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Speaker 4: Yeah, I got to you know this guy, gold Glove.

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Speaker 1: Feeling good, excited to excited to get this season kicked off.

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Speaker 4: I know, I know Alex is happy to have you

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Speaker 7: A big pressure cooker. Do you feel the difference from

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Speaker 5: Just be honest, right, it was very weird. It was

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Speaker 6: Wait, you're talking about pain. You're always talking about speed.

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Speaker 3: Ft fam Arena Club is the modern way to collect

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Speaker 6: You know, some vets buy suits for guys, some guys,

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Speaker 3: Alex, I know you did this in Houston all the time,

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Speaker 2: Right, How do you bring that to Boston when you're new?

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Speaker 5: I didn't know what happened. I thought that was I

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Speaker 6: Was against my and it was against my team the

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Speaker 7: Half of them thought it was real, half of them

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Speaker 4: You got the hat, tipto, that's the that's the key.

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Speaker 5: We were laughing. That was good.

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Speaker 2: Well, Alex. Awesome to have you on man.

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Speaker 3: Congrats on on the new contract with the team and

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Speaker 3: all that, and good luck this season. We'll catch you

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Speaker 7: Thank you, guys.

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Speaker 5: VP candidate this year. Let's go, my boy.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, there you go.

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Speaker 3: All right, this is always a treat. We've got Liam

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Speaker 5: Good?

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Speaker 10: I actually get to play this year, so it's exciting

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Speaker 10: And look, I mean, we've we've got a great team here.

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Speaker 6: You you basically you never went to college, and I used

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Speaker 10: Yeah, less running than redshirting, I here, but yeah, I'm yeah,

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Speaker 10: I'm annoyed at it because obviously, you know, like you've

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Speaker 8: Uh, it sucks.

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Speaker 10: I mean yeah, oh, like yo job was just catching

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Speaker 4: You talk about erall this and you know the moves

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Speaker 5: And yeah, I'm vulnerable too at the back end.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean whatever the whatever way it works out

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, we've got some young guys coming up

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Speaker 10: You know what, if you get kicked on the teeth,

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Speaker 6: to ask closers. Music, lights, all that show. Your three

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Speaker 6: time All Star. You are Liam Hendrix, the closer. You're

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Speaker 6: no longer Liam Hendricks, the guy who they threw in

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Speaker 6: the Eric Kratz trade in twenty fourteen. I think it's

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Speaker 6: the Danny Valenci No no, no, no, no no, it was

444
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Speaker 6: the Eric Kratz trade. Let's let's leave it at that.

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Speaker 6: Do you, as a if you come in in eighth

446
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Speaker 6: inning as an established big league closer, should you have

447
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Speaker 6: the lights and music to help sell the game, not

448
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Speaker 6: just you to help get people pumped up.

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Speaker 10: It's a good question in my eyes. I like it

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Speaker 10: because it's like fan engagement. As you said, I I

451
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Speaker 10: love fan engagem, whether it be the booing, whether it

452
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Speaker 10: be the cheering, whether it be anything. But you add

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Speaker 10: that little extra element. But also it's weird if you

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Speaker 10: do it. It's sometimes we'd if you do in the

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Speaker 10: eighth like Chicago, the White looks they did it like

456
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Speaker 10: not just for the ninth, they did it every now

457
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Speaker 10: and then, in like in between innings and all these

458
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Speaker 10: sorts of things. So yeah, it's it's always been relegated

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Speaker 10: to the ninth inning guy for a little bit. But

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Speaker 10: as you said, with established guys, who knows at the

461
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Speaker 10: end of day it shouldn't matter what goes on. But

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Speaker 10: in my eyes, it's just like, whatever's gonna help me

463
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Speaker 10: get three outs and that's all I care about. Well,

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Speaker 10: however many they ask you to because you know, but

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Speaker 10: these days I may start is going to go full.

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Speaker 4: So I love asking better and guys in the camp

467
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Speaker 4: facts we got to change that too. As matter of fact,

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Speaker 4: how do we get is there any way to get

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Speaker 4: back to what it used to be allowing guys to

470
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Speaker 4: you know, take control or read the room. Hey, this

471
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Speaker 4: guy's cruising. Is there any way we get back to

472
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Speaker 4: that or what can we do to change that?

