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Speaker 1: The closer is here. Emilio Pagan back with the Reds. So,

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Speaker 1: first off, congrats on the contract. And now you're back

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Speaker 1: in spring training with a team that I know really

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Speaker 1: had a great time with last year and had a

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Speaker 2: So tell us how it all went down for you

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Speaker 2: this offseason.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was awesome.

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Speaker 4: You know, free agencies has been fun for me the

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Speaker 4: two times I've been a free agent, and definitely knew

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Speaker 4: I wanted to be back here in Cincinnati and playing

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Speaker 4: for Tito and the staff. You're right, I had a

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Speaker 4: great time. Our our clubhouse here is awesome, probably one

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Speaker 4: of the closest nick groups I've been a part of,

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Speaker 4: which is special. You know, it doesn't come around often,

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Speaker 4: and so I knew I wanted to be back on

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Speaker 4: the team that. You know, we got a taste of

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Speaker 4: the playoffs for our young group, our young guys that

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Speaker 4: hadn't been there before, and with our starting pitching man,

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Speaker 4: I really feel like we can make a run at

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Speaker 4: the division and hopefully make a deeper run into the playoffs.

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Speaker 5: What was it like being annointed the closer? Kind of

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Speaker 5: I don't want to say. In the it was kind

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Speaker 5: of the middle of the year kind of thing, right,

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Speaker 5: you kind of just pick over that role. Was that

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Speaker 5: finished was unbelievable.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So I've always felt like I could do that role.

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Speaker 4: You know, I had a decent run with Tampa and

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Speaker 4: nineteen when I played with Cratzy, which was awesome, a

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Speaker 4: lot of fun, but really our best two arms that

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Speaker 4: and I just kind of got hot at the right time.

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Speaker 3: They were both a little banged up.

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Speaker 4: And then had another shot at it in Minnesota in

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Speaker 4: twenty two and got a guy by Joan Durant throwing

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Speaker 4: one hundred and five and I'm looking down like, why

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Speaker 4: a cheat code out here, And so very quickly he

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Speaker 4: took over that role, and you know, we had a

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Speaker 4: you know, Alexis Dias been one of the most consistent

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Speaker 4: he was banged up a little bit in spring training

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Speaker 4: and I got a chance to close a couple of

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Speaker 4: you know, I like what you're doing. You're my guy,

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Speaker 4: And so I just tried to have fun with it

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Speaker 4: this time around, you know, not not really make the

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Speaker 4: role any bigger than it is, put any pressure on myself.

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Speaker 4: Just go get three outs and enjoy doing it. And

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Speaker 4: I had a blast. So hopefully I can, you know,

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Speaker 4: do something similar, if not better this year.

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Speaker 6: Is it the same? Is the ninth inning the same?

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Speaker 6: Because everybody says it's just another inning?

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Speaker 4: Uh no, it's not. It definitely doesn't feel the same.

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Speaker 4: But I tried to make it in my head feel

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Speaker 4: the same, if that makes sense. Like I tried to

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Speaker 4: just my job is to go execute pitches at a

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Speaker 4: high level, and if I felt like if I did that,

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Speaker 4: if I blew the game, but I felt like I

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Speaker 4: I pitched bad and got lucky. And you know, the

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Speaker 4: hitters just mispitches to hit. So that's the kind of

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Speaker 4: the way I tried to approach it. And for me,

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Speaker 4: I'm not going to speak for everybody that does that role.

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Speaker 4: For me, that was the way that I can make

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Speaker 4: it feel like every other inning. But there's definitely heightened intensity,

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Speaker 3: I'm old enough and been.

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Speaker 4: Around long enough now that I'm not afraid to admit that, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I'm nervous running out there, But I feel like nerves

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Speaker 4: are a good thing.

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Speaker 3: It means that you care.

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Speaker 4: It means that you're excited to go, you know, and

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Speaker 2: And so.

