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Speaker 1: Padres closer Mason Miller joining us after the first few games.

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Speaker 1: Big weekend of the season here in MLB. Mason, great

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Speaker 1: to have you on.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 1: Let's start with the entrance. I think we have to.

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Speaker 1: I know you've answered some questions about it, but take

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Speaker 1: us through, like the behind the scenes of everything that

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Speaker 1: went into Corn popping up as your entrance music.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously Corns a little before my time, so I

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Speaker 3: had to be a little bit more going into that.

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Speaker 2: The clubhouse staff Klubbies.

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Speaker 3: Came to me in spring training right after I got

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Speaker 3: back from the WBC and they're like, hey, we were

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Speaker 3: in here last night. This song came on and we

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Speaker 3: think it'd be great for you. So they threw it on,

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Speaker 3: and I mean the loud speaker. When you kind of

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Speaker 3: listen to it on like your phone, you're like, eh,

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Speaker 3: I don't know, but you put it on a loud speaker,

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Speaker 3: It's like, this is pretty sweet. So I think I

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Speaker 3: think it turned out all right. The club he's already

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Speaker 3: said they're gonna they're they're trying to get it even louder.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I think I think it turned out pretty well.

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Speaker 4: Did you have to hear it in the stadium before

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Speaker 4: you said okay, yeah, I definitely like this.

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Speaker 2: No, they get the bump box in the locker rooms

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Speaker 2: loud enough. Yeah, that captures it.

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Speaker 4: What's the one klubby? When I was with the Padres,

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Speaker 4: he might not even still be there. Does he still

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Speaker 4: ride around on the hoverboard when he's doing laundry?

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Speaker 2: I think I haven't seen that.

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Speaker 4: You haven't seen it, Okay, But anyway, those dudes were

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Speaker 4: always in when I was there. They were always into

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Speaker 4: heavy metal, So I love that they chose it. But

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Speaker 4: take us to that moment, Take us to a moment

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Speaker 4: when you came out there. You knew it was going

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Speaker 4: to be a different, choreographed light show, all that stuff.

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Speaker 4: Did you get the reaction yourself? Or is your heart

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Speaker 4: rate already pumping and you don't. It doesn't really matter

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Speaker 4: what the music and the lights are doing.

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Speaker 3: I don't think it really matters. I mean, you know

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Speaker 3: where I played for a couple of years ago, so

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Speaker 3: that doesn't need I don't need those to get the

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Speaker 3: juices fun. But man, they do help. I mean playing

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Speaker 3: it is one of the kind uh sick experience. They

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Speaker 3: love the ninth inning, they love saved situations. So and

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Speaker 3: it's the first one a year too, so obviously I

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Speaker 3: was excited to get out there and and get that one.

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Speaker 2: Out of the way.

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Speaker 5: No doubt you got the first. Say for Craig Stamons

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Speaker 5: first when talk a little about him, was there a

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Speaker 5: speech afterwards? The excitement, you know, just for him to

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Speaker 5: get that first went off his back.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was good.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the first one is that you always celebrate the first.

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Speaker 3: You have to, you know, that's that's fun, you know,

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Speaker 3: brings the guys together. Not not really a speech, but

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Speaker 3: we did put him in the cart, and you know

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Speaker 3: he's done that before, so he knew that was coming.

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Speaker 3: But just all good fun with the guys and we

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Speaker 3: got the first one out of the way. So play

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Speaker 3: a little more free hopefully this next series and you

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Speaker 3: know these things get rolling, you know, be the team

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Speaker 3: that we know we can be.

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Speaker 4: Do you have to ask the hefe if he's okay

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Speaker 4: going in the cart or was this like a pre

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Speaker 4: determined because Craig albern As the players on the Orioles

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Speaker 4: on his first victory, asked him and he's like, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I'm down for the boys. Did you guys go as

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Speaker 4: crazy as you did for other guys? Times when they

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Speaker 4: when they get in the cart or was it.

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Speaker 3: Just I think that was actually my I think that

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Speaker 3: might have been my first or maybe second one with

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Speaker 2: Pretty standard, I would imagine.

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Speaker 3: But it was respectfully, of course, as was Joe just said, hey,

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Speaker 3: we you.

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Speaker 2: Know, jump in the cart respectfully. That's okay with you?

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Speaker 2: Of course it was. So he's one of one of

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Speaker 2: the boys, you know.

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Speaker 3: That's part of what makes Stem unique and why we

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Speaker 3: were pretty excited about having him there is you know,

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Speaker 3: he has that different relationship and not a lot of

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Speaker 3: teams are a lot of managers are accustomed to having

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Speaker 3: where you know, he played with some of the guys.

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Speaker 3: I think the respect and the like understanding level was

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Speaker 3: a little bit different. Not necessarily better or worse, you know,

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Speaker 3: but I think that that's a welcome change for a

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Speaker 1: Do you feel it on the pitching side too, with

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Speaker 1: his experience not just as a former pitcher but a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think time will tell more. You know, we're

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Speaker 3: three games into it, so it's kind of hard to tell.

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Speaker 3: But you know, I don't think it's gonna hurt. There's

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Speaker 3: no way that it should hurt. You know, he's been

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Speaker 3: in our position. He's been in you know, stretches where

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Speaker 3: he's throwing a ton or stretches where he's not throwing.

