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Speaker 1: All right, it's another episode of Splash Hits, and Susan

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Speaker 1: Susser joins us.

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Speaker 2: She's nice enough.

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Speaker 1: After a long day of writing seventeen articles about the

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Speaker 1: giants that come on and we have a special guest today.

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Speaker 3: What are my all time favorites?

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Speaker 1: Drew Gilbert, after a long day at the yard, he's

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Speaker 1: still at Scottsdale.

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Speaker 3: Stadium, joins the show.

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Speaker 2: What's going on?

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Speaker 1: Drew?

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Speaker 2: How are you?

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Speaker 3: How you doing?

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Speaker 1: You're not even in the clubhouse.

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Speaker 3: I gotta change that, You're.

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Speaker 1: Right, They don't know, just leave it the way it is.

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Speaker 1: How's your spring going?

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Speaker 2: Dude? Like to fill me in?

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Speaker 1: We talked down the other day on the bench.

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Speaker 3: But how you doing? No, I'm good, I uh uh.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's been fun, I think, uh, you know,

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Speaker 4: obviously a little bit different spring, you know, but being

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Speaker 4: will be around the guys. Get an opportunity to show

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Speaker 4: up every day and have an opportunity to get better

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Speaker 4: is something that you cherish, regardless of your circumstance or

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Speaker 4: you know who you are, right obviously having Tony, you know,

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Speaker 4: it's familiar for me and I think it's been great energy.

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Speaker 2: Well what's that like?

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Speaker 1: I mean, playing for your your college coach. I was

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Speaker 1: real close to my college coach. I can't imagine playing

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Speaker 1: in the big leagues for I mean, I mean, were

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Speaker 1: you the reason Tony came to San Francisco?

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Speaker 4: Oh no, no, that is not you know, I he's

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Speaker 4: got some good jokes, but now he got here because

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Speaker 4: of what he's done.

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Speaker 3: And obviously I wouldn't be here without him. But no,

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Speaker 3: he's he's been awesome.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 4: I think, uh, you know, the guys getting to know

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Speaker 3: You know, he's been great.

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Speaker 4: You know, he makes things fun, you know, but he

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Speaker 4: pushes us and.

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Speaker 3: Uh, you know, he makes us better and he works

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Speaker 3: as good.

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Speaker 4: But you know, it's what we need, man, It's what

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Speaker 4: you got to do if you want to win a

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Speaker 4: lot of games in this league, because I mean, everybody's

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Speaker 4: just trying to get a little bit of an edge,

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Speaker 4: you know how it is the margin freyer in this

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Speaker 4: league is minimal, so we're all just fighting to, you know,

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Speaker 4: find that extra edge, and you know, brings an edge

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Speaker 4: every single day.

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Speaker 5: Were you surprised when he came to San Francisco? Like

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Speaker 5: when when it first started, like like popped up on

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Speaker 2: Sure.

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Speaker 4: I think just your initial human reaction is you know,

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Speaker 4: I don't want to say surprise, but you're like, wow,

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Speaker 4: that that would be you know, like super crazy, right,

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Speaker 4: that's just the natural instinct. But you know, I think

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Speaker 4: the more you think about it, uh, you know, the

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Speaker 4: more it made sense, right, And the more you think

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Speaker 4: about it also you're like, man, this could really work.

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Speaker 4: So obviously we haven't started any you know, regular season games,

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Speaker 4: but I have total belief in him, and I think

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Speaker 4: all the all the guys do as well.

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Speaker 1: What's your relationship like with him? I mean, is it

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Speaker 1: like player manager, player coach or could you just be

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Speaker 1: just shoot the s with them about anything? And what

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Speaker 1: kind of influence did he have on you in your

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Speaker 1: career when you were at Tennessee.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, I think, and not even me in particular,

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Speaker 4: just you know, going for any player. He toes the

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Speaker 4: to coach relation while also being like, you know, like

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Speaker 4: if I need to go into his office and talk

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Speaker 4: the end of the day, like he garners the respect

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 4: And you know I've always thought like his ability to

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Speaker 4: and then he's super cool. You know, it's not like

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Speaker 4: you know, it's not you're walking around eggshells around him, right,

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Speaker 4: But you also respect the hell out of him, and

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Speaker 4: you know you gotta he holds you to a certain

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Speaker 4: standard that you got to bring every single day.

