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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody?

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Speaker 2: Welcome another episode of Crush City Territory. My name is

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Speaker 2: Chandler Roam with Tyler Stafford and Josh Reddick, who is

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Speaker 2: not on a mountain anymore. How was your How was

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Speaker 2: your run that day? JA, after you got off?

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Speaker 1: How was your run? Everything go? Everything go okay.

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Speaker 3: Well I didn't have to go with the urgent care singer,

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Speaker 3: So I call that a win anytime you're on the mountain.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, it's smooth. The only thing we kind of uh,

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Speaker 3: we haven't had snow in about a week here, whether

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Speaker 3: outside I think is about My watch is saying forty

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Speaker 3: five degrees and we've had that for about the last

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Speaker 3: four or five days. We've we've been very minimal in

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Speaker 3: the underlayers, but it doesn't make for very good slopes

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Speaker 3: and snow. Mm hmmm.

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Speaker 1: It's a ball. Me eighty in Houston right now. My

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Speaker 1: air condition, my air condition is on behind me. It's

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Speaker 1: February sixth. This is this is stupid.

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Speaker 3: Global warming is a real thing, man.

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Speaker 1: Oh man.

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Speaker 2: So the Astros have signed somebody since the last time

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Speaker 2: we talked. It is not Alex Bregnant. It's Ben Gamble,

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Speaker 2: who you may remember from his sixty nine plate appearance

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Speaker 2: stint with the team toward the end of last year,

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Speaker 2: actually played very well for them. Fractured his fibula running

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Speaker 2: into a wall and Anaheim that low wall and right

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Speaker 2: field and Anaheim. Josh, I'm sure you're very familiar with

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Speaker 2: that foul territory. But Ben Gamble fractures leg there. But

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Speaker 2: he is going to be a full go for spring training.

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Speaker 2: The Astros gave him. It's a major league deal with

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Speaker 2: only two hundred thousand dollars in guaranteed money. He's got

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Speaker 2: a million more dollars that can become guaranteed money if

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Speaker 2: he makes the team out of spring training, and Josh,

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Speaker 2: I feel like he's a He's got a roster spot

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Speaker 2: to lose. Given the complexion of this outfield, given how

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Speaker 2: right handed this lineup is, Ben Gamble hits left handed.

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Speaker 2: This is a guy that they have seen have success.

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Speaker 1: For them career wise.

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Speaker 2: Ninety six plus guy not you know, doesn't have maybe

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Speaker 2: the career stats that you would you would look for, but.

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Speaker 1: This is kind of the guy that we're looking for.

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Speaker 2: A veteran that they have seen have success that can

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Speaker 2: stand in one of the corner outfields and provide some

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Speaker 2: depth from the left side.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, without a doubt. I mean this pretty much

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Speaker 3: flates that, you know, we keep out two bay on

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Speaker 3: the infield, which is obviously the bigger picture here. Keep

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Speaker 3: him where he's healthy, where he's one healthy, where he's comfortable.

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Speaker 3: But you get a guy who's not only been a

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Speaker 3: good hitter, but a guy who's played some superb defense

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Speaker 3: for the better part of his career. I mean playing

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Speaker 3: against that guy, I could name several times that he's

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Speaker 3: taken hits away from myself from other people. So just

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Speaker 3: a guy who's one familiar with with not only the ballpark,

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Speaker 3: but he's familiar with that division. He played in the

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Speaker 3: West for years to cut years, and for him to

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Speaker 3: be able to have that comfortability on every ballpark in

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Speaker 3: that division and be able to come back into that

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Speaker 3: clubhouse where he already knows the majority of everybody, it's

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Speaker 3: going to help him a lot. But with your roster

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Speaker 3: spot comedy, I mean this, this guy has to do

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Speaker 3: something barring sort of dying, to not get a roster

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Speaker 3: fight on the Houston Astros. So this is a guy

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Speaker 3: that you know, I think they really wanted. You know,

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Speaker 3: you don't really hear anything about him, which is really

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Speaker 3: the crazy part you talked about. We talked about Verdugo

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Speaker 3: a little bit, and with Bregman, you know, who knows

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Speaker 3: what's going to happen there with with him. But I

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Speaker 3: the Astros. He has the potential to be a very

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Speaker 3: good player for them, and like I said, it keeps

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Josh, I mean he ran into an outfield wall.

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Speaker 4: I know you've done that many times in your career.

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Speaker 4: Fraction Tophibula. I can't imagine coming back to work after

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Speaker 4: fracturing a leg. How do you how do you like

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Speaker 4: get over that as an outfielder and and keep playing

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Speaker 4: as aggressively as as you need to in the outfield.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think that mindset is there to you know,

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Speaker 3: want to go make a play whenever you can. So

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Speaker 3: I don't think the mindset changes there. Maybe a little

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Speaker 3: you know, that's so hard to process when you're out

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Speaker 3: good thing is, I think probably ninety eight percent of

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Speaker 3: padding down that right field line for years, truly when

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Speaker 3: I broke my wrist there in twenty thirteen. But I

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Speaker 3: think the best part about that is knowing that everything

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Speaker 3: There's padding that doesn't give at all. So I think

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Speaker 3: he's just got to pick his spots to where, you know,

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Speaker 3: something like that. The short wall probably had effect on

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Speaker 3: him to where he did break it in an awkward way,

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Speaker 3: because to do that, that's a pretty awkward break from

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Speaker 3: looking back at the film from watching it. But I

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Speaker 3: don't think that changes his mindset. He gets out there,

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Speaker 3: he's gonna bust his butt out there to make any

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Speaker 3: going to be a factor for him to not really worry.

