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Speaker 3: It's been since signing with the angel Tim has the

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Speaker 3: And Ron Washington, how you been.

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Speaker 4: I've been good.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. I've been good though, you know overall

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Speaker 5: Good to see you.

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Speaker 4: So, yeah, it's about damn time, all right.

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Speaker 6: I chased your ass for a year over a year

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Speaker 2: You Finally it took yeah, the first time me.

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Speaker 5: Well, no like once every month, once a month, once

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Speaker 4: You're a good guy, man, hear from you. People want

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Speaker 1: There's still a lot of talking for me. So I

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Speaker 4: I did what you did.

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Speaker 2: But you did, you did do a good job. And

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Speaker 4: Well, clip, I'm happy.

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Speaker 2: I'm happy the clip. The clip he told you good

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Speaker 4: Two years people were like, man, when can we get

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Speaker 2: We've got a lot of stuff.

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Speaker 6: We've got a lot of stuff we're gonna dig into

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Speaker 4: And I hope we have fun.

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Speaker 2: And let's do it.

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Speaker 6: Do you want to come back at some point when

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Speaker 2: Let's do it. Let's do it.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate you, all right, So I got one to start.

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Speaker 3: So take me through the process just now this offseason.

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Speaker 3: How did you end up with the Angels? Who did

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Speaker 3: And I mean he's maybe, if not the most respected

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Speaker 4: But he gets going and he is unbelievably funny.

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Speaker 6: You try not to laugh because he's kind of yelling

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Speaker 4: We just look at each.

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Speaker 6: All right, but then you mentioned the back what happened

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Speaker 4: How will you know you're back? How will you know?

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Speaker 2: I have made. You know how hungry I am, you.

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Speaker 4: The way, around the Angels network.

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Speaker 6: So let's try to be careful with using the wash

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Speaker 4: You and I are in a particular club together. Do

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Speaker 6: What club is that we both got freaking punch in

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Speaker 4: I've talked about when it happened with me openly. Right.

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Speaker 6: There's I've signed a million pictures of me getting punched

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Speaker 1: You know, I understand, but uh, you know I was

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Speaker 1: You know, who really is your teammate, who really got

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Speaker 4: I just have never heard your side of.

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Speaker 2: It, but always always know, I always know your energy

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 1: But I'm okay with I'm okay, totally okay with however

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Speaker 4: What's your favorite big league moment?

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Speaker 7: Talking about in times we're talking to also we're telling

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Speaker 1: I would say the Field of Dreams, But you know,

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Speaker 1: And and I'm doing something that you know, I did

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Speaker 2: So I'm very thankful for those moments.

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Speaker 6: By the way, by the way, you were a first

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Speaker 1: But but don't go about go ask about the years

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Speaker 2: Like nobody knew me, you know, baseball with my interests,

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Speaker 1: Like I mean, you and I know why you can't

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Speaker 6: Can I finish if you and I would have been

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Speaker 6: just want to know, are you going to continue to

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Speaker 4: I miss seeing the TA that was having fun.

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Speaker 1: We'll see, we'll see, you know, we'll see how well

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Speaker 4: What do you think it.

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Speaker 7: Looks like to make the team, because that's that was

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Speaker 7: trying to make a team. What do you think that

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Speaker 2: You know, dude, trips, I ain't got none, I got

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Speaker 4: But like, what does that? What does that look like?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, man, I'm just trying to go out and win

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Speaker 5: Do you know guys on the Angels.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know if you guys, but I haven't haven't

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Speaker 5: What what do you know about them?

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Speaker 3: You know, obviously we know the face, right, you know

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Speaker 2: You know. I'm looking to be be in a space

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Speaker 2: Look I got I got I got nothing, you know,

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Speaker 1: Just I'm just coming in. I want to play, you know,

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Speaker 1: I just want to play, just see what happens. You know,

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Speaker 7: For sure, when you got your time off from the game,

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Speaker 1: No, that's not even nothing against nobody, Like that's not

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Speaker 2: Like I still haven't really watched sports.

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Speaker 1: You know, I've been spending time with my family, spending

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Speaker 2: On the mental you know. The last thing that I really,

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Speaker 4: That's fair. That's fair, all right?

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Speaker 6: When you talk to the Angels, where'd they say what

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Speaker 6: Okay, good because you played in the WBC for Team USA,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. If I definitely get the bat the

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Speaker 1: Then you know, you know, I'm pretty sure that we

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Speaker 5: Ridiculous. You feel the same way like when you.

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Speaker 3: Entered the league versus now, Like it is just insanely different.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, I lost.

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Speaker 1: I lost the wave of it, man, and everything got

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Speaker 2: You don't have a ride.

