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Speaker 2: We've got raised manager Kevin Cash. Kevin, great to see you.

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Speaker 2: How's camp and do you feel like you have some

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Speaker 4: First of all, camp has been really well, gone really

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Speaker 4: What you said is that we've got Shane McClanahan back.

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Speaker 5: He can score runs.

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Speaker 5: How close were you to joining the Reds once Tito,

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Speaker 4: Look I'm happy for Tito. Obviously, Cincinnati's going to be

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Speaker 7: But what have you learned because you coached under him

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Speaker 3: Year, tenth or eleventh year.

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Speaker 5: Now, what did you.

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Speaker 6: We've talked about this during the playoffs a couple of

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Speaker 4: Listen, it's very easy. He was a really good major

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Speaker 2: I love that, Kevin. Awesome to have you on. Really

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Speaker 3: Appreciate that, guys.

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Speaker 5: Good seeing you guys at Raise camp with Brandon lau

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Speaker 5: So hoping like he'd be around, you know, because he

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Speaker 1: I just think it would be a cool opportunity when

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Speaker 5: A strange and your home.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, to start tapping the top of my head to

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Speaker 6: Let me ask you this. You brought up a good point.

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Speaker 1: I think it's honestly just everyone as a whole. You know,

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Speaker 7: Because I've always told the story that when you used

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Speaker 1: I think it's just, you know, being a good teammate

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Speaker 6: You guys know you're not playing at your stadium this year.

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Speaker 1: what this year brings.

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Speaker 7: Here's here's my thing. First of all, you're gonna have

438
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Speaker 7: a better clubhouse than you've probably ever played in, because

439
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Speaker 7: that's what I've heard. I mean, no offense to what

440
00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:33,000
Speaker 7: you have at the Trot, but this one is a

441
00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:35,520
Speaker 7: completely different. I mean they have a like a party deck,

442
00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:37,520
Speaker 7: and they have like this whole outside patio, and they

443
00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:40,199
Speaker 7: have pools, and they have all these things that you

444
00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:42,600
Speaker 7: guys are like, wait, this is this is now, We're

445
00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:45,399
Speaker 7: Yankees now. But what I want to know is, and

446
00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,520
Speaker 7: I was talking to WeSC and the equipment guys in

447
00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:52,560
Speaker 7: there about how are they gonna what bother you. There's

448
00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:54,880
Speaker 7: a giant n y and it's gonna be your home

449
00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:57,160
Speaker 7: locker room. They're going to cover it up. They're gonna

450
00:19:57,200 --> 00:19:59,800
Speaker 7: try and cover all Yankee stuff. But everywhere you look

451
00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:03,440
Speaker 7: there there's n Y somewhere. Is it gonna bother you

452
00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:05,040
Speaker 7: when you look up on the outfield wall and you're

453
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Speaker 7: playing at home and there's a giant Yankee symbol, It

454
00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:10,040
Speaker 7: doesn't matter, doesn't.

455
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Speaker 1: So it's gonna be interesting to see what they do

456
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Speaker 1: with it. We've been told that I think there's like

457
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Speaker 1: a three day gap between our last day, our last

458
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Speaker 1: spring game to opening day, and they said they're gonna

459
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Speaker 1: get in there and they're gonna try to do whatever

460
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Speaker 1: they can to to cover up logos and branding and

461
00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:31,960
Speaker 1: stuff like that to a certain degree, which Eric and

462
00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:36,320
Speaker 1: the Rays have discussed with with the Yankees. And you know,

463
00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:38,200
Speaker 1: we'll see what it looks like when we get there.

464
00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:40,120
Speaker 7: But I mean, even in the hot tub, right, they

465
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Speaker 7: have like the little n y and in like the

466
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Speaker 7: seats and are they.

467
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Speaker 1: Are they gonna put little stickers in there?

468
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Speaker 5: It'll be interesting.

