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MJ spanked Ozzie + Joey in 1-on-2! Justyn-Henry Malloy talks Torkelson's resurgence, Transfer v. trade · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Matt Bierling was a guy last year for me like
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  Speaker 1: I kind of looked at him like I could ask
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  Speaker 1: him any question in the world about how to go
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  Speaker 1: about his business, how to go about my business, and
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  Speaker 1: and approach and game plan.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go, Justin Henry Lloyd joining us right now
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  Speaker 2: on Foul Territory Tiger Slugger Tigers are off to a
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  Speaker 2: great start.
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  Speaker 3: Justin, Henry, great to have you on the show man.
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  Speaker 3: How you doing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing well. Thank you guys for having me. This
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  Speaker 1: is this is pretty sick. I'm a I'm a huge
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  Speaker 1: fan of this and and Foul Territory, so I'm super
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  Speaker 1: happy to be here.
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  Speaker 3: What do we call you? What do we call you?
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  Speaker 3: Because that's too much for me to say, so I
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  Speaker 3: need I need a short I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Sure j Jay Hen's been my nickname since I was
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  Speaker 1: like eight years old, so everyone, every coach I had
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  Speaker 1: kind of said the same exact thing.
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  Speaker 4: So Jay Hen for sure. Here you go.
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  Speaker 2: I see some people breathing out online, they'll say, j HM.
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  Speaker 2: You see that sometimes, right?
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  Speaker 4: You don't like that? No, not really? Jay Hen was
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  Speaker 4: always kind of my thing.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like Jhm is just I don't know it's
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  Speaker 1: just taking my name kind of picking it apart.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like I want Jahn.
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  Speaker 2: That's good to know. I'm going to tell people online
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  Speaker 2: there you go. Tell the Beat writers, well we ask
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  Speaker 2: those hard hitting questions.
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  Speaker 2: Tell us what you watch, you know, how you consume it,
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  Speaker 2: what you like about at any key moments.
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  Speaker 4: So I remember it.
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  Speaker 1: It just kind of showed up on my for you
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  Speaker 1: page on Instagram, and it just kept showing up and
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  Speaker 1: kept showing up, and just the topics that we talk
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  Speaker 1: about or not we but you guys talk about about
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  Speaker 1: the game and kind of the insides about the game,
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  Speaker 1: and it's It was cool because I was able to
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  Speaker 1: show my friends kind of how I thought, and.
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  Speaker 4: They would think some of the things I would think were.
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  Speaker 1: Crazy, whether it be like the pitch clock or so
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  Speaker 1: have you, and you guys would talk about it and
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  Speaker 1: then I would be able to send it to them.
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  Speaker 1: So it kind of sparked this this interest that I
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  Speaker 1: had and still have for Foul Territory and and I'm
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  Speaker 1: a follower and I'm.
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  Speaker 4: You know, really psyched to be on with you guys
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  Speaker 4: to be completely honest.
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  Speaker 5: That's sick that you say that, But what are we missing?
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  Speaker 5: What are we missing? Because age is really old and
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  Speaker 5: I'm just kind of old. I'm not as old as
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  Speaker 5: he is. But we missed U because we haven't been
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  Speaker 5: in the game.
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  Speaker 3: For a few years.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, I think you guys are pretty spot on with
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the things you talk about.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of the topics.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are so up to date on the plays
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  Speaker 1: that happen in the day to day.
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  Speaker 4: You guys don't miss anything.
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  Speaker 1: So kudos to you guys seriously, as just kind of
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  Speaker 1: a current player right now, you guys hit the nail
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  Speaker 1: right on the head pretty much every time, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: pretty psyched.
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  Speaker 3: That's awesome, that's great. I appreciate I appreciate you saying that. Now,
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  Speaker 3: when you go in the when you go into your clubhouse,
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  Speaker 3: I need you to do two things for me. One
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  Speaker 3: slap Joey korra for me. Tell them it came from me. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: say Joey, just smack him as far as you want,
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  Speaker 3: say it came from me, And whatever happens after that
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  Speaker 3: is on you, Jay, But just know that the slap
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  Speaker 3: came for me. With love. Okay. Now, whatever he says
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  Speaker 3: or does, that's your own problem to deal with. You're bigger,
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  Speaker 3: way bigger than him, so you can take Okay, just
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  Speaker 3: point over there and I'll run like there's a ball. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: And then, second of all, every time you see, every
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  Speaker 3: time you see your manager, you have to call him Hinch.
