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Austin Riley, Michael Harris II and Matt Olson join FT @Braves camp · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: I'm here with brave centerfielder center fielder Michael Harris. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna hit you with a tough question right away. We
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  Speaker 1: played together in twenty twenty three. In twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: I got asked by a reporter who do I think
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  Speaker 1: could win the National League MVP?
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  Speaker 2: And I chose you. What's it gonna take for you
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  Speaker 2: to prove me?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 4: I think exactly what I'm doing right now kind of
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  Speaker 4: came into spring knowing, knowing what it took, what it
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  Speaker 4: probably takes to get to that next level offensively for me,
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  Speaker 4: and I guess right now I'm being more selective and
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  Speaker 4: kind of find the right pitches to swing at and
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  Speaker 4: kind of accumulated some walks already. So hopefully that translates
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  Speaker 4: into the season and it can kind of prove you
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  Speaker 4: right there you go.
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  Speaker 5: We'd love to see it.
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  Speaker 6: So for our audience, I don't think we had you
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  Speaker 6: last year, at least not later in the year. So
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  Speaker 6: can you just kind of run through your evaluation of
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  Speaker 6: the season. It was kind of wild, right, I think
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  Speaker 6: well documented. You went through some ups and downs early
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  Speaker 6: on in the season, then you just tore it up late.
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  Speaker 6: So what did you see when you were able to
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  Speaker 6: evaluate your season in the off season on how things
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  Speaker 6: changed and what you learned from it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say the first half it's pretty nasty.
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  Speaker 4: Didn't know, didn't know what was going on, didn't know
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  Speaker 4: what to fix, was trying different things. It will work
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  Speaker 4: for a couple of days and then go back to
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  Speaker 4: not really feel like myself. Until I came to the
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  Speaker 4: conclusion of my hands weren't getting to where I needed
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  Speaker 4: them to be. I would try to do drills in
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  Speaker 4: the case to exaggerate and get them up, and they
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  Speaker 4: were never they would never get up there. So I
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  Speaker 4: went it just said why not move my hands back up.
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  Speaker 4: I made the change when I got caught up to
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  Speaker 4: them from up to down, so I don't think it'd
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  Speaker 4: be that hard to go from down to up. Then
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  Speaker 4: I've pretty much done my whole life. So once I
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  Speaker 4: did that, everything started to flow. Uh started to hit
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  Speaker 4: fastballs again like normal, and and I felt felt like myself.
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  Speaker 4: So that's it's kind of what I what I assessed.
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  Speaker 4: Tried to keep doing that during the off season, make
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  Speaker 4: sure everything was nice, polished, and here in spring training
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  Speaker 4: trying to put it all together to be ready for
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  Speaker 4: Game one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of the off season, when you walked in here,
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  Speaker 1: I said, you look like you're in great shape. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you know the world knows about Lawrence Butler, but tell
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  Speaker 1: us about some of those other guys that you're kind
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  Speaker 1: of your your your baseball buddies that you trained with,
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  Speaker 1: the the Atlanta Boys and what you guys call yourself.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, we call ourselves the Hill Boys.
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  Speaker 4: It's Chandler Simpson, Lawrence Butler, Jayalen Allen, Marquise Grissom, r
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  Speaker 4: Ryan Spike's, Cam Collier and myself. So yeah, we're from Atlanta.
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  Speaker 7: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: It started, It started in covid. We couldn't work out anywhere,
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  Speaker 4: so Markus Grissom let us work out at his at
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  Speaker 4: his what is it called his property, his property, and
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  Speaker 4: in Georgia and ever since then we kind of we
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  Speaker 4: kind of give ourselves the Hill Boy's name, and it's
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  Speaker 4: run by him and Luke Caryer. So they work us
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  Speaker 4: to death and we kind of come into spring training
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  Speaker 4: in shape.
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  Speaker 2: Have you raced Chandler chance? Have you raced him yet?
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  Speaker 4: I mean yeah, from from that one video everybody saw, uh,
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  Speaker 4: I say I won, I'm not gonna race him again.
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  Speaker 4: And obviously try to lose, but I'm gonna just take
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  Speaker 4: my title and say I won that one.
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  Speaker 6: Oh wow, I remember that. Okay, so one and done.
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  Speaker 6: What did Chandler say afterward? Was he trying to get
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  Speaker 6: you to go again?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 7: Originally that it wasn't even like a race.
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  Speaker 4: It was just our last sprint of the day after
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  Speaker 4: the workout, and it happened to be recorded, and uh.
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  Speaker 7: I happened.
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  Speaker 4: I guess technically I came in second from what Lawrence says,
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  Speaker 4: but he had on a long beanie, so it doesn't
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  Speaker 4: really count. He's already six y four with a long
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  Speaker 4: beanie reach over the line. I feel like I won,
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  Speaker 4: but uh, Chandler actually came in third, so that kind
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  Speaker 4: of makes him a little slower in the head, and
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  Speaker 4: he doesn't.
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  Speaker 7: He didn't like that, so I'm definitely not again.
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  Speaker 8: Are you gonna?
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  Speaker 9: Are you gonna take over for the freeze or looking
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  Speaker 9: for a new freeze in between?
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  Speaker 8: In it you could just be the new freeze.
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  Speaker 9: Apparently the freeze left. You could be the freeze and
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  Speaker 9: then just how the people try to chase you since
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  Speaker 9: you're so fast.
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  Speaker 4: I can start from center, I'm not I'm not going
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  Speaker 4: from the from the stout line.
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  Speaker 7: I'll start from center and try to finish.
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  Speaker 1: H How how how different it's camp been without uh
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  Speaker 1: Ronald being here? I know it's probably you know, we
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  Speaker 1: love Ronald, but your ears get a little nice break, right,
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to hear him talk all day every day.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not even it's not even Ronald, it's Izzy.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody got a nice, nice release when he left. It's
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  Speaker 4: a lot quiet air stretch. We can focus that stretch.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, obviously missing missing those guys. Uh hoping they're
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  Speaker 4: having fun WBC and they're a big part of this team.
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  Speaker 7: But it is a lot quieter without Ozzi here.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, have you been watching?
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  Speaker 6: Of course you know Ozzy had his big moment over
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  Speaker 6: the weekend, but have you been watching the games? And
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  Speaker 6: what did you think of Ozzie's big swing?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I've been.
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  Speaker 4: I've been tuning into two games when I could. It
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  Speaker 4: was crazy because when Ozzie hit the walkoff, I had
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  Speaker 4: just came in from from coming out of a game
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  Speaker 4: that day. As soon as I walk in, he's in
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  Speaker 4: that situation. And then first pitch Homer, everybody's in the
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  Speaker 4: clubhouse going crazy. They call him afterwards, He's talking to
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  Speaker 4: the guys.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it was. It was a crazy moment. Yeah, doing
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  Speaker 7: that for your country.
