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Speaker 1: Starting off the show with Zach Allen Zac. Great to

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Speaker 1: have you on man, and here you're back. So you

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Speaker 1: had a little wild ride in the off season, but

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Speaker 1: you know, after all that, it's probably got to be

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Speaker 1: nice to be with a team where you're quite familiar.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to have anyone tell you where to

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Speaker 2: Right, this is true. I remembered how to how to

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Speaker 2: get here. I remember where I was going. Uh everybody

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Speaker 2: it was nice. I think for me selfishly it was nice,

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Speaker 2: but unselfishly for for my wife and just family and everybody.

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Speaker 3: I think that's that was a huge part in it too.

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Speaker 4: Zach.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I'm just gonna throw it out there, what

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Speaker 5: took so long? I think you're a great pitcher, You've

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Speaker 5: had great years. What took so long?

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Speaker 4: And how bad?

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Speaker 5: Maybe how bad did the qualifying off for her? Because

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Speaker 5: I thought you'd be one of those guys that would

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Speaker 5: be scooped up quickly because the's a lot of teams

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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I think I think what took so long?

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Speaker 2: I can only guess that it was a not great

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Speaker 2: was was kind of a recipe for a disaster and

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Speaker 2: in that sense, but it is what it is. We

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Speaker 2: we kind of had uh an idea that something like

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Speaker 2: we're we're happy to be back somewhere that means a

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Speaker 2: lot to us and somewhere that we feel comfortable.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, well we'll see what happens after this year.

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Speaker 6: How's your mindset right now and pitching on a one

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Speaker 6: year deal? Do you like kind of having that where

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Speaker 6: it's going to keep you locked in throughout the entire

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Speaker 6: year kind of because you know you're you're pitching for

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Speaker 6: that next contract. So does that does that separate y'allor

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Speaker 6: would you like that kind of certainty and kind of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, uh, it's a multi faceted answer to that.

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Speaker 2: I think I like the just motivation of pitching on

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Speaker 2: a one year deal. Sure, I had always said that

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Speaker 2: when it got to that point in my career, if

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Speaker 2: I was, you know, in a position to sign a

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Speaker 2: long term deal, I don't want to be the guy

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Speaker 2: that you know, year two or year three in that deal,

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Speaker 2: it's like, oh, this was a terrible deal. So like

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Speaker 2: but at the same time, like we play this game

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Speaker 2: and we understand it. There's a there's a you know,

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Speaker 2: opportunity cost to it, and there's a risk to it.

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Speaker 2: So to have the security would have would have been nice.

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Speaker 2: But we had some offers for for deals that offered

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Speaker 2: like it was the correct value. So so we'll go

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Speaker 2: back and try it again. And I feel like I

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Speaker 2: have a multitude of things to prove this year.

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Speaker 7: I love it. No, you're worth Zach.

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Speaker 5: How how confident does it make you that your agent,

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Speaker 5: Scott Boris when he's done these type of deals. Has

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Speaker 5: then gone on with Blake Snell Matchup and Alex Pragmant.

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Speaker 5: The list goes on and on of guys Pete Alonso

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Speaker 5: another one that they've signed these one year deals and

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's kind of funny how that how that

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Speaker 3: The odd man out or whatever it is.

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Speaker 2: And you know, Scott catches a lot of a lot

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Speaker 2: And they both those guys are really helpful. I know

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Speaker 6: Now you kind of mentioned last year that there was

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Speaker 6: of you. Is there something you change, Is there anything

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think it was a lot of

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Speaker 3: The shape started to get back together. I think just.

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Speaker 2: The motivation too, of like, Okay, I didn't have a

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Speaker 3: I have something to prove.

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Speaker 2: And then I also think I got in a sense

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Speaker 2: I don't want to say lucky, but I think I was.

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Speaker 2: There was some parts where in the first half I

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Speaker 3: That big homer.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, unlucky that I was like, Okay, now I'm not

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Speaker 3: The pitch I make, I'm getting the gott to pop

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Speaker 2: So I think it was a lot of dif diferent things,

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Speaker 3: I don't think consistent.

