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Speaker 1: All right, it's another episode of Splash Hit Territory and

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Speaker 1: we usually don't work on a Sunday. We usually don't

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Speaker 1: do this on a Sunday, but we got breaking Giants news,

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Speaker 1: so Susan and I decided to jump on today with

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Speaker 1: this breaking news. It's an emergency podcast and we're joined

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Speaker 1: again by our frequent contributor, Susan Slester. Susan, we got

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Speaker 1: a lot of stuff to talk about today, we do.

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Speaker 2: I love this Luis Oris news so much. And you knew,

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Speaker 2: you kind of knew right that he might be a

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Speaker 2: good fit for the Giants, just the way that Buster

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Speaker 2: Posey keeps signaling he loves contact hitters, really high contact hitters,

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Speaker 2: and you don't get better than that than Luisa Rise

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Speaker 2: in the major leagues. Right now, he's got some downside.

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Speaker 2: We'll we'll talk about that a little bit. But I

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Speaker 2: asked about him back in the winter meetings. I was

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Speaker 2: digging around and they check. It was one of those

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Speaker 2: well they've checked in, but I don't know if they're

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Speaker 2: really a fit. I didn't really And then we started

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Speaker 2: hearing they're going to do it with a trade. They're

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Speaker 2: going to do it with a trade, and second base

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Speaker 2: not necessarily an area I think where we thought that

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Speaker 2: was a necessary upgrade. No, you know for real, but hey,

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Speaker 2: I'll take loose rise anytime. I love his game limited,

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Speaker 2: I guess maybe as you could argue that it is.

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Speaker 2: What do you think about adding a I mean, two

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Speaker 2: time batting champ, three time All Star guy, led the

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Speaker 2: league in hits last year's twenty eight.

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Speaker 1: Three time batting Champ hit three fifty four in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three and had two hundred hits in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: I think if you have a lineup that doesn't have

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Speaker 1: a lot of pop and doesn't have and doesn't have

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Speaker 1: a lot of strikeout that a guy like Luisa Riise

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Speaker 1: is just another guy. But when you're talking about the

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Speaker 1: Giants and they're big swing in the miss hitters, and

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Speaker 1: I have it right here, Chapman struck out one hundred

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Speaker 1: and twenty six times. And this is no offense of

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Speaker 1: these guys. They're great major league players, they're great hitters,

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Speaker 1: and they're power hitters. So power hitters are going to

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Speaker 1: struck out, I got it right here, one hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty six times. And five hundred and thirty five played appearances.

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Speaker 1: He was hurt a lot last year. Willie Diamond struck

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Speaker 1: out one hundred and seventy nine times in six hundred

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Speaker 1: and eighty six plate appearances. Dever struck out one hundred

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Speaker 1: and ninety two times last year between the two ball

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Speaker 1: two strikeouts between four hitters, which in today's game is

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Speaker 1: just kind of the way it's going. But now you

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Speaker 1: puts the ball in play. And here's the thing about

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Speaker 1: striking out too. Like everybody used to say, Vladimer Guerrero

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Speaker 1: doesn't strike out. He swung at the first pitch every time.

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Speaker 1: I don't even think he got to a two strikeount. Ever,

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Speaker 1: he was a good, bad ball hitter. Luisa Raise is

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Speaker 1: a little bit different in the sense that I've watched

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Speaker 1: some of his bats that were super spirited, where he'd

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Speaker 1: fall off five or six three two pitches, flip a

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Speaker 1: I wanted the Giant to get when he got traded

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Speaker 1: he definitely has. He's a tough out man, and that's

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Speaker 1: a term, Susan, we don't use in baseball very often anymore.

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Speaker 1: It used to be the ultimate compliment when a manager

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Speaker 1: would come up to you and say, dude, you're a

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Speaker 1: tough out. We don't use tough out anymore. Luisa Rise

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Speaker 1: is a tough out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And this isn't a guy you would think would necessarily

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Speaker 3: To come to San Francisco.

