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FT at Rangers camp: Manager Bruce Bochy, Jake Burger · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: It was incredible and you feel the love and kind
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  Speaker 1: of the family, and I think that's what this organization's about.
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  Speaker 1: And that's like the energy you feel day in and
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  Speaker 1: day out when you're in this clubhouse.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go. We've got Bruce Bochie joining US Ranger
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  Speaker 2: skipper right now on foul Territory. Bach. Great to have
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  Speaker 2: you on you having fun here at camp?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I am. It's always good to be here in
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  Speaker 3: spring training, you know, you're at that point now. I
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  Speaker 3: think guys are kind of getting eager to get back
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  Speaker 3: to Texas and get the season going. You know how
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  Speaker 3: spring training goes. Pitchers and catchers get there, you're excited,
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  Speaker 3: and after a day of that, they want the full
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  Speaker 3: squad and they show up and now you get the
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  Speaker 3: games going and halfway through that, let's go. And that's
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  Speaker 3: that's kind of where we're at right now.
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  Speaker 4: I think, Boach, I'm just not used to seeing you
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  Speaker 4: because normally when I see you, you're in your recliner.
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  Speaker 4: You have like so if you go into a Boach's
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  Speaker 4: office in Texas, so sorry that we don't have a seat.
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  Speaker 4: He just sits there and he crosses his legs like this.
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  Speaker 4: He's got his hat. He's like, yeah, a question.
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  Speaker 5: He's like, oh, oh, I don't know. We're going to
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  Speaker 5: get through this year. I don't know, guys, I don't know,
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  Speaker 5: but you guys have a good team this year.
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  Speaker 3: We do, we do. We We really are expecting a lot,
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  Speaker 3: a lot out of ourselves here to bounce back and
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  Speaker 3: get back to the postseason. See why. He's done a
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  Speaker 3: great job of, you know, just bringing in some resources here.
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  Speaker 3: You I mean guys like Berger and Peterson. I think
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  Speaker 3: our offense is going to get back to where it
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  Speaker 3: was in twenty three. I love the rotation. Yeah, we
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  Speaker 3: had a little bump in the road yesterday, but got
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  Speaker 3: good news on those guys. I'm talking about Malley and Bradford.
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  Speaker 3: We may miss Bradford for I don't know, two three weeks.
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  Speaker 3: We don't know yet, but we don't think it's serious
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  Speaker 3: at all. And uh, you know, we get some veterans
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  Speaker 3: in the bullpen that can help us out. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we're really excited about the club. I'd love the vibe
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  Speaker 3: and camp here. It's a great group. So it's it's
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  Speaker 3: been really really good, you know, so far, I think
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  Speaker 3: we're swinging the bats.
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  Speaker 6: Well, now, what did you learn about yourself last year
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  Speaker 6: that you didn't know after you retired, you came back,
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  Speaker 6: you rode the high of the World Series, and then
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  Speaker 6: last year you guys struggled as a team. What did
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  Speaker 6: you learn that You're like, an, I wish I had
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  Speaker 6: been able to fix this or that before last year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I've learned that after a World Series,
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  Speaker 3: they might as well give me a time out and
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  Speaker 3: send me off for a year here because it didn't
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  Speaker 3: go too well last year. But you know what, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and we we did everything we we could do that
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  Speaker 3: we thought would keep being any kind of complacency from
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  Speaker 3: setting in or you know, over working guys, and uh
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  Speaker 3: and we actually got off to a good start.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 3: We we did get hit by injuries. I know that's
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  Speaker 3: an excuse, but you lose guys like Young and Carter,
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  Speaker 3: that's a blow to your offense. Uh uh. But bottom
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  Speaker 3: line is we didn't play as well and it just
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  Speaker 3: goes to show you how hard it is to win
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  Speaker 3: a championship. A lot has to go right. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you guys have to have their normal years and you
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  Speaker 3: got to stay away from the injuries and hopefully get
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  Speaker 3: a surprise or two. And uh, you know those things
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  Speaker 3: didn't happen happened.
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  Speaker 5: For us last year, So you guys should win this year.
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  Speaker 3: Right, I think so here.