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Speaker 1: So that played a lot into just you know, the

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Speaker 8: I started trying to learn too much about the game

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Speaker 8: and trying to learn how to learn trying to learn

444
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Speaker 8: how to hinge and trying to learn how to and it,

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Speaker 8: and it took away from being so simple and took

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Speaker 8: away my athleticism, so to the point where man, I don't.

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Speaker 2: I just want to just get back to just playing.

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Speaker 2: I want to keep it simple.

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Speaker 1: I had to go back and relearn the basic and

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Speaker 1: a lot of things felt like I feel like, you know,

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Speaker 1: felt like when I was going good. So I just

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Speaker 1: been really just been uh you know, thirsty and hungry

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know since with you know, chasing that.

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Speaker 2: Feel and not really worrying about you know, all.

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Speaker 1: The rest of that stuff, just keeping it simple because

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Speaker 1: I didn't know about that stuff when I had those

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Speaker 1: good years. So when I started learning about it, man,

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Speaker 1: it threw me off.

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Speaker 4: T A.

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Speaker 7: That is gold because we argue about this all the

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Speaker 7: time with people who come on here like.

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Speaker 2: I need to be done on me, I need to

463
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Speaker 2: be done. I need to be done.

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Speaker 7: No, that's not like you know, you know as well

465
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Speaker 7: as anybody like you can say that, you can say

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Speaker 7: that was a smile, but you still got to be

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Speaker 7: a stun to win a batting champ batting championship in

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Speaker 7: the big leagues. So how long does that take to

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Speaker 7: un learn? Because people are always in your ear. They're

470
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Speaker 7: just like, hey, hey, you were almost there, you were

471
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Speaker 7: almost there. What about this?

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Speaker 4: Hey I'm on VP.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you think about even like through my years with

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Speaker 1: the White Sox, like you know, my my language changed

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Speaker 1: over the course of years because I was you know,

476
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Speaker 1: we had different unit culture, a different manager, so a

477
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Speaker 1: lot of those things changed, and so I got thirsty

478
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Speaker 1: and going to you know, trying to find, you know.

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Speaker 2: A way to do more, which reality, I didn't need

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Speaker 2: to do more.

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Speaker 1: I could have just stayed where I was in the

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Speaker 1: midst of having injuries, and so I just really lost

483
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Speaker 1: the field, you know, I lost the field. I lost

484
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Speaker 1: the basic on on how to hear you see my

485
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Speaker 1: lunch angle, you know, the last year, like I lost it,

486
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Speaker 1: completely lost it, you know. So I really didn't know

487
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Speaker 1: exactly what so, you know, stepping away once I got released,

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to you know, I didn't want to play,

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Speaker 1: you know, I didn't want to sign again because I

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Speaker 1: would have probably messed up this opportunity, you know, and

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Speaker 1: uh so I just really wanted to go back and

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Speaker 1: relearn the basics. So I kind of lost the feel

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Speaker 1: for everything, honestly.

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Speaker 4: Damn.

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Speaker 6: Listen, you know how I know you were good and

496
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Speaker 6: you're still going to be good because you know what

497
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Speaker 6: number you first wore when you came over to the

498
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Speaker 6: White Sox twelve.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you're welcome.

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Speaker 6: So that's how I know you were a good player

501
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Speaker 6: all right, because I wasn't giving that junk.

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Speaker 4: Out just anybody, all right, I wasn't giving anybody.

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Speaker 2: Okayarning to me, I kind I kind of like you

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Speaker 2: now man said we'd had an interview. I kind of

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Speaker 2: like you we to talk more. At first. At first

506
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Speaker 2: I felt a little way by, I felt the energy.

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Speaker 2: But you know you're kind of cool though for sure. O.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll say this is my last one too, just

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Speaker 3: to ask you a question like off season chatter. So

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Speaker 3: this show has had almost six hundred player guest appearances,

511
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Speaker 3: and I feel like sometimes the player voice wasn't you know,

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Speaker 3: getting enough love.

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Speaker 5: So so my last question to you.

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Speaker 3: Is do you feel like the league like and I'm

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Speaker 3: not saying the league office, I'm saying like MLB as

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Speaker 3: a sport and the players need to do anything to

517
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Speaker 3: kind of keep themselves more in the mix with the

518
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Speaker 3: young fan, right, because I I mean, we all see it.

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Speaker 5: The NFL is king.

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Speaker 3: The NBA has so many different players that like go

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Speaker 3: on podcasts and shows and just are you know when

522
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Speaker 3: there's drama in baseball, we always joke, we're like, you

523
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Speaker 3: know what they say in the NBA they call that

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Speaker 3: Tuesday because they have that stuff every few days, and

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Speaker 3: I feel like it draws up fan interest. So, you know,

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Speaker 3: as you're getting older and wiser, what do you see

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Speaker 3: with the way that the sport is being portrayed? Like

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Speaker 3: are we looked at as not cool enough?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, it's not cool. I mean it looked at

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Speaker 1: not cool.