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Speaker 2: His numbers Oracle are kind of average, maybe a little

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Speaker 2: be the everyday second baseman. That was his priority, one

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Speaker 2: hundred percent his priority. The Giants have guaranteed, well, I

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Speaker 2: don't know if guarantee. It might be a strong word,

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Speaker 2: down multi year offers elsewhere for this reason. Now, the

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Speaker 2: obvious thing here is that Luis A. Rise is not

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Speaker 1: Well, first things first, Wash is going to be a

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Speaker 1: some work to do with a young first baseman who's

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Speaker 1: the number one prospect in the organization, Bryce Eldridge, a

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Speaker 1: now you throw in Luisa Rise to the mix. So

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Speaker 1: a lot of work to do. But Wash loves that

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Speaker 1: trust with this whole thing. As far as why he

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Speaker 1: might be the fact that there's a lot of room

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Speaker 1: And he's the last guy that cares about the ball

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Speaker 1: super perplexed that a lot of Giants fans weren't excited

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Speaker 1: because it's such a negative place, but I couldn't be

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Speaker 2: Well, this is this is what it looks like in

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Speaker 2: today's chronicle. After my report last night, I would I

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Speaker 2: this is a name, this is a name guy. And honestly,

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Speaker 2: we spent so much time talking about the Giants slow winter. No,

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Speaker 2: they didn't get tyle Kucker Tucker. Only one team gets them. Well,

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Speaker 2: they didn't get Cody Bellinger. Okay, maybe they're not after

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Speaker 2: fran Bervaldez, but Batter and Arise answer very specific needs

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Speaker 2: for them, and really, I'm surprised at a kind of

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Speaker 2: a bargain price the Giants indicated going into the spring,

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Speaker 2: eight on a one year, twelve million dollar deal. I really,

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Speaker 2: I think that's really small, and I think people are

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Speaker 2: rough times. But you mentioned wash I that whole season

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Speaker 3: Maybe, like maybe at least.

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Speaker 1: Know, a couple of things come to mind. The Giants

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Speaker 1: The other thing is he's confident, he knows he can hit.

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Speaker 1: He's betting on himself. He didn't need a two year deal.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go out hit three thirty this year again,

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Speaker 1: It's hard to articulate on here, but he was my

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Speaker 1: I'm repeating myself. He showed me things at second base

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Speaker 1: I don't know, man. I'm a big Casey Schmidt fan

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure there's I think Casey Schmidt could be

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Speaker 2: They love Casey Schmidt, like this is none of this

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Speaker 2: So I just I'm you know, look, I don't have

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Speaker 3: But I'm with you.

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Speaker 2: That's tough, you know, when you're not playing every day

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Speaker 3: He's a little bit older than Casey Schmidt.

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Speaker 2: Casey's still only twenty six, so he's still in sort

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Speaker 2: It's going to be this is going to be one

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Speaker 1: Well, you go left right, left, right, left right and

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Speaker 1: it's the same team. I know, I know it helps

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Speaker 1: If you don't put the ball in play, I can't

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Speaker 1: it's different now, but there's so much swing and missing

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Speaker 2: Ideally, who do you want hitting third? Who do you

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Speaker 1: I like Chappie hitting forth or or whoever. Elliott if

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Speaker 1: Just the key thing is that on the matchup that day,

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Speaker 1: I thought it was a team that could get contended

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Speaker 2: You then raced off to do a lot of MC duty.

431
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Speaker 2: Any tidbits what jumped out to you? How do you

432
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Speaker 2: assess that fan fest?

433
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Speaker 1: A number of things. First of all, seventeen thousand fans

434
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Speaker 1: were there. They had twelve thousand San ramon the week before,

435
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Speaker 1: and seventeen thousand fans were at Sutter Health Park in

436
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Speaker 1: Sacramento yesterday. And just interviewing those guys, we just just

437
00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:50,280
Speaker 1: started getting real baseball and talking. Willie Adamas is a

438
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Speaker 1: rock star. I mean when they announced his name, it

439
00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:55,880
Speaker 1: was like Justin Bieber's name was announced. It was all

440
00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:59,520
Speaker 1: screams and yells from girls and fans were going nuts

441
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Speaker 1: about Willie Damas and he's such a nice guy and

442
00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:05,560
Speaker 1: he's signing autographs everywhere. And I asked him on stage,

443
00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:07,119
Speaker 1: I said, where did this come from? Where did this