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  Speaker 4: Every other year, yeah, ten, twelve, fourteen, and now twenty three,
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  Speaker 4: twenty five, guys, we should start printing the rings now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you on that. Do you know what? Well,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we we got work to do, there's no
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  Speaker 3: getting around it. I mean we we didn't even make
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  Speaker 3: the postseason last year. So you know, guys are they've
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  Speaker 3: been humbled, they're hungry and uh and they're they're getting
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  Speaker 3: after it here this spring and uh, before we break camp,
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  Speaker 3: we still have some work to do. And I'm just
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  Speaker 3: looking forward to, you know, seeing this offense go this year?
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  Speaker 4: Why what what is it about with you and every
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  Speaker 4: other year? Like in San Francisco? You would have thought
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  Speaker 4: you would have learned how to.
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  Speaker 3: You would have thought, I'm with you, you would have.
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  Speaker 4: It's such a weird thing to me because I lost
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  Speaker 4: you in fourteen in the LCS. You guys went on
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  Speaker 4: on one, your third one there what and then Texas
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  Speaker 4: you guys came back with what you thought was another
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  Speaker 4: good club. They obviously injuries took place, But why is
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  Speaker 4: it so hard in baseball to go and do it
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  Speaker 4: a second year in a row.
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  Speaker 3: Again, it just shows you how hard it is a
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  Speaker 3: winning championship. But I think as much as anything, it's
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  Speaker 3: it's just it's just the grind of winning the championship.
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  Speaker 3: And that's why you don't see a lot of teams
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  Speaker 3: bouncing back and doing it back to back years. You're
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  Speaker 3: playing to November first. Jonah Hine, for example, you're a catcher,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, let's he grinded pretty hard and did
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  Speaker 3: a catch up with him. Maybe you know, we we
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  Speaker 3: were concerned about that halfway through the season, if I
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  Speaker 3: was over playing them or I was anyway, but really
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  Speaker 3: all the guys and there's the thing, and Corey Seger
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  Speaker 3: mentioned this, he said, you know, because you know, I
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  Speaker 3: for they won the first part of the season. You
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  Speaker 3: still have the hoopla, you still have all the excitement
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  Speaker 3: from the fans, they're raising the banner, you're getting your rings,
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  Speaker 3: and they're still playing in front of pack crowds. That
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  Speaker 3: goes away. So at that point you got to find
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  Speaker 3: a way to get yourself up. And so that was
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  Speaker 3: my concern. And like I said, we got off to
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  Speaker 3: a good start and then we kind of flatlined, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, we lost Dolly there for a while. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he really had a tough year. This guy was doing
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  Speaker 3: all the damage. You know, Corey was coming off that
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  Speaker 3: hernia's surgery. I think he went like two for forty
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  Speaker 3: something to start the season. So you know, things again,
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  Speaker 3: they have to you know, they have to go right
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  Speaker 3: for you and you guys have to have their years.
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  Speaker 3: And it just didn't happen. But we talked about a
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  Speaker 3: lot last year before the season, We talked about it
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  Speaker 3: in the first team meeting, and so we felt like
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  Speaker 3: we covered all the bases that we needed to cover,
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  Speaker 3: but we just couldn't get on track.
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  Speaker 4: Who we need to see this year? Because last year
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  Speaker 4: I said you always were all white Langford. You got
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  Speaker 4: to see this guy?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: How was it this year? Lined up for the Rangers?
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  Speaker 3: Well right now, lighters do on the ball very well now.
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  Speaker 3: Was a little bit off with his command yesterday, but
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  Speaker 3: he's really really I think just grown as a picture.
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  Speaker 3: So he's a guy I think we can watch now.
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  Speaker 3: Burger's been around. It is our first time having him.
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  Speaker 3: This guy, I love him He's a baseball right, just
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  Speaker 3: like Josh Young. That's all he does. It doesn't golf
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  Speaker 3: or anything. He just wants to play baseball. And he
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  Speaker 3: can impact the ball. I mean, a big power. So
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited about him. Of course, Peterson, you know, he
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  Speaker 3: he's just doing a lot of damage. He's a winner.
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  Speaker 3: He's got a couple championships under his belt. So but
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  Speaker 3: young guys, the guy who's probably making the most noise
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  Speaker 3: in camp is this so soon? That man. He it's
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  Speaker 3: just he's doing everything and I don't know if he'll
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  Speaker 3: break with us, but if he doesn't, I see him
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  Speaker 3: at some point helping us during the season. He's a ballplayer,
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  Speaker 3: can play all three outfield positions. He's really excited everybody.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of back end guys tooto. I know we
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  Speaker 3: sent him down, but he's going to be up helping
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  Speaker 3: us power arm. We're not going to start him this year.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to keep him in the bullpen. He's ninety
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  Speaker 3: eight to a hundred with a good slider and this
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  Speaker 3: smart church. He's making a lot of noise in camp.
