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Speaker 1: What's up, Mets fans, Welcome back to another episode of

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Speaker 1: The Mets Stuff Podcast, Episode number one seventy eight. Big

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Speaker 1: things going on in this episode spring training interviews, the

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Speaker 1: last of them Drew Smith and Joey Lucasey coming at you.

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Speaker 1: But before we get going into the interview, got a

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Speaker 1: lot to talk about here, Opening days coming up, ESTI

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Speaker 1: met stuff, James excited.

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Speaker 2: So excited if baseball is upon us, We're finally going

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Speaker 2: to get the estimat payoff. You guys are going to

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Speaker 2: see either Mark or I in a tuxi though at

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Speaker 2: the home opener next week, possibly doing some content there.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna keep you guys update on that as we

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Speaker 2: know more. But big week content. Very excited again the

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Speaker 2: season ago.

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Speaker 1: Yep, we have a season preview episode as well, coming

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Speaker 1: out on Wednesday, right before the season starts for opening Day.

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Speaker 1: So much stuff coming at you. We're so excited to

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Speaker 1: talk about baseball. We're so excited for you guys to

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Speaker 1: listen to this episode as well. Like we said, Drew Smith,

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Speaker 1: Drew Chains coming on the podcast, finally getting a good

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Speaker 1: interview with him along with Joey Lucazy. Really just awesome interviews.

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, great interviews. I mean always just talking to pitching,

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Speaker 2: you guys know that may always make me happy. But

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Speaker 2: Drew Smith was the hell of a guy. Joey Lucazy

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Speaker 2: was too. Two dudes who were like would love to

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Speaker 2: just like grab beer with them. They were just fun

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Speaker 2: to hang out with. Drew Smith had learned about talked

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Speaker 2: about Drew Chains, he liked that nickname a lot, talked

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Speaker 2: about recovery from injury. Similar stuff with Joey Lucazy. Actually,

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Speaker 2: nicknames and recovery from injury to two big themes of

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Speaker 2: these two pitches, but two super fun interviews.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 1: So let's go ahead and go to the Drew Smith

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Speaker 1: interview first. Hope you guys enjoy it.

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Speaker 2: What's up, guys, Back with another great interview from the

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Speaker 2: Messed Up Podcast, live from beautiful Clover Park and the

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Speaker 2: wonderful Port Saint Lucy. We have Drew Smith, you guys

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Speaker 2: know him as Drew Chains.

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Speaker 4: Welcome to the show, Drew, Thank you, thanks for having me,

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Speaker 4: of course, man, glad to have you here.

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Speaker 5: We're just we've we've been massive fans here for a

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Speaker 2: We've loved the way he broken out of the lastew

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Speaker 2: year's this team, so I kind of want to start

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Speaker 5: Were you expectations for the squad this year?

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Speaker 6: I mean, I feel like we're supposed to be pretty good,

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Speaker 6: so expectations are high, but we're all excited, We're ready.

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Speaker 4: I love the moves we made.

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Speaker 6: We made some big time moves, even some smaller moves

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Speaker 6: that really helped the team out, and I'm excited to

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Speaker 6: get going and I think it's going to be a

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Speaker 6: great year.

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Speaker 4: As a player part of the organization.

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Speaker 1: How does it feel when you see ownership and management

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Speaker 1: bringing these big name players.

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Speaker 4: To help you guys win. I mean it makes you excited.

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Speaker 6: That's what you want as a owner of a team

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Speaker 6: is to spend money like that, get guys coming in

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Speaker 6: and the organization. And that's exactly what Steve Cohen did.

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Speaker 6: So gets you excited, gets you ready, and it just man,

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Speaker 6: it's a lot different than what it was when I

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Speaker 2: Zooming out a little bit, talking more about your career

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Speaker 2: last few years, you've broken down a big way, and

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Speaker 2: before that, basically had two years where you're battling injuries,

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Speaker 6: I mean, I still struggle with injuries the past two

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Speaker 4: He's been around a long time.

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Speaker 6: He's been a good mentor for me, and just trusting

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Speaker 1: Who were some of the pictures that you idolized or

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Speaker 4: That's a good question and one that we talked.

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Speaker 6: I've talked about it in the locker room a couple

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Speaker 6: when I was a diehard Rangers fan grown up.

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Speaker 4: I grew up in Texas and I.

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Speaker 6: Think I was probably twelve twelve ish when he broke

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Speaker 6: Tommy Hunter fan. They called him Tommy Big game Hunter back.

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Speaker 4: But just being a Rangers fan, he's stuck. Stuck with

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Speaker 2: Talk about growing up in Texas. No, you're a big

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Speaker 5: What's it like being a Cowboys fan living New York?

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Speaker 6: I hear about it every every year from some some

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Speaker 6: usually they're they're somewhat nice to me, so that's good.

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Speaker 4: So this year, we want a playoff game. So that's

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll start tom Brady be tom.

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Speaker 4: Brady into his career. That's what I tell people, tom

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Speaker 1: Outside of playing baseball and watching football. What do you

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Speaker 4: Man, I like anything outdoors.

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Speaker 6: I love pickleball. Pickleball's fun, coming up tennis and that's

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Speaker 6: I mean, really anything outdoors, hanging out with friends, just

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Speaker 2: What I look forward to in the off season, playing

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Speaker 2: off that a little bit. If you weren't playing baseball,

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Speaker 2: what do you think you care doing?

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Speaker 3: That's a great question.

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Speaker 6: I would like to say another sport, but I don't.

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Speaker 6: I don't think I'm talented for another sport. I wanted

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Speaker 4: But if I didn't play baseball, I would have gone

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Speaker 1: You heard us in the intro call you Drew chains,

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Speaker 1: rock in the chain. We like to give nicknames the guys.

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Speaker 1: What do you think about the nickname? And is there

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Speaker 4: Is that I have a have a couple. Uh.

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Speaker 6: One of the trainers calls me Drew Baby, drewsy stuff

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Speaker 4: But I like Drew Shanes. That's a good one.

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Speaker 6: I used to have a like a silver chain and

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Speaker 4: I was like, I need a gold chain, so I

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Speaker 3: That's good.

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Speaker 4: Keep it going.

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Speaker 2: Kind of funny because two years ago and we started

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Speaker 5: I did actually then called you Drew Flow. Yeah okay,

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Speaker 5: and then you cut the hair.

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Speaker 4: It was a good run, yeah, it was not my

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Speaker 5: Yeah yeah. And you know what's your favorite pitch to throw?

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Speaker 4: I have to be fastball answer.

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Speaker 4: I got you. You can't you can't touch my ear.

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Speaker 2: In your experiences be far in the major leagues, who's

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Speaker 4: It's gotta be Jan Soto. I think answer. I think

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Speaker 6: How do you know that that's to strike the ball

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Speaker 6: he does, and he's definitely one of the tougher guys

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Speaker 4: I mean you try not to notice that stuff.

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Speaker 4: Comes back, you give him a hundred dollars. To give

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Speaker 6: I'll video it, I'll post on social media or something.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely love to hear that. A big rule change coming

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Speaker 4: So it's going to be interesting.

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Speaker 6: I think it's it's good for the game just to

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Speaker 1: Last year Sports Ill Shred models came to the game.

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Speaker 1: You shot your shot on Twitter, Sydney Kimberley.

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Speaker 5: It did it work? Did you get a dating?

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Speaker 6: Nothing happened, Nothing happened from it. I didn't follow up,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure came out to you. That was awesome.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, guys.

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Speaker 6: I appreciate it didn't work, but I appreciate your support.

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Speaker 4: For sure.

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Speaker 5: You definitely want to snap your dressers on the team.

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Speaker 5: You take yourself out of the equation. Who do you

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Speaker 6: There's a couple Mark Canna great dresser, great great dresser,

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Speaker 4: Those are three.

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Speaker 6: I would say those are my top three for sure.

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Speaker 6: And then I don't even think. I don't even think

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Speaker 6: I had a decent picture of the other day walking in.

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Speaker 6: Everybody's like, oh, you're just nice one day to day,

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Speaker 5: My top all right, thanks again Drew for coming on

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Speaker 3: Perfect.

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Speaker 5: Thank you everybody, see you next time.

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Speaker 4: Ks, Guys, Appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: So there was Drew Smith, Drew Chains or Drew Boo

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Speaker 1: as we now know, wants to be an engineer. If

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Speaker 1: interview as always, Joey Luczy up next. I mean, it's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and just remember that even happened. Like, hey, we

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Speaker 5: Pretty cool. So here it is Joey Lucazy.

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Speaker 2: What's up, guys, Welcome back to the Mets Up Podcast.

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Speaker 2: We have another great interview coming to you live from

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Speaker 2: Port Saint Lucy. Joey Lukesey sitting down with us a

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Speaker 2: couple of minutes. Joey, first question, You've probably one of

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Speaker 2: the coolest nicknames of the entire team, Joey Fuego.

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Speaker 5: Can you tell us where that they originated from?

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Speaker 3: Thank you. I appreciate that.

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Speaker 7: I went to college and Southeast Missouri University. Okay, a

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Speaker 7: oh man, that's kind of sick. And then kind of

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Speaker 7: So I just stuck and then that was my Twitter

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Speaker 3: That's how it started.

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Speaker 7: I had got drafted by the Padres in twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 3: That's super cool.

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Speaker 8: Is there anything you're working on spring training right now

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Speaker 7: So I worked out Cressy Sports Performance over here in Jupiter.

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Speaker 7: So I had a cutter in nineteen I didn't really

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Speaker 3: Just threw it, like I I'm not.

