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Speaker 2: That'd be a big help to us in nearing that

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Speaker 2: goal that we've set out for ourselves. Entering this twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty two Marlins season, I was surprised by how well

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Speaker 2: the Marlins closed out some games this week this weekend

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Speaker 2: going five to one overall and after sweeping the Nationals,

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Speaker 2: taking two out of three on the roads against the Astros.

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Speaker 2: So the small pod portion coming up is going to

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Speaker 2: go through each game of that series. The meat of

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Speaker 2: this episode is I believe my first in season player

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Speaker 2: interview of twenty twenty two with the Marlins, a guy

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Speaker 2: who has been in this organization for six years, Sean Reynolds,

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Speaker 2: originally as an outfielder, then as a first baseman, then

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Speaker 2: is a two way player, and now as a legit

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Speaker 2: relief prospect currently with the High a Beloit skycarp So

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Speaker 2: we're going to go to that conversation with him for

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Speaker 2: most of this episode about his journey, a very unique

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Speaker 2: professional journey. Six foot eight, originally a left handed swinger,

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Speaker 2: means to work on the mounds, and I just really

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Speaker 2: value the way that he approaches the game, how much

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Speaker 2: in the Marlins organization. That's what will stick out to

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Speaker 2: you as well. So stick around for that. And first

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Speaker 2: let's go through the weekends from the Marlins and Astros

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Speaker 2: along with my prospects of the week, my other general

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Speaker 1: Stick with us.

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Speaker 2: Friday night in Houston, Pablo Lopez against Luis Garcia on

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Speaker 2: the mound and Marlins win this one seven to four

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Speaker 2: behind four combined home runs from Jazzism Junior and Jesus

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Speaker 2: Aguilar two a piece for those guys, including the one

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Speaker 2: milestone for Aggie reaching one hundred career home runs. Congratulations

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Speaker 2: to him. Nearly half of those have now come with

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Speaker 2: the Marlins. For Aggie getting back on track after going

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Speaker 2: nearly two weeks leading up to that milestone without a

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Speaker 2: If you remember, he had his best production last year

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Speaker 3: Oh two pitch, Jazz goes up, gets that one, sets

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Speaker 1: This was a wire to wire win. There are not a.

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Speaker 2: Whole lot of those for this Marlins team this year

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Speaker 2: He had only led two runs to that point before

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Speaker 2: about the betting market, The Marlins were as big an

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Speaker 3: Hell, they got him with a slider down and in,

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Speaker 2: This is a great outing, a very well deserved win.

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Speaker 2: They win this one five to one. One of the

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Speaker 2: It did not look like that what's soever in this series.

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Speaker 2: In particular, Jeremy Pania very hyped up rookie shortstop. At

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Speaker 2: It's right hander, Sean Reynolds. I appreciate you taking the time.

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Speaker 4: Sean, No worries, man, how's it going.

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Speaker 2: It's going good. I want to sneak a pop quiz

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Speaker 2: by you. The very start of this, they say, drafted

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Speaker 1: Can you name it?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's Braxton number one obviously.

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Speaker 5: I think Thomas Jones is still yeah, obviously he's in

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, so funny enough. I mean, I don't know

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Speaker 5: I don't know if that's a good thing or a

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Speaker 4: So it's a good time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. For people that aren't familiar, you did spend most

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Speaker 5: I think that I might, you know, try and like

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Speaker 5: give this thing a shot, especially if we're going to

439
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Speaker 5: have a whole other offseason to get ready, and like,

440
00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:10,639
Speaker 5: you know, it might be like a useful tool to

441
00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:13,760
Speaker 5: just keep in the back pocket. Because I obviously knew

442
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 5: that twenty twenty one, at the time I was going

443
00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:20,000
Speaker 5: into I was obviously still just hit her first basement,

444
00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:22,080
Speaker 5: but I knew that that was going to be pretty

445
00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:24,000
Speaker 5: much the make or break here. Given the numbers and

446
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:27,200
Speaker 5: this you know, little success and mostly failure that I

447
00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:30,080
Speaker 5: had had up to that point. It was like, you know,

448
00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:31,640
Speaker 5: he's either going to do it or he's not. So

449
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:36,840
Speaker 5: I really was just thinking, you know, might as well

450
00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:42,800
Speaker 5: have the arm ready. And I think fast forward to

451
00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:49,119
Speaker 5: like November December, Jeff de Groot and I remember Pat

452
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,600
Speaker 5: Osborne came and kind of talked to me individually and like, hey,

453
00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,320
Speaker 5: you know, we knew you pitched in high school and

454
00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:57,600
Speaker 5: we kind of want to see what that's all about.

455
00:23:57,680 --> 00:23:59,119
Speaker 5: So if you want to start a throwing program, you

456
00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:03,080
Speaker 5: should talk to Scott Aldridge, our pitching coordinator, and you know,

457
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:05,200
Speaker 5: see what he's got for you, and then we can

458
00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:08,920
Speaker 5: go from there. So that was yeah, November December of

459
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:13,600
Speaker 5: twenty twenty, and then started kind of building up. Popped

460
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Speaker 5: on the mound for a couple innings a couple times

461
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:18,800
Speaker 5: in spring training. I think I think I threw like

462
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:22,360
Speaker 5: one inning twice, and you know, I went pretty well,

463
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:24,240
Speaker 5: and I think the first time I threw, I was

464
00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:27,840
Speaker 5: up to like ninety four So that obviously catches the

465
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:31,760
Speaker 5: attention of most people. And I was kind of surprised,

466
00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,159
Speaker 5: honestly because it had been so long since I had thrown.

467
00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:38,120
Speaker 5: But yeah, and then, like you said, we ended up

468
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,359
Speaker 5: so last year I was doing both at the beginning

469
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Speaker 5: of the year through spring training, and I was excited

470
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Speaker 5: about that at the time, but looking back on it,

471
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Speaker 5: I mean, she gives me even obviously everyone knows who

472
00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:53,520
Speaker 5: Otani is and what he's doing, but that gives me

473
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:57,119
Speaker 5: even more respect for him because I like to do

474
00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:00,040
Speaker 5: that for a month at the low eight level, and

475
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,240
Speaker 5: I wasn't even doing it to the level that obviously

476
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,679
Speaker 5: he's doing it at or you know where he's doing it.

477
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 5: So I was exhausted every day and my body was,

478
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 5: you know, pretty beat up just after like three weeks

479
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 5: of playing twice a week and throwing once a week,

480
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:15,439
Speaker 5: So like I can't, you know, for him to be

481
00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,200
Speaker 5: doing what he's doing is even more respect from my end.

482
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:23,240
Speaker 5: But yeah, the two way thing didn't last too long,

483
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 5: ended up just converting I think in like early mid

484
00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:31,359
Speaker 5: May of last year, and then yeah, since then, dude

485
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:34,719
Speaker 5: just kind of looked at it as you know, a

486
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 5: new lease on my career obviously, because most guys don't

487
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:40,920
Speaker 5: get to basically flop as a hitter and then come

488
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:42,600
Speaker 5: back and get to do it on the mountain. So

489
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,240
Speaker 5: definitely a huge blessing to be where I'm at, and

490
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:46,959
Speaker 5: like I said, just looking at it as a new

491
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,879
Speaker 5: opportunity and kind of a second chance that now with

492
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Speaker 5: all the experience I've gathered just being in and around

493
00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:56,200
Speaker 5: the game to kind of apply it as an older,

494
00:25:56,560 --> 00:26:00,320
Speaker 5: more i'd say, grown up version of myself and I can,

495
00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:03,000
Speaker 5: you know, pretty much second go around at a career.

496
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Speaker 2: Well, tell us about your stuff, each of your pitches

497
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:09,720
Speaker 2: that you use and the way you use those pitches.

498
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Speaker 5: So I always had pretty good feel for different offspeed pitches.

499
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 5: And you know, I never really struggled strikes whenever, really

500
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,680
Speaker 5: like a thing that I was like ever struggled with. Obviously,

501
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 5: after five years off coming back last year, I knew

502
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:26,320
Speaker 5: that I would be able to throw a good fastball,

503
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:28,240
Speaker 5: but the off speed pitches were definitely going to be

504
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:31,359
Speaker 5: a struggle. So I think learning to spin the ball

505
00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:33,119
Speaker 5: again was one of the things that I was like

506
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 5: took me the longest just to get comfortable with of

507
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,000
Speaker 5: being able to throw not just a fastball where I want,

508
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:43,399
Speaker 5: but change up, curveball, whatever kind of breaking ball. So

509
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:47,399
Speaker 5: right now I got just a four seam fastball, I

510
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 5: throw a circle change like a little two seam grip,

511
00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:53,400
Speaker 5: and then just a it's kind of like a slurvy

512
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 5: not quite twelve to six. It's not a slider either,

513
00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:58,360
Speaker 5: It's just like a little slurvy breaking ball.

