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Speaker 1: I firmly believe that Mike Calvarcia is having an all

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Speaker 1: star caliber campaign this year. To see where he's come

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Speaker 1: from to where he is now, it's been truly remarkable.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what he said.

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Speaker 3: That's what he said.

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Speaker 4: That's what he said.

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Speaker 3: That's what he said.

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Speaker 5: I'm tired of the wishy, washy fans, the haters out

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Speaker 5: of here.

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna trigger somebody today.

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Speaker 5: Okay, I'm gonna trigger somebody because I'm tired of the

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Speaker 5: fans or the haters that are sitting around waiting on

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Speaker 5: the Tigers to fail.

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Speaker 6: Right, Well, watch, Ernest, I'll tell you they're gonna fail.

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Speaker 6: Watch it. You're that I told you so person Like

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Speaker 6: you're waiting around so you could be like I told

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Speaker 6: you so. Look, I know you they were gonna struggle. Look,

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Speaker 6: let's see if they do that in July.

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Speaker 5: Well, then they do it in July, then you're gonna say, well,

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Speaker 5: all out.

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Speaker 6: Like what do you want?

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Speaker 7: Like?

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Speaker 6: What baseball are you watching?

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Speaker 4: That?

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Speaker 6: You're not seeing what we're seeing. You know, the this

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Speaker 6: is not a fluke.

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Speaker 5: These guys are a a solid baseball team.

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Speaker 8: Preach Austin Jackson, part of Tiger territory, so we're gonna

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Speaker 8: highlight some of our shows part of the FTAM network.

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Speaker 8: So that's one Austin talking to Cody Stavenhagen and Karen Steckley,

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Speaker 8: and I love that Cam. I mean, Austin's kind of

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Speaker 8: new to the broadcast game and he's he's finding his

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Speaker 8: voice and also calling out the trolls. Right if you're

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Speaker 8: a Tiger fan right now.

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Speaker 6: Absolutely shouldn't be complaining much.

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Speaker 9: And let's be honest, that's not the usual nature of

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Speaker 9: a Tiger's fan, right the Tigers fan, the real Tigers

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Speaker 9: Tiger fan is going through it, gonna be through the team,

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Speaker 9: through the thick end of thing. And right now, like

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Speaker 9: Austin said, what we're seeing isn't a fluke. I think

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Speaker 9: the little tastes of last year. Have they finished the

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Speaker 9: second half, the taste of the playoffs being a game

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Speaker 9: or pitch or just you know, one moment away from

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Speaker 9: going as far as they've been in years, And now

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Speaker 9: they went out and brought back Flairty, brought back some

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Speaker 9: veteran pieces the bullpen.

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Speaker 2: They figured that blueprint out the past few seasons.

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Speaker 9: They have a starting five rotation that I would and

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Speaker 9: trade for anybody right now, arguably in the game right now,

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Speaker 9: if you talk about how they've been throwing, and then

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Speaker 9: you have good problems like Matt Deerley coming back, Meadows

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Speaker 9: coming back, if you can get anything from Aulis Cod

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Speaker 9: when he gets back, and then you have Hobby Bayaz, Right,

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Speaker 9: Hobby Baya is playing good baseball is really it's contagious

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Speaker 9: for people around him. Right he's out in the center field,

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Speaker 9: he's playing loose. What's happening is not a fluke. It's real,

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Speaker 9: and especially when you look at what they have to

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Speaker 9: compare themselves against in that division. Like you said, it's

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Speaker 9: a good division, but I think right now that's the

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Speaker 9: team to beat. And I love Austin triggering some people

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Speaker 9: in Detroit. Let's go, like, don't give me that wishy,

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Speaker 9: washy fan base stuff.

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Speaker 2: Believe in these boys. They're here to play.

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Speaker 4: Good for whom. Good for him. He played there long enough,

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Speaker 4: he knows that fan base, so he knows and good

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Speaker 4: for him. Yeah, get behind, get behind these guys, or

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Speaker 4: don't don't don't go back and forth a fan or

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Speaker 4: don't be a fan.

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Speaker 8: That's it, straight up, all right, Next up, we got

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Speaker 8: a couple more for That's what he said. Let's dive

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Speaker 8: back into the Red Sox first base situation. I don't

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Speaker 8: think anybody believes that the current status is going to

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Speaker 8: be the plan for the rest of the year. But

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Speaker 8: Gabrielle Star, friend of the show, tweets that Korra was

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Speaker 8: asked about a conversation on first base with Rafayeldevers in

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Speaker 8: the last couple of days and the answer was just

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Speaker 8: a simple no. When they said as he planned to,

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Speaker 8: and the answer again was no. Aj, do you think

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Speaker 8: that there's beef between Alex and Raffi or he's just

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Speaker 8: Or do you think that there's residual effects from what

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Speaker 4: He's being consistent, I'll give him that. I don't know

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Speaker 4: why they're being so hardcore about this. They just must

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Speaker 4: you can put Raffi Devers at first base and it

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Speaker 4: makes your team better, isn't that what this is all about?

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Speaker 4: So if you look at your roster and you look

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Speaker 4: Raffi Devers at first base makes us a better team,

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Speaker 4: shouldn't you at least say we'll think about it. Right

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Speaker 4: now it's a no, but maybe down the line we

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Speaker 4: might change something. I don't think there's a beef, but

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Speaker 4: I think that it's interesting the way they just keep

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Speaker 4: saying a hard no. So this just mean Raffi Devers'

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Speaker 4: is DH for the rest of his career. Because if

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Speaker 4: in Boston because they're just so adamant about it. There's

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Speaker 4: That's that's kind of my point. Like, I mean, there's

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Speaker 4: no offense to Rome Gonzalez and Toro Abraham Toro, but

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Speaker 4: I mean I'd rather if I could put Rothie Devers

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Speaker 4: You know, maybe a young kid may or Anthony could

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Speaker 4: and there like that would if that makes a team better?

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Speaker 4: Then isn't that Wasn't that the whole point to when

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Speaker 4: they said Raffi or the DH, it makes our team better? Well,

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Speaker 4: if Raffi playing first makes a team better, wouldn't it

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Speaker 4: be the same argument.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm with a J And I think another question

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Speaker 9: that just I kind of think about is I really

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Speaker 9: wish we got more insight on how Raffie Devers really

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Speaker 9: feels right, because we're making a lot about this first

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Speaker 9: base situation, and as you don't hear much from him,

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Speaker 9: it kind of makes you wonder, is he give me.

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Speaker 2: Static about it? And it's like, if that's the situation,

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Speaker 9: You know, again, I've said it before, sometimes you just

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Speaker 9: got to put your big board bridges on right. You're

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Speaker 9: getting paid a lot of money and maybe sometimes in

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Speaker 9: these situations you you don't get your way right, but

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Speaker 9: and do what's best for the team.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 9: So, you know what, when we have these conversations, just

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Speaker 9: it kind of makes me wonder, is he kind of

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Speaker 6: Right?

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Speaker 2: Because at the end of the day, most guys, they'll tell.

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Speaker 9: You put me anywhere as long as I'm in the lineup,

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Speaker 9: as long as I'm playing. But when you give a

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Speaker 9: along with that, and you think, well, you give me

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Speaker 9: whatever I want. And it's just like, that's not that's

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Speaker 9: not It doesn't seem like that's the case, right the

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Speaker 9: boss Boston Red Sox saying, Hey, Alex Regman was the

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Speaker 9: best for us defensively, we like him at third base,

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Speaker 9: and right now, DH would be the best for you,

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Speaker 9: possibly first base. So I just it makes me question

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Speaker 9: how much kickback he's really giving behind the scenes.

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Speaker 3: M yeah, aj.

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Speaker 4: But now though, now though, I mean, if he wanted

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Speaker 4: to play third, I'm sure he'd be open to playing first, right.

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Speaker 4: I Mean, I get it, I get you. If it's

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Speaker 4: play first, That's what I'm saying like if the Red

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Speaker 4: just been like a no no oh y yeah right

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Speaker 2: Yes, No, what you're saying is like, no, he's horrible.

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Speaker 2: We know we don't want him anywhere on the field,

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Speaker 2: Like yeah, I get, I get what you're saying.

