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Speaker 1: Welcome everybody to the What Early podcast on the Fish

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Speaker 1: Strips Podcast Network. I'm your host, Noah Berger. This is

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Speaker 1: our final episode of the twenty twenty two season. We

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Speaker 1: have Richard Bleier here and the Closer, or as some

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Speaker 1: people like to call him, the Flowser, Dylan Flora. How

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Speaker 1: are you both doing?

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Speaker 2: We're doing wonderful, all right.

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Speaker 3: So I'm gonna start with with Dylan.

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Speaker 1: This season started out a little bit later on for you.

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Speaker 1: You had you started spring training a bit banged up.

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Speaker 1: What went on during that time?

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Speaker 2: What did it go on?

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Speaker 4: Just just dealing with some shoulder stuff there. Again, let's

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Speaker 4: spend two years in a row now, so I don't

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Speaker 4: just come dealing with that stuff.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's kind of heard me the last two years.

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Speaker 4: So going in changing this whole off season program and

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Speaker 4: mixing things up a little bit, so hopefully I come

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Speaker 4: on the next spring trainer ready to go.

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Speaker 1: At what point in the season did you feel like

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Speaker 1: you were back to like.

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Speaker 4: I'll probably say for sure, probably the last two or

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Speaker 4: three months, two months some two or three months if

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Speaker 4: I where I feel like I had the life of

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Speaker 4: my forcing back at the top of the zone and

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Speaker 4: just executing pitches night in and night out.

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Speaker 2: Strike and for.

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Speaker 5: The last time, it's some man t whim.

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Speaker 1: An interesting stat that someone pointed out to me. You

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Speaker 1: have the zero era a when Nick Forts is behind

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Speaker 1: the plane. Is there something you guys do differently when

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Speaker 1: he's behind the plane.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know anything about that, so I have no idea.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I think that we got two really good

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Speaker 4: catchers and it's just happens.

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Speaker 2: What a politically correct answer, you know?

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Speaker 3: Keep going, Richard, I wanted.

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Speaker 1: I have many questions for you, but I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: with recency bias.

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Speaker 3: The box.

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Speaker 1: Take us through what happened, and like your thoughts on

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Speaker 1: the mound when that's all going on? Was the first block,

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Speaker 1: the second one, and then ultimately the third.

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Speaker 2: Let's get Flora's take on it. Flora, what do you

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Speaker 2: think about the box? I think that block? Yes or no,

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Speaker 2: you've bloked on one of them for sure. I agree

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Speaker 2: with a lot of people, a lot of people. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So have you have you seen John Boy Media's breakdown?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Watched or it shows the side by sides?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? So the box the first one.

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Speaker 5: Maybe I got a little sloppy with the only because

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Speaker 5: I'm facing Pete Alonzo as.

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Speaker 2: A you know, in the eighth inning or whatever ending

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Speaker 2: it was, and I don't I still don't see I.

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Speaker 5: Don't see it whatever, I just haven't seen it. I

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Speaker 5: do give the umpire credit though, for having the will

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Speaker 5: power to call three you know, good for him to

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Speaker 5: go out there and and really make that example of

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Speaker 5: of me, as as you know, they got an email

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Speaker 5: apparently about we're gonna start enforcing.

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Speaker 2: The coming set thing and and they.

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Speaker 5: He he went out there and forced it to the

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Speaker 5: best of his ability.

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Speaker 1: Did you get did you get a chance to speak

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Speaker 1: with the Johnson paying at any point afterward?

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Speaker 5: So I pitched the next night and he just came

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Speaker 5: out there and said, you know what we're looking for? Yeah,

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Speaker 5: really aware of what we got going on now and

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Speaker 5: then and he said, okay, cool, and that was pretty

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Speaker 5: much the end of it. So you know, it's it's

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Speaker 5: all good. You know, he's doing his job and that

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Speaker 5: it's his opinion. And it obviously doesn't matter what my

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Speaker 5: opinion is, because I wouldn't have called box against me,

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Speaker 5: you know, but I also would call every pitch a strike,

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Speaker 5: and and it's not so uh, it is what it is.

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Speaker 5: Hopefully I've don't do it again. It's embarrassing.

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Speaker 1: So you got your first save of the season this

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Speaker 1: past weekend in Malak. The question for both of you

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Speaker 1: almost start with d Richard with the mindset going when

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Speaker 1: you were coming onto the mound in different settings and

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Speaker 1: higher leverage, how does it change your approach when you're

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Speaker 1: pitching in let's say, the seventh inning as opposed to

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Speaker 1: pitching in the ninth inning with the game on the line.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's a great question.

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Speaker 5: So I was actually thrilled to go in the ninth

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Speaker 5: for that save, knowing I'm taking a save away from Flora.