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Speaker 4: About what's the comfiest outfield wall?

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Speaker 3: Oh compiut, you know, I it's say minute made, it's

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Speaker 3: it's it's sorry dyking. So it's gonna take us some time.

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Speaker 3: You were so bear with us. It's it's pretty easy

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Speaker 3: that ballpark, and you know, the hardest part is that

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Speaker 3: kind of like the bullpen layout. But then it's chain

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Speaker 3: link anyway. But there's different, there's all kinds of ballpark.

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Speaker 3: Seattle is a very easy ballpark to run into the

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Speaker 3: for a right fielder because you go into those that

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Speaker 3: think it's four by fours or brick right behind where

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Speaker 3: The only say, partner to run into the right field

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Speaker 3: there is where the gate opens for the you know,

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Speaker 3: you can flip it around when you look at like,

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Speaker 3: you know, there's obviously Wrigley Field where you're probably not

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Speaker 3: going to run into a wall unless it's you know,

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Speaker 3: in like Finway, I ran into Finway's monster doesn't give

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Speaker 2: And then we'd be remiss if we didn't talk about

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Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium with Aaron Judge. That cost Aaron Judge a

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Speaker 2: season based I mean he still kept playing. The broke

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Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. I mean, you've played

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Speaker 2: He ran into the broke his toe and that cost

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's about a four inch you know, section of

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Speaker 3: you know, the worst part about Dodger Stadium is from

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Speaker 3: You can go back to videos of twenty twenty. I

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Speaker 3: think it was Framber was pitching during the COVID season

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Speaker 3: and they gave it back to back homers that I

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Speaker 3: could have very easily caught. When I went to go jump,

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Speaker 3: once you get about three feet from the wall there,

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Speaker 3: I don't know if they fixed it now, it would

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Speaker 3: always a horrible, horrible way to go back to a

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Speaker 3: You know, you roll over and then you hit your

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Speaker 3: And you know, I can look back at like Oakland,

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Speaker 3: I don't know what you would call it, like drainage

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Speaker 3: But yeah, when you look at Dodger Stadium, there's just

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Speaker 3: all kinds of factors that kind of play into that

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Speaker 3: figure that out to not only say guys coming in

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Speaker 3: in the post game going well, I don't know why

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Speaker 3: our outfield, our warning teck isn't as sturdy as it

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Speaker 2: Speaking of this is actually a perfect transition. Speaking of

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Speaker 2: Mookie Betts, a guy that has played both the infield

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Speaker 2: and the outfield, I want to talk You mentioned the

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Speaker 2: Ben Gamble addition ostensibly should should put jose Al two

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Speaker 2: vay a little bit more in the infield. Talking, Joe

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Speaker 2: Spotta and Dana Brown talked to the media on Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: two days ago at the ASTROS Annual Media Luncheon, and

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Speaker 2: from my understanding, it sounds like the news didn't come

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Speaker 2: Ben Gamble was gonna be on the roster. It sure

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Speaker 2: sounds like jose al Tuova is going to see some

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Speaker 2: time in left field this year. Now, I don't know

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Speaker 2: if that'll be his primary position, but Joe spottas said

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Speaker 2: he is looking good out there. They said his athleticism

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Speaker 2: is playing Dana Brown. Longtime scout. Obviously, I asked him

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Speaker 2: on al tuo Van what did he see? And he

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Speaker 2: says he's his reads off the bat are good, you know,

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Speaker 2: So I do think we're still looking at Jose al

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Speaker 2: Ben gammele On Jordan Alvarez who is not going to

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Speaker 2: some time out there, and then maybe Zach Dezenzo as well,

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Speaker 2: and Taylor Tremmel. So they've got left right, they've got big, small,

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Speaker 2: They've they've got every kind of left fielder you can

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it kind of fig filled in their

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Speaker 3: gap that they were looking for. You say platoon, but

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Speaker 3: I think it becomes a platoon every day thing. For

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Speaker 3: Jose to be able to play, you know, four times

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Speaker 2: And you know, al Twovey is such a man of

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Speaker 2: he's got higher ops he's got I think he's hitting

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Speaker 2: only enhances your value in terms of money, in terms

434
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Speaker 2: of what you could get. We did see Pete Alonzo

435
00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:48,240
Speaker 2: last night, who is not a very good He plays

436
00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:51,600
Speaker 2: first base but just kind of stands there. He's a

437
00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:54,560
Speaker 2: power first guy and that's all he got, and we

438
00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:57,520
Speaker 2: saw the deal he got, so you know that has

439
00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:00,480
Speaker 2: to I would imagine in the back of his mind

440
00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:02,720
Speaker 2: he has to be thinking about that too, even though

441
00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:05,879
Speaker 2: again he's under control through twenty twenty eight. This is

442
00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:07,200
Speaker 2: not a guy who's gonna go to a free agency

443
00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:10,520
Speaker 2: anytime soon. But I think as long as he can

444
00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:13,080
Speaker 2: show that he's confident out there, and he has I mean,

445
00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:17,280
Speaker 2: he's got a nice arm. Certainly not the quickest guy

446
00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:19,959
Speaker 2: in the world, but I think he's more athletic maybe

447
00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,199
Speaker 2: than his stature, and maybe you would think when you

448
00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:24,480
Speaker 2: look at him.