469
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Speaker 1: But it's the other thing that we understand what this

470
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Speaker 1: is going to look like this year, and we have

471
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Speaker 1: to play a game with a couple of Yankees logos

472
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Speaker 1: looking at us, I think we're gonna be all right.

473
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Speaker 6: Have Cash ever brought anything up yet talking about the

474
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Speaker 6: new stadium, about you know, what to expect anything like that.

475
00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:08,520
Speaker 6: Have you guys had meetings about it or it's just

476
00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:11,720
Speaker 6: let's get better before that, you know, we start playing.

477
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Speaker 1: With with stein Renner. Yeah, like meetings to that. No,

478
00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:20,280
Speaker 1: it's uh, I feel like it's just so early in camp.

479
00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:23,159
Speaker 1: You know, I think we got seventy five guys, and

480
00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:27,360
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how many like moves have been made

481
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Speaker 1: to like send guys back to minor league camp or whatnot.

482
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Speaker 1: So I mean I'm assuming, you know, as as we

483
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Speaker 1: get closer to you know, the full squad being in

484
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Speaker 1: camp and you know, there being a couple extra guys

485
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Speaker 1: that we might have a couple of meetings with with stuff,

486
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Speaker 1: and you know, I'm hoping that in that three day

487
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Speaker 1: period we get to get out there a good bit

488
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Speaker 1: you know, take ground balls, BP see how the ball

489
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Speaker 1: flight looks like, what what the lights are like at

490
00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:56,119
Speaker 1: night at night and stuff like that to you know,

491
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Speaker 1: get a crash course of what this stadium really feels like.

492
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Speaker 5: All right, So what was it like this offseason for you?

493
00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:03,000
Speaker 5: I'm sorry?

494
00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:07,640
Speaker 7: Uh you were you and Spring Springs Scot traded yeah

495
00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:08,439
Speaker 7: to Sacramento.

496
00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:11,320
Speaker 5: That one hurt and then you're you were the highest

497
00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:11,760
Speaker 5: paid ray.

498
00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:14,040
Speaker 7: So everyone was like, oh, Brandon Lowele Springs is gone,

499
00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:15,800
Speaker 7: Brandon Leowe's got be gone. Now I have Kim, who's

500
00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:17,760
Speaker 7: the highest paid ray. You said you wanted to be

501
00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:19,520
Speaker 7: a ray for life? How does that work?

502
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Speaker 5: Do you go? Because I saw Eric in there?

503
00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:23,280
Speaker 7: Should we should I go in there and say, hey, Eric,

504
00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:25,159
Speaker 7: we need to get this done for Brandon.

505
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Speaker 1: No. I mean I feel like it's something that that'll

506
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Speaker 1: take care of itself. I have a great agency that

507
00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:36,840
Speaker 1: I trust wholeheartedly that if they want to talk about

508
00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:40,400
Speaker 1: extensions and stuff like that, they'll go to Dustin. They'll

509
00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:42,679
Speaker 1: talk about it with him, and you know, we'll have

510
00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:45,440
Speaker 1: our conversations there. But as of right now, the only

511
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,560
Speaker 1: thing that I'm truly focused on is playing baseball and

512
00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:50,320
Speaker 1: seeing how many games I can get out of my

513
00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:50,880
Speaker 1: belt this year.

514
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Speaker 7: See, this is what I think you should be a

515
00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:54,720
Speaker 7: Ray for life. Because we were talking before you walked

516
00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,280
Speaker 7: in here, and you have acclimated to the Port Charlotte

517
00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:59,959
Speaker 7: life perfectly. You said you're living in a retirement home

518
00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,600
Speaker 7: with pickleball. Call said, you and your wife are playing

519
00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:03,359
Speaker 7: shuffle board.

520
00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:06,200
Speaker 5: Right. All we need is you know a little little

521
00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 5: walks around the neighborhood through the trailers. I don't know

522
00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:09,639
Speaker 5: if there's trailers.

