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Speaker 1: Joined now by Chris Bassett, the barefooted Chris Bassett. By

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Speaker 1: the way, he is brave crats because there is an

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Speaker 1: oak tree right behind me. Luckily for him, there's no

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Speaker 1: acorns on the ground because I don't know if you ever.

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Speaker 2: Stepped on like a lego piece.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what it would feel like if you were

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Speaker 1: barefooted and step on an acorn.

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Speaker 3: I got two kids, so I know all about that.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, barefoot definitely is. Ah, it comes with a

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Speaker 4: But I don't do it for grounding. I do it

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Speaker 4: for laziness.

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Speaker 2: Oh ok, we you know, have you ever seen Bull Durham?

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Speaker 1: No, of course, of course Bull dir Quinn Peat tells

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Speaker 1: Nuke you got to you gotta have clean shower shoes.

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Speaker 2: We can't get shower shoes.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 5: I just.

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Speaker 3: It's just packing up an extra thing, and my mind

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Speaker 3: is like, you know, what one left thing I gotta

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Speaker 4: I'm good.

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Speaker 1: So but the equipment guy has to give you a

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Speaker 1: pair of lesson I get it tired. You know, twenty

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Speaker 1: dollars Nike, Adidas, whatever, New Balance, whatever, whatever you want

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Speaker 1: to wear, they'll give them to you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't even have to pay for him. It's

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Speaker 2: a big league. They'll give them to you for free.

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Speaker 3: Honna say, Shureser tried to get this out of me

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Speaker 3: and it didn't work.

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Speaker 1: And barefooted, yeahur barefooted. Yeah, his his new shower barefoot.

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Speaker 3: His extremes to get me to wear shower shoes were

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Speaker 3: a little out of control, but they still didn't work. So, yeah,

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Speaker 3: you don't wear shower shoes to show It was just laziness.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's fantastic. Hey, I washed my feet.

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Speaker 3: We're good.

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Speaker 1: Hey, we're good. You know what happens in the crauch.

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Speaker 1: You tell him what happens in the shower.

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Speaker 4: I know, I know, trust me, I know what happens.

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Speaker 3: We're good.

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Speaker 6: I feel like I feel like you've been told this

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Speaker 6: plenty of times. I feel like I feel like, just

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Speaker 6: one thing. What's one other thing that you're you're you're

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Speaker 6: lazy about? If you're not going to put on sandals

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Speaker 6: to walk around, what's another thing that you're like? I

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Speaker 6: get it, I should do this, but I don't.

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Speaker 3: How how pg you were supposed to go here? I mean,

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Speaker 3: let's not go like I'm saying, like underwear, that's fine.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't wear underwear.

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Speaker 2: See, that's t M.

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Speaker 3: I that's not un but that's like ever like you pitch, oh, pitch,

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Speaker 3: you gotta wear sliders and all that stuff.

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Speaker 2: Different. Yeah overall, I say, because especially in the Orioles

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that could be.

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Speaker 2: That could give me a problem.

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Speaker 1: Not we're not there, okay, but so no, you just

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Speaker 3: Clothes I don't wear. Now you're just saying I'm a

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Speaker 1: Do you introduce yourself to your teammates is Hi, I'm

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Speaker 1: Chris Bassetting, I'm a nudist and I don't wear shower shoes.

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Speaker 4: I think it's very evident really quickly.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're good.

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Speaker 2: Does anyone question you on it?

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Speaker 3: So there's like, this guy's just weird. He knows because

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it's just yeah, okay, how are the Orioles

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Speaker 3: I'm really really excited about this year.

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Speaker 1: How do you go about learning a new catcher because

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Speaker 1: you have ad Lie and Basaio, but you don't really

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Speaker 2: Yeah, do you have to learn a new catcher?

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Speaker 3: I really want to get to a point where I'm

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Speaker 3: not calling many pitches. I mean, say I'm calling like,

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Speaker 4: I would really like to get to that point.

