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Tigers RP Kenley Jansen joins FT · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Good to be with you, Kenley. Thanks, thanks for being
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  Speaker 1: with us. Appreciate you very much. I want to get
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  Speaker 1: your take first before AJ and Eric chime in here.
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  Speaker 1: You are so close, my friend, to some pretty incredible
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  Speaker 1: numbers that would be very Hall of Fame worthy. What
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  Speaker 1: is your case for letting Kenlee Jansen get into the
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, to hear that, that's unbelievable to
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  Speaker 2: be honest with you, you know, I just played this
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  Speaker 2: game that I love, and I play it hard, and
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  Speaker 2: I want to help my team, every team that I play,
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  Speaker 2: I want to help them win, and all those things
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  Speaker 2: just come, you know, with being successful. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: just hear my name, you know, get titled to that
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  Speaker 2: is just give me such a much more you know,
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  Speaker 2: inspiration and just wanted to just keep grinding in the
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  Speaker 2: in the in the weight room and and and be better.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, it's it's awesome hearing.
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  Speaker 4: That when you're looking for jobs in the off season
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  Speaker 4: or teams are calling, if they said, hey, you're not
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  Speaker 4: going to be the closer. Is that value? Are you
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  Speaker 4: still able to give the same amount of value to
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  Speaker 4: a team. I'm not saying you're not going to try
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  Speaker 4: as hard. I'm saying like your value is in that
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  Speaker 4: ninth inning and I think maybe you don't agree with me,
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  Speaker 4: but I think ninth inning outs are way different than
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  Speaker 4: eighth or seventh inning outs. But is your value maximized
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  Speaker 4: as the closer for a team and then decided on
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  Speaker 4: where you're going if they have a closer or they
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  Speaker 4: don't have a closure.
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  Speaker 2: Be honest with you, You've got to be also, you know,
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  Speaker 2: realistic and see where the game is going and see
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  Speaker 2: how teams value you know, high leverage and just boopen usage.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, I know that it's happening. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: to me right now, it's just you be the best
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  Speaker 2: I can be, and you know, all those decisions is
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  Speaker 2: you know, for aj and and and the front office
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  Speaker 2: to decide on that. For me, I'm going to make
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  Speaker 2: sure I be the best version of myself. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: whatever anything they want me to pitch, you know I
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  Speaker 2: could be ready for it. But like you say, you know,
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  Speaker 2: pitching the night is a whole different animal and me
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  Speaker 2: and me being doing that so long, you know, it
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  Speaker 2: just give you, you know a different energy level when
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  Speaker 2: you pitching that that situation. So it's not like I
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  Speaker 2: haven't pitched the seven or the eight before. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I did those before I become a closer, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I understand what the game is now.
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  Speaker 5: By the way, I want you pitching in the night.
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  Speaker 5: So AJ want you pitching in the night. Okay. So
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  Speaker 5: just just so you know that, speaking of when you
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  Speaker 5: were going through your free agency and your recruiting pitch,
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  Speaker 5: did you go to Hinch and Scott Harrison say, hey,
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  Speaker 5: you know, if you guys would have had me last year, guys,
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  Speaker 5: maybe you beat the Mariners because I come in and
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  Speaker 5: I'll close down that game five for you guys, because
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  Speaker 5: they had a lead and they blew it out later
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  Speaker 5: in the game. Whatever stuff happens. But was that part
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  Speaker 5: of their pitch to you is like, hey, yes, we
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  Speaker 5: had Finnegan.
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  Speaker 6: He a nice job, but you have you're on track
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  Speaker 6: for a Hall of Fame career. Man. We put you
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  Speaker 6: in that night then and we can take that next step.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 2: You know it's funny when you say that, because you
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  Speaker 2: know it was mutual interest a year before, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I thought I'm gonna end up being there a year before,
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  Speaker 2: but then you know everything changed, you know, assigned late,
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  Speaker 2: I signed with the Angels.
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  Speaker 3: I have my mom issue going on also.
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  Speaker 2: Too, So definitely watching the playoffs last year and you
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  Speaker 2: see that, you know they just was one arm or
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  Speaker 2: maybe two a way too, you know, maybe possibility to
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  Speaker 2: play the Wall Series because I think, you know, they
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  Speaker 2: probably could have matched up really well.
