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Red Sox Manager Alex Cora joins FT · Foul Territory

• 0:11
  Speaker 1: Well, here we are.
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  Speaker 2: We have one of the managers in the front end
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  Speaker 2: that was I don't know what you're pointing at, veteran veteran, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: Alex Cora, the manager of the Boston Red Sox and also,
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  Speaker 2: contrary to a sweatshirt, one of the biggest USA fans,
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  Speaker 2: I mean on the planet.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let the sweat your fool you. I mean, we're hey,
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  Speaker 1: com on wealth, We're probably hey. We were presenting the
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  Speaker 1: Americans are nerves.
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  Speaker 3: Hot.
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  Speaker 1: They're hot, they're hot, momentum, good hitters, good pitching. So
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  Speaker 1: let's place out. We got YACHTI man, we got YAI.
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: If you lose with Yatty, probably he's called the Pistes
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: from the dugout yachty. Does he have a.
• 0:50
  Speaker 4: Picture that's the Marlins?
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  Speaker 1: That's not is mar team? Mar Team? Behind the plate?
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: Is Vaski there too? Fascu much heady head? Did he retire?
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  Speaker 1: He retired, but he's I don't know how it works.
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  Speaker 1: He's playing, so he's like Kurtshaw, Yeah, yeah, but he plays.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he figured it out too late for that.
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  Speaker 2: What's happening in the Red Sox can Besides the fact
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  Speaker 2: that you are, by the way, you are locked into
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  Speaker 2: the WBC because nothing makes me laugh more. First game,
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing Brazil Usa text from this guy. Brazil's using
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  Speaker 2: real signs? What are they doing?
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  Speaker 1: Hey? The one sign with men at second that that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't work? All right, all right, well we'll get right
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  Speaker 1: into it then.
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  Speaker 4: All right, that's one thing you are incredible at. Do
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  Speaker 4: you feel like that is a lost art that is
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  Speaker 4: going to die with your generation of player in the
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  Speaker 4: sense that you're really good at picking up tells, telling guys, hey, gout.
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  Speaker 4: You know, there's so many videos out there of the
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  Speaker 4: picture coming set seeing you over his shoulder and.
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  Speaker 1: Your and that that one, that one, I mean, obviously
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  Speaker 1: we gotta be careful because I did whether we we
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  Speaker 1: messed up in seventeen and we paid the price. But
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  Speaker 1: the Philly one, the Philly one that I saw the video.
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  Speaker 1: So Roman Anthony is to my left and roams at
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  Speaker 1: the play with the bases loaded, and we have this
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  Speaker 1: running joke in the dug out, like we running we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna run the three room play, you know, like we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna hit a homer, and then that one say we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna run the four four room play. He hits a homer.
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  Speaker 1: And everybody's like, oh, he was tipping his change up
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  Speaker 1: a AC we laid the sign. Whatever, bro, don't give
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  Speaker 1: me so much credit. Man, it's not that easy. I
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: was telling the guys yesterday we had dinner and we
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: were talking about you know, tipping and this and that,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know how people kind of like they
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  Speaker 1: paranoia is real, right, Okay, click saying, uh, there were
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  Speaker 1: two years there that we finished last and uh, they
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  Speaker 1: were all over us. Oh they got this guy, they
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  Speaker 1: got the bro.
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  Speaker 3: If we have.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody like people claim we did, we'll be in first place. Man,
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  Speaker 1: Like we were in last place for two years. But
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  Speaker 1: going back to the question, isn't art is something that
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  Speaker 1: it benefits a player. We're gonna help him to go
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  Speaker 1: through a process and learn from it. And some guys
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  Speaker 1: are good, some guys are not. And as you guys know,
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  Speaker 1: you guys play with with guys that they live and
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  Speaker 1: die kind of like with tips and tails, right, Like, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: if you give me five pitches, I'm good, right, Sean Green,
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  Speaker 1: you say give me three out of ten, I'll take
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  Speaker 1: advantage of it. But to see the ball hit the ball,
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  Speaker 1: especially now ninety seven ninety eight sing cut right, it's
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  Speaker 1: really it's hard man. So any advantage man we can,
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  Speaker 1: we can give to our hitters, help them in the
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  Speaker 1: vitor room and kind of study guys. We'll do it.
