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Speaker 2: Good, how's it going.

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Speaker 3: It's nice of you to, uh to sign autos for kids,

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Speaker 3: but you're kind of a kid yourself. My friends, I

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Speaker 3: can say that to you because I literally am old

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Speaker 3: enough to be your mother. But it has been so

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Speaker 3: much fun just hearing about your story, watching the way

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Speaker 3: that you go about your business. What has camp been

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Speaker 3: like for you, and kind of what have the conversation's

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Speaker 3: been for you?

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Speaker 4: Is, uh, they're getting ready to break camp here soon.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been. It's been a great camp for me.

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Speaker 5: Uh, you know, they're throwing me in the fire, letting

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Speaker 5: me get the reps, playing shortstops, get to play on

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Speaker 5: the road, go face some really good starters, so you know,

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Speaker 5: kind of just let me go compete, see what happens.

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Speaker 5: And it's been. It's been great. You know, the locker

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Speaker 5: room has been awesome. Everybody's just kind of taking me

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Speaker 5: in and uh, you know, it's a really fun locker

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Speaker 1: So so he was signing over here for all there's

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Speaker 1: a line of kids over here, and I will want

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Speaker 1: one of the old people yelled for me to come

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Speaker 1: over and sign. So I walked over and the kids

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Speaker 1: were like can you get Connor Griffin this sign for us?

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Speaker 1: And then he was to do an interview and they're

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Speaker 1: So that it feels pretty good about himself today. Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure. I'm just trying to trying to take care

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Speaker 1: of the kids. Man, those are those are the biggest fans.

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Speaker 1: And uh, you know, it's.

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Speaker 5: Kind of cool to hear a lot of a lot

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Speaker 5: of kids won't monograph us. You know, I was, I

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Speaker 5: was in that position when I was younger. That's pretty

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Speaker 5: cool to be in the position.

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Speaker 1: I saw you talking to Azuna today in the locker room.

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Speaker 1: What was What was that conversation like with a guy

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Speaker 1: like had the career that he's had.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean he uh, we're just kind of walking

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Speaker 5: through you know, being more selective, Uh, through ads. How

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Speaker 5: can I take advantage of wall? Taking advantage of two

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Speaker 5: oh count? Because if I get on base, it helps

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Speaker 5: the t you know, I'm gonna try to steal. I'm

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Speaker 5: gonna try to be aggressive, uh, you know, ball in

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Speaker 5: the gap. I'm trying to score. He just wanted to

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Speaker 5: size like, hey, be patient. You know, people know the name, uh,

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Speaker 5: and that that's fine. There's a lot of great players

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Speaker 5: that people that pictures know the name. But be patient,

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Speaker 5: be selected to get your pitch, take your walks if

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Speaker 5: you have to, and and take advantage of it.

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Speaker 6: Have you thought about learning Spanish so that you can

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Speaker 6: have an even better hitting conversation with Marcelo Zuna?

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Speaker 5: I can understand it a little bit. Definitely need to

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Speaker 5: need to work on it some more. But he speaks

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Speaker 5: pretty good English, so it was it was a good conversation.

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Speaker 1: He speaks really good English, not pretty good English. He

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Speaker 1: speaks really do we have a conversation, not the one

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's legit, so it's good.

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Speaker 1: Is that everyone to you? Does everyone treat you even

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Speaker 1: though you don't have a ton of older veteran guys?

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Speaker 1: Who's even the younger guy? I mean even like a

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Speaker 1: Did they still treat you like a younger pup or

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Speaker 2: I think they it's you know, a little in between.

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Speaker 5: You know, they they've actually they let me, they let

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Speaker 5: me be, you know, they they want me to get

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Speaker 5: the experience. They want me to go through some ups

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Speaker 5: and some downs, and they're they're they're super open, uh

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Speaker 5: to questions if I haven't he and they they've made

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Speaker 5: it's it's been. It's been really good. You know, there's

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Speaker 5: there's a lot of great experience. I can pick their

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Speaker 6: Is there anybody that you're kind of like, oh man,

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Speaker 6: he's coming, he's gonna give me a hard time? I know, great,

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Speaker 6: Oh Hearn's here, or or who's that guy in camp

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna I'm gonna say nick York. Nick York is

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Speaker 5: always uh always picking on me. But no, he's he's

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Speaker 5: been great to pick on you.