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  Speaker 3: With the Blue Jays.
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  Speaker 2: So but yeah, watching that team, you know, that's the
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  Speaker 2: only team that crushed me last year. I feel like
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  Speaker 2: also to give up three homers never happened in my
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  Speaker 2: career and one inning against them, So yeah, it's a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good team. So I'm excited to be and I
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  Speaker 2: can't wait to be to the camping and get know
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  Speaker 2: my teammates and be ready and hopefully you can get
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  Speaker 2: to the same situation again.
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  Speaker 4: Kenley, I played against you when you play when you
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  Speaker 4: were catching, and then I also played against you when
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  Speaker 4: you were in your prime pitching. Do you look at it?
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  Speaker 4: And I always ask superstars this, because you are a superstar.
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  Speaker 4: Do you wish you could have one talent from when
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  Speaker 4: you were in your prime to now and use it
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  Speaker 4: the entire season? I asked this because Eronis Chapman's been
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  Speaker 4: a closers as long as you have maybe just a tick,
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  Speaker 4: maybe a few years less than you have, but he
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  Speaker 4: just he is still his velocity is almost there, and
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  Speaker 4: he wishes he still threw one hundred and five. Is
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  Speaker 4: there one talent or one feeling that you wish you
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  Speaker 4: had from when you were in your prime, prime, most dominant?
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  Speaker 4: Kenley Jansen.
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  Speaker 2: I think I wish I could I have the wisdom
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  Speaker 2: that I have now because I feel like now I
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  Speaker 2: could be a better version of myself, even that consider
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  Speaker 2: not my prime no more. But it's just you understand
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  Speaker 2: your body. You listen to your body more, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: you pace yourself. And I feel like in you know,
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  Speaker 2: the younger days, you know it's just one.
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  Speaker 3: Work ethic, work hard every day, and.
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  Speaker 2: You know that's all I wanted to do, and maybe
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  Speaker 2: that's helped me also to in my career. But if
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  Speaker 2: I would have, you know, know the game better and
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  Speaker 2: pace myself and and be in a different pace, I
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  Speaker 2: think it would have benefit me a whole lot more
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  Speaker 2: So I could have get not as tired to get
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  Speaker 2: in the in the World Series in seventeen and eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like, you know, those a drag get on
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  Speaker 2: in the seventeen and eighteen in the.
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  Speaker 1: World Series Kenley. A. J. Hinch and I were having
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  Speaker 1: a conversation the other day about you, and he said
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  Speaker 1: that you've been absolutely incredible this winter, that you've really
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  Speaker 1: just said, you know what as you as you told
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  Speaker 1: us that you're willing to do anything to help the
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  Speaker 1: Tigers win, and that you were so incredible after the
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  Speaker 1: bad outing you had against the Tigers, And that's something
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  Speaker 1: that says a lot to him that you're so willing
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  Speaker 1: with the resume that you have to be able to
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  Speaker 1: take the ball at any point because you didn't have
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  Speaker 1: to do that. So what does that say when your
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  Speaker 1: manager has that much respect for the way that you're
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  Speaker 1: willing to change your role just to be part of
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  Speaker 1: something special.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's him changing the culture. I think I
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  Speaker 2: believe you know, when you first got there with the
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  Speaker 2: Tigers to build a winning culture, and when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to the winning culture nowadays, you just understand that the title.
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  Speaker 2: You can't hang on titles, so you have to do
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  Speaker 2: anything to help your team win. So that's my mindset
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  Speaker 2: right now, and that's you know, my goal, and you
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  Speaker 2: know my all players dream is to play in the
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  Speaker 2: Wall series, and you know I play in three Wall series. Finally,
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  Speaker 2: you know, breakthrough in twenty twenty. But you know, I
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  Speaker 2: want to get back to that feeling again. And I
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  Speaker 2: think they have a really good team, really good possibility
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  Speaker 2: to get there, and you know, I want to be
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  Speaker 2: a part, So I want to be a part to
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  Speaker 2: help help them win. So that's all I'm thinking about.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, if they want me to pitch the
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  Speaker 2: ninth great. If if it's any other you know situation
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  Speaker 2: they want me to pitch, you know, you know, to
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  Speaker 2: help the team wins, great too.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm just going to be open minded on that.
