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Speaker 1: Speaking of positive, Speaking of positive, Jacks coach high school

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Speaker 1: football for a long time, he knows. I mean trying

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Speaker 1: buy helmets and shoulder pads is not That's a hard

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and kudos to the Broncos for doing that. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: It's it's a great thing, Dave, that they not only

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Speaker 2: are they outfitting all of these Colorado high schools with helmets,

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Speaker 2: but important helmets that help preserve the safety of all

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Speaker 2: these young men that are playing and that their families

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Speaker 2: will be less concerned of a serious injury. It's I

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Speaker 2: don't get it either.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So let's talk about the opener. I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of people are fired up. The baseball season is here,

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Speaker 1: The Rockies open tonight, you guys are in Miami. I

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Speaker 1: mean for people that are hoping that this season Jack

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Speaker 1: is going to be better, maybe much better than last year.

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Speaker 1: What two or three positive sort of immediately pop into

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Speaker 2: Well, I think two things, and probably number one first

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Speaker 2: and foremost is an atmosphere and an environment. Now that

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Speaker 2: seems much more positive. This is a very collaborative coaching

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Speaker 2: staff that his hands on. And you and I both

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Speaker 2: know for all the years just at the high school level,

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Speaker 2: and all the years you followed the NFL, first as

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Speaker 2: a player then as a coach. Kids today have to

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Speaker 2: be coached differently. I mean, it's still the same game,

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Speaker 2: but how that message gets across has evolved. And this

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Speaker 2: is a front office and Warren Schaffer and his coaching

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Speaker 2: staff have embraced that. And I think there's a much

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Speaker 2: better feel in the clubhouse for the players that the

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Speaker 2: team is invested in them and vice versa. The second thing,

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Speaker 2: the three veteran starting pitchers, maybe that'll blow up in

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Speaker 2: their face, but you don't know till you try it.

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Speaker 2: I think Michael Lorenzen, Jose Kingtana and Tomo Yuki Sogano

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Speaker 2: make this team better just with their experience in the rotation.

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Speaker 2: It's not just Kyle Freeland and four other guys now

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of stability in that rotation.

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Speaker 3: Jack, we're talking about Hunter Goobbin just a little bit earlier,

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Speaker 3: and he, I guess would identify as probably your best

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Speaker 3: player in your lineup. What are your expectations? I mean

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Speaker 3: thirty one home runs, Danguin RBO. I mean he had

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Speaker 3: an unbelievable All Star season. Can he, I guess, either

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Speaker 3: top that or at least stay to that standard this

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Speaker 2: Opinion, Well, you know, Ryan, I think one of the

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Speaker 2: things that the Rockies always felt, and really all of

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Speaker 2: baseball did, and their evaluations of Hunter when he was

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Speaker 2: playing at Memphis was that this guy can hit, but

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Speaker 2: can we find a place for him to play? And

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Speaker 2: he finally got that chance with Bud Black and Mike

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Speaker 2: Redman working on him that hey, you're going to be

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Speaker 2: a catcher. Just worry about catching. He's really made progress

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Speaker 2: and I think it just freed him up to not

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Speaker 2: that all the scouting reports said he was going to be, So,

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Speaker 2: you know, will it be a thirty ninety year again?

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Speaker 2: I know it might be more, might be less, but

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Speaker 2: he's going to be a solid hitter for a long

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Speaker 2: period of time. And it's great to have a young

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Speaker 2: bat like that in the middle of the Rockies lineup.

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Speaker 4: Hey, Jack Shelby Harris here just looking at this team.

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Speaker 4: Looking at this roster, there's some some new players on

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Speaker 4: guy on this team that you believe will be, you know,

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Speaker 4: really be a breakout. We'll have a breakout season that

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Speaker 2: I would say a couple of people, Shelby, to be

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Speaker 2: was an All Star with Minnesota. He's a guy, and

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Speaker 2: you know this from your career when you have guys

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Speaker 2: He's played seven positions at the major league level, and

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Speaker 2: reporters asked me to give him a breakout guy, and

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Speaker 2: I said, Jordan Beck, I think he has a chance

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Speaker 2: the rookie whos gonna play first base? TJ. Rumfield, who

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Speaker 2: they got in the trade with the Yankees, handled everything

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Speaker 2: they asked him to do in spring training, was the

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Speaker 2: MVP of the spring. He's gonna make his debut tonight

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Speaker 2: at first base for the Rockies. Not too shabby.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Jack, final question for me, you get Freeland tonight

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Speaker 1: in the opener. I know Kyle didn't have the kind

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Speaker 1: of season he wanted to last year, but I've always

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Speaker 1: have always been a Kyle Freeland fan. You've you've seen

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Speaker 1: him all spring. Realistically, what what can Rockies fans expect

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Speaker 2: You know, Dave, I think I'm like you. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I've always loved Kyle. His want to his competitiveness is

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Speaker 2: it's been. And maybe most of all, Dave, with those

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Speaker 4: Hey Jack, my last question. Obviously, baseball is a sport

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Speaker 4: where you can, just like any other professional sport, where

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Speaker 4: you can be here one day and be gone the next.

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Speaker 4: Who's someone on the roster who you believe could be

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Speaker 4: traded one of the starters I could be traded closer

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Speaker 4: to the trade deadline. And I'm gonna you know that,

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I think any one of those three

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Speaker 2: be here all year, But like you said, that's the

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Speaker 2: the most likely. Guys.

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Speaker 3: Well, Jack, really can't wait to hear you start your

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Speaker 3: broadcast for the new season coming up here about forty

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Speaker 3: five minutes. Very excited about the season. Thank you so

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Speaker 3: much for the time this afternoon, my friend.

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Speaker 2: As always, guys, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate it, Jack Night, Jack Corgan, Boys of the Rockies.

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Speaker 3: Like I said, Rockies Marlins gets underway pregame coverage at

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Speaker 3: four thirty