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Rays reliever Craig Kimbrel joins · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: M M.
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  Speaker 2: Fun year for the Rais And we're talking to Craig
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  Speaker 2: Kimball right now, raise reliever joining us back on FT.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for doing this, Craig, great to
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  Speaker 2: have you on. How's life dude, How are you liking
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  Speaker 2: the rays right now?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the weather down here in Florida is nice.
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  Speaker 3: It's nice and hot, but it's nice to be back
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  Speaker 3: in the trot, you know, just kind of thinking about
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  Speaker 3: what they did last year outside down here in this weather.
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  Speaker 3: It's uh, seems nice, nice and happy to be back
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  Speaker 3: in this trump canfield.
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  Speaker 4: When you're walking in, when you're walking in, because you
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  Speaker 4: probably have a close spot at the trot because it
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  Speaker 4: goes on service time. We've talked about that. But when
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  Speaker 4: you're walking in and you got get a little armpit
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  Speaker 4: sweat and you're like, I'm getting chest sweat too, do
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  Speaker 4: you think about that? Is that like your thought, like
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  Speaker 4: I'm glad we are not outside?
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  Speaker 3: No, absolutely, every day, just get in, get in, getting
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  Speaker 3: the ac and get going. You know, he still gets
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  Speaker 3: way going inside, but it's it's nothing like being outside
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  Speaker 3: in the summertime in Florida for sure.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, are you.
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  Speaker 4: Still throwing the rod and are you still throwing the
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  Speaker 4: rod in the water a little bit, though, Like you
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  Speaker 4: can handle this.
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  Speaker 3: You know, since I've been down there, I haven't. I
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  Speaker 3: haven't yet. I did a lot of fishing in spring training.
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  Speaker 3: But uh, you know, they gotta worry about my job
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  Speaker 3: right now. I can't be ripping lips too much right now.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Well that's all I was gonna ask you. How
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  Speaker 4: focused do you need to be on your job? And
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  Speaker 4: I got so many different ways to go about that
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  Speaker 4: because a lot of times you see veterans and they're like,
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  Speaker 4: WRONGM good, Like I know exactly what I need to do.
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  Speaker 4: How much do you at the focus and stay away
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  Speaker 4: from like the other things that kind of get in
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  Speaker 4: the way.
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  Speaker 3: I think, I think a lot of a lot of
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  Speaker 3: times that all depends on where you are, you know
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  Speaker 3: they're there. There are times physically and mentally you show
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  Speaker 3: up and you're like, I can feel like I can pick.
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  Speaker 1: Up the ball and go out there and do my
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  Speaker 1: job and and not think about it too much. And
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  Speaker 1: then there's other times where you're like.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I need to hone something in a little
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  Speaker 3: bit and I need to practice something a little bit more,
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  Speaker 3: you know, let it be focused I need to shift
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  Speaker 3: my focus a little bit more towards, you know, my daily.
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  Speaker 1: Routine if it's something's changed.
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  Speaker 3: But anytime you get a chance to step away and
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  Speaker 3: fish or golf or do anything like that, that can
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  Speaker 3: be actually something to be very good. Just kind of
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  Speaker 3: get your mind off of it at times because we
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  Speaker 3: got such a long season. But I'm just saying right
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  Speaker 3: now and in my progress coming off the il and
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  Speaker 3: getting back on the field, it's definitely more on getting
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  Speaker 3: back to my routine than it is taking care of
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  Speaker 3: my hobbies.
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  Speaker 5: How hard is.
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  Speaker 4: That as a veteran guy thinking about anytime you're on
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  Speaker 4: IO when you were younger compared to now. Because we
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  Speaker 4: just talked about ver Land and if you saw his
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  Speaker 4: quote was you know, you want to push your body
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  Speaker 4: to the limit till it breaks, and he goes, maybe
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  Speaker 4: it's actually breaking right now because he just pulled his
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  Speaker 4: hamstring and he's gonna be out for four weeks. How
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  Speaker 4: hard is that at this point in your career to
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  Speaker 4: be able to one deal with but two also be
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  Speaker 4: able to rehab from.