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  Speaker 2: And yes, of course, you know, get to five hundred
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  Speaker 2: is unbelievable, but you know I didn't plan to get
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  Speaker 2: to five hundred when I was on my doct days.
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  Speaker 2: It's just me being winning the division every year and
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  Speaker 2: being successful got me to so many safes. So of
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  Speaker 2: course it will be something awesome to have, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think more awesome to have an it's another ring.
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  Speaker 6: Kenly.
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  Speaker 5: By the way, we just showed a picture of you
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  Speaker 5: at Tiger Stadium. I'm so old. I played in old
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  Speaker 5: Tiger Stadium, so you were you were there after they
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  Speaker 5: had like knocked down half of the half of it.
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  Speaker 5: I actually got to play there. I don't wish that
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  Speaker 5: upon anybody, because it was that.
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  Speaker 6: You're taller than I am.
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  Speaker 5: You would have had to squat like a catcher in
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  Speaker 5: the dugout because if you were over like five eight,
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  Speaker 5: you hit your head on the dugout.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, God forbid. If something exciting.
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  Speaker 5: Happened, you actually were like, yeah, oh gosh, I'm concussed
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  Speaker 5: now what that's great? I want to know, are you
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  Speaker 5: gonna bring California Love to Detroit? Did you know Anaheim
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  Speaker 5: with you? Or is that just the LA thing?
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  Speaker 2: I think I think California Love. I think it should
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  Speaker 2: be an LA thing. I believe you know that song
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  Speaker 2: is so you know, dodgy community.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like, but.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this is a great song. And you
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  Speaker 2: know last year I had in the Stone within the Fire.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know, man, I even think about any
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  Speaker 2: songs yet.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll figure out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we forgot. We go to EM and M,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, we'll figure that out. So definitely, all.
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  Speaker 4: Right, you have four hundred and seventy six says for
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  Speaker 4: everybody who's listening. Mo Had has six fifty two and
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  Speaker 4: Hoffman has six oh one. You are four years behind
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  Speaker 4: where Hoffman pitched his last game. Are those numbers when
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  Speaker 4: you look at them, insurmountable in your mind? Or you like,
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  Speaker 4: I think I can do it. I think I can
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  Speaker 4: get there because five hundred is right on the crust,
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  Speaker 4: right right right on the cusp, Lee Smith, You're right
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  Speaker 4: on the cusp, and I get it, health and everything
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  Speaker 4: and Lord willing, you're able to do that stuff. But
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  Speaker 4: do those numbers sound insurmountable or is it kind of
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  Speaker 4: like I'm gonna get there?
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  Speaker 2: I think I can get there, be honest with you,
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  Speaker 2: like me being competitive, you know, put really good, you
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  Speaker 2: know of workout in off seasons and taking care of myself.
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  Speaker 2: I think I can get there. Like that's that's the
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  Speaker 2: competitive feeling that I have. So well I get there.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, you know, it depends on, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the understanding that the game change now you don't have
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  Speaker 2: you know, that old fashion a lot no more in baseball,
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  Speaker 2: and you know you just gotta you know, go with
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  Speaker 2: that also too. But if you ask me truly, yes,
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  Speaker 2: of course I think I can get to six hundred.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, hell it's going to play a big role,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, being the winning team is going to
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  Speaker 2: play a big role.
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  Speaker 3: So yes, for sure, if something individually, I think I can.
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  Speaker 1: Get there for sure, Kenny, I know that you are, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: as we've talked about it, so close to potentially get
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  Speaker 1: into Cooperstown. That may not have been your goal when
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  Speaker 1: you were growing up and curious how you know, trying
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  Speaker 1: to get to the great leagues. But you have an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to do something very special. But how do you
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  Speaker 1: think your game has changed or your mindset has changed
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  Speaker 1: over the course of you know, when you started as
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  Speaker 1: a catcher to being a potential Hall of Fame pitcher.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy because everything happens so fast. You know, from
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  Speaker 2: being a catcher struggling with with hitting a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: knowing that I could have had pretty good at the
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  Speaker 2: defense as a catcher, but the hitting was always a problem.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, for that transition to happen in nine
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  Speaker 2: for me being the Baseball Classic, you know, throwing Willy
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  Speaker 2: Tavarus out at third and you know Ryan Brown is second,
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  Speaker 2: and you know from there, like you know, Dijon at
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  Speaker 2: that time with the Dodgers, the front director, make that decision.