444
00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:10,280
Speaker 1: like great teammate come from? Where you really care about

445
00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:12,960
Speaker 1: everybody in the clubhouse and you always have a smile

446
00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:16,120
Speaker 1: on your face whether you're doing well or whether you're

447
00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:18,239
Speaker 1: doing not. And he said it was his parents and

448
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Speaker 1: instilling that in him at a young age. You probably

449
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Speaker 1: know this from talking to him. And then I asked

450
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Speaker 1: him about the slow start, and I said, you know,

451
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Speaker 1: I liken it to somebody with a new job, or

452
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Speaker 1: someone kid that goes to a new school that you

453
00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:32,159
Speaker 1: don't know your classmates, you don't know your teachers, you

454
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Speaker 1: don't know even how to get around the campus, or

455
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Speaker 1: if a new job, you know all your new coworkers

456
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Speaker 1: and your boss, and it takes a while. Like baseball

457
00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:43,280
Speaker 1: players are human beings, it takes a while when you're

458
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Speaker 1: in one place and you've had a lot of success

459
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Speaker 1: and you're a fan favorite to go to another place.

460
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Speaker 1: And he had a really interesting point, Susan. He agreed

461
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Speaker 1: with all that. He said, the first time his home

462
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Speaker 1: field has ever been outdoors, He said, he played at

463
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Speaker 1: the Trap and he played at Miller Park, in Milwaukee

464
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Speaker 1: or American Family Field whatever they call it now Family Field,

465
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Speaker 1: I think.

466
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Speaker 2: So.

467
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Speaker 1: He said that was a big adjustment for him with

468
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Speaker 1: the elements, and I said, freezing your ass off and

469
00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:11,960
Speaker 1: he said, yeah, freezing my ass off. So that's something

470
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Speaker 1: I hadn't heard him say about his adjustment period last year.

471
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Speaker 1: And he said about halfway through the season, right around

472
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Speaker 1: the All Star break, he was worried about underperforming. He

473
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Speaker 1: just like, let it all go, so I'm just going

474
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Speaker 1: to go out there and do my thing. And then

475
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Speaker 1: the numbers ended up being where they should be at

476
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Speaker 1: the end of the season.

477
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's really going to have a big

478
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Speaker 2: season this year. You could see the jitters and then

479
00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:37,200
Speaker 2: things spiraling last year after signing a big contract, which

480
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Speaker 2: that's not unusual in this day and age.

481
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Speaker 3: The contracts are so big and guys want to do

482
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Speaker 3: more and.

483
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Speaker 2: They put heat pressure on themselves and it's just not

484
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Speaker 2: the way they've played before. That happens a lot. But

485
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Speaker 2: I met his parents last year during spring training. Irwin

486
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Speaker 2: I Garos was the Giant's broadcaster and a Spanish speaking

487
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Speaker 2: media relations person, was nice enough to sit me down

488
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Speaker 2: with them so I could talk to them about Willie

489
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Speaker 2: and Oh my gosh, nicest people in the world, as

490
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Speaker 2: you might imagine. But WILLI had said like, look, my

491
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Speaker 2: mom's not going to say anything. She's kind of shy.

492
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Speaker 2: She is so proud of him. Like I was like,

493
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Speaker 2: I think, you know, moms like to talk about their sons.

494
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Speaker 2: I think your sellatters short. She I mean, I think

495
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Speaker 2: she's the key man.

496
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Speaker 3: She was awesome.

497
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Speaker 2: But he's from a small town near Santiago that sounds

498
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Speaker 2: like just a great, really pretty nice little town, close community.

499
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Speaker 2: Everybody really, you know, kind of looks out for each other.

500
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Speaker 2: So I think that's you know, the community too, I

501
00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:37,959
Speaker 2: think has really impacted him. I'd love to go there.

502
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Speaker 2: It sounds it sounds amazing. So yeah, big fan. We

503
00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:43,200
Speaker 2: kind of veered off, but the one thing I asked

504
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Speaker 2: Willy yesterday was have you had the Well actually asked

505
00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:48,160
Speaker 2: quite a few quick things, but the one I wanted

506
00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:50,040
Speaker 2: to know most was is Buster talked to you yet

507
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:53,159
Speaker 2: about the hugging people, because he's been talking about how

508
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Speaker 2: he doesn't dig guys, you know, kind of fraternizing before

509
00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:58,200
Speaker 2: the game with the opponents, and he was like, man,

510
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Speaker 2: I was joking, and I was like trying to take

511
00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:02,560
Speaker 2: that away from me, but he's like, I'm gonna try.

