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Speaker 1: This team.

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Speaker 2: When we walk out, we expect to win the game.

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Speaker 2: So you lose one on a winning streak. You look

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Speaker 2: around the room, everyone's cussed off about not winning the

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Speaker 2: game because you expect to win.

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Speaker 3: Here we go, Kyle Schwarber joining us right now in

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Speaker 3: foul Territory, making his FT debut. Kyle, great to have

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Speaker 3: you on, man, And you know it warmed our heart

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Speaker 3: when we were talking Alec bohone before and we're like,

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Speaker 3: who you just most excited to see when you get

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Speaker 3: back to clearword and he's like, Schwarves, he didn't even hesitate.

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Speaker 1: So how you doing, man?

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Speaker 3: You brightening everyone's day?

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Speaker 2: How's it going guys? Sorry Cratzy, I'm not a very

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Speaker 2: good texter. I know you've reached out a couple of times,

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Speaker 2: but I'm happy to get on the show with you guys.

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Speaker 1: Finally.

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Speaker 4: So glad, glad it finally happened. Glad we got to

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Speaker 4: see that face. The last text you sent me was

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Speaker 4: when you had your kid, and now he's driving, so

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Speaker 4: that's great.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, God, it feels like it, but it's the

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Speaker 2: way time flies, man, it really is. But I'm happy

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Speaker 2: to be on you guys have been doing such great

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Speaker 2: job with the show.

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Speaker 1: It's really cool to be a part of it.

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Speaker 5: By the way, this is you talk about how time flies.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I remember when Swarves was a catcher. I

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Speaker 5: played against Swarves and he was I think it was

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Speaker 5: his first game he caught in Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that was old Schwarves back.

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Speaker 6: They're catching, and.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I got a good Perzinski story. I got a

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Speaker 2: good story about you. So which one someone told me?

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Speaker 2: There's plenty of them.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the only one I remember, there's a go

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Speaker 1: I mean there's a great photo.

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Speaker 5: Of me sliding into home plate and you're catching and

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Speaker 5: you're looking at me, and I don't know, it was

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Speaker 5: like a I think Lester was pitching and Lesser and

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Speaker 1: Where definitely didn't definitely didn't catch. Less did.

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Speaker 5: That was im like, I'm like yeah, and Schwars looking

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Speaker 5: you're looking at me like there was there was.

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Speaker 2: I mean it was my rookie year. I mean that's

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Speaker 2: the only time I really caught. But uh, I mean

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Speaker 2: I'm at the plate, you're catching. I we're playing Atlanta.

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Speaker 2: I mean, someone couldn't have thrown a more middle probably

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Speaker 1: The guy balled it. Guy balls it. It's true, guy

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Speaker 1: balled it.

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Speaker 2: And you stand up, you throw the ball back and

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Speaker 2: and you go, why'd you ball that?

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Speaker 1: He goes, well, he goes, why'd you ball?

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Speaker 2: And I'm sitting there, I'm like, oh, please, dear lord,

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Speaker 2: like this, don't change his mind.

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Speaker 1: He can't change his mind.

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Speaker 2: To a strike, right because I thought it was a

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Speaker 2: you didn't get me a good look at it. So

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Speaker 2: then you turn around, you just start rifling off. You go,

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Speaker 2: I don't need it to look good if it's right

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Speaker 1: Like he's not.

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Speaker 2: He's not wrong, but I'm like, think, goodness, it was

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, hey guys, we need to we need to

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Speaker 6: We need the incoming trick tail thing.

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Speaker 5: So oh that is so funny, good time, dude.

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Speaker 6: Just someone else just told that story. Was a j

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Speaker 2: That story because I was telling about that story, selling

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you did, but we're going to keep it,

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Speaker 5: I got to ask because I didn't get to play

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Speaker 5: I don't know, but what is it? Because every team

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Speaker 5: you've been on, everywhere you've gone, people gravitated. I mean

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Speaker 6: As being like a leader in the clubhouse. What is

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Speaker 1: I don't know, that's a great question. I mean I

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Speaker 2: Coming from where I came from as part of it, right, like,

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Speaker 2: And he goes, oh, I actually rested that guy like

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Speaker 2: This you know what we do. It can be frustrating,

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Speaker 2: But and I think too, it's just the experiences I've

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Speaker 1: And now you get to that part we're veteran.

