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Super prospect Konnor Griffin and Starting Pitcher Bubba Chandler join FT @Pirates camp · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Stay, Hi to Connor.
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Speaker 2: Good, how's it going.
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Speaker 3: It's nice of you to, uh to sign autos for kids,
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Speaker 3: but you're kind of a kid yourself. My friends, I
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Speaker 3: can say that to you because I literally am old
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Speaker 3: enough to be your mother. But it has been so
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Speaker 3: much fun just hearing about your story, watching the way
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Speaker 3: that you go about your business. What has camp been
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Speaker 3: like for you, and kind of what have the conversation's
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Speaker 3: been for you?
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Speaker 4: Is, uh, they're getting ready to break camp here soon.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been. It's been a great camp for me.
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Speaker 5: Uh, you know, they're throwing me in the fire, letting
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Speaker 5: me get the reps, playing shortstops, get to play on
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Speaker 5: the road, go face some really good starters, so you know,
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Speaker 5: kind of just let me go compete, see what happens.
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Speaker 5: And it's been. It's been great. You know, the locker
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Speaker 5: room has been awesome. Everybody's just kind of taking me
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Speaker 5: in and uh, you know, it's a really fun locker
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Speaker 5: room to be around.
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Speaker 1: So so he was signing over here for all there's
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Speaker 1: a line of kids over here, and I will want
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Speaker 1: one of the old people yelled for me to come
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Speaker 1: over and sign. So I walked over and the kids
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Speaker 1: were like can you get Connor Griffin this sign for us?
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Speaker 1: And then he was to do an interview and they're
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Speaker 1: like color and it was it was Ryan or Hurt.
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Speaker 1: So that it feels pretty good about himself today. Yes, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure. I'm just trying to trying to take care
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Speaker 1: of the kids. Man, those are those are the biggest fans.
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Speaker 1: And uh, you know, it's.
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Speaker 5: Kind of cool to hear a lot of a lot
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Speaker 5: of kids won't monograph us. You know, I was, I
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Speaker 5: was in that position when I was younger. That's pretty
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Speaker 5: cool to be in the position.
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Speaker 1: I saw you talking to Azuna today in the locker room.
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Speaker 1: What was What was that conversation like with a guy
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Speaker 1: like had the career that he's had.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean he uh, we're just kind of walking
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Speaker 5: through you know, being more selective, Uh, through ads. How
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Speaker 5: can I take advantage of wall? Taking advantage of two
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Speaker 5: oh count? Because if I get on base, it helps
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Speaker 5: the t you know, I'm gonna try to steal. I'm
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Speaker 5: gonna try to be aggressive, uh, you know, ball in
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Speaker 5: the gap. I'm trying to score. He just wanted to
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Speaker 5: size like, hey, be patient. You know, people know the name, uh,
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Speaker 5: and that that's fine. There's a lot of great players
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Speaker 5: that people that pictures know the name. But be patient,
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Speaker 5: be selected to get your pitch, take your walks if
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Speaker 5: you have to, and and take advantage of it.
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Speaker 6: Have you thought about learning Spanish so that you can
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Speaker 6: have an even better hitting conversation with Marcelo Zuna?
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Speaker 5: I can understand it a little bit. Definitely need to
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Speaker 5: need to work on it some more. But he speaks
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Speaker 5: pretty good English, so it was it was a good conversation.
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Speaker 1: He speaks really good English, not pretty good English. He
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Speaker 1: speaks really do we have a conversation, not the one
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Speaker 1: you were in depth with, but we had a short conversation.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's legit, so it's good.
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Speaker 1: Is that everyone to you? Does everyone treat you even
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Speaker 1: though you don't have a ton of older veteran guys?
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Speaker 1: Who's even the younger guy? I mean even like a
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Speaker 1: Brandon Lyle, Ryan over Reynolds, these guys aren't that old.
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Speaker 1: Did they still treat you like a younger pup or
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Speaker 1: are they treating you with the respect of a veteran?
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Speaker 2: I think they it's you know, a little in between.
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Speaker 5: You know, they they've actually they let me, they let
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Speaker 5: me be, you know, they they want me to get
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Speaker 5: the experience. They want me to go through some ups
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Speaker 5: and some downs, and they're they're they're super open, uh
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Speaker 5: to questions if I haven't he and they they've made
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Speaker 5: that important or they made they emphasize that. So it's, uh,
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Speaker 5: it's it's been. It's been really good. You know, there's
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Speaker 5: there's a lot of great experience. I can pick their
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Speaker 5: brains and it's helped me out a lot.
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Speaker 6: Is there anybody that you're kind of like, oh man,
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Speaker 6: he's coming, he's gonna give me a hard time? I know, great,
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Speaker 6: Oh Hearn's here, or or who's that guy in camp
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Speaker 6: right now?
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Speaker 5: I'm gonna I'm gonna say nick York. Nick York is
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Speaker 5: always uh always picking on me. But no, he's he's
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Speaker 5: been great to pick on you.
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Speaker 1: You're nineteen years old, you're playing short stuff. You've got
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Speaker 1: a chance to break with the big league club. You
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Speaker 1: were what what pick were you in the draft? You
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Speaker 1: were ninth picking the draft, So you're already rich, you're
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Speaker 1: good looking, right.
