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Speaker 2: Heyj If you think that the option versus PHANTOMI L

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Speaker 2: Nick Madrigal, who signed with the Mets, showed up to

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Speaker 2: the Cubs in the past, and people in the comments

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Speaker 2: on Twitter and on the baseball field with the A's, said,

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Speaker 3: Agreed, I mean crass. You switched teams a lot. I

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Speaker 3: He was just on they send it right back now. Listen,

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Speaker 3: That was just but did you but did you see

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Speaker 4: I was gonna say, did they give you a mannequin?

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Speaker 4: What people need to look at closely is those Nike

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Speaker 4: he never used. He's so boogy that all this stuff

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Speaker 4: I'm glad they dumped it there. I hope you didn't

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Speaker 3: Biggers are wearing some A. I gave all that stuff away.

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Speaker 2: joining us on FT. We've been working on this for

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Speaker 2: a minute. How you doing Tori. We wanted to wait

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Speaker 1: I know, I know. I apologize. Last year, I totally

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Speaker 3: Hey, we're on every day. I know why it worked. Hey,

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Speaker 3: I know why you did it. Tori. It's okay, I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you wore the plastics. You didn't wear spikes, if

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Speaker 3: Right, that's right. I always wear plastics. U my feet.

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Speaker 1: You guys are little divas, right, I mean Eric, Eric

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Speaker 4: Ft total white collar, total clubhouse. Like didn't want to

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Speaker 3: When you were there?

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Speaker 4: You weren't you?

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Speaker 3: Weren't hefe you were?

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Speaker 3: Oh? I got fired, I got I got poop canned.

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Speaker 3: It's fine, it was I'll be honest with you. I'll

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Speaker 1: Like, I had a lot to do with that decision

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Speaker 3: I know you did it. That's why. No, I know,

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Speaker 3: And David's like, I couldn't have done that. I'm like, exactly,

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Speaker 3: So you got one decision, right, guys.

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Speaker 1: There you go. I love that. I don't remember that.

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Speaker 1: Are you making that up? I'm gonna go to.

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Speaker 3: The books on that as day a true story.

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Speaker 1: Love it all right.

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Speaker 3: I believe.

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Speaker 4: getting DFA super Soon let's get to the Diamondbacks.

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Speaker 3: Let's get to the Diamondbacks.

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Speaker 3: How much did spring training missing effective? I love that.

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Speaker 4: to being the American missile and put on a few

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Speaker 4: lbs during COVID. So if he's in that shape, if

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Speaker 4: he's in that shape, it's gonna be good. Because he

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Speaker 4: was sitting ninety four ninety seven poppins in ninety eight.

436
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Speaker 4: It was it was exciting that spring training. But has

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Speaker 4: anybody ever come up to you and been like, Skip, Tori,

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Speaker 4: I'm in the worst shape of my life. Has anybody

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Speaker 4: ever been on in that sense? Because I remember job

440
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Speaker 4: at Chamberlain even came out one year, was like, yeah,

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Speaker 4: look at me, I got I got a four pack

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Speaker 4: up here.

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Speaker 3: You can see like a few abs.

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Speaker 4: Everybody says that in spring training.

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Speaker 1: No, that's a good question, Eric. I've never heard somebody

446
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Speaker 1: say like, I didn't do Jack squat and I'm starting

447
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Speaker 1: from the ground zero, you know, uh, the the return

448
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Speaker 1: players from the spring train in two point zero after

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Speaker 1: COVID couple said to me, I'm like, what have you done?

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Speaker 1: A couple said, I didn't think we're gonna play baseball.

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Speaker 1: I haven't picked up a baseball the entire time. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: oh god, we're in trouble here. So that's as close

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Speaker 1: as I've come to somebody saying that I'm really out

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Speaker 1: of shape. But once again, our eyes don't lie. You

455
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Speaker 1: can tell when somebody's coming in and those buttons are

456
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Speaker 1: popping through the through the uh, through the through the uniform,

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Speaker 1: and that's not a good sign. And once we see that,

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Speaker 1: we like we're dedicated to like, hey man, like we

459
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Speaker 1: see it, we know it, go out and fix it.

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Speaker 1: We got to do this with you. We're gonna figure

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Speaker 1: out a game plan together.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 4: Last one for me, he lost gold at first base.