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Speaker 3: But overall, I would say, it's it's it's it's not

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Speaker 6: Is it hard for the catcher to get used to you?

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Speaker 6: Because before, before the pitch com you would shake, and

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Speaker 6: is it hard for a catcher? Have you heard catchers

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Speaker 3: I would say when I when I was back in

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Speaker 3: whatever it may be. So I shook it right away,

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Speaker 3: because I was like, I kind of want to throw

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Speaker 3: Why are you shaking so much? I'm stepping out now.

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Speaker 3: Now you're gonna shake six more times?

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Speaker 4: I know.

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Speaker 3: Me and Sean Murphy back in the day with Oakland

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Speaker 3: I just called twelve different pitches, so to speak, in locations,

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Speaker 3: So I would say, with the pitch calm, it's a

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Speaker 1: Could you survive with the pitch calm and the pitch

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Speaker 1: clock if the pitch sorry, if you had the pitch

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Speaker 3: It'd be really tough.

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Speaker 3: That or we'd I mean, we'd have to do we

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Speaker 3: y'all are already do an insane amount of homework when

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Speaker 3: it comes to all the analyst stuff. But we'd have

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Speaker 3: just I have all the time in the world, so

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Speaker 3: I like doing it. I like diving into the numbers,

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Speaker 3: But catcher's got to do every single day, so it's

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Speaker 3: just tough. I to me, I always think that I

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Speaker 3: know the hitter better than the catcher. I'm not saying

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Speaker 2: You know you have two catchers on the show, right.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I know, But I'm saying the reality is, I

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Speaker 3: know the way I feel going into the game. I understand.

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Speaker 3: I don't I'm not that confident in my fastball. I'm

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Speaker 3: I don't like how my cutter was that week. So

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Speaker 3: I know all those things going into it. You're gonna

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Speaker 3: but I just feel like I have a better feel

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Speaker 3: But overall, I'm I'm super excited about Adley and Sammy,

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Speaker 6: What superpower or skill would be better being able to

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Speaker 6: or being able to do exactly what you just said,

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Speaker 6: prepare outthink these guys, which one has more success for

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Speaker 6: the entirety of your thirty two starts?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I just I just think it's a lot easier

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Speaker 3: or schemes. So many guys, so many guys train and

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Speaker 3: Like so many guys are chasing ninety seven ninety eight,

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Speaker 4: They're not hitting any spots.

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Speaker 3: Congratulations, you're throwing two to fast balls at ninety eight

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Speaker 3: miles an hour and you're two to Oh that is nothing.

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Speaker 3: You're missing spots. Guys really good at hitting fast balls

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Speaker 3: in and you can't throw a fast I mean you can't.

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Speaker 3: You can't throw a fastball away and you're just giving

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Speaker 4: But your stuff's really nasty.

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Speaker 3: So to me, I would always I always want the pitcher,

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Speaker 3: like the unicorns, like the Schoobls, the Skins and all

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Speaker 6: Did you hear this in free agency? Because to me,

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Speaker 3: Part of it. I'm not going to fight it. I'm

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Speaker 1: So, yeah, you keep signing one year twenty ish million

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Speaker 4: I'll be fine.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Have you gotten over Game seven yet? No?

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Speaker 3: Hell no, I'm sorry. No, No, I'm sorry, Uh, definitely not.

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Speaker 3: It's I don't I said this. I think when I

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Speaker 2: I mean it was like, honestly this, I mean it

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Speaker 3: I mean, if you just can take everyone can sit

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Speaker 2: You're blaming the hitters.

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Speaker 4: No, I said one take one to like.

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Speaker 2: I never lost the World Series.

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Speaker 3: No, yeah, I'm no, it's I'm sure it sucks, no,

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Speaker 1: And then it leads to my next question. The Dodgers

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Speaker 3: But they're all there. There's always gonna be great teams, Like,

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Speaker 4: And I'm not gonna sit.

