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Former St. Louis fan favorite José Martínez on Cardinal Territory · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of Cardinal Territory.
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Speaker 1: Jim Hayes, and this week we have a very special
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Speaker 1: edition of Cardinal Territory because we reunite with an old
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Speaker 1: friend spent parts of four seasons with the Cardinals, and
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Speaker 1: Cardinal fans will remember twenty eighteen, this guy hit eighteen
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, he hit seventeen homers while batting three oh five.
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Speaker 1: Pretty pretty, pretty good. Of course it's Jose Martinez. Jose, Hello,
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Speaker 1: and thank you for coming into Cardinal Territory.
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Speaker 2: Jim. It's always good to get back to you and
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Speaker 2: h this way. And they always all Cardinal fans. They
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Speaker 2: always gonna have in my heart, so very special. Thanks
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Speaker 2: for thee for the invite.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they're going to be very happy about
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Speaker 1: seeing you again. We should mention that we're talking as
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Speaker 1: you are in Venezuela. But how are you? What what's
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Speaker 1: going on in your world?
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Speaker 2: Well, it's it's a lot of stuff happening. Actually, uh,
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Speaker 2: it's been. It's been after my retirement. It's been a
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Speaker 2: lot of stuff that I'm actually doing it. I'm doing
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Speaker 2: doing some podcasts on some social media stuff and and
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Speaker 2: I'm actually working as a hitting coach here here and
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Speaker 2: uh in Venezuela with a with a new league that
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Speaker 2: is coming up. It's getting a lot of chances to
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Speaker 2: those players that they are away from baseball for some reasons.
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Speaker 2: So actually for them is very good to uh to
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Speaker 2: actually doing something or even even maintain that or or
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Speaker 2: actually trying to get back in business. Feeling pretty good
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Speaker 2: learning the process. It's always been liked out in my life.
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Speaker 2: So I'm actually enjoying life.
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Speaker 1: And I also see you're doing media stuff. I saw
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Speaker 1: on your social media you're holding a microphone, So tell
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Speaker 1: me about that, because I think that's really cool because
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Speaker 1: I remember interviewing you for the pregame show.
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Speaker 2: Well, there's something that I came up. I don't know what. Actually,
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Speaker 2: I met some guys that uh that I told me
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Speaker 2: that you might you might, you might be gonna be
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Speaker 2: pretty good at it. And I didn't know nothing about TV.
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Speaker 2: Actually actually been hanging out with a lot of good
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Speaker 2: guys and the good people that knows how to do
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Speaker 2: it like you and a lot of people, and and
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Speaker 2: you came out of nowhere. I think, uh I had
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Speaker 2: people that are knows uh In ben In ben In
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Speaker 2: in that TV stuff for a long time, and and
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Speaker 2: they helped me a lot, and they make me feel comfortable.
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Speaker 2: And you know, baseball has always been something that, uh
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Speaker 2: that I love that I play attention during my career
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Speaker 2: and actually before that. So I think I'm not gonna
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Speaker 2: say it's been easy, but it's a process that actually
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Speaker 2: is there, and and I'm actually enjoying it. And I think, uh,
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Speaker 2: your many new people, and it's a new way to
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Speaker 2: actually see baseball. So I'm enjoying it.
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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you that I remember you were always
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Speaker 1: camera friendly, like you were never intimidated by the camera,
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Speaker 1: and you have personality. I mean, that's those are the
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Speaker 1: two biggest obstacles. So I would think that you're natural
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Speaker 1: for for television and sportscasting.
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Speaker 2: I think is that I think you're right one hundred percent.
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Speaker 2: I actually enjoyed, uh, just having fun and being natural,
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Speaker 2: being normal, being humble too, and and and that's been
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Speaker 2: that's been that's been me for my whole life. So uh,
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Speaker 2: I think enjoying all the stuff that is there for
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Speaker 2: me is been a key for me. And I in
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Speaker 2: my is either in my professional career a baseball player,
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Speaker 2: and now I'm actually trying to just being busy and
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Speaker 2: all the opportunities that is out there. So, like I said,
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Speaker 2: I think it's been fun. Actually it's a process. I'm
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Speaker 2: not saying that. I'm not saying that I'm the best
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Speaker 2: at it, but I know how some people that be
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Speaker 2: there for me to help me out.