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Speaker 1: He's pretty intense. Do you think he's gonna get thrown

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Speaker 1: out of a lot of games this year? I mean,

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Speaker 1: I love the guy, dude, you know him way better

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Speaker 1: than I do. Is he going to show that intensity

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Speaker 1: for one hundred and sixty two games? Do you think

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Speaker 1: there's going to be a difference in the way he

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Speaker 1: coached at Tennessee and manages in the big leagues?

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Speaker 4: No, I don't think it's going to be as big

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Speaker 4: of a differences people think. I mean, I saw him

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Speaker 4: do it every single day for three years, you know,

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Speaker 4: regardless of it who was a game or practice Helly

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Speaker 4: probably was more intensive practice, so and we practiced every

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Speaker 3: So I don't I don't see.

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Speaker 4: Any reason he's not gonna be able to bring it

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Speaker 4: for one sixty two. Obviously it'll be unique to him

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Speaker 4: because it's the first time he's done it, but that

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Speaker 4: goes for everybody, right Like you know, guy willing, I

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Speaker 4: get the chance to, you know, make the team, it'll

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Speaker 4: be my first time playing one hundred and sixty two

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Speaker 4: two games. So I think everybody goes through it's it's

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Speaker 4: the first time he's done something, but that goes for

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Speaker 4: anything in life. The first time you do something, you

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Speaker 4: know it's gonna present challenges that you aren't prepared for

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Speaker 4: because you just haven't done it.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: He's a guy that he adjusts really.

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Speaker 4: Well with things, so but he also does that well

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Speaker 4: while sustaining true to himself.

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Speaker 3: So I see no problems arising.

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Speaker 1: Where did you get this pedal to the metal attitude?

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Speaker 1: Because that's why Giants fans fell in love with you,

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Speaker 1: That's why your teammates fell in love you with you

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Speaker 1: last year. That's why I did too, because that's the

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Speaker 3: So where did you get this this.

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Speaker 1: Pedal of the metal attitude?

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Speaker 4: I don't know if it's somewhere like I got it from.

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Speaker 4: It's just kind of who I am. I don't I

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Speaker 4: don't try to be someone I'm not, you know. Uh,

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Speaker 4: it's I try to be organic. I don't want it

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: I always been a guy who you know, wants to

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Speaker 4: work hard every single day, and you know, maybe that

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Speaker 5: Were you the kid like couldn't sit still in class

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Speaker 5: and it was always running around.

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Speaker 4: I do have ADHD, so that that was really tough

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Speaker 5: I just talked about wanting you guys to be a

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Speaker 5: team that other teams don't like, kind of like Tendessee was.

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Speaker 5: Can you see that, like you guys, especially when you

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think, yeah, absolutely, I think it's it's.

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Speaker 3: More so up and I am. I trying to say this.

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Speaker 4: Like when your desire to compete, isn't you just it's

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Speaker 4: not like you're necessarily trying to disrespect the other team.

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Speaker 4: But you also you don't really care for him, right,

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Speaker 4: You're you'll do whatever it takes to beat them. You know,

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Speaker 4: it's not like you're trying to be friends with them.

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Speaker 3: You know, we all have friends on other teams. But

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Speaker 3: in between the Lions, it's it's it's not about that.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 4: They all say all is fair in love and war, right,

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Speaker 4: and at the end of the day, this is kind

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Speaker 3: So that's how we're going to approach it.

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Speaker 4: You know, we've got boys and other team maybe getting

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Speaker 4: I don't, I don't.

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Speaker 3: It's not really about that. So yeah, I think it's

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Speaker 3: it's organic.