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Speaker 9: You know what I'm saying, Like they're they're just like bro, bro,

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Speaker 9: we don't want him to touch the dirt and lets

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Speaker 9: it's in the box or running the basis Like yeah,

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Speaker 9: you're right, I feel you Like that's all that Ya,

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Speaker 9: that might be the bigger question, and like they won't

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Speaker 9: they and they won't just say it like he's he's

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Speaker 4: Get it, that's pretty and listen, I was all for

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Speaker 4: the pregnant Yeah sip, he's been their best hitter, right,

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Speaker 4: he's a great third baseman. But they ain't talk to

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Speaker 4: They clearly didn't talk to Devers before they did it,

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Speaker 4: otherwise he wouldn't be in this situation, right, And but

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Speaker 4: that goes back to my point though, if you can

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Speaker 4: put Raffie Devers at first base and it makes your

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Speaker 4: whole twenty six man roster better, you have to at

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Speaker 4: least think about it instead of just saying no, no, no, right,

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Speaker 4: it's just no, that's that's kind of my point. Like

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Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't know what's going on there

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Speaker 4: won a World Series.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, it's like it's like I feel

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Speaker 2: you when you break it down like that. It's like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: like how good? How bad could he be?

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Speaker 6: At first?

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Speaker 9: Like you know what I mean, Like we've seen guys

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Speaker 9: can name them. I mean, Luisa Rise, they talk about him.

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Speaker 9: They put him at first so you can keep his

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Speaker 9: do it makes you right, aj Like how bad could

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Speaker 9: Now he's engaged and you don't have to worry about

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Speaker 9: And now you're engaged. You know you're playing defense. But yeah,

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Speaker 8: They'll do something like that. That's probably what they have

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Speaker 6: Let's stop with the.

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Speaker 4: Grand Doll is what catcher.

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Speaker 3: They're like, you can play first I'm like.

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Speaker 4: No, Boston fans are better than that.

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Speaker 2: Come on, let's yeah.

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Speaker 8: I mean we're in early May. It's May seventh, they could.

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Speaker 4: Cost you exactly. That's the problem. Everyone was like, oh,

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Speaker 8: Then you might miss the playoffs by a game and go, damn.

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Speaker 8: I guess we should have figured out first base a

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Speaker 9: Listen, we talk about how long the season is, but

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Speaker 3: It really does.

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Speaker 8: Jalen Thompson is the Kansas City Star Wars reporter. He's

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Speaker 8: back on with us on FT right now, Jalen, good

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Speaker 3: How you doing.

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Speaker 7: Hey, what's up guys? You guys doing I'm doing good.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're great.

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Speaker 8: So what looks different the past couple of weeks for

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Speaker 1: You know, when I when I talked to Salvao Perez,

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Speaker 7: So the roles are rolling right now.

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Speaker 9: Hey, Jalen, is there any chance right as you got

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Speaker 9: this young team, sighting team, athletic team, they do a

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Speaker 9: what would it take for him to break his way

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Speaker 7: Yeah, what's up?

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Speaker 1: I just he's he's gonna come. He's coming, He's on

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Speaker 1: he's killing it right now in Double A. Four home

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Speaker 4: Hey, Jalen, Well, first of all, I talked to Quataro

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Speaker 2: It could happen down the road, but.

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Speaker 4: He's got to learn how to play the outfield, and

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Speaker 4: he's just it's just not there. Right, So you're on track.

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Speaker 4: You're on track with that, Jalen. And the biggest thing,

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Speaker 1: And you know, I've been watching baseball all my life

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Speaker 1: been their best pictures so far this season. So it's

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Speaker 1: just a whole story of just him overcoming doing whatever

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Speaker 1: he's ask of him, and now he's really shining. A

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Speaker 1: lot of credit goes to Brian Sweeney, Zach Bove, those

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Speaker 1: are the roles pitching coaches for really helping him get

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Speaker 1: to where he's at. He has a terrific pitch Mitchick

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Speaker 1: pick some pitch, mix in a great arsenal, so I

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Speaker 1: think that is the reason why he's been so great

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Speaker 1: in that rotation. And then Bennie Paspenttino, he is someone

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Speaker 1: where he has verbally said, and he told us in Baltimore,

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Speaker 1: if I'm gonna here a thirty in the roles lineup,

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Speaker 1: I have to produce. I have to be the guy

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Speaker 1: that they are counting on. And he started out a

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Speaker 1: little slow, and he you know, he was frustrated, but

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Speaker 1: then he's he turned it on. And one thing that

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Speaker 1: he's really good at is when he can get high,

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Speaker 1: he can carry an offense. So he adds protection for

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Speaker 1: Bobby Wood Junior batting third, and then he had Salada

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Speaker 1: Perez batting behind him. So he can be someone that

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Speaker 1: can carry this team. Last year he got hurt and

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Speaker 1: he nearly had one hundred RBIs so and he missed

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Speaker 1: thirty games down the stretch. So I think he can

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Speaker 1: be that run producer that they need.