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Speaker 3: Here like I feel like everybody, how do I even

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Speaker 3: Muntzi's why would we penalize the Dodgers for being good

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Speaker 3: what five six years, haven't missed like every single guy

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Speaker 3: They're a well oiled machine. They're great at what they do.

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Speaker 6: Do you hear other players say that? Because we constantly

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Speaker 6: this is a player driven show. We love hearing players

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Speaker 6: Have you ever heard an actual big lead player say that.

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Speaker 3: I think I've heard people say that, But it comes

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Speaker 3: But when it comes down to like actual baseball, like anybody.

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Speaker 3: Like Milwaukee is the smallest market I think in in

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Speaker 3: like so like I'm not I'm not gonna sit here

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Speaker 1: Okay, before I ask your last quares, you're ever seen

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Speaker 2: A bug on my phone like things? Think that thing

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Speaker 4: I don't know that.

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Speaker 3: Go fishing in that pond back? Had a boat back there.

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Speaker 1: Probably, I mean a little boat back probably but one

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Speaker 4: There's a lot of fish in there's not that great.

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Speaker 2: I want to eat him. No, heck no, heck no.

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Speaker 1: All right, you're you're heavily involved with the union. Correct,

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Speaker 3: Let's let's start negotiating for real, right now? Why why

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Speaker 3: don't they I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Like, like is that well side though?

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Speaker 1: Because I get so like I get I get angry

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Speaker 2: I know. Oh you know we need a salary cap.

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Speaker 2: We need it, right.

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Speaker 1: And I always say, this is my line. I say,

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Speaker 1: an owner verus owner fight. They fight within themselves because

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Speaker 1: the Yankees and the Dodgers are giving the Pirates and

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Speaker 2: Just seem to put in their pocket.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true, but why can't we

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Speaker 1: start negotiating now? Why can't we get this done? It

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the thing I mean, that's literally that I've

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Speaker 4: Would be insane, it would be criminal.

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Speaker 3: So, like I look at arbitration and how arbitration they

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Speaker 4: Until it's almost too late.

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Speaker 3: Like I think if you pulled every single player, I

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Speaker 3: I would love to have a deal done before the

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Speaker 3: season's over, not just because I don't want to not

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Speaker 3: have an offseason kind of thing with the Union, but

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Speaker 3: like the reality is is like the game is in

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Speaker 3: Like how are we how are we gonna sit there

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Speaker 3: and like say we need to change this. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: just to me from a fan standpoint, I would hate

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Speaker 1: Agreed, Well, Chris, good luck here Baltimore, thank you for

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Speaker 1: joining us. Let's hope all these things get worked out.

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Speaker 1: Joining us now is Trevor Rodgers Orioles left handed starting pitcher,

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Speaker 1: who had one of the greatest second halfs I think

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Speaker 1: I've ever seen last year. What happened in the second half?

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Speaker 1: What what maybe not what happened, but what changed for you?

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Speaker 1: What did you figure.

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Speaker 8: Out Yeah, that's a a good question. I think it's

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Speaker 8: kind of a a lot of different things. We kind

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Speaker 8: of make a long story short as they could try

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Speaker 8: to get all these bugs out of my face. I

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Speaker 8: think just a mental aspect of the game. I think

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Speaker 8: this game is really good at humbling us. And I

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Speaker 8: think I was so result oriented. I think I needed

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Speaker 8: to kind of change my outlook on baseball and how

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Speaker 8: I went about the game. And I started getting with

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Speaker 8: the mental skills guy and really become process oriented, really

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Speaker 8: built like a solid foundation, and I got to the

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Speaker 8: point where you know, I didn't wasn't focused on the

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Speaker 8: results at all, and and those those things kind.

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Speaker 5: Of took care of itself. And obviously I got stronger

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Speaker 5: with all.

