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Speaker 1: Okay, So we're here with Derek Shelton, manager of the

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Twins. He's a little angry, by the way, at

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Speaker 1: our production staff because he didn't make the front end

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Speaker 2: What are we doing you guys?

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Speaker 3: New guys in there? I don't return production. It's unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna yell at producer lady for the fact that

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Speaker 3: That's good, and we run it.

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Speaker 1: Watch it'll be when this goes when this is Yes,

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Speaker 1: but do we put you Do you have a picture

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Speaker 1: of you in full Twins uniform.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure Dustin can find a picture.

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Speaker 1: But we only have pictures of Dustin shirtless or really tight. Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: for super Scott to go super like so small. Really

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Speaker 1: it's a contest between him and dust And that's why

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Speaker 1: Scott couldn't come because the shirt cold, because they would

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Speaker 1: shirt within the in the Fort Myers area. Yes, the

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Speaker 1: one medium shirt.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, exactly. By the way, and when we put

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Speaker 3: you in, do we have to put your watch in?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Orris, you gotta go. A lot of guys wearing orses.

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Speaker 1: A lot of managers. They love the manager, Yeah, do they?

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Speaker 1: Because I asked Boonie about this and he was the

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Speaker 2: He's the first one. He's the og. Booneye is the og.

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Speaker 2: And then I think it went to Alex and I

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Speaker 3: But do you change your watch because you changed it?

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Speaker 3: If he changed the.

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Speaker 2: I changed it on all Booney stole the yellow from

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Speaker 2: me because I had the yellow first. So with uh

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Speaker 2: the big which is the actual right when it's the

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Speaker 2: big blue. But yeah, I'm getting ready to place my

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Speaker 2: new order it. Now there's sick but Booney Boney mixes

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Speaker 2: it up more than I do.

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Speaker 4: But you gotta be careful. Do you have to get

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Speaker 4: that monitored by the league, Because when I was playing

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Speaker 4: for the Rulers, Craig Council got in trouble because they

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Speaker 4: sent him a letter and they said he was wearing

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Speaker 4: an Apple watch, but it was really it was a

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Speaker 4: Mickey Mouse watch that he wore one day and all

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Speaker 3: The clock were broken.

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Speaker 4: But Major League Baseball sent him a letter that said

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Speaker 4: it was a you can't wear you can't wear Apple

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Speaker 4: doing on their cheating and all that stuff like, so

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Speaker 4: do you have to get yours, take a picture of

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Speaker 2: No, uh, there's no. We're not getting any data here.

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Speaker 2: We're just looking cool, just looking stylish. No, it's just

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Speaker 2: There's no you have said you have red Navy, red

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Speaker 3: Step step you're on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you got a yellow one for for the city

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Speaker 3: It look cool. Okay, listen, I'm all for it.

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Speaker 4: I love I love your energy.

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Speaker 5: You seem like you're in a good mood. I never

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Speaker 5: understood the pirates a decision, but I really understand Minnesota

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Speaker 2: I think that's a goal for for every manager in

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Speaker 2: We have to continue to teach. It's a large focus

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Speaker 2: Well, a lot of conversations in the off season, you

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Speaker 4: Have you seen anybody that your preconceived idea was wrong

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Speaker 2: Well, I think with Pitcher, you get a like seeing

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Speaker 2: you're gonna get a big boy lineup. You're gonna get

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Speaker 3: Has anything changed?

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Speaker 1: Falvey? Derek Falvey was here and then all of a

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Speaker 2: I think he was part of it because of the

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Speaker 2: When you do interview, you to me with all the

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Speaker 3: Joe, Carl, Tom, Billy, Bobby.

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Speaker 2: At that point I met with Joe and then I've

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Speaker 2: But in terms of coming here and doing interview process,

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Speaker 2: how is this with this group that sat out and

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Speaker 3: You won, Derek, was something you would have.

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Speaker 5: What's something you would you want to do with the

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Speaker 5: twins that perhaps you didn't do when you were managing before,

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Speaker 5: Like you always want to do better than the year before,

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Speaker 5: right with something in terms of development of your managerial career,

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Speaker 5: would you like to take a step forward this season?

