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Reds closer Emilio Pagán and starter Brady Singer @Reds camp · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: The closer is here. Emilio Pagan back with the Reds. So,
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  Speaker 1: first off, congrats on the contract. And now you're back
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  Speaker 1: in spring training with a team that I know really
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  Speaker 1: had a great time with last year and had a
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  Speaker 1: banger of a season.
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  Speaker 2: So tell us how it all went down for you
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  Speaker 2: this offseason.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was awesome.
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  Speaker 4: You know, free agencies has been fun for me the
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  Speaker 4: two times I've been a free agent, and definitely knew
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to be back here in Cincinnati and playing
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  Speaker 4: for Tito and the staff. You're right, I had a
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  Speaker 4: great time. Our our clubhouse here is awesome, probably one
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  Speaker 4: of the closest nick groups I've been a part of,
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  Speaker 4: which is special. You know, it doesn't come around often,
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  Speaker 4: and so I knew I wanted to be back on
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  Speaker 4: the team that. You know, we got a taste of
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  Speaker 4: the playoffs for our young group, our young guys that
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  Speaker 4: hadn't been there before, and with our starting pitching man,
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  Speaker 4: I really feel like we can make a run at
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  Speaker 4: the division and hopefully make a deeper run into the playoffs.
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  Speaker 5: What was it like being annointed the closer? Kind of
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to say. In the it was kind
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  Speaker 5: of the middle of the year kind of thing, right,
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  Speaker 5: you kind of just pick over that role. Was that
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  Speaker 5: different for you? And then I mean the way you
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  Speaker 5: finished was unbelievable.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So I've always felt like I could do that role.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I had a decent run with Tampa and
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  Speaker 4: nineteen when I played with Cratzy, which was awesome, a
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  Speaker 4: lot of fun, but really our best two arms that
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  Speaker 4: year were you know, Diego Castillo and Jose Alvarado and
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  Speaker 4: and I just kind of got hot at the right time.
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  Speaker 3: They were both a little banged up.
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  Speaker 4: And then had another shot at it in Minnesota in
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  Speaker 4: twenty two and got a guy by Joan Durant throwing
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  Speaker 4: one hundred and five and I'm looking down like, why
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  Speaker 4: am I throwing the ninth in it? This guy is
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  Speaker 4: a cheat code out here, And so very quickly he
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  Speaker 4: took over that role, and you know, we had a
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  Speaker 4: we had a good run there when I was with
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  Speaker 4: the Twins, and then you know, I signed here and
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  Speaker 4: you know, Alexis Dias been one of the most consistent
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  Speaker 4: closers percentage wise over the last few seasons, and uh,
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  Speaker 4: he was banged up a little bit in spring training
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  Speaker 4: and I got a chance to close a couple of
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  Speaker 4: games early and and then Tito texts me and goes, hey,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I like what you're doing. You're my guy,
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  Speaker 4: And so I just tried to have fun with it
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  Speaker 4: this time around, you know, not not really make the
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  Speaker 4: role any bigger than it is, put any pressure on myself.
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  Speaker 4: Just go get three outs and enjoy doing it. And
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  Speaker 4: I had a blast. So hopefully I can, you know,
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  Speaker 4: do something similar, if not better this year.
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  Speaker 6: Is it the same? Is the ninth inning the same?
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  Speaker 6: Because everybody says it's just another inning?
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  Speaker 4: Uh no, it's not. It definitely doesn't feel the same.
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  Speaker 4: But I tried to make it in my head feel
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  Speaker 4: the same, if that makes sense. Like I tried to
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  Speaker 4: just my job is to go execute pitches at a
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  Speaker 4: high level, and if I felt like if I did that,
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  Speaker 4: then I was okay with whatever the result was. You know,
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  Speaker 4: if I blew the game, but I felt like I
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  Speaker 4: threw well, I wasn't gonna be more upset than if
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  Speaker 4: I pitched bad and got lucky. And you know, the
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  Speaker 4: hitters just mispitches to hit. So that's the kind of
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  Speaker 4: the way I tried to approach it. And for me,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not going to speak for everybody that does that role.
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  Speaker 4: For me, that was the way that I can make
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  Speaker 4: it feel like every other inning. But there's definitely heightened intensity,
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  Speaker 4: there's definitely heightened nerves.
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  Speaker 3: I'm old enough and been.
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  Speaker 4: Around long enough now that I'm not afraid to admit that, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I'm nervous running out there, But I feel like nerves
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  Speaker 4: are a good thing.
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  Speaker 3: It means that you care.
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  Speaker 4: It means that you're excited to go, you know, and
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  Speaker 4: do the best at the opportunity you're given.
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  Speaker 2: And so.
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  Speaker 4: I definitely wouldn't have been able to admit that when
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  Speaker 4: I played with you Crassey, I was definitely trying to
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  Speaker 4: be the tough guy that was saying no, I'm not
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  Speaker 4: worried about it, But now that I've been around it,
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  Speaker 4: I don't worry about it anymore.
