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A's SP Luis Severino on tipping fixes, Rockies Rockies RP Jefry Yan on his epic mound celebration · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: I have a port and night levels.
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  Speaker 2: No, yes, you know you like our because you signed
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  Speaker 2: sixty seven million dollar deals, so now you.
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  Speaker 1: Like our you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're proud to welcome Louis Severino to the set.
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  Speaker 3: Congratulations a well earned three year, sixty seven million dollar deal.
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  Speaker 3: It's the highest in athletics history.
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  Speaker 4: You deserve it.
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  Speaker 3: What was that process like for you, Louise? And why
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  Speaker 3: was the athletics the place you wanted to be?
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  Speaker 1: I thank you in mind, thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 5: When we're looking for a team, you know, I talked
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  Speaker 5: to my aging about, you know, choosing a team that
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  Speaker 5: you know, that have the mentality of, you know, guys
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  Speaker 5: who want to go out there and compete, you know.
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  Speaker 5: And I saw that in the Athletics when we phaced
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  Speaker 5: them in New York last year.
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  Speaker 1: There were a bunch of guys who just were hungry
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  Speaker 1: to be in the big league.
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  Speaker 5: So, you know, when I talked to Cars about it know,
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  Speaker 5: and I talk to other guys, how about you know,
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  Speaker 5: they're not making the Clue House and everything they told me.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we're like a family here, so you know,
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  Speaker 5: why not complete with a team that wants to go
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  Speaker 5: out there and leave one hundred.
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  Speaker 1: Percent in the field every time that they play the ball.
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  Speaker 2: New York though New York and New York to Sacramento.
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  Speaker 2: I mean New York to Sacramento. We're thinking when you
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  Speaker 2: sign the contract, you're like, and I'm going to go
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  Speaker 2: from fifty thousand to sold out with like twelve thousand,
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  Speaker 2: and it's going to be now the people are going
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  Speaker 2: to be going crazy in Sacramento. But you have to
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  Speaker 2: be I mean, if I was in your situation, first
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  Speaker 2: of all, the contract would be the contract, but I'd
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  Speaker 2: be like.
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  Speaker 6: Man, New York to Sacramento. You have to be like,
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  Speaker 6: we're Sacramento.
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  Speaker 1: I mean at the beginning, we I was.
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  Speaker 5: You know when I tell my wife, like, this is
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  Speaker 5: the situation right now, you know this is the team
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  Speaker 5: that you know, show is showing more interested in me
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  Speaker 5: right now. So I you know, we talk about it.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we had a question with me and my
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  Speaker 5: about you know where we're going to play. You know
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  Speaker 5: how it's gonna be. The field, you know, the facilities
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  Speaker 5: going to be nice. So they were really nice on
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  Speaker 5: showing us everything they were doing. You know, the plans.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I'm really build really big in recovery. So
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  Speaker 5: they showed me everything they happened in recovery there, and no,
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  Speaker 5: I know, I knew it was a big step, you know,
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  Speaker 5: going from New York to Sacramento, but you know, I
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  Speaker 5: think it was worth After I talked to my wife
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  Speaker 5: and my family and they were like, whatever you do
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  Speaker 5: is good.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, you were the first one though.
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  Speaker 2: You were like the first when they when the A's
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  Speaker 2: were like, we're going to Sacramento. And then all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden it came across the wire police Savarino to
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  Speaker 2: the age.
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  Speaker 6: I was wait what I was like, days are spending money.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go because they have a good core, and now
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  Speaker 2: they start bringing you know, some guys that have been
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  Speaker 2: around the league a little bit, and to me, that's
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  Speaker 2: a big thing. I love these moves.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, for me, I was shocked when you know, they
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  Speaker 5: called me and they say like, we really going after you.
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  Speaker 5: This is not a joke, and they were not joking.
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  Speaker 5: They were they were serious. And then they told me,
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  Speaker 5: actually they told me about this move. You know, they
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  Speaker 5: told me about you know Rooker and a butt too,
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  Speaker 5: and they did it. So they're really serious about being
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  Speaker 5: a good team.
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  Speaker 3: You had such a great year back in twenty seventeen,
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  Speaker 3: twenty eighteen. I do believe, Louis that you're kind of
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  Speaker 3: on that verge again of becoming that ace again.