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Speaker 8: The injuries that I had, and it all just came

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Speaker 8: together for a really good second half.

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Speaker 2: What is what is?

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Speaker 1: For people out there? It's people that don't know what?

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Speaker 1: How does it start? With a mental skills coach? Do

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Speaker 1: you start? I mean, I remember we used to have

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Speaker 1: their guy named Harvey Dorfman who booked the Red Light

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Speaker 1: Yell like used to hand it to us in the

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Speaker 1: minor leagues and say, hey, read this, and you read

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Speaker 1: and you're like Okay, when I get mad, it's a

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Speaker 1: red light. I'm going good. It's a green line. When

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Speaker 1: I get to yellow, I gotta take a step back.

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Speaker 1: So what is a mental mental skills coaching today's game?

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Speaker 1: Where do they start?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it starts with the red light and in the

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Speaker 5: yellow light.

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Speaker 8: And it's more of just giving you a bunch of

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Speaker 8: different tools that you need and kind of throwing them

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Speaker 8: against the wall to see which one sticks. And for

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Speaker 8: me personally, it's you know, how I talk to myself

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Speaker 8: on the mound, And I remember when I was rookie

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Speaker 8: year and then in twenty twenty two, any little thing

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Speaker 8: bad that happened, it was immediate negative self talk, just

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Speaker 8: beat myself up for no reason. So the biggest thing

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Speaker 8: for me was positive self talk and really just building

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Speaker 8: that solid foundation each and every day.

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Speaker 5: As soon as I walk.

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Speaker 8: In the door, I know what I'm gonna do and

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Speaker 8: I know what I want to accomplish each day.

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Speaker 2: What does that sound like?

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Speaker 6: What does yourself talk sound like?

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Speaker 8: It's more of just you know, like I have a

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Speaker 8: couple of mantras that I'm always telling myself, you know,

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Speaker 8: a tax strike zone, one pitch at a time, and

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Speaker 8: even when they get a hit, like, hey, you execute

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Speaker 8: that pitch, you got a ground ball. That's all you

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Speaker 8: can control. So just you know, think when things don't

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Speaker 8: go my way. So those kind of positive affirmations that

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Speaker 8: I tell myself to keep me on the right track.

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Speaker 1: When you were on the bad side, you weren't like

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Speaker 1: Tyler Phillips or you're like smacking this.

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Speaker 5: Oh it was that.

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Speaker 8: Never that battles, Never Ken Giles and punched myself in

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Speaker 8: the face.

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Speaker 5: So if I never.

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Speaker 1: Did that, by the way, I can't say I haven't

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Speaker 1: done it, because I have done that. Before you get

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Speaker 1: about zero for fifteen, there's been a punch on my

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Speaker 1: own way of the port, so I can't.

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Speaker 2: I'm not making fun of them. I've been there.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Pitchers don't have bats that they can snap. We

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Speaker 6: have bats that you can snap, and it makes it

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Speaker 6: makes you feel a little bit better. Now you got me, now, Trevor,

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Speaker 6: I got you know. Sorry, No, no, you're good, you're good.

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Speaker 6: We got technical stuff. But I said, we have we

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Speaker 6: had bats. We have hitters have bats. Pictures don't have bats.

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Speaker 6: They can't really break their glove. It just it just

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Speaker 6: bounces back. But you talked about last time you were

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Speaker 6: on you talked about how you change you I'm not

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Speaker 6: sure if you went to drive line tread or you

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Speaker 6: went to one of those places and you you figured

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Speaker 6: out different deficiencies that you have. After a really good

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Speaker 6: season like you had last year, do you try to add,

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Speaker 6: you know, well, if that that was good, what else

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Speaker 6: can I do? What what's the next step? Or not

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Speaker 6: saying it's complacent, but you're like, man, I did pretty

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Speaker 6: freaking good. Like I'm just sticking just with that and

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Speaker 6: we're good being right there.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's a good question. I'd say it's a little

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Speaker 8: bit of both. I think that's a mistake I made

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Speaker 8: after my rookie year. I think you're like, hey, I

568
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Speaker 8: had a great year. I don't really need to change anything.