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Speaker 3: So I think the just general usage and game planning

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Speaker 3: of it will be will be great.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Mason, you got to watch a little bit of

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Speaker 1: the Tigers. They were one of the better teams in

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Speaker 1: the AL last year. They should be again this year.

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Speaker 1: One of the conversations we're gonna go over later in

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Speaker 1: the show is the burst of rookies on the scene.

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Speaker 1: This looks like one of the better rookie classes that

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Speaker 1: we've seen in a while. What was your first hand

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Speaker 1: viewing experience of Kevin McGonagall like for the Tigers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm impressive obviously.

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Speaker 3: You know they have that entrance to your your big

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Speaker 3: league career, let alone on an opening day and you

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Speaker 3: know he's playing several different positions and you know, you

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Speaker 3: just tip your cap to that.

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Speaker 2: You know, he was putting a lot of good swings

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Speaker 2: on the ball.

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Speaker 3: You know, he's all over the dish, which you know,

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Speaker 3: as a pitcher is pretty annoying. You know, I feel

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Speaker 3: like with his leg kick, his foots in the strike

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Speaker 3: und but he covers it inside pitch well. Alway's got

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Speaker 3: great plate discipline, so you know, I'm not surprised at

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Speaker 3: all to see him having success given his pedigree, and yeah,

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Speaker 3: I wish him nothing.

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Speaker 4: Obviously we're gonna talk about the rookies later, but when

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Speaker 4: you see a rookie like that come up and I

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Speaker 4: get it, you got four hits in the first game.

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Speaker 4: Do you guys feel like as big league pitchers who

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Speaker 4: are established, you're like, we don't really have a lot

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Speaker 4: on them. Yeah, we have some double A triple A video.

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Speaker 4: Does that hurt your ability to necessarily make the best

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Speaker 4: pitches or could you guys really care less and just

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Speaker 4: go with whatever you guys got going.

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Speaker 2: I think each pitcher is going to be different.

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Speaker 3: I do think there's some truth to seeing you know

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Speaker 3: what he's had success against and what he's had struggles with,

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Speaker 3: and then you know you have to kind of extrapolate.

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Speaker 2: That to the big league level.

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Speaker 3: You know, if you know he's hitting I think his

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Speaker 3: his numbers on ninety seven plus, we're pretty good in

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Speaker 3: the minor leagues. But then you also don't know how

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Speaker 3: many you know, hit able pitches he's seen at ninety

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Speaker 3: and for me, I always kind of fall back on,

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Speaker 3: you know, what I do well and at the end

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Speaker 3: it doesn't really matter who it is. You know, more

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Speaker 3: and you know, more prolific or players that you know,

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Speaker 5: See, I want to ask this question. You've been on

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Speaker 2: We got cut down on the walk.

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Speaker 5: We gotta cut that out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we gotta get back to that. The walk rate

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Speaker 3: So Uh, that's that's that's up here where we're trying

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Speaker 5: And I want to just go and kind of finish

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Speaker 5: what I was trying to get out here. Like it's

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Speaker 5: it's really impressive, brot. Let's just call spaders pade. What

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Speaker 5: you've been doing, how you've been doing it? You face

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Speaker 5: these batters. I'm sure you have some sort of that

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Speaker 5: to tell me the game plan, But sometimes you when

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Speaker 5: you throw that hard, do you feel like sometimes I

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Speaker 5: do you think I'm throwing this hard? Let me just

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's a blend. Each day is different,

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Speaker 3: y'all know that. You know, sometimes you feel great, sometimes

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Speaker 3: you don't feel as good. Sometimes it's no thoughts, sometimes

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Speaker 3: it's all the thoughts. I say, last year, towards the

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Speaker 3: good idea of where the ball was going, a good

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Speaker 3: like that's a big part of my game. I'm not

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Speaker 3: I have a lot of good you know, work on

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Speaker 3: the edge of the strike zone, but some of that

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Speaker 1: Mason. The story that dominated the weekend was the ABS

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think you know, we're seeing exactly what

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Speaker 4: Could you see could you see pitchers being affected by

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think there's if it's egregious, you're

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Speaker 2: But I know that's the ball, So.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. It's it's a tough, little like gap

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Speaker 3: that's just like, take a moment center yourself. I'm trying

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Speaker 3: I want to see it when day it comes in.

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Speaker 3: But if you sit there and you turn around and

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Speaker 3: and then you turned back around and you got to

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Speaker 3: I just feel like, visually that's difficult, but I think

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Speaker 4: I liked that. I didn't think about the LED screen blinding.

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Speaker 4: You get off your screens, kids, I liked it. So

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Speaker 4: you're getting off your screen, all right. I got two

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Speaker 4: You got your medal and you took it right off.

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Speaker 4: I saw some of your other teammates doing it. When

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Speaker 3: Was there really wasn't any discussion prior to it, so

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Speaker 3: I don't know, you know, at least for me, that

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Speaker 3: So I just kind of felt it felt a little

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Speaker 4: as the home team. So can you give us the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going into the tournament just talking with the Padres.

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Speaker 2: The plan was to not go three out of five

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Speaker 3: And AJ said to me, he was like, hey, you know,

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Speaker 3: And I just told him at that point, like, hey,

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Speaker 3: we're okay with you being available for a save only,

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Speaker 3: so I don't think it was super surprising. I was

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Speaker 3: I totally expected it to be a no because that's

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Speaker 3: I don't I'll take the you know, there was a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, well said now a helpful explanation. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's roll that. Great choice and thanks for joining us.

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