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  Speaker 4: I know that it means so much to him and
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  Speaker 4: hopefully we can see that this year with the with
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  Speaker 4: the team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're you're you're still young enough. But when you
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  Speaker 1: when you watch that, is there some extra motivation to
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  Speaker 1: potentially want to go represent the USA and play center
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  Speaker 1: field form?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, I think it'll It'll mean a lot
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  Speaker 4: to be able to to wear USA across my chest
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  Speaker 4: and be able to play for this country. I guess
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  Speaker 4: it's whenever, whenever I get the chance to, I try
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  Speaker 4: my best to put on for this country.
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  Speaker 9: Michael, you're from Atlanta. We talked about you being from
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  Speaker 9: Atlanta and your whole thing. Who has more commercials when
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  Speaker 9: you watch a Braves game? You or Jeff frank core
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  Speaker 9: Because when you turn on a Braves game, it is
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  Speaker 9: commercial Michael Harris a second Jeff frank Corer. And then
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  Speaker 9: it's like back and forth, which one of y'all has
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  Speaker 9: more commercials happening in Atlanta at the same time.
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  Speaker 7: From what I hear. It has to be me.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like every commercial is is a different it's
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  Speaker 4: a different Bronco commercial.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, you must have a whole fleet of Broncos.
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  Speaker 7: No, I just I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: I hate to hear it.
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  Speaker 4: I just hate to hear myself back and so I
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  Speaker 4: kind of avoid hearing them. But people tell me all
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  Speaker 4: the time that I'm not going to every commercial and
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  Speaker 4: I better really give that Bronco away or yeah it's
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: I'm glad I don't have to watch the game. I'm
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  Speaker 7: in the game.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, I hear. I hear a lot that that
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  Speaker 4: I'm on the commercials a lot.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll tell you what, though, that Bronco they give
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  Speaker 2: you is nice. I've seen it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about the ones over the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of years, but the one that you had when I
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  Speaker 1: was there was really nice.
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  Speaker 2: What's the vibe been like with Walt you know you
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  Speaker 2: man in the ship now?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been good. He's energized, he's ready to win.
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  Speaker 4: He gave us our first meeting. He gave us as
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  Speaker 4: rational kind of video to go off of to to
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  Speaker 4: kind of using our careers in our in our everyday life.
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  Speaker 4: So he's ready to go to war, and we're ready
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  Speaker 4: to be his soldiers to go with him.
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  Speaker 1: Was it a was it like a movie quote or
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  Speaker 1: was it like a thing that he kind of put together,
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  Speaker 1: what kind of what kind of you know, video?
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  Speaker 7: Was just it was a UFC fighter.
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  Speaker 4: I forgot his name, but he was he was like
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  Speaker 4: the number one fighter at the time, and he was
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  Speaker 4: going against a guy that he was supposed to be
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  Speaker 4: but he was immensely prepared because maybe he thought he
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  Speaker 4: was gonna he was gonna automatically beat him. And he
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  Speaker 4: said that he told himself in the mirror that he
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  Speaker 4: wasn't he wasn't ready right before he went out, and
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  Speaker 4: he ended up.
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  Speaker 7: Ended up losing.
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  Speaker 4: He took that, he took that with him, came back
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  Speaker 4: and front the same dude again, and it was kind
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  Speaker 4: of like a massacre. So, uh, it was It was
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  Speaker 4: basically the message was, I guess be ready if you're
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  Speaker 4: If you're not ready, you're not going to conquer the moment.
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  Speaker 4: So just prepare, Just prepare for every moment to be
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  Speaker 4: the best.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just just sitting here hearing that message kind of
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  Speaker 1: almost makes me want to get out of this chair
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  Speaker 1: and go back and play but I'm pretty comfortable here obviously,
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  Speaker 1: AO or the NL East Juggernaut. You know, obviously a
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  Speaker 1: tough year last year, first time you guys missed the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs in you know, the last eight years, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, extra motivation going into this season.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, I never wanted to ever miss the
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  Speaker 4: playoffs in my career, but that's just the way last
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  Speaker 4: year went. And uh, we're kind of do everything to
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  Speaker 4: do everything right now to not be in that position again.
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  Speaker 4: You don't know, you don't know how the season goes.
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  Speaker 4: Baseball is such a crazy, crazy sport and when you
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  Speaker 4: play one hundred sixty two games, so much can happen.
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  Speaker 4: So just being able to be here and try to
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  Speaker 4: prepare with the new guys that we have and the
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  Speaker 4: coaching stuff is it is kind of who were prepared
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  Speaker 4: to do to not do what we did last year.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, when you guys were going through that last year,
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  Speaker 6: how difficult was it because you've in your career never
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  Speaker 6: experienced that at all. So you end up late in
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  Speaker 6: the season essentially playing games that don't mean anything because
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  Speaker 6: the team was either eliminated or close to being eliminated
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  Speaker 6: over that past month or so.
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  Speaker 4: It was kind of crazy. The vibes weren't different in
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  Speaker 4: the clubhouse. Everybody was still lighthearted, still the same guys.
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  Speaker 4: It just when we got to the game and got
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  Speaker 4: in certain situations, it just didn't go our way. And
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  Speaker 4: it's one of those things you couldn't rely put your
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  Speaker 4: finger on what was going wrong or what was really happening.
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  Speaker 4: But at one point our whole rotation was gone. They
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  Speaker 4: were dealing too when it happened, So I kind of
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  Speaker 4: took a hit on us. We weren't really performing as
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  Speaker 4: well on offense. That kind of went on top of that.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, it was it was a weird year, but
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't say our vibes changed or the way we were,
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  Speaker 4: so we just didn't execute the way we should have.
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  Speaker 1: I know you guys had an extremely tough start to
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  Speaker 1: the season last year, the West Coast road trip, the
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  Speaker 1: teams you played, obviously, I think you guys were nine
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  Speaker 1: to start the year and seven to start the year.
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  Speaker 1: Do you believe you guys will kind of approach the
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  Speaker 1: end of spring training a little bit differently once you
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  Speaker 1: know your WBC guys get back, maybe last couple of games, like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: let's treat these a little bit like games, let's get
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  Speaker 1: that good competitive juice going. So you go into the
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  Speaker 1: season a little bit more prepared than last year, or
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  Speaker 1: is it just a tough start to the season last year.
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  Speaker 7: I think it was just a tough start.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like we prepared the right way last year
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  Speaker 4: just didn't happen to fall in place for US two
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  Speaker 4: tough teams obviously the World Series champion the first second series,
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  Speaker 4: but didn't plan the padres. I feel like it was
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  Speaker 4: just as good as them going into it.
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  Speaker 7: We just didn't. We just didn't pull out a win.
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  Speaker 7: But can't be used as an excuse.
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  Speaker 4: We just never found our way back after that and
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  Speaker 4: kind of hurt us.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, so when things don't go right the online world,
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  Speaker 6: Michael just wants to find something right.
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  Speaker 5: Like you said, Hey, it's hard to find it.