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Speaker 6: The average fan also realizes you can change nothing and

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Speaker 6: But you go into this offseason you have to wait

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Speaker 7: I just don't know where it's going to be yet.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 2: It was definitely a different offseason in that sense, the uncertainty.

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Speaker 2: I think what really helped is that my wife and

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Speaker 2: took a lot of our concentration away from free agency

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Speaker 3: It was weird. It was a weird situation. But I'm pretty.

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Speaker 2: Stoic when it comes to those things, so it's kind

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Speaker 3: It was the unfortunate part of it.

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Speaker 2: And we got to the point where we were trying

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Speaker 2: as opposed to going into a spring training and being behind.

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Speaker 2: We've seen what that's done to some guys, and I

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Speaker 5: Your is your wife from Jersey, since you were giving

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Speaker 5: her all the Jersey, all the Jersey love earlier before

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Speaker 3: Now my wife from out here.

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Speaker 2: No, it's okay, it's okay to marry outside of New Jersey.

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Speaker 2: My wife is from out here, born and raised in Phoenix.

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Speaker 2: Uh So that was another big part of us wanting

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Speaker 5: Is that why you pitch so well when you go

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Speaker 7: You know, you're just gonna keep taking this just that

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Speaker 2: Like, I'm not a Jersey Shore guy. I can what

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Speaker 2: Let's let's get that square.

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Speaker 4: What.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean like ninety percent of those people on

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Speaker 3: So or Earth. Yeah, I mean that too.

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Speaker 7: Don't get me wrong.

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Speaker 3: When I was in high school, I loved watching that show.

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Speaker 2: But I will say after taking visits to college and

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Speaker 2: do you know snooky? Like that does a little a

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Speaker 2: little old after a while, so I mean, keep poring

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Speaker 2: on AJ, but I'm fine.

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Speaker 3: I'm good. Don't worry about me. I can handle it, Zach.

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Speaker 4: Don't worry.

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Speaker 1: AJ obviously is mister Florida, but he also was born

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Speaker 1: in the Hampton's, which, as a Jersey folk look at.

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Speaker 4: Is very very boogifoul.

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Speaker 3: So you're a silver spoon. You're a silver spoon.

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Speaker 5: It's the place the Jersey people can't go.

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Speaker 4: So it's okay, we don't let us in.

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Speaker 7: Did you wear two colored shirts at the same time, Aj?

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Speaker 5: Yes, with the quarter zip over him.

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Speaker 4: Yes, last one for you, Zach.

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Speaker 1: I want to ask about a teammate, So did you

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Speaker 1: follow the kateel Marte saga throughout the off season and

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Speaker 1: did you think at some point, I mean, obviously you

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Speaker 1: were going through your own free agency situation, but but

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Speaker 1: now that he's not and he's basically going to be

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Speaker 1: got the new trade clause that kicks in in like

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Speaker 1: a week into the season, what did you think of

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Speaker 1: all of that? And then also the way that Mike

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Speaker 1: Hayson handled it on the back end talking to him

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Speaker 1: being like, Okay, you're good.

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Speaker 4: We're not doing this anymore one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think if you are in baseball or file

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Speaker 2: baseball at all, it was hard to not see Katl's

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Speaker 7: That we got you.

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Speaker 1: Let's preview the Arizona Diamondbacks for twenty twenty six. I'm

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Speaker 5: The Rocky sixty four point nine is still too hot.

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Speaker 5: They're not They're not gonna not unless something changes. They're

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Speaker 1: Games projections, we're very safe. They tend to bunch everything together.

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Speaker 5: The path where the Rockies cannot lose one hundred games.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate the time. I want to start here. So you've

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Speaker 4: They're all here.

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Speaker 1: So does it feel kind of like, Hey, we thought

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Speaker 8: I mean, I'm I'm glad that we brought those guys back,

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Speaker 9: They're good guys that.