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Speaker 4: He lost a guy, and Christian Walker. You replaced him

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Speaker 4: with Naylor. Naylor's coming in after the season, he had

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Speaker 4: how do you assimilate him into the clubhouse after losing

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Speaker 4: a quiet leader and Christian but a clear leader veteran

468
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Speaker 4: been around Arizona for a while, knowing he's really only

469
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Speaker 4: a one year rental.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, look at Christian Walker meant so much

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Speaker 1: of this organization. He'd been here through some really good times,

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Speaker 1: really dark times, and then come out the other side

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Speaker 1: where we've had a lot of success over the past

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Speaker 1: couple of years. So anytime you got to say goodbye

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Speaker 1: to somebody like that, who once again probably you talk

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Speaker 1: about that nonverbal communication. I could basically raise my finger

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Speaker 1: from the dugout and get his attention and give him

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Speaker 1: some information. Same thing in the dugout. He'd walked by

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Speaker 1: me and he'd grunt at me, and I'd say something

480
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Speaker 1: to him, and it was a done deal. So that's

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Speaker 1: hard to replace. But we have a lot of very

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Speaker 1: capable guys that have been here long enough to understand that.

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Speaker 1: And how Josh Fitzen is just to go out and

484
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Speaker 1: be himself. I know that. Look, there's some All Star

485
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Speaker 1: numbers in there. There's some All Star years in there,

486
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Speaker 1: and this guy goes out and kills the baseball. So

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Speaker 1: we don't want him to be anything different, anything other

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Speaker 1: than what he's been his prep work and what he

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Speaker 1: does to lead up to these past seasons. We wanted

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Speaker 1: to be the same. He came to camp yesterday. I

491
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Speaker 1: got a chance to meet him for the first time,

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Speaker 1: and look, I've been a big fan of his. He

493
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Speaker 1: comes with some intensity, a lot of intensity, and are

494
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Speaker 1: really really good at bat So I think he's gonna

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Speaker 1: fit right into this program.

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Speaker 3: All right, Tory, last thing before we let you go.

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Speaker 3: I know we talked about this earlier. Pressure. I know

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Speaker 3: there's pressure on y' all because guess what, I have

499
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Speaker 3: the Fox Master schedule, and Arizona has games on it

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Speaker 3: this year, not only on the road where I saw

501
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Speaker 3: you last year, but also at Chase Field. Okay, So

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Speaker 3: that means that there are expectations, because if you're not

503
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Speaker 3: expected to be good, you don't make that schedule. So

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Speaker 3: congratulations to you guys. The one ballpark I have left

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Speaker 3: to do a game in is Arizona, So I'm hoping

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Speaker 3: this year I give my chance to come sit with you.

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Speaker 3: Maybe you can buy me dinner in your home ballpark.

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Speaker 3: You know, I'll take hot dogs whatever you guys have there,

509
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Speaker 3: and we can chat in your home office for once.

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Speaker 1: Let's go. I would love that. That would be an

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Speaker 1: honor for me to sit down with you. Aj. Look,

512
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Speaker 1: you played this game a long time. There's some wisdom

513
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Speaker 1: in there and I will definitely love to tap into that.

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Speaker 1: And look, be right, I think when you get on

515
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Speaker 1: different schedules, right, you get that ESPN Sunday night game,

516
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Speaker 1: then you got to fly to the other coast at midnight,

517
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Speaker 1: right like that? That means you, guys, we've arrived. So

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Speaker 1: that's the next step for the Arizona Diamondbacks is to

519
00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:32,960
Speaker 1: is to you know, we try to say a we're

520
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Speaker 1: from the way from the word expectation, like the standard

521
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Speaker 1: the new standard of being in Arizona Diamondback means you're

522
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Speaker 1: going to have to do things like this, and how

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Speaker 1: are we going to find a way to get out

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Speaker 1: of it. Win a baseball game today and get on

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Speaker 1: a plane tomorrow and do the exact same thing. It's

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Speaker 1: the same game. It's nine, you know, ninety feet down

527
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Speaker 1: the line, six feet six inches. Let's go out and

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Speaker 1: do our thing and let a roll.

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Speaker 2: I picture Presentski walking and Fox is here, Sarius.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, I never asked me about what

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Speaker 3: I did. You never asked me what I did before

532
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Speaker 3: spring training.

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Speaker 1: Nothing. I know you didn't do it. Yeah, exactly a

534
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Speaker 1: little bit of this. I never did that.

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Speaker 3: I never did that. People don't believe me. Yeah, but

536
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Speaker 3: I would never hit.

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Speaker 2: He's a natural to This was awesome.

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Speaker 1: Dude.

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Speaker 2: Will actually be in Arizona two, not me, but some

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Speaker 2: of our guys. Hopefully they'll see you there. And good

541
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Speaker 2: luck in spring training.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk soon.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for the time and good to see it.

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Speaker 1: Hi Ronnie, you too, See you boys have a go

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Speaker 1: one