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Speaker 4: You don't want it to be forced, right, It doesn't

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Speaker 4: need to be like this corny like, oh, let's make

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Speaker 4: everybody hate us, but and not that, and not that

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Speaker 4: Buster's saying that. But I think Buster wants it to

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Speaker 4: be intense. That's what he's getting at. And I think

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Speaker 4: that's all what we want.

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Speaker 5: You want up with the kind of like this neat

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Speaker 5: relationship with Matt Chatman that I think sometimes fans are like, wait,

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Speaker 5: what's going on? There is Chatman mad? And it was

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Speaker 5: just I thought it was hilarious. How would you describe

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Speaker 5: your relationship with Matt Chatman and how it developed last

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Speaker 3: Yes, talk about that.

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Speaker 4: No, I think you know, you kind of get you

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Speaker 4: I mean he's got to be my best friends right now,

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Speaker 4: so you know, and he's he's been great. You know,

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Speaker 4: he's always been great to me and great tell other

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Speaker 3: But no, I mean, Chatman's the best.

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Speaker 4: He's just just an awesome dude, great competitor and got

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Speaker 4: to obviously spend some time with him this off season

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Speaker 4: two because I've moved out here now. He's been great

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Speaker 4: to me and uh appreciative towards him, and god, he's

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Speaker 5: Were harmed in the dugout at all?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, were hard, But talk about that.

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Speaker 1: Talk about that for a second, because like back in

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Speaker 1: the day, it was like rookies are seen or not heard,

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Speaker 1: and we had to tiptoe a round until like the

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Speaker 1: veterans accepted us and they brought you right in last year.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you were a shot of energy in everybody's arm.

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Speaker 1: You added life to the ball club, and they just

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Speaker 1: let you do all your stuff. Fans fell in love

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Speaker 1: with you. It seemed like they fell in love with you.

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Speaker 3: Talk about that for a second.

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Speaker 1: How maybe that's changed a little bit for rookies in

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Speaker 3: I think, yeah, I don't know exactly.

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Speaker 4: I think there's some of the things, like you know,

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Speaker 4: I think you need guys to be comfortable with who

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Speaker 4: I don't care for twenty third forty, Like, I just

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Speaker 4: you got to do, you know that that'd be cool

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it's been awesome. You talked about the trade.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, then you get traded for Justin Verlander then played

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Speaker 3: You're all a favor for sure. No, Justin he was awesome.

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Speaker 1: How's the wing doing, How's how's your arm?

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Speaker 4: I think as throwers, you know, we throw so much

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Speaker 1: Did you ever think about being a picture in pro bawl?

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Speaker 4: I think everybody has like the natural human thoughts, like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm here today and I.

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Speaker 3: So that's all I that's all I can control.

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Speaker 5: Well, the good thing is Europe last year, so the

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Speaker 3: So sure.

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Speaker 1: All right, go shower, go get ready, go bite Robbie

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Speaker 2: Take care.

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Speaker 3: What's up?

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Speaker 2: Everybody?

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Speaker 6: Welcome into another edition of Crush City Territory on Chandler Room,

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Speaker 6: joined by Tyler Stafford and everyone's favorite corn Husker and

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Speaker 6: the Astros starting center fielder Jake Myers.

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Speaker 2: Jake, what's up, buddy? What's up? Guys? Thanks for having

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Speaker 6: Appreciate this a little bit, uh sort of an off

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Speaker 6: the very very very long bust trip to Bradenton to

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I think I took five or six. It's nice

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Speaker 6: Do you facing him?

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Speaker 7: I yeah, yeah, and he has some good stuff. It's

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Speaker 8: Tell me, tell me about the slider. What does that

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Speaker 2: It just is deceiving to your eyes. It just doesn't move.

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Speaker 7: I think in today's game, the everyone's fighting for so

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's uh, it's been the talk of camp. I

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Speaker 6: Let's uh, let's talk about your season last year. Obviously,

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think the main thing is just focusing on

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Speaker 7: Uh, they they can understand kind of how I think

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Speaker 6: Josh Reddick will come on here and talk about you know,

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Speaker 7: you know, do it on our own, which some guys can.