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Speaker 4: I definitely wouldn't have been able to admit that when

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Speaker 4: I played with you Crassey, I was definitely trying to

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Speaker 4: be the tough guy that was saying no, I'm not

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Speaker 4: worried about it, But now that I've been around it,

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Speaker 5: As the closer going into twenty twenty six, do you

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Speaker 5: get a cool walker? You mentioned Heuran Douran the coolest

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Speaker 5: walkouts up?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Do you get one of those this year? And have

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Speaker 5: you figured it out if you are?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: So they I feel like the Reds did a pretty

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Speaker 4: good job with mine last year. And there's definitely some

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Speaker 4: talks about some stuff that's going on. Can you give

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Speaker 4: us a hint, I'll give you a hint. Yeah, I'll

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Speaker 4: give you a hint. I'm a big WWE fan. And

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Speaker 4: so they're some WWE sound bites. There's some WWE music

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Speaker 4: last year. I started with Cody Rhoades and I finished

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Speaker 4: with Roman Reigns. There's a little bit going on that

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Speaker 5: Okay, well, then who's your guy? Sorry, Grozzy, Yeah, Who's

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Speaker 5: Who's your guy? Then Cody Roads?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think Cody's got probably the best song.

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Speaker 4: But if I'm if I'm sitting down on the couch

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Speaker 4: watching Monday Night Raw, I'd probably say that I get

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Speaker 4: the most excited when Roman Raine is out there.

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Speaker 5: Okay, and then and then one more follow Crotzy sorry

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Speaker 5: on this because obviously everyone knows I'm a wrestling guy.

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Speaker 7: Do you like it on Netflix?

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Speaker 5: Because for me, I used to like it when it

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Speaker 5: commercials come on. I could fast forward through the commercials. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I do like it though, because we play on Monday nights. True.

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Speaker 3: I mean, so it's like, you know, a lot of time.

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Speaker 3: So I like that fact. But you're right.

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Speaker 4: But you know, I grew up with that on USA Network. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: But having the ability to go back and watch it

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Speaker 1: Hold up, hold up, AJ, we can talk offline. I

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Speaker 1: can still help you skip commercials. So Melio, maybe you

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Speaker 2: No, you can, you can. I promise you. You can

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Speaker 7: Yeah, but how much more do you gotta pay? Scott?

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Speaker 7: I mean, we're not going to take anything there. We go.

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Speaker 1: Well, okay, right now we're talking to a guy who

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Speaker 2: So anyway, Crat, you're up.

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Speaker 6: All I was gonna say was, do you realize that

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Speaker 6: you're super close to wrestling greatness? AJ has a.

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Speaker 7: Belt numerous multiple multiplet.

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Speaker 6: Well, you have one, you have one real belt that

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Speaker 6: you won the Royal Rumble, right, that's the.

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Speaker 7: No no, no, no.

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Speaker 5: So I have one from TNA that I wanted to

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Speaker 5: And then I also have the Spinner. Edge is a

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Speaker 7: Yeah that's sweet.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, last year I ordered a whole bunch of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and uh you know that was I.

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Speaker 4: Would have liked four or five of Edge, four or

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Speaker 3: And so yeah, I was a big Edge fan.

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Speaker 5: As long as you don't come out to the stone cold. No, no,

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Speaker 6: Who would who would win in a cage match?

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Speaker 7: You were Travino?

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Speaker 4: I mean I'm never going to say another man's gonna

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Speaker 7: Are you a face or a heel?

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Speaker 4: I think it depends on the pop you know, like fans,

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Speaker 5: Listen, I've done both. I've played both. Way more fun

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Speaker 5: So I came out and I helped and we won, right,

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Speaker 5: You can say anything and you get a reaction. It's

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Speaker 3: But like David, are we talking aj styles TNA?

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Speaker 5: David xtey wrote a children's book and in the ring,

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Speaker 5: We couldn't touch David because he was you know, World

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Speaker 7: I we got to beat the crap out of him.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, man, that's cool.

