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Speaker 1: appreciate it very much. This is a man who should

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Speaker 1: for being with us. Appreciate the time Trevor really wanted

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much for having me on.

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Speaker 1: Teammate.

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Speaker 3: I gotta preface this by saying, mister Kevin Brown up

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Speaker 3: on your your game preparation methods, which we'll get into

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Speaker 3: in just a moment. But first thing I wanted to

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Speaker 3: this year, because I don't think people understand how good

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Speaker 3: Trevor Rodgers has been this year. He's got one hundred

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Speaker 3: innings and he is a fellow lefty. So what, if anything,

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Speaker 2: I think if you just watch kind of last year

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Speaker 4: All Right, Yeah, I left, He's got to stick together.

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Speaker 4: You guys are you guys are always off on your

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Speaker 4: gotta I gotta ask about my favorite position on the field,

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Speaker 4: Samuel Basil, How is it for you being here all

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Speaker 4: Is it Luke Jackson I'm forgetting? Is that Alex Jackson?

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Speaker 4: Alex Jackson? I was saying a picture and I've had

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Speaker 4: As a pitcher, y'all could honestly probably care less about

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Speaker 4: how he hits and that's his like name tag, that's

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Speaker 3: Okay, talking about preparing for games, and this is really

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for me it was I think early on it's

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Speaker 2: That definitely helped me out a lot.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome. Do you feel good about that, Trevor? Look

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Speaker 1: at you shaping the young minds.

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Speaker 3: I definitely have nothing to do with while we got

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Speaker 2: Mark and my little little excess on the zone.

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Speaker 3: I love it, man, I'm glad I get out.

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Speaker 1: Okay, let me ask you this. You make your first

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the biggest thing is really just to

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Speaker 2: and then it also helps the offense a lot. You know,

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Speaker 2: I think I've done a lot better of slowing things

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Speaker 2: down and not trying to, you know, necessarily be somebody

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Speaker 2: I'm not. I think that's also something that's very easy.

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Speaker 2: You can struggle and then try and look for answers

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Speaker 4: More recently, you guys as a team playing spoiler? Are

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Speaker 4: you guys playing spoiler? Down the stretchy? You got five

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Speaker 4: Do you talk about that? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I mean we know where we're at and so we're

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Speaker 2: just trying to win as many games as possible down

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Speaker 2: the stretch and the race is close, so trying to

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Speaker 2: see if we can, you know, maybe make things interesting

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Speaker 1: Kate, we appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: Best of luck.

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Speaker 1: You are a big leader, my friend, making that opening

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Speaker 1: day roster for the Baltimore Orioles, and it's only going

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Speaker 1: to get better from here. Just keep paying attention to

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Speaker 1: Trevor May and you will be fine. Thanks for taking

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Speaker 3: Have a good day.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate you all having me have your

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