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Don Mattingly & Brad Keller join FT @Phillies camp + Season Preview · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: M let's welcome USA, but one of the newest Phillies
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  Speaker 1: draft Capter is on with us. You're live from clear
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  Speaker 1: ooters shirts around here.
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  Speaker 2: Have you gotten used to the accent? I haven't.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I mean I was only here for two
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  Speaker 3: weeks before we took off.
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  Speaker 4: But now it's I've got a chance to talk to
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  Speaker 4: a couple of.
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  Speaker 3: Them when I was up in Philly, and it's it's
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  Speaker 3: a it's a funny one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's not a strong though some of the deep
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  Speaker 1: Philly people.
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  Speaker 5: No, it's not. I mean you have to really like
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  Speaker 5: almost like complain about every word that you're saying if
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  Speaker 5: you're gonna have a good Philly accent and waater and tournament.
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  Speaker 5: So it's really it's not a big deal. It's just
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  Speaker 5: it's just perfect. It's just a perfect way to talk.
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  Speaker 6: That's great, all right, let me let me get all
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  Speaker 6: right degree but okay, yeahs as much as I'm learning
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  Speaker 6: right now, Brad, let's start with the WBC experience. You
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  Speaker 6: just came back. So first off, what's it like to
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  Speaker 6: come back from that? There was so much juice, so
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  Speaker 6: much energy, so much star power. You basically found new
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  Speaker 6: friends for a couple of weeks and now you're here,
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  Speaker 6: so we'll get into the tournament and what it was
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  Speaker 6: like in the last game. But what is it like
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  Speaker 6: for you to now be here? Is it kind of weird?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's just different, right.
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  Speaker 3: You go from such high energy games, you know, every
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  Speaker 3: single day preparing for basically a playoff game, to you know,
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  Speaker 3: get back to the swing of things of spring training.
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  Speaker 3: So it's definitely weird, but excited to be back here
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  Speaker 3: and uh, you know getting ready for the season.
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  Speaker 2: What were the what was the environment you were there?
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  Speaker 2: You were you were in the biggest games so far
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  Speaker 2: this year. What was the environment? What would the atmosphere
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  Speaker 2: like when you took them out.
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  Speaker 4: Of those Yeah, I mean it was, I mean it
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  Speaker 4: was energy filled.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it was loud.
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  Speaker 3: I think, you know, by far the loudest game I've
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  Speaker 3: ever pitched in, even been a part of it, just
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  Speaker 3: like being there for the Dominican Republic game as well,
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  Speaker 3: like just you know, just adrenalinepact, you know, energy filled
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  Speaker 3: from the start, I mean, the build up all day.
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  Speaker 4: I was in the playoffs last year for the first.
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  Speaker 3: Time my career, I kind of felt that I felt
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  Speaker 3: like it was even more so during those games, you
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  Speaker 3: know this year so far, I mean it was it
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  Speaker 3: was awesome. I mean, it's it's hard to describe it
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  Speaker 3: as like one of those been asked a question a
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  Speaker 3: bunch like what was like?
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  Speaker 2: But like it's hard to describe.
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  Speaker 3: Because it was just just to be able to experience
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  Speaker 3: it and feel the energy and feel the fans is
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  Speaker 3: like hanging on every single pitch was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I hear you say the Cubs fans have
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  Speaker 1: no energy, because I.
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  Speaker 4: Never wouldn't said that. No, really it was pretty electric
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  Speaker 4: last year.
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  Speaker 3: But no, but just like I think being in a
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  Speaker 3: you know, a domed environment like that with with Marlin
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  Speaker 3: Stadium and I think thirty thirty nine I think was
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  Speaker 3: the count that they said for that Venezuelan game was
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  Speaker 3: just I mean it was crazy.
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  Speaker 4: They have the light show going and you could see everyone.
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  Speaker 4: It was just it was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: What was the best part? I mean, I think Harper's
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  Speaker 2: home run.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously I wish it was, uh, you know, the go
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  Speaker 3: ahead homer or something like that, but you know, Harper's
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  Speaker 3: home run just placed erupted.
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  Speaker 4: It was it was awesome, Like it's the whole game,
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  Speaker 4: the whole experience.
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  Speaker 3: I mean from the open festivities, like, I mean, all
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  Speaker 3: of it was just it was so fun to be
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  Speaker 3: a part of and and getting to know those guys
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  Speaker 3: like obviously it's you know, pretty start studied lineup and
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  Speaker 3: starts at a team. Just like being in the little
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  Speaker 3: clubhouse picking those guys' brains, I mean, having kersh all around,
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  Speaker 3: Like it was awesome to be a part of all
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  Speaker 3: that and just you know, get to explain it.