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Speaker 2: I think there's two components to that, and one of

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Speaker 2: it happened in the offseason, was just how you build

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Speaker 2: really don't understand, you know, the complexity of a major

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Speaker 2: how you have to have different skill sets, how they

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Speaker 2: The first two hires we made were LaTroy Hawkins, who

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Speaker 1: At one point, you know, every guy's doing over here.

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Speaker 1: Every time AJ puts slider down, they hit it. Grady

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Speaker 2: I mean we went after major league experience first because

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Speaker 2: I think it's something I screwed up in Pittsburgh and

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Speaker 4: Do you feel like you were in a place to

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Speaker 2: No, I wasn't hamstrung at all. It was something that

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Speaker 2: it where you're always right, I mean shocking. I was

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Speaker 2: Using this so kratsy and a lot, I'll direct this

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Speaker 3: Since nineteen seventy six, seventy six, Yeah, shocking.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm where my feet are. You know, I'm happy

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Speaker 2: It's the most valuable, volatable place in our game. One year,

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Speaker 2: It's like a drug. He's like, I love it.

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Speaker 2: He has not set up for the barber yet. And

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Speaker 3: Yeah it's the tats.

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Speaker 1: Are you the type of manager that has to have

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Speaker 2: Because I was.

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Speaker 2: Now I don't know when this is being aired, but

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Speaker 2: TK is not and but t K is around target field?

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Speaker 2: And the great thing about t K did you play

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Speaker 3: It was brilliant tell me because I want to know.

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Speaker 1: Did Morneault also tell you the story about when Tom

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Speaker 3: He was in the cage. He goes, as long as

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Speaker 2: He left it out and that actually happened. I would

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Speaker 1: And also next time you see TK asking about David Ortiz,

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Speaker 3: He almost killed them One day.

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Speaker 3: I look back on TK. When I was young, we

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Speaker 2: Well, I think the thing that we found out about

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Speaker 2: And I think with good teachers and good leaders, those messages,

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Speaker 2: what was your conversation like with t K at your

437
00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:46,520
Speaker 2: press conversation said it was not a conversation. It was

438
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Speaker 2: a monologue. It was one way. It was one way directed.

439
00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:52,640
Speaker 3: But I loved I appreciate the time that he took

440
00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:53,920
Speaker 3: the time, and he cares that much about it.

441
00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:55,320
Speaker 2: He was great.

442
00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:57,240
Speaker 3: I looked back, So Shelton, thank you. And by the way,

443
00:18:57,280 --> 00:18:59,400
Speaker 3: Molnors coming, Molly's gonna be looking for your job.

444
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Speaker 2: He had this one.

445
00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:00,800
Speaker 3: I know.

446
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Speaker 1: I was sat next to him for a while. Well, Selty,

447
00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:07,480
Speaker 1: thank you, man. I really wish you know them but

448
00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:09,439
Speaker 1: the best. And people know this about me. One thing

449
00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:11,560
Speaker 1: that I will say. People know me as a white sock,

450
00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:14,119
Speaker 1: but I still consider myself there's a small sliver.

451
00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:14,840
Speaker 3: I mean, that's a twin.

452
00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:16,880
Speaker 2: I love that. Until you get on the south side

453
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Speaker 2: and well, of course.

454
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Chelty, Shelty, though, wait before we go, he almost

455
00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:25,159
Speaker 4: didn't shake your hand. He almost didn't shake hand. I mean,

456
00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:29,280
Speaker 4: I couldn't get a handshake. He's a white sock. He's

457
00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:32,560
Speaker 4: a white sock. You're an al Central opponent now, so

458
00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:35,000
Speaker 4: that's why he didn't do it, his little cal Rawley

459
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Speaker 4: Randy of Rosarina.

460
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Speaker 1: I'm Caldough. You're you'rery that sixty you hit. I'm advancing,

461
00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:51,439
Speaker 1: you're not. Thanks Italy, Okay, all right, thank you, Chelsey

462
00:19:51,480 --> 00:20:02,399
Speaker 1: all I gotta go. Yeah, I'm here with Royce Lewis

463
00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:04,600
Speaker 1: twin Star. By the way, Eric, if you want to

464
00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:06,680
Speaker 1: lose weight and stop eating sweetses, do like I didn't

465
00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:08,320
Speaker 1: give it up for lent, so it's easy, you know,

466
00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:11,000
Speaker 1: just just become Catholic overnight and just give it up

467
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Speaker 1: for forty days and you'll over right.