514
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:02,359
Speaker 2: To two pitch breaking ball could strike three.

515
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 5: Like I said, I've always had pretty good feel for

516
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:07,440
Speaker 5: being able to throw the ball where I wanted to.

517
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 4: And obviously it's taken me.

518
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 5: You know, I've tried to be patient after five years

519
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:14,679
Speaker 5: not not touching the ball or not telling the rubber

520
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 5: at all, to for it to all come back and

521
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:19,920
Speaker 5: sync up, and it's it's getting there.

522
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 4: So it's exciting.

523
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 2: How much of that stuff is all you in terms

524
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 2: of just using the same pitch as you did in

525
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 2: high school, or how much has been of Scott and

526
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 2: everybody else been developing you with those pitches.

527
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,639
Speaker 5: I'm not going to short change myself on the credit

528
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,119
Speaker 5: where it's due. But also, you know, the coaches and

529
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 5: the coaching staff that we have from a pitching the

530
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:42,880
Speaker 5: pitching side of this organization has been tremendous. I think

531
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Speaker 5: every guy that every coach we have has been super helpful.

532
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 5: They're super approachable. You know, if you have a question

533
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 5: or you just want to talk baseball or just talk

534
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:53,960
Speaker 5: about anything, you know, you can you can go and

535
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 5: kind of shoot the breeze and have a good chat

536
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,840
Speaker 5: with them, and you know, they're always open and willing

537
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,679
Speaker 5: to help. And it's not about you know, one size

538
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:05,399
Speaker 5: fits all method, right like they understand that different guys

539
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 5: do different stuff well. And but yeah, like you said,

540
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:09,919
Speaker 5: the change up is definitely one of the things that

541
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Speaker 5: I think that I've noticed too about an organization is

542
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 5: if you want to pitch well, and not only that,

543
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:18,679
Speaker 5: but get promoted, is you got to be able to

544
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,479
Speaker 5: throw the change up in the zone. And that's one

545
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:25,120
Speaker 5: of the things I definitely recognized myself early on last

546
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 5: year in the transition period, was like, all right, if

547
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 5: I'm going to do this, I need to get this

548
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 5: change up needs to get good. So that's definitely been

549
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,240
Speaker 5: for the past I mean, since I started throwing. That

550
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 5: was probably the most energy I've put into a different

551
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 5: pitch besides the fastball, which is good because I mean,

552
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 5: it's paying off and I think if you ask, you know,

553
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 5: if you ask somebody else, they might tell you different,

554
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 5: But I think it's my best pitch.

555
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 4: The O two to myers got them right.

556
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 2: You mentioned just a few minutes ago about how what

557
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 2: early last year your VL was getting at to like

558
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 2: ninety four, but watching you recently up to what ninety

559
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 2: nine when you really like are firing an all the cylinder,

560
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,000
Speaker 2: So is that the biggest difference not the biggest difference,

561
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 2: is that another difference from you like last year to

562
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 2: this year is that your vila was just better.

563
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, before I.

564
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:21,240
Speaker 5: Mean the uh uh, I honestly, I mean, I'm I'll,

565
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:23,400
Speaker 5: I'm not going to shy away from it. I'm surprising

566
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 5: myself a little bit, but you know, definitely not upset

567
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 5: about it. I knew that I probably had realistically more

568
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 5: in the tank, especially after last season. I could kind

569
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 5: of feel that like I was going good, but the

570
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 5: delivery was still so foreign to me after five years

571
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 5: of not doing it. So I knew that I probably

572
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 5: had more than I could probably get up to, like

573
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 5: sitting ninety four ninety five instead of last year. I

574
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:51,080
Speaker 5: was probably like, you know, ninety ninety two range on

575
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 5: any given day. But yeah, I definitely didn't think this

576
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,920
Speaker 5: recent you know, kind of jump as the weather's gotten warmer.

577
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 5: Did not see this coming. But it's definitely an advantage

578
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 5: and it's you know, it's kind of fun to get

579
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 5: to get to use out there, especially when the adrenaline

580
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 5: is pumping in the ninth thing. It kind of takes

581
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 5: care of itself. So it's, uh, yeah, not going to

582
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 5: complain about it for sure.

583
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 1: As we're talking.

584
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 2: I believe it was on Tuesday where you had that

585
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 2: outing ninth inning, you strike out the side and you

586
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 2: went almost all fastballs. You were just blowing you by

587
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 2: guys either in the zone or when they tried to

588
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 2: chase it, they had no shot. Slam the door three

589
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 2: to two again swinging a bits, and that at.