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  Speaker 5: Everybody talks about, oh, it's a playoff environment. I remember
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  Speaker 5: after the playoffs, I was exhausted. Whether it was how
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  Speaker 5: much you were focused, how you know, the effort you
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  Speaker 5: put in is similar to the regular season, but just
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  Speaker 5: everything I felt like I was exhausted. Did you have
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  Speaker 5: that same feeling after this two week tournament?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm feeling it right now. I'll be honest with
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  Speaker 3: you. It was it was hard to come down from that game.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it was just you know, so many ups
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  Speaker 3: and downs of that of that final game that I
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  Speaker 3: honestly don't think I slept afterwards.
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  Speaker 2: We all hung out after the game a little.
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  Speaker 3: Bit and just kind of you know, our last our
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  Speaker 3: last time together, and you know, I went back to
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  Speaker 3: my room and just I felt like I was just.
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  Speaker 2: Staring at the ceiling all night.
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  Speaker 3: And yesterday got in the car and me, Harper and
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  Speaker 3: Shortberd drove back from Miami, and we were all saying
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  Speaker 3: the same thing. It's like, I swear I don't I didn't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I slept the night before. So it's
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  Speaker 3: just it's it's pretty tough. And then obviously six am
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  Speaker 3: wake up call this morning was really rough. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: just just so much adrenaline, you know, even going back
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  Speaker 3: to the pool play games, because like it mattered so much.
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  Speaker 3: It felt like every single game like mattered. We could
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  Speaker 3: feel like we were, you know, doing something for bigger
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  Speaker 3: than just us and bigger.
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  Speaker 2: Than just the team. It was for the country, you know.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, I definitely definitely feel exhausted.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, What are you gonna do with the silver metal?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I want to get a gold one.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, right now I haven't just you know, it's still
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  Speaker 3: just stashed away in the bags. I haven't really unpacked
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  Speaker 3: anything yet. But I mean, I don't know, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of guys, yeah, I mean I get it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but I mean it's still cool to have a medal
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  Speaker 3: and and all that stuff, But yeah, I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: probably probably hanging up until you get a gold one.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's well did uh you guys don't have any
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  Speaker 1: Venezuela and guys right on the Venezuela team.
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  Speaker 3: I think here with us, I think so, I think, uh,
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  Speaker 3: I think I'm not sure if I'm not tirely sure, because.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, are they walking around with their
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  Speaker 1: gold you don't have the know no one was on
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  Speaker 1: the team, because I was gonna say, yeah, they can
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  Speaker 1: walk around.
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  Speaker 2: Ye look at Michael medal. Back to your medal.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Hey, it was still cool though.
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  Speaker 2: What else?
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  Speaker 6: What else did you guys talk about in the car ride?
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  Speaker 6: You're with two of the more respected guys in the
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  Speaker 6: game in Harper and Schreber. What kind of combos do
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  Speaker 6: you have when you get those guys? For whoever long?
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  Speaker 6: The ride was about a couple of hours.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, a lot of it was just about
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  Speaker 3: the tournament and things like that, like, you know, how
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  Speaker 3: he thought it went, and you know, obviously you know
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  Speaker 3: the energy and things like that. But you know, obviously
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  Speaker 3: being teammates with him now we're a lot of the
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  Speaker 3: second half of the car ride was talking about you know,
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  Speaker 3: the upcoming season, you know, coming back to spring, getting
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  Speaker 3: ready for all this stuff, and you know, getting to
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  Speaker 3: Philly and heard it snowing up there, so getting ready
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  Speaker 3: for that and things like that. You know, yeah it's
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  Speaker 3: it's chilly today. But yeah, I mean it was just
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  Speaker 3: a lot of random conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Harper Joe.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so we we were offered, we were offered, uh,
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  Speaker 3: the car service, and he's like, I'm down to drive.
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  Speaker 3: So we got a rental car and what kind of
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  Speaker 3: car do you just Bryce Harper random drive?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we rent it.
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  Speaker 3: We had a lot of stuff, so we got a
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  Speaker 3: was like a Wagoneer, like the bigger. I mean, we
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  Speaker 3: had that bag, suitcases, the whole nine. Like I was
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  Speaker 3: sandwiched in the back of my hand, up on my arm,
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  Speaker 3: up on all the suitcases and everything. Put you in
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  Speaker 3: the back. Well, I volunteer to get back there. Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I let those guys get the front seats. But yeah
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't. I offered a drive too, And Harper's like,
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  Speaker 3: I got it.
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  Speaker 5: So that show. I mean, you should offer to drive.
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  Speaker 5: But he should have taken somebody. He should have had
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  Speaker 5: somebody drive you guys. But my question is they talked
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  Speaker 5: about changing the tournament you just finished, you just got
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  Speaker 5: it done, possibly a mid season tournament, or yesterday we
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  Speaker 5: had Max Schurzer on said, hey, maybe we should have
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  Speaker 5: it at the end of spring training so everybody's totally
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  Speaker 5: build up and then bang, you go right into the
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  Speaker 5: regular season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think I honestly like that idea better.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like if it's at the All Star break,
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  Speaker 3: it's tough because I altar break. You need the All
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  Speaker 3: Star break, right, you need those four days to kind
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  Speaker 3: of recoup for the for the second half push and to.
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  Speaker 2: Get into that environment.
