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Speaker 1: the newest Rangers, Brandon Nima. Is that still strange for

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Speaker 2: Definitely, But I mean enjoying the heck out of it.

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Speaker 3: It was, you know, definitely a big surprise in the

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Speaker 3: I mean you you can resonate with this. As a player.

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Speaker 3: You want to be where you're appreciated, and uh, you know,

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Speaker 3: the Rangers made it abundantly clear. And uh so now, uh,

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Speaker 3: I'm a Texas Ranger and excited about it. Decided to

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Speaker 1: One of the big things I always say is the

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Speaker 1: first time he changed teams is the hardest. Yeah, your

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Speaker 1: have that, but what did they do with it all?

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Speaker 3: That is actually my wife is still trying to figure

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 1: I had Mitch Garver on yesterday right late, signing for

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Speaker 3: I know, my wife was so upset with me when

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Speaker 3: I when I changed to twenty four. I said, I said,

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Speaker 2: Gotta go up there, and now what am I gonna do?

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Speaker 1: But I know it's like it's okay, it out perfected

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Speaker 3: thing that leadoff does is it guarantees you're at bats

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Speaker 1: Okay, leadoff guy, you open in Philly? Are they gonna

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Speaker 1: Was late, by the way, he was late late.

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Speaker 2: I was ready. I was ready.

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Speaker 2: I was ready. I was ready for for when it mattered.

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Speaker 4: It was just that what was the reaction in the

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Speaker 2: Oh heck yeah, yeah right, I love that. I love that.

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Speaker 3: my goal and that's my responsibility on this team.

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Speaker 4: Brandon, I wanted to ask you before I get to

440
00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:17,600
Speaker 4: a fun question.

441
00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:18,160
Speaker 2: I wanted to.

442
00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:21,240
Speaker 4: Ask you about Skip Schumacher. We talked to him earlier

443
00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:23,960
Speaker 4: and just maybe his goals for the team, and after

444
00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:26,919
Speaker 4: watching what Boach did last year for the Rangers, and

445
00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,600
Speaker 4: obviously watching Boats throughout his entire career. What has been

446
00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:32,920
Speaker 4: your impression of Skip and the jobb he's doing, because

447
00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:36,240
Speaker 4: that's not always easy coming into a team and taking

448
00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:39,280
Speaker 4: over for especially a Hall of Fame caliber manager like

449
00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:40,320
Speaker 4: Boach right.

450
00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:46,160
Speaker 3: No, obviously, like you said, very difficult, very difficult position

451
00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:49,160
Speaker 3: to fill coming in after a Hall of Fame manager.

452
00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:54,400
Speaker 3: You know, I think that first things first, I love

453
00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:58,360
Speaker 3: the way that Skip managed and like just presented himself

454
00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:00,919
Speaker 3: when I was across the line from him when he

455
00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:04,399
Speaker 3: was with the Marlins, I thought he made his team better.

456
00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,280
Speaker 3: I thought he made his team one that was very

457
00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:10,960
Speaker 3: formidable and feared and everybody knew that they were gonna

458
00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:12,880
Speaker 3: have a fight on their hands when they played them.

459
00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:16,320
Speaker 3: And I think he brings that same uh, you know,

460
00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:18,120
Speaker 3: intent to the Rangers.

461
00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:18,359
Speaker 1: Now.

462
00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:23,439
Speaker 3: He understands this game is very difficult. He played it,

463
00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:26,879
Speaker 3: and he played it at the highest level, and he

464
00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:30,560
Speaker 3: brings some of the knowledge from playing the game to

465
00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:35,159
Speaker 3: the managerial spot, but also knowing that this is what

466
00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:37,800
Speaker 3: I should expect from you each and every day, and

467
00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:40,760
Speaker 3: uh and and him being a very good communicator in

468
00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:43,280
Speaker 3: that as well. And that's what I've noticed in the beginning.

