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Speaker 3: Session, Here we go, Kyle Stowers joining us right now

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Speaker 3: on FT. I could see that smile. You got a

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Speaker 3: You having a fun year?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been been a good time.

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Speaker 1: I feel like we're close against some more wins, so

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Speaker 3: What's the identity of the team, Because there's guys like

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Speaker 1: I think kind of like the when we like is

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Speaker 6: Second question, have you ever in your career, in professional

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Speaker 7: The Marlins do anything for you winning player of the week,

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Speaker 3: Take me back to when you were traded last year.

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Speaker 7: I love to hear that you have that you have

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Speaker 3: Hey, Kyle, I got one for you from a number standpoint.

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Speaker 3: Well, you're looking good in the Marlins TiAl. Man, it's

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Speaker 4: Hope you enjoyed it.

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Speaker 3: I know you you got stuff to get to you

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Speaker 3: so appreciate the time.

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Speaker 3: Great to have you on and we'll.

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Speaker 1: Have you back all right, guys, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: Right, Stephen match joining us right now in foul territory. Stephen,

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Speaker 4: Great to have you on. How you doing, I'm doing great, guys.

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Speaker 3: How's life with the Saint Louis Cardinals. I know, for

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Speaker 4: For a few years, It's been great. Saint Louis is

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Speaker 4: You have to you have to both do the do the.

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Speaker 7: Is this something because I've watched McGreevy do what he

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Speaker 8: easy and he's in his first year, it's like, Wow,

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Speaker 8: this guy's just you know, coming in bases, loaded one

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Speaker 8: out in the in the fourth and then finishes the

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Speaker 8: game with giving up only one hit, no runs. I mean,

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Speaker 8: but if I had to do this earlier in my career,

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Speaker 8: I would have really struggled with it. Just just the

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Speaker 8: confidence and you know, every in between, every start, you're

445
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Speaker 8: trying to tweak something. Now there's just more of a

446
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Speaker 8: trust in my ability and what I can go out

447
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Speaker 8: there and do.

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Speaker 7: All right, as you're going to be a free agent

449
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Speaker 7: after this year, how many times do you get called

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Speaker 7: into the office after starting or spot starting and being told, hey, I'm.

451
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Speaker 5: Going to the bull You're going to the bullpen again?

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Speaker 7: Like, there comes a point when your value as a

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Speaker 7: player is your value, not necessarily the team's value. Do

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Speaker 7: you ever envision or have you had the conversation of

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Speaker 7: where you're like, all right, at some point here, like

456
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Speaker 7: we got to be a bullpen guy, or we got

457
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Speaker 7: to be a starter.

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Speaker 5: I'm valuable as a starter because it's also your career.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I think you know, there's still lot of baseball

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Speaker 8: left and it's it's gone really well so far with

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Speaker 8: the role I'm in. But Ultimately, in my mind, I

462
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Speaker 8: like starting. That's what I want to do. I feel

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Speaker 8: like I'm in a place in my career and where

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Speaker 8: my stuff's at now that can have success as a starter.

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Speaker 8: So I think in my mind that's my goal to

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Speaker 8: move forward, is to be a good starter in the

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Speaker 8: major leagues. I still feel like I have I have

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Speaker 8: some good years ahead of me, So that's what I

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Speaker 8: like to be.

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Speaker 6: Smart man, do it as long as you can. You

471
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Speaker 6: don't want one of those failed starter T shirts. Those

472
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Speaker 6: are not well. I mean they are kind of cool,

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Speaker 6: but you don't want one. So recently Friday, actually there

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Speaker 6: was an article came out talked about how the strike

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Speaker 6: zone may have changed. Have you noticed a difference in

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Speaker 6: the strikes own or has anyone on the team noticed

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Speaker 6: any of the catcher's been like, I think it's a

478
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Speaker 6: little tighter. Do you guys hear anything about this work

479
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Speaker 6: came out?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 8: There, You know how it is in the season, everybody's

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Speaker 8: always complained about the strike zone one way or the other,

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Speaker 8: but I haven't noticed a ton about it. Honestly, you know,

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Speaker 8: it makes me wonder if it's you know, the umpires

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Speaker 8: in spring training have that ABS system so it was,

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Speaker 8: you know, maybe getting them tuned up a little bit.

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Speaker 8: I'm not sure, but we haven't had a ton of

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Speaker 8: conversation about that.

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Speaker 5: What else do dudes complain about? Does?

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Speaker 7: I can list off different things, but what is twenty

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Speaker 7: twenty five pitchers complaining about when they're sitting in the

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Speaker 7: bullpen or they're shagging in the outfield for their nineteenth

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Speaker 7: straight day in Saint Louis heat.

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Speaker 8: Well, it's funny in the bullpen. It's it's a little

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Speaker 8: bit different out there. It's been a fun camaraderie out there,

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Speaker 8: but yeah, there's definitely some fun conversations hat, you know,

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Speaker 8: especially when I come out of the bullpen and then

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Speaker 8: go to the start and I'm down for you know,

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Speaker 8: three days before, three days after. You know that those

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Speaker 8: guys are grinding over there. So when that phone rings sometimes,

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Speaker 8: you know, sometimes it's nice when McGreevy comes in and

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Speaker 8: goes six innings out of the bullpen. So I would

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Speaker 8: say that's the biggest thing is just.

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Speaker 4: Guys are tired. We had a long run of games.

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Speaker 8: Here, so it's gonna be we got an off day

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Speaker 8: staring us in the face, So that'll be nice.

