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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine

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Speaker 1: from News Talks EDB.

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Speaker 2: So our men softball side still in contention to add

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Speaker 2: to their record seven world titles at Softball's World Cut,

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Speaker 2: the last of those they won in twenty seventeen. New

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Speaker 2: Zealand have a one win, one loss record in the

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Speaker 2: Top four Super Round that after pipping the United States

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Speaker 2: five to four yesterday thanks to Jerome Raimaky's walk off

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Speaker 2: home run in the very lasting.

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Speaker 3: Works swung God football.

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Speaker 4: You should say, goodball, horborad Jerome robackie no one bigger

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Speaker 4: in the situation. He walks it off for New Zealand.

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Speaker 4: I said, how crazy. I do not believe it.

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Speaker 3: Incredible stuff from Jerome on Amaki.

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Speaker 2: It means that New Zealand have to beat Japan this

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Speaker 2: afternoon to stay in contention for the.

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Speaker 3: Gold medal match.

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Speaker 2: It'll also rely on the result in the other game

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Speaker 2: this afternoon between Venezuela and the United States of America.

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Speaker 2: Jerome and Aimaky is with us on weekends Port. Jerome

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Speaker 2: quite the finish to the game yesterday, bottom of the seventh,

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Speaker 2: one out your four to two down runners on first

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Speaker 2: and second. It is a massive at bat for you,

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Speaker 2: what's going through your head?

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Speaker 3: Is your step up?

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Speaker 5: To be fair?

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Speaker 6: I was just looking to pass the better non to

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Speaker 6: the next person, to be fair. But yeah, it was just, yeah,

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Speaker 6: really trying to get on base and just apply a

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Speaker 6: bit more pressure, but just managed to have a spot

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Speaker 6: where I was able to put a good swing on

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Speaker 6: a pitch and then the rest is history.

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Speaker 2: How are the emotions as you see it sail over

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Speaker 2: the left field fence?

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Speaker 6: To be fair, I didn't actually see it go to

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Speaker 6: the fence. I just kind of I kind of knew

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Speaker 6: there's a feeling, but I did have a little moment

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Speaker 6: between home plate and first base where I can't remember

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Speaker 6: too much.

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Speaker 5: So it was.

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Speaker 6: Just back to basics and make sure I touch all

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Speaker 6: the bases and do all the little things right.

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Speaker 2: When you connect on a hit like that, you alluded

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Speaker 2: to it just now do you know? Do you know

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Speaker 2: that that's gone?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: There is a certain feeling and majority of the times

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Speaker 6: you can't feel anything, which is always a good sign

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Speaker 6: because if you can feel it in your hands, you're

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Speaker 6: either too far off the bed or too far down

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Speaker 6: the bed.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, that one felt pretty good.

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Speaker 2: And you're a left handed batter of course, so right

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Speaker 2: field feels more likely. Do you hit mainly to right

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Speaker 2: field or is left field somewhere you've had good success

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Speaker 2: as well.

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Speaker 6: It's not well you try and hit the ball where

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Speaker 6: it's pitched, try and reverse it. So that's sort of

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Speaker 6: that's the way we're taught from a young ages to

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Speaker 6: hit the ball where it's pitched and don't try and

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Speaker 6: do too much with it. When it's coming out at

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Speaker 6: ay seven miles you don't really have to do too much.

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Speaker 2: And you've been around the sport for a while, is

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Speaker 2: that among your best moments in the game.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, there's definitely up there for sure, definitely the best

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Speaker 6: blacksocks moment, But I think the best ones yet to come.

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Speaker 2: I agree with that because there is more to come.

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Speaker 2: So so far at the tournament, you've beaten Canada and Argentina,

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Speaker 2: lost of Venezuela, beat the US. As I say, how

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Speaker 2: do you evaluate the World Cup campaign and overall terms

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Speaker 2: up to this point.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's hard to do it before it ends.