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Speaker 9: So Jalen listen, I want to I want to stay

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Speaker 9: there on Benny. You know, you see a lot of analytics,

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Speaker 9: a lot of analytic data and guys chasing you know,

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Speaker 9: launch angleing bat speed and.

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Speaker 2: I think you know he said, you know he was

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Speaker 2: chasing bat speed.

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Speaker 9: Has he mentioned anything about that and not really going

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Speaker 9: back to maybe his old version of himself and not

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Speaker 9: really worrying.

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Speaker 2: About that, like do you have anything on that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he he makes a lot of adjustments and a

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Speaker 1: lot of that he tries to, you know, keep to

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Speaker 1: himself so he can continue to just get better. But

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Speaker 1: you can tell in talking to the hitting coaches that

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Speaker 1: his adjustments are just getting him back to you know,

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Speaker 1: hitting the ball to all feels, making sure that he

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Speaker 1: stays his bath head, stays in the zone a little

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Speaker 1: bit longer so that he can you know, spread to

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Speaker 1: where the where it's pitched at pretty much. And I

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Speaker 1: think for Vinnie, the key for him is once he

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Speaker 1: starts to hit the ball hard, hit it to the gaps,

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Speaker 1: getting getting over the fence. I think that's where he

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Speaker 1: really turns it on. It's funny. Uh, they were in

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Speaker 1: Baltimore and the first inning he didn't he struck out

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Speaker 1: with I guess runners on base in scoring position. So

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Speaker 1: then there's a rain delay and he's like, I have

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Speaker 1: to go do something. So he shaves his beard during

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Speaker 1: the rain delay and he has a mustache, and then

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Speaker 1: he comes out it hits a home run and helps

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Speaker 1: the Roles win. So it's it's pretty cool. I know

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Speaker 1: baseball is full of superstitions and everything of that nature,

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Speaker 1: but that was one literal adjustment that he did. So

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Speaker 1: he's shaved and it helped him help power the Roles

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Speaker 1: to a win. So I thought it was pretty cool

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Speaker 1: that he did that.

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Speaker 4: Hey, I was at that game. I sat through that

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Speaker 4: ra right so I didn't notice that because I wasn't

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Speaker 4: paying attention to Viny's face. But yeah, he did hit

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Speaker 4: a home run later in that game, so it worked.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes you got to do some crazy stuff. Someone want

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Speaker 4: to talk about or somebody I want to talk about

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Speaker 4: Jentleen and nobody mentions outside of maybe Kansas City, Mikeel Garcia.

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Speaker 4: He's having an unbelievable year's He's leading the team in hitting,

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Speaker 4: he plays a great third base. Nobody outside of Kansas

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Speaker 4: City knows anything about this guy, and he's turning himself

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Speaker 4: into a bona fight star.

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Speaker 7: Yes, and I'm glad you brought him up. AJ.

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Speaker 1: I've cermently believed that MIKEL Garcia is having an all

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Speaker 1: star caliber campaign this year. I know it's early, but

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Speaker 1: to see where he's come from to where he is now,

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Speaker 1: it's been truly remarkable. And that's just both on the

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Speaker 1: field and off the field. On the field, there were

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Speaker 1: times last year where he would get into a slump

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Speaker 1: or a colespel and you can see in his body

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Speaker 1: language that he was just very hard in himself and

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Speaker 1: it would affect how he would play the game. And

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Speaker 1: you know where he needed to be a key cogging

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Speaker 1: the roles offense. He just wasn't there at that point.

