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Speaker 1: Hey, we're here with the past. Watch Minnie pass Quintino

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Speaker 1: here at Royals camp. And you've been here for three weeks,

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Speaker 1: as he waves to MIKEL Garcia right there in the

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Speaker 1: star Pine for the entire first half. Yep, to make

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Speaker 1: the All Star team. You got here? What'd you say

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Speaker 2: Three weeks ago? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Because why?

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Speaker 2: Two reasons?

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Speaker 3: One WBC two trying to learn how to hit in April,

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Speaker 3: so I figured getting outside in warm weather would be

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Speaker 1: Is there any trash talking between Team Italy and Team

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Speaker 2: Not yet.

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Speaker 1: You and Winter have a running back and forth.

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Speaker 3: No, we live together, so we uh haven't had too

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Speaker 3: much yet. I'm sure as we get closer we will,

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Speaker 3: but no, not yet. I don't know if that's a

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Speaker 4: Do you guys?

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Speaker 1: You guys are both in Houston, right, Yeah, we're both

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Speaker 3: I will fly together. Bob can take care of himself.

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Speaker 3: No team Itdaly, we're flying All team, which would be good.

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Speaker 3: So we've we've got a workout on March second. We've

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, Yeah, you can start games win here.

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Speaker 3: Uh well, the first real game is like March seventh,

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Speaker 3: but then no, no, no, I meant Friday, Friday, Yeah, Friday.

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Speaker 2: But I've been here for three weeks, So.

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Speaker 5: Does that matter? Does that matter that you've been there

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Speaker 5: for three weeks? Like have you been getting the work

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Speaker 3: No, it's it's been good because the weather Nashville, the

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Speaker 3: I think I've gotten fourteen at bats so far, which

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Speaker 3: has been nice. So just try to get as much

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Speaker 2: The game start.

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Speaker 1: Different.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know it's different, especially with no reports guys

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Speaker 3: It is insane how much different it is when pitchers

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Speaker 2: Versus just working on bats.

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Speaker 1: Have you broken in those fourteen.

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Speaker 2: Zero I'm not a massive bat breaker?

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Speaker 5: So you didn't answer. You didn't answer the fourteen at bats.

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Speaker 5: How have you done? Because that's I mean, people are

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Speaker 5: Because either way, the Royals pitching either sucks or they're

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Speaker 2: Our pictures are awesome, but but so are our hitters.

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Speaker 1: When you get a hit. This is the sasquatch come

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Speaker 3: It was actually smart by mikel to do it for

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so Bobby complained though, but Lugo is actually the

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Speaker 5: Oh wow, yeah, whoa whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. I mean,

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Speaker 5: don't don't act like everyone else is getting paid like

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Speaker 3: Yeah I did, Yeah, I did. So we didn't have

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Speaker 2: But we're worried about winning ball games.

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Speaker 1: Every time you strike out, some fans gonna yell Vine

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Speaker 3: Imagine when I grounded to some double plates. Exactly if

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Speaker 6: Vinny, Hey, Benny, I want to get your take on

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think I think there's multiple ways

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Speaker 3: to answer this question. It's gonna eliminate. I know pitchers

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Speaker 1: You watch this before.

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Speaker 3: No, I didn't care, but you would pay attention to, like, Okay,

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Speaker 3: like there's different things like that to check some balances,

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Speaker 2: Going on there.

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Speaker 3: So but I'm gonna be all over the umpires be like, hey,

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Speaker 3: So I'm going to more take it as a fun thing.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I never understood why there were boxes if

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Speaker 3: best chirps I ever heard? Were in in rookie ball?

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Speaker 3: It is my first ever professional series. Chris Widger was

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Speaker 3: I mean, it was so funny. There was more that

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Speaker 3: they said that I can't say, wait year, but it

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Speaker 2: And then the ABS, I don't know what are the

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Speaker 3: Like what do you mean the intricacies with the strike son?

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Speaker 5: Just like learning it, Just like learning the abs.

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Speaker 2: Who's going to challenge?

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Speaker 5: Are you allowed because you don't make as much as wit?

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Speaker 5: Are you going to be allowed to? Can do you

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: ABS is bad. I just mean ABS changes towards your height,

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Speaker 3: It's weird because you would I think you would naturally

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Speaker 3: think guys who have used it before should probably be

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Speaker 3: Just do it in a more timely manner. I'm hoping

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Speaker 3: it because I've never done it. We did in spring

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Speaker 3: I like it in the fact that it takes away

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Speaker 3: the egregious call. But I'll be curious to see how

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Speaker 3: the technology works and making sure you know everything is

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Speaker 3: everything is good.

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Speaker 2: But I'm excited about it. I think change can be good.

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Speaker 1: A couple of things. One, what'd you measure in at

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Speaker 1: Judge is like six seven and then he went down

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Speaker 3: Well, that's what I am confused about, because with two strikes,

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Speaker 6: Yeah, because I think you're teeing it up wrong. Aj.

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Speaker 5: But the thing is that's yeah, and your.

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Speaker 3: Like yesterday, Uh, I was facing Alex laying and it

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Speaker 3: So I'm sitting there thinking, well, I think I should

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Speaker 3: Sal was like, no, it's a strike and said no,

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Speaker 2: I go to, what are we doing here? But it's

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Speaker 1: But we need to have a big thing where you

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Speaker 5: Last one. Last time you were on, we discussed the

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Speaker 3: The weather got so bad we never got to do

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Speaker 3: walking away a loser. But I'll see him in Atlanta

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Speaker 3: and there you'll be there, yer, Maybe you could be

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Speaker 3: the umpire. Oh I was freaking love that.