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Speaker 5: He's just always messing with me. It's a good time.
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Speaker 5: We're locker buddy, so uh, you know, we just he's
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Speaker 5: like he's like a brother.
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Speaker 7: Now.
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Speaker 1: So The only thing I could say is a Morgan
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Speaker 1: wall and the way I talk. Maybe with you, you
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Speaker 1: got the Southern act thing going.
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Speaker 2: I guess that could be something.
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Speaker 1: But I mean because there's not a lot to pick
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Speaker 1: on here.
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Speaker 5: No, but uh you know, it's like I said, it's
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Speaker 5: been it's been really fun.
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Speaker 6: Uh.
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Speaker 3: The Southern accent and Morgan Wallen the way I talk
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Speaker 3: is another reason that nobody can pick on him.
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Speaker 4: Okay, agent, let's get that.
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Speaker 3: Straight right now, all right, Connor, not take I understand
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Speaker 3: it is not your decision. I understand it is above
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Speaker 3: your pay grade, taking all of the front office stuff
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Speaker 3: out of it. You are the opening days starting shortstop
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Speaker 3: for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Because tell us more about your game, I.
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Speaker 5: Would just say, uh, you know, because I'm prepared. You know,
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Speaker 5: I've been I've been training for this for uh for
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Speaker 5: my whole life, and uh you know, I've got the
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Speaker 5: opportunities here in big Ley Camp to get the experience
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Speaker 5: face to the big lea pitch in h And I
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Speaker 5: feel confident with myself. I feel comf confident with my preparation,
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Speaker 5: how I go about the day, how I'm handling things,
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Speaker 5: and uh, you know, I'm gonna go out there. I'm
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Speaker 5: gonna bring a lot of energy. I'm a bobble guy,
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Speaker 5: and you know, affect the game on the offensive side, uh,
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Speaker 5: you know, hitting stealing bags, stuff like that. Defensive side,
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Speaker 5: you know, I can, I can effect the game there
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Speaker 5: as well.
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Speaker 2: So I bring a lot of tools. And that's uh,
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Speaker 2: that's what I'm confident in.
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Speaker 6: People don't know a ton about you, but you just
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Speaker 6: got married. So now you have an issue when you
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Speaker 6: get called up, whether it's whether it's opening day or not,
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Speaker 6: who's the first person that's getting called? Because I've watched you.
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Speaker 6: I follow your dad on Twitter ever since, ever since
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Speaker 6: I coached you in the All American Game out in Seattle,
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Speaker 6: Like I've been enamored with it. But who gets the
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Speaker 6: first call?
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Speaker 5: My wife will get the first call for It's not
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Speaker 5: it's not over the parents. It's it's just you know,
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Speaker 5: she's she's my person. He's here every day with me now,
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Speaker 5: and you know I her, uh to give her the call,
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Speaker 5: and and then you know my parents will be parents.
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Speaker 1: Will be three way call.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, three way call, yeah, three way yeah yeah.
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Speaker 6: Yeah. Uh.
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Speaker 5: You know I got I got a super super good
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Speaker 5: circle of family and friends and you know, there's there's
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Speaker 5: a lot of great people that have helped me get
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Speaker 5: to where I'm at, and UH gonna make sure all
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Speaker 5: of them are in the.
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Speaker 1: Best player from Jackson Fred.
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Speaker 5: I gotta say, Jake Mango, I gotta give him some credits.
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Speaker 1: That's awesome. So I have to I have to say
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Speaker 1: this before Krafts gets on here. So Krawtz has this
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Speaker 1: theory that no one from Mississippi can be a good hitter,
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Speaker 1: right and I so I rattled off Will Calaureography, palm
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Speaker 1: Meryll Manga, Fran Rook or he goes No, no high
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Speaker 1: school guys that are drafted out of high school. So
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Speaker 1: look in the camera right there, say crowds, you're wrong.
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Speaker 1: They're a good hitter.
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Speaker 5: That went to high school Missipi're o, man, there's a
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Speaker 5: great hitter that come from Mississippi.
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Speaker 6: AJ's trolling me because it was something that I said
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Speaker 6: that a scout the idea of hitters high school hitters.
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Speaker 6: Have you heard that? The idea was what, repeating what
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Speaker 6: I had said before, was the scout said it is
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Speaker 6: so hard to draft and or draft high right handed
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Speaker 6: or not right hand high school hitters out of the
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Speaker 6: state of Mississippi. What do you have to say to
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Speaker 6: those idiot scouts.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, man, I heard it a lot through through my
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Speaker 5: draft process that you know, I had a hit full
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Speaker 5: problem and you know the competition wasn't great Mississippi. You
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Speaker 5: know that's all. That's all, just really talk. There's there's
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Speaker 5: been a lot of great players. He just named a
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Speaker 5: ton of great players that have come from Mississippi. And
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Speaker 5: if you go down and watch some high school baseball,
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Speaker 5: you'll you'll get some good competition, You'll watch a good game.
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Speaker 5: So I'm proud to be from Mississippi and just trying
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Speaker 5: to continue that legacy of uh great my fashion the
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Speaker 5: big leagues being Fromsissipi.
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Speaker 1: Who was your favorite player going up?
