WEBVTT - Episode 216: Logan Evans (Mariners Prospect)

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to episode number two sixteen of the Marine Layer Podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>We welcome on our guy and Mariner's pitching prospect, Logan Evans,

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<v Speaker 1>to discuss his ever changing sports fandom. Talk to him

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<v Speaker 1>about bouncing between being a starter and a reliever, some

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<v Speaker 1>of the dynamics with his friends down in the Mariners

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<v Speaker 1>minor league system, and we chirped him a little bit

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<v Speaker 1>so we had to keep him on his toes. We'll

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<v Speaker 1>also discuss the George Kirby injury and a couple other

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<v Speaker 1>tidbits around Mariners spring training. Your guys, reminder, make sure

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<v Speaker 1>Let's get it rolling, and we welcome you to this

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<v Speaker 1>episode of the Marine Layer Podcast, part of the Just

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<v Speaker 1>Baseball podcast Network, Recording on Monday evening, March tenth. It's

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<v Speaker 1>been a bit of a slow news week for the

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<v Speaker 1>Mariners over this past weekend. So uh wow, let's talk

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<v Speaker 1>to some Seahawks. What was your reaction going to be

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<v Speaker 1>if Aaron Rodgers signed?

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<v Speaker 2>Who? Can I put all my Seahawks things in a

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<v Speaker 2>box and chuck them out a window or something like that?

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<v Speaker 1>Or sorry, right after all your Mariner stuff?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah? Oh though, sorry that I'll be gas light by

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<v Speaker 2>Aaron Rodgers once he comes here. For all the people

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<v Speaker 2>that are mad, I've got five simple letters R E,

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<v Speaker 2>L A X. No, I'm not gonna relax.

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<v Speaker 1>Look, I don't even like Aaron Rodgers, but I thought

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<v Speaker 1>it would have been objectively hilarious if they signed him.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, if you want it from a content perspective, oh,

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<v Speaker 2>off the charts. I'll tell you what. The two teams

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<v Speaker 2>that share stadiums next to each other, if Aaron Rodgers

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<v Speaker 2>was here, there would be god, no, no, shortage of content.

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<v Speaker 1>Dude, we just need a Jerry to Poto presser on

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<v Speaker 1>a Saturday and an Aaron Rodgers pressure on a Sunday. Man,

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<v Speaker 1>you can't, doesn't even matter who's listening to this.

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<v Speaker 2>You can't.

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<v Speaker 1>You can't tell me with the straight face that wouldn't

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<v Speaker 1>be entertaining.

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<v Speaker 2>And then and then a player, another former player, calls

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<v Speaker 2>him out during the midweek, and.

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<v Speaker 1>Look, you'd only have to deal with it for one

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<v Speaker 1>year because he'd probably just did. The Seahawks would say,

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<v Speaker 1>get the hell out of here.

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<v Speaker 2>Uh huh oh I even met Mariners because you know

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<v Speaker 2>that just happened with Justin Turner.

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<v Speaker 3>But yeah, what.

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<v Speaker 1>What would the Mariners comp have been for signing Aaron

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<v Speaker 1>Rodgers if the Seahawks signed him.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't even know. I guess if you want to

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<v Speaker 2>think about legendary at his position, future Hall of Famer,

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<v Speaker 2>but pretty much washed. Nobody's got the takes and thoughts

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<v Speaker 2>that Aaron Rodgers has in baseball, at least not that

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<v Speaker 2>we know of publicly. I guess it would be similar

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<v Speaker 2>to if they signed Justin Verlander. But Justin Verlander one

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<v Speaker 2>day just went off the rails and had just unhinged

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<v Speaker 2>thoughts every day something like that.

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<v Speaker 1>I think this tells us we need more baseball players

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<v Speaker 1>on McAfee. Then we'll find one.

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<v Speaker 2>That will never the day Rogers just let it all

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<v Speaker 2>go on McAfee's show. I mean, just the scrolling of

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<v Speaker 2>Twitter that day was insanity.

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<v Speaker 1>Once we get baseball players to talk more, Agan, that's

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<v Speaker 1>our mission here, dog right, we want baseball players talking more.

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<v Speaker 2>So.

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<v Speaker 1>One of the I would say downsides of that is

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<v Speaker 1>that people sometimes get a little too transparent.

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<v Speaker 2>Mm hmm, Well can be known to happen.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think there is a Mariner's comp or a

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<v Speaker 2>baseball comp for a team signing Aaron Rodgers. Again, I

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<v Speaker 2>think that Justin Verlander thinks the closest thing I've got,

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<v Speaker 2>But it would have to involve Justin Verlander going off

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<v Speaker 2>the rails.

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<v Speaker 1>It would be like, so Gino's not Logan Gilbert. I

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<v Speaker 1>think Logan's too good for that. But let's say, can

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<v Speaker 1>I trade Brian Woo for Justin Verland?

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<v Speaker 4>Or is it?

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<v Speaker 1>Would that be a good one? Or am I stepping

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<v Speaker 1>over a line here?

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<v Speaker 2>That's stepping over a line. No, that's a terrible trade. Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, how about this, What if the Mariners just

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<v Speaker 2>asked Aubrey Huff to come out of retirement.

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<v Speaker 1>So who are you trading off the roster? Is this

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<v Speaker 1>trading Let's see, it's like, let's say, getting rid of

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<v Speaker 1>Randy and putting Aubrey Huff back in there.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it would be something like that.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh man, I don't think they'll be received very well.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, is Aubrey Huffs still online or did they

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<v Speaker 2>finally like kick him off again because he was kicked

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<v Speaker 2>off for a while just for being too unhinged.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a good question. I feel like, based on the

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<v Speaker 1>current climate, he's probably back.

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<v Speaker 2>Probably. Yeah, there's no comp for this. There's no baseball

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<v Speaker 2>comp for the Aaron Rodgers thing. Thank goodness, it's not

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<v Speaker 2>Aaron Rodgers. But hey, there's five minutes of Seahawks talk

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<v Speaker 2>for you, slash well, Seahawks slash baseball comparisons. Because there's

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<v Speaker 2>not a whole lot of There's not a whole lot

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<v Speaker 2>going on in Mariner's world right now.

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<v Speaker 1>The only real thing going on in Mariner's world is

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<v Speaker 1>who's not going to be going on for the next

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<v Speaker 1>couple of weeks while it gets better in George Kirby.

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<v Speaker 1>So George got shut down with shoulder inflammation last week.

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<v Speaker 1>Doesn't sound serious. He'll miss a couple starts. At the

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<v Speaker 1>beginning of the season, he wanted to keep throwing. They

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<v Speaker 1>had to rip the ball out of his hand. So typical, George.

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<v Speaker 1>It sounds like, Uh, is there any level of worry with.

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<v Speaker 2>This for you? Not after justin Hollander gave his press

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<v Speaker 2>conference about it, and you heard him and saw him

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<v Speaker 2>on video describing it. No, it sounds like to me

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<v Speaker 2>that this is very precautionary now to say that George

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't have the injury and the inflammation. Obviously he does,

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<v Speaker 2>that's what was diagnosed. But the fact George, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>was so adamant that like, you're not taking the ball

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<v Speaker 2>out of my hands. I'm gonna work through it. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't want to I don't want to miss any time.

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<v Speaker 2>Paired with what Hollander said that this is not serious.

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<v Speaker 2>There's no structural damage now, I'm not really concerned at all.

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<v Speaker 2>To be honest, this sounds to me like, especially with

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<v Speaker 2>the time that he's now expected to miss. They say,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna guess this is two to three starts that

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<v Speaker 2>Kirby misses, and then I'll be right back in there

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<v Speaker 2>before April's even over, So that's essentially only like, it's

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<v Speaker 2>not like a position player missing time, right with a

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<v Speaker 2>position with a starting pitcher only going once every five days.

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<v Speaker 2>That is, essentially, if the timeline I'm estimating is right,

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<v Speaker 2>two to three games where you do not get George

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<v Speaker 2>Kirby's impact, aka, you have to make up for twelve

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<v Speaker 2>to eighteen innings, and I think Emerson Hancock is perfectly

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<v Speaker 2>capable of doing that. So no, I'm not really concerned.

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<v Speaker 1>Just catch a kind of off guard though, to see

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<v Speaker 1>a Mariner's pitcher on the injured list for a non

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<v Speaker 1>fluke reason. A lot of Brian Wo's injuries last year

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<v Speaker 1>were fluky, especially once the season was actually underway and

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<v Speaker 1>he was pitching and whatever. I forget the injuries he had,

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<v Speaker 1>but they were not It seemed very random at that point.

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<v Speaker 1>And then you had Castillo at the end of the

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<v Speaker 1>year who almost just like kind of landed funny on

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<v Speaker 1>his hamstring and caused him to miss his final two

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<v Speaker 1>starts of the season. But in terms of just like

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<v Speaker 1>a shoulder flaring up, not something we're quite used to

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<v Speaker 1>seeing for the last i'd say two years, and I

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<v Speaker 1>just want to i'd say invite our listeners back in.

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<v Speaker 3>Is that.

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<v Speaker 1>Unfortunately, stuff like this almost certainly will be more of

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<v Speaker 1>a reality. It's just bound to happen as this season

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<v Speaker 1>goes on. They the Mariners pitchers last year missed a

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<v Speaker 1>combined Did they even miss a combined twenty starts? I

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<v Speaker 1>don't think so, right, maybe less than that.

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<v Speaker 2>So Wu missed about the first five to six weeks

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<v Speaker 2>of the year last year. That was more of a

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<v Speaker 2>real injury what he had because he had looking it

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<v Speaker 2>up here, they called it medial elbow inflammation is what

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<v Speaker 2>the wording was. So the elbow inflammation thing last year,

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<v Speaker 2>for that was a real injury. So he missed some

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<v Speaker 2>time with that. But you're right, once he got back

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<v Speaker 2>he had I want to say he had a also

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<v Speaker 2>a hamstring thing, or maybe it was a quad thing.

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<v Speaker 2>I remember something that took him out of a game

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<v Speaker 2>again and by the ball, didn't he what's that? Didn't

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<v Speaker 2>he get hit by a ball? I don't think so.

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<v Speaker 2>Remember he had something where he was sitting for a

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<v Speaker 2>long time between innings and he got tight and he

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<v Speaker 2>had to come out of that game. So I thought

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<v Speaker 2>that was something in his legs. Yeah, So anyway, point being,

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<v Speaker 2>you're right that a lot of Woo's injuries last year

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<v Speaker 2>were very kind of unique, and we're not you know,

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<v Speaker 2>could be a little fluky. But yeah, the Mariner's starting

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<v Speaker 2>pitchers didn't combine to miss twenty starts last year, No way.

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<v Speaker 2>Logan made every start, Kirby made, No Kirby missed one

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<v Speaker 2>last year. Remember he had a little something last year. Anyway, whatever,

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<v Speaker 2>let's I'm gonna stop trying to sit here and crunch

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<v Speaker 2>all the numbers. But yeah, there is no way the

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<v Speaker 2>Mariner's pitching combined to miss less than twenty starts last year.

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<v Speaker 2>They were incredibly healthy, which is pretty rare.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's unlikely that number they missed less than twenty

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<v Speaker 1>starts again this year. So they're already off. They're already

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<v Speaker 1>getting started on that number before the season even starts

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<v Speaker 1>at this point, so just be cautious. There's a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of workload with a lot of these guys going into

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<v Speaker 1>this upcoming season. The Mariners need him all to be healthy.

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<v Speaker 1>But unfortunately Kirby is not gonna be healthy to start

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<v Speaker 1>this year. I'm very happy for a guy. Emerson gets

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<v Speaker 1>opening day rotation spot. That's awesome. Gets to debut those

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<v Speaker 1>new pitches.

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<v Speaker 2>Second year in a row two because he was in

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<v Speaker 2>the rotation for a while last year until we got back.

