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Speaker 1: National starting pitcher Miles Michaelis is here with us on

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Speaker 1: FT Miles, I want to go right to the meeting

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Speaker 1: you came from, if you don't mind, because we'd never

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Speaker 1: get a peek inside the curtain of all of the

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Speaker 1: meetings that occurred spring training. So whether you want to

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Speaker 1: talk about this one or any others, what are they like,

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Speaker 1: what's going on during all of these meetings?

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Speaker 2: This is just more of like kind of a fun meeting,

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Speaker 2: you know, with a lot of the new coaching staff

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Speaker 2: and some new players. They're going around and they're they're

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Speaker 2: doing it a really fun way. So I went yesterday

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Speaker 2: with house. So they're going the youngest guy and the

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Speaker 2: oldest guy every every day or every other day, and

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Speaker 2: you're just like little like player in you like get

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Speaker 2: to know everybody. So I went yesterday. You know, you

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Speaker 2: get supposed to feel you know, why, four kids, two dogs,

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Speaker 2: this and that. You know you're round and you're signing

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Speaker 2: bonus and you're a little bit of your backstory. And

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Speaker 2: then they have like an open form. Guys can ask

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Speaker 2: you questions and just kind of like a little ten to.

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Speaker 3: Fifteen minute what you got get to know you?

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Speaker 4: Did you get any question was anyone brave enough to

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Speaker 4: ask you a question?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, I got a few questions.

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Speaker 2: One of them was about I've got chickens at home,

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Speaker 2: and one of them is like the chicken from you

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Speaker 2: seen the movie Moana. No, but he's like a chicken,

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Speaker 2: but he's not all there. He's a rooster, but he's

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Speaker 2: not all there. He kind of walks around like sideways

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Speaker 2: most of the day and he's just like a little

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Speaker 2: special needs kind of chicken. But I had some guys

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Speaker 2: over in my house playing cards the other day and

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Speaker 2: we're talking about that. So one of the other guys

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Speaker 2: wanted to know more about the chicken and you know,

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Speaker 2: some of the Japanese stuff. Everybody wants to know about

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Speaker 2: the eating the lizard and the fall League kind of stuff.

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Speaker 2: But it was fun, you know, it's a fun little

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Speaker 2: you know, I get to have some some interaction with

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Speaker 2: some of the guys.

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Speaker 3: That's nice. I like it.

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Speaker 5: Do you have a good question for the guys, like

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Speaker 5: have you been able to be like ooh, this is

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Speaker 5: a question I've heard I want to ask them.

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Speaker 3: I didn't. I didn't have one. I didn't have one today.

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Speaker 3: I have one ready.

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Speaker 2: I'm pitching later today so I didn't have one like Super.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't Super.

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Speaker 3: There. I'm getting locked in. I'm in the zone right now.

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Speaker 4: If you ask your manager what it's like to be

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Speaker 4: ten years younger than you are.

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Speaker 3: No, but whenever he gets up there, maybe i'll maybe

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Speaker 3: you and him.

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Speaker 4: You could be the old one, he could be the

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Speaker 4: young one. You guys could do it together.

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Speaker 3: You know, I'll you know, he's in charge.

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Speaker 1: I'll have to ask him, what's that dynamic?

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Speaker 3: Like?

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Speaker 1: By the way, you know, what's it been like for

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Speaker 1: but Terra to not only enter a new job, but

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you know, baseball players like to have a

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Speaker 1: good time. It sometimes becomes a little bit of like

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Speaker 1: a frat scenario, and they're probably like, hey, you're quite young, dude.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's it's it's gotten there yet. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's spring training. Everyone's kind of still. I feel like,

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Speaker 2: you know, everybody's feeling each other out a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Everybody's getting to know each other.

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Speaker 2: But my stance on being a player has always been,

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Speaker 2: you know, I'm a player.

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Speaker 3: I'm here to play.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'll take the ball when he gives it

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Speaker 2: to me, and I'll I'll give it back when he

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Speaker 2: asks for it back, no questions asked. You know, he's

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Speaker 2: the manager in charge. You know, same thing with the

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Speaker 2: pitching coaches. I'm here to learn, you know. They they've

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Speaker 2: got a young staff, but they're very knowledgeable. So it's

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Speaker 2: been fun to kind of learn some things and you know,

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Speaker 2: talk and and and get some new you know, some

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Speaker 2: new philosophies and new theories.

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Speaker 3: That's been been really enjoyed.

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Speaker 4: Every reason. You have a haircut this year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the barber, the barber that comes in was giving

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Speaker 2: me a really hard time about how, you know, rough

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Speaker 3: And stuff we're looking. Uh So I came in the

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Speaker 3: other day and I said, have at it, man, see

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Speaker 3: what you got. I thought it was a good haircut.

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Speaker 4: It is, but I'm used to you with the long

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Speaker 2: Yeah I'm still grown it out, but it was it

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Speaker 2: wasn't really long, but it was just that very unkempt.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: I like to keep it longer, but I still like

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Speaker 2: to keep my appearances up.

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Speaker 6: How is it to be in new camp?