523
00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:12,840
Speaker 1: No, it's it's a very nice neighborhood. And uh, with

524
00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,760
Speaker 1: two little kids, it's it's a little bit nicer to

525
00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:19,080
Speaker 1: know that you can walk the neighborhood. You can go.

526
00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:22,439
Speaker 1: I can take my son to you know, the pool

527
00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:27,040
Speaker 1: and I can't swim yet, but it loves the pool around.

528
00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,919
Speaker 1: He'll jump right on in. He does not care that

529
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Speaker 1: he doesn't know how to swim. Give him lessons, you'll try.

530
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:36,520
Speaker 1: He's two, dude, you gotta it's it's world.

531
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Speaker 5: Having grown up at Florida, you take your kids and

532
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 5: you take them to swim lessons.

533
00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:43,520
Speaker 7: And you leave because the first thing they do. Listen,

534
00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:45,199
Speaker 7: you're not gonna want to watch, because the first thing

535
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:48,359
Speaker 7: they do they throw your kid into the pool and

536
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,760
Speaker 7: they just they make them figure it out, and you

537
00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:52,879
Speaker 7: do not want to sit there. The first one I watched,

538
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:54,840
Speaker 7: my second one, I'm like, I don't want to ever

539
00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:58,480
Speaker 7: because the kids face down, they figure out how to

540
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Speaker 7: turn themselves over.

541
00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:03,240
Speaker 5: But for that ten seconds, just.

542
00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 7: Dying right here now, you know, they grab and flip

543
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:06,840
Speaker 7: them over and then they do it again, and then

544
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:08,679
Speaker 7: they figured out, oh I can flip over breathe.

545
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:10,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's horrifying.

546
00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:15,239
Speaker 5: Yeah, walk, go to the bathroom wall. Come back when

547
00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:16,160
Speaker 5: they're good.

548
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:17,919
Speaker 1: I'm sorry for this one.

549
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:18,200
Speaker 5: Mom.

550
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,760
Speaker 1: Mom's taking them to that. I couldn't handle.

551
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:24,159
Speaker 7: That exactly is your is your wife because you had

552
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,800
Speaker 7: the bakery. I mean, I think I'm taking from a

553
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:31,080
Speaker 7: marketing standpoint. In a retirement community, if you put up

554
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:33,960
Speaker 7: like a roadside stand with your kids, think how many

555
00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 7: bakery goods she could sell in that community.

556
00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:40,840
Speaker 1: It would it would possibly work if our kids would

557
00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:44,920
Speaker 1: allow that. My my son is off every single wall

558
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:48,640
Speaker 1: in that house, and my daughter is four months old.

559
00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:50,520
Speaker 5: Just problem up there.

560
00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:54,399
Speaker 7: There's every every old person that walks by, every retired

561
00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:55,200
Speaker 7: person is gonna.

562
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Speaker 5: Say, oh, it's my grandson. I can give them five

563
00:24:57,040 --> 00:24:58,000
Speaker 5: dollars I could give.

564
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Speaker 1: Them, right, Yeah, I'll use him as a marketing technique. Yeah,

565
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 1: as a marketing ploy absolutely, if I could understand that

566
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:08,600
Speaker 1: he wouldn't try to run away and would actually sit

567
00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:13,800
Speaker 1: there and be happy sitting there. Sure, but knowing this

568
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 1: kid for two years, that's not happening.

569
00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 5: Perfect perfect, Well, Hey Brendon, thank you very much, appreciate

570
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:20,960
Speaker 5: you coming on, have a great year, stay healthy, and

571
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:23,280
Speaker 5: let's see how the Raise way works this year.

572
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:26,080
Speaker 2: All right, We've got Raise outfielder Johnny DeLuca with us

573
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:28,160
Speaker 2: right now, finishing up at Raise Camp.

574
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Speaker 8: Johnny.

575
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:30,879
Speaker 2: Great to have you on, Thanks and good to see you.