468
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Speaker 3: I went to Catholic school. A good food, that's training, Yeah,

469
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Speaker 3: pretty much.

470
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Speaker 2: What do you like to eat?

471
00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:29,080
Speaker 4: I love ice cream? I love ice cream. But what's

472
00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:31,080
Speaker 4: what's that thing for you that you're like? I know

473
00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:33,440
Speaker 4: I shouldn't have it, but I'm I'm gonna get after.

474
00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:38,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love ice cream, chocolate chip cookies. I think

475
00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:40,920
Speaker 3: those are hard ones to beat. Man hogging'dss coffee is

476
00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:42,440
Speaker 3: my go to really. Yeah.

477
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Speaker 1: The ice cream, the ice cream you put that, you

478
00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:46,040
Speaker 1: know you can put the There's these restaurants to have

479
00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:47,800
Speaker 1: this thing of skillet and they bring out this cookie

480
00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:49,119
Speaker 1: and then they put the ice cream on top of

481
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Speaker 1: it and melts.

482
00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:52,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's called a perzuki.

483
00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:55,280
Speaker 4: It's called a perzuki. Pizza cooks.

484
00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:57,040
Speaker 3: I'm all in on the perzuki. It's it's good in

485
00:20:57,119 --> 00:20:58,840
Speaker 3: Fort Myers too. We got one like ten minutes away.

486
00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:00,399
Speaker 3: So it's really Oh yeah, I know where to do.

487
00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:02,080
Speaker 3: So you go there all the time. No, No, I

488
00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:06,480
Speaker 3: actually haven't been there anytime. They weigh these guys in now.

489
00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:09,119
Speaker 1: They weigh these guys in now every day when they

490
00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:11,080
Speaker 1: walk in and do their body changed a lot.

491
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Speaker 3: It's totally changed, even since i've you know, come up

492
00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:16,480
Speaker 3: and it's just different. But it's unique and I think

493
00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:18,080
Speaker 3: it's growing. You can tell.

494
00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:19,960
Speaker 1: Okay, So I told this story the other day and

495
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Speaker 1: I got to ask Roysis since he's we're in Twins camp.

496
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Speaker 1: When I was at the Twins, we didn't when I

497
00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:26,320
Speaker 1: first got here, we didn't even lift weights.

498
00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:26,760
Speaker 2: We didn't even know.

499
00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:28,399
Speaker 3: We didn't have a weight room here. We had nothing.

500
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Speaker 3: We just we bare.

501
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Speaker 1: We didn't have a string coach. Really we had one,

502
00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:34,280
Speaker 1: but he was just kind of there because they didn't

503
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Speaker 1: like it.

504
00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:37,720
Speaker 3: We also.

505
00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:41,600
Speaker 1: Had like no food restriction, so now they have dinner

506
00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:45,119
Speaker 1: and everything here for you. Oh yeah, so do you

507
00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:47,800
Speaker 1: eat three meals a day at the ballpark? Because for me,

508
00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:49,680
Speaker 1: it was like we got a like hot Rod, who

509
00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:52,640
Speaker 1: was one of our assistant clubies, is the equipment guy here.

510
00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:54,639
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, when you guys were here, there was

511
00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:56,920
Speaker 1: peeb and jay and maybe a tuna fish sandwich.

512
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Speaker 3: So what you guys get three meals a day at

513
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Speaker 3: this place?

514
00:21:59,480 --> 00:21:59,600
Speaker 1: Now?

515
00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:03,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, they serve breakfast and lunch, no dinner the day games,

516
00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:05,320
Speaker 3: no dinner because everyone's pretty much gone by, okay, so

517
00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:08,320
Speaker 3: it's really nice. Honestly, I get the same meal every

518
00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:12,600
Speaker 3: day for breakfast. Lunch is great. Breakfast it's an egg

519
00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:15,720
Speaker 3: scramble with bell pepper, spinach and sausage and him, gosh,

520
00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:18,080
Speaker 3: you get change. So it changed so much leaned out

521
00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:19,560
Speaker 3: over here, you know what I mean? Changed so much?