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Speaker 5: I was a big Braves fan, so uh, I always
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Speaker 5: liked watching Tipper Jones highlights. I wasn't old enough when
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Speaker 5: he was playing to really watch him, but I was
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Speaker 5: always watching.
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Speaker 1: The Braids So you could have said, me got.
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Speaker 2: Jones in my head first, that was about the right
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Speaker 2: nineteen I was ten years ago.
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Speaker 1: That would have been about the right had no Yeah.
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Speaker 4: That Chippers and Chippers in the Hall of Fame.
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Speaker 3: We love you all right, yeah? Yeah, you're from Mississippi?
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Speaker 4: Are you a hearty fan? What do you do for fun?
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Speaker 7: Like?
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Speaker 4: Do you listen to music? Do you listen to like?
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Speaker 4: What do you I mean, you're nineteen.
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Speaker 3: You play baseball, obviously, but you're very dedicated to your craft.
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Speaker 4: What do you do for fun?
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Speaker 7: Love?
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Speaker 2: Love? Love music? Country music is awesome.
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Speaker 5: I love going to you know, finding concerts in a
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Speaker 5: few more a wall and I want to go to
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Speaker 5: Riley Green.
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Speaker 2: That's that's makes some Uh.
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Speaker 5: We well, maybe maybe we can country Okay. I love
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Speaker 5: to hunt, love the fish in the off season, so
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Speaker 5: that that's what I can do when I'm away from
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Speaker 5: the field and just spend time with my family.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, connect connect with her.
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Speaker 1: A lot of earmuffs. What's your favorite thing in the
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Speaker 1: deer here? Yeah, deer have a place.
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Speaker 5: I don't have a place, but I got I got
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Speaker 5: a lot of family friends, and that to have good connections.
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Speaker 1: Get place.
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Speaker 5: You know that that's the dream that when they you know,
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Speaker 5: can have my own spot and be able to go
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Speaker 5: there whenever I want.
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Speaker 4: Listen, that's my that's.
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Speaker 3: My husband's dream too. He hunts, he fishes, he does
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Speaker 3: all the things. I don't do it, but he doesn't.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's awesome.
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Speaker 1: Listen me too, So I can't. I can't not. Are
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Speaker 1: you a State or.
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Speaker 2: Old Miss Old Miss.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the interviews over now, uh because my daughter, Okay,
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Speaker 1: so I have a little bit of a connection the
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Speaker 1: State Ole Miss. Not a fan anyway, It's awesome that
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Speaker 1: I really appreciate you coming on with us. I think
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Speaker 1: we're going to Frank. I'm not sure because my slack
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Speaker 1: is not working, so I think we're going to not
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Speaker 1: We really really hope that everything works out for you
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Speaker 1: this week. Have a great career. We know you will,
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Speaker 1: and we'll be right back here there.
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Speaker 4: All right, guys.
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Speaker 3: Over the course of Cactus and gratefull Lee. Let's get
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Speaker 3: to our next guest in a minute. But first of all, Eric,
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Speaker 3: let's talk about the camps that we've done. Of course,
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Speaker 3: Aj is live at Pirates Camp. It looks like tomorrow
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Speaker 3: we're at the Blue Jays and then we round things
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Speaker 3: out with the Philadelphia Phillies. It's been a fun spring training.
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Speaker 3: Is there anything that's kind of stood out to you
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Speaker 3: so far.
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Speaker 4: I can't hear you, Ilana, you can't hear me.
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Speaker 6: I can hear you now.
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Speaker 3: Okay, I just went through this whole monologue about how
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Speaker 3: has been. So I'm going to ask you this, my friend.
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Speaker 3: We're wrapping things up in a couple of days. Has
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Speaker 3: and it's been fun. It's been a good spring training.
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Speaker 3: You guys have crushed it. Is there anything that's kind
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Speaker 3: of stood out to.
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Speaker 6: You something about spring training? And maybe this is the
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Speaker 6: optimist in me. I just love how I go to
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Speaker 6: a camp or we go to a camp, guys AJ's
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Speaker 6: there or Kevin Pollar was there, and I'm like, these
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Speaker 6: guys have a chance to be really good. And it's
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Speaker 6: not just when we're at Dodgers camp. It's not just
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Speaker 6: when we're at you know, the Red Sox camp. Like
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Speaker 6: the optimism and camp and the fact that like we've
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Speaker 6: been able to get so many players, so many managers
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Speaker 6: to show up up and come on our show. It's
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Speaker 6: been tremendous. That's the biggest thing that stands out to me.
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Speaker 6: Because this is our fourth spring training, no third spring training.
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Speaker 6: Now it's our start of our fourth year.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that says a lot about foul Territory and the
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Speaker 3: job that you guys are doing and the recognition that
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Speaker 3: players have and the growth of this network.
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Speaker 4: So proud to be a part of that.
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Speaker 3: I guess going into spring training, Eric, you mentioned obviously
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Speaker 3: everybody's hopeful, right, but is there a club that really
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Speaker 3: surprised you in terms of maybe we weren't giving them
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Speaker 3: as much credit as we should and you are thinking
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Speaker 3: about it now more so just because of listening to
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Speaker 3: the players and the guys.