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Speaker 1: You're nineteen years old, you're playing short stuff. You've got

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Speaker 1: a chance to break with the big league club. You

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Speaker 1: were what what pick were you in the draft? You

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Speaker 1: were ninth picking the draft, So you're already rich, you're

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Speaker 5: He's just always messing with me. It's a good time.

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Speaker 5: We're locker buddy, so uh, you know, we just he's

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Speaker 7: Now.

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Speaker 1: So The only thing I could say is a Morgan

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Speaker 1: got the Southern act thing going.

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Speaker 2: I guess that could be something.

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Speaker 1: But I mean because there's not a lot to pick

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Speaker 5: No, but uh you know, it's like I said, it's

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Speaker 3: The Southern accent and Morgan Wallen the way I talk

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Speaker 4: Okay, agent, let's get that.

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Speaker 3: Straight right now, all right, Connor, not take I understand

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Speaker 3: it is not your decision. I understand it is above

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Speaker 3: your pay grade, taking all of the front office stuff

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Speaker 3: out of it. You are the opening days starting shortstop

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Speaker 3: for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Because tell us more about your game, I.

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Speaker 5: Would just say, uh, you know, because I'm prepared. You know,

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Speaker 5: I've been I've been training for this for uh for

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Speaker 5: my whole life, and uh you know, I've got the

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Speaker 5: face to the big lea pitch in h And I

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Speaker 5: how I go about the day, how I'm handling things,

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Speaker 5: gonna bring a lot of energy. I'm a bobble guy,

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Speaker 5: and you know, affect the game on the offensive side, uh,

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Speaker 5: you know, hitting stealing bags, stuff like that. Defensive side,

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Speaker 2: So I bring a lot of tools. And that's uh,

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Speaker 2: that's what I'm confident in.

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Speaker 6: People don't know a ton about you, but you just

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Speaker 6: got married. So now you have an issue when you

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Speaker 6: get called up, whether it's whether it's opening day or not,

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Speaker 6: who's the first person that's getting called? Because I've watched you.

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Speaker 6: I follow your dad on Twitter ever since, ever since

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Speaker 6: Like I've been enamored with it. But who gets the

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Speaker 5: My wife will get the first call for It's not

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Speaker 5: it's not over the parents. It's it's just you know,

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Speaker 5: she's she's my person. He's here every day with me now,

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Speaker 5: and you know I her, uh to give her the call,

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Speaker 5: and and then you know my parents will be parents.

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Speaker 1: Will be three way call.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, three way call, yeah, three way yeah yeah.

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Speaker 5: You know I got I got a super super good

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Speaker 5: circle of family and friends and you know, there's there's

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Speaker 5: to where I'm at, and UH gonna make sure all

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Speaker 1: Best player from Jackson Fred.

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Speaker 5: I gotta say, Jake Mango, I gotta give him some credits.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome. So I have to I have to say

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Speaker 1: this before Krafts gets on here. So Krawtz has this

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Speaker 1: theory that no one from Mississippi can be a good hitter,

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Speaker 1: right and I so I rattled off Will Calaureography, palm

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Speaker 1: They're a good hitter.

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Speaker 5: That went to high school Missipi're o, man, there's a

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Speaker 5: great hitter that come from Mississippi.

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Speaker 6: AJ's trolling me because it was something that I said

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Speaker 6: that a scout the idea of hitters high school hitters.

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Speaker 6: Have you heard that? The idea was what, repeating what

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Speaker 6: I had said before, was the scout said it is

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Speaker 6: state of Mississippi. What do you have to say to

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Speaker 5: Yeah, man, I heard it a lot through through my

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Speaker 5: draft process that you know, I had a hit full

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Speaker 5: problem and you know the competition wasn't great Mississippi. You

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Speaker 5: know that's all. That's all, just really talk. There's there's

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Speaker 5: ton of great players that have come from Mississippi. And

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Speaker 5: if you go down and watch some high school baseball,

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Speaker 5: you'll you'll get some good competition, You'll watch a good game.