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  Speaker 3: No, I mean absolutely. I think a lot of times
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  Speaker 3: it depends on what it is, obviously, But you know,
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  Speaker 3: playing this game for so long you get an idea
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  Speaker 3: of when things feel right and when things feel wrong
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  Speaker 3: and how far you can push your body, because I
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  Speaker 3: mean that's what we do as professional athletes, as we
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  Speaker 3: were out there and push our bodies to the limit
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  Speaker 3: every opportunity that we get to go out there, cover
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  Speaker 3: and then go out there and do it again.
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  Speaker 5: So we kind of have a pretty good gauge.
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  Speaker 3: Of where our meter is and controlling that and knowing
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  Speaker 3: when we need to push through and gain more or
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  Speaker 3: if we're in a spot that is a good spot
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  Speaker 3: to be in, let it be strength, speed, you name it.
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  Speaker 3: There are spots that you want to be in and
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  Speaker 3: you can hold onto and then there are times where
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  Speaker 3: you're like, hey, I can I can keep on building,
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  Speaker 3: I can keep on getting stronger. I feel like I
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  Speaker 3: can hit the ball harder or throw the ball harder,
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  Speaker 3: and you can you can feel like, hey, I'm gaining,
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  Speaker 3: I'm growing and it's not slowing me down.
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  Speaker 5: So the body feels pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it's just a constant battle throughout the
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  Speaker 3: season of you know, finding that line and then staying
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  Speaker 3: on it, because as soon as you take a day off,
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  Speaker 3: you're sometimes you're having to take too many, too many
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  Speaker 3: days to get back to where you were.
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  Speaker 4: Right when you came on the show and you saw
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  Speaker 4: yourself on the screen, did you look at the did
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  Speaker 4: you look at your hat and go, oh, that's right,
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  Speaker 4: that's right, yep, yep raise. Has it been hard to
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  Speaker 4: keep up with the fact that now you're with the Rais?
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  Speaker 4: I think this is your eleventh big league team?
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  Speaker 5: Correct?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so. I think I can't even keep
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  Speaker 3: up with that now. I just, uh, I enjoy the game,
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  Speaker 3: the game itself. You know, no matter what uniform you're
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  Speaker 3: putting on or what hat you're wearing, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: game is the same. The idea, the idea of going
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  Speaker 3: out there competing every single night with a group of
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  Speaker 3: guys who care and have passionate about the game and
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  Speaker 3: want to show up and win every single night.
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  Speaker 5: It doesn't matter what uniform to wearing, and to still.
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  Speaker 3: Get that opportunity to do it and share some of
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  Speaker 3: the things I've learned through the years and and continue
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  Speaker 3: on learning with how our game continues to change and
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  Speaker 3: all the information we have just continue to you know,
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  Speaker 3: try to grow, learn and and you know, go out
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  Speaker 4: You feel like you're chasing something or do you feel
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  Speaker 4: like you're giving more to the game, Like do you
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  Speaker 4: feel like we have Kelly Jansen on and he's chasing
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  Speaker 4: this number that number you know had we had another
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  Speaker 4: closer on he wanted to be the most appearances by
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  Speaker 4: a Mexican pitcher. Are you chasing something or do you
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  Speaker 4: feel like you're giving more to the game as.
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  Speaker 3: I think the game, I think the game is still
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  Speaker 3: given a lot to me. I mean, I have, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the opportunity, like I just said, to share the things
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  Speaker 3: that I've learned, But man, I'm getting so much back
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  Speaker 3: from you know, the guys.
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting the experience each.