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Speaker 6: I guess it's not done yet, but you know, we're
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Speaker 6: still rolling around spring training. I really like every time
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Speaker 6: we go into Baltimore's camp. I get it they had
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Speaker 6: it down year last year. But I said the same
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Speaker 6: thing when we left there last year in Sarasota, it
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Speaker 6: was like, are gonna be good? Like I have a
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Speaker 6: feeling that they're gonna be really good, and this year
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Speaker 6: I have the same feeling. Now is cold wrong last year?
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Speaker 6: And I think they still have some issues that they
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Speaker 6: need to address this year. But like we talked about earlier,
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Speaker 6: the whole peed Alonzo thing, I just feel like the
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Speaker 6: Orioles in an American League East have less of a
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Speaker 6: spotlight on them because of all that, the Yankees always
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Speaker 6: have the Red Sox are always going to get a
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Speaker 6: lot of spotlight. And then the Blue Jays kind of
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Speaker 6: take that ancillary spotlight and shine it on themselves because
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Speaker 6: people are saying, oh, that's the best team in the
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Speaker 6: American League, and the Oriols are like, we're pretty good too,
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Speaker 6: all right. A. J.
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Speaker 3: Pierzinski, of course, is live in Bradington at Pirates camp.
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Speaker 3: He is now with Bubba Wallace, Bubba Chandlers. I knew
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Speaker 3: I was gonna do that.
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Speaker 2: I knew it.
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Speaker 1: Hey joined here by Bubba Chandler at Pittsburgh Pirates spring
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Speaker 1: training camp in Bradenton, Florida. We picked the wrong day
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Speaker 1: to come here to the today. It's freezing today.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, it's very cold. I was out there throwing and
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Speaker 9: I say, why are my hands cold today? And then
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Speaker 9: I realized it's actually cold.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Does that affect you as a picture?
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Speaker 9: No, I actually like it when it's cold. Throw on
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Speaker 9: some thermals becase it's harder to hit.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but don't your fingers going on like my fingers
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Speaker 1: Like if you I'm not having you touch my hands.
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Speaker 1: But they're cold.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think you know, when it's cold, like I'll
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Speaker 9: have a hot choco or a coffee in the dugout.
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Speaker 7: That'll be good to go.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you played football in high school when you're
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Speaker 1: a QB, you had did you wear the little thing,
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Speaker 1: the little pack with the heat numbers in there?
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Speaker 7: Oh? Yeah, you had those?
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Speaker 1: When you're throwing your out there today?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, that'd be nice. That would be nice.
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Speaker 9: But I thought, actually see a couple of weeks ago,
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Speaker 9: how them playing golf. I'm like, I didn't know you
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Speaker 9: could wear in the competition, but maybe I'll try to
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Speaker 9: wear it early in the evening.
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Speaker 1: If you put one, if you're out there on the mountain,
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Speaker 1: you put say one that matched your uniform on your back.
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Speaker 1: Could you pitch with that on?
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Speaker 7: Probably not. They'd say it affect the hitter or some
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Speaker 7: stupid stuff.
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Speaker 1: But hey, hey, hitter feelings too.
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Speaker 7: Over.
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Speaker 1: Are you excited I did about this year and where
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Speaker 1: you stand with this organization?
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Speaker 7: Yeah?
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Speaker 9: I mean, you know, well the front office did bring
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Speaker 9: in some guys that you know, both on hitting pitching side.
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Speaker 7: Is really cool to see.
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Speaker 9: You know, this is my first year, you know, coming
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Speaker 9: into camp, you know, trying to win a job and
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Speaker 9: get after it and set myself up.
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Speaker 7: And the way the.
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Speaker 9: Team looks this year, the way we're playing in camp,
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Speaker 9: you know, it's it's really fun to see winning a
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Speaker 9: lot of games, having a lot of fun. The preparation
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Speaker 9: daily is you know something I haven't seen and ever
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Speaker 9: since I've been a Pirate is you know, guys are
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Speaker 9: on their p's and q's every day and it's it's
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Speaker 9: really cool and fascinating.
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Speaker 1: You see, have they told you anything starter? Because last
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Speaker 1: year we were on here and I'm like, why is
16:44
Speaker 1: he not starting if he's coming in through five innings?
16:47
Speaker 7: Yeah? Right?
16:47
Speaker 1: Have they Have they talked to you about starter? Reliever?
16:51
Speaker 9: I mean no, I'm a believe I'm a starter. They
16:55
Speaker 9: believe I'm a starter to uh, you know, last year
16:57
Speaker 9: was just kind of tough. Like you know, one thing
17:00
Speaker 9: I love about the Pirates is, you know we we
17:02
Speaker 9: earned stuff around here, and you know, I'm about that
17:06
Speaker 9: and you know, whether it's you know, earn it during
17:08
Speaker 9: the season or earning it here in spring that I
17:13
Speaker 9: think it creates a good president of you know, if
17:14
Speaker 9: you want something, got to go get it and got
17:16
Speaker 9: to earn it. And I think last year was kind
17:17
Speaker 9: of that in camp, say, hey, you know, come out
17:20
Speaker 9: of the bullk and a couple of times, and if
17:21
Speaker 9: you pitch well, you know, I may give you a start,
17:23
Speaker 9: may not, but you know, if you're gonna earn it,
17:24
Speaker 9: and you know, when you do get caught with the
17:26
Speaker 9: big leagues, you know you're gonna there'll be no doubt
17:29
Speaker 9: that you did earn it.