445
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Speaker 7: Some guys can, you know, they're super talented and gifted, and.

446
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Speaker 2: Like you said, we know how to hit.

447
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Speaker 7: I think just sometimes having someone else, another pair of

448
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Speaker 7: eyes to help you kind of sort through some things

449
00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:12,720
Speaker 7: because you know, the pictures are really good too, so

450
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Speaker 7: you got to make adjustments.

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Speaker 8: You know, you mentioned you know, a lot of your

452
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Speaker 8: success last year. Obviously we talked about just cutting down

453
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Speaker 8: on swings and misses and things like that, but you

454
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Speaker 8: went straight back up the middle like ten percent more

455
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Speaker 8: than you had done the previous two seasons. Was that

456
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Speaker 8: a every at bad are you walking in consciously thinking

457
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Speaker 8: I'm trying to stay through the middle here? Is it?

458
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Speaker 8: Is that a you know, part of a different approach

459
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Speaker 8: that just led to you hitting it more up the

460
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Speaker 8: middle or was that really what you were thinking every

461
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Speaker 8: time up there?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I think I think it's part of.

464
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Speaker 7: Maybe part of the journey of mechanically what we had

465
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Speaker 7: worked on is just kind of staying through that the

466
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Speaker 7: middle of the field and not coming off.

467
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Speaker 2: Of it to the left.

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Speaker 7: And so yeah, like, that's that's cool to hear. I

469
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Speaker 7: didn't I actually didn't know. I stayed through the middle,

470
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Speaker 7: you know, ten percent more. That's that's cool to hear. Yeah,

471
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Speaker 7: you were there is there is a conscious effort to

472
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Speaker 7: try to stay through the middle of the field, and

473
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Speaker 7: and so it kind of shows more success by doing that.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, you were thirty two and twenty twenty three, thirty four,

475
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Speaker 8: and then last year forty two. Uh so you were

476
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Speaker 8: I mean straight up the middle almost half the time

477
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Speaker 8: when you put the ball in the air. So yeah,

478
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Speaker 8: that's a that's a pretty good way to lead to success.

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Speaker 2: I would say, absolutely absolutely.

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Speaker 6: That's interesting, Jake, Like, I'm sure you've talked to Korea

481
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Speaker 6: about Korea is like the guy that is always looking

482
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Speaker 6: at his baseball savan He's always looking at fangrafts, always

483
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Speaker 6: looking at all of his advanced stats, knows everything. Like

484
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Speaker 6: are you a guy that looks at you maybe the

485
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Speaker 6: underlying metrics a lot. Do you look at your savant page?

486
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Speaker 6: Do you look at that stuff or do you just

487
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Speaker 6: kind of try to stay away from that and just

488
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Speaker 6: kind of play your game.

489
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I try to stay away from it me.

490
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Speaker 7: Like knowing knowing that myself, that's not going to provide

491
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Speaker 7: me a whole lot of value doing that me personally,

492
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Speaker 7: and so I just try to focus on every single

493
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Speaker 7: day what I know works for me, what I know

494
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Speaker 7: helps me focus on the things I need to focus

495
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Speaker 7: on and what makes my swing tick and kind of

496
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Speaker 7: just do that in a routine way and try to

497
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Speaker 7: get in a rhythm with it every day.

498
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Speaker 6: Let's talk about your defense. Is there one catch in

499
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Speaker 6: your in your head, Like, do you have in your

500
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Speaker 6: mind since you've been in the big leagues your favorite catch,

501
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Speaker 6: like the best or your favorite catch that you've made

502
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Speaker 6: in the big leagues.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's tough. I would have to say probably probably.

504
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Speaker 7: Josh Hater on the mound, a catch at the top

505
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Speaker 7: of the wall in center field late late in a

506
00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:53,520
Speaker 7: game like a one run game, that that I make

507
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Speaker 7: a catch at the top of the field, top of

508
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Speaker 7: the fence thing two years ago.

