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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, and welcome to a Ball with eric Os.

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Speaker 1: I am eric Os, and it is good to have

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Speaker 1: you with us. On what is episode at number thirteen

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Speaker 1: is this week, we'll be chatting with one of the

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Speaker 1: lumber Kings' former relievers and now starting pitchers, Tyler Mitzel.

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Speaker 1: He had made his debut in that as a bullpenned

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Speaker 1: a scheduled piggyback start with the lumber Kings former reliever

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Speaker 1: Tyler Jones, so we'll be talking with him about that

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Speaker 1: new role. And a South Dakota native, you don't see

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Speaker 1: be talking with him about that. When we were out

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Speaker 1: in Wisconsin is where we recorded our conversation with Tyler,

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Speaker 1: so we appreciate him taking some time to talk with us.

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Speaker 1: We are recording this though on Monday, June twenty fourth,

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Speaker 1: during the lead white off day before the lumber Kings

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Speaker 1: will begin a series against the Puria Chiefs to open

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Speaker 1: up a seven game homestand the Chiefs the single a

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Speaker 1: affiliate of the Saint Louis Cardinals. When we last talked

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Speaker 1: with you, it was about an offense that was struggling.

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Speaker 1: They had gone and been swept in three games against

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Speaker 1: the Seed Rapids Kernels to close out the first half,

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Speaker 1: and unfortunately those offensive struggles had followed them into the

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Speaker 1: second half. The lumber Kings seen their house of horrors

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Speaker 1: in Wisconsin just continue with that theme, losing their first

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Speaker 1: because of the fan base out in Wisconsin. Lumber Kings

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Speaker 1: were able though, to pick up their first win at

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Speaker 1: Neuroscience Group Field on Sunday afternoon with a four to

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Speaker 1: longest losing streak of the season at six games. Now

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Speaker 1: we say it was an exciting series because well, I

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Speaker 1: mean it was. There was lots of theme nights going

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Speaker 1: on out in Wisconsin. The first night on Thursday had

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Speaker 1: a crowd in near six thousand to see the Wisconsin tim

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Speaker 1: Ratlers brand into the Utter Tuggers. I mean, if that's

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Speaker 1: not a minor league team name, I don't know what

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Speaker 1: is to play on the Wisconsin Association with Derry. A

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Speaker 1: lot of fans even got in on the fun they

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Speaker 1: had dressed up in different cow outfits. They fun continue.

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Speaker 1: There were Star Wars nights and firework nights and also

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Speaker 1: at Kid's Day on Sunday. So in the end they're

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Speaker 1: over ten thousand fans that saw the lumber Kings and

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin tim Bratlers play in that four game series. But

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Speaker 1: the lumber Kings, seeing those offensive struggles continue, they had

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Speaker 1: suffered their fifth shutout loss of this season on Saturday Night,

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Speaker 1: a game in which they went down with the strikeout

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Speaker 1: fifteen times, which unfortunately has been a steady theme for

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Speaker 1: lumber Kings hitters this year, Struggling with the strikeout. They

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Speaker 1: have struck out now eight hundred and ten times at

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Speaker 1: the recording of this podcast, by far the most in

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Speaker 1: the Midwest League. In fact, it's sixty three more strikeouts

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Speaker 1: and the next closest team the Burlington Bees. They are

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Speaker 1: the single a affiliate of the Los Angeles Angels, and

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Speaker 1: in compounding that issue offensively for the lumber Kings has

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Speaker 1: and the offense that just for whatever reason cannot find

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Speaker 1: a hit with a run run scoring position. Now they

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Speaker 1: went on Sunday, but the lumber Kings only had one

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Speaker 1: by Connor Scott in the second inning. As a team,

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Speaker 1: the lumber Kings do not have as their current active

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Speaker 1: as a team are batting two thirteen with men in

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Speaker 1: scoring position this season, a big reason why the offense

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Speaker 1: has stalled. They have now scored the fewest runs in

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Speaker 1: the Midwest or in the Western Division in the Midwest League,

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Speaker 1: and are tied for the second fewest runs overall in

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Speaker 1: the league. That's just the overall look at the lumber

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Speaker 1: Kings offense now. It has come though with some success

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Speaker 1: the second half. Because of all the moving parts, the

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Speaker 1: new faces, the promotions, the lumber Kings seen all three

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Speaker 1: Vallamont well deserved promotions. Joining them were fellow arms in

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Speaker 1: He was on a tear in his senior season with

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Speaker 1: He added three to ninety five in his final season

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Speaker 1: in addition to that has been the Bullpen lumbert Kings

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Speaker 1: have seen the return of Cam Baird. Also Royal Brito

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Speaker 1: the month of May. That has been part of the

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Speaker 1: What it has meant is Alberto Guerrero has been moved

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Speaker 1: combination of Tyler Jones and Tyler Mitchell, the lumber Kings

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Speaker 1: piggyback starters who were so sharp in that win. On

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Speaker 1: Sunday on June to third, for Tyler Mitchell, he had

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Speaker 1: gotten the hold, he was very close to getting the save.