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Speaker 5: You were in you were in Saint Louis for a

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Speaker 5: long time, and now you go to a new place,

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Speaker 5: which is right down the road from your house, so

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Speaker 5: you're commuting, do you make sandwiches for all your teammates

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Speaker 5: before you leave the house and cut them into quarters?

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Speaker 6: But how's the how is the new camp? Seriously?

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Speaker 3: No, no, a new camp is good.

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Speaker 2: I don't bring sandwiches, but sometimes I would bring eggs

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Speaker 2: in from my chickens.

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Speaker 3: I'll bring my own eggs in for breakfast.

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Speaker 6: How do you know?

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Speaker 4: For you, how do you know if an egg.

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Speaker 7: Has a chicken in or is just an egg? The

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Speaker 7: way you can tell you feel like a.

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Speaker 2: Flash light up to it, you know, like you shine

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Speaker 2: an embryo or chicken there. But we so we have

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Speaker 2: the one rooster, but he's not all there, so he

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Speaker 2: doesn't he doesn't lay with.

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Speaker 3: The hens, which is kind of nice because every eggs

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Speaker 3: people want to egg every egg we get, you.

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Speaker 4: Bring like when your teammates when it has a little baby.

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Speaker 2: Chickens, that would be yeah, that'd be weird.

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Speaker 4: I just didn't know how you can tell.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but if you wanted to use a flash light,

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Speaker 2: a yolk or an embryo whatever.

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Speaker 4: And then if you find one with the embryo, you

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Speaker 4: don't you keep the.

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Speaker 2: I would maybe give it back to the chicken and

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Speaker 2: see if it would lay on it and hatch into

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Speaker 2: another chicken.

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Speaker 3: Then I'd have more chickens.

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Speaker 2: How many chickens I think the coup we have can

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Speaker 2: house like twenty five.

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Speaker 3: We have eighteen.

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Speaker 4: You only have one rooster.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it wasn't supposed to be a rooster.

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Speaker 2: We ordered only chickens, and when they sent them to us,

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Speaker 2: you know, nobody's perfect.

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Speaker 3: You're you're you know, judging the chickens genders. They're like

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Speaker 2: I don't know how they do it, but they they

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Speaker 2: missed one and we end up getting a rooster.

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Speaker 6: You said it's good. I mean the rooster wants to

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Speaker 6: be in with the hens.

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Speaker 5: I mean you said it's good that they're apart, but

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Speaker 5: you're kind of depriving him of that.

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Speaker 3: No, no, they're not a part.

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Speaker 2: They're together, but he's, like I said, he's not all

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Speaker 2: there mentally, so he doesn't attempt to, you know, lay

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Speaker 2: with the chickens in the in the biblical sense.

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Speaker 4: How many chickens? How many eggs does your chickens make

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Speaker 4: per day? We didn't like it, like fascinated by this.

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Speaker 2: We get like a dozen eggs a day, a little legs.

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Speaker 6: No, we eat them.

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Speaker 3: I got four kids. We're like a dozen eggs every morning.

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Speaker 3: That's why we got them.

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Speaker 2: Because all the covid stuff and like all the eggs,

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Speaker 2: and there was like the egg shortage.

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Speaker 3: You go to the store, you couldn't find the good eggs.

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Speaker 3: Then you find out that the good eggs are actually

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Speaker 3: not good eggs.

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Speaker 2: Like one of those egg companies was like, oh, organic

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Speaker 2: wife's like, we're getting chickens. We got we got plenty

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Speaker 2: of land, plenty of space. You really only need like

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Speaker 2: this much space that we're sitting in right here. You

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Speaker 2: could have like twenty chickens under this little pop up

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Speaker 2: tent we got, but we've got they're on like a

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Speaker 2: probably like a quarter acre little fenced in coop area.

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Speaker 3: They bit the bugs out of the grass and they.

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Speaker 2: They if I go fishing and bring home like a

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Speaker 2: fish carcass, they'll just destroy the fish carcass. They're like

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Speaker 2: little vultures almost, and it's really good for them.

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Speaker 3: The omegas. The omegas and the fish are really good

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Speaker 3: for the for the chickens and the eggs.

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Speaker 5: I have no transition. I have no transition back to baseball.

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Speaker 5: So I'm just gonna go for it because.

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Speaker 6: I love talking.

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Speaker 5: Whatever gets players like whatever they're into, So that's awesome.

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Speaker 5: But I'm watching behind you and dudes are throwing bullpens

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Speaker 5: kind of. They're throwing like into a net with a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they're they're they're getting their arms loose.

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Speaker 6: Okay, they've they've.

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Speaker 2: Got like the you know, guys these days, one of

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Speaker 2: the popular things to do. You've got like a weighted

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Speaker 2: ball program to help improve like some of your shoulder

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Speaker 2: strength and you know, like reinforce that delivery a little bit,

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Speaker 2: work on throwing throwing strikes, build some velocity, build some strength.

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Speaker 3: I think it's an important thing to do early in spring,

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Speaker 3: getting ready for a long well.

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Speaker 2: It's like lifting weights in the gym, right, Like, you're

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Speaker 2: not just doing push ups and body weight squats.

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Speaker 3: You're adding some weight to it. So you add light

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Speaker 3: loads at uh lower intensity, you know, heavier weight.

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Speaker 2: You can get some more lay back without really having

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Speaker 2: to to crank it so much much, you know back.