509
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Speaker 8: There you go. My hot take is that you do

510
00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:04,960
Speaker 8: not get enough credit around the league because you get

511
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Speaker 8: such good jumps on everything that you turn what should

512
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Speaker 8: be a diving catch for most people into you standing

513
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Speaker 8: under the ball and just catching it at your chest.

514
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Speaker 8: Do you feel that, like, can you tell like what

515
00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:21,399
Speaker 8: how do you get such good jumps on everything?

516
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Speaker 3: First off?

517
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Speaker 2: Like?

518
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Speaker 8: What what what is it that you're doing that other

519
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Speaker 8: people have not figured out?

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Speaker 7: I think I think the big thing, Uh, the big

521
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Speaker 7: thing for me is that I was so lucky to

522
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Speaker 7: have my dad, who played minor league baseball all the

523
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Speaker 7: way up to Triple A.

524
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Speaker 2: He was a center fielder.

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Speaker 7: And then I also played for Darren ursad for at Nebraska,

526
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Speaker 7: and so I was talking about jumps and playing center field.

527
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Speaker 7: I mean when I was five years old, you know,

528
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Speaker 7: like that was the that was the first thing that

529
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Speaker 7: my dad, you know, would taught me how to do.

530
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Speaker 7: And and I was focusing on that when I was

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Speaker 7: really really young. And so I think just that it

532
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Speaker 7: being kind of natural to me because I've done it

533
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Speaker 7: so much that getting those jumps is kind of second

534
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Speaker 7: nature to me.

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Speaker 6: Was your dad as athletic and as gifted of a

536
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Speaker 6: defender as you are?

537
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Speaker 2: No, no, no way, no. He liked to tell me

538
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Speaker 2: he was, uh, and I'm sure he.

539
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Speaker 7: I'm sure he was really good because the guys that

540
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,520
Speaker 7: have put the guys that played with him tell me

541
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Speaker 7: he was a really really good center fielder and player.

542
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Speaker 2: So I'm sure he was good. But I like to

543
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Speaker 2: talk smack.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 8: While we're on the subject of Dad, this is uh.

546
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Speaker 8: You're not gonna get asked this question a lot and interviews.

547
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Speaker 8: Your middle name is Berkshire. Yep, like Warren Buffett's company.

548
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Speaker 8: Is that? Is that what you're named after?

549
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:47,800
Speaker 7: No, I'm not I get that often. Come on, but

550
00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,119
Speaker 7: my my mom's maiden name is Berkshire.

551
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Speaker 8: Really, so you're the heir to the fortune?

552
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:59,399
Speaker 7: No, no, no, no, uh, no connection at all. My

553
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,800
Speaker 7: grandpa worked across the hall from Warren Buffett. So but

554
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Speaker 7: but no connection at all.

555
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Speaker 8: But there it's in Omaha, right, like.

556
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Speaker 2: It's yep, yep, he lives in oh she's a.

557
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Speaker 8: Berkshire from Omaha. And you don't think that you're getting

558
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Speaker 8: some of that trillion.

559
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Speaker 2: Dollars at some point, man, I don't think so.

560
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Speaker 8: Do a DNA test. You need to file something.

561
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Speaker 6: While we're on the Dad thing, I was thinking about

562
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Speaker 6: this earlier today. We've had We've had a number of

563
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Speaker 6: players come on this show since it started last year,

564
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Speaker 6: and Jake I think you're the first dad. I think

565
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Speaker 6: you were the first player that we've had that has

566
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Speaker 6: children that has been Yeah, we've had We've had Hunter,

567
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Speaker 6: we had Ryan Weiss, we had Nate Pearson.

568
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Speaker 2: I'm going down the list.

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Speaker 6: I don't Bryce Matthews, Like, Yeah, we've had all guys

570
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Speaker 6: that don't have kids.

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Speaker 2: You have two kids.

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Speaker 6: What is that like like being on the road. I mean,

573
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Speaker 6: Tyler's over here, Tyler's three kids. But being on the

574
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Speaker 6: road as much as you guys, as much as ball

575
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Speaker 6: players are on the road, you know, I think if

576
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Speaker 6: I remember right, both of your kid have been born

577
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Speaker 6: in season kind of what has that been like being

578
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Speaker 6: a dad while also being a big league baseball player.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, First of all, I wouldn't be able to do

580
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Speaker 7: without my wife, Maddie.