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Speaker 3: Steven I wanted to ask you about, you know, your

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Speaker 3: time with the Mets. Looking back at obviously the World

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Speaker 3: Series run they had in twenty fifteen, you were a

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Speaker 3: part of that. There were some really talented arms, of course,

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Speaker 3: some of which are still pitching the bigs, like at

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Speaker 3: de Gram, who I knew you were close with thor

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Speaker 3: part of the mix back then. I asked this question

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Speaker 3: to the Cubs guys because they had their run around

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Speaker 3: that time period too. Do you look back and think

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Speaker 3: about how crazy it is to see what kind of

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Speaker 3: talent was there and where it is now and just

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Speaker 3: how quickly that whole run went when there were so

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Speaker 3: many talented arms in that rotation.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I do look back and guys bringing up a

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Speaker 8: lot like you know Nolan had to face come into

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Speaker 8: a series and faced Gram, Harvey and Cindergard or de

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Speaker 8: Graam Wheeler, and you know, those guys are all pumping

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Speaker 8: a hundred every time, and I'm just a soft toss

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Speaker 8: at lefty coming in the back end of the rotation.

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Speaker 4: But no, it really was crazy what we had going there.

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Speaker 4: And it's funny.

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Speaker 8: I was a Hellsley yesterday and he's like, how many

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Speaker 8: times you've been to the playoffs because he felt like

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Speaker 8: with that team. He's like, oh, I thought you went

531
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Speaker 8: like every year when you were with the Mets, and uh,

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Speaker 8: you know, it is crazy with what we have there.

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Speaker 8: You know, we only got one wild card game and

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Speaker 8: and that big playoff, that World Series run that we had,

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Speaker 8: so yeah, that was pretty will id I do reflect

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Speaker 8: on that a lot. You know, we had something special there.

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Speaker 8: It's just unfortunately we couldn't capitalize on it.

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Speaker 9: Steven, you brought up Arnatto. Nolan, what's the what's the

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Speaker 9: feeling on him staying or going? Also Sonny? Sonny said

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Speaker 9: he wants to stay too. His name has been mentioned.

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Speaker 9: Did they talk about that in the clubhouse or is

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Speaker 9: it just kind of like we're here now and we're

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Speaker 9: sticking with what we what we got.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I think Sonny doesn't talk about it too much.

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Speaker 8: You know, he's really you know, dialed into what he's doing.

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Speaker 8: But you know, obviously Nolan, it was a big talking

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Speaker 8: point this whole off season coming into spring training. We're

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Speaker 8: all kind of like, what's gonna happen, especially as a

549
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Speaker 8: pitcher when you got that guy locking down the corner

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Speaker 8: every day? Forget like, man, we don't we don't want

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Speaker 8: this guy to go anywhere, But no, I think you know,

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Speaker 8: obviously there is some conversation there. But now Nolan, he's

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Speaker 8: he's locked into what he's doing. He's just trying to

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Speaker 8: get out there and play good every day. You know,

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Speaker 8: he's he's in the cage for four hours a day,

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Speaker 8: and you know, I think he's he's ready to just

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Speaker 8: go out and play every day. So that after spring training,

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Speaker 8: those those conversations kind of subsided.

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Speaker 7: Your family talk about the fact that you've gotten off

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Speaker 7: to a hot start, the fact that the Cardinals are

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Speaker 7: trading anything with value. Do you talk about that? And

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Speaker 7: is it like every scoreless outing, you know, you start

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Speaker 7: packing a few more things up even you know, you

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Speaker 7: know it's your last year in Saint Louis, but it

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Speaker 7: could be July. Who knows, it could even be June.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, it's definitely in the back of my mind,

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Speaker 8: you know, at times.

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Speaker 4: But we are playing really good baseball.

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Speaker 8: Our hitters have had a great first month and a

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Speaker 8: half here, you know, where We've won a couple of series.

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Speaker 8: Now now I think we've only lost one series at home,

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Speaker 8: So you never know what could happen.

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Speaker 4: There's a lot of baseball left.

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Speaker 8: But that is definitely you know, you know, you understand

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Speaker 8: how the game works, and you know, a free agent year,

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Speaker 8: if you're throwing well, teams are going to try to

577
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Speaker 8: gobble you up if your team's out of the mix.

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Speaker 8: But right now, there's still so much baseball to really

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Speaker 8: put my mind there.

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Speaker 9: Steven Stephen, You're from Long Island, right, Yes, yeah, me too.

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Speaker 9: How come you don't have an accent you have like

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Speaker 9: the South, You have like an accent from the South.

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Speaker 9: So I appreciate that, you know, someone also from Long Island.

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Speaker 9: I don't have the Long Island accent either, so I'm

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Speaker 9: proud of you that you got rid of it.

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Speaker 8: Well, you know, it is a little embarrassing at times.

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Speaker 8: Well actually, that's the one word that comes out when

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Speaker 8: I say embarrassing.

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Speaker 4: So that's yeah, that was it.

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Speaker 5: That was the first time. Yes, that was it.

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Speaker 4: That's funny. Yeah, that's the one word I haven't dropped.

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Speaker 8: But you know, Alabama, and I'm the type of person

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Speaker 8: it's it's not for whatever, isn't when like when we're

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Speaker 8: in London, I'll start having a London accent.

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Speaker 4: I'm like, what is going on right now?

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Speaker 8: So I guess you know. I've been out of Long

597
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Speaker 8: Island since pretty much. I'm eighteen, and I guess I

598
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Speaker 8: just too much of a chameleon.

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Speaker 4: Not a great thing, but I've lost it a little bit.

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Speaker 4: I did not realize you were from Long Islands, Stephen.

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Speaker 3: This was great, dude. Thank you so much for stopping by.

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Speaker 2: I hope you had a good time.

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Speaker 1: Good luck the rest of the way.

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Speaker 4: Thanks guys,