576
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:33,679
Speaker 2: And are you excited to be a Ray? You know,

577
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,639
Speaker 2: not only because of obviously what you saw last year

578
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:37,800
Speaker 2: and how fun it is to be a part of

579
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:40,360
Speaker 2: this team, but you get the opportunity too. I mean,

580
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:42,000
Speaker 2: you know, we were just talking about the Dodgers. You

581
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:45,200
Speaker 2: come over from, you know, a team that keeps signing

582
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:46,800
Speaker 2: free agents, where the Rays are like, hey, we're going

583
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 2: to promote within here.

584
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,120
Speaker 8: So how you doing good?

585
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:52,679
Speaker 9: How are you guys? Thanks for having me. Yeah, to

586
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 9: answer your question, I'm super excited. Obviously having the opportunity

587
00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:59,439
Speaker 9: to be an everyday center fielder here is great. And uh,

588
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 9: obviously the expectation is high and I'm doing everything i can,

589
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,680
Speaker 9: all the work putting in now, I'm in spring training

590
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:09,040
Speaker 9: kind of getting all the kinks out and uh, hopefully

591
00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 9: have a great season.

592
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:10,960
Speaker 5: Take your hat off.

593
00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:16,919
Speaker 7: Oh gosh, yeah, Well the drinks match the mustache.

594
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 8: How it's almost the same color. I know, It's like Yeah,

595
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 8: that's what everyone was saying. Everyone was asking if I

596
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 8: died the mustache, and I was like.

597
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 5: No, I didn't.

598
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,800
Speaker 8: This is the natural mustache. Yeah. I don't think I

599
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:27,600
Speaker 8: died a mustache.

600
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 5: I don't think that would be a good look someone

601
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 5: that once had that.

602
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 8: I just wanted to change it up. I was.

603
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 9: I went to Hawaii like two weeks before UH spring

604
00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 9: training and I was like, hey, I'll die it blonde.

605
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:41,639
Speaker 8: See what it does. Maybe I'll cut it.

606
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:42,080
Speaker 3: I don't know.

607
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,119
Speaker 5: I love it.

608
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:47,639
Speaker 7: I had for two whole years, and I was I

609
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,320
Speaker 7: probably I ran into is when I would die my

610
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:51,120
Speaker 7: I started getting like blisters on my ex.

611
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 8: Yeah, the bleach hurts.

612
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:55,919
Speaker 5: You have to sit there for two hours. Want to

613
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,280
Speaker 5: do the whole thing. So yeah, I don't know that.

614
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:00,000
Speaker 8: I'll go out a little bit.

615
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,240
Speaker 5: And that's the best when you have the tip, like

616
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 5: the tips.

617
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 7: Yeah, speak about playing here in Tampa and playing the

618
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:11,640
Speaker 7: outfield in Tampa.

619
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:13,000
Speaker 5: You're going to be the centerfielder.

620
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:16,359
Speaker 7: Now you had great numbers defensively outs above average and

621
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 7: all that stuff.

622
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:18,400
Speaker 5: How much ground do you want to cover?

623
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,119
Speaker 9: Yeah, that was a big thing I worked on coming

624
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 9: in here with the outfield guys, speed, wise knowing that

625
00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:29,199
Speaker 9: Tampa Is is very defensive, defensively good team, So just

626
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 9: really stressing that last offseason and last spring training, and

627
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 9: I think the numbers show and I felt comfortable out

628
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 9: there and made some strides just whether it was jumps,

629
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 9: arm stuff, routes, whatever, it was. Just worked a lot

630
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,160
Speaker 9: on that and yeah, I felt really good.

631
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:48,480
Speaker 8: Johnny. You like to pull the ball, right, I do

632
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:49,359
Speaker 8: like to pull the ball.

633
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 2: So when you came over here, yeah, go ahead, I do.

634
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 8: It on accident.

635
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 9: And when I came over here last year, I feel

636
00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,680
Speaker 9: like I was I was trying to pull the ball

637
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 9: and it wasn't going in the air to left field.