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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, like it seems like your whole
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Speaker 1: adult life has been a journey. Ten years. You battled
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Speaker 1: in the minor leagues and playing overseas before you got
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Speaker 1: to the big leagues and Cardinal fans remember what you
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Speaker 1: did when you got there. But tell me what that
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Speaker 1: was like. Every level it seemed to hit. I remember
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Speaker 1: one year in the mind, I think you set a
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Speaker 1: record hitting three eighty four some I mean you never
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Speaker 1: got a sniff. What was that like battling through that.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's it was. It was a process. Actually, I
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Speaker 2: was in that team that my father was a big leaguer,
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Speaker 2: my family, I have family members that I was baseball
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Speaker 2: players too, and just carrying carrying over this last name
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Speaker 2: of my Martinez. It was hard in the beginning, but
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Speaker 2: and then I just just make a separation. Actually I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna I'm not. I'm not. I don't know if I
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Speaker 2: can say like that and actually separate that was my
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Speaker 2: father and what he did to what I has. I
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Speaker 2: have to accomplish for me and make my own name.
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Speaker 2: And and it was it was a journey. It was
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Speaker 2: opened down, it was injuries, it was it was it's
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Speaker 2: the process. It was pretty difficult. But I think I
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Speaker 2: have to I have to thank God for that kind
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Speaker 2: of process that I got me here right now that
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Speaker 2: I learned about the process, I learned about people, about
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Speaker 2: the game, how hard it is, how hard it can
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Speaker 2: be sometimes, and mental game, mental game it was. It
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Speaker 2: was unbelievable too because all those times actually sometimes I
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Speaker 2: have to stay for one month or two months by
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Speaker 2: myself in the complex just doing rehab, me and the
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Speaker 2: trainer and and in that kind of process again got
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Speaker 2: me the next year to like more strong, strong, not
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Speaker 2: even not even physicals use mentally. So I was trying
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Speaker 2: to do my best every single year whatever opportunity was there,
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Speaker 2: especially that year that he mentioned, uh that it wasn't
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Speaker 2: even on the rust and in spring training and it
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Speaker 2: was a pair that I was playing one time every
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Speaker 2: four four days, and then I find out I just
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Speaker 2: broke broke the record. By the end of the year,
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Speaker 2: and when everybody and I thought that was gonna get
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Speaker 2: the change, I didn't get it. So those kind of
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Speaker 2: things that happens that you cannot control. But I always
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Speaker 2: mentioned that one guy that that got me words that
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Speaker 2: I'm never gonna forget, like I think this year it
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Speaker 2: was Casey Casey catchment. I think this year is gonna
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Speaker 2: get you whatever you're gonna, You're gonna, you wanna you
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Speaker 2: wanna be. So I just went back to Venezuela and
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Speaker 2: trying to start over, and and it happened. I think
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Speaker 2: the next year Cardinals got me out of out of
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Speaker 2: free agency, or when I was DFA by the Royals,
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Speaker 2: and there is the rest is history. By help by
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Speaker 2: Mike Shield that the first team that had told me
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Speaker 2: that I know what you can do, go out then
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Speaker 2: and trying to be a good team, like a good
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Speaker 1: Take me back to that first game with the Cardinals, Right, Like,
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Speaker 1: what was that like? After you battled and battled and
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Speaker 1: battled to get to that point and there you are
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Speaker 1: in a big league uniform, playing in front of a
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Speaker 1: lot of folks who are rabid baseball fans.
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Speaker 2: He was unbelievable. I don't think from now, even though
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Speaker 2: oose gears that have been through have been passed, I
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Speaker 2: feel the same talk about it. It's just because I
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Speaker 2: worked so hard. Uh, it's so much stuff happened to
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Speaker 2: me to make me quit, actually and use it was
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Speaker 2: always somebody or someone that it wasn't the phone, and
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Speaker 2: it was my mouth, always like good things gonna happen.
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Speaker 2: Keep working, Uh, keep your mental, keep your mental, your mind,
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Speaker 2: your mind strong. Actually, And but that day I used
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Speaker 2: what was I was working to the to the to
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Speaker 2: the field and leaving all the process that actually enjoyed
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Speaker 2: a thousand percent. I didn't sleep that night. I actually
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Speaker 2: I walked through the Roman Roberto Clemente Bridge, and I
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Speaker 2: took so much pictures and stuff that that actually was unbelievable.
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Speaker 2: But I was first bad. It was like I couldn't
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Speaker 2: I couldn't believe because there was so much stuff that
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Speaker 2: happened to me. That I couldn't believe I was there.
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Speaker 2: But over over that I met I think the best
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Speaker 2: teammates on the word Yaddy Way, No Carlos Gyro Munoz.