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Speaker 8: You know, keep everyone molded, and you know they lead

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Speaker 4: Dre.

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Speaker 5: Before we dig deep into this, can can you look

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Speaker 5: I think it is right, Yeah, because that hat and

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Speaker 9: But holy crap, that's funny.

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Speaker 7: As eight am. He didn't expect to be hit on

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Speaker 7: by you.

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Speaker 6: Yes, I'm just saying I agree gorgeous. Give him a

442
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Speaker 6: sec to wake up before he responds.

443
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Speaker 4: I mean it's ridiculous.

444
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Speaker 5: I mean, it matches unbelievably perfect. It's like he planned

445
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Speaker 5: it that way or something when he was drafted in

446
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Speaker 5: the first round by the Diamondbacks.

447
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Speaker 9: That's why I picked That's why I picked here man.

448
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Speaker 7: Right, he took a discount just for the colors.

449
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Speaker 4: The quote from aj Dre's eyes are ridiculous.

450
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Speaker 5: I mean, I'm sorry he was talking. I was just like, wow,

451
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Speaker 5: it's amazing. But anyway, let's get the ball. How's your

452
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Speaker 5: how you.

453
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Speaker 4: Feeling, how's your elbow, how's your arm? How's everything going?

454
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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's good, you know, with the whole botox situation

455
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Speaker 8: and getting that under control and and going to get

456
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Speaker 8: that before everything started ramping up.

457
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Speaker 7: Uh.

458
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Speaker 8: To be more preventive on the year is I think

459
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Speaker 8: a huge stuff for me, just because that gives me

460
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Speaker 8: a clear mind of you know, it worked in the

461
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Speaker 8: in the past, and I don't know if we actually

462
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Speaker 8: needed to get it again, but I wanted to be

463
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Speaker 8: more preventive because I'm tired of being on the I

464
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Speaker 8: l and anything I can do to stay on the

465
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Speaker 8: field is I'm gonna do.

466
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Speaker 4: Hey, can you follow up and explain more.

467
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Speaker 1: I know you said old botox, it's for most of

468
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Speaker 1: our crowd, just to explain like what that is and

469
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Speaker 1: how that helps.

470
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Speaker 8: Yeah, so I was having a little bit of elbow soreness,

471
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Speaker 8: kind of some pinching on the backside of the elbow

472
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Speaker 8: and kind of didn't know the full details on exactly

473
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Speaker 8: what it was.

474
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Speaker 9: And we tried a couple couple.

475
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Speaker 8: Things cortisone shots and that didn't work, and then we

476
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Speaker 8: went more towards boatox to free up the scalens and

477
00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:29,199
Speaker 8: the pec minor to see if it will let the

478
00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:32,359
Speaker 8: nerves or whatever. I really don't know either myself, but

479
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Speaker 8: I was told botox could help. So we tried botox

480
00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:42,960
Speaker 8: back in I think August, and then yeah, everything cleared

481
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Speaker 8: up from that. Wasn't having any elbow pains and.

482
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Speaker 7: Where would they injected.

483
00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:50,520
Speaker 8: So I got injected in both my scalens in my

484
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Speaker 8: neck and then.

485
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Speaker 7: They go up here for the interesting.

486
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Speaker 8: So it's more of like relaxing because you know, all

487
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Speaker 8: your nerves are running from your brain down to whatever.

488
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Speaker 9: I don't know. I'm not too advanced in that.

489
00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:07,080
Speaker 7: Situation, but we'll stick to playing both of us yeah, well.

490
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Speaker 5: They use they come up with I want to know

491
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Speaker 5: how they came up with botox though, because people at

492
00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:13,600
Speaker 5: one point botox was used so you didn't stink right.

493
00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:17,159
Speaker 4: So you would. They used it originally too.

494
00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:19,679
Speaker 5: Much, and then now all the women and Scott use

495
00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:22,640
Speaker 5: it in their forehead to keep wrinkling right, So now

496
00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:24,360
Speaker 5: we're using it for elbow injuries.