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Speaker 6: I kind of.

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Speaker 1: Down whatever is sixteen and I feel like right like.

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Speaker 4: Hang on one set, hang on one sex for your

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Speaker 4: your your mic is like super We're gonna reset you

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Speaker 4: because your mic just like became no, no, it just

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Speaker 6: So we'll go to question.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, ask your question, and by the time we know

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Speaker 3: how to fix it, we'll.

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Speaker 4: Get it super metallic. I guess it is. I guess.

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Speaker 4: I guess Kyle is a machine. People are like, how

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Speaker 4: can he be so nice and perfect and hitting dingers?

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Speaker 4: I guess he's a machine. And we started hearing the

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Speaker 1: M hm.

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Speaker 4: So really whenever, whenever we get him back, let me

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Speaker 4: know when Kyle can hear Kyle can hear me. But

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Speaker 4: I mean, like this guy's been like people need to

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Speaker 4: look at his baseball reference page because like this dude

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Speaker 4: had a good career to start his career, and now

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Speaker 4: what he's done on this Phillies contract has been freaking awesome.

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Speaker 3: Like what's your question?

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Speaker 4: Okay, my question? You're talking about like all this stuff,

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Speaker 4: like all the all the all the guys in every

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Speaker 4: ask about ping pong? Is that part of like the mystique?

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Speaker 4: Is that part of like Kyle Schwarber, just like I

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Speaker 4: have to have some kind of competitive outlet and you're

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Speaker 4: but one it always wants to play.

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Speaker 2: You love the competition, right, And I mean the ping

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Speaker 2: pong game has definitely taking a step back. I've lost

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Speaker 2: too many times, so I'm done giving people the satisfaction

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I think anything that we can do about

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Speaker 2: like having that competitive side to us, that's funny and

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Speaker 2: the laugh at right because where we don't get you know,

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Speaker 2: we stink, right, we stink at ping pong, we stink

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Speaker 2: at golf right, Like, but anytime you can get that

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Speaker 2: to be good at. I think that's fun and that

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Speaker 3: Okay, Oh, I think we got the same question turned

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Speaker 3: to both go ahead, aj.

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Speaker 6: You bet lead off this year or the fast fast

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Speaker 5: I mean, Joe Madden has ruined your career by making

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Speaker 5: right that was like, now other teams are like, hey,

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Speaker 1: The you know it's fun.

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Speaker 2: I mean I would say I batted there a lot

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Speaker 2: and there's a comfortability factor there. But also too, it's like,

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Speaker 2: there's no better feeling than winning a World Series. So

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Speaker 1: I want to do it. You know, I'm not.

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Speaker 2: You know, I've seen a lot of winning in my days,

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Speaker 2: and having that experience that you know, at such an

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Speaker 2: early age where I'm at now, you know times, you know,

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Speaker 2: time's not on our side, right, You're only getting older

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Speaker 2: and you're only getting it, you know, years closer to

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Speaker 2: whenever you're done with the game, and you want to

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Speaker 2: get back to holding up as many trophies as you can.

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Speaker 2: So whatever, whatever they want me to do, I'm all

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Speaker 4: Eleven eleven is the number. Can you get eleven bags

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Speaker 4: this year? Yes, it's figure gonna let you do.

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Speaker 1: It, I hope, So, I hope. So I mean.

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Speaker 2: Forget the Homers, Yeah, I think I could definitely. I

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Speaker 2: mean I think my first year here I got over ten,

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Speaker 2: and then I then uh uh didn't have the best

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Speaker 2: I always say this is my line that I this team,

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Speaker 1: You know, and because you expect to win. It's just

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Speaker 2: It's in your blood, it's in your DNA, right and

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Speaker 1: We've had that.

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Speaker 2: There's nothing that's changed from twenty two to now in

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Speaker 2: we just got to be able to go out there.

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Speaker 2: We got to play our game, and when we get

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Speaker 5: All right, So speaking of winning in traditions of winning

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Speaker 6: Football this year?

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Speaker 1: Okay, how about that?

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Speaker 6: You got to do.

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Speaker 5: One of the things I've got to do a lot

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Speaker 6: Did you ever think that would happen?

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Speaker 1: Never?

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Speaker 6: And how awesome was it? Because you did?