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  Speaker 2: It happened so fast because he told me that, hey,
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  Speaker 2: he believed that I could be there in a couple
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  Speaker 2: of years, you know, with the arm that I have,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, if I you know, develop myself and
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  Speaker 2: I think possibility, you can get there. And it happens
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  Speaker 2: so fast. In less than the year. I'm in the
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  Speaker 2: big leagues and you know I'm still doing it so far.
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  Speaker 2: So you know it's a great ride. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: to hear my name up there now, it is unbelievable
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  Speaker 2: and it's just gave me the motivation to keep going.
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  Speaker 5: Kenley before, I have two questions for you. One, as
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  Speaker 5: the former catcher that you were, what would you tell
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  Speaker 5: yourself as a pitcher when guys are stealing bases off
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  Speaker 5: you like they do? Would you be yelling at yourself saying, damn,
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  Speaker 5: can you need to hurry up to give me a chance?
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  Speaker 6: Or what?
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  Speaker 3: You know?
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  Speaker 2: Charlie Hoff told me one thing and that helped me terrific.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, like he make me who I
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  Speaker 2: am today because he brings such a joy in pitching
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  Speaker 2: for me. You can steal second, you can steal third,
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  Speaker 2: but you can steal home. So I feel bad for
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  Speaker 2: the catchers, but you know the confidence that I carry sometimes,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it helped me a lot because you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'd rather trade based runner for you know, a pitch
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  Speaker 2: that I can leave something right down the middle and
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  Speaker 2: get crushed. So I'd rather make my best pitch and
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  Speaker 2: you know, try to hold hold the runner. But now
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  Speaker 2: you can hold it no more. So yeah, you gotta,
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  Speaker 2: you gotta, you gotta throw your best pitch all the
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  Speaker 2: time in situation like that, give him the line so
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  Speaker 2: you know you can't, you know, try to keep the
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  Speaker 2: runner first and and try to be fast, quick, quick
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  Speaker 2: move and then you leave a terrible pitch and it
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  Speaker 2: get crushed, so it doesn't do you great either. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so that's why I will always say you can still second, case,
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  Speaker 2: still third, but try to steal home.
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  Speaker 5: By the way, Charlie Holfe was a knuckleballer, so he
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  Speaker 5: wasn't teaching you nothing about nothing, because.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, but he brings he brings that joy.
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  Speaker 2: Man, he brings that joy, that fun, you know, putting
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  Speaker 2: Nola Ryant pictures on the wall and Roger Klamers are
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  Speaker 2: all the great pictures. And you know, learning the delivery
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  Speaker 2: and learning how to pitch and man him. I gotta,
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  Speaker 2: I gotta say things to him. And Franklin stuffs the
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  Speaker 2: hitting coach at that time in hya. You know, those
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  Speaker 2: guys just keep motivating and you know I am I
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  Speaker 2: am who I am today because of them. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they're the one who just started the early version of me.
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  Speaker 5: By the way, Andrew Jones going to the Hall of Fame,
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  Speaker 5: Currosel like yourself, what does that mean to cure Sallians,
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  Speaker 5: Nail Okay and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, that there
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  Speaker 5: is somebody going from that island in to Cooperstown.
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  Speaker 3: That's big man.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's the same sensation that what he did
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty six, you know in the World Series
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  Speaker 2: is that's the same feeling that we get now. It's
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  Speaker 2: just you know, for me, it's just get that you
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  Speaker 2: soak that feeling in again. It's like you know, always
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  Speaker 2: growing up me growing up a Brace fan before him,
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  Speaker 2: you know, big Fred mcgraer fan, by the way. And
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  Speaker 2: when Andrew got called up, you know still you know,
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  Speaker 2: it was crazy. It was crazy watching him get his
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  Speaker 2: first hit against the Pheelies. I believe, yes, And you
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  Speaker 2: know it's NLCS game against the Cardinals and get to
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  Speaker 2: the World Series hit the two homers you know in
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  Speaker 2: Game one.