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<v Speaker 2>So again, I know so many people out there already

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<v Speaker 2>have their opinions about Emerson, and I'm not saying he

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<v Speaker 2>has the same stuff that got him drafted sixth overall

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<v Speaker 2>out of Georgia. We know he's dealt with some injuries

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<v Speaker 2>in his career, but like, he's still twenty five years

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<v Speaker 2>old and he's still working on some things. He's still

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<v Speaker 2>trying to debut a few new pitches and find his

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<v Speaker 2>own rhythm in the big leagues. And by the way,

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<v Speaker 2>he's made fifteen career starts. It's not like he's thrown

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<v Speaker 2>for five seasons a big league ball Like I don't

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not writing them off. Let's see what he's got.

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<v Speaker 1>It's exciting. Let's see the vial. I hope that for him,

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<v Speaker 1>the Villa is there on opening day. Villa was working

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<v Speaker 1>for him, has been working for him quite a bit

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<v Speaker 1>this spring, so we'll see if that holds up when

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<v Speaker 1>the regular season gets there. I'd say one last note

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<v Speaker 1>for me dog about this weekend, Man, old man Colt

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<v Speaker 1>Emerson keeps looking better I mean, this dude wants in perspective.

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<v Speaker 1>So he hit his first spring training home run this

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<v Speaker 1>past weekend, one hundred and twelve off the bat at

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<v Speaker 1>Sloan Park against the Cubs. I was curious. I was like,

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<v Speaker 1>all right, I forget the total number of the amount

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<v Speaker 1>of professional games he's played total as a Mariner, the

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<v Speaker 1>total amount, and I'm counting the year he was drafted.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm counting the Fall league as well. He realize Colt

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<v Speaker 1>Emerson has played one hundred and seven total professional games,

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<v Speaker 1>one hundred and seven, and I'm watching him in these

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<v Speaker 1>at bats against big leaguers at nineteen, and he looks

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<v Speaker 1>totally comfortable. That is rare stuff. I don't remember Jared

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<v Speaker 1>or Julio or any of these other top prospects one

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<v Speaker 1>hundred and seven games into their professional career in the

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<v Speaker 1>minor leagues looking this comfortable. It's not guaranteeing big league

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<v Speaker 1>success at all, but I gotta say here in spring

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<v Speaker 1>he looks good.

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<v Speaker 2>He looks great. And by the way, that home run

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<v Speaker 2>came off of Kate Horton, who's a top pitching prospect

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<v Speaker 2>in baseball. Most outlets have him somewhere in the top

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<v Speaker 2>thirty to fifty. It's not like he hit it off

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<v Speaker 2>some scrub. It's not like he hit it off some

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<v Speaker 2>aging vet that's just trying to hang on in a

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<v Speaker 2>big league camp. No, he hit it off a real dude,

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<v Speaker 2>and at one hundred and twelve miles an hour. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know where Colt's going to start the year. I

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<v Speaker 2>would still assume Everett because he did struggle by the

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<v Speaker 2>numbers with the Aqua Sox last year once he got up,

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<v Speaker 2>and he hasn't spent that much time in High A yet.

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<v Speaker 2>But regardless, if he continues to hit like this, he

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<v Speaker 2>may not be an effort for long. And I'm really

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<v Speaker 2>interested to see what the end of his twenty twenty

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<v Speaker 2>five looks like because the start of it, Oh, the

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<v Speaker 2>start of it's pretty exciting.

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<v Speaker 1>And then around the American League, Uh, wow, it's wide open.

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<v Speaker 3>It is.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, that's what I was going to say about the pitching, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>which is, Look, nobody's happy that George Kirby's missing time.

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<v Speaker 2>Obviously you want everybody healthy, but you could be in

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<v Speaker 2>a worse spot. Not only have the Yankees already lost

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<v Speaker 2>the reigning Rookie of the Year and Luise Heel for

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<v Speaker 2>a significant amount of time. Garrett Cole just got announced

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<v Speaker 2>he's having Tommy John surgery. So the Yankees' ace isn't

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<v Speaker 2>gonna pitch all year, and the team that just made

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<v Speaker 2>the World Series last year looks extremely vulnerable all of

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<v Speaker 2>a sudden, No onon Soto, No Garrett Cole, Luise Heels

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<v Speaker 2>on the shelf. I'm looking past Aaron Judge on this

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<v Speaker 2>team who has not exactly had a clean bill of

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<v Speaker 2>health his whole career. They don't look all that imposing

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<v Speaker 2>all of a sudden.

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<v Speaker 3>They're not.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they're not unless you're a big believer in Jazz

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<v Speaker 1>Chisholm or Carlos Rodon living up to his twenty twenty

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<v Speaker 1>one season. Yeah, we're twenty two.

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<v Speaker 2>You need Max Free to stay healthy, you need Cochy

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<v Speaker 2>Bellinger to stay healthy. There's a ton of question mark.

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<v Speaker 2>There's a world of the Yankee could win I don't know,

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<v Speaker 2>eighty three eighty four games if things shake out and

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<v Speaker 2>if things don't go well.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and that should give you some optimism if you're

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<v Speaker 1>out there and you're looking for a reason to believe

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<v Speaker 1>in this Mariners season, Well, I'm telling you what. You

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<v Speaker 1>look around the American League and it's there's not that

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<v Speaker 1>much of a gap between all of the teams at

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<v Speaker 1>the top. It's pretty tightly packed together. I think it's

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<v Speaker 1>just as likely the Mariners emerge towards the front of

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<v Speaker 1>that pack as they miss the playoffs, because the margin

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<v Speaker 1>for error is probably ninety the margin of these teams.

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<v Speaker 1>The ceiling feels like it's like ninety two.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, let's just go through the contenders. We just talked,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, we just talked about the Yankees. But Yankees

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<v Speaker 2>Los Juan Soto missing a ton of pitching, missing their ace,

0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:56.160
<v Speaker 2>Orioles needed more done this offseason, didn't really do it.

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<v Speaker 2>They brought in Tyler O'Neil, they brought in Toma Yuki Sagano,

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<v Speaker 2>they brought in Charlie Morton. It's not like they lift

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<v Speaker 2>the world on fire with their offseason. Royals probably about

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<v Speaker 2>the same range that the Mariners will be in. Those

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<v Speaker 2>two teams are pretty similar last year. Guardians will still

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<v Speaker 2>be good. We know that Rangers people are starting to

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<v Speaker 2>pick them as a sleeper to win the Al West.

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<v Speaker 2>But that's a team that finished under five hundred last year.

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<v Speaker 2>You got the Astros who lost Kyle Tucker, they lost

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<v Speaker 2>Alex Bregman. They might have added some back, but then

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<v Speaker 2>you lost Erlander. Two. It's wide open, wide open. It

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<v Speaker 2>is a weak league this year.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, man, oh, go ahead, I was gonna say, And

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<v Speaker 1>then the Tigers are pretty fluky. And then the rest

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<v Speaker 1>of the Al East was not good last year as

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<v Speaker 1>talented as they are, like not that good or under

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<v Speaker 1>resourced if you're the Tampa Bay race. So you look

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<v Speaker 1>at that, the gap is not very large. There could

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<v Speaker 1>probably be ten teams within seven games of each other

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<v Speaker 1>seven games talent wise, maybe not results wise because they

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<v Speaker 1>actually have to play the games, but talent wise, it's

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<v Speaker 1>really not that much much difference. And that leaves the

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<v Speaker 1>window wide open for the Mariners. And if you want

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<v Speaker 1>to even bring it back to the off season for

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<v Speaker 1>thirty seconds, you can look at this to two different ways.

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<v Speaker 1>You look at this as, wow, this was a major

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<v Speaker 1>missed opportunity to put yourselves head and shoulders above everyone

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<v Speaker 1>else in the league, which, by the way, it wouldn't

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<v Speaker 1>have taken that much to go above everyone else. Right now,

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<v Speaker 1>say like Christian Walker, you could argue would have put

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<v Speaker 1>you over the rest of the American League at this point,

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<v Speaker 1>or you could say, well, because now that the Yankees

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<v Speaker 1>are worse, it doesn't matter that we didn't invest as

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<v Speaker 1>much in the roster this offseason because everyone else has

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<v Speaker 1>clumped in a group together and we're right there with

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<v Speaker 1>everybody else. Well, that's two different ways to look at it.

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<v Speaker 1>I would have rather had Christian Walker, but you know

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<v Speaker 1>there are two There are ways to look at this.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, what if you just signed Christian Walker and Hasan

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<v Speaker 2>Kim'd be pretty good? How are people talking about you

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<v Speaker 2>right now?

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<v Speaker 1>Very positively?

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<v Speaker 2>Not gonna do it, not gonna do it.

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<v Speaker 1>You gotta smile on your face because you know it's

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<v Speaker 1>positive time.

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<v Speaker 2>The shaking of the fists and clenching of the teeth.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know. Yes it's positive time, but I don't

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<v Speaker 2>know if you know. I felt the red coming through there.

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<v Speaker 2>It didn't come out, but I can feel it in me.

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<v Speaker 2>I was thinking about this. By the way, I'll just

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<v Speaker 2>I haven't told you this yet. I'll just bring it

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<v Speaker 2>to everybody here on the podcast. Okay, So obviously I've

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<v Speaker 2>made it a little goal as of late to not

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<v Speaker 2>just blow up about every single thing and always be

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<v Speaker 2>going on rants and scale that stuff back a little bit.

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<v Speaker 2>If there's ever a time where I feel like I'm

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<v Speaker 2>really going to go on a ramp, but don't want

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<v Speaker 2>to bother the people and do them a disservice of

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<v Speaker 2>just hearing a bunch of screaming. What if I just

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<v Speaker 2>make a statement instead where if something really goes down

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<v Speaker 2>that I can't stand, I just opt out of a podcast,

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<v Speaker 2>Like I'll still do all the editing, and I'll still

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<v Speaker 2>post all the video stuff, but for the actual recording,

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<v Speaker 2>you just have to record thirty minutes on your own.

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<v Speaker 2>It's likely i'll uh opt it out of this podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>If you're gonna do that, I think we need a

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<v Speaker 1>notesap post every time you do that.

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<v Speaker 2>Or how about it that's fine, or how about just

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<v Speaker 2>the video I'm opting out of this podcast story to

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<v Speaker 2>come okay?

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<v Speaker 1>All right, well yeah, sure if you feel like that

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<v Speaker 1>best suits you.

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<v Speaker 2>And yeah, me and the people sometime blasting people's ear

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<v Speaker 2>drums on fire.

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<v Speaker 1>Come on, Lyle, it's still April.

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<v Speaker 2>Well it's not even April. It's March tenth when we're

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<v Speaker 2>recording this.

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<v Speaker 3>Wow.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, there you go.

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<v Speaker 2>Just the thought, maybe maybe put into action and do time.

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<v Speaker 2>We'll see.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, maybe by August first, when the ifbms don't trade

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<v Speaker 1>for Kyle Tucker.

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<v Speaker 2>I might have to opt out of that one. Stand

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<v Speaker 2>it that may actually happen, but we'll see it might.

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<v Speaker 1>Odds has gone up as we were saying.

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<v Speaker 2>Should we get people that are interview with Logan Evans

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<v Speaker 2>here in a minute? Yeah, let's do it. Before that,

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<v Speaker 2>Let's take a quick pause. We'll talk to you, guys

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<v Speaker 2>about our friends over at Pagatcha's Pub eight five. We

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<v Speaker 2>talk to you about it all the time for very

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<v Speaker 2>good reason. It's an awesome spot to go hang out.

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<v Speaker 2>You want to watch these spring training games now a

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<v Speaker 2>bunch of them are on TV. March Madness is right

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<v Speaker 2>around the corner, you guys, one of the most fun

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<v Speaker 2>sporting events of the year. You need a place with

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<v Speaker 2>a bunch of TVs to watch all the games with

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<v Speaker 2>your friends. Head over there. There's more than twenty in

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<v Speaker 2>that place. You can also get some great food and

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<v Speaker 2>there's awesome happy hour drinks which are Monday through Friday

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<v Speaker 2>from two to six pm. You, guys, and drinks are

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<v Speaker 2>three and four bucks. Those are awesome deals. You can't

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<v Speaker 2>tell me they're not awesome deals.

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<v Speaker 4>They are.

