Apparently not really, you know, I did feel like I
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  Speaker 3: was the best bat to come out of that class,
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  Speaker 3: but I didn't really show it. My junior year started
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  Speaker 3: off really struggled really early on, and kind of like
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  Speaker 3: at that point, I kind of told myself, this is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the days where we're supposed to go. Everything's
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  Speaker 3: met for a reason. Maybe I would be up in
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  Speaker 3: the big leagues for lentil one, two or three year,
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  Speaker 3: whatever happened. So I kind of just put on perspective
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  Speaker 3: and this.
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  Speaker 4: Is what it was meant to be.
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  Speaker 5: Dude, you had a twelve hundred ops your junior year, almost.
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  Speaker 7: Thirteen twenty two homers.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, it wasn't that big of a struggle bus
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  Speaker 6: you were on. I mean, jeez, I mean you only
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  Speaker 6: hit three zh six Sorry, but your slug was seven
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  Speaker 6: sixty three.
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  Speaker 5: Like what kind of struggle bus were you on? Like
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  Speaker 5: you have unreal expectations if that's what you're looking for.
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  Speaker 7: And he led the he led NTAA and walks too.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, this is we're talking Barry bondstep.
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  Speaker 3: So when I got back from the injury, then I
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  Speaker 3: was really good and so but before that, that's kind
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  Speaker 3: of when I went on a real, real heater. And
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  Speaker 3: after I got back and I hit like fourteen homers
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  Speaker 3: in ten games and something like that. So fourteen of
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  Speaker 3: twenty two homers were in ten games.
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  Speaker 4: That's kind of what I mean, a little bit of
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  Speaker 4: a struggle.
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  Speaker 7: That's a heater, for real, that is a real heater.
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  Speaker 2: You're so you're sitting there, you're sitting there right now,
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  Speaker 2: and you're essentially taking Jacob's Rookie of the Year award
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  Speaker 2: away from here. Have you mentioned it when you get
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  Speaker 2: on the front of the bus when the two of
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  Speaker 2: you have to sing a duo.
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  Speaker 3: No, we have not. We haven't talked about much. A
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  Speaker 3: lot of people ask. You know, he's going through some stuff.
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  Speaker 3: He's got a little injury right now, so he's on
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  Speaker 3: the aisle. But I know when he gets back, he'll
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  Speaker 3: make another run for it, kind of like I did.
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  Speaker 3: So it'll be fun battling out for the rest of
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  Speaker 3: the year. I mean, whoever gets it gets it's it's
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  Speaker 3: a great reward. It'll most likely be an a which
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  Speaker 3: is really cool.
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  Speaker 2: What have you seen in the big leagues in the
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  Speaker 2: sense that everyone says, well, anybody can get hot in
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  Speaker 2: the big leagues, and I'm not going to say you're hot.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna say you're just good and you can really hit.
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  Speaker 2: What have you seen them making adjustments that you've now
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  Speaker 2: had to make adjustments because I know Jacob went through
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of a slump here because of the
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  Speaker 2: trying to play through the fractured forearm. But what adjustments
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  Speaker 2: have you seen the league make against you that you've
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  Speaker 2: been like, I'll counter that and make this adjustment.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's been a few. When I first got up,
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  Speaker 3: it was, you know, a lot of soft splitter change
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  Speaker 3: up away. Then I kind of make an adjustment towards that,
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  Speaker 3: and then they threw a little bit more heaters and
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  Speaker 3: then I had to make adjustment to that, and then
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  Speaker 3: they kind of went all the way and then they
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  Speaker 3: kind of make adjustment at that and the kind of
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  Speaker 3: they're coming in now and trying to go up and
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  Speaker 3: get me to chase and chase in. So it's kind
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  Speaker 3: of the you know, I think it's a game throughout
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  Speaker 3: the entire time. You got to figure out what they're
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  Speaker 3: trying to do to you that weekend or that series,
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  Speaker 3: and then you got to come with the game plan
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  Speaker 3: to you know, not steer away from what you do best,
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  Speaker 3: but kind of combat what they do.
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  Speaker 1: How does that process work for you in the big
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  Speaker 1: leagues because obviously you're new to everything. You're a rookie
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  Speaker 1: this season. You know, are you getting information from the
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  Speaker 1: coaching staff? Is it from the front office, like what's
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  Speaker 1: your process? Who comes up to you and says, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I mean obviously you see it in the game too,
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  Speaker 1: but hey, this is what this is how everyone's attacking
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  Speaker 1: right now, This is what you should do?
