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Speaker 1: What's up everybody. Welcome back to another episode of the

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Speaker 1: Mets Up Podcast. We have a very special interview for

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Speaker 1: you guys, DJ Stewart, Mets Outfield joining us on the

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Speaker 1: show today.

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Speaker 2: First off, DJ, hey, thank you for doing this. Of course,

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Speaker 2: thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Of course, Man to start, You've had an incredible month

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Speaker 1: here crush the month of August. Six home runs so

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Speaker 1: far with another game tonight. Will you attribute all success to.

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Speaker 2: It's a little bit of the work that I put

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Speaker 2: in in Syracuse with Colin Hetzler hitting coach. Kind of

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Speaker 2: when I started this season, was kind of trying to

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Speaker 2: do too much rushing, was leaning out in front, and

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Speaker 2: we made some adjustments in the cage and kind of

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Speaker 2: ran with it. I liked what we were doing and

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Speaker 2: had some success down there that got me up here,

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Speaker 2: and I think that's what we're seeing now.

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Speaker 3: Mentally, how do you stay ready because you started the year,

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Speaker 3: like you said in Syracuse to now you're playing pretty

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Speaker 3: much every single day out in the outfield. How do

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Speaker 3: you mentally stay prepared for that?

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Speaker 2: I mean, when you're in the big leagues, I mean

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Speaker 2: every night, like every game means means a lot, like

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Speaker 2: win or lose. So just being prepared and knowing that

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Speaker 2: even if you're not starting, that a situation could come

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Speaker 2: And for me having a little experience being drafted in

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Speaker 2: that experience that kind of know the situations of the game.

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Speaker 2: Like last night, there are certain situations where I could

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Speaker 2: have came in even though I didn't start. Just being

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Speaker 1: You talk about being drafted in twenty fifteen, that was

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Speaker 1: by the Orioles, got a couple of coffee. Twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 1: that was with Buck Showalter. Thered spend a lot of.

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Speaker 2: Time with him then.

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Speaker 1: But now did you pull anything from the relationship you

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Speaker 1: built with him then to now being on his team?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Obviously I only played in the big leagues with

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Speaker 2: just obviously spring training is a lot more relaxed, but

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Speaker 2: he's still like with his young guys, he'll come up

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Speaker 2: to you, like if you're not in the game, like

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Speaker 2: a situation in the game, what would you have done there?

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Speaker 2: He's picking your brain, trying to see what type of

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Speaker 2: that we build on our relationship. One of the reasons

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Speaker 2: I did sign here having that relationship with him. I've

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Speaker 2: had some injuries in the past, and Buck knows what

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Speaker 2: one of the reasons that I decided to sign with

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Speaker 3: Back in the twenty twenty season, when you visited City Field,

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Speaker 3: you had a couple good games as well a couple

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Speaker 3: home runs. You've been hitting really well this season. Is

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Speaker 3: there something that you just got a good field hitting

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I really don't know. I was actually talking to

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Speaker 2: hitting here. I see the ball well, I'm glad to

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Speaker 2: I don't know what it was. Uh, we actually played that.

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Speaker 2: I remember that series we played the Mets at home,

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Speaker 1: You've also made the cold Corner your home.

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Speaker 2: You put more balls up.

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Speaker 1: There, and we've seen guys in recent years like where's

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Speaker 1: How good does it feel to hit the ball that well?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a strong guy. I played football basketball growing

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Speaker 2: I obviously I've played baseball for a long time. I

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Speaker 2: But obviously in Saint Louis, I went out too and

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Speaker 3: Now, you talked about playing football in high school. Take

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Speaker 3: us back to October sixteenth, twenty ten. DJ Stewart versus

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Speaker 2: It outperformed him six touchdowns. I don't know that. So

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Speaker 2: and that's awesome, awesome, So it was for me. It

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Speaker 2: So Derek actually ran the opening kickoff back, he ran

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Speaker 2: I think one of the games that I had the

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Speaker 1: We also saw that you were a five time state

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Speaker 1: champion high school between baseball and football.

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Speaker 2: That's incredible.