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Speaker 1: I love that.

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Speaker 3: I love We have a Fox game to start the

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Speaker 3: National TV see that opening weekend.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I sure hope.

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Speaker 1: So, oh little sale itis.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that looks fun in front of you. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Just hey, anytime you could take your ob pople once

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Speaker 3: you take him. So we have the face guard. Why

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Speaker 6: So what did the article say that you were talking about?

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Speaker 6: They put the lineup out already before you guys had it.

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Speaker 3: Q gave an interview and he apparently sighed mentioned that

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Speaker 2: Obp obp just got to get it up a little

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Speaker 1: Royals Camp. Here with Jack cagleone the biggest UAB Blazer

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Speaker 1: had to wear a Blazer's hat on Saturday, since the

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Speaker 1: Blazers took down Kratz's Florida Gators Friday night in the

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here now.

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Speaker 1: We already talked off the air and everyone that knows

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Speaker 1: I'm a Florida fan. I actually said you should have

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Speaker 1: pumping him off for what two years Cratzy.

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Speaker 5: Rightly, so rightly, so I want to hear why he didn't.

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Speaker 5: But anyway, go ahead, go Ada.

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Speaker 1: But Friday night, my son caught against his Florida Gators,

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Speaker 1: took him down, and Tolbert had you. I guess you

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Speaker 1: guys had a bet, had you? The pictures were all

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Speaker 7: Definitely wasn't my best moment, for sure. He walks in

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Speaker 7: He's like, come on, come on. He put me front

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Speaker 1: Ah oh well all right, So before we get into it,

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Speaker 1: why didn't you go one to one? Did anyone tell you?

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Speaker 1: Kevin O'Sullivan, the coach of the Gators. All he did

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Speaker 1: they think it's hilarious. I even text him, and my

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Speaker 1: Krats already got on you before we went on the air.

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Speaker 1: So I couldn't figure it out because I and I

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Speaker 1: I talked to him about it. He said, best power

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Speaker 1: the Royals are happy to have you, and you ended

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Speaker 2: I was different.

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Speaker 1: We didn't have MLB network, we didn't have Twitter, we

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Speaker 1: they called and I'm like, hello, Yes, this is the Twins.

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Speaker 1: We drafted you seventieth overall. Okay, Scott will be in touch.

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Speaker 1: He'll call you next week. Thanks. Yeah, cool.

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Speaker 7: I'm happy to be here with this organization, and you know,

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Speaker 4: So I'm happy with me.

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Speaker 2: Sliding.

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Speaker 5: I called exactly that, but yeah, slide, sliding, sliding five

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Speaker 5: Glad it worked out since we're hitting on this since

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Speaker 5: don't do anything.

444
00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:26,320
Speaker 7: I mean, I'd be lying if I said I didn't

445
00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:30,480
Speaker 7: miss it, for sure. I feel like that was such

446
00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:33,080
Speaker 7: a huge part of my game, you know, in college

447
00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:35,359
Speaker 7: and everything like that, I focused honestly more on the

448
00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:36,920
Speaker 7: pitching side than I did on the hitting side, and

449
00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:39,040
Speaker 7: I think it kind of freed me up mentally. The

450
00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:43,840
Speaker 7: not really think when I was hitting so to go

451
00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:45,240
Speaker 7: through like the first year of pro ball, really just

452
00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:48,479
Speaker 7: focusing on hitting and starting to break down swing patterns,

453
00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:49,600
Speaker 7: swing pass and stuff like that.

454
00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:52,159
Speaker 4: It was all new to me. You know. So college

455
00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:52,600
Speaker 4: is different.

456
00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:55,200
Speaker 7: You know, guys usually just have two pitches you can

457
00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:57,920
Speaker 7: really just eliminate one of them. And then you get

458
00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:00,119
Speaker 7: up here and you have guys like Seth Lugo with

459
00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:03,000
Speaker 7: eight pitches, and you know, it gets a little gets

460
00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:05,920
Speaker 7: definitely a little a little tougher, but now having guys

461
00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:07,320
Speaker 7: like Vinnie, the way he breaks down the game, he

462
00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:09,760
Speaker 7: sees the game a little bit differently. It's been great

463
00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:11,560
Speaker 7: to work with him and kind of see his insight

464
00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:11,920
Speaker 7: on it.

465
00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:15,160
Speaker 5: Watch watching how everything that you have to go through

466
00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:17,439
Speaker 5: in the big leagues, even even in the minor leagues,

467
00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:21,960
Speaker 5: like preparing for a game. Does it put more does

468
00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,160
Speaker 5: it make you more in awe or just shocked by

469
00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:28,240
Speaker 5: what Otani can do because your level people don't People

470
00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:30,639
Speaker 5: might not know you're left handed and you threw one

471
00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:33,000
Speaker 5: hundred miles an hour left handed. So you sit there

472
00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:34,600
Speaker 5: and you go, Okay, well this guy should be able

473
00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:36,280
Speaker 5: to throw in the big leagues. But does it give

474
00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:40,080
Speaker 5: you a like different sense or is there still just

475
00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:42,800
Speaker 5: a little bit like I'd like to throw an inning

476
00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:45,879
Speaker 5: or ten appearances out of bullpen for the boys.

477
00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:49,080
Speaker 1: I saw you pitch, say no, I saw you pitcher

478
00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:49,879
Speaker 1: last year, say no.