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Speaker 2: There's there's no way I would be able to do it.

582
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Speaker 2: She's a she's a superstar.

583
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Speaker 7: She does a great job of bringing them to Houston

584
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Speaker 7: when we're at home and I get to spend a

585
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Speaker 7: lot of time with them.

586
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Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean it's I really wouldn't be able

587
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Speaker 2: to do without my wife. Honestly.

588
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Speaker 7: Uh So that that's really the secret behind it?

589
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Speaker 8: Good answer, Yeah, is the is the dad strength real,

590
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Speaker 8: like the the you know, the day after your kids

591
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Speaker 8: are born, you get back to the field, like do

592
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Speaker 8: you because I mean you're just so tired as as

593
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Speaker 8: you know, you're just but how how is it real?

594
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Speaker 8: Like do you feel different when you walk in there?

595
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Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, I do. I think it is real.

596
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Speaker 7: I think there's something to it and definitely uh accumulate

597
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Speaker 7: over a course of maybe a year of holding him.

598
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Speaker 8: I think so too.

599
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 7: I think that's maybe where it comes from.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I think I think it's a real thing.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, he's just walking around with a twenty pound weight

602
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,439
Speaker 8: on you all the time. You're you're gonna get gains

603
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Speaker 8: even if you don't know it.

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Speaker 6: Absolutely As someone that is such a gifted defensive outfielder

605
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Speaker 6: as you are, Jake, I wonder what you thought of

606
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Speaker 6: of the way Cam Smith transitioned from you know, at

607
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Speaker 6: literally at this time last year, it was when he

608
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Speaker 6: started his transition to right field. Then he ends the

609
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Speaker 6: season as a goal glove finalist in right field. For

610
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Speaker 6: those of us that don't know, like, how difficult is

611
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Speaker 6: it to do what he did? And what did you

612
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Speaker 6: think of him defensively playing next to him?

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Speaker 2: As much as you did in right field. Yeah, I

614
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Speaker 2: mean Cam's a special player.

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Speaker 7: I mean that that's where I want to start with that,

616
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Speaker 7: because he's going to be a superstar.

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Speaker 2: In my opinion, his transition from.

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Speaker 7: Infield to outfield is probably the best I've ever seen,

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Speaker 7: to be honest with you, because I mean, to be

620
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Speaker 7: a Gold Glove finalist is extremely hard, and to do

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Speaker 7: it the first year you've ever played in a position

622
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Speaker 7: like that. That says enough to where to to won

623
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Speaker 7: his work, work ethic and to his his ability out there.

624
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Speaker 7: I mean, I think I think he will win a

625
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:28,920
Speaker 7: Gold Glove out there as he stacks up more experience.

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Speaker 2: But I mean, it's just you can just tell it's

627
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:33,440
Speaker 2: natural to him and.

628
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Speaker 7: The way he sees the ball off the bat, the

629
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Speaker 7: way you know he gets jumps and he makes plays

630
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Speaker 7: out there. He made some huge plays, the ways he

631
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Speaker 7: the way he backed me up, you know, maybe when

632
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Speaker 7: I made a mistake or one or two.

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Speaker 2: Uh, it's just really special. No one knowing where he

634
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:51,360
Speaker 2: needs to be. Uh.

635
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Speaker 7: You know that that accumulates over years, and he was

636
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Speaker 7: able to do it in a couple of months.

637
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Speaker 6: You You and I talked about this few times last season,

638
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Speaker 6: but at that point al Tuve Jose was playing left

639
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:10,160
Speaker 6: and Cam was playing right. Those are two pretty inexperienced outfielders,

640
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Speaker 6: and you kind of had to be the You had

641
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 6: to be the captain out there. You're the center fielder.

642
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,119
Speaker 6: You kind of are running the show out there. I

643
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Speaker 6: guess as Cam kept progressing, did you find yourself having

644
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 6: to to yell and shout less and less? Did you

645
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 6: find yourself like having to help him out less and less?