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  Speaker 6: I will make the case that not having a lot
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  Speaker 6: of the rotation in tact is pretty challenging as well
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  Speaker 6: when you look back last year. But there was one
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  Speaker 6: narrative that carried for a little bit about how, hey,
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  Speaker 6: a lot of these guys are an extension, so maybe
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  Speaker 6: they're not as hungry, Like, how do you defend that
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  Speaker 6: because most of the time fans are rooting for what
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  Speaker 6: you guys have. Hey, get extensions done, so you got
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  Speaker 6: the same core for a while. Fans can buy the jerseys,
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  Speaker 6: they can follow the stars, they stay with the team.
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  Speaker 6: So what's kind of the pushback for people that say that,
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  Speaker 6: because because you're one of them, right, you signed an
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  Speaker 6: extension earlier on in your career, and can you speak
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  Speaker 6: to how motivated you are every day?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've I've never really understood why people think because
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  Speaker 4: players are paid and have an extension that they're just
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  Speaker 4: they're just kind of coming in every day, going through
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  Speaker 4: the motions and not really caring about the results. I
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  Speaker 4: feel like it makes you even more hungry because there's
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  Speaker 4: more expectations for you and you. I feel like everybody
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  Speaker 4: wants to be the best. So yeah, I never I
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  Speaker 4: never understood why why people think that we think that way.
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  Speaker 4: But I think that's what makes lasher so much tougher
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  Speaker 4: because we have so many people that are extended and
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  Speaker 4: we didn't have the seasons that we are kind of
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  Speaker 4: supposed to have.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, Michael, give me your best Chris Sale story. I
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  Speaker 9: know he's done something crazy in that clubouse, so you
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  Speaker 9: got to give me something.
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  Speaker 8: I know he said something or done something.
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  Speaker 7: He's done something crazy. Oh I don't know, or you just.
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  Speaker 5: Don't talk to give him context because you play playing.
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  Speaker 7: I talked to the I'm not around him as much.
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  Speaker 9: I played with Chris James came up, so I've known
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  Speaker 9: him since twenty ten.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, AJ, How scared would you be if you hit
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  Speaker 1: that samurai sword he can sale?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: You see that Samurai sword that Mizuno gave him.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, No, he's not getting he's not getting within twenty
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  Speaker 9: feet of me or my family, especially even the uniforms
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  Speaker 9: for that.
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  Speaker 5: Matter, does even know that? Like Michael so Young?
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  Speaker 9: Does you know that Chrystal chopped up the uniforms? You've
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  Speaker 9: heard that story, right?
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah he told us about that too.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, that's probably his craziest story.
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  Speaker 1: Not yeah, yeah, he's on his best behavior now he's matured.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, Chris is matured.
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  Speaker 8: Now that's good.
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  Speaker 6: I got one more last one for me. How do
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  Speaker 6: you preserve your body playing center field? We see some
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  Speaker 6: guys able to carry it deep into their career. Actually,
• 15:06
  Speaker 6: it's a perfect question with both of you sitting there right.
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  Speaker 6: Kp able to do it, you know, deep into his thirties, Like,
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  Speaker 6: how do you do it? Are you thinking about that, like, Hey,
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  Speaker 6: I want to I want to play this position for
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  Speaker 6: a long time, longer than most do. And what can
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  Speaker 6: you do to make that happen?
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  Speaker 4: I think it all depends on the person, the player.
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  Speaker 4: You just got to find a routine that works for
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  Speaker 4: you and it makes you feel good going into a game.
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  Speaker 4: Last year, I was able to stay healthy when I
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: played one hundred and sixty games, So I don't know
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  Speaker 4: exactly what changed, but well, I think I did find
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  Speaker 4: a routine that really worked for me, and just going
• 15:42
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• 15:46
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• 15:50
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• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean right on that topic, it's perfect time
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: to let them get out of here, because part is
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: staying healthy and playing center field for a long time
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: time is making sure you get the stretch on time,
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: make sure you stretch it out. And we got to
• 16:06
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• 16:09
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• 16:18
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• 17:42
  Speaker 1: baseball right now, Matt Olson, thanks for joining us. My
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: first question series question, how thankful I'm trying to think
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: your playing first base would be your left ear right?
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: How thankful are you that Ozzie's out of here right
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: now and you don't have to hear him chirpin all
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: day every day.
• 17:58
  Speaker 8: It's weird.
• 17:59
  Speaker 10: I thought I would like it, but you know, I
• 18:01
  Speaker 10: find myself missing some constant chatter out there.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: It's weird too because it comes from a much different angle,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: you know. It's kind of like from down here up
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: to your to your ear.
• 18:11
  Speaker 10: I don't do this to me. I already blast him enough.
• 18:14
  Speaker 10: I don't need extra take out there. He's gonna be upset.
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: Wait for the national audience though, Like how much talking
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: goes on it? Is he the most talkative teammate on
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: the team? And and is he funny?
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: Like? What what is the banter going on there from Ozzie.
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: We've had him on the show a couple of times,
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: but to give a glimpse from a teammate.
• 18:31
  Speaker 10: Yeah, he's he's the guy that's always talking, you know,
• 18:35
  Speaker 10: he's he's the English and Spanish guy, so he's he's
• 18:39
  Speaker 10: the one in the.
• 18:39
  Speaker 8: Middle, just stirring the pot for everybody.
• 18:43
  Speaker 10: We we always hit him with some some short jokes
• 18:47
  Speaker 10: unfortunately for him, but he loves it and he drops
• 18:51
  Speaker 10: it right back to us.
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: I love it.
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: Hey, Matt, are you watching the WBC closely? Like are
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: you checking out all the games the last four or
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: five days?
• 19:00
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I've been watching him. You know.
• 19:03
  Speaker 10: Some of the weird times, I haven't seen some stuff,
• 19:05
  Speaker 10: but I've always been seeing clips.
• 19:07
  Speaker 8: Obviously Ozzie's Homer. The other day actually we.
• 19:10
  Speaker 10: Came right out of the game and as we were
• 19:12
  Speaker 10: walking in I saw it live.
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: So it was a it was a sick at that
• 19:17
  Speaker 8: cool moment for him.
• 19:19
  Speaker 10: And uh, you know we talked to him and and
• 19:22
  Speaker 10: I told him congrats.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: So, I mean, I've been in this clubhouse.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: I know how tight you and Austin are, how you
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: guys do a lot of things together. Is there anything
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: that you could kind of teach him or I know
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: you've probably tried to teach him, but is there anything
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: that you could kind of share with him too that's
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: allowed you to be so consistent on the field.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Obviously he's had some injuries over the last couple of.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Years, because when you two were out there, I mean,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: arguably the best corner in baseball.
• 19:51
  Speaker 10: You know, Rouse is pretty good about his stuff. It's
• 19:53
  Speaker 10: it's not any secret pill I got. You know, I
• 19:58
  Speaker 10: say that playing first base is a lot of what allows.