449
00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:26,119
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he gets downplayed a lot because you

450
00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:27,760
Speaker 3: look at how big he is, you know, with the

451
00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:31,040
Speaker 3: leg injuries he's had. He's more athletic than a lot

452
00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:32,840
Speaker 3: of people think for his size. And like you said,

453
00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,600
Speaker 3: he's got a very good, above average arm that people

454
00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:37,840
Speaker 3: take for granted, and it's pretty accurate from what I remember.

455
00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:40,320
Speaker 3: He's pretty much in the zone and we Dashers don't

456
00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:42,120
Speaker 3: need him to go out there play anywhere near gold

457
00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:44,680
Speaker 3: glove defense, because he's gonna be a guy who's gonna

458
00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:47,119
Speaker 3: drive in more runs than he's gonna stay on a

459
00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:50,840
Speaker 3: daily basis on any given day. So yeah, I mean,

460
00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:52,920
Speaker 3: just I'm gonna be able to be thrown out there.

461
00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:56,520
Speaker 3: But I'm with you, he's definitely more athletic than everybody

462
00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:57,919
Speaker 3: makes him out to be. And it's kind of like

463
00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:00,399
Speaker 3: everybody doesn't want him to be out there when in

464
00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:02,560
Speaker 3: reality he's he's a better option than a lot of

465
00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:05,240
Speaker 3: other guys around the league. And you know that's something

466
00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,359
Speaker 3: that I don't think it's gets put out there a

467
00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:08,480
Speaker 3: lot for him.

468
00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:11,720
Speaker 4: Do you guys think al too has his own outfield

469
00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:14,600
Speaker 4: glove yet? Borrowing someone's.

470
00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:19,280
Speaker 3: He's definitely borrowing someone's right now. But I guarantee you

471
00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:23,040
Speaker 3: Wilson probably has one either being made. If he is Stevens,

472
00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:24,800
Speaker 3: I think he's still with willson't I can't remember what

473
00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:26,639
Speaker 3: he was with either way. I don't want to get

474
00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:28,840
Speaker 3: anybody more prosper, but the glove company's with I guarantee

475
00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:30,600
Speaker 3: you there has one sent to him already without his

476
00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:32,840
Speaker 3: name on it, and the one with his name is

477
00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:33,680
Speaker 3: being made right now.

478
00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:38,000
Speaker 4: Chandler, I need some investigative reporting. Who's whose glove is

479
00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:39,040
Speaker 4: he using out there?

480
00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:41,879
Speaker 2: We'll find out in spring training because all the glove people,

481
00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:44,280
Speaker 2: all the glove people, all the equipment people come out

482
00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:46,560
Speaker 2: in spring training and you'll be able you'll see which

483
00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:48,520
Speaker 2: guys go to which vendors, which.

484
00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:49,200
Speaker 1: Guys meet with who.

485
00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:51,680
Speaker 2: Uh So I'll let you know in a week and

486
00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:52,439
Speaker 2: a half when we get there.

487
00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:54,480
Speaker 3: If I had to guess, I'm gonna go with probably

488
00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,320
Speaker 3: your done. He's probably going. I mean, Jordan's gets the outfitters,

489
00:21:57,359 --> 00:21:59,600
Speaker 3: you get two gloves a year. We know your dun's

490
00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:02,479
Speaker 3: only use it one a year. Gotta have he's got

491
00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:04,960
Speaker 3: to have one on that got one in his locker somewhere.

492
00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:07,280
Speaker 3: But I guarantee if he doesn't have one of somebody

493
00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:09,479
Speaker 3: playing there, they found one him pretty quick. I guarantee

494
00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:11,120
Speaker 3: KRL Schneider found him one real quick.

495
00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,920
Speaker 4: My my money's on Dubon Chandler. We need, we need

496
00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:18,080
Speaker 4: to find out. But that's uh, that's what we're going with.

497
00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:18,960
Speaker 3: Josh.

498
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:22,720
Speaker 4: What you know when you're prepping for spring training as

499
00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:25,560
Speaker 4: a player, I mean this is coming up really soon.

500
00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,360
Speaker 4: You know, what are you doing to kind of get

501
00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:32,119
Speaker 4: ready for spring training, and then what is what is

502
00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:36,280
Speaker 4: spring training like as a player, especially as a you know,

503
00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:39,439
Speaker 4: maybe somebody trying to make the team right as opposed

504
00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:41,880
Speaker 4: to somebody who's got like a locked in roster spot.