479
00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:54,920
Speaker 7: I can't say no like I Obviously what he does

480
00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:59,359
Speaker 7: is it's special. I mean, nobody's doing it. That's why he's,

481
00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:01,400
Speaker 7: you know, one the best players in the world right now,

482
00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:04,520
Speaker 7: and you know, to have the opportunity to I mean,

483
00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:06,800
Speaker 7: I've joked with Q a couple of times on the

484
00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:09,639
Speaker 7: bullpen days, and I was like, hey, if the the

485
00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:11,720
Speaker 7: bullpen needs it, you know, I used to throw back

486
00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:13,119
Speaker 7: in the day and was kind of messing around with

487
00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:16,480
Speaker 7: him and didn't go anywhere obviously, but.

488
00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:19,800
Speaker 1: Finally just go like this and show everybody. I mean,

489
00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:25,800
Speaker 1: it's it's still there. Yeah, I mean we're good. We're good, Cratzy.

490
00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:28,359
Speaker 1: Here's what I don't think most people know is he

491
00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:31,520
Speaker 1: was actually recruited as a pitcher more than a hitter,

492
00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:35,040
Speaker 1: and then he had to have his arm surgery. So

493
00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:36,800
Speaker 1: then they were like, hey, why don't you try hitting,

494
00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:39,280
Speaker 1: like what middle of your junior year, and he just

495
00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:41,400
Speaker 1: started mashing and then they're like, oh, yeah, you could

496
00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:44,560
Speaker 1: be pretty good as a hitter. Also, he actually was

497
00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:46,159
Speaker 1: more of a you were actually more of a pitcher.

498
00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:47,679
Speaker 4: Yeah, slowy.

499
00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:50,160
Speaker 7: I still give him fits for it all the time.

500
00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:52,520
Speaker 7: He told me I had two way and then when

501
00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:54,760
Speaker 7: I got to campus had TJ. As soon as I

502
00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:58,680
Speaker 7: got there, he told me that I was just gonna

503
00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:01,560
Speaker 7: pitch and and you know, do the hitting progression and

504
00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:03,760
Speaker 7: stuff with TJ. And next thing you know, he's like, yeah,

505
00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:06,520
Speaker 7: you shouldn't come on this Vandy trip. Take some VP,

506
00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:09,679
Speaker 7: start getting into the swing of things, and you know,

507
00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:11,480
Speaker 7: a week later I was in the lineup and never left.

508
00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:15,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, crass, By the way, I don't mean this mean

509
00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:17,280
Speaker 1: at all, but I like, I watched you pitcher last year,

510
00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:19,800
Speaker 1: like just hit you, just hit. I mean you could

511
00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:22,880
Speaker 1: come in because just hit. I mean, listen, I don't

512
00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:26,160
Speaker 1: mean that rudely. I couldn't pitch either, But.

513
00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:26,760
Speaker 4: The command will come.

514
00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:30,399
Speaker 8: The command will come at well point what we actually

515
00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:32,919
Speaker 8: like work on instead of like I was a thrower.

516
00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:35,160
Speaker 8: I'm not gonna sit here you I was a thrower,

517
00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:39,000
Speaker 8: but if I actually had like all the data that

518
00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:39,840
Speaker 8: they have nowadays.

519
00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:42,480
Speaker 1: I mean, you could pitch. I think I could, but

520
00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:43,480
Speaker 1: you couldn't.

521
00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:44,720
Speaker 4: You can do both.

522
00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:46,239
Speaker 1: You think you think you could do both the big

523
00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:46,840
Speaker 1: league level.

524
00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:49,840
Speaker 4: I mean we don't know. We haven't tried it yet.

525
00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:53,440
Speaker 5: Yes, don't don't let him, don't let him convince you.

526
00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:54,639
Speaker 5: Don't let him convince you.

527
00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:56,400
Speaker 9: No, do it.

528
00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:00,000
Speaker 5: You can do it, like trusting in it. Like no

529
00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,639
Speaker 5: nobody throw. Very few dudes throw from the left side

530
00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:05,880
Speaker 5: like you. Yes, you didn't throw as many strikes as

531
00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:08,720
Speaker 5: you would like, but you know what, you can figure

532
00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:10,440
Speaker 5: that out right, exactly.

533
00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:12,840
Speaker 4: Take a little bit off and he'll be ninety five

534
00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:13,639
Speaker 4: instead of one hundred.

535
00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,520
Speaker 1: Hey, listen, I mean he faced the you faced the

536
00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:20,040
Speaker 1: two handed guy right your angelo.

537
00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:24,399
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, he only threw righty though, really him, Yeah he.

538
00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:27,040
Speaker 1: Didn't throw both handed. They made him a right hand

539
00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:29,480
Speaker 1: or they just traded him too. Yeah, I mean you

540
00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:32,879
Speaker 1: see how hard that is. Now you mentioned Showy. Imagine

541
00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,600
Speaker 1: what Showhy does. He hits fifty homers and he goes

542
00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:37,119
Speaker 1: out and pitches throws one hundred.

543
00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:39,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, some fourth that the homers is a pretty dang

544
00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:39,920
Speaker 4: good year.

545
00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:42,840
Speaker 1: I think the rolls would be have if you just

546
00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:46,040
Speaker 1: hit fifty. What what do you what are you looking

547
00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:48,320
Speaker 1: forward to this year? Now that you've had some time

548
00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,320
Speaker 1: under your belt. You had some struggles. Everyone kind of

549
00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:53,800
Speaker 1: nobody comes up here, and the very few I shouldn't

550
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:55,480
Speaker 1: say nobody. I mean even Mike Trout had to go

551
00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:57,359
Speaker 1: you know, I had to go through some growing pains.