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Speaker 10: Pay guys to getting of a two hundred innings, Uh,

474
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Speaker 10: it's like anything else. It's like, oh, you worried about offense? Yeah, youah,

475
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Speaker 10: pay you guys for getting a single. Pay guys for

476
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Speaker 10: getting hitting three hundred. Pay guys for doing that rather

477
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Speaker 10: than just the ops and the forty plus or anything

478
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Speaker 10: like that. Yeah, two hundreds great and forty plus we

479
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Speaker 10: feel in love with exactly. Do you know how the

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Speaker 10: hottest guy to face the guy that goes the other way.

481
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Speaker 10: So if you want to put the put pressure on

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Speaker 10: some pitches, do that way. As far as start is going, Uh,

483
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Speaker 10: it's gonna be tough because there's there's not much way

484
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Speaker 10: you can do too many things without racing the injury profile.

485
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Speaker 10: And that's one thing you gotta earlier to be huginz off,

486
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Speaker 10: whether it be oh you get to take away the

487
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Speaker 10: d H which is just a stupid idea, all those things,

488
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Speaker 10: so it's it's yeah, I haven't really thought too much

489
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Speaker 10: into it other than just yelling at Ustota to uh,

490
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Speaker 10: to just whip it out and let's figure this thing

491
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Speaker 10: out and go six or seven one time. I like it,

492
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Speaker 10: But but we got some guys that are some animals

493
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Speaker 10: and that they want to go eight nine, which is

494
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Speaker 10: like a ton of hawk. Guy he's he's gonna be

495
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Speaker 10: an inigxetter and that's what he prides himself onar you'd

496
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Speaker 10: in the pride backing those guys about throwing more innings.

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Speaker 8: So I wanted to ask you.

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Speaker 4: I love it coming to camp asking the veteran guys,

499
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Speaker 4: because we've seen a lot who's impressed you, whether it's

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Speaker 4: offensively uh pitching, who's the guy, you're going to do

501
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Speaker 4: If we get this guy right, we could do some

502
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Speaker 4: special things and it's always going to be more than one.

503
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Speaker 4: But who's that guy that you're like, dude, this this

504
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Speaker 4: guy he be a dude.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean we've got we've got a bunch of

506
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Speaker 10: established guys. I obviously, uh look at the pitches more

507
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Speaker 10: so than anything. And uh for me looking at a

508
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Speaker 10: guy like Richard Fitz and Quinn Priest to coming in

509
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Speaker 10: this stuff is like taking exponential leaps forward.

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Speaker 8: I mean it's it's incredible.

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Speaker 10: Like I've played catch with Fits a couple of times

512
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Speaker 10: in the offseason and it's like a cut ride thing

513
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Speaker 10: and then all of a sudden you look up and

514
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Speaker 10: it said ninety eight the other day.

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Speaker 8: I'm like, yeah, I'm a little.

516
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Speaker 10: Bit long in the tooth for this stuff because ninety

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Speaker 10: eight was like peak August July form, not March forman

518
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Speaker 10: spring training. So yeah, it's I think those are the

519
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Speaker 10: guind of guys because they're gonna be the They're gonna

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Speaker 10: be the X factor for us, especially when we're testing

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Speaker 10: our started depth. Is if those guys can come out

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Speaker 10: and do what they need to do, we're gonna be

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Speaker 10: just fine, and uh we can we can hold the storm,

524
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Speaker 10: whether the storm until we get our guys back. But

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Speaker 10: those are the two that are gonna really hold this

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Speaker 10: thing together if we need to.

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Speaker 6: In your career, who's the hardest guy to play catch with?

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Speaker 6: Because I see guys now, especially towards the end of

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Speaker 6: my career seventeen eighteen. In that time, a team like

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Speaker 6: guys would play catch against each other, not with each other.

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Speaker 6: Who's just ribbon balls at each other. And you guys

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Speaker 6: aren't the best athletes.

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Speaker 10: I mean yeah, I mean we Uh the fact that

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Speaker 10: pitchers don't have thumb guys when we play catch with

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Speaker 10: each other is kind of weird. Uh, but look, yeah,

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Speaker 10: what's like me when I throw my knuckle puck?

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Speaker 8: Like you caught? Did you ever catch Dickie? Oh?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's yeah, that's how I got rid of the

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Speaker 6: Blue Jays.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, so you called Dicky And then like I dabbled

541
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Speaker 10: with the knuckle puck every now and then, and I

542
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Speaker 10: I got told I wasn't allowing to throw out the

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Speaker 10: pitches anymore because I hit one guy in the face

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Speaker 10: and one guy in the chest and h then they

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Speaker 10: banned me from that. Uh so uh yeah, we're always

546
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Speaker 10: trying to compete in each other. The worst guys I

547
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Speaker 10: faced are the ones that randomly cut a ball when

548
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Speaker 10: they were sinker guy. So when you've got a guy

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Speaker 10: like like Aaron Bama is like one of the nastiest

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Speaker 10: pictures you'll ever see in your life. He's like a

551
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Speaker 10: side on lefty that throws foam and does all this

552
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Speaker 10: and then he will just randomly cut a ball and

553
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Speaker 10: you're like, I, yeah, I luckily ow.