469
00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:47,000
Speaker 3: I think really good managers are very good communicators. Uh,

470
00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:49,600
Speaker 3: they know, you know, how how hard this game is

471
00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:51,560
Speaker 3: and what to expect from their players and what the

472
00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:54,920
Speaker 3: players should expect from their manager. And once you nail

473
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,919
Speaker 3: that down, you know, I think you let the relationship

474
00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:00,000
Speaker 3: build on itself. And it's not gonna look the same

475
00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:03,840
Speaker 3: from each player to each player. His his and my

476
00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:06,000
Speaker 3: relationship with him is going to look different than Corey's.

477
00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:08,800
Speaker 3: Cory's relationship with him is going to look different than

478
00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:12,000
Speaker 3: why it's uh, you know, but I think him being

479
00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,840
Speaker 3: in contact with us and being a great communicator, which

480
00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:18,920
Speaker 3: is already shown, is going to lead to success for him.

481
00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:22,520
Speaker 1: All Right. Your favorite manager that you've played for, because

482
00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:26,199
Speaker 1: you've had I've had a few is Terry Collins. Collins

483
00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:29,879
Speaker 1: you have Mickey call and Carlos Beltron.

484
00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:33,040
Speaker 2: For a few months, but I did get to spend

485
00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:34,160
Speaker 2: some time around him.

486
00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:40,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you had and a lot like seven

487
00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:41,480
Speaker 1: or eight years.

488
00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:41,679
Speaker 6: I know.

489
00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:45,360
Speaker 3: People, you know, it's funny because you mentioned like, uh,

490
00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:47,200
Speaker 3: you know, you've been on one team, but like, I've

491
00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:49,840
Speaker 3: had a lot of turnover in that one team.

492
00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:53,000
Speaker 1: And uh, and so I have learned how to how

493
00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,040
Speaker 1: to deal with new people and how to how to

494
00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:57,600
Speaker 1: filter and and foster those relationships.

495
00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:00,640
Speaker 2: You know, I obviously you're putting me on this there with.

496
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:04,480
Speaker 1: Trying to pick a favorite man this question. There's only

497
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:07,320
Speaker 1: one answer. Yeah, okay, Skip, I mean you get the

498
00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:09,439
Speaker 1: manager you're played for now, exact the lineup.

499
00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:12,600
Speaker 2: I love it. I love it. Skip Skipp is amazing.

500
00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:14,200
Speaker 3: Like I said, I have so much respect for him

501
00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:17,239
Speaker 3: being across from him with the Marlins and I our

502
00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:21,640
Speaker 3: relationship is has started off so well. And again I said,

503
00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:23,720
Speaker 3: he's communicated so well with me, and I think it's

504
00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,880
Speaker 3: been it's been great. But I've learned so much from

505
00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:30,919
Speaker 3: all the different managers that I've had, and honestly, I

506
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,159
Speaker 3: wouldn't be in this position if I didn't have that

507
00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:35,320
Speaker 3: exact road, you know that that I've had, and I've

508
00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:37,360
Speaker 3: learned so much from the different manager and I think

509
00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:40,000
Speaker 3: it's it's allowed me to know that there's not one

510
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,760
Speaker 3: way to do things right. Like I've seen different types

511
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:48,920
Speaker 3: of managers and different uh you know methods produce great results.

512
00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 3: And I've also seen you know, people that when I

513
00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:53,880
Speaker 3: thought like, oh, well, we're doing all the right things,

514
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,040
Speaker 3: it not produced the results that we were looking for.

515
00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:59,159
Speaker 3: And so I think as I go here, I'm still

516
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:02,240
Speaker 3: trying to figure out, you know, what's best and what's

517
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:04,159
Speaker 3: not and what will work in this situation. I think

518
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,879
Speaker 3: it depends a lot about your clubhouse and who you

519
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:09,080
Speaker 3: have in there and kind of what's the best way

520
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:11,920
Speaker 3: to motivate and what's the best way to lift people up,

521
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,199
Speaker 3: because I mean, aj, you know how much failure we

522
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:15,480
Speaker 3: have in this game. You have to be able to

523
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:19,320
Speaker 3: lift people up. But you know, I I I definitely

524
00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:23,600
Speaker 3: don't have a favorite manager. And I'm looking forward to, uh,

525
00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:27,560
Speaker 3: my relationship with Skip and we are gonna, uh, We're

526
00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,360
Speaker 3: gonna attack this thing full on head you know, headlong

527
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,400
Speaker 3: into it and try and give it.