505
00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:43,439
Speaker 4: I know you've been on kind of both sides of

506
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:45,920
Speaker 4: that in your career, but what what does that look

507
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:47,960
Speaker 4: like from a player's perspective.

508
00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:51,560
Speaker 3: So, I mean, I think when when you let's start

509
00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:53,600
Speaker 3: from the beginning. My my first big league camp was

510
00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:57,679
Speaker 3: oh nine with the Red Sox, and you know, all

511
00:22:57,720 --> 00:23:00,639
Speaker 3: you really did there was just sit there and shut up.

512
00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:02,600
Speaker 3: I mean it was a different game. This is sixteen

513
00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:04,960
Speaker 3: years ago, completely different game. You know. I was in

514
00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:08,479
Speaker 3: a clubhouse with you know, veterans among veterans, among veterans

515
00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:11,080
Speaker 3: among veterans. So I was just told to And the

516
00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:12,760
Speaker 3: Red Sox did a great job. They would bring in

517
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:15,399
Speaker 3: the rookies that they had ideas of helping out the

518
00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:17,280
Speaker 3: team next year. They'd fly them up to Boston for

519
00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:19,639
Speaker 3: like a week or two, teach them how to deal

520
00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:22,159
Speaker 3: with the Boston media, how to handle everything with you

521
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:24,840
Speaker 3: know Peeto at that point, how to handle all that stuff.

522
00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:27,040
Speaker 3: So when I got to my first big league camp,

523
00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:28,520
Speaker 3: It was just about, you know what, I'm gonna be

524
00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:30,719
Speaker 3: there early. I'm going to keep my mouth shut. I'm

525
00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:32,080
Speaker 3: going to make sure I'm where i need to be

526
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:34,359
Speaker 3: at any given point. I'm not going to be the

527
00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:36,840
Speaker 3: person who has to have like David Ortiz walking in

528
00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:39,080
Speaker 3: the cage and have Josh Reddick sitting there at twenty

529
00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:41,159
Speaker 3: two years old when this man's about to get in

530
00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:42,880
Speaker 3: the case. So you make sure you get everything done

531
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:45,560
Speaker 3: before all the veterans do, because that's just your first

532
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:47,280
Speaker 3: time of respect you're going to earn from these guys.

533
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:49,280
Speaker 3: This kid's not here to mess around. He's here to

534
00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:51,480
Speaker 3: work his butt off. And when I would get caught on,

535
00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:53,640
Speaker 3: I made sure that I was ready, you know, because

536
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:55,159
Speaker 3: you don't know when you're going to play. As a

537
00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:56,800
Speaker 3: non roster guy, you may not play at all. There

538
00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:01,320
Speaker 3: were days where, excuse me, I'd go from Fort Myers

539
00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:05,679
Speaker 3: could gosh knows, I mean four hour road trip to

540
00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 3: you know, Kasimi or whatnot and never even play, and

541
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:10,960
Speaker 3: then get on the bus the next day and do

542
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:12,560
Speaker 3: it all over again, and then never play. So you

543
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:14,760
Speaker 3: just never know what you're gonna do. Don't show frustration,

544
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,440
Speaker 3: don't show any emotion. Like that. Just go out there,

545
00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 3: bust your ass and do what you need to do

546
00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,440
Speaker 3: to make sure everything's to where they don't have anything

547
00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:23,960
Speaker 3: negative to stay about you. That's the best way to

548
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,000
Speaker 3: put it. Don't let them have anything negative stay about you,

549
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,879
Speaker 3: because as soon as they do, you're gonna get sit

550
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,640
Speaker 3: right back down to a minor league camp. But as

551
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:32,520
Speaker 3: for preparation, you know, from when I was a non

552
00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:35,480
Speaker 3: roster guy, to pretty much have in my guaranteed spot,

553
00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:38,439
Speaker 3: the workouts in the off seasons didn't change. You know,

554
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,399
Speaker 3: I'd come home from my season. My first month was

555
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:45,480
Speaker 3: always absolutely nothing. Bodies got to recover, bodies got to

556
00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 3: get everything out. And that was my video game month though.

557
00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:49,960
Speaker 3: I would just sit in my recliner and play video

558
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,600
Speaker 3: games for a month, and you know, gain ten pounds

559
00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:56,000
Speaker 3: by munching and eating all kinds of food. So but

560
00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:57,639
Speaker 3: you know, you need that as a player, because there

561
00:24:57,640 --> 00:24:59,800
Speaker 3: would be days where I'd be sitting there playing video games.

562
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:01,520
Speaker 3: Of a sudden my leg would just cramp up, and

563
00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:03,120
Speaker 3: I'd have to sit up and walk around and get

564
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 3: my cramp up because my body was still used to going,

565
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,960
Speaker 3: Hey man, it's four o'clock in the afternoon. You got

566
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,800
Speaker 3: to get going like and then you know, once once,

567
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:13,719
Speaker 3: I think that was what November. So once Decetimber kicked around,

568
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:17,440
Speaker 3: I still really wasn't doing much baseball activity. I would

569
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 3: just get into the gym, do all my stuff. And

570
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:21,360
Speaker 3: then when New Year's hit after, you know them holiday

571
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:23,400
Speaker 3: pounds kick in and the calories kick in, you get

572
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,080
Speaker 3: those Christmas weight in the New York kick in, then

573
00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:28,200
Speaker 3: the baseball starts coming in there do we start from

574
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:30,520
Speaker 3: tea work to outfield work to everything I needed to

575
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 3: do to get ready. And it wasn't anything ever really intense.