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  Speaker 3: No more AJ, because when he comes on the show,
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  Speaker 3: he is Hinch on the show. So just no. Because
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  Speaker 3: we can only have one AJ on the show, so
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  Speaker 3: we can't have a Hinch. So we call him Hinch.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm not sure that he loves it, but he
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  Speaker 3: went to Stanford, so he doesn't really have a choice.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I could do the Joey thing, the Hinch one,
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  Speaker 1: don't I don't really know.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like I him just kind of like a
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  Speaker 4: hef A. I get you, I get you, but I'll
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  Speaker 4: say it's from you, and I think it'll slap back.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, ask Joey Krr about the time he bit someone's ankle.
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  Speaker 3: He'll know exactly what you're talking about him telling you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm telling you. Okay, So there's a fire where I
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  Speaker 3: was involved in a fight when Joey was our third
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  Speaker 3: base coach with the White Sox and the Cubs, and
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  Speaker 3: there was a rumor that Joey Korra was on the
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  Speaker 3: bottom of the pile biting. I think it was John
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  Speaker 3: Maby's ankle. Now he denies it, but that was like
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  Speaker 3: the hot topic for a while, that Joey Cora was biting,
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  Speaker 3: So we called him a little chiuahua for a while
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  Speaker 3: because he was freaking biting the dude's Now he says
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  Speaker 3: it's not true, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: See, the more that I listened, the more it sounds
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  Speaker 1: exactly like Joey, So now check it out.
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  Speaker 4: I get it now.
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  Speaker 3: Or asked him about the time him and Ozzie challenged
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  Speaker 3: Michael Jordan to a basketball game. Also asked him about
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  Speaker 3: that in spring training. What they challenged MJ two on
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  Speaker 3: one Ozzy and Joey and MJ's like, really, and I
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  Speaker 3: think he spotted him. They were playing TONI eleven, he
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  Speaker 3: spoted him ten. They actually did it. Yes, you got
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  Speaker 3: it's on, But Jay hen, I'll tell you next time
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  Speaker 3: you come on. You got to ask Joey about when
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  Speaker 3: he played MJ. Him and Ozzy played MJ and spring
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  Speaker 3: training in basketball.
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  Speaker 4: Played him in spring training, gave him ten points still lost.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, MJ I think gave him, gave Ozzie and Joey
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  Speaker 3: ten points and they still lost.
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  Speaker 1: See, we talked ball, We talked basketball all the time
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  Speaker 1: here in this clubhouse, and there's always there's always a
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Lebron debate. Right, So like me personally, I'm a
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  Speaker 1: Lebron guy. I grew up watching Lebron. I know rubs
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  Speaker 1: people the wrong way, the gen Z gen X whatever,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm a Lebron guy. And Joey will defend Michael
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  Speaker 1: Jordan until he dies. So now I get it because
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  Speaker 1: he kind of just you know, bent him over and
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  Speaker 1: spanked him when he all he needed to score was
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  Speaker 1: one one bucket.
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  Speaker 4: So now I get it. Now I totally get it.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, of course Lebron would never cook you like that.
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  Speaker 3: He would never. You would never, you would at least
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  Speaker 3: for one bucket.
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  Speaker 4: Me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I played hoops in high school, like I
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  Speaker 1: got I gotta have.
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  Speaker 4: I got to have the respect.
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  Speaker 1: To know that I'm probably not scoring on Lebron. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not six eight. Also, just don't have this skill set
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  Speaker 1: to score on that guy. But forever will be a
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  Speaker 1: Lebron guy. But now I get why Joey's a Michael Jordan, guy.
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  Speaker 5: All right, well, well, AJ's trying to get you sent down.
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  Speaker 5: I'm trying to keep you in the big league. But
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  Speaker 5: the one question I did have was, what was that
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  Speaker 5: conversation like when you got fired from big league camp?
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  Speaker 3: This year?
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  Speaker 5: When you get sent down something we don't really talk
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  Speaker 5: about much. We've had dudes on that have been DFA
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  Speaker 5: guys have just signed big time contracts. But when you
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  Speaker 5: get sent down from big league camp, besides the fact
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  Speaker 5: that you're joice that you don't have to go to
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  Speaker 5: cold Detroit, you get to go to cold Toledo, what
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  Speaker 5: is that conversation like, especially when you're part of a
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  Speaker 5: team that did what they did last year.