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  Speaker 3: As you know, we lost our closer last year and
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  Speaker 3: our setup guys. So these guys could come into play
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  Speaker 3: for us.
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  Speaker 5: Nice.
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  Speaker 4: You love the bullpen. You love bullpens. You're one of
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  Speaker 4: the best I've ever seen bullpens.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we got to work this year out because.
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  Speaker 4: One thing Bruce Bochi always figures out is how to
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  Speaker 4: run the Bullpeny, that's never a worry with you. You
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  Speaker 4: mentioned Jock, you mentioned Berger, you mentioned the Dolies. One
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  Speaker 4: of the big things. I don't know how many It
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  Speaker 4: felt like I was part of the Rangers broadcast grew
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  Speaker 4: because I did so many of your games last year.
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  Speaker 4: But we kept talking about it, and we had to
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  Speaker 4: ask you about it all the time. I got to
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  Speaker 4: ask you about again the fourteing fastball, right, Well, Berger
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  Speaker 4: can hit a four seamer, Jock can hit a four steamer.
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  Speaker 4: A Dooleys has always hit a four steamer. Some of
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  Speaker 4: these other guys that all you know, Simeon and Secret
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  Speaker 4: always hit it. For some reason, last year they were down.
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  Speaker 4: What do you do to make that better?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it is something we have talked about quite
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  Speaker 3: a bit. Donn Hick or our hitting coach, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he and I have talked about it. See why all
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  Speaker 3: of is you know, I think it's work. You know,
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  Speaker 3: in the cage. I think it's it's looking at velocity.
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  Speaker 3: I think sometimes we get caught in the looking for
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  Speaker 3: the breaking ball and Duran for example, I mean in
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  Speaker 3: twenty three he saved as Seeger went down, and all
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  Speaker 3: of a sudden, he's not catching up with the fastball,
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  Speaker 3: and so we're kind of changing our routine. They have
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  Speaker 3: this new machine for jack. I don't know if you've
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  Speaker 3: seen it with the Yeah you put your picture up there,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah, a lot of teams are using it, but
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  Speaker 3: we have it now. We're using it so we can
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  Speaker 3: the velo and just try to shorten things up. I
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  Speaker 3: think sometimes guys get caught into power, they get along
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  Speaker 3: with the swing. You know, the high fastball, you you
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  Speaker 3: got to lay off it, DOLDI had a tough time
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  Speaker 3: laying off it last year. So hardest pitcher hitting baseball
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  Speaker 3: I think is high ve low fastball up high and
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  Speaker 3: uh so you know, part of its discipline. A lot
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  Speaker 3: of things come to play. But you're right, that's an
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  Speaker 3: area we got to get better. Almost all the teams
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  Speaker 3: attacked us with us, you know, with the fastball, and
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  Speaker 3: so I think you'll see a better fastball hitting team
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  Speaker 3: this year, especially with the two guys. You mentioned Berger
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  Speaker 3: and Peterson.
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  Speaker 4: Jacob de Gram's coming back for you guys this year.
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  Speaker 4: What's your realistic expectations for starts and innings.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if you talk to Jacob, and I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 3: with that, he's playing on making all the start, So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna watch him or we're gonna honor that you know,
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  Speaker 3: extra day I put him on six days. Yeah, he
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  Speaker 3: looks really really good right now. We have slow played him. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: he's we We're going to pitch him tomorrow in Scottsdale,
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  Speaker 3: but we're supposed to get rained, so we're gonna pitch
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  Speaker 3: him here for three innings and uh we're probably you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not probably. We're gonna have him in the back
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  Speaker 3: end of the rotation to start the season. So when
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  Speaker 3: he goes in there, we have those days off. So
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  Speaker 3: for the first five starts, he'll have that extra day,
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  Speaker 3: and uh, just try to watch his workload because he's
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  Speaker 3: a key, you know for our success. We know it,
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  Speaker 3: and it's we've got to take care of him and
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  Speaker 3: try to get as many starts as we can. Now
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  Speaker 3: during the season, we have to skip a start or
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  Speaker 3: or put him on the eye out of you know,
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  Speaker 3: the miss a couple of starts to keep him fresh,
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  Speaker 3: We'll do that.