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Speaker 2: It was so much good players that it was in
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Speaker 2: that cluehouse by that time that it made me better
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Speaker 2: and trying to trying to always every day trying to
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Speaker 2: learn about about that level, about the process and stuff.
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Speaker 2: So I was lucky to God that at that time
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Speaker 2: with those kind of players that it wasn't that clohouse for.
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Speaker 1: A Cardinal fans love their players, There's no question. There's
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Speaker 1: certain guys that they latch onto for some reason. And
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Speaker 1: you were a fan favorite. What are your feelings about
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Speaker 1: Cardinal fans and the way they embraced you.
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Speaker 2: I think, uh, they they make me better. Actually, they
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Speaker 2: make me have fun. They gave me that opportunity to
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Speaker 2: be me to to interact with them on some ways.
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Speaker 2: I was actually chatting with everybody by by Instagram when
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Speaker 2: I was going to the to the stores and everything.
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Speaker 2: I was there talking to them like I know them
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Speaker 2: from a long time. So that kind of fan base
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Speaker 2: get you because they make me, they make you feel comfortable,
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Speaker 2: even though it's a battle that you're gonna go up
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Speaker 2: there and perform, for sure, hundred percent. I felt like
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Speaker 2: they was. They always was there. The support was there
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Speaker 2: all the bad times, even though even though they don't
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Speaker 2: believe it, it was tough times sometimes and and they
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Speaker 2: was there giving me, giving me that that how do
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Speaker 2: you say, like family stuff Like, I feel like they
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Speaker 2: was there more than nobody. So even every time I
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Speaker 2: was in that lineup, of course I'm gonna do it
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Speaker 2: for me, for my family, but I feel like there
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Speaker 2: was my family too be it was so much love,
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Speaker 2: so much, so much good energy and positive things that
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Speaker 2: it made me better to do uh, to do on
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Speaker 2: work hard every day for them.
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Speaker 1: If you think back to your time as a cardinal,
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Speaker 1: was there one moment that sticks with you when you
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Speaker 1: think about that time, Maybe that's the moment you think
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Speaker 1: about more than others.
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Speaker 2: There was two moments actually, that moment that I hit
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Speaker 2: my first home run and then I actually didn't make
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Speaker 2: a play and we lost about it. That's one that's
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Speaker 2: one moment that I always always got not gonna forget,
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Speaker 2: because there's there's moments, especially in baseball, that you actually
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Speaker 2: can enjoy and feel comfortable about it, and then soon enough,
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Speaker 2: everything can change. And that gave me a good, good lesson.
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Speaker 2: So after that, I feel like I was on top
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Speaker 2: of the world. Said I hit my home, first home
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Speaker 2: in the big leagues, blah blah blah, and they sooner
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Speaker 2: knows everything changed. And it was we all the media
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Speaker 2: actually what happened in that play because we lost that game,
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Speaker 2: and and it was a process and the second and
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Speaker 2: the second uh uh, it was that time when we clinch,
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Speaker 2: when we clinch against against the Braves, I think, I
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Speaker 2: remember when Mike Shild told me to game, gave that
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Speaker 2: speech that I always remember, and and we with that
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Speaker 2: clue house, with all those veteran guys and the feudals,
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Speaker 2: hall of famers, me talking to everybody, uh saying that
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Speaker 2: we can't actually get to the World Series and win it.
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Speaker 2: It was amazing for me. It was kind of those
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Speaker 2: moments that you never forget.
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Speaker 1: There is such a baseball tradition in your country in Venezuela,
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Speaker 1: all the all the great names that that have played there.
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking, like one, I'm an old guy, so I
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Speaker 1: think Luis Paricio, Santana, Cabrera, I mean, there's a ton
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Speaker 1: of them. What's the baseball culture like in your country,
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Speaker 1: like are you when you walk around do people stop
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Speaker 1: you and ask you for autographs? What tell me about
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Speaker 1: what it's like being you there?
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Speaker 2: Is it's kinda like Saint Louis. It's that passion for baseball,
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Speaker 2: is that passion for the player for history you like
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Speaker 2: you mentioned they become session and Louis a Parisio manior,
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Speaker 2: doin Is, Miguel Cabrera. There's so much players that that
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Speaker 2: you always mentioned, and you think that they're from Venezuela
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Speaker 2: and they they actually glorious, they hall of famous here.
