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Speaker 1: All right, we've got Mets manager Carlos Mendoza joining us

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Speaker 1: right now, fresh off the Little League Classic.

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Speaker 2: Mandy, great to have you on and just want to

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Speaker 2: get your.

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Speaker 1: Overall thoughts on how it was out there to be

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Speaker 1: the manager of the Mets, get a win and have

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Speaker 1: an awesome experience with all the young talented kids out

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Speaker 1: there who love having you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what's going on, fellas Scottie Gratzy a j.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, back in DC now after a long day yesterday,

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Speaker 4: but special day, you know.

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Speaker 3: Experience.

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Speaker 4: A lot of you know, very good conversations with kids,

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Speaker 4: coaches and just you know, just going through the whole experience.

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Speaker 3: He was pretty cool.

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Speaker 4: And then definitely you know, playing our game and getting

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Speaker 4: the victory obviously, but yeah, it was uh, he was

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Speaker 4: just it was great experience, man, getting off the boss,

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Speaker 4: getting off the plane and just having the Venezuelan team

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Speaker 4: there that from my hometown, which I didn't know.

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Speaker 3: It was pretty special.

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Speaker 4: You know, I think we get on the balls, the

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Speaker 4: kids get in the boss and then you know some

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Speaker 4: of our players, you know, our superstars, you know.

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Speaker 3: They start walking on the boss and you see the

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Speaker 3: faces on those kids.

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Speaker 4: Man, it was just like I was just having a

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Speaker 4: blast because I know how hard it is for the

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Speaker 4: for them to make it all the way here and

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Speaker 4: then for them to just beat that close to their hearers.

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Speaker 3: You know, it was just unbelievable.

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Speaker 5: All Right, Mandy, Before I ask you my next question,

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Speaker 5: I need you to turn move the camera because you're

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Speaker 5: kind of not.

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Speaker 1: Let's we want to be able to see all of

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Speaker 1: you so we can make sure we get them all.

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Speaker 6: So he can. Yeah, could you see yourself on the camera?

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Speaker 6: Can you adjust it so you're in the.

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Speaker 1: In the middle of the other way, other way, other way?

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Speaker 1: A J is a good, good manager of television at

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Speaker 1: this point.

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Speaker 5: All right, So I really just want to know Venezuela's

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Speaker 5: playing right now as we speak. Okay, they're winning nothing

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Speaker 5: in the first Did you speak to another team or

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Speaker 5: did you just now you are out of the camera

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Speaker 5: against you or did you just talk to the Venezuelan team,

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Speaker 5: or did you just hang out with Venezuela and say

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Speaker 5: screw the rest of these teams?

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Speaker 6: I was just going my home team.

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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna say screwed everyone. I think they specifically

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Speaker 3: wanted me to hang out with the team. Okay, Okay,

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Speaker 3: I just follow instructions.

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Speaker 5: Okay, okay, because the rose Erna was with the Mexican team, right,

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Speaker 5: even though he's from Cuba, but he lived in Mexico.

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Speaker 3: Played, he plays for Mexico and the w b C.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, that makes sense.

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Speaker 4: I know they had me, they had all the they

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Speaker 4: had torrent and Acuna. Uh pretty much locked team with

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Speaker 4: the Venezuelan team.

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Speaker 3: So nice. Good he was first and third.

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Speaker 2: I was.

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Speaker 3: I was watching it too, and uh he was first.

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Speaker 1: Nothing right now, there's there's some shots of the guys

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Speaker 1: in the crowd, including Acuna.

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Speaker 2: So Mandy, Well, was the funniest thing.

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Speaker 1: It was the darnest thing a kid said to either

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Speaker 1: you or any of the Mets staff or players out there.

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Speaker 1: Anything like really funny, I mean viral wise, the the

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Speaker 1: toilet seat that big dumper cal Raley signed, that was funny.

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Speaker 2: Anything else that we missed.

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Speaker 3: No, not really.

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Speaker 4: Like I said, I think that the kids were just

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Speaker 4: kind of like in Heaven, to be honest with you,

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Speaker 4: for them to just be that close to these superstars,

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Speaker 4: it was just pretty surreal. And you could see like

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Speaker 4: Alvarez is talking to one of the catchers and the

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Speaker 4: believe I'm talking to Francisco Alvaris. Then one sudden, Lindor

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Speaker 4: walks by, and then like it was just I was

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Speaker 4: know where they're coming from, and har was for them

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Speaker 3: It was just, you know, like I was, I was

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Speaker 3: enjoyed a big time.

