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Grayson Rodriguez joins FT after getting traded from O's to Angels · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: About territory is back with Angels starting pitcher Grayson Rodriguez
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  Speaker 1: had to make sure I said that right.
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  Speaker 2: How does it sound, man? How you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, dude's pretty crazy. I was shocked at first, but man,
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited. A couple of the guys have already reached out, dude,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm pumped up.
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  Speaker 4: Can I tell you that?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I like it.
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  Speaker 2: I like it. Tell me about some of the comments.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to give me the.
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  Speaker 1: Names, obviously, but what have you talked about, either with
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  Speaker 1: teammates and or with staff about what's coming up for you?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: So, well, when I first heard the news, obviously, Perry
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  Speaker 3: the GM called me Kurtzuzuki, and then the day after
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  Speaker 3: talk to Dark No Little Happy Nito reached out today Kouchi.
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  Speaker 3: So talking to some of these guys, man's got me
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  Speaker 3: really pumped up and fired up and uh ready to
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  Speaker 3: get out there and play with them.
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  Speaker 6: What does that? What does that look like for you?
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  Speaker 6: What does that look like? Because we don't rarely have
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  Speaker 6: guys on here right after they're traded, let alone like
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  Speaker 6: a starting pitcher. Who's I mean, we're November twenty first,
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  Speaker 6: So your throwing program has to be kind of at
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  Speaker 6: a place where you're getting ready for spring training. How
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  Speaker 6: does that look for you? And do you have to
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  Speaker 6: like connect with the Angel staff. Let's see, I'm trying
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  Speaker 6: to think who's is it Frosty? Is Frosty the head
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  Speaker 6: trader there?
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  Speaker 3: Mike frost Dad, yep, yeah, yeah, talk to Frosty already.
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  Speaker 3: I mean everything just kind of transitions over. You know,
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  Speaker 3: there's really not much that changes for me, just kind
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  Speaker 3: of staying on the same programs that I'm on.
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  Speaker 4: You know, there might be a little tweaks and adjustments.
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  Speaker 3: Talking to Mike Maddox, Uh, the new pitching coaches got
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  Speaker 3: me excited.
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  Speaker 4: So we're we're.
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  Speaker 3: Gonna go over some throwing stuff that we might want
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  Speaker 3: to change just a little bit. But uh yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: mean just keep rolling with what I'm doing and uh,
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  Speaker 3: get ready for spring training.
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  Speaker 5: Let me ask you this because something I've been traded
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  Speaker 5: a bunch of times, like, did you know beforehand that
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  Speaker 5: this might happen? Or did was your agent giving you
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  Speaker 5: a hint? And were you surprised at all? Like what
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  Speaker 5: what was your first thought once you even heard the
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  Speaker 5: notion of you know, this might happen?
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  Speaker 6: Dude?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Saturday, I was at like a charity golf tournament
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  Speaker 3: for the high school that I went to.
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  Speaker 4: My brother's a senior there.
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  Speaker 3: They were doing like a fundraiser, and my agent texted
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  Speaker 3: me and he was like, hey, he's like, got a
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  Speaker 3: weird call from the Angels.
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  Speaker 4: He's like call me back. And I was like, oh lord,
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  Speaker 4: what could this be?
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  Speaker 3: But talk to him and he just said that you
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  Speaker 3: know that, you know that they had reached out and
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  Speaker 3: asked like, you know, how I was feeling and stuff
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  Speaker 3: like that. And he's like, you know, there's probably not
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  Speaker 3: gonna be anything come of it, you know, just kind
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  Speaker 3: of something that can happen, you know, time to time,
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  Speaker 3: get a lot.
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  Speaker 4: The call was like that, but he's like just wanted
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  Speaker 4: you to know. So I was like all right. And
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  Speaker 4: then I was flying me and my wife.