497
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Speaker 4: And migraines too. Yesterday about it.

498
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Speaker 5: This is like the new ozempic.

499
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Speaker 7: It's like the wonder drug.

500
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Speaker 9: Everyone else man, so I fit. I fit right in.

501
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Speaker 6: You know, you had some you the you have the

502
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Speaker 6: top one top doctors out here to get I think

503
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Speaker 6: that reminds me of a j Have you ever done

504
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Speaker 6: any like acupuncture?

505
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Speaker 7: Oh?

506
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Speaker 5: Dude, no, Oh like, I never. I'm sorry, I'm sorry,

507
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Speaker 5: I've never. I've never done acupuncture. I didn't do massages,

508
00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:54,480
Speaker 5: I didn't do cold but none of that.

509
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Speaker 7: Do they have acupuncture back then?

510
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Speaker 5: Yeah, back when I was back when I played against

511
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Speaker 5: Babe Ruth. They just try it, but I too crazy.

512
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Speaker 6: That was one of those ones I've done it before

513
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Speaker 6: where it's like i'd it was like behind my knee

514
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Speaker 6: and they do an acupuncture into the ear and like

515
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Speaker 6: something else and you're like, no, I said, my knee hurts,

516
00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:12,399
Speaker 6: but they're like, we know, and I just did it

517
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Speaker 6: straight into the ear and like you send a shock

518
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Speaker 6: wave down and then knee felt great for months.

519
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Speaker 7: So it's like all that stuff's connected. All the nerves

520
00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:20,320
Speaker 7: are connected.

521
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Speaker 6: So that's it's just fascinating to see where they go

522
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Speaker 6: in for different problems. I would never expected up here

523
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Speaker 6: by the neck for an elbow problem.

524
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Speaker 9: Yeah either.

525
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Speaker 4: All right, Drey, So let's talk some ball here.

526
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Speaker 1: So you did Arizona Fall League right to try and

527
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Speaker 1: get yourself ramped up, get some innings going, and that

528
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Speaker 1: would be the key thing. Right, So you haven't logged

529
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Speaker 1: a ton of innings over the past couple of years.

530
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Speaker 1: How do you get yourself to a place where now

531
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Speaker 1: you get to camp and you're feeling good and you

532
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Speaker 1: want to be able to contribute as many innings as

533
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Speaker 1: possible for the season.

534
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Speaker 7: Right.

535
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Speaker 8: Yeah, with the Fall League was a very it was

536
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Speaker 8: a stepping stone in the sense of seeing if.

537
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Speaker 9: This botox truly worked, because.

538
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Speaker 8: You know, playing catch and throwing bullpens without that live intent,

539
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:08,199
Speaker 8: you don't really know or you could still be in

540
00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:12,120
Speaker 8: that uncertain you know, range of like really understanding if

541
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Speaker 8: that boatox actually works. So I actually wanted to play

542
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Speaker 8: winter ball just to kind of get my feet wet,

543
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Speaker 8: you know, and and get back into game settings. And

544
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Speaker 8: that kind of got shut down, and then they kind

545
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Speaker 8: of like, you know, talk to whoever they had to

546
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Speaker 8: talk to to try to get me into the Fall League.

547
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Speaker 8: Got me into the Fall League through I think like

548
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Speaker 8: eight er ten innings or something like that, and everything

549
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Speaker 8: was good, and then that way I could take a

550
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Speaker 8: full offseason everything's normal, come back spring training and be

551
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Speaker 8: one hundred percent Dre.

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Speaker 5: I have a question because you're explaining a lot of

553
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Speaker 5: new things to me about medical stuff like botox in

554
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Speaker 5: the shoulder to make your elbow feel better. You had

555
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Speaker 5: bone spurs last year, right, We've seen a couple of

556
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Speaker 5: guys that have popped up having bone spurs this spring.