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  Speaker 4: Is it more important for him to get those starts
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  Speaker 4: early or you guys are expected to make a run
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  Speaker 4: of the postseason, you'd rather you'd rather have him healthy
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  Speaker 4: at the end, right than kind of the beginning. That's
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  Speaker 4: where the slow plane comes in.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly exactly we we want him at to tell in
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  Speaker 3: if we are we're doing what we want to do,
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  Speaker 3: what we need to do, we'll need him at the
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  Speaker 3: back end. You need your horses in as you know,
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  Speaker 3: when you get to the postseason, and and you need
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  Speaker 3: him fresh. And uh, yeah, he's missed a lot of time.
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  Speaker 3: It's been a while since he's locked him ending. So
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  Speaker 3: that's kind of the thinking there, keep them fresh, and
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  Speaker 3: then maybe times during the year where we do skip
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  Speaker 3: him a couple of times just to keep him going.
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  Speaker 4: All right, one of your ex players is now president
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  Speaker 4: of baseball ops in your old place, San Francisco. Is
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  Speaker 4: he going to be a good president? He's gonna be
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  Speaker 4: a great president. What are you expecting out of Buster
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  Speaker 4: Posey taking over? And did you think that one day
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  Speaker 4: he would be the front office guy?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I didn't think about it or think that
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  Speaker 3: there would be something that may interest him. I didn't,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's not something we talked about. I always
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  Speaker 3: said if he wanted to manage, he'd be to be
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  Speaker 3: a heck of a manager. But I didn't see him
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  Speaker 3: going that route, to be honest. But now now looking
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  Speaker 3: at it, he's gonna do a great job. I think
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  Speaker 3: you're seeing it already. I mean there's the vibe there.
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  Speaker 3: I know when we saw him earlier, I think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the guys are going to love him. You know, he's
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  Speaker 3: a guy that can come down there and talk baby
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  Speaker 3: fall with him. He just has he just has a
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  Speaker 3: great feel for the game, and he's going to be
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  Speaker 3: very relatable to the players. He's gonna be around and
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  Speaker 3: he'll be accessible. Coaches are going to love him, and
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  Speaker 3: so he's he's going to do a terrific job. I'm
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  Speaker 3: happy for him. I'm glad he's in the game. I
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  Speaker 3: think he's great. He'll be great for the game, great
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  Speaker 3: for the city. You know, I beloved he is. But
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  Speaker 3: more importantly, I mean he sees the game in a
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  Speaker 3: different way. We we don't win championships without him leading
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  Speaker 3: the way. And now they got him as their leader.
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  Speaker 3: He'll do a great job.
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  Speaker 4: I love X players when they get in the front office.
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  Speaker 4: You have one here, Chris, Chris Young. Last thing before
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  Speaker 4: we let you go. I know you got to go
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  Speaker 4: run camp today. You were in the eighties. You were
• 13:43
  Speaker 4: an eighties player. Best fight, you were ever in, best brawl.
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  Speaker 3: You Oh, no doubt at Atlanta Grave, no doubt that
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  Speaker 3: was That was every ending. It was incredible. It was
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  Speaker 3: a Sunday day game, you know, hot and uh Man.
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  Speaker 3: When pez at Wiggins there lead off the game. I
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  Speaker 3: just remember Dick Williams going, I don't care about this game.
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  Speaker 3: We're getting them. We're and you know, every time we
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  Speaker 3: threw out him, he threw out our picture. We had
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  Speaker 3: eight game lead, so we're thinking, okay, let's move on,
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  Speaker 3: you know, let's don't get somebody hurt. But you know
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  Speaker 3: the old school way, he was, hey, we're getting even
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  Speaker 3: and uh and adding on to it and uh eighty
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  Speaker 3: four and uh. It was just incredible number of came out.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, fans were jumped trying to jump out. Doug help.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would kid Flanny who was he kept punching
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  Speaker 3: in the fist with his nose. I said, we can
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  Speaker 3: put your hand up and block a punch here and
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  Speaker 3: uh but with Champ Summers, he went there, dug out,
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  Speaker 3: a horner had a cast on trying to block him
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  Speaker 3: and uh uh Kurt Brabaka he went up in the stands.