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Speaker 2: Whatever happens. So for me, I always go out there
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Speaker 2: and they always stop me. They always talk to me,
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Speaker 2: especially right here when I when I'm working right now
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Speaker 2: in Maracai. That after I got traded for the team
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Speaker 2: that my father always played, I felt like I start
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Speaker 2: over and start from zero, and and and these fans
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Speaker 2: right here, they they gave they gave me, and they
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Speaker 2: showed me so much love and and and and support
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Speaker 2: that it was amazing. Every time, every every everywhere I go,
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Speaker 2: I always like talk to like like like it's normal,
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Speaker 2: like people here respect you. People people here, even though
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Speaker 2: if if I'm Jose Martinez or it's someone that actually
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Speaker 2: didn't get to the big list or something. People here,
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Speaker 2: uh play attention to that and and and support all
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Speaker 2: the stuff, especially right now that that we want the
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Speaker 2: World Baseball classes man. And it's been it's been amazing.
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Speaker 2: Actually we actually step out from from all the expectations
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Speaker 2: and stuff, and and it was a great time from
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Speaker 2: our country and and we enjoy I think, uh, I
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Speaker 2: think that that process of basically is gonna be better
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Speaker 2: year by year.
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Speaker 1: So earlier you mentioned your dad, Carlos major league player.
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Speaker 1: I'm just wondering what impact did he have on you
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Speaker 1: to get you to where you are now, to being
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Speaker 1: a former major leaguer yourself, and also the pressure that
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Speaker 1: that came along with that.
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Speaker 2: Actually it's it's it's a pressure being a son of
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Speaker 2: a big leaguer, being a son of a someone that
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Speaker 2: everybody respects. Even even I felt like it was hard.
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Speaker 2: Next to him, he always wanted the best for me. Uh.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes he was talking with the scouseor and and stuff
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Speaker 2: that he's not gonna play baseball, he's going to go
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Speaker 2: to school or whatever, and I wanted a chance to
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Speaker 2: us to play. But by now and on, year by year,
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Speaker 2: I realized that he he was right about it because
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Speaker 2: he knew that this blood is because of him, and
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Speaker 2: I always gonna gonna be a bothering about my fuderal
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Speaker 2: and what I wanted to do in life, so especially
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Speaker 2: in baseball. He knew I was I was gonna follow
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Speaker 2: his steps. So it was hard. He passes away in
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Speaker 2: in in the process was a little easier, but all
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Speaker 2: the expectations was that they were they were really really high.
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Speaker 2: So like I said before, I had to separate that
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Speaker 2: because he was he was an amazing player man out
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Speaker 2: of Venezuela. They were saying that he was best tools
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Speaker 2: in so many years and I never seen so much
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Speaker 2: good tools out of the player from my from nobody else.
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Speaker 2: So it was like after that, the people that always
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Speaker 2: met or tell him that was, hey, you fight did
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Speaker 2: this for me? You fight I did this for for
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Speaker 2: for for me in this situation, and it was it
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Speaker 2: was a challenge, but I think I think when good,
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Speaker 2: but I never started working.
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Speaker 1: Aside from being the son of Carlos, I'm sure he
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Speaker 1: passed along a lot of knowledge to you. Tell me
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Speaker 1: about what you learned from him as a youngster that
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Speaker 1: kind of shaped your your career.
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Speaker 2: Actually my my pops was It wasn't that kind of
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Speaker 2: father that he always tells you something. I think the
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Speaker 2: way he did it, he was just showing you the
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Speaker 2: character and all the stuff that you actually can actually
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Speaker 2: take this stuff. Like if I'm going to the field
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Speaker 2: with him, he's talking with another player and I'm there listening,
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Speaker 2: and he's telling them adises and I'm there listening. So
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Speaker 2: he showed me this because that's the way he did
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Speaker 2: it when when he was on his time. So I
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Speaker 2: think what was the best time for me and all
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Speaker 2: the players or the people that helped Soon enough I
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Speaker 2: actually play with them or against them or there was.
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Speaker 2: They were my coaches and stuff. So it was a
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Speaker 2: conversation that they actually told me. Hey, my father to
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Speaker 2: father one time told me this and blah blah blah.
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Speaker 2: So I was actually okay, cool, you know. So it's
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Speaker 2: a good thing that those kind of players that my
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Speaker 2: father helped bow actually was a big, big time helpers
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Speaker 2: for me too. So I think that's the way it
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Speaker 2: was with him.
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Speaker 1: I know you have a sun and a daughter. I
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Speaker 1: hear that the son is a pretty good baseball player.