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  Speaker 7: Or is it most of what you're just observing yourself
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  Speaker 7: in your.
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  Speaker 4: Abs a little bit?
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  Speaker 3: Both are hitting our hitting coach Darren Bush, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we kind of come up with a plane before the game,
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  Speaker 3: and then we kind of use the first set bat
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  Speaker 3: and they kind of use that as a baseline what
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  Speaker 3: we think they're going to do, how to go, what
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  Speaker 3: do they get you with? And then just what's been
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  Speaker 3: working against me recently. Kind of bringing all that together
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  Speaker 3: kind of comes with a good game plan of what
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  Speaker 3: they're going to try to do, and then we just
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  Speaker 3: use our pre game stuff and pre work to kind
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  Speaker 3: of combat that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, what they're gonna do.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, we can see that baseball is easy
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  Speaker 2: for you. So what do you do off the field?
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  Speaker 2: What's your thing? Are you a gamer? You a hunter?
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  Speaker 2: Some of the guys wanted to ask if you were
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  Speaker 2: a butter churner or not, but I don't. I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to hit that.
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  Speaker 5: So cow milker milk, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, aj aj milk chickens. So there's that.
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  Speaker 7: I have.
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  Speaker 4: A big gamer.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I spend most of my time doing off
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  Speaker 3: the field, and they all season I'll venture out to
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more stuff. But while I'm outside on
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  Speaker 3: the field on my legs a lot during the season,
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of gaming going on.
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  Speaker 2: All right, What are you into? What you what's on
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  Speaker 2: the stad?
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  Speaker 3: Mostly Call of Duty? That's kind of the game I play.
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  Speaker 3: I've been playing a.
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  Speaker 4: New game recently. It's called Ready or Not, which has
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  Speaker 4: been fun.
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  Speaker 3: It's like you and your friends like are on a
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  Speaker 3: swat team and you got to go to like dude
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  Speaker 3: missions and stuff like that, which has been fun.
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  Speaker 4: But mostly those two.
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  Speaker 6: All right, So you're playing Call of Duty and Ready
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  Speaker 6: or Not? Like I played Call of Duty back when
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  Speaker 6: it was like so calm Navy Seals Call of Duty,
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  Speaker 6: like way back like twenty plus years ago.
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  Speaker 5: What number are they on now?
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  Speaker 6: Because this was like the first one was and it
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  Speaker 6: was the coolest thing ever because you know, you played
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  Speaker 6: as a team. You had your head set on there's
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  Speaker 6: a twelve year old and you're like, I'm Nick Kurtz.
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  Speaker 6: I had six it to the game. You can't kill
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  Speaker 6: me a little little kid, right, you're talking trash to them.
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  Speaker 5: So like, what number are they on now?
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  Speaker 3: So Black Op seven is coming out in a couple
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  Speaker 3: of months, So that's that's a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not like the older games for sure. It's
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  Speaker 4: gotten way different.
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  Speaker 5: Like what are to explain to us old us, old folk?
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  Speaker 3: So no, I think like The biggest part of the
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  Speaker 3: game is like you know, the Battle Riale, which is
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  Speaker 3: like the's called war Zone, so it's kind of they
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  Speaker 3: kind of used like the Fortnite what they did and
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  Speaker 3: then put it made it called Duty version out of it.
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  Speaker 3: And it also came out around twenty twenty COVID, so
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  Speaker 3: that's when it got really big as well.
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  Speaker 2: You get noticed when you go out in Sacramento. Do
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  Speaker 2: you get noticed? Are they like, dang that guy played
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  Speaker 2: on the Kings?
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  Speaker 3: Not really, honestly, not really and Tahoe over all Star
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  Speaker 3: Break we got noticed by a few guys, a few people,
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  Speaker 3: but no, we just got back. We were on the
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  Speaker 3: road all after all Star Breaking. That's when the kind
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  Speaker 3: of took off. So maybe a little bit more here
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  Speaker 3: in the future, but not so much now. I like
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  Speaker 3: that like it that way for sure.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, a little profile. You can do your thing, live
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  Speaker 7: your life.