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Speaker 2: It just it made my.

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Speaker 3: Day to two grow ball Barty a second, has it.

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Speaker 1: It's Marlin's win, come from behind when with two in

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Speaker 1: the ninth inning.

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Speaker 5: And that's all I was thinking about every out and like,

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Speaker 5: I just need to get this save so Flora doesn't

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Speaker 5: get it.

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Speaker 2: No, he wasn't available to pitch or else he would

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Speaker 2: have been in there. For me.

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Speaker 5: I always treat like I haven't pitched in the ninth

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Speaker 5: I don't project as a closer with the stuff, so I.

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Speaker 2: Haven't pitched in the ninth much.

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Speaker 5: But with the lead in general, I think if you

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Speaker 5: if you make it a big deal, it becomes a

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Speaker 5: big deal. So I just try to go out there

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Speaker 5: and make my pitches. Whether the score is one nothing

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Speaker 5: or the fifth. I just think that I'm trying to

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Speaker 3: And the same question for you, Dylan, I.

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Speaker 2: Agree with them.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I think the more pressure you put on yourself,

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Speaker 4: the more chances you're gonna end up leaving a pitch

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Speaker 4: over there. I mean later in the game, where you

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Speaker 4: get to the eighth, ninth, anying like that. You've got

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Speaker 4: to execute each pitch. I mean, I know a lot

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Speaker 4: of times you put too much pressure on yourself. But

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Speaker 4: what I've learned over the last couple of years be

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Speaker 4: able to get the chance to close is just go

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Speaker 4: out there and trust my stuff and just execute and

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Speaker 4: have a game plan with the shooter.

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Speaker 1: So you guys pretty much already answered my question on

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Speaker 1: if there's any internal competition between you guys, that's pretty obvious.

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Speaker 3: There is the what would.

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Speaker 1: Each of you considered what would each of you consider

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Speaker 1: to be your best.

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Speaker 3: Or your favorite pitch to throw in your arsenals.

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Speaker 5: I like the ones that get out, Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 5: I couldn't.

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Speaker 4: I couldn't say I could pick one pitch. I mean

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Speaker 4: it depends on who I'm facing, how and when I

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Speaker 4: set him up. Like some days like this year has

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Speaker 4: been my slider. Last year has been like my change up.

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Speaker 5: I know, I know my favorite pitches for him, his

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Speaker 5: slider since I coached him on it, and the four

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Speaker 5: seam up and into a lefty because I know if

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Speaker 5: he's able to throw the four team up and in

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Speaker 5: everything else is going to be really good.

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Speaker 1: Back to specific questions, your walk up song, for whom

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Speaker 1: the bell tolds, why did you decide to use that?

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Speaker 2: I didn't decide to use that at all?

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Speaker 3: Really, Yeah, who.

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Speaker 5: Did decide that? It wasn't me, somebody else. Somebody just

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Speaker 5: picked it for me the first time because he we

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Speaker 5: he can't be he was the closer last year and.

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Speaker 2: We wanted some cool song for it, and he's like, oh,

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Speaker 2: I don't care, and so what.

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Speaker 5: Was it the first time? Wasn't it like like Backstreet

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Speaker 5: Boys or something? But that was really bad? So we

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Speaker 5: went with somebody picked that was that Metallica song or

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Speaker 5: whatever it goes with the music?

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Speaker 2: It's cool.

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Speaker 1: So you pitched in the World Series in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: And what was it like going through that season, in

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Speaker 1: the postseason of that year without any fans in the stands,

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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden in the World Series

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Speaker 1: you had limited fans in that New Texas ball Park.

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Speaker 3: So what was that like going.

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Speaker 4: Through I mean, it's I mean, I gotta taste a

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Speaker 4: little bit of playoff stuff and like in eighteen there,

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Speaker 4: so I think it helped me prepare for a little

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Speaker 2: I mean definitely eighteen twenty when you have the fans and.

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Speaker 4: All in that stuff of all makes it feels like

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Speaker 4: it's ten times Actually what really is going on and

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Speaker 4: is still just a game we're playing here?

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Speaker 2: You gotta go out there and execute a pitch.

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Speaker 3: Where do you keep your your World Series ring?

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Speaker 2: I think it's just at home somewhere.

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Speaker 5: Is it full size or is it a little smaller

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Speaker 5: since it was full size?

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Speaker 2: Full size?

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Speaker 6: Right, Just want to make sure you can't talk about

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Speaker 6: that stuff. You can talk about money, you know that.

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Speaker 1: Well, Speaking of speaking of money, you've signed to your

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Speaker 1: contract for the season. You said, don't give me money,

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Speaker 1: I'll spend.