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  Speaker 4: How do you do that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: The only thing for me, the only thing that I'm
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  Speaker 5: missing is just you know, I was younger. You know,
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  Speaker 5: when you're younger, you play well. You know this that
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  Speaker 5: you recover faster. You know, the older you get, it's
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  Speaker 5: really tough to recovery. So for me, pitching wise, I
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  Speaker 5: think I'm better now. You know, have work command on
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  Speaker 5: my staff. I got better pitches now. So for me,
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  Speaker 5: just continue to have this guru team that I got
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  Speaker 5: last year. So I feel like if I do that
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  Speaker 5: for a whole year and I feel healthy, you know
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  Speaker 5: every five days, I think I'm going to be in
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  Speaker 5: that level again.
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  Speaker 6: Was there anything I remember when you came up? It
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  Speaker 6: was my stuff is just better. Then you can't hit
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  Speaker 6: your stuff. But then there was a whole thing about
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  Speaker 6: you tipping.
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  Speaker 2: Was there anything to that, because I mean that's all
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  Speaker 2: everyone kept saying, this stuff is too good.
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  Speaker 6: He's tipping, he's tipping, You're tipping.
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  Speaker 2: So the Yankees come to you and say, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we figured something with your glove and you don't have
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  Speaker 2: to say what it was, but was there anything to
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  Speaker 2: that because your stuff was so.
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  Speaker 6: Good that I was never get hit off this guy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I mean in the Yankees, it was a lot of
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  Speaker 5: things I was doing, you know, with a lot of
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  Speaker 5: tipping and with my gloves and show what it looks,
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  Speaker 5: you know, how it is it looks.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, So you was like, look over here for a
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  Speaker 6: certain picture.
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  Speaker 5: Look when Main and Second. I was looking at Second
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  Speaker 5: and then stopping out there. I was throwing fastball and
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  Speaker 5: then I look at Second going straight home.
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  Speaker 1: It was HOSPI So how did you stop out?
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  Speaker 5: They notice it, you know, And I just started practicing
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  Speaker 5: like I either had to do one. I either had
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  Speaker 5: to stop every time in third and go or just
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  Speaker 5: not stop. So you didn't know I didn't. Yeah, And
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  Speaker 5: you know I started working on that. In the off season.
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  Speaker 5: I was, you know, looking for that team I was signed.
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  Speaker 5: I talked to two teams that I asked her if
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  Speaker 5: I signed with you, are you going to help me?
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  Speaker 1: And they told me, hey, this is what we have
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  Speaker 1: when we face you.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, just listen to those guys like, okay,
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  Speaker 5: so I need something like for sample.
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  Speaker 1: One team told me.
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  Speaker 5: Every time we face you, we look always if it
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  Speaker 5: was down, it was Hosby because you don't throw the
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  Speaker 5: fastball down either. It was fastball up. Everything down with
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  Speaker 5: Hospy so change out slider, so and varieties and lefty
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  Speaker 5: it was made away. So that's why I I was
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  Speaker 5: working getting that singer and a car and that sweeper,
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  Speaker 5: so I think that also helping.
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  Speaker 3: That is the biggest difference of pitching and playing for
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  Speaker 3: the Yankees versus the Mets, because it almost seems like
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of a shift now. You know, obviously
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  Speaker 3: with one Soto going from the Yankees to the Mets,
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  Speaker 3: the A's have the interest in you. You leave a
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  Speaker 3: big market team like that. To A J's point, what
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  Speaker 3: is the biggest difference in your opinion between those two teams.
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  Speaker 1: I think for me it was the Yankees.
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  Speaker 5: When you show out to Springs training, everything is about
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  Speaker 5: you had to win the division.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. You had to win it. It's not like
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  Speaker 1: it's not a show is you had to win it.
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  Speaker 5: In New York because of the team that we have,
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  Speaker 5: it was like at first nobody thought it was going
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  Speaker 5: to kind of make the playoffs, so it was just
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  Speaker 5: more relaxed.
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  Speaker 1: More about, you know, go out there and have fun
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  Speaker 1: and play the game.
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  Speaker 5: So I think the Yankees are more about, you know,
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  Speaker 5: you have to go out there, and we had to.
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  Speaker 1: You had to win the worst series every year because.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, the way they pay their players, the way that
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  Speaker 5: they manage and that's the you know series. I wasn't
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  Speaker 5: minor leagues, you know, that was the mentality. You're gonna
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  Speaker 5: go out there because I got to help the Yankees series.