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  Speaker 1: We'll do it. I thought for sure two things.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, I thought, for sure, you bring Alex
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  Speaker 2: Cintron in here, because when I played with Alex Centron,
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  Speaker 2: he said he had every.
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  Speaker 1: Guy, had everybody, but he hit one eighty.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, imagine how bad you would have been if
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  Speaker 2: you didn't have everyone's pitches, dude.
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Corus having the Alex Center experience now in Team
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  Speaker 1: Puerto Rico as a coach, Alex is a bench coach.
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  Speaker 1: Joey's the third base coach. Bro I mean like he
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  Speaker 1: is the whole experience play together. I got him, I
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  Speaker 1: got him, I got no we score one run or
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  Speaker 1: two runs against we don't have everybody he uh. And
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  Speaker 1: then the other thing is is Bregman.
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  Speaker 2: Bregman was big because there is good about finding things right,
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  Speaker 2: because he'll and then he tells teammates too.
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  Speaker 1: Like, hey, you know who you know? Alex was good.
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  Speaker 1: Roberto Alomar. I played with him in winter ball and
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  Speaker 1: he was excellent about it. But like you guys know,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you try like do I see it?
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  Speaker 3: You know?
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  Speaker 1: And no, he's making that up. No, it worked for him.
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  Speaker 1: You know, likes you have your check points, you have
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  Speaker 1: your ideas, and you're convicted about it. But uh not
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  Speaker 1: everybody has everybody man, Like, I'm not telling you.
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  Speaker 2: Centron told me he had every pitch and I'm like, dude,
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  Speaker 2: you hit one a any bro.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't work nough. But hey man, you gotta pay
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  Speaker 1: attention to the ship too. That's true.
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  Speaker 4: Pictures, Yeah, for sure, for sure we were hit on
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  Speaker 4: Alex Bragman. There just one more. I thought it was
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  Speaker 4: a slam dunk.
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  Speaker 1: What is that?
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  Speaker 4: What is that off season like for you? Because you're
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  Speaker 4: saying you saw firsthand the connections he made with those
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  Speaker 4: young guys. What is that off season like for you
• 5:24
  Speaker 4: when you're watching? Could he could he sign here? Could
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  Speaker 4: he sign here? Eventually he didn't end up signing an
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  Speaker 4: he went to the Cubs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this time around, Scott did a good
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  Speaker 1: job with Alex coaching him through the process. At one
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  Speaker 1: point the communication was off, and not in a bad way.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was more business right. Alex needed to
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  Speaker 1: do what was best for Scott Boris and for Alex,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and uh, you know, our relationship is great.
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  Speaker 1: We we stay in touch a little bit through the
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  Speaker 1: off season and you know, at one point we didn't
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: talk because of that. But uh, that Saturday in Boston,
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  Speaker 1: it was a tough one, you know, because we I
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  Speaker 1: thought he was gonna come back. You know, at one
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  Speaker 1: point between Friday and Saturday, I think I was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: this is gonna happen. And then we were in a
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  Speaker 1: bowling event, you know, as a team because he was
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  Speaker 1: fan fast, and all of a sudden, everything came out
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  Speaker 1: bro Like, everybody left the building and it was not
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  Speaker 1: hard or tough. It was, you know, okay, what we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do now? And credit to correct, you know. Three
• 6:37
  Speaker 1: days later we pivot, you know, run prevention pitching Ranger Suarez,
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  Speaker 1: and then he made the trade right before spring train started,
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: Caleb Durban. He's he's a good player. He's a good player.
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  Speaker 1: We got Monastereo ironic enough, you know, we have a
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  Speaker 1: better team now than what we had. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to say last year during spring training because last year
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: we had Raffie, we had Alex, we had Casas. But
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  Speaker 1: is a good baseball team athletic defensive. We're gonna hit
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  Speaker 1: and I feel very comfortab where we're at.
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  Speaker 3: I want to talk a little bit about that.
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  Speaker 5: I'm trying not to bring up last year, but you
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  Speaker 5: guys got a little bit of a taste back in
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  Speaker 5: the playoffs, ended up losing in a wild card series.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of different guys, a lot of moving parts.
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  Speaker 5: I know you're looking for maybe another upgrade at second base.