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Speaker 7: So it's much more fun to be.

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Speaker 6: All right, Well, let's talk about not beating the crap

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Speaker 6: your third base coach, throughout September, and he kept texting

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Speaker 6: collapse that they had, But what was the like constant

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Speaker 6: Ellie was essentially playing on one leg and you guys

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Speaker 4: We never bought into it. We felt like we had

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Speaker 6: Talk about your manager, Talk about Tito, Like, do you

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Speaker 1: Amilio, can you explain to the crowd why your game,

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Speaker 3: I'm not.

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Speaker 7: Now got it.

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Speaker 5: No WBC for you this year? You played the last

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Speaker 3: No, just being that I'm.

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Speaker 4: Turning thirty five this year, the Reds have invested a

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Speaker 4: I just felt like it was my time to kind

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Speaker 4: If you'd have told me that that that group we

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Speaker 4: Not saying that they can't win it this year, but

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Speaker 1: Next Emelio could emerge there where all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: in MLB. Millio, thank you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Always really really appreciate the time and the conversation. Good

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Speaker 3: To you soon. Yeah, thanks, Gush, appreciate you having me on.

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Speaker 1: We have Brady Singer from the Reds. Brady, great to

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Speaker 1: see you. Happy spring training to you. Do you have

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Speaker 8: Hey, guys, how you doing? No, not nothing, nothing too crazy.

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Speaker 7: No like curveball, like big slow epis curveball.

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Speaker 7: How do you do that? What's it like?

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Speaker 5: Because you're one of the few guys that really does

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Speaker 8: starts every time. It's just really cool to see the

440
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Speaker 8: guys that went out there and pitch every every game

441
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Speaker 8: and through a.

442
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Speaker 3: Lot of innings.

443
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Speaker 8: I feel like there were, you know, guys that teams

444
00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:11,280
Speaker 8: relied on and stuff like that. And but yeah, no,

445
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Speaker 8: I just I enjoy kind of being that, being that

446
00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:16,080
Speaker 8: guy that has made that starts and just obviously thankful

447
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Speaker 8: to be healthy as long as I have and make

448
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Speaker 8: those starts.

449
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Speaker 3: But yeah, just I don't know.

450
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Speaker 7: They pay you to go out.

451
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Speaker 8: There and pitch, so I go out there and pitch

452
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Speaker 8: as much as I can, no matter how I feel.

453
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Speaker 6: So they're getting their money's worth. But obviously you've got

454
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Speaker 6: a free agency coming up, and is there any other

455
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Speaker 6: way to possibly do it for you? Because people are like, oh, man,

456
00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:38,880
Speaker 6: you know this guy, he's just so much better when

457
00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:42,080
Speaker 6: he only makes twenty four starts. So the team's only

458
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Speaker 6: really relying on twenty four starts. Could you could Brady

459
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Speaker 6: see her come out and be like, yeah, I'll just

460
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Speaker 6: throw one hundred and two miles an hour, but I'm

461
00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:53,120
Speaker 6: only gonna make seventeen starts, like, could it be possible?

462
00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:55,080
Speaker 6: Could you possibly do it any other way than what

463
00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:55,520
Speaker 6: you do it?

464
00:19:56,920 --> 00:19:57,080
Speaker 3: No?

465
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Speaker 8: Probably not. If I could throw one hundred two miles

466
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Speaker 8: an hour, I would. I would try to do that

467
00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:04,040
Speaker 8: for sure, But I can. I can't do that. No,

468
00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:07,000
Speaker 8: I just know I like, I like who I am.

469
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Speaker 8: I mean, obviously, you know, trying to continue to get

470
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Speaker 8: better each and every day and work on stuff and

471
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Speaker 8: all that and try to put together really good starts.

472
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Speaker 8: But I really enjoy throwing a lot of innings and

473
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Speaker 8: making every start that I can't.

474
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Speaker 1: Hey, Brady talked to me last year about the pitch mix.