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  Speaker 3: We were going down to the Oriole Spring training Complex
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  Speaker 3: in Sarasota Tuesday night. I was going to go down
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  Speaker 3: there just for a few days, just to check in
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  Speaker 3: throw see some of the medical staff there. On the flight,
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  Speaker 3: got a text from the Orioles GM saying, Hey, call
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  Speaker 3: me asap.
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  Speaker 4: And I was like, told my wife, I.
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  Speaker 3: Was like, well, you know, the GM doesn't really want
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  Speaker 3: to just chit chat with you at nine pm at
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  Speaker 3: night on a Tuesday. Kind of knew something was up there,
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  Speaker 3: but I got off the plane, called him, and then
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  Speaker 3: you know, kind of found out the news and got
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  Speaker 3: a call from Perry and Kurt soon after, and I
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  Speaker 3: was super excited. I was shocked at first, but now
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  Speaker 3: I'm pretty pumped up about it.
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  Speaker 6: All Right. So a lot of what I have said
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  Speaker 6: about this trade on here has gotten some visceral hate
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  Speaker 6: from Orioles fans, and I'm not going to tell you
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  Speaker 6: what they've said about you, but I'm going to tell
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  Speaker 6: you that on this show, we are impartial. We're not
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  Speaker 6: Oriols fans. We're not We're fan of people. And the
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  Speaker 6: times that you've come on, you've been injured, we've watched
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  Speaker 6: you pitch in real games, Like I see you as
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  Speaker 6: a real person. And I'm gonna say this for real,
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  Speaker 6: I feel like the Angels, nothing against Tailor Award, fleeced
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  Speaker 6: the Orioles in this trade because I see you as
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  Speaker 6: an elite starting pitcher that has not been on the
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  Speaker 6: field as much as you want to be. How do
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  Speaker 6: you see yourself? And then I'll continue to ask questions
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  Speaker 6: from this from this standpoint.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, obviously, like I said, I
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  Speaker 3: was shocked. It was odd, But I mean, like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: what can I say, Like, you know, obviously last year
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  Speaker 3: you know, didn't go how I wanted to.
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  Speaker 4: I knew.
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  Speaker 3: I knew in spring training last year that I was
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  Speaker 3: going to really be facing some challenges, you know with
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  Speaker 3: my arm just because you know, when I'm throwing at
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  Speaker 3: spring training and stuff, which you know, like it's kind
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  Speaker 3: of been talked about a little bit, but I had
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  Speaker 3: some bone spurs removed in August, and they've been in
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  Speaker 3: there for like three or four years. Like this is
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  Speaker 3: something that I've dealt with for a while ever since
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  Speaker 3: I was probably in double A, Triple A. I want
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  Speaker 3: to say, you know, it would kind of come and go.
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  Speaker 3: So it was nothing that was like like really serious,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like I said, like, you know, it kind
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  Speaker 3: of flare up maybe spring training, beginning of the season.
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  Speaker 4: Go away, come back, go away.
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  Speaker 3: Last year was kind of the first time that it
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  Speaker 3: came and like stayed with me, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we kind of knew that, uh, you know, it's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be something that I was gonna have to battle, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's always in the back of your mind
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  Speaker 3: having a deal with something like that, and then you know,
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  Speaker 3: kind of having those those tweaks, those tweak injuries of
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  Speaker 3: the lat you know, it was just those spurs just
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  Speaker 3: really kind of weren't.
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  Speaker 4: Helping the situation.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, you know, like we didn't decide, we decided
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  Speaker 3: to not get the surgery, uh at spring training, and
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  Speaker 3: then just kind of got to a point where it
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  Speaker 3: was like I can just you know, I can't, can't
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  Speaker 3: take it. So I had them removed in August and
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  Speaker 3: now I'm throwing, you know, feeling good.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean, the I.
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  Speaker 3: Don't know, it's kind of you know, it's just kind
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  Speaker 3: of weird. You know, I didn't think the Orioles would
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  Speaker 3: trade me, but obviously the Angels wanted me bad enough,
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  Speaker 3: and uh, it's kind of a cool feeling.