17:31
Speaker 6: Did you like, how was that? How was that communicated?
17:34
Speaker 6: Because I, I'll be honest, I came on the show
17:36
Speaker 6: and I had a problem with it. I even called
17:38
Speaker 6: one of your the people that make decisions for you guys,
17:41
Speaker 6: and I was like, I've watched this guy throw in
17:43
Speaker 6: the minor leagues, and I've talked to you last year
17:46
Speaker 6: in spring training. I feel like, one, you're mentally good enough,
17:50
Speaker 6: physically you throw the ball well enough. I was very confused,
17:53
Speaker 6: is why they called you up to put you in
17:55
Speaker 6: the bullpen, something that I don't think you'll ever do
17:58
Speaker 6: and I don't think you should do. How was that communication?
18:02
Speaker 6: And also how did you feel about that? Because did
18:05
Speaker 6: it feel like a little bit of a slight or
18:07
Speaker 6: were you totally fine with it?
18:10
Speaker 7: I don't want to say a slight like I.
18:14
Speaker 9: You know, when I got to the big leagues, I
18:16
Speaker 9: was just so grateful and happy that you know, I
18:19
Speaker 9: kind of didn't necessarily care about it. And then you know,
18:21
Speaker 9: at the end of the season, you know kind of
18:23
Speaker 9: you know, self assessed. I'm like, you know, go back
18:25
Speaker 9: to my debut and I'm like, wow, like I did
18:27
Speaker 9: come out of the bullpen, you know, on my debut
18:30
Speaker 9: the next game and the next game, and you know,
18:32
Speaker 9: it was kind of weird. I will say I was uncomfortable,
18:35
Speaker 9: but I mean I look back at it now and
18:38
Speaker 9: I think, you know, it set me up in a
18:40
Speaker 9: good way to you know, stuff got thrown at me
18:42
Speaker 9: that I wasn't necessarily comfortable with. And I think coming
18:45
Speaker 9: in this year, I know, you know how to get
18:47
Speaker 9: it done. And if I ever do get thrown into
18:49
Speaker 9: a role like that again, you know, just roll with
18:51
Speaker 9: the punches and get after it. But yeah, definitely odd.
18:56
Speaker 9: But again, like you know, I say talk about earning stuff.
18:59
Speaker 9: When I I get called up, I felt like I
19:01
Speaker 9: was in a you know, a slump, and I wasn't.
19:03
Speaker 7: I didn't earn it. And you know, when I did
19:05
Speaker 7: get up.
19:06
Speaker 9: To the big leagues, you know, getting thrown in the
19:07
Speaker 9: pen was something I probably needed, and uh, you know,
19:12
Speaker 9: you know, happy it happened that way. But you know,
19:15
Speaker 9: starting is nice, you know, having your routine. But you
19:18
Speaker 9: know I was already so nervous already that day that
19:20
Speaker 9: you know, not starting was probably the best thing.
19:22
Speaker 7: You know.
19:23
Speaker 9: Just get out in the bullpen, move around a little bit.
19:24
Speaker 9: When they call your name, just throw as hard as
19:26
Speaker 9: you can in the bullpen and run out there. You know,
19:30
Speaker 9: suck and win, but got out there and get it done.
19:32
Speaker 9: And you know I look back at it, and you know, grateful.
19:35
Speaker 3: Roy Ruben Chandler. How does one become Bubba? Where did
19:39
Speaker 3: that name come from?
19:40
Speaker 4: I love it.
19:41
Speaker 3: I feel like you should be driving a NASCAR though.
19:43
Speaker 3: Where did you Where did the name come from? And
19:45
Speaker 3: how did it stick?
19:48
Speaker 9: You know, my sisters growing up, you know, they called
19:51
Speaker 9: me their brother. You know, they're older than me, and
19:52
Speaker 9: they called me their brother Bubba.
19:53
Speaker 7: And all that stuff.
19:54
Speaker 9: Just you know something that you know, you younger kids
19:56
Speaker 9: get when they're young, especially in the South. And you know,
20:00
Speaker 9: I thought that was my name when I got you know,
20:02
Speaker 9: competent enough to understand words, and so I just started
20:05
Speaker 9: saying it. And then my grandparents started saying it, you know,
20:08
Speaker 9: parents started saying it. It kind of just stuck and
20:10
Speaker 9: now we're here and I sign checks with.
20:16
Speaker 7: Ruben.
20:17
Speaker 9: So a lot of our our Latin players call me
20:20
Speaker 9: Ruben really, but they say in the cooler way, why
20:22
Speaker 9: do they?
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Speaker 1: Why? Why? Why did? Why? Only the Latin players?
20:26
Speaker 9: I don't know them? Them and Henry Davis because like Rubin,
20:32
Speaker 9: I don't know. But that's that's that's how it goes.
20:36
Speaker 4: You have your fun, I like your attitude.
20:38
Speaker 3: Let's uh, let's clear something up for the people that
20:40
Speaker 3: are not paying attention or want to make something bigger
20:43
Speaker 3: than it is. So you said that Paul Skens was
20:46
Speaker 3: a spoon fed right, the meteoric rise didn't have to
20:49
Speaker 3: really toil through the minor leagues.