638
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,439
Speaker 9: So this year, trying to get back to you know,

639
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 9: all throughout the miners. If you look at my homers

640
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 9: and spray charts, it's a lot full side and a

641
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:13,719
Speaker 9: lot of the work I was doing was you know,

642
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:15,680
Speaker 9: ground balls the second base and then in the game

643
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,639
Speaker 9: it happens to go in the air, and that's something

644
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:20,399
Speaker 9: that you have to figure out with your body and

645
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 9: how you're you know, mechanically, how your body's moving and sequencing.

646
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:26,800
Speaker 8: So obviously, yeah, I love pulling the ball, love.

647
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:29,879
Speaker 9: Hitting homers and extra base hits, But I feel like

648
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 9: I was kind of stressing that last year, and then

649
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:33,119
Speaker 9: you have a year like I did last year, and

650
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 9: you're like, well, it doesn't work when you try it,

651
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:37,480
Speaker 9: so let's go back to the simple stuff.

652
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 2: So we're gonna call it accidental pull pop is better

653
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 2: than on purpose pull pop, at least for you, right

654
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 2: for sure?

655
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 8: Yes? Yeah, I like that all right? Cool of the equations.

656
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:57,840
Speaker 9: Only hit homers, MVP, and esag is. I don't know

657
00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 9: how he does it. The guys is unbelieved up pulling

658
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 9: the ball, but I was a little bit different in

659
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 9: the way I pulled the ball. But he, yeah, he's

660
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 9: he's incredible. He I don't know how he does it.

661
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 2: When when you first joined up with the Rays, did

662
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 2: you spend some time, you know, actually finding out out

663
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 2: what eastsip praatus was all about, and did they talk

664
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 2: to you at all about how they turned him into

665
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 2: such a monster pull power gap?

666
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 1: Yeah.

667
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 9: I had kind of watched his routine, some of his drills.

668
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 9: We did some of the same drills he's I think

669
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 9: the difference is the way his body moves is a

670
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 9: lot different than mine, and he has incredible sequencing and

671
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 9: that sort of stuff, and I'm a little bit more mechanical,

672
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 9: a little tighter mobility. So I had to look at

673
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 9: some of the stuff and be like, I like that

674
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 9: that translates to my swing, and then look at the

675
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 9: other stuff and be like, all right, that definitely doesn't

676
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 9: work for me. So it's just I think that's what

677
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 9: it's about, just finding what works for you and finding

678
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:49,440
Speaker 9: what feels.

679
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 6: Good defensive wise. That's your specialty. Is one of your specialties,

680
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 6: I should say, do you tell him? Do you do

681
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 6: a lot of homework about that? Are you that goes

682
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 6: out in the fielder? Tell me your preparation, cause you're

683
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 6: you're gonna have to go to Steinbrotherfield. Now it's a

684
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 6: whole different ballgame where you've only played a couple of

685
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 6: games there and understand that outfield too as well, So

686
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 6: there's a lot of different scenarios you got to do.

687
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:14,320
Speaker 6: So as a third basement for me, i'd always checked

688
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 6: the dirt and everything else. Is there something specific you

689
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,080
Speaker 6: do in the outfield to make sure you're timing and

690
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:19,960
Speaker 6: everything else is right?

691
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 1: Yeah?

692
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 9: Usually with you know, going to those new stadiums. That

693
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 9: was my first full year last year, and just that

694
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,040
Speaker 9: was something I'd always do is you know, check the walls,

695
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 9: like you said, check the outfield grass, see where the

696
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:34,959
Speaker 9: you know, whether as small as the wind is blowing

697
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 9: stuff like that, to where it's just small things. It

698
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 9: takes you know, ten fifteen minutes to go out there

699
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 9: and be like, you know, the ball set off the wall. Here,

700
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 9: it's gonna Rick Shay got to back up this, got

701
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 9: to back up that. So yeah, just just super small

702
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 9: stuff and then just taking pride and glove work and

703
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 9: just doing the small things every single day. I think

704
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 9: I got in a pretty good routine last year with

705
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 9: MJ MJ MJ or outfield Michael John.