• 20:02
  Speaker 8: Me to be on the field. You know.
• 20:04
  Speaker 10: Two years ago he got hit in the hand with
• 20:06
  Speaker 10: a ninety eight mine hour sinker and missed some time.
• 20:09
  Speaker 10: And last year the hernia stuff, it's something you tried
• 20:12
  Speaker 10: to get through and just you know, came back out
• 20:15
  Speaker 10: and couldn't do it. Had to get it, you know,
• 20:17
  Speaker 10: surgically repaired. But when when that guy's on the field,
• 20:21
  Speaker 10: he's he's one of the best in the game on
• 20:24
  Speaker 10: all all sides of the ball. He can you know,
• 20:26
  Speaker 10: he can run, he can hit, he can field. He's
• 20:29
  Speaker 10: just a special talent. And you know, I always forget
• 20:33
  Speaker 10: how how much younger than me he is. He's been
• 20:36
  Speaker 10: doing it for so long that you know, and he's
• 20:39
  Speaker 10: such a mature guy that he feels like, you know,
• 20:41
  Speaker 10: somebody around my age, but still a younger guy and
• 20:45
  Speaker 10: a lot left.
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: To do in this league.
• 20:48
  Speaker 9: Man, you mentioned wanting to play. Dude, you're going for
• 20:51
  Speaker 9: Kyle Ripkins streak here. You've got four straight years, one
• 20:53
  Speaker 9: hundred and sixty two. You only have like fifteen more
• 20:56
  Speaker 9: years to go. You think you're gonna make it.
• 20:58
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I think I'm gonna be on a golf course
• 21:00
  Speaker 10: somewhere by the time that it get gets close at all.
• 21:06
  Speaker 10: It is kind of crazy. It puts it into his
• 21:09
  Speaker 10: streak and the perspective a little bit. You know, I
• 21:11
  Speaker 10: feel like I've been out there every day for a
• 21:14
  Speaker 10: while and I'm not even sniffing him.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: How was the golf game, by the way, Because I've
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: been out there with you, and.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: I mean there's some moments.
• 21:25
  Speaker 8: I show flashes.
• 21:26
  Speaker 10: It's enough to keep me coming back pop a eighty
• 21:30
  Speaker 10: one day and then a ninety five the next.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: You know, obviously new manager here, familiar face. What's it
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: been like with what being the head of this ship?
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: And has it been any different than you thought it
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: would be?
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: No, Walt's been great.
• 21:46
  Speaker 10: I mean, you know, Walt from being here but just
• 21:50
  Speaker 10: all time guy, you know, somebody who's obviously grew up
• 21:55
  Speaker 10: in kind of that older school era, but you know,
• 21:58
  Speaker 10: he's got sons who were playing now, so he understands
• 22:02
  Speaker 10: kind of the newer stuff and you know, just the
• 22:05
  Speaker 10: proper blend between the two.
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: I think, you know, he says it great.
• 22:09
  Speaker 10: He talks about it, you know, the analytics and the
• 22:13
  Speaker 10: and the video and all that stuff being tools. But
• 22:15
  Speaker 10: when it's time to go play, you go play. And
• 22:19
  Speaker 10: you know.
• 22:19
  Speaker 8: I just love Walt's relationship with everybody.
• 22:23
  Speaker 10: And you know, he's he played, he was he was
• 22:27
  Speaker 10: a grinder when he played. He was, you know, intense dude,
• 22:30
  Speaker 10: and I think that he's going to bring a little
• 22:33
  Speaker 10: a little edge to us.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, being around you, being your teammate, I know how
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: much you take pride in knowing the strike zone, and
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: I know how frustrating it could be sometimes when you
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: feel like you're right. And obviously the umpires have a
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: difficult job to do. But how do you like the
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: ABS system and how do you feel like you're going
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: to implement it this year?
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: Uh?
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's been good. You know.
• 22:55
  Speaker 10: I I won one, my only challenge one. It was
• 23:01
  Speaker 10: really close and probably shouldn't do that during the season.
• 23:06
  Speaker 10: I'm still trying to kind of get a feel for it.
• 23:09
  Speaker 10: Got punched out on one the other day, so uh,
• 23:13
  Speaker 10: that was a little difficult to sit there waiting to
• 23:16
  Speaker 10: see if I'm gonna walk back to the dig out.
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: But I think it's good.
• 23:19
  Speaker 10: I think once we get into the swing things, it's
• 23:21
  Speaker 10: just gonna take away the big misses. You know, there's
• 23:24
  Speaker 10: gonna be guys that challenge stuff and they're gonna get
• 23:25
  Speaker 10: it wrong. But I feel like, you know, you only
• 23:28
  Speaker 10: get two. They're so important that guys are gonna put
• 23:31
  Speaker 10: it in their pocket if it's a Boerline pitch and
• 23:35
  Speaker 10: like I said, kind of just take away the big misses.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Has there been a conversation yet about how you guys
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: are gonna use them? Is that a conversation you have
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: with you know, you're hitting coaches, Walt, you know, do
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: you guys sit down as offense and go these are
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: the times we use it? Or is it something where
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: you feel like you're gonna get freedom until baby Ronald
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: uses it the first pitch of the game.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: You're like, okay, come.
• 23:55
  Speaker 10: On, Ronald, No, I mean we haven't had a you know,
• 24:02
  Speaker 10: sit down and clear, clear cut what we're going to do.
• 24:05
  Speaker 10: I think for now it's like err on the side
• 24:08
  Speaker 10: of you know, just going for it if you feel it,
• 24:12
  Speaker 10: to kind of get a feel for it. I'm sure
• 24:13
  Speaker 10: at some point we'll kind of figure out the you know,
• 24:16
  Speaker 10: if we want to have any strategy involved with it.
• 24:20
  Speaker 10: You know, I'm sure probably here. And I would guess
• 24:24
  Speaker 10: around the league that a lot of pictures won't have
• 24:28
  Speaker 10: you know, as much freedom with it. I think most
• 24:31
  Speaker 10: pictures that I've talked to want to leave it in
• 24:33
  Speaker 10: the hands of the catcher. As far as us at
• 24:35
  Speaker 10: the plate, I think we're just kind of get a
• 24:39
  Speaker 10: little feel for it, and uh, you know, I think
• 24:43
  Speaker 10: some guys are going to be good, some guys are
• 24:45
  Speaker 10: going to be bad, and you know, you might lose
• 24:47
  Speaker 10: your privileges if you get a couple of.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Mine would be taken immediately immediately.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: I had a bad feel for the strike zone.
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: Stats on that too. I mean you saw it right.
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: I mean they've got the stats downs stack Cast has
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: it up, you know, for every player, So eventually you
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: guys will be able to make fun of each other
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: on that one too, and also make real strategic decisions.
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: Seriously, is allowed to use it and not?
• 25:12
  Speaker 8: Yeah, tie somebody's hand behind their back.