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  Speaker 6: That's actually what I was gonna ask you. Do you
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  Speaker 6: feel like the Orioles didn't want you or do you
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  Speaker 6: feel like the Angels wanted you back? Because if you
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  Speaker 6: look at the Angels rotation, they're they're in need of
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  Speaker 6: some dudes, and they never ardi Moreno never goes to
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  Speaker 6: like that long extension for pictures in free agency essentially,
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  Speaker 6: that's what he got in you we got a four
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  Speaker 6: year deal out of Grace at Rodriguz.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, like like I was saying, like I was pretty surprised.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 3: It's something that like, you know, we've always joked around about,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like me and my wife, like you know,
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  Speaker 3: what would happen, you know, if we got traded, But
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  Speaker 3: it was never something that was kind of like you
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  Speaker 3: know in the picture to us. But I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it happened, and like I said, you know, you're kind
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  Speaker 3: of sad, like at first because most of those guys
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  Speaker 3: in the in the Orioles Clubhouse, you know, I came
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  Speaker 3: up in the minor leagues with you know, I mean
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  Speaker 3: like I've known you know, Gunner and Adley ever since
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  Speaker 3: I was nineteen years old, so like played with them
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  Speaker 3: a while. I'd say, yeah, like kind of leaving your
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  Speaker 3: friends behind. But then you know, seeing like the opportunity
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  Speaker 3: that it's now in front of you, like to go
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  Speaker 3: completely from the East coast to the west coast, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Orange County like la, Like, I mean, my wife is
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  Speaker 3: super excited to live there. You know I am too.
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  Speaker 3: Like the weather's great man, like it's it's kind of
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  Speaker 3: it's just a weird spot. I would say, like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: there's a little bit of sadness, you know, leaving some
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  Speaker 3: guys behind that you know, you grinded with in the
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  Speaker 3: minor leagues. But then you know, looking forward to your
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  Speaker 3: new teammates, your new organization, like everything about it is
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  Speaker 3: just super super exciting.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm really looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 6: Who was the first guy that texted you from the Orioles?
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  Speaker 6: You already mentioned the Angels guys. Did they do all
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  Speaker 6: the Orioles guys? Did they lose your number? You know,
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  Speaker 6: you get traded and contact?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there's some of them I haven't heard from,
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  Speaker 3: so you know, might have you know, I might have
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  Speaker 3: to call him out. Yeah, might have to call him out,
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  Speaker 3: but no, I think Yeah, Gunner was the first one
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  Speaker 3: that reached out player wise, so yeah, I mean I
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  Speaker 3: knew knew Gunner would reach out. There's a couple of others, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he from haven't heard from him yet, and you know
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  Speaker 3: it might be because you know, we're in the middle
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  Speaker 3: of some fantasy football stuff.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the playoffs are neck and neck.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they might just you know, hate me from
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  Speaker 3: fantasy football, right now, but uh, yeah, we'll see, so.
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  Speaker 6: That's fair. That's fair. All right. So you talked about
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  Speaker 6: the bone. Did you call them bone chips or bone
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  Speaker 6: spurs in your elbow?
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  Speaker 4: Bone spurs? So they were like they were attached.
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  Speaker 3: But I mean just barely so uh yeah, they came
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  Speaker 3: loose pretty quick, so they weren't floating, but but they
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  Speaker 3: were definitely there and uh causing so inflammation in that
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  Speaker 3: tricep area.
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  Speaker 6: What about the shoulder? What about the bone chip in
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  Speaker 6: your shoulder? Is that a is that cleaned up? Was
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  Speaker 6: that something? How long did that bother you? And did
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  Speaker 6: it create did it create more of damage? Because sometimes
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  Speaker 6: when that stuff's in there, it creates a little bit
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  Speaker 6: more damage and that's why they want to try to
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  Speaker 6: get stuff like that out if they can.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's yeah, thankfully there's no bone chips or anything
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  Speaker 3: in my shoulder.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So, I mean it's just kind of like the only
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  Speaker 3: kind of issues I've dealt shoulder wise are just kind
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  Speaker 3: of in the lat and like you know, like I said,
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  Speaker 3: there's nothing major.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we've seen.
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  Speaker 3: I've tried to see just about every doctor there is
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  Speaker 3: to try to figure out, you know, kind of why
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  Speaker 3: there was a small reoccurrence of an injury keep happening.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's no surgery required for any of this,
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  Speaker 3: just kind of like you know, you just like tweaking
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  Speaker 3: your hammy just barely.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you can't run at full speed.
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  Speaker 3: You're kind of figuring out You're just trying to figure
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  Speaker 3: out why it keeps happening, and that's kind of what
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  Speaker 3: we've been doing. And you know, everybody we spoke with,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we all kind of came back to the
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  Speaker 3: same conclusion of having the bone spurs in there and
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  Speaker 3: the elbow not being able to get to full extension.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, if you can't get out there and
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  Speaker 3: fully extend, well, you know what muscle slows down.
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  Speaker 4: Your arm when you're throwing, it's your lap.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, if you can't if you can't get
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  Speaker 3: out there to extension, you can't slow your arm down
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  Speaker 3: quick enough. You know, your lat's firing twice as hard
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  Speaker 3: as having to work just as much. So it's all
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  Speaker 3: kind of come back to the same conclusion. So, you know,
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  Speaker 3: getting these bone spurs out, it's been a huge relief.
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  Speaker 3: You know, hopefully this is all behind us and in
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  Speaker 3: the past. You know, we're going to learn from it.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously you don't want to go through a season like
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  Speaker 3: I had last year where you don't even throw an inning,
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  Speaker 3: but you know you can kind of just really look
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  Speaker 3: back and reflect and you know, change your program and
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  Speaker 3: figure out you know, what you need, what you don't need,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, just move on.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, So a play on words, because I'm an idiot.
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  Speaker 6: The chip on your shoulder was not in your shoulder.
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  Speaker 6: It's a chip in your shoulder. A chip on your shoulder.
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  Speaker 6: You're gonna have a chip on your shoulder. Uh like
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  Speaker 6: four pitching next year?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, for sure. Yeah, definitely circling the Orioles
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  Speaker 3: on the calendar if I, uh, if I get to
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  Speaker 3: pitch against them, you know, obviously I only get to
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  Speaker 3: throw against those guys in spring training, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: that's definitely heated. There's a lot of trash talk that
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  Speaker 3: goes on. I love talking crap to him about it.
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  Speaker 3: So seeing them, you know in the box real game,
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna be It's gonna be.
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  Speaker 4: Fun for me for sure.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, I'm not gonna say I'm gonna hit anybody,
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  Speaker 3: but I mean, I don't know, maybe want to let
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  Speaker 3: maybe want to let loose at somebody not gonna name
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  Speaker 3: any names, and leave that out there for him, try
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  Speaker 3: to scare them over there.
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  Speaker 4: I love, it's gonna be super fun.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna be super fun day to pitch against them.
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  Speaker 5: That's all I'm talking about. Pitching too, Man, you have
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  Speaker 5: a great arsenal pitches. In twenty twenty four, you doubled
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  Speaker 5: pretty much your your curveball usage. Is there are you
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  Speaker 5: this off season? Is there gonna be something else different
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  Speaker 5: that you want to you know, get after and use
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  Speaker 5: during the season, or it's going to be you know,
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  Speaker 5: you're daily of what here it is, you see it
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  Speaker 5: and what you get.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think it'll depend a lot on
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  Speaker 3: you know, kind of you know, how I'm feeling that day,
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  Speaker 3: what's kind of kind of going in the bullpen, maybe
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  Speaker 3: kind of what the lineup's gonna show us. And I
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  Speaker 3: think in Baltimore, you know a lot of that stuff
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  Speaker 3: is kind of already determined before the game starts. Now,
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  Speaker 3: you know, sometimes it works, sometimes it you know, goes
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  Speaker 3: really wrong. But like I said, it'll be good to
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  Speaker 3: just kind of, you know, be with Maddox. Who's you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna say an old school guy, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: doesn't lean as heavy on analytics and just go out
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  Speaker 3: there and pitch.
