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Speaker 1: All right, we are pleased to be joined now by

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Speaker 1: new Rangers manager and the pride of UC Santa Barbara,

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Speaker 1: Skip Schumacher, Skip, thank you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: You are now in your first off season as a

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Speaker 1: Rangers manager. Got to ask, how's it been so far?

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Speaker 2: Hey, guys, it's been great. The pride of Santa Barbara.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I mean, you got Michael Young, you

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Speaker 2: but a part of Santa Barbara culture. I'll take that.

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Speaker 2: But so far, so good. You know, it's first week

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Speaker 2: or so, first month or so. Was kind of drinking

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Speaker 2: out of a fire hose as you see an actual

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Speaker 2: early on. But with all the zoom calls and meeting people,

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Speaker 2: even though I was there for a year and getting

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Speaker 2: to know the organization, there was still a lot to do.

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Speaker 2: And but you know, grateful for it.

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Speaker 3: Skip.

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Speaker 4: Hold up, pride to Santa Barbara. You got TCU gearon.

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Speaker 4: You're not in the Cardinals anymore with Matt Carpenter. You

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Speaker 4: don't have to suck up to him anymore.

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Speaker 2: Okay, no, no, no, it's National Signing Day. It's National Signing

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Speaker 2: Day today. My son signed, yeah to TCU. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: so we were just at his high school, all the

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Speaker 2: family there celebrating my son, Brody, and so that's why

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Speaker 2: I'm all decked out. I'm usually not like this, I promise,

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Speaker 2: but that's that's why I'm all tcu'ed out.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Well, congratulations to you Anderson.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean thank you to interrupt AJ here and

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to bring on a pick that you

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Speaker 3: sent me say congratulations since he signed today. But what

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Speaker 3: is this? What is this? And then we'll get into

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Speaker 3: your big league crap, because this is the important stuff

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Speaker 3: this picture. What does this picture mean? Besides the fact

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Speaker 3: that I let get to look at your caves all

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Speaker 3: the time on my phone, I get to check him out.

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Speaker 3: What does this picture mean for you? Because when guys

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Speaker 3: become managers, this is the stuff that you give up.

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Speaker 3: This is a picture of you and your son in

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Speaker 3: Japan after he the final out.

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Speaker 2: Am I right, that's right, that's right.

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Speaker 3: Okay, What what does it mean? What does it mean?

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Speaker 3: Because managers lose a lot. Any coaches in the big

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Speaker 3: leagues lose a lot. They lose opportunities to go and

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Speaker 3: be with their kids like that. So one, what did

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Speaker 3: that mean to watch your son win that? And what

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Speaker 3: does it mean to take on the responsibility? And now

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Speaker 3: you don't get to see very many of his games

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Speaker 3: at the horn purple Frogs or whatever they're called.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I horn Frogs, yes, but I I didn't get

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Speaker 2: of years. And that as you know, you guys all

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Speaker 2: have kids. You want to feel like you're present with

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Speaker 2: your family and your kids. And missing out on some

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Speaker 2: really special moments, you know, it takes a toll on you.

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Speaker 2: It's the kids aren't affected as much as you think,

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Speaker 2: but I definitely wore that. You know, I'm every single game,

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Speaker 2: you know, when you're facetiming my wife taking up bats

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Speaker 2: and it's just not the same as being, you know,

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Speaker 2: there was no way I was missing out on it.

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Speaker 2: You know, when you a couple of years ago, when

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Speaker 2: I was no longer the manager with the Marlins, and

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Speaker 2: we're in Okinawa as a family watching Brody play for

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Speaker 2: Team USA. It was a moment I will never forget

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Speaker 2: an experience. I'm so grateful that the Texas Rangers allowed

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Speaker 1: Skip, You're inheriting a team that was the best offense

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Speaker 1: in baseball in twenty twenty three and that carried them

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Speaker 1: The last two years, the offense has regressed a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Now there is a lot of young talent. You have

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we need to find ways where we're not just

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Speaker 2: I just don't think you should be one way, and

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Speaker 2: you have to be creative in scoring runs. It's hard

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Speaker 2: just we just have to find ways to win today

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Speaker 2: that's what we're looking forward is having a number of

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Speaker 4: Well, then that leads me to this, what did you

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Speaker 4: learn last year while you were there? You've managed before

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Speaker 4: and now you just got to sit back and watch Boach?

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Speaker 4: Did you help Boach? Were you in the meetings with

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Speaker 4: And then everyone kind of it said, oh, Skip Schumacher,

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Speaker 3: Well, boom, here you are.

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Speaker 4: Boachie retires, goes back to the Giants, and Skip Schumacher

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I definitely wasn't helping Boach. I don't think he

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Speaker 2: Although I will tell you that Boach was very open

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Speaker 2: I've been around a lot of rookie managers in my career,

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Speaker 2: Jase Tingler was a rookie manager. So I got to

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Speaker 2: they developed. I got to learn the farm system. I

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Speaker 2: So all of that was huge for me to get

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Speaker 2: And not in no way did I think I was,

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Speaker 3: From an outsider's view here on the show, we talked

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Speaker 3: just looks like they're little rangers, just kind of waiting

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Speaker 3: because if you look at your last job with the Marlins,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know, whatever it was said, you know,

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Speaker 2: I don't think that's fair for me. I think if

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Speaker 2: And you know, a number of guys would react differently

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Speaker 2: you don't see a ton of guys taking VP a

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Speaker 4: All right, So I gotta ask Skip, how do you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've already met with a handful of guys one

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Speaker 2: But I have to start building this really these relationships,

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Speaker 4: I don't want to be a manager. Take your hat off.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gone quickly, exactly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know, even I was, you know,

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Speaker 4: Okay, I got to ask because you brought it up.

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Speaker 4: Like the massage guy, what you're saying, Hey, do you

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Speaker 3: All right, you're making the lineup? Is that part of

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Speaker 2: I'm pretty confident that I'm making the lineup, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: Skip, thank you so much for joining us. We really

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Speaker 1: really appreciate it, and best of luck your first full

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Speaker 2: All Right, big fan of big fan of your show. Guys,

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