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  Speaker 5: There's a lot going on, Like what's the mindset right
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  Speaker 5: now for you as you inch closer, you know, to
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  Speaker 5: starting the season in major leagues here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the most important thing is getting our
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  Speaker 1: guys back. He's been no Roman, no Duran, Noah, Bruce
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  Speaker 1: Duran is back tomorrow. He's back tomorrow. So we got
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  Speaker 1: tackle Tuesday for Mexico. Yeah, now I'll get outside. You know,
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  Speaker 1: our guys back is very important because, as you guys know,
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  Speaker 1: is the chemistry. We get it, I understand. But to
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: get those guys in the lineup and see how he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna play out, that's very important. And by Wednesday we
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  Speaker 1: get everybody back, we play them. I think that there's
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  Speaker 1: two or three decisions that we have to make roster wise.
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  Speaker 1: The other thing is lineup wise. We talked about it yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: We got Yoshida, Rafaela, A braw Anthony, Am I missing
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  Speaker 1: somebody else? I'm duran right. We got five outfielders for
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  Speaker 1: four spots. Three are gonna play, one is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: the age. How are we gonna manage that whole rotation?
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  Speaker 1: And we will make it work. I tell you that
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  Speaker 1: how we're gonna deploy Yoshida when he doesn't start, or
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  Speaker 1: a bread when he doesn't start. You know, like we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have good players on the bench, which is not
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  Speaker 1: a problem, it's actually a blessing. But we have to
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  Speaker 1: talk players. This is how we're gonna do it, and
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  Speaker 1: then at Tacks Cincinnati when we get there and hopefully
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  Speaker 1: have a good season.
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  Speaker 4: Rom and Anthony could have been in spring training with
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  Speaker 4: you guys and could have denied going to Team USA.
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  Speaker 4: Do you do you like playing in this international tournament
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  Speaker 4: as AJ calls it, an exhibition, the WBC with all
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  Speaker 4: the superstars, is better for his development? Or would have
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  Speaker 4: been better for him to be in spring training this
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  Speaker 4: year for your team in twenty twenty six?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we had that conversation and I was a full
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  Speaker 1: yes go When the Rosa call me. Being around Judge
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  Speaker 1: and Kyle Schwarber is going to be very important that
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  Speaker 1: I told him we have a relationship with Alex. I
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  Speaker 1: get it. You know, he's our guy. We play with
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  Speaker 1: him and we're gonna hang out with Braggy. But talk
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  Speaker 1: to Judge, talk to Schwarve about facing lefties. He's going
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  Speaker 1: to be huge. He's having a great tournament. You see
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  Speaker 1: the pois Man, the bats. Even in that Italy game,
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  Speaker 1: right it seems like people were anxious and there are
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  Speaker 1: bats and all that. He was calm and that's who
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  Speaker 1: he is. And I think this whole experience in the
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  Speaker 1: exhibition tournament is going to be only an exhibition if
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  Speaker 1: the USA.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, just so you know, like when Puerto
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  Speaker 2: Rico loses, you'll say it's an exhibition.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't mean as much. It means a lot, but you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Like for him, he's probably the
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: only opportunity for him to play with Judge. He will
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: always play against Judge. He's an opportunity for him to
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: play with Kyle. Kyle just sign a big contract with
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: the Phillies, they're not going to play together, So having
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: that time with them and talk about baseball and hitting
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  Speaker 1: and you know the other aspects of the game is
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: going to be great for him and for us.
• 10:30
  Speaker 5: To I want to talk a little about Jaron Duran.
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  Speaker 5: He's been playing for a couple of years now. I
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  Speaker 5: actually had an opportunity and privilege to play with him
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  Speaker 5: in the Olympics or in the pre pre trials.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, absolute study. He can fly.
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  Speaker 5: He was coming into his own little bit, a little immature,
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  Speaker 5: but at the end of the day, he's a beast.
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  Speaker 5: And I want to ask you this question about him.
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  Speaker 5: Are you looking for him kind of to take that
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  Speaker 5: next step being a leader on this team and you know,
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  Speaker 5: moving forward because we've seen a lot of really good
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  Speaker 5: things out of him.
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  Speaker 1: He's important for us. And just reading articles and then
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: you know, watching interviews and the people talking about him.
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  Speaker 1: This offseason, you know, he was a four win player.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty good. That's pretty good, and that was a bad season, right,
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  Speaker 1: So I mean, if he shows up here and plays
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  Speaker 1: like he did last year, he's gonna help us win games.
