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Speaker 1: Get ready for a week of rumors. Roki Sazaki can

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Speaker 1: make his final decision on where he's going to play

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Speaker 1: beginning this Wednesday. Plus my thoughts on the Jorge Polanco

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Speaker 1: rumors and some of the other infield names that we've

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Speaker 1: Plus a quick preview of the twenty twenty five post

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Speaker 1: game show. We're working on some upgrades and things like that. Also,

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Speaker 1: we got your voicemails. This is Pinstripe Territory. Wanted to pook.

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Speaker 2: That's all.

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Speaker 1: All right, Welcome back, everybody, Welcome back. It is good

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Speaker 1: to see all of you again. Your names in the chat,

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Speaker 1: a lot of familiar names that have been with us

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Speaker 1: over the years. It's kind of a slow part of

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Speaker 1: the off season. Very little baseball news, you know. Over

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Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. Most of the big guys

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Speaker 1: and we're still waiting on Roki Sazaki, who will be

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Speaker 1: the focus of tonight's episode. But I've been spending a

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Speaker 1: lot of time just watching highlights, watching like Aaron Judges

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Speaker 1: fifty eight home runs from this year. You know, during

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Speaker 1: So a lot of times during this part year, when

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Speaker 1: gonna have some Roki buzz this week. If you believe

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Speaker 1: Jim Bowden on Roki Sazaki's free agency. The Yankees are

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Speaker 1: Twenty teams are interested in Roki Sazaki, but really only

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Speaker 1: about five places have a real chance to sign him. Specifically,

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Speaker 1: the Dodgers, the Padres, the Rangers, the Yankees, and the

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Speaker 1: Mets are seen as the favorites, according to Can Rosenthal. Now,

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Speaker 1: the Dodgers appear the most confident that they'll sign him.

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Speaker 1: that's pissed off a couple of these prospects, and one

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Speaker 1: so the prospect of being teammates with him could be appealing.

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Speaker 1: And you know, being on the West coast, it's easier

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Speaker 1: But he's definitely a difference maker no matter where he pitches.

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Speaker 1: Haroki Krorota did a nice job here. Each row was

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Speaker 1: say that, and George Steinbern had some words for him.

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Speaker 1: But we've had more than our share of good Japanese

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Speaker 1: and they're gonna try to get Suzaki. Now, I don't

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Speaker 1: the Bumb of the Day. And this will be given

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Speaker 1: out during losses, but we'll also give it out just

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Speaker 1: on nights when you know somebody deserves it. And it

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Speaker 1: it might be an umpire, it might be a fan,

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Speaker 1: it might be one of you, it might be me.

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Speaker 1: Who knows. Bum of the night. Bum of the Day

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Speaker 1: is completely my discretion and we're gonna have a lot

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Speaker 1: as we appropriate to match the award. So we're doing

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Speaker 1: the same type of rebuild, by the way, for the

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Speaker 1: and then we'll have the final segment each night we'll

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Speaker 1: I was going to try and get into shape this winter.

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Speaker 1: All right. So we got a couple of chats here

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Speaker 1: some voicemails and special chat out to Murica gamers. Here

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Speaker 1: with the super chat, he says, what do you think

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Speaker 1: about trading for Carlo's Korea? It's something that's been mentioned

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Speaker 1: on this channel a few times over the winter. I

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Speaker 1: don't hate it. It depends on what you give up.

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Speaker 1: He makes a lot of money right now. The Yankees

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Speaker 1: are about twenty four million dollars less than they had

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Speaker 1: on their payroll last year, so they could they could

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Speaker 1: afford him if they wanted to. But man, he's got

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Speaker 1: a bad ankle. He missed some time last year. He

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Speaker 1: was great when he was on the field, but I'm

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Speaker 1: just not sure at this point in his career that

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Speaker 1: you can count on him to stay on the field.

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Speaker 1: Pete says, Hey, Derek, did you grow your hair back out? Well?

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Speaker 1: I did grow it back out, but then I just

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Speaker 1: buzzed it down again recently. I think I'm just gonna

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Speaker 1: keep it kind of nice and short. It's thinning out anyway,

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Speaker 1: as you can tell, and most of the time I

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Speaker 1: the summer, but it got cold in the fall, and

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Speaker 1: so I started to grow it out. Plus, you know,

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Speaker 1: my mom hated it. Hi Mom, she seeing me bald

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Speaker 1: and she loves my beautiful hay even though it's thinning.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, I decided it was time to grow it

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Speaker 1: back out. But I'm going to keep it pretty short

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Speaker 1: because my wife likes it short. Right, here's a quick

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Speaker 1: voicemail about Jerkson profile.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Derek, just want to know what you think of

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Speaker 3: Jerson Profar could hit lead off. He's played second shortstop

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Speaker 3: the outfield, could probably play a decent third base, then

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Speaker 3: lead off to the Yankees as a good bat, I

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Speaker 3: just want to know what you think about that, because

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Speaker 3: there's been no smoke behind it.

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Speaker 2: The nay.

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Speaker 3: Thanks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a good hitter. I don't know how he

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Speaker 1: is as a defender. I think the Yankees are trying

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Speaker 1: to improve both offensively and defensively at the same time,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not sure that they can count on Profar

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Speaker 1: to do that. I think they would have been more

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Speaker 1: comfortable with Profar in the outfield. And also he had

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Speaker 1: kind of a tough second half last year. He got

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Speaker 1: off to a good start and then kind of slowed down.