557
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Speaker 5: Is that explain to people that is that like a

558
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Speaker 5: little piece of bone that breaks off and is floating

559
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Speaker 5: around and then it locks your elbow up? Or what

560
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Speaker 5: did you have done because or was that a result

561
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Speaker 5: of Tommy John because who do we just someone from

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Speaker 5: the Braves just said they had bone spurs in their

563
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Speaker 5: arm after I think they had Tommy John, So is

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Speaker 5: that what caused the bone spurs?

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Speaker 8: You know, I'm not one hundred percent share on all that.

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Speaker 8: What I do know is, you know, when when having

567
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Speaker 8: Tommy John surgery and getting the brace, I feel like

568
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Speaker 8: it just kind of brings everything super tight. So your

569
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Speaker 8: elbows not it doesn't really have all that wiggle room,

570
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Speaker 8: I would say, So it's tight. So the motions of like,

571
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Speaker 8: you know, if mechanics are a little bit off or

572
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Speaker 8: a little different because you haven't thrown in you know,

573
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Speaker 8: eighteen months in a game or whatever it is, it

574
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Speaker 8: gets to a point where those bones then start kind

575
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Speaker 8: of clashing. Well, it'd be like a callous on your finger.

576
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Speaker 8: So it's like you know when you're repetting or repeating

577
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Speaker 8: a pitch and you know, over time you're going to

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Speaker 8: create this callous. I'm from my understanding of bone spurs

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Speaker 8: kind of of a callus and it's a sometimes it's

580
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Speaker 8: a protecting. It can protect you in certain ways and

581
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Speaker 8: sometimes it can be basically it needs to be taken out.

582
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Speaker 8: Mine was more of like they thought, protecting, So they

583
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Speaker 8: didn't truly want to just take it out unless we

584
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,360
Speaker 8: unless we had to, unless that boatox didn't work. Because

585
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Speaker 8: that was like the last remedy that we were going

586
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Speaker 8: to do. I feel like before we went towards removing

587
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Speaker 8: that bone spur, so the boattox worked and then the

588
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:37,680
Speaker 8: bone spurs still in there, I guess, so we hope

589
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Speaker 8: it doesn't fall off and start floating around.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but that was pretty well explained. Because sometimes we

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Speaker 1: need layman terms, and we actually have a show called

615
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Speaker 1: Injury Territory. We should clip this so we can get

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Speaker 1: some analysis from him, because you just don't hear about

617
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Speaker 1: this very often. But let's try and tie this into

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Speaker 1: first of all, success you've had in the big leagues.

619
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Speaker 1: I know you haven't logged a ton of innings yet, right,

620
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Speaker 1: and you have high hopes here, but you know, over

621
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Speaker 1: sixty innings you've had great success when you've been on

622
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Speaker 1: the mounts, punch outs, run.

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Speaker 4: Prevention, the whole deal.

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Speaker 1: So what have you learned from your time so far

625
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,200
Speaker 1: pitching in the big leagues and your prep leading up

626
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Speaker 1: to that? I saw, you know, an article somewhat recently

627
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 1: from you talking about how you know the ramp up

628
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 1: process and how you should do things in February versus

629
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Speaker 1: what you're doing, say in July and a big league season.

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Speaker 1: I think some of this would be super helpful for

631
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Speaker 1: the kids that listen to this show, the high schoolers,

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Speaker 1: even the minor leaguers that listen.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean the big leagues is definitely, you know,

634
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:39,680
Speaker 8: it's it's the top stage. It's it's where everyone wants

635
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 8: to be in this game. And you know, I take

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Speaker 8: it as like, I'm very competitive, and that's one thing

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Speaker 8: I'll take with me for the rest of my life

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Speaker 8: is that I just don't think anyone's more competitive.

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Speaker 9: Than I am.

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Speaker 8: And that can be baseball, that can be life, that

641
00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,200
Speaker 8: can be video games, that can be chess, it could

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Speaker 8: be anything.

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Speaker 9: I just hate to lose.

