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Speaker 2: We were the youngest team in the big league's the

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Speaker 1: A long time.

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Speaker 2: I'd love two numbers on that. So I'm excited to

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Speaker 1: You're surprised at how heavy it is. I want to

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Speaker 3: I want to thank the.

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Speaker 1: Darn it.

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Speaker 4: I want to thank the Academy.

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Speaker 1: Heavy though.

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Speaker 5: Trophy.

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Speaker 1: It's gotta be PLAQ. If this thing wasn't there, i'd

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Speaker 1: say trophy. But be honest, is it cooler than the

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Speaker 1: m v P?

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Speaker 4: Like, look cooler looking?

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Speaker 1: Probably not? Come on, it's.

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Speaker 6: Got the fingers and everything.

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Speaker 2: I think he is sick though. The most valuable player

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Speaker 5: But you're the most valuable yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but then most Valuable Player I think is like

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Speaker 5: And you guys are asking two different questions.

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Speaker 7: They're saying the Actor Trophy, trophy, Yeah.

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Speaker 6: We're trophy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a badass one.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you. Hey, I'll I'll start this way.

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Speaker 7: So we just did our post show, you know, or

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Speaker 5: So I don't know if you want to tell them

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Speaker 8: Just how your path parallel the team's path this year.

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Speaker 8: And people don't know all the time, Trek, how much

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Speaker 5: Not all guys have the struggles you did.

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Speaker 8: But I imagine tonight, given all that you went through,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I mean in my career, but also kind

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Speaker 2: It took a ton of pressure off me, putting pressure

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Speaker 4: So, yeah, when all those dudes were getting traded and

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I look at us as a privilege

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Speaker 4: Do you remember that feeling sitting in the dugout because

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've lived it a lot, I'll live it again

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Speaker 5: Your side is closer to Lakeland, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 5: My question is why would he.

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Speaker 1: It's secure.

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Speaker 2: Actually go to Lakeland with me, because I'm saying, see

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Detroit.

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Speaker 2: Have your wife bringing when she comes to Maybe I'll

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Speaker 1: It might be a good idea.

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Speaker 1: That's true.

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Speaker 8: Yea.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, he's way too humble to do that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Hey, I got one more for you. So you're the

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Speaker 1: You should ask him? Won't come on?

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Speaker 5: He's got to find a little more work to finish.

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Speaker 1: He's had some guys he's got to take care of.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you let him handle all of that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean I trust him with with everything

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Speaker 2: I don't I don't like thinking about it.

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Speaker 1: I don't really want to handle it.

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Speaker 2: I'll let the guys who are you know I pay

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Speaker 7: Okay, cool and feeling good about the roster. Yeah yeah,

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Speaker 7: I mean there could be like one more like Bregman.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, kind of good. He would look really good.

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Speaker 5: He's a hinch guy.

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Speaker 1: He's a hinch in boards. You got the connections there is.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Tiger fans are they're keeping an eye on it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I'm I'm excited.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the team that we had last year, we

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Speaker 1: I'd love to see numbers on that.

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Speaker 2: So we didn't lose anyone on that postseason roster to

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Speaker 2: it's gonna be a lot of growth in that sense too.

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Speaker 1: That's going to be a ton of fun.

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Speaker 2: And to compete each other against each other early is fun,

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's the beauty of the young teams. They're all

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Speaker 4: A few more weddings they had, Bill, Yeah, we're married.

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Speaker 1: Engage, we love it's good stories exactly.

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Speaker 7: Focus on the field, that's what we want. Good to

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Speaker 7: see you, dude. Congratulations, a great speech. This was really fun.

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Speaker 7: Thank you great. Have you appreciate you? School Boy with

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Speaker 7: right now, right after school?

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Speaker 5: So perfect. Yeah, how was that for you?

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Speaker 3: That was pretty awesome?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 5: We can call him a json Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean, no career age, no comments, there's a lot

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Speaker 3: that's a long history. I tell you what, I've gotten

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Speaker 7: Do you feel like this is the last time you

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Speaker 5: To spring training.

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Speaker 7: This is like that one little last look back appreciation

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Speaker 5: Be in Lakelands.

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Speaker 3: So one of our first base coach, Anthony Ioposi, who's

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Speaker 8: Hey Ja, When Tarik was here, he mentioned how the

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Speaker 5: How did you hold it together?

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Speaker 8: How did you get to the point where that run

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Speaker 5: Well?

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Speaker 3: I needed a day or two, you know, cause I didn't.

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Speaker 5: I'm like, hey, who's won in here before?

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Speaker 3: I said like Trek Schouble and pitching chaos like it

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Speaker 1: What do we not know about Trek Scouble.

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Speaker 3: And he's like why, And I'm like why, and he's like,

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Speaker 8: And yet he said when you left him here in

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Speaker 5: That was a big deal to him that you didn't

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Speaker 3: I'll trust him, you know, until he can't pitch. I mean,

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Speaker 4: You couldn't take him. He's a monster. So he says

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Speaker 1: Let him. You do You do it, Charlie manual.

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Speaker 3: You know what The best part of this, this part

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Speaker 7: Yeah, appreciate really good stuff.

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Speaker 1: A J.

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Speaker 5: Great to see you appreciate it. AJ Hinch for this