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<v Speaker 2>So if you want a fun time out with your friends,

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<v Speaker 2>place to watch sports, good place to hang out, have

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<v Speaker 2>some good drinks. All of that is over at Pagatcha's

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<v Speaker 2>Pub eight five in Kirkland.

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<v Speaker 1>I think it's only fitting that while we got to

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<v Speaker 1>sit down with Logan Evans down at spring training, because

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<v Speaker 1>as soon as we made our connection with him for

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<v Speaker 1>the first time last year about this a little bit

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<v Speaker 1>later from this time last year, I'd say about ten

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<v Speaker 1>months ago, roughly, we could tell he'd be a good guy,

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<v Speaker 1>a good candidate to have in a setting like this,

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<v Speaker 1>and I think this sit down definitely shows some of

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<v Speaker 1>Logan's personality. It's also a will you know, talk a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit about baseball. He had a really interesting year

0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:20.280
<v Speaker 1>last year when he's bouncing between the bullpen and the

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<v Speaker 1>starting rotation, what's next for him this year? He's able to,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, break down and describe a lot of what

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<v Speaker 1>makes him unique, what makes all the pictures in this

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<v Speaker 1>org unique, So of the dynamics he has with guys

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<v Speaker 1>like Mikey Morales and Brandon Garcia and Danny Wurchanski and

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<v Speaker 1>all these other guys. A really good conversation. I will

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<v Speaker 1>note Low and I had some audio issues with our microphone.

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<v Speaker 1>We might sound a little echier than Echo, err than

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<v Speaker 1>Logan does. What's important is you can hear Logan Evans.

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<v Speaker 1>You can listen to Lou and I yap all day,

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<v Speaker 1>So that's that's the important part. But overall, a great

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<v Speaker 1>conversation with Logan Evans.

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<v Speaker 2>Logan's audio is perfect, by the way, There's no issues

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<v Speaker 2>here in Logan, And that's the important part, because, like

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<v Speaker 2>t I said, do you really need to sit there

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<v Speaker 2>and listen to us say a bunch of stupid shit?

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<v Speaker 2>We do that twice a week, and actually more times

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<v Speaker 2>than that because we put it on social media too.

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<v Speaker 2>So yeah, it's an awesome conversation. You can still hear

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<v Speaker 2>us perfectly fine, you can still hear the whole conversation.

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<v Speaker 2>Just wanted to give you a heads up. But Logan

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<v Speaker 2>is Logan's our guy. And to what you alluded to

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<v Speaker 2>earlier in the episode about mariners needing more arms this year,

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<v Speaker 2>not only did Logan have an interesting year in DOUBLEA

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<v Speaker 2>last year, he had a really really good year to

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<v Speaker 2>the point where he is probably seventh in line in

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<v Speaker 2>the organization right now to make a start. In other words,

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<v Speaker 2>there's probably a pretty decent likelihood that we're going to

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<v Speaker 2>see him in Seattle in twenty twenty five. And he's

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<v Speaker 2>a guy with real upside, big stuff, a big arsenal,

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<v Speaker 2>and a chance to be a really good big league

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<v Speaker 2>starting pitcher. So you want to get to learn about

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<v Speaker 2>a guy who may play a real role on this

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<v Speaker 2>Mariner team in twenty twenty five and moving forward to

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<v Speaker 2>some extent, Go listen to this one because it's a

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<v Speaker 2>really fun one and he's just awesome to listen to.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, not keep you guys any longer. Let's get you

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<v Speaker 1>to the interview with Logan Evans.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, another sit down interview. We're joined by our

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<v Speaker 2>friend Logan Evans, Aernord's pitching prospect. Had an awesome year

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<v Speaker 2>last year. I've been waiting to say this to you,

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<v Speaker 2>honestly for a few months now, so I'm ready to

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<v Speaker 2>get it off my chest. You're a sellout. Do you

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<v Speaker 2>know where I'm going with this?

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<v Speaker 3>No? I do not. Oh yeah, I know here.

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<v Speaker 5>It's gonna be about my football team, isn't that. There's

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<v Speaker 5>gonna be about how I light the Titans because of

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<v Speaker 5>Derrick Henry's gone.

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<v Speaker 3>Now I'm big Lions fan, jumping on the wagon.

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<v Speaker 4>All right, So maybe your parents spoiled it a little bit.

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<v Speaker 4>They spoiled a little bit, a little bit the other day. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>first time you're on with us.

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<v Speaker 2>You're talking about I'm this Detroit sports fan.

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<v Speaker 4>I grew up loving Tigers.

0:22:48.119 --> 0:22:51.880
<v Speaker 2>I grew up loving the Pistons, but the football, Oh,

0:22:51.960 --> 0:22:54.320
<v Speaker 2>I couldn't root for the Lions anymore, so I became

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<v Speaker 2>a Titans fan.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Fast forward of this offseason, I'm seeing you with Lions

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<v Speaker 2>games with hashtag go on with your family.

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<v Speaker 3>So you yeah, I guess you could say that I

0:23:06.600 --> 0:23:09.400
<v Speaker 3>jumped on the wagon. I would. I will say that.

0:23:10.880 --> 0:23:13.160
<v Speaker 5>I did support the Lions for most of my life,

0:23:13.240 --> 0:23:16.080
<v Speaker 5>and then it was like the sixteen years is when

0:23:16.119 --> 0:23:18.119
<v Speaker 5>I was like, you know, I gotta get off. My

0:23:18.119 --> 0:23:20.879
<v Speaker 5>favorite player is Derrick Henry, So realistically, I'm just like

0:23:21.320 --> 0:23:23.199
<v Speaker 5>a fan of the players, and he happened to be

0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:25.560
<v Speaker 5>on the Titans. I also loved aj Brown. But yeah,

0:23:25.560 --> 0:23:27.879
<v Speaker 5>you could label me as that I don't take any offense.

0:23:27.960 --> 0:23:30.479
<v Speaker 6>That shouldn't you be a Ravens fan then isn't that

0:23:30.560 --> 0:23:32.879
<v Speaker 6>more Wouldn't that be more enjoyable than being a Ravens

0:23:32.880 --> 0:23:34.400
<v Speaker 6>fan being a Lions fan.

0:23:35.920 --> 0:23:38.840
<v Speaker 3>I think I think I bought myself a well.

0:23:38.920 --> 0:23:41.960
<v Speaker 5>I got gifted to Derrick Henry Ravens Jersey, so I

0:23:42.119 --> 0:23:45.240
<v Speaker 5>I I rep that, but I just have no ties

0:23:45.280 --> 0:23:48.920
<v Speaker 5>to Baltimore. Obviously being from Michigan, I can I can

0:23:48.960 --> 0:23:51.520
<v Speaker 5>say that I grew up like liking the Lions, especially

0:23:51.520 --> 0:23:55.719
<v Speaker 5>when we had like Stafford and Calvin Johnson. So I

0:23:55.800 --> 0:23:58.200
<v Speaker 5>just yeah, I didn't didn't feel any like real connection

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<v Speaker 5>to the Ravens. So that's kind of I hop back

0:24:00.720 --> 0:24:04.800
<v Speaker 5>on the wagon. And Gibbs is just like an electric player,

0:24:04.880 --> 0:24:07.399
<v Speaker 5>so I enjoy watching him. I got those tickets to

0:24:07.440 --> 0:24:10.000
<v Speaker 5>the Thanksgiving game, so things are adding up.

0:24:10.680 --> 0:24:13.200
<v Speaker 2>Are you more of a Sonic or Knuckles guy?

0:24:14.160 --> 0:24:17.560
<v Speaker 5>I'm a big Gibbs guy. I like the flashy. My

0:24:17.720 --> 0:24:21.359
<v Speaker 5>dad is big Knuckles. He loves he loves Montgomery, the

0:24:21.680 --> 0:24:24.400
<v Speaker 5>physicals stuff that he brings to the table. I don't

0:24:24.400 --> 0:24:26.960
<v Speaker 5>mind Montgomery, but I want the home run hitters. I

0:24:26.960 --> 0:24:28.840
<v Speaker 5>mean it's like it's like baseball, like you love the

0:24:28.880 --> 0:24:31.520
<v Speaker 5>guys who are contact guys get on base, but everybody

0:24:31.520 --> 0:24:32.320
<v Speaker 5>want to see the home run.

0:24:32.520 --> 0:24:35.520
<v Speaker 6>Well, since he mentioned a Derick Henry Ravens Jersey at

0:24:36.600 --> 0:24:38.760
<v Speaker 6>you might know where my train of thought is leading here.

0:24:39.320 --> 0:24:41.720
<v Speaker 6>Doesn't that feel like and let's run this idea by

0:24:41.760 --> 0:24:43.560
<v Speaker 6>you too, since it almost feels like more of a

0:24:43.640 --> 0:24:45.280
<v Speaker 6>rarity jersey.

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<v Speaker 4>Would you wear?

0:24:49.720 --> 0:24:52.920
<v Speaker 5>I mean, yeah, I went to Lallapalooza back in the

0:24:53.040 --> 0:24:55.800
<v Speaker 5>day and I and I was repping the Kevin Garnett

0:24:56.800 --> 0:24:57.880
<v Speaker 5>te Wolves jersey.

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<v Speaker 3>So I think I would rip that a Coachella. It's

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<v Speaker 3>it's a nice jersey.

0:25:01.600 --> 0:25:05.200
<v Speaker 6>If you heard our theory on Coachella jerseys, so it's

0:25:05.480 --> 0:25:07.920
<v Speaker 6>you pick like either a good player or an irrelevant

0:25:07.920 --> 0:25:10.639
<v Speaker 6>player but somewhere and this is them playing on a

0:25:10.680 --> 0:25:12.719
<v Speaker 6>team that they're not known for. Yeah, I wouldn't say

0:25:12.760 --> 0:25:14.720
<v Speaker 6>Derek Henry is known as a raven. He's a raven neat,

0:25:15.000 --> 0:25:16.639
<v Speaker 6>but I won't say he's known as a raven. So

0:25:16.680 --> 0:25:19.840
<v Speaker 6>you see a Raven's Derrick Henry jersey at Coachella.

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<v Speaker 5>You're like, oh yeah, yeah, no, yeah, I definitely feel

0:25:23.960 --> 0:25:26.240
<v Speaker 5>like that that passes the test of being a Coachella

0:25:26.359 --> 0:25:30.359
<v Speaker 5>jersey for sure. I mean years later, obviously he's playing

0:25:30.359 --> 0:25:32.159
<v Speaker 5>for them now, but years later, if I were to

0:25:32.200 --> 0:25:33.720
<v Speaker 5>go to that and I was wearing that, I'm sure

0:25:33.720 --> 0:25:36.320
<v Speaker 5>I would get comments on it. I think everybody'd be like, damn,

0:25:36.359 --> 0:25:36.920
<v Speaker 5>that's pretty cool.

0:25:36.960 --> 0:25:37.240
<v Speaker 3>Jersey.

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<v Speaker 6>Do you have any other ideas for for jerseys. We're

0:25:39.240 --> 0:25:41.000
<v Speaker 6>spitting out some some m's ideas.

0:25:41.240 --> 0:25:42.880
<v Speaker 4>Have any that you might.

0:25:42.760 --> 0:25:44.640
<v Speaker 2>Think doesn't have to be Barron as it could be anybody,

0:25:44.680 --> 0:25:46.560
<v Speaker 2>like yeah, this is an example. Have you ever seen

0:25:46.600 --> 0:25:49.440
<v Speaker 2>that video that circulates on Twitter and it's that remixed

0:25:49.520 --> 0:25:52.600
<v Speaker 2>version of Viva LaVita playing Cold Play, And it's like

0:25:53.000 --> 0:25:55.399
<v Speaker 2>all these just highlight reels of like Sammy Sosa with

0:25:55.440 --> 0:25:59.240
<v Speaker 2>the oriol Yeah, yeah, yeah, those are essentially Coachella Jersey.

0:25:59.320 --> 0:26:03.680
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, that are exactly Thaker.

