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Speaker 1: It's another episode of Splash Hit Territory. Got a very

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Speaker 1: special guest today. First of all, Susan Slusser, frequent contributor

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Speaker 1: to the show, joins us, and the Giants general manager

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Speaker 1: Zach Manassei enjoins us, Zach.

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Speaker 2: What's going on, man?

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Speaker 3: How are you?

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Speaker 4: Hey?

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Speaker 3: FD Hey Susan, thanks for having me. I'm doing great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks for coming on the show today. I know

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Speaker 1: it's a very busy time in your season, so really

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Speaker 1: appreciate you coming on with us. So the initial thoughts baseball,

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Speaker 1: You're back in Scottsdale, how you feeling optimistic?

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Speaker 3: And I think it's that time of year probably for all

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Speaker 3: thirty teams, but I love this time of year just

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Speaker 3: to get all the players, all the Giants players in

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Speaker 3: your organization, some at Papagos, some here in Scottsdale Stadium,

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Speaker 3: to step everyone together with our staff. It's the one

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Speaker 3: time year we're all together and it's a special time.

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Speaker 3: So excited and excited to see some of the players

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Speaker 3: that we've had her for a while, and excited to

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Speaker 3: see some of the new players as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's what springs about, like seeing everybody, well,

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Speaker 1: you know, before we get to spring training. I haven't

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Speaker 1: caught up with you, and I think Giants fans would

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Speaker 1: really like to hear this. We're getting a lot of

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Speaker 1: traction on this podcast, a lot of fans watching it.

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Speaker 1: Now back to the hiring process with Tony Vitello.

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Speaker 3: Was there just one take us through.

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Speaker 1: That maybe lift the curtain back a little bit behind

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Speaker 1: the scenes. Was there one moment where you just said

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Speaker 1: to Buster or everybody involved, like, this is our guy.

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Speaker 1: Like how did that whole thing start and how did

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Speaker 1: it end?

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Speaker 3: I don't know if that moment was there where it

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Speaker 3: You know, you develop working in the game different areas,

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Speaker 3: you develop relationship with different people. I had never met

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Speaker 3: him personally and professionally, and he was always very impressive.

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Speaker 3: People spoke so highly of him. Uh that at some

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Speaker 3: point when we when we made the change with with

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Speaker 3: I had mentioned a Buster, what do you think about

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Speaker 3: talking to Tony Vitello. I think he'd be an interesting one,

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Speaker 3: and it kind of stuck with Buster as we went

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Speaker 3: through the process, and you know, if anything, I think

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Speaker 3: at one point Buster probably said to me, I think

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Speaker 3: happy that we did. But you know, there's a lot

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Speaker 3: of a lot of great people, uh future managers, people

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Speaker 3: all of that. In some ways, there's there's people that

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Speaker 3: you don't necessarily get to talk to face the face

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Speaker 3: a little more thoroughly. So but overall, obviously feel great

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Speaker 1: You go ahead season well, and Zach and I had

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Speaker 1: talked and I'm not going to go full disclosure on

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Speaker 1: this thing, but like that was a tough decision for Tony,

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Speaker 1: Like he left a really good thing to come to

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Speaker 1: a really good thing, and I and you and I

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Speaker 1: fact that he just you know, didn't go full I'm

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Speaker 3: Was a tough decision for him.

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Speaker 1: It talks about his character.

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Speaker 3: A little bit. Yeah, yeah, I mean he talks about

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Speaker 3: loyalty a lot, and Tennessee gave him an opportunity and

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Speaker 3: I think he repaid it over and over with just

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Speaker 3: the standard of excellence that he set there won a

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Speaker 5: I think most of us in at the print media

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Speaker 5: at least described the move at the time as bold.

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Speaker 5: Obviously some president bringing in somebody with no pro experience

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Speaker 5: as the manager. Was that discussed, like, I know, you

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Speaker 5: guys don't necessarily care like the court of popular opinion

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Speaker 5: or what the media is saying. But when something is

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Speaker 5: Or you know, how are people going to take this?

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Speaker 3: I think we talked about it look a full disclosure.

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Speaker 3: I think the first time I said it, I think

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Speaker 3: I started it off with I may be crazy, but

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Speaker 3: so there probably is an element of that, Susan as

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Speaker 3: you determine his relationship with players. But I think everything

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Speaker 3: the questions that we asked about about kind of recognizing

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Speaker 3: it's not doing something just to be bold, but maybe

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Speaker 3: recognizing the challenges that someone may face, and everything kind

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Speaker 3: of came back to this is the type of person

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Speaker 3: Tony is that he will be able to overcome. You know,

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Speaker 3: some of the things that could be perceived as difficulties.

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Speaker 3: So I wouldn't say it was discussed at length like, oh,

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Speaker 3: we're trying to be bold as much as we're just

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Speaker 3: to know Tony more and more, it just became so

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Speaker 1: Yeah, talking about like types of people, Bryce Eldridge shagging

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Speaker 1: Dave Parker the Cobra and rite that Canaday has.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if we're quite there yet. Maybe Tony

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Speaker 3: just wanted to get him the run around a little bit.

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Speaker 3: He's a young man, so he can do that. But

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Speaker 3: now I think, more than anything, just happy that Bryce

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Speaker 5: How do you feel like he fits in potentially on

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Speaker 4: You obviously have a couple of guys who are out of.

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Speaker 5: Options in Matosen and Carnacione. How do all these things

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I think with a lot of a lot of those.

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Speaker 3: I had a mentor tell me, you watch players long

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Speaker 3: And I think that's how I've kind of gone into

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Speaker 3: an open mind to maybe how the twenty six man

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Speaker 3: the twenty six man roster looks like on opening day,

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Speaker 3: there's a good chance that we're week in the season

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Speaker 3: and it has to change. Hopefully not. But I think

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Speaker 3: I think with Bryce, just keeping an open mind and yeah,

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Speaker 3: watch him go out and play, you know some of

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Speaker 3: it how he plays, how others play. But Buster and

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Speaker 3: I have been pretty adamant about really wanting to put

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Speaker 1: What is what's your guys' main emphasis in spring train

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Speaker 1: this year, Like behind the scenes before you guys got

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Speaker 1: to camp, you said, Buster, Tony, we really got to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, Well, Tony's talked about a number of things.

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Speaker 3: I think number one, just from an attitude is just

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Speaker 3: feels like like that's been kind of an overwhelming emotion

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Speaker 3: that we've all been kind of expressing. But you know,

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Speaker 3: beyond that, there were there were there were some things

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Speaker 3: that we think we can do better this year. Whether

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Speaker 3: it's the personnel, you know, is anyone's opinion, but playing

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Speaker 3: better defense, running the base is better. Look, it's a

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Speaker 3: little cliche this time of year. You know, no one's

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Speaker 3: But but keeping that message throughout the season is going

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Speaker 3: to be really important that you know, we do have

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Speaker 3: personnel to run the bases, we do have personnel to

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Speaker 3: but it's kind of been fun more of a mindset

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Speaker 3: of we want to we want to be on the attack.

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Speaker 1: I think Susan has a question about Louisa Rise because I.

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Speaker 3: Just saw.

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Speaker 4: Stop being such a close attention.

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Speaker 5: Well that's I'm wondering how a Rise fits when you

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Speaker 5: talk about being, you know, sort of more aggressive, because

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Speaker 5: obviously he's a contact kind of guy. You do have

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Speaker 5: I mean, Bader Bader has talked about being a guy

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Speaker 5: being very aggressive. It feels like these kind of two

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Speaker 5: in many ways fit this mold of what both you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I definitely think he fits it. From a mindset.

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Speaker 3: It's been great watching him just a few short days

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Speaker 3: he's been here. He's out working early with Wash. You know,

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Speaker 3: it's cool seeing him standing next to Bryce Cage talking

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Speaker 3: about hitting. There's leadership there, there's a big competitor there.

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Speaker 3: You know. Those are things you know off the field

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Speaker 3: great back to ball skills. As we look for having

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Speaker 3: we have some right handed hitters, you know, with power,

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Speaker 3: bringing in a Rise and pairing him with Jung Hu,

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Speaker 3: two players who are going to put the ball in play,

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Speaker 3: you know, hopefully having an offense that can score in

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Speaker 3: different ways. When it's just putting the ball in play.

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Speaker 3: Hitting the home run can can make us have a

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Speaker 3: So but but he's been great, Like I said, a

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Speaker 3: lot of energy there and excited. He's a board, Zach.

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Speaker 1: All right, now that we've seen aj Prasinski, our day

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you're welcome.

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Speaker 5: You guys are in a division where obviously you can't

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Speaker 3: of the season as well, so you know, in the

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Speaker 3: end we're probably gonna need more than two catchers for

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Speaker 3: the entire season. And and feel we're probably as well

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Speaker 3: positioned from a catching depth standpoint since I've been here.

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Speaker 3: So I won't say from a catching standpoint since I've

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Speaker 3: been here, because my boss was the Catcher for a

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Speaker 3: couple of years. I was here. He was all right,

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Speaker 3: yeah he did.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Susan, you got anymore for Zach, I got one left,

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Speaker 1: but go ahead if you have anymore?