528
00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:33,160
Speaker 2: Our best effort.

529
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,040
Speaker 3: But I love the vibe that I'm getting off of

530
00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:38,120
Speaker 3: him right away, and I'm really excited to get into

531
00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:41,320
Speaker 3: the trenches with him. And I think that grindiness and

532
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,120
Speaker 3: and that's kind of the player that he was, and

533
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:46,399
Speaker 3: that's how I started off my career as well, and

534
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:48,480
Speaker 3: I still try and play with that with that chip

535
00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,200
Speaker 3: on my shoulder, and I think I see that right

536
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,320
Speaker 3: away from Chip or from Skip, and I'm just like, yeah,

537
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:57,520
Speaker 3: we're we're very similar personalities and we're gonna we're gonna

538
00:24:57,520 --> 00:24:59,919
Speaker 3: get along great. So I'm I'm really looking forward to it.

539
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 4: Brandon. I have one more question for you and then

540
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:05,280
Speaker 4: we're gonna let you go.

541
00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:08,480
Speaker 2: But this one is one, and it's a hard hitting one.

542
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:10,600
Speaker 4: It's a hard hitting one.

543
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:11,800
Speaker 2: I'm ready, I'm prepared.

544
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:17,680
Speaker 4: You're in Texas now, right. We heard that before baseball

545
00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:20,840
Speaker 4: you wanted to be a professional bull rider, mostly because

546
00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,920
Speaker 4: of your dad and being in rodeos. So obviously I

547
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,720
Speaker 4: would imagine with your contract, bull riding is somewhat out

548
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:29,560
Speaker 4: of the equation right now for fun and.

549
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:35,119
Speaker 3: Games, but really completely are you gonna go at least yeah,

550
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:36,000
Speaker 3: are you going to go.

551
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:38,200
Speaker 4: At least watch some rodeos while you're in Texas?

552
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,399
Speaker 2: Yeah? I love rodeo.

553
00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 3: I grew up in Shy and Wyoming obviously, like you know,

554
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:49,440
Speaker 3: and so world's largest outdoor rodeo there once a year

555
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:54,120
Speaker 3: in July, and just absolutely absolutely love rodeos.

556
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:54,879
Speaker 2: I'm all about it.

557
00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,960
Speaker 3: My family grew up in it, and uh, I couldn't

558
00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:01,840
Speaker 3: couldn't be more excited to experience more rodeos. I don't

559
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:03,440
Speaker 3: think I'm gonna be able to hop on a bull

560
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 3: but we will. We'll save that for for after after baseball.

561
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,199
Speaker 3: Well we'll do some like live stream of it or

562
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:15,119
Speaker 3: something like that, perview exactly.

563
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 2: But uh no, I I love it. I love Rodeo.

564
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:21,479
Speaker 3: I have so much respect for it, and I am

565
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:25,400
Speaker 3: excited to see some more Rodeos after baseball.

566
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:26,080
Speaker 2: You heard it here.

567
00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:28,800
Speaker 4: First, Brandon's gonna join us on Foul Territory. We're gonna

568
00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:30,680
Speaker 4: do a live stream of him riding a bull.

569
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:33,679
Speaker 2: I can't wait. It's gonna be a blast.

570
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 3: It'll probably end up just like my uh when I

571
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:38,359
Speaker 3: was eight years old and had to do it and

572
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:43,640
Speaker 3: bucked off, stepped on, and I'm like, man, I don't

573
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 3: know if this was for me.

574
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:50,160
Speaker 1: Hold, were you in the All Star Game in Texas

575
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 1: to know I was not? They had a bull you

576
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:54,520
Speaker 1: could ride? Did they really in like the clubhouse?

577
00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:55,320
Speaker 2: Oh my god?

578
00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:57,440
Speaker 1: I got to go on and it was a mechanical

579
00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,520
Speaker 1: Oh man, you got to do what I was terrible.

580
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 2: I can imagine.

581
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:01,159
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you.

582
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:03,359
Speaker 2: Don't realize how hard it is until you try it.

583
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:06,440
Speaker 2: But anyways, yeah, definitely I apologize.