646
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Speaker 6: And how cool was that to watch him kind of

647
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Speaker 6: grow into his own as an outfielder and kind of

648
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 6: not need you or not need like a lot of

649
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Speaker 6: help out there, to let his athleticism and his instincts

650
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Speaker 6: take over.

651
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was awesome.

652
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Speaker 7: The first maybe the first month or month and a half,

653
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Speaker 7: you know, I felt like, you know, we would talk

654
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Speaker 7: through a lot of situations, maybe with a pitching change

655
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Speaker 7: or you know, stuff like that. We were talking through

656
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Speaker 7: things in the dugout and practice. But like you said,

657
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Speaker 7: after a month and a half or so, it was

658
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 7: kind of, you know, let it, let it loose, and

659
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 7: he got after it and he was he was making

660
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 7: some awesome plays and you know, throwing guys out.

661
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Speaker 8: Is is this the first year that you felt like

662
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Speaker 8: the old guy out there, like what I.

663
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Speaker 2: Felt it a little bit last year. I felt I

664
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Speaker 2: felt it a little bit like.

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Speaker 7: You said, being the guy to maybe talk through some

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Speaker 7: things and defensive practice and stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: That was really cool. But it's been really cool for me.

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Speaker 7: To, you know, kind of share my experiences and try

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Speaker 7: to help people out because I really enjoy that.

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Speaker 6: You maybe more than anyone I've covered. Jake, your name

671
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 6: comes up in trade discussions and rumors every off season

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Speaker 6: and every deadline. You and I have joked about this.

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Speaker 6: I think there was one deadline one year where you

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Speaker 6: looked at me and said, Hey, I'm still here. How

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Speaker 6: do you handle that? And have you found like the

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Speaker 6: perfect way to handle it? Because you've had now many

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Speaker 6: many times to to have to confront this, like do

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Speaker 6: you ignore it? Do you reach out to Dana or

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Speaker 6: Joe or whomever's in charge at that time, kind of

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Speaker 6: how do you go about compartmentalizing that, uh and maybe

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Speaker 6: even ignoring kind of what's out there in trade roomers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: I think over the course of the years, I got

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Speaker 7: a little bit better and better at it.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 7: I know this is a business, and uh, what's best

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Speaker 7: for the team you know, sometimes could be me getting traded,

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Speaker 7: and so I understand that, but it's it's really out

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Speaker 7: of my control.

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Speaker 2: So I try to I.

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Speaker 7: Try to focus on what I got that day, and

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Speaker 7: you know, if the call comes and I get traded,

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Speaker 7: then you know, I gotta I gotta deal with that.

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Speaker 7: But I absolutely love being here and playing for the Ashros.

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Speaker 2: I've been here for five years.

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Speaker 7: Now and I've learned a lot, and I absolutely love

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Speaker 7: winning with the Ashros.

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Speaker 2: So you know, while I'm here, I'll savor every every day.

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Speaker 6: As you look forward to the twenty twenty sixth season,

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Speaker 6: I think I think if I asked you what the

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Speaker 6: team's goals are, I think we know those. We don't

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Speaker 6: need to vocalize those. It's to get back to the playoffs,

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Speaker 6: and it's to win the World Series. That's always individually

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Speaker 6: for you, maybe outside of team goals, what what are

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Speaker 6: your individual goals going into twenty six Whether that's something

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Speaker 6: you'd like to improve upon, something you'd like to you know,

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Speaker 6: get better at, or something you'd just like to maintain.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean.

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Speaker 7: Going off of kind of what I did last year,

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Speaker 7: of being being a consistent player, staying healthy is at

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Speaker 7: the top of that, I mean, I gotta stay healthy,

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Speaker 7: be out on the field so I can I can

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Speaker 7: help the team win as much as I possibly can.

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Speaker 7: But just have quality abs and and you know, if

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Speaker 7: that's getting on base in a game, so stealing a bag,

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Speaker 7: so you know, Altuve or Jordan or Carlos can hit

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Speaker 7: me in or Christian Walker.