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Speaker 2: You made good picks, right, Yeah. I think I finished

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Speaker 1: I took it. I took Navy over Notre Dame. And

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Speaker 2: I was the sick and I needed an upset, right,

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Speaker 2: It was awesome. It's it's kind of crazy how quick

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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, here we go, Like, gott gotta

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Speaker 2: And you know have notes. No, so they give you

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Speaker 2: we can give our best guests.

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Speaker 2: But I will say, it was like we get done

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Speaker 2: I'm like perfect. So you got to watch the game

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Speaker 2: Uh And then yeah, I went up to Indiana or

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Speaker 1: But it's such a cool experience.

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Speaker 2: I've never seen that, you know, three years of Indiana,

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Speaker 4: Right, two quick ones to end here and then we'll

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Speaker 4: let you go. How big was that helmet they put

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Speaker 1: Who's got a bigger head? Mir or you?

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Speaker 4: Well, that's what I'm asking.

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm out of half. I'm out of half, but.

440
00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:52,320
Speaker 4: You still have hair, so yeah, I still got a

441
00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:55,080
Speaker 4: bigger head. But I'm taller, but I'm taller, so that

442
00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:56,320
Speaker 4: so that taller.

443
00:19:56,400 --> 00:20:01,480
Speaker 2: Yes, I look at when he would stand up behind

444
00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:08,520
Speaker 2: the plate then catch for Milwaukee.

445
00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:08,199
Speaker 4: We played because you're never in the minor league, so

446
00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:10,440
Speaker 4: we never really got to play a ton against each other.

447
00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:14,359
Speaker 4: But that was the one year. But how this is

448
00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:18,080
Speaker 4: super random because he was on earlier for us? How

449
00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:21,000
Speaker 4: perfect is JT? Real Muto? Like, is there any does

450
00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:22,119
Speaker 4: he have any flaws?

451
00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:26,000
Speaker 2: He's he's he's pretty good at a lot of a

452
00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:31,120
Speaker 2: lot of things. So it's you know, it's Captain America, right,

453
00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:33,679
Speaker 2: Like the All American football player.

454
00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:36,159
Speaker 1: I mean the guy in the golf course. He's a stick.

455
00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:40,960
Speaker 2: Uh you know, he's you know, he catches, you know,

456
00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:43,840
Speaker 2: he runs the bases like he's a like he's a

457
00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:47,600
Speaker 2: center fielder. He's got power, he's got a cannon, right, like,

458
00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:51,040
Speaker 2: the guy doesn't really do many things wrong. Yeah, I

459
00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:53,760
Speaker 2: mean he doesn't. He doesn't do anything wrong. He plays

460
00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:57,560
Speaker 2: the game the right way. And I mean, and he's

461
00:20:57,600 --> 00:20:58,320
Speaker 2: good at poker.

462
00:20:58,400 --> 00:20:58,800
Speaker 1: He's good.

463
00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:01,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, is this not any things he's not good at?

464
00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:02,800
Speaker 2: I'm sure if you put a basp on his hands,

465
00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:04,240
Speaker 2: he'd be draining three pointers.

466
00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:06,200
Speaker 1: And I'm looking.

467
00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:08,120
Speaker 2: I got it to try to find the one thing,

468
00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:10,119
Speaker 2: like the one sport that he's bad at, so that

469
00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:11,119
Speaker 2: I can exped it.

470
00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:14,480
Speaker 4: I need it, expose him, expose him and let us know.

471
00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:17,439
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try. Trust me.

472
00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:20,399
Speaker 2: That might be my mission this year is to like

473
00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:22,680
Speaker 2: maybe like bring out a pick a ball paddle and

474
00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:24,080
Speaker 2: try to work this guy or something.

475
00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:27,640
Speaker 4: Nope, that's not it. That's not a board game.

476
00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:32,400
Speaker 3: There's got to be some board game where he's or something. Yeah, yeah,

477
00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:34,800
Speaker 3: something random. You'll get him. You'll get him, although he

478
00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:37,440
Speaker 3: is really smart. But Kyle, this was awesome. Man, really

479
00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:39,879
Speaker 3: enjoyed the conversation. Hope you had fun with it. Thanks

480
00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:42,840
Speaker 3: for obviously giving us some love and good luck the

481
00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:44,679
Speaker 3: rest of the spring training. We'll catch you during the season.

