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Speaker 2: Here we go back on FT Live with Lawrence Butler,

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Speaker 2: who just signed a nice extension to be part of

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Speaker 3: Look great to have you on, Thanks for the time.

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Speaker 2: I do want to get right to base because we

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Speaker 3: What were your reactions and emotions like.

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Speaker 1: This actually been going on since like the middle of

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Speaker 1: really they day dy. It's gonna be all go with

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Speaker 4: All right. Yeah, it's a big you might get it

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Speaker 1: Nah, I'm getting this song whenever they pay me.

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Speaker 4: That's what I'm wing. You get that first check exactly,

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Speaker 4: and then what kind of car?

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Speaker 1: Twenty five V truck lab Okay, I like loud cars

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Speaker 4: You're not going so you're not going electric car? You're

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Speaker 4: not going test? I ain't really.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the only electric car I get is that Dodge,

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Speaker 1: I'm a Dodge guy, like I love all the muscle cars.

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Speaker 4: That's the second check.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm sure I get an electric car. Gonna

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Speaker 4: All right? All right? What's life been like? I mean,

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Speaker 1: I mean when I first told them, I don't even

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Speaker 5: That was a great moment.

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Speaker 4: They're not gonna change you. You're not gonna change, right.

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Speaker 5: No, I'm gonna be the same person.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 5: I've just got some money.

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Speaker 4: Now, all right, So don't change. I don't want to

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Speaker 1: Nah. The swag is gonna elevate much.

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Speaker 4: See That's what I'm talking about. Hell yeah, stuff.

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Speaker 6: Let me let me ask you this. This is really

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Speaker 6: incredible for your congratulations. Sorry, my Mike is playing tricks

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Speaker 1: I have the same expectations. I mean them paying me

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Speaker 5: You know, I really just work to be the.

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Speaker 1: Playoffs? For sure, I honestly think we can take all

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, you know what. I love that because I've

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Speaker 4: been picking y'all. Yeah. People were saying, why the a's

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Speaker 4: I said, because if you, by the way, I can't

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just law because Kenny and Dallas kind

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Speaker 4: You don't probably even know who Matt Lawton was people's

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Speaker 4: I'm like, I can't call him because I get it.

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Speaker 4: I can call you law them, you can call me. Okay,

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Speaker 4: everybody thirty thirty for you this year.

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Speaker 1: For sure, That's what I'm reaching for get thirty bags,

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Speaker 4: What's easier thirty homers? Thirty bags? I would say to Homers, really, yeah,

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Speaker 4: even with the big pizza box bags.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's it's kind of easier to get.

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Speaker 4: You said, what's one harder or easier? Easier?

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Speaker 1: Oh, I say, I would say the bags because a

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Speaker 4: As a former catcher, trust me, I agree they were

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Speaker 1: Y'all because I mean, they take a minute to get

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Speaker 4: Easier before we let you go. I gotta I gotta

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Speaker 4: ask you this. No, in your bio it says you're

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Speaker 4: gonna claim you but you went to but you went

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Speaker 4: to you went to Joe, You're from Georgia, you went

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Speaker 1: Come on, I was born in New Jersey in Burlington,

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Speaker 6: No yes, yes, listen, listen, you lost your swag dog

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Speaker 1: Family in New Jersey and they do come watch me play,

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Speaker 5: And stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: So you claim both, claim both, and we're happy with that.

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Speaker 2: We We're friendly with Georgia and New Jersey. We got

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Speaker 2: We'll catch you during the year too, but wanted to

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Speaker 2: Ruker as a slugger extraordinaire. Long term guy there now too,

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Speaker 2: coming off the big extension in the off season. Brent,

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Speaker 2: great to have you on man and big act to follow.

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Speaker 2: We had Lawrence Butler like ten minutes ago, and I'm like,

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Speaker 3: What are you seeing? And he's like, playoffs? Sure, can

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Speaker 5: We like where our team's at. We got we've got

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Speaker 4: Come on, I mean, here we go.

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Speaker 5: I'm more media trand the Lawrences. We like our teams.

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Speaker 5: We like where our teams that we got really good players.

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Speaker 5: A lot of guys have gotten a lot better, a

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Speaker 5: Right now. We're gonna we're gonna go out there, We're

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Speaker 6: I'll be honest with you. That's a great answer. But

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Speaker 5: If you've had both me and Lawrence on, you should

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Speaker 5: are we are very very close, very very tight. We're

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Speaker 5: very different people. I am not nearly a swagon.

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Speaker 4: And I asked him. I'm like, you just signed signed

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Speaker 5: He goes, I can't imagine I can with that, what

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we are. We're very aware as a group of

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Speaker 4: So I keep saying tilling her, but I think you

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Speaker 5: We think we're better than that, and we're excited you

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Speaker 4: I think between you, law Shay's going to take the

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Speaker 5: You got to watch out for Shaite like Shae offensively,

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Speaker 4: Been he hits, he hit bombs. He's always so.