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  Speaker 5: As the closer going into twenty twenty six, do you
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  Speaker 5: get a cool walker? You mentioned Heuran Douran the coolest
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  Speaker 5: walkouts up?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Do you get one of those this year? And have
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  Speaker 5: you figured it out if you are?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: So they I feel like the Reds did a pretty
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  Speaker 4: good job with mine last year. And there's definitely some
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  Speaker 4: talks about some stuff that's going on. Can you give
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  Speaker 4: us a hint, I'll give you a hint. Yeah, I'll
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  Speaker 4: give you a hint. I'm a big WWE fan. And
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  Speaker 4: so they're some WWE sound bites. There's some WWE music
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  Speaker 4: last year. I started with Cody Rhoades and I finished
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  Speaker 4: with Roman Reigns. There's a little bit going on that
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  Speaker 4: that could make it a pretty cool entrance.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, well, then who's your guy? Sorry, Grozzy, Yeah, Who's
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  Speaker 5: Who's your guy? Then Cody Roads?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think Cody's got probably the best song.
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  Speaker 4: But if I'm if I'm sitting down on the couch
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  Speaker 4: watching Monday Night Raw, I'd probably say that I get
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  Speaker 4: the most excited when Roman Raine is out there.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, and then and then one more follow Crotzy sorry
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  Speaker 5: on this because obviously everyone knows I'm a wrestling guy.
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  Speaker 7: Do you like it on Netflix?
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  Speaker 5: Because for me, I used to like it when it
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  Speaker 5: was on linear table because I could not I didn't
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  Speaker 5: have to sit and watch it right, and then the
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  Speaker 5: commercials come on. I could fast forward through the commercials. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: But now on Netflix you can't fast forward through the commercials,
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  Speaker 5: so you're stuck yeah, watching them.
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  Speaker 3: I do like it though, because we play on Monday nights. True.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, so it's like, you know, a lot of time.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Jose Travino's a big w W guy, and
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  Speaker 4: so we would finish the game and everybody'd come over
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  Speaker 4: to my hotel room and we'd throw on Netflix and
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  Speaker 4: watch One Night Roll.
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  Speaker 3: So I like that fact. But you're right.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, I grew up with that on USA Network. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that was to me where I fell in love with it.
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  Speaker 4: But having the ability to go back and watch it
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  Speaker 4: is nice.
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  Speaker 1: Hold up, hold up, AJ, we can talk offline. I
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  Speaker 1: can still help you skip commercials. So Melio, maybe you
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  Speaker 1: and me have something else figured out in the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the world.
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  Speaker 2: No, you can, you can. I promise you. You can
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  Speaker 2: watch that thing commercial free. I promise you.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, but how much more do you gotta pay? Scott?
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  Speaker 7: I mean, we're not going to take anything there. We go.
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  Speaker 1: Well, okay, right now we're talking to a guy who
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  Speaker 1: just got a nice lucrative contract.
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  Speaker 2: So anyway, Crat, you're up.
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  Speaker 6: All I was gonna say was, do you realize that
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  Speaker 6: you're super close to wrestling greatness? AJ has a.
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  Speaker 7: Belt numerous multiple multiplet.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you have one, you have one real belt that
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  Speaker 6: you won the Royal Rumble, right, that's the.
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  Speaker 7: No no, no, no.
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  Speaker 5: So I have one from TNA that I wanted to
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  Speaker 5: beat the ship out of a guy with a home plate.
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  Speaker 5: And then I have I was presented the e c
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  Speaker 5: W from Tommy Dreamer.
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  Speaker 3: No way.
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  Speaker 5: And then I also have the Spinner. Edge is a
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  Speaker 5: buddy of mine. Okay, so I did when they were
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  Speaker 5: doing the guest host I did raw the Price is
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  Speaker 5: Right with Bob Barker and they had a whole lot
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  Speaker 5: of the crowd and uh so they gave me the
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  Speaker 5: rated R star when they had the Spin.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah that's sweet.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, last year I ordered a whole bunch of
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  Speaker 4: ww T shirts and Edge was one of them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and uh you know that was I.
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  Speaker 4: Would have liked four or five of Edge, four or
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  Speaker 4: five of John Cena, Shawn Michaels Triple H and the
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  Speaker 4: d of gave him around the whole clubhouse.
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  Speaker 3: And so yeah, I was a big Edge fan.
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  Speaker 5: As long as you don't come out to the stone cold. No, no,
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  Speaker 5: that's overplayed, okay, good, good, all right, we're good.
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  Speaker 6: Who would who would win in a cage match?
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  Speaker 7: You were Travino?
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  Speaker 4: I mean I'm never going to say another man's gonna
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  Speaker 4: beat me in a fight. Uh yeah, I'm gonna say
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  Speaker 4: me on that one.
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  Speaker 7: Are you a face or a heel?
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  Speaker 3: Though?
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  Speaker 4: I think it depends on the pop you know, like fans,
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  Speaker 4: if you don't get a pop coming out, you gotta
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  Speaker 4: go heal right, But if you get a pop, then
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  Speaker 4: you're you gotta play the face card.
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  Speaker 3: It just depends on the fan reaction. I think there's
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  Speaker 3: an art to it.
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  Speaker 5: Listen, I've done both. I've played both. Way more fun
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  Speaker 5: being the heel. So the first year when I did TNA,
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  Speaker 5: I was I was the face. I was the good guy.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: So I came out and I helped and we won, right,
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  Speaker 5: And the next year I got to do the heel
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  Speaker 5: and I got to beat up David Eckstein and his
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  Speaker 5: brother Rick Gosh okay, and it was way more fun.