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  Speaker 1: Like anyone would kind of expect it to pretty tough
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  Speaker 1: conversation for me. This year, we had travel out to
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco, so we had two exhibition games. So we
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  Speaker 1: go from Lakeland all the way out west to San
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  Speaker 1: fran Then we go from sanprin to LA before the
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  Speaker 1: opening before opening day, so like we're talking the day
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  Speaker 1: before we're about to play Game one, and I just
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  Speaker 1: got a text from George Lombard, who's our bench coach,
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  Speaker 1: and he was like, hey, can you meet me in
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  Speaker 1: the restaurant that's near the lobby. So it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: that time where everyone's starting to realize, like, hey, there's
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  Speaker 1: X amount of spots left and there's X amount of guys,
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  Speaker 1: and we need to make one more cut. So I
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  Speaker 1: knew then when I was going down, I was either
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  Speaker 1: going to find out I was making the team or not.
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  Speaker 1: And in that moment, you know, AJ came down as well,
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  Speaker 1: and they just kind of broke the news to me,
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  Speaker 1: just you know, super straightforward, just kind of how they
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  Speaker 1: wanted to go in the direction of with the direction
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  Speaker 1: of the team at the time. And you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: it sucks, it hurts, and and you know it's it's
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  Speaker 1: just kind of a blow. But I got sent back
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  Speaker 1: to Detroit, played in Toledo for three games, and then
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  Speaker 1: got called back up.
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  Speaker 3: Good for you, Good for you. Do you like playing
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  Speaker 3: the outfield or you like playing the infield better. I
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  Speaker 3: always wondered just about people, because you've played, you've kind
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  Speaker 3: of played both. Which one do you like better?
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  Speaker 4: Whatever gets me in the lineup.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if I'm being super honest, like I like
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  Speaker 1: to play, I like to be out there with the guys.
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  Speaker 4: I like to. I like playing baseball, So wherever I
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  Speaker 4: can be at.
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  Speaker 1: In the lineup, wherever I'm needed, because wherever I'm down
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  Speaker 1: to play.
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  Speaker 4: That's kind of just how I've always looked at it.
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  Speaker 5: You said, you like being out there with guys. Who's
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  Speaker 5: who are you most connected with on the team, Who's
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  Speaker 5: who's a dude on the team where You're like, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: this is this is my guy.
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  Speaker 4: That's tough. That's because we're such a close knick group here.
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  Speaker 1: Again, I've I've obviously only been on one big league team,
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  Speaker 1: but I think the youth and and.
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  Speaker 4: Just all of us kind of meshing together. That's a
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  Speaker 4: tough one.
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  Speaker 1: If I had to single anyone out, though I would,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna single out a few guys. I'm gonna say
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  Speaker 1: carp Uh carry Carpenter. He's just been a guy because
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  Speaker 1: we were similar similar roles ish last year, specifically kind
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  Speaker 1: of in that DH role in the platoon, and when
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  Speaker 1: I writ he was in the game. I always had
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  Speaker 1: I rooted for karp and when I left you was
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  Speaker 1: in the game, he rooted for me. So and kind
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  Speaker 1: of the passing of the torch, passing of the baton, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know when that switch would happen.
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  Speaker 4: So carp was a guy that I always was able
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  Speaker 4: to lean on.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, Matt Erling was guy last year for me, like
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  Speaker 1: I kind of looked at him like I could ask
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  Speaker 1: him any question in the world about how to go
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  Speaker 1: about his business, how to go about my business and
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  Speaker 1: approach and game plan. And then Parker here was my
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  Speaker 1: roommate back in twenty three when he got called up
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  Speaker 1: to the Big league.
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  Speaker 4: So that was special moment. But tough to name just
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  Speaker 4: one guy.
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  Speaker 1: But those are the three off the top of my
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  Speaker 1: head that I can kind of give kudos to because
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  Speaker 1: they're great people.
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  Speaker 3: But why not any pictures?
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  Speaker 5: This is something that's always asked, like why can't position
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  Speaker 5: players ever be Not that you don't like them, it's
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  Speaker 5: just like pictures are kind of like their own click.
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  Speaker 5: Can you explain it to the fans that are watching.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny, like, so it's it's always one team, right,
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  Speaker 1: it's always one team, but they they do their own
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  Speaker 1: thing on their side of the ball, and we do
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  Speaker 1: our thing on our side of the ball. And it's
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  Speaker 1: just kind of the conversations are just a little bit different.
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  Speaker 1: Right when he talked, say, for example, hitters, when we
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  Speaker 1: talk balls and strikes.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we want it to be a ball. If
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  Speaker 4: it's a ball. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: As a pitcher, they look at it and they're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: but that's a really good pitch though.
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  Speaker 4: So it's like there's just it's just two completely different
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  Speaker 4: sides of the universe.