0:26:03.960 --> 0:26:04.200
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

0:26:05.840 --> 0:26:07.800
<v Speaker 5>I think a cool Titans one would be like the

0:26:07.880 --> 0:26:10.520
<v Speaker 5>Randy Moss he played there for a year or two,

0:26:10.640 --> 0:26:13.040
<v Speaker 5>maybe just like touchdown. I feel like that would be

0:26:13.080 --> 0:26:16.679
<v Speaker 5>a great Coachella Jersey exactly. So you're you're looking, you

0:26:16.720 --> 0:26:18.600
<v Speaker 5>probably see that in the crowd. You're like, I didn't

0:26:18.600 --> 0:26:20.919
<v Speaker 5>know he played for them.

0:26:21.080 --> 0:26:25.480
<v Speaker 3>Yeah yeah, yeah, exactly.

0:26:26.760 --> 0:26:29.040
<v Speaker 5>I'm trying to think of a Lions player that would

0:26:29.040 --> 0:26:36.000
<v Speaker 5>be like a like a crazy Jersey poll. Uh yeah, yeah,

0:26:36.160 --> 0:26:37.600
<v Speaker 5>that would that would get a lot of reaction.

0:26:37.680 --> 0:26:38.439
<v Speaker 3>That's a good one.

0:26:38.800 --> 0:26:40.879
<v Speaker 2>Were you still a Lions fan when he ran out

0:26:40.920 --> 0:26:41.919
<v Speaker 2>of the end zone for safety?

0:26:41.960 --> 0:26:44.520
<v Speaker 5>Oh yeah, no, I that that was one of those

0:26:44.560 --> 0:26:46.920
<v Speaker 5>ones on sports and you're like, this is my team,

0:26:47.119 --> 0:26:49.680
<v Speaker 5>Like I'm cheering for that guy that's brutal.

0:26:50.640 --> 0:26:52.600
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, yeah, I was definitely a fan of them. Then.

0:26:52.800 --> 0:26:53.760
<v Speaker 4>So let me ask you this.

0:26:54.080 --> 0:26:56.159
<v Speaker 2>We start off hot, we tell you're a sellout with

0:26:57.400 --> 0:26:59.600
<v Speaker 2>on a scale of one to ten, how close were

0:26:59.640 --> 0:27:02.240
<v Speaker 2>we on the Michael Morales care scale of chirping?

0:27:04.359 --> 0:27:07.600
<v Speaker 5>That's like a that's probably a six or seven. Yeah, Mike,

0:27:07.760 --> 0:27:10.240
<v Speaker 5>Mike can uh, he can take some shots and we're

0:27:10.320 --> 0:27:12.280
<v Speaker 5>running it back and forth, but it's not her personal

0:27:12.320 --> 0:27:13.680
<v Speaker 5>you know, it's always funny games.

0:27:13.680 --> 0:27:15.879
<v Speaker 6>Can you describe going to battle with Mikey Morales? You

0:27:15.920 --> 0:27:17.520
<v Speaker 6>show up to the port? Actually, no, he picked you

0:27:17.520 --> 0:27:18.719
<v Speaker 6>pick him up or he picks you up.

0:27:18.720 --> 0:27:21.560
<v Speaker 3>I forget the I pick him up. Yeah, he's low bro.

0:27:21.800 --> 0:27:24.000
<v Speaker 6>You pull you pull up to low Brough's house. Yeah,

0:27:24.080 --> 0:27:26.719
<v Speaker 6>you unlock the door. What's going through your mind when

0:27:26.760 --> 0:27:28.000
<v Speaker 6>you're getting ready to chirp up?

0:27:28.800 --> 0:27:32.679
<v Speaker 5>So our infamous uh argument that we had for weeks

0:27:32.680 --> 0:27:35.840
<v Speaker 5>on end last year was he had a great performance

0:27:35.880 --> 0:27:41.560
<v Speaker 5>against Tulsa, went five or six innings twelve K's I

0:27:41.720 --> 0:27:43.720
<v Speaker 5>just give him a little paths like, dude, do sweet,

0:27:43.800 --> 0:27:47.040
<v Speaker 5>good job. Next day, I went like six perfect innings

0:27:47.280 --> 0:27:48.600
<v Speaker 5>and I was like, that's how you get it done.

0:27:48.800 --> 0:27:50.600
<v Speaker 3>Just hit him with it. Uh.

0:27:50.640 --> 0:27:54.160
<v Speaker 5>So we had this argument back and forth on what

0:27:54.240 --> 0:27:57.640
<v Speaker 5>was more, what was better, what was more valuable. But yeah,

0:27:57.680 --> 0:28:00.960
<v Speaker 5>a lot of that derives from, like on field play,

0:28:01.080 --> 0:28:02.240
<v Speaker 5>we always are joking around.

0:28:02.280 --> 0:28:04.240
<v Speaker 3>Obviously it's easy to do when we're having success.

0:28:04.440 --> 0:28:06.159
<v Speaker 5>I don't really think we're going back and forth if

0:28:06.200 --> 0:28:09.640
<v Speaker 5>we were to have like a big hiccup in the road,

0:28:09.680 --> 0:28:11.600
<v Speaker 5>But yeah, that's kind of where it derives from.

0:28:11.640 --> 0:28:13.679
<v Speaker 6>I gotta give Mikey credit. Out of all the people

0:28:13.720 --> 0:28:15.800
<v Speaker 6>we've talked to Amerner's camp and a lot of amazing

0:28:15.800 --> 0:28:18.640
<v Speaker 6>people out of here, I don't think there's a single one.

0:28:18.520 --> 0:28:19.960
<v Speaker 4>Who has a personality bigger than a Hans.

0:28:20.280 --> 0:28:20.480
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

0:28:20.680 --> 0:28:22.800
<v Speaker 6>The ability to literally say anything.

0:28:22.880 --> 0:28:28.040
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, no, he he doesn't hold back. He says what's

0:28:28.080 --> 0:28:30.960
<v Speaker 5>on his mind. But yeah, it's what makes him awesome.

0:28:31.040 --> 0:28:33.960
<v Speaker 5>He's got such an authentic personality and you feel like

0:28:34.000 --> 0:28:35.880
<v Speaker 5>you can have a conversation with him any day.

0:28:36.000 --> 0:28:38.440
<v Speaker 3>And uh yeah, he's a great kid. I love him.

0:28:38.480 --> 0:28:40.600
<v Speaker 2>When Morales was on with us over the off season,

0:28:40.680 --> 0:28:42.680
<v Speaker 2>he was talking about a video where somebody had a

0:28:42.720 --> 0:28:44.160
<v Speaker 2>big hit down in Arkansas.

0:28:44.440 --> 0:28:46.040
<v Speaker 4>But your parents couldn't focus on that.

0:28:46.120 --> 0:28:48.320
<v Speaker 2>When the video was tweeted out, they noticed you and

0:28:48.360 --> 0:28:54.320
<v Speaker 2>Morales were just sure, like eye something if you can

0:28:54.360 --> 0:28:55.360
<v Speaker 2>even share what it was.

0:28:55.440 --> 0:28:59.240
<v Speaker 5>That what it was that I believe I could be incorrect,

0:28:59.240 --> 0:29:04.080
<v Speaker 5>but it was in Wichita and that was exactly what

0:29:04.120 --> 0:29:05.800
<v Speaker 5>I was telling you as well. It was like a

0:29:05.800 --> 0:29:09.040
<v Speaker 5>few weeks after he had the twelve punches, I went perfect,

0:29:09.040 --> 0:29:11.360
<v Speaker 5>and we're talking like this and that, we're asking everybody's

0:29:11.360 --> 0:29:13.160
<v Speaker 5>opinion in the dog out what do you think is better?

0:29:13.240 --> 0:29:16.000
<v Speaker 5>This is and that and uh, and I to mention

0:29:16.160 --> 0:29:18.080
<v Speaker 5>obviously he did win Picture of the Year, but I

0:29:18.120 --> 0:29:20.480
<v Speaker 5>got Picture of the Week and that that that week

0:29:20.760 --> 0:29:22.920
<v Speaker 5>in the Texas League. So I was like, they kind

0:29:22.920 --> 0:29:24.960
<v Speaker 5>of know exactly what what we're arguing about.

0:29:25.280 --> 0:29:27.440
<v Speaker 2>So I say this all out of lot because all

0:29:27.480 --> 0:29:29.640
<v Speaker 2>three of you and really your full double a rotation

0:29:29.680 --> 0:29:32.200
<v Speaker 2>who we all had the chance to talk to it

0:29:32.280 --> 0:29:35.800
<v Speaker 2>all five, but you were awesome. You Readigi Morales or

0:29:35.880 --> 0:29:38.680
<v Speaker 2>chance Kiy and Morales get Picture of the year.

0:29:39.160 --> 0:29:40.160
<v Speaker 4>Awesome, awesome year.

0:29:40.160 --> 0:29:42.200
<v Speaker 2>But it was that, Yeah, did Morales come up to

0:29:42.200 --> 0:29:44.760
<v Speaker 2>you after winning that and saying that's how it got.

0:29:44.840 --> 0:29:48.320
<v Speaker 5>Uh sort of you beat her on the bush. Yeah,

0:29:48.360 --> 0:29:50.200
<v Speaker 5>there's some times where he's like, yeah, I'm Picture of

0:29:50.200 --> 0:29:52.520
<v Speaker 5>the Year, So I'm like, I can't fault you for that.

0:29:52.560 --> 0:29:56.240
<v Speaker 5>You had a great season. But yeah, we are always

0:29:56.280 --> 0:29:59.360
<v Speaker 5>like going back and forth. We're always chirping. Hopefully we

0:29:59.440 --> 0:30:01.800
<v Speaker 5>get up to the league and we're having these battles

0:30:01.840 --> 0:30:03.360
<v Speaker 5>and and doing well there.

0:30:03.440 --> 0:30:06.200
<v Speaker 3>So yeah, but it's good. He definitely drops it sometimes.

0:30:06.440 --> 0:30:08.320
<v Speaker 6>So you and Mike you're going at it. What are

0:30:08.400 --> 0:30:09.720
<v Speaker 6>Danny and Brandon doing.

0:30:10.880 --> 0:30:14.280
<v Speaker 5>Danny's super genuine kid like always nice, you know Danny.

0:30:14.320 --> 0:30:18.000
<v Speaker 5>I mean, he never really gets on the action big

0:30:18.280 --> 0:30:21.000
<v Speaker 5>kind of just like talks to any of the players

0:30:21.040 --> 0:30:22.520
<v Speaker 5>who are around us when we're arguing and be like,

0:30:22.560 --> 0:30:24.920
<v Speaker 5>these guys are just idiots. They don't he doesn't really

0:30:25.040 --> 0:30:28.080
<v Speaker 5>jump in on it, but yeah, they're they're usually on

0:30:28.120 --> 0:30:32.040
<v Speaker 5>the on the chill side for sure. Uh, Scoot Scoot

0:30:32.120 --> 0:30:35.000
<v Speaker 5>jumps in there. Sometimes. He's funny, he's got quick comments.

0:30:35.000 --> 0:30:39.680
<v Speaker 5>He's he's a funny kid. Him and Alfred are like quick, witty,

0:30:40.760 --> 0:30:43.160
<v Speaker 5>but they they don't really jump in like me and

0:30:43.240 --> 0:30:43.640
<v Speaker 5>Mikey do.

0:30:43.680 --> 0:30:44.560
<v Speaker 3>When me and Mikey.

0:30:44.320 --> 0:30:47.640
<v Speaker 5>Step in a room, it's always competition about anything. I mean,

0:30:47.680 --> 0:30:51.560
<v Speaker 5>we could be playing pool back at our airbnb, video games,

0:30:51.600 --> 0:30:58.640
<v Speaker 5>whatever it is, We're gonna be super competitive. We're both trash.

0:30:58.880 --> 0:31:02.560
<v Speaker 5>But it's honestly like it's back and forth every game.

0:31:02.640 --> 0:31:06.240
<v Speaker 5>No one really dominates the pool table. So yeah, it's

0:31:06.240 --> 0:31:06.800
<v Speaker 5>back and forth.

0:31:06.880 --> 0:31:09.280
<v Speaker 4>You had a pretty wild ride last year. You start

0:31:09.320 --> 0:31:10.200
<v Speaker 4>as a starter.