482
00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:46,520
Speaker 1: Appreciate it, guys, Thanks a lot.

483
00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:51,080
Speaker 3: Thanks Kyle, we've got All Star Matt Strom that sticks forever,

484
00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:52,600
Speaker 3: That sticks forever.

485
00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:53,720
Speaker 1: That sound good?

486
00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:58,640
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean World Series champion's not a lot better.

487
00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:01,520
Speaker 3: M How does that happen this year?

488
00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:06,680
Speaker 7: I mean we just last year we ran into a rocket.

489
00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:08,960
Speaker 7: I mean, I know it's no excuse, but we just

490
00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:11,000
Speaker 7: got to put together good baseball at the right time.

491
00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:14,320
Speaker 7: And I mean we have we definitely have the club

492
00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:17,560
Speaker 7: to do it. I know, obviously the postseason, the last

493
00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:19,520
Speaker 7: three years of the postseason has regressed, but if you

494
00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:21,440
Speaker 7: look at the overall of what we've done as a

495
00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:24,199
Speaker 7: team throughout one sixty two, that's gone, that's gone in

496
00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:26,240
Speaker 7: a positive direction. But now you just need to figure

497
00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:27,879
Speaker 7: out how to formulate that together.

498
00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:29,800
Speaker 6: Wow.

499
00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:32,679
Speaker 5: No, just I'm thinking of it because what you just

500
00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:35,800
Speaker 5: said is is wow to me because what he said

501
00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:37,760
Speaker 5: was the team has gotten better. But you and I

502
00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:39,240
Speaker 5: thought about it for a second. I was like, you

503
00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:42,160
Speaker 5: know what it has the postseason has gone the wrong

504
00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:43,879
Speaker 5: way because it's twenty two year in the World Series

505
00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:47,520
Speaker 5: twenty three, and then last year obviously the Master Series

506
00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:52,040
Speaker 5: that I had to cover in Uh. I just I

507
00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:53,800
Speaker 5: can't believe you didn't get the Game five. It was

508
00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:55,960
Speaker 5: I was sitting and doing the games, and I'm like, oh,

509
00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:57,320
Speaker 5: this is going five and you guys are gonna have

510
00:22:57,359 --> 00:23:00,920
Speaker 5: wheels at home, ye in Philly in the bank, and yeah,

511
00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:04,400
Speaker 5: but what's the attitude. I know, toppers talk to you guys,

512
00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:07,320
Speaker 5: what's the attitude? Does he say anything? Hey, guys, like

513
00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:09,000
Speaker 5: I know, but let's just do it again.

514
00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:11,000
Speaker 6: No, I mean, I don't think it needs to be said.

515
00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:15,199
Speaker 7: I think all sixty guys in that clubhouse right now. No,

516
00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:19,399
Speaker 7: it's World Series or failure. Like, I mean, that's just

517
00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:22,480
Speaker 7: as blunt as it is. That's what it's gotta be,

518
00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:25,560
Speaker 7: just for how it's finished the last two years, three

519
00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:27,239
Speaker 7: years technically two for me.

520
00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:29,840
Speaker 6: But yeah, if you pitch, you've pitched the spring right, yeah,

521
00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:33,919
Speaker 6: n twice? Are you do you do?

522
00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:37,000
Speaker 5: Are you multiple inning guy in spring training? Back to

523
00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:39,159
Speaker 5: back day guy in spring trink? Because some every reliever

524
00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:39,879
Speaker 5: is different.

525
00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:42,959
Speaker 7: So my thing with I would rather do a multiple

526
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 7: inning than the back to back. I think the back

527
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:48,960
Speaker 7: to back, like the adrenaline helps you in the regular

528
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,080
Speaker 7: season of the back to back, so like once you're

529
00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:51,920
Speaker 7: out there, it's.

530
00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:52,800
Speaker 6: It is what it is.

531
00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:56,000
Speaker 7: But I I am spring training like the multiple over

532
00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:58,560
Speaker 7: the back to back, but I mean I don't.

533
00:23:58,680 --> 00:23:59,480
Speaker 6: I don't care either.

534
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:01,399
Speaker 5: You pull your do you pull your vet card and

535
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,040
Speaker 5: say I'm gonna throw in the third inning, even though

536
00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:04,919
Speaker 5: during the regular season, I get like the seventh of

537
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:05,240
Speaker 5: the age.

538
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:07,440
Speaker 7: No Stubby the other day my first out and he said, hey,

539
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:08,680
Speaker 7: do you know what inn and he got I said,

540
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,400
Speaker 7: whenever the phone rings, So it doesn't it doesn't matter

541
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:13,679
Speaker 7: to me. And I just I mean, this is a

542
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:15,480
Speaker 7: clubhouse veterans. I don't even feel like one.

543
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,560
Speaker 6: You're like a rookie. Yeah, yeah, So it's I'll keep

544
00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 6: my head down.

545
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:23,000
Speaker 3: Mag give us the bullpen report because there's been some turnover.

546
00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:24,959
Speaker 3: What have we got this year? And how much are

547
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:28,040
Speaker 3: you gonna miss? Obviously even just hanging out with Yeah,

548
00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:30,280
Speaker 3: Jeff Hoffman and SEVENS was there towards the end of

549
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:30,880
Speaker 3: last year.

550
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 6: Yeah no, I mean, uh, Hafey. Hafey was my catch

551
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,400
Speaker 6: partner for the last two years, so uh adjusting there.

552
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:40,800
Speaker 7: Romano has been a good good fit for me so far,

553
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,560
Speaker 7: and I mean he's had an unbelievable track record in

554
00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:47,280
Speaker 7: the big leagues too, so to add him to our bullpen, obviously,

555
00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:49,159
Speaker 7: the losses were big, but I think he's a.

556
00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:51,520
Speaker 6: He's a big addition. That's gonna help us a lot.

557
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:54,600
Speaker 7: And uh, you know Alvi's looking like Alvi, So that's

558
00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:55,960
Speaker 7: that's gonna be huge for us.

559
00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:59,440
Speaker 4: How was that catch partner thing picked out? Because that's

560
00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:03,000
Speaker 4: not that's any small that's not small potatoes like Haffy.

561
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:05,879
Speaker 4: You and Haffey. You guys were all stars together and

562
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,920
Speaker 4: now like is there is there pressure on Romano?

563
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,600
Speaker 7: No? So I like to think of myself as an

564
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 7: easy catch partner. I liked just I don't Again, I'm

565
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:20,040
Speaker 7: worried about pitching. I'm not a big weighted ball guy.

566
00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 7: I'm not into all this this stuff. They'll not gonna

567
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,120
Speaker 7: put a water pack on my back or anything like that.

568
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:29,280
Speaker 7: But you know it's, uh, I'm easy, so whatever Romano needs.

569
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:30,840
Speaker 7: The one thing I won't do is I'm not gonna

570
00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:32,679
Speaker 7: play long toss, so he doesn't do that.

571
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:33,880
Speaker 6: So we're clicking so far.

572
00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 5: All right, forget baseball, you're lefty. I want to get

573
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:41,560
Speaker 5: into cards, yeah, because I've never been. I mean, I

574
00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:43,680
Speaker 5: was into cards when I was like ten to twelve

575
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,000
Speaker 5: years old, and I still have a ton. They're all

576
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:46,880
Speaker 5: worth nothing now.

577
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:47,800
Speaker 4: Right like I thought I was.

578
00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:50,960
Speaker 5: I definitely thought that I like I was gonna retire

579
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,960
Speaker 5: because I had like a eighty two Tops traded Cali

580
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 5: Ripkin card and I was like, Oh.

581
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:57,600
Speaker 6: This thing's gonna be worth a billion dollars. I still

582
00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:57,879
Speaker 6: have it.

583
00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:02,160
Speaker 5: It's somewhere in a you know, shoe bosses, but you're

584
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,879
Speaker 5: a big collector. Yeah, okay, we do a thing with

585
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:07,680
Speaker 5: Arena Club. And you said you have your Arena Club too,

586
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 5: slab packs and all that. So to the people out there,

587
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,680
Speaker 5: explain what those are because I'm still learning.

588
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 6: Yeah, so what Arena Club is?