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  Speaker 3: And let that be like a mid season thing and
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  Speaker 3: like just knowing that you're gonna you know, come down
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  Speaker 3: from that and then go try to finish out, you know,
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  Speaker 3: through the dog days of July and August.
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  Speaker 2: It would be a little bit tougher.
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  Speaker 3: I agree with the whether it be the second half
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  Speaker 3: of spring training or even just like the last two weeks.
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  Speaker 4: That way, you do have guys built up.
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  Speaker 3: Position players are used to playing nine innings, getting you know,
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  Speaker 3: four or five at bats in the game.
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  Speaker 2: I like that idea.
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  Speaker 3: I think after experiencing it, you do have quite a
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  Speaker 3: bit of off days, which I don't think going into it,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't really realize like how many off days we
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  Speaker 3: did have. But yeah, it's just it's just so much
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  Speaker 3: early on with guys, Like some guys are only allowed
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  Speaker 3: to throw those many pitches you know, only could throw,
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  Speaker 3: you know, mandatory have a certain amount of days off
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  Speaker 3: in between pitches or in between outings, and so I
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  Speaker 3: feel like towards the end of spring, like pitchers are.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're kind of we have to go back
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  Speaker 2: to back.
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  Speaker 3: We do the one pluses and things like that, which
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  Speaker 3: will give you know, d Ro a little bit more,
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  Speaker 3: you know, leeway to get out there and.
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  Speaker 2: Be able to study. Said he was exhausted. Oh man, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: is he gonna catch nine innings? Yeah? I caught like
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  Speaker 2: four inning. When I go out there and catch nine,
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  Speaker 2: that's like talking to you know, Will Smith and and Cale.
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  Speaker 3: About there's just like for our first game out in Arizona,
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  Speaker 3: they went and caught nine, and they're like, we were
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  Speaker 3: catching you know, four or five innings at a time,
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  Speaker 3: and now we're catching nine for game and then cotton
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  Speaker 3: nine the whole way through.
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  Speaker 6: back to that for a moment, because the commissioner just
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  Speaker 6: brought it up and I'm with you. I don't see
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  Speaker 6: how a mid season tournament would make sense, especially if
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  Speaker 6: they're trying to shut the sport down for a week
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  Speaker 6: or more, and then how you're keeping everyone else flowing.
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  Speaker 6: I think the objectives, though, or at least that what
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  Speaker 6: was mentioned, were two things. Brad One. They were like, oh,
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  Speaker 6: the quality of baseball would be better in July, and
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  Speaker 6: also to get more I guess pitcher participation. I'm kind
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  Speaker 6: of playing off what you're saying here. Do you really
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  Speaker 6: feel like that would be the case. I feel like
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  Speaker 6: just as many guys that say no now would still
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  Speaker 6: say no mid season. Now, what Surezer said to me
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  Speaker 6: makes a little more sense because you're deeper into spring.
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  Speaker 6: But I can see a lot of guys being like,
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  Speaker 6: oh great, I have a break in July, so I'm
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  Speaker 6: going especially pitchers. I'm going to use that to be
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  Speaker 6: like my one or two weeks off. So my question is,
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  Speaker 6: do you think that more pitchers would participate? And do
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  Speaker 6: you really feel like the game would be that much better,
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  Speaker 6: cleaner baseball in July than in late March.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, I feel like the pitcher participation would probably be
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  Speaker 3: the same, like it would be.
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  Speaker 4: You know, some guys would say yes, they'd be down.
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  Speaker 3: The other guys would say no, just because the rest
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  Speaker 3: need needing those off days in July, especially for starters.
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  Speaker 3: You know they're packing on the innings. You know that
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  Speaker 3: that four day break is it always seems to hit
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  Speaker 3: like right at the exact time when you're starting to
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  Speaker 3: really grind. So it'd be hard to say if many
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  Speaker 3: guys would say yes or no just because it is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, getting into the dog days of the season.
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  Speaker 3: But as far as like cleaner base I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: feel like you'd have to say yes just because at
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  Speaker 3: that point you played one hundred in some games. You know,
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  Speaker 3: like you're kind of your season right, You're you're kind
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  Speaker 3: of into the swing of things, You're in a routine.
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  Speaker 3: I think, just more reps, more more at bats under
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  Speaker 3: your belt. I feel like you're just a little bit
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  Speaker 3: maybe better quality. But I mean it would be the same.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like we played you know, good
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  Speaker 3: this whole time. I didn't, you know, I mean, it's
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  Speaker 3: it's hard to say that we played bad baseball. It's
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  Speaker 3: just you know, there's a lot yeah it's baseball, like yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: So I mean it's just how the game goes, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know what were the did you have any restrictions because
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  Speaker 1: all we heard about Mark de Rosa was restrictions, restrictions,
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  Speaker 1: And then you hear from Omar Lopez and he says, well,
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  Speaker 1: I called the Cubs and said plenty is pitching. Punch
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  Speaker 1: was basically I'm pitching no matter what. What was it
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  Speaker 1: like for you? Did you have restrictions? And then obviously
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  Speaker 1: the Mason Miller thing where they brought I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's a dog, so but people were why was Mason
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  Speaker 1: Miller not? And then De Rosa at oh I had
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  Speaker 1: to honor the padres. Did you have any restrictions on
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  Speaker 1: you from the Phillies?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean there was a couple.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I went into it knowing that I was gonna be
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  Speaker 3: more of like the one plus guy, and so with
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  Speaker 3: that they're based called you throw one plus, you got
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  Speaker 3: to have like three days down. But we had so
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  Speaker 3: many off days, so realistically I was up for most
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  Speaker 3: of the time, just because the off days we counted
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  Speaker 3: as as down days.