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Speaker 5: So I'm proud to be from Mississippi and just trying

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Speaker 5: to continue that legacy of uh great my fashion the

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Speaker 5: big leagues being Fromsissipi.

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Speaker 1: Who was your favorite player going up?

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Speaker 5: I was a big Braves fan, so uh, I always

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Speaker 5: liked watching Tipper Jones highlights. I wasn't old enough when

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Speaker 5: he was playing to really watch him, but I was

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Speaker 1: The Braids So you could have said, me got.

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Speaker 2: Jones in my head first, that was about the right

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Speaker 2: nineteen I was ten years ago.

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Speaker 1: That would have been about the right had no Yeah.

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Speaker 4: That Chippers and Chippers in the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 3: We love you all right, yeah? Yeah, you're from Mississippi?

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Speaker 4: Are you a hearty fan? What do you do for fun?

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Speaker 7: Like?

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Speaker 4: Do you listen to music? Do you listen to like?

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Speaker 4: What do you I mean, you're nineteen.

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Speaker 3: You play baseball, obviously, but you're very dedicated to your craft.

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Speaker 4: What do you do for fun?

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Speaker 7: Love?

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Speaker 2: Love? Love music? Country music is awesome.

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Speaker 5: I love going to you know, finding concerts in a

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Speaker 5: Riley Green.

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Speaker 1: Listen me too, So I can't. I can't not. Are

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the interviews over now, uh because my daughter, Okay,

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Speaker 1: We really really hope that everything works out for you

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Speaker 4: All right, guys.

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Speaker 3: The foul Territory Spring Training Tour is engineered by Fastenal.

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Speaker 3: Check out fastenal dot com for more information. Let's take

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Speaker 4: Say that five times fast, very few teams left. We've

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Speaker 3: Over the course of Cactus and gratefull Lee. Let's get

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Speaker 4: So proud to be a part of that.

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Speaker 3: I guess going into spring training, Eric, you mentioned obviously

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Speaker 3: Pierzinski, of course, is live in Bradington at Pirates camp.

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Speaker 3: He is now with Bubba Wallace, Bubba Chandlers. I knew

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Speaker 1: training camp in Bradenton, Florida. We picked the wrong day

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Speaker 1: If you put one, if you're out there on the mountain,

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Speaker 1: Are you excited I did about this year and where

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Speaker 1: You see, have they told you anything starter? Because last

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Speaker 3: Roy Ruben Chandler. How does one become Bubba? Where did

440
00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:40,600
Speaker 3: that name come from?

441
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Speaker 4: I love it.

442
00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:43,600
Speaker 3: I feel like you should be driving a NASCAR though.

443
00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:45,679
Speaker 3: Where did you Where did the name come from? And

444
00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:46,480
Speaker 3: how did it stick?

445
00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:51,080
Speaker 9: You know, my sisters growing up, you know, they called

446
00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:52,560
Speaker 9: me their brother. You know, they're older than me, and

447
00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:54,040
Speaker 9: they called me their brother Bubba.

448
00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:54,320
Speaker 7: And all that stuff.

449
00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:56,880
Speaker 9: Just you know something that you know, you younger kids

450
00:19:56,880 --> 00:19:59,760
Speaker 9: get when they're young, especially in the South. And you know,

451
00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:01,800
Speaker 9: I thought that was my name when I got you know,

452
00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:05,600
Speaker 9: competent enough to understand words, and so I just started

453
00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:08,520
Speaker 9: saying it. And then my grandparents started saying it, you know,

454
00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:10,479
Speaker 9: parents started saying it. It kind of just stuck and

455
00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:13,600
Speaker 9: now we're here and I sign checks with.

456
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Speaker 7: Ruben.

457
00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:20,199
Speaker 9: So a lot of our our Latin players call me

458
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Speaker 9: Ruben really, but they say in the cooler way, why

459
00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:23,119
Speaker 9: do they?

460
00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:26,359
Speaker 1: Why? Why? Why did? Why? Only the Latin players?

461
00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:29,760
Speaker 9: I don't know them? Them and Henry Davis because like Rubin,

462
00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:35,040
Speaker 9: I don't know. But that's that's that's how it goes.

