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Speaker 1: Matthew Boyd joining us right now, coming off a brilliant

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five campaign, an awesome year with the Chicago Cubs,

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Speaker 1: and here's our buddy, Matt.

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Speaker 2: Great to have you on.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 1: How's your off season?

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Speaker 2: And I like to ask.

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Speaker 1: This for the first time when I talk to a

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Speaker 1: player after the season comes to an end, did you

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Speaker 1: have time to do a little reflecting and if so,

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Speaker 1: how do you evaluate what just happened?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what's up, guys?

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Speaker 4: Thanks for having me on. Yeah, man, I'm I'm super grateful,

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Speaker 4: super grateful to get to play for the Cubs this

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Speaker 4: year and get to experience, like playing at Wrigley every day,

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Speaker 4: like the energy that's brought every single day. You get

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Speaker 4: the feed off it, you know, and that's it's it's different,

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Speaker 4: you know. I mean Monday nights in April when it's

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Speaker 4: thirty degrees, you know, and you know we're playing the

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Speaker 4: Rockies and it's a sold out crowd sort of thing.

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Speaker 2: Like it's it's just it's it's special. It's different. And uh,

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Speaker 2: I'm just I'm super thankful for that.

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Speaker 4: Man. We you look back at like the whole season

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Speaker 4: and you're like, it's a it's one of those things

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Speaker 2: Wish we we we could do more.

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Speaker 4: You know, like you look at the teams that were

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Speaker 4: you know, the Brewers who beat us and the teams

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Speaker 4: that were still around. You're like, we could have easily

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Speaker 4: been there and doing our thing, and unfortunately that's just

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Speaker 4: how it shakes out.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's an inch here and an inch there,

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Speaker 4: and you know, a game that's won within the margins,

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Speaker 4: but like it's uh, you know, was was happy and

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Speaker 4: grateful for the year we had with this squad, and

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Speaker 4: it was I wish we went further, but it was

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Speaker 4: a lot of fun.

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Speaker 3: Ah R, Matthew, I hate to bring up a source subject.

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Speaker 3: You brought up the Brewers, so I got to go

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Speaker 3: there early. Well, yeah, they started you in game one

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Speaker 3: on short rest. Well, yeah, were you and you didn't

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Speaker 3: go very well. I'm sorry because I think you're awesome.

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Speaker 3: But what was what was different? Explain as a picture

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Speaker 3: a starting picture. And I don't know if you've ever

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Speaker 3: started on short rest or not, but what's different when

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Speaker 3: you are used to a four day and then all

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Speaker 3: of a sudden you go into a three day rest

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Speaker 3: and then they're like, oh, you're starting explain what's different

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Speaker 3: to the people there listening from a starting pitcher's viewpoint.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I'll just like in terms of like, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I don't do the same routine in between, but there

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Speaker 4: was nothing like, like I truly believe this. If a

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Speaker 4: ground balls hit like, you know, maybe ten inches a

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Speaker 4: little more towards Matt Shaw and one fly ball is

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Speaker 4: hit two more feet towards Ian happ I'm cruising and

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Speaker 4: we're talking about something different.

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Speaker 2: You know, It's just it.

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Speaker 4: Was one of those weird games where it let off

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Speaker 4: with double double double and they.

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Speaker 2: Jumped on two first pitches, and you know, we could

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Speaker 2: get into why or how or you know whatnot.

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Speaker 4: I mean, were there was anything in like because of

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Speaker 4: the rest that the outcomes happened because of theirs. No,

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Speaker 4: Like I felt great and and my preparation, I mean

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Speaker 4: but like it had nothing to do with like me

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Speaker 2: To do with the rest that I had. They just

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Speaker 4: And it's unfortunate that it happened on short rest because

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Speaker 4: it's easy to point to that and you know, could

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Speaker 4: like physically, mentally I felt great, they got me, and uh,

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Speaker 4: you know, we made a new game plan five days

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Speaker 4: You know, that one could have easily not gone my

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Speaker 4: in terms of short rest, it's like, yeah, it changes

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Speaker 4: five day routines are shifting anyways, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 4: Like you're you're, you're, you're you're sometimes preparing to be

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Speaker 4: ready in the playoffs, you know, within those five days,

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Speaker 4: know AJ sometimes like as you get your inning total

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Speaker 4: gets up through the year, sometimes you don't even throw

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Speaker 4: I don't.

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Speaker 2: I am the belief that I didn't have much impact.