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  Speaker 4: Man, It's gonna be so much fun.
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  Speaker 6: Does he talk to you anything about like because you
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  Speaker 6: said he said, I, hey, there's one thing, there's one
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  Speaker 6: thing that we wanted to work on. Has he met
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  Speaker 6: mention anything about innings since you didn't throw it all
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  Speaker 6: this year? But you said he's old school. Old school
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  Speaker 6: guys are like, here's the ball, Grayson, go throw. And
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  Speaker 6: I know Maddix a little bit from the two weeks
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  Speaker 6: that he was a pitching goes where I was. But
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  Speaker 6: do you think there's any kind of innings limit? Do
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  Speaker 6: you feel that on yourself without the team even saying anything.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I mean, I have no idea. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: be honest with you. Hadn't had any kind of conversations
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  Speaker 3: like that.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying that there won't be any conversations about it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure there will be, but right now, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I haven't. We haven't talked about that, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, just focused on getting ready, making sure we
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  Speaker 3: show up the spring training healthy and ready to throw.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's you know, kind of at the front.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we might worry about the innings limit or
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  Speaker 3: whatever if there is one. We'll worry about that down
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  Speaker 3: the road and we get there. But right now, just
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  Speaker 3: focus on being an angel and getting my arm ready
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  Speaker 3: to go back out and throw.
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  Speaker 2: And Grayson, we got those dates.
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  Speaker 1: You might know him already, but June twenty two to
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  Speaker 1: twenty four Orioles at Angels. August four to six, Angels
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  Speaker 1: are in Baltimore, So you got a little time get
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  Speaker 1: nice and cozy with the new team, and then you'll
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  Speaker 1: get a little Baltimore on the calendar a couple different
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  Speaker 1: times this year, which which will be nice. But I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I know it's way far ahead, it's in August, but
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  Speaker 1: will you will you have like emotions flowing? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is your your OG organization for a while here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'm sure there will be, you know,
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  Speaker 3: some extra juices going just because I know those guys,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I mean, it just means a little bit more.
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  Speaker 3: If you have a buddy step in the box or something,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you want to do everything you can to
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  Speaker 3: punch him out, you know. Yeah, I mean I think
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  Speaker 3: it'll definitely be It'll definitely be fun, you know, there's
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  Speaker 3: not gonna be any kind of bad blood there. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think just because you know the guys in that clubhouse,
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  Speaker 3: that's not who trades me. But yeah, it'll be interesting
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  Speaker 3: to see when we get there, and I'll definitely be
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  Speaker 3: looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, I was doing some homework, So I think you
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  Speaker 1: were the actual last first round pick by the previous
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: front office regime, right, you were drafted by Dan Duquette
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: and his group, and then Michael Lias came in. So
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: my question is, do you do you think that ever
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: kind of affects things where you know, one group really
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: knows a guy and they're attached to him from the
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: jump versus you know, another group coming in and just
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: not having that same like original connection.
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, for sure, you know, I think you know,
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: you kind of see it with one of my good buddies,
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: Dal Hall. He was in the draft before me, so
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: obviously a duquet guy. You know, he was traded. There
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: really wasn't a whole lot of guys from my draft
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: class that have made it to the big leagues. I
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: know Drew ram was one. He was also traded. So yeah,
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: I mean, I guess you can kind of look back
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: and see like, Okay, these guys were in the organization,
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: you know, with the previous regime, and you know, most
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: of them are gone.
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: I think the only ones left.