0:31:10.160 --> 0:31:12.560
<v Speaker 6>Yep, then you go to a reliever for a little bit,

0:31:12.640 --> 0:31:14.800
<v Speaker 6>and then you come back to being a starter. I

0:31:14.840 --> 0:31:16.640
<v Speaker 6>want to go to the first transition when they call

0:31:16.720 --> 0:31:19.880
<v Speaker 6>you to be a reliever, like what are you thinking about?

0:31:19.920 --> 0:31:22.960
<v Speaker 4>Like what how do you feel like it's going to

0:31:23.000 --> 0:31:23.360
<v Speaker 4>go at this?

0:31:25.000 --> 0:31:29.160
<v Speaker 5>At that point, I was sitting there thinking like, dude,

0:31:29.160 --> 0:31:30.240
<v Speaker 5>I have this figured out.

0:31:30.280 --> 0:31:30.480
<v Speaker 3>You know.

0:31:30.920 --> 0:31:33.000
<v Speaker 5>I had come off a like picture of the month.

0:31:34.360 --> 0:31:37.200
<v Speaker 5>I mean, Jerry called me, so I'm just like, dude.

0:31:37.520 --> 0:31:40.440
<v Speaker 5>Present Based Operations called me telling me I'm going into

0:31:40.480 --> 0:31:42.800
<v Speaker 5>the bullpen and hopefully I can help out the team.

0:31:42.840 --> 0:31:46.920
<v Speaker 5>I'm thinking, like everything's perfect. So I get into the

0:31:46.960 --> 0:31:50.240
<v Speaker 5>bullpen and honestly, I felt like I transitioned pretty well.

0:31:50.840 --> 0:31:54.000
<v Speaker 5>I'm such a creature of routine, so that was definitely

0:31:54.280 --> 0:31:57.480
<v Speaker 5>a bump in the road learning new things as a reliever,

0:31:57.800 --> 0:31:58.080
<v Speaker 5>but I.

0:31:58.040 --> 0:31:59.280
<v Speaker 3>Felt like I took to it well.

0:32:00.720 --> 0:32:04.560
<v Speaker 5>Obviously, Santos came back earlier than they had anticipated, so

0:32:04.600 --> 0:32:06.720
<v Speaker 5>that kind of factored in on why I never ended

0:32:06.800 --> 0:32:10.000
<v Speaker 5>up going up. And then my last outing I kind

0:32:10.040 --> 0:32:12.640
<v Speaker 5>of just like had a hiccup in the road. That

0:32:12.720 --> 0:32:16.560
<v Speaker 5>was my first one really in pro ball. So I

0:32:16.640 --> 0:32:20.760
<v Speaker 5>learned a lot about myself, Like do I take to

0:32:21.200 --> 0:32:24.520
<v Speaker 5>results too much? Was I worrying about how I was

0:32:24.560 --> 0:32:26.840
<v Speaker 5>like processing or was I just focus on the results.

0:32:26.880 --> 0:32:29.360
<v Speaker 5>And in that moment of time, I was like so worried, like, oh,

0:32:29.400 --> 0:32:31.600
<v Speaker 5>I let up four runs and this is nine and

0:32:31.640 --> 0:32:35.280
<v Speaker 5>done that, like I said previously, in pro ball. So

0:32:35.360 --> 0:32:38.240
<v Speaker 5>it took a little time for me to like really

0:32:38.320 --> 0:32:41.120
<v Speaker 5>get downpacked on what I should be evaluating myself on.

0:32:41.800 --> 0:32:43.920
<v Speaker 5>But towards the end of the year, I learned like

0:32:44.960 --> 0:32:46.760
<v Speaker 5>I need to focus on what I can do. I

0:32:46.800 --> 0:32:49.440
<v Speaker 5>can't control the results. And sometimes and you guys have

0:32:49.480 --> 0:32:51.720
<v Speaker 5>watched me, and I'm sure people out here viewing have

0:32:51.840 --> 0:32:53.680
<v Speaker 5>watched me, like I'm a pretty chill guy on the mound,

0:32:53.880 --> 0:32:56.360
<v Speaker 5>But sometimes you need to tap into like the reliever,

0:32:56.640 --> 0:32:59.320
<v Speaker 5>like just go and blow it past them and go

0:32:59.360 --> 0:33:02.160
<v Speaker 5>a little lunar tick. So I use that and then

0:33:03.080 --> 0:33:05.040
<v Speaker 5>kind of put what I learned and throughout the whole

0:33:05.120 --> 0:33:07.480
<v Speaker 5>year into the playoffs and it succeeded.

0:33:07.520 --> 0:33:09.400
<v Speaker 3>So it was good two part follow up to that.

0:33:09.920 --> 0:33:11.320
<v Speaker 6>So if you need to go a little bit lunatic,

0:33:11.520 --> 0:33:12.959
<v Speaker 6>are you a caffeine guy before you starts?

0:33:14.480 --> 0:33:17.800
<v Speaker 5>No, I uh, I've been taking out of all my

0:33:17.960 --> 0:33:19.720
<v Speaker 5>entire life, so I don't. I don't like to get

0:33:19.760 --> 0:33:22.840
<v Speaker 5>like all that in me and get jittery. I need

0:33:22.840 --> 0:33:25.440
<v Speaker 5>that for focus. So trying to have heart health when

0:33:25.440 --> 0:33:25.880
<v Speaker 5>I'm older.

0:33:26.120 --> 0:33:28.560
<v Speaker 6>That's smart, very smart. Yeah, very smart of you looking

0:33:28.560 --> 0:33:31.040
<v Speaker 6>ahead like that. I will say some of the relievers

0:33:31.040 --> 0:33:33.440
<v Speaker 6>do try and go sid We're talking to our buddy

0:33:33.480 --> 0:33:35.880
<v Speaker 6>keep Spire and he's like like third or fourth inning

0:33:36.120 --> 0:33:37.640
<v Speaker 6>pre workout yep, And I'm.

0:33:37.480 --> 0:33:39.800
<v Speaker 2>Like, yeah, yeah, pretty good.

0:33:40.080 --> 0:33:40.280
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

0:33:40.280 --> 0:33:42.200
<v Speaker 5>A lot of the guys will stroll in on game

0:33:42.320 --> 0:33:44.920
<v Speaker 5>days with their bangs or their rain or anything of

0:33:44.960 --> 0:33:48.200
<v Speaker 5>that nature, and they just they get going. But yeah,

0:33:48.240 --> 0:33:50.280
<v Speaker 5>like I said, I for just for health reasons. I

0:33:50.280 --> 0:33:51.440
<v Speaker 5>don't like to do all that reason.

0:33:51.480 --> 0:33:52.440
<v Speaker 1>I have a healthy thing for you.

0:33:53.000 --> 0:33:56.280
<v Speaker 5>Smelling salts, Oh yeah, I've done that.

0:33:56.280 --> 0:33:58.920
<v Speaker 3>That'll get you going, Yeah, that will get you going.

0:33:59.000 --> 0:34:01.040
<v Speaker 3>For sure some of your back pocket.

0:34:01.080 --> 0:34:03.560
<v Speaker 6>You're up as the dude's walking into the batter's box,

0:34:03.560 --> 0:34:08.680
<v Speaker 6>You're going, all right, the batter is going to be

0:34:08.680 --> 0:34:09.759
<v Speaker 6>looking at you with white eyes.

0:34:09.920 --> 0:34:13.160
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, like, what's wrong with this guy channeling you're inner?

0:34:13.200 --> 0:34:13.439
<v Speaker 4>Ricky?

0:34:14.440 --> 0:34:17.160
<v Speaker 3>Yeah? Have you guys? I know this a little off. Nobody.

0:34:17.200 --> 0:34:19.880
<v Speaker 5>Have you seen the prank videos of people saying like

0:34:19.920 --> 0:34:23.040
<v Speaker 5>they got this new fragrance and they go around with

0:34:23.040 --> 0:34:26.200
<v Speaker 5>smelling salts like in the middle of the mall. Oh,

0:34:26.280 --> 0:34:28.680
<v Speaker 5>I'll make sure to show you us. But it'll it'll

0:34:28.800 --> 0:34:31.000
<v Speaker 5>you'll crack up. It's hilarious. I mean, it's a little

0:34:31.000 --> 0:34:32.680
<v Speaker 5>messed up. You want to have to random people like you

0:34:32.760 --> 0:34:34.680
<v Speaker 5>want to smell this? They go and then they do

0:34:34.760 --> 0:34:35.640
<v Speaker 5>this huge thing like.

0:34:35.600 --> 0:34:36.360
<v Speaker 3>What the hell is that?

0:34:36.880 --> 0:34:39.600
<v Speaker 5>But yeah, it's pretty funny. But yeah, I don't I

0:34:39.640 --> 0:34:42.279
<v Speaker 5>don't use any of the smelling salts or or pre

0:34:42.400 --> 0:34:44.440
<v Speaker 5>workout in game getting ready for that. I just kind

0:34:44.480 --> 0:34:46.240
<v Speaker 5>of just flip it in the mode.

0:34:46.480 --> 0:34:49.040
<v Speaker 2>Sounds like you're a lot healthier person than some of

0:34:49.080 --> 0:34:51.000
<v Speaker 2>our friends we went to school with. You talk about

0:34:51.160 --> 0:34:53.839
<v Speaker 2>players showing up with bangs. I'll just use our own

0:34:53.840 --> 0:34:58.200
<v Speaker 2>comparison here, which is totally relatable. We would have friends

0:34:58.239 --> 0:35:00.440
<v Speaker 2>when we would go out on Fridays and Saturday nights

0:35:00.640 --> 0:35:04.640
<v Speaker 2>who would legitimately make themselves fought ka bangs.

0:35:04.560 --> 0:35:07.880
<v Speaker 4>And I good health. You're done.

0:35:07.920 --> 0:35:08.920
<v Speaker 3>That's like a four loco.

0:35:10.520 --> 0:35:13.080
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, it does sound like a four logo. Okay, might

0:35:13.280 --> 0:35:14.160
<v Speaker 4>be a little more extreme.

0:35:14.160 --> 0:35:14.480
<v Speaker 2>I don't know.

0:35:14.520 --> 0:35:16.320
<v Speaker 4>Four. It might just be illegal.

0:35:16.600 --> 0:35:19.080
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that's gotta be banned.

0:35:21.040 --> 0:35:22.799
<v Speaker 4>So, yeah, that's not your thing. You're a little more

0:35:22.880 --> 0:35:23.799
<v Speaker 4>chill when you get into games.

0:35:24.600 --> 0:35:24.880
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

0:35:24.960 --> 0:35:27.160
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, your buddies are probably having a great night, but

0:35:27.239 --> 0:35:29.279
<v Speaker 5>the next day it was probably miserable for them.

0:35:29.840 --> 0:35:31.080
<v Speaker 4>They probably want to get out of bed.

0:35:31.160 --> 0:35:31.359
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

0:35:31.400 --> 0:35:33.840
<v Speaker 2>No, actually the friends I'm thinking of, I don't know

0:35:33.880 --> 0:35:34.759
<v Speaker 2>if yeah.

0:35:37.600 --> 0:35:40.480
<v Speaker 4>Yeah. So eventually you go back to a starter's role.

0:35:40.680 --> 0:35:43.359
<v Speaker 2>I'm sure there's a part of you when you're in

0:35:43.440 --> 0:35:45.600
<v Speaker 2>that relief outing or in that relief role thinking to

0:35:45.640 --> 0:35:49.600
<v Speaker 2>yourself this way, then how could you not be enamored

0:35:49.600 --> 0:35:51.839
<v Speaker 2>by that and obviously paired with doing what the team

0:35:51.880 --> 0:35:54.160
<v Speaker 2>ass here to do and giving it you're all when

0:35:54.160 --> 0:35:55.799
<v Speaker 2>you went back to the starter's role, though, is there

0:35:55.800 --> 0:35:58.360
<v Speaker 2>any part of you, especially talking about being so routine

0:35:58.400 --> 0:36:00.799
<v Speaker 2>oriented that you're like, all right, I can get back

0:36:00.800 --> 0:36:02.200
<v Speaker 2>to a little bit more of what I know.