512
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Speaker 3: It's gonna be really hard for me.

513
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Speaker 2: He's like best friends with it. It seems like everybody

514
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:10,240
Speaker 2: in baseball. He's just that kind of guy.

515
00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:12,480
Speaker 1: So nobody ever says a bad thing about him. And

516
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Speaker 1: now I'm getting to know him over the last year,

517
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:16,800
Speaker 1: so he's one of my favorites big time. I also

518
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,200
Speaker 1: got to the bottom of the Robbie Ray grunt thing.

519
00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:22,840
Speaker 1: It was in twenty seventeen and he was, you know

520
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,199
Speaker 1: that story where he's pitching some Marlins and he had

521
00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,840
Speaker 1: a real bad bullpen, and his pitching coach pulled him

522
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Speaker 1: aside and said, I just want you to go as

523
00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:31,760
Speaker 1: hard as you can for as long as you can.

524
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Speaker 1: Don't worry about your bullpen. He said, his last pitch

525
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:37,040
Speaker 1: in his bullpen, he threw halfway up into the stands

526
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Speaker 1: and he just didn't know where it was going. So

527
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Speaker 1: the first pitch he went out there and he went ah,

528
00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,119
Speaker 1: and he let it rip, and he said that was

529
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Speaker 1: how that whole thing started. He had a pretty good

530
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Speaker 1: outing and from then on and then the tight pants

531
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Speaker 1: after he gained like thirty pounds one year in spring training,

532
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Speaker 1: had a good spring and stuck with the tight pants forever.

533
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he told me that. He told me that the

534
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Speaker 2: Mariners Club club. He's just kept going like you sure,

535
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,240
Speaker 2: we can get you new paints. It's like, are you

536
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:04,840
Speaker 2: sure about that? Things like sticking with the pants. When

537
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:07,080
Speaker 2: he gets a thing, He's like, this is a guy

538
00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:08,880
Speaker 2: who's just going to stick with it if it's work.

539
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:11,879
Speaker 3: And I respect that. So but yeah, the.

540
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:15,080
Speaker 2: Grunting thing sort of turned into this little you know,

541
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Speaker 2: it's like a legend. I've talked to the pitching coach

542
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:19,880
Speaker 2: and that, like, like, I don't think anyone was expecting

543
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:23,200
Speaker 2: the grunting to come along with it, but yeah, I mean,

544
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:26,240
Speaker 2: dude's an all star. Like, if you want to do

545
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:29,480
Speaker 2: the Monica Sella's grunt, go ahead, whatever whatever you need

546
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Speaker 2: to do. So, yeah, that was a fun fan fest

547
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:35,200
Speaker 2: and it was weird because look, the river Cats play there.

548
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,960
Speaker 2: But that is also the the I can't stop saying

549
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:39,720
Speaker 2: Oakland A sorry FP you played for him.

550
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:40,280
Speaker 1: I covered him.

551
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:43,840
Speaker 2: The Sacramento A's is the Chronicle refers to them. It's

552
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:47,520
Speaker 2: their home park. So somebody asked somebody from the Sacramento

553
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:49,520
Speaker 2: b asked, Robbie Ray, have you ever done a fan

554
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:53,560
Speaker 2: fest in an opponent's stadium before, and he was like, no,

555
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:54,720
Speaker 2: but we're going to make it work.

556
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Speaker 3: So that's that's Robbie.

557
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Speaker 2: He's just gonna make whatever whatever weirdness is, he's going to.

558
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Speaker 1: Make it work. Twenty eight February or late January, Giants

559
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 1: fan Fest is going to be in Las Vegas. I

560
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 1: heard at the new at the new ballpark there. So

561
00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:12,240
Speaker 1: we had a great time yesterday. I'll tell you what

562
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,399
Speaker 1: it's supposed to get the fans excited about baseball. I

563
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:18,160
Speaker 1: got the broadcaster excited about baseball yesterday just being I mean,

564
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,640
Speaker 1: if you're within five feet of Willia Domas, your day

565
00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:22,960
Speaker 1: is better just by being within five feet of that guy.