475
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Speaker 1: I think you threw less sliders last year than you

476
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Speaker 1: did the year before.

477
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Speaker 2: So what went into that? More? What else did you

478
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Speaker 2: have here?

479
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Speaker 1: I'm looking through the mix here more sweepers, cutter percentage

480
00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:35,119
Speaker 1: went up, So what went into that?

481
00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:36,480
Speaker 2: And who helps you decide that?

482
00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:38,560
Speaker 3: Yeah?

483
00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:41,760
Speaker 8: You know, I brought up a four team too to

484
00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:43,359
Speaker 8: th dough that a little bit last year is something

485
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Speaker 8: I haven't thrown in the pass just kind of because

486
00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:47,680
Speaker 8: of my arm soot, I felt like I couldn't really,

487
00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:50,120
Speaker 8: you know, get the right grip on it and make

488
00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:52,720
Speaker 8: it do what I wanted to do, but I figured

489
00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:54,040
Speaker 8: out that a little bit was able to throw that

490
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Speaker 8: kind of up in his own, and then the cutter

491
00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:57,600
Speaker 8: was huge. Just trying to get something to keep lefties

492
00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:00,840
Speaker 8: off off balance there. I feel like, you know, I

493
00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:03,679
Speaker 8: could use the sinker and the slider inside and then

494
00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:05,480
Speaker 8: use it away, but having the cutter kind of going

495
00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:07,960
Speaker 8: into him, I was kind of focusing on it up

496
00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,680
Speaker 8: and end like that really helped me a lot. And yeah,

497
00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:13,560
Speaker 8: mixing the sweeper in and the slider as well, just

498
00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:16,080
Speaker 8: kind of playing those two off each other, I feel

499
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Speaker 8: like helped me a lot.

500
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Speaker 7: And I guess what I understand, Like a slider and

501
00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:21,119
Speaker 7: a sweeper, they seem like they're the.

502
00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:23,680
Speaker 3: Same pitch minor and in general in general.

503
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Speaker 8: I mean, the sweeper has a bigger horizontal break, so

504
00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:30,320
Speaker 8: it's sliders more yeah, more like gy yeah more gyro,

505
00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:33,800
Speaker 8: like a tighter, tighter break. That's what you know, we're

506
00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:35,360
Speaker 8: trying to do is make it have a bigger one

507
00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:37,960
Speaker 8: and a shorter one. And usually the slider is supposed

508
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Speaker 8: to be hard. Last year mine we're kind of the

509
00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:42,439
Speaker 8: same velocity, so we're trying to fix out a little bit,

510
00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:44,359
Speaker 8: throw a little bit harder slider this year, then use

511
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Speaker 8: the sweeper as kind of a slower, bigger see.

512
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Speaker 7: You cut you could this is like where the old school.

513
00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:55,760
Speaker 5: Yeah no, no, I might do yeah slider call like

514
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Speaker 5: a micro slider.

515
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Speaker 7: Yeah yeah.

516
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Speaker 5: The cutter yeah right, so then you're like, oh, you

517
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Speaker 5: throw a cutter. Yeah, like no, that's my slider. And

518
00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:04,320
Speaker 5: then the cutters, like the cutter has carry carry.

519
00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:07,720
Speaker 8: Cut so you want to yeah, that's that's the cutter

520
00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:08,960
Speaker 8: and the slider has.

521
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Speaker 7: Confused.

522
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Speaker 3: I was.

523
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Speaker 8: I was very confused a long time ago when all

524
00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:16,960
Speaker 8: this came out, for sure, But I've kind of got

525
00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:17,840
Speaker 8: some of it figured out.

526
00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:17,959
Speaker 7: Now.

527
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Speaker 8: There's obviously a whole nother realm that I have no idea,

528
00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:22,720
Speaker 8: but yeah, there's you know, you want the slider and

529
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Speaker 8: the cutter to be definitely different.