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Speaker 8: And I think that drive fulfills my success to an extent, right,

645
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 8: And then you have, you know, the god gifted talent,

646
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:12,159
Speaker 8: Then you have the hard work, and then you have

647
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,960
Speaker 8: you know, all these components and what they call step

648
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Speaker 8: by step in life of putting all those together can

649
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Speaker 8: make true success. Am I to that point yet?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 8: I would say no, I'm not there yet, but I

652
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Speaker 8: think I'm at a good head start of it all.

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Speaker 8: And I think that you know, with whatever you want

654
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:33,920
Speaker 8: to do in life, if it's in this game, if

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Speaker 8: it's flipping cheeseburgers that make Donald's be the best.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 8: It doesn't matter what you're doing in life. As long

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Speaker 8: as you fulfill and you and you work hard at

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Speaker 8: any craft that you want to be good at, anything's achievable.

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Speaker 8: So if I had a message for any you know,

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Speaker 8: younger kid looking for you know, to fulfill any dream

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Speaker 8: of theirs, it's it's not a doubtful dream. It's a

663
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Speaker 8: dream that you chase. It's a dream that you live by,

664
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Speaker 8: and it's a dream that you work hard for for

665
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 8: and if you do all those things, that dream will

666
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 8: then come true.

667
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:04,719
Speaker 7: I love that.

668
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 6: I love that you got some guys here on this roster.

669
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 6: You have one of our buddies of the show, mister Sewald,

670
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,479
Speaker 6: and some other veterans. Are there any veterans that you've

671
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 6: kind of really taken a liking to or followed or

672
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 6: have picked up some stuff from the Who Is Who?

673
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Speaker 6: Do you kind of tail of the older guys and

674
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 6: kind of watch them as they go through their programs

675
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 6: and take bits and pieces.

676
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:25,479
Speaker 7: You're like, Oh, I like the way they do that,

677
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 7: and what have you learned from some of them?

678
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Speaker 8: Yeah, So a lot of the vets you know, they

679
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 8: they they're guys that have been around in the game

680
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 8: a long time. They're guys that you know, have routines

681
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 8: that work for them. Yeah, and everyone's different in routines.

682
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 8: But I mean I follow Meryl a lot Merril Kelly,

683
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 8: and I just I truly like the way he moves,

684
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 8: the way he operates, the way you know, he handles

685
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 8: his business. And something that like I cherish and something

686
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 8: that I respect a lot out of Marrow is it's

687
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 8: a forty million dollar man and and he acts like

688
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:02,120
Speaker 8: none of that is it even on the table. He

689
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 8: doesn't treat anyone different. He's that guy. If you have

690
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 8: a question, He's going to answer your question to his

691
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 8: full capability. If you want to know a new pitch

692
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 8: gript and he has any insights of it, he's willing

693
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 8: to share that information. He's very easy to talk to.

694
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 8: And that's it. That's a guy that leads by example.

695
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 8: Along with Zach Gallon, I talked to him a lot,

696
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 8: not more on the baseball side of things, but more

697
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 8: on the side of you know, life, fun stuff, shoes and.

698
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 6: But that's just sometimes maybe not the shoes part, but

699
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 6: it's just like talking about life. So you got to

700
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 6: get your off the field in check to be able

701
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 6: to perform on the field too. As we have a

702
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 6: cart going by, we're gonna give it a sec for

703
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:48,400
Speaker 6: the volume. There's times where it's just like if you're

704
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,600
Speaker 6: if you're at home and there stuff's going on your

705
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 6: head and you're not able to concentrate, that's it'll show

706
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 6: on the field just because it pours over into it.

707
00:30:56,400 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 6: But I think that's where developing a routine, developing a

708
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 6: a structure isn't even as a staff, but definitely as

709
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 6: an individual, where it'll kind of gets you little checkpoints

710
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 6: throughout your day and your career to make sure that okay,

711
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 6: I can separate the two, let's go about my business.

712
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 7: Gives me something to do.

713
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 6: So, I like, do you guys as a full staff

714
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 6: communicate well on what you guys see or if you're

715
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 6: trying to learn new pitches or trying to do everything,

716
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 6: like hey, I like Merrill's cutter here or Gallon's change

717
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 6: up or something like that, you guys all discuss it

718
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 6: and kind of see if you guys can pick each

719
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Speaker 6: other with his brains and learn from each other.