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Speaker 3: Here, So.

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Speaker 2: It's uh, you know, the science, the scientists and the

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Speaker 2: sports people have said that it's good.

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Speaker 3: So people are doing it.

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Speaker 6: Do you believe it? You make all your starts.

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Speaker 5: You're that guy that I'm like, look to what he's

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Speaker 5: doing while you throw one hundred miles an hour, Like,

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Speaker 5: do you believe in that stuff?

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Speaker 2: I believe that throwing a hundred might not be the

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Speaker 2: best thing for your body. Uh, that's one of those things.

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Speaker 2: But I I do some weighted ball things.

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Speaker 4: Yes, just do sids then you can throw hard.

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Speaker 2: No, that's no, those are you know. I'm I got

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Speaker 2: the organic chickens in the backyard. The last thing I'm

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Speaker 2: doing is putting some you know, synthetic steroid stuff into

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Speaker 2: my body. From just a health standpoint, never twice, you

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Speaker 2: know fully, once you know you can't get fooled again. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think I think Bush said that at in one

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Speaker 2: of the things. I'm not a I'm not a huge

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Speaker 2: fan of the steroids or or doing them once or

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Speaker 7: So when you see a guy like Profar jerks and

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Speaker 7: Profar get whacked the second time, and now the PA

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Speaker 7: is saying, well it might not be a real test,

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Speaker 7: like where are we at here? Well, you know, and

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Speaker 7: then here's my other question. Where as your player, I've

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Speaker 7: here for a long time. I played in the steroid air,

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Speaker 3: But no longer is a thing.

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Speaker 2: You know, get your rest, get under a red light.

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Speaker 2: There's so many things that you can do now that

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Speaker 2: I saw something about the guy. There was a guy

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Speaker 5: One Campbell he touched one hundred after you started eating

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Speaker 6: You need to he need he needs to.

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Speaker 2: Any more chickens any more chickens, you know, and and

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Speaker 3: You know, that's laziness. Laziness, that's but yeah.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate your honesty because people don't understand necessarily like you,

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Speaker 5: you put a lot of work in to be healthy, correct, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: You know if I mean it's like your law of averages, right,

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Speaker 2: You just hope that they're not the guys that are

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Speaker 3: Now the guys used to doing it are legitimate. You know,

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Speaker 2: Like, I believe those guys are doing it the complete

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Speaker 4: A great all, before we let you go, you're pitching today?

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Speaker 7: Yes, what's your what's your routine like on a start, dame,

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Speaker 3: It's not going to be too hot. It's still spring

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Speaker 2: It's not bad, you know, And go out there and

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Speaker 1: Miles last one fore, just so I wanted to get

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome. The fans in Japan for baseball. I mean,

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Speaker 3: You know, baseball is like they're one big sport in there.

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Speaker 2: It's almost like if you rolled like college football and

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Speaker 3: There, Miles Man.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well said, thank you for joining us, have fun,

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Speaker 3: Bud awesome, Thank you so much, Thanch for having me

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Speaker 1: A bra I'm just ready to go with us, CJ.

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Speaker 7: Man.

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Speaker 1: How you doing has camp?

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Speaker 8: Well, know what it's going. Well, we're all good, good, good.

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Speaker 1: What are you working on.

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Speaker 8: A little bit of everything?

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Speaker 9: You know, on the offensive side, kind of stands selective

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Speaker 9: But yeah, that starts with the prep step, I'd say,

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Speaker 8: This prep step is probably the best thing you talk.

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Speaker 7: I mean, yeah, like you said, James, he does a

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Speaker 9: Kind of stay with the plan. And yeah, we got

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Speaker 5: You gonna you feel you feel like there's a lot

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Speaker 9: just I'll use it whenever whenever I know it's a bum.

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Speaker 7: How good can you be? I'm sick of here.

441
00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:46,200
Speaker 5: So many people go, oh, you know, you know CJ

442
00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:48,119
Speaker 5: says he wants to do this, he wants to hit

443
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Speaker 5: for a higher Very few times do people talk about

444
00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:55,320
Speaker 5: it player like they talk about you where they got power.

445
00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:58,119
Speaker 5: Power came into your game here in the last few years.

446
00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:00,919
Speaker 5: You got defense, you got it arm like you're a

447
00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:04,040
Speaker 5: five pool player. But how good do you think you

448
00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:04,720
Speaker 5: can be.

449
00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:07,560
Speaker 8: Good as I want to be? You know, in this

450
00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:08,240
Speaker 8: guy's a limit.

451
00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:10,439
Speaker 9: I got to be able to meet this playing and

452
00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:13,040
Speaker 9: kind of stay say where my feet are and just

453
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Speaker 9: stay positives as good.

454
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Speaker 7: As How good can this Nats team be really good?

455
00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:20,440
Speaker 7: He was gonna have natitude? Do they still do the

456
00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:23,840
Speaker 7: natitude native? I'm not sure I think so, but but

457
00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:25,360
Speaker 7: we're gonna be good. I think we're gonna be good.

458
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Speaker 9: As long as we all, like I said, take care

459
00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:29,359
Speaker 9: of the task at hand and stay together.

460
00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:30,680
Speaker 8: And play as a group, it would be really good.

461
00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:34,399
Speaker 1: Hey, CJ, how much did you pay attention to the

462
00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:37,080
Speaker 1: off season with trade rumors? At one point your name

463
00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:40,800
Speaker 1: was linked to the Giants. We Paltimony has been on

464
00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:43,040
Speaker 1: the show multiple times, and I know he's new to

465
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Speaker 1: the party, but it sounds like he's very communicative. So

466
00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:47,680
Speaker 1: what was that experience like for you?

467
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I talked to him on the phone a couple

468
00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:52,720
Speaker 9: of times. You know, we had good conversations. Kind of

469
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Speaker 9: just told me to just kind of ignore the rumors

470
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Speaker 9: and stuff. Whatever happens happens. You know, anything can happen,

471
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Speaker 9: but you know, just kind of stay away from the roomless.

472
00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:03,800
Speaker 8: You hear them all the time, but you know.

473
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Speaker 7: They don't really know how much you appreciate that.

474
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Speaker 9: I appreciate a lot. Communication is big, and he does

475
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Speaker 9: a good job because he said Mackenzie you know, even

476
00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:13,800
Speaker 9: traded with him once. He was calling him say out,

477
00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:16,280
Speaker 9: I don't think anything's happening, and then he called him

478
00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:18,359
Speaker 9: back said it started to heat up. Just just be

479
00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:20,920
Speaker 9: aware there something might go down. And yeah, it's always good.

480
00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:24,280
Speaker 9: It's always good to have an idea said anything. What

481
00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:28,360
Speaker 9: is blakelo likes cool? Communication is good as well, kind

482
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Speaker 9: of gives us everything we need. Does he give yourself

483
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Speaker 9: far an advance? Does he give you your schedule.

484
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Speaker 8: Day before so we'll know the night before.

485
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Speaker 7: Uh, okay, there's something that we're doing, like four four

486
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Speaker 7: days it up Just that'd be crazy.

487
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Speaker 1: That's a lot of time. That's a lot of the

488
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Speaker 1: man to notice. I wanted to double click back on

489
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Speaker 1: what you were saying with footwork, So take us through next.

490
00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:56,440
Speaker 1: We have a lot of youngsters that listen to the show,

491
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Speaker 1: like how can you improve that part? You know, what

492
00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:02,080
Speaker 1: specifically do you do drill wise? Who do you speak

493
00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:04,440
Speaker 1: to coach wise to help you with stuff like that

494
00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:06,280
Speaker 1: when spring training is the perfect time for.

495
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Speaker 8: It, Vic smars.

496
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Speaker 9: You know, it starts with the early work, you know,

497
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Speaker 9: kind of starting with the routine, get the hands, hands working,

498
00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,040
Speaker 9: and then we moved to the feet work, and so

499
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Speaker 9: with the with the footwork, I always want to have

500
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Speaker 9: a move and I don't want to get stagnant kind

501
00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:24,920
Speaker 9: of uh, get my feet lazy. That's when the hands

502
00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:26,879
Speaker 9: have to work so much and bad things happen. So

503
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Speaker 9: just keep the feet moving, get myself in a good

504
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Speaker 9: position to fill.

505
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Speaker 8: The ball and throw it and make the play.

506
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Speaker 5: Lot's been made about you guys buying. I don't know

507
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Speaker 5: how many Trajet machines you guys bought. Are you a

508
00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:42,239
Speaker 5: triject guy? Do you think something this is something that

509
00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:45,120
Speaker 5: you use in your routine and is valuable?

510
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Speaker 8: I think so.

511
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Speaker 9: First time I tried it was here in spring Shin

512
00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:51,960
Speaker 9: and I haven't been off and I'm been there every day.

513
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Speaker 8: On Trajet the Tragic.

514
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Speaker 9: So they'll be big, especially being able to get abs

515
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Speaker 9: on maybe guys in the bullpen and stuff, seeing them

516
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Speaker 9: before the game.

517
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Speaker 8: So I think it'll be bi.

518
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Speaker 7: Who's your favorite? Got a face?

519
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Speaker 9: I mean, I'll face anybody well, and I'm talking about

520
00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:07,920
Speaker 9: off the traject than you're practicing off of every time,

521
00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:09,280
Speaker 9: someone different every day.

522
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Speaker 8: I don't really double up much.

523
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Speaker 7: Do you pickle? Do you pick?

524
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Speaker 9: You?

525
00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:16,560
Speaker 7: Do you pick?

526
00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:17,880
Speaker 3: Yeah?

527
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Speaker 9: You definitely want to challenge yourself and the trajects a

528
00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:21,760
Speaker 9: little bit harder than the real game, I think.

529
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Speaker 7: So you go guys, and you go guys in your division,

530
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Speaker 7: Zach Wheeler, Nola.

531
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Speaker 8: I faced, I face everybody that's on there, close to it.

532
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Speaker 7: You do it before their start.

533
00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:33,919
Speaker 9: Yeah, so before you before you guys play forever ear

534
00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:35,720
Speaker 9: they be I want to have a couple of beats.

535
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:37,679
Speaker 7: Off and it mixes it up. People don't don't know.

536
00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:40,440
Speaker 7: It'll throw all their pitches and simulates and write it.