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Speaker 6: Let me ask you this, talking about your team moving forward,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Kurtz is impressive, man, big kid, really advanced field

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Speaker 5: As far as his power goes, I mean, it's the

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Speaker 4: All right, so we gotta we're gonna talk off the

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Speaker 4: Your boy, Vinnie Vinnie Pasmentino broke justin fields to the Jets.

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Speaker 5: I saw that.

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Speaker 4: How did he know?

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Speaker 5: I don't know how that was he just I haven't

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Speaker 4: Or he actually I don't know. I don't know. I'm

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Speaker 5: I don't really know all the the doings and the

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Speaker 4: I like Adam Schefter, Yeah, he was all good for time.

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Speaker 2: I'll jump in, Uh, Brent, I want to ask you

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Speaker 3: What would be your feedback?

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Speaker 2: Do you you know, give me a grade system on

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Speaker 3: Most likely in twenty six.

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Speaker 5: I have only played one game with it, and it

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Speaker 4: Because you guys don't have it here. It on every

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Speaker 3: Besides that, well you're not playing on Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Did you forget? You can go on?

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Speaker 4: Because I saw somebody the other day. Was it to tease.

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Speaker 4: Next year story, next year you'll have it.

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Speaker 6: Let me let me ask you Thiss Vegas. You were

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Speaker 5: talked about how excited they were to have us and

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Speaker 5: all the benefits there will be for us as players

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Speaker 5: once we're there, and it's it's very exciting.

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Speaker 4: Like I said, well, before you get to Vegas, you

441
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Speaker 4: have to go to Sacramento. I know we're not allowed

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Speaker 4: to say you're the Sacramento age even though you're playing

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Speaker 4: in Sacramento, right to me, is strange, Right, that's not

444
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Speaker 4: your problem. How's it gonna play? Have you got I

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Speaker 4: know you went there and you've done some stuff pr

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Speaker 4: stuff there too, but have they given you any new

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Speaker 4: info on how it's going to play and what's going.

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Speaker 5: To be like in terms of like how the field

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Speaker 5: itself is going to play. And we were thinking like

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Speaker 5: league average as far as hit her picture friendly kind

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Speaker 5: of right in the middle. It was the most picture

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Speaker 5: friendly PCL Park, But that doesn't mean a lot, and

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Speaker 5: you know when you compare them to the other stadiums there.

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Speaker 5: So best guest right now is about league average. You know,

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Speaker 5: we'll see in the first month or so how it

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Speaker 5: plays and make adjustments from their.

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Speaker 4: First time you hit one to like right center in

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Speaker 4: the catches it. Well, I don't Vegas.

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Speaker 5: It will certainly be more header from than the coliseum.

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Speaker 5: I think we know, especially at night, especially at night,

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Speaker 5: especially the right Center if we went to blow in

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Speaker 5: from there, but it'll be more header from the Oakland.

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Speaker 5: It will be I think about league average. So you

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Speaker 5: don't see how it goes.

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Speaker 4: Have you seen the clubhouses?

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Speaker 5: And I have seen it early July or sorry, early

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Speaker 5: January when all the infrastructure was up. I haven't seen

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Speaker 5: it since you know, it's been closer to finish. But

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Speaker 5: the facilities for us are gonna be great. They're gonna

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Speaker 5: be I mean, they're in left field, that's the downside

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Speaker 5: of it. But as far as what we have their amenities,

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Speaker 5: training room, weight room, food room, catching all that stuff.

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Speaker 5: It should be. It's gonna be brand new, and it

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Speaker 5: should be. It should be very.

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Speaker 4: If you're okay, is there a cage close to the dugout?

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Speaker 5: There is not?

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Speaker 4: You have a bullpen card that takes you out, and

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Speaker 4: then I'm gonna.

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Speaker 5: Have to figure out how to what I'm gonna do.

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Speaker 5: I'm not a hit between a Bats guy, but I

481
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Speaker 5: am gonna go up to the weight room and and

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Speaker 5: stay loose that way between a Bats guy, and that's

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Speaker 5: not the dugout. So I don't know how feasible it

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Speaker 5: is to walk down the left field line to get

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Speaker 5: out there between a bass or finding just come up

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Speaker 5: with a new setup in the dugout. So the first

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Speaker 5: week or so will be me trying to make adjustments,

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Speaker 5: figure out what my teams could take.

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Speaker 4: Y RP. Ricky Anderson. Didn't he have a bike that?

