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Speaker 2: And there he is. Welcome back to the show, Pete Fairbanks.

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Speaker 2: Always appreciate you taking the time out of your day

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Speaker 2: One five in a row before losing last night to

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Speaker 2: In your estimation of what's worked so far, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, as I think I was starting to Ryan Bass yesterday,

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Look when we're when we're playing well and we're preventing

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Speaker 3: Are you at the field right now?

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Speaker 1: I am. I'm sitting in the what they would call

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Speaker 4: Okay, do you worry about microphones being put in different

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Speaker 1: No? I think that we did a full sweep, kind

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Speaker 3: Of went around and how many did you find?

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Speaker 1: You know, and anything that we found, we'll just we'll

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Speaker 3: Give it back to them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, just we'll just pass right, you know, kind

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Speaker 4: Do you do you have Do you have fomo? Or

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Speaker 1: I mean it's nice underneath. I'll say that. Come you know,

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Speaker 1: So for the what three weeks that we've been here?

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Speaker 5: Do they have all the Yankee stuff covered? Because they

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Speaker 5: the way I've driven by there, I have not been

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Speaker 5: But it says thank you Yankees and giant letters on

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Speaker 1: Uh? Yeah, I mean they put it. Everything's pretty much covered.

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Speaker 5: You know, have you walked around though, this is what

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Speaker 5: And then you're like man, I'm gonna do some damage.

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Speaker 5: So when they come back in spring training and they

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Speaker 1: You know, I would feel bad if I if I

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Speaker 2: Pete, you had a lot of different adjustments that looks

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Speaker 4: How about this park do you guys go? Do you

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Speaker 4: and you go, oh boy, maybe I got a little

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Speaker 1: No, because when we go out and throw on the

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Speaker 3: Pete, Pete.

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Speaker 5: When you guys are there, are you've played what ninke?

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Speaker 5: look forward to a roach of you? I know you

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Speaker 5: I get to be by myself for three days.

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Speaker 3: Mean it was only three days, so it wasn't like

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Speaker 4: Do you have do you change your schedule for the year,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I sort of worked out great for my

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Speaker 6: For the card collectors out there, you got to check

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Speaker 6: out Arena Club. I've got to share room. AJ's got

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Speaker 5: Absolutely can get cards. They'll great them for you. They

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Speaker 5: so they don't show up like this card that's all

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Speaker 5: That's how Arena club sends them to you to leave

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Speaker 6: And you should check out slab packs. You can rip

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Speaker 1: Right now.

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Speaker 6: You can get twenty percent off your first slab pack

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Speaker 6: dot com slash foul. That's code foul once you get there.

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Speaker 2: Why do teams pitch to Judge? I really thought I

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Speaker 4: Who is the most exciting young player that you're like,

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Speaker 4: Christopher Morrell. I guess you're not a young guy. The

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Speaker 1: Look, I think the easy answer would be Chandler Simpson,

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Speaker 1: Simpson is great. He's the fastest human I've ever seen.

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Speaker 3: Do you look at the batter's box?

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Speaker 4: I had a theory that if a pitcher and Mike

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Speaker 3: A dinger off you do you look?

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Speaker 4: Do you look in the batter's box and go that

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Speaker 4: hitter's got a torpedo bat. No chance he's getting a

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Speaker 1: Okay, I had never seen one, and I saw I

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Speaker 2: How many beverages do you have during this interview? I

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Speaker 2: see you with the coffee cup and the guts, all right,

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Speaker 2: so stayin hydrated.

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Speaker 3: I guess I was. I was.

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Speaker 1: I was feeling a little fatigued on the way here,

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Speaker 2: Very good, Very good. If Chandler Simpson did a race

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 1: No, probably not. I'm not very flight of foot by

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Speaker 2: So I think you should test that out maybe in

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Speaker 2: the off season. Don't don't mess up your ye.

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Speaker 1: That seems like a like a way to get me

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Speaker 1: either scolded or hurt, And I'm not sure which one

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Speaker 3: You can't run. You can't run the ball to the play,

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Speaker 1: That's true.

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Speaker 3: That's not that's not what happens.

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Speaker 1: Very true. No, but I would I would need my hand.

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Speaker 1: I do need that left hamstring. That one is important,

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Speaker 1: even if I don't run on it.

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Speaker 4: Okay, that's fair, that's fair. Do we need to have

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Speaker 3: Just like I would love to see.

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Speaker 4: I would love to see the gimmicks pictures trying to

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Speaker 3: It's way more fun than a home run derby.

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Speaker 1: I think we should bring back. I think we should

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Speaker 1: have a picture's home run derby, if we should, If

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Speaker 4: All right, you're drinking coffee right now. Jose Alvarado has

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Speaker 4: a tattoo of an espresso cup on his forearm if

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Speaker 4: more than Alvarado? You've seen anybody drink more than Jose Alvarado?

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Speaker 1: No, but I well, we'll keep him nameless. But I

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Speaker 3: And what what did that look like? That look like

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Speaker 3: just no blinking at all? Like you, I mean, you're

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Speaker 3: on the mountain you don't blink on the mound, You're.

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Speaker 2: No, that's listen. I know what he's talking about. He's

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Speaker 2: talking about coffeetito. And if you have too much of

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Speaker 2: that stuff, you're in you're in a J's toro toilet

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Speaker 3: It's a toto on a toto before and he loves it.

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Speaker 1: I've not been on a toto, but we got some

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Speaker 1: That, yeah, we're going to go this nameless person, uh

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Speaker 3: You went to University of Missouri, right. Have you seen

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Speaker 1: Yes?

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Speaker 3: What's their record in the SEC? Do you think? I

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Speaker 1: Got what six tries left or nine tries left? Mangum

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Speaker 1: assured me that if they played Mississippi State they could

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Speaker 5: So Mangum, Mangum, I was just in Mississippi State a

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Speaker 5: he's like a folk hero. There there was more Mangum

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Speaker 5: they could talk about it, and I'm like, why Mangum.

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Speaker 1: He's the mayor kissing babies and shaking hands, the mayor

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Speaker 3: I mean, wow, I didn't realize.

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Speaker 5: I knew, I mean, I knew he was a good player,

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Speaker 5: there'd be more Mangum jerseys than Paul Marrow and Will

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Speaker 3: The SEC they don't even talk about him.

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Speaker 1: No, No, he's not the all time He's not the

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Speaker 4: They got a big They got a nice poster of

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Speaker 4: rook on there. They they give rook They give rookies due.

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Speaker 4: When you talk about bad teams, do you guys in

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Speaker 4: gotta be How do you only win four games so

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Speaker 1: Say man of them against US?

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Speaker 3: I know that's what I was gonna get toast.

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Speaker 1: Look, I I choose to treat it as anybody can

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Speaker 1: You can, you know, do everything right and never see

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Speaker 1: And the only team that I am, you know, pretty

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Speaker 1: down on right now my Missouri Tigers. Man, it's a

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Speaker 1: And the Tiger fandom, well, at least.

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Speaker 2: You have a baseball team at your university and at

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Speaker 2: have it. Pete Fairbanks a two three eight ERA over

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Speaker 2: twelve games. Ray is looking good. We appreciate your time,

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Speaker 2: my friends, stay hydrated and we will talk to you soon.

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Speaker 1: Sounds good, Thanks for having me,