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  Speaker 3: And every day with you know, getting to bring my
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  Speaker 3: kids in here and then let them experience, you know,
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  Speaker 3: daddy being a big leaguer and what it is to
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  Speaker 3: you know, learn manners and how to be around a
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  Speaker 3: group of guys that are in here working and just
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  Speaker 3: all those those little things that I've really started enjoy
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  Speaker 3: over the last couple of years, just being able to
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  Speaker 3: bring my family in here and letting them be a
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  Speaker 3: part of it.
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  Speaker 1: And it's very gratifying.
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  Speaker 3: And then I enjoyed every single day and you know,
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  Speaker 3: if I can wake up tomorrow and come back in
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  Speaker 3: here and then do it again, I'm got's say it's
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  Speaker 3: a good day.
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  Speaker 5: That's so sick.
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  Speaker 4: What did the Mets say, Well, can you walk us
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  Speaker 4: through like when the Mets signed you, called you up
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  Speaker 4: to the big leagues, to the point of when they
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  Speaker 4: got rid of you. Is it still at this point
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  Speaker 4: in your career, it's not you, it's us. It's a
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  Speaker 4: numbers thing. What was the conversation that conversations that you
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  Speaker 4: had with.
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  Speaker 5: Them, I mean it's a lot.
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  Speaker 3: I mean we I would say my experience with the
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  Speaker 3: New York Mets was an extremely positive one. The you know,
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  Speaker 3: the respect that they gave me, the conversations that we
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  Speaker 3: have through you know, bringing me into camp, not making
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  Speaker 3: the open date roster, and then eventually get the opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to come and try to help them out, and just
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  Speaker 3: conversating through that and you know, understanding what my role
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  Speaker 3: was with the team, and you know what I was
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  Speaker 3: trying trying to achieve physically to you know, obviously still
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  Speaker 3: trying to help the team win each and every night.
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  Speaker 3: And I think our conversation between you know, me and
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  Speaker 3: the organization was amazing. They treated me well first class,
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  Speaker 3: and they gave me this opportunity to be down here
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  Speaker 3: in Tampa.
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  Speaker 5: Something that they didn't have to do.
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  Speaker 3: But in respect for me and knowing that I want
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  Speaker 3: to pitch at the big league level, they gave me
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  Speaker 3: this opportunity and I have to thank them a lot
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  Speaker 3: for that.
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  Speaker 4: Are there and I should have looked this up. Any
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  Speaker 4: player teammates that you've played with the last two years
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  Speaker 4: that are young guys that have.
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  Speaker 5: Gone, Holy, yeah, that's Craig Kimbrel.
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  Speaker 4: Is anybody like enamored by the fact that you're Craig Kimberrel.
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  Speaker 4: That's like a young guy that's just into the league.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and no, I think I think it goes away
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  Speaker 3: pretty quick once they get to know me.
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  Speaker 1: I think over the last year or so, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's been more of a fun game.
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  Speaker 3: The youngest guy on the team to come up and
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  Speaker 3: tell me that he watched me when he was in
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  Speaker 3: elementary school or or middle school or or whatnot, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's fun.
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  Speaker 5: I really enjoy it.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of it lets me know how long I've been
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  Speaker 3: haven't had this opportunity to do this, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: always those guys at one point, you know, I got
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  Speaker 3: an opportunity at twenty one years old to play with
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  Speaker 3: a guy that I looked at as you know, one
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  Speaker 3: of the greatest players, being an Atlanta fan, and you
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  Speaker 3: know I was. I was in that shoot too, So
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's it's fun, it's we have fun with it.
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  Speaker 3: It's you know, it's I'm glad I can sit here
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  Speaker 3: and say that guys get the joke on that I'm
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  Speaker 3: still playing, because you know, I enjoy showing up every
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  Speaker 3: day and a lot of a lot of times if
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  Speaker 3: they joke on me too much about being old, I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: come on, let's go in the weight room.
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  Speaker 5: Let's see if you can keep up with me.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, it's a lot of games exactly.
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  Speaker 4: I obviously I was never a good player, but I
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  Speaker 4: played for a long time and I know it was
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  Speaker 4: like to be old and the old jokes all that stuff.
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  Speaker 4: But you got to give me at least one guy
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  Speaker 4: who You're like, man, I can't believe that guy like
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  Speaker 4: told me he played like who was somebody that came
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  Speaker 4: up to you and said it that. You're like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna definitely call him.
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  Speaker 5: Out for it. Here.
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  Speaker 3: Oh man, I'll go ahead and put this one because
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you'll talk to him. But earlier
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  Speaker 3: in the year, we're kind of joking on the bus
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  Speaker 3: about what, you know, like if someone was a millennial
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  Speaker 3: or gen Z and someone was like, what, what's Craig
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  Speaker 3: and Carson Bingch said, he is any from the Great Depression?
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  Speaker 3: And so that was that was a pretty quick turnaround.
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  Speaker 3: And he kind of hid in the back of the bus.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm sure sure someone put him up to it.
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  Speaker 3: But that was a that was a pretty good one.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not that old, obviously, but I got the gist
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  Speaker 3: of this joke.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, wait, okay, so so people don't know, people don't know,
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  Speaker 4: like hiding in the back of the bus. You put
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  Speaker 4: him in the you put him in the pooper, right,
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  Speaker 4: You put him in the toilet for saying that.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, I might have made him bring bring me
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  Speaker 3: a drink and just set it right in front of
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  Speaker 3: me and not drink it.
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  Speaker 1: But he didn't have to go, he didn't have to
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  Speaker 1: go in the bathroom.
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  Speaker 5: I think it was a pretty short bus ride.
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  Speaker 4: You're so nice, You're such a You're such a nice.
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  Speaker 5: Time too nice sometimes I think, I think, so.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, well, that's why the rookies. I always I always
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  Speaker 4: told people the rookies haven't changed, like they still have
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  Speaker 4: the same mouth as when you were when you were
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  Speaker 4: a rookie. Almost said freshman when you were a rookie.
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  Speaker 4: The difference is the veterans have changed. You're so much nicer.
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  Speaker 4: Chipper would have never let you say that when you
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  Speaker 4: were a rookie.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely not, No, absolutely not.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's there's there's a lot more rookies nowadays though,
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  Speaker 3: so it's kind of kind of the kind of gang
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  Speaker 3: up on us.
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  Speaker 5: You know, that's true. That's true.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, one quick question about the closer on your team,
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  Speaker 4: Brian Baker, who's not really closed until this year. Do
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  Speaker 4: you have conversations or has he asked you any questions
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  Speaker 4: about being a closer, Because I always talk about on
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  Speaker 4: the show and other guys conversating, we talk about closing
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  Speaker 4: is different. Yes, it's still three outs. Yes, it's the
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  Speaker 4: main part of the lineup usually two, three, four. But
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  Speaker 4: do you guys have any of those kinds of conversations
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  Speaker 4: since he's essentially new to it at I think like
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  Speaker 4: thirty one or thirty two years old.
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  Speaker 3: I think we've had we've definitely had conversations about pitching
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  Speaker 3: and when do you use things and how to use
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  Speaker 3: things and kind of seeing moments. But you know, I
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  Speaker 3: played with Bake a couple of years ago in Baltimore
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  Speaker 3: and got to know him there, got to see the
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  Speaker 3: stuff that he has and his stuff's electric and being
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  Speaker 3: two years moved from that and seeing what he's doing now,
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  Speaker 3: I see, I see someone who's understands how to compete
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  Speaker 3: in what they have and then taking the next step
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  Speaker 3: and using his competitive mentality to make, you know, make
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  Speaker 3: it even that much better. You know, he's he's always
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  Speaker 3: been a huge competitor, very fiery guy, and now you
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  Speaker 3: put him, put him in a role where he can
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  Speaker 3: finish the game and then the last out that he makes,
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  Speaker 3: it can take a breath and celebrate with the team.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's really embraced that role and he carries
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  Speaker 3: that role. He wants that role, and he's you can
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  Speaker 3: see how much success he's having with it. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he's very very happy to see him do that, especially
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  Speaker 3: you know, I played with him two years ago and
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  Speaker 3: seeing where he was and what he's been able to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, mold and turn himself into as a competitor,
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  Speaker 3: a big leaguer and now you know, going out there
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  Speaker 3: closing games and what he's been able to do to
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  Speaker 3: you know, put the team on his back. It's very
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  Speaker 3: very encouraging to see and very happy for him.
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  Speaker 4: Craig, you've been in the game a long time. Can
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  Speaker 4: you recall your scariest moment in the bullpen? Visiting walk,
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  Speaker 4: like just sitting in the bullpen, maybe even walking into
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  Speaker 4: the game, like where you were like, Okay, that took
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  Speaker 4: another level more than just like hey Greg, you shut
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  Speaker 4: up all that stuff bull.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I think it for all of it. I
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  Speaker 1: think you have to go back to the first one.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the first time you go down to the bullpen,
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  Speaker 3: the first time you get and you're sitting there and
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  Speaker 3: you're waiting for the phone ring.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know if it's going to be you.
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  Speaker 3: You're you're nervous, you're excited, you don't know how to feel,
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  Speaker 3: you don't know what to think.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think the first opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: You get to go out there and compete is the
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  Speaker 3: most nervous and most exciting I think you'll ever be
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  Speaker 3: as a professional.
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  Speaker 2: So do you think that fans now are better than
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  Speaker 2: they were?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: How are fans these days visiting bullpens, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: I didn't. Didn't you have a fan chuck something at
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  Speaker 2: you once or twice in like phill your New York.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, probably probably.
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  Speaker 1: More than I know.
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  Speaker 5: You know, there's only only No.
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  Speaker 3: One coming out of New York in eighteen during the playoffs,
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  Speaker 3: I had a beer thrown at me.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, but I'm sure, I'm sure I've made a couple.
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  Speaker 3: Of people want to throw some stuff at me over
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  Speaker 3: the years. But that just kind of that kind of
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: comes with the job.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And if you're dominating, they don't they're.
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  Speaker 5: Not too bad. They're not too bad down the bullpen.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, security usually does a pretty good job as
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: long as they keep it PG and you know, make
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: it to where you know, kids aren't hearing things they shouldn't.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think we enjoy it sometimes when when
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: they get pretty funny and you can make us laugh.
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: You know, I think you're doing a pretty good job.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So now I want to get to a very
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: important last part of the conversation here. So we teamed
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: up with Simon's Hart to make sure that people aware
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: of heart health and how conditions can be cure. If
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: you get on top of it early on. I'll explain
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  Speaker 2: more in a moment, but can you explain your connection
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  Speaker 2: to a cause like this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know we've been been involved in various different
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  Speaker 3: organizations over the years, not not just heart health, but
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: just you know health in general, cancer, you know, not
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  Speaker 3: trying to help children, but you know this, you know
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  Speaker 3: it comes to heart health. It's something that me and
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: my family have walked through firsthand. Our daughter was born
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  Speaker 3: with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, and you know, just walking
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  Speaker 3: through that and you know, she's she's good now, she's
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: eight years old, she's she's gone through that process. But
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: you know, just learning how you know, how easy it
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: is to be born and something not be right or
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: you know, something to evolve over time. You know, heart
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: health is it's something we don't talk about a lot.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: It's something that is extremely important for us to just
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  Speaker 3: survive and you know, learning through it and learning how
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  Speaker 3: common it is for people to be kids to be
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: born with it or people to develop it over the years.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's something we got to pay attention to.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the more we're aware about you know, how
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: we physically work or you know how you know diet wise,
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: what's best for us based on you know, who we
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: are as a person or how our body works. You know,
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: all those things are very important, and it all starts
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: with the heart. And without it, we wouldn't be walking around.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm glad y'all brought this up. Something that's very
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: important to be in my family. We walk through it
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  Speaker 3: every single day and and will for the rest of
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: our daughter's life. But you know, it's it's amazing that
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: there's there's so many organizations and hospitals and people out
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  Speaker 3: there that put so much time, effort, money into you know,
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: helping people save their lives, save people's lives and loved
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: ones lives, and you know, just making it to where
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: you know, it's not a it's not something that will
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: you know, in the life life, but something that we
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: you know, can work through and and and you know,
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  Speaker 3: understand a little bit better.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, most hard conditions are detectable and treatable. So
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  Speaker 2: if you don't mind, do you remember the time period
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  Speaker 2: when you were experiencing that, and you know how scary
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  Speaker 2: it was, how much you learned about the situation, and
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: how much it was helpful to have, you know, support
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: around you. I think you you know, took a took
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: a beat from the team so you can make sure
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: everything was okay at home, the whole deal there.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we found out very early.