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Speaker 8: Let's continue to you know, build on what I did.

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Speaker 8: I think that's something that I learned from, you know,

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Speaker 8: last year going into this year, you know, I had

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Speaker 8: a good second half, but looking at it from a

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Speaker 8: full picture, it was only half a year. So the

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Speaker 8: first half I was mainly in triple A. So that's

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Speaker 8: really a big thing coming in to this year. Is

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Speaker 8: you know, being consistent for a full season, Is you

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Speaker 8: know something that I haven't been able to do for

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Speaker 8: quite a few years. So something that's kind of you know,

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Speaker 8: trying to check the box on that, and that you know,

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Speaker 8: goes back to my routine, how I'm going about each day,

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Speaker 8: and you know, as far as like mechanics, you know,

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Speaker 8: clean up a couple of mechanical tweaks, sharpen up some

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Speaker 8: you know, some of my pitches, some of my breaking balls,

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Speaker 8: and kind of and go from there.

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Speaker 1: How do you carry it over? How do you carry

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Speaker 1: over what last year to an offseason because you're probably

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Speaker 1: at the end of the year, like, man, I don't

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Speaker 1: want this year to end. I just keep Can I

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Speaker 1: just keep pitching everything? Can I go to winter Ball?

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Speaker 1: Can I go wherever? And just keep pitching every fifth day?

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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: So how do you carry that over? Because again you

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Speaker 1: just talked about tweaks and things like that. Is there

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Speaker 1: a way to carry momentum over to the next year?

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Speaker 5: I really think there is.

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Speaker 8: And going back to my mental skills, guy, we've we've

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Speaker 8: talked about, Hey, well.

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Speaker 2: To give a ship, can you?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 8: Zach Zach Swartz and he was with the Reds last

602
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Speaker 8: year and he's kind of doing his own thing now.

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Speaker 5: He's been great.

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Speaker 8: Uh, he's helped me a lot, so he's probably one

605
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Speaker 8: of the best of the game. So shout out to Zach.

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Speaker 8: But we've we've been talking quite a bit in spring.

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Speaker 8: It was like, Hey, what do we want this season

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Speaker 8: look like? And I think we've both been on the

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Speaker 8: same page as like, chasing numbers is poison. I don't

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Speaker 8: I don't want to chase numbers, And to be honest,

611
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Speaker 8: I don't even really want to chase what I did

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Speaker 8: last year. The only thing I want to chase is

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Speaker 8: the consistency of last year. I think every single baseball player,

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Speaker 8: like y'all two included, like everything that we want in

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Speaker 8: a career is just have consistency and know that what

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Speaker 8: we're going to get and we can give our teammates

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Speaker 8: every time we're out there we take the field. So

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Speaker 8: that's the biggest thing for me this year is carry

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Speaker 8: that momentum or that consistency into the into this year.

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Speaker 6: How do you react or even the rest of your

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Speaker 6: starting starting rotation mates react when you read something or

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Speaker 6: hear that. The pitching, you know, they don't have quite

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Speaker 6: enough pitching. They didn't do quite enough in the offseason.

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Speaker 8: The Orioles, Yeah, I would probably disagree with that. I

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Speaker 8: think we probably have the most underrated rotation in baseball.

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Speaker 8: I mean, just look at those names right there. Bradish

627
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Speaker 8: probably got some of the best stuff in all of baseball.

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Speaker 8: Baskett with the run that he went on in the

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Speaker 8: postseason last year, Baz is unbelievable. Fling can eat innings

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Speaker 8: left and right. And Kramer he's you know, he's our bulldog.