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Speaker 2: I think a support. I mean that kind of support
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Speaker 2: Is my my my son doaughn't want to doesn't want
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Speaker 2: as I'm on the field with him or working out
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Speaker 2: he's living with me. So I'm just trying to teach
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Speaker 2: him the stuff besides based or besides the normal stuff,
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Speaker 2: because you learn more from the outsides, like how life
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Speaker 2: it is, how how things are in the world. So
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Speaker 2: you have to play attention with that first always. Of course,
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Speaker 2: I want to I want him to to to to
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Speaker 2: make make it to the big leaks. I want him
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Speaker 2: to be successful, but it's going to be a long
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Speaker 2: and hard heart and complicated process. And and I just
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Speaker 2: want to try to tell them that you have to
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Speaker 2: use be you and and thrust the process, and and
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Speaker 2: and enjoy whatever you want to do in life because
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Speaker 2: some some some parents or fathers or or or whatever,
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Speaker 2: they're just trying to force stuff just because they want
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Speaker 2: to do or whatever they want to do. For me,
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Speaker 2: I just want him to have fun, and he's doing it,
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Speaker 2: and he does it every single time. I think I
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Speaker 2: never seen my my son getting mad about a strike out,
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Speaker 2: a strike out or something. He just has form and
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Speaker 2: I think he's I think it's his joy. He just
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Speaker 2: he just brings so much joy so for his teammates
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Speaker 2: and and the people that are watching play. That is amazing.
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Speaker 2: That makes me not make me happy. I don't care
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Speaker 2: if he strike out four times. I don't care if
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Speaker 2: it doesn't do well. Sometimes I just want him to
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Speaker 2: go to the process that is so difficult and hard
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Speaker 2: that it being a baseball player. The first thing I
23:32
Speaker 2: told just half from first and then trying to get
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Speaker 2: his after. So so that's one thing I always I
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Speaker 2: always tell.
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Speaker 1: You know, when I hear you talk about your kids
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Speaker 1: and stuff, you strike me as someone who should be coaching.
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Speaker 1: Now that's not to say you can't be certainly a
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Speaker 1: better reporter than I am. That's most people that are
23:53
Speaker 1: in the business. But you mentioned some about possibly being
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Speaker 1: a hitting coach or somewhere. Is that any future do
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Speaker 1: you think? What do you what do you think the
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Speaker 1: future holds for you?
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Speaker 2: I think I'm I'm one guy that I don't I don't.
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Speaker 2: I don't like to wait for the future. I like
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Speaker 2: to be ready for whatever opportunity. Of course, I love
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Speaker 2: being around baseball. I would love to keep keep this.
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Speaker 2: Uh I'm gonna say, keep keep myself in this in
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Speaker 2: this area, you know. And I love to to just
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Speaker 2: relay this knowledge that so much good players like Yady
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Speaker 2: like way no, like I mentioned, they gave me bad
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Speaker 2: that time. So I like, I learned so much about
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Speaker 2: the game that I feel like I have to I
24:45
Speaker 2: have to throw it out. So that was that is
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Speaker 2: happening right now. And and I'm actually doing hitting coaching
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Speaker 2: stuff here and and it's a joint team that actually
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Speaker 2: was the perfect perfect fit for me because it just
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Speaker 2: some some young players that probably don't take uh their
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Speaker 2: job serious. So I always tell them in a pretty
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Speaker 2: good way that you have to do stuff better to
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Speaker 2: get better or different. It's stuff different to get better.
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Speaker 2: You here, for a reason, you probably didn't make it.
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Speaker 2: You probably got released because of something, But I don't
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Speaker 2: care about that. I think you got to show up
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Speaker 2: with a work ethic and you're trying to get better
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Speaker 2: every day and compete. I always tell them to compete
25:35
Speaker 2: out there, and and they actually doing it. It's gave me.
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Speaker 2: It gave me goosebumps because every time I watch them,
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Speaker 2: how to how to do business and how they compete
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Speaker 2: is something that I always always wanted to feel, you know,
25:49
Speaker 2: something that you can relate and get back and some success,
25:54
Speaker 2: you know, and and if if it's some some way
25:57
Speaker 2: there to to be in a in the organization that
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Speaker 2: he gave me the chance to coach, I was gonna
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Speaker 2: be hundred percent and now we accepted with all my heart.