590
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 1: The ball game you struck out the side.

591
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 2: That was almost as exhilarating an ending that I've seen

592
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 2: watching somebody in a while. I saw the way you

593
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 2: celebrated after closing it out. To this point in your career,

594
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 2: I think you had almost forty relief outings to this point.

595
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 2: Was is that like the best that you felt on

596
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 2: the mound?

597
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 1: Is that high?

598
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 4: Sure? Yeah, that's up there for sure. That was a

599
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 4: fun one, dude.

600
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Speaker 5: That's just I think that's the thing that I love

601
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 5: most about obviously, not only my job, as you know,

602
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 5: the closer or the back end guy, whatever you want

603
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 5: to call it. It's always great to come in with

604
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 5: a lead, and that's fun. But I think the way

605
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 5: that we won, and you know the fact that the

606
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 5: whole team kind of contributed to put us up late,

607
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 5: Like as I was warming up, we were down and

608
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 5: then all of a sudden, boom, boom, boom four two

609
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 5: out hits up two runs and then that obviously gets

610
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 5: the blood pumping a little bit. And yeah, I mean

611
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 5: that's why you do it, honestly, why that's why you

612
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 5: work your you know, your tail off and the pot

613
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 5: and the off season and through spring training, and it's

614
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 5: like for moments like that to come out and slam

615
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 5: the door is yeah, that's all you can dream of

616
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 5: right there and in that scenario, and that was a

617
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 5: blast for sure.

618
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Speaker 4: I put that up there. I've probably number one.

619
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Speaker 2: Well, we're talking with Sean Reynolds here on the Official Show.

620
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 2: A few more questions for you. The one that I'm

621
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 2: most curious about is like being a reliever in the miners,

622
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 2: what you're do you actually know when you're going to pitch,

623
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 2: because in the big leagues, obviously, it's all about winning games,

624
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 2: and those guys don't get put into those situations until

625
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 2: the team makes that call. If they never really know,

626
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 2: they're on the edge of their seat. In the myners,

627
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 2: obviously they're developing winning they're balancing winning games and also

628
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 2: developing you guys and putting you in the positions to

629
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 2: do well entering a game. Do you have a general

630
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:22,959
Speaker 2: idea on what days you're going to pitch and what

631
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 2: you're going to be asked to do in those days.

632
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 5: I think I'd say the coaches do a pretty good

633
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 5: job of kind of blending, you know, like you said,

634
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 5: it's everybody has to get in there at some point, right,

635
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 5: So it's like if I throw on Tuesday, and you know,

636
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 5: I threw I through thirty you know, let's call it

637
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 5: thirty pitches, then I know, realistically, like like you said,

638
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 5: in the big leagues, I would be I would have

639
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 5: to be ready boom boom boom like that next day.

640
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 5: But realistically, with the amount of guys that you have,

641
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 5: and that being said also too, like the bullpen that

642
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 5: we have here on this team at the high level

643
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 5: is in my opinion, second to none. Like we got

644
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 5: from top to bottom, anybody you call on that sheet

645
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:06,239
Speaker 5: could go in and close the game out theoretically, So,

646
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 5: especially when you got a roster as deep as we do,

647
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 5: you kind of know that you know the innings are

648
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 5: gonna have to be spread evenly, especially when you got

649
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 5: guys coming in that I mean, you can pick from

650
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 5: a hat ninety four ninety five with a bang and

651
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 5: curveball and a really good change up. So but yeah,

652
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 5: I think if you, let's say, like if I hadn't

653
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,200
Speaker 5: thrown for a week, right, I probably have a pretty

654
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 5: pretty good idea that I'm going to be up that day.

655
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Speaker 5: But for the most part, during the game, it's kind

656
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Speaker 5: of just at random.

657
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Speaker 4: You know.

658
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 5: They try and treat it like once the game starts,

659
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 5: it's like you're playing a real game, but throughout the

660
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 5: week you kind of get a feel for what you

661
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:47,400
Speaker 5: might be in.

662
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Speaker 2: I think to this point the season, you lead the

663
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 2: team and saves, but you're not You're saying you're like

664
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 2: not the official closer.

665
00:33:54,680 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 4: So like the getting in my opinion, I am. You know,

666
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna be shy about it.

667
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 5: But my point is that we have you could go

668
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 5: down the list one through. I think we have ten

669
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 5: guys in the bullpen and you could literally pick one

670
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 5: out of the hat and they.