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: I think there's only three if I'm not mistaken, and
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: that's gonna be Ryan Mountcastle, Keegan Achan and Felix Fautista
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: I think are the only three that are still there
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: from the pre Michael Eis era. You might have a
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: fact check me on that, but uh yeah, I don't know.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: It might have something to do with it, it might not,
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: but that's something that you know, we've kind of joked
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: around about too sometimes.
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: Now, when you get traded, you got to go through
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: physicals and evaluations and medical stuff. Did you do that already?
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: So all that's taken care of. Everything went well with that,
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: especially you know with your arm and everything.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: No, I mean I got a call that said, hey,
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: you've been traded to the Angels like that, this is it.
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: You know, it's done deal. So yeah, there's nothing, there's
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: no physicals.
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: I was talking about that with my dad yesterday.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: He was asking me about that, and I was like,
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: you know, I mean, you know, we're good to go,
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: so perfect, awesome.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: Wait, so So Grayson, what's next off the field here?
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: You mentioned how yeah, there's there's some gorgeous whether you
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: certainly got traded to a nice spot. In terms of
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: living life outside of baseball, how does your off season
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: change with the location change for the fam?
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: You know, I mean, obviously never been to an Arizona
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: spring training. Excited about that. I guess we'll have to
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: worry about finding a place to save for that first,
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: and then you know, I hadn't really you know, obviously
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: I don't know the first thing about Los Angeles. I
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: don't know if there's any white tailed deer there. If
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: there are, i'd love it, But.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I really proud about it.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: The only time I've been to LA played there in
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: high school once there was like a tournament, and then
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: just the times that we've played against the Dodgers and
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: the Angels when i've been with the Orioles, So that's
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: literally the only times I've been over there.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: Weather it was fantastic.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean, I really don't know much about
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: it right now, so gonna gonna be learning about it soon,
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: i'd imagine.
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: Last question here. You know, you talk about white tailed
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: deal first off, like Trout, big time hunter, so maybe
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: maybe talk to him about it. Have you had of
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: a conversation with him yet at all?
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've had a few conversations with Trout over the
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: last year or so. We got some some mutual friends,
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: you know, obviously huge Eagles fan boo. Actually I actually
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: hunt a bunch with two of the former Eagles players.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: So got some Eagles connections with some friends up there
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: in Philly. You know, I'm from Texas. I'm not gonna
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: say I'm a Cowboys fan. Definitely watching the game every Sunday, though,
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: I'm watching the Cowboys. So that week one of the
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: NFL season, Cowboys Eagles in Philly, there is definitely some
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: messages from Mike Trout.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: About the matchup.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I've been talking to Trout for a little
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: while about hunting stuff, sharing some game camera pictures with
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: him and whatnot. And uh, yeah, I guess now we're teammates.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: So maybe he'll invite me to hunt his place, and
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: I'll invite him to.
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: My place, you never know, and find a way to
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: get him back into the playoffs. What do you say
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: about that?
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: Absolutely?
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Man, I know I was asked about They're like, well,
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: you know, what are your views on you know, October baseball,
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, the goals to be in October. You know,
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: it doesn't matter who you're playing for, that's the goal.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: And then you know, if you don't get there, you failed.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: So that's definitely going to be the goal. And I
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: you know, I think we can do it, you know,
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: I mean, you know when I was with the Orioles
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: in twenty three, you know it, we went from winning
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: I think it was like maybe eighty games, seventy eight,
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: eighty eighty two, I don't know whatever the number was,
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: to like winning one hundred and one. Like it's just boomed,
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: like it just happened. And that's kind of the cool thing,
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: you know, seeing that that can happen, that can take place.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: You know, we won the division in twenty three. You know,
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: I think it's definitely attainable in LA with the Angels.