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  Speaker 5: You can say anything and you get a reaction. It's
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  Speaker 5: much harder to be the nice guy and get a reaction.
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  Speaker 3: But like David, are we talking aj styles TNA?
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  Speaker 7: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Wow, Yes sick.
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  Speaker 5: David xtey wrote a children's book and in the ring,
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  Speaker 5: I ripped it up in his face and I was
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  Speaker 5: like this is garbage, and I threw it at.
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  Speaker 7: Him and so we got to beat it.
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  Speaker 5: We couldn't touch David because he was you know, World
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  Speaker 5: Series Mvpright, we got to beat up Rick, who at
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  Speaker 5: the time wasn't a big league kidting coach yet, but
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  Speaker 5: he was my bullpenk catcher when I played for the Twins,
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  Speaker 5: so I had a relationship with him.
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  Speaker 7: I we got to beat the crap out of him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, man, that's cool.
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  Speaker 7: So it's much more fun to be.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Well, let's talk about not beating the crap
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  Speaker 6: out of other people and teams. You guys, your run
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  Speaker 6: to the playoffs last year. I was texting with House,
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  Speaker 6: your third base coach, throughout September, and he kept texting
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  Speaker 6: me like the same thing. He's like, why couldn't we
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  Speaker 6: do it? What was the mantra in that clubhouse? Like, obviously,
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  Speaker 6: you guys have to be watching the Mets and the
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  Speaker 6: collapse that they had, But what was the like constant
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  Speaker 6: day in and day out talk for you guys, considering
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  Speaker 6: Ellie was essentially playing on one leg and you guys
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  Speaker 6: were trying to make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, uh, I think Ellie plan on one
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  Speaker 4: leg was kind of a positive for us. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: this guy is easily our best player and has a
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  Speaker 4: ton to play for. Obviously, with the news that come out,
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  Speaker 4: Uh you know, whether it's true or not, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I haven't asked him, but you get you get offered
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  Speaker 4: over a quarter of a billion dollars and you turn
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  Speaker 4: it down, like this guy's got a lot to play for,
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  Speaker 4: and it just shows how much he cares about our guys,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I mean. It shows how much he
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  Speaker 4: cares about this organization, how much he wants to win,
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  Speaker 4: knowing that, you know, we're better on the field if
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  Speaker 4: he's out there then than not having him out there
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  Speaker 4: and so him playing through what he was playing through.
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  Speaker 4: There was other guys who were banged up, and uh,
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  Speaker 4: you're right, you know there we didn't ever really come
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  Speaker 4: to the field and feel like we were out of it.
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  Speaker 3: There was definitely.
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  Speaker 4: Outside noise people that were saying that, you know, it
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  Speaker 4: wasn't our year that you know, maybe next year this
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  Speaker 4: or that, or it's gonna take a miracle to get there.
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  Speaker 4: We never bought into it. We felt like we had
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  Speaker 4: a chance to win every day. You look at our
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  Speaker 4: starting rotation, what they were able to do the amount
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  Speaker 4: of innings they were able to cover for us, we
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  Speaker 4: feel confident, man, and having Tito, I mean, you guys
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  Speaker 4: all know Tito, Like, this guy is better than anybody
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  Speaker 4: I've been around in baseball at coming to the field
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  Speaker 4: not worried about yesterday's results or how we're going to
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  Speaker 4: get through today and save arms for tomorrow. He just
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  Speaker 4: only focuses on how we're going to win today's game,
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  Speaker 4: which is a very good quality to have as a
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  Speaker 4: baseball player and probably the number one quality to have
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  Speaker 4: in my opinion as a manager. Just being focused solely
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  Speaker 4: on today's game and how we're gonna play our best
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  Speaker 4: brand at baseball that day. And so we never got
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  Speaker 4: two up or two down with the whole process of September. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we were definitely watching the other teams that we were
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  Speaker 4: battling with, but we tried to stay as focused on
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  Speaker 4: us as we could, and and it worked out for us.
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  Speaker 6: Talk about your manager, Talk about Tito, Like, do you
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  Speaker 6: have any good funny Tito story, Because I've heard he's
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  Speaker 6: mellowed since he had all the health stuff and now
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  Speaker 6: he's come back and he thinks he's a supermodel because
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  Speaker 6: he lost a couple pounds, Like, does he do you
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  Speaker 6: have any good stories because he had a history before
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  Speaker 6: he came to Cincinnati and he kind of just got
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  Speaker 6: dropped right into that clubhouse.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think some of the best stories
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  Speaker 4: are stories from before he got here. You know, there's
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  Speaker 4: definitely some stories about stuff that went on last year.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if he wants me to share any
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  Speaker 4: of them, so I won't be in that. I have
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  Speaker 4: a ton of respect for Tito, but yeah, he's a
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  Speaker 4: He's a great time to have as a manager. He's
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  Speaker 4: obviously still super, super intense and wants to win, super competitive,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm incredibly grateful to have the chance to play
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  Speaker 4: for him. I mean, you can see with the way
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  Speaker 4: he goes about his business, how he communicates to every
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  Speaker 4: player in the clubhouse, you can see why he's gonna
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  Speaker 4: end up in the Hall of Fame when he's done.
