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Speaker 1: of the Pod, we will be giving you the audio

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Speaker 1: from yesterday's game featuring Ajpuck in Skip Schumacher post Gang

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Speaker 1: First stop, Ajpuck.

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Speaker 2: AJ, seemed like some ups and downs for you today

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Speaker 2: at just how overall would you assess your adding? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know, I feel like, you know that first name

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Speaker 2: is kind of tough, like they weren't putting in barrels

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Speaker 2: on the ball. It just kind of like the weekfl

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Speaker 2: and that's didn't have anything, you know, fuld my way

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Speaker 2: and I kinda get out of, uh you know that

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Speaker 2: like go through some good pitches and uh they over

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Speaker 2: not too bad. What are the main takeaways from the

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Speaker 2: solid innings at the second and the fourth? Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 2: just knowing that you know when I'm in the zone

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Speaker 2: that uh you know that I got good stuff, and

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Speaker 2: they can play really well. And uh, you know that's

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Speaker 2: just the key. You know, I'll just keep pound the zone,

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Speaker 2: get strike one, and just keep attacking.

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Speaker 3: That's the way these first seven games have gone, especially

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Speaker 3: collectively as a rotation, you're somewhat surprised of, I guess

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Speaker 3: your guys inability to go a little bit deeper, being

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you know what I mean, I just kind

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Speaker 2: of just part of it right now. You know, we

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Speaker 2: got a lot of a lot of new guys and

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Speaker 2: new spots and uh yeah, you know, I mean it's

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Speaker 2: gonna it's gonna come along. You know, the guys aren't

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Speaker 2: you know, too too panic mode yet, you know, I

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Speaker 2: mean you'd like to see you know, the stars going

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Speaker 2: on five six innings for sure, and uh, you know

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Speaker 2: it's gonna come now.

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Speaker 1: Let's hear Skip Shook starts post game against the Angels.

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Speaker 4: What did the sandabal, dude, and just so much soft contact.

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Speaker 3: Very similar to what Anderson did my opinion, Just a

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Speaker 3: lot of change ups and curveball. He had every pitch working,

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Speaker 3: really good job by him. Fastball was good at the top.

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Speaker 3: But you know, we just had a tough time, you know,

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Speaker 3: Barreling up any off speed pitch, whether it was the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's just kind of really the story.

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Speaker 3: We just couldn't other than you know, Abby, you know,

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Speaker 4: Good at bats.

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Speaker 3: I know Burger had a good at bat and so

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Speaker 3: did Bell, but overall it was a lot of pull

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Speaker 3: a way to you know, eliminate some changeups from these

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Speaker 5: Just what's your main takeaway from this one?

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Speaker 2: Stand?

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean there's there's a lot of games that

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Speaker 3: we gave away that you know, I thought we played

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Speaker 3: we got our butt kicked.

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Speaker 4: Honestly, you know.

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Speaker 3: It's we shot ourselves in the foot, I said, you know,

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Speaker 3: and but yeah, some some tough, some tough losses. For

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Speaker 4: So I would say it was definitely a mixed bag.

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Speaker 3: I would be upset more upset if it was again

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Speaker 3: I know I said that yesterday, but it's it's really

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Speaker 4: It's tough.

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Speaker 3: I mean that they're not happy in there. We're not happy.

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Speaker 3: You know this in the uh as the staff. You know,

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Speaker 3: So we got to, uh, we got to circle up

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Speaker 1: Obviously, you guys are starting pitching supposts as.

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Speaker 3: A ton of especially for you guys, just the way

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Speaker 1: Is it kind of surprised you how it hasn't been

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean, I really think Puck is going

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Speaker 3: I really think Zeus is an ace of you know,

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Speaker 3: You know, four innings, two innings, you know, less than

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Speaker 4: That's just the reality.

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Speaker 3: So we gotta definitely get deeper in games, which I

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Speaker 3: we have confident in that the season. I know it

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Speaker 3: feels long already in that clubhouse because it's seven.

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Speaker 4: Games and no wins, but it is really early.

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Speaker 3: However