530
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Speaker 6: Is Citizen I mean that as Citizen's Bank, Great American

531
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Speaker 6: small park a pictures park because we had a whole

532
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Speaker 6: segment earlier in the off season. Do you think it's

533
00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:34,680
Speaker 6: a pictures park now?

534
00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:35,919
Speaker 7: I don't know.

535
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

536
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Speaker 4: No.

537
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Speaker 8: Last year I saw that it that it did play

538
00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:41,159
Speaker 8: like that, which I obviously enjoyed, but no, I thought it.

539
00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:43,680
Speaker 8: I thought it played fine last year and I didn't

540
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Speaker 8: see many crazy home runs that you know I've heard

541
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Speaker 8: about in the past, anything like that. So yeah, I

542
00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:53,160
Speaker 8: enjoyed the park last year. Was it was awesome. Fans

543
00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:56,919
Speaker 8: were great too. It was a really cool atmosphere, yeah.

544
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Speaker 5: Which is definitely a pictures and you heard all the

545
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Speaker 5: things about, you know, great American ballpark, right, so what changed?

546
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,160
Speaker 7: Did you guys up the humidity and the humid door

547
00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:06,000
Speaker 7: and yeah, I don't know.

548
00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:08,479
Speaker 3: I have nothing, nothing to do with that.

549
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:09,640
Speaker 7: I have no idea.

550
00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:11,200
Speaker 3: No, I have no idea.

551
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:14,800
Speaker 8: It's yeah, I think it played pretty true and that

552
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:16,720
Speaker 8: was nice. But I did go to I did go

553
00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:18,919
Speaker 8: back to Coffin this year and pitch and gave up

554
00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:20,720
Speaker 8: some really long fly balls that I thought would have

555
00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 8: at Homer. It's a great American so that was nice

556
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Speaker 8: to be in that park that day.

557
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Speaker 3: It was great.

558
00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:28,400
Speaker 8: Yeah, I know, the fans gave me a little welcome back.

559
00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:31,440
Speaker 8: And obviously seeing all the guys, you know, I grew

560
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:31,760
Speaker 8: up there.

561
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Speaker 7: I guess you could say, you know, out of the

562
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Speaker 7: drafts and all that.

563
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Speaker 8: So yeah, it was awesome to go back and and

564
00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:38,960
Speaker 8: see the fans and you know, all the old players

565
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:40,560
Speaker 8: and get to talk to everyone. And you know, you

566
00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:44,119
Speaker 8: just you meet so many people going through there and

567
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:45,919
Speaker 8: all the all the cooks and all the people that

568
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Speaker 8: work and all that stuff.

569
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Speaker 5: Got off the elevator because the coffin you go down,

570
00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:51,800
Speaker 5: you go down the elevator, you go the wrong way

571
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,480
Speaker 5: at first. No, No, I went over to you come out

572
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:55,520
Speaker 5: and go right to go to the home.

573
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Speaker 7: You left to go to the visit. So did you

574
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Speaker 7: accidentally I leaned a little bit, uh whatever.

575
00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 8: I talked to some of the security guys over there

576
00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:04,480
Speaker 8: that you know, have been there for a while, so

577
00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:05,840
Speaker 8: it was good to see them.

578
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 5: That's awesome. WBC is coming up. You pitched in it

579
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,679
Speaker 5: last time. Did they invite you this year? Did you

580
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:15,199
Speaker 5: did you get any interest in going back or did

581
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 5: you say, you know what, guys, it's my free agent year.

582
00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:19,600
Speaker 7: I'm gonna stick with Cincinnati.

583
00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:19,960
Speaker 3: Yeah.

584
00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:22,560
Speaker 8: No, no invite from them, But you know, obviously it's

585
00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:24,880
Speaker 8: such a cool experience for me just to.

586
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:25,680
Speaker 3: Be in that atmosphere.