584
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, Brandon, thank you so much for the time.

585
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 1: For the inside.

586
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:11,720
Speaker 2: It truly was a joy.

587
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 4: We wish you well this season. Don't get on a

588
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:15,440
Speaker 4: bowl because we want to watch you all season long.

589
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 2: In that leadoffs, I appreciate it. Thank you so much.

590
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 3: Thanks for having me on, and yep we're looking forward

591
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:22,479
Speaker 3: to it as well. Thanks for having me on.

592
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:25,920
Speaker 1: Guys here, but Jake Berger, ex White Sock, great x

593
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,919
Speaker 1: white Sock, first base, first rounder and first did you

594
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,360
Speaker 1: play first for the White Soks? Okay, so I got

595
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 1: that right too. Now you're a Texas Ranger, you've been

596
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 1: here for a few years. What's chambeling like so far?

597
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 6: It's good.

598
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,680
Speaker 7: You know, I'm really excited for this year. Skip obviously

599
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,200
Speaker 7: coming in and played for him in Miami and we're

600
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,639
Speaker 7: really fired up for it. Obviously made some good additions,

601
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 7: traded for Mackenzie Gore, had fits against him when I

602
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 7: was playing in the NL East. But you know, it

603
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 7: seems seems like we're rolling in the thick of it.

604
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:55,200
Speaker 1: Now. Did you lobby for Skip to come here once?

605
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:56,400
Speaker 1: Boats said I'm out.

606
00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,159
Speaker 7: Not necessarily because he was already in kind of our

607
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:01,080
Speaker 7: front office role.

608
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,679
Speaker 1: For seen Berg. What do you think about Skip coming over?

609
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 7: I mean, I think the world of him, and uh,

610
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,400
Speaker 7: he's a manager. I'd run through a brick wall four,

611
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,440
Speaker 7: So I'm really fired up for it.

612
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,640
Speaker 1: Sorry, what what have they said to you? Because first

613
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 1: of all, you're a fantastic shape. So did you lose

614
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 1: some weight this offseason? Did you say man.

615
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 6: Knocked out some plates?

616
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,200
Speaker 1: Did you really like I was loudy when Rowdy was

617
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 1: here last year, did he tell you to do pilates?

618
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:25,879
Speaker 4: No?

619
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 6: No, I heard that like indirectly that he was a

620
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:30,120
Speaker 6: big plates guy.

621
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:30,400
Speaker 1: Yeah.

622
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 7: And my but my wife's been harping on me about

623
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:36,400
Speaker 7: it for like five years now, and then obviously last

624
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 7: year a weak quad wrist, it's like, all right, let's

625
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 7: like add something that's gonna kind of protect some soft

626
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 7: tissue stuff. So kind of did it religiously three three

627
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 7: times a week and felt really good.

628
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 5: So yeah, Berg, speaking about your let's let's talk about

629
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 5: your wife for a second, because there's been a question

630
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 5: that I've had for a long time. I've never got

631
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 5: a chance to talk to you about. So there was

632
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 5: a I guess a couple of years ago you were

633
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 5: going through a little something in your wife. She was

634
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 5: your hitting coach. She gave you a little tip. Where

635
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 5: does that come from? And does she she got some

636
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 5: baseball softball background, or she just know you well enough

637
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 5: to know when you're going when you're kind of going bad.

638
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 7: I think I think she knows, uh, just kind of

639
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 7: when I'm going bad. I remember specifically we were in

640
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 7: Oakland at the Coliseum and I was kind of going

641
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 7: through it the month of June, and you know, I

642
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 7: kind of got to that that last resort where I'm like,

643
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 7: all right, baby, like you know me better than anything,

644
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:32,960
Speaker 7: like let's take a look at it. And you know, she, uh,

645
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 7: she saw something with kind of my hip load, and

646
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 7: she kind of corrected it. And the next day I

647
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 7: think I hit like a home run at like one

648
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 7: hundred and twelve.

649
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 2: Like just absolute mammo.

650
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 7: So she hasn't really given me much advice since she's

651
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 7: she's probably just gonna leave on a high note.