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  Speaker 3: You know, to me, it's just make all of us believe.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the feeling that I get now that now
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  Speaker 2: him going to Hall of Fame, it's just give me
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  Speaker 2: that belief now that who knows, you know, maybe I
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  Speaker 2: could be a part of that too. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's great watching him and it just made me so happy.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, one of the greatest probably you know, defensively
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  Speaker 2: center field, I've ever done it. You know, play so
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  Speaker 2: shallow and make every every play routine. So yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: a blessing watching him play back in the days. And
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  Speaker 2: you know he said the it's you know, he paid,
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  Speaker 2: He paved the way for us, set the stone for us.
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  Speaker 2: And now you know, a lot a lot more players
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  Speaker 2: from cures I'll get to enjoy, you know, their dream
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  Speaker 2: and playing in such a level in Major League.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, three three parts here. First of all, Bam, Bam
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  Speaker 4: Hensley Mullins, he paved the way. Make sure you don't
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  Speaker 4: say it was Andrew, because he taught Andrew. He will
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  Speaker 4: be pissed at you if he heard you say.
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  Speaker 2: Understand that, hey like the first one and got there,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so, but you know, I think you know
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  Speaker 2: it's it's it's iconic and Jones is just such an
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  Speaker 2: iconic man what he did, so I'm definitely not gonna
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  Speaker 2: you know, like I have to thank Bam bam for
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  Speaker 2: all those years that you know they said baseball clinics.
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  Speaker 2: You know, back then I was little going to those
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  Speaker 2: clinics and you know, see guys like Andrew and you
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  Speaker 2: know more Goush can major league you know, be there,
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, he helped contribute big time. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: Andrew is such an iconic player that, you know, make
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  Speaker 2: all of us believe, you know, with with with his
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  Speaker 2: sensation that he did diving catch and right field and
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  Speaker 2: I forgot the name why now of the Braves stadium
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  Speaker 2: right now? But yeah, he was great. Man, he was great.
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  Speaker 2: He's such an iconic player for Austin KASA and you know,
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  Speaker 2: he make us believe.
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  Speaker 4: Turner Field all right?
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: Two part questions?
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: What's Full County Stadium?
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: Sorry, Fulton County Stadium? So before Turner Field before two
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: part question? Can you confirm that you are pitching for
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: the Netherlands? Confirm or deny?
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Yes, confirm I will pitch for the Yes.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: What does it mean to put that jersey on? Because
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: you just are so happy that Andrew Jones made it
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: and you've looked up to you know, guys like Bam Bam,
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: you remember, guys like you know that that have played
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: in the big leagues. All the guys that you came
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: up with. What does it mean to put that jersey
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: on for you of of your you know caresal but
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: the Netherlands jersey.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: I mean it means a lot. That's how my dreams start.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: I feel like, you know, it's something for me to
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: say thank you to them that gave me the opportunity,
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: you know, to showcase myself also to in Baseball Classic
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: and on line that you know, makes me become a
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: picture that now you know, it's gonna be my seventeen
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: season in the big league. So it's definitely that, you know,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: that's why I wanted to go play for Netherlands one
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: more time and to just you know, remember where it starts.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: So especially for Andrew, you know, I know he become
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: a manager also too, and you know last year when
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: he was playing Atlanta in Atlanta, you know, he came
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: and talked to me and I told them, for sure,
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: yeah you can call me in So yes, that's what
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: I'm doing it for. So It's also thank you for
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: you know, to the Netherlands and cures how for you know,
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: help me, you know, start my dream also too.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I went there last year. Beautiful place, beautiful, beautiful place.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Can you deny or confirm that the air conditioning in
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Anaheim was terrible at Angels Stadium?
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know about that.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: I didn't pay attention, you know, so sometimes we live
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: in my own world, so I don't know if if
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: the ac was bad or are good, But definitely some
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: some some some help over there.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, ken Lee, we appreciate you so much. You're so
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: close to being in the Hall of Fame, but you're
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: a hall of Fame person. I've truly been blessed to
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: cover your career for the majority of it. And thanks
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: for taking the time to come on the show today.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Tell Gianni and the kids. We said hello, We're looking
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: forward to see what you can do in Detroit. We
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: appreciate you very much. Thanks for went on, my friend.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Thanks for having me.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 19:08
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