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  Speaker 3: Are you pissed that they got rid of the facial
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  Speaker 3: hair policy?
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  Speaker 6: I want to know this.
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  Speaker 2: The Yankees, I know this would have never done the
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  Speaker 2: O M. G. It never would have had grimace, It
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  Speaker 2: never would have had fucking it, never would have had
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  Speaker 2: any of that stuff. Regular they don't have anything. How
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  Speaker 2: much fun was it last year though, because I did
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  Speaker 2: your playoff series against Philadelphia. You guys wanted to beat
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  Speaker 2: them after beating the Brewers, and you know the Dodgers
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  Speaker 2: was a battle for you guys that obviously came up shore.
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  Speaker 2: But how much fun was it with all the gimmicks
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  Speaker 2: and all the skits and the glaciers singing the song
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  Speaker 2: and all that stuff, and you guys were eye blacking
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  Speaker 2: the numbers of the pictures on your face, like it
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  Speaker 2: had to be incredible.
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  Speaker 5: I was the most amoo and fan season I played
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  Speaker 5: in my life. It was it was. I mean even
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  Speaker 5: when it was not I was not pitching. I had
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  Speaker 5: a job the O in d sign, so I was.
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  Speaker 5: I was having fun, you know, every day. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: it was unbelievable. I think Avally after he came up there,
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  Speaker 5: he was, I mean it was okay. By when he
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  Speaker 5: was out there, it was, you know, he even when
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  Speaker 5: he was not playing, he was like energy to everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Are you surprised that Jose ended up signing like a
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  Speaker 3: minor league deal with the Padres. I mean, he's he
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  Speaker 3: was quite the spark book. He has a new song
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  Speaker 3: out by the way, besides OMG, Yeah, I.
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  Speaker 3: But I mean, do you are you surprised at that?
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  Speaker 3: He was kind of you know, a guy that provided
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know it's business, but yeah, I think is
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  Speaker 5: the business side is a little bit. I mean, we
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  Speaker 5: know as a player along the standa sometimes, but I
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  Speaker 5: mean hipoogole numbers and there's a lot of other players
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  Speaker 5: up there good numbers, and then get a little contrasts.
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  Speaker 1: So hopefully, you know year this year, you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: saying the bigleys and get another chance on my team.
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  Speaker 2: It proves also that because I remember seeing in spring
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  Speaker 2: training last year he's like, I don't think I'll make
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  Speaker 2: the team.
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  Speaker 6: I'm a triple A and he's like, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: He went to triple A for not long and then
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  Speaker 2: he comes up and becomes a.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 6: What was the difference between the Yankees and the Mets.
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  Speaker 2: I hate to keep going back this because I know
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  Speaker 2: you're in the athletics now, but like training staff, medical staff,
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  Speaker 2: behind the scenes, coaches, what was the difference the things
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  Speaker 2: that maybe they were telling you or saying to you.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, for me, uh, the trainers and the Yankees were unbelievable,
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  Speaker 5: but I think the Mets are differently. It was, uh,
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  Speaker 5: the guy that I worked with, it was Joe Gordia.
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  Speaker 5: He's it was since I got to the Mets and
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  Speaker 5: splinter in the first day with the put up, and
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  Speaker 5: then from that day and to the playoff, we didn't
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  Speaker 5: you know, miss a touch. So just he was always
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  Speaker 5: on top of everything. You know, the nutrition is there.
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  Speaker 1: It was. I mean he's he's crazy.
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  Speaker 5: Sometimes about stuff, but he's amblely or he's one of
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  Speaker 5: the greatest thing I ever seeing.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's on top of everything.
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  Speaker 5: If I was pitching and Cincinnati it was hot, he
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  Speaker 5: would tell me three days later you would need more
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  Speaker 5: emore cards because you might lose some weight pitching.
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  Speaker 1: That there he was. It was great.
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  Speaker 5: So I mean I also I think, you know, I
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  Speaker 5: learned how to treat my body better, you know, and
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  Speaker 5: they also so I talked to hire a person too.
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  Speaker 5: It was like a doctor or sleep. She showed me
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  Speaker 5: how to sleep better, you know, give me some tips.
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  Speaker 6: And everyone wants to know how to sleep better for me.
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  Speaker 5: Like in the season, I was sleeping four and five hours.
