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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to another episode of Snake's Territory, part

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Speaker 1: am Jesse Friedman, alongside the One, the Only Jack Summers

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Speaker 1: and Jack we have a special guest joining us on

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Speaker 1: today's episode. I imagine, imagine you've spent a fair amount

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Speaker 1: of time the past ten years watching this man play baseball.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm really excited for this.

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Speaker 3: You know, David Perrault is going to be here, and

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Speaker 3: super excited to talk to him and see what he's

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Speaker 3: ask him lots of questions about his history and background

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Speaker 3: and career and all of that.

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Speaker 2: So that'd be great.

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Speaker 1: It was a lot of fun talking talking with David.

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Speaker 1: We're going to start out with that interview, and then

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Speaker 1: on the back end we'll come back and talk about

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Speaker 1: some d Backs spring training updates. We'll talk the latest

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Speaker 1: on Meryl Kelly his status going into the season, as

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Speaker 1: well as some other standouts in camp. So we'll get

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Speaker 1: to that stick around on the back end of the show.

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Speaker 1: But once again we have a special guest joining us.

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Speaker 1: We're going to start out with that. So, without further ado,

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Speaker 1: here is our conversation with the freight train himself, d

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Speaker 1: Backs outfielder David Peralta. Well, if you've been a fan

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Speaker 1: of the Arizona Diamondbacks for any length of time, chances

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Speaker 1: are you're very familiar with the man who joins us now.

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Speaker 1: It is long time Diamondbacks outfielder David Peralta. David, first

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Speaker 1: of all, thanks for hopping on the show. We really

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. And I also, of course have to say,

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Speaker 1: speaking on behalf of all Diamondbacks fans, congratulations on a

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Speaker 1: on a tremendous, tremendous career.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, guys, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, it's awesome.

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Speaker 3: And just so I want to say welcome as well.

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Speaker 3: From my standpoint, it's just tremendous to get a chance

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Speaker 3: to talk to you again.

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Speaker 4: Thank you. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: So, David, I imagine this had to be. I know

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Speaker 1: there are there are many positives that come out of this. Right,

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Speaker 1: you get to spend more time with family and whatnot.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you're looking forward to that, but I imagine this

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Speaker 1: is also difficult for you at the same time, having

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Speaker 1: played this game for so long, Just what are the

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Speaker 1: vibes right now in the Peralta household? How are you

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Speaker 5: Well, the vibees just been crazy and spending like full

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Speaker 5: doubt twenty four to seven, which is great.

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Speaker 4: Then, you know, that's what I was looking for.

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Speaker 5: The decision to retire, Like you said, it's not easy.

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Speaker 5: It took me like a full year to think about it,

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Speaker 5: to ask around to its teammates who did the same thing,

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Speaker 5: and you know, talk a lot with my wife, and

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Speaker 4: I told my wife like, hey, you guys sacrifice.

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Speaker 5: A lot for me, you know, going whatever and go,

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Speaker 5: now I think it's time for me to dedicate full

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Speaker 4: The service so and and we made that decision.

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Speaker 5: You know, it was it was It wasn't easy because

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Speaker 5: you know, you's I love baseball based with my life,

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Speaker 5: but I love my family too. And my family one

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Speaker 5: of what was the main reason they made the decision

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Speaker 5: to retire. I need to see grow my kids and

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Speaker 2: How many kids do you have and how old are

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Speaker 4: I have three kids.

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Speaker 5: I got two daughters and a boy so eight five

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Speaker 4: The boys is two years old.

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Speaker 1: H Do any of them have your Do any of

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm a coach right now from my daughter's team.

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Speaker 5: She started playing this year, Uh, coach pitch softball and

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Speaker 5: she's getting better. You know, she's a lefty. She's a

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Speaker 5: right but she's swing lefty. I told her like, okay,

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Speaker 5: She love it. She's fire yourself. She's loving it. And well,

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Speaker 5: the little one, he's too little right now, he's two

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Speaker 5: he's going to be the prospect. I'm going to do

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Speaker 2: That's great.

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Speaker 3: Do you have any plans you know, aside from coaching

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Speaker 5: Well, right now, I think everything's like it's happened too soon.

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Speaker 5: I'm still like adjusted to be like you know, the

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Speaker 5: More like a mentor for the young kids, especially in

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Speaker 5: the point and to be success for my career. The

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Speaker 5: mental side, because it's easy, like you have your skill,

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Speaker 5: you're a professional, but if you're not right right here

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Speaker 5: in your brain, like mentally, nothing's I know a lot

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Speaker 4: And I think it's everything start right here.

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Speaker 5: So I want to help this generation to become mature

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Speaker 1: I thought it was cool, David in your in your

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Speaker 1: being one that Diamondbacks fans are very familiar with still

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it comes as no surprise to you that

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Speaker 1: everyone who comes to this organization just absolutely loves the guy.