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  Speaker 1: Amilio, can you explain to the crowd why your game,
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  Speaker 1: your style works in Cincinnati. I remember when you first
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  Speaker 1: signed with the Reds and some analysts were like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: extreme flyball, line drive guy in Cincinnati, Why would the
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  Speaker 1: Reds target a pitcher like this?
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  Speaker 2: And then look at the year that you just came
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  Speaker 2: off of.
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  Speaker 1: It also helps when you strike out the world and
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  Speaker 1: you mastered the splitter a little bit more. But just
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  Speaker 1: wanted to get your take on, you know, why it's
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  Speaker 1: worked for you and what you've learned from pitching in
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  Speaker 1: that park and making yourself even better.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think the biggest thing is I've
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  Speaker 4: stopped kind of buying into the flyball thing. You know,
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  Speaker 4: there was a little there was a couple of years
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  Speaker 4: there in the middle of my career where I was
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  Speaker 4: trying to avoid the home run, you know, and so
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  Speaker 4: I was throwing more off speed pitches. I was trying to,
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  Speaker 4: you know, get to the bottom of the zone a
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  Speaker 4: little bit more consistently, and from what I've experienced and
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  Speaker 4: found out, like that leads to more homers for me.
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  Speaker 4: And so I stopped like really worrying about the ball
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  Speaker 4: going in the air and just tried to pitch the
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  Speaker 4: way I've pitched my whole life, you know, even as
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  Speaker 4: a kid, Like for some reason, when I pitched on
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  Speaker 4: the mound, I just was able to command the top.
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  Speaker 3: Of the zone.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't until you know, really a few years into
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  Speaker 4: my professional career career with analytics that I found out
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  Speaker 4: why with my you know, low approach angle and the
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  Speaker 4: carry on my fastball, and so it's good to have
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  Speaker 4: those numbers, but I've I've kind of stopped looking at
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  Speaker 4: all of it and just gone back to I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: play baseball. I'm gonna do what the game's telling me
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  Speaker 4: to do and not try and overthink this. And I
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  Speaker 4: found that when I try to get the hitter to
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  Speaker 4: swing at every pitch, that's when i'm my best. And
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  Speaker 4: so you're right, Great American Ballpark gives up some homers.
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  Speaker 4: I'm still gonna give up homers.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not afraid to admit that. I know it's gonna
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  Speaker 4: happen as part of the game, as part of my game.
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  Speaker 4: But I feel like if I just stay aggressive with
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  Speaker 4: my fastball and and you're right, Scot, the splitter has
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  Speaker 4: really opened up a lot of different ways for me
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  Speaker 4: to get hitters out. That's my best route to success.
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  Speaker 4: And so that's what I'm gonna That's what I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: stick with.
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  Speaker 7: You also had a cutter, right, So.
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  Speaker 4: I've always thrown I called a cutter because I hold
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  Speaker 4: it like a cutter. But I'm not I'm not a
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  Speaker 4: great breaking ball thrower, and so I hold it like
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  Speaker 4: a cutter to get more of like a slider action.
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  Speaker 4: Every traditional slider group I've tried it, it just kind of
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  Speaker 4: pops out of my hand. And so no matter how
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  Speaker 4: much it moves, you know that if you can see
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  Speaker 4: it early, it's a bad pitch. And so every time
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  Speaker 4: I tried to throw a traditional slider, it was an
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  Speaker 4: easy take out of hand, or it was really loud
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  Speaker 4: and that's not good for pictures. And so I hold
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  Speaker 4: it as a cutter. And I've done that since probably
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  Speaker 4: middle of twenty nineteen until.
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  Speaker 7: Now got it.
• 14:38
  Speaker 5: No WBC for you this year? You played the last
• 14:41
  Speaker 5: couple of years for Puerto Rico. Yeah, couldn't get insurance.
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: Or no that I I guess the insurance thing is new,
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: or if it's not new, I did a poor job
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: of looking into it. I never I've never had insurance
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: for the WBC, not at least not that I'm aware of.
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: No, just being that I'm.
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: Turning thirty five this year, the Reds have invested a
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: lot in me. I feel like we've got a chance
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: to be a special team. I just didn't feel good
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: about going back and playing you know, I've told the
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: guys with Puerto Rico like, I'm obviously super, super thankful
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: for my time. I've represented them three times now, back
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: in twenty fifteen in the Premiere twelve and then the
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: WBC the last two times, and I've said this a
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: number of times. I don't think without the WBC in seventeen,
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: I have the career that I've had. I was not
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: on the radar, I was not a top prospect. I
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: wasn't even invited to major League camp that year with Seattle,
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: and so that WBC definitely changed the path.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: Of my career and I'm forever grateful for that.
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: I just felt like it was my time to kind
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: of step away and like, you know, let another young
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: guy that was in my shoes have a shot at it.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: Well, let me clear one thing up, So anyone that's
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: playing in the WBC does have insurance. Whether you know
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: it or not, it gets covered by the tournament. You
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: do probably some type of intro physical at some point,
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: you know, leading up to that tournament. So my last
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: question on this is it was a big deal when
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: we found out that many of the players representing Puerto
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: Rico that did want to be there this year couldn't
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: ye because of insurance issues. So you know, what are
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: your feelings when you have such an affinity to Puerto
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: Rico and they're going to get to host games and hey,
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: they've still got some talent on there. It's not like
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: there's nobody. It's just that you're missing some key players.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: And actually some of them ended up getting hurt. Anyway,
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: like Lindor who ends up getting hurt. The insurance part
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter, but just your thoughts on you know how
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Puerto Rico feels about, you know, missing some of their
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: key guys.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, number one, it sucks.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: If you'd have told me that that that group we
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: had in seventeen, you know, over the course of our
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: career we weren't going to win the WBC, I would
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: have told you were crazy.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: I thought for sure we were going to win one.