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  Speaker 5: I would say, so I sleep like three days with
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  Speaker 5: a machine in my chest seeing what I have. So
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  Speaker 5: we find out we have like I have like a
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  Speaker 5: sleep ania. So she told me to drink my nasty
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  Speaker 5: at night. Cherry juse the place had to be dark,
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  Speaker 5: so no lights. And even like if I got if,
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  Speaker 5: I warned this whoop thing. So if you can put
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  Speaker 5: the time, do you want to go to sleep? So
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  Speaker 5: if I have to wake up at eight, you had
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  Speaker 5: to go to sleep at ten thirty. So even if
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  Speaker 5: you're not tired, just shout all the lights, drink my
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  Speaker 5: my nasty my cherry juice, and go to sleep.
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  Speaker 4: You made thirty one starts. Last year.
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  Speaker 3: You talked about how much harder it is to recover
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  Speaker 3: as you've gotten older, but you're learning how to take
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  Speaker 3: care of your body. As you just said, How proud
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  Speaker 3: are you that you were pretty healthy the entire year?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, like I said before, just having a
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  Speaker 5: good routine, you know, learning you know, how to take
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  Speaker 5: care of my body, learning how to sleep. Also, I
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  Speaker 5: was not big and doing contrast. I hate eyes for
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  Speaker 5: some reason.
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  Speaker 4: You're from the dominic.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so I learned how to do contrast. I almost
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  Speaker 5: do contrasts every day, go out there, culture, Habita, and
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  Speaker 5: I think just mixing everything together, you know, got me
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  Speaker 5: healthy to the What.
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  Speaker 6: About the heat and Sacramento it's gonna be hot?
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  Speaker 1: I think it's one not gonna be hotter than the are.
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  Speaker 6: So it's a different heat. It's a different heat. It's
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  Speaker 6: like a dry.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we're gonna I mean, the thing is that it's happening,
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  Speaker 5: so we can do nothing about it. So we need
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  Speaker 5: to get used to it, you know, and embrace the
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  Speaker 5: challenge and go out there and compete.
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  Speaker 6: Who is your favorite Dominican player growing up you've met? Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: of course you show fingers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they go back away.
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  Speaker 6: Why you can throw the balls so good? I mean
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  Speaker 6: your fingers like this long?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's like actually two thousand and sixty.
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  Speaker 5: In the off season, I got send down and they
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  Speaker 5: told me you got a chance next year make a
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  Speaker 5: team as a starter, and I co hang, I work
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  Speaker 5: with him and that was one whst year.
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  Speaker 3: Did he show you how to make the catchers out
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  Speaker 3: of cardboard? And that's another that's another trick from from
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  Speaker 3: Pedro Martinez. Let's talk about this club. We had a
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  Speaker 3: conversation yesterday Luis with Seth Brown. This is a good
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  Speaker 3: and and AJ talked about it. He really thinks that
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  Speaker 3: you guys are going to have a really good year
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  Speaker 3: this year. I mean with with the signing of view,
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  Speaker 3: some extensions, some key players, the youth. They're hungry. Everybody
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  Speaker 3: likes Mark Cotts say, what do you hope for?
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  Speaker 1: Just to be better? You know, be better than last year?
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  Speaker 1: Of course.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, we got new guys out there who I think
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  Speaker 5: they're going to help the team. But I see guys who,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I think they're going to have big years.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I believe in and Lawrence Barker. I think
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  Speaker 5: he's going to be a star.
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  Speaker 1: Rooker.
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  Speaker 5: You know, everybody knows what he can do. So and
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  Speaker 5: they have a lot of young guys. Uh, they got
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  Speaker 5: Woodson who I think.
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  Speaker 1: Is gonna be uh and a.
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  Speaker 5: Pretty good to Yeah, I mean everybody knows how you
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  Speaker 5: know my girl laugh, I think it's gonna be It's
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  Speaker 5: gonna be amazing. So just you know, those guys can
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  Speaker 5: go out there and compete every day.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they hustle.
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  Speaker 5: Also, we are your own starters, like you know, a
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  Speaker 5: meach and who I think they have they have great stuff.
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  Speaker 5: So if they can do that for a full year,
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  Speaker 5: you know, be head for a full year, I think,
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  Speaker 5: you know, we will see what happens, you know after
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  Speaker 5: you know, the mentality that we have right now.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: Is having a winning season.
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: After that, if we make to the players, we make it,
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: you know, while we're gonna compete into the end.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: Who's Who's who's funny in camp? Who's who makes you
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: laugh in camp? I'm always, I mean forever in the
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: as camp. And who have you kind of gravitated towards
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: your friends?