576
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:35,040
Speaker 3: It was kind of going back through the motions get

577
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:36,359
Speaker 3: everything to where I would kind of need to be

578
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 3: spring training ready. Because you'll hear from a lot of

579
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:41,879
Speaker 3: guys like, you can prepare for spring training all you

580
00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 3: want to, but there's getting in shape and then there's

581
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:46,560
Speaker 3: getting in baseball shape. You can do everything you need

582
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:47,800
Speaker 3: to do. You can go out there, get your routes,

583
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:50,520
Speaker 3: do your hitting, get DP and everything, but once you're

584
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:52,679
Speaker 3: out there and until you're standing around in cleats for

585
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,640
Speaker 3: three and a half hours, you can you cannot stimulate

586
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:57,159
Speaker 3: that at all. When you're sitting there working out in

587
00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,639
Speaker 3: the off season. So I just made sure that I

588
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:01,560
Speaker 3: was ready to get into baseball shape from day one

589
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,679
Speaker 3: when I got to spring training. And I was very fortunate.

590
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 3: When I lived back home in Georgia, I would go

591
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:08,800
Speaker 3: work out of my local high school because that was

592
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 3: just where I was. I'd go to their gym. I'd

593
00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 3: go out there with their high school coach and he'd

594
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:14,680
Speaker 3: hit me everything I needed to do in the outfield.

595
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 3: He'd throw to me do everything. And this is all

596
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:18,480
Speaker 3: during the school year, So this is all great during

597
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,199
Speaker 3: classes and everything's time to just be out there by

598
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:21,760
Speaker 3: myself and be out of the door by the time

599
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 3: my school would let out. And then as I got

600
00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:27,440
Speaker 3: older and got to Houston, obviously going to the ballpark

601
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:29,359
Speaker 3: and working out with guys like you know, I'd work

602
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 3: out with Gary. This is when Joe was our bench

603
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,480
Speaker 3: coach and he was out there throwing VP. Just having

604
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,439
Speaker 3: those guys have an access in Brockamani, I mean you

605
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:39,440
Speaker 3: can Brockamani is probably one of the most hardest working

606
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 3: guys I've seen, whether it be himself getting ready or

607
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 3: helping other guys. My man was there every day when

608
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 3: it was coming out that you know, I might be

609
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:48,640
Speaker 3: playing some first base way back when good the Lord

610
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:52,000
Speaker 3: that was scary. He was there every day hitting me

611
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 3: ground balls, making sure I was ready to get to

612
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:56,000
Speaker 3: where I needed to be. So there's guys there that

613
00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 3: are for you know, if you're in the area, there's

614
00:26:57,800 --> 00:26:59,520
Speaker 3: guys that are there for you every day to get

615
00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:01,680
Speaker 3: you right. That's you know. When I saw the video,

616
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:04,880
Speaker 3: who was there right there without tv Brocamane out there

617
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:07,120
Speaker 3: doing anything he could to help him out. So it's

618
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,720
Speaker 3: just a matter of what your mindset is. But I

619
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 3: think the biggest thing is when you're a non roster

620
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,119
Speaker 3: guy and you may not be trying to make a

621
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 3: spot and you have no shot of getting on that roster,

622
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:18,959
Speaker 3: but first impressions make make all the difference and make

623
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 3: everything worth it.

624
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:23,679
Speaker 2: I mean I have not been in as many camps

625
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 2: as you have, Josh, obviously, but you know, just being

626
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 2: around the Big League clubhouse like the seventh time I've gone,

627
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:33,159
Speaker 2: and to me, the best NRIs are the guys you

628
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 2: don't notice, the ones that are kind of in the club,

629
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:40,399
Speaker 2: like I thought, and he obviously ended up going on

630
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,680
Speaker 2: to have success, But I thought Joey Loperfido last year

631
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 2: was the model NRI like was at his locker every day,

632
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 2: sat there, kept to himself, was available, And again he

633
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 2: had a very tough balance to strike because he was

634
00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:02,359
Speaker 2: playing so well and the the sheer lack of storylines

635
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 2: and Astros camp, Like I mean, you go to Astros camp,

636
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 2: you can write out the lineup before you even get there,

637
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:08,160
Speaker 2: so there's not.

638
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:08,879
Speaker 1: A ton of battles.

639
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,679
Speaker 2: So when there's one guy playing well, you kind of

640
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,199
Speaker 2: latch on. And we wanted to talk to Joey a

641
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:17,840
Speaker 2: lot reporters did, and you could tell how respectful he

642
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,359
Speaker 2: was and looking around to make sure you know, okay,

643
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 2: like every you've talked to everybody else, Okay, now you

644
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:27,120
Speaker 2: can come like he was the model NRI. I never heard,

645
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 2: never heard a peep out of him. He talked when

646
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 2: he was talked to, He fell in line, and obviously,

647
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 2: like it translated, he got right up to the big leagues,

648
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:37,480
Speaker 2: played well, and now he's in Toronto as part of

649
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 2: the Kokuchi trade. But I wonder, Josh, when you got

650
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 2: to Red Sox big league camp for the first time, did.