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  Speaker 4: So but no, I mean it was uh.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like they did a really good job with
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  Speaker 3: with how they managed all of us. I feel like
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  Speaker 3: that was obviously de ro has his hand tie with
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  Speaker 3: a lot of the stuff, especially you know, obviously you
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  Speaker 3: want to do right by the player because it is
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  Speaker 3: spring training, right and you don't want them to be
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  Speaker 3: hurt doing this, you know, and missing out on the season.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I feel like it's for me personally, like
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  Speaker 3: it kind of worked out well just you knowing that
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  Speaker 3: I had, you know, or that I got all the
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  Speaker 3: rest that you know I had going into Childing. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think that was planned bomb, So I just think
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  Speaker 3: that's how it worked out for me. But you know, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: having you know, Bednard and Woodlock and Mason as there
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  Speaker 3: seven eight nine, it's that's pretty hard to beat, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean that's some of the best best arms in
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  Speaker 3: the games. So you know, it's obviously we want to ride.
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  Speaker 3: Then we wrote them the whole tournament, and again you
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  Speaker 3: want to look out for the safety of the player
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  Speaker 3: going into the season. So I feel like just you know,
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  Speaker 3: Deo essentially had his hands tied in a way. But
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  Speaker 3: I mean those guys, I mean, like you said, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Woodlock's unreal.
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  Speaker 2: This stuff is unbelievable. I mean he.
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  Speaker 3: Had some of the best change up swinging misses I've
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  Speaker 3: ever seen, like and especially you know, right on riot
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  Speaker 3: things like that. Just I mean, it's again, it's baseball, right, like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's part of it.
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  Speaker 5: What's the difference between like a safe situation or the
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  Speaker 5: game tied in the ninth inning and you're the closer
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  Speaker 5: to come in. What's what's it? Because we heard all
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  Speaker 5: about the fact that Mason Miller was gonna come in
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  Speaker 5: if the team had the lead. Well, you were the
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  Speaker 5: home team, if you were the lead, you guys were
• 14:36
  Speaker 5: slapping hands, you guys, weren't you guys weren't needing somebody
• 14:39
  Speaker 5: to pitch the bottom of the ninth or the bottom
• 14:41
  Speaker 5: of the tenth. So essentially Mason Miller was never gonna pitch.
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I don't really know all the all
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: all that stuff, like what the rules behind that and
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: stuff was, But no, I mean I think we had
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: plenty of plenty of guys that could do the job.
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: And you know, obviously you know Wdlock is very capable
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: of doing the job as well. I mean, it's just
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: again like I feel like, unfortunately baseball happened, and you know,
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: I swears put a good swing on the ball and
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: unfortunately run scored.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: All right, let's move on from that before we let
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: you go. We gotta ask a Phillies question.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: We don't even ask about that because the WBC is
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: just just commanded the headlines for the last couple of weeks,
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: and obviously it was a huge success with the ratings
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: and and the fans that were there.
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: But now you're in Philly.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: Are you excited to go to Philadelphia and see what
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: this Philly craziness is all about?
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: I am, I'm really excited about it. I mean, even
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: with those guys, everyone.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: Talked about Philly and how fun it was, and everyone
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: that I've you know, talked to that played here and
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: all said it's their favorite place, and it's it's so
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: funny get out there in front of those fans and
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: and such a fan base that it was very passionate about,
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: you know, the Phillies.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: And and you know wants to succeed well.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: As Kratz knows Kratz lives outside Philly. If you do
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: really well, I mean, they'll just do you louder. So
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: if you get dude right crabs, then that means you're
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: doing it all right. And isn't that how it works
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: in Philadelphia.
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: Philly fans never to a player who's not booing themselves inside.
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: Wow, that's that's really.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is true. That is a that's T shirt
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: stuff right there. Thank you very much, really appreciate you.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: Looking forward to what you can do in Philadelphia. Hopefully
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: we see you in the playoffs and make a deep
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: run and get some excitement.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: Sir. I appreciate it. Excited for it. Thank you. I
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: appreciate it.
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  Speaker 6: for good. After that, let's season preview, shall we. Let's
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: talk Phillies krat to get to watch this team a lot.
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: You live in Pennsylvania. What's the vibe this year. It's
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: not like there's been nothing in terms of additions and subtractions.