720
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Speaker 8: No, not really, I mean I feel like I mean

721
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 8: at this kind of level, you get to a point

722
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 8: of everyone has their own pitch shapes, their own style

723
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:42,480
Speaker 8: of pitching. But you know, when guys are struggling with

724
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 8: a change up. For instance, yesterday, my change up's a

725
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 8: little hard. Right now, I want to I want to

726
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 8: kill some Villo. So who am I gonna go to

727
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 8: and talk to Meryl again? Because he's a change up wizard. Yeah,

728
00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 8: I think his change is really good. And for me,

729
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 8: it's like, okay, like how do you kill Vlo? And

730
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 8: he might not kill v He throws kind of everyone.

731
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 8: Everything's kind of around the same velocity with him, but

732
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 8: it's moving all over the place.

733
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Speaker 6: If he was out here, i'd call it his fastball,

734
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Speaker 6: his change ups his fastball he was out here.

735
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 8: So yeah, that's in that sense, it's like, hey, like

736
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 8: maybe he has a queue of basically you know, hey,

737
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Speaker 8: this is how you could kill a little bit of

738
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 8: that v Lo. And and just picking other guy's brains

739
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 8: within the clubhouse too, that might have you know, change

740
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 8: ups that are pretty far off velocity wise in their fastballs,

741
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 8: because I don't need the movement aspect of but I

742
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 8: need to learn how to kill velocity. And with that

743
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 8: is picking those guys' brains that have established that change

744
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 8: up at basically killing velocity.

745
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Speaker 4: Got it, Drey?

746
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 1: Is the plan for you to start the year out

747
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 1: in the bullpen, and then you have the possibility to start,

748
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 1: you know, if there's an opportunity that arises. Wanted to

749
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 1: get that from me, and also, you know, if so

750
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 1: to just tell us a little bit more about some

751
00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,480
Speaker 1: of the talented arms in the bullpen for the Diamondbacks,

752
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 1: because we're national show and I feel like, you know,

753
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 1: at least reading some.

754
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 4: Reports and previews of the team, it's like.

755
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 1: Oh, the Diamondbacks have one of the better offenses in baseball.

756
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 1: There's some notable names in the rotation. Not sure about

757
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,479
Speaker 1: the bullpen and actually look down at some names, I'm like, oh,

758
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:14,720
Speaker 1: there's some pitching talent. They might not be too well

759
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 1: known yet, but there's some guys that can strike some

760
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 1: people out.

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Speaker 9: Yeah.

762
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Speaker 8: So to your first question of you know, bullpen to starter,

763
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Speaker 8: I don't know the full answer to that. I know

764
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 8: my chance to break with the team would be in

765
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 8: the bullpen for the future of this year and even

766
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 8: years past or forward. I don't I don't truly know

767
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 8: the answer to the starting aspect. I would love for

768
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 8: that to happen, but you know, they might have different

769
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 8: goals and different ideas on what they see me in

770
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Speaker 8: the near future with with the bullpen arms obviously, with

771
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Speaker 8: Puck and Martinez out. You know, a lot of people

772
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Speaker 8: think the powerhouse is kind of gone. It's it's it's

773
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Speaker 8: gonna come back in the middle.

774
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Speaker 9: Of the year. But I mean, we have a lot

775
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 9: of guys. I feel like.

776
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 8: That can get a lot of jobs done. I mean,

777
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 8: you got Kid Stroud, who I don't know if it's

778
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 8: a huge name, but the kid's disgusting.

779
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 9: He's really good. He was really good with the Orioles.

780
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:20,759
Speaker 8: You got one Mario who I think you know he

781
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 8: was getting his feet wet last year and and and

782
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 8: learning the game in the big leagues in the first time.