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  Speaker 1: The one thing about him he got here in twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: so he's been through everything here. He was a backup
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: player in twenty one. He was part of the roster
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  Speaker 1: squat or in the wildcard game. So he saw the
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: good days and then he saw the bad days. And
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: now that we were able to take that step forward,
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: we got better. We have high expectations this year and
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: happy for him because you know how it is man
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: Losing sucks, you know, and finishing last, especially in this city,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard. He's hard on your family, on the player,
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: on the coaches, everybody else. So for him to be
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: able to still be in that clubhouse and let the
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: kids know how it is is important for me, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as I always said, Yes the manager is important on
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  Speaker 1: the big league level, he's less of Alex in the clubhouse.
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  Speaker 1: It's better, you know, like let the players take care
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  Speaker 1: of the players. I'll do my thing, you know, making
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  Speaker 1: sure they you know, they're in the right spots. I
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: thought that was Duran. I saw some bad bags, but
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like, my job is to
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  Speaker 1: set up the lineup, put him in right spots, make
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  Speaker 1: sure they're good at their jobs. But having Jaron Durant
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  Speaker 1: the clubhouse is used for us.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned your roster construction a little bit earlier, and
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: you mentioned Durban.
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  Speaker 1: You traded for Monasterio came over.
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  Speaker 2: Is it true that you're trying to go to Pat
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  Speaker 2: Murphy route and go whole bunch of little guys because.
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  Speaker 1: He won back.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he went back to back Manager of the Year.
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  Speaker 2: So are you trying to go that route so you
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  Speaker 2: can win the award?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if I didn't win in twenty eighteen, I'm
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  Speaker 1: never gonna win it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's the reality one like what one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and five.
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  Speaker 1: Games, one hundred and eight or something like that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but now, good players athletic versatility is very important at
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  Speaker 1: this level. If you look, people talk about the Jays
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: last year, but they were versatile. Clement was amazing for them.
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  Speaker 1: He played third, he played short, he played second. And
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: when you have those type of players, is this here now, IKF?
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  Speaker 1: You know, like we can use him to help Trevor
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  Speaker 1: survive quote unquote the whole season. You have really good
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: players on the bench, and when you do that, you
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  Speaker 1: know you can maximize the roster. You can win a
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  Speaker 1: lot of games. And going back to the little guys,
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  Speaker 1: man the strike zone will say it plays out. You know,
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: maybe it's something that our front office they recognize and
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: they don't take advantage of it. But by the way
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: you mentioned Ike's here.
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: Did you talk to Carlos Febles, who used to work
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: for you here about the base running at third and
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: how ikf should have had a bigger lead in the
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: whole deal because he was there was.
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  Speaker 1: Actually I talked to Iksy the other day. We talk
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  Speaker 1: about it. You know.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like the thing is like if Rojas doesn't slip,
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: we're not talking about the play, yeah, Or if we
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: don't have true media and we can filter our show
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: against rities with bases loaded and one out, he never
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: hits the line right to third base. You know what,
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: I don't have true media in the dugout to kind
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  Speaker 1: of like make decisions based on the filters, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and man, it sucks for for them. It's something that
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: you know. I know Carlos took it very hard because
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: the criticism was. I mean, at one point in the
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: off season I have to call him a few times,
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: are you okay? Are you okay? And h yeah he was.
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: But it's part of coaching it. He stops smiling because
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: that did smiles more than anyway. I'll tell you why
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  Speaker 1: he's smiling right now. He's coaching the Dominicans.
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  Speaker 2: One more game, one more game, you never know, one
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: more game then then it will be smiling.
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  Speaker 1: That's true, that's from now. That's how it works. Do
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: or die? Make sure we got to make sure everyone
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: knows the rule. It's either an exhibition, exhibition, a tournament
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  Speaker 1: of the work of the world tournament.
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  Speaker 4: Right, you said, you said less Alex in the clubhouse?
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  Speaker 4: Who's that guy? Since you can't be in the clubhouse
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: and Braggie can't be in the clubhouse, who can Who
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: do you feel like today on March thirteenth, can be
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: that guy?