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  Speaker 3: It was crazy. I mean, in fact, fans started coming
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  Speaker 3: on the field. It was a good one for nine innings.
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  Speaker 4: And people who haven't seen that just google the Padres fight.
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  Speaker 4: It's one of the all time great ones.
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  Speaker 3: All my relatives were down from North Carolina and that's all.
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  Speaker 3: He's still talk. He come on, come on, hit him,
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  Speaker 3: hit him all the best appreciated guy, he's saying this,
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  Speaker 3: thanks for having me on. We'll see you all right.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited for this one. We've got Jake Berger, Texas
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  Speaker 2: Rangers slugger joining us right now. How does that sound?
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  Speaker 2: And I ask it because you've been through a lot
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  Speaker 2: in your career and then you happen to be part
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  Speaker 2: of some crappy teams and now I don't know if
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: you can see behind you, but they just want to
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: ring a couple of years ago.
• 15:33
  Speaker 7: How you doing good?
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: Good?
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: Thanks for having me on, and it's uh, it's good
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: to be here. And you know, down in surprise back
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: in Arizona. Spring training is always always a big one.
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: Listen, this guy more than anything, forget the baseball stuff.
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: He deserves a freaking award today because he kept coming
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: There's a door right over here, and he kept coming out.
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: Every time he was coming out, there was somebody sitting
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: in the chair and we taped some of the interviews,
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: so he kept coming out. He's like again again and
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: then he had to go to the cage. So for
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: him to come out and do this with his his
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: live I mean, this dude right here, he deserves in
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: a worldy.
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: You're a real life.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: We appreciate it. We love watching it hit. And I mean,
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: in all seriousness for me, when you found out that
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: you were traded to the Rangers, are you kind of like,
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna be kissing the ground because I'm gonna be
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: part of a playoff contender. I mean, last year Miami
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: stripped its team down to parts. So I know, a
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: couple of years ago you got to play some playoff
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: all and that was cool. But now you get to
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: latch onto the team that's any Yeah.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, had had a lot of fun in Miami,
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: and you know there's a lot of good dudes down there.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: But when I got the call that I was getting traded,
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: I was I was fired up, and you know, I
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: was just knowing nobody in this clubhouse really other than
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Dane Dunning, just like everybody reaching out to me and
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: you know, kind of introducing themselves. Was was incredible. And
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: it's just been it's been an awesome clubhouse and just
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: a really good vibe, really good energy all all camp.
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: First base, yeah, full time, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's more
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: third base.
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: No, no more second base either.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Seven seven career games is second base, which one out
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: above average at second basetty incredible, that's all.
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: Is that range that's like your range?
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: I don't yeah, I guess I don't know.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: I made like one really nice like diving play and
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: maybe that's like played seven games. No, but it's it's
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: the first spring where you know you're not like bouncing
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: first or third or you know, hey, we we want
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: to see a second base, we want to see a
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: third we want to see it first where it's like
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: solely hey, I'm just working on the foot work at
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: first base, and so like when you have that kind
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: of stability of like, hey, this is where we want
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: you to play and you know, just get after it.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: That that kind of suits well fits well with my
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: personality where it's like, hey, I can really like dig
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: into it.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Jake, I got something for you. We're putting it together
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: right now. You mentioned it's above average. You also are
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: a stat cast darling in another sense, and I know
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: you like to dabble on Twitter. I don't know if
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: you caught this specific tweet that was out a couple
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: months ago from our Alex Fast who works on stack cast,
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: but he's like, all right, rank the following by sprint
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Speed Lindor Berger Adamis Bryce Harper. Did you see this
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: and do you know the answer to this pop quiz?
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: I don't know if I know the answer.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: I saw that, and I make it a point to
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: anybody i'm with that my sprint speed's like really sneaky
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: and like my Baseball savant page and stuff. You know
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: the metrics there. Yeah, I mean I'm in the light red.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: But still it's so it's it's always fun to talk
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: about it. And I was talking to the strength coaches
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: when I got over here, and I'm like, guys, one
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: goal this year, give me one bolt. I just need
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: one thirty feet per second, just one of them, just
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: to say I have a bolt in the big leagues.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: And uh, you know they're like, oh, I thought you're
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: gonna say, like it forty home runs?
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: No, yeah, exactly, yeah.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: First forty thirty guy, you know, forty home runs thirty
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: thirty feet per second.