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Speaker 5: What did that conversation sound like, Because in twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 5: I was there when Craig Counsel and Derek Johnson went

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Speaker 5: to Jolie's Chasine, who was our guy at that time,

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Speaker 5: and said, hey, we need you on three days rest,

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Speaker 5: ironically pitched against the Cubs. How does Craig come to

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Speaker 5: you and have that conversation And was there any like kickback?

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Speaker 5: Was it like, hey, I got to see how I

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Speaker 5: answer of yes, I can go, Or was it nope,

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Speaker 5: I'm doing it.

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Speaker 2: I mean we got done.

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Speaker 4: We clinched against the Padres, and you just know the

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Speaker 4: situation you're in. So I went to Craig and said,

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Speaker 4: I can be. I can be ready for game one,

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Speaker 4: you know, like I'm ready for the if you give

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Speaker 4: well let's talk the you know, let's talk tomorrow sort

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Speaker 2: Wise and whatnot.

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Speaker 4: And uh, I mean, I'm you put it on the

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Speaker 4: flip side. I'm gonna if I feel good on that

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Speaker 4: and we go out and like, you know, if I'm

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Speaker 4: So if I'm ready to pitch and I know I

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Speaker 4: I'm never going to hold back in that sense. But

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Speaker 3: Okay, I just want to I want to make one

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Speaker 3: thing clear about you. I wasn't blaming it. I just

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Speaker 3: wanted to know what it was different as as a player,

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Speaker 3: because I don't know, I've never had to play on

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Speaker 3: short rest, right, So I wasn't blaming that at all,

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Speaker 3: So I just want to know.

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Speaker 2: I know you were, I know you were okay.

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Speaker 3: I just want to make that abundantly clear that I

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Speaker 3: wasn't a little sensitive because everyone was saying that you

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Speaker 3: know what I mean. No, I know, I get it,

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Speaker 3: and I didn't. That's why I didn't say you know that.

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Speaker 3: I was like, I just want to know what it

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Speaker 3: of laying that out, So so thank you. Now, what's

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Speaker 5: Like?

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Speaker 3: When do you start throwing, when do you start picking

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Speaker 3: When do you start doing all of those things that

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Speaker 3: you need to do to prep for this year? And

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Speaker 3: are you going to the WBC? Maybe I should ask

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Speaker 3: you that are you going to be Team USA slinging

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Speaker 3: change your routine?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So yeah, I'm gonna get the opportunity to represent

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Speaker 4: super pumped up. It's an honor. In terms off season routine,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, terms of the.

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Speaker 4: I think opening days even earlier this year too, So

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Speaker 4: just baseball to stay in age. Like you know, some

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Speaker 5: I feel like I'm really up to date on a

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Speaker 5: lot of baseball stuff. I had no idea you were

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Speaker 5: So I appreciate you breaking that news here. How did

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Speaker 5: that come about? Was that something that you said, I

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Speaker 5: that they called you? Was it through? Did Scott set

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Speaker 5: that up with you? How? How does that come about?

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Speaker 5: And then since you've agreed to it, have you been

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Speaker 5: like getting other pictures because American pictures for the most part,

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Speaker 5: don't want to throw in it.

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Speaker 4: Uh yeah, you know, for me, my perspective is this,

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Speaker 4: like any chance to get to represent our country is

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Speaker 4: It's given me so many opportunities. I get to play

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Speaker 4: No, No, I know, I know the public names and

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Speaker 5: Who's somebody, Now, obviously I get it, you don't know

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Speaker 4: I'm biased to my teammates in Chicago. I'm just gonna

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Speaker 2: Team worthy, you know, and uh and but I you

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Speaker 2: He offered, He offered, He offered, Cal, Yeah, you.

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Speaker 4: Know, I mean I've thrown I've thrown a resenta buire

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Speaker 2: He caught me. I mean, I beggars can't be choosers.

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Speaker 4: When when Cal offered to catch some pens, I heck, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Hey I've got one on Team USA. They didn't win

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Speaker 4: That, I mean, every situation is different. Think there's one

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Speaker 5: Do you guys get paid? Sounds like the biggest, like

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Speaker 5: Because you don't know? Okay, because the big, big thing

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Speaker 4: No, but that's not what it's about either, you know,

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Speaker 4: I'm sure there's something, but that's not what it's about.