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Speaker 1: But for you personally, like, what what made him just

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Speaker 5: Well, David McKay, he was my mentor, he was best coach,

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Speaker 5: he was my friend, he was everything. And since the

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Speaker 5: first day I got to the big league he told me,

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Speaker 4: He was like, David, here in the big league it's

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Speaker 5: He just told me that, and and I was like,

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Speaker 5: And then days was buying four and everything, and I

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Speaker 4: That's where you're in the big league. You got to

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Speaker 5: Leagues to get to be disciplined because the big league is,

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Speaker 5: you know, one hundred percent. You have to do it.

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Speaker 5: You don't have to do everything right, but you have

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Speaker 5: He teached me how to run the base. It's not

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Speaker 5: how to good pressure. He made me a gold Glub

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Speaker 5: And I remember that year in twenty nineteen, and that's like,

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Speaker 5: I have to give him all the credit because I'm

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Speaker 4: No, he did it for me. I thought I was

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Speaker 5: Different and he came one day before the game started

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Speaker 5: and he showed me some numbers and said, David, these numbers.

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Speaker 4: They're okay, but I know you better than this. And

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Speaker 4: I'm like and.

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Speaker 5: Inside I was like, oh, I was a little not

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Speaker 4: No, I want you to do this because I know

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Speaker 5: He always said, hey, it's not on any magic drill

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Speaker 4: But there is one.

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Speaker 5: So he made me check every single ball during VP

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Speaker 5: it doesn't matter. If it comes to you, you're gonna

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Speaker 5: And I was like, I trust you, mkay, I'm gonna

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Speaker 5: not even I didn't even play the full season. I

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Speaker 5: only play one hundred games because I ended all that

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Speaker 5: He just told me, this is what you gotta do.

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Speaker 5: It's just the trust that he tells you, like the

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Speaker 5: It's just like it's hard, like it's the best. I

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Speaker 5: They're gonna keep him for it. He's seventy five. And

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Speaker 5: the thing is he's seventy to seventy five years old.

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Speaker 5: It's amazing. How can you not admire that guy? And

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Speaker 5: I was like, I wish it could be like when

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Speaker 5: I'm all like you.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I shouldn't say that because you don't like

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Speaker 5: Call him all he looks like a twenty one years

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Speaker 5: And I texted him before that I announced my retirement.

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Speaker 5: I texted him before that and I say, I just

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Speaker 5: want to let you know that I made the decision.

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Speaker 5: I'm going to retire, and thank you for everything for

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Speaker 5: make me be a better person and make me be

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Speaker 5: who I am right now.

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Speaker 2: That's awesome.

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Speaker 3: You know, his his sheets are legendary, you know, the

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Speaker 3: the accountability he demands. What was it like when you

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Speaker 5: Hey, that's the best part because that's that's the challenge

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Speaker 5: So you're thinking like, hey, I have to make a

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Speaker 5: that's going to make you better, a better player, because

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Speaker 5: he will tell you, Hey, remember it's not just the

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Speaker 5: hundred percent effort every day because you don't know where

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Speaker 5: that's gonna say that, you know, we want David Peralto

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Speaker 5: because he's a role model. He played the game the

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Speaker 5: And that's how and that's how it is.

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Speaker 4: But hey, I'm.

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Speaker 5: Telling you there was the guys that we got traded.

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Speaker 5: So I went to play in Wichita Witness that's my

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Speaker 4: Do you see And he knew me. It's the same thing.

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Speaker 4: Hate one thirty. I was like, oh boy, I can't

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Speaker 4: We're gonna recept and you're gonna do this trial on

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Speaker 5: Trust it, and just when you go up there to

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Speaker 4: Just let it happen, okay. And that's who we start.

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Speaker 1: I know you spent quite a bit of time with

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Speaker 4: You said it. He's still there for a reason because

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Speaker 5: And since the day one he got there in twenty seventeen,

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Speaker 5: we have. Okay, you worry about the game, that we're

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Speaker 4: I got to manage the game. I got to do this.

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Speaker 4: So it was it was cool.

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Speaker 5: And in the moment when I got traded, it was

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Speaker 5: but it's the same love.

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Speaker 4: It's the same love, same relationship. And and like you said,

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Speaker 4: he's steal in the d Bacs because he's the best.

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Speaker 4: He's a good man.