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Speaker 8: He can eat innings too. So we got one of

632
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Speaker 8: the most underrated rotations in baseball, and just overall stuff

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Speaker 8: and just overall commands. So the fact that I get to,

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Speaker 8: you know, share a clubhouse with those five of the guys,

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Speaker 8: it's it's gonna be special.

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Speaker 1: That graphic Does that mean you're the opening day start?

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Speaker 1: Is that the graphic we just ran with you at

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Speaker 1: the top?

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Speaker 2: Does that mean they're opening?

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Speaker 5: That would be pretty cool. Huh.

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Speaker 8: But yeah, it's uh, it's gonna be pretty fun to,

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Speaker 8: you know, compete with all those guys, and you know,

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Speaker 8: we'll Yeah, when he when I talked to him, should

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Speaker 8: I you've probably poked the bear a little bit?

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Speaker 5: Okay?

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Speaker 2: Would that be something you'd be into?

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Speaker 8: It's definitely something that I want to, you know, what's

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Speaker 8: my career's have one at least one opening day start

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Speaker 8: you guys, you.

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Speaker 2: Guys open with the Twins. They have a lot of

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Speaker 2: lefties in their lineup. I don't know. It doesn't matter

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Speaker 2: what neutral.

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Speaker 5: Don't matter, don't matter, it don't matter. That's actually.

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Speaker 2: What's the new guys?

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Speaker 3: Like?

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Speaker 1: Some of the new guys you brought Pete? Uh, some

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Speaker 1: of the other guys that you've brought in? What is

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Speaker 1: p And I'm sorry, I'm half asleep, but uh?

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Speaker 2: Who else they bring?

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Speaker 1: A cross? Jackie Bat that's smart. I can't talk about him.

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Speaker 1: He thinks way too much. Peach Peach more on my level?

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Speaker 1: What's that?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 6: Same bos too more?

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Speaker 2: That was the one. Yeah, what are those guys like?

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Speaker 8: They're just all great additions to our team, all like

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Speaker 8: just great human beings. Peets you know, I think really

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Speaker 8: adds that veteran presence to to our lineup. And he's

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Speaker 8: great for us as a leader, even though he's been

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Speaker 8: with us, you know, two months. He's just that veteran

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Speaker 8: leader that this clubhouse needed. And Ward he's top not

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Speaker 8: human being, puts his head down, goes about.

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Speaker 2: His work the right way.

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Speaker 5: And and Bassett he's he's one of the kind. He's

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Speaker 5: he's a character through and through.

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Speaker 8: But his knowledge of the game and how long he's

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Speaker 8: been around, he's been huge for me personally and just

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Speaker 8: the whole pitching staff and bass.

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Speaker 3: Like.

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Speaker 8: I've played in the PG All American Game back in

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Speaker 8: sixteen with him, so it's cool to be around that

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Speaker 8: guy again. And he probably has the most effortless ninety

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Speaker 8: eight I've ever seen in my life. So he's top

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Speaker 8: not human being, great teammate and I'm gonna just love

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Speaker 8: watching him pitch every five six days.

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Speaker 1: Just don't talk about because he shakes himself off sometimes, right.

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Speaker 2: He's over there, He's like, no, no, no, I don't

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Speaker 2: want that.

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Speaker 5: No, I changed my mind exactly.

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Speaker 8: It's a little bit tiring watching him do his thing

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Speaker 8: out there sometimes, but it's it's also fun, all Right.

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Speaker 6: What's more impressive Tyler O'Neil with his shirt off or

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Speaker 6: Shane Bazz throwing a fastball at effortless ninety eight?

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Speaker 8: Man, I would say Shane, but I'd say I'm a

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Speaker 8: little bit more jealous of Tyler when he has his

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Speaker 8: shirt off because I wish I had those types of guns.

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Speaker 8: But yeah, it's it's seeing both of them. To be honest,

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Speaker 8: it's pretty special.