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: I want to know now, I want to know the rankings.
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: God give me the ranking.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: We have them. We have them. So there's a reply
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: that shows it. Jake was first in Springs feed last year,
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: then Lindor, then Harper, than a domis. What do you
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: think about that? Jake, You're faster than me and Bryce
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Slandor domics No big deal.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but there I don't know how many of those. Uh,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: there's no doubt home runs that they're uh you know,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: jogging out of the bass pass.
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: If that adds to the average there, you know it
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: doesn't count. Pretty fastest paced, I don't know. Now that's cool,
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: you know.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: I I I pride myself and running hard down the
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: line like all the time, so you know I think
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: that that adds to it.
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: And also you know I'm sneaky fast.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: I think sneaky fast.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: I think the words out though, because like I used
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: to get a lot of infield knocks with it, and now,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: like you know, guys are getting rid of the ball
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: so fast.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: All right, you're not listen. Let's let's let's get real.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: You're not paid for your bolts on the basis you're
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: paid to hit homers. Yeah, how many homers do you
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: think you can hit this year? In I mean globe
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: life is laur But you came from Miami, which was.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a better metrically speaking, like stadium, right, they
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: don't they sat.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: You down here.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: Rangers came and said, no, we've hit all we put
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: all your fly balls. You need to hit three more homers
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: last year.
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: No, no, nothing like that.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: But you know, I think for for me, and my
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: wife kind of has a a goal of fifty for me,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: so you know, that's kind of I don't know, she's
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: going to be disappointed if I hit forty nine. So
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: I feel like it's kind of high up there. But
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: you know, I think if I'm if I'm who I am,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: and you know, not getting outside myself, I feel like,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: you know, sky's a lemon in terms of power and
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: how I put the ball in the air.
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: Just hit less ground balls and see what happens.
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: What does your wife's disappointment look like like to see
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: give you like a a disappointing face, or does she like,
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: oh yeah, stop certain things.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: No, it's a disappointing face, you know. She Uh, It's funny.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: It's like when I have like a really good game,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: she's like, look, it's like baseball is not that hard
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: to say, you made it look easy today, and so uh,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: you know, anytime, but she understands how.
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: Hard it is.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: But she's still going to be disappointed if I don't
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: get the fifty this year?
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: All right, what are they going to call the Homers?
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: I don't know, I don't know.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: We have a list here, Yeah, burger bombs, whoppers, Yeah, Hamburgers,
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: smash burgers.
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: I like, I like Smashburger.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: You're in Texas.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: What about what a what a.
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: What a burger? Yeah?
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: What a Homer?
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: What a Homer?
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: I like it. We could get it. We could work
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: on an endorsement.
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: Yeah, little I know, right.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: I mean everybody loves him and loves it.
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: I know, it's uh, I don't know.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: I feel like everybody comes up with the creative thing
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: like every year that like they ride with you know,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: smash Burger was kind of like twenty three. Last year
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: was kind of like Whopper because Burger King was in
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Miami and stuff. So yeah, we'll see maybe playoff Waterburger.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: I'm not sure what about.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: I'm laughing because water Burger. Water Burger is good. I like, sorry,
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: I'm laugh because it's cool.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: That you have.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: Obviously, your name plays off in your home runs this year.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: This team last year struggle to hit four seam fast balls. Well,
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: they bring you in jacket and you guys mashed those balls.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: What are you going to tell the other guys like, man,
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: it's not that hard.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, if they can teach me how to
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: hit some sinkers, you know, I think no, it's uh,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I think growing up for me, like
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: my dad always threw really firm VP, so I feel
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: like it's just been kind of like part of my
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: swinging since I don't know, seven or eight years old.