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly did you see by the way the Brewers
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: and how they were trying to get the signals going,
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: And then like a day later, the league was like, not,
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: we're not doing that. We're not doing the dugout signals.
• 25:26
  Speaker 8: Oh no, I didn't see that.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: You saw right, You guys didn't see this, KP. You
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: didn't see this either.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I think I saw something on I think there was
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: like where they.
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: Were like reder blue cards cards.
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: They had cards, and the league said no, how quick
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: did they have to be with the cards?
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: I don't know. It was so the whole situation was
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: so quick.
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: And I didn't watch the game, but I did see
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: a story a day later that said they are not
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: allowed to do that.
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: No, no signaling of any kind.
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: I think during AB Matt or even just they were
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: putting stuff up for scenarios like, hey, we don't want
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: you to do this.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: Maybe entering the AB they look at the dugout to
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: see I don't know, but of course green card up
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: meant it was an okay time to challenge getting the
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: slab as we go here, and the league was like,
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: no cards from the dugout. We're not doing like you
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: know Audible's football style with signals.
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: So our good thing. You guys didn't even talk about
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: that out there? What is that?
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Our teams hiring those guys because I'm available sitting the
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: dugout and hold of green or yellow card.
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: But you said you weren't good enough at it, so
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: they need somebody. They're gonna bring somebody.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: I could tell you it's a good time to challenge.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you if the ball or strike,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: but I'll tell you it's.
• 26:36
  Speaker 9: A good time to go.
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: Matt.
• 26:38
  Speaker 9: Hey, Matt, what happens if you guys run out of challenges?
• 26:41
  Speaker 9: You think the umpire will be like, you know what'
• 26:42
  Speaker 9: screw these guys. They messed up twice. I'm just going
• 26:45
  Speaker 9: to widen the strike zone. We're gonna go back like
• 26:47
  Speaker 9: it used to be.
• 26:49
  Speaker 10: I mean, i'd be lying if I said it didn't
• 26:52
  Speaker 10: cross my mind.
• 26:56
  Speaker 8: You know, maybe if we.
• 27:00
  Speaker 10: Challenge a couple just egregious ones that they got right
• 27:04
  Speaker 10: in the first two innings and he wants to stick
• 27:06
  Speaker 10: it to us for the next seven, I don't know,
• 27:09
  Speaker 10: you know, don't. I don't actually think that they're going
• 27:12
  Speaker 10: to be doing that, but.
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 27:15
  Speaker 10: Hopefully we don't, we don't run into some of those
• 27:18
  Speaker 10: old school zones that you were getting when you were
• 27:21
  Speaker 10: first up.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Oh yeahah, it was.
• 27:24
  Speaker 8: A little different.
• 27:24
  Speaker 9: It was a little bit different. We didn't have the
• 27:26
  Speaker 9: little box and we didn't have any It was literally
• 27:29
  Speaker 9: the umpire would just say, hey, like, my hands are
• 27:31
  Speaker 9: this wide. I'm calling this white today.
• 27:33
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 27:34
  Speaker 9: There was no box and there was no we didn't
• 27:36
  Speaker 9: get reports on the umpire. It was like this guy
• 27:39
  Speaker 9: has a big zone or this guy has a small zone.
• 27:41
  Speaker 9: And first inning you figured it out and say, better
• 27:44
  Speaker 9: swing today, boys, because they would tell you. The umpires
• 27:46
  Speaker 9: would tell you. They'd say, hey, it's a day game.
• 27:48
  Speaker 9: I have an early dinner or early flight swing because
• 27:52
  Speaker 9: I'm calling everything and they called everything.
• 27:55
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Hey, at this point in time in your career, you
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: get down here for spring training, what are the things
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: that you kind of want to accomplish? Do you know
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: how many at bats you want to take or to
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: just kind of experience the first things I get the
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: two strikes, maybe you know, drive a ball, you know,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: hit a ball the opposite way, and then you're kind
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: of like, hey, let me just got it here healthy.
• 28:16
  Speaker 10: I think the the later I've gotten in my career,
• 28:18
  Speaker 10: the more that I try to get as many at
• 28:20
  Speaker 10: bats as I can. I feel like the kind of
• 28:23
  Speaker 10: like the forty to fifty numbers is kind of the
• 28:25
  Speaker 10: sweet spot.
• 28:26
  Speaker 8: Obviously, don't want to go.
• 28:27
  Speaker 10: Just blow it out for nine innings every game with
• 28:30
  Speaker 10: the season coming up, but you know, luckily we get
• 28:35
  Speaker 10: live abs before the games actually start.
• 28:38
  Speaker 8: We got to troject up now, so.
• 28:41
  Speaker 10: You know, there's never been an easier time to kind
• 28:43
  Speaker 10: of get at bats without getting into the hole, you know,
• 28:48
  Speaker 10: playing so much every single day, but it's the most
• 28:52
  Speaker 10: important thing is always going to be getting at bats,
• 28:55
  Speaker 10: seeing pitching, seeing arms. I wouldn't say there's one thing
• 28:59
  Speaker 10: that you know, if I do it, I'm like, all right,
• 29:01
  Speaker 10: I'm good to go, just because each each day is
• 29:05
  Speaker 10: so different. But you know, staying healthy and getting that
• 29:10
  Speaker 10: bats is are the two main checkpoints.
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: Hey, Matt, last one I have for you. I gotta
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: do my classic ace question, but it's a fun.
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: One for you.
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: Have you seen them handing out extensions left and right?
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: Things have changed, I mean for Sacramento, eventually Vegas. They
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: they've locked up like three four guys and there might
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: be one or two more. But by the time we
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: get the opening day, you're like, damn, where was that.
• 29:35
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I got a new stadium coming. Gotta gotta have
• 29:37
  Speaker 10: somebody there, you know.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you see, I mean there's a lot of guys,
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: and I'm saying guys that are just five seconds into
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: the banks too. You saw, like Jack Jack Wilson I
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: left and right, there are Jacob Wilson, Jack's kid, left
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: and right.
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: They're signing guys early, and Nick Kurtz might be next.
• 29:54
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, they got it. They got a good core,
• 29:56
  Speaker 8: good young core there. You know. I think it's good
• 29:59
  Speaker 8: to see that.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 30:02
  Speaker 10: I think they're all probably you'd classify as team friendly deals.
• 30:08
  Speaker 8: You know. It's young guys getting some.
• 30:13
  Speaker 10: You know, some comfortability with a with a deal before
• 30:16
  Speaker 10: they get too old, and the team's you know, kind
• 30:18
  Speaker 10: of taking a chance and saying I might be able
• 30:21
  Speaker 10: to save some money. So I think it's a win
• 30:22
  Speaker 10: win for him. I think it's good that, you know,
• 30:25
  Speaker 10: they're they're going to have some guys there, you know,
• 30:29
  Speaker 10: for multiple years. Obviously we know the turnover there, so
• 30:33
  Speaker 10: you know those guys have earned it, and you know,
• 30:37
  Speaker 10: happy for the guys who are you know, getting getting that.