522
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Speaker 4: All right, last last Twins throwback question, because AJ and

523
00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:28,920
Speaker 4: the Joe Mauer poster behind you are what we what

524
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Speaker 4: what We'll discuss the whole time here, but last one.

525
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Speaker 4: This is how much it's changed too. AJ used to

526
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Speaker 4: have to pay for his extra sets of equipment because

527
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Speaker 4: the team wouldn't.

528
00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:45,080
Speaker 3: Pay for No. No, no, no, no, no no. Let's

529
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Speaker 3: get the story straight.

530
00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:46,919
Speaker 4: It wasn't extra.

531
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Speaker 1: It was we asked for a fleece. We asked when

532
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Speaker 1: the first fleeces came out. The Twins said, no, we

533
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Speaker 1: play in the Metrodome.

534
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Speaker 2: We don't.

535
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Speaker 3: We don't have the money for it.

536
00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:59,479
Speaker 1: It's seventy two degrees every day, so we don't need

537
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Speaker 1: the flee And we're like, but every other team has

538
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:03,560
Speaker 1: them and they wear them when they come to the Metro.

539
00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:06,320
Speaker 3: No, guys, we can't have it. So we had a player,

540
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:09,480
Speaker 3: Mike Fetters, buy him for the whole team. Good player,

541
00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:12,320
Speaker 3: good teammate, right, good, thank you, But no, I think

542
00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:13,760
Speaker 3: that's a little tough. You know, you still have eighty

543
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 3: one games not in the Metro Dome. Thank you. I

544
00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,320
Speaker 3: need that fleece, right. Plus it's swaggy, that's good.

545
00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:18,520
Speaker 2: Look.

546
00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:21,920
Speaker 1: That was when they like nowadays everyone has seven hoodies,

547
00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:24,639
Speaker 1: you know, this and that, shorts and all this stuff.

548
00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:26,920
Speaker 3: We had nothing. I like the old school baggy look.

549
00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:29,280
Speaker 3: Even in the NBA you bring that kind of look back.

550
00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:31,639
Speaker 3: It looks way better. The pajamas. Yeah, the pajamas.

551
00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:32,119
Speaker 2: I like it.

552
00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,639
Speaker 3: I like, how's how's camp going. It's going wonderful. Man.

553
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,119
Speaker 3: I feel like I've finally grown into a good routine

554
00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:40,359
Speaker 3: and understood like where I need to be in camp

555
00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:42,480
Speaker 3: for the season and get ready for March twenty sixth.

556
00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:46,399
Speaker 3: And it's it's exciting having quality at bats for the

557
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:47,960
Speaker 3: most part. You know, I'm still human. I'm going to

558
00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:49,840
Speaker 3: chase that change up that looks really enticing to it.

559
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:51,840
Speaker 3: But it's fun. It's going really good.

560
00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:53,959
Speaker 2: What do you what do you need?

561
00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:56,040
Speaker 4: You said, I feel like I know what I need

562
00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:57,879
Speaker 4: to do to get ready for the season.

563
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Speaker 2: What does that look like?

564
00:23:58,880 --> 00:23:59,840
Speaker 4: What is the difference?

565
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:04,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, the biggest difference, honestly was two things. One confidence

566
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:07,800
Speaker 3: and two is a good routine. Having a great routine

567
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:09,920
Speaker 3: in which I come in every morning, I do the

568
00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:13,560
Speaker 3: same thing. It's pretty much like rinse, clean, repeat, and

569
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:15,880
Speaker 3: that's all I'm doing right now in spring and it's

570
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,560
Speaker 3: really nice. It's pretten fun and honestly, if it makes

571
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,159
Speaker 3: my body feel better too, so yeah, I think for me, honestly,

572
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:23,640
Speaker 3: it was just like having a good you know routine

573
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:25,720
Speaker 3: in the off season too. That started right away, which

574
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,120
Speaker 3: is you know, running and feeling confident my legs again,

575
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,119
Speaker 3: lifting heavy so I have you know, enough power and

576
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Speaker 3: gain that power and I feel like every day I

577
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:34,440
Speaker 3: can come to the ballpark and hit a home run

578
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,120
Speaker 3: and not feel like it's coming off the back week.

579
00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,320
Speaker 3: And so those are two things for me that I

580
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:40,639
Speaker 3: focused on right as well as you know, eat and

581
00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:43,440
Speaker 3: ride and just having fun with my family and taking

582
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:46,200
Speaker 3: advantage of that off season. Carried over really well into

583
00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:53,880
Speaker 3: spring and have been kind of just on that repeat schedule. Up.

584
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Speaker 3: I guess that's that, crowds.

585
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Speaker 1: Sorry crowds. I thought you were going it's me. You'll

586
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Speaker 1: put the camera on me. Oh it slash. My slack

587
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:03,080
Speaker 1: is whack today, so just ignore the slack. I'm trying

588
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:07,160
Speaker 1: to keep up and it's jumping around. So third base

589
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,479
Speaker 1: for you, how do you stay on the field at

590
00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 1: third base every day? Because when you're on the field,

591
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,200
Speaker 1: you're an unbelievable player. How do we get you to

592
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 1: stay at third base every day?

593
00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 3: I think it's just going out there and playing third

594
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:19,920
Speaker 3: base every day too. This is gonna be huge, you know,

595
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:21,920
Speaker 3: playing less DH at the end of last season. That

596
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:24,160
Speaker 3: was huge and it helped me kind of be healthy

597
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,400
Speaker 3: for the last eighty games there where I was available

598
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:30,040
Speaker 3: and ready to go for Rocko whoever, wherever you needed me.

599
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,159
Speaker 3: And playing third now that I feel like I've kind

600
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:34,360
Speaker 3: of settled in and got that confidence as well. Over there,

601
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:37,800
Speaker 3: it was just so uncomfortable at first. You know, it's

602
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:39,960
Speaker 3: a totally different position than short even though yeah, I

603
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:42,640
Speaker 3: left side the endfield, but at shortstop you have that time,

604
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,320
Speaker 3: you have a little bit more range naturally, just by

605
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:47,480
Speaker 3: being you know, ten feet further back, whatever it is.

606
00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:49,720
Speaker 3: And at thirty you really got to cut the distance

607
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:52,880
Speaker 3: and get those plays, get those short hops, and once

608
00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:54,280
Speaker 3: you catch the ball, they should be out, you know.

609
00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:56,040
Speaker 3: And so we're working on making those good throws. And

610
00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:58,320
Speaker 3: it all starts with your feet. And I think that

611
00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:00,359
Speaker 3: is is key for me, is just go out there

612
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:02,600
Speaker 3: every day and that'll help me be out there every day.

613
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 1: What's the difference? Explain that to people. Is it just quicker?

614
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 1: Is everything just quicker? The angle is different? What because

615
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:09,679
Speaker 1: you came up as a short stop, right and obviously

616
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,080
Speaker 1: now you're at third base, is just the angles? Is

617
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:15,879
Speaker 1: the quickness of the game what's the biggest difference that

618
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 1: you've noticed.

619
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:19,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the toughest place for me are you know,

620
00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,399
Speaker 3: going down the line farther away from first balls hit

621
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:24,720
Speaker 3: one hundred and sixteen off of you know, Stanton's bat

622
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:27,120
Speaker 3: coming at you know, and you're playing like middle depth

623
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 3: because double play depth, and those are the kind of

624
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 3: ones that are like you get you back on your

625
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,399
Speaker 3: heels a little bit more and as you settle in,

626
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:35,400
Speaker 3: you're like, okay, like, you know, I need to play

627
00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 3: underwater over here, I got plenty of time as soon

628
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:39,000
Speaker 3: as you catch it, like they should be out. And

629
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 3: so I think, you know, the best players in the game,

630
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,000
Speaker 3: they kind of play so smooth over there. Manny Machado.