566
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, they had an They had a really nice group there.

567
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,480
Speaker 2: It was that was really fun. So kudos to the Giants.

568
00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:33,840
Speaker 2: It was great to see Dusty Baker, who's been working

569
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Speaker 2: with the team. He's an advisor and you know he's

570
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:39,439
Speaker 2: mister Sacramento. You're me and you guys are both in

571
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,600
Speaker 2: the Sacramento Baseball Hall of Fame together now.

572
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 3: So but one of the greats. Yeah, wasn't see big.

573
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Speaker 1: I thought your article on Dusty was one of the

574
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Speaker 1: better ones I've seen in a long time. With the

575
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Speaker 1: quotes you got from Dusty about African American managers in

576
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Speaker 1: the big leagues. And if you read between the lines,

577
00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:02,280
Speaker 1: there some if you get a chance, read Susan's piece

578
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 1: on Dusty that's in today's Chronicle. I don't know when

579
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:06,439
Speaker 1: you guys are going to watch his podcast, but just

580
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 1: google it. He had some He had some pretty powerful

581
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 1: quotes in there.

582
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, he has long been he benefited, he

583
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:19,720
Speaker 2: felt from Frank Robinson and Hank Aaron really trying to

584
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 2: increase the number of black managers and coaches when they

585
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:28,440
Speaker 2: were still really heavily involved in the game and at

586
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 2: that kind of level. Aaron is an executive and obviously

587
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,880
Speaker 2: Frank Robinson is an executive and as a manager and Dusty.

588
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 2: That's how Dusty got started as a as a coach

589
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 2: and then a manager. And he said he's just not

590
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 2: seeing it anymore. And I asked, like, look, the Giants

591
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,720
Speaker 2: one minority candidate that they brought in for this job

592
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 2: as Kurtzuzuki, do you feel like that's satisfactory? And he said, well,

593
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 2: it's everybody. You know, He's not going to single out

594
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 2: the Giants and I don't think he necessarily should, but

595
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 2: he said he's getting calls from black candidates and they

596
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 2: are just they're not getting interviewed, and that's a shame.

597
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 2: I mean, there really should be more African American players.

598
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:09,920
Speaker 2: I know MLB really has done a lot of outreach

599
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 2: into traditionally black neighborhoods, trying to support.

600
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:16,959
Speaker 3: A lot of the local little leagues.

601
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 2: There's an academy in LA that has really turned out

602
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:25,120
Speaker 2: a lot of talent. But man, there's so it's such

603
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 2: a rich sport. It's such a great tradition of great

604
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 2: black players in the game, and I would love to

605
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,439
Speaker 2: see more. But I also love to see more people

606
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 2: leading today's players, coaches, managers, executives. Goodness gracious, not enough

607
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:46,320
Speaker 2: minority is. And look, we could argue the politics of it, certainly,

608
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 2: but this is a sport that has an awful lot

609
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 2: of minorities playing it. When you look at all the

610
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 2: Latin players and now a huge influx of Asian players,

611
00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 2: and you'd like the leadership to reflect maybe the the

612
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 2: playing group a little bit more.

613
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 1: Well said one of my one of my favorite people

614
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 1: and one of the biggest influences of my life was

615
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 1: the first Dominican born manager in the big leagues and

616
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Speaker 1: Felipe lous So I couldn't agree with everything you said more,

617
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 1: all right, do we got to do some merch stuff?

618
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 1: Should we do some?

619
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Speaker 3: Why not? Why not merch?

620
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 1: I gotta find my splash hit hat. I just got

621
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 1: it to hear. Well, no, it's somewhere around here. Anyways.

622
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 1: I got my splash hit hat today. It's super cool

623
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 1: and all the merch is super cool. I don't know

624
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 1: what I put it. Keep that up for a second season.

625
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll talk about it because I I I think

626
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 2: I mentioned a week or two ago that I did

627
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:40,960
Speaker 2: a little shopping trip and I got a lot of this.