• 30:40
  Speaker 10: Uh you know those deals and and some some assurance.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Last one, yeah, rightly worked out for you.
• 30:52
  Speaker 9: You wouldn't change exactly at home where you're from.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: Contract.
• 31:01
  Speaker 8: Oh, I got no complaints.
• 31:02
  Speaker 9: He's got no complaints.
• 31:03
  Speaker 11: He's living at home. He's only got to he's only
• 31:05
  Speaker 11: got to pack one time a year. It's probably costing him.
• 31:09
  Speaker 11: It's probably costing him money and tickets though, because I'm
• 31:11
  Speaker 11: sure every park view what is it parkview panther wants
• 31:13
  Speaker 11: to come watch you play.
• 31:14
  Speaker 9: All the time.
• 31:15
  Speaker 10: They've actually been They've actually been pretty good to me.
• 31:19
  Speaker 10: You know, most people were Braves fans before me, so
• 31:23
  Speaker 10: they found their way to the true at themselves.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: So yeah, last one for me.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna ask you about traject how much you
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: use it? How much do you feel like it's kind
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: of I feel like pitching has always been ahead of
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: hitting in terms of the technology that they had. Do
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: you feel like it's kind of closed that gap a
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: little bit allowed the hitter to prepare for the picture
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: even more.
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: I mean, I love it.
• 31:48
  Speaker 10: We got it halfway through last year and just the
• 31:52
  Speaker 10: ability to go see some shape from the guy. You know,
• 31:54
  Speaker 10: it's uh, you can go in there and hit the
• 31:58
  Speaker 10: machine all you want, you know, if your face and
• 32:00
  Speaker 10: somebody with a nasty breaking ball or and obviously true
• 32:04
  Speaker 10: Jack's gonna have a little variability to it. It's not perfect,
• 32:07
  Speaker 10: but you can go in there and hit all his
• 32:10
  Speaker 10: pitches and then you know, step out and say, all right,
• 32:13
  Speaker 10: pitch me like you think they're going to pitch me
• 32:15
  Speaker 10: today and take an ad bat. And I love doing it,
• 32:19
  Speaker 10: you know, especially now to be able to kind of
• 32:22
  Speaker 10: get some at bats off guys on days you're not playing,
• 32:26
  Speaker 10: and you know people are going to face during the season,
• 32:30
  Speaker 10: but then during the year going and hitting the cage
• 32:32
  Speaker 10: and then face that guy for you know, see thirty
• 32:36
  Speaker 10: pitches off of him before you.
• 32:37
  Speaker 8: Actually go face him. You know, I think it's invaluable.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Well, I can't thank you enough for coming on.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: I think this is your foul Territory debut.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: No not, if not, you've been on before, I've been
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: on before. Oh well the first time with me, but last.
• 32:55
  Speaker 9: Time he came on, he was in like a broom
• 32:57
  Speaker 9: closet through So we're very we're very happy.
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: We got him out of.
• 33:00
  Speaker 8: We got we got an official setup for once. Yeah, yeah,
• 33:03
  Speaker 8: set up.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: And by the way, this guy's cooking me dinner after
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: the game today, so I'm gonna report back by his
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: uh his cooking skills too.
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: Good luck, Matt. What are you making.
• 33:15
  Speaker 10: We're just gonna we're gonna make a little tacos, got
• 33:17
  Speaker 10: some some steak, Mary Nathan, some chicken. There's gonna be
• 33:22
  Speaker 10: like eight kids running around, so we're not gonna get
• 33:25
  Speaker 10: too fancy with it.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, kid friendly, kid friendly.
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: Good good, Well, we appreciate you, Matt, Thank you so
• 33:30
  Speaker 6: much for joining us. Good luck this season, we'll be talking.
• 33:34
  Speaker 8: Thanks Philos.
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: M hm h mhm.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Excited to be here in Braves camp with one of
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: my good friends, Austin Riley. I think this is your
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: foul to foul territory debut. I guess my first question
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: to you is you're healthy, and if so, what have
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: you really changed this offseason in order for you to
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: be healthy?
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: You know, it was.
• 34:06
  Speaker 12: Really just, you know, I'm not getting any younger, trying
• 34:09
  Speaker 12: to just you know, obviously with the sports hernea, it
• 34:13
  Speaker 12: was more about just like staying mobile, flexible, kind of
• 34:18
  Speaker 12: tailoring my workouts towards that with the lower abdomen injury.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: But feel good, feel like I'm in a really good spot.
• 34:26
  Speaker 12: I was able to actually have you know, prior to
• 34:28
  Speaker 12: the year before, I broke my hand and was in
• 34:30
  Speaker 12: a cast for fourteen months or fourteen weeks and really
• 34:34
  Speaker 12: didn't have a full off season. So being able to
• 34:36
  Speaker 12: have like a true full off season kind of do
• 34:38
  Speaker 12: what I normally do to prep for spring and season
• 34:42
  Speaker 12: was nice.
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: All right, Austin, I'm gonna ask you a big picture question.
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: So for the Braves, they've had a really successful run,
• 34:49
  Speaker 6: teammates the playoffs every year except last year for a while.
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: Now they won the World Series in twenty twenty one.
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: Do you feel like the expectations for this franchise have
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: a crazy level because of the success that's happened like
• 35:04
  Speaker 6: last year. Of course, you don't want the team to
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: go through that, but yeah, you look at most franchises,
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: they don't have this kind of run and this kind
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: of expectations anymore.
• 35:13
  Speaker 12: No, I mean, I think it's it's a it's a
• 35:16
  Speaker 12: good spot to be in, right, you know, being able
• 35:19
  Speaker 12: to come in every year and expect to make a
• 35:22
  Speaker 12: deep run, and and you know, expect to win.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: You know, I think you put yourself in a in
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: a good spot.
• 35:29
  Speaker 12: I think, you know the last couple of years with
• 35:32
  Speaker 12: with injuries and and then you know, not not performing.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: You know, you know, I think it it.
• 35:39
  Speaker 12: I don't want to say it happens, but you know
• 35:41
  Speaker 12: it's this is a tough game, and you guys know
• 35:43
  Speaker 12: how tough it is and how so many things have
• 35:47
  Speaker 12: to go right for you to to to make a
• 35:50
  Speaker 12: deep run.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: So no, I think it's it's a it's a great thing.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: I think so. I mean, you know, we play the game.