652
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 1: But you know, I think it doesn't matter. She got

653
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:52,600
Speaker 1: that one exactly.

654
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:53,960
Speaker 2: He got that one exactly.

655
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 4: Also, she got Patti's thing right, Jake, Like, I mean

656
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 4: three times a week pilate. Have you seen any of

657
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 4: those viral videos of guys trying to do their girlfriend

658
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 4: or their wife's workout at pilates and then finding out

659
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 4: it's immensely harder than they ever would have imagined. Was

660
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 4: that your experience?

661
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah.

662
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 7: When I first like got into it, she she's actually

663
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 7: like a certified trainer, like in plates, and so I

664
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 7: was doing it with her, and I'm like, I can't

665
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 7: do this anymore because she was perfecting my form do

666
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:28,560
Speaker 7: a tea, which is a good thing, but I'm like,

667
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 7: this is way harder than you think it is for me.

668
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 7: And so, you know, we we kind of started doing

669
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 7: classes together and you know, it's it's way harder than

670
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:42,400
Speaker 7: you think. But I mean, my obliques, my soft tissue,

671
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 7: everything feels unbelievable, and you know, I think everybody should

672
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 7: at least give it a try.

673
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 1: So, when you guys do pilates, does she only instruct

674
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 1: you or do you guys go to do you go

675
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 1: to class together?

676
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 6: Yeah, we got to class with a different instructor.

677
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 1: Yeah. And then the real question is, well, so she's

678
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 1: on a reformer next to you, does she correct you

679
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 1: while she's doing her work out with another teacher?

680
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 7: No, she doesn't do that. She's she's pretty good about that.

681
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 7: She just knows that. Like she's way advanced compared to me. So, like,

682
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 7: you know, I still got the training wheels on a

683
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:12,960
Speaker 7: little bit, and she's like doing some stuff that I

684
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 7: can't even dream of doing.

685
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 6: And I don't think even if I don't want to

686
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 6: do that, I know if I do it for like

687
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 6: ten years, I don't. I still don't think I could

688
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 6: do it.

689
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,200
Speaker 1: But then if you took her to do like bench

690
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 1: press and yeah, girls, you'd be like, what's wrong with you?

691
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 6: Yeah?

692
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:24,479
Speaker 2: I've actually asked her.

693
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 7: I'm like, I've never seen you run full speed, like

694
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 7: I want to see you like sprint, and she has

695
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 7: refused to so far. But eventually I think, you know,

696
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:35,600
Speaker 7: I'll crack her and maybe maybe see if I can

697
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 7: give her like get a hard ninety out there.

698
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 5: As you as you combat father time with pilates? Is

699
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 5: there talk about your swing wise as you get older.

700
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 5: Is there something you're working on with your swing to

701
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 5: you know father time is gonna beat all of us.

702
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 5: Is there something specifically you've been working on. Is it

703
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 5: just trying to get more stay more mobile? You're happy

704
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 5: with where your swing's at? What do you working on

705
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 5: this winner?

706
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm happy with where it's at now. You know,

707
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 7: I felt like last year kind of was trying to

708
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 7: do too much and adding a lot of tension throughout

709
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 7: my swing. And so I'm just trying to get back

710
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 7: to being who I am and just being athletic, you know,

711
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 7: and kind of being myself. I'm not gonna be a

712
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,560
Speaker 7: guy that's gonna have a ten percent walk, right, you know,

713
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 7: I'm gonna swing the bat and being convicted to myself.

714
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 7: And then there's some mechanical adjustments that I made with

715
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 7: my setup that you know, kind of freeze up my

716
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 7: swing a little bit more. I felt like my hands

717
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 7: were kind of creeping up too high and weren't able

718
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 7: to kind of recover when I when I was moving

719
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 7: on the ball and cutting off my swing a lot.

720
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 7: And so I was looking at kind of my numbers

721
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 7: last year and like overall, like the the metrics are

722
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 7: pretty much the same. It's just I wasn't getting the

723
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 7: ball in the air to left as much, so, you know,

724
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 7: I was trying to free myself up out front.

725
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 4: Jake, perhaps some similarity are not similarity, but some comfort

726
00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 4: with Skip Schumacher. Right, you were with him in Miami.