463
00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:38,200
Speaker 4: You have your fun, I like your attitude.

464
00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:40,600
Speaker 3: Let's uh, let's clear something up for the people that

465
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Speaker 3: are not paying attention or want to make something bigger

466
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Speaker 3: than it is. So you said that Paul Skens was

467
00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:49,919
Speaker 3: a spoon fed right, the meteoric rise didn't have to

468
00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:51,600
Speaker 3: really toil through the minor leagues.

469
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Speaker 4: Obviously that was a joke.

470
00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:56,399
Speaker 3: So tell us how that whole thing went down, and

471
00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:58,440
Speaker 3: how much fun it is pitching in that rotation.

472
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Speaker 7: With that dude, not a serious playing. I love love

473
00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:03,920
Speaker 7: fall to death.

474
00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:05,960
Speaker 9: I mean you get to see it every five or

475
00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:09,320
Speaker 9: six days, like the passion that guy has and what

476
00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:12,679
Speaker 9: he does you know daily is something like it. I

477
00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:14,800
Speaker 9: said in the end of that interview. You know, it's

478
00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:17,040
Speaker 9: an example and guys should follow it. You know, I

479
00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:20,280
Speaker 9: try to sometimes like some of his stuff. I try

480
00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:22,560
Speaker 9: to take you know, in his routine, in his daily work,

481
00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:25,960
Speaker 9: and you know, it shows that he's the best pitcher

482
00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,120
Speaker 9: in baseball, and you know guys are chasing him.

483
00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:31,119
Speaker 7: Uh but yeah, you know that was unserious.

484
00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:32,600
Speaker 9: I saw a lot of I got a lot of

485
00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:35,520
Speaker 9: flag for it, which, you know, whatever, but it was funny.

486
00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:38,520
Speaker 9: But yeah, you know, I hope they win tonight or

487
00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:40,440
Speaker 9: more whenever they play and get him back in camp.

488
00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:50,600
Speaker 7: Yeah, he he's great. It's nice. There wouldn't be there.

489
00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:52,600
Speaker 1: You got the no I wish I was.

490
00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:56,879
Speaker 7: Miami is a long way for the drive.

491
00:21:57,160 --> 00:21:59,760
Speaker 1: But you got you got the little Paul schemes look

492
00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:01,240
Speaker 1: to you. You got the mustache going.

493
00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:02,399
Speaker 7: Yeah, well he looks like me.

494
00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:07,280
Speaker 1: Oh, he looks like you're a little smaller than he is.

495
00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:10,320
Speaker 7: Though unfortunately my heart's bigger.

496
00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:15,119
Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, when you did that interview, I

497
00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:17,199
Speaker 1: saw it and I thought it was great. Right. My

498
00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:19,520
Speaker 1: wife saw it. My wife goes, who's this guy in

499
00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:22,320
Speaker 1: the pirates and why is he taking shots at Paul Skiing?

500
00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:26,400
Speaker 1: And I said, Bubba Chandler. She says, yeah, I can't

501
00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:29,520
Speaker 1: believe someone on his own team said those things about her.

502
00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:31,600
Speaker 1: I said, well, you know, their roommates and best friends,

503
00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:33,679
Speaker 1: and it was a complete joke, so it didn't come

504
00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:36,160
Speaker 1: across like that. Yeah, I said, no, no, no, no, they're

505
00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:37,160
Speaker 1: like best friends.

506
00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:37,840
Speaker 7: Yeah.

507
00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:40,240
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean throwing back to like two years ago

508
00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:43,280
Speaker 9: when I, you know, said some smart stuff about you know, yeah,

509
00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:45,120
Speaker 9: you're gonna be the day to starter whatever.

510
00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:45,800
Speaker 7: You know.

511
00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:48,280
Speaker 9: When that video came out, me and Paul are sitting

512
00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:49,520
Speaker 9: on the couch inside each other.

513
00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:52,720
Speaker 7: She's like, god, bless, like, I can't what did we see?

514
00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:53,280
Speaker 7: What did he say?