20:51
Speaker 4: Obviously that was a joke.
20:54
Speaker 3: So tell us how that whole thing went down, and
20:56
Speaker 3: how much fun it is pitching in that rotation.
20:58
Speaker 7: With that dude, not a serious playing. I love love
21:03
Speaker 7: fall to death.
21:04
Speaker 9: I mean you get to see it every five or
21:05
Speaker 9: six days, like the passion that guy has and what
21:09
Speaker 9: he does you know daily is something like it. I
21:12
Speaker 9: said in the end of that interview. You know, it's
21:14
Speaker 9: an example and guys should follow it. You know, I
21:17
Speaker 9: try to sometimes like some of his stuff. I try
21:20
Speaker 9: to take you know, in his routine, in his daily work,
21:22
Speaker 9: and you know, it shows that he's the best pitcher
21:26
Speaker 9: in baseball, and you know guys are chasing him.
21:28
Speaker 7: Uh but yeah, you know that was unserious.
21:31
Speaker 9: I saw a lot of I got a lot of
21:32
Speaker 9: flag for it, which, you know, whatever, but it was funny.
21:36
Speaker 9: But yeah, you know, I hope they win tonight or
21:38
Speaker 9: more whenever they play and get him back in camp.
21:41
Speaker 7: Yeah, he he's great. It's nice. There wouldn't be there.
21:50
Speaker 1: You got the no I wish I was.
21:54
Speaker 7: Miami is a long way for the drive.
21:57
Speaker 1: But you got you got the little Paul schemes look
21:59
Speaker 1: to you. You got the mustache going.
22:01
Speaker 7: Yeah, well he looks like me.
22:02
Speaker 1: Oh, he looks like you're a little smaller than he is.
22:07
Speaker 7: Though unfortunately my heart's bigger.
22:11
Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, when you did that interview, I
22:15
Speaker 1: saw it and I thought it was great. Right. My
22:17
Speaker 1: wife saw it. My wife goes, who's this guy in
22:19
Speaker 1: the pirates and why is he taking shots at Paul Skiing?
22:23
Speaker 1: And I said, Bubba Chandler. She says, yeah, I can't
22:26
Speaker 1: believe someone on his own team said those things about her.
22:29
Speaker 1: I said, well, you know, their roommates and best friends,
22:31
Speaker 1: and it was a complete joke, so it didn't come
22:33
Speaker 1: across like that. Yeah, I said, no, no, no, no, they're
22:36
Speaker 1: like best friends.
22:37
Speaker 7: Yeah.
22:38
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean throwing back to like two years ago
22:40
Speaker 9: when I, you know, said some smart stuff about you know, yeah,
22:43
Speaker 9: you're gonna be the day to starter whatever.
22:45
Speaker 7: You know.
22:46
Speaker 9: When that video came out, me and Paul are sitting
22:48
Speaker 9: on the couch inside each other.
22:50
Speaker 7: She's like, god, bless, like, I can't what did we see?
22:52
Speaker 7: What did he say?
22:53
Speaker 9: I just think it's funny, you know, like say, you know,
22:58
Speaker 9: kind of create some healthy compition. You know, we're competing
23:01
Speaker 9: with each other every day, but at the media, you
23:02
Speaker 9: know thinks we hate each other, you know, so be it. Yeah,
23:07
Speaker 9: maybe be like it was a Major League when Dorn
23:10
Speaker 9: and Ricky Vaughan, you know, or make up after you know,
23:14
Speaker 9: they win the Pennant or whatever they did.
23:16
Speaker 7: Maybe be like that true like that, you know.
23:20
Speaker 1: Just don't do what Yeah, let's let's get that off
23:25
Speaker 1: the record.
23:29
Speaker 6: Does he give it back to you? Does he does
23:31
Speaker 6: he give it? Like because we don't ever see any
23:32
Speaker 6: emotion from him. You are clearly you're okay with being
23:36
Speaker 6: sarcastic out in the media. Does he give it back
23:38
Speaker 6: to you or is he exactly like he's portrayed in
23:41
Speaker 6: the media, like just a robot and doesn't like great joke,
23:45
Speaker 6: that was awesome, Leave me alone.
23:49
Speaker 7: Paul's a boy, Ball's a dude.
23:50
Speaker 9: You know he uh, you know, he kicks back and
23:54
Speaker 9: hangs out, you know, bus chops and you know he does.
23:58
Speaker 9: You know, he's very he's a very mellow and laid
24:01
Speaker 9: back person, you know, off the field, but he'll crack
24:04
Speaker 9: a joke.
24:04
Speaker 7: He'll bust your balls here and there.
24:05
Speaker 9: And you know that's what we love about him, is
24:08
Speaker 9: he's the same guy every day. And uh yeah, you know,
24:11
Speaker 9: I'm finally I'm glad he did show some emotion at
24:14
Speaker 9: the end of that game. Unless he saw that video.
24:16
Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, Uh he's got it in him. He's got
24:20
Speaker 9: he's got it.
24:21
Speaker 7: Yeah I do too. I want to.