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Speaker 5: That's for sure.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're a picture. You can't look like.

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Speaker 8: That is Yeah, I mean, Michael Lorenzen is probably the

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Speaker 8: closest thing to looking like.

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Speaker 5: It was was pretty good. It was really good.

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Speaker 8: I didn't like the result, but it was it was

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Speaker 8: pretty good to watch room for him, right of course.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, that's fair.

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Speaker 8: What about Hellsley, oh Man, you talk about effortless, it's

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Speaker 8: an effortless.

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Speaker 5: Ninety nine to one hundred.

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Speaker 8: And he's also a guy that, you know, great clubhouse guy.

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Speaker 8: I think he's going to be another they're a really

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Speaker 8: good leader, you know, for the bullpen. In fact, just

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Speaker 8: with Batista unfortunately going down and being out majority of

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Speaker 8: this year, I think he's going to be a great

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Speaker 8: addition to the closer role and he'll really be able to,

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Speaker 8: you know, close some games out for us.

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Speaker 6: What are the conversations that are different from last year

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Speaker 6: because I know last year, you know, you weren't here,

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Speaker 6: you weren't in Baltimore the entire season, But what are

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Speaker 6: the how are the conversations different in spring where it

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Speaker 6: was like, guys, last year, we wanted to make the playoffs,

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Speaker 6: We wanted to win the World Series, and you guys

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Speaker 6: got punched in the mouth because of injuries, because of

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Speaker 6: all those things. How have those conversations changed even just

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Speaker 6: like a little bit, not expectations, but just the conversations

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Speaker 6: in spring.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a good question. I think I think we

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Speaker 8: learned a lot last year. I think the saying goes,

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Speaker 8: you can't win a division in March and April, but

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Speaker 8: you can lose it. I think we learned that last year.

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Speaker 8: I think, to be honest, I think it was probably

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Speaker 8: the best thing that could have happened to us, because,

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Speaker 8: you know, the expectations have changed. I think we know

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Speaker 8: what it feels like to get punched in the mouth,

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Speaker 8: and we don't like that feeling. We don't want to

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Speaker 8: have that feeling again. And Albi has really set the

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Speaker 8: standard out of the gate. So I treat every day

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Speaker 8: like day one, especially, you know, as we're getting towards

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Speaker 8: kind of the dog days of spring training right now,

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Speaker 8: treating every day like day one, shown up to the

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Speaker 8: park with the same level intensity, same level energy and

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Speaker 8: work ethic. So it's all started with Albi. He's been

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Speaker 8: he's been unbelievable since day one.

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Speaker 1: The new spring training complex is incredible, right when they've

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Speaker 1: done here with the new the new complex.

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Speaker 2: But before we let you go, I have to do

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Speaker 2: you drive a truck in the offseason?

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Speaker 1: I did, because I'm looking at the parking lot over

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Speaker 1: here and it's a lot of like jacked up trucks.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if they notice about baseball players crafts,

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Speaker 1: but they all drive these really big trucks, and every

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Speaker 1: parking is out is built for a compact car. So

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Speaker 1: watching these guys try to park and then get out

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Speaker 1: in their door that only opens like this far is

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Speaker 1: making me laugh because if you look, I can't see it,

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Speaker 1: but there's like seven trucks lined up in a row

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Speaker 1: and they're all about this far apart from each other.

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Speaker 1: Here amazing except for the parking lot, which they forgot.

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Speaker 2: Everyone drives a giant truck.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I haven't seen any I haven't seen any scratch paint.

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Speaker 8: So guys are doing a pretty good job. I mean

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Speaker 8: those through over there that the ford in the ram

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Speaker 8: or I don't know how the guy in the rams

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Speaker 8: they might have to get into the passenger side and

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Speaker 8: then crawl over exactly.

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Speaker 2: Well, Trevor, thank you very much. We really appreciate it.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely do it again. I appreciate you guys,