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Speaker 1: The roles batted him eighth in the lineup. He was

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Speaker 1: a lee off hitter. Last year, he got dropped all

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Speaker 1: the way down. If you would have came into this

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Speaker 1: year and you said Mike Kilgarcia is gonna be batting

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Speaker 1: fourth or fifth in the Royal's lineup, I'm pretty sure

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Speaker 1: not a lot of people would have believed you. But

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Speaker 1: that's just the work that he's put in. It's a

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Speaker 1: testament to his hard work. One thing that really stood

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Speaker 1: out about him this year was he got rid of

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Speaker 1: a leg kick and he went to a toe tap

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Speaker 1: and this toe tap has allowed him to stop diving

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Speaker 1: into the strike zone when he's swinging and stay more

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Speaker 1: balanced and firm, and he's getting to fastballs now and

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Speaker 1: that's been the key to him being successful. And I

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Speaker 1: mentioned off the field how he's grown. Last year, he

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Speaker 1: was really not speaking English the way like when he's

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Speaker 1: talking to the media. So he worked with the worlds

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Speaker 1: and he learned English. He watched videos of different interviews.

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Speaker 1: He was able to study the language, and then he said,

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Speaker 1: I want to really speak English fully without a translator.

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Speaker 1: This year and that's what he's been doing. So it's

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Speaker 1: really been great to see him kind of growing involved.

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Speaker 6: That's awesome.

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Speaker 4: That's awesome.

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Speaker 6: All right.

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Speaker 4: Last thing for me, I saw JJ Piccolough and obviously

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Speaker 4: you get to talk to Matt Uatrro. When I go

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Speaker 4: into these clubhouses and get to see him, are those

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Speaker 4: two the commas two guys in the world. I mean

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Speaker 4: mc ultrarro. It was like he's just sitting there and

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Speaker 4: he's talking. His voice never changed, he never got too

547
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Speaker 4: high too low. And then you see JJ. My favorite

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Speaker 4: part is like I see some of these guys that

549
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Speaker 4: I've known for a while, and JJ Pickle was like, Hi,

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Speaker 4: JJ Pickle. I'm like, I know who you are, dude,

551
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Speaker 4: you don't have to introduce yourself. And then he grabs

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Speaker 4: your hand and I was like, wow, he's got a

553
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Speaker 4: good handshake. But these two guys are like the calmest

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Speaker 4: two dudes in the world.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's it's crazy because when I first went

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Speaker 1: Matt Matt Quatrero, it was very much apparent that he's

557
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Speaker 1: not too high, not too low.

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Speaker 7: He's very day to day.

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Speaker 1: He wants to, you know, focus on the mantra today,

560
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Speaker 1: which is you can't control what happened yesterday and tomorrow

561
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Speaker 1: is not promised. You have to play and stand in

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Speaker 1: the moment. And I think that's the cue that the

563
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Speaker 1: team has taken on themselves. You look at the Royals,

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Speaker 1: they're very hyper focused on we can't worry about where

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Speaker 1: we are in the standings. We can't worry about the division,

566
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Speaker 1: we can't worry about not making the deeper run than

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Speaker 1: playoffs last year. We have to focus on what is

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Speaker 1: important right now, and I think you see it top

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Speaker 1: down from South of Perez to balbu Wight dreams, to

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Speaker 1: the pitching staff, to the coaches, to everyone, and the

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Speaker 1: same goes with JJ Piccolo. He is someone that he's

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Speaker 1: very accessible. He's able. You can talk to him anytime

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Speaker 1: you need to as a reporter, and that's very important.

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Speaker 1: Like he's on the road trips, he's just very in

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Speaker 1: tune to what the team is doing, and I think

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Speaker 1: they feed off each other very well.

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Speaker 8: Jalen, this was awesome man, really good insight. Great to

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Speaker 8: have you on. Encouraging everyone, of course to check out

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Speaker 8: Jalen's work, Follow him on Twitter, check out his work

580
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Speaker 8: in the Kansas City Star. If you're in KC. Locally

581
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 8: following this team. It's a good team. So check out

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Speaker 8: what he's got. Jalen, thank you, appreciate you.

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Speaker 7: Thank you guys so much. Talk to you guys soon.

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Speaker 3: Yes, talk to you soon.

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Speaker 8: This is a Kansas City Royals team that obviously had

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Speaker 8: a really successful year last year. They lost one hundred

587
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Speaker 8: games the year before, and then last year turn it

588
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Speaker 8: around make a nice little playoff run. They're in a

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Speaker 8: division that did not get a lot of credit last year.

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Speaker 8: I feel like there's a lot more respect this season

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Speaker 8: for the American League Central