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: Crochet and Trevor Story, those two. I mean what Trevor
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: did last year? He played one hundred and fifty four games, right,
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  Speaker 1: So that that that says a lot right the way
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  Speaker 1: he goes about it. He's not a vocal leader, he's
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: not gonna get on people's faces, but he will show
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: up and prepare and he's gonna play hard, which is
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: very important. And then you got Crochet every five days.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: You know that that's something that good teams have. Max
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  Speaker 1: Free last year, Derek Cole with the Yankees a few
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  Speaker 1: years ago, right, he's back this year school ball with Detroit.
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  Speaker 1: You know there's other teams in the Al East besides
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: the Yankees, right, oh yeah, I mean both More is
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: a good team too, really good Toronto, They're great Tampa.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: They're gonna pitch this here again. Back to the Trump
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: which is painting the butt, you know, But having Cruche
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: every five days, that's that's a leader right there. It's
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: like Randy Johnson, Bank of the Day, Kurt Schill and
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: Pedro Martinez every five days. You know, you're gonna have
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: that guy that either he's going to extend the winning
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: streak or stop the losing streak. And that's a luxury
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  Speaker 1: that we have.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: Well, you also have Sonny Yes, Stranger, Yes, Mayo Crochet,
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: Viedo Oviedo, that's that's his favorite guy.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: By the way, he loves Oviedo.
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  Speaker 4: That that guy's a hugante man. He's a giant. Like
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: I think he's very underrated.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: So good luck giant. That is throwing strikes now, so
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: hopefully we can continue to do that. And when he's
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: in the strike zone, he's up there with the best
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: of the best. So we just got to throw strikes early.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: We have a lot of too many Wilsa is gonna
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: be loaded.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: Why do you navigate the Al East because honestly, I mean,
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Yankees are obviously always the rival of the Red Sox,
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: but the Blue Jays were a few inches from winning
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: the World Series. The Oriols in Tampa's just kind of Tampa, right,
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: they figure it out somehow, and they you know, they're
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: in it.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: They will pitch, they're gonna play defense. Last year, I
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: remember around this time, nobody was talking about Toronto the
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: previous year. They just had a bad season. Bo was hurt,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Laddy didn't play well. George West banged up. Your star
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: players played at stars. You know what's gonna happen. You're
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: gonna make the playoffs. And they have pitching, right, they
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: will have pitching this year. Again, Baltimore is kind of
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: like the same. It's basically Toronto last year. And with
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: young teams you have to be patient, right, Like it
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: was like Houston in sixteen fifteen they make it, do
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: plaoffs in fifteen. They don't make it in sixteen because
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: the league is kind of like, oh, they're good, so
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: we have to fucking play hard against them, right, same
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: thing with Baltimore this year. They have talent. Man, they're
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: gonna be in the hunt. We're gonna be in the hunt.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: I don't know how many teams are gonna make it
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: out of the Al East because we're gonna be banging heads,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: but man, it is I think all around the league
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: is very competitive. We are in a great I mean
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: as a sport, we're in a great spot. You know,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: like any night, any team can beat you because somebody
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: in that mound is going to be throwing ninety seven
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: and if they're throwing strikes that night, they can go
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: five or six and then the bull bullpens are impossible.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: So Bro, we go to Cincinnati right away, Ludolo, I
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: mean right away, abbot abbot, Yeah, but still the good
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: it's a good rotation. Then we go to Houston. Then
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: we got the Padres. I mean it's not easy. I'm
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: not saying that he used to be easy when we play,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: but it's a little bit harder because of the pitching.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: So we just got to be ready. Well, Excorra, thank you.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: We wish you nothing but the US and go USA.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go there for sure. If you want
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: to visit Puerto Rico, guys, you know what, you don't
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: have to bring your passport, right, So is the reality
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: of it, do you guys win. We all win. That's
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: the reality of it. But hey, no, Puerto Rico. When
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Joey Korra dies, he's here for his country. You know
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: there's something special going on. True. Well, thank you, Alix.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: We'll be right back.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: All right, guys, here we are.
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: We got Richard Grisham back with his again, the president
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: of Out of the Park Baseball twenty seven. As we know,
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: it's the twenty seventh year of Out of the Park Baseball.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: As people are understanding, Richard, how's everything going and talk
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: a little bit about this new upcoming OOTP man.