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Speaker 2: That's That's when I'm trying and do and but but.

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Speaker 7: To grow, maybe slug a little bit more, find find

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Speaker 7: areas to slug, get myself in plus counts, and and

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Speaker 7: you know, maybe maybe let it eat a little bit more.

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Speaker 7: So that that's kind of where where I want to

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Speaker 7: be this year.

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Speaker 6: It's one thing you've done a good job of, and

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Speaker 6: you've talked about it in camp or already, is getting

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Speaker 6: getting yourself in leverage counts, getting yourself ahead in the

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Speaker 6: count to where they're going to throw you something you

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Speaker 6: can slug. If you look at two years ago, you

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Speaker 6: were swinging a lot early in the count. You're swinging

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Speaker 6: a lot at the first pitch. You were swinging a

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Speaker 6: lot at one, two or three pitches in the event,

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Speaker 6: because the numbers showed that when you swung at the

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Speaker 6: first pitch of a plate appearance or when you were

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Speaker 6: within the first two or three pitches, that's when you

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Speaker 6: had the most success. So where is that balance between

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Speaker 6: being aggressive when you know you're you're good early in

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Speaker 6: the count, but also wanting to get into account where

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Speaker 6: you're going to force a pitcher to come over the

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Speaker 6: heart of the plate and let you maybe hit for

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Speaker 6: some power.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think I think it is really dependent on

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Speaker 7: the pitcher we're facing in the situation.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Definitely, early in the early in my career, I.

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Speaker 7: Was definitely way more or very aggressive and had success

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Speaker 7: doing that, and I think I do feel comfortable doing that.

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Speaker 2: But last year I started to learn how.

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Speaker 7: To to see some pitches and and get myself in

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Speaker 7: better leverage counts more consistently. And so now that that

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Speaker 7: had that experience last year, I feel like I can

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Speaker 7: build upon that this year.

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Speaker 2: Well, Jake, this was fun.

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Speaker 6: We really appreciate this during spring training, taking some time out,

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Speaker 6: and more importantly, before Nebraska plays an interval a very

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Speaker 6: important NCAA tournament game this week. You were the one

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Speaker 6: that informed me that Nebraska has never won an n

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Speaker 6: c DOUAA tournament.

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Speaker 2: Game and it's school's history.

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Speaker 6: Does that change this weekend. Do the Cornhuskers finally get

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Speaker 6: an NCAA tournament win.

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Speaker 7: Look, guys, I'm not gonna lie to you. This is

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Speaker 7: the biggest basketball game in Nebraska history right here, and

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Speaker 7: you know what, I'm feeling good about it. But that

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Speaker 7: doesn't mean that doesn't mean history can't repeat itself. So

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Speaker 7: we're we're gonna be on our toes. We're gonna try

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Speaker 7: and watch it on Thursday. It's at twelve forty. I'm

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Speaker 7: gonna try and lock in. But I'm feeling good about it.

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Speaker 7: I think I think this is the team that's gonna,

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Speaker 7: you know, take us out of the history books in

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Speaker 7: a negative way.

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Speaker 8: There you go. Well, I'm just a couple of years

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Speaker 8: older than you, But I went to Texas A and

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Speaker 8: M and grew up in Aggie, so we were yelling

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Speaker 8: at each other without knowing it all all growing up.

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Speaker 8: So got a long history there. So yep, that's that's

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Speaker 8: fun and also not a lot of success. I can

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Speaker 8: relate to that quite a bit of not having that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Nebraska and Troy Thursday, it's a night game. Asher's

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Speaker 6: playing a night game, So Jake Myers will be locked

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Speaker 6: in to the corn Huskers and the Troy Trojans, Jake,

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Speaker 6: this was great. Thank you very much again. Good luck

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Speaker 6: this season, continued health, and I will see you tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Thank you guys. Thanks for having me on. This

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Speaker 2: is awesome. I really appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Jake, Thanks Jake, Thank you guys,