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Speaker 1: shame in that. Mitchell, with that great change up though,

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Speaker 1: to have you a board, and thanks for taking some

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Speaker 2: With us, No problem, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Well, I guess that's where we'll start, right The journey

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Speaker 1: of the twenty nineteen season for you, of course, not

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Speaker 2: It's going pretty good.

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Speaker 3: I just got to stay consistent and trust my defense,

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Speaker 3: I got two great catchers behind the plate, calling great games,

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Speaker 2: Somewhere near the strike cone. I should be all right.

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Speaker 1: How was the spring shaping up for you? Imagine making

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Speaker 1: a full slank season team one of the goals, and

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Speaker 1: it doesn't work out that way, but you get to

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Speaker 1: what has that been like for you as well? In

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Speaker 2: It's been fun. Definitely been fun.

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Speaker 3: I know a lot of the guys on the roster

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Speaker 3: that had made it I played with last year in

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Speaker 3: working with Deef and Frankie. So it's been fun. Deef's

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Speaker 1: Have you had a haircut from him yet? I've not

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Speaker 1: that's one of his secret talents is we have found out.

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Speaker 1: We had a defalise on the podcast as well, and

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Speaker 1: kind of interesting mine too, just talking about the art

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Speaker 1: just different pitches and when they're typically developed in careers,

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Speaker 1: whether it's a change up or a cutter. What has

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Speaker 3: Absolutely he talks about spin rates a lot, and personally,

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Speaker 3: I also think that's kind of, you know, exceptional, and

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Speaker 3: you got to know what kind of pitch you are.

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Speaker 3: some things to make sure we don't do that. And again,

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Speaker 3: but he's definitely I know he talks about tunnels sometimes too,

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Speaker 3: just kind of keeping guys off balance, especially for me

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Speaker 3: with my change up. I usually have to pitch off

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Speaker 3: I think that's kind of how I've been successful, I guess,

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Speaker 1: Well that change up. We heard about it all the time, right,

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Speaker 3: I never thought it'd take me this far, honestly, but

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say then once a Kennon kind of

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Speaker 1: As that mentioned, what kind of pitchure you are, and

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Speaker 1: that's been a couple of different roles, right because you

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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm never gonna complain about getting you know,

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Speaker 3: But I was a starter all free years in college,

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Speaker 1: Of course, Well we also would think that too in

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Speaker 3: I think so, especially as like developing a routine and stuff.

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Speaker 1: It of course, I mean, I guess that is also

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Speaker 1: The catchers that you kind of alluded to, and they

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Speaker 1: What does he like to work with buying the plate?

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Speaker 2: Uh, he's fun.

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Speaker 3: He keeps it, keeps it nice, easy going. He's a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so he's he's been around sixty percent throwing out

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Speaker 1: you come from an area which is not synonymous with

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Speaker 3: Honestly, looking back at it, that's kind of funny how

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Speaker 3: I think before I got to Clinton, you guys had

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Speaker 1: Well, I think when we first came in right with

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Speaker 3: Community was awesome, especially all the fan support we had

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Speaker 1: an extreme. Exactly what was August get to like as

437
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Speaker 1: far as the baseball just development in that path that

438
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Speaker 1: it had given you, because you mentioned, you know, just

439
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Speaker 1: something that you could build on and get into the

440
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Speaker 1: professional levels, and it seemed like that community too, touches

441
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Speaker 1: on the college as well, where there're coaches and players

442
00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:56,920
Speaker 1: too that you're obviously really closed with now that are

443
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Speaker 1: still cheering for you. And what did that do in

444
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Speaker 1: getting you here to the Miami Marlins organization?

