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Speaker 1: What is Up?

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Speaker 2: Mets fans, Welcome back to a special episode of The

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Speaker 2: Mets the Podcast. As you can see sitting next to us,

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Speaker 2: we've got Francisco Lindor you know. Well, Francisco, thank you

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Speaker 2: for coming out and doing this with us. We really

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Speaker 2: appreciate it. You just had the birth of your second daughter.

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Speaker 3: I'm a polo. Take baseball out of it.

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Speaker 2: How's it feel to welcome your second daughter into the

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Speaker 2: world and juggling out with baseball and everything.

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Speaker 4: It's amazing, It's amazing, and it's a bit scary for

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Speaker 4: some reason.

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Speaker 1: We Colleina.

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Speaker 4: I wasn't scared at all to change diapers, pick her up,

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Speaker 4: but do whatever I gotta do. And I don't know

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Speaker 4: if I got used to Callina Now with I'm like

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Speaker 4: a little bit more like some softer with her.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm a little bit more timid for some reason.

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Speaker 4: But it's it's my wife did an amazing job.

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Speaker 1: I'm super proud of her and happy to have two girls.

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Speaker 1: Three girls. Now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Clean's birthday is November Righttmber fourth.

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Speaker 5: That probably is a whole different element as well, like

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Speaker 5: having it happen like I have the seasons bussed into

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Speaker 5: the season.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, for sure. It is nine and day difference.

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Speaker 4: I was able to be with Colleena every sing of

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Speaker 4: the day for the first six months, I would say,

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Speaker 4: of her life, But without my Paula is a little different,

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Speaker 4: you know, Like I want that bond, my connection as

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Speaker 4: men's are. Connection with our kids. Don't start for me.

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Speaker 4: Don't start into like they're actually out, you know, when

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Speaker 4: there in the.

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Speaker 1: Belly, you try. You can try to play okay and

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Speaker 1: stuff with your.

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Speaker 4: Wife and say yeah, I feel like I hear you know,

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Speaker 4: but there's no connection, at least for me. When they

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Speaker 4: come out, you know, that's when the connection starts, and

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Speaker 4: it's a little a little different. I try to be

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Speaker 4: with my Paula as much as I can and just

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Speaker 4: talk to her constantly so she can, you know, get

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Speaker 4: a little bit more familiar with my voice and.

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Speaker 1: My my smell.

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Speaker 3: I guess bring baseball back into it.

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Speaker 5: Since Anna Paula was born, you have been on fire

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Speaker 5: at the plate in three twenty four slugging percentage over

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Speaker 5: seven hundred.

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Speaker 3: Do you think she might be a good luck charm?

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Speaker 1: Yes and no.

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Speaker 4: I don't want my kids to have their pressure of

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Speaker 4: their having to all my success depends on them. But

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Speaker 4: at the same time, I saw how hard my wife worked,

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Speaker 4: and I didn't take that for granted. And it's baseball.

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Speaker 4: You know you're gonna have ups and downs. I think

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Speaker 4: if I would have had this the beginning of the year,

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Speaker 4: probably people wouldn't really say muchn't care. But now he

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Speaker 4: worked out that it was in the week that my

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Speaker 4: daughter was born, So let's give all the credits.

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Speaker 2: Would you say baseball players are pretty superstitious. We saw

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Speaker 2: you change up your hair. Is that like a superstition

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Speaker 2: thing or not at all?

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Speaker 4: Not at all, As you guys can tell, I wear

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Speaker 4: many different colors on a daily bases. I don't no superstious.

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Speaker 4: I don't believe in that. I mean, I dreamed of

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Speaker 4: having of playing in the big leagues and having gear,

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Speaker 4: having my own shoes. Why would I limit myself to

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Speaker 4: one cleat? I would have limited myself to one glove,

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Speaker 4: you know, just because I made a good play. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: years because I got two hits the day before. Now

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Speaker 4: you know, now I'm gonna keep on rotating them.

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Speaker 1: I'm blessed to have all. I have everything I got,

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Speaker 1: so why not use it?

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Speaker 3: You mentioned make a good play and don't chase the gloves.

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Speaker 5: You haven't make a lot of good plays recently, and

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Speaker 5: now we were on a full half season without the shift.

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Speaker 3: How has it been to adjusting that without the shift?

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Speaker 3: That's a short stup.

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Speaker 1: It's been great, It's been great.

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Speaker 4: It's one of those I have a lot more ground

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Speaker 4: to cover, so I take a lot of pride on it.

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Speaker 4: You know, I want to get to every single ball.

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Speaker 4: There's there's plays that I don't get to baseball. I

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Speaker 4: know I should have gotten to the ball. So then

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Speaker 4: those are the ones that actually like they stay on

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Speaker 4: me a little longer because I know I could have

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Speaker 4: had the baseball and making good plays. They're fun, you know,

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Speaker 4: but it should be made, you know. Yeah, the ones

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Speaker 4: that I don't make, those other ones that stay with

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Speaker 2: Talk about the other changes to the pitch clock. Everybody

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Speaker 2: talks about it from the pitchers perspective, But on the

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Speaker 2: hitter side, how have you been feeling like?

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Speaker 1: Justin first of.