587
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Speaker 8: I mean, you're playing, you know, you go from spring

588
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,879
Speaker 8: training to you know, thirty forty thousand fans and you know,

589
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,720
Speaker 8: basically a playoff atmosphere. Really really cool experience. You know,

590
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,919
Speaker 8: all the all the guys that haven't done It's it's unbelievable.

591
00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:40,000
Speaker 8: It was, you know, one of them, the Venezuela game.

592
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:41,880
Speaker 8: I was at the Venezuela game just as a fan.

593
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 8: Last was one of the greatest baseball games. It's so cool,

594
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,719
Speaker 8: such a you know, cool way they do everything and

595
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:49,679
Speaker 8: how you know many fans they get and you know,

596
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:50,640
Speaker 8: it's just you know.

597
00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:52,720
Speaker 7: Final it's like one American fans.

598
00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:55,720
Speaker 5: Yes, right, it was. It was crazy. It was Miami ault.

599
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 5: I think it was a Venezuela. They had their those

600
00:24:57,840 --> 00:24:59,800
Speaker 5: horns going and they were all waving their venoice.

601
00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:01,720
Speaker 7: Yeah. When Trey hit that whole run, I actually got

602
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 7: to stand up.

603
00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:05,280
Speaker 8: It was like, yeah, yeah, that was That was probably

604
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:07,840
Speaker 8: the craziest moment in my career so far, was what's

605
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,359
Speaker 8: that home run? Just to steady of me rupt in

606
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:11,920
Speaker 8: and just you know, I don't know, it's just different.

607
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 8: We're in the USA across your chest for sure.

608
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:17,560
Speaker 6: So much has made about pitchers ramping it up and everything.

609
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,639
Speaker 6: When you pitched into WBC in twenty three, did you

610
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:23,800
Speaker 6: feel any any.

611
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 7: Different going through the year.

612
00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:28,439
Speaker 6: Did you feel any like extra sore early that you

613
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:30,840
Speaker 6: had to mix something up that was different because you

614
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:31,879
Speaker 6: ramped it up so early.

615
00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:36,479
Speaker 8: No, I didn't feel any difference, like body wise. I

616
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:38,639
Speaker 8: just think I started too early. I think I I

617
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 8: think if I was to do it again, I would

618
00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:42,720
Speaker 8: just treat it like a regular offseason, treat it like

619
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:46,000
Speaker 8: a regular spring, and just go out there and pitch.

620
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,879
Speaker 7: I tried to ramp up too early.

621
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:51,280
Speaker 8: I think I started throwing, you know, a couple weeks

622
00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 8: earlier than I have in the past, and just kind

623
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,240
Speaker 8: of felt like, you know, towards the end of the

624
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 8: year and you know, middle of the year that I've

625
00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 8: just been throwing for too long.

626
00:25:58,320 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 3: I didn't feel bad.

627
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,760
Speaker 8: I just you know, I think I took too long

628
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 8: of a ramp up and should have just you know,

629
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 8: kind of chilled out and just done what I've been doing.

630
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:10,439
Speaker 1: Brady, you had to pitch longer than anticipated for for

631
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 1: an outing there in the WBC last time around to

632
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 1: my correct one where you went, do you remember how

633
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:19,280
Speaker 1: long how many innings about you had to go.

634
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:25,280
Speaker 8: The Mexico game, because yeah, like a terrible memory, but yeah.

635
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,199
Speaker 7: I wasn't bringing it up. We just just know.

636
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 5: If you remember, that was where Randy kind of became

637
00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:34,480
Speaker 5: famous for doing that.

638
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:38,719
Speaker 7: Yeah, got way to go, Way to go, Scott. Yeah,

639
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:42,160
Speaker 7: it's over.

640
00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 2: There's more to it here.