671
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,359
Speaker 4: Could go in and get a five six out save

672
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 4: any night, you know. So it's not definitely not just me.

673
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 5: We got guys that have been doing it all year

674
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 5: and honestly have been doing it their whole career.

675
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:25,439
Speaker 1: Well taking second to them.

676
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 4: Shout out Tyler Mitzel for that one real quick.

677
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, yeah, him and anybody else said you want

678
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 2: to shout out him saying hi things about this bullpen, then.

679
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 5: You y'all can look up the roster. They all they

680
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 5: all shove and yeah it's it's a good group of

681
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 5: guys we got.

682
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 2: As you said a couple of times. I mean, this

683
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 2: team has been playing amazing last few weeks. As recording this,

684
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 2: I think twelve and three in the last fifteen games,

685
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 2: honestly hotter than any of the other Marlins affiliates at

686
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 2: the moment. So even on the position player side, on

687
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 2: the starting pitching side, are there any particular prospect that

688
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:04,319
Speaker 2: jumped out to you or just the talent that they have,

689
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:06,879
Speaker 2: even if you guys that you're a teammate with, maybe

690
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 2: for the first time, or even those that you just

691
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 2: feel got a lot better this.

692
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 5: Year, honestly, man, I said from I said from the

693
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:18,440
Speaker 5: day the roster came out about the team that we had.

694
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 5: Obviously throughout the season, you know it's gonna shift a

695
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 5: little bit, but I think we've actually had the same

696
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 5: pretty much full group of guys since the season has started.

697
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 5: And I was saying, I was telling everybody when we

698
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 5: were getting our stuff ready, to come up here is like,

699
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:34,320
Speaker 5: this team's really good. We don't have a single weak

700
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 5: link if you go around the infield, around the outfield,

701
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 5: through the batting, through the batting lineup, and especially now

702
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:43,360
Speaker 5: that it's warmer. Obviously the Midwest League is horrendous to

703
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 5: hit in for the first six weeks, but now that

704
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 5: it's warmer, guys are starting to put together tougher at

705
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 5: bats and you know, as a unit, top to bottom,

706
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 5: we're swinging the bats really well. As far as people

707
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 5: who have stuck, I mean, I would like to say

708
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 5: there's a few, but honestly, it's been everybody. Like the

709
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 5: level of play that when you're a pitcher and you

710
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 5: know that if the ball gets put in play in

711
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 5: the field that it's generally going to be an out

712
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:11,239
Speaker 5: is a really good feeling. And especially in the minor

713
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 5: leagues where you know, I've been on teams where it's

714
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 5: like balls and play or it might be a toss up,

715
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 5: you know. So as far as anybody who stands out,

716
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say everybody, because I think legitimately everyone has

717
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 5: done something to contribute to this team's success and obviously

718
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 5: to their own individual success. But yeah, man, I love,

719
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:36,880
Speaker 5: love the group that we have here, and obviously double A,

720
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 5: triple A two is I think honestly, I remember talking

721
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:44,360
Speaker 5: to you, like you said in the in eighteen and instructs,

722
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 5: and I said that looking around and looking at the

723
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 5: talent that was on the field, in three, four or

724
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 5: five years, the Marlins are going to be one of

725
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 5: the best farm systems in baseball.

726
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 4: And so.

727
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:58,799
Speaker 5: I mean, I think it's I think that's pretty much

728
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,240
Speaker 5: come true because if you look around our affiliates obviously

729
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 5: is from low A to triple A is I mean

730
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:05,400
Speaker 5: stacked the talent.

731
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 4: So it's a good time.

732
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:10,359
Speaker 2: It's creating good problems to have covering the Major League

733
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 2: with people say like just crying to try to get

734
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 2: some of these guys up that that seems to be ready,

735
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 2: they are ready to like the difference makers and balancing

736
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:22,400
Speaker 2: you know, established bets between those guys that are waiting

737
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 2: on that opportunity. But you talked about the upper levels

738
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 2: of this system. You're performing really well this year, especially lately.

739
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 2: Does the organization give you any particular understanding of what

740
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 2: you need to do to move up to double A Pensacola.

741
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 2: Is there a checklist of things that you think you

742
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:46,279
Speaker 2: think you feeling you need to do or is there

743
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 2: any clear communication about what it takes for them to

744
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 2: reward you for how you're pitching down here.