706
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 5: Michael Jordan.

707
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 9: I was like, wait a second, I should know his name,

708
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 9: And I was like, dang, I just call them today.

709
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 5: Well, listen, people don't understand how they're in baseball.

710
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 7: There's a lot of times where they just don't know

711
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:14,480
Speaker 7: their names because they have a nick name where they

712
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 7: have initials, like no one knew my I mean, they're

713
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 7: like Adrian, but no one knowing I had a real

714
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 7: name other than that. So now that you hear what

715
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 7: the race, what was it like going from from LA

716
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 7: with all the stars not do you guys want to have

717
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,719
Speaker 7: stars in Tampa. I mean, but you had the stars

718
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 7: of Stars, and all of a sudden you're like, oh,

719
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:36,479
Speaker 7: I'm in Tampa. This is a little bit different payroll, makeup.

720
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's just a different team, makeup, different vibe. Definitely

721
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 9: was grateful for my time with the Dodgers. Learned a

722
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 9: lot from those guys, you know, being in the same

723
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 9: clubhouses Mookie and Kersh and Freddie and obviously big leaguers

724
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 9: for a while and really good big leaguers and a

725
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 9: lot of Hall of famers probably, and learning from those

726
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 9: guys and then being able to come over here and

727
00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 9: get the opportunity that you know, I've been longing for

728
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 9: and and yeah there, like you said, there's there's studs

729
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 9: on this team, and I think, you know, we have

730
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 9: a younger environment, but I think there's going to be

731
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 9: a lot of dudes that and there already is dudes

732
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 9: on this team. So it's fun to see the guys young.

733
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 9: You know, you've got a guy like Kim and Arra

734
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 9: who is just absolutely going off and seeing just yeah,

735
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 9: the young talent is super fun.

736
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,320
Speaker 5: By the way, you guys are all jacked. You mentioned

737
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 5: your hitting coach Chad Matola. He's also jacked and he's

738
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 5: so is it like a mandatory thing? Is I mean

739
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 5: you mentioned I mean he's got bigger biceps and all

740
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 5: this together.

741
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 8: Yeah, he does.

742
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:35,040
Speaker 7: I don't know, is it like mandatory because you guys

743
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 7: all look at Moto and.

744
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 8: I think we just look at Yandi and and try

745
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 8: to like.

746
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 1: All the time exactly. Yeah.

747
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 9: I started doing bicep curls the last like two months

748
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 9: this season when I started hitting, because Yandi was doing

749
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 9: them and I was.

750
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 8: Like, oh I started hitting, so keep doing them every day.

751
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 5: Okay, So we want to show this picture just because

752
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 5: I want you to see what what what we go

753
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 5: through fashion wise? Oh?

754
00:32:58,800 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 3: There it is.

755
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 5: That's sick right. Sone was a little more white. I

756
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 5: was a little more.

757
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 8: Money to bleach rebleach it again to get to that color.

758
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 5: Oh, trust me, it was what we do there.

759
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 6: You go look at that.

760
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, I didn't have the mustache. I could never pull

761
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 5: off the mustache though.

762
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 8: That's a nice that's a that's a good look right there.

763
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 6: Like that.

764
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 7: So my son a high school team a couple of

765
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:21,719
Speaker 7: years ago, they bleached it like your Yeah, and I

766
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 7: was one of the coaches and one and So my

767
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 7: end of the year gift was a picture of my

768
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 7: son in that post with this bleach plung here next

769
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:28,640
Speaker 7: to me.

770
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 5: It's like one of the coolest pictures of it. Yeah,

771
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:33,200
Speaker 5: so it was. It was one of those cool things

772
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 5: that you know, we get to but I got to

773
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:35,240
Speaker 5: ask you about this.