24:24
Speaker 9: Cuss words off the mound. And in the first thing
24:28
Speaker 9: opening day, it's correct, what does.
24:31
Speaker 6: He what does he get on you about? We know
24:33
Speaker 6: what you get on him about, but what does he
24:35
Speaker 6: get on you about?
24:38
Speaker 7: Not much? I'm pretty pretty perfect. Uh, I don't know.
24:44
Speaker 9: I mean, I'll say he's helping me with a lot
24:46
Speaker 9: of things, you know, whether it's been like nutrition, you know,
24:50
Speaker 9: just habits you know off the field, uh, you know,
24:53
Speaker 9: to help the body be in the right spot every
24:55
Speaker 9: five days.
24:56
Speaker 7: I'd say like that.
24:57
Speaker 9: You know he uh know, he's fortunate enough to have
25:01
Speaker 9: a lot of connections that he's kind of passed down
25:03
Speaker 9: to me a little bit, which I'm grateful for.
25:05
Speaker 7: I say like that.
25:06
Speaker 9: You know, is you have one job, and you know
25:10
Speaker 9: that's to take the ball every five or six days
25:12
Speaker 9: whenever they give it to you and go out there
25:14
Speaker 9: and execute and do what you need to do. And
25:16
Speaker 9: how do you prepare yourself and say yourself for success
25:19
Speaker 9: for the team? Is you know, it's the only job
25:21
Speaker 9: you have and you get seven months a year to
25:23
Speaker 9: do it. So why not treat every day like it's
25:25
Speaker 9: you know, that day? And I think that's what he's
25:28
Speaker 9: helped me with a lot. And you know, I think
25:30
Speaker 9: early on, you know, in our friendship, you know, he
25:33
Speaker 9: was a lot more advanced in that category. And then
25:36
Speaker 9: now you know he's helped out you know, I'm not
25:38
Speaker 9: afraid to say he's helped me a lot.
25:41
Speaker 7: Yeah, I love love him to death.
25:43
Speaker 6: What's that? What's that one you were talking about? Nutrition?
25:46
Speaker 6: What's that one? Nutrition? Bad choice that you're gonna make.
25:49
Speaker 6: If you're like, all right, like this is a day
25:50
Speaker 6: that I can that I can do something that Bubba
25:53
Speaker 6: Chandler goes ahead and a cheat day per se.
25:56
Speaker 7: Well, I would be honest.
25:57
Speaker 9: I have a cheat day every every week. Know, every day,
26:01
Speaker 9: every day is a cheat day.
26:02
Speaker 2: You know.
26:03
Speaker 9: After I pitched, you know, I'll hit all my all
26:05
Speaker 9: my stuff, the proteins, the water weight you lost, all
26:09
Speaker 9: that good stuff. You know, I'm gonna wake up that
26:11
Speaker 9: next morning, I'm probably gonna have a cinnamon roll.
26:15
Speaker 7: And that's my cheat. I love a cinnamon roll.
26:17
Speaker 1: Man.
26:17
Speaker 7: I I do a lot of things.
26:19
Speaker 9: If me and A J had a big, big cinnamon
26:21
Speaker 9: role sitting in front of us right now, would be
26:23
Speaker 9: great with you. But yeah, that's you know. Sometimes you know,
26:27
Speaker 9: we'll get some breakfast in the morning. You know, I
26:29
Speaker 9: may have a cinnamon roll and he's like, what what
26:31
Speaker 9: are you doing?
26:32
Speaker 7: Man?
26:33
Speaker 9: I pitched yesterday. This is my this is my reward.
26:36
Speaker 9: But yeah, you know I eat a lot of steak
26:38
Speaker 9: and rice, ground beef and rice, chicken rice. It sucks
26:41
Speaker 9: but yeah, pretty good McDonald's.
26:48
Speaker 1: Yeahude, guy, between back when Prats and I played, that
26:52
Speaker 1: was our that was our happy email. You go and
26:54
Speaker 1: get that. Now, you guys go home and I'm gonna
26:56
Speaker 1: have a steak.
26:57
Speaker 7: And yeah, I'll crush some Chick fil A here there.
27:00
Speaker 1: Like, if you're friends with Schemes, don't you have to
27:02
Speaker 1: have Canes? Because Kane is paying them all that money
27:04
Speaker 1: at LSU.
27:05
Speaker 9: So yeah, God bless you're still pan of money. I
27:09
Speaker 9: do like canes. There's a Canes and Athens where I lives.
27:13
Speaker 9: It's always packed. I never go, but it's pretty good.
27:16
Speaker 7: Chick Chick Fla is my spot. I'm gonna do that.
27:19
Speaker 7: It's good.
27:20
Speaker 1: Okay, what about Connor Connor Griffin, you're you're kind of
27:23
Speaker 1: a young guy, high school guy. You're a veteran now
27:27
Speaker 1: compared to him. Do you have any advice for him? Yeah,
27:30
Speaker 1: going through what he's kind of going through.
27:32
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's crazy. I'm twenty three.
27:34
Speaker 9: He's four years younger than me, and he is gonna
27:37
Speaker 9: be a big leaguer very soon. It's kind of wild
27:39
Speaker 9: to think about where I was at nineteen saying, but
27:44
Speaker 9: I love KG.