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Speaker 7: All right, is Alvarez Okay, you brought up Francis Carmers.

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Speaker 4: Okay, we don't know, man, he's I'm waiting at any

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Speaker 4: moment he's he went back to New York. He's getting

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Speaker 4: an MRI. I so we should not hear, you know,

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Speaker 3: But praying, what.

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Speaker 7: Does he what does he mean to your team? Because

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Speaker 7: I've always said, you know, everyone's everyone talks about his hitting, okay,

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Speaker 7: and then he got sent down to Triple A and

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Speaker 7: all this stuff. To me, it is a young catcher

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Speaker 7: And I think more than his stats, what he brings,

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Speaker 7: that energy that he brings to this team. But you

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Speaker 7: tell me, you see it day in and day out.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you're not missing anything crazy. Is this

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Speaker 4: is a kid that it was hard for him this year.

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Speaker 4: You know, we got to a point where we needed

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Speaker 4: to send him back to the minors, and to his credit,

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Speaker 4: didn't pout and he would just went right to work

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Speaker 4: and put himself in a position where hey man, like,

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Speaker 4: I'm ready to go back up.

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Speaker 3: And since his been here, he's a completely different player.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 4: And we saw at the very first game, the first

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Speaker 4: half bat, we're on defense, hitter gets to two strikes.

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Speaker 4: He you know, he calls a pitch, he's a bully

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Speaker 4: in the dirt, and right away he gets to the

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Speaker 4: blocking position. He blocks the ball back to back pitches.

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Speaker 4: We we didn't see that before we set him down.

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Speaker 4: He was just trying to pick everything, you know, and

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Speaker 4: trying to frame everything where it's like, hey man, like

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Speaker 4: the blocking as you guys know as catchers, you know.

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Speaker 3: Uh uh, Which, then great, we'll bring him.

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Speaker 6: Back so we can have the conversation or whatever.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, we lost him. We lost Mandy. Mandy used to

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Speaker 7: be with the Yankees. Maybe he's got the Yankees. Wi

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Speaker 7: Fi just that joke, that joke never never stops playing.

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Speaker 2: No, it doesn't. I mean I don't think we.

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Speaker 6: Got to pay the nine.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, some of the newer FT fans don't know about it,

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Speaker 1: but Yanks had to pay for Wi Fi on the plane.

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Speaker 2: That was the report right all right here, let's ask him?

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Speaker 6: Was that was that the report on ALVAREZK because we

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Speaker 6: need to know.

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Speaker 3: No, no, I don't know. I mean, why five issues?

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Speaker 4: I guess here the hotel, Yeah, it's nineteen ninety nine

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Speaker 4: that we have to pay.

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Speaker 3: I guess.

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Speaker 7: The sweet, the sweet. You got to get that in

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Speaker 7: your next contract. Sweet and free WiFi, Mandy, I get it,

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Speaker 7: I get it.

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Speaker 3: Back to all.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, he was just a completely different player defensively, offensively,

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Speaker 8: but just the energy and how he invests he is

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Speaker 8: on the pitching staff, how much he cares about the

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Speaker 8: about those guys, and he takes it personal when we're

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Speaker 8: not pitching well, which we haven't.

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Speaker 4: We went through stretch where he's been hard for us

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Speaker 4: and he takes it personal. But we're just kind of

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Speaker 4: praying right now because he's a big part of this

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Speaker 2: Mendy, how big was this weekend?

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Speaker 1: After what the team has gone through, which is just

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Speaker 1: uncharacteristic of course for any ball club? What was that

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Speaker 1: like just now? And do you feel like you've gotten

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Speaker 1: through it? Because the team won a series here, you

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Speaker 1: saw some good signs, even from a rookie, which we'll

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Speaker 1: get into and McLean, But what was it like from

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Speaker 1: from then that two and a half week period and

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean two and a half week.