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Speaker 8: My teeth of fake and I can just get it replaced.

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Speaker 7: You definitely, you definitely have the nice grill after mark.

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Speaker 10: If you have seen me when I look like I

557
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Speaker 10: grew up chewing rocks, I mean, uh, I gaps all

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Speaker 10: over the place.

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Speaker 5: We glowed up. We got to glow up.

560
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Speaker 10: But they still do for real and not time like

561
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Speaker 10: some of these people who play on the West Coast

562
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Speaker 10: team that they got some big old chips.

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Speaker 5: I won't elbows.

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Speaker 6: Already know chee cheek lay anyway, So the person or

565
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Speaker 6: the people who picked you guys to pick to finish last,

566
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Speaker 6: it was Pakoda. It was a Pakoda picking. So I

567
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Speaker 6: don't even know if that's a real person, if it's

568
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Speaker 6: just the.

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Speaker 10: Like I AI year out, I'm I'm out on them people.

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Speaker 7: Okay, Okay, that's fair, because.

571
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Speaker 8: That's what I'm gonna get in trouble.

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Speaker 10: They're gonna put some a I crap of me saying

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Speaker 10: something stupid, which I probably did say something is similar,

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Speaker 10: and then I get canceled.

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Speaker 7: Okay, Yeah, that's okay.

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Speaker 4: This a guy who played at Oakland Coliseum. A lot

577
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Speaker 4: of people have their opinions about it. I love playing

578
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,240
Speaker 4: at the places where they were a nostalgia, where.

579
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Speaker 5: There was history.

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Speaker 4: How do you feel about having to play possibly in

581
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Speaker 4: two minor league parks this year or if you were

582
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Speaker 4: on those big league teams?

583
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Speaker 5: Does that affect you?

584
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Speaker 4: I know, we go out and play.

585
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Speaker 5: We got to compete, but.

586
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Speaker 4: Or is it just like this is bers and we

587
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Speaker 4: do what we got to do to keep moving forward.

588
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Speaker 10: Look, at the end of the day, you take it

589
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Speaker 10: for what it is. There's nothing you can do to

590
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Speaker 10: change it. So I worry about it. Yeah, I'm more

591
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Speaker 10: pissed at the coliseums, not around, because I mean that's

592
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Speaker 10: where I kind of re established who I was, or

593
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Speaker 10: established who I was.

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Speaker 8: That's where I went through some very hard times.

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Speaker 10: It's very good times and I'm pissed at that place,

596
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Speaker 10: not around because you think about it. I think about

597
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Speaker 10: it more from all the workers that are there, all

598
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Speaker 10: the workers that aren't going to be able to get

599
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Speaker 10: the Sacramento because they're in the Bay Area.

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Speaker 8: All the workers that are now out.

601
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Speaker 10: Of jobs because of a political dispute between an ownership

602
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Speaker 10: and a city, and no one being able to like

603
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 10: everyone being kind of too firm on their stance or

604
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 10: not willing to sacrifice something to get something else. And

605
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Speaker 10: at the end of the days, it's a sad day

606
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Speaker 10: for Oakland Baseball, it's a sad day for Oakland in general.

607
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 10: And regardless of where we're going, it's it's just sucks

608
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Speaker 10: that it's not there anymore.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you. I'm with you man. Well Liam,

610
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Speaker 3: awesome to happy always good to see you. Enjoyed the combo.

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Speaker 3: We'll see you during the season.

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Speaker 10: I appreciate you, guys, Thank you, and thank you. The

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Speaker 10: name of the name of your show, foul Territory. Pretty

614
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Speaker 10: name it like there's no foul Territory Sacramento is.

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Speaker 7: That was a lot of.

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Speaker 5: A lot.

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Speaker 8: When I'm on I don't want the Foul tourtell I

618
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Speaker 8: want the punch outs.

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Speaker 3: But we could do foul territory from the coliseum and

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Speaker 3: the foul ground and not even be anywhere near play.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's how mid game. It's still be good

622
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Speaker 3: to go exactly exactly. It will be missed, Liam, good

623
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Speaker 3: to see you. Man enjoyed the combo.

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Speaker 10: Thank you, appreciate you guys, thanks for having us