651
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 1: You have the jaw drop moment? Did you have the

652
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:48,480
Speaker 1: oh crap moment?

653
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 2: Like what what was the one moment that kind of

654
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 2: shook you like, oh man, I'm in big Lee camp now.

655
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,320
Speaker 3: Oh man, I think from I mean first starters from

656
00:28:57,360 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 3: day one you walk into that clubhouse. I mean this

657
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 3: is two thousand and nine. Like I said, you had

658
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 3: you go around the just go around the field. I

659
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:06,720
Speaker 3: mean you had I think it was Eucleus at first,

660
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 3: Pedroi at second. I think Alex Gonzalez was our short

661
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 3: stop at that time. We had Mikey Lowell at third base.

662
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 3: You had Veritec catching, You had gosh, who are who's

663
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 3: our left fielder that year? I can't every who the

664
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:24,440
Speaker 3: left foot was. We had like Elsbury was in center. JD.

665
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 3: Drew was in right. Obviously, Poppy was our dag And

666
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 3: like that didn't stop there. You go to the bullpen.

667
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:32,280
Speaker 3: You had you know, papal Bond, you had, oh Manny

668
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 3: del Carmen was a big veteran at that point. Daniel

669
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 3: Bard was just stepping in to be Daniel Bard of

670
00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 3: the relief pitching stands. So and then obviously, you know

671
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,959
Speaker 3: Terry francona a very intimidating figure when you look at

672
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,640
Speaker 3: you know his his history and the game of baseball,

673
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 3: and this is you know, sixteen years ago. That doesn't

674
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 3: even account for what my man's done for the last

675
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 3: sixteen years. So just walking in and being kind of intimidated,

676
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 3: you know, because these are guys I grew up watching

677
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 3: play on TV. And these are guys that I watched

678
00:29:57,760 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 3: and idolized. So to be able to be in the

679
00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:01,480
Speaker 3: same clubhouse put on the same uniform for them was

680
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:04,680
Speaker 3: just a big eye opener for Big League camp. For

681
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 3: me to just come in and be with those guys,

682
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 3: And I think that's that's really the bigger eye opening

683
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 3: part to it. And and then you get out there and

684
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:14,320
Speaker 3: you're learning from guys like JD Drew, who you know,

685
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 3: fellow Georgia native like myself, who I grow up watching

686
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 3: when he was at the Braves and all this kind

687
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 3: of stuff. So it's kind of those moments were like, man,

688
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 3: this is full circle because sixteen year old Josh is

689
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 3: giggling like a high school girl inside. But I have

690
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 3: to keep my composure on the outside because this is

691
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 3: my job. These are my teammates, you know. These are

692
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 3: guys that I'm going to go to war with every day.

693
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,520
Speaker 3: So it's it's it's tough. It's not easy to be

694
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:40,200
Speaker 3: able to go out there and you know, sit there

695
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 3: and look at your idols and keep a straight face

696
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,239
Speaker 3: because but at the end of the day, it's your

697
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 3: job and that's all they care about.

698
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 1: You want to know who the left fielder was.

699
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 3: Let's see, we acquired Jason Bay later that year.

700
00:30:57,480 --> 00:30:59,480
Speaker 2: That's who Baseball Reference says it was. It says it

701
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 2: was Jason we trade.

702
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 3: We traded for him halfway through the year. That was

703
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 3: the Manny Ramires three teen trade, because we traded Brandon

704
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 3: Moss to the Pirates and Bay came over and then

705
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 3: Manny went. Where did Manny go in that trade?

706
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 1: Manny went to the Dodgers.

707
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 3: Dodgers. Yes, that's exactly right. So I can't remember who

708
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 3: started off that year in the field course, but it

709
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 3: was not Jason Bay.

710
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 2: The last few years and it's this has spanned three managers.

711
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 2: A j was A j was pretty famous for this.

712
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 2: I believe Dusty did it as well, and I know

713
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:34,000
Speaker 2: Joe did it last year. Every day when when everyone's

714
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 2: so in big league camp before the cuts start going down,

715
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 2: all three of those managers would invite one of the

716
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 2: non roster guys or a rookie to stand up in

717
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 2: front of the big League Club, you know, introduced themselves.

718
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 2: I think AJ made it a little fun with like,

719
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 2: you know, he would do a little research on the

720
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 2: guys and sound him like, hey, we saw that you

721
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 2: like to do this. And you know, everyone remembers last

722
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 2: year that when Joey lop Berfdo got up, Uh, they

723
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 2: knew he was a chef. They knew he liked to cook,

724
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 2: So he cooked paiea for the whole uh all of

725
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 2: Big League camp because they knew he was a big

726
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 2: an avid chef. Do you have any good from when

727
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 2: you were around AJ and when he did it with

728
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 2: the Astros? Do you have any good stories about any

729
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 2: of those that still stick in your mind? And how

730
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 2: I guess more generally, like how I guess a little

731
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 2: bit more settling is that for a rookie to be

732
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 2: able to kind of do that, and it's got to

733
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 2: be nerve wracking to get up there, But once it's done,

734
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,240
Speaker 2: you kind of feel like, all right, like all the

735
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 2: guys know who I am and kind of feel like

736
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:35,040
Speaker 2: they can settle down a little bit.