641
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:47,160
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out the pitching conundrum that tam

642
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:49,240
Speaker 1: U s A goes through. So, first of all, Brady

643
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:52,920
Speaker 1: at least listening to manager Mark Durosa about this. They

644
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 1: get Clayton Kershaw and they want him to just eat

645
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:58,280
Speaker 1: random innings up if need be. But then also, for example,

646
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:01,200
Speaker 1: yesterday we find out that Eric Scooble is only going

647
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 1: to make one start. It's going to be about against

648
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 1: Great Britain early on in the tournament. So my question

649
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 1: for you is how difficult is it for Team USA

650
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 1: to figure out the pitching versus some of the other countries.

651
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:15,919
Speaker 1: Some of the other countries just don't seem to have

652
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,159
Speaker 1: that issue, even with their major league pitchers. And so

653
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:19,959
Speaker 1: you got to see a little bit of that vibe

654
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 1: last time around, and they were vocal about it. The

655
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 1: coaching staff was like it was annoying to deal with

656
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:28,439
Speaker 1: all the teams. Everybody had so many rules that we

657
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 1: put people in bad spots.

658
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:35,240
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think it's really hard. I mean, yeah, you're

659
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 8: trying to get all your players, you know, as a

660
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 8: as a GM and as a team you're trying to

661
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,479
Speaker 8: get all your your pitchers built up, and obviously your

662
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 8: your frontline starter guys trying to get built up in

663
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Speaker 8: a realm. That's very hard to do that just because

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Speaker 8: you're trying to win too. Yeah, I think it's difficult

665
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Speaker 8: for sure, But yeah, we've you know, I thought DeRosa

666
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:57,919
Speaker 8: did a great job the way he handled it and

667
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,119
Speaker 8: stuff like that, and yeah, I feel a lot more

668
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:03,959
Speaker 8: pitches and obviously I wanted to, but I told myself

669
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,159
Speaker 8: going in, I don't really care what happens. I just

670
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,639
Speaker 8: want to pitch, and you know, just get to be

671
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 8: able to enjoy this, this atmosphere and this opportunity.

672
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Speaker 7: Because you lived it.

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Speaker 6: Is there any way that they could have handled it

674
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Speaker 6: or that teams can handle it differently? Like, were you

675
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Speaker 6: part of the micromanage of okay, text before you start,

676
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 6: a text before your bullpen, checking in all the time?

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Speaker 7: Uh No, I wasn't.

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Speaker 8: No, Obviously, I think they're worried about it because you know,

679
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:30,479
Speaker 8: I sat in the bullpen for a few games and

680
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,879
Speaker 8: obviously wasn't on the you know, the build up that

681
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 8: I would have been in spring training, So you know,

682
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 8: obviously they were worried about it. But yeah, I just

683
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Speaker 8: I don't know how you you know, you fix that

684
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Speaker 8: or you manage it or anything like that. I think

685
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Speaker 8: it's tough no matter which way you look at it.

686
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Speaker 8: But I think the way they did it this year,

687
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 8: with you know, getting Kershaw and stuff like that, having

688
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 8: someone that can you know, basically come in after me

689
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 8: with what happened when I threw a lot of pitches,

690
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:57,719
Speaker 8: it's going to be super helpful.

691
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Speaker 7: All right, there's Cincinnati Reds.

692
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Speaker 5: Forget this, And it's amazing to me because we've been

693
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 5: around a bunch of camps now and we've we're doing

694
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 5: projections for teams and we're getting numbers that the Cincinnati

695
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 5: Reds made the playoffs last year.

696
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 7: People forget now.

697
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 5: It didn't go obviously the way y'all wanted to against

698
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 5: Los Angeles, but you guys made the playoffs. Can you

699
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 5: guys do it again this year? And what has the

700
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Speaker 5: team improved on or maybe learned from last year?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 8: No, I think learning is a is a huge thing.

703
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 8: I mean, guys got there that haven't been there before.