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Speaker 3: I remember, just your good natured humor joking. You know, hey,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, doing it because the're gonna take it. They're

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Speaker 5: And I'm like, hey man, you have to have fun

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Speaker 5: You know, the game is gonna keep going the game,

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Speaker 5: take is all this great moments that you spend with you,

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Speaker 5: I don't know what am I gonna be tomorrow. So

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Speaker 4: That was my mom sat every single day and it

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Speaker 5: It worked for me, and that's what I was trying to,

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Speaker 5: like curse all these young kids, because there's a lot

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Speaker 4: Gonna send me down. Now this is my phone. You

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Speaker 5: Worry about stress. No, enjoy Bigley. It's not easy and

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Speaker 5: And they said that was my mom set every day.

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Speaker 2: I know that.

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Speaker 3: The fans, I mean they totally felt that vibe from you,

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Speaker 3: Now you had that nickname, of course, it's a fabulous nickname,

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Speaker 5: You know, the friends love it, and I was like,

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Speaker 4: You got to have some stuff. You know.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome if I'm getting the history right, which corrects

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Speaker 5: Oh I got a goose fun with that, you know what,

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Speaker 5: Because he's the one who was like, hey, David, I

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Speaker 4: You want to go to Mexico.

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Speaker 5: You want to make more money and you know, and

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Speaker 5: I was like, sure, send me you pass board like

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Speaker 4: I'm like, hey, I signed with the d Bags. But

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Speaker 5: I was this close to go to Mexico because they

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Speaker 1: I'm glad I got the history right. I'm also I'm

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Speaker 1: your life for so long, how are you imagining life

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Speaker 1: without without that in your schedule on a day to

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Speaker 1: day basis.

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Speaker 5: I just do that with my kids, with my family.

444
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Speaker 5: That's what I do with my family. I'm a family guy.

445
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Speaker 5: I like to spend a lot of time with my family,

446
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Speaker 5: with friends and everything.

447
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Speaker 4: And now that I don't.

448
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Speaker 5: Have that part of baseball, so so my family get

449
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Speaker 5: to enjoy all the energy.

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Speaker 4: That I have seven you know, my kids. But that's

451
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Speaker 4: what I do.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 5: I mean as a boat player, you know you know

454
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Speaker 5: when you start, but you know it's going to be

455
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Speaker 5: an end of your career at some point, and you

456
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Speaker 5: want to end your career and the right way. And

457
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Speaker 5: for me, I knew that that moment was going to

458
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Speaker 5: come and and you have to prepare yourself mentally, like

459
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Speaker 5: I said, like I said at the beginning, as mar

460
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Speaker 5: team proud of one of the best teammates that I

461
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Speaker 5: ever had.

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Speaker 4: He always talked to me, and when I need to

463
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Speaker 4: talk to someone about that, he always call him. We

464
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Speaker 4: still stay in touch.

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Speaker 5: And because he retired and you have family and everything,

466
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Speaker 5: he helped me to go through this, like, hey, you

467
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Speaker 5: got to be prepared for this.

468
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Speaker 4: You got to be prepared.

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Speaker 5: It's going to be a new life because now you're

470
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Speaker 5: going to be with your family twenty four to seven,

471
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Speaker 5: which is you're not used to. It's nothing wrong, but

472
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Speaker 5: you got to be willing to do that, you know,

473
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Speaker 5: because we used to during the season is one week

474
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Speaker 5: with the family and then another week.

475
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Speaker 4: Were on the road for.

476
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Speaker 5: Six months, seven months, and then that stuff it matters,

477
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Speaker 5: you know, And I was going, no, I'm ready for that.

478
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Speaker 5: I think I miss my kids and I want to

479
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Speaker 5: do it for them, and I have the opportunity to

480
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Speaker 5: do it, and I can do it.

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Speaker 4: So I'm going to do it.

482
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Speaker 5: But it's my family gets to joint all that, all

483
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Speaker 5: the energy, all the craziness, because I have to let.

484
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Speaker 4: It out somehow.

485
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Speaker 3: So do your kids have a harder time keeping up

486
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Speaker 3: with your energy or you have a harder.

487
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Speaker 2: Time keeping up with their energy.

488
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Speaker 4: I have a hard time keeping up with the energy.

489
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Speaker 4: They got all my energy.

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Speaker 5: Oh unbelievable, But yep, I had to do and that's

491
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Speaker 5: what I steem shape. I'm still going working on and everything,

492
00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:09,840
Speaker 5: so I'll steam shame and I can keep up with them.

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Speaker 1: Last last thing for you, data that we'll get you

494
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Speaker 1: out of here. I imagine there has to be at

495
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Speaker 1: least a small part of you that is somewhat sad

496
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Speaker 1: to not experience the ABS system that is coming to baseball.

497
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Speaker 1: Like if I were you, I'd be thinking so years

498
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Speaker 1: pass throughout my career, like all of the calls over

499
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Speaker 1: the years that oh that was a missed call, that

500
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Speaker 1: was a missed call. You know, this year you'd have

501
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Speaker 1: had the opportunity to challenge those right. What is your

502
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Speaker 1: perspective on this new ABS system that it's coming to baseball.