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  Speaker 1: But on the celeb side, you know, AJ and sometimes
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: Kratz really love name dropping. Kratz actually said he was
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  Speaker 1: texting with the GM this morning. A had some famous friends,
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  Speaker 1: So what do you have for us? After the huge
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: performance the for Homer six hit game, who was the
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  Speaker 1: most famous person that reached out to you.
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  Speaker 3: I think the most famous was Barstool Big Kent reached
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  Speaker 3: out and then I've known. I've talked to Paul Goldsmith
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  Speaker 3: a few and the you know a few years in
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  Speaker 3: the past when a guarding agencies and heard from him
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Nick, I have to tell you a story.
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  Speaker 6: So Big Cat he's in Chicago. He's based in Chicago. Okay,
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  Speaker 6: we did the NASCAR race in Chicago last year. Big
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  Speaker 6: Cat was next to me. White Sox Dave is a
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  Speaker 6: barstool guy, right, So White Dave's taking me around, introduced
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  Speaker 6: me to all those people, and everybody wanted to make
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  Speaker 6: sure with Big Cat. I had and I literally looked
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  Speaker 6: at White Sox Dave and I said, who the hell
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  Speaker 6: is this guy? And They're like, you don't know Big Cat.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm like, oh, I've heard of him.
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  Speaker 5: They're like, there, come meet him. He was great, But
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  Speaker 5: I had no I had no idea.
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  Speaker 6: I know Portnoy obviously, and I knew White Sox Dave
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  Speaker 6: and Meghan and all the other people they have, but
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  Speaker 6: Big Cat, I.
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  Speaker 5: Had no idea who he was.
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  Speaker 7: I could not identify.
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  Speaker 6: I could have never So that's cool that he reached
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  Speaker 6: out to did he want you on his podcast or anything.
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we might do something in the future, but it
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: was more just yeah, exchanging phone numbers, saying what's.
• 14:30
  Speaker 5: Up, how do you get your number? How do you
• 14:32
  Speaker 5: get your number?
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: Something with my agency, they have a contact with him
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: and they kind of connected us.
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: Got it.
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: Be sure how that went down? Just kinda happen.
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. I'm always I'm always looking for I'm
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: always looking for unique things to do with the home
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: run derby, do you think they should have a rookie
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: who whatever rookie is leading leading the league in home runs?
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: Or would you do it next year if they asked you.
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: I probably would, just because it's in Philly and that's
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: kind of closest to home so that's that'd.
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: Be pretty cool. And I mean, after watching rook too
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: and talking to Ruck about it, he said it was
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: so much fun. So I'd enjoyed doing that. I think. Yeah.
• 15:18
  Speaker 5: Nice.
• 15:18
  Speaker 6: All right, last one before we go, I asked him,
• 15:19
  Speaker 6: I asked your manager. I played with your manager. Okay,
• 15:22
  Speaker 6: so I've known your manager for a really long time,
• 15:24
  Speaker 6: Mark Kott say, and I asked him in spring training
• 15:26
  Speaker 6: why he takes his hat. I'm not gonna do it
• 15:28
  Speaker 6: to my hat. I'm gonna try and find another hat
• 15:30
  Speaker 6: that I can ruin. I'm gonna take this one off.
• 15:32
  Speaker 6: And why does he have his hat? Why does he
• 15:34
  Speaker 6: take his hat and he bend it like this? If
• 15:37
  Speaker 6: you ever asked Mark Cott say why he bends his
• 15:39
  Speaker 6: hat so much? Because I asked him in spring training
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: and he said, I didn't realize i'd do it. But
• 15:43
  Speaker 6: instead of the flat brimmer like all your young kids, like,
• 15:46
  Speaker 6: he's got the old school. Remember the Japan team that
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: would always come to the Little League World Series and
• 15:50
  Speaker 6: every hat would be like this.
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: That's Mark Kotsay host.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: He never really mentioned it until you said that, and
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: it's like all I can see now I'll have to
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: ask him today.
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: Well he doesn't. This is very true.
• 16:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Remember I asked him in spring training.
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: He didn't really have an answer.
• 16:11
  Speaker 7: It's just it's almost like a you know, fidget spinner.
• 16:15
  Speaker 7: It's like something you do. You just keep doing this right?
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 16:19
  Speaker 7: Interesting? Well, Nick, this was awesome man, Hope you had fun.
• 16:22
  Speaker 7: Great to have you on. Keep crushing it really fun
• 16:24
  Speaker 7: watching you play this year.
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: Awesome, Thank you guys,