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Speaker 4: He was right?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I probably put one in the corner the out. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I can probably do that. You get a peloton, Yeah,

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Speaker 5: maybe like a little cubic like an office cubicle in

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Speaker 5: the corner to give me some my almost space over

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Speaker 5: there and ride a bike in the corner or something.

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Speaker 5: I'll figure something out.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Brent. Last one for me.

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Speaker 2: We had an extended combo with one of your new

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Speaker 2: teammates last night, Luis Savarino. It was fascinating. He was

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Speaker 2: talking about how he thrived and broke out again last

501
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Speaker 2: year after struggling in twenty twenty three with the Yankees,

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Speaker 2: and one thing he pointed out, which he learned more

503
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Speaker 2: about via free agency, was multiple ways that he was tipping,

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Speaker 2: including his looks. Have you noticed that in the past

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Speaker 2: or did you did you even know about this? Or

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Speaker 2: my breaking news to you right now?

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Speaker 3: And a kind of with him, so he.

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Speaker 4: Said, especially with gut runners on base, he would come set,

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Speaker 4: and if he looked to second and then just went

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Speaker 4: right home, it was an off speed pitch. If he

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Speaker 4: if he would come he would come set, look at second,

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Speaker 4: and when he looked at third before it was a fastball.

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Speaker 5: Okay, And so he knows that now obviously.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's like, I've been working out. I think he

515
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Speaker 4: found out last time he went from the Yankees. So

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Speaker 4: they told him, like, if we had this on you,

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Speaker 4: and he said, also he didn't get into what he

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Speaker 4: was doing with his glove. So like say there's a

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Speaker 4: first and second back he would come set and if

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Speaker 4: he if he went home looking at second, it was

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Speaker 4: a breaking ball off speed or change up. And if

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Speaker 4: he would come set and then he'd look at the runner,

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Speaker 4: third base coach or whatever, and you go, it was

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Speaker 4: a fastball. So the hitters were able to pick up

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Speaker 4: that's interesting. Well, yeah, I mean we're excited to have him. Obviously,

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Speaker 4: he was really really good last year and he's gonna

527
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Speaker 4: be an anchor top for rotation. But that's the days are

528
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Speaker 4: signing guys. Yeah, I a trade for springs. I mean,

529
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Speaker 4: there's a lot of guys that brought in.

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Speaker 5: It just it's a sign that the communicate said, like

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Speaker 5: front office, the people who make the decisions really like

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Speaker 5: what we have here, and they think we're pretty close

533
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Speaker 5: to being pretty good, which we feel as players as well.

534
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Speaker 5: So bringing in addition, I mean, you're right, you're not

535
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Speaker 5: gonna go sign big free agents if you think you're

536
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Speaker 5: far away. It doesn't make a lot of sense. So

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Speaker 5: that it tells us that the feeling we have as

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Speaker 5: players is shared throughout the organization, from top to bottom.

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Speaker 5: With the group that we have here is the right one,

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Speaker 5: and we're excited to kind of get out there and

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Speaker 5: and show that. Like I said, the team that we

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Speaker 5: have together is one that can win a lot of games.

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Speaker 5: I can't wait.

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Speaker 4: My sleep. It has been my sleeper pick all year.

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Speaker 4: I'm sticking with it after being here and talking to

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Speaker 4: these guys.

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Speaker 5: Love it.

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Speaker 2: Brent on our way out, what's one thing we got

549
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Speaker 2: to ask mar Kotte because apparently he's coming up in

550
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Speaker 2: like ten minutes.

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Speaker 5: Oh, what do we have to kick him with?

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Speaker 3: What do you guys make fun of him for? There's

553
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Speaker 3: got to be something.

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Speaker 5: Perfectly hairy? He's great. I don't know. Did you ask

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Speaker 5: law Mason?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 3: No, I just I just thought of this I.

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Speaker 5: Mean I played with No he's great. He's awesome. He's awesome,

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Speaker 5: He's done a great job.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna ask him. I want to know why he

561
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Speaker 4: bends his hat so much.

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Speaker 5: He does be in the hat.

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Speaker 4: It's like super bad.

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Speaker 5: He doesn't they did it? Did he do that when

565
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Speaker 5: he played?

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Speaker 4: Yes, he was always like, I don't know why it's

567
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Speaker 4: so bad.

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Speaker 5: And he wears the low profile hats too, like the

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Speaker 5: older school and yeah, don't like sit up t how

570
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Speaker 5: he likes like.

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Speaker 4: Will Venable for the White Sox as a flat Burmmer

572
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Speaker 4: is like the Japanese little leaguers that have like the vah. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: he's the same way.

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Speaker 2: That's the insight in But we were looking for a

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Speaker 2: right good to see you, man, I have on the

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Speaker 2: rest of the camp.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk to you during the year.

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Speaker 5: We'll do