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Speaker 5: So I'm I'm an old school guy, and I have

504
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Speaker 5: experience to do that in twenty four because I play

505
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Speaker 5: a littlely on Triple A because I was rehaving my surgery,

506
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Speaker 5: so they have right going on.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't like it. I didn't like it. Like

508
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Speaker 4: it because.

509
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Speaker 5: I think it's face It's more like it's a human

510
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:09,720
Speaker 5: beings a judgment. Like I know, some calls you shoot

511
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Speaker 5: deserve it. Oh I'm right, I'm wrong, But that's part

512
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Speaker 5: of the game. Some decisions can screw gains so big,

513
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:23,320
Speaker 5: you know, big decision, but it's part of the game.

514
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Speaker 4: I don't know.

515
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Speaker 5: That's my personal opinion. Some people like it, some people

516
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Speaker 5: know don't like it. But but I'm not a big fan.

517
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Speaker 5: I mean, if you make me choose between the rob

518
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Speaker 5: up Umpire or the A B the Challenge, I'd rather

519
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Speaker 5: do the challenge the one, I'd rather do that one

520
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Speaker 5: than the other one. But it's just, you know, that's

521
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Speaker 5: the way it is. You know, Like I said, I'm

522
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Speaker 5: an old school guy, and and and you know, the

523
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Speaker 5: catchers their job, Like how now, how are you gonna

524
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Speaker 5: how are you gonna evaluate catchers?

525
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Speaker 4: Because their choice is to make ball looks like a strike.

526
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Speaker 4: So how you're going to evaluate them, you know, that's

527
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Speaker 4: that's a big deal for them too.

528
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Speaker 5: Pictures they have to like, you know, like it. It's

529
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Speaker 5: a lot of question you know about that. But like

530
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Speaker 5: I said, I'm glad, well not glad, but like I'm

531
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Speaker 5: out so so all the stuff like is it not

532
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Speaker 5: not a big friend of that, but it is what

533
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Speaker 5: it is.

534
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Speaker 4: Like the games is changing. You have to make an adjustment.

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Speaker 3: I just had one last question if I can one more. So,

536
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Speaker 3: WBC is just about to start. You had very solid

537
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Speaker 3: performance in twenty three in the WBC, and I wanted

538
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Speaker 3: to hear about your experience playing in the WBC and

539
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Speaker 3: how that ranked the excitement of playing for your country,

540
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Speaker 3: how that ranked amongst your baseball experiences.

541
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Speaker 5: Hey, that that's the best experience of my life in baseball.

542
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Speaker 5: You know, well you can take it at we like always.

543
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Speaker 5: The first one is going to be when you made

544
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Speaker 5: your MLB DEW but representing your country, having your Venezuela,

545
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Speaker 5: I'm in your chess and just playing just to represent

546
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Speaker 5: your country.

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Speaker 4: What was the best for me? And I never made

548
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Speaker 4: it to the Hollar Star Game.

549
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Speaker 5: I should have made it in twenty eighteen, but well whatever,

550
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Speaker 5: but that was my All Star game. That that was

551
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Speaker 5: my Alli Star game because I was playing against all

552
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Speaker 5: Superstar my teammates, they were all Superstar and it was

553
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Speaker 5: unbelievable that bye the energy. It was super loud in Miami.

554
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Speaker 5: Even my wife it was like, wow, this is crazy.

555
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:39,879
Speaker 5: My family they were like, this is crazy and I

556
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Speaker 5: love it. So I'm going to be rooting for Venezuela

557
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 5: of course, and this time they know they're gonna make

558
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Speaker 5: it and I can't wait to start.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna be watching for sure.

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Speaker 2: That's great. Thanks for sharing.

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Speaker 3: I just can't imagine what that must have been like.

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Speaker 3: Like you said, in the jam Pack Stadium in Miami atmosphere.

563
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Speaker 4: Here, I'm loud. I'm always loud when I'm playing Accury.

564
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,880
Speaker 4: You can hear myself. I was like, Okay, this is crazy,

565
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 4: this is crazy. Wow it was. It was amazing. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, David, thank you so much for taking the time.

567
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Speaker 1: We really appreciate it. Truly goes without saying. I mean,

568
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:15,680
Speaker 1: one of the one of the greatest stories in our

569
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Speaker 1: sport over the last couple of decades, from independent ball

570
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Speaker 1: to just an unbelievable career. So thanks again for hopping

571
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Speaker 1: on and best of luck keeping up with keeping up

572
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Speaker 1: with the kids at home.

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Speaker 4: I thank you guy, I appreciate it. Thank you for

574
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Speaker 4: having me.

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Speaker 2: Us take care

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Speaker 1: All right,