0:36:03.600 --> 0:36:06.879
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I definitely relied on the foundation that I had

0:36:06.920 --> 0:36:09.719
<v Speaker 5>created at the start of the year, so I was

0:36:09.960 --> 0:36:14.880
<v Speaker 5>kind of just getting back into those routines. I just remember,

0:36:14.920 --> 0:36:16.879
<v Speaker 5>like during that build up, because I had to build

0:36:16.880 --> 0:36:20.720
<v Speaker 5>back up in innings and I would just learn something

0:36:20.760 --> 0:36:22.960
<v Speaker 5>each time. I talked about this in the last time

0:36:23.000 --> 0:36:25.120
<v Speaker 5>when I was here. But like my baseball car, I

0:36:25.120 --> 0:36:28.120
<v Speaker 5>look at it like a ten thousand piece puzzle. So

0:36:28.200 --> 0:36:30.800
<v Speaker 5>I'm just still adding little pieces every single day and

0:36:30.840 --> 0:36:33.480
<v Speaker 5>I still do it today. But at that time, yeah,

0:36:33.520 --> 0:36:34.959
<v Speaker 5>I was just trying to get back in the flow

0:36:35.000 --> 0:36:38.600
<v Speaker 5>of everything, building back up, obviously getting my work, but

0:36:38.640 --> 0:36:42.080
<v Speaker 5>getting back down on those routines. And I just felt

0:36:42.120 --> 0:36:45.279
<v Speaker 5>like every single outing I was learning something good or bad.

0:36:46.040 --> 0:36:47.640
<v Speaker 5>But I was just trying to take something that I

0:36:47.680 --> 0:36:49.440
<v Speaker 5>can use the rest of my career.

0:36:49.800 --> 0:36:52.440
<v Speaker 6>Does it feel better going into this spring knowing your

0:36:53.120 --> 0:36:55.560
<v Speaker 6>I'm gonna guess only going to be a starter. Yeah,

0:36:55.960 --> 0:36:57.879
<v Speaker 6>one area of your game you.

0:36:57.800 --> 0:36:58.480
<v Speaker 4>Need to focus on.

0:36:59.040 --> 0:37:00.680
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. No, it definitely feels great.

0:37:00.719 --> 0:37:02.960
<v Speaker 5>And uh, I mean it doesn't hurt to be surrounded

0:37:02.960 --> 0:37:05.320
<v Speaker 5>by the best starting staff and in all the baseball

0:37:06.160 --> 0:37:08.719
<v Speaker 5>So yeah, it's it's great to know that I'll be

0:37:08.920 --> 0:37:12.560
<v Speaker 5>in like a pretty secure role as a starter. Do

0:37:12.600 --> 0:37:15.400
<v Speaker 5>I know like what they have in the future for me,

0:37:15.440 --> 0:37:16.600
<v Speaker 5>if they want me to go back to ten, No,

0:37:17.239 --> 0:37:20.560
<v Speaker 5>But if I if they do choose that again this year,

0:37:20.640 --> 0:37:24.280
<v Speaker 5>like I'll kind of have like some knowledge obviously doing

0:37:24.320 --> 0:37:26.560
<v Speaker 5>that last year, so I don't feel like it will

0:37:26.560 --> 0:37:29.480
<v Speaker 5>be as much of a curveball. But yeah, I think

0:37:29.560 --> 0:37:32.680
<v Speaker 5>being a starter for me is where I'm most comfortable,

0:37:32.719 --> 0:37:34.840
<v Speaker 5>where I have the most success. So it is a

0:37:35.719 --> 0:37:37.000
<v Speaker 5>pretty relaxing feeling.

0:37:37.080 --> 0:37:42.280
<v Speaker 6>What is it like being around I would also imagine

0:37:42.280 --> 0:37:44.839
<v Speaker 6>you're around them a lot more this year. Yeah.

0:37:44.880 --> 0:37:46.400
<v Speaker 5>I didn't really get to talk to them a lot

0:37:46.480 --> 0:37:49.120
<v Speaker 5>last year, obviously coming in spring training just being on

0:37:49.160 --> 0:37:52.719
<v Speaker 5>the minor league side and making my first impressions. But

0:37:52.840 --> 0:37:56.560
<v Speaker 5>it is it's special, It really is. You you learn

0:37:56.600 --> 0:38:01.480
<v Speaker 5>how authentic each one of them are. Bryce is like

0:38:01.480 --> 0:38:04.080
<v Speaker 5>a really good guy. Uh loves to talk to everybody

0:38:04.080 --> 0:38:06.399
<v Speaker 5>in the club house, just kind of doing his little walk.

0:38:06.400 --> 0:38:09.839
<v Speaker 3>He's got his little strat. George is just super calculated.

0:38:10.520 --> 0:38:11.160
<v Speaker 3>No he is not.

0:38:11.320 --> 0:38:14.400
<v Speaker 5>No, we're not like the closest. But I've definitely gotten

0:38:14.400 --> 0:38:17.160
<v Speaker 5>to speak to him. I just got to talk to

0:38:17.400 --> 0:38:19.840
<v Speaker 5>George at lunch and us sitting there with Emerson, and

0:38:19.880 --> 0:38:22.360
<v Speaker 5>both of them are just so calculated into their work.

0:38:23.000 --> 0:38:25.960
<v Speaker 5>They really know what makes them them and they don't

0:38:25.960 --> 0:38:27.479
<v Speaker 5>try to replicate anything else.

0:38:27.920 --> 0:38:28.040
<v Speaker 3>Uh.

0:38:28.160 --> 0:38:30.520
<v Speaker 5>Castillo is just big dog like he walks in the

0:38:30.560 --> 0:38:32.959
<v Speaker 5>room and you know, like he's been there, he knows

0:38:33.000 --> 0:38:35.520
<v Speaker 5>his stuff. He's gonna do his work and get out

0:38:35.560 --> 0:38:38.400
<v Speaker 5>of here. And then Wu has been in a tremendous

0:38:38.400 --> 0:38:42.319
<v Speaker 5>help as well. Another like you just know, like he's

0:38:42.400 --> 0:38:44.239
<v Speaker 5>kind of a California kid, but in a good way,

0:38:44.320 --> 0:38:47.279
<v Speaker 5>Like he just buys into who he is. He's authentic.

0:38:48.320 --> 0:38:51.720
<v Speaker 5>He also is just super calculated in his work. Everything

0:38:51.840 --> 0:38:54.759
<v Speaker 5>he does is just like down to a science. And

0:38:54.800 --> 0:38:57.120
<v Speaker 5>I pick up on those things. Maybe it's not communication

0:38:57.640 --> 0:39:01.919
<v Speaker 5>like vocally, but I communicy by just watching them and

0:39:01.960 --> 0:39:04.440
<v Speaker 5>seeing what they do. So yeah, I've picked up a

0:39:04.440 --> 0:39:06.680
<v Speaker 5>lot of things. And I think it's just great to

0:39:06.719 --> 0:39:07.960
<v Speaker 5>be surrounded by greatness.

0:39:08.120 --> 0:39:09.080
<v Speaker 4>I hate to make you pick.

0:39:09.080 --> 0:39:11.080
<v Speaker 2>One, but if there's one of those guys of the

0:39:11.120 --> 0:39:13.319
<v Speaker 2>five where you feel like you've watched them just a

0:39:13.360 --> 0:39:15.200
<v Speaker 2>little bit more intently than the others.

0:39:18.840 --> 0:39:24.120
<v Speaker 5>And yeah, you know, I I think that The two

0:39:24.200 --> 0:39:27.160
<v Speaker 5>that stick out to me in the way that we've

0:39:27.239 --> 0:39:29.040
<v Speaker 5>just like they kind of taken me under their wing

0:39:29.080 --> 0:39:32.080
<v Speaker 5>for this camp is Emerson and Brian Wu. I think,

0:39:32.480 --> 0:39:35.560
<v Speaker 5>out of like the six guys, those are the two

0:39:35.560 --> 0:39:37.000
<v Speaker 5>that have kind of taken me under their wing, and

0:39:37.040 --> 0:39:39.480
<v Speaker 5>they've helped me a lot. I learned a lot of

0:39:39.480 --> 0:39:42.400
<v Speaker 5>things from them from just a pure watching standpoint.

0:39:42.440 --> 0:39:44.719
<v Speaker 3>I watched George.

0:39:44.880 --> 0:39:48.400
<v Speaker 5>I've gotten like comparisons to just how calculated we are

0:39:48.440 --> 0:39:51.680
<v Speaker 5>in our work. And I've seen him like he even

0:39:51.760 --> 0:39:53.600
<v Speaker 5>like looks at the ball every time he throws it.

0:39:53.600 --> 0:39:56.600
<v Speaker 5>It's not just on the mound, it's in his pregame bullpen,

0:39:56.680 --> 0:39:58.440
<v Speaker 5>it's out there on the field in the backfield, is

0:39:58.480 --> 0:40:01.720
<v Speaker 5>playing catch every day. He is so specific on everything

0:40:01.719 --> 0:40:03.920
<v Speaker 5>he does. And I've taken that to be like you

0:40:03.920 --> 0:40:06.360
<v Speaker 5>don't want to waste reps ever, like if you're playing

0:40:06.400 --> 0:40:09.080
<v Speaker 5>catch on a late day like I had today, like

0:40:09.360 --> 0:40:11.359
<v Speaker 5>I'm still gonna get my work in. So I've learned

0:40:11.360 --> 0:40:13.600
<v Speaker 5>a lot from him. So those are three guys that

0:40:13.640 --> 0:40:14.879
<v Speaker 5>I've taken a lot from this.

0:40:17.640 --> 0:40:19.120
<v Speaker 4>M seven pitches.

0:40:19.280 --> 0:40:23.719
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I don't tinker a lot. I'd try to be

0:40:24.120 --> 0:40:26.040
<v Speaker 5>who I am, like I'm a stuff guy like my

0:40:26.480 --> 0:40:30.840
<v Speaker 5>I have a lot of movement on my pitches, obviously,

0:40:30.880 --> 0:40:33.800
<v Speaker 5>trying to get command to be where it's like George

0:40:33.520 --> 0:40:37.560
<v Speaker 5>hopefully one day. There are things that I like mess

0:40:37.600 --> 0:40:40.919
<v Speaker 5>with a little bit, but that's just like some off

0:40:40.920 --> 0:40:42.680
<v Speaker 5>season stuff I don't. I don't like to tinker a

0:40:42.719 --> 0:40:45.600
<v Speaker 5>lot during season, so I wouldn't say much.

0:40:46.239 --> 0:40:48.000
<v Speaker 2>What did you take away from last year that you

0:40:48.600 --> 0:40:50.880
<v Speaker 2>either really liked about what you did or that you

0:40:50.880 --> 0:40:52.319
<v Speaker 2>feel like you want to work on and you come

0:40:52.320 --> 0:40:54.680
<v Speaker 2>into this year saying that, like, let's get.

0:40:54.560 --> 0:40:54.960
<v Speaker 4>Better at that.

0:40:56.280 --> 0:40:59.520
<v Speaker 5>There's a few things, So one I thought I was

0:40:59.840 --> 0:41:02.840
<v Speaker 5>I've been pretty harsh on myself. Everybody says your biggest

0:41:02.840 --> 0:41:07.360
<v Speaker 5>critic obviously, but I looked at sometimes last year I

0:41:07.360 --> 0:41:09.080
<v Speaker 5>looked at it like I was like failing because I

0:41:09.120 --> 0:41:11.560
<v Speaker 5>didn't go to the majors or I didn't succeed in

0:41:11.560 --> 0:41:13.680
<v Speaker 5>the bullpen. And then I kind of took a step

0:41:13.719 --> 0:41:15.839
<v Speaker 5>back and just realize, like where I'm at, Like I'm

0:41:15.840 --> 0:41:19.120
<v Speaker 5>playing professional baseball. I'm on the cusp of making the

0:41:19.120 --> 0:41:21.640
<v Speaker 5>major leagues. I was a twelfth rounder out of Pittsburgh,

0:41:21.719 --> 0:41:24.000
<v Speaker 5>just happy to be here get a shot because out

0:41:24.000 --> 0:41:24.960
<v Speaker 5>of Pittsburgh I really.