631
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:46,920
Speaker 3: You know, Bragman does a great job. There's a bunch

632
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 3: of guys, but all those guys they play underwater. Keep

633
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 3: Brian Hayes is wonderful and when you watch them, it's

634
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:53,479
Speaker 3: like slow motions. So that's that for me is the key.

635
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,000
Speaker 1: Well, then, any advice for Bobaschet because he just went

636
00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 1: from short to third with the Mets. If you could

637
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:00,000
Speaker 1: talk to Bobachet, what would your advice be for him?

638
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 3: I mean, I think Bo is very talented, he'll figure

639
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 3: it out. But I think the best thing I would

640
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:05,760
Speaker 3: say to Bo would be just, you know, cutting the

641
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:07,440
Speaker 3: distance was so huge for me, and it took me

642
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 3: like a year and a half to figure that out myself.

643
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,159
Speaker 3: And so and when when what I mean by cut

644
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 3: the distance is like, if the ball is here and

645
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:16,879
Speaker 3: you can go, you know, like let's say ninety degrees

646
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 3: towards it to pick it up, that's two more hops.

647
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:21,479
Speaker 3: But if you go at a forty five and get

648
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 3: it and it's only one more hop, it gives you

649
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:25,399
Speaker 3: that much more time to get the runner out it.

650
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 3: You know, it's a longer throw. You can set your feet,

651
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 3: take your time. And typically runners, especially in the big

652
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 3: leagues playing on one hundred and sixty two games, they

653
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:33,399
Speaker 3: see you catch the ball and they see you set

654
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:35,199
Speaker 3: your feet right, they're probably gonna not give it one

655
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:37,119
Speaker 3: hundred and twenty percent effort down the line. So it

656
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 3: gives you a little bit more time.

657
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 4: Outsider's point of view, when people when your name's brought up,

658
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,440
Speaker 4: when Byron Buckston's Name's brought up, they say, man, the

659
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,480
Speaker 4: sky's the limit. The sky's the limit. They can stay healthy.

660
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 4: And I've heard you say about your routine and everything

661
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 4: and getting that under wraps. What can you and or

662
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 4: what have you been able to glean from Byron going

663
00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:00,639
Speaker 4: through the different injuries, weird injuries here and there, and

664
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,879
Speaker 4: then putting together a full season and then boom, Byron Boxer.

665
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 2: You know he's a top ten MVP candidate.

666
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,959
Speaker 3: Yeah, Buck is amazing, man, I'll tell you that right now,

667
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 3: real quick. But you know, the talent. I think when

668
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 3: you have so much talent, you got a quick twitch ability.

669
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,680
Speaker 3: I think sometimes it's harder to harness that. And I

670
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:20,840
Speaker 3: praise the Bobby Wits and the guys that are able

671
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 3: to you know, have that quick twitch ability but also

672
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 3: stay healthy because they're able to harness that ability. And

673
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,280
Speaker 3: I think that's the name of the game, honestly, is

674
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 3: you know, you have so much God given ability and

675
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 3: honestly responsibility for the game to be out there and

676
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 3: be healthy and for your team. And I think harnessing

677
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 3: that in is something that's been huge. And I think

678
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 3: for me this year that's the biggest takeaway as well

679
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 3: going in the spring is I was able to harness

680
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 3: that ability. I don't have to run one hundred and

681
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 3: twenty percent down the line. I'm able to, you know,

682
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:49,120
Speaker 3: take my time understand when hey, I'm out. These guys

683
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 3: are really good to They drive Mercedes too, you know,

684
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 3: and so just play the game and have fun doing it.

685
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,239
Speaker 1: Humble Bragg by the way, too, they drive Mercedes too,

686
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:57,959
Speaker 1: not that they drive Mercedes, but too.

687
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, Lewis drives and Mercedes. Good to note, Royce, you

688
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 5: have a new manager at the Helm, but it's not

689
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 5: a guy you're unfamiliar with. Obviously, Derek Shelton's been there

690
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 5: for the last couple of seasons. What has his managerial

691
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 5: style have been like with you in terms of I know,

692
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 5: guys are always talking about level of communication, open communication,

693
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 5: and he seems to be that guy. What more can

694
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 5: you tell us about what you've noticed as him as

695
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 5: your skipper.