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Speaker 4: You get to wear USA on your chest and you

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Speaker 3: Plus you need you need bragging rights again show to right,

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Speaker 3: So if you guys beat Shoda, you can have bragging

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Speaker 2: I know, yeah, it's exactly right.

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Speaker 4: That's that's the Finnish thing that came to mind is

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Speaker 3: I mean there's you know, he can he can come

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Speaker 3: I'm a cub hater. Okay, you know this, but it

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Speaker 3: spend because baseball is better. As much as this pains

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Speaker 2: So spend Yeah.

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Speaker 4: No, I mean, let me answer the second half of

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Speaker 4: I think baseball would agree that baseball is better when

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Speaker 4: You know, the Brewers. The Centrals kind of ran through them.

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Speaker 4: And you know, our manager was a key you know, architect,

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Speaker 4: and and you know, and and and doing his thing.

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Speaker 4: Over there with the Brewers and then and now he's

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Speaker 4: here right. So it's like the Brewers have been good

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Speaker 4: for a long time. They play very good baseball all

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Speaker 4: around baseball. They play a form of baseball that, like

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Speaker 4: I think is a great form. They work at bats,

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Speaker 4: they play good defense, they pitch well.

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Speaker 2: You know. They it's a lot how we operate too.

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Speaker 4: I think we got a great team, you know, and

447
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Speaker 4: I like, like, obviously we came up short to the Brewers.

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Speaker 4: There's an aspect of like, yeah, we got to play better.

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Speaker 4: I got to pitch better. I didn't pitch as well

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Speaker 4: as I needed to pitch against the Brewers last year

451
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Speaker 4: all across the season. That's just you know, those are

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Speaker 4: little things that can come down that like meet that

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Speaker 4: matter in the margins. You know. I know that Jed

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Speaker 4: and Carter are doing everything you can to put the

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Speaker 4: best lineup and rotation out there that's gonna best like

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Speaker 4: fit the needs that we have and whatnot. That being said,

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Speaker 4: if we didn't make any additions, I'll go to war

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Speaker 4: with the guys we got, you know right now on

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Speaker 4: day one, and I think we're gonna be good and

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Speaker 4: I think believe we're good enough to win the World Series.

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Speaker 4: You know, I believe last year we were good enough

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Speaker 4: to win the World Series. You know, timing is a

463
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Speaker 4: weird thing in baseball. We just you know, didn't play

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Speaker 4: good at the right time and like another team played

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Speaker 4: better than us. But I believe we were fully capable

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Speaker 4: of beating the Brewers. So you know, such a complex question,

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Speaker 4: aj that you that you ask. And is it fun

468
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Speaker 4: to get the big name guys and guys that have

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Speaker 4: track records of success on your roster? Absolutely, and I

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Speaker 4: love playing with those guys, and those guys absolutely help

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Speaker 4: you win. But that's not at a detriment to anybody

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Speaker 4: that we have on the roster right now. You know,

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Speaker 4: that's somebody else's pay grade and somebody else's situations. And

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Speaker 4: I'll let them handle that, and I'll stay in my

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Speaker 4: lane and throw when the balls in my hand, you

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Speaker 4: know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: Wait, this play is right into my last question for you, Matt.

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Speaker 1: So we're going full circle here. Going back to the postseason.

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Speaker 1: We talked about the Game one start, but then you

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Speaker 1: shoved in Game four and then the team ultimately lost

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Speaker 1: in Game five to the Brewers in the NLTS. How

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Speaker 1: painful was it for you to either watch or see

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Speaker 1: the results of the next round where the Brewers get

484
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Speaker 1: swept by the Dodgers and you're thinking, ah, maybe our

485
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Speaker 1: team would have matched up better against them, and we

486
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Speaker 1: were one damn went away from being there.

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Speaker 2: It's hard.

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Speaker 4: It's hard, but like, I think that's the beauty of

489
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Speaker 4: baseball is that, like the best team doesn't always win, right,

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Speaker 4: Like that's and that that goes so many situations of

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Speaker 4: that year after year, right like, you got to play

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Speaker 4: better on that day.

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Speaker 2: And maybe there's a team that strikes a lot of

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Speaker 2: guys out and they.

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Speaker 4: Match up against a team that doesn't, you know, a

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Speaker 4: lineup that just happens to not strike out against those guys,

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Speaker 4: and you know, twenty eight, you know whatever, There might

498
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Speaker 4: be twenty nine other teams that are twenty eight other

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Speaker 4: teams that match up, you know, poorly against the team,

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Speaker 4: but this one team matches up well, so they're gonna

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Speaker 4: win on that day, or you know, or it's just

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Speaker 4: the beauty of our game is that there's so many

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Speaker 4: different ways to win. The best team doesn't always win.