589
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:20,560
Speaker 7: Pash So like Arena Club is like an idea around

590
00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:23,639
Speaker 7: the repacking. So like that's kind of been big in

591
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 7: the hobby where everyone has all these cards, some valued,

592
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 7: some not, and other collectors that just PC the Phillies

593
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:34,879
Speaker 7: don't want the Dodgers, so they create these repack items

594
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 7: and you have a whole chase card system. Arena Club

595
00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 7: does a really good job of showing you what's available

596
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 7: and what's been hit, and that's why I like them

597
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 7: a lot. But they're they're just they're fun chases of

598
00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:48,600
Speaker 7: all products in one kind of thing. Because like if

599
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:50,520
Speaker 7: you open Tops Chrome, you're only getting Tops Chrome, but

600
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:51,639
Speaker 7: Arena Club.

601
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:52,960
Speaker 6: You could hit a Bowman.

602
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 7: Tops chrome definitive, like all all the products in there,

603
00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,160
Speaker 7: and they usually are higher value, and the hits from

604
00:26:59,160 --> 00:26:59,960
Speaker 7: the hobby boxes.

605
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 5: So it makes it my cards and you're like, eh, bad.

606
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:08,159
Speaker 6: And like, I mean, James Would, I mean you never know.

607
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:11,160
Speaker 6: I need James would have a big year. You look

608
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 6: at that card you have of James Wood.

609
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,640
Speaker 7: The Mookie Betts version of that card sells for about

610
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:17,440
Speaker 7: four hundred bucks.

611
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 6: Let's go James Would. It's gonna take five or six years,

612
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 6: but I got I got nothing. Yeah, I would. I'd

613
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 6: believe in that kid. So he's he's an athlete.

614
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,359
Speaker 3: So give us some other names that we should be

615
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 3: keeping an eye on this year, Like who are you

616
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:34,200
Speaker 3: watching and seeing if their card is going to pop

617
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 3: based on performance?

618
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:36,440
Speaker 6: Yeah?

619
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,680
Speaker 7: So that's actually that's another way of collecting. I don't

620
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,359
Speaker 7: get into that that much. They call it prospecting. I

621
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 7: call myself for a pack rat. So I enjoy the

622
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 7: the chase, so to speak. I mean everyone's obviously chasing

623
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:52,680
Speaker 7: James Wood rookie card in Top Series one right now,

624
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:55,440
Speaker 7: and Dylan Cruz, so I.

625
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 6: I enjoy that.

626
00:27:56,200 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 7: I don't really collect individual player other than my own cards,

627
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:04,399
Speaker 7: but or people who've taken me deep that's gotten out

628
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 7: there plenty. But uh, but yeah, so I'm more I'm

629
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:08,959
Speaker 7: more of a pack rat. I don't get into the prospecting,

630
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 7: but I'd say around camp here, I think Aid Miller.

631
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:12,560
Speaker 6: Would be a good card to pick up.

632
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that kid, Yeah he's legit. Adam Lynn was

633
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 4: telling me all about how good he is. But what's

634
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 4: the what's the one card of you that you don't

635
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,400
Speaker 4: have that you're like, I need it?

636
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,480
Speaker 7: Yeah, that would be my one on one rookie super

637
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:31,360
Speaker 7: Fractor auto I have. So like another part of collecting

638
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:33,720
Speaker 7: is completing the rainbow where you get all the parallels,

639
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,120
Speaker 7: and I have all of them except my one on one.

640
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:36,679
Speaker 4: Uh.

641
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 7: Unfortunately, Middle Reliever one on one rookie cards usually end

642
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 7: up in like an eight year old's car seat or something,

643
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 7: and so.

644
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 6: You don't know where it is, no idea, no wow,

645
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 6: maybe maybe in someone's bike spokes or something.

646
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 5: I was fortunate enough that, uh, I just did a

647
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:54,479
Speaker 5: signing with tops and some people now on Twitter are

648
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:56,560
Speaker 5: sending me So if anyone out there finds my one

649
00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 5: on one, yeah, we might be able to make a deal.

650
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 5: Just because I want to have it, no doubt. Was

651
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,840
Speaker 5: like they took everything in my power to put it

652
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 5: back in the box, Like well they even notice that

653
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:05,479
Speaker 5: this isn't in there.

654
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 6: I just I just keep it out.

655
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 7: Yeah, you wouldn't believe how many players have asked me, like, hey,

656
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 7: would they know if I kept it? Absolutely bro Like

657
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:15,280
Speaker 7: you notice how they put it in the box between

658
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 7: it's just by itself, like they'll know it's gone.