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Speaker 7: Trying to talk myself up, but like I feel like

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Speaker 7: I have pretty good precision on my pitches like I

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Speaker 7: know where to start it. I would throw it to

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Speaker 7: lefties and didn't. It didn't really work well against lefties

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Speaker 7: because it's stays in the zone longer. I like throwing

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Speaker 7: varieties more and I just know where to set it,

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Speaker 7: like the perfect spot to set it up, what counts

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Speaker 7: to throw it?

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Speaker 2: And yeah, with some expectations or goals you have for

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Speaker 2: yourself this season.

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Speaker 7: Goals stay healthy all year, be with the big league team,

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Speaker 7: win a championship with the team, help contribute.

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Speaker 3: I think those pretty pretty strong.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, those awesome goals.

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Speaker 7: I have like a bunch of mini goals, but that

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Speaker 7: that's like I want to throw like ninety five. I

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Speaker 7: want to be healthy man, Yeah, and help contribute most

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Speaker 7: of all.

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Speaker 8: Of course, what do you like to do outside of baseball?

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Speaker 7: Outside of baseball, every Saturday, I.

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Speaker 3: Would go swimming.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I like swimming a game here in that wou

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Speaker 7: Fortnite Call of Duty.

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Speaker 3: I used to play two K a lot. I don't

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Speaker 3: really go out much anymore.

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Speaker 7: When I was younger, I used to like go out,

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Speaker 7: but I'm just like super dedicated to baseball. So just

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Speaker 7: on that, maybe I'll go shopping, go out dinners with

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Speaker 7: friends or something like that, so.

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Speaker 5: And be dedicated to baseball. If you weren't a baseball player,

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Speaker 5: what do you think you'd be doing with your life.

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Speaker 7: Maybe I'd be a coach. Maybe i'd worked with my dad.

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Speaker 7: He's like, yeah, I don't know. He's an engineer, but

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Speaker 7: I don't know how I would.

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Speaker 3: That would work out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Sorry, yeah, you know, you say you could do that,

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Speaker 7: but you just don't know how it would pan out.

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Speaker 8: I'm sure it's hard too, because you're like, well, I've

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Speaker 8: just been really good at baseball, so yeah, kind to.

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Speaker 3: Be honest with you, it's the only job I've ever

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Speaker 3: had in my life. It's pretty cool.

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Speaker 7: I just put all my focus in that to make sure,

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Speaker 7: like I get it, you know.

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Speaker 3: Hundred percent. I'm still here, so you know.

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Speaker 8: The game is about to start. Here we're at Port

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Speaker 8: Saint Lucie talking with Joey Lucazy. Joey, thank you so

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Speaker 8: much for taking time out of your day and we hope.

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Speaker 3: To see you soon. Thank you. Guys.

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, there they are the Joey Lukesey interview

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Speaker 1: done weirdly enough, both thought they could be engineers if

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Speaker 1: they weren't going to be baseball players, which I honestly,

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Speaker 1: I don't think that was on my Bengo guard.

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Speaker 5: No, definitely not.

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Speaker 4: We've heard Tyler McGill and Dave Pears and say golf.

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Speaker 2: I kind of felt like that was gonna be like

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Speaker 2: most of the way here, but you know, and it

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Speaker 2: could be anything. I think Drew Smith or Joe Lukazy

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Speaker 2: could be help of an engineer.

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Speaker 1: One hundred percent. So I mean, great interviews is always.

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Speaker 1: Like we said, guys, season preview episode coming out on Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: right before the season starts, right before opening Day. We

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Speaker 1: can't wait for you guys to listen along with us

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Speaker 1: on that as well as the estimate should be coming

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Speaker 1: to an end. We're gonna be doing the decathlon this week,

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Speaker 1: so we will figure out who gets to wear a

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Speaker 1: tuxio to opening Day. We all know it's gonna be James.

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Speaker 1: It's definitely not gonna be me. I've been doing my

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Speaker 1: hot girl walks. You know, I'm in better shape than

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Speaker 1: you've ever seen me in the last two years, So

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Speaker 1: maybe maybe those hot girl walks are gonna help me.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what we haven't been told exactly what

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Speaker 1: are challenges or what our events are gonna be. I'm

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Speaker 1: hoping not too much running because James will definitely crush

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Speaker 1: me in that one.

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Speaker 2: I think it's gonna have to be a spread of

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Speaker 2: athleticism versus baseball, because we're gonna probably each win the

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Speaker 2: ones of those most likely, so it's kind of hopefully

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Speaker 2: even it out. So we have a couple of chances

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Speaker 2: to or at least like a couple athleticism, a couple

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Speaker 2: of baseball, couples of like random things that we can

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Speaker 2: that we can do see who gets the better of

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Speaker 2: the other.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be posting all day during Estimate Decathlon Day.

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