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, uh, I like Butler, He's great. You know.
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: The first day that met him, he told me you
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: call me man. Was it was funny. It was just funny.
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: But I think everybody up there is somebody thinks the
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: funniest guy there.
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: Is going to a camp tomorrow.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: So uh, it's good to know who the funny guys are,
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: who you're gonna who you're going to try to get.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: Have you talked to Springs about coming back from Tommy
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: John surgery? Have you shared any of that.
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: I'm nah, we haven't had that conversation, but we talk about,
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: you know, what we need now that we you know,
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: are getting older, you know, recovery wise and all that stuff.
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: Who because when you go to a different team, Uh,
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: you're gonna look for that guy. Who's that's gonna be,
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: that guy who's going to work with me, who can
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: be the trainers can be you know, the strength coach.
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: So right now we're trying to figure out who's going
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: to be that guy. Uh Springing I think is going
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: to be a huge part of this, you know, this team.
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: So just you know, having him, you know, and you know,
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: I think it's gonna be a great month. Or to
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: Jpi Tu, we haven't had a conversation yet about you know,
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: we don't have to talk about injuries anymore.
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: And now yeah, now, yeah, tomorrow.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: To let me know.
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: By the way, he said a word, and it's my
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: favorite word when no.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: No, no, unbelievable, the way Dominicans say it, like Ortiz
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: used to say it the exact same way, And every
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: time I hear it just makes me laugh because I
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: love the way you guys say unbelievable.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: It's like it's like Venezuelan's with amazing, amazing.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: I can't even do it, But every time a Dominican
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: guy says unbelievable and like that, it just brings me
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: back to when David Ortiz and I were all together
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: and he would say that he didn't even really know
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: what he was saying, but I would we would all
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: start laughing, and you said it the exact same way.
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: You do without even knowing it. It's just awesome.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: AM proud of you when you see there's a lot
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: of good baseball players that have come out of the
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: d R Hall of Famers that are coming out of
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: the d R. I mean, I would imagine as a
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: young boy, that was kind of how you wanted to
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: you know, that's one way out. I know, you know,
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: with Balder human Is, I had conversations with him about, uh,
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: you know, baseball is an opportunity. At what point did
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: you feel like you had enough and something special to
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: play at the big leagues.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: I think until I was somebody like pointed to me,
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: I was just playing baseball to have fun.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: I was getting to fifteen something like that.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: You know, I was like, I think I have a
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: chance here, so let me start working to that goal.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: So I think before I was just playing just to play.
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: To her point, how did you learn English?
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: English is good different ways? I mean, how about I
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: always watch TV in English, and it was like when
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: I got to the United States, it was better to understand.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: But Friends got me through to a different level.
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: I think, you know, watching Friends, oh, the show, Watching
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: the show Friends, I think helped me a lot understand the.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Humor and all that stuff about you know.
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: Uh, you know, I was in a new place that
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: I didn't know, so just watching Friends. I think watching
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: every show and TVs helped me get to, you know,
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: a better English.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: How important do you think, sorry, how important do you
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: think that is for guys specifically in the minors and
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: now a lot of Spanish speaking Latin players are really
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: doing a good job of trying to speak English.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: The cruise yesterday. How important is it do you think
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: for them to learn English?
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: I think, I mean it's important for me.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: You know, you have to understand and you know that
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: you come into a different country, you know, and this
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: is the.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Language that they speaks.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: So I think for me it's important because you have
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: you can communicate where your friends, where, you know, where
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: your teammates.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: And I think when you're now, uh.
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: English, you you miss a lot of things, you know,
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: also the communications it's not the same maybe and the translation.
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: They missed something out there. I remember, uh, a couple
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: of spin trainings. I think it was for spin training
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: of Rouiz Hill and the pitching coat and hey, you
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: have a day off tomorrow. He didn't show up. I
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: mean he understand it like it was off off like
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: he didn't.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: So that's why it's.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: I think it's really important to you know, know at
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: least a little bit, you know, and try to learn
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: every day.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: She mentioned he was here yesterday and he did an
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: interview in English the whole thing. He was nervous, you
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: could tell you, but he did great. I think that
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: sometimes more people just need to try it because because
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: I know, I played with Dominicans, Venezuela as you know, Japanese, guys,
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: everything from all over the world, and a lot of
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: times they were more afraid to just do it, and
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: they spoke English well enough, but it was just a
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: fallback of like, oh, you know, I need a translator.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: How important is it for guys just to try it?
