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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Sports Phone and K and BR on

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Speaker 1: a Tuesday Night with Bill Laski. I'm honored to have

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Speaker 1: my guest on. Of course, he's been with San Francisco

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Speaker 1: Giants over twenty five years as a Spanish language broadcaster

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Speaker 1: play by play with Tito Fiuentes, a three time Emmy

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Speaker 1: Award winner. Let's bring in Irwin Garris.

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Speaker 2: How are you today, Eric, Bill, I'm doing great. How

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Speaker 2: about yourself?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing great.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 1: Spring training is pretty much half over. You've been down

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Speaker 1: there the whole time. What has been the most surprising

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Speaker 1: to you so far?

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Speaker 2: Wow? I mean, we can. I gotta tell you that.

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Speaker 2: One of the big surprises has got to be Victor

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Speaker 2: Berry Koto, one of the outfielders, younger guys that has

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Speaker 2: been you know, he's in joint camp for the first time.

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Speaker 2: The other surprises one Sanchez on the pitching side. You know,

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Speaker 2: I think those are the two big surprises for me.

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Speaker 1: Welljan Sanchez is a left handed pitcher. Of course, I've

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Speaker 1: interviewed him and he seems to get the eye of

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Speaker 1: Tony Vittello. Earlier this week, a nice article was written

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Speaker 1: and Tony talked about his perseverance. He works hard, he

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Speaker 1: throws good, and he says he's got a great attitude.

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Speaker 1: Tell me a little bit more about one.

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Speaker 2: He was very close in making the team. I guess

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Speaker 2: that was my observation in twenty twenty three, he was

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Speaker 2: opening eyes. He was doing really good in camp until

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Speaker 2: the injury, and obviously we know that he had season

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Speaker 2: ending Tommy John. He came back last year for a

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Speaker 2: little bit, and this year he's back and he's optimism

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Speaker 2: is unique. He's obviously valuing this opportunity that he has

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Speaker 2: in being in camp, historing very well. There is no

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Speaker 2: more pain in his left arm, so you know, he's

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Speaker 2: just enjoying the moment and taking every opportunity that the

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Speaker 2: coaching stuff is giving him to come in and pitch.

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Speaker 1: That boy here in sports phone Kmbre. I'm a good

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Speaker 1: friend Erwin Garis.

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Speaker 2: Of course.

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Speaker 1: Last year, Irwin one hundred and sixty two games on

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Speaker 1: Spanish radio. Of course, you did eighty one on the

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Speaker 1: road and eighty one at home. You are a busy guy.

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Speaker 1: Tell me a little bit about what's going to happen

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: Twenty twenty six, we're gonna have the same thing. One

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Speaker 2: hundred and sixty two games at home, I will continue

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Speaker 2: working with Tito Fuentez. On the road, I will have

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Speaker 2: Carlos Oriana with me, obviously Carloreana also. That's play by

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Speaker 2: play at home, but that's how the games are going

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Speaker 2: to be divided, and I'm sure I will find some

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Speaker 2: energy somewhere to do the to do the play by play,

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Speaker 2: and then from the broadcast booth run down to the

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Speaker 2: clubhouse to translate for any Land players that need my assistance.

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Speaker 1: Irwin, You're a busy man, no doubt about it, and

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Speaker 1: let's talk about it here. Definitely the translator for Latin players.

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Speaker 1: This year, I've counted about fourteen to fifteen players in

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Speaker 1: Big Camp. Some of them don't need you, they speak

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Speaker 1: very good English, but most of them have different ways

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Speaker 1: of speaking Spanish. You had talked about this in an

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Speaker 1: earlier interview. Tell us a little bit about that.

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Speaker 2: Well, basically, what it is is like I keep telling

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Speaker 2: a lot of people, Spanish is Spanish. You will understand.

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Speaker 2: It's just that certain idiots idiotisms that they use, you know,

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Speaker 2: some different slang Dominniicans, Venezuelans, you know, when we have

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Speaker 2: players from Mexico et cetera. And it's just for me.

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Speaker 2: It's just spending time with them to understand what they're

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Speaker 2: talking about, what they're trying to say, because sometimes people

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Speaker 2: make saim my god, he just almost answer the question

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Speaker 2: the same way. But you know, I spend time with

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Speaker 2: love about my job, which is I'm here for six

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Speaker 2: weeks in spring training. It gives me an opportunity not

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Speaker 2: only to continue building a relationship with the regular players

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Speaker 2: like Devors like a Rise was new to the team,

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Speaker 2: but also with the potential younger players that I will

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Speaker 2: You know, San Martin, maybe Juan Sanchez if he doesn't

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Speaker 1: Well Erwin. You talked about relationships, and relationships mean trust,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of these players you just mentioned a

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Speaker 1: Ryce coming from San Diego, they have to learn about you.