445
00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:04,080
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I think that helped me tremendously, especially our pitching

446
00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:06,760
Speaker 3: coach there, Mark Moriarty. He's the head coach at You

447
00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:09,760
Speaker 3: Mary now in North Dakota, but I think he kind

448
00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:12,040
Speaker 3: of had the biggest impact on me, and as far

449
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Speaker 3: as mentality wise, I know, we were big on drive

450
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Speaker 3: line weighted balls, and I use that more of a

451
00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:20,359
Speaker 3: kind of clean up, clean up my armslot, so I

452
00:19:20,359 --> 00:19:23,639
Speaker 3: had a more consistent arm slot, more consistent with my

453
00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:26,960
Speaker 3: fastball obviously, which I think helped. And just I mean

454
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Speaker 3: it was nuts because I know we ended up winning

455
00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:33,480
Speaker 3: the College World Series my senior year, and the fan support.

456
00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:37,360
Speaker 3: We always had people watching it on us, tweeting, instagramming,

457
00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:39,919
Speaker 3: you know, it was NonStop support, and it was it

458
00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:41,600
Speaker 3: was a wild ride. And then yeah, I still get

459
00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:44,639
Speaker 3: text from teammates and coaches, Hey, how's it going, how's Clinton?

460
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Speaker 2: All this and that? So it's been an unbelievable experience.

461
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Speaker 1: It sounds like a friends and support for life too,

462
00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:52,960
Speaker 1: and you need that too in the minor league ranks

463
00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,359
Speaker 1: because it is a grind. It's one hundred and forty

464
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Speaker 1: games where it's gonna play one hundred and thirty nine

465
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Speaker 1: this year because of the cancelation out in quiet cities.

466
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Speaker 1: But in college you don't play nearly as much. You

467
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Speaker 1: mentioned sort of the schedule that you had, you know,

468
00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:08,040
Speaker 1: had a seven day rotation, so there's built in days

469
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Speaker 1: off every week, and boy does that sound nice right now,

470
00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:13,479
Speaker 1: even coming off the All Star break. What is it

471
00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:16,840
Speaker 1: like getting used to just the everyday nature of professional baseball.

472
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Speaker 2: I think last year helped a little bit.

473
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Speaker 3: I know that was only short season, and I mean

474
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Speaker 3: we only played I think seventy ish games. Last year

475
00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:24,800
Speaker 3: was like, wow, I can't even imagine a full season,

476
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Speaker 3: And now that we're actually doing the full scene is like.

477
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Speaker 2: It's not as bad as I thought it was going

478
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Speaker 2: to be.

479
00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:29,840
Speaker 3: You know, it's always fun when you have those friends,

480
00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:32,080
Speaker 3: those guys in your team that make it fun the experience.

481
00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:36,159
Speaker 3: Obviously with Mike and Frankie and Deef, you know, they

482
00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:38,320
Speaker 3: always keep everything making sure that we're still having fun

483
00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:41,119
Speaker 3: at the same time being serious. You know, it's minor

484
00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:43,040
Speaker 3: professional baseball for that matter. You know, you got to

485
00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:44,520
Speaker 3: make sure you're doing everything you need to do to

486
00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:47,639
Speaker 3: prepare yourself for that day. So, but they definitely keep

487
00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:50,480
Speaker 3: the environment fun entertaining. So I think that helps a

488
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Speaker 3: lot with the everyday guard.

489
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Speaker 1: What is the Marlin's overall mindset, Ben, Maybe a culture

490
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Speaker 1: or something they really drive into the pictures as far

491
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Speaker 1: as something that they like to see in the development

492
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Speaker 1: that maybe you noticed early on, and I guess not

493
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Speaker 1: in spring training because you go out to Batavia. But

494
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Speaker 1: you know, just getting into the complex that Jupiter some

495
00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:09,919
Speaker 1: of the core principles of the Marlins organization. From the

496
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Speaker 1: pitching standpoint, I know, a big thing for them is

497
00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:15,399
Speaker 1: fastball command. Commanding that fastball down on the zone. I

498
00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:17,840
Speaker 1: don't know if whenever we throw bullpens or warm up

499
00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:19,280
Speaker 1: or something like that in the pen, we always have

500
00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:21,560
Speaker 1: our strings out there, and that just kind of helps

501
00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:23,280
Speaker 1: us from mind too when we need because I know

502
00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:24,920
Speaker 1: there's two at the top of the zone, then they're

503
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Speaker 1: two at the bottom of the zone. And the whole

504
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Speaker 1: purpose of those in my perspective, are just kind of

505
00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:31,680
Speaker 1: pound those strings. You know, the perfect pitch you can