552
00:22:57,359 --> 00:22:59,840
Speaker 1: Everyone kind of goes through a little bit of growing

553
00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:01,560
Speaker 1: pain when they get to the major leagues. Very few

554
00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:03,880
Speaker 1: people just get here and just explode on the scene

555
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,240
Speaker 1: and never never have a little bit of a downtime.

556
00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:08,640
Speaker 1: What did you learn from what you went through last

557
00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:10,520
Speaker 1: year because I would assume that's probably the first time

558
00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:12,480
Speaker 1: in your life you ever had any kind of struggles.

559
00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:16,880
Speaker 7: It was I mean, growing up always was what I'd

560
00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:18,720
Speaker 7: like to think, one of the better players on the

561
00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:21,960
Speaker 7: team and stuff like that, as most major league players are.

562
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:25,000
Speaker 4: But yeah, last year was definitely.

563
00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:25,120
Speaker 2: One of those.

564
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:28,240
Speaker 7: Not trying to put too much weight into it, to

565
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:31,159
Speaker 7: be honest with you, that's good. It's tough in the

566
00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:33,439
Speaker 7: moment for sure, because you know, everybody wants to come

567
00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:36,640
Speaker 7: up and have success, but to go through the levels

568
00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:40,320
Speaker 7: and have really good success and kind of, you know,

569
00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:45,240
Speaker 7: get socked in the mouth up there, and taking this

570
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:47,879
Speaker 7: offseason to kind of take a step back, realize what

571
00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:50,560
Speaker 7: I've learned, you know, what worked, what didn't. But the

572
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:53,240
Speaker 7: biggest thing for me was kind of going back to

573
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:56,760
Speaker 7: what got me there. Honestly, feel like I kind of

574
00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:58,520
Speaker 7: fell down rabbit holes when things weren't going well. Was

575
00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:00,399
Speaker 7: still hitting balls hard, but had nothing to show for it,

576
00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:04,680
Speaker 7: and thought it was swing, thought it was a before

577
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:08,560
Speaker 7: of other things. And having that offseason to kind of

578
00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:11,359
Speaker 7: take a step back and recalibrate at the mine right

579
00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:12,920
Speaker 7: and everything like that kind of opened me up for this.

580
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 5: Year, How could minor league baseball? Have you have prepared

581
00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:21,119
Speaker 5: you more for the big leagues, because a lot of

582
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:23,479
Speaker 5: people are like, ah, the minor leagues is now, especially

583
00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:26,640
Speaker 5: in Triple A. You know, it's just not the same competition.

584
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:28,520
Speaker 5: I'm not I'm not throwing shade any of those guys.

585
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:30,520
Speaker 5: I spent a ton of time in the minor leagues,

586
00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:34,399
Speaker 5: but it's just not the same level at all. How

587
00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:37,439
Speaker 5: could you have prepared differently if you were to go

588
00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:40,560
Speaker 5: back to the beginning of last year when you had

589
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:42,800
Speaker 5: to go to the minor leagues, which if people don't

590
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:43,960
Speaker 5: know you dominated.

591
00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:50,160
Speaker 7: Honestly, for me, it probably just to be the quality

592
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:55,440
Speaker 7: of contact. You know, like Omaha or Triple A. You're

593
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 7: clipping balls at eighty four and they're going out to

594
00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:00,640
Speaker 7: left field. But if you do that at Kaufman, that's

595
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:02,480
Speaker 7: sixty anymore.

596
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,680
Speaker 1: Bobby moved in for you guys, not anymore.

597
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,720
Speaker 7: That's a two hundred and sixty foot flyout. So just

598
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 7: kind of being more real with yourself rather than buying

599
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:15,159
Speaker 7: into like the false results of things, and really just

600
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,639
Speaker 7: not being so result driven. I think that's kind of

601
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 7: also what shot me in the foot. Vinnie said it

602
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 7: best last year to me, he was like, it's a

603
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,840
Speaker 7: it's a processed driven game, but a results based business,

604
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,040
Speaker 7: so to kind of fall in love with the process

605
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:34,600
Speaker 7: more so than chasing stats, chasing numbers. I think that's

606
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:36,480
Speaker 7: when you know, kind of like the stars of a

607
00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:39,280
Speaker 7: line and ball start finding more gaps.

608
00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:43,040
Speaker 1: Wow, that's that's mature for for a guys. True so young,

609
00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:46,600
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's a mature, very mature answer. You

610
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:49,960
Speaker 1: mentioned Vinnie. Vinnie's Captain Italy. I don't. I don't know

611
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:54,240
Speaker 1: what you have Captain America. Bobby's Aaron Judges Captain America.

612
00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:57,679
Speaker 1: What is Vinnie? What do you call Vinnie for like

613
00:25:57,760 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 1: Captain Pizon or something? There you go, there you go,

614
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 1: new nickname for Vinnie, I asked him earlier when we

615
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 1: talked to him. There's been some trash talking walk a Bobby,

616
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,879
Speaker 1: you guys play each other coming up in Houston. Is

617
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 1: there trash talking yet? Has it started?

618
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:16,359
Speaker 2: Not yet?

619
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,120
Speaker 1: Because said he punched your ticket the other day, punched

620
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:22,159
Speaker 1: my ticket on three pitches, So yeah, he's starting.

621
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:26,439
Speaker 7: I took a cookie curveball right down the chuote, not

622
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:28,399
Speaker 7: looking for a curveball first pitch from Walker. I was

623
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,200
Speaker 7: looking for that parachute change, up ended up getting the

624
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,600
Speaker 7: parachute change up the second pitch, swung right over it

625
00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 7: and then painted heater on the black away.

626
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:38,400
Speaker 2: And that's just.