515
00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:58,439
Speaker 9: I just think it's funny, you know, like say, you know,

516
00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:01,200
Speaker 9: kind of create some healthy compition. You know, we're competing

517
00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:02,760
Speaker 9: with each other every day, but at the media, you

518
00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:07,280
Speaker 9: know thinks we hate each other, you know, so be it. Yeah,

519
00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:10,359
Speaker 9: maybe be like it was a Major League when Dorn

520
00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:14,679
Speaker 9: and Ricky Vaughan, you know, or make up after you know,

521
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:16,240
Speaker 9: they win the Pennant or whatever they did.

522
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,600
Speaker 7: Maybe be like that true like that, you know.

523
00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:25,160
Speaker 1: Just don't do what Yeah, let's let's get that off

524
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:25,600
Speaker 1: the record.

525
00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:31,120
Speaker 6: Does he give it back to you? Does he does

526
00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:32,840
Speaker 6: he give it? Like because we don't ever see any

527
00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:36,240
Speaker 6: emotion from him. You are clearly you're okay with being

528
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:38,680
Speaker 6: sarcastic out in the media. Does he give it back

529
00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:41,480
Speaker 6: to you or is he exactly like he's portrayed in

530
00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:45,120
Speaker 6: the media, like just a robot and doesn't like great joke,

531
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,080
Speaker 6: that was awesome, Leave me alone.

532
00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:50,680
Speaker 7: Paul's a boy, Ball's a dude.

533
00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:53,800
Speaker 9: You know he uh, you know, he kicks back and

534
00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:58,120
Speaker 9: hangs out, you know, bus chops and you know he does.

535
00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:01,240
Speaker 9: You know, he's very he's a very mellow and laid

536
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,000
Speaker 9: back person, you know, off the field, but he'll crack

537
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:04,320
Speaker 9: a joke.

538
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:05,840
Speaker 7: He'll bust your balls here and there.

539
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:07,959
Speaker 9: And you know that's what we love about him, is

540
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:11,439
Speaker 9: he's the same guy every day. And uh yeah, you know,

541
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 9: I'm finally I'm glad he did show some emotion at

542
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:16,120
Speaker 9: the end of that game. Unless he saw that video.

543
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:20,440
Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, Uh he's got it in him. He's got

544
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:21,640
Speaker 9: he's got it.

545
00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:22,920
Speaker 7: Yeah I do too. I want to.

546
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:28,400
Speaker 9: Cuss words off the mound. And in the first thing

547
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,480
Speaker 9: opening day, it's correct, what does.

548
00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:33,439
Speaker 6: He what does he get on you about? We know

549
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:35,159
Speaker 6: what you get on him about, but what does he

550
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,639
Speaker 6: get on you about?

551
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:44,359
Speaker 7: Not much? I'm pretty pretty perfect. Uh, I don't know.

552
00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:46,720
Speaker 9: I mean, I'll say he's helping me with a lot

553
00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:50,199
Speaker 9: of things, you know, whether it's been like nutrition, you know,

554
00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:53,639
Speaker 9: just habits you know off the field, uh, you know,

555
00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:55,800
Speaker 9: to help the body be in the right spot every

556
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:56,399
Speaker 9: five days.

557
00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:57,520
Speaker 7: I'd say like that.

558
00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:01,399
Speaker 9: You know he uh know, he's fortunate enough to have

559
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,080
Speaker 9: a lot of connections that he's kind of passed down

560
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:05,080
Speaker 9: to me a little bit, which I'm grateful for.

561
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:06,280
Speaker 7: I say like that.

562
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:10,159
Speaker 9: You know, is you have one job, and you know

563
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:12,560
Speaker 9: that's to take the ball every five or six days

564
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:14,000
Speaker 9: whenever they give it to you and go out there

565
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,200
Speaker 9: and execute and do what you need to do. And

566
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:19,200
Speaker 9: how do you prepare yourself and say yourself for success

567
00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 9: for the team? Is you know, it's the only job

568
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 9: you have and you get seven months a year to

569
00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:25,840
Speaker 9: do it. So why not treat every day like it's

570
00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 9: you know, that day? And I think that's what he's

571
00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:30,840
Speaker 9: helped me with a lot. And you know, I think

572
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,200
Speaker 9: early on, you know, in our friendship, you know, he

573
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:35,960
Speaker 9: was a lot more advanced in that category. And then

574
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,159
Speaker 9: now you know he's helped out you know, I'm not

575
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 9: afraid to say he's helped me a lot.