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: Not saying that they can't win it this year, but
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: a lot of the main guys you're right, aren't going
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: to be there. And Puerto Rico Baseball, there's plenty of
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: talent on that island. Uh, They're gonna be just fine. Uh,
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: it'll be names that maybe guys don't know yet. One
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: of them in our clubhouse. Edwin Arroyo, this kid is
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: a stud and uh he's gonna be a really good
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: player for a long time. And so I've already been
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: on him about and I saw Edwin, Edwin Diaz already
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: has his hair, uh you know, bleach blonde, and so
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: I'm on, I'm on Edwin here Arroyo to get his
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: hair bleach. But he's got a lot of hair, so
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: he does him. I'm not sure he's looking forward to that,
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: but uh, yeah, Puerto Rico baseball is gonna be fine.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: It is sad, uh for the for.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: The Puerto Rican Baseball Federation and for the island, for
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: the fans that you know, a lot of their big
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: name guys aren't gonna be playing, but uh it's a
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: chance for the guys that maybe are not as well
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: known to show how talented they are because there's plenty
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: of good players on that roster.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Still, yeah, good point.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Next Emelio could emerge there where all of a sudden,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: you know, he has a break out, and then you
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: see him in the WBC and then you see him
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: in MLB. Millio, thank you so much for joining us.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Always really really appreciate the time and the conversation. Good
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: luck season, We'll talk.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: To you soon. Yeah, thanks, Gush, appreciate you having me on.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: We have Brady Singer from the Reds. Brady, great to
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: see you. Happy spring training to you. Do you have
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: any tricks up your sleeve working on anything special for
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: us this spring?
• 18:11
  Speaker 8: Hey, guys, how you doing? No, not nothing, nothing too crazy.
• 18:15
  Speaker 8: Just trying to sharpen everything, get built up and get
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: ready to go. But no, no new pitches, No, nothing
• 18:21
  Speaker 8: like that. A few mechanical changes, but not just trying
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: to make everything everything better and stay healthy for the
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: whole year.
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: No like curveball, like big slow epis curveball.
• 18:30
  Speaker 8: No, No, I've been thinking about it though, I've I've
• 18:32
  Speaker 8: thought about it for sure, But no, no new No,
• 18:35
  Speaker 8: totally new pitches. Just trying to make some other things
• 18:38
  Speaker 8: a little bit better than they were before. Starts like
• 18:41
  Speaker 8: you that, So I'm gonna I'm gonna try to do
• 18:43
  Speaker 8: that every try to do it again.
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: How do you do that? What's it like?
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: Because you're one of the few guys that really does
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: take the ball everything. That's one of your greatest strengths,
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: and I think that's one of the greatest strengths that
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: any pitcher can have.
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I just I don't know.
• 18:56
  Speaker 8: I grew up just watching those guys just make their
• 18:59
  Speaker 8: starts every time. It's just really cool to see the
• 19:02
  Speaker 8: guys that went out there and pitch every every game
• 19:05
  Speaker 8: and through a.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Lot of innings.
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: I feel like there were, you know, guys that teams
• 19:08
  Speaker 8: relied on and stuff like that. And but yeah, no,
• 19:11
  Speaker 8: I just I enjoy kind of being that, being that
• 19:13
  Speaker 8: guy that has made that starts and just obviously thankful
• 19:16
  Speaker 8: to be healthy as long as I have and make
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: those starts.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: But yeah, just I don't know.
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: They pay you to go out.
• 19:22
  Speaker 8: There and pitch, so I go out there and pitch
• 19:24
  Speaker 8: as much as I can, no matter how I feel.
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: So they're getting their money's worth. But obviously you've got
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: a free agency coming up, and is there any other
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: way to possibly do it for you? Because people are like, oh, man,
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: you know this guy, he's just so much better when
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: he only makes twenty four starts. So the team's only
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: really relying on twenty four starts. Could you could Brady
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: see her come out and be like, yeah, I'll just
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: throw one hundred and two miles an hour, but I'm
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: only gonna make seventeen starts, like, could it be possible?
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: Could you possibly do it any other way than what
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: you do it?
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: No?
• 19:57
  Speaker 8: Probably not. If I could throw one hundred two miles
• 19:58
  Speaker 8: an hour, I would. I would try to do that
• 20:00
  Speaker 8: for sure, But I can. I can't do that. No,
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: I just know I like, I like who I am.
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: I mean, obviously, you know, trying to continue to get
• 20:09
  Speaker 8: better each and every day and work on stuff and
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: all that and try to put together really good starts.
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: But I really enjoy throwing a lot of innings and
• 20:17
  Speaker 8: making every start that I can't.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Hey, Brady talked to me last year about the pitch mix.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: I think you threw less sliders last year than you
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: did the year before.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: So what went into that? More? What else did you
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: have here?