506
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Speaker 1: make is if you ever throw a pitch and it

507
00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:35,520
Speaker 1: hits that line exactly that it bounces back so the

508
00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:38,280
Speaker 1: catcher can't even catch it. But just stuff like that

509
00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:41,400
Speaker 1: fastball command and then definitely having three pitches or having

510
00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:44,800
Speaker 1: that secondary pitch mastered to a point, and then once

511
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Speaker 1: you get that, I mean, almost as many pitches as

512
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Speaker 1: you can be able to throw them first strike because

513
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Speaker 1: it keeps hitters off balance. We're talking here with Tyler

514
00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:55,600
Speaker 1: Mitzel and getting it a little bit of the inside

515
00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:58,680
Speaker 1: baseball of the Miami Marlins organization as well. And I

516
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Speaker 1: also want to go back to South Coda because you know,

517
00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:03,600
Speaker 1: it's such an interesting place to you don't see too

518
00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:05,760
Speaker 1: many baseball players come out of And we touched on

519
00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:07,600
Speaker 1: the cold weather. But were there other sports as well

520
00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:09,639
Speaker 1: that you had played in South Dakota or was it

521
00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:10,320
Speaker 1: just baseball play?

522
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Speaker 2: Yeah? I was growing up.

523
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Speaker 3: I played basketball, football, and all all three sports we weren't.

524
00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:17,720
Speaker 3: South Dakota wasn't the best at all those sports. So

525
00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:19,359
Speaker 3: it is something you can get away with versus if

526
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Speaker 3: you're down in Texas or Florida or California or something

527
00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:24,119
Speaker 3: like that, where you have pitchers only in high school.

528
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Speaker 3: That was that was non existent in South Dakota. You

529
00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:28,359
Speaker 3: were either going to pitch one game and then go

530
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Speaker 3: play short the next game, or catch every game then

531
00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:34,040
Speaker 3: go play first or something like that. You were never

532
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Speaker 3: just going to pitch in South Dakota.

533
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Speaker 1: So were you a hitter then too? Were you pretty

534
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Speaker 1: good swinging the bad.

535
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Speaker 3: I hit all the way up until my freshman year

536
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Speaker 3: of college, and I think there was a reason I

537
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Speaker 3: became a pitcher that year.

538
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Speaker 1: But I always say that I did one volleyball game broadcasting,

539
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,080
Speaker 1: and that tells you how well that game, one game

540
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Speaker 1: of volleyball had gone. So I guess you can read

541
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Speaker 1: the tea leaves, so to speak of that. Hey, I'm

542
00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:56,240
Speaker 1: gonna stick with the pitching side of things, having a

543
00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:58,800
Speaker 1: little bit more fun doing that. Did it help though,

544
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Speaker 1: at least in getting inside the mind of a hitter.

545
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Speaker 1: You grow up as a hitter a little bit, right

546
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Speaker 1: in addition to pitching, and then kind of take that

547
00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:08,399
Speaker 1: mindset over into it to just the pitching ranks. Is

548
00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:10,440
Speaker 1: that help at all in that battle that you see

549
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Speaker 1: between a pitcher and a hitter.

550
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Speaker 3: I think that helped me more than anything was being

551
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Speaker 3: I was always a catcher up until my senior in

552
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Speaker 3: high school and just kind of I guess I wasn't

553
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:23,639
Speaker 3: really matured either, especially being in high school stuff like

554
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,439
Speaker 3: that as mature as like a Will Banfield, for example,

555
00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:28,040
Speaker 3: He's a high school kid. I mean I was nowhere

556
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Speaker 3: near that level being able to call games and whatnot,

557
00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:34,719
Speaker 3: but kind of learning tendencies. I was a big kind

558
00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:37,480
Speaker 3: of just always wanting to have the hitter off balance.

559
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,280
Speaker 3: You know, if you're throwing a fastball inside, they're gonna

560
00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:40,600
Speaker 3: brush off the plate a little bit, and then you

561
00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:43,080
Speaker 3: throw something soft on the outside corner, you know more

562
00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:45,160
Speaker 3: than likely they're not gonna be on time for that pitch.

563
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Speaker 3: So just kind of learning those tendencies and learning who

564
00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:50,040
Speaker 3: the hitters are too that you're facing and stuff like that.

565
00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:53,359
Speaker 3: Reading swings is a big one. Just kind of different

566
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,479
Speaker 3: things like that that I remember a little bit from

567
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Speaker 3: catching in high school and just kind of applying those

568
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Speaker 3: things I think helped definitely.