696
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, honestly, the huge communication piece, but also the set

697
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 3: and the standard of you know, everyone's gonna be working hard,

698
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 3: everyone's gonna be going on the road in spring. Everyone's well,

699
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 3: you have to go on the road. Yeah, we've been

700
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 3: going on the road. You got them great pants? Yeah,

701
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 3: the great pants are in the locker room. Bucks. They

702
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 3: don't have them great pants. He's he's on the road,

703
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 3: he's in Houston. So, uh no, it's just set in

704
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 3: a standard. You know, like we're a younger team obviously,

705
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 3: and so to be able to, you know, have that

706
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 3: opportunity to set the standard for the young guys to

707
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 3: see a good example, you know, from Buck, from Josh Bell,

708
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 3: from Guaranteini, all these guys that have been there, done that, Ryan, Jeffers,

709
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 3: Joe Ryan, even like his first game, guys on the

710
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 3: road like Temple Ba. So you know, we're not like

711
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:03,960
Speaker 3: leaning towards favorites. We're all playing as a team. He

712
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 3: got twenty six different leaders in that locker room, and

713
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 3: that's how we're gonna play. And Sheltey's doing a great job. Yeah,

714
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 3: but that doesn't mean just because your leader doesn't that

715
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 3: means you don't go on the road. Yeah, sometimes you

716
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 3: got some time now. Yeah yeah, I guess so, but

717
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 3: I don't feel like that. I don't I never act

718
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 3: like that.

719
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 4: Okay, So yeah, Royce, don't change, don't let him, don't

720
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 4: let don't let that salt just get all over your

721
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 4: all over your nice uniform. Ajl aj.

722
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 1: Yeah he's got he's got LaTroy here now, trust me,

723
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 1: he ain't seen salty yet.

724
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:39,720
Speaker 4: Now, there's there's some salt, But my question was gonna

725
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 4: be Shelton was the bench coach. Derek Shelton was the

726
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 4: bench coach when he was here. Now he's the manager.

727
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:48,880
Speaker 4: Is it hard for some guys when you see somebody

728
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,200
Speaker 4: that was in a different role now being the hefe

729
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 4: Is it hard to have the same relationship because it's like, well,

730
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 4: you know, I was this, now I'm this?

731
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 3: Or has Shelton been able to.

732
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 4: Meld into that, to easily ease into that role and

733
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 4: be the same guy that he was before?

734
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, great question. Absolutely not with Shelta. You know, I

735
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 3: think he was born to be a head coach. I

736
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 3: truly do. I think he leads. He's like a born leader.

737
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 3: He leads very well, very smooth, very easy. It's like gravitational,

738
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 3: like everyone kind of goes towards him, asking questions, very

739
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 3: open to you know, his style coaching, which I really

740
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 3: you know, want to applaud him on that for one.

741
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 3: But also the staff he put together is helping him

742
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 3: be better persons as well. You know, having Grady Sizemore,

743
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 3: La Troy Hawkins back here, it's gonna help all of

744
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,479
Speaker 3: our young guys gain some knowledge. But also just kind

745
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 3: of calm us down a little bit when times gets stressful.

746
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 3: There's gonna be points in season when we go, you

747
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 3: know too and eight a ten game road stand or

748
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 3: something crazy like that. And to have those guys that

749
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 3: have played the game at a high level and played

750
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 3: it very well is gonna be huge for for us

751
00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 3: going forward. No doubt. Is there anybody left from when

752
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 3: Shelton was here? Though? Was Buck even here? Yeah? Buck

753
00:31:58,160 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 3: was here?

754
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 1: Buck was the only one, right my first big league

755
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:02,720
Speaker 1: spring training camp? Okay, so yeah, because I'm like you,

756
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: I know you weren't here when in the big leagues

757
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 1: when Shelton was here, you no, But if my first

758
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: big league camp, so I met him. He's the one

759
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 1: that sent you down. The office was Rocco, But you know,

760
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 1: Sheldon had everything to do with it.

761
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 3: Right, Actually, I'm sorry it wasn't Rocco. Oh, Molly was

762
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 3: still here? Where is that old part? Man? He's around,

763
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 3: he's around, he's good man. He's supposed to be here.