727
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 4: You said at the beginning of the show you'd run

728
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 4: through a brick wall for him.

729
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 6: Tell me why.

730
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's he's awesome. You know, he's unbelievable communicator. And

731
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 7: I know it's a cliche thing to say, but you know,

732
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 7: I think he's one of those guys that I truly

733
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:18,360
Speaker 7: respect in this game and just everything I've learned from

734
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 7: him in Miami when I first came over and then

735
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 7: even to now, you know, he's he's always been there

736
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 7: both on the field and off the field, and he

737
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 7: does that for everybody. And so I'm just excited to

738
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 7: get to camp and I'm excited for these this good

739
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 7: group of guys to get around him and see his

740
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,600
Speaker 7: managerial style and you know, he's he's got our backs

741
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 7: no matter what.

742
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: When you talk about Skip and you played for him

743
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 1: in Miami and then he was let go, like unceremoniously,

744
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 1: what what do you think happened to Miami? I know

745
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 1: you weren't there that year before he came over here

746
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 1: last year to kind of fill a front office role,

747
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 1: But what do you think happened to Miami? Because he

748
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 1: was good? I mean, I know they switched front offices,

749
00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 1: but Skip was good and you guys made the playoffs

750
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 1: in twenty three in Rolling and then all of a sudden,

751
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, Skip can't get an extension and he's gone.

752
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I think that's just the name of

753
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 7: the game. You know, when you have a new front

754
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:11,840
Speaker 7: office come in, you kind of have different of opinions,

755
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 7: and you know, I think that's just what happened there.

756
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,359
Speaker 7: Obviously that that twenty four year didn't go the way

757
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 7: we planned. We traded a rise in May and then

758
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 7: kind of traded a lot of guys at the deadline

759
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 7: too and lost a hundred games. So you know, obviously

760
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 7: that's that's not where you want to be and obviously

761
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 7: a differen thing of opinions, and that just it is

762
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 7: what it is.

763
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 5: I've always I've always thought a good manager is a

764
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,799
Speaker 5: good therapist. Like, can you give me some specifics on

765
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 5: skip and what what specifically you think makes him such

766
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:42,800
Speaker 5: a good manager.

767
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I think there's two probably stories that

768
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 7: that I can share, and one is in twenty twenty four,

769
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 7: my April was terrible and he was just kind of

770
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 7: with me every step of the way, saying, it's a

771
00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:58,400
Speaker 7: long season, Hey, you're gonna you're gonna get back to

772
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:00,200
Speaker 7: who you are, and he kind of gave me that

773
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:02,879
Speaker 7: leash to fire off in the second half that year,

774
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 7: and then you know, the more personable one is Uh.

775
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:09,399
Speaker 7: He's the first person that I told about the diagnosis

776
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 7: with Penelope and down syndrome, and him and his opinion

777
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:18,360
Speaker 7: and his respect I think made me bring that conversation

778
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:21,400
Speaker 7: to him first just to kind of navigate those waters.

779
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:24,759
Speaker 7: And then also he played with Albert Pooles who has

780
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 7: a daughter with downsent room as well, and so he

781
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 7: kind of saw it from from the player's perspective as well,

782
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 7: and so just I value his opinion, and I know

783
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 7: a lot of other guys in this in this league

784
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 7: do as well.

785
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:39,320
Speaker 4: You value his opinion, Jake, But he's coming in taken

786
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:45,319
Speaker 4: over for obviously a legendary manager and Bruce, what kind

787
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 4: of challenge has come with that? And how capable do

788
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,800
Speaker 4: you think he is of meeting that challenge? You speak

789
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:51,399
Speaker 4: so highly of.

790
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 1: Him, Yeah, I think, Uh.

791
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:57,840
Speaker 7: I think Boach is incredible and I'm so grateful to

792
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 7: have played under him and learned from him and just

793
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 7: all of his wisdom throughout this game. And you know,

794
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 7: I think it's he's different than Boach in a sense

795
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 7: of has more energy and you know, I think he'll

796
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 7: sprint and get an umpire's face every now and then do.

797
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: That anymore, by the way, about anything.

798
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 7: But you know, I think that the good managers are

799
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,839
Speaker 7: always made up of the same mold. And I think

800
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 7: SKIP obviously played for Tony Larusa and then kind of

801
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 7: was shaped up by Tony LaRussa. And you know, I

802
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:33,040
Speaker 7: think I played for Tony, I played for Coach, I

803
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:36,479
Speaker 7: played for Skip. So you know, a full managerial chain

804
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:38,880
Speaker 7: there that I that I played for. And I think

805
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 7: they're all made up of the same mold. And that's uh,

806
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,359
Speaker 7: the their competitors first, and they care about each one

807
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 7: of their players, and you know, it's it's us versus

808
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:49,280
Speaker 7: them every single night. There's there's no any other bs

809
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:51,719
Speaker 7: out there. It's, uh, we're going out there to to

810
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 7: win every single pitch.

811
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 1: You mentioned your daughter and and the challenges that she's had.

812
00:36:58,120 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: What kind of challenges does that present to you as

813
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,800
Speaker 1: a baseball player that's gone so much and your wife

814
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 1: and then you can have a big foundation. Do you

815
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:07,399
Speaker 1: guys still have the Burger foundation that? Do you want

816
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 1: to you want to talk about that first?

817
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:08,759
Speaker 2: Well?

818
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,320
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I mean none of it happens without Ashland

819
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 7: and my wife. She's our rock and she's a saint,

820
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 7: and you know, she's the one driving Penelope to her

821
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 7: therapy sessions and her doctor's appointments and uh, just lets

822
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 7: me play baseball. And you know, I'm very grateful for that.

823
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 7: And we started the Burger Family Foundation because of Penelope

824
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 7: and the community that poured their love into us when

825
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 7: we got the diagnosis originally, and we wanted to give

826
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:37,839
Speaker 7: that love back, and we're really kind of excited where

827
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 7: it's going. We had an awesome softball game in Nashville

828
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 7: with a lot of big leaguers and country music artists.

829
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 1: Whit and I didn't get invited.

830
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 2: What's up with that?

831
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 4: What?

832
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:47,680
Speaker 7: I don't know, we would have got an invite before

833
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 7: you But why is that?

834
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 6: But no, it was. It was awesome interviews over come

835
00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,799
Speaker 6: on you want me to get to gram Yeah, yeah,

836
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 6: sure no, but so that that was awesome.

837
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 7: And then you know, I think our goal is to

838
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:11,759
Speaker 7: start this ranch where we're going to employ adult with

839
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:13,319
Speaker 7: down syndrome on it and kind of have a farm

840
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 7: to the table.

841
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 6: Store and restaurant.

842
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 7: And we're already kind of in the pre steps there.

843
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 7: But first and foremost, it's like, hey, let's give the

844
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:24,279
Speaker 7: funds directly back to these people, and so we're paying

845
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 7: for therapies for for parents that can't afford it, and

846
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:30,200
Speaker 7: then at the same time, we're also helping local businesses

847
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 7: employ adults with Down syndrome. So it's just been super

848
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,279
Speaker 7: cool to just see that that love kind of shared

849
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:35,800
Speaker 7: both ways.

850
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 1: How do we get people involved.

851
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:39,319
Speaker 6: Burger Family Foundation dot org.

852
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:42,279
Speaker 7: It is the easiest way, there's some I think the

853
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 7: easiest way is there's some really cool merch that that

854
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:47,399
Speaker 7: my wife kind of came up with the designs. There's

855
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:51,480
Speaker 7: cool camo line. There's she's a very neutral color type girl.

856
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 7: So there's uh some really cool like neutral color hoodies

857
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:57,440
Speaker 7: and T shirts and stuff. And you know, our our

858
00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 7: thing is Down syndrome is cool, and we're trying to

859
00:38:59,920 --> 00:39:01,759
Speaker 7: make a cool and not scary for parents when they

860
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 7: get that initial diagnosis. We want them to feel loved

861
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:07,320
Speaker 7: and a part of a community. That's the coolest community

862
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 7: on earth.

863
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 1: Bird.

864
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 5: I got the three of us sitting here watching what

865
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 5: just happened at different times. I mean it was electric

866
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:19,759
Speaker 5: from three different places. What was it like in the

867
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:22,800
Speaker 5: locker room watching the US take down Canada in overtime?

868
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 6: Oh?

869
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 2: That was sick.

870
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:27,840
Speaker 7: We uh we started our meeting a little a little

871
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 7: earlier so we could all watch it in the clubhouse,

872
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 7: and cal Quan Trail's in there and he's actually, you know,

873
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 7: he's pitching for a team Canada and the WBC, and

874
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 7: you know we and then Tigues are pitching coaches Canadian

875
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 7: as well, so you know, they were getting some shots

876
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:44,799
Speaker 7: fired at them. But you know, I grew up playing

877
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,920
Speaker 7: hockey in Saint Louis and I love the sport. And

878
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 7: that's probably the only time that some of those guys

879
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:51,399
Speaker 7: will watch a hockey game.

880
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:53,839
Speaker 6: But let me tell you ot and a gold medal game,

881
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 6: there's nothing better.

882
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:57,839
Speaker 5: Was that the quickest bat meeting of all time?

883
00:39:58,880 --> 00:39:59,479
Speaker 6: Oh my god?

884
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 1: I mean we were through it.

885
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:06,320
Speaker 7: Nemo's like, hey, everybody, like we should we should donate

886
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:08,359
Speaker 7: like ten percent more than you're going to because they

887
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 7: got us in and out.

888
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 6: And you know, we got to watch and watch the game.

889
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 1: That's great. By the way, the guy who scored the

890
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 1: winning goal was the guy who got hit in the

891
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 1: face and lost his use it. So someone said that

892
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 1: they should take the gold metal make it into the tooth,

893
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:23,640
Speaker 1: and everywhere he goes he's like, oh the tooth I

894
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 1: got gold tooth is a gold medal. All right, before

895
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 1: we let you go. You're Catholic, correct, I'm Catholic. You

896
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 1: know who the biggest white Sox fan in the world is, right, Yeah?

897
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 6: Pope Leo?

898
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:37,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, So do I need do I need to in

899
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:40,759
Speaker 1: order to get invited to your softball game? Do I

900
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:43,319
Speaker 1: need to set up an audience with the Pope for you?

901
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:45,319
Speaker 1: And then maybe I could get invited before with.

902
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:47,320
Speaker 7: I think so I was, I was really helping for

903
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 7: an invite to the Vatican when he got elected.

904
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:54,240
Speaker 1: But working on it. Yeah, No, I'm working on for myself.

905
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 1: But like, like I invite to your softball game, your

906
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 1: invite hasn't come yet.

907
00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:01,360
Speaker 7: Yeah, you have to buy extension and invite me to

908
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:03,360
Speaker 7: the Vatican and then we'll see what we can do.

909
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 1: About because it's probably gonna be in the summer though,

910
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 1: so you might be bad. No, I mean you call in?

911
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:10,399
Speaker 1: Can you call skip? Like Skip? I got a chance

912
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 1: to meet the Pope and I take a couple of

913
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: days off.

914
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,360
Speaker 7: And that is it is electric. I think it's probably

915
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 7: one of the better excuses you.

916
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 1: Can It's about the best you can do, right.

917
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:18,760
Speaker 6: I don't think it's gonna fly.

918
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:23,360
Speaker 1: Can you imagine, Can you imagine you call Skip Skip

919
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 1: By the way, I got invited to meet the Pope,

920
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:28,399
Speaker 1: and uh, I'm gonna need the weekend off. And then

921
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 1: God forbid the Rangers missed the playoffs for like one game.

922
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 1: They'd be like Burger, you couldn't even get help from

923
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 1: the playoffs, man.

924
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:41,240
Speaker 2: Vegas for three days. You can go to the Vatican

925
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 2: for three days.

926
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 1: All right, Well, Jake, thank you very much for joining us.

927
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:49,280
Speaker 1: All the best with your Burger Family Foundation, and hopefully

928
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,439
Speaker 1: we'll get to play in the softball game for sure.

929
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:54,360
Speaker 2: Now we'll see what we can do with an invite.

930
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 2: You know, it'll be fine.