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  Speaker 1: But we all kind of coexist and and and love
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  Speaker 1: each other. And you know, obviously it's kind of like
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  Speaker 1: two separate jobs, but uh, it's for anyone you know listening,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it's completely different, but it's also one and
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  Speaker 1: the same.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Jay him you you were you were traded people.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people out there don't know that you
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  Speaker 3: originally signed by Atlanta and you were traded to Detroit
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  Speaker 3: for Jim Andez. But what I want to know is
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  Speaker 3: Kratz and I both have seniors in high school that
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  Speaker 3: are going to college to play baseball. What was the
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  Speaker 3: harder thing to do? You transferred from Vanderbilt. By the way,
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  Speaker 3: Joey Korr went to Vanderbilt too, So don't tell me
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  Speaker 3: smart like you left. Ye you left Vanderbilt for Georgia Tech, okay,
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  Speaker 3: or getting traded? What was the harder move for you?
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  Speaker 3: Because you decided to leave Andy to go to Tech
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  Speaker 3: or finding out one day you get a call and
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  Speaker 3: they're like, hey, by the way, you're not a Brave anymore,
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  Speaker 3: You're now a tiger. Go get for me.
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  Speaker 4: I think the hardest thing was transferring.
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  Speaker 1: When I transferred, it was kind of one of those
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  Speaker 1: things that I had to make the decision. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: that it was completely out of my hands, like a trade,
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  Speaker 1: and it just kind of happens like that. I had
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  Speaker 1: to be the one to wear the decision and to
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  Speaker 1: kind of go into the transfer portal pretty blind. It
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  Speaker 1: was the first time that I was obviously ever in
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  Speaker 1: the transfer portal, and it was kind of the first
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  Speaker 1: time things were getting hot because it was right after
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  Speaker 1: COVID and that's where a lot of guys were taking
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to explore other options. But it was definitely
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  Speaker 1: super scary transferring because I didn't know what the portal
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  Speaker 1: was going to look like.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know what schools were going to reach out.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know if I was going to go from
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  Speaker 1: an SEC caliber guy to you know, go to another
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  Speaker 1: school that's outside of the Power five, Like. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know how that process was going to shake out. And
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  Speaker 1: then on top of it, which Joey Kora can't say.
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  Speaker 1: I came off winning a Natty in twenty nineteen with Vanderbilt,
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  Speaker 1: So it was tough leaving a good program that we
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  Speaker 1: were hot and we were yelling together, and then I
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  Speaker 1: had to, you know, kind of make the big boy
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  Speaker 1: decision to leave and go to go a different route.
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  Speaker 4: So I would say that was definitely scarier for me.
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  Speaker 5: That's a tough decision to have to make at that age,
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  Speaker 5: for sure. But I want to hit on Spencer Toorkosen
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  Speaker 5: before we're done. Spencer Torkosen seeing what he's doing, are
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  Speaker 5: you impressed with it, surprised with it, or you're like, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I knew he'd do this if he just got one
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  Speaker 5: more chance.
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  Speaker 1: Impressed, proud, super happy, and I knew he was going
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  Speaker 1: to do it like that. That was the guy that
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  Speaker 1: that was drafted. That was the guy who went one to one.
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  Speaker 1: It was just a matter of time to see obviously,
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  Speaker 1: the things that he had to go through. You know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously there's talks and you see you know, offseason moves
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. And I'm always a huge fan
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  Speaker 1: of the guy that is able to come over the
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  Speaker 1: top because I think most players, if not all players.
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  Speaker 4: Have to go through that in their career. And to be.
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  Speaker 1: Able to see him kind of turn that corner from
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not even gonna sit here and say that
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  Speaker 1: he was a question mark, Like I don't think he's
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  Speaker 1: a question mark. Like, I mean, this guy went number
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  Speaker 1: one overall, you know, a couple of years ago. And
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  Speaker 1: to see him turn that corner, it gives other players
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  Speaker 1: who want to turn the corner some hope, like this
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  Speaker 1: is on the other side, right, Like if you kind
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: of stick with it, sick with the approach, stick with
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: the adjustments, this is.
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: What it looks like on the other side. And to
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: be able to see that, and obviously.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: He's a teammate of mind, I'm just I'm just super
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: happy for him because he's earned it.
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: He's earned it, and it's sick to see.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's putting up insane numbers in saying that bass.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, even the outs are different. It's just loud,
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: it's it's a presence.
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: So I'm I'm very happy for him.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: Not just as a teammate, but like just just as
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: like a friend and a guy who I'm I'm with
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: every day.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: Like that's pretty awesome to see.