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: I'm looking through the mix here more sweepers, cutter percentage
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: went up, So what went into that?
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: And who helps you decide that?
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 20:38
  Speaker 8: You know, I brought up a four team too to
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: th dough that a little bit last year is something
• 20:43
  Speaker 8: I haven't thrown in the pass just kind of because
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: of my arm soot, I felt like I couldn't really,
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: you know, get the right grip on it and make
• 20:50
  Speaker 8: it do what I wanted to do, but I figured
• 20:52
  Speaker 8: out that a little bit was able to throw that
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: kind of up in his own, and then the cutter
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: was huge. Just trying to get something to keep lefties
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: off off balance there. I feel like, you know, I
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: could use the sinker and the slider inside and then
• 21:03
  Speaker 8: use it away, but having the cutter kind of going
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: into him, I was kind of focusing on it up
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: and end like that really helped me a lot. And yeah,
• 21:11
  Speaker 8: mixing the sweeper in and the slider as well, just
• 21:13
  Speaker 8: kind of playing those two off each other, I feel
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: like helped me a lot.
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: And I guess what I understand, Like a slider and
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: a sweeper, they seem like they're the.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Same pitch minor and in general in general.
• 21:24
  Speaker 8: I mean, the sweeper has a bigger horizontal break, so
• 21:27
  Speaker 8: it's sliders more yeah, more like gy yeah more gyro,
• 21:30
  Speaker 8: like a tighter, tighter break. That's what you know, we're
• 21:33
  Speaker 8: trying to do is make it have a bigger one
• 21:35
  Speaker 8: and a shorter one. And usually the slider is supposed
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: to be hard. Last year mine we're kind of the
• 21:39
  Speaker 8: same velocity, so we're trying to fix out a little bit,
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: throw a little bit harder slider this year, then use
• 21:44
  Speaker 8: the sweeper as kind of a slower, bigger see.
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: You cut you could this is like where the old school.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah no, no, I might do yeah slider call like
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: a micro slider.
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: Yeah yeah.
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: The cutter yeah right, so then you're like, oh, you
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: throw a cutter. Yeah, like no, that's my slider. And
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: then the cutters, like the cutter has carry carry.
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: Cut so you want to yeah, that's that's the cutter
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: and the slider has.
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: Confused.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: I was.
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: I was very confused a long time ago when all
• 22:14
  Speaker 8: this came out, for sure, But I've kind of got
• 22:16
  Speaker 8: some of it figured out.
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: Now.
• 22:17
  Speaker 8: There's obviously a whole nother realm that I have no idea,
• 22:20
  Speaker 8: but yeah, there's you know, you want the slider and
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: the cutter to be definitely different.
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: Is Citizen I mean that as Citizen's Bank, Great American
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: small park a pictures park because we had a whole
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: segment earlier in the off season. Do you think it's
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: a pictures park now?
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: No.
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: Last year I saw that it that it did play
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: like that, which I obviously enjoyed, but no, I thought it.
• 22:41
  Speaker 8: I thought it played fine last year and I didn't
• 22:43
  Speaker 8: see many crazy home runs that you know I've heard
• 22:46
  Speaker 8: about in the past, anything like that. So yeah, I
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: enjoyed the park last year. Was it was awesome. Fans
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: were great too. It was a really cool atmosphere, yeah.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: Which is definitely a pictures and you heard all the
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: things about, you know, great American ballpark, right, so what changed?
• 23:03
  Speaker 7: Did you guys up the humidity and the humid door
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: and yeah, I don't know.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: I have nothing, nothing to do with that.
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: I have no idea.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: No, I have no idea.
• 23:11
  Speaker 8: It's yeah, I think it played pretty true and that
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: was nice. But I did go to I did go
• 23:16
  Speaker 8: back to Coffin this year and pitch and gave up
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: some really long fly balls that I thought would have
• 23:20
  Speaker 8: at Homer. It's a great American so that was nice
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: to be in that park that day.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: It was great.
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I know, the fans gave me a little welcome back.
• 23:28
  Speaker 8: And obviously seeing all the guys, you know, I grew
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: up there.
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: I guess you could say, you know, out of the
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: drafts and all that.
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: So yeah, it was awesome to go back and and
• 23:36
  Speaker 8: see the fans and you know, all the old players
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: and get to talk to everyone. And you know, you
• 23:40
  Speaker 8: just you meet so many people going through there and
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: all the all the cooks and all the people that
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: work and all that stuff.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: Got off the elevator because the coffin you go down,
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: you go down the elevator, you go the wrong way
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: at first. No, No, I went over to you come out
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: and go right to go to the home.
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: You left to go to the visit. So did you
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: accidentally I leaned a little bit, uh whatever.
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: I talked to some of the security guys over there
• 24:03
  Speaker 8: that you know, have been there for a while, so
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: it was good to see them.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: That's awesome. WBC is coming up. You pitched in it
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: last time. Did they invite you this year? Did you
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: did you get any interest in going back or did
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: you say, you know what, guys, it's my free agent year.
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna stick with Cincinnati.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: No, no invite from them, But you know, obviously it's
• 24:22
  Speaker 8: such a cool experience for me just to.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Be in that atmosphere.