764
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 3: I'm looking for I've been looking for him. I haven't

765
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 3: seen him here yet. You're right, that's a good point.

766
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 3: But he's I played crazy, right, what a player? Yeah?

767
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 3: He played with some stud players, played.

768
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 2: With some old people. That's what I did.

769
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 3: All right before we let you go.

770
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 1: I have to ask you this because I've always I've

771
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 1: never gotten a chance to ask because you have one

772
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 1: of the great quotes of all time, and you I

773
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 1: don't know if it's I'm gonna attribute to you.

774
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 2: I don't know.

775
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 1: And you said something like I don't slump, or I

776
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 1: don't believe in slumps or do you remember what you said?

777
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 1: There was something about like I won't go over twenty

778
00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: or I don't do slumps. Do you remember what you said?

779
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, like the word like I don't I don't think

780
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 3: of it as like a slump. I think of it

781
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 3: as like you know, because I think when you put

782
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 3: yourself in that mind frame of like, oh I'm slumping,

783
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 3: just that's like, oh, everything's going wrong for me, and

784
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 3: it's very negative. I think that's what I was trying

785
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 3: to portray. I think if you knew who I was

786
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 3: as a person, you'd be like, oh, okay, like I'm

787
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 3: not a cocky guy. I'm not gonna say I'm not dude,

788
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 3: I'm a hitter. We're gonna get out a lot, of course,

789
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 3: so I expect to get out. It's gonna happen a

790
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 3: ton more. But when I said that, I meant initially like,

791
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 3: I don't do that, that word, like, I don't put

792
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 3: myself in that negative headspace. I really just because they're like, oh,

793
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 3: you went over three yesterday. I was the first time

794
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 3: you went hit list da da da. I remember all

795
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 3: about it. Trust me, that was a tough time for me.

796
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 3: People take my words out of context.

797
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, shoot, that's what it was awesome because

798
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 1: what you said, though I took it the way you

799
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 1: said it, like I don't want to talk. I'm not

800
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 1: going to talk like that because it brings me down,

801
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: makes me think bad. And I think some people were like, oh,

802
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 1: this guy goes over five, like you know, oh we can't.

803
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 3: He doesn't.

804
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 1: He thinks he's too cool, right, And I didn't think

805
00:33:57,880 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 1: it like that at all. Yeah, I wish I would

806
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 1: have had that, cause I'm like, go for seven. I'm going,

807
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, Tom Kelly is not going to play

808
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: me for a month.

809
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 2: Oh gosh.

810
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 3: It's so easy to freak out and get stressed out

811
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 3: and bring that home. And I don't accept to do that,

812
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 3: you know, I choose to leave it at the field,

813
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 3: like you know, at the end of the day, it

814
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:17,320
Speaker 3: is a game that we're playing for fun, and you

815
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:19,720
Speaker 3: got to, you know, accept that blessing and just remember

816
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 3: that how much fun you're having. Like I'm playing out

817
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 3: there like I'm a ten year old kid, and when

818
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:25,840
Speaker 3: I'm not doing that, it does feel like I'm a

819
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 3: alove and it's not very fun. And so I choose to,

820
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 3: you know, play like a ten year old and not

821
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:32,239
Speaker 3: be in that negative headspace. I love it. I love it.

822
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 3: To explain.

823
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 1: Please, we're gonna talk after he leaves, and I want

824
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 1: to learn how to do that, because that's amazing.

825
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, Usually it takes a much more veteran player to

826
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 5: realize you can leave it at the game and just

827
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:44,320
Speaker 5: try to let it go. You have to have a

828
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,359
Speaker 5: memory of a goldfish, like Ted Lesso says, Right, Royce,

829
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 5: we appreciate you very much, man, stay healthy. You are

830
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 5: such a good star in this game. We're looking forward

831
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 5: to seeing what you can do this season. Thanks for

832
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:55,839
Speaker 5: taking the time.

833
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 3: Hey, thank you guys. I really appreciate it. Man, it's

834
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 3: been great. See a j man not not salty, all right,

835
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 3: He's pretty salty. I'm not gonna lie

836
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:10,279
Speaker 6: Yeah, I