627
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 7: He's Michael Waker for a reason. I'm gonna just tip

628
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:45,360
Speaker 7: your setting you up. You know that for WBC? Right, Yes,

629
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:46,919
Speaker 7: that's back pocketed.

630
00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:49,400
Speaker 1: If you face him at WBC, you gotta be ready

631
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:53,399
Speaker 1: for the first curveball. Right. Oh yeah, so you just

632
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:54,480
Speaker 1: got it. That's the process.

633
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:55,600
Speaker 4: It's it's already logged in.

634
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:57,200
Speaker 1: Okay, that's good.

635
00:26:58,080 --> 00:26:58,320
Speaker 2: Alright.

636
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,359
Speaker 5: Last year you were a rookie, did you do a

637
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:04,600
Speaker 5: good job of singing on the bus?

638
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:07,160
Speaker 1: Ah?

639
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 2: Not really.

640
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 7: I didn't have time to prepare, to be honest with you,

641
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:14,119
Speaker 7: And I had to sing Pink Pony Pink Pony Club

642
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:15,760
Speaker 7: on the bus song.

643
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 4: No, I had had had the lyrics, and.

644
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:20,640
Speaker 1: You have to sing the whole song because I sung.

645
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:22,440
Speaker 4: Like forty five seconds before they cut me off.

646
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 1: Wow, I had never even heard that song until he

647
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,240
Speaker 1: probably he probably doesn't even know what Adam Aman is,

648
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 1: But Adam Amin is the guy I work with on

649
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,400
Speaker 1: Fox all the time, or played by Playgun, and he's

650
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 1: also a DJ. And I went and watched him in

651
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 1: Chicago and he played that song and I had never

652
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 1: heard that song in my life, and it came on

653
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,199
Speaker 1: and the whole there was probably five hundred people in

654
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:43,679
Speaker 1: this little bar we were in. It went crazy. So

655
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 1: the fact that you had to sing that, yeah, I

656
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 1: wouldn't even know. I wouldn't even know where to start.

657
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 1: Even if they gave me the real lyrics, I'd be like, what.

658
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:51,480
Speaker 2: That's how it went.

659
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 7: I remember I looked at Lorenzo when I was singing.

660
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 7: He looked at me and he was like, don't look

661
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 7: at me, looking down on the mic in my hand.

662
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,960
Speaker 1: Any other good bus stories from last Year's a rookie.

663
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 1: They put you in the bathroom. Ever, you wouldn't even

664
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 1: fit in the bathroom.

665
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 2: I did me.

666
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:16,640
Speaker 7: It was me, Noah, and gosh, there's another. I'm trying

667
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,680
Speaker 7: to remember who else was on our team. We're playing trivia.

668
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 7: We're in Seattle, and we ended up losing trivia. It

669
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:25,360
Speaker 7: was about Seattle, and I don't know a lot about Seattle.

670
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:27,879
Speaker 7: We had about fifteen minutes after the bus ride and

671
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:29,439
Speaker 7: there were three of us, and no, it was not

672
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 7: a small guy either. So we were just crammed in

673
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:34,159
Speaker 7: a bathroom for fifteen minutes.

674
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:39,280
Speaker 1: You're from Florida. We don't know a lot about Seattle. Florida, Florida, Seattle.

675
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 1: You can't get much farther away at all. So when

676
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 1: I'm you know I have to fly to Seattle, I'm like, oh,

677
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 1: I get my six and a half hours of rest

678
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 1: on this flight. Yeah, so yeah, so yeah. In fact,

679
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 1: that wasn't fair. Whoever whoever called you up and made

680
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 1: you ask answer question about Seattle. That wasn't That wasn't

681
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 1: a fair fighter. Right before we let you go, we

682
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 1: want to show this for everybody so that we know

683
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 1: that I was not lying when I said this. But

684
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 1: you have never looked better in your life. And that

685
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 1: will forever be on the UAB Baseball website forever. That

686
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 1: there is the biggest blaze put that. Of course they did.

687
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,480
Speaker 1: I should. I should send that to Sully and be like, look, Sully,

688
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 1: we've we've converted him.

689
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 2: That's awesome.

690
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 4: That's a true genuine smile as well.

691
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:24,440
Speaker 1: By the way, uh, your favorite volleyball team is it?

692
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 2: What?

693
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 1: Atlantata Vibe? Atlanta Vibe? Okay, his fiance played with my

694
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 1: daughter in high Schoolcrats. If that makes you feel old

695
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 1: or young, however you want to put it. They played

696
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 1: together in high school and they're.

697
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 5: Way older than me. You're way old than me. I'm

698
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 5: totally fine with it.

699
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 1: So anyway, so yes, they played together. Now Ellie is

700
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 1: a professional volleyball player, and my daughter has quit volleyball

701
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 1: and just decided to go to Florida for the education.

702
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:56,720
Speaker 1: So yes, but Jack, thanks for joining us. We appreciate

703
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 1: nothing but the best. You have a great season.

704
00:29:59,120 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 2: Thank you.

705
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:00,120
Speaker 4: Thanks for having me.

706
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 1: In surprise Arizona Surprise. It's my ex teammate and Cardinal great,

707
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:11,719
Speaker 1: not Royal great. Michael Walka, what's going on? A? How

708
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 1: are you all?

709
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 9: Good man?

710
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 2: Yeah?

711
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 1: How's spring training going so far for you?

712
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 2: Yeah?

713
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 9: No, it's been going really well. Uh yeah, what are

714
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 9: we about? A weekend with the Yeah, got my first

715
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 9: live in under the belt a couple of days ago. Uh,

716
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:30,959
Speaker 9: just one up, but everything's bouncing back good. Uh, feeling

717
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,959
Speaker 9: strong and any punches one punchy?

718
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 4: Yeah?

719
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 9: Who was yeah? Uh cag leone? Yeah?

720
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 1: Is that revenge for the basketball game a couple weeks ago?

721
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 2: Yeah? For real?

722
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:48,320
Speaker 9: Yeah, freaking me to a m to finished strong here.

723
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 1: Let's go all right, Well, when do you when do

724
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:52,239
Speaker 1: you pitch in a game? Do you know?

725
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 9: Uh, I've got another live on Thursday, and then uh

726
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,440
Speaker 9: it's five days after that, so I guess the next

727
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 9: Tuesday you ran from today.

728
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:03,240
Speaker 2: Since now you're.

729
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 1: Captain America with Bobby Witt, wait for this plane to go.

730
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 9: Sorry, right next to the.

731
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 1: Jeeves by the way, the raptors are flying over.

732
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's very sweet.

733
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:22,480
Speaker 1: But uh, now that you're Captain America, you and Bobby Witt,

734
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 1: how do you ramp up for the WBC?

735
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 9: Uh, it's actually gonna be pretty similar. Uh, you know,

736
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 9: just talking with Sweeney uh our pitching coach here in Casey,

737
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 9: and with Pettit and DeRosa, Uh, what's the USA just

738
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 9: kind of what they expect from me. Uh, you know

739
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 9: whenever those games start up. We kind of went back

740
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 9: and forth on on where I would be and uh,

741
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 9: build up wise, and everything's pretty much within a couple

742
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 9: of days or so where I was kind of last

743
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 9: year building up for the season. So, uh, the ramp

744
00:31:55,960 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 9: up is gonna be very similar. You know, nothing nothing expedited,

745
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 9: I guess I would say, uh to get ready for TMSAU.

746
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,720
Speaker 9: Everything's gonna be kind of on schedule. So I'm I'm

747
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 9: excited that it all worked out and uh, you know,

748
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 9: excited to get out there with those guys.

749
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 2: For sure.

750
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 5: You went back and forth. What does that mean you

751
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 5: guys were arguing?

752
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 4: What was that?

753
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 5: Oh? I said you guys went back and forth? Does

754
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 5: that mean you guys were arguing?

755
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 2: No?

756
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 9: No, there was just uh, just conversations with Pettit on

757
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 9: uh and DeRosa on what they kind of needed for me,

758
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 9: and then finding a schedule and uh ramp up with

759
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 9: Sweeney and uh and then yeah, going back to them.

760
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 9: But yeah, no, no arguing a lot of support from

761
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:48,479
Speaker 9: from the Kansas City guys here, uh, which is awesome.

762
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 9: You know you hear of of some some other organizations

763
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 9: that don't really support their guys and stuff. But uh yeah, uh,

764
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 9: these guys here are great and want us to go

765
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 9: out and yeah represent the Oils, represent our country and

766
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 9: uh yeah, something that I'm I'm very excited for.

767
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 5: The Royals have always been good at sending prospects, but

768
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 5: also like they always want to support the International Baseball

769
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 5: part of it. This is your second time we're in

770
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 5: a team USA Jersey. Correct you played in college too, right.

771
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 2: That's right? Yep, yep.

772
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:22,960
Speaker 9: I was yep, part of the USA collegiate team as well,

773
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 9: but uh yeah it was something very cool there as well,

774
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 9: and you know, never could have imagined kind of doing

775
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 9: it again in the pros, but uh yeah, excited for

776
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 9: the opportunity to, Yeah, put that USA jersey on again.

777
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 5: Do you still have the other jersey? Well, you have

778
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 5: like a we have one next to the other one

779
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 5: when you when you're done like framing them side by

780
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 5: side or do you have any idea where that jersey is?

781
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, yeah, that jersey is at my parents' house.

782
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 9: It's all framed up, and uh yeah, we'll we'll find

783
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 9: a spot for that new one for sure.

784
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 1: When you so, you said Jack Vinnie or on team

785
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 1: Italy you're pitching for us? Do you know if you're

786
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 1: starting or are you gonna come out of the bullpenfer

787
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 1: for USA?

788
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 9: I mean, I don't want to give away too much

789
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:15,319
Speaker 9: of our strategy and stuff, but yeah, you.

790
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 1: Said you right, So you guys play here not that

791
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 1: long from now, about three weeks Italy plays USA in Houston. Yeah,

792
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: do you show him your repertoire in early BP before

793
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,400
Speaker 1: you actually might have to pitch against him when it

794
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: counts more?

795
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 2: I know that, No, there was.

796
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:36,359
Speaker 9: There was definitely a little strategy going into that live

797
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:39,359
Speaker 9: because yeah, Vinnie was was part of that live as well.

798
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 9: I ended up walking him on yeah four straight uh

799
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 9: or maybe five pitches, hit him in a spot where just.

800
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 1: So he remembers it instead of you know, you don't

801
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 1: want to hurt him, just just kind of maybe in

802
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 1: the thighre so he has a little mark and you

803
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 1: can remember that.

804
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 9: Yeah, exactly, Yeah, get off my dish type stuff. But yeah, no,

805
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 9: it's it'll be cool to see those guys as well.

806
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:03,919
Speaker 9: Maybe pass on a few scouting reports to the guys

807
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 9: if if I'm if I am not facing those guys.

808
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 2: I guess if you're not.

809
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:10,400
Speaker 1: That sounded like a little bit of a I might

810
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:12,040
Speaker 1: have been a little bit of a hint there.

811
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 3: I like it.