• 24:25
  Speaker 8: I mean, you're playing, you know, you go from spring
• 24:27
  Speaker 8: training to you know, thirty forty thousand fans and you know,
• 24:31
  Speaker 8: basically a playoff atmosphere. Really really cool experience. You know,
• 24:34
  Speaker 8: all the all the guys that haven't done It's it's unbelievable.
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: It was, you know, one of them, the Venezuela game.
• 24:40
  Speaker 8: I was at the Venezuela game just as a fan.
• 24:41
  Speaker 8: Last was one of the greatest baseball games. It's so cool,
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: such a you know, cool way they do everything and
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: how you know many fans they get and you know,
• 24:49
  Speaker 8: it's just you know.
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: Final it's like one American fans.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: Yes, right, it was. It was crazy. It was Miami ault.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: I think it was a Venezuela. They had their those
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: horns going and they were all waving their venoice.
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: Yeah. When Trey hit that whole run, I actually got
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: to stand up.
• 25:02
  Speaker 8: It was like, yeah, yeah, that was That was probably
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: the craziest moment in my career so far, was what's
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: that home run? Just to steady of me rupt in
• 25:10
  Speaker 8: and just you know, I don't know, it's just different.
• 25:11
  Speaker 8: We're in the USA across your chest for sure.
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: So much has made about pitchers ramping it up and everything.
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: When you pitched into WBC in twenty three, did you
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: feel any any.
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: Different going through the year.
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: Did you feel any like extra sore early that you
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: had to mix something up that was different because you
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: ramped it up so early.
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: No, I didn't feel any difference, like body wise. I
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: just think I started too early. I think I I
• 25:38
  Speaker 8: think if I was to do it again, I would
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: just treat it like a regular offseason, treat it like
• 25:42
  Speaker 8: a regular spring, and just go out there and pitch.
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: I tried to ramp up too early.
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: I think I started throwing, you know, a couple weeks
• 25:51
  Speaker 8: earlier than I have in the past, and just kind
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: of felt like, you know, towards the end of the
• 25:55
  Speaker 8: year and you know, middle of the year that I've
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: just been throwing for too long.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: I didn't feel bad.
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: I just you know, I think I took too long
• 26:01
  Speaker 8: of a ramp up and should have just you know,
• 26:03
  Speaker 8: kind of chilled out and just done what I've been doing.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Brady, you had to pitch longer than anticipated for for
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: an outing there in the WBC last time around to
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: my correct one where you went, do you remember how
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: long how many innings about you had to go.
• 26:19
  Speaker 8: The Mexico game, because yeah, like a terrible memory, but yeah.
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: I wasn't bringing it up. We just just know.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: If you remember, that was where Randy kind of became
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: famous for doing that.
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: Yeah, got way to go, Way to go, Scott. Yeah,
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: it's over.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: There's more to it here.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out the pitching conundrum that tam
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: U s A goes through. So, first of all, Brady
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: at least listening to manager Mark Durosa about this. They
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: get Clayton Kershaw and they want him to just eat
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: random innings up if need be. But then also, for example,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: yesterday we find out that Eric Scooble is only going
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: to make one start. It's going to be about against
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Great Britain early on in the tournament. So my question
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: for you is how difficult is it for Team USA
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: to figure out the pitching versus some of the other countries.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Some of the other countries just don't seem to have
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: that issue, even with their major league pitchers. And so
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: you got to see a little bit of that vibe
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: last time around, and they were vocal about it. The
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: coaching staff was like it was annoying to deal with
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: all the teams. Everybody had so many rules that we
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: put people in bad spots.
• 27:31
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think it's really hard. I mean, yeah, you're
• 27:35
  Speaker 8: trying to get all your players, you know, as a
• 27:37
  Speaker 8: as a GM and as a team you're trying to
• 27:39
  Speaker 8: get all your your pitchers built up, and obviously your
• 27:41
  Speaker 8: your frontline starter guys trying to get built up in
• 27:46
  Speaker 8: a realm. That's very hard to do that just because
• 27:48
  Speaker 8: you're trying to win too. Yeah, I think it's difficult
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: for sure, But yeah, we've you know, I thought DeRosa
• 27:55
  Speaker 8: did a great job the way he handled it and
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: stuff like that, and yeah, I feel a lot more
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: pitches and obviously I wanted to, but I told myself
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: going in, I don't really care what happens. I just
• 28:06
  Speaker 8: want to pitch, and you know, just get to be
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: able to enjoy this, this atmosphere and this opportunity.
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: Because you lived it.
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: Is there any way that they could have handled it
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: or that teams can handle it differently? Like, were you
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: part of the micromanage of okay, text before you start,
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: a text before your bullpen, checking in all the time?
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: Uh No, I wasn't.
• 28:26
  Speaker 8: No, Obviously, I think they're worried about it because you know,
• 28:28
  Speaker 8: I sat in the bullpen for a few games and
• 28:30
  Speaker 8: obviously wasn't on the you know, the build up that
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: I would have been in spring training, So you know,
• 28:36
  Speaker 8: obviously they were worried about it. But yeah, I just
• 28:39
  Speaker 8: I don't know how you you know, you fix that
• 28:41
  Speaker 8: or you manage it or anything like that. I think
• 28:44
  Speaker 8: it's tough no matter which way you look at it.