569
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Speaker 1: So when you get drafted or rather signed right out

570
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Speaker 1: of the draft, what was the attention like for you

571
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Speaker 1: in the final season in college at Augustana as far

572
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,040
Speaker 1: as the major league scouts that we're looking at you

573
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:11,680
Speaker 1: because you're taking really right after that draft, and that

574
00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:13,760
Speaker 1: moment must have been pretty cool too find out that

575
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Speaker 1: you were going pro. So if you could just walk

576
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Speaker 1: us through that, that'd be pretty cool to hear.

577
00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:19,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, so all the way up kind of through

578
00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:21,520
Speaker 3: I mean I was hearing from teams. I wasn't getting

579
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:22,960
Speaker 3: a lot of phone calls, but just like the tip

580
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,320
Speaker 3: of like questionnaires, you know, stuff like that, if you

581
00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:28,680
Speaker 3: were and then all these questionnaires are asking, yeah, if

582
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Speaker 3: you if you do get drafted, how much money you're asking,

583
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:32,800
Speaker 3: is like, I'll take a plane ticket or you know,

584
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Speaker 3: something like that.

585
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Speaker 2: Just I just want an opportunity. But uh, just kind

586
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Speaker 2: of like that.

587
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Speaker 3: I got a call from the Marlins before the Draft's like, yeah, hey,

588
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:42,800
Speaker 3: if we take you, we're going to take you day three.

589
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:44,640
Speaker 3: I was like, Okay, that's fine. You know, I didn't

590
00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 3: expect to go any other day, so that was fine

591
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Speaker 3: with me. And then at the end of the third

592
00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:50,359
Speaker 3: day or after the yeah, after the end of the

593
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Speaker 3: third day and I didn't get my name call, I

594
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:54,119
Speaker 3: didn't get a call or anything. I'll be like, I

595
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:56,240
Speaker 3: was down a little bit, not obviously not what I

596
00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:59,080
Speaker 3: was expecting. But then a couple of days later, I

597
00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,399
Speaker 3: got a call from this out that has been watching

598
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 3: me all season and he goes, yeah, hey, you want

599
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:04,880
Speaker 3: a job.

600
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,080
Speaker 2: I was like, absolutely, let's do it.

601
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Speaker 3: And got me on a plane either the next day

602
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Speaker 3: or day after that, and I was down in Jupiter.

603
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Speaker 2: So I was quick turn of events.

604
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Speaker 1: Who was the most excited out of the friends and

605
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,520
Speaker 1: family or was it like a hundred way tie.

606
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:21,720
Speaker 2: I would definitely say my parents.

607
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:25,479
Speaker 3: I know, traveling travel baseball in South Dakota for us

608
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 3: was I mean it was our biggest chance for exposure,

609
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:30,920
Speaker 3: especially trying to get out of Sioux Falls or South Dakota.

610
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Speaker 2: For that matter.

611
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Speaker 3: But definitely I would say my parents, my grandma. Honestly,

612
00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:37,320
Speaker 3: my whole family was super stoke. It was probably more

613
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 3: excited than I was, but I was just happy I

614
00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:40,880
Speaker 3: could do that for them, all the support that they've

615
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Speaker 3: been given me ever since I could play t ball.

616
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Speaker 2: So that was a big.

617
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Speaker 3: Moment for me, just kind of almost putting their mind

618
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Speaker 3: at ease finally that I'm getting an opportunity to play

619
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Speaker 3: professional baseball.

620
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty neat when the support is there, because,

621
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Speaker 1: as we mentioned to the grind, I feel like you

622
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Speaker 1: always need a phone call to make you know, to

623
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Speaker 1: a group of support, you know that the biggest fans

624
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Speaker 1: that you have, whether you're a broadcaster or a reliever. Well,

625
00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 1: we'll end with this. We always tried to have a

626
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 1: lighthearted question because you weren't here with us. At the

627
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 1: beginning of the season, we held a questionnaire. We gave

628
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:12,400
Speaker 1: it to all the guys, and so we asked them

629
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Speaker 1: their celebrity crushes and you know, nicknames and pranks that

630
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:19,200
Speaker 1: had gone horribly wrong and things like that, which led

631
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,760
Speaker 1: to some pretty interesting material on the broadcast, which of

632
00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:23,840
Speaker 1: course you can hear on one hundred point three of

633
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,439
Speaker 1: the MWCCI. But you know, just to get you to

634
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:27,959
Speaker 1: know you a little bit better, I guess we can

635
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,840
Speaker 1: ask you what are your celebrity crushes that you might have.