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: Well, first of all, I'm just I'm so happy to
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: be here. I love Foul Territory. We've we've been able
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: to spend a little time together over the years, so
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: it's been amazing to watch how Foul Territory has conquered
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: the world. So congratulations to you, guys. It's been awesome
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: to watch. I am so yeah. Out of the Park
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: Baseball it is. It's our twenty seventh straight year of
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: releasing this game. It is a computer game, and it
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: is a strategy game. So when a lot of people
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: think about baseball video games, they think about how quick
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: they can be with their thumbs on the controllers and stuff.
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: But out of the park baseball is all about managing
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: a franchise, managing a game, managing being a general manager
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: of a real Major League Baseball franchise. So when you
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: when you take the chair of the general manager and
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: out of the park baseball, you know you pick your
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: franchise and you're in complete charge, not just the major
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: league club, but the minor league club. You know, every
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: single player in your organization is under your purview. You
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: make all the trades, you sign, all the free agents
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: you you know, you can even manage all the games,
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: you set your lineups, you'reations.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: It's everything about about major League Baseball that you know
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: that you could possibly have to do. It charges you
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: to do, and you can do as much of it
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: as you want to, or you can you know, you
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: can delegate as much as you want to. But either way,
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: at the end of the day, if your team wins
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: the World Series or if your team has the worst
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: record in baseball, it's all on you and uh and
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: and you've got the entire world of baseball at your fingertips,
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: and you can be caught.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: If you're the one charge of the game. You can
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: be caught misspeaking at a interview after a poor decision.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: But anyway, No, the one person that's not on the
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: show today has used it the most and that's Scott.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: He started using it before we ever made this connection,
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: and he has used it so much. But you've you've
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: seen the maturation of this product. Oh oh otp. Twenty seven.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: What is the best? What is what is your most
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: exciting thing about the twenty seventh version compared to some
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: of the earlier versions.
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: So it's a great question. So a couple of things.
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: I mean, number one, what's awesome right now is today
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: the game comes out today worldwide and we have the
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: Real World Baseball Classic in it, and this is the
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: first time we've ever had the real World Baseball Class
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: Again it when I say the real meaning it's license.
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: Like we've worked with Major League Baseball in the World
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: Baseball Classic to have the real federations and the real players,
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: and that was unthinkable not that long ago, just because
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: we didn't have the resources available to us to do
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: something incredible like this. So that that's something to me
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: that you know, I know, you know, five ten, fifteen
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: years ago, just that wouldn't have been able to happen it,
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: but it did now, you know. And another thing that
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: is pretty amazing when you look at the twenty seven
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: years that this game has been made, you know, and
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: you guys have seen it in action, right Like if
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: you're managing a game in real time, you're you're playing
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: it and it's being played in a beautiful three D stadium,
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: you know, with with dynamic crowds and players running and
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: jumping and swinging, and it looks like real baseball. It
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: wasn't that long ago, five, six, seven, eight years ago
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: that when you would manage a game in real time
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: you would just see a flat screen and little tiny
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: chest pawns sort of you know, walking around the screen.
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: Like it's not only has it become really just beautiful
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: to watch in action, uh, but also now that we
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: have all of the different three D animations and the
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: stadiums and stuff, it really it's a compelling experience. Whether
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: you're you know, you're you're looking at all the different
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: statistics of your guys, or whether you're managing the game.
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: It's sort of like no matter where you go, it
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: really just it's really just looks looks so nice, especially
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: compared to what it did three, five, seven years ago.
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: It's it's it's amazing the progress that it's made.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Richard.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: I know you guys run simulations on this, and you
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: mentioned the World Baseball Classic.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Who wins?
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Who wins on the simulation what country wins this year's
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: World Baseball Classic? So that way I know what I'm
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: looking forward to.
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: Well, I will tell you this. We've been running some
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: sims the last few days based upon the current situation,
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: and I'll tell you this, I don't think it's gonna
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: be a big surprise.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: The Dominican Republic team looks really, really good. We run
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: a lot of sims, and I'm telling you right now
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: these days, the Dominican Republic wins the most out of
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: all of them. But I will tell you so, you know,
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: we run a lot of simulations for the Major League
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: Baseball season, and there's not a tremendous amount of discrepancy
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: at the top, but there's you know, there's usually some
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: material difference between Okay, well, we think, you know this
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: team is going to win. This team with a World
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: Baseball Classic, the margins are very thin. So the Dominican
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: Republic is coming out on top of the most but
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: it is razor razor thin margins between them and the
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: United States and Japan, Like, those are the three teams
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: that are when when we run those seams, one of
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: those three teams is winning almost all the time. Dominican
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: Republic as a slight as but boy, it's close.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: I want to ask you, know, you said you can
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: manage a team you pick and choose. Are there any
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: other different ways that you could play this game? Or
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: is it all just about managing your way through the
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: whole process of out of the park baseball?