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  Speaker 5: I mean with the imaging.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: We actually found out when we went in to you know,
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: find out what gender she was and they look at
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: the heart and the lungs and the brain and all
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: those things, and that's when we found out. But it's
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: also because we found out so early, it gave us
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: an opportunity to put it put a team together to
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: give her care at Boston Children's Hospital. And I can't
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: say enough about you know, how much they helped us,
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: how much they helped our child obviously, and just just
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: working through the process that you know, it's not a
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  Speaker 3: one time thing, it's a it's a it's a lifetime,
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  Speaker 3: lifetime relationship of working through and making sure everything's okay
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  Speaker 3: and and shake ups and you know, it's a never
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: ending thing. But you know, now we sit here and
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: talk about it, there's there's so many people out there
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  Speaker 3: that are in need of you know, you know, funds
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: and places to stay in food, you know, families, the
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: child do or or person who you know is.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Affected by it.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: It hurts them, but it's also tough on families as well,
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: and you know the fact that there's programs in place
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: to help you help the families and help the siblings,
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: and you know, getting to work and getting to school
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: and making sure you know this and that, just taking
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: care of I mean, the list goes on and on
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: and on, especially when you have a child, and you know,
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: we're very blessed to be in the situation that we
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: were in, but at the same time that everybody's there
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: and it's just it's so encouraging, like I said, to
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: see foundations and organizations put together to try to help
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: that one.
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  Speaker 5: Well, thanks for sharing, Craig.
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  Speaker 2: Means a lot obviously to spread some awareness about that
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  Speaker 2: one too. And you're right, sometimes it does get overlooked
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: even though it is a is a massive deal within
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: the body. It is a big deal with a heart,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: no doubt about it. Well, dude, great to catch up
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: with you. Thanks so much for the time. Appreciate it
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: fun watching you with this race team that's clearly thriving
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: on the field. So we'll catch up with you down the.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Road, all right.
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: I appreciate it, guys.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: That's Craig Kimberl of the race, and like we were
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: talking about here on the tail end, Simon's Hart and
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: the Babe Ruth League are actually partnering the spring to
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: protect the hearts and lives of young baseball and softball
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: players everywhere.
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: So this is cool.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: They're spreading CPR awareness across schools and communities because yes,
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: you want to be able to detect heart conditions, but
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: also sudden cardiac arrest can really be a problem at
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: any moment at a place where you need help instantly,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: and it's actually the leading cause of death of students
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: on school campuses. So you can learn more about hands
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: only CPR, your classmate and friend will have a better
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: chance of surviving if you're able to do that. It
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: is very easy to learn it and we've been posting
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: some clips on social media too. If you're a Babe
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Ruth League player, coach, or parent, you can win exclusive
• 21:28
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• 21:31
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• 21:35
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• 21:38
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