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Speaker 4: I think that's very We've had a lot of parody

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Speaker 4: in terms of teams getting to the World series, you

506
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Speaker 4: know in recent years, and it's like it's just it's

507
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Speaker 4: the beauty of baseball. You know, there's styles of the

508
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Speaker 4: game that you can styles of lineup, styles of defenses,

509
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Speaker 4: how rosters are constructed that ultimately to different results when

510
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Speaker 4: you're matched up against different teams. You know, I think

511
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Speaker 4: you would ask the guys on our roster and say, man,

512
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Speaker 4: we were not scared of any team in Major League

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Speaker 4: Baseball last year.

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Speaker 2: We were ready if we got through the Brewers.

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Speaker 4: You know, Brewers were the best record in our league, right,

516
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Speaker 4: so they were or a good ball club. But like

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Speaker 4: if we got through them, we were ready for the Dodgers.

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Speaker 4: Who knows how that turns out.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: Then again, I think the Brewers got swept or they

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Speaker 4: swept the Dodgers during the season, and then they got

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Speaker 4: swept in the playoffs. Right, So such a funny game, man,

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Speaker 4: Timing time of year, so many different things. But uh,

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Speaker 4: we believe that we could have. You know, we were

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Speaker 4: ready to do what we knew we could get to

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Speaker 4: where we wanted to go. Last year, it just didn't

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Speaker 4: work out.

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Speaker 2: No crabs are muted.

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Speaker 1: You're back, You're back.

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Speaker 5: That wasn't that wasn't me. But I don't want to

531
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Speaker 5: get you to hype early. But I have two Team

532
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Speaker 5: USA jerseys and the coolest part of a Team USA jersey,

533
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Speaker 5: and I'm sure Paul Seiler will tell you about it.

534
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Speaker 5: You see the flag, You see how the flag is backwards.

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Speaker 2: Progress maybe forward forward moving right.

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Speaker 5: For like that just it gives me chills thinking about

537
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Speaker 5: like I play with Noah Song on Team USA, like

538
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Speaker 5: somebody who's actually active military, and like I was never

539
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Speaker 5: in the military. It was never something that was like

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Speaker 5: you know, in in my life. But to be able

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Speaker 5: to wear the Team USA jersey, like to be part

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Speaker 5: of that brotherhood of people who have played from the

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Speaker 5: twelve you kids all the way up to the big

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Speaker 5: kids in the WBC this year. So congrats and welcome

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Speaker 5: to the club.

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Speaker 2: Thank you man.

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Speaker 4: I'm honored, I'm honored, I'm grateful. All those reasons you

548
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Speaker 4: said arem true with me too.

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Speaker 5: Man.

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Speaker 2: It's it's something I don't take lightly.

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Speaker 4: And it's something that if you would have asked, you know,

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Speaker 4: twelve fourteen year old Matt boy, that you get a

553
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Speaker 4: chance to play in the WBC or I guess the

554
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Speaker 4: WPC wasn't.

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Speaker 2: Around back then.

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Speaker 4: But like you know, you get the chance to represent

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Speaker 4: your country while you're a big leaguer.

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Speaker 2: I mean, dang, dude, I don't even I wouldn't have

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Speaker 2: words for that. That'd be amazing.

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Speaker 4: So I'm so thankful and it's going to be something

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Speaker 4: that I will chair it regardless of how it goes

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Speaker 4: for the rest of my life.

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Speaker 2: Oh, we can't wait.

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Speaker 1: And we were excited to talk to you anyway, because

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Speaker 1: we hadn't talked to you since the playoffs. This was

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Speaker 1: like a little bonus on top of that to get

567
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Speaker 1: some of the ins and outs of how it all

568
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Speaker 1: went down. So good to see you, dude, love to smile.

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Speaker 1: Very excited for you to pitch at the WBC. It

570
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Speaker 1: kind of amps up like you're basically going to be

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Speaker 1: in a playoff scenario when we see you in the

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Speaker 1: beginning of March pitching baseball games. So thanks for sharing

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Speaker 1: the info.

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Speaker 5: Dude.

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Speaker 2: Good to see you.

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Speaker 1: We'll catch you again later this offseason.

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Speaker 4: All right, Thanks guys, thanks for having me on