783
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:27,799
Speaker 8: But I mean, he throws one hundred to hundred and one,

784
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:31,919
Speaker 8: he commands his own. He's got good secondary. That's gonna

785
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 8: be another guy that you know, might not have been

786
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 8: on everyone's radar, but who's I think gonna have a

787
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 8: really good year, and I think he's gonna have a

788
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 8: huge role on this team. You got Hoffman, you got Garcia.

789
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:45,400
Speaker 8: I mean, you got guys Now I just feel like

790
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:48,359
Speaker 8: you look down and everybody's bullpens and it's you know,

791
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 8: beforehand it would be like, oh, they might have someone

792
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 8: that throws a hundred and that can command the zone

793
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 8: with it. Now I feel like you have every bullpen

794
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 8: in the big leagues. Now it's like you got two

795
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 8: or three guys that are chucking that thing one hundred,

796
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 8: commanding it.

797
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 9: With nasty off speed.

798
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 8: So it's all It all comes down to consistency and health, honestly,

799
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,920
Speaker 8: And I think you know, if the bullpen can stay healthy,

800
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 8: starting rotation can stay healthy, and then those starters are

801
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:18,319
Speaker 8: giving us five six innings and you're throwing a seven,

802
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 8: eight nine, you can win a lot of ball games

803
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:20,840
Speaker 8: doing that.

804
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 5: Right Tray, Before I let you go, I have one

805
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:28,560
Speaker 5: last question for you. Grew up in Indianapolis area, right Greenfield, Indiana.

806
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 5: Lancelynn obviously is the best player out of ever out

807
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,399
Speaker 5: of Indianapolis. He'll tell us all that he's the best

808
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 5: player ever out of there, which we can make arguments about.

809
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:39,719
Speaker 5: But what team did you grow up a fan of?

810
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 5: Is Indianapolis is kind of in no man's land.

811
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 8: Yeah, so I was a huge Saint Louis Cardinals fan. Okay,

812
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:48,799
Speaker 8: and I and I couldn't tell you one thing about

813
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:50,320
Speaker 8: the Cardinals back then, but I can.

814
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 9: Tell you about Albert Poolholes. So he was like my

815
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:54,719
Speaker 9: all time favorite player. Growing up.

816
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 8: I had my room Saint Louis Cardinals painted, had like

817
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 8: two jerseys of his. Maybe watch three games, not not one.

818
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 8: Not one to really watch TV. Growing up, I didn't

819
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:11,239
Speaker 8: watch sports. They still don't watch them. I play it,

820
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 8: and I'm not.

821
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:12,960
Speaker 7: I'm not.

822
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 9: I'm not the best uh what you would call I don't.

823
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 8: I don't watch the sports that I'm not. I'm not

824
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 8: a big sports watcher. I'm not really a TV person

825
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 8: in general. I'd rather be doing stuff with my hands

826
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:30,000
Speaker 8: and and doing things, you know, outside and and that

827
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 8: kind of stuff.

828
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 9: Growing up.

829
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 8: Now, I'm more of like, when I get home, it's

830
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 8: kicked back, maybe play some video games for a little

831
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 8: bit and then turn on some stuff. Depending on if

832
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 8: it's a good game or not, I'll watch it. But

833
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 8: if it's just a regular night and not like a

834
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 8: crazy matchup or any of those kind of things, I

835
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 8: don't really watch sports.

836
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:53,360
Speaker 1: Okay, good, well, maybe just listen to that's that's amazing.

837
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:55,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, But I was a huge Albert Pools.

838
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 5: Man, but I only saw like four games.

839
00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:59,279
Speaker 4: Okay, hey Highlight, I love it.

840
00:36:59,360 --> 00:36:59,839
Speaker 7: I love it.

841
00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 9: I like that that was back on you know.

842
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 7: Yeah, and.

843
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:12,359
Speaker 1: Well, Dre, this was awesome. Really appreciate the extended time.

844
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 1: Best of luck and health.

845
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 4: We'll be watching.

846
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 9: Thanks man, awesome, Thank you.

847
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:19,800
Speaker 4: H