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: We can show that as you're chatting. But you do
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: get the narrative of running it back. It's a narrative
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: for the Yankees, it's a narrative recently for the Phillies.
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: Do you feel like they're running it back or do
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: you feel like things will look differently with a couple
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: names crossed off the list, a couple names added, and
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: some prospects that could be entering the fold.
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: Let's buy this way. If they didn't run it back
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: with the Kyle Schwarber, with the JT. Real Muto, with
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: the fact that you know they they I guess they
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: have a Lizardo's on the list there. But that was
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: an extension to me. If those two guys, and that's
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: where they're saying, oh, they're just running it back. If
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: they don't bring those guys in, who did they bring in?
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: Like if they move bom over to first and they
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: definitely take Bobachet to the finish line. They tried, they
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: tried their best to me this is a different looking team.
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: Is it a better team? I don't know. To me,
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: I feel like the Phillies right now are like that
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: time when you're in the middle of a long running
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: race and you're halfway there and you're like, well, I
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: guess I can't turn back now, Like I gotta finish
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: the race, Like I'm halfway to thirteen miles, I gotta
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: get six and a half miles back that way, or
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: six and a half miles to the finish line mine
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: as well, finish it out. Can they do it? Yes,
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: they can definitely do it. Who's gonna need to step up?
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: You're gonna need a rookie and Andrew Painter to step up.
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: You're gonna need to hope that Zach Wheeler makes it back.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: You're gonna need to hope that a guy like Adolice
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: Garcia is brought in to not have the last two
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: years that he had the last two years or exactly
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: what they got rid of in Nick Costiano's but they
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: had to eat twenty million, So essentially a Dolees has
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: cost them. I'm not sure. I think Adolis was like
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: ten or twelve million dollars. Adules is technically costing them
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: thirty two million dollars unless he has the type of
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: year that they hope he is gonna have.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Listen, I think the Phillies are still a good team.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: I have in addition some tractions, whatever you want to say,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: I think the Phillies are still a good team, and
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: I think they have a great nucleus of guys that
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: can win again. They're then you're gonna need some things
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: to go right because do the Mets improve, Yes, we
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: think the Braves will be better than last year.
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Do we think the Marlins could be better than last year? Possibly?
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: So I think the phillies stranglehold on this division might
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: be loosening a little bit. But I still think they
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: have a good team, and I still think they have
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: a group of guys that can go out there and win.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: They're a little bit older now, but they still are
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: solid guys that know how to play in big games,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: know how to do things in big situations, and their
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: starting rotation is still strong. Wheeler is going to be
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: back probably the end of April early May. You still
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: have Nola, you still have Lozardo, and you still have Sanchez,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Christopher Sanchez, So you still have the makings of a
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: good rotation. You had Keller to the back end Alvarado's back,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: you have Deron, and then you throw in and Andrew
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Painter in the rotation as the fifth guy. Possibly they
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: still have the makings of a really good team. So
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: just because they made some subtractions, they also made some
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: additions and I still think this team has a chance
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: to be pretty darn good.
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: The tired or not tired. But the lazy narrative is, well,
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: you know last year, like this team, like everybody feels different.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: Guys work on things, Guys get a year older. Sometimes
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: that's good, sometimes that's bad. It's all the narrative like
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: last year is behind this team this year? How are
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: they going to do a lot of the really good
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: things that they did last year but then take it
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: to the next step. And the next step isn't making
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: it to the NLCS. The next step for this team
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: is a World Series. I think is a failure of
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: a year. Probably even last year they would have said that,
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: the players would have said that if they don't win
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: the World Series. So I think it's a it's high
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: expectations and something that Aj said about stranglehold on the division,
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: I don't know that they need a stranglehold on the division.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: I don't know, you know, I guess we lean on
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: what the Dodgers have done and they get into the
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: postseason and they're healthy and hitting on all cylinders. While
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: it may look differently than the last year when they
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: won the World Series, the Phillies need to be able
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: to do that. And I think that every year that
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: Topper spends another year in a managerial seat because he's
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: been in a dugout for I think two decades now,
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: it's something that he's learning how this team needs to
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: win in big situations. This Phillies team needs to win
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: in big situations in October. They don't need to win
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: all the games during the season. So do they want
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: to win the division? Absolutely? Do they need to make
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: sure that they do better in the postseason. Absolutely, That's
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: what this team is built for. And will they do it?
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: They have a good team though.
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: When you look at the rest of the division. To me,
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: the Mets are tough to predict. Last year ended up
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: being a disaster finish for them. They should be better,
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: but there's a lot of variants there. There are a
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: lot of new faces, they really switched it up. They
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: went the other way, like, Okay, some teams are running
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: it back. We're just gonna scrap this. Let a bunch
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: of dudes leave, enter a bunch of new names. When
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: it comes to the Braves, AJ the Phillies offensively, I
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: think are right there with Atlanta, if not a little better.