704
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 8: And I haven't been like a you know, a veteran

705
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 8: in the playoffs or anything like that, but just getting

706
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 8: there and kind of you know, getting your feet wet

707
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 8: and seeing how the you know, the anticipation and the

708
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 8: nerves and all that go is sometimes really helpful, you know,

709
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 8: when you do it again. But yeah, you know, we're

710
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 8: definitely a better team than we were last year. You know,

711
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 8: the front office at an awesome job this year with

712
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 8: I think getting Gino was huge, of course, and the

713
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 8: bullpen guys we got, and then the starting rotation is

714
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 8: going to help and and everything. You know, at least

715
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Speaker 8: going to have a heck of a year two. And yeah,

716
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Speaker 8: I love our team. Really excited to to get going

717
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:02,520
Speaker 8: here after spring. But yeah, I know I'm I'm anticipating

718
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 8: in the playoffs for sure.

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Speaker 7: I mean, Ellie's just that guy, right.

720
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Speaker 3: He's unbelievable.

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Speaker 8: I Mean, every every night you get to see something new.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 8: I say the same thing about, you know, playing with

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Speaker 8: Bobby White. I played with Bobby Wait and now Ellie.

725
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 8: So seeing those two guys every night, something they do,

726
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 8: something new, something exciting.

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Speaker 3: I can't say.

728
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Speaker 5: We know, I love Scott, Scott's favorite. Yeah Scott, I

729
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 5: love both of them. Yeah, Yeah, he's awesome to talk

730
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Speaker 5: to him. They're two such such good guys. There's so

731
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Speaker 5: much fun to play with.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 8: You know, I got to learn and and be with

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Speaker 8: Ellie last year, and man, he loves the game just

735
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 8: as much as Bobby. They're just out there, they're just

736
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Speaker 8: I'm just little kids having fun playing baseball. It's really

737
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Speaker 8: cool to see those guys play every night, and I'm

738
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Speaker 8: spoiled that. You know, they're behind me every start. All right,

739
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Speaker 8: So obviously you played for the Royals. You just mentioned

740
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Speaker 8: with the Royals. Did you see what the Royals in

741
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Speaker 8: Tolbert did to Jack Kag Yeah. I don't know why

742
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Speaker 8: Jack one. I don't know why the Gators lost two. Well,

743
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Speaker 8: was the catcher for U.

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Speaker 3: A B.

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Speaker 7: So that's why they lost.

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Speaker 8: I don't know why Jack agreed to that. I would

747
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 8: have never put that on my head when you I

748
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 8: was there. So I was in Gainsville when won that fight.

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Speaker 5: They got stopped on Saturday in two games, which fine, Yeah,

750
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Speaker 5: but they won the Friday night with Peter starting the

751
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 5: whole deal. It was like they won o ma oh

752
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 5: yeah right, I believe that the opening end of the season.

753
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 5: Soest and Jack felt sorry for U.

754
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Speaker 3: A B.

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Speaker 5: Maybe made a bet, but what if you make a bet,

756
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:29,480
Speaker 5: you'd Renig on your bed.

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00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 7: Yeah. Probably you're a better guy than that.

758
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Speaker 3: I couldn't do it.

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Speaker 5: Listen, they're really really yeah, yeah that's what he said.

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Speaker 5: But you can't Renig.

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Speaker 3: Just don't make it right. Yeah, I probably would have

762
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 3: made it. We'll start there.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, you also didn't think I thought that was scared,

764
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Speaker 8: but things happened.

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Speaker 3: I don't think they've lost sense.

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Speaker 5: No, I don't think they have a great spot. Maybe

767
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 5: he has a notch in their feather and yeah, they

768
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 5: will give it.

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Speaker 7: The only team so far to be in Florida.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, the problem was that AJ wasn't rooting for

771
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Speaker 1: them during that series. So now he's back on the

772
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Speaker 1: Gator train. He can root for his UF and his

773
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Speaker 1: UA B. Yeah, he's conflicted this year. You know, he's

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Speaker 1: got a second team. Brady, awesome talking to you. I

775
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 1: really appreciate the time. Enjoy the rest of spring training.

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Speaker 1: We'll catch it during the season.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Absolutely, thank you guys for having me on