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Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I mean that just I feel like every year,

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Speaker 5: and the writers talk about this every year too. We

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Speaker 5: spend six weeks writing about the opening day roster and

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Speaker 5: what it's going to look like, non stop. And that's

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Speaker 5: the questions you get a lot. That's the questions Tony

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Speaker 5: Mitella will get almost every day from from now until

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Speaker 5: you guys break camp and really pretty much the verge

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Speaker 5: of opening day and then it can change the next day.

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Speaker 4: Do you guys kind of laugh about that sometime?

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Speaker 5: Like why does everybody spend months talking about essentially this

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Speaker 5: one day roster which will almost imply change.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And look, I don't know if I would say

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Speaker 3: that we laugh about Look, every game is important, every

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Speaker 3: single game. You know, we have fans in the fans

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Speaker 3: in the stands. It's it's extremely important, and I want

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Speaker 3: us to win every game possible. I try to remind

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Speaker 3: myself that it is a marathon, not a sprint, and

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Speaker 3: some of it is thinking in terms of how do

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Speaker 3: we get the most out of this group. How do

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Speaker 3: we get the most out of this player? And you know,

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Speaker 3: for some players, whether they like it or not, it

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Speaker 3: might mean not being on the opening day roster. It

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Speaker 3: might mean being on the opening day roster, it might

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Speaker 3: mean being in a different role for the time being.

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Speaker 3: So a lot of that remains to be seen. But

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Speaker 3: you try to stay disciplined with your decision making. You know,

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Speaker 3: remind yourself that it's a long season. But look, opening Day,

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Speaker 3: it's it's an emotional day. It's in my household growing up,

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Speaker 3: it was a holiday. I'll be as excited as anybody.

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Speaker 3: So to sit here and say, oh, it's just another game,

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Speaker 3: it's okay for us to not have our best twenty six,

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Speaker 3: I'm not going to go that far. But also, you know,

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Speaker 3: you don't want to lose sight on you know, the

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Speaker 3: Tuesday night game in August, because that game makes a

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Speaker 3: big difference too. So we missed out on the playoffs

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Speaker 3: last year by by two games, and I can't think

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Speaker 3: of much I wouldn't do for three more wins last

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Speaker 3: year just to get a shot in October.

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Speaker 1: Just even you saying Opening Day is me so fired up.

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Speaker 3: It's the great day of the year.

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Speaker 1: It should be a national holiday. We're all excited about it.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of being excited, we'll leave you at this, what

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Speaker 1: would you tell Giants fans right now to get them

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Speaker 1: excited about the twenty twenty sixth season.

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Speaker 3: Well, hopefully number one. Look, I think I think Giants

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Speaker 3: fans deserve number one. I think they deserve a winner,

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Speaker 3: and I hope we have that. Number two. A team

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Speaker 3: that plays extremely hard, that's entertaining, and I think we

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Speaker 3: have that too. So you know, when I start thinking

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Speaker 3: about particulars, you know, it's Raphael Devers for a full season,

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Speaker 3: It's Harrison Bader running like a madman in center field.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's Logan Web on opening day. And then also,

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Speaker 3: as I've been a part of the organization, I've gotten

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Speaker 3: to see how much Giants fans seem to connect with

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Speaker 3: young players that come through the organization. And I think

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Speaker 3: we're starting to see that. Elliott Rommels in his third season,

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Speaker 3: land and Group's going to be in his second full

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Speaker 3: season as a starter, you know, and other players behind

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Speaker 3: them that that we're excited about. There's been a lot

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Speaker 3: of talk about Carson Wizzen on here early in spring training.

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Speaker 3: FP you mentioned Hayden bird song. We've talked so many

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Speaker 3: times about Bryce Eldridge, so you know there's young talent

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Speaker 3: coming as well that I expect to be impactful with

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Speaker 3: the big league team. But but but more more important

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Speaker 3: than anything is you know, Giants fans want to see

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Speaker 3: a winner, and that's what we want to give them.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 1: Well, Thanks for your time, have fun answering more questions

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Speaker 1: from Susan at the thing after this.

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Speaker 3: She's really thrill me. She set me up.

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Speaker 4: I'm out.

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Speaker 3: We appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: Coming on, man, I'll see you in a week.

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Speaker 3: I'm coming down.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to see you and catch up to

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Speaker 1: have a great spring training.

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Speaker 3: Thanks so much.

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Speaker 1: For your time in a very busy, busy, busy time

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Speaker 1: in your season.

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Speaker 3: Looking forward to it. Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 4: Thanks sach all.

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Speaker 1: Right, we'll do the sign off now. Like I say

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Speaker 1: all the time, on the way out, swing hard in

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Speaker 1: case you hit it. It's my model in life. On

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Speaker 1: splash a territory