737
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, it's it's your initiation. I mean, it's you.

738
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 3: It's your fraternity initiation to the boys, and you know.

739
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 3: The one thing I remember, I can't I could tell

740
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,480
Speaker 3: you who it was. My first big League my first

741
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 3: year with the Strows, AJ had a guy who was

742
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 3: a goat. I think it was a goat roper or

743
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 3: a cow roper. I can't remember what it was, but hey,

744
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 3: he brought in his little rope and like did the

745
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 3: whole thing and did all that stuff, and then he,

746
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 3: like I think Brackamane, put on a cow outfit and

747
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 3: then I had him crawl through the locker room by

748
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:08,960
Speaker 3: the hind leg. But I'd like, for the love of me,

749
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 3: I couldn't tell you who it was or you know,

750
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 3: but I do remember that and one thing, and it

751
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 3: wasn't with the Astros, and I think that Coco Cris

752
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 3: did a really good job with us in Oakland. There

753
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 3: were two years where we did a talent show. So

754
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 3: if you were a first if you were a non

755
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 3: roster guy your first big league camp, you could not

756
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 3: back out of it. Everybody else put in one hundred

757
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 3: dollars to buy their to buy themselves out of it,

758
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 3: and whoever won the car and whoever won the talent

759
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 3: show got the money, which is we know for non

760
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 3: roster guys, you know this is gosh, this is what

761
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 3: three thousand dollars we're talking about three plus thousand dollars

762
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 3: for guys who don't really have a whole lot of them.

763
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 3: They're they're living by the Perdan, they're getting a big

764
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 3: lee camp. So for them to have that, I remember

765
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 3: all kinds of guys. Now, Stephen Vote was the one

766
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 3: that stands out to me because we all know how

767
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 3: funny Stephen Vote is nowadays, the referee bit, you know,

768
00:33:57,720 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 3: all this crazy stuff. But my man did the full

769
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 3: Saturday Night Live skit of living in a van down.

770
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 1: Was Matt Foley.

771
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:11,399
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, he nailed it. He as you would

772
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 3: expect voter to mail it anyway. But I mean he

773
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:18,840
Speaker 3: did the whole like the weight adjustment and getting what

774
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:22,800
Speaker 3: do you want to do with your life? And and

775
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:24,799
Speaker 3: and the crazy part was he didn't He didn't even win,

776
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:29,840
Speaker 3: which was which was wild? Is it? Jake? Jake Jake Elmore?

777
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:35,399
Speaker 3: Is that's the third base. Jake Elmore won it because

778
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:38,320
Speaker 3: he did like this rendition of like singing and playing

779
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,240
Speaker 3: different instruments. But I thought, my boy, Voter got hosed

780
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 3: by that. But those are just ways to kind of

781
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 3: one They eased your tension as an individual doing it.

782
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 3: They eased the tension as you know, the older guys

783
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:50,319
Speaker 3: getting there as well. But yeah, I think it's just

784
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:52,360
Speaker 3: all about initiation and getting the boys to know that

785
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,319
Speaker 3: Saturday that they may not know yet.

786
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 1: Steven Vote American League Manager of the Year.

787
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 2: He's gone from He's gone from Matt Foley in the

788
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 2: in the Spring Training Talent Show to American League Manager

789
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 2: of the Year. Could you uh, he's this is not John.

790
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:12,720
Speaker 3: His name is John Referso when he plays the referee.

791
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 1: As obviously it will end after this.

792
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 2: This is not an Astros question, but inj I mean,

793
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 2: you know, you played with Stephen Vote a bunch. Could

794
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 2: you have Could you tell he was going to be

795
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:24,880
Speaker 2: a manager from from when you were playing with him?

796
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:27,319
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, maybe not, maybe not from day one, but

797
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 3: as we got to know more of Voter, and you know,

798
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:33,239
Speaker 3: catchers make great managers, and that's just because they know

799
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 3: how to assess the whole situation. Everything's right there in

800
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 3: front of him. But you know, when when you when

801
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 3: you talk to Voter, even before what what he got

802
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:42,360
Speaker 3: to be known for, you knew that he was going

803
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 3: to one stay in baseball and be a coach. But

804
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:46,839
Speaker 3: I think once we got to know him a little

805
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 3: bit more, everybody knew he was going to be that

806
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 3: manager because he was just he's that guy. He's that

807
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 3: guy who you can talk to anytime. He was a

808
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 3: guy that I had plenty of conversations with about my

809
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 3: career playing with him, just talking about life, talking about

810
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 3: the grind of life, the grind of baseball, and just

811
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:03,840
Speaker 3: getting everything off our teams kind of like our therapy

812
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 3: stestions for one another. And when you don't have guys

813
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 3: like that, it makes the game a lot tougher. And

814
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:09,920
Speaker 3: the best thing about Voter is he's gonna tell you

815
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 3: straight up. He's gonna be He's not gonna be a sue.