27:45
Speaker 7: I mean that, dude.
27:47
Speaker 9: If someone didn't know who he was and you talked
27:49
Speaker 9: to him for ten minutes, You're.
27:51
Speaker 7: Like, Wow, like that guy, I have no idea. He's
27:53
Speaker 7: probably had a great career.
27:54
Speaker 9: Bro, you know, has a nice family and everything, like,
27:57
Speaker 9: you know, a great person fellowship. He's nineteen, like kind
28:00
Speaker 9: of insane, you know, very fortunate to get.
28:02
Speaker 7: To know him.
28:03
Speaker 9: Uh, you know, getting to know his wife, Dandy, She's
28:06
Speaker 9: all like, they don't act like they're nineteen, and that's
28:09
Speaker 9: that's cool. I think that's pretty sweet. And yeah, you're
28:15
Speaker 9: gonna see it, you know, whether he makes the team
28:17
Speaker 9: opening day or he gets caught up, you know, the
28:18
Speaker 9: last day of the season. You know, he's gonna dominate
28:21
Speaker 9: wherever he's at. It's gonna be fun to watch. And yeah,
28:25
Speaker 9: I can't wait to be teammates with him one day
28:27
Speaker 9: and opening day.
28:29
Speaker 7: Yeah, that would be sick. It'd be really cool. You know.
28:33
Speaker 9: I think a lot of guys here deserved it and
28:35
Speaker 9: worked their tail off and played well in camp that
28:38
Speaker 9: deserved you know, whatever spot's open. But yeah, you know,
28:41
Speaker 9: I think like KG gets a lot of the praise
28:43
Speaker 9: as he should, and you know, I thoroughly enjoyed watching
28:47
Speaker 9: him play.
28:48
Speaker 7: You know, if I'm not playing, I'm tuning into the game.
28:50
Speaker 9: And you know, watching this one through nine, and you
28:52
Speaker 9: know the announcers, you know, always talking about KG. It's like, yeah,
28:56
Speaker 9: like as as they should like that guy. You know,
28:59
Speaker 9: he's had one year national baseball, but it's been one
29:01
Speaker 9: of the better years in recent years for prospect and
29:04
Speaker 9: you know, super stoked and we have them, uh, you know,
29:08
Speaker 9: super stoked to see where he ends up.
29:11
Speaker 6: Do you guys talk about that as teammates guys in
29:13
Speaker 6: camp right now, because you guys want to put the
29:16
Speaker 6: best team out on the field. But you also know,
29:18
Speaker 6: if you're like, man, I hope KG, as you call him,
29:21
Speaker 6: is gonna make the is gonna make the team, and
29:23
Speaker 6: then like Nick and zalz is over there, like what
29:27
Speaker 6: about me? Like I want to be a part Like so,
29:29
Speaker 6: I think it's hard as players, How much do you
29:31
Speaker 6: guys talk about it?
29:34
Speaker 9: I mean, not a whole lot, Like I mean, he
29:36
Speaker 9: kind of leaves that stuff up to the front office
29:38
Speaker 9: and the guys that are way smarter than us making decisions.
29:41
Speaker 9: And you know, I think, you know, like I said,
29:44
Speaker 9: on the pitching side, like the the competition daily is
29:48
Speaker 9: you know, it's what's needed and uh, you know, we
29:53
Speaker 9: asked for it and that's what we got. And you
29:55
Speaker 9: know it's it's making everybody better, but you're out, it's
29:57
Speaker 9: making the team better, which is what we need.
29:59
Speaker 7: And what we've been looking for the last and full years.
30:02
Speaker 9: And no, thank everybody puts their head down every day
30:06
Speaker 9: when they come here, gets after it has fun and
30:09
Speaker 9: you know, rents and repeat every day.
30:11
Speaker 7: And that's the plan that we have.
30:14
Speaker 9: You know, for the entire season, we're gonna look up,
30:16
Speaker 9: keep our head down, look at our toes, and look
30:18
Speaker 9: up in November. You'll probably be pretty dang happy. So
30:22
Speaker 9: that's the goal and that's the mindset.
30:25
Speaker 1: Thank you, And I must say thats you guys know
30:27
Speaker 1: where I stand on college sports teams. One of the
30:30
Speaker 1: smartest guys in here, because you know why he decommitted
30:33
Speaker 1: from Georgia. We all know what the deep patriot I
30:35
Speaker 1: have for the University of Georgia. Yeah, so thank you
30:37
Speaker 1: for doing that. Even though you didn't go to college
30:39
Speaker 1: like I didn go to college as a Gator fan.
30:41
Speaker 1: We can live with Clemson. We don't really like Georgians. Well,
30:44
Speaker 1: thank you for doing that.
30:46
Speaker 7: Yeah, I do train at the University of Georgia, so
30:51
Speaker 7: I'm not you know.
30:52
Speaker 9: I love Wes Johnson, I love all the guys at Georgia,
30:54
Speaker 9: but not a huge fan of.
30:57
Speaker 1: Yes, it just became my name, one of my favorite.
31:00
Speaker 1: So thank you all. Will be really improving, Thank you
31:02
Speaker 1: Revant probably appreciate it, and we'll be right back on
31:05
Speaker 1: out there.
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Speaker 6: Car