774
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 7: So we're gonna go off the We're gonna go a

775
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 7: little bit off the topic here, and I hope they

776
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 7: have it ready.

777
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 5: Do we have the autograph ready?

778
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 8: Oh gosh.

779
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 7: So I bought into the Paul Schemes Tops Chrome Update

780
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:49,640
Speaker 7: twenty twenty four and I pulled the Johnny de Lutle

781
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 7: card and it has that signature on it.

782
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 8: It's a quick little jay.

783
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 1: Can we just get.

784
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 5: Can we get a last name on there? Please?

785
00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 8: I used to do the D.

786
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:02,600
Speaker 9: I used to do the D and then I was like,

787
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 9: I did the TOPS deal and you know, you go

788
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 9: through those cards, and then I got rid of the

789
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 9: D because it was just making it quicker. So yeah,

790
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 9: the signature, I need some work there, and I'll admit it.

791
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 8: It's it's a rough one.

792
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 5: They not teach signature is Oregon.

793
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 9: No, they don't. It should be a class Yeah. Yeah,

794
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 9: it's kind of like a backwards Nike swoosh a little bit.

795
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:28,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, I.

796
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 5: Haven't.

797
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 7: I literally have it sitting next to me at our studio,

798
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 7: at my house or we do the show every day,

799
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 7: and anytime someone mentions this signature, I'm just like, got

800
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:40,800
Speaker 7: to work on it.

801
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 3: Yeah.

802
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 5: So I'm glad that we got to talk about it.

803
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 1: Good.

804
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:45,920
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's compelling me to get better at it.

805
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 5: And so I told the story.

806
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 7: So I played for Minnesota when I first came up,

807
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 7: and Harma kill Grew was kind of the guy in

808
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:58,440
Speaker 7: Minnesota Hall of Famer, and he made us say make

809
00:34:58,440 --> 00:34:59,760
Speaker 7: sure you can read every letter.

810
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 5: No, it would take him a little bit longer, but

811
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 5: he would sit there and talk to people and it

812
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 5: would be h.

813
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 6: A r M.

814
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 9: Yeah, maybe that's what I just need to start talking

815
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:11,319
Speaker 9: to people while I do it. I'm bad at multitasking though,

816
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 9: so I'm just a little scribble and then go, wow,

817
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:16,360
Speaker 9: that is insane.

818
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 5: So there's mine on the left and then yours. I

819
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 5: got a lot more letters.

820
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:23,279
Speaker 8: Than you do a little bit different. Yeah, that's a

821
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:24,799
Speaker 8: that's a professional signature.

822
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 7: I need to work on it because I guarant TV

823
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 7: as Kurseh and Freddy and those guys they're gonna say, hey,

824
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:32,759
Speaker 7: because because he signed for a kid out there in

825
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:35,399
Speaker 7: Tampa when you're stinning runner and you signed Johnny Lucan

826
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 7: and then he goes to his you don't you have

827
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 7: your all?

828
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:37,840
Speaker 3: Right?

829
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 9: Don't make me feel too bad.

830
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 7: I'm serious, Like, you want people to know who you

831
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,239
Speaker 7: are in one of the ways they can because I know.

832
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:50,719
Speaker 5: Who that is. And you're like, well, look at his

833
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,840
Speaker 5: signature and they're like, uh.

834
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:56,759
Speaker 9: It's gonna be like, who's that And they're gonna be like, oh,

835
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:58,879
Speaker 9: Johnny de Luca, the worst signature in the league.

836
00:35:58,960 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 8: And then that's.

837
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 5: How that's a good way. That's a good way to

838
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 5: change it. I was smart.

839
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 3: I like, you just got to stand out.

840
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 9: You know.

841
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 8: You know I'm not going to change it. I'm going

842
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 8: to keep it like it. I think you should keep it.

843
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 6: I think you should write it out, so you gotta.