636
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,679
Speaker 3: I have a lot of celebrity cushes. Okay, my personal

637
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 3: one though, I'd probably have to go with Jennifer Lopez.

638
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:37,919
Speaker 1: Okay, so big j Lo fans That must be for

639
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,320
Speaker 1: a while then, right, because she's had quite the long career.

640
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:44,440
Speaker 3: Jennifer Aniston big Jennifers fan as well. I'm a big

641
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:47,720
Speaker 3: I'm a Friends fanatic, so okay, I've liked Jennifer Aniston

642
00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:49,960
Speaker 3: since the nine, since she was in the nineties and eighties.

643
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Speaker 2: So you can't get much better than those two.

644
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Speaker 1: And do we have a big prankster on the team too?

645
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:56,800
Speaker 1: Because you're a good guy to ask. They always say

646
00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:58,879
Speaker 1: that there are characters in the bullpen. You were in

647
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 1: the bullpen, so you know the guys. Are there any

648
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 1: particularly really talented branksters out there on this team?

649
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:07,119
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say we really have a lot of pranksters.

650
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 3: We definitely have a lot of We got a lot

651
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 3: of goober's on the team, you know, keeps the environment

652
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 3: fresh and fun. So it's fun hanging out with those

653
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 3: guys in the pen.

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Speaker 1: And we will continue to keep you abreast of all

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Speaker 1: of those characters for the lumber Kings broadcast as well.

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Speaker 1: Tyler Mitchell, thanks so much for taking the time here

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Speaker 1: to talk with us on a ball. Thank you very

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Speaker 1: much for having me, and welcome back to a Ball

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Speaker 1: with Eric oast. You just heard from one of the

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Speaker 1: lumber King's newest starters in Tyler Mitchell, who you can

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Speaker 1: see and hear about his first start, realicial start of

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Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen season against the Quad Cities River Bandits.

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Speaker 1: That's going to be on Saturday, June twenty ninth. The

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Speaker 1: single A affiliate of the Houston Astros are the Quad

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Speaker 1: Cities River Bandits and the first Half Division Championship or

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Speaker 1: champions That is going to be the opponent for Taydler

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Speaker 1: Mitzell in his first true start of the season. Two

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Speaker 1: and three on the season with a two point eight

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Speaker 1: to one earned an average, Mitzell has been pretty impressive

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Speaker 1: this season. Imagine one of the reasons why the lumber

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Speaker 1: Kings have put him into the starting role, and he's

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Speaker 1: got that great change up here. The Marlins talk about

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Speaker 1: that and Mitzell even touching on it, needing that secondary pitch,

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Speaker 1: especially as a starter. Well, Mitzel he said that's his

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Speaker 1: primary pitch, is that change up and also a fastball

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Speaker 1: that compliments it pretty well. I mean when we saw

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Speaker 1: him out in Wisconsin, it was around ninety to ninety two,

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Speaker 1: the changeup had been around seventy nine to eighty two,

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Speaker 1: I'd say in that range, and he kind of joked

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Speaker 1: about needing the curveball to get him need the curve

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Speaker 1: ball to be a little bit more refined. Well, that

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Speaker 1: was one of his strikeouts. It came in the ninth.

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Speaker 1: Then it was his last doubt that he received against

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Speaker 1: game pri Garcia kind of froze him on that curve ball.

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Speaker 1: So maybe Garcia had not seen it, but it looked

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Speaker 1: like a good one from our perspective. So we appreciate

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Speaker 1: Tyler taking some time to talk with us out in Wisconsin,

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Speaker 1: as he was able to combine with Tyler Jones to

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Speaker 1: hold off the sweep of the Wisconsin timb b Ratlers

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Speaker 1: to begin the second half. The lumber Kings in that

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Speaker 1: game also saw something come to an end, and it

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Speaker 1: was kind of weird to think about it. A team

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Speaker 1: that has a lot of speed and also some power

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Speaker 1: to the gaps, but they had gone in quite a

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Speaker 1: long route from triples, and we were looking down at

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Speaker 1: the lumber Kings scorecard to find out when the last

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Speaker 1: one had happened, because Davis Bradshaw and Sunday's win on

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Speaker 1: the twenty third of June in Wisconsin, he had a

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Speaker 1: triple in the second and that was high off the

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Speaker 1: wall and left center. It was his first of this season.

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Speaker 1: And then we started thinking when was the last time

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Speaker 1: the lumber Kings had a triples? So you start turning

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Speaker 1: the pages in the scorecard and find out the last

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Speaker 1: time was on May twenty fifth, So it was the

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Speaker 1: first in the month of June, and that was done

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Speaker 1: by a lumber King who's not even here anymore. Demitria Simms,

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Speaker 1: who has since been called up to the Jupiter Hammerheads,

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Speaker 1: was in a five to two win for the lumber

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Speaker 1: Kings against the Burlington Bs and that was here in

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Speaker 1: Clinton at Nelson cork Field. So it had been quite

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Speaker 1: a while, nearly a month, and just shy of it

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Speaker 1: by a couple of days on the triple by Davis

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Speaker 1: Bradshaw and so needing to come alive to back this

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Speaker 1: pitching corps, which as it stands right now has the

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Speaker 1: second lowest earned run average in all of the Midwest League.

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Speaker 1: That is how impressive the pitching has been overall, and

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Speaker 1: it has been something that has been shared from the

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Speaker 1: starters to the bullpen arms as well, even with the

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Speaker 1: new faces that are coming in here. So we'll see

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Speaker 1: if that remains steady. But the lumber Kings are boasting

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Speaker 1: right now at earned run average from the starting corps

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Speaker 1: of three point sixty six on the season. When you

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Speaker 1: get to the bullpen, it's even more impressive. Two point

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Speaker 1: six to two. The earned run average for lumber Kings

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Speaker 1: relievers on the year three point two one ERA overall,

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Speaker 1: as we mentioned, tied for the second lowest in the

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Speaker 1: Midwest League. But a team that is one and three

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Speaker 1: to begin the second half. As we record this on

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Speaker 1: the league wide off day on June twenty fourth here

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Speaker 1: in Wisconsin, it's been kind of nice to have the

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Speaker 1: schedule back to a little bit less of the grind,

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Speaker 1: as we have kind of been alluding to with our

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Speaker 1: guests and also on our wrap ups as well, but

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Speaker 1: the lumber Kings in a portion of the schedule now

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Speaker 1: that will be not quite as demanding. The All Star

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Speaker 1: Game has come to an end. The lumber Kings began

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Speaker 1: that with four games again on the road in Wisconsin,

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Speaker 1: take the day off on Monday, then seven games at home,

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Speaker 1: and then comes the fourth of July festivities to on

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Speaker 1: the road in Beloit, the at home against the Peeria Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: and then three on the road against Kane County. Then

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Speaker 1: after that the lumber Kings will receive the next three

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Speaker 1: Tuesdays off and will also begin their action against the

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Speaker 1: Eastern Division again. That will be against the Lake County Captains,

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Speaker 1: a single A affiliate of the Cleveland Indians, the Fort

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Speaker 1: Wayne TinCaps, a single A affiliate of the San Diego Padres,

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Speaker 1: and then we'll continue on with the single A affiliate

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Speaker 1: of the Los Angeles Dodgers on the road in Great

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Speaker 1: Lakes against the Loons July seventeenth through the nineteenth and

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Speaker 1: the Lansing Lugna single A affiliate of the Toronto Blue

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Speaker 1: Jays on Saturday July twentieth through Monday July twenty second.

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Speaker 1: So that is getting towards the middle part of the

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Speaker 1: first set or the second half rather of the twenty

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Speaker 1: nineteen season. The lumber Kings, of course missing out on

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Speaker 1: the playoffs in the first half, but it looked like

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Speaker 1: it was a fun time for what turned out to

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Speaker 1: be the final games as Lumberkings for Chris Vallamont, Humberto

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Speaker 1: Mahea and Jerar and Carnassillon. Usually we keep our reports

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Speaker 1: to the lumber Kings single A level for the Miami Marlins,

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Speaker 1: but it would not be doing justice to not mention

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Speaker 1: how Jerraran Carnassion is making a lot of friends folks

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Speaker 1: already at the high A level, so best deflected Jerrar,

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Speaker 1: we hope it continues. He homered in his second in

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Speaker 1: bat as a Hammerhead. The following day, which was his

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Speaker 1: second game as a Hammerhead, he homered again, so Jerrar

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Speaker 1: is doing just alright, folks. He has leading the team

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Speaker 1: in home runs at the time of his promotion with

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Speaker 1: ten of them. Hit five home runs in the home

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Speaker 1: run derby out into South Bend at four. Wins Field

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Speaker 1: was eliminated in the first round, but then came right

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Speaker 1: back in the All Star Game and hit a home

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Speaker 1: er as well, so he has got the power stroke

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Speaker 1: working as of late, talked with Mike Jacobs about that

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Speaker 1: and he said, well, we're very happy for Gerrard, but

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Speaker 1: it certainly does hurt a little bit not penciling his

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Speaker 1: name into the scorecard as of late, touchdown it in

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Speaker 1: the first half. The lumber Kinks having new faces coming

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Speaker 1: in from the twenty to nineteen draft class stats. Who

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Speaker 1: will highlight here in Evan Edwards who was taken in

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Speaker 1: the fourth round of this year's draft out of NC State,

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Speaker 1: and then an even higher selection, and that was Peyton Burdick,

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Speaker 1: who made his debut on Sunday in the lumber Kings win.

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Speaker 1: Taken out of Wright State this season. Both guys had

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Speaker 1: had impressive averages as you'd imagine for being taken that

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Speaker 1: high by the Miami Martlins. Edwards, with the demotion of

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Speaker 1: Sean Reynolds down to the Batavia Muckdogs, looking like he'll

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Speaker 1: be the everyday first basement now for the lumber Kings,

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Speaker 1: and with Peyton Burdick in the lumber Kings outfield also

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Speaker 1: saw Connor Grant place now the temporarily an active list,

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Speaker 1: so it is really just a core of four outfielders

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Speaker 1: for the lumber Kings. Berdick we have only seen in

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Speaker 1: left field so far, but we will also be imagining

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Speaker 1: seeing some more moving parts. Thomas Jones is now shifting

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Speaker 1: over to write a little bit more as of late,

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Speaker 1: as we will also imagine be seen a little bit

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Speaker 1: more roster movement over the next week or so. Because

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Speaker 1: lumber Kings as it stands right now recording this on Monday,

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Speaker 1: June twenty fourth, they hired playing a man down. They've

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Speaker 1: only got twenty four men on the active roster here,

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Speaker 1: and the lumber Kings will also be trying get back

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Speaker 1: onto the winning side of things as they welcome in

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Speaker 1: the Peoria Chiefs because that is a team that the

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Speaker 1: lumber Kings had last beaten in a series. It has

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Speaker 1: been that long. When the lumber Kings had taken two

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Speaker 1: out of three from Peoria June eleventh through the thirteenth.

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Speaker 1: It was their last series win before the road woes

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Speaker 1: had continued with a one and six road trip for

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Speaker 1: the lumber Kings between the Cedar Rapids Colonels and the

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin tim Bratlers back home to the Friendly Confines to

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Speaker 1: open up their series against Peoria as they last seven

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Speaker 1: home games for the lumber Kings will be against these

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Speaker 1: chiefs before they welcome in the quad City of River

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Speaker 1: Bandits on Saturday, June twenty ninth against the Quant City

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Speaker 1: of River Bandits. So at this point we will shamelessly

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Speaker 1: plug the broadcast side of things, as we hope to

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Speaker 1: see you, of course out at the ballpark at some

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Speaker 1: point during the summer. But if not, you can listen

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Speaker 1: to all lumber Kings action with yours truly on the

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Speaker 1: call Eric Ohs on one hundred point three FMWCCI for

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Speaker 1: those of you in the broadcast range, and you can

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Speaker 1: of course listen to all lumber Kings games online at

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Speaker 1: Lumberkings dot com via the tune in radio app. A

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Speaker 1: special thanks and big thanks to our guest today, Tyler Mitchell.

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Speaker 1: We certainly had a lot of fun talking with them

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Speaker 1: out in Wisconsin. Not sure exactly who will be our

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Speaker 1: next guest, we are thinking we might have to go

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Speaker 1: back to the starting rotation considering how impressive they've been.

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Speaker 1: It's certainly been a lot of fun to watch, and

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Speaker 1: hopefully there'll be some offense to back them up as well.

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Speaker 1: Who knows, maybe the offense will force our hand and

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Speaker 1: that's direction we'll have to go for episode number fourteen.

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Speaker 1: Until then, though, we hope we'll see you on the

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Speaker 1: radio with the lumber Kings broadcasts, and if not, we

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Speaker 1: hope we'll have you right back here for next week's

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Speaker 1: episode of A Ball with Eric Ohs.