659
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 6: But but yeah, so a lot of guys are interested

660
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:20,800
Speaker 6: in there one of ones.

661
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 4: One thing I never got into collecting my own cards

662
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 4: because there was like a billion of them, Like it

663
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 4: was just I was the common card that everybody actually

664
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 4: does put in their bike spoke. But one thing I

665
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 4: got was the print the Stadt Yes, and my uncle

666
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 4: gave that to me, and that was pretty cool. It's

667
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 4: like super rare, but it was what they made my

668
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 4: card out.

669
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 7: Of, right, And I think, so I believe if I'm

670
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 7: not mistaken. There's four different ones. It's like magenta, yellow, black,

671
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 7: and then like a reverse one. So like my favorite

672
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 7: one is that reverse one where I'm throwing right handed,

673
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 7: looks like right handed, so it's like that's kind of cool.

674
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 7: I like I like tracking down those printing plates.

675
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 6: All RIGHTA aw are there? It is? All right?

676
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 5: So I gotta I was telling this story. So the

677
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 5: Paul Skiings thing obviously is a huge deal this offseason.

678
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 5: So one day I my wife somehow sees this on

679
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,920
Speaker 5: Instagram and she's like, I want that card. And so

680
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 5: one day randomly she goes, we're going to the card

681
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 5: shop and I go, we I know we have one

682
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 5: in Orlando. I don't know where it is, so we

683
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 5: start so I google it. It's like, oh, they're at Target,

684
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 5: and they're at Walmart. So I start hitting targets. They

685
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 5: don't they don't really have they have like the little

686
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:38,239
Speaker 5: one single backs like the retail yes, And I'm like no, no, no,

687
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:40,719
Speaker 5: So I call. I start calling around and I call

688
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:42,400
Speaker 5: a guy I know in Chicago and I say, hey,

689
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 5: can you get some of these?

690
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 6: Hees?

691
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, how many you want? I was like, you know,

692
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 5: how many can I get? He's like, well, they'll only

693
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:48,880
Speaker 5: lie you just buy five at a time or whatever.

694
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 5: I'm like, all right, I'll take five. They'll ship them

695
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 5: to me. So then I start calling Orlando card shops

696
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 5: and some of them have them, and I go so

697
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 5: I had to. I was driving all over Orlando looking

698
00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 5: for these, and then I finally find a card shop

699
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 5: across town. Drive over there, I walk in. The guy

700
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 5: has three boxes, so I'm like, okay, I'll take three.

701
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:06,720
Speaker 6: And then I'm digging around.

702
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 5: He's like, wait, yes, exactly what he and he had

703
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 5: a white Sox hat on, and I'm like, he's like,

704
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:14,960
Speaker 5: I'll tell you what I'll do. I have one more

705
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,239
Speaker 5: in the back that I was holding, but I'll give

706
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 5: it to you if you signed something for him.

707
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 6: I'm like sure, you know. Of course he's still charged me,

708
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 6: Like yeah, we kicked that for free, right, So.

709
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 5: Not only did was I involved my whole family then,

710
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 5: and then we took the boxes home and I think

711
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:30,640
Speaker 5: I ended up with like twelve boxes of these, okay,

712
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 5: and so we're digging, so we were like one one

713
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 5: box a night. Yeah, So me and my son and

714
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 5: my wife we sit down and we start doing this

715
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 5: whole thing, and we played the game like who can

716
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 5: make the best team?

717
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 6: Right, but it had to be the special cars.

718
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 5: So you get all this cards out, but then you

719
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 5: start getting like there's an all star cards, there's a

720
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 5: red card, a green card, a yellow car to a

721
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 5: blue card, an autograph card.

722
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 6: And you're like, man, there's a lot more cards.

723
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 5: And then of course I spent like a lot of

724
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 5: money and got nothing, got no fall scheme. Some kid,

725
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 5: some ten year old kid in California found it. Yep,

726
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 5: that gets rich for life. Yeah, I call them. They're

727
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 5: my slot machines. That's what That's what boxes are to me.

728
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 5: I'm not I'm not one to go to the casino

729
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 5: or anything.

730
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 7: So I'll take a box of cards back and roll

731
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 7: the dice with that my gambling.