812
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 1: I like it, but today, I mean, I know you're

813
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,399
Speaker 1: not gonna to get into strategy. But does it matter

814
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 1: because it's it's still basically spring training for you as

815
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 1: long as you get your innings. Doesn't matter if you

816
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:24,879
Speaker 1: do it as a starter or coming out.

817
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,440
Speaker 9: Of the bullpen, right right, I think there's definitely an

818
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 9: opportunity where I am piggyback in. Uh, you know another

819
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 9: starter schemes or early on. Where can we have one

820
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:35,799
Speaker 9: of those guys that are pretty good?

821
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 2: Right right?

822
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 9: Yeah, No, it's a it's a stud lineup for sure.

823
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:42,239
Speaker 9: It's a it's a it's pretty cool. Yeah, looking at

824
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:44,359
Speaker 9: all the guys on the roster and yeah, a lot

825
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,360
Speaker 9: of talent. Uh, I'm glad I'm not facing our roster

826
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:51,280
Speaker 9: our lineup for sure, so it looks like, yeah, hopefully

827
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 9: put up a lot of runs.

828
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:54,719
Speaker 5: Is there a text chain or anything? Is there a

829
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 5: group thread going around for Team USA yet?

830
00:35:58,520 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 2: Uh?

831
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 9: Yeah, there's a little group chat. Uh, not too much

832
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:05,879
Speaker 9: going on in it, you know, just some a little

833
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,879
Speaker 9: something here and there, I guess uh on some play

834
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 9: in getting to get into Houston and things like that.

835
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 9: But uh no, I imagine those things will We'll start

836
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 9: getting fired up here.

837
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:16,319
Speaker 2: Uh pretty soon.

838
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 1: Does Judge give you his number? Does he you have

839
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 1: to you have to go through somebody to get to Judge?

840
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did not have his number.

841
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 9: Uh yeah, uh yeah, never met him before, but uh

842
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:32,360
Speaker 9: obviously played against him for years now. But yeah, glad,

843
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:34,200
Speaker 9: he's glad he's on our squad.

844
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:37,719
Speaker 5: Is there anybody on the team that you haven't played with?

845
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:39,879
Speaker 5: Like like an er Judge that you're like, I kind

846
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:42,400
Speaker 5: of would like to see him for like two weeks,

847
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:44,359
Speaker 5: not that I want to face him or even if

848
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 5: it's a picture, like if there's a guy you're kind

849
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:50,719
Speaker 5: of most intrigued about on Team USA, I.

850
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 9: Mean I would say there's a lot of guys, you know,

851
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:57,880
Speaker 9: I've I've crossed paths with a few guys in different areas,

852
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 9: I guess, uh throughout my career and things like that.

853
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 9: I think it'll be awesome to yeah see Bobby again

854
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 9: out there for sure. But yeah, Judge is one of

855
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 9: those guys, uh Harper, Yeah, Scooble schemes, Web. Those guys

856
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:19,240
Speaker 9: are're some studs there. Uh cross paths with Joe Ryan

857
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 9: and uh Garrett wit Locke. Uh you know, it's uh

858
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 9: it's a lot of studs uh out there, and so yeah,

859
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,320
Speaker 9: just uh excited to talk shop in the in the

860
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:35,319
Speaker 9: clubhouse and uh see how everybody kind of goes about

861
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:38,800
Speaker 9: their business getting ready for the season and and getting

862
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:41,959
Speaker 9: ready for games. Uh, something that you don't normally see

863
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:45,280
Speaker 9: uh when whenever those guys are with their normal clubs.

864
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:48,759
Speaker 9: So uh yeah, it's uh it's something I'm definitely looking

865
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 9: forward to.

866
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:51,759
Speaker 1: When you see Joe Ryan. If you've watched Stranger Things,

867
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:54,880
Speaker 1: just say, man in that life, he turned into the

868
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 1: bad guy quickly. I mean, you know, but he came

869
00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,359
Speaker 1: back at the end. So I was proud of Joe Ryan.

870
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 1: If you've seen I've never seen it. I think it's

871
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 1: season two or three. I think it's season three. When

872
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 1: they're in the mall and he looks like one of

873
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 1: the main characters.

874
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 9: It just grew a mustache, okay, and he like, tell

875
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:13,480
Speaker 9: he's got a sash every now and then he does

876
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 9: you know, you know, he's he.

877
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 1: Very looks very similar to the guy. I don't know

878
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,080
Speaker 1: what the guy's name is, but he has a character

879
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: character talk to him. Very true. You're Kansas City career

880
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 1: has been great so far. How proud of you are?

881
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:30,760
Speaker 1: After the way it started in Saint Louis right twenty thirteen.

882
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 1: You had all the hype as the young kid, the

883
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 1: young stud and then you know, some injuries, some things

884
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 1: kind of going off the reilis and then here you are.

885
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:39,800
Speaker 1: I don't want to say resurrecting, because you never like

886
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:42,879
Speaker 1: went away, but you just came here. In these last

887
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:44,880
Speaker 1: few years, You've been great for the royal. So how

888
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 1: proud are you of all the work you've put in

889
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 1: to get to where you are now?

890
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 9: Yeah, No, it's uh, it's something that yeah, I definitely

891
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:57,400
Speaker 9: uh A am proud of you know. Uh, you know,

892
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 9: those those early years and Saint Lewis had taught me

893
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 9: a lot, uh And I feel like I take a

894
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 9: lot of those things that I learned from those guys

895
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 9: in in Saint Louis and carry them on till this day.

896
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 9: You know, I had a lot of great mentors, a

897
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:13,280
Speaker 9: lot of great veterans there, like yourself.