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: And pitching wise, I feel much better about Philly than
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: I do about Atlanta. So when we're looking at an
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: alas projections, here fangrafts, they've got eighty nine point seven
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: for Mets, eighty nine point three for Braves, eighty seven
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: point nine for Phillies. For me, the Phillies are the
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: safest bet to be a playoff team in the division.
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: I feel really confident about that. If there's one team
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: where you're like, I feel like a lot would have
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: to go wrong for this team to not make the playoffs.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: For me, it's Philly, right the variant of the match.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: I can't believe, right, I kept their third on that
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: list apparently.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know when those were put out, but that
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: can't be before Schwellenbach and some of the other guys
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: for the Braves started going down. I can't imagine that
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: it is, so I don't know how the Phillies are
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: third on LS. For me, I think Phillies in the
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: match maybe switch because the Mets, to me, still have
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: a lot to prove, especially in their starting rotation and
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: their pitching with some of the moves that they made.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: So it's gonna be an interesting division. But those three
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: teams all can make the playoffs. And like you said, Scott,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: I think Philly is the surest bet just because they've
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: been there and done that, and they know what they're
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: going to get and they have a guy in Dave
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Dombrowski that is not afraid to go make the move
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: that he needs to make.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I like that. You're right, that's always the wild
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: card that will give you a few extra wins. Where
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: you're talking about projections. But is the same narrative said
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: about the Braves when teams said were when people say, oh,
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: they're running it back? Are the Braves just running it back? Well,
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: they have to run it back. Everybody's on the everybody's
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: on an extension. They added Robert Suarez to the end
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: of their bullpen. Like yeah, like I think teams, I
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: think good teams that run it back. I don't think
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: it's a big deal. Did they fall short of their goal? Yes,
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: I think they were fifth or sixth in the league
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: and hitting. So you run that same lineup back, I
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: feel like that's pretty decent. You know the Yankees, that
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: narrative is happening. They had the highest wins weighted runs
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: created plus in the league. So I'm pretty sure that
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: was a good lineup. You run it back, I'm pretty
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: sure it's going to be good again.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: It also helps when you're bringing the same players back
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: on a year to year basis that all know each other.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: And I know you.
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: Can overrate the chemistry factor AJ, but when have the
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: same mix and there's some star power, now you think
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: do you do you think that it can get stale
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: or do you think it's it's easier the guys that
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: have right, it raises the floor in my mind. Right,
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: you know what you're getting with a lot of the guys.
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: And then here's the thing, one or two of the
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: young guys could break out. Andrew Painter, Justin Crawford, maybe
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: Aiden Miller at some point later in the season. They
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: have some blue chip prospects, and I would venture that
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: at least one of them is going to be a
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: major contributor this year, and up to three could.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Crawford for sure.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, I talked to Kevin Long and he's he's
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: he loves this guy. He loves his back to all skills,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: he loves his barrel awareness. He absolutely loves Crawford, So
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I think he's going to be a major factor. And
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Painter is probably going to be in the rotation breaking camp.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: So I think at least two of those guys will
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: be major factors for the Phillies this year, and they're
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: both ultra talented. We saw glimpses of Painter before he
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: got injured, but what he can do not as many
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: what is I think Crawford's won batting title of two
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: of the three league years he's played, so that dude
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: can hit, he can run, he can play center field.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: So I think the Phillies are in good shape prospect wise.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 26:09
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• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Here at Phillies Camp with bench coach for the Phillies
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Don Mattingley, who was one of my favorite players growing up,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: being from New York, you know, cratzy. He was kind
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: of in my prime growing up as a kid in
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: New York. Don Mattingly was the man hitting homers every night,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: not quite every night, it was there was a stretch there,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: a little scretch, yeah, small.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Scretch, nice little run.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: I'll play a little bit, a little bit, a little bit,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: and I fight for you. I think you should be
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame. I'll thank you, I'll fight.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: I'll fight you, and for kind of it's my two
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: favorites growing up. I think, yeah, I appreciate that. Being
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: in merchhed class, that'd be. That's a good that's a
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: good guy to be with. Are two of the nicest
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: human beings I've ever met in my life. That's where
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: you live, right. You treat people with respect, hopefully get
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: it back you don't.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: It's no problem. How was it over here in Philly Land.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: It's good. It's good.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got a chance to to work under my
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: son is your boss. He's my boss officially. Yeah, I
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: am an hr nightmare for him. I will not watch
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: the dog or anything else. So yeah, here's boss.
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Wow, So you can't ground here. They're grounded.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: He's been gone for a while. At least he's off
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: the payroll. That's the way I look at it. Is
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: it Is it different?
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Is it strange? It's gotta be awesome day. No, it's
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: it's it's it's great.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: But when you come from the era that I came from,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: you know, the locker room is sacred. You don't want
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: anybody to feel like you're a messenger to the top
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: or whatever. Today's game is a lot different because the
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: front offices are down in the locker room all the
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: time talking with guys. So it's probably a lot more
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: comfortable now than it would have been fifteen.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Twenty years ago.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's weird for me when I walk in there,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: right right, I'm all, yeah, how fast.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Can I get out of it? Yeah?