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: But I think the way they did it this year,
• 28:47
  Speaker 8: with you know, getting Kershaw and stuff like that, having
• 28:50
  Speaker 8: someone that can you know, basically come in after me
• 28:54
  Speaker 8: with what happened when I threw a lot of pitches,
• 28:56
  Speaker 8: it's going to be super helpful.
• 28:58
  Speaker 7: All right, there's Cincinnati Reds.
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: Forget this, And it's amazing to me because we've been
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: around a bunch of camps now and we've we're doing
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: projections for teams and we're getting numbers that the Cincinnati
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: Reds made the playoffs last year.
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: People forget now.
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: It didn't go obviously the way y'all wanted to against
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: Los Angeles, but you guys made the playoffs. Can you
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: guys do it again this year? And what has the
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: team improved on or maybe learned from last year?
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 29:22
  Speaker 8: No, I think learning is a is a huge thing.
• 29:24
  Speaker 8: I mean, guys got there that haven't been there before.
• 29:27
  Speaker 8: And I haven't been like a you know, a veteran
• 29:29
  Speaker 8: in the playoffs or anything like that, but just getting
• 29:32
  Speaker 8: there and kind of you know, getting your feet wet
• 29:34
  Speaker 8: and seeing how the you know, the anticipation and the
• 29:36
  Speaker 8: nerves and all that go is sometimes really helpful, you know,
• 29:39
  Speaker 8: when you do it again. But yeah, you know, we're
• 29:42
  Speaker 8: definitely a better team than we were last year. You know,
• 29:44
  Speaker 8: the front office at an awesome job this year with
• 29:47
  Speaker 8: I think getting Gino was huge, of course, and the
• 29:50
  Speaker 8: bullpen guys we got, and then the starting rotation is
• 29:53
  Speaker 8: going to help and and everything. You know, at least
• 29:55
  Speaker 8: going to have a heck of a year two. And yeah,
• 29:56
  Speaker 8: I love our team. Really excited to to get going
• 30:00
  Speaker 8: here after spring. But yeah, I know I'm I'm anticipating
• 30:02
  Speaker 8: in the playoffs for sure.
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: I mean, Ellie's just that guy, right.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: He's unbelievable.
• 30:06
  Speaker 8: I Mean, every every night you get to see something new.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 30:08
  Speaker 8: I say the same thing about, you know, playing with
• 30:10
  Speaker 8: Bobby White. I played with Bobby Wait and now Ellie.
• 30:12
  Speaker 8: So seeing those two guys every night, something they do,
• 30:15
  Speaker 8: something new, something exciting.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: I can't say.
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: We know, I love Scott, Scott's favorite. Yeah Scott, I
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: love both of them. Yeah, Yeah, he's awesome to talk
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: to him. They're two such such good guys. There's so
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: much fun to play with.
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 30:31
  Speaker 8: You know, I got to learn and and be with
• 30:33
  Speaker 8: Ellie last year, and man, he loves the game just
• 30:35
  Speaker 8: as much as Bobby. They're just out there, they're just
• 30:37
  Speaker 8: I'm just little kids having fun playing baseball. It's really
• 30:40
  Speaker 8: cool to see those guys play every night, and I'm
• 30:43
  Speaker 8: spoiled that. You know, they're behind me every start. All right,
• 30:45
  Speaker 8: So obviously you played for the Royals. You just mentioned
• 30:48
  Speaker 8: with the Royals. Did you see what the Royals in
• 30:50
  Speaker 8: Tolbert did to Jack Kag Yeah. I don't know why
• 30:53
  Speaker 8: Jack one. I don't know why the Gators lost two. Well,
• 30:59
  Speaker 8: was the catcher for U.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: A B.
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  Speaker 7: So that's why they lost.
• 31:03
  Speaker 8: I don't know why Jack agreed to that. I would
• 31:05
  Speaker 8: have never put that on my head when you I
• 31:09
  Speaker 8: was there. So I was in Gainsville when won that fight.
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: They got stopped on Saturday in two games, which fine, Yeah,
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: but they won the Friday night with Peter starting the
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: whole deal. It was like they won o ma oh
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: yeah right, I believe that the opening end of the season.
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: Soest and Jack felt sorry for U.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: A B.
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: Maybe made a bet, but what if you make a bet,
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: you'd Renig on your bed.
• 31:29
  Speaker 7: Yeah. Probably you're a better guy than that.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: I couldn't do it.
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: Listen, they're really really yeah, yeah that's what he said.
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: But you can't Renig.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: Just don't make it right. Yeah, I probably would have
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: made it. We'll start there.
• 31:43
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you also didn't think I thought that was scared,
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: but things happened.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: I don't think they've lost sense.
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: No, I don't think they have a great spot. Maybe
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: he has a notch in their feather and yeah, they
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: will give it.
• 31:54
  Speaker 7: The only team so far to be in Florida.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: So yeah, the problem was that AJ wasn't rooting for
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: them during that series. So now he's back on the
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Gator train. He can root for his UF and his
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: UA B. Yeah, he's conflicted this year. You know, he's
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: got a second team. Brady, awesome talking to you. I
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: really appreciate the time. Enjoy the rest of spring training.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: We'll catch it during the season.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: Absolutely, thank you guys for having me on