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Speaker 2: So whatever it is, like you said, if it's something
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Speaker 2: out there for me an opportunity, I always gonna take
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Speaker 2: it up bout it. But I wanted. I wanted to
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Speaker 2: get to get in the in the line of professional
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Speaker 2: baseball as as a coach. But let's see what's going
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Speaker 2: on in.
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Speaker 1: The feuduer you mentioned Yadi. So Yadi during home games
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Speaker 1: is in the dugout with the Cardinals as an advisor.
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Speaker 1: He wants to manage in the big leagues. What do
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Speaker 1: you think of the idea of Yadi being a big
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Speaker 1: league manager.
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Speaker 2: I think it's uh, I'm waiting for that. Actually, I
26:44
Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know why he's taking so much.
26:49
Speaker 2: I think, uh, I've been watching him. It's been winning
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Speaker 2: whatever he goes like always, and I'm always happy for
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Speaker 2: him because it's someone is someone that he always want
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Speaker 2: to win. He always wanted to win, don't matter what's
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Speaker 2: the situation, don't matter if the ads is against him.
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Speaker 2: He always there to to compete and win. And and
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Speaker 2: I think he's going to be an amazing manager. Especially
27:16
Speaker 2: I've been watching him too and follow him everywhere everywhere
27:19
Speaker 2: he goes. So I'm actually pretty happy for him and
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Speaker 2: proud because even though just because his career, Molina is
27:30
Speaker 2: who who's not going to be proud of him, But
27:34
Speaker 2: I think as a as a friend, as a friend,
27:37
Speaker 2: he's been he's been doing so much good stuff in
27:41
Speaker 2: baseball and advisor and managing and taking people together to
27:47
Speaker 2: actually be good or be enough to actually compete out
27:52
Speaker 2: there is amazing. So those those are the persons that
27:55
Speaker 2: I know. A big fan of House Egigeon, a big
27:59
Speaker 2: fan of UH, of a lot of managers, but I
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Speaker 2: think I'm fin on him already, and how he he
28:07
Speaker 2: control the stuff, and how he managed, how he's charactered. Uh,
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Speaker 2: I'm managing the team. I think he's going to be amazing.
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Speaker 1: Last thing before we let you go, I mentioned you
28:19
Speaker 1: were very popular with the fans. You were the guy
28:21
Speaker 1: that made fun of me for driving a stock cheap,
28:24
Speaker 1: which I still do stock cheap because I'm an old man.
28:28
Speaker 1: I'm not going to get it checked, not to say
28:33
Speaker 1: it's a newer one. I always get a newer it's.
28:36
Speaker 2: Black, oh black blue color, but blue color.
28:41
Speaker 1: Okay, but but nice tires, but no lights, no flash.
28:46
Speaker 2: It's stock So come on, come on man.
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Speaker 1: All right, here's my question. We hope to see it
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Speaker 1: in Saint Louis at some point back at the stadium
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Speaker 1: so fans can and say hi. But there's gonna be
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Speaker 1: fans watching this, so I'm gonna give you a chance.
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Speaker 1: What would you say to the Cardinal fans that are
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Speaker 1: watching now to show them that you appreciate how they
29:12
Speaker 1: appreciated you.
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Speaker 2: For all Cardinal fans, I think you treat my family,
29:20
Speaker 2: you treat my friends, you treat me as one of
29:24
Speaker 2: you guys, And I always gonna be grateful for that,
29:29
Speaker 2: because you gave me the energy, you gave me the
29:31
Speaker 2: confidence to go out there and compete. Ever for you, guys,
29:35
Speaker 2: I think whenever I win, my family and everything, it
29:40
Speaker 2: was class sacked. So I hope to go back and
29:46
Speaker 2: sad Lewis sometimes and and and be out there and
29:50
Speaker 2: that alm affair that it was and is amazing around
29:55
Speaker 2: that stadium, around the Bopa village is an energy that
30:01
Speaker 2: no one can actually match. So I want to tell
30:06
Speaker 2: you guys, I miss you guys so much, and I
30:08
Speaker 2: hope for sure to see you soon.
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Speaker 1: That's awesome. We hope we see in Saint Louis at
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Speaker 1: some point, but it was great catching up with you
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Speaker 1: and uh and thanks for making time for us today.
30:22
Speaker 2: Thanks Jim, and I think you have to put some
30:24
Speaker 2: rents on you, Jip please.
30:27
Speaker 1: Never never, my friend Jose Martinez. That's gonna do it
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Speaker 1: for this episode. We'll see it for the next edition.
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Speaker 1: Hopefully that one won't suck.