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Speaker 4: All, I like it because games are much faster. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: As a parent and only imagining what I would go

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Speaker 4: through when I take my daughters to a baseball game

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Speaker 4: if I were taking them a few years ago getting

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Speaker 4: home at midnight because the game finished eleven by the

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Speaker 4: time they get too bad and shower them and go

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Speaker 4: through homework, and then they got to get up at

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Speaker 4: six in the morning.

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Speaker 1: To go to school. Why would I go through that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So now that the game's are a little faster,

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Speaker 4: that's one point of view where I see I can

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Speaker 4: appreciate that, And then the other one, the adjustment period

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Speaker 4: was it was tough at the beginning and it's still challenging.

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Speaker 1: At times.

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Speaker 4: I'm focusing on my plan, I approach what I want

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Speaker 4: to do in the boas box, I'm paying attention to

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Speaker 4: the picture, and then a sudden the clock gets there.

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Speaker 4: I look at the clock and then I try to

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Speaker 4: get back into the box into the moment.

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Speaker 1: And it was it was tough. It was tough to adapt.

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Speaker 4: That's why you see a lot of the guys that

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Speaker 4: were coming up from the minor leagues in the plate

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Speaker 4: and with the clock. We're having success earlier because guys

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Speaker 4: were they knew what was happening.

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Speaker 3: It saw a great video the Mets put out on

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Speaker 3: their social media.

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Speaker 5: I think it was yesterday or the day before, where

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Speaker 5: people when we're in the dug out talking about the

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Speaker 5: favorite player and most of that stuff, and you come

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Speaker 5: out behind them and surprise that what's uh? What's some

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Speaker 5: of the best fan reactions you've had, either at the

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Speaker 5: ballpark or even just out in the city or anyway.

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Speaker 4: To be quite honest, the best one is when they

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Speaker 4: don't even know who I am. That's the best one

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Speaker 4: because I can have a real conversation without them being shocked.

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Speaker 4: But the funny ones are the ones that they don't

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Speaker 4: say much. They talk all these games that they what

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Speaker 4: they're gonna say. No, they meet me in person and

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Speaker 4: they go blank. By the time they react, I'm gone,

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Speaker 1: So those are always funny.

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Speaker 4: But the best ones are the ones I could be

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Speaker 4: in the restaurant and have a conversation on the in

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Speaker 4: the airplane anyway, randomly, you just have conversation with them

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Speaker 4: and they tell me all their life, and then I

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Speaker 4: I tell them absolutely nothing all my life. And then

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Speaker 4: when I do tell them, I'm all to take off,

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Speaker 4: and they're like, oh.

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Speaker 3: Okay, got it yet.

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Speaker 2: You've made a lot of big plays in your career,

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Speaker 2: you know, big at bats, big plays in the field.

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Speaker 2: Is there any that like really stands out to He

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Speaker 2: was the most memorable.

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Speaker 4: There was one in Cleveland adult play. Andrew Miller was pitching.

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Speaker 4: He came into he came into leave that inning and

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Speaker 4: I believe don't something. A Bautista was hitting and they

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Speaker 1: To me, one hup, turned out play got out of dating.

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Speaker 4: That was to me one of the most memorable because

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Speaker 4: Miller said, the balls coming to you, and I was

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Speaker 4: I was scared, like, oh my god, ball is coming

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to make this play. And I was

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Speaker 1: able to tend that.

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Speaker 5: You can just pull back a little bit more. Now

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Speaker 5: we know you're student of the game, baseball historian. If

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Speaker 5: you had to name your mount rushmore of a time shortstops,

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Speaker 5: your top four short stops.

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Speaker 4: I've been looking at this on Instagram and everywhere.

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to do.

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Speaker 3: It, but you on the spot.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, shortstops, Larkin h I will put this is why

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Speaker 4: I don't want to do it. G there usin Smith.

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Speaker 4: He's not a shortstop. But Roberts to all of one fair.

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Speaker 2: That's fair, that's good. You're talking about your shoes before.

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Speaker 2: Your guy has like a lot of style. I have

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Speaker 2: been told I dressed like a big middle schooler because

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Speaker 2: I just usually wear like a T shirt and shorts, So, like,

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Speaker 2: what are some things that maybe I could get to

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Speaker 2: like up my fashion game?

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Speaker 3: My style.

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Speaker 4: The number one thing wearing colors and then not being

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Speaker 4: afraid of wearing oversized stuff. Textures and sizes and colors

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Speaker 4: are very important into the fashion world. I think if

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Speaker 4: you give mixed match texture and whether it's something baggier

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Speaker 5: But look, you playing offside, I know, how bad do

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Speaker 5: you want to remodel marks style?

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Speaker 3: There was one teammate you can remake his style? What

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Speaker 3: would you do?

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Speaker 4: And the reason why Gi yor May is because he's

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Speaker 4: got such a nice beer, but he doesn't do enough

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Speaker 4: with it and he just shaves his head so he's

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Speaker 4: not scared to change stuff with his head.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we saw that right.

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Speaker 4: So he has so much play and then there's so

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Speaker 4: much he works typically the same colors and that you know,

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Speaker 4: you know, I gotta look out. But he's not bad.

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Speaker 4: He just there's just more play in it.

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Speaker 2: We're super excited that you're here on the mats doing

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Speaker 2: this interview with us. We really do appreciate it. Because

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Speaker 2: look the rest of the season, and uh, what's the best.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys,