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Manager John Schneider and SP Kevin Gausman join FT @Blue Jays camp · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Good graphic.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome to foul Territory today on what is it Wednesday? Jess,
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  Speaker 2: you asked me Wednesday today this week, we're obviously live
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  Speaker 2: in Duneed and at Blue Jays camp, and we're joined
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  Speaker 2: by one of the managers lucky enough to make the
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  Speaker 2: front end. And it's only because Krats begged for you
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  Speaker 2: to make it. Now we've had managers complain because they
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  Speaker 2: are not on it, but because of your relationship.
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  Speaker 3: See, we put you.
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  Speaker 1: On it, Cratzy, Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: I noticed it was me and Cido, which is even better.
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  Speaker 4: So it's nice to get a little little FaceTime there,
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  Speaker 4: so I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: You have a face made for TV, do you think?
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  Speaker 4: Or voice made for radio or face made for radio voice?
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't say face made for TV.
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  Speaker 3: Huh, okay, that's fair. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: We were just talking about WBC off before you came
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  Speaker 2: on and before we dig into the Blue Jays. Are
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  Speaker 2: you glad it's over?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: Cool event, cool to kind of have a little bit
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  Speaker 4: of intensity this time of year. But glad everyone made
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  Speaker 4: it through. Glad everyone's back in camp, Ernie and Himmy
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  Speaker 4: and Hoff and Roger be back today and getting Vlad
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  Speaker 4: and Kirkie and Kaz back was nice. So yeah, glad
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  Speaker 4: it's over, and but it was fun to watch it
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  Speaker 4: was it was cool and glad everyone made it through healthy.
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  Speaker 5: What makes you more nervous watching one of your guys
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  Speaker 5: playing in a you know, slide into second throwing pitches
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  Speaker 5: or the fact that Ernie Clement had to sit on
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  Speaker 5: the bench the whole time and wasn't getting a lot
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  Speaker 5: of at bats.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a little bit of both.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I had a text Earn, you know, take
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  Speaker 4: it easy on sliding headfirst into you know, head person
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  Speaker 4: to first on a on a ground ball in the infield,
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  Speaker 4: But you still want to Spring training is tough because
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  Speaker 4: you just want everyone to get the work in. You know,
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  Speaker 4: you get nervous even when guys are you know, pickoffs
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  Speaker 4: at first. There was one the other day down in
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  Speaker 4: West Palm with Varsh getting back a little awkward. So
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  Speaker 4: you're always on the lookout for that kind of stuff
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  Speaker 4: and when you can't control it when they're not here,
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  Speaker 4: it's just like, already are you getting enough work? And
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  Speaker 4: as much as you talk to the guys or talk
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  Speaker 4: to d Row or talk to Omar, they're trying to win,
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  Speaker 4: you know, So they got to do what they got
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  Speaker 4: to do too, But I think once you get through
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  Speaker 4: camp everyone feels a lot better.
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  Speaker 2: How often do you have those conversations with the managers
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  Speaker 2: of the teams? And then also what's more nerve wrecking
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  Speaker 2: a position player like I'll use Alejandro because he's catching
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  Speaker 2: a little more susceptible to foul balls and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 2: or a pitcher out there blowing their best gas in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of March.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's for me, it's always pitchers.
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  Speaker 4: I think the guys that were playing, they did a
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  Speaker 4: good job to get themselves ready to play.
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  Speaker 1: All the managers were great.
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  Speaker 4: Benji in Mexico, d Row, they've been great, Kaz new
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  Speaker 4: exact his exact play with Japan, and you know, you
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  Speaker 4: just shoot the text here and there and kind of
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  Speaker 4: make sure they're following along with what we had talked about.
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  Speaker 4: There were a couple of games when I was texting
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  Speaker 4: with Benji, just with Turkey to make sure that there
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  Speaker 4: was the proper off days when he's catching back to back.
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  Speaker 4: But the pitching side of it, you know, just with
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  Speaker 4: Hoff and Roge going late, you know, just like when
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  Speaker 4: are you getting up, are you getting up hot?
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  Speaker 1: Are you going into the game.
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  Speaker 4: Things that we can control in spring training that are
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  Speaker 4: just a little bit a little bit tougher to do
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  Speaker 4: in that scenario.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm kind of glad that.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to say glad Hoff didn't pitch, but
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  Speaker 4: Rog is kind of a veteran guy, and you kind
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  Speaker 4: of know he's pretty low maintenance and things like that.
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  Speaker 4: He's not throwing a hundred, so you worry about the
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  Speaker 4: pitchers for sure. So thankfully we didn't have guys out there,
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  Speaker 4: you know, seventy eighty pitches where they're kind of getting
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  Speaker 4: after a big time. You saw it as the as
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  Speaker 4: the rounds went on, Savarino's throwing a hundred. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it's a little bit of a different atmosphere. So glad
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  Speaker 4: we weren't in that situation.
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  Speaker 5: You're not the one making those calls. It's Voon Chung's
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  Speaker 5: making the call. People higher than you. You're just all
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  Speaker 5: down all my correct.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, it's a collective effort for sure, you know,
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  Speaker 4: but I think that we as much as you try
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  Speaker 4: to have parameters around it, it always gets a little
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  Speaker 4: bit you know, gray, because guys are trying to win.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, it wasn't just me saying, hey, Dro, make
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  Speaker 4: sure er and he gets three at bats, or if
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  Speaker 4: you get haff up, you know, you got to get
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  Speaker 4: him in. Things like that, you know, all things you
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  Speaker 4: talk about, but then the game takes over and you
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  Speaker 4: got to kind of make the best decision you can.
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  Speaker 4: So I think everything considered, I think all the managers
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  Speaker 4: did a good job. We were talking about Dro saying
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  Speaker 4: he was honoring the padres by not thoughing Mason Miller
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  Speaker 4: whether or not he wanted to, you know, I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: but I think it's a collective efforcratsy for sure.
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  Speaker 2: But by the way, Diiro did say this that if
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  Speaker 2: he gets someone out there coming in, there was.
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  Speaker 1: No dry hunt, right all.
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  Speaker 3: He said that from the get going, and.
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  Speaker 4: And he's he's been around, he kind of gets you know,
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  Speaker 4: any pettit's been around. It's it's a little bit different
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  Speaker 4: when you're managing it. But I think with the parameters
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  Speaker 4: every club put in place, I think that's the way
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  Speaker 4: you got to do it, you know, because guys aren't
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  Speaker 4: used to getting up and sitting down and then getting
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  Speaker 4: up and coming in, and that's like the manager's worst fear,
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  Speaker 4: even in regular season.
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  Speaker 1: I hate in that to guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, by the way, so last one on the DVBC,
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  Speaker 2: if they came to you after your career and Toronto
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  Speaker 2: is done, would you manage Canada or would you manage USA?
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  Speaker 2: Would Ernie finally just decides to not do it because
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  Speaker 2: he's managed every hasn't he managed.
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  Speaker 1: Done every year? Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I would. I would be.
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  Speaker 4: Intrigued to do either one, to be honest with you,
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  Speaker 4: but I think you know, I showed my loyalty to
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  Speaker 4: Canadian hockey earlier in spring and caught a lot of
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  Speaker 4: backlash from some of the players.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean, yeah, well we would see at that
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  Speaker 1: point when.
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  Speaker 3: You're reading for Canada or US when they played Canada.
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  Speaker 4: Oh sorry, if they met in hockey, so you know,
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  Speaker 4: w b C. I was rooting for the US, okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: like no offense, Earn and Russ and those guys. You know,
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  Speaker 4: Ques there, Paul Quantrell's there. I think with baseball, you
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  Speaker 4: kind of just got to stick to your roots a
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  Speaker 4: little bit. I just think there's a better version of
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  Speaker 4: hockey in Canada than there is in the US.
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  Speaker 3: Plus except US wins the Stanley Cup every year.
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  Speaker 1: I know, but I'm not a huge hockey guy.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't really have much to go on, so
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  Speaker 4: just trying to like make a little bit of a story,
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  Speaker 4: which I did.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think it'd be I think it'd be cool.
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  Speaker 1: But let Ernie. Let Ernie keep doing it for as
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  Speaker 1: long as he wants.
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  Speaker 3: Can you stay here? Yeah? Exactly, mean exactly.
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  Speaker 5: I would love nothing more than to say, two thousand
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  Speaker 5: and two, John Schneider takes over a team because Ernie
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  Speaker 5: Witt was our catching coach when we both got drafted.
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  Speaker 6: So Ernie Witt has been the guy.
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  Speaker 4: He's still throwing money BP too. If you saw him,
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  Speaker 4: you know on the on the he's still throwing that money.
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  Speaker 4: VP that he was like the only guy that can
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  Speaker 4: make me look good as a hitter in the minor
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  Speaker 4: leagues hitting off of Ernie Wit so that could he
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  Speaker 4: was money.
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  Speaker 1: And still is so like a short catcher short arm.
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  Speaker 4: I mean right there, barrel find two miles from now, yeh,
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  Speaker 4: Like he could be in a home run derby throwing.
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  Speaker 5: And if somebody knows that, it would be Schneidz. Schneids
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  Speaker 5: knows some BP just ask Vlad. Yeah, John Schneider's thrown
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  Speaker 5: in the home run derby. Maybe that's why Vlad doesn't
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  Speaker 5: doesn't always win, because sometimes you're too, you're too big
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  Speaker 5: time in high faluting for him.
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  Speaker 6: But hey, don't worry about it.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get you back every time, every time he's done it.
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  Speaker 1: I've been there. I flew across the country to Seattle
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  Speaker 1: if it him he wanted. So I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: turn my guy down.
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  Speaker 4: Never too big time for him, didged I have not
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  Speaker 4: changed your pull it, No, have not changed. I'm still
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  Speaker 4: I'm still me. I'm still a dude, one of the guys.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, it was a it was a nice It
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  Speaker 4: was a nice little.
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  Speaker 3: Gift, a trophy in half and hand you one of
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  Speaker 3: the bats.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, it was it was a wearable gift that
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  Speaker 4: I'll have for a long time.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, nice.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah he did well, he did well. All right, How
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  Speaker 4: excited did you for this year's can't wait? You know
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  Speaker 4: it's end of camp, you know, you know it is
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  Speaker 4: spring training. Everyone's excited, especially this year. Was cool to
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  Speaker 4: get back around the guys after last year and get
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  Speaker 4: things going. But I think looking at what we have
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  Speaker 4: built here, looking at the new faces that are here,
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  Speaker 4: I can't wait to see kind of the product on
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  Speaker 4: the field. So I think we did a good job
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  Speaker 4: of bringing in some complimentary pieces, bringing in some different
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  Speaker 4: looks from us starting pitching standpoint, adding Kaz and his
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  Speaker 4: back to ball skills, his power, I think fits us
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  Speaker 4: really well and we we kind of figure out what
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  Speaker 4: we were good at last year. That's kind of what
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  Speaker 4: I keep going back to. And then within that, how
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  Speaker 4: do you add more talent that is already doing what
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  Speaker 4: they're they have been doing to fit into this system.
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  Speaker 4: So can't wait to get it going. You know, we
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  Speaker 4: were missing staff members. Carlos was gone to the WBC
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  Speaker 4: and those guys gone. So now being back around everyone
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  Speaker 4: gets you a little bit more excited. But man, I
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  Speaker 4: can't wait to get back up there and just see
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  Speaker 4: the fans, see the stadium and kind of hopefully pick
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  Speaker 4: uphere we left off, although you know, an eyelash here there.
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  Speaker 6: Better all right?
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  Speaker 5: So you have a lot of rotation options. Some are
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  Speaker 5: a little bit down. Can you tell us about those
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  Speaker 5: conversations that you have to have with those guys, because
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  Speaker 5: I get it everyone every manager at this time. It's
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  Speaker 5: a good problem to have. It'll take care of yourself.
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  Speaker 5: But are the guys that you're expecting are they bouncing
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  Speaker 5: back okay?
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  Speaker 6: And spring training?
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  Speaker 5: Are they you know, Trey early was having a little
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  Speaker 5: bit of issue bouncing back. So are you feeling like
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  Speaker 5: you have the five guys right now set on March
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  Speaker 5: eighteenth to start.
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  Speaker 1: The same I think yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think looking back probably a month ago,
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  Speaker 4: it's like, where do these guys all fit? And baseball
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  Speaker 4: has a way of kind of sorting that out and
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  Speaker 4: talking to the guys they're all. I think last year
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  Speaker 4: kind of put us in a different category when we
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  Speaker 4: acquired Bebes and you try a six man rotation for
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  Speaker 4: a couple times through and there's some uncomfortable conversations, there's
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  Speaker 4: some unhappy campers, but I think they all understand, like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: we're just trying to go out and win. You know,
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  Speaker 4: our division is no joke. Every team has gotten better
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  Speaker 4: around the league, so we're trying to just say who
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  Speaker 4: is going to fit best right now, and however it starts,
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  Speaker 4: it's probably not going to end that way with the
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  Speaker 4: way the season goes. So really impressed with how keV Gosman,
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  Speaker 4: obviously opening day starter, you know, pitching a lot last
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  Speaker 4: year and really bouncing. I was interested to see how
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  Speaker 4: he came in with the workload he had last year.
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  Speaker 4: He looks like he hasn't missed a beat. And then
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  Speaker 4: you know, Cease is kind of the model of consistency.
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  Speaker 4: Cody pontce is kind of a wild card coming over
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  Speaker 4: back from overseas, and they've all kind of hit the
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  Speaker 4: ground running, So that part I like, And then you
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  Speaker 4: have Jose, you got Lower, you got Max, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you got Trey. It's I think they all fit at
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  Speaker 4: some point, and it's just a matter of when they
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  Speaker 4: all are healthy making those decisions at that point.
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  Speaker 3: Good luck. Yeah, it's good to have that many.
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  Speaker 4: Options, it is, you know, and and really like going
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  Speaker 4: through it last year, just you know, it's it's hard
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  Speaker 4: because all these guys want to start, you know, and
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  Speaker 4: I think that we've what we've said was, you know,
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  Speaker 4: if you're on a different team, you know, it's probably
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  Speaker 4: a little.
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  Speaker 1: Bit easier to give you that runway.
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  Speaker 4: When when you have a team that's that's fairly talented
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  Speaker 4: or very talented, there's kind of a good amount of
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  Speaker 4: competition going on, so they kind of get that, and
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  Speaker 4: you know, just focusing on winning is kind of the
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  Speaker 4: most important thing.
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  Speaker 2: Let's you have Street Craig, because you guys won the
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  Speaker 2: league and yeah, yeah, I mean they kind of can
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  Speaker 2: you can rock to Jay's a little cooler now?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: The street?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, well, I think any if anything, it kind
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  Speaker 4: of going back to last year was cool because like
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  Speaker 4: postseason and World Series aside. You know, that was a
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  Speaker 4: great run and we played really well for the three
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  Speaker 4: weeks in that time, but it was kind of what
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  Speaker 4: we did to get there, you know, which I think
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  Speaker 4: is really sustainable, winning ninety four games as opposed to
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  Speaker 4: seventy four of the year before. And the guys kind
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  Speaker 4: of trust our process and I think that we understand
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  Speaker 4: that our process and the way we prepare and how
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  Speaker 4: we evaluate things is.
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  Speaker 1: Good and it showed last year.
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  Speaker 4: So it's just kind of like, how can we continue
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  Speaker 4: to do that and how can we get it a
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  Speaker 4: little bit better? But I think the players most importantly
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  Speaker 4: see that, hey, this is a this is a pretty
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  Speaker 4: good product.
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  Speaker 3: Agreed, Agreed? All Right.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned that we talked about the pitchers, position players,
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  Speaker 2: No bo right, a couple of changes. How good can
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  Speaker 2: kas be? How good can this guy come coming from Japan? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: to the major leagues? How good can he be?
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  Speaker 6: Arry?
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  Speaker 4: I guess to answer your question quickly, you know, I
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  Speaker 4: think that there's so much more information data that you
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  Speaker 4: can kind of look at and say, well, this translate
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  Speaker 4: and they're there's going to be an adjustment period. But
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  Speaker 4: he is kind of just a natural hitter to where
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  Speaker 4: easy power, ton of contact. Again, I don't want to
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  Speaker 4: put like a floor or a ceiling on him. I
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  Speaker 4: think just how he fits within our lineup and who's
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  Speaker 4: starting that night and things like that. I think that
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  Speaker 4: he's going to fit in really really well, and we
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  Speaker 4: try to kind of diversify it as much as we can.
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  Speaker 4: Guys are going to make contact, we're going to put
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  Speaker 4: pressure on the defense, and we're going to ask some
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  Speaker 4: guys to slug. So I think just finding out when
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  Speaker 4: to do what, because you know he's going to put
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  Speaker 4: the bat of the ball. You know a lot of
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  Speaker 4: these guys that are hitting home runs, there's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of swing and miss. He's kind of the opposite end
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  Speaker 4: of that spectrum to where he can manipulate the barrel
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  Speaker 4: and he has a lot of adjustability in his swing.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm excited to see kind of his overall game.
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  Speaker 4: Before he left, he was making some really good progress
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  Speaker 4: and hitting it off with Pop and Lou and Cody,
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  Speaker 4: so it's not like one guy replacing Bo, Like we're
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  Speaker 4: not asking Cash to replace Bo. Different kind of hitter
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  Speaker 4: for sure, but what we like his skill set to
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  Speaker 4: complement our lineup and.
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  Speaker 1: At third base.
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  Speaker 4: I think there's a lot of room to get better.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna have him play probably a little bit deeper
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  Speaker 4: in terms of depth and get a little bit more
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  Speaker 4: range out of him. And he's on board with that.
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  Speaker 4: So he's going to be, you know, a big part
• 14:13
  Speaker 4: of what we're doing. And I've said, the more he's
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: out there for us, I think, the better team we
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: have every single night.
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: He's bigger than I thought he was.
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: So he's a monster man, bigger.
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: I saw him today and just like tree trunk leg Yeah,
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: really sneaky, funny guy to really really he didn't have
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: an interpreter on, but he's he's sneaky, funny.
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: Well, John, thank you for joining us part of it.
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: By the way, show your watch the Orris Watch Mafia,
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: Crats you look with.
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: The blue Yeah, you know part of the manager. Yeah,
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: Hench Hinch said he was going to give Crats one maybe.
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: Giving I got a couple of extra in the office, Boom.
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: If you ever travel instead of doing this remotely, you know,
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: you never know. But the Orrist watch thing is, I mean,
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: there's more more guys wearing big big referend.
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: W DC guys are wearing it.
• 14:58
  Speaker 9: You know.
• 14:58
  Speaker 4: It's yeah, shout out to or it's.
• 15:03
  Speaker 5: I'll forget those sunglasses. I'll forget those sunglasses I gave
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: you back in the day that got you a managerial pens.
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: I know, I know that was the turning board in
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: my career. You're so right.
• 15:12
  Speaker 6: I'll watch. It's fine, I'll watch, it's fine.
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: We're good, Thank you very much. This year we'll be
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: right back on foul territory.
• 15:21
  Speaker 7: Bron and crats with you for not much time, and
• 15:24
  Speaker 7: then we'll get a Kevin Gosman conversation going for everyone.
• 15:28
  Speaker 7: Let's do the fast and all spring training calendar while
• 15:30
  Speaker 7: we have it, while it's still going.
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: So many green checks, so many green checks, Scott, I'm
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: so upset.
• 15:39
  Speaker 6: No, that means opening days coming. It's not time to
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: be sad, it's time to be happy.
• 15:43
  Speaker 7: You're right, you're right, you're right, and actually tomorrow is
• 15:46
  Speaker 7: going to be sick. I mean, we're finishing our spring
• 15:48
  Speaker 7: training tour with the Philadelphia Phillies. Real question, because we
• 15:53
  Speaker 7: just say it like it is. Do we know if
• 15:56
  Speaker 7: like Harper and Shoreburn, all those guys are going to
• 15:58
  Speaker 7: be there tomorrow. I would think, yes, some guys have
• 16:01
  Speaker 7: taken like an extra beat, an extra day or two.
• 16:03
  Speaker 7: But I would think that those guys will be back
• 16:06
  Speaker 7: in Phillies Camp. Will we get them. I don't know.
• 16:09
  Speaker 7: There's a lot coming at them. They're probably gonna say
• 16:12
  Speaker 7: life's been a little bit crazy right now. But we
• 16:15
  Speaker 7: will be at Phillies Camp for our Thursday show, and
• 16:19
  Speaker 7: that is our last show for spring training, and then
• 16:22
  Speaker 7: of course we're still on every single day live all
• 16:24
  Speaker 7: year round.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: But we'll see.
• 16:27
  Speaker 7: I think those guys will be back in camp. I
• 16:29
  Speaker 7: think usually they give them like a day. Some guys
• 16:32
  Speaker 7: have taken two or three days.
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: I think one of themselves.
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: Because spring is coming to an end, it's real quick,
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: especially when you're starting talking about packing up some of
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: your stuff from spring training, because they've been living on
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: the road, so you got to pack up, get it
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: on the truck. Maybe even the first truck has already left.
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: So there's stuff that has to be done at the
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: end of the season before you go to the exhibition games.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm. All right, We're ready to go.
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: Next convo. Kevin Gosman is.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: Here here with opening day starter for the American League
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: champion Toronto Blue Jays.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: Kevin Gosman, how nice? I mean, I guess it sounds nice.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: But does it sounds good to me? Which one opening
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: day or the American League champions?
• 17:14
  Speaker 9: Both both of them? How many opening days is this
• 17:16
  Speaker 9: for you? This will be my third for the Blue Jays? No,
• 17:20
  Speaker 9: third total? First with the yeah, third total?
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: As I got you in twenty fourteen with the oriole.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Did you pitch Opening day that day? That was seventeen seven?
• 17:28
  Speaker 8: Yeah?
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: I thought a bolt fourteen. No, I guess that wasn't you.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: That wasn't me, Okai Tillman, Oh yes, yeah, yes, okay,
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: seventeen was your first one?
• 17:38
  Speaker 8: Seventeen, then twenty one and then this year?
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: Why the skip?
• 17:43
  Speaker 8: I wasn't very good?
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: And oh stop it. You've been great with Toronto?
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 17:48
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I have for sure, but yeah, you know, I
• 17:53
  Speaker 9: mean I think seventeen, I think I was opening day starter,
• 17:55
  Speaker 9: and I think at the break I had like a
• 17:57
  Speaker 9: six and a half way so it wasn't my first
• 18:00
  Speaker 9: opening day start.
• 18:01
  Speaker 8: Season wasn't great?
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: Were you nervous. Yeah, for sure.
• 18:07
  Speaker 9: You know, I think anytime you pitch one of those,
• 18:09
  Speaker 9: especially the first time you do it, you know, it's
• 18:12
  Speaker 9: there's a lot of hoopla that comes with it.
• 18:14
  Speaker 8: And yeah, I was nervous for sure.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: Everybody makes a big deal of opening Day. What's the
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: bigger opening day or the home opener?
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: Oh? Well, for us, it's one and the same.
• 18:28
  Speaker 9: This year, I would say opening day, you know, but
• 18:34
  Speaker 9: the home opener is obviously really cool.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, do you you guys get your your rings on
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: the home opener this year? I have no idea a
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: banner obviously.
• 18:44
  Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah, I don't really know what the plan is,
• 18:47
  Speaker 9: you know, I just kind of work here.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you got a little bit of poll.
• 18:52
  Speaker 9: They don't really tell me much, you know. It's just hey,
• 18:55
  Speaker 9: make sure you get fitted for your ring. And I
• 18:57
  Speaker 9: don't know anything besides that.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Okay, I mean that's fair. And you play, you guys,
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: we will still call them Oakland. You guys open with
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: the athletics. Yes, in Toronto, you have a nice homestand
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: right it's athletics, and then you guys.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Play Rockies at home. Yeah, you go three summers go
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: White Sox by.
• 19:13
  Speaker 8: The way, Yeah, you.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Won't pitch that. Seriously, you're good. If you can go
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: one to six, you're fine.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Is it important for you guys to get off to
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: a good start because historically the team that hasn't won
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: the World Series the next year has a little bit
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: of a letdown. So is it important with Sacramento, the
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: A's coming in and then Colorado then the White Sox
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: to get off to that good start before the Dodgers
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: come in that next series.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 19:37
  Speaker 8: Absolutely.
• 19:37
  Speaker 9: I think you're always trying to start off, you know,
• 19:41
  Speaker 9: any any season you're you know, you obviously don't want
• 19:43
  Speaker 9: to start off slow. But I think this year is
• 19:47
  Speaker 9: a little different. I think, you know, now we obviously
• 19:49
  Speaker 9: have a huge target on our back, so you know,
• 19:52
  Speaker 9: and I've talked to a lot of guys, like every
• 19:54
  Speaker 9: team that I've faced that was in the World Series
• 19:57
  Speaker 9: the year before, you know, I knew there were I
• 20:00
  Speaker 9: knew I was facing the team that was in the
• 20:01
  Speaker 9: World Series here before, you know, So you got to
• 20:04
  Speaker 9: kind of just be ready for every team, you know.
• 20:09
  Speaker 9: I think maybe in the past, teams knew how talented
• 20:12
  Speaker 9: we were, but I think now it's a little bit different.
• 20:14
  Speaker 9: They've kind of seen that talent kind of come to
• 20:18
  Speaker 9: fruition and so yeah, now I think it's a huge
• 20:22
  Speaker 9: target on our back. So you know, of course we
• 20:25
  Speaker 9: want to start off great in any season, but I
• 20:28
  Speaker 9: think this year is going to be a little bit different.
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: How much?
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: What are those conversations like because we lost in Game
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: seven of the World Series and fourteen and then came
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: back in fifteen and ended up getting a job done.
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: What are those conversations like throughout the offseason with everybody?
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: Do you have different threads for starters, starting pitchers, bullpen guys,
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: pitchers and position players.
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: What do you guys talk about?
• 20:52
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, honestly, we've kind of just turned the page.
• 20:54
  Speaker 9: I mean we talked about it kind of really the
• 20:57
  Speaker 9: first day of camp, but you know, there's nothing we
• 20:59
  Speaker 9: could do about what happened last season, you know, especially
• 21:02
  Speaker 9: the way that we lost is it's been heartbreaking and
• 21:07
  Speaker 9: it's definitely taken a good amount of guys a while
• 21:10
  Speaker 9: to get over. But you know, that was kind of
• 21:12
  Speaker 9: Skip's message first day of camp was like, let's let's
• 21:16
  Speaker 9: not ignore what we did last year because it was
• 21:18
  Speaker 9: such a such a special run that we went on
• 21:22
  Speaker 9: really the whole season. I mean, we kind of figured
• 21:24
  Speaker 9: out our identity and then just kind of honed in
• 21:27
  Speaker 9: on our strengths. So we really kind of wanted to
• 21:30
  Speaker 9: remember that. But you know, once the first game of
• 21:33
  Speaker 9: spring training happens, it's kind of you know, no one's
• 21:36
  Speaker 9: really talking about last year anymore. It's you kind of
• 21:39
  Speaker 9: kind of turn the page and get ready to go.
• 21:42
  Speaker 9: You know, in spring training, I feel like only gets
• 21:44
  Speaker 9: shorter and shorter, so you know, it's, uh, we had
• 21:47
  Speaker 9: to kind of turn the page pretty quick.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: This year was long with the WBC and all that.
• 21:51
  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, it was long, but you know it's just
• 21:54
  Speaker 9: it's it's I say short, just because when you play
• 21:57
  Speaker 9: for an extra month, as you know, like spring train
• 22:00
  Speaker 9: and it was like we blinked and it was Thanksgiving.
• 22:03
  Speaker 8: So then it's like a good thing.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Though it is a good thing.
• 22:06
  Speaker 8: It's a great thing.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Frustrat you would we wouldn't want to be done in
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: August where you're like, oh, we're eliminated and they playing
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: out the string. That's right, go to the seventh game. Obviously,
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: want to win, but that's a good thing for sure.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: What does Toronto do that makes everything so special? What
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: what does the organization do what's the city do because
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Max Max's daughter, right, we're dying to come back. Chris Bassett,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: They everyone he talked to was like, oh, man, I
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: loved it in Toronto. I remember Mark Burley back in
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: the day when he was there. I was like, I
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: loved it. So from the outside, everyone's like, ooh, Toronto,
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: it's a pain in the butt. You got to go
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: through customs and it's a different country and all that.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: But then guys go play there and they absolutely love it.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: So explain to people out there what Toronto does to
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: make it such a great place.
• 22:47
  Speaker 9: Yeah, well, I think one obviously of one team that
• 22:50
  Speaker 9: represents an entire country, So that's kind of unique in
• 22:52
  Speaker 9: its own right. You know, like I played with the
• 22:55
  Speaker 9: Giants and right across the Bay Days, so you're kind
• 22:58
  Speaker 9: of fighting for fighting for that. I guess fan base,
• 23:03
  Speaker 9: you know, you're kind of sharing a fan base. And yeah,
• 23:06
  Speaker 9: I think Toronto is a city that really loves its athletes.