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Speaker 1: First off, is there any part of you at that

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Speaker 2: Was baseball always the true love? No? So I started

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Speaker 2: like it's even more magnified. I'm not sure the positions

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Speaker 2: My parents were cool with me doing either one football

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Speaker 2: Like because he was on the baseball team with us

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Speaker 3: You had a unique experience of playing with a Heisman

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Speaker 2: Unbelievable. I mean, obviously everyone sees the outside things that

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Speaker 2: He really is. He doesn't get the credit that he deserves.

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Speaker 2: I think he's very, very smart, but he doesn't take

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Speaker 2: as everyone's looking at me, Jameis Winston, Heisman Trophy winner.

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Speaker 2: He's just He's just Jamis. And he actually had a

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Speaker 2: sure who we were playing, but we're We came out flat.

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Speaker 2: was like, Wow, he's engaged. He's not even in this game.

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Speaker 2: He's this five star quarterback, but he cares just so

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Speaker 1: Florida State's also has probably been the most prolific university

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Speaker 1: for two sport athletes between Jamis and gonna say, put

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Speaker 1: DJ who's got top of the two sport athletes.

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Speaker 2: I'm not in that. You can put me in there,

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Speaker 2: but I'm not in that list as far as two

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Speaker 2: just because I witnessed it. You know, when you see

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Speaker 2: I don't remember his stats. So the year he was

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Speaker 2: it's like, Okay, he's kind of showing you. He gets

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Speaker 2: So I'm gonna give it to him. I mean, obviously

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Speaker 2: everyone's gonna have their own opinion, but I'm gonna give

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Speaker 3: I mean, you're you're a huge football fan just in general.

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Speaker 3: Florida State's got a big year coming up, the Jaguars

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Speaker 3: and you're Jaguars fan, right, Jags have a.

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Speaker 2: Big year coming up.

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Speaker 3: What's the excitement for the football season, Leaking.

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Speaker 2: Lake, I mean, it's I'm so excited. I mean, I

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Speaker 2: but we've been bad for so long. I got a

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Speaker 2: be tough. Clemson is always always that tough opponent, but

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Speaker 2: honestly think Clemson Unfortiate are the best two teams. Are

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Speaker 3: Take us away from the baseball field. When you're not playing,

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Speaker 3: What do you like to do in your free time?

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Speaker 2: So normally normal offseason? Uh, I like to deer hunt

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Speaker 2: gonna do that this offseason. But we have a five

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Speaker 1: Five month olds. I was right in the heart of

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Speaker 2: She she was born in opening day.

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Speaker 1: Has it been adjusting to fatherhood as a ballplayer.

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Speaker 2: It's definitely different. But my wife's a superstar. She she

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Speaker 2: keeps it all going. I mean she there's some days

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Speaker 2: Makes it easier for me to come to the field

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Speaker 2: and see her smiling and she doesn't know what the

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Speaker 2: heck happened? What so you just you clear your mind

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Speaker 2: That was so sweet.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sure everyone's like, there's a lot of new

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Speaker 3: there's a lot of dads in the Mets locker. Many

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Speaker 3: good piece of advice that anyone's given you.

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Speaker 2: So we had the family trip and h Boston, going

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Speaker 2: it was like a short flight. Like my daughter she's

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Speaker 2: it was short. We didn't get high enough. I think

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Speaker 2: our ears were popping. So she cried the whole time,

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Speaker 2: and I was like, Oh, no, everybody's gonna that's my kids.

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Speaker 2: The crying kid. Brooks actually Brooks Rayley. Yeah, he actually

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Speaker 2: told me. I think he has four kids, and he

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Speaker 2: was like, it's gonna be okay. It gets I think

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Speaker 2: that's the best advice I've gotten. I mean, it does.

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Speaker 2: She she hasn't been any trouble since then. Beautiful.

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Speaker 1: Well, DJ don't want to take up any more of

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Speaker 1: your time. Thank you so much for some down once

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Speaker 1: for a few minutes. Yeah, of course, the look rests

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Speaker 1: the season.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate you guys having me. Thanks again,