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Speaker 4: I think he felt like it's been more than two

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Speaker 4: a tough stretch, frustrating one. We are all frustrated, frustrated,

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Speaker 4: but for us to be able to win a series

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Speaker 4: against a very good team, that Mariners team is a

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Speaker 4: really good team. You know, that's a deep lineup, it's

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Speaker 4: And for us to be able after losing the first one, uh,

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Speaker 4: the way we did it was it was important, you know,

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Speaker 4: the satur of the game. Last night game, I feel like,

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Speaker 4: you know, you guys know everything. It starts with starting pitching,

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Speaker 4: and we haven't been able to get that consistency from them.

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Speaker 3: I felt like singa lot time.

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Speaker 4: He's last outing going into the sixth inning, followed by

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Speaker 4: my claim that we'll talk about it. And then yesterday

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Speaker 4: Clay giving us a solid five innings. I thought he

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Speaker 4: eating got long. The fourth inning got long. But that's

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Speaker 4: where it starts, you know. Continue to believe in the guys.

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Speaker 4: There's a lot of talent there, and I'm pretty confident

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Speaker 6: Mandy.

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Speaker 7: I was.

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Speaker 5: I had the Yankees, your other team this weekend in

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Speaker 5: a game, and so I got to sit down with Boonie,

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Speaker 5: Aaron Boone and talk to him for a while. And

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Speaker 5: one of the questions they have been going through it too,

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Speaker 5: just like you guys were going through it. And I

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Speaker 5: know you worked there for the Yankees for a long time.

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Speaker 5: Do they teach you how to deal with things and

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Speaker 5: not let the frustration get to you? Because Aaron Boone

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Speaker 5: is one of the best I've ever seen it, being

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Speaker 5: even keel every time we talk to you, and I

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Speaker 5: see you can't tell if you're winning or losing. How

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Speaker 5: You're in New York, everyone's watching you. They want you

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Speaker 5: to react, they want you to get a ject, get angry.

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Speaker 5: But you guys are the two most even killed dudes

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Speaker 6: How do you guys do that?

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Speaker 4: It's part of it, you know. It comes with the territory.

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Speaker 4: Like you said, in New York, everything is magnified. But

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Speaker 4: I was glad that I was able to be UH

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Speaker 3: As part of the manager, you take the heat, you know.

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Speaker 4: It's just he was I'm trying to push our starters,

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Speaker 5: I agree, we've been We've been talking about this for

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Speaker 3: Yeah, with health.

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Speaker 2: He dazzles. It was awesome. The behind the back play

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Speaker 3: No, let him pitch. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: the real question. When you are mad. I know we

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Speaker 5: asked you this earlier. Is there a coach or is

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Speaker 5: there a player or trainer or someone on staff that

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Speaker 5: makes you laugh? And I know it's not Gibby because

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Speaker 5: Gibby's always grumpy. Might be Chavez, maybe someone else and

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Speaker 5: we don't know about it makes you laugh.

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Speaker 6: And if it's not, you can always call me Mandy.

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Speaker 6: I'll listen to your bitch and moan.

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Speaker 7: It's fine.

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Speaker 5: Take it off your wife. I might not really listen,

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Speaker 5: but I might just answer the phone. You can pitch

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Speaker 5: your moan and then you're done. I might fall asleep

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Speaker 5: and I'll hang up when I wake up.

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Speaker 4: I got a good group here, man, I got a

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Speaker 4: good group of coaches. Guys are consistent. There are a

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Speaker 4: lot of experience, a lot of different personalities. They keep

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Speaker 4: it loose. They try to keep it fun even when

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Speaker 4: he's not fun. But you have to find a way

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Speaker 4: to make it fun. Uh So, Yeah, I'm just proud

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Speaker 4: of the whole group in this poor staff, and we'll

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Speaker 4: get this thing going.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just get more Fox games so a j

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Speaker 1: could come, you know, mess around, but.

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Speaker 3: I'll messing around, I'm.

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Speaker 1: Saying in a fun way before the game, you know,

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Speaker 1: keep them happy. Like you said, you're the You're the

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Speaker 1: therapy guy right here, Bendy awesome catching up. Yeah, I'll

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Speaker 1: had a lot to cover there. Appreciate it and enjoy

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Speaker 1: the time over in DC. We'll catch you soon, Oh

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Speaker 1: I

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Speaker 3: Feelings, take care