745
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 5: You know, honestly, I don't know if it's it's one

746
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 5: thing or a combination of things that there's certainly been

747
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 5: no checklist put in front of me there if one

748
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,839
Speaker 5: does exist. But as far as all that's concerned, man,

749
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 5: I really came into this year with the single goal

750
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 5: of I want to enjoy myself every single day, no

751
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 5: matter where I'm at, if it's low A, high A,

752
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 5: the big League's, double A, triple A. Is just the

753
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:20,759
Speaker 5: only thing that I set out to do this year

754
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:23,400
Speaker 5: was one obviously stay healthy, and two is just be

755
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:27,839
Speaker 5: present wherever I'm at and just keep enjoying myself. And

756
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 5: you know, the work doesn't change no matter where you are,

757
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 5: And I think that's something that as a young player

758
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 5: is you really don't quite grasp the whole, Like how

759
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 5: to be a pro aspect of professional baseball is like

760
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:42,360
Speaker 5: the work doesn't change. You could be in the gCO,

761
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:43,840
Speaker 5: you could be in the DSL, or you could be

762
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 5: in Miami. How you work and how you approach the

763
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 5: day and how you go about your business. That all

764
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 5: remained or should remain the same in my mind. So

765
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 5: whether I'm in Belloyd or I mean, you know, obviously,

766
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 5: like you said, the end goal is I want to

767
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:01,640
Speaker 5: get get to Miamis as possible. But I'm also gonna

768
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 5: not not rushing anything too quick because I know that,

769
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:06,400
Speaker 5: you know, I used to spend a lot of my

770
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 5: time wishing I were other places, and definitely higher in

771
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,320
Speaker 5: the organization that I think that just takes away from

772
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 5: whatever you're trying to do right now. So trying to

773
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 5: stay where my feet are and keep playing good baseball

774
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 5: with this with the team that I just mentioned, because

775
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:23,439
Speaker 5: I mean, we're having a blast right now and we're

776
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 5: winning a bunch of ball games.

777
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:28,759
Speaker 2: Last thing that I had in mind is that doing

778
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 2: the map is a twenty sixteen draft pick. If I

779
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:32,799
Speaker 2: have this right, at the end of this year, you

780
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 2: could be a minor league free agent. Is that right?

781
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:37,799
Speaker 1: They need to put you on the forty man or money?

782
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so. I think so.

783
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:42,479
Speaker 2: I'm based on the way you're talking, that probably hasn't

784
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:46,319
Speaker 2: entered your mind, but I'm I think kind of inevitably

785
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 2: it might, right, Like if it feels like you're you

786
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 2: want to this year in particular, it's not only about

787
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 2: the Marlins. It's about this reaching and inflection point in

788
00:39:56,600 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 2: your career where like, for whatever reason, like this long

789
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 2: relationship comes soon end that there's all these other teams

790
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:05,840
Speaker 2: that are going to have an opportunity to put you

791
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 2: in that position to contribute to them.

792
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, like you said, I think that's something

793
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 5: too that you learned as you know when as compared

794
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 5: to when I was a young player to now is

795
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 5: you hear coaches and staff and coordinators say it all

796
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 5: the time, but you really don't quite get a clear

797
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 5: like understanding what they mean when like you play for

798
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 5: all thirty teams every day and there's because there's a

799
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 5: scout in the stands, or there's multiple scouts in the stands,

800
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 5: or there's somebody that knows this guy that knows that

801
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 5: guy that knows so and So's wife. You know that

802
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:40,719
Speaker 5: the connections are endless behind the scenes. So really that

803
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 5: that mentality of like you play for all thirty teams

804
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:47,120
Speaker 5: every day, and you know one of them is Gonnare's

805
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:50,000
Speaker 5: there's a spot for me somewhere. I know that, and

806
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:51,880
Speaker 5: you know I would like it to be with the Marlins,

807
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 5: but if it's not, then you know, we'll cross that

808
00:40:55,160 --> 00:41:00,439
Speaker 5: bridge when we come to it. But yeah, I hoping

809
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 5: the market's good for six A relievers.

810
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 2: And that's that's gonna wrap us up here with Sean Reynolds,

811
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 2: right hander right now with the high A bullet skycarp

812
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 2: but really coming into his own as a reliever, long

813
00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 2: time in Marlins organization, and it's just great to see

814
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 2: you after all these years, like really in this groove, Sean.

815
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:22,960
Speaker 2: So I'm glad you're having fun out there, Glad the

816
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 2: team's playing well. And I appreciate all the time that

817
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 2: you gave us here on the pod.

818
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, I appreciate it. Man,