576
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 7: Yeah, I love love him to death.

577
00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 6: What's that? What's that one you were talking about? Nutrition?

578
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,959
Speaker 6: What's that one? Nutrition? Bad choice that you're gonna make.

579
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:50,720
Speaker 6: If you're like, all right, like this is a day

580
00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:53,119
Speaker 6: that I can that I can do something that Bubba

581
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:56,000
Speaker 6: Chandler goes ahead and a cheat day per se.

582
00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:57,680
Speaker 7: Well, I would be honest.

583
00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:01,440
Speaker 9: I have a cheat day every every week. Know, every day,

584
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 9: every day is a cheat day.

585
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:03,080
Speaker 2: You know.

586
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 9: After I pitched, you know, I'll hit all my all

587
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 9: my stuff, the proteins, the water weight you lost, all

588
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 9: that good stuff. You know, I'm gonna wake up that

589
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 9: next morning, I'm probably gonna have a cinnamon roll.

590
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:17,160
Speaker 7: And that's my cheat. I love a cinnamon roll.

591
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:17,400
Speaker 1: Man.

592
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:19,119
Speaker 7: I I do a lot of things.

593
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:21,879
Speaker 9: If me and A J had a big, big cinnamon

594
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:23,359
Speaker 9: role sitting in front of us right now, would be

595
00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:27,520
Speaker 9: great with you. But yeah, that's you know. Sometimes you know,

596
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:29,639
Speaker 9: we'll get some breakfast in the morning. You know, I

597
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:31,439
Speaker 9: may have a cinnamon roll and he's like, what what

598
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 9: are you doing?

599
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:33,160
Speaker 7: Man?

600
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 9: I pitched yesterday. This is my this is my reward.

601
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:38,800
Speaker 9: But yeah, you know I eat a lot of steak

602
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,439
Speaker 9: and rice, ground beef and rice, chicken rice. It sucks

603
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:45,640
Speaker 9: but yeah, pretty good McDonald's.

604
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:51,879
Speaker 1: Yeahude, guy, between back when Prats and I played, that

605
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:54,399
Speaker 1: was our that was our happy email. You go and

606
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:56,720
Speaker 1: get that. Now, you guys go home and I'm gonna

607
00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:57,600
Speaker 1: have a steak.

608
00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:00,399
Speaker 7: And yeah, I'll crush some Chick fil A here there.

609
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:02,720
Speaker 1: Like, if you're friends with Schemes, don't you have to

610
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:04,680
Speaker 1: have Canes? Because Kane is paying them all that money

611
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:05,159
Speaker 1: at LSU.

612
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:09,879
Speaker 9: So yeah, God bless you're still pan of money. I

613
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,440
Speaker 9: do like canes. There's a Canes and Athens where I lives.

614
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,040
Speaker 9: It's always packed. I never go, but it's pretty good.

615
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,359
Speaker 7: Chick Chick Fla is my spot. I'm gonna do that.

616
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 7: It's good.

617
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,720
Speaker 1: Okay, what about Connor Connor Griffin, you're you're kind of

618
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 1: a young guy, high school guy. You're a veteran now

619
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 1: compared to him. Do you have any advice for him? Yeah,

620
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:32,280
Speaker 1: going through what he's kind of going through.

621
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:33,880
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's crazy. I'm twenty three.

622
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:37,680
Speaker 9: He's four years younger than me, and he is gonna

623
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 9: be a big leaguer very soon. It's kind of wild

624
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 9: to think about where I was at nineteen saying, but

625
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 9: I love KG.

626
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 7: I mean that, dude.

627
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 9: If someone didn't know who he was and you talked

628
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 9: to him for ten minutes, You're.

629
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 7: Like, Wow, like that guy, I have no idea. He's

630
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 7: probably had a great career.

631
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:56,919
Speaker 9: Bro, you know, has a nice family and everything, like,

632
00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:00,199
Speaker 9: you know, a great person fellowship. He's nineteen, like kind

633
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,720
Speaker 9: of insane, you know, very fortunate to get.