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Once you leave the locker room, it's funny. Even going
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: back into New York a couple of years after I played,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I didn't want to be in there, you know, especially
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: anywhere close to game time, because I felt like I
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: was infringing upon her space and where they want to
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: get ready, and that's their place, right There's not too
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: many spaces for players to be able to hang out,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: talk talk shop or talk you know, talk bs and feel.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Comfortable doing it.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: So I was never comfortable going back in there if
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: I wasn't a part of it.
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: What do you bring to this staff? What do you
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: don manning all your experience, all the years bring to
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: this staff that has had success and gone to the
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: playoffs the last few years.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Now, this is a team that's had tons of success.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: So I think the one thing that I bring is
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: a different set of eyes, some questions for TOMPs during games,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: but ability hopefully to be able to connect with players
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: and what's that next little step, that next detail that
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: we have to take care of to win a championship
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: or to move on into playoffs. As you get into
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: the playoffs, we know over one sixty two the best
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: team is usually gonna win, But when you get into a.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Five game set or a seven game set.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: It's who plays best, and momentum is a big part
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: of that and small plays mean something. So hopefully I'm
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: just another set of eyes and a conversation within during.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: The season, what was the proving touch to you? Because
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: you're in Toronto.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: You guys were four inches away from winning the World
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Series last year. Ye did they recruit you over here
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: to Philly or was it just something once you decided
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: to leave Toronto, if your son came to you and
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: gave you some nil money.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: I don't know about nil money.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: But I went into the season last year knowing that,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: you know, thinking that that was going to be my
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: last season of kind of on the field, travel and
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: doing all that, and so I kind of enjoyed that
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: last year. And obviously the run that Toronto went on
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: was was a lot of fun and those guys were
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: a lot of fun. And as that season ended, you know,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, you've been in those situations. Once the season ends,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: it's like crash and you're just like exhausted. And a
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: couple of days later, Dave calls me. Preston had called
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: me a couple of days after and said, hey, Dave
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: wants to talk to you, and then we talked about
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: the situation. And at that point I felt like I
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: needed time, Like I wasn't I really didn't plan on it.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: The one positive that happened during all that, I think
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: as far as me continuing was like an eleven year
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: old now that's into baseball and just loved last year,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: and he was kind of like, Dad, you got to
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: keep going, and I was kind of like, I don't know,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: and we kind of kept thinking through it and talking
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: about it as a family, and then Dave's you know what,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Dave thought I brought to the table. That's something that
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: they needed, and it was like, Okay, let's go. And
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Preston being here a granddaughter in Philly, so it makes
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: it feels.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Like family in it.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: And it's nice to be on the same team, honestly
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: with Preston because as we've talked over the years, he
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: was in San Diego, Miami, he's over here when I'm
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: in the Blue Jays, and it's like he's always telling
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: me what I should be doing or what we should
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: be doing. But now to be on the same team,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: kind of fighting for the same thing, it's kind of cool.
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: Were you part of the bo Nil pitch getting Boba
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: Schett to come over because you were already on staff
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: here with Philly and it just came so close to
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: getting him.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, obviously I'm not part of making a
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: decision that they want to, you know, look into Bow
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: or try to bring Bou here. But it was on
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: a zoom call with Bou. I knew what kind of
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: player he was. I knew how good he was, what
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: he brought to the table. So I guess in a
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: sense I was part of it. But you know, obviously
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: when New York comes with that kind of what they
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: did with him is like you can't hardly you know,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: you can't fall to the player, right. I know, Philly's
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Pitchel Shiege, but that was was was something different when
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: you when you see the money, it's being thrown around
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: to it and obviously as a player, I'm one players
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: to get every dollar thing you get, right, You ever
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: look back because I think, man, what could I have done?
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: I know it's a weird thing, but sometimes people say
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: if you would have played it to me, if you
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: would have played now like much, I don't know if
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: I would have made that much right, right, but you
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: were super Yeah, I think you in a since you go,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: you know you were that guy or at one point
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: I was kind of in that tier right where I
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: think I signed a five year deal at nineteen something,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: and that the highest paid at that point, right, And
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: guys kept jumping in obviously.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Over the years.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: But I look at it a little differently because I
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: looked at Mickey mannon I play in New York. I
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: came in, I was making decent money of the time there,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: and they talked about Mickey never made over one hundred grand,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: And that's just the way the game goes, right.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Your timing in the game is where it happens. And
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: I'm with you. You want players to make money and
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: you want the game to grow. You feel like.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: They're not giving money out that they don't have. Obviously,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: we're walking into a situation next year. There's no agreement yet.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: We'll see where it goes. Hopefully it's something for baseball
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: that because you want to continue. The game's in a
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: great spot, I mean as far as fans and people
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: at the games and things like that.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: So you want the game to continue. You don't want
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: to see stop bitch.
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah for sure. And and as a player who has
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: gone through all those things, how hard is it for
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: you to hear lockout strike all that stuff?