• 35:57
  Speaker 12: To to try to win a World Series, and you
• 36:00
  Speaker 12: guys want to be on teams that that are going
• 36:03
  Speaker 12: to do that too, are going to make moves and
• 36:05
  Speaker 12: and do things to to try to win. So you know,
• 36:09
  Speaker 12: I'm I'm glad to be here and have that expectation
• 36:12
  Speaker 12: of of winning every year.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: You know, speaking of expectations, you've got a new manager,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: familiar face. What has kind of been his message? How
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: how have you seen it a little bit different? You know,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: obviously I was here a couple of years ago with
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: with Snith Won't being part of his staff. You know,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: what was kind of his first day camp message? How
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: things are going to be very similar but yet different.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 36:34
  Speaker 12: I think, you know, for me, the big thing with
• 36:37
  Speaker 12: with Walt is just the attention to detail that I
• 36:40
  Speaker 12: think he shows. And and you know this he understands,
• 36:44
  Speaker 12: you know, he's played the game, so he understands how
• 36:46
  Speaker 12: hard it is, and and you know, showing up every
• 36:50
  Speaker 12: day and and you know, the camp vibe this year
• 36:54
  Speaker 12: has been very you know, high energy, a lot going on,
• 37:01
  Speaker 12: which I think is has been great.
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: You know, just kind of a like I said, we
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: we we.
• 37:07
  Speaker 12: I feel like this organization knows how to win, and
• 37:11
  Speaker 12: I think after the last couple of years, you know,
• 37:13
  Speaker 12: just just to shake up a little bit, just like
• 37:15
  Speaker 12: bringing some guys in with a lot of energy, and
• 37:19
  Speaker 12: Walt's showing that.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: Like I said, the camp has been great.
• 37:22
  Speaker 12: You know, he's he's very knowledgeable of the game and
• 37:25
  Speaker 12: and uh, I think it's been unbelievable so far.
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: From Hey, Austin when that was all going down, and
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: when we've spoken to Walton, and you know, even right
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: around when it happened when he was hired. It took
• 37:37
  Speaker 6: a little bit of time. Did you have any conversations
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: with Alex Anthoplos or anyone else. Did they consult with
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: some of the vets on just the process?
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: Did not know? Not not during the process.
• 37:49
  Speaker 12: Like I said, Alex has has asked me, you know,
• 37:54
  Speaker 12: just getting you know, asking us players about Walt, and
• 37:57
  Speaker 12: you know, like I said, nothing but good things to
• 37:59
  Speaker 12: to of, you know, touch on Walt.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: Like I said, I you.
• 38:03
  Speaker 12: Know, I think there's two ways you could go until
• 38:05
  Speaker 12: you could stay in the house and you could you know,
• 38:07
  Speaker 12: gone outside and got somebody else.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: And and for me, you know, if we were going
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: to stay inside, it it was it was Walt. For me,
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: I thought, I thought that was a no brainer.
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: How different is Walt from Snip, you.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: Know Snip Snit's very you know, there's a lot of
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: similarities there. You know, He's gonna let you do your thing.
• 38:32
  Speaker 12: He trusts and his players of coming in in spring
• 38:34
  Speaker 12: training and preparing each and every day.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: He's not gonna go out there and kill us.
• 38:39
  Speaker 7: Uh.
• 38:39
  Speaker 12: But like I said, I think that the energy level
• 38:42
  Speaker 12: of of we're doing some different things is as far
• 38:44
  Speaker 12: as like with the new staff also of just you know,
• 38:49
  Speaker 12: I think we you know, from us standpoint, we can
• 38:51
  Speaker 12: we can improve you know, base running. You know, we're
• 38:55
  Speaker 12: doing situational defensive stuff to just kind of hone in
• 38:58
  Speaker 12: on on those those in game plays that that you
• 39:03
  Speaker 12: don't you know, they happened one or once or twice
• 39:06
  Speaker 12: a year. So I think, just like I said that,
• 39:08
  Speaker 12: to me, that's been the biggest difference is is just
• 39:11
  Speaker 12: like I said, just the little stuff that you know,
• 39:14
  Speaker 12: you typically don't touch on, but you know, we're we're
• 39:16
  Speaker 12: we're making sure we're checking those boxes and making sure
• 39:18
  Speaker 12: that we're as prepared as as we can be for
• 39:21
  Speaker 12: for the season.
• 39:23
  Speaker 9: Austin, do you mess with Walt at all? Because you
• 39:25
  Speaker 9: know he's like a quadruple black jiu jitsu right now?
• 39:29
  Speaker 9: Do you stay far away from him?
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: I can't. I keep the peace for sure.
• 39:36
  Speaker 12: You know, I tell you if if we get into
• 39:38
  Speaker 12: into something during the season, I'll be I'll be right
• 39:41
  Speaker 12: there behind him or next to him, because I would
• 39:44
  Speaker 12: not want to mess with him.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: I see. I've seen his workouts in the gym. He
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: gets after it pretty good.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Hey, I've seen things Walt talks about for a long time.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: The Braves Way has been playing one hundred and sixty
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: two games, and obviously you have Olson who's been able
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: to do it. Is that something you're open to if
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: you feel like it's something that's going to keep you healthy.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Maybe taking an occasional day off. Where do you still
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: have this mindset of I want to play one sixty two.
• 40:08
  Speaker 12: You know, for me, I think I would, you know,
• 40:11
  Speaker 12: I'm okay if they if they decide to give me
• 40:14
  Speaker 12: a day or two here and there at the DH.
• 40:17
  Speaker 12: You know, I just coming off the last couple of
• 40:19
  Speaker 12: years with injuries. But the mindset and the goal and
• 40:22
  Speaker 12: the preparation of how I've done everything leading up to
• 40:25
  Speaker 12: this point, it's to play one hundred and sixty two.
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: I think that's just, to me, the only way to
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: do it.
• 40:31
  Speaker 12: I think if you're preparing to play one hundred and
• 40:33
  Speaker 12: ten games or one hundred and twenty, like I think,
• 40:35
  Speaker 12: you're kind of setting yourself up for not failure, but
• 40:38
  Speaker 12: just you know, not prepared enough. I think, like I said,
• 40:41
  Speaker 12: you've got to prepare for one hundred and sixty two games,
• 40:45
  Speaker 12: and we'll see how the season goes. But like I said,
• 40:47
  Speaker 12: right now, my body feels feels really good. And and
• 40:52
  Speaker 12: you know, in twenty one, two twenty three played right
• 40:54
  Speaker 12: around one hundred and sixty two, so kind of kind
• 40:56
  Speaker 12: of I personally want to get back to that.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: And then that obviously some of the moves that have happened,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: and not bringing back a guy like Azuna. Yeah, you know,
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: with Murphy being hurt, the d H is obviously, uh
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: you kind of be a rotated doer that's just gonna
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: give the opportunity to go date some days.
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
• 41:14
  Speaker 12: And like I said, you think Murphy you take you know,
• 41:16
  Speaker 12: I think it would be really good for Ronald, like
• 41:18
  Speaker 12: I said, with with the with the knee, the knee
• 41:20
  Speaker 12: injuries and and how hard he plays when when he's
• 41:23
  Speaker 12: out there, you know, you definitely want his bat in
• 41:26
  Speaker 12: the in the in the lineup every day. But like
• 41:29
  Speaker 12: I said, if that's something that you give him, you know,
• 41:31
  Speaker 12: get him off his feed a little bit on everybody
• 41:34
  Speaker 12: knows how hot you know of eleven thirty July game
• 41:39
  Speaker 12: in Atlanta can be. So I think that that, like
• 41:42
  Speaker 12: I said, leaving that open a little bit for for
• 41:44
  Speaker 12: those you know that those guys I think will be
• 41:47
  Speaker 12: will be good for us.