898
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, but yeah, the.

899
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 9: Wayne Rice, the Holiday Yachty Beltron, you know, multiple carpenters. Uh,

900
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:26,960
Speaker 9: you know there there was multiple guys that I was

901
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,800
Speaker 9: able to take stuff from on how to be a

902
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:32,239
Speaker 9: better baseball player, how to be a professional on and

903
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:34,839
Speaker 9: off the field, and try to try to soaked all

904
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:38,359
Speaker 9: that in and yeah, like you said, had some good years. There,

905
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:42,440
Speaker 9: had some injuries, some some tough years, but you know,

906
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,760
Speaker 9: just always stayed true to myself and just kept working

907
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 9: my tail off in the off seasons knowing that I

908
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 9: could get back to to competing out there the way

909
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:53,759
Speaker 9: I know I can, and so just had had some

910
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 9: I guess it was kind of a crazy six year

911
00:39:56,840 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 9: stretch there with six different teams. Uh, just kept signing

912
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:04,239
Speaker 9: one year deals with different squads, and you know, was

913
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,800
Speaker 9: able to find a home here in Kansas City and

914
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:10,040
Speaker 9: was able to Yeah, this will be my third year here.

915
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 9: I've had two pretty successful years here with getting to

916
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,800
Speaker 9: the postseason in twenty four and then just kind of

917
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 9: missing out there in twenty five. You know, just like

918
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 9: you said, some injuries type stuff kind of kind of

919
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,320
Speaker 9: held us, held us from getting where we wanted to be.

920
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:31,399
Speaker 9: But building off of these past two years in Kansas City,

921
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:34,440
Speaker 9: you know, I feel like we got something special here

922
00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:37,279
Speaker 9: with with the guys in this clubhouse and looking for

923
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:39,759
Speaker 9: a big year here in twenty six, getting back to

924
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 9: where we we know we can be.

925
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:45,840
Speaker 5: You've done well in case, but they're moving the fences in.

926
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 5: Did they consult you pictures about that? Because I know

927
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:52,839
Speaker 5: some ex Royals hitters who are like what we were

928
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 5: saying that for years and now and now they're going

929
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 5: to move it in. Like did they consult you guys

930
00:40:57,280 --> 00:40:59,400
Speaker 5: or are they just like ah whatever, dudes wear it.

931
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 9: Yeah, No, it was Uh, it was just a message

932
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 9: in the in the off season saying that, hey, we've

933
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:10,319
Speaker 9: got a got a zoom call with with the whole

934
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:13,880
Speaker 9: team and staff, you know, at a certain date. And

935
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:16,399
Speaker 9: you know, I thought that was kind of weird. Uh,

936
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 9: you know, didn't really know what was going on. And

937
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 9: then Bobby kind of sent out a text to the

938
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:24,880
Speaker 9: group chat saying, uh that you know, the word is

939
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,400
Speaker 9: that the fences were moving in. So yeah, there was

940
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:31,279
Speaker 9: definitely no consultant on uh, on the picture side of it.

941
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:34,840
Speaker 1: Uh, Bobby, Bobby has a huge contract, Like, Bobby, you

942
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 1: want the fences moved in. The fences in for you, Bobby,

943
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 1: no problems.

944
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.

945
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:42,400
Speaker 9: Salby was like, hey, I've been telling you all this

946
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 9: for how many years?

947
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 2: To move this?

948
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 1: By the way, why is Kansas City in Missouri? Anyone

949
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 1: ever asked you that?

950
00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 9: I mean, it's just on both sides.

951
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 1: The main part is in Missouri. I don't think you'd

952
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 1: be in Kansas.

953
00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 2: Have you been to Kansas?

954
00:41:58,560 --> 00:41:59,400
Speaker 9: I live in Kansas.

955
00:41:59,760 --> 00:41:59,920
Speaker 2: Yeah.

956
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:05,400
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's kind of like my hometown Textakana, Texa, Canada, Texas, Texagana, Arkansas.

957
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,359
Speaker 9: You know, there's a there's a state line there as well.

958
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 9: So yeah, it's kind of familiar territory for me where

959
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 9: I grew up.

960
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:14,719
Speaker 1: Before I let you go, I asked you you brought

961
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:17,479
Speaker 1: up Wayne Right. Did you think that Wayne Wright would

962
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:19,359
Speaker 1: end up in TV? And then did you ever think

963
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 1: that Wayne Right would end up being my partner on TV?

964
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:26,480
Speaker 2: I I could see Wayne Right on TV for sure.

965
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 9: I feel like he talked about it quite a bit

966
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 9: on his uh kind of post career, on what he

967
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 9: wanted to do. I know he's very talented, you know,

968
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 9: just whether it's music. I know he's getting albums out there,

969
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 9: releasing albums. H oh, yeah, I haven't listened to a

970
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 9: little Hey y'all. You know I've heard that because he

971
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:52,319
Speaker 9: plays that all like that just warm up the game.

972
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 9: So that's fun. Yeah, you should get yeah, a little

973
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 9: show up there every now. But uh yeah, I know

974
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:00,799
Speaker 9: it just comedy like s an. I know he would

975
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 9: love to host that one day. He always talked about that.

976
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 9: But yeah, just very talented guy. I knew that he was.

977
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,239
Speaker 9: He was he was gonna do some big things, you

978
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 9: know after his yeah playing days for sure.

979
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:16,400
Speaker 1: All right, Michael, thank you appreciate you joining us. Have

980
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:17,440
Speaker 1: another great year.

981
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 2: And let's go here we go. Thanks guys,