• 23:11
  Speaker 9: You know, they really love their athletes, and it's a
• 23:14
  Speaker 9: sports city. They love watching their team, they love supporting
• 23:17
  Speaker 9: their team. And if you can be a good guy
• 23:20
  Speaker 9: and be good at your job, you know they're gonna
• 23:23
  Speaker 9: they're gonna love you there and then obviously I think
• 23:26
  Speaker 9: our team last year was pretty easy to like. So
• 23:30
  Speaker 9: but you know, outside of that, outside of things that
• 23:33
  Speaker 9: you get from the city, I would say the organization
• 23:35
  Speaker 9: has just done an incredible job at putting the guys first.
• 23:39
  Speaker 9: And when I say that, it means is the family first.
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: The wives.
• 23:43
  Speaker 9: You know, they've really kind of done everything they possibly
• 23:45
  Speaker 9: can to make life as easy as possible for people
• 23:49
  Speaker 9: who are living in another country and don't know too
• 23:51
  Speaker 9: many people. So you know, whether that's helping out the
• 23:55
  Speaker 9: new guys when they get traded over at the deadline,
• 23:57
  Speaker 9: to kind of get them situated. You know, there's a
• 24:01
  Speaker 9: couple wives that have kind of taken the you know,
• 24:07
  Speaker 9: taking that superiority, I guess, and planning things. And I
• 24:11
  Speaker 9: mean I thought the wives had more fun than the
• 24:13
  Speaker 9: posts than anybody else. You know, they were having the
• 24:16
  Speaker 9: time of their lives and you know, one big party
• 24:20
  Speaker 9: every single day.
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: And I think when you can.
• 24:22
  Speaker 9: Keep the wives and the kids happy, I think the
• 24:25
  Speaker 9: guys are going to be more inclined to be happy
• 24:29
  Speaker 9: on a on a daily basis.
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: All right, So what would it mean if they came
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: to you in the end of spring here and offered
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: you an extension, because really they can't give you a
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: team deal because you've given them a discount for these
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: last this five year contract they've given them. What would
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: it mean to you if they came to you with
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: an extension or have they already talked about it?
• 24:52
  Speaker 9: Yeah, you know that's something we really haven't crossed that
• 24:54
  Speaker 9: path yet or that bridge yet. You know, I would
• 24:58
  Speaker 9: love to continue to play for the IS. I love
• 25:00
  Speaker 9: this organization, I love the city. For me being here
• 25:04
  Speaker 9: as long as I have, it's been cool to see
• 25:07
  Speaker 9: the organization grow, see SKIP grow as a manager. You know,
• 25:13
  Speaker 9: there's just a lot of things. My kids have grown
• 25:15
  Speaker 9: in Toronto, So there's a lot of a lot of
• 25:18
  Speaker 9: things to like, you know, when you're looking from the
• 25:20
  Speaker 9: outside looking in at where you would want to play.
• 25:23
  Speaker 9: I mean, I don't think there's anything bad you can
• 25:26
  Speaker 9: say about Toronto besides the fact that it's in another country,
• 25:29
  Speaker 9: you know, and if you can kind of get past that,
• 25:31
  Speaker 9: then there's a lot to love. And me and my
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: wife we really enjoyed our time here. But you know,
• 25:37
  Speaker 9: I also understand it's a business, and so you know,
• 25:41
  Speaker 9: it's not always about what everybody wants, and sometimes it
• 25:45
  Speaker 9: kind of goes back to just what makes sense for
• 25:48
  Speaker 9: both sides, and so you know, we'll see what happens.
• 25:52
  Speaker 9: And more so just focused on this year and trying
• 25:55
  Speaker 9: to get back to a World Series again.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: There's got to be There's one thing that I know
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: you can't like that much. Your spring training site is
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: not where the stadium is. Everything they do so perfectly.
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: The new site is awesome. I grew up a Blue Jay,
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: so I understand that travel across.
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: Could they figure that out and would that be just
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: a little bit better?
• 26:18
  Speaker 9: I mean, yeah, it would it would you know, they
• 26:20
  Speaker 9: just need to build a tunnel. I think it's only
• 26:22
  Speaker 9: like two miles away, so you know, we just need
• 26:25
  Speaker 9: a tunnel underground.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: No.
• 26:27
  Speaker 9: But I mean if that's the biggest thing that you
• 26:30
  Speaker 9: can say that's bad about, you know, our setup, then
• 26:34
  Speaker 9: then I'll take that. You know, I've been in a
• 26:37
  Speaker 9: lot of organizations, a lot of spring training complexes, and
• 26:41
  Speaker 9: I mean this is by far the nicest I've ever
• 26:43
  Speaker 9: been in. And so you know, our covered agility is
• 26:48
  Speaker 9: great for on rainy days. You know, like whatever you
• 26:51
  Speaker 9: need player development wise.
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: We have it here.
• 26:55
  Speaker 9: So you know, we're very blessed to having an organization
• 26:59
  Speaker 9: in a front off that kind of puts the players first.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Are you a top deck bus guy or a lower
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: because you guys have the double decker bus that drives
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: you over there, So are you on the top or
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: the lower deck on the bus.
• 27:10
  Speaker 9: I don't think i've seen a double decker bus for
• 27:13
  Speaker 9: the minor league guys.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't know. I haven't been on the bus.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: I'll be honest.