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Speaker 5: It, said, I said it to Jazz like I should

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Speaker 5: have choosed my words a little wiser, knowing I was

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Speaker 5: negotiating a contract.

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Speaker 2: Don't give me money, I'll spend it.

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Speaker 5: I was just joking with Jazz. Carry on, I know

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Speaker 5: where this is going. Yeah, I bought something.

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Speaker 3: I know you bought. You bought a Tesla.

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Speaker 2: No big deal, environment it's the best car on the planet.

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Speaker 2: So since I bought one, there are more more have

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Speaker 2: shown up in the players lot, just so you know, everywhere.

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Speaker 1: So I have heard, I hear there's a there's a

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Speaker 1: there's a bit of a battle over the charger spot.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, it's a serious problem.

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Speaker 3: So we talked about him.

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Speaker 1: We talked about the own pitching in the Words series

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Speaker 1: in that New Rangers ballpark. You've pitched in every ballpark

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Speaker 1: other than.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, other than.

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Speaker 3: The New Rangers Ballpark. Of all the ballparks.

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Speaker 1: You've been to, what's your ideal setup and which of

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Speaker 3: Which bullpen setup is your favorite?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Okay, go warm up in, warm.

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Speaker 3: Up in, and then go out to pitch.

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Speaker 1: It.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought you were gonna ask about just my favorite.

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Speaker 5: So my favorite ballpark to play in is Atlanta, but

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Speaker 5: specifically warm up in probably Chicago because it's up and

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Speaker 5: under there. Yeah, nobody making fun of me. Rod slowly throw. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: maybe Chicago.

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Speaker 2: Other than that and Warm, I think they're all.

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Speaker 5: As far as coming from the bullpen into the game,

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Speaker 5: I would probably go Oakland because it's the shortest draw.

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Speaker 3: Again, it's shorter than Tampa's.

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Speaker 2: It's probably relative.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll go Tampa because I can't give Oakland the

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Speaker 5: best at anything. No offense to Oakland, it's just the

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Speaker 5: bullpen situation is rough for for us. I will say that, do.

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Speaker 1: You g are you guys ever like like scared when

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Speaker 1: you're sitting in Oakland and Tampa when you're sitting along

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Speaker 1: the side for a foul ball can companies, You guys

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Speaker 1: have to pay more attention. You're less relaxed now they're

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Speaker 1: more tense.

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Speaker 5: No, we actually have a lot of fun with those guys,

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Speaker 5: the ball guys. Uh, the Oakland guy. It was a

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Speaker 5: lot of fun this year with that guy. He was

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Speaker 5: making place for us. So I think it was it

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Speaker 5: was entertaining.

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Speaker 2: To Richard.

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Speaker 1: You grew up in Miami. There's a picture of you

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we hang out, we're hanging out outside the field

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, so I've it's nine questions and it's

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Speaker 1: Who do you think has pitched the most career innings?

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Speaker 1: So you have pitched two hundred and ninety eight and

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Speaker 2: Rookie only that your whole year.

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Speaker 3: Between the two of you, who has the most wins?

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Speaker 2: Definitely me? I've got a lot of wins. How many

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Speaker 3: You know, which one of you as the most career box?

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Speaker 4: I don't know, have you boped it all, Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: I talk about that. I definitely have three. That's probably

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Speaker 2: I just he had a good career of the already

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Speaker 1: You're a Richard is three point zero seven and yours,

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Speaker 1: Dylan is three point one seven.

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Speaker 2: Oh, we both don't give up that many homers? How

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Speaker 2: I would say him probably least, so me the most.

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Speaker 1: I got that one, right, which funny as the most

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Speaker 5: I probably have. I think I had two in one

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Speaker 3: So, Richard you have thirteen, Dylan you have seven.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I got you and everything.

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Speaker 3: And most career hit batsman.

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Speaker 2: I hit a lot of people. I hit some people,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Richard, you've hit fifteen. Dylan you've only hit four.

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Speaker 2: Oh, pumped those numbers up. Let's go all right.

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Speaker 1: So thank you everybody for that has listened to this

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Speaker 3: Thank you anyone who's listening now.

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Speaker 1: Thank you to Fish Stripes for giving me the platform

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Speaker 1: to do something tomorrow is for giving me the act.

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Speaker 1: Just thank you to Richard and Dylan for coming on

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Speaker 5: Bail on you the last time altogether, We're supposed to

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Speaker 5: do this where you can go. I feel, don't They

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Speaker 5: bash us all the time and we're still doing their podcast.

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Speaker 2: Keep going.

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Speaker 1: This has been the waterly podcast only Fish Strikes Podcast Network.

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Speaker 3: I'm your host over. Thank you very much. We will

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Speaker 3: be back next season with more from the Marlins Bullpen