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: All Right, Grayson, listen, you're not you didn't say you're
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: Cowboys fan, but you watch the games. Okay. You are
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: currently twenty six years old. Happy birthday, by the way,
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: it was just five days ago. Is your birthday? What
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: a what a what a nice birthday for you. But
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: you don't know what winning is for a Cowboys because
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: you're only twenty six years old. So it's okay. Just
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: go watch the games, enjoy what you do, and that's
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: totally fine. Just make sure when you argue with Trouty
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: about Eagles, Cowboys, whatever it is, that like he he's
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: he's dominated the rivalry.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, I'm just gonna let you know that you're wrong.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Look up Dak Prescott's record versus the Eagles. Okay, two,
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: I do know what winning is because that documentary came
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: out this year and I got to watch that.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: So saw some.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: Film on an the boys, you know, winning, So now
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: I can say that I've seen it. So, yeah, you're
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: romocrats over there.
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: Well, I watched a documentary on the Revolutionary Ward. Doesn't
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: mean that I lived it, Okay, So I'm just saying.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: I'm willing to bet you are a liar. You did
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: not watch a documentary on the Revolutionary War.
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: Okay. I saw there was a documentary and I skipped
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: over it to watch to watch Rusty. No, my teachers
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: love me. My teachers love me.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: I'm a big George Washington fan. A good way to
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: go out. We're getting a little bit of self feedback here.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: But but Grayson, if you can hear us, you're the man.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Oh there we go. He's back. Grayson, you're the man.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us, and yeah, have a great
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving and all that. We'll catch you, I think before
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Christmas will get you back one more time before the
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: season or before the year ends. But but congrats, man,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: you're gonna love life and the warmth out there.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: So thanks for joining us. Dude.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I appreciate y'all. Thank you all for having me on.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Hopefully Nagatos, Texas gets some fiber optic internet before Christmas. Okay,
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: then we won't Then we won't lose signals.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: So yeah, please please please thank you.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: We love your backdrop two always at home, so we
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: will work on that for you in Texas.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Thanks grace, and talk to you soon.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: About all right, catch y'all later.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Hey.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Carl Anthony Towns held a Yamamoto rookie card and Todd Father.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: He just unleashed it for seventy two grand and good
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: good thing too, because he needs it. Man, he's struggling.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: He only makes what do you think, I don't prop
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: my head makes a ton of money. I means it's superstar.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: That's pretty cool, though, good job.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Good slip, I mean, Jesus, good flip, Tod Father, that's
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: a good flip.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: I had that bad boy, and it went up a lot,
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: a lot as he became.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: The best, best time to sell it right now, great call, Yes,
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: prices guess in October.
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: I need you to guess when he's making in twenty twenty.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Five, forty five million.
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: Fifty six starts with a five fifty three point one
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: four million Carl Anthony Towns. Don't Paul Chauncey billups, okay,
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: but they also have like that's sick. I think that's awesome.
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: Seventy two g's. That's a good pool. That's a good pool.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he gets paid that much for maybe a quarter
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: of basketball.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Maybe hmmm, maybe a quarter.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: But still that's a good flip. That's a good flip.
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: No, not even, cra no, I not even. It'd be
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: closer to like two no, sick. Yeah, it will be
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: more like one hundred thousand per quarter.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Okay, so close close. That's crazy. Right, Hey, good job, man,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: you just played a quarter of basketball. Here's one hundred gee's.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: That's more than any average annual value in baseball, Right,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: what's Soto at.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: Cooky?
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: I don't know. Well, no, I mean show Hay is
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: fifty six? No after after defers.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Now net present value?
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: I thought his net present value was fifty six.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: No, he signed what it was a ten year, seven hundred, right,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: the net present value is four fifty, so that's forty
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: five forty six.
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's yeah. I think it's like forty six,
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: forty five, forty six somewhere in there. So you're right. No, no,
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: but the NBA has a cap, so it's much easier
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: for everybody to compete.
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: I think you're gonna say that it's sorry, sorry, I'm
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: trying to find with the aav oh fifty one for Soto.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got to be.
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: Carl Anthony Towns most most people in here don't even
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: know what team he plays for.