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: Is there anybody that you've played against that you've kind
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: of been all of like you're like, WHOA, this dude's
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: kind of kind of special.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, I guess kind of the answer a lot
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: of people would give his judge. I grew up a
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Yankee fans, So being able to see him, see him
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: in person, see how large he actually is in person,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: and the things that he does. I mean, he's hitting
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: balls at the end of the bat and then you
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: look at the scoreboard and it's like ninety eight. It's
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: like that's someone else's barrel. So seeing him is really
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: fun to see. We're playing tatis right now. Seeing him
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: just kind of fly around in the outfield and do
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: what he does is pretty cool. But the guy who
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: I'm in of is definitely a guy who I'm very
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: happy he was on my team is Trek Skougle. Seeing
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: what he does day in and day out, and how
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: he just attacks the ZWN and I mean he's one
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: O two and then is able to put guys away.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: I think it's so impressive.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: And I'm just really glad I don't have to face him.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: True that true that Jay hen I got it first
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: of all, I'm gonna give you a compliment for someone
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: from New Jersey. You're very well spoken. I work with
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: all these New Jersey people all the time, and I
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: have to compliment you on how well spoken you are
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: compared to Scott Todd, Mark Wiener, producer Lady we all
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: throw crats in Jersey because he's by Philly. I mean,
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: it's amazing. How much better that must be the Vandy
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: Georgia tech thing. So I just want to compliment you
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: on that first. Now, what do you do for fun?
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: We're in here talking about. I want to know what
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: you do for fun. You got an off day in Detroit,
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: or you're back home in New York and you're hanging out.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: What's what's Jay Hen doing to get his mind away
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: from baseball?
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: I would say I'm a pretty regular guy. I love
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: playing video games with my boys. That's that's That's just
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: like our thing. That's that's how we connect. We've been
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: friends for I'm twenty five and we've been friends for
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: twenty years now. We went to preschool together, and then
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: there was there's another one. I one of my best friends.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: We played travel ball together when we were eight, So
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, we like to get on Fortnite. We like
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: to drop in and and just kind of do what
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: most other people like to do. I like to go
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: on walks. That's kind of one of my I guess,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: weirder things or maybe a different thing, just kind of
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: a clear my head. Me and my girlfriend will go
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: on a walk just to kind of talk and connect
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: and while also disconnecting from you know, whether it be
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: work or baseball or whatever. But I mean, I'm a
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: pretty regular guy. I like to be on my phone.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: I like to be on TikTok.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Stay off those phones, especially during the game. Stay off
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: their phones, especially during the game. Okay, don't be texting
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: about stuff during the game, and also don't be texting
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: about things that happen on your team. Okay, let's not
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: tweet out all that stuff either, right, let's you know better, right,
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: you know better?
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: No phones during the game or after the game. Once
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: baseball is over. Baseball is over. That's kind of that's
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: kind of how I like to disconnect. It's just kind
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: of baseball's over. Baseball's over. There's no need to kind
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: of go on my phone or you know, tweet during
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: the game. I don't want to do that. But yeah,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: definitely seeing you know, examples that I just kind of
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: would rather stay away from.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Yep, yep, Yeah, that Hinch he got. He's got a
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: good guy. I mean obviously, I man, we've all known
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Hints for years. He's been on the show a million times. So,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, you're a great interview. Uh, you're learning from
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: a lot of great teammates. Tigers are some of the
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: best interviews in baseball right now. Obviously, you got to
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: win on the field. The team looks really good on
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: the field.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: But by the way, how was Hobby in center field?
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: He did all right?
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: People were talking about people were talking about like the
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: one ball that fell in front of him, like you
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: should have caught him, but nobody's catching that ball. That
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: was terrible. That was a tired take, and people saying that.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: By the way, I think he looks great. I mean,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: he's such a good athlete. He's got such good hands,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: he's got great instincts. I think as a player, the
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: instincts that he has, and and even the things that
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: in our meetings before the game, like the little bits
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: of knowledge from a base running standpoint or from a
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: picks standpoint.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: Uh, he brings a lot.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Of knowledge to this team and that's why he's a
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: veteran and he's able to make that transition. And I
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: thought the coolest part about yesterday was before the game.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: I see him breaking in this glove. I look at
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: the glove. He's got the gold patch on it for
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: his goal globe, and I'm like, that's so freaking cool.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: Man like that that.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: I thought that was pretty awesome. But uh, yeah, no,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: he's he's he's ready to be out there and he
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: could do it. I know he can do it.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a theme this year, all two days doing
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: it and it was all the talk and spring training
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: and now you batrely hear anything because he's just doing it.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's fine as a figure it out.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jahan, this was awesome. Thanks for joining us, of course. Yeah,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: let's do it again sometime. But thanks for watching us
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: too and supporting FT. Appreciate you man, and keep crushing.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: It, guys.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having me.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: This is awesome.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: Thank you, go time much. Thank you