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: There are so many ways to play perfect to play
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: out of the park baseball, including perfect team and also
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: drive for the pennant. So those are just a couple
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: of different ways. So one of the reasons out of
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: the park baseball is so popular is because it is
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: so big, right, and you literally can manage every aspect
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: of a major league team, not just the rosters, but
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: the finances and the scouting and and everything. But to
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: some people that can and be kind of overwhelming because
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: running a major League baseball franchise is a big job
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: and it's very complex. So there's other ways, Like if
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: you're just a regular baseball fan, right, but you're not
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: necessarily looking to make sure you know how much your
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: backup shortstops fourth year salary option guarantee is you just
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: want to experience the entire history of baseball. You know,
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: you can jump into a mode called Drive for the
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: Pennant that allows you to say, well, I want to
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: go back to you know, nineteen seventy five and play
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: the Red Sox and it'll just guide you on a
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: path and various points during the season, it'll give you
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: a decision, Oh, do you want to make this trade?
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: Or oh, it's the seventh inning of a of a
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: tie game, so now it's your opportunity to decide what
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: to do. Or oh, you know this this injury just happened,
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: so do you want to bring up, you know, one
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: of your your your young guys, or do you want
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: to go try to sign a veteran presence or something
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: like that. So there's a mode it'll just sort of
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: guide you on the rails of the course of a
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: few hours over a season and you get to make decisions.
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: That's a really fun way to play the game without
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: having to feel like you need to manage everything. And
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: then we also have an online competitive mode called Perfect
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: Team where you can open digital baseball card packs and
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: you can get current players and historical players, and you
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: can just set a lineup in a rotation and you
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: can send that team out to play against your friends
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: or against a deep pool of players. And there's tournaments
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: and there's drafts, and there's all sorts of different ways
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: to just have fun building your team that way. So
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: there's a bunch of different ways. And the best thing
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: is you can you can just dip your toe in
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: the water and have a little fun, or you can
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: go all in and take over everything and anything in between.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Richard, I just want to know.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: For twenty seven, Todd wants to know, did you fix
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: the thing where the five white Sox beat the twenty
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: twelve Reds. Still every time he swears that you rigged
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: at game when we simulated the game against each other.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: So I just want to make sure that you fix
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: that so if we do it again, Todd can win
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: so I don't have to hear about it anymore.
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: Listen, there's absolutely no rigging of anything out of the
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: bark baseball. Even if I could, I wouldn't know how
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: to do it. But there's just no way to do it.
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: But that's I mean, you guys know this better than everybody.
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: That's one of the greatest things about baseball is what
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: At the end of the day, anything can happen. Anything
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: can happen, And just when you think you've seen it all, nope,
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: you have not. There's still something more that this incredible
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: sport will unveil to you.
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you need one of those umpires made
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: a bad call. When you talk to him next, let
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: him know I'm still mad. No, all jokes aside, Richard,
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: We appreciate you coming on here again.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Guys.
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: Out of the park Baseball twenty seven. It's coming out today.
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: Like Richard said, get your hands on one. It's absolutely incredible.
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: Use your mind to play this wonderful game of baseball.
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: That's what it's all about. Thanks again, from one Jersey
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: guy to the next, we appreciate you man, have a
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: great day, My pleasure.
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: You guys are the best. All love to Foul Territory.
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: Appreciate it. Cheers.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: What are YOURTP twenty seven now?
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: By scanning, the QR code includes World Baseball Classic players,
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: schedules and more, updated with dynamic weather, updated player models,
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: and new animations.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: We'll be right back.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Legends live in.
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: Out of the Park Baseball twenty seven, the brand new
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: edition of the renowned baseball strategy game enjoyed by fans
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: around the world, is here.
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: The newest and.
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: Biggest version of Out of the Park Baseball is packed
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: with loads of features and improvements, including all new advanced
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: stats tracking changes the game. Forever play the real world
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: baseball classic as it happens. Out of the Park Baseball
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: twenty seven is here. The Infinite Baseball sandboxvailable March thirteenth,
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: twenty twenty six.