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't know, you know, I don't know what

532
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Speaker 2: you know, what the game could do? You know, honestly,

533
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Speaker 2: I mean it's been going on for years.

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Speaker 1: You know, we talked about this from the time I

535
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Speaker 1: came into the league at the time now and then

536
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Speaker 1: we're still asking this question. Damn what you know what

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Speaker 1: could be done?

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Speaker 2: That's true, obviously nothing. We haven't. We haven't, we haven't,

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Speaker 2: you know, we haven't. We're still asked me the same question.

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Speaker 2: So therefore I don't know, you know, don't you know?

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Speaker 2: So I can't. I can't.

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Speaker 3: I can't answer that question, you know, No, that's fair.

543
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Speaker 3: I mean our answer was to do this, you know,

544
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Speaker 3: like we're not rich off this. We're doing this because

545
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Speaker 3: we're going to bring all the players off on the

546
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Speaker 3: show and you know, get like more from them, right

547
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Speaker 3: and do it in a neutral way and becoming the

548
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Speaker 3: sport every day so wanted to get your take. But

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Speaker 3: but yeah, I'm with you. It's been talked about for

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Speaker 3: a long time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, No, this shows the show is good.

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Speaker 2: You know good, you know. I like the energy on official.

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Speaker 5: That was fun. That was cool.

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Speaker 3: See, I was looking forward to getting TA on for

555
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Speaker 3: a while, Like you mentioned, at one point, we were like, yo,

556
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Speaker 3: you should come on, you know, once a month. But

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Speaker 3: I feel like the guys have to sit in the seat,

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Speaker 3: spend fifteen minutes with us and see what's up.

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Speaker 5: But I enjoyed it.

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Speaker 4: That was That was fun. That was fun, you know.

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Speaker 6: I mean, listen, there was some uncomfortable moments there, but

562
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Speaker 6: you got to ask the questions because no one's.

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Speaker 4: Ever heard of them.

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Speaker 6: No one's ever heard some of that stuff before. That's

565
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Speaker 6: listen and someone that's been through the same exact thing

566
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Speaker 6: he's been through. I mean, I don't know. I love

567
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Speaker 6: to you. I think he's great and I wish him

568
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Speaker 6: nothing but the best. Seriously, I hope he does great Nanah,

569
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Speaker 6: Los Angeles, whatever the hell they calling it now.

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Speaker 5: I hope he's MVP.

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Speaker 3: I mean, trust me, I told Kratz when he signed

572
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Speaker 3: that contract. Here was the thing that bothered me back

573
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Speaker 3: when the whole quote controversy happened with FT right. So

574
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Speaker 3: just to give someone everyone a quick backstory, Cody Decker

575
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Speaker 3: is a baseball personality.

576
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Speaker 5: Used to play mostly in the minors. I don't remember.

577
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Speaker 5: He maybe had a cup of coffee. Actually, yeah, the.

578
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Speaker 3: Biggs really good dude and does all sports. He's got

579
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Speaker 3: a show with Michelle Bile. He comes on the show

580
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Speaker 3: and he was like, I feel like ten minutess soon

581
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Speaker 3: would be a good fit there, And I think he

582
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Speaker 3: might have said at shortstop whatever, and okay, like Zach

583
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Speaker 3: Netto's there.

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Speaker 5: He was playing well.

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Speaker 3: I think he was a rookie at the time or

586
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Speaker 3: if not, like very few times few at bats in

587
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Speaker 3: the big leagues and people lost their mind and I

588
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Speaker 3: like kind of came to his rescue and said, hey,

589
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Speaker 3: Ta would be a good fit here. He can play

590
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Speaker 3: second base, and fans were like, we don't need him,

591
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Speaker 3: blah blah blah. Ta has struggled since. It just would

592
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Speaker 3: be full circle if he comes to the Angels. That's

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Speaker 3: the spot where he clicks. And like he mentioned AJ,

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Speaker 3: he's been trying to link up with the Angels. They've

595
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Speaker 3: been close, but it didn't happen.

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Speaker 4: There is no better fit for him than Ron Washington

597
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Speaker 4: in that.

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Speaker 6: Ron Washington will get his mind right, Ron Washingt will

599
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Speaker 6: get his glove right, and Ron Washington will get his

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Speaker 6: bat right.

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Speaker 4: Now, whether Ta.

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Speaker 6: Takes off, which I hope he does and we all

603
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Speaker 6: hope he does, I don't know, but listen, Ron Washington

604
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Speaker 6: will be the perfect fit because he'll have him, he'll

605
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Speaker 6: have him motivated, he'll have him inspired, and you'll have

606
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Speaker 6: him ready to play every single day. And that's what

607
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Speaker 6: Ron Washington is great at man. He is a great

608
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Speaker 6: motivator and he's a great manager because he knows that

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Speaker 6: a lead man