537
00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:42,159
Speaker 7: It mixes up the pitches too. It doesn't just go

538
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:43,200
Speaker 7: fast yells.

539
00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,720
Speaker 8: Balls strike too, So you have to take decisions.

540
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Speaker 7: So I think that's what happens when you punch out

541
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:50,480
Speaker 7: that you get mad if you punch out off the traject.

542
00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,000
Speaker 8: No, you can't get mad. Hanging back.

543
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Speaker 1: Yeah, when did you get introduced to that? To that?

544
00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:00,960
Speaker 1: When did you guys get it at that? With the Nats?

545
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 8: I think it was close to spring training when they

546
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:06,960
Speaker 8: had it here and I came out early. I wanted

547
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:08,119
Speaker 8: to see it. I want to get on it. So

548
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:09,400
Speaker 8: being good?

549
00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:17,359
Speaker 1: That sounds very cool. That's awful late day. Yeah, again,

550
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:19,560
Speaker 1: you can ruin.

551
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:21,520
Speaker 7: Your confidence before you have to face the guy. You're like, Man,

552
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:23,840
Speaker 7: I can't hit this guy for nothing, and I haven't

553
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:24,680
Speaker 7: even faced him yet.

554
00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:26,119
Speaker 8: Wait, Amy like that.

555
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:27,680
Speaker 7: CJJ.

556
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Speaker 5: Have you thought about putting any of your teammates in

557
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:32,199
Speaker 5: because I'll tell you a little bit about me. I

558
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:33,840
Speaker 5: had to put my teammates in and I had have

559
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:36,840
Speaker 5: videoed every one of them, and when I finally clipped one.

560
00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:39,360
Speaker 7: I would just send it. I was sending video over

561
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:40,800
Speaker 7: to him. Have you done that yet?

562
00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:42,000
Speaker 6: Nah?

563
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:43,879
Speaker 8: I gotta do that one. It's a good idea.

564
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,560
Speaker 1: The good That's a really good idea. Yeah, exactly.

565
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:47,800
Speaker 3: So.

566
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Speaker 1: How you feeling out? I homeworked off you this morning?

567
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:51,480
Speaker 1: Oh really? Yeah? Let me show you.

568
00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:53,040
Speaker 8: That's good. I had bod.

569
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Speaker 1: When you do. Let us know a show? Show is that?

570
00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:57,400
Speaker 1: I'm yourcial?

571
00:24:57,600 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 3: Yeah?

572
00:24:57,840 --> 00:24:58,320
Speaker 8: That was it?

573
00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:01,840
Speaker 1: Uh, DJ, Great to talk to you, man, Really appreciate it.

574
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:03,679
Speaker 1: Good luck, have fun the rest of spring training.

575
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:06,159
Speaker 8: Yeah, appreciate it. Appreciate it.

576
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,480
Speaker 1: Chef did na see Nunya's second basement for the natch

577
00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:11,520
Speaker 1: joining us here on FT and I see him. Thanks

578
00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:13,320
Speaker 1: for joining us, man, How you doing as camp?

579
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,600
Speaker 10: Thanks for having me? Camp is going? Camp is going good.

580
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,639
Speaker 10: You know someone's over too. So there's see real leader,

581
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 10: like you've have already been deep into it.

582
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:26,680
Speaker 7: I mean you got like dad, you guys open what

583
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:27,440
Speaker 7: twenty seven?

584
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:29,840
Speaker 10: I think we're that? Isn't the last game like eighteenth?

585
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 7: I don't know. I think so there's no one they

586
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 7: were lost home now get the great fans.

587
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:39,240
Speaker 8: A yeah, right, wait he's making me.

588
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,720
Speaker 1: No, Now I got a check because I'm like, wait.

589
00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 10: Yeah, go ahead and technic at a lot of night title.

590
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,720
Speaker 1: So yeah, we get. So what we'll do is we're

591
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:48,919
Speaker 1: gonna go over the whole spring training Galder right now, No,

592
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,159
Speaker 1: I see him. You got plenty of time. Would you

593
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:52,000
Speaker 1: say the eighteen?

594
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:54,119
Speaker 10: What is it? Old ricking?

595
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:57,199
Speaker 1: The twenty third?

596
00:25:57,680 --> 00:25:59,200
Speaker 7: I got an almosteing extra week.

597
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:03,920
Speaker 1: Wait and Baltimore, Yeah that's Baltimore. That's your last game?

598
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:05,920
Speaker 10: Yeah, so that's that's where we're in d C.

599
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 1: That's in d C. You're right.

600
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:10,159
Speaker 10: So oh so I think the last speak training get

601
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Speaker 10: is like the eighteenth.

602
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 1: You're right, You're right. Okay, so wait I take it back.

603
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 1: So here's what happens. Yeah, yeah, good, that was good.

604
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:20,920
Speaker 1: So so the nineteenth spring training breakout game, which you're

605
00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:23,800
Speaker 1: not playing, you're a big leaguer, and then and then

606
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 1: the team, well the team has won more no actually

607
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 1: against Miami, against the Marlins and Jupiter on the twentieth,

608
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:32,359
Speaker 1: So that's the last one, but maybe you don't have

609
00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 1: to play in that one, and you go already to

610
00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:37,120
Speaker 1: the DC area, and then you guys have two out

611
00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:40,960
Speaker 1: of three days in d C for exhibition games and

612
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,760
Speaker 1: then one against Baltimore on the road in their house.