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: Josh Young gave gave you a gift for your daughter
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: recovering from her surgery? Where's that? Where's that gift? And
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: a reach out from a new teammate like that, where
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: does that rank? And gifts that you've been given recently
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: or in your life.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: It's it's way up there, you know, I think it's
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: probably close to the top, if not the top. And
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: it's I sent it back to Nashville for for Penelope,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: and you know, it was really cool, just because obviously
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: there's turbulent times my daughter having surgery, and the the
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: organization like top to bottom, has been incredible with it,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: and you know, obviously allowed me to go home and
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: said take your time. I I wanted to get back
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: on the field, and we felt like it was a
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: good time for me to leave. H she was, she
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: was feeling good and uh, you know, recovering. And then
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: I get back and they we have a hitters meeting
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: and they give me that blanket, and you know, for
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: for my wife and I it was unbelievably special that
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: you know, guys that I just met two weeks prior,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: three weeks prior, like kind of rallying around us. And
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: you know, obviously that's that's the thing everybody sees. But
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: like the phone calls and the text during the o
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: R day, you know, where we're sitting in a waiting
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: room was incredible. You know, all the all the guys
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: reaching out asking how it's going asking if they can
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: get us anything, you know, and it's just see why
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: being who he is and like, you know, just like
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: always asking and always checking in and giving us the
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: time we need. It was just it was incredible and
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: you feel the love and kind of the family. And
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: I think that's what this organizations about. And that's like
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: the energy you feel day in and day out when
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: you're in this clubhouse.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: Your daughters did well, though, Yes, make sure that we everything.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: She's good.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she she had a check up a couple of
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: days ago, and it looks like she's gonna be able
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: to fly down to opening day.
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: So didn't you You hit a home run with her hospital.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Yet That's like, say what you want about spring training
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: home runs. That's probably the most special home run i'vehit
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: in my career, just because of you know, the magnitude
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: of it for for me and and our family.
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: And you know, I still have that band.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: I'm going to bring it with me everywhere I'm at
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: because if she can battle through that, I can battle
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: through a you know, a slow start or a you know,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: a slow series or whatever it may be. You know,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: it's like she's a warrior and my wife's a warrior
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: that you know, I this is this is a child's
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: game and go out there and just have fun.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: What is there anybody? I mean, we're on National TV
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: all the time. Is there any doctor or anybody you
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: want to give a shout out to a thank you?
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: I mean obviously we want to thank your wife as
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: for everything she's done and everything you guys have been through.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: But is there a doctor or someone that you want
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: to shout out at a hospital or whatever?
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean, like the team at at Vanderbilt in
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Nashville was incredible. A doctor, yeah, they they hooked me up,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Thank goodness. No, but uh yeah, doctor Mary did the surgery.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: It was incredible, like just awesome, down to earth. And
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: doctor Moore was a cardiologist there. And just like the
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: daily basis and you know, there's so many people you
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: can name, you know, the the night nurses there and
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: you know, the the nick you nurses. There's just like
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: across the board, just amazing people. And you know, I
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: don't I don't envy what those those do. Those people
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: do on a daily basis, because you see a lot
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: of heartbreak and you see a lot of really hard
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: times for families and you know, being able to come
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: with a positive energy every single day is nothing but amazing.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: So you know, I appreciate that Vanderbilt team a lot.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: Thankful for thankful for your health, Thankful for you being
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: a Texas ranger. Before I let you go, I got
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: asked this question. Vinnie Pasedmenttino this off season tweeted about
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: you swung at twenty three straight pitches.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: Now, somebody that.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: Swung it everything they threw up there, including the rosen bag,
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: like they threw the like a pitcher would throw the
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: ball in. And I'm trying to swing with that. How
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: the heck do you swing at twenty three straight pitches?
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know, And I've like me and Vinnie have
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: talked about it, like since it happened a lot, and
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: it's like it I don't even know what was going on,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Like I was kind of unconscious because like, yeah, I
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: was like I was like six for ten with like
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: three homers, Like the three singles I hit were like
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: over one ten, and uh, I was like smashing. And
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: I'll never forget I was in the in the cage,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I was d hing one of the days and we're
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: playing Cleveland and Sandland came in, you know, the subby,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: and I looked at Gavin Sheets and I go, he's
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: either gonna throw a sinker middle end and I'm gonna
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: hit it for a homer. I'm gonna swing at three
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: pitches in the other box because he's gonna flip that
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: slider in there. I'm gonna swing at all three of them.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: And he threw all three sliders.
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: So I struck out like three times during that time too.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: But no, it was like it was kind of unconscious,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: like I kind of wish I could repeat it, and
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's like a full like you
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: gotta be in Cooperstown for something, and I feel like that,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe that'll I know, I texted him last
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: night and you know he's doing good over in San Diego.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: This was awesome, man, really great to catch up and
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: glad to hear. Obviously everything's going okay fam wise, and
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: we'll catch it during the season for sure.
• 27:51
  Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, thanks for having me on guys.