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Speaker 4: He is Brandon Woodrif Big Woo from the Milwaukee Brewers,

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Speaker 4: big league mounds, big Wu. Awesome to see you, man,

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Speaker 4: Congratulations on making it back in great first start. How

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Speaker 2: Minute, Man's I'm doing good.

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Speaker 1: I've blown off Cratzy quite a few times.

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Speaker 2: Not intentionally, but just yeah, I was laying low. Man.

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Speaker 1: You've tried to have me on there in the past,

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Speaker 2: But you know what, I'm back man. Good to see you, Big.

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Speaker 5: I would never have texted you broken to come on

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Speaker 3: But right, right, that's funny.

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Speaker 4: Hey, the show's made moves since we last talked to Man,

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Speaker 1: How would have felt? All I know is everything let

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Speaker 2: It just takes time. And there's no other way to

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Speaker 4: club A. Jake, give me a player season that you

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Speaker 6: James would.

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Speaker 5: I don't know that he's underrated, but Washington National's superstar

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Speaker 6: And I'm not gonna sell it Kwi yet, Scott.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna hold on to it because after he continues

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Speaker 3: For me.

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Speaker 6: He might underrated. When he makes the All Star team

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Speaker 2: That helps.

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Speaker 4: He's been intentionally walked four times in a game. Anyway,

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Speaker 6: We suck like we suck.

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Speaker 6: You got hurt. One other teams were one of our

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Speaker 3: I love that mindset is a huge thing in this

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Speaker 1: Oh man, look, he he deserves all the hype, like

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be something pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: So great kid, he's wanting to learn.

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Speaker 1: He's always uh, he's he's always smiling in the clubhouse.

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Speaker 2: So that's that's great.

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Speaker 1: You know, we we give him some crap, you know,

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Speaker 1: just as a new guy, but man, he's the Brewers

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Speaker 1: found a good one in him for sure, and hopefully

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Speaker 1: he uh he continues to do what he's doing. But man,

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Speaker 1: he's yeah, I mean it's I mean, come on, like

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Speaker 1: it's it's one hundred, like every pitch, like it's, you know,

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Speaker 1: fastball pre surgery seventy percent of the time, Like if

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Speaker 1: I had one hundred, it's probably a good ninety to

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Speaker 1: ninety five percent of the time I'm throwing fastball for sure.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Man, that slider special too. There's some bilo on that

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Speaker 4: on that slider, So don't sleep on that, right. Slider's

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Speaker 4: like nineties touching ninety seven. It's ridiculous, isn't that crazy? Gosh, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: it's fun to watch. You got a good staff that

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Speaker 4: you're joining back in for so good luck this weekend.

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Speaker 4: Awesome to see you, Brandon. Thanks for the time and

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Speaker 4: now you can't be a stranger again. You're back, so

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Speaker 4: keep doing against the world.

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Speaker 2: Missed these chats.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you guys. Just can't wait to come back

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Speaker 1: on and thanks for having me. It was a good

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Speaker 1: see you guys.

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Speaker 5: You too.

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Speaker 4: Congrats again on the return.

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Speaker 2: Good luck this weekend. Talk soon. Thanks