732
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 4: What does your showroom look like, because our showroom's coming started.

733
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 6: Cards everywhere.

734
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 5: I think they're talking about an arena club, a club,

735
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.

736
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 6: So I mean I've gotten I've gotten pretty lucky in there.

737
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 6: I actually have. I think I saw it the other day.

738
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:33,600
Speaker 7: It was like forty cards or something like that in

739
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 7: my arena club over the last I don't know.

740
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 6: I think it's been like.

741
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 7: Six months they've been sponsoring the Card Life or something

742
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 7: like that. But I got a few rookie cards of

743
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 7: Otani in there that are pretty cool, a couple of

744
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 7: low numbered one so too autos, and then some prospect stuff.

745
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 6: But I would say the.

746
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 7: Rookie show he has probably been the highlight of the

747
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 7: Arena club so far.

748
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 6: Can't go wrong with that one.

749
00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 3: More for you on this, Matt, Yeah, how does how

750
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 3: does a card really rise in pop?

751
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 1: Right?

752
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 3: Obviously, like you mentioned prospecting, But for someone like Shoeo Tani, like,

753
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 3: will it continue to rise if he wins more World

754
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 3: Series titles? Obviously he should be a Hall of Famer,

755
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 3: et cetera.

756
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, no, I mean obviously it's it's all about

757
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 7: hype in today's cards. When I mean you'll see, I forget,

758
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 7: who is the White Sox kid that had an unbelievable

759
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 7: start a few years ago? Oh, you're talking about Latin

760
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 7: guy Mercedes. So if you go back and look at

761
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 7: his card sales from the month before the season, is

762
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 7: card selling for a dollar twenty five and then that

763
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 7: month of his hype he sold for one hundred and

764
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 7: twenty two bucks And so the same card dollar twenty

765
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 7: five to one hundred and twenty two bucks. So a

766
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 7: lot of the selling for profit is hitting the hype.

767
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 7: But I mean, in my opinion, you can't go wrong

768
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 7: with future Hall of Famers show. Hey, Mookie, Freddie Freeman,

769
00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 7: Mike Trout, Harper, Like you just can't billion.

770
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:03,760
Speaker 6: Yeah, angry. Maybe I'm trying keep them hungry, you know. Yeah,

771
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 6: we got we got business. That was my question.

772
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 5: How do you know when to sell these cards? Because,

773
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 5: like you said, they go up and down, up and down, right,

774
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 5: So how do you like?

775
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:13,359
Speaker 7: If you ask my wife, she tell you, I don't

776
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 7: know how because I don't sell it.

777
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 6: So yeah, I always tell it, like.

778
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 7: When I I was fortunate enough to hit the one

779
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:21,920
Speaker 7: on one Gunner Henderson and his rookie card and uh,

780
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 7: telling her how much we think it's worth, and she goes,

781
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:27,400
Speaker 7: it's worth nothing, You're not gonna sell it. I was like,

782
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 7: that's fair. Smart, It's worth whatever my daughter sells it

783
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:30,719
Speaker 7: for when I'm in the grave.

784
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 6: I guess smart lady, Smart lady.

785
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 1: There you go.

786
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:35,719
Speaker 3: Well, Matt, we appreciate the time.

787
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:37,319
Speaker 1: Man, this was good. This was good.

788
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 3: We needed to catch up, especially because these guys have

789
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 3: some education to do.

790
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,799
Speaker 7: Yeah, anytime you need some card and no, no, no, no,

791
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 7: that's that's in a safe.

792
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,720
Speaker 6: I don't know what to do with that is your cards? Right? Yeah.

793
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 7: So, actually, the Hall of Fame reached out to the

794
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 7: producer of the card Life and they they're opening up

795
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 7: a card exhibit.

796
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 6: At the Hall of Fame.

797
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,360
Speaker 7: I think it's supposed to be open this summer, but

798
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:00,879
Speaker 7: they're opening that up and they trying to work out

799
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 7: something with him to come shoot an episode on that,

800
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 7: and then I think we're gonna give them my belt

801
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 7: for their card display, so that'd be cool.

802
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 3: That's awesome, dude. Well, we'll be looking for it, and

803
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:12,399
Speaker 3: obviously good luck this season. We'll catch you during the year.

804
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 6: Okay, thank you, appreciate it. Guys,