634
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 7: To know him.

635
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 9: Uh, you know, getting to know his wife, Dandy, She's

636
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 9: all like, they don't act like they're nineteen, and that's

637
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:15,480
Speaker 9: that's cool. I think that's pretty sweet. And yeah, you're

638
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 9: gonna see it, you know, whether he makes the team

639
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 9: opening day or he gets caught up, you know, the

640
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,400
Speaker 9: last day of the season. You know, he's gonna dominate

641
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 9: wherever he's at. It's gonna be fun to watch. And yeah,

642
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 9: I can't wait to be teammates with him one day

643
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 9: and opening day.

644
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,639
Speaker 7: Yeah, that would be sick. It'd be really cool. You know.

645
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:35,080
Speaker 9: I think a lot of guys here deserved it and

646
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 9: worked their tail off and played well in camp that

647
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 9: deserved you know, whatever spot's open. But yeah, you know,

648
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 9: I think like KG gets a lot of the praise

649
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 9: as he should, and you know, I thoroughly enjoyed watching

650
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 9: him play.

651
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:50,200
Speaker 7: You know, if I'm not playing, I'm tuning into the game.

652
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:52,360
Speaker 9: And you know, watching this one through nine, and you

653
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 9: know the announcers, you know, always talking about KG. It's like, yeah,

654
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 9: like as as they should like that guy. You know,

655
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 9: he's had one year national baseball, but it's been one

656
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 9: of the better years in recent years for prospect and

657
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 9: you know, super stoked and we have them, uh, you know,

658
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 9: super stoked to see where he ends up.

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Speaker 6: Do you guys talk about that as teammates guys in

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Speaker 6: camp right now, because you guys want to put the

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Speaker 6: best team out on the field. But you also know,

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Speaker 6: if you're like, man, I hope KG, as you call him,

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Speaker 6: is gonna make the is gonna make the team, and

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Speaker 6: then like Nick and zalz is over there, like what

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Speaker 6: about me? Like I want to be a part Like so,

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Speaker 6: I think it's hard as players, How much do you

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Speaker 6: guys talk about it?

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Speaker 9: I mean, not a whole lot, Like I mean, he

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Speaker 9: kind of leaves that stuff up to the front office

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Speaker 9: and the guys that are way smarter than us making decisions.

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Speaker 9: And you know, I think, you know, like I said,

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Speaker 9: on the pitching side, like the the competition daily is

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Speaker 9: you know, it's what's needed and uh, you know, we

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Speaker 9: asked for it and that's what we got. And you

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Speaker 9: know it's it's making everybody better, but you're out, it's

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Speaker 9: making the team better, which is what we need.

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Speaker 7: And what we've been looking for the last and full years.

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Speaker 9: And no, thank everybody puts their head down every day

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Speaker 9: when they come here, gets after it has fun and

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Speaker 9: you know, rents and repeat every day.

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Speaker 7: And that's the plan that we have.

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Speaker 9: You know, for the entire season, we're gonna look up,

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Speaker 9: keep our head down, look at our toes, and look

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Speaker 9: up in November. You'll probably be pretty dang happy. So

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Speaker 9: that's the goal and that's the mindset.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, And I must say thats you guys know

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Speaker 1: where I stand on college sports teams. One of the

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Speaker 1: smartest guys in here, because you know why he decommitted

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Speaker 1: from Georgia. We all know what the deep patriot I

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Speaker 1: have for the University of Georgia. Yeah, so thank you

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Speaker 1: for doing that. Even though you didn't go to college

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Speaker 1: like I didn go to college as a Gator fan.

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Speaker 1: We can live with Clemson. We don't really like Georgians. Well,

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Speaker 1: thank you for doing that.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I do train at the University of Georgia, so

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Speaker 7: I'm not you know.

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Speaker 9: I love Wes Johnson, I love all the guys at Georgia,

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Speaker 9: but not a huge fan of.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it just became my name, one of my favorite.

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Speaker 1: So thank you all. Will be really improving, Thank you

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Speaker 1: Revant probably appreciate it, and we'll be right back on

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Speaker 1: out there.

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Speaker 6: Car