0:41:24.840 --> 0:41:25.520
<v Speaker 3>Had no clue.

0:41:25.560 --> 0:41:29.080
<v Speaker 5>Like my junior year out of Pittsburgh, I didn't get drafted,

0:41:29.080 --> 0:41:31.720
<v Speaker 5>and I was like, this is kind of a harsh reality.

0:41:32.200 --> 0:41:35.359
<v Speaker 5>So I always stuck stuck onto that feeling. So last

0:41:35.440 --> 0:41:38.239
<v Speaker 5>year I learned to just be grateful and realize that

0:41:38.280 --> 0:41:42.919
<v Speaker 5>I am doing pretty well. Another thing is like don't

0:41:42.960 --> 0:41:47.040
<v Speaker 5>look into the future so much, like just let things

0:41:47.040 --> 0:41:49.080
<v Speaker 5>come to me. I can't live in the future, I

0:41:49.120 --> 0:41:52.560
<v Speaker 5>can't live in the past. I can control what I'm

0:41:52.600 --> 0:41:56.000
<v Speaker 5>doing right now, and I think I'm gonna take that

0:41:56.080 --> 0:41:59.279
<v Speaker 5>into this year and just realize, like if it's in

0:41:59.360 --> 0:42:02.279
<v Speaker 5>double H the majors, like take it one day at

0:42:02.280 --> 0:42:04.520
<v Speaker 5>a time. Don't worry about stuff that I can't control.

0:42:04.560 --> 0:42:09.720
<v Speaker 5>And then the third one really is just like set

0:42:09.760 --> 0:42:14.080
<v Speaker 5>goals I think are attainable, and obviously shoot for the stars,

0:42:14.080 --> 0:42:16.919
<v Speaker 5>but I don't have to like be a guy who

0:42:16.960 --> 0:42:20.080
<v Speaker 5>comes in and into the league and be the starter,

0:42:20.520 --> 0:42:23.840
<v Speaker 5>like who has a zero era through five starts, Like

0:42:23.840 --> 0:42:26.200
<v Speaker 5>there's gonna be bumps in the road, Just like take

0:42:26.200 --> 0:42:26.960
<v Speaker 5>it one day at a time.

0:42:27.040 --> 0:42:29.000
<v Speaker 2>Like I said, well, let me say this to follow

0:42:29.080 --> 0:42:31.680
<v Speaker 2>up on what you just answered. You set the bar

0:42:31.880 --> 0:42:35.200
<v Speaker 2>pretty ridiculously high. For yourself to start. So one, I

0:42:35.320 --> 0:42:37.560
<v Speaker 2>get it, everybody's their own harshest critic. That's just true

0:42:37.560 --> 0:42:40.480
<v Speaker 2>in life. But your first two months of the year,

0:42:40.480 --> 0:42:42.319
<v Speaker 2>I mean, you could not pay yourself to have a

0:42:42.360 --> 0:42:44.359
<v Speaker 2>bad start. You'd be sitting up here in Sea Island.

0:42:44.360 --> 0:42:46.760
<v Speaker 2>It's like, well, Logan's on the Mounaday's probably going six shutout.

0:42:47.000 --> 0:42:49.000
<v Speaker 2>I don't even remember what exactly it was at, but

0:42:49.040 --> 0:42:51.680
<v Speaker 2>your ERA must have gotten down to one five at

0:42:51.719 --> 0:42:55.040
<v Speaker 2>one point. Yeah, you were a twelfth rounder out of

0:42:55.040 --> 0:42:58.319
<v Speaker 2>Pittsburgh who probably had or you've talked about it, were

0:42:58.320 --> 0:43:00.719
<v Speaker 2>you left a lot on the table. Yeah, you're out

0:43:00.719 --> 0:43:03.760
<v Speaker 2>here looking like the best arm in the entire system.

0:43:03.800 --> 0:43:06.080
<v Speaker 2>I think it's I mean, baseball could be a game

0:43:06.120 --> 0:43:08.040
<v Speaker 2>of failure, right, and everybody has their ups and down.

0:43:08.080 --> 0:43:10.759
<v Speaker 2>So your point about perspective, is it easier to look

0:43:10.800 --> 0:43:12.160
<v Speaker 2>back on that now? And so yeah, like there's a

0:43:12.239 --> 0:43:13.320
<v Speaker 2>lot of things I really.

0:43:13.080 --> 0:43:13.880
<v Speaker 4>Did well last year.

0:43:14.040 --> 0:43:14.279
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

0:43:14.360 --> 0:43:16.560
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, when you're in like the heat of the moment,

0:43:16.640 --> 0:43:20.400
<v Speaker 5>you don't really realize like success as much as you

0:43:20.440 --> 0:43:24.240
<v Speaker 5>realize failure. Like, like you said, like my first two months,

0:43:24.280 --> 0:43:28.160
<v Speaker 5>like I was pitching very well, had like a one

0:43:28.160 --> 0:43:32.480
<v Speaker 5>to one ERA, and I'm throwing every six days or whatever,

0:43:32.800 --> 0:43:35.200
<v Speaker 5>like feel like I'm just like going out there effortlessly.

0:43:35.280 --> 0:43:38.360
<v Speaker 5>I got put on like Baseball America's top one hundred,

0:43:38.400 --> 0:43:40.799
<v Speaker 5>Like these are things that I wasn't even like I

0:43:40.800 --> 0:43:42.360
<v Speaker 5>didn't know that could you could do that as a

0:43:42.400 --> 0:43:46.480
<v Speaker 5>twelfth rounder. But at the at that time, like I

0:43:46.560 --> 0:43:48.759
<v Speaker 5>wasn't realizing like the things I was doing good at.

0:43:48.760 --> 0:43:52.920
<v Speaker 5>And I remember, uh, Michael Peeples and Matt Pierrepont, who

0:43:52.960 --> 0:43:55.120
<v Speaker 5>are unfortunately gone now, but they kind of sat down

0:43:55.160 --> 0:43:57.919
<v Speaker 5>and it was like, dude, like celebrated a little like.

0:43:57.880 --> 0:43:59.040
<v Speaker 3>I was down in corpus.

0:43:59.080 --> 0:44:01.759
<v Speaker 5>I threw six shutout innings and I kind of came

0:44:01.800 --> 0:44:03.000
<v Speaker 5>off and it was like, oh, I could have worked

0:44:03.000 --> 0:44:05.719
<v Speaker 5>on this, Dude, you just threw six shutout innings in

0:44:05.760 --> 0:44:08.520
<v Speaker 5>Double A in your first year. Like smile a little,

0:44:08.560 --> 0:44:11.760
<v Speaker 5>you know. So yeah, I think that's something I'll definitely

0:44:11.760 --> 0:44:14.480
<v Speaker 5>work on. And going off that point, I think I'm

0:44:14.480 --> 0:44:17.400
<v Speaker 5>gonna try to be less internal and just worry about

0:44:17.400 --> 0:44:19.239
<v Speaker 5>like what's going on mine instead of just being like

0:44:19.600 --> 0:44:22.200
<v Speaker 5>they call it fastball, throw a fastball. Whatever happens happens.

0:44:22.520 --> 0:44:23.960
<v Speaker 4>So you know what, I'm getting a sense out of

0:44:24.000 --> 0:44:24.760
<v Speaker 4>you from that answer.

0:44:25.000 --> 0:44:26.640
<v Speaker 2>I know for the most part you say I'm pretty

0:44:26.680 --> 0:44:28.960
<v Speaker 2>chill even on start days, I don't. I don't get

0:44:28.960 --> 0:44:31.080
<v Speaker 2>too high or too low. And I believe that for

0:44:31.120 --> 0:44:33.080
<v Speaker 2>the most part. But it sounds like somewhere deep down

0:44:33.120 --> 0:44:35.360
<v Speaker 2>in there there's a little bit of Kirby and Logan

0:44:35.719 --> 0:44:39.000
<v Speaker 2>in the sense of on their start days, those guys

0:44:39.440 --> 0:44:40.480
<v Speaker 2>you better not bother them.

0:44:40.640 --> 0:44:42.839
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, zero to one hundred real quick.

0:44:42.840 --> 0:44:44.680
<v Speaker 2>And I'm not saying you're quite that, but somewhere in

0:44:44.719 --> 0:44:46.680
<v Speaker 2>there there's a little part of you that's a little.

0:44:46.440 --> 0:44:46.960
<v Speaker 3>Bit like that.

0:44:47.239 --> 0:44:51.080
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I think. I think the only time that I'm

0:44:51.160 --> 0:44:53.120
<v Speaker 5>like just kind of staying in my way, let me

0:44:53.160 --> 0:44:56.280
<v Speaker 5>do my thing, is like pregame bullpen, like catch play.

0:44:56.480 --> 0:44:58.080
<v Speaker 5>Like if I'm in catch play, like I don't want

0:44:58.080 --> 0:45:00.640
<v Speaker 5>anybody ask me anything. If I'm going to the bullpen

0:45:01.040 --> 0:45:03.319
<v Speaker 5>to go start warming up, Like I don't really want

0:45:03.360 --> 0:45:06.040
<v Speaker 5>people like approaching me asking something, and like it's kind

0:45:06.040 --> 0:45:12.160
<v Speaker 5>of an unwritten rule. People always understand that. But uh, yeah,

0:45:12.160 --> 0:45:14.000
<v Speaker 5>I think there's a little bit of me in there

0:45:14.120 --> 0:45:16.279
<v Speaker 5>for sure, Like you said, but for the most part

0:45:16.320 --> 0:45:17.839
<v Speaker 5>of the start day, like I come in, I'm pretty

0:45:17.880 --> 0:45:19.239
<v Speaker 5>chill talking with the guys, you know.

0:45:20.320 --> 0:45:22.040
<v Speaker 4>That, all right.

0:45:22.120 --> 0:45:24.680
<v Speaker 6>Last thing for me logan not wanting to look ahead

0:45:24.719 --> 0:45:26.680
<v Speaker 6>too far, and I get that when I do that,

0:45:26.760 --> 0:45:27.920
<v Speaker 6>it stresses me out.

0:45:29.239 --> 0:45:31.000
<v Speaker 4>But if you thought ahead of the PCL.

0:45:31.920 --> 0:45:35.279
<v Speaker 6>If you if that's where you end up, Yeah, Arkansas

0:45:35.560 --> 0:45:38.719
<v Speaker 6>great pictures from the exact opposite.

0:45:38.800 --> 0:45:43.719
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, Like I said, like you learned so much through

0:45:43.760 --> 0:45:47.799
<v Speaker 5>success but also failure. I think I'd go into the

0:45:47.800 --> 0:45:51.879
<v Speaker 5>PCL like expecting nothing and just learn from what comes

0:45:51.920 --> 0:45:53.279
<v Speaker 5>to me. Obviously, I'm gonna go out there and try

0:45:53.280 --> 0:45:56.520
<v Speaker 5>to do my best, try to throw seven shutty every time,

0:45:56.719 --> 0:45:59.399
<v Speaker 5>but if that doesn't happen, learn how to pitch on those.

0:45:59.440 --> 0:46:03.200
<v Speaker 5>Because expect the MLB, like you're traveling everywhere, different climates,

0:46:03.239 --> 0:46:06.920
<v Speaker 5>different elevation, all these different factors, and I think the

0:46:07.000 --> 0:46:10.800
<v Speaker 5>PCL simulates that much more than the Texas League clearly,

0:46:11.960 --> 0:46:13.520
<v Speaker 5>So I think there would be a lot of valuable

0:46:13.600 --> 0:46:16.120
<v Speaker 5>lessons in that. I've definitely thought about it, and I'm

0:46:16.160 --> 0:46:19.279
<v Speaker 5>I'm excited if I get the opportunity, but obviously I

0:46:19.280 --> 0:46:23.960
<v Speaker 5>don't know what's going to happen. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, I'm

0:46:24.080 --> 0:46:26.480
<v Speaker 5>I'm looking forward to the plane rides. I heard you

0:46:26.520 --> 0:46:28.640
<v Speaker 5>actually don't have to go on ten hour bus rides

0:46:28.680 --> 0:46:30.719
<v Speaker 5>to Vegas around Roun.