844
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 6: I don't even want to talk about anymore anyway. Is

845
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 6: there is there a guy that you emulate that you

846
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:23,840
Speaker 6: look up to. It like, as you're coming up in

847
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 6: the league, somebody that I want to pick my game

848
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:28,239
Speaker 6: after him? Like, who's that guy?

849
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 9: Compwise, I mean, I saw a lot of Andrew mccutchon

850
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 9: growing up, and I think the game is you know,

851
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 9: similar and just an elite center fielder and definitely could hit.

852
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:45,320
Speaker 9: I looked hitting wise. I would always look at video

853
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:47,840
Speaker 9: of like some of the older guys like Manny Ramirez,

854
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 9: Edgar Martinez, Mike Schmidt. So I like looking at the

855
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 9: older guys just because it was it was fun to

856
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 9: look at, you know, the highlight Homer videos. And I

857
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 9: was super like into the mechanics and all that. But

858
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 9: I think right now, the the comp for me that

859
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,280
Speaker 9: I would like to emulate is like an Andrew McCutcheon

860
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 9: type guy.

861
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 5: Wow, he's MVP.

862
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 8: Yeah, I know, I got I got some work. I

863
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:16,439
Speaker 8: got some work to Can you sing a little bit.

864
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:19,480
Speaker 5: Because he plays the piano and like sings.

865
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 8: Oh he plays a piano like legitimately good. Anybody got

866
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:23,840
Speaker 8: a guitar, I can play guitar.

867
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:26,759
Speaker 5: See, so there you go, that's cool.

868
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:31,360
Speaker 8: That's your thing guitar And yeah you wait what.

869
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'll rip it every now and again. I got

870
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 9: it back at the house right now, Pete, did you

871
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:41,880
Speaker 9: have Pete in here? I'm rooming with him. You should

872
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 9: ask me serenade them every night?

873
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:48,240
Speaker 5: Do you really this would have been valuable info before.

874
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 5: Did you get hit by any Peach pitches yesterday? Center field?

875
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 8: Yeah?

876
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:04,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, we made fun of himself. Did you challenge yesterday?

877
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:07,879
Speaker 5: Challenge because I was, we were, we were in clear,

878
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:11,720
Speaker 5: he missed it. I was there the first like two innings.

879
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 5: There was like seven challenges. Every hitter there was someone

880
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 5: like this. Yeah, and the umpire was wrong on everyone.

881
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:21,520
Speaker 2: But wait, that is what this is for. He needs

882
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 2: to adjust his zone. He is a professional. I'm not

883
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 2: going to go over the name specifically, but like, this

884
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:30,800
Speaker 2: is going down game in all facets. Bad missed call. Okay,

885
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:34,320
Speaker 2: it happens someone consistently getting it wrong time and time again.

886
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 2: You're going to have to adjust your game. This is

887
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,839
Speaker 2: the pros am I right for sure.

888
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:48,360
Speaker 8: I agree.

889
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 6: You don't want to be empowersed.

890
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 9: We had it in a We had use it. I

891
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 9: use it every now and again. I I didn't like

892
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:57,640
Speaker 9: using it just because I felt like it was always

893
00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:00,919
Speaker 9: going to be like like the quarter of the ball

894
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 9: was hitting the line, and if it was obvious, I'd

895
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 9: use it. But yeah, I didn't use it too much.

896
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:11,279
Speaker 2: That's what it's for, though, Hey, that was way off

897
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:11,800
Speaker 2: the plate.

898
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 8: We fix it. We move on.

899
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 2: That's at least how the fan perspective is. We just

900
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:21,319
Speaker 2: don't want the glaring missus there. So anyway, Johnny, this

901
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 2: was awesome man, Really appreciate the time. Good to have

902
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 2: you on here for the first time. Hope you had

903
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:29,239
Speaker 2: fun with it and tell AJ to back off all right,

904
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 2: tell them you're not signing.

905
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:31,920
Speaker 5: For me.

906
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:33,360
Speaker 3: Exactly.

907
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:34,799
Speaker 8: Thank you, guys, I appreciate you having