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Speaker 1: They got to understand a little bit more about you.

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Speaker 1: And you really bring up that word trust. Tell me

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Speaker 1: a little bit about how you do that.

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Speaker 2: I am who I am. What you see is what

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Speaker 2: I'm not different. I don't change my personality. I'm friendly

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Speaker 2: with them. Maybe it helps that I'm older than they are.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I'm older than their dance, so that that's a

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Speaker 2: little bit that trust. But you know, I just I

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Speaker 2: just talk to them. Like Devers, for example, I spend

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Speaker 2: time talking to him, getting to know him. But at

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Speaker 2: the same time, if I see that he's not one

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Speaker 2: that loves to talk, I just give him his space.

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Speaker 2: You know, when they need something, I'm there. There's other

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Speaker 2: players like, for example, Juan Sanchez, Randi Rodriguez, they love

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Speaker 2: to talk. I talk to them, and you know, just

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Speaker 2: a matter of respecting who they are and giving them

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Speaker 2: their space. I share with them who I am. If

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Speaker 2: I want to know about their background, if I want

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Speaker 2: to know about their families, their upbringing, well then I

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Speaker 2: got to be ready to also be able to reciprocate

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Speaker 2: and share with them about me, because I think that

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Speaker 2: it's not fair that I want to know everything about

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Speaker 2: I climb up and don't share anything that is not

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Speaker 2: how I do things. And I think that's the part

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Speaker 2: of that's part of the way to gain their trust, Irwin.

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Speaker 1: Two players of the past that you grew to really

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Speaker 1: Johnny Cuato. Both players played here a few years. Of course,

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Speaker 1: Pablo came up through the minor leagues with the Giants.

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Speaker 1: You got to know him when he first came to

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Speaker 1: Those are two players that really really trusted you and

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Speaker 1: everything they did. How did you do that in the length?

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Speaker 1: How did you de longevity of a friendship, the longevity

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Speaker 1: fabulous players for the Giants.

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Speaker 2: I'll answer the Paulos Underlock question first because it's easy.

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Speaker 2: So you know, I've been with the Giants in nineteen

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Speaker 2: ninety eight. I met Pablo when he was in the

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Speaker 2: minor leagues. I would go and talk to the minor

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Speaker 2: leaguers at our complex in Indian School, and I would

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Speaker 2: share with them what they needed to do when they

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Speaker 2: And so I'm sure that Paulo Sandle want to mention

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Speaker 2: one that sat with the Land players during that presentation

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Speaker 2: while the English guys were getting the presentation on the

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Speaker 2: the team. This is all what I'm thinking, right, You

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Speaker 2: but then you see somebody that you remember that you

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Speaker 2: saw before, and then you know a friendly face that

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Speaker 2: I've been here. I translated for him at the beginning,

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Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, he just took off

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Speaker 2: the reasons that we built the friendship. We built that trust.

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Speaker 2: Jenny Quoto was different, meaning that I was here. He

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Speaker 2: came here in twenty sixteen, he got to know me,

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Speaker 2: And I really don't know what I did to gain

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Speaker 2: his trust, to be honest with you, I just know

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Speaker 2: a story that I tell people. When he went to

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Speaker 2: the Old Star Game in twenty sixteen, I'm translating for

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Speaker 2: our travel secretary about you know what they're going to do,

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Speaker 2: I don't need for them to buy my plane ticket

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Speaker 2: translating all that, and you know, as we're walking torches locker,

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Speaker 2: I said, okay, so I'll see you in San Diego,

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Speaker 2: you know, and then he looks at me, he goes,

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Speaker 2: we have room in my plane. But before I told

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Speaker 2: him yes, my question was because I was surprised that

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Speaker 2: had never happened to me. I said, I'll let you

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Speaker 2: know after the game, right, I mean, it's like, really, Irwin,

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Speaker 2: that was your answer, I'll let you know. Off to

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Speaker 2: the plane. So then I get up there to the

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Speaker 2: and then he says to me, you have to say yes,

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Speaker 2: because if you don't go, he has already accepted you

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Speaker 2: to his family by inviting you into the plane. If

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Speaker 2: cup of coffee, you know.