• 27:17
  Speaker 8: Drive over yeah, I usually drive. Okay, Yeah. Limited parking
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: spots though, Oh go early.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: Oh they don't save one for you?
• 27:27
  Speaker 8: No, no, no.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: You're not. I'm opening gay starter, Kevin go No.
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: Just Ross and Shapiro. They're the only ones who have
• 27:33
  Speaker 8: got their own wore.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Wow, hopefully we're going to be joined. We're going to
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: talk to Shapiro, so hopefully we'll get that out there. Yeah,
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: and ask him why you don't have your own spot
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: or Vlad doesn't have a spot with all the money
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: he's making.
• 27:46
  Speaker 8: Yeah, gladd he definitely needs one.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Tray you savage your lockers next to him in the
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: clubhouse in there? What do you tell him about being
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: ready for a whole year? Because we were joking earlier.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: What do you say you had three three starts before
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: the postseason and now he's with like nine starts counting
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: the postseason something like that. What do you tell him, hey,
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: be ready for thirty starts? How do you how do
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: you tell a young guy like that to be ready
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: for that?
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 28:09
  Speaker 9: I mean to be honest, we really haven't talked too
• 28:13
  Speaker 9: much about it. You know, he's still building up. I
• 28:17
  Speaker 9: know early in spring is kind of arm wasn't bouncing
• 28:20
  Speaker 9: back the way he wanted. You know, he's a young
• 28:23
  Speaker 9: kid that is really uh, you know, obviously he's young,
• 28:26
  Speaker 9: but you talk to him and you wouldn't you wouldn't
• 28:29
  Speaker 9: think that. You know, he kind of has a rhyme
• 28:32
  Speaker 9: for reason for everything he's doing, and you know, really
• 28:36
  Speaker 9: smart when it comes to knowing his strengths, what he
• 28:39
  Speaker 9: needs to do.
• 28:39
  Speaker 8: In the weight room.
• 28:40
  Speaker 9: So, you know, whereas maybe a normal young guy I
• 28:43
  Speaker 9: would probably talk to and be like, hey, you know,
• 28:46
  Speaker 9: we probably need to monitor your bullpens and how much
• 28:49
  Speaker 9: we're throwing, he's kind of already thought about that. So
• 28:52
  Speaker 9: there's not too much that you need to really kind
• 28:54
  Speaker 9: of divulge into him. But yeah, you know, he's gonna
• 29:00
  Speaker 9: go through some ups and downs. You know, it's just
• 29:02
  Speaker 9: normal as a starting pitcher in this league. You know,
• 29:05
  Speaker 9: teams are going to make adjustments. Hitting coaches are going
• 29:07
  Speaker 9: to make adjustments.
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: You know.
• 29:10
  Speaker 9: I hope he's as dominant as he was in the
• 29:12
  Speaker 9: postseason for his whole career of being amazing, he'd be
• 29:15
  Speaker 9: a Hall of Famer. But he's gonna go through some
• 29:17
  Speaker 9: ups and downs, And so it's more so just kind
• 29:19
  Speaker 9: of about trying to be there for his downs and
• 29:23
  Speaker 9: and kind of let him know that, you know, the
• 29:26
  Speaker 9: ups are right around the corner or whatever it is.
• 29:30
  Speaker 9: But you know, he's just such a unique picture. You
• 29:33
  Speaker 9: watch him throw his his release angle, it's such a
• 29:36
  Speaker 9: unique look, you know. So he has a little bit margin,
• 29:40
  Speaker 9: more margin for air than most guys just because how
• 29:43
  Speaker 9: unique he throws.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Well, Kevin, appreciate you joining us, Thank you, good luck
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: and opening day. Before I let you go, I gotta
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: get one thing in her. What the heck's wrong with
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: LSU baseball? Losing the Sac State, losing to Louisiana Monroe
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: losing to Bobby Bouche Louisiana team, Like, what's happening in LSU?
• 30:00
  Speaker 8: I don't know, man, they got to figure it out.
• 30:02
  Speaker 8: But uh, you know.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: They won last year. Now all of a sudden, they're
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: on the a little bit on the struggles.
• 30:07
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think they're I think they're on their high
• 30:09
  Speaker 9: horse a little too much right now while they're losing
• 30:12
  Speaker 9: these midweek games, right, you know, we gotta gotta figure
• 30:15
  Speaker 9: it out. But man, they're so talented, Like the talent
• 30:18
  Speaker 9: in college baseball right now is crazy insane, right, and
• 30:21
  Speaker 9: they're all huge, Like I go and throw there, and
• 30:23
  Speaker 9: I mean, I'm not a big guy, but I swear
• 30:26
  Speaker 9: if someone walked in and was like, pick out the
• 30:28
  Speaker 9: guy who's in the big leagues, like I would be
• 30:31
  Speaker 9: the last one, not even close.
• 30:33
  Speaker 8: Like these guys are huge.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: You just walk in and say, I'm the opening day
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: starter for the American Champions.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Kevin,