816
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:13,800
Speaker 3: He's gonna take you straight to your face how he feels.

817
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 3: And I think that's where you get the respect as

818
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 3: a manager from, because there's times where you feel like

819
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 3: somebody's not being straight up with you. But the best

820
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 3: quality and trade I think managers can have is one

821
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 3: having their players backs and not not lying to him being,

822
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:29,879
Speaker 3: you know, telling them how it is. We're all grown men.

823
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 3: Tell us how it is. We can handlet and if

824
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:33,879
Speaker 3: we can't, we'll talk it out and I think that's

825
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:35,719
Speaker 3: what makes him such a great guy and such a

826
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:36,759
Speaker 3: great person for that job.

827
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 2: This is a this is an easy way to transition

828
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 2: into telling everyone this is an exciting announcement that we'll

829
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 2: have Joe Aspota on Crush City Territory UH in a

830
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 2: couple of days and you'll be able to download that

831
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 2: and get that UH the day that the Ashers report

832
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:55,239
Speaker 2: to camp, so you'll be able to hear from Joe

833
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 2: Aspota exclusively. He'll be on a Crush City territory here.

834
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 2: Believe we're gonna him in the next couple of days.

835
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 2: That should be fun. We'll talk to him about everything

836
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 2: Josh has talked about, what makes a good manager, what

837
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 2: kind of has how he felt his first year went,

838
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:12,800
Speaker 2: what he's looking forward to in spring training, and maybe

839
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 2: see if he's got any intel already on some of

840
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 2: these nurs and what they're going to do in front

841
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,319
Speaker 2: of the club. And we will keep bringing you all

842
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:22,920
Speaker 2: that will be in West Palm Beach starting I will

843
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 2: be in West Palm Beach starting on Tuesday, so we

844
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 2: will keep you guys covered head to toe, everything wall

845
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:31,840
Speaker 2: to wall on Astro's spring training.

846
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:33,920
Speaker 1: As the seasons it's coming.

847
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 2: It's here at Dusty Baker Aways used to say when

848
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:38,799
Speaker 2: the super Bowl. When the super Bowl is played, he

849
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 2: knows baseball seasons right around the corner, and super Bowl.

850
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 1: Will be Sunday.

851
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:45,279
Speaker 2: Who I guess before we get out of here, this

852
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 2: will be posted before the Super Bowl.

853
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 1: Who's let's take picks? Who we got?

854
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 3: Well, I'm not an NFL guy, but I'm going to

855
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 3: base my pick off my parlay. I have it in

856
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 3: play right now and I'm gonna go with the Taylor

857
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 3: Swift Chiefs. Mm hmm. I just hope Taylor is happy.

858
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 3: You know. I have a nice five leg parlay that

859
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:07,799
Speaker 3: I need to hit because I got a Veigast trip

860
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 3: coming in April.

861
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:16,799
Speaker 4: So my neighbors are from Philadelphia, so I have to

862
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:19,440
Speaker 4: root for them just because I said their Their dog's

863
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 4: name is Carson after Carson Wins from from years ago.

864
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 4: So I want them to be happy.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, the Chiefs are gonna win.

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Speaker 4: That's that's what always happens.

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Speaker 3: What are what are we talking about? You're not gonna

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Speaker 3: get You're not gonna give them, You're not not going

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Speaker 3: to give them the three p Too big of a

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Speaker 3: it's too big of a deal to not give them

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Speaker 3: the three peace.

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Speaker 1: I'm in the same boat. I would love to see

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Speaker 1: the Eagles win.

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Speaker 2: I know I know more people that are Eagles fans,

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Speaker 2: that have been lifelong suffering Eagles fans, So for them,

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Speaker 2: I would like the Eagles to win.

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Speaker 1: But I just I can't see it. I think my.

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Speaker 2: Home is too good, Andy Reid is too good. Maybe

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Speaker 2: the referees are too good. Like I don't know, but

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Speaker 2: I think I think it's gonna be a three peet

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Speaker 2: and it'll be something to watch.

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Speaker 1: I too, hope that Taylor is happy.

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Speaker 2: I got any email the other day with like fifty

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Speaker 2: prop bets about how much they will show Taylor on

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Speaker 2: the broadcast, who shall be sitting next to, whether she'll

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Speaker 2: perform with Kendrick at halftime. Josh, I can send you

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Speaker 2: that email if you'd like to add on.

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Speaker 3: I'm good. I'm good. I don't I don't need any

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Speaker 3: more bets. This is This is a safe and it's

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Speaker 3: only a little little small bets, but it pays big.

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Speaker 2: All right, guys, Well, we appreciate again, we appreciate everybody listening.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much.

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Speaker 2: Rate and review us on Apple, subscribe on YouTube, and

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Speaker 2: we will be back soon, like we said with Asher's

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Speaker 2: manager Joe Spotta, coming soon.

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys, Bye,