0:46:31.040 --> 0:46:33.040
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, exactly.

0:46:33.680 --> 0:46:37.279
<v Speaker 4>Okay with that, do you ever look at advanced metrics all?

0:46:37.320 --> 0:46:39.000
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I know you guys do internal if you

0:46:39.040 --> 0:46:41.960
<v Speaker 2>look at things like x CR at all that.

0:46:42.000 --> 0:46:44.839
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, we have a system in place. Uh we call

0:46:45.040 --> 0:46:48.040
<v Speaker 5>fx c r A. It's like you are expected R

0:46:48.200 --> 0:46:51.719
<v Speaker 5>plus whatever they use on baseball savant. We definitely look

0:46:51.760 --> 0:46:56.080
<v Speaker 5>at that. They actually broke that down to me, uh

0:46:56.640 --> 0:46:59.400
<v Speaker 5>after the year, and I was like one hundreds, like

0:46:59.440 --> 0:47:01.440
<v Speaker 5>major league. I think I was sitting around like one

0:47:01.440 --> 0:47:03.480
<v Speaker 5>o one, one oh two. So like they're like, dude,

0:47:03.480 --> 0:47:06.520
<v Speaker 5>you're already a major league pitcher, Like you're an average

0:47:06.560 --> 0:47:08.960
<v Speaker 5>major league pitcher right now at twenty two year old.

0:47:09.120 --> 0:47:11.880
<v Speaker 5>Like you can build on stuff for sure and and

0:47:11.960 --> 0:47:15.800
<v Speaker 5>be great. But like they said, just realize what you've done.

0:47:15.960 --> 0:47:16.120
<v Speaker 4>Right.

0:47:16.320 --> 0:47:18.799
<v Speaker 2>And the reason I asked that is because you know

0:47:18.800 --> 0:47:20.879
<v Speaker 2>where your biggest fans, We're gonna kill it no matter

0:47:20.920 --> 0:47:23.960
<v Speaker 2>where you go. Yeah, if there's some start when you're

0:47:24.000 --> 0:47:26.919
<v Speaker 2>playing in Albuquerque or someplace with super high elevation where

0:47:26.920 --> 0:47:30.120
<v Speaker 2>the ball is just flying unlike Arkansas, just start looking

0:47:30.160 --> 0:47:30.680
<v Speaker 2>at that stuff.

0:47:30.719 --> 0:47:34.040
<v Speaker 4>Just XCRA and say, you know what, here's what I'm

0:47:34.080 --> 0:47:34.720
<v Speaker 4>actually doing.

0:47:34.800 --> 0:47:37.839
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, everybody's the r gets balloon there?

0:47:37.960 --> 0:47:40.920
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, well what am I actual? Yeah like that?

0:47:41.040 --> 0:47:43.520
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I always I love to look at those numbers

0:47:43.560 --> 0:47:46.800
<v Speaker 5>as well, because obviously as fans, like we love to

0:47:46.840 --> 0:47:48.279
<v Speaker 5>look at the win loss, we love to look at

0:47:48.320 --> 0:47:50.960
<v Speaker 5>the era, but like, what what do you do that's

0:47:51.000 --> 0:47:54.520
<v Speaker 5>like actually creating success for you? Like the FIP is

0:47:54.560 --> 0:47:57.800
<v Speaker 5>a great example of the expected era is a great example.

0:47:57.800 --> 0:48:00.680
<v Speaker 5>There's so many different stats now in baseball, which is awesome.

0:48:00.719 --> 0:48:01.239
<v Speaker 3>I love it.

0:48:02.400 --> 0:48:04.560
<v Speaker 5>I know some people don't, but I like to look

0:48:04.600 --> 0:48:06.800
<v Speaker 5>at those things because it's like, oh, I am having success.

0:48:06.800 --> 0:48:09.279
<v Speaker 5>I just was pitching in a ballpark that was three

0:48:09.400 --> 0:48:11.600
<v Speaker 5>ten down the line and we're at three thousand feet

0:48:11.640 --> 0:48:13.239
<v Speaker 5>of elevation and they just hit a home er at

0:48:13.280 --> 0:48:16.200
<v Speaker 5>eighty five off the bat. Uh So yeah, there's there's

0:48:16.239 --> 0:48:17.319
<v Speaker 5>definitely value in that.

0:48:17.600 --> 0:48:21.919
<v Speaker 4>I got a couple more equipment questions. Yeah, anything fun

0:48:21.960 --> 0:48:24.120
<v Speaker 4>you did this offseason? Like away from the.

0:48:24.040 --> 0:48:27.720
<v Speaker 5>Baseball, dude, I was. I was big into this board

0:48:27.719 --> 0:48:32.560
<v Speaker 5>game called Katan. Yes, oh dude, I I yeah, I

0:48:32.680 --> 0:48:34.920
<v Speaker 5>rip it on my phone still. So I played a

0:48:34.920 --> 0:48:37.720
<v Speaker 5>lot of that with my my cousin, my best friends,

0:48:37.760 --> 0:48:41.240
<v Speaker 5>my brother, girlfriend, anybody who wanted to play. We were playing.

0:48:41.280 --> 0:48:44.520
<v Speaker 5>I obviously you guys saw went to the Lions Thanksgiving games.

0:48:44.600 --> 0:48:48.320
<v Speaker 5>That was cool, but those were those were definitely the highlights.

0:48:48.360 --> 0:48:50.479
<v Speaker 5>I like to just hang out with family a lot,

0:48:50.640 --> 0:48:52.880
<v Speaker 5>my friends a lot, so those were definitely my highlights.

0:48:53.640 --> 0:48:55.120
<v Speaker 4>Lion's win projection for twenty five.

0:48:57.520 --> 0:48:59.920
<v Speaker 5>I mean, the thing is, I think they're under half

0:49:00.080 --> 0:49:03.319
<v Speaker 5>for loss. I don't think they lose. I know everybody's like,

0:49:03.760 --> 0:49:06.760
<v Speaker 5>I don't think that exactly. Everybody's like, oh, Ben Johnson

0:49:06.760 --> 0:49:08.960
<v Speaker 5>is leaving this and that. Like the skill group that

0:49:09.040 --> 0:49:13.040
<v Speaker 5>we have is just so incredible, And I really think

0:49:13.080 --> 0:49:15.920
<v Speaker 5>that the NFC North is great and we kind of

0:49:15.920 --> 0:49:18.440
<v Speaker 5>dominated last year. So like I'm ready to get in

0:49:18.480 --> 0:49:21.040
<v Speaker 5>there and go. I think when our defense is healthy,

0:49:21.640 --> 0:49:23.520
<v Speaker 5>like I don't really know how, Like I feel like

0:49:23.560 --> 0:49:25.480
<v Speaker 5>everybody was on trained that the lines are gonna win

0:49:25.520 --> 0:49:27.960
<v Speaker 5>the Super Bowl with a healthy roster this year across

0:49:28.000 --> 0:49:30.680
<v Speaker 5>the NFL, So if we can keep everybody healthy, I really.

0:49:30.480 --> 0:49:31.680
<v Speaker 3>Don't see a loss.

0:49:31.800 --> 0:49:33.680
<v Speaker 5>Sure as sports, I'm sure there's gonna be but I

0:49:33.719 --> 0:49:35.920
<v Speaker 5>want to be optimistic and say that they're gonna go perfect.

0:49:36.000 --> 0:49:39.560
<v Speaker 2>I mean, when you have almost a full year with Yeah. Yeah,

0:49:40.280 --> 0:49:46.800
<v Speaker 2>now polar opposite, you're type of the record literal polar opposite.

0:49:47.080 --> 0:49:55.280
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, we're gonna do under half a win seriously, seriously, Yeah,

0:49:55.360 --> 0:49:57.600
<v Speaker 5>I would love that Penn State guy. I mean I'm

0:49:57.800 --> 0:50:00.640
<v Speaker 5>big on him. I think he could be my Parsons.

0:50:00.680 --> 0:50:03.200
<v Speaker 5>I think you would be so interesting. The Titans somehow

0:50:03.239 --> 0:50:06.680
<v Speaker 5>pulled off drafting abdual Carter and then trading for Stafford

0:50:07.120 --> 0:50:10.480
<v Speaker 5>and just seeing what they could play with that that

0:50:10.520 --> 0:50:12.160
<v Speaker 5>would be the win win for me. I was obviously

0:50:12.160 --> 0:50:14.440
<v Speaker 5>a huge Staffer fan, and Penn State guy abdul Carter

0:50:14.480 --> 0:50:18.200
<v Speaker 5>was impressive. So I think that their win total would

0:50:18.200 --> 0:50:21.440
<v Speaker 5>be set at seven and a half. I think that

0:50:21.480 --> 0:50:22.960
<v Speaker 5>they could get over I think they could get an

0:50:22.960 --> 0:50:27.040
<v Speaker 5>eight or nine. Yeah yeah, yeah, Will Levis, I mean

0:50:27.120 --> 0:50:30.680
<v Speaker 5>I'm hoping for maybe three wins.

0:50:31.280 --> 0:50:34.920
<v Speaker 3>Absolutely. Now that's disgusting. That is that is foul work.

0:50:35.000 --> 0:50:37.600
<v Speaker 3>I don't know what that dude's doing right there, but

0:50:37.680 --> 0:50:39.279
<v Speaker 3>I mean it works for him. He's ripped, so I

0:50:39.320 --> 0:50:40.480
<v Speaker 3>can't really chirp that.

0:50:40.520 --> 0:50:43.520
<v Speaker 2>It works for him. Logan, you're the man. We always

0:50:43.560 --> 0:50:45.520
<v Speaker 2>love talking to you. You know, we're rooting for you.

0:50:45.560 --> 0:50:47.239
<v Speaker 2>I know Mari's fans are going to be rooting for you,

0:50:47.320 --> 0:50:48.960
<v Speaker 2>and we'll stay up in here for you. You don't have

0:50:49.000 --> 0:50:50.920
<v Speaker 2>to say it, but we'll say it. We'll see you

0:50:50.920 --> 0:50:53.080
<v Speaker 2>in the big leagues at some point in five. We're

0:50:53.080 --> 0:50:53.600
<v Speaker 2>gonna stay it.

0:50:53.920 --> 0:50:56.080
<v Speaker 5>I appreciate you guys always, Thank you so much for

0:50:56.120 --> 0:50:57.600
<v Speaker 5>the support, and thank you for having me on.

0:50:59.800 --> 0:51:01.680
<v Speaker 2>We really always do have a blast talk and a

0:51:01.719 --> 0:51:04.480
<v Speaker 2>Logan he's so much fun. Hope you guys enjoyed that interview.

0:51:04.640 --> 0:51:07.920
<v Speaker 2>And I've got a semi bold but not really bold

0:51:07.960 --> 0:51:10.719
<v Speaker 2>prediction here. Next time we have him on the podcast,

0:51:11.440 --> 0:51:15.360
<v Speaker 2>he's probably gonna be a big leaguer. So we're speaking

0:51:15.360 --> 0:51:18.640
<v Speaker 2>that into existence for everybody here. Yeah, shout out to what's.

0:51:18.400 --> 0:51:19.200
<v Speaker 1>That I said?

0:51:19.280 --> 0:51:21.960
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, we are, Yes, shout out to Logan. Shout out

0:51:22.000 --> 0:51:24.200
<v Speaker 2>to him for sitting down with us. Hopefully you guys

0:51:24.200 --> 0:51:26.399
<v Speaker 2>have become fans of Logan Evans at this point. He's

0:51:26.400 --> 0:51:28.759
<v Speaker 2>certainly got our Marine Layer Pod stamp of approval and

0:51:28.800 --> 0:51:31.359
<v Speaker 2>then some. So if you guys need any more reason

0:51:31.360 --> 0:51:34.000
<v Speaker 2>to root for him, take it from us and take

0:51:34.000 --> 0:51:36.799
<v Speaker 2>it from the interview because you heard it firsthand. All right.

0:51:37.040 --> 0:51:39.479
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