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Speaker 1: Although he is said to be a good clubhouse guy,

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Speaker 1: I don't think that the Yankees would play him at

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Speaker 1: third base or second base. I think they want, especially

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Speaker 1: having signed Max Freed. You know, a lefty who throws

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Speaker 1: the ball on the ground a lot, I could see,

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Speaker 1: you know, and the Wise gets a lot of ground

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Speaker 1: balls too. I could see them wanting a defensive first

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Speaker 1: infielder with their next choice. And I've seen some people

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Speaker 1: in the chat saying, go ahead and get Ikf. And

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Speaker 1: then another person said IKF was and is hot garbage

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Speaker 1: And to me of the names that we showed before,

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Speaker 1: like on this infielder search, like I put a question

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Speaker 1: mark by his name because it's it's an intriguing idea,

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Speaker 1: the three point six war, Like we're trying to make

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Speaker 1: up war. Now, this isn't up to date or scientific,

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Speaker 1: but I'll show you the offseason Ledger. The Yanks are

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Speaker 1: trying to make up about four point nine war. You

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Speaker 1: can get there with IKF and a good pitcher, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, and just improvement from everybody. But again it's Ikf, Like,

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Speaker 1: how much did we need to see of this guy,

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Speaker 1: you know, before we are convinced enough is enough? I

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Speaker 1: don't know how he puts up the war, but he does.

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Speaker 1: And if they do get him, I hope they did.

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Speaker 1: They just leave him at third base. We got another

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Speaker 1: voicemail here about first base.

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Speaker 2: Hi, Derek Steve calling from Farmers in Maine. I'd like

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Speaker 2: to know why Cashman decided not to go for Christian

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Speaker 2: Walker because he wanted a three year contract and he'd

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Speaker 2: be thirty six by the end of it, and they're

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Speaker 2: worried about him. Is a production falling off? So instead

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Speaker 2: he signs a guy he's already thirty seven, whose production

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Speaker 2: has already liked it fall off. I know you said

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Speaker 2: you warn me to Goldschmidt because for whatever reasons, but

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Speaker 2: it's a possibly it's possibly a good signing, but it's

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Speaker 2: just as possibly a bad one. I think it was

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Speaker 2: a real mistake.

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Speaker 1: Well, first of all, that was a funny call. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate that. Now you do have a point with your

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Speaker 1: mask there that Walker they're signing through thirty six with

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Speaker 1: the Astros, and the Yanks are picking up gold Schmidt

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Speaker 1: at thirty seven and just hoping he bounces back. I

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Speaker 1: do think Goldschmitt will bounce back to a degree, but

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Speaker 1: I can't argue with your logic. There, right, they're getting

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Speaker 1: somebody who's older than the guy they didn't want to

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Speaker 1: give a contract to because at the end of it

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Speaker 1: he would be younger than the guy they signed. That's

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Speaker 1: a really interesting comment. So j x V SUS is

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Speaker 1: this live? Yes, it is live, and yes I just

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Speaker 1: saw your super chat which I will put on the screen.

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Speaker 1: Fourthwith he says, what do you think of trading for

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Speaker 1: Alec Bohm? I like Alec Bohm the player. Now, Aiden,

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Speaker 1: my main stat cast guy, would disagree with me on

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Speaker 1: this that he's a good third baseman. I think he's

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Speaker 1: like if feel good fielding run value. He's in the

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Speaker 1: seventy six percentile. Aiden said he didn't like his range.

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Speaker 1: I like his spray chart. I like all the red

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Speaker 1: on that screen. I mean, he's good at avoiding strikeouts.

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Speaker 1: He's good at square on the ball up. He's got

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Speaker 1: above average exit velocity, the expected batting average in the

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Speaker 1: ninety fifth percentile. You hit two eighty. He's got fifteen bombs.

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Speaker 1: You see, he can hit the ball to right field.

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Speaker 1: He'd probably pick up a home runner too at Yankee Stadium.

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Speaker 1: He's also got power, you know. You see some nukes

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Speaker 1: out here to left field. He sprays the ball all

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Speaker 1: over the field. But he's apparently had maturity issues and

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Speaker 1: he had to essentially be benched in the playoffs. So

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Speaker 1: I can't speak to that. I wasn't in the room.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what those issues are. Everybody's issues are different. Apparently,

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Speaker 1: he you know, he's one of these guys who goes

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Speaker 1: crazy if he makes it out right. I actually don't

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Speaker 1: mind that, you know, as long as you're mad at yourself, right.

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Speaker 1: But you know, emotional maturity, as we've seen, is a

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Speaker 1: big deal for some guys. There's some guys who just

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Speaker 1: didn't have it, you know. You look at Domingo Herman,

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Speaker 1: Carlos Rodin to a certain degree. Although he showed me

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Speaker 1: some more positive signs later on in the year, and

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Speaker 1: I thought he bounced back better year one to year two.

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Speaker 1: He took the right approach, you know. So you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't hate it. Depends on what you'd have to

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Speaker 1: give up, and you'd need somebody to take him under

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Speaker 1: his wing as he matures as a person. But anyway,

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