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Well? I was, I was.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: I was part of the ninety four, you know Strike
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: that ended up missing the World series.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: So you know what guys have fought for.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: I've just been you know, when I came into the game,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: it seemed like every year, every couple of years there
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: was there was conflict and guys were fighting. So I
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: always looked at it like, I know a lot of
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: guys fought for me, right, and I wanted to continue
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: that fight, you know, to continue to go the game
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: and help players as I was in it. And so
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's one of those things, right. You
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: want the game to grow, you want it to be good.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: But I've also been part of the fights over the
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: years for guys' rights. Basically agreed, Yeah, ninety four, I
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: signed my first spring to the place players right. I
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: tried to explain to this the guys that I played
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: with twenty years later, you guys don't understand what people
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: before you went through to get to the point where
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: you guys are making the money you're making. So I
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: totally agree with what you just said. Remember the people
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: came before you, what the sacrifices that they gave. Right
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: when you're here in camp, you have Kevin Long next
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: to us, in the batting cage. Do you ever go
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: in there and say, Kevin, no, it's not launch angle.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: I swing down on the ball. I want to let
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: it get on top of the ball. I go in there,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: and I don't talk to Kevin like that. Kevin is
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: one of the obviously one of the best, if not
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: the best guy in the game, if one of the best,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: and Kevin also doesn't go in there and go you know,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: I know angle, but you know I do like I
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: love going in the cage.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: It's one of my favorite places to hang out.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: No, I don't hit, and I probably can't yet, but
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I like to think I could, right, you know, it's
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: like the old boxer that that tries to block a
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: punch me after he got hit. So those reactions are gone.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: But I love going into cage in that area of
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: the game. I really believe that hitting has not changed
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: that much.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: The swing.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: The guys that hit in the past and the best
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: hitters today are doing a lot of the same stuff.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Our language just changed, as far as you know.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: You know, we're talking vert, we're talking horizontal, we're talking
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: spin rate, things like that, the same things.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Those terms.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: All they meant to me was this guy's ball jumps
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: at the top, you got to push him down right
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: and things like that was a simpler way of going
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: about it. But the swing itself, to me, still works
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: the same way with guys that are.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: The best hitters.
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: All right, Do you guys have a limit on the
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: amount of Yankee stories that you guys are allowed to
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: tell with Topper k Long you like, I remember when
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: George was like this, or I remember when Tory was
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: like this.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Well, if you're in locker room with Bow, uh, Charlie Manuel,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: there's lots of stories flying from all different organizations, so
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: the Yankee stories are all just part of it. Yeah, yeah,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: but I would love to sitting there when you crouch
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: and just listen to the Yankee stories between from that,
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: from those times between.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Charlie Man, Charlie's Charlie is the best.
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: I want to hear. I want to hear Charlie talk
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: about stories about hitting. And then Larry Bow is like
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: the little Chilua ones like yeah, Charlie say all, tell
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: all you want, and Toppers just sitting back there, just relaxing,
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: kicking on his fingernail.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: It's like not listening and kind of listening. That's the
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: way it is.
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: You got it.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: You got to see now you don't have to be
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: in there because you already know what's going on.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: Well, Donnie, thank you.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: By the way, I have to say this, the poster
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: you had is still probably the best poster.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Of all time. Oh the hit man, Oh my gosh,
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: are you kidding me? The suit? Yeah? You know, a
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: quick story.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: I did a little meniscus in between eighty four and
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: eighty five, and i'd won the bat and title in
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: eighty four. So I come back and I'm in camp
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: and they're shooting that and George I got this suit
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: on in there and they're shooting this commercial and George
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: walks by, and I'm like going, ah, man, this looks
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: so bad.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: With him walking through me in this suit. But it
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: ended up being really cool. I'm sure George probably didn't
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: say anything to you.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: He didn't say anything then he may have been thinking
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: of though you just looked at you, just kind of
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: looked at you this guy.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'm like like, ugh, it's not good. Donnie.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: Thank you very much. We appreciate it. We'll be right back,
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: all right.
• 38:42
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• 38:49
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• 38:53
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• 38:55
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• 39:00
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• 39:06
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• 39:09
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• 39:30
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• 39:34
  Speaker 2: Duh be surprised.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Well, Montgomery had a monster second half last year with
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: the home runs, and they're hoping Murakami comes in and
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: hits forty. So I think that, you know, I think
• 39:46
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• 39:48
  Speaker 2: I don't know. He hit forty in LA. That's different
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: than Houston. I don't know.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know about that one. Tatisas in San Diego.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but two on the top of the list.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: They definitely can do it if they continue to do
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: what they done in the past and continued to grow
• 40:02
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• 40:05
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• 40:09
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• 40:11
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• 40:13
  Speaker 5: either of those top two guys hits forty home runs.
• 40:16
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• 40:21
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• 40:24
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• 40:25
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• 40:27
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• 40:32
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• 40:35
  Speaker 5: he gets five hundred bats based on the pace that
• 40:37
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• 40:40
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• 40:42
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• 40:46
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• 40:50
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