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Speaker 6: But the way that we've been tracking currently is we're

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Speaker 6: on track for those little goals that we've put in

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Speaker 6: place throughout the pretty much since we started in Toronto

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Speaker 6: all the way till now. We've got a couple of

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Speaker 6: hurdles to get over, but it's pretty hard to put

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Speaker 6: a how did.

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Speaker 5: I put it?

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Speaker 6: Just to put a nail on how we're tracking at

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Speaker 6: the moment, because it's the final result.

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Speaker 5: The sort of we always right off that.

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Speaker 2: How did you feel coming in as a team? Did

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Speaker 2: you feel well prepped and ready for the for the

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Speaker 2: World Cup coming in?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: I think as a team it's always the hardest, especially

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Speaker 6: when a few of us were already over here in

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Speaker 6: the States and then a lot traveled from New Zealand,

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Speaker 6: so it's always sort of the first week in a

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Speaker 6: bit is just sort of jelling together. And I think

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Speaker 6: the first weekend we got together, we sort of hit

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Speaker 6: the ground running. So it's always the unknown, but the

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Speaker 6: preparation leaving from home there was a lot of hard

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Speaker 6: work put in. And they're showing at this letterage later

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Speaker 6: stage of this tournament.

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Speaker 3: How formidable an opponent are Japan.

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Speaker 6: Oh, they're ranked in the top five in the world,

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Speaker 6: so they're always going to be difficult, very crafty, very fast. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: They've they've got all the tools there. But I think

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Speaker 6: the way that we're going that we're going to be

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Speaker 6: tough to stop as well.

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Speaker 2: Black Solks, of course have seven world titles, haven't meddled

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Speaker 2: in the last two, and you were at both of those.

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Speaker 2: How driven are you, not just personally but as a

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Speaker 2: team to have success here in Canada?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, there's there's definitely a few from those last couple

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Speaker 6: of campaigns that have been sleeping with a rock under

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Speaker 6: the under the pillow for farewell.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, it's not just us.

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Speaker 6: The guys that maybe on their first one are also

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Speaker 6: pretty driven in that as well. So I mean it

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Speaker 6: starts at the top, through the coaching stuff and just

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Speaker 6: filters through to us as players.

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Speaker 2: All right, well, look, we wish you all the best

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Speaker 2: against Japan. Can't wait to see how it plays yet,

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Speaker 2: just back to your head. I know you don't sound

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Speaker 2: too keen on talking about yourself, but did your phone

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Speaker 2: blow up afterwards?

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Speaker 3: It's all over social over here.

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Speaker 5: Yeah it did a little bit. I haven't. I've had

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Speaker 5: to put it down for a little bit last moment.

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Speaker 2: So that was wonderful stuff. Made a great moment for

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Speaker 2: you and for the team. I hope it continues. Thanks

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Speaker 2: for taking the time for a chat this afternoon.

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Speaker 5: Awesome thanks for having me, No.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining US, Jerome, Jerome Oramaki.

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Speaker 2: There a walk off home run over the left field

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Speaker 2: fence to give New Zealand victory over the United States.

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Speaker 3: So they played Japan.

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Speaker 2: That game is underway very shortly actually, and a winner

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Speaker 2: is necessary for New Zealand to make it to the

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Speaker 2: gold medal match. It will also depend on the other game,

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Speaker 2: which is in the top of the seventh at the moment,

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Speaker 2: So getting towards the end, Venezuela lead the United States six'.

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Speaker 2: Four New zealand would be favored by The United states

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Speaker 2: winning that. Match they're going to have to get a

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Speaker 2: move on, though because they're two down in the top

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Speaker 2: of the seventh and trailing six to. Four so what

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Speaker 2: that means effectively is if they can't at least tie

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Speaker 2: the game with the one remaining out they have in that,

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Speaker 2: inning that's over And venezuela will win the. Game New

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Speaker 2: zealand can't do much about. That all they can do

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Speaker 2: is Beat japan and then see how the points differential

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Speaker 2: shakes down to find out whether they'll be playing four

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Speaker 2: gold or contesting the third and fourth place.

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Speaker 3: Playoff for more From Weekend sport With Jason.

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