628
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 3: The shirts are so.

629
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 2: Here's a hat, which which which version of the hat

630
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:47,239
Speaker 2: did you get? You're gonna show up?

631
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 1: I got the black hat with the logo on the front. Okay,

632
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 1: we had to pay for it, by the way.

633
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, hey this stuff, this is this is nice stuff.

634
00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:58,120
Speaker 2: So I've got it all up.

635
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 3: Now did you did you want d up getting the beanie?

636
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 3: Because you've been talking about the beanie a lot.

637
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 1: I got this one.

638
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 3: Oh nice?

639
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 1: Is that sick?

640
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 2: Yeah?

641
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:06,800
Speaker 1: Yeah?

642
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,400
Speaker 3: I got I mean I got presents for people.

643
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 1: Not snapback, which I like. I guess you can get

644
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 1: snapped back too, but i'd like this the fitted one.

645
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 3: So well, take a look.

646
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 2: If you're on YouTube, there's the merch section is right

647
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Speaker 2: below d on the pod page, so it's it's all

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Speaker 2: easy to find and it's really good stuff. So yes,

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Speaker 2: I support us. You know, we're still uh, we're still

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Speaker 2: hoping to get to that three K mark. We're inches

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Speaker 2: stelly that way.

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Speaker 1: Tell your friend you know what I did. I forgot

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Speaker 1: to like say our podcast yesterday from all the Giants fans.

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Speaker 1: I kind of dropped the ball in that, but Susan,

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Speaker 1: I wore it out on KMBR this week. I did

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Speaker 1: three shows on KMBR and they were probably sick of

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Speaker 1: hearing about. Oh yeah, I'm frequent contributor Susan Slusser and

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Speaker 1: I have this podcast called Splash Hit Territory and Bruce

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Speaker 1: Bochi is going to be a guest, by the way,

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Speaker 1: thanks to boats. That was amazing getting a lot of

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Speaker 1: love from Giants fans about having Bruce Bochi on the

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Speaker 1: other day, So we can't thank him enough for coming

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Speaker 1: on our pod.

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Speaker 2: I really I enjoyed watching that one. That was you know,

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Speaker 2: I'm sad one of the times I can't join you,

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Speaker 2: but that was way better.

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Speaker 1: Thanks.

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Speaker 3: Oh stop, I.

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Speaker 1: Had I had a kid. Yesterday, Fan Fast say, I

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Speaker 1: go to UC Davis and I listened to your podcast

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Speaker 1: walking between classes every day. He goes, I love you guys.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, and a lot of Giants fans are pulling

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Speaker 1: me aside yesterday. So it's gay and steam and it's

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Speaker 1: it's cool that Giants fans are appreciating us on the area.

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Speaker 1: Got any last thoughts before I signed off.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're getting close to spring training. I will be

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Speaker 2: going down there for the vast majority of it and

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Speaker 2: just take like a tiny little break at one point,

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Speaker 2: but I will be there, so I will be chipping

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Speaker 2: in from there a lot.

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Speaker 3: I think we'll probably.

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Speaker 2: Be previewing spring training coming up here soon, so maybe

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Speaker 2: we could try to get a guest to help us

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Speaker 2: preview that. We'll we'll we'll talk about that. But that's

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Speaker 2: things are going to start getting really interesting.

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Speaker 3: These moves late as.

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Speaker 2: They work income and really have made this a much

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Speaker 2: more interesting team to talk about.

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Speaker 3: So we're must go.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited. Well, maybe we could do a podcast from

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Speaker 1: Scott Stale together because I'll be down there for the

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Speaker 1: last three weeks, so I'm down.

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Speaker 3: I'm down.

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Speaker 2: You can reprise our pubcast and find some spot, all right, it'll.

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Speaker 1: Be that place is debaucherous. I don't know if we'll

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Speaker 1: too noisy, all right, Susan, great job as usual. I

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Speaker 1: will see you soon and we'll have it, and we'll

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Speaker 1: have this up shortly for you guys. We'll have another

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Speaker 1: one later in the week. Like I say on the

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Speaker 1: way out, every single time, swing hard in case you

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Speaker 1: hit it on Splash Hit Territory two