613
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:45,720
Speaker 1: So so yeah, I guess you're not You're not too

614
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:46,160
Speaker 1: far off.

615
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,439
Speaker 10: You're well, I play we day, you know, you know

616
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:49,560
Speaker 10: how it is turning?

617
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 1: Yeah?

618
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:54,480
Speaker 7: Man down, Yeah, are just thinking about it.

619
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Speaker 10: Already.

620
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Speaker 8: Ball.

621
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Speaker 10: We're excited, man, what's we're I won't say that.

622
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,879
Speaker 7: You know, you're not borders spring training? You sounds like

623
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 7: you're border spring training.

624
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 10: Oh, it's so excited.

625
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:08,560
Speaker 7: It's is long, It is.

626
00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:10,120
Speaker 4: Long, is long.

627
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 10: You've been here for a while, so you come early?

628
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:13,439
Speaker 8: Yeah?

629
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 7: Yeah, what's early? Like a day or two early?

630
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:18,480
Speaker 11: I mean I live out here, so I've been living

631
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 11: ju yeah, living, Yeah, I've been here.

632
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:26,120
Speaker 7: You got that big money living in Palm Beach, invest money.

633
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 1: He knows what he's doing. Yeah, so hey to tell

634
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:32,280
Speaker 1: us about this team. Tell us who do you spend

635
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:35,880
Speaker 1: time with? And you know who looks good right now

636
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 1: in cam Who who's kind of like a pick to

637
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 1: click for you that you think is going to have

638
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:41,040
Speaker 1: a big breakout year.

639
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:49,200
Speaker 10: Okay, uh, team, Honestly, we're a young core and we

640
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:50,439
Speaker 10: got a lot of learning to do.

641
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 11: But that's a good thing because we're gonna grow as teammates.

642
00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 11: So that's how the team and chemistry are building. I

643
00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:00,880
Speaker 11: spent a lot of my time with Woody. I've been

644
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 11: talking with Dayling a lot, Christian Franklin and Brady House

645
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:11,679
Speaker 11: for our conversations are really baseball the things, you know,

646
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 11: and we also events to each other about how things

647
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:17,119
Speaker 11: are going through camp and just being able to like

648
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:21,120
Speaker 11: bounce ideas and emotions off.

649
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 8: Of each other.

650
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:22,880
Speaker 10: That that helps.

651
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:23,400
Speaker 1: Joe the Jim.

652
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,200
Speaker 7: Yeah, so you sup at him all the time. It

653
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:28,440
Speaker 7: was a little chiuaha. Get that Nim said, they ain't

654
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,440
Speaker 7: got to call me at Chihuahua now. But he didn't

655
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:33,840
Speaker 7: call you. I think crowds called it said he was

656
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 7: the little because James sobody, he said he was you

657
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 7: know when the big dog, you know, the little Chuaha's

658
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 7: trying to bring down the big dog. He said, you

659
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 7: were the numb Now I'm gonna.

660
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 10: Because I'm gonna just we gotta keep it really with

661
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Speaker 10: each other.

662
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:48,160
Speaker 11: That's the only way we can't communicate and actually build

663
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Speaker 11: trust no matter what it is.

664
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Speaker 10: And I will also be the biggest supporter.

665
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 11: So yeah, but we bounce ideas off of each other

666
00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 11: back and forth. Even if one of us doesn't agree

667
00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 11: with the other, We're gonna still talk.

668
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 7: You gotta like little like brothers, Yeah, like others.

669
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 10: We're brothers, bro.

670
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 11: Now, I feel like that's what you have to be

671
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 11: to be able to trust your teammates and you're going

672
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:13,480
Speaker 11: to war out there with them every day.

673
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 10: You want to know that they have your back no

674
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 10: matter what at the end of the day.

675
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 5: So yeah, your double play partner c J Abrams, how

676
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 5: much does that related onship need to be honest because

677
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 5: it seems like you're you're you're talking about honesty not

678
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:32,960
Speaker 5: just oh wow, yeah roses and rainbows, Like, how honest

679
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 5: do you guys have to be with each other? And

680
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 5: who is more like who gets on the other one

681
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 5: more or less.

682
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 11: I don't think, Yeah, CJY don't even really get on

683
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 11: each other like that. It's more like, we're just gonna

684
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 11: play ball, bro. Just let our abilities play on the

685
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 11: field and do what they do.

686
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 10: It's it's already good there, extright.

687
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 7: If you guys get into a bench clearing brawl, you

688
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,160
Speaker 7: and CJ, it was the first. Who's first in the fire?

689
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 7: What you mean like, if the other team charges the mound,

690
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 7: you and CJ are shortened second, which one of y'all

691
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 7: is gonna be first to the farm?

692
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 10: Whoever's closer.

693
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 7: Okay, So you're I'm not gonna You're not gonna be

694
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 7: like c J. No, No, I got I got him

695
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 7: on grapping by a shirt. Nah, he won't be in

696
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 7: there and I'm gonna get right in there with him.

697
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 7: Or I'm gonna be in there and he gonna get

698
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 7: right in there with me.

699
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 10: That's fassin, that's fair. Yeah, he telling them about to.

700
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 6: Right.

701
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 1: You both get after it. Hey, So you mentioned that

702
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 1: it's a young team. There's a lot of learning to do.

703
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 1: What do you think was the biggest thing that you

704
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 1: saw from last year's team that that needs to be fixed,

705
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 1: and that can be fixed.

706
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 10: Honestly, I believe it's intention. Uh.

707
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 11: You know, as big leaguers, you you go through the

708
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 11: minor leagues and you you learn who you need to

709
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 11: become to be a big leaguer. So everything that led

710
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 11: up to this moment in time we've all been so

711
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 11: now it's just about intention and not overworking, I would say,

712
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 11: but doing the work with intent. Like I seen a

713
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 11: video of my dass, I mean of Deon Sanders saying

714
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 11: kids don't practice the right way anymore, Like you gotta

715
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 11: practice to be great, so you don't have to.

716
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 10: It's more like quality over quantity.

717
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 11: Like let's get this work in, let's do it right,

718
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 11: and then let's get ready to go win a ball game.

719
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 5: You said you gotta be who you are, tell people

720
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 5: who you are, because I don't think a lot of

721
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 5: people know what kind of magic you got in that glove.

722
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 5: I don't think a lot of people know a lot

723
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 5: about the seam unias.

724
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 10: Yeah, for sure, you know.

725
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 7: I'm just.

726
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 11: I'm a ballplayer. I'm gonna do whatever I have to

727
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 11: do in the situation to win. And like I told Skip,

728
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 11: and I'll tell my teammates, I want to win every

729
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 11: battle that comes that comes in front of me.

730
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 10: It doesn't really, it doesn't matter what it is.

731
00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 11: I want to win. Now in baseball, you know it's

732
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 11: three out of ten. You're not gonna win every single one.

733
00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 11: But intention of wanting to win every single one that

734
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 11: that'll give you, that'll give you a lead.

735
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 7: Is that what the new coaching staff and enter the

736
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 7: office paid to all the guys.

737
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 10: Something like that.

738
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 11: You know, they want us to be a little bit

739
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 11: more challenged in practice and work harder in practice and

740
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 11: be challenged so that in the games, you know, it

741
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 11: seems easier.

742
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:20,240
Speaker 10: So that's the new coaches Stot.

743
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 7: Do you do that?

744
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 10: How do you do it?

745
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,959
Speaker 7: Or board a spring training already? How do you not challenge?

746
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 3: Ue?

747
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 10: You just do it?

748
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 3: You know?

749
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 7: Is there a drill you guys?

750
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 8: Do they?

751
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 11: That traject is challenging? So a lot of guys hit

752
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 11: the traject and stuff.

753
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 7: So I won't call at the Bony to go because

754
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 7: he played in college. I told him he needs to

755
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 7: go in there at get some bats off skating.

756
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 10: Watch it.

757
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 7: He's in there all the time.

758
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:46,479
Speaker 10: Yeah, he's a watching. I don't think he go get him?

759
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 7: Does he intimidate you all? When he walks.

760
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:51,280
Speaker 10: And it's it's actually pretty crazy.

761
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 11: Always when I was in high school, he was at

762
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 11: a Red Sox workout and he was there with me

763
00:32:58,000 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 11: and I didn't even remember.

764
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 10: He told me, and I was like, that's crazy.

765
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 11: And my mama was always telling me make sure you're

766
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 11: good to people, no matter who they are.

767
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 10: I be respecting. I told him that. I was like,

768
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 10: I could have been.

769
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 11: A complete you know, yeah, yeah to you, but always

770
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 11: it still would like, be good to people though you

771
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 11: none intimidated.

772
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 10: It's another human being.

773
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, but gems can be intimidating. Gems can be intimidating

774
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 5: for for younger players, for younger team, the guys who

775
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 5: aren't like they could cut me, they could not. Is

776
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 5: he more or less intimidating than Rizzo was last year?

777
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 7: Uh? Paul Tibani, Yeah, he said him.

778
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 10: Okay, I thought you said Jane, Oh no, no.

779
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 11: I I don't know how to answer that because I

780
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 11: try to not feel intimidated by anybody, you know, baseball

781
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 11: or just playing baseball. So if you do what you

782
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 11: have to do, it shouldn't be intimidated by anybody.

783
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 7: Are you where we have whenever we have players on,

784
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 7: I always pull through a wiki page. Wikipedia page says,

785
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 7: you're born in the Bronx, all right, but you don't

786
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 7: talk like you're from the Bronx.

787
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 10: Nah, so you grew up they born Georgia.

788
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,360
Speaker 7: When did you move today? Oh okay, yeah, so we

789
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 7: used New York. So I was born in New York

790
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 7: and moved to Orlando where I was cheap. Right, So

791
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 7: you use New York though when you need New York.

792
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:21,480
Speaker 7: I mean, I don't hate someone in n SL. I'm

793
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 7: from New York, like me too, And then the next guy.

794
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 12: Studland me too. I say my parents are from New York.

795
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 12: I I don't you know. I I go back home,

796
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:34,239
Speaker 12: but I'm really a judge of boy. I grew up

797
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:37,480
Speaker 12: in Gwenech County, but I grew up under the under

798
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 12: the roof of New York. So I have New York

799
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 12: in my blood. But all my friends and everybody is

800
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 12: from Georgia.

801
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 7: As you get older, though, you'll see, are gonna meet

802
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:47,799
Speaker 7: someone from the Bronx.

803
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 10: And they's an't they know how they are?

804
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 12: Because my parents are just like that. So I mean,

805
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 12: I'm not so scaria where they go there. Yeah, I

806
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 12: don't really try to do the link and stuff. Because

807
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 12: that's not me. But are you a bulldog fan?

808
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 1: I don't really do sports.

809
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:01,920
Speaker 7: What do you do?

810
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:06,880
Speaker 10: Video games? It's done. I don't really like watching sports.

811
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 7: I you don't see you don't watch any baseball, any football,

812
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:10,800
Speaker 7: any basketball?

813
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 10: No, I watched highlights.

814
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:15,920
Speaker 7: I want you. I know me for being on Instagram,

815
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:18,360
Speaker 7: for sure. I wasn't that all your What you do

816
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 7: is you're you're a dune scroller.

817
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:23,359
Speaker 10: Low key, I do that, and I'm just some conspiracies

818
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:23,840
Speaker 10: and stuff.

819
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:25,560
Speaker 7: Did have playing on the lute?

820
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 10: I don't know. I wasn't there.

821
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 7: I don't know.

822
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 10: You're just saying we're gonna have his conversations off the chart.

823
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 1: That's good, all right, Well, then I'll try to steer

824
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 1: you back with something I think you can speak to.

825
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 1: Tell me about your relationship with yourself as a switch hitter,

826
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 1: like where do you feel better? How do you balance that?

827
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:49,360
Speaker 1: What's your tip for kids that are trying to be

828
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 1: a switch hitter?

829
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:55,760
Speaker 11: Okay, so this is a This was a touchy topic

830
00:35:55,840 --> 00:36:00,360
Speaker 11: because last year I was gonna quit hitting left handed

831
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 11: because it was just it was just killing me. And

832
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 11: I believe that that moment of about to quit and

833
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 11: not quitting was my breakthrough moment because I took everything

834
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 11: that everybody was saying about me, all the information.

835
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:18,560
Speaker 7: It was just overloaded.

836
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 11: Everybody was trying to tell me a certain way to hit,

837
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:23,240
Speaker 11: how to hit, and I kind of had to lose

838
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 11: my mind to gain a better perspective and actually figure

839
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:27,399
Speaker 11: it out.

840
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 10: And it opened the door for me.

841
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 11: I was like, I'm a right handed hitter, and one

842
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:34,360
Speaker 11: of my coaches said, your best coach is yourself.

843
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:37,440
Speaker 10: So I was like, I'm a good right handed hitter.

844
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 11: Why don't I just teach myself how to hit left

845
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 11: handed since I know how to get right hand and

846
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:47,279
Speaker 11: that just that. Oh so, and for the kids that

847
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 11: always switching it, if you want to learn how to

848
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 11: switch it, just whatever's natural to you do that, Do that,

849
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:58,720
Speaker 11: and just keep doing it mastered because once you start

850
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 11: mastering it, like you just automatically get better.

851
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 1: That's good. I like that. I mean, AJ like where

852
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,880
Speaker 1: I'm sure you can't came across teammates where you know

853
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 1: the switch hitter wants to quit one side. The splits

854
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 1: are big teams start coming to you, right. I mean,

855
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 1: I'm sure you've come across guys like that.

856
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,879
Speaker 7: Absolutely, most of them, most some do quit. So I'm

857
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 7: proud of for him for not quitting, because most of

858
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 7: them do quit and say I'm gonna only hit on

859
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 7: one such.

860
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 11: Yeah, break it was bad, all right, I lost pumpine.

861
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 10: I just remembern't it like this.

862
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:38,279
Speaker 11: I've been doing this for four or five years, and

863
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 11: it's like, ah, I can't touch a fastball.

864
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:44,399
Speaker 10: Oh, so that's not a good thing.

865
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:46,720
Speaker 11: And then I like, but I could touch a fastball

866
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 11: right handed, So why don't I just teach myself the

867
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 11: feels and the mechanics of my right hand to swing.

868
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 1: To my left hand.

869
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:57,840
Speaker 11: This it's just kind of stop trying to prove self

870
00:37:57,920 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 11: and start being.

871
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:04,840
Speaker 1: Like that's cool. Well, great insight, and I seem hopefully

872
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:07,239
Speaker 1: you had some fun with us here. Really enjoyed it.

873
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:10,799
Speaker 1: Good getting to know you. Thanks for buying, sir. Yeah, yeah,

874
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 1: this was fun. We'll catch you during the season for sir.

875
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:15,839
Speaker 10: Well, and hopefully I can see all love the count.

876
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:16,360
Speaker 7: We talked some.

877
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 1: I'm down. All three of us are into that, so

878
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: we're all good for talk. So you can get I'm in.

879
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:31,840
Speaker 1: I'm in for all that. Sign me up. Appreciate you.

880
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: Good talking to you, But sir,