• 41:49
  Speaker 6: Hey, Austin, what is your level of dislike for your
• 41:53
  Speaker 6: divisional opponents, especially some of the rivals that you guys
• 41:56
  Speaker 6: have gone back and forth with I'm always curious. Like
• 41:58
  Speaker 6: last year is a good example because, like we talked about,
• 42:00
  Speaker 6: it was finally a year the team didn't make the playoffs.
• 42:02
  Speaker 6: So were you like, haha when say the Mets collapsed
• 42:06
  Speaker 6: late or you.
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: Know, like how deep does it go? Do you want
• 42:09
  Speaker 5: them to not succeed at all?
• 42:11
  Speaker 6: Because some guys have to do that for that to
• 42:13
  Speaker 6: be in their head that like, hey, I face these
• 42:15
  Speaker 6: guys all the time.
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: I live for them losing.
• 42:18
  Speaker 12: No, I mean, you know, being in a division, yeah,
• 42:22
  Speaker 12: I don't don't don't want them to win for sure.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: I mean I think that that's that's the obvious. You know.
• 42:26
  Speaker 12: I definitely want to be the team that that wins
• 42:29
  Speaker 12: the division and and and want.
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: To beat them every time we play them. I mean,
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: it's that simple.
• 42:36
  Speaker 12: I do not want to lose to them, you know,
• 42:41
  Speaker 12: want to be ahead of them in standings. I think
• 42:43
  Speaker 12: that you ask anybody that's that's anywhere else, they're going
• 42:47
  Speaker 12: to say the same thing. But at the same time,
• 42:49
  Speaker 12: I absolutely love going to New York and I love
• 42:51
  Speaker 12: going to Philly and playing in those atmospheres. The hostility
• 42:56
  Speaker 12: there is unmatched. Their fans do not like us whatsoever.
• 43:02
  Speaker 12: So you know, I definitely look forward to to go
• 43:05
  Speaker 12: into those cities and playing.
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: It's it's fun baseball awesome.
• 43:10
  Speaker 9: You mentioned you know you're you're healthy this offseason with
• 43:13
  Speaker 9: with all this crazy things that have been happening to
• 43:15
  Speaker 9: the pitchers of the position players, put a wall up
• 43:18
  Speaker 9: of like plastic between you guys and the pitchers because
• 43:21
  Speaker 9: I have never seen a run of things, crazy things
• 43:24
  Speaker 9: happen to a group of players like what's already happened
• 43:27
  Speaker 9: to the bravest pitching staff.
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: It's crazy, and yeah, I don't know what's going on.
• 43:33
  Speaker 12: That's why I grew the hair out, why I've grown
• 43:35
  Speaker 12: the beard out a little bit, just trying to change
• 43:37
  Speaker 12: the mojo up a little bit.
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: Of something. So I've, like I said, I've never seen
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: anything like it.
• 43:43
  Speaker 12: You know, it's I get that injuries are part of
• 43:46
  Speaker 12: the game and and it's gonna happen. And I know
• 43:49
  Speaker 12: pitching from you know, today's pitching is is all of
• 43:52
  Speaker 12: you know, all about v low and spin and and
• 43:57
  Speaker 12: you know, strikeouts and so uh yeah, we're we're I
• 44:03
  Speaker 12: don't know if we're putting up a barrier or not,
• 44:05
  Speaker 12: but we're definitely trying to trying to avoid that as
• 44:08
  Speaker 12: much as possible.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: All right, before we let you get out of here,
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: tell us a little about a little bit about your
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: golf tournament that's coming this year.
• 44:14
  Speaker 12: Yeah, so we're doing it. Believe it's April twenty seventh.
• 44:20
  Speaker 12: We got an off day. I like to always do it,
• 44:22
  Speaker 12: like because I like the guys if they want to
• 44:24
  Speaker 12: come out, they you know, and and I hate and
• 44:27
  Speaker 12: you know, getting you know, traveling from from a road
• 44:31
  Speaker 12: city and then having that off day trying to ask guys.
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: You know, you get in at two o'clock. So we're
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: I think we're.
• 44:36
  Speaker 12: Home off day and then home again Atlanta Athletic Club. Uh,
• 44:41
  Speaker 12: the war we're teaming up with the Warriors Alliance this year.
• 44:43
  Speaker 12: And for me, it's just the veterans, you know, trying
• 44:45
  Speaker 12: to put them on the front front board of of
• 44:48
  Speaker 12: what they do for our country. You know, I think
• 44:50
  Speaker 12: they get put on the back burner a lot, and
• 44:52
  Speaker 12: and you know, trying to just you know, raise awareness.
• 44:57
  Speaker 12: My team does an unbelievable job of putting on the
• 45:00
  Speaker 12: event and you know, thanks to them, and it's gonna
• 45:04
  Speaker 12: be gonna be fun.
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: It always is.
• 45:06
  Speaker 12: This is fourth year doing it. It seems like it
• 45:08
  Speaker 12: gets better and better each year, so I'm excited.
• 45:12
  Speaker 8: Awesome.
• 45:12
  Speaker 9: Do you invite alumni to your golf tournament or is
• 45:14
  Speaker 9: it just Chipper and Smoltz? Is it just Chipper and Smolts,
• 45:17
  Speaker 9: you know, never showed up twenty fifteen Braves Player of
• 45:23
  Speaker 9: the Year, you know, So, I mean you would feel
• 45:24
  Speaker 9: like that you get invited to your golf tournament.
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: We will reach out more welcome.
• 45:30
  Speaker 9: I mean, Greg Walker is one of your biggest fans.
• 45:32
  Speaker 9: I've known him since I was like, you know, twenty
• 45:34
  Speaker 9: five years ago now, So, I mean it figured to
• 45:37
  Speaker 9: earn me somehow.
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: We got you. We got you, all.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Right, the last one before I get you out of here.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: I know it's probably a little quieter around here with
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: Ozzie being gone. Yeah, did you call him after his
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: walk off?
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: We?
• 45:50
  Speaker 12: I think, uh, somebody was on FaceTime with him and you.
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: Know, we were messing with him. I was like, that
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: is about the littlest league jump on home plate that ever. No,
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: that was awesome. That was a great swing, great moment
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: for him in his country. Yeah, but we ragged him
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: a little bit. That was good.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Well, we can't thank you enough for being here. One
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: of my favorite teammates of all time, one of the
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: best humans in all of baseball. And stay healthy because
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: we love watching me play. One of the best third
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: basements of the game. Went healthy, so we appreciate you
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: appreciate it.