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: Like Ellie. I think Ellie's been great.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Eli.
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: He's like, no, I want to do the interviews in English.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I get nervous right now. I've been
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: doing this for you know, eight years, and I still nervous.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: But you know, at the end, it's just like you say,
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: you just to try. If you try, you know, it
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: gets better, It gets better. And I think it is
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: like they're talking about baseb it's gonna be about baseball.
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: You know, and you know these stuff you know since
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: your letter. You know that you know a bad it's
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: a bad, glove is a glove, and stuff like that.
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: So the other things, you guys need to put it
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: together and just go out there and try it, and
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: then you know, after that you can feel more comfortable.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Your English just fantastic. What's your favorite Dominican food? What
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: do you miss the most?
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Every day? Model?
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: They want to do it. I can get that every
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: day for the rest of my life. Okay, no, chiebo,
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: I'm not a big family cheap.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: We had Martine Perez at White Sox Venezuelan and he
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: said he has an academy because he wants to help
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: the next generation of Latino baseball players. And he said
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: the biggest thing was once the kids signed, they're sixteen
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: years old and they're just thrown into the fire and
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: they kind of get lost sometimes. And he's trying to
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: fourteen fifteen until they get signed, learn English, learn life
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: in the US, learn how to deal with stuff. How
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: important is that as a guy that came from Dominicans,
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: speaks English, does all these things for you guys to
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: set up and help them once they get over here.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's really important because, like I did
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: you say before when we signed the R, we think
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: like even with the money that we put out there,
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: like you're not going to spend like you're not going
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: to play in DR you go into country United States,
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: so just to come here and help them our way,
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: like you don't need to go crazy buying cars and
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: stuff in Venezuela in DR. So I think guiding those
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: guys is huge. I mean when I came here, you know,
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: I didn't have a guy like that, you know, until
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: I got to the big leads like I made. You know,
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: if I know Aris Rodrigue, who was there too, I
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: think you know what he's doing. I think he's huge.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: I think he's he's going to inspire more, you know,
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: players to do that you have now, Car, Yeah, Car,
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: I have a port of nine eleven.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: No, yes, now you like ours because you signed sixty
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: seven million dollar deals, so now you like ours?
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: You know, at least that's good luck. It's great to
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: see you healthy. Congrats on the deal well earned. As
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: we said, we're looking forward to see your success. And
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: you know, with the athletics, it's gonna be fun to
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: watch you guys, appreciate your time. Another start in the
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: making from the d R as. We welcome in Jeffrey
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: on joining us now. And I can't wait to talk
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: to you about the celebrations or English n Espano celeb
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: because you have a lot of different crazy celebrations and
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: anti export que.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: What do you like doing that?
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, okay, Lo mi.
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: Juego Aqueo, then the marulo and the pero professional.
• 24:54
  Speaker 9: Man and.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: A job.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: All right, so he said, he's been doing it since
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: he was a little kid. He kind of grew up
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: watching Carlos Perez Jose Lima. He saw how much fun
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: that they were having playing this game. He started kind
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: of working on the celebrations and you know, started off
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: a little basic and then over the course of time
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: starting to get a little bit better working, you know,
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: with the body in the games. And what's the point
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: really of playing this game if if you can't have
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: have fun?
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: I think it's awesome. Hit a home run off. Okay,
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: I'm doing the.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: See home Runlon Lancelon.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: He's going to do.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: For me, you.
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: Know, see anything, he said, Absolutely, if.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: You hit a home run off and me have a
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: good time, have fun in the game, he said. But
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: the next time you're at bad I'm gonna try to
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: punch you out.
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: That's fine, I just can't. I'm not as flexible and nothing.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: But there's different ways of being able to to celebrate.
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: Just like splits, jump jumps, high.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: Getspend. But but I said, like, how do you become
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: a star in this game? Because I I know that
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: you felt like you had something special to be able
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: to play at this level, but how do you become
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: where you want to be?
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Implement the.
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: Se sally reno.
• 27:07
  Speaker 8: Dalle lapo dalle animi companero you know, fat dhol mucho
• 27:17
  Speaker 8: samchoo bang player contra lago keto mundo seara perandoke salte
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: yago ke mo.
• 27:32
  Speaker 9: Da mu mu.
• 27:34
  Speaker 8: Yamatio okaya ya savi compero rasiakio in graziato mundo sabrai
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: pero la majoriaan bang the person.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: So yeah, he said, you know, at the beginning, he
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: was talking about just going out there every single day
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: and putting in the work, but also as you know,
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: you're playing in this game and letting the fans know
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: who he is as a person, who is as a player,
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: obviously giving him the best effort he can, but also
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: kind of putting on a show. I mean, this is
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: about entertainment, you know, and uh, you know, just kind
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: of keeping it going. And he's thankful, always kind of
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: had that belief in himself, but thankful that that he's
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: gotten to this point.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: You haven't played in a big league game.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Yet, but.
• 28:41
  Speaker 9: You save mahone.
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: Can they say when.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: When?
• 29:00
  Speaker 9: And Majore.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: He said it might be this year. You know, he
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: might get to the big league level this year. But
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: the one thing that they've really been working on is
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: obviously to get better than last year. But the way
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: that he's able to do that is to continue to
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: work on the consistency and continue to try to get
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: those better results. And that's what they've really had to
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: focus on, is that consistency that repeats delivery, being able
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: to get the you know, continued results over and over
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: and over again.
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: How did they like his celebrations in Japan?
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Is going to.
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: A when we will deal?
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: He said that it was a great experience.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: Obviously, he had a specific song that he would come
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: out to and even the opposition, even the opposing fans
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: would love the song and they would stand on their
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: feet and and really be into it and just he
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: learned a lot about the game over there. Obviously the
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: ball is different over there and stuff, but learned about
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: learned about the game. It was an emotional experience, and
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: he said, you know, the fans of they're obviously very
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: different than the fans here in the United States. Is
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: just a different level of the way that they expressed
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: their enjoyment and they had a good time.
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: When I first saw him, we showed the video of
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: him pitching.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I gotta meet that now he's here, and
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm rooting for him because I want to
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: see him in course field. The first time he strikes
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: out one Soda Sodo shuffles, you strike him out, you
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: dance to the Michael Jackson and then you guys stare
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: at each other.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And.
• 31:22
  Speaker 9: So I said, Michael, Okay.
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: You understood what you're talking.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: Going out there and doing that, doing the Michael Jackson
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: obviously a course field. That'll be a good time.
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: Champion twenty two Miami mal.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: Okay, Miami Marland's Double A and Pensacola Championship Ring. Who
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: did you grow up idolizing ste When I started Crendo
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: and Dominicano to Alex Rodriguez okay, so as a as
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: a hitter Alex Rodriguez, but as a picture a world
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: as Chapman to, uh, you can understand why.
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I see Chairman's Hey he's left. I guess yeah,
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: but no, no dancing saved, saved.
• 32:30
  Speaker 9: Los momento elmeca, saying.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: He yeah, so that was his own way. I was like,
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: that was his way about it, Like he doesn't have
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: to be emotional, he doesn't have to do the dance,
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: but he's obviously a very intimidating pron't on the mound.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: He's looking at home plate and you're like, there comes mouse.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, I like I love it. I want a motion,
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: I want fun. I want this guy because I want
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: to see it. I want to see it and I
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: can't wait to see it.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Then in Las Grandesligas sando and let celebration, so he
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: lost milando it all.
• 33:32
  Speaker 8: And at the annual Lega says Alante yeah, okay, and
• 33:50
  Speaker 8: society okay.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Forever?
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: Is that I know where I am? He's like, I
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: don't you know? I mean when I'm on the field,
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: I know exactly who I am.
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: Does he do you.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Mexica.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: What he was saying before that, though, was like when
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: he steps onto the field, he knows who he is.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: You know, he knows what his job is, and you
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: know he can just all he can do is continue
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: to work forward at the job. And when you're not,
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: you know, you gotta it's hard this game, as you know,
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: it's hard to play and it's hard to do. But
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: you know you got to go back to like when
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: you were five years old and love the game and
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: had a good time with it.
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: I don't have the rhythm, so I can't.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: When's what the control of? Good luck with everything? When
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: saloon it almost esperandos grandes ligas.
• 35:13
  Speaker 9: When exito, So now, yeah, I complain, Yeah, he.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: Said, obviously, thank you, and and his his whole goal
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: is to to get to the big leagues and and
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: and stay there maintain it.
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: Alice, what the control Grassia