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Speaker 1: So that's a special friendship, no question there. And I

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you went on his plane because I'm sure

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Speaker 2: I did. I did, I did, And that was the

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Speaker 2: beginning of a long friendship. I still text them and

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Speaker 2: I send them messages, just checking on him. How he's

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Speaker 2: hard to explain, but but yeah, you you make me

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Speaker 2: remember reminiscent those times with Johnny, which was a great

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Speaker 1: Erwina Garris joined me on sports phone KMBR. You talk

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Speaker 1: about going over the Indian school or even Papa Go

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Speaker 1: where the minor leagues were. Where they are now a

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Speaker 1: couple of young players, and one is Lewis Hernandez who

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Speaker 1: Are you going to go and meet him? Are you

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Speaker 1: going to talk to him about what's next?

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Speaker 2: We did already. We did Megan Brown. Megan Brown, who's

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Speaker 2: media presentation with some of our big prospects. We did

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Speaker 2: them together. She did her presentation in English. I got

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Speaker 2: to meet him and also Jose who are Gonzalez? Just

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Speaker 2: to name a couple, and just to talk to him

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Speaker 2: a little bit what they're going to expect in regards

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Speaker 2: to the media. How to conduct themselves, how to talk

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Speaker 2: doing that with all of our players to go talk

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Speaker 2: to them. Obviously, the Giants themselves, they do a great

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Speaker 2: job with all of our players to help them adapt

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Speaker 2: to the new culture, to teach him English so they

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Speaker 2: can you be ready for this. However, talking to the

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Speaker 2: all the guys, you want to do it on your own,

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Speaker 2: I will not discourage you to try and do interviews

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Speaker 2: in English.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I really believe they're going to have to because

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Speaker 1: it's so important for them to speak what they want

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Speaker 1: to speak and how they feel. And I just think

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Speaker 1: he's going to be an exciting player down the road.

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Speaker 1: And let's jump back in this Giant's clubhouse for a

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Speaker 1: little bit longer. Let's talk about Rafael Devers and of

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Speaker 1: course Louis Arise, two players that are now going to

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Speaker 1: be playing on the right side. Of course, Devers was

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Speaker 1: a fantastic third baseman. Arise was a good second basement.

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Speaker 1: They kind of moved him to first base. Of course

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Speaker 1: he's playing first base in a WBC. Tell me how

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Speaker 2: Ron Washington is working them really hard. I have yet

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Speaker 2: You're early. Sometimes I'm here at six thirty in the

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Speaker 2: But I tend to say not really, because they're different.

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Speaker 1: Two players that are out of options gerar and Canarcion

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Speaker 1: having a fantastic spring. Hasn't struck out yet up to

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, I wish I was executive and I

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Speaker 2: and they have to make the team. They don't have options.

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Speaker 2: They have to make the team. And if they make

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Speaker 1: It's going to be a tough decision. Our fields are

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Speaker 1: A couple of players are fantastic playing. You got Kristin Koss,

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Speaker 1: But that's what Buster Posey wanted. He wanted competition in camp,

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Speaker 2: It's a good problem to have, isn't it, Bill?

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Speaker 1: It sure is?

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Speaker 2: I mean right, I mean you have assuming that the

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Speaker 2: Betas center, John who in right? And then you think, okay,

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Speaker 2: should we who can we have on the bench? Matto

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Speaker 2: And then in the infield you just mentioned three that

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Speaker 2: I would say to the fans, you know, get ready

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Speaker 2: for exciting season because we have good players and we

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Speaker 1: A couple more questions with Irwin hen Garris on sports

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Speaker 1: phonk Kmbright. Let's jump to the WBC I got to

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Speaker 1: ask you, who's your favorite team. I'm sure it's either Dominican, Venezuela,

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Speaker 1: Mexico or USA. A lot of good teams, and you

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Speaker 1: can't count out Japan, the reigning WBC champions.

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Speaker 2: Who you got, Irwin, I got the USA. I'm sorry,

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Speaker 2: I gotta go. I gotta go with the USA, however,

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Speaker 1: I thought for sure you were going to go Tominican Republic.

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Speaker 1: They got one of the best lineups that I've ever

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Speaker 1: these Latin countries is pretty good. And USA, of course,

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Speaker 1: I'm right there with you, but you definitely threw me

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Speaker 2: No, I mean, you know, I'm pulling for the United States,

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Speaker 2: you know, Venezuela is a good team, right, I mean,

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Speaker 2: you can't go wrong with any team that you pick,

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Speaker 2: but I'm picking the United States.

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Speaker 1: It's a pleasure always catching up with you. You have a

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Speaker 1: good rest of the spring training. Can't wait to see

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Speaker 1: you when you come back to the Bay Area and

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Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a lot of fans waiting for that

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Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty two games this season you're gonna

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Speaker 1: put together behind the mic.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Bill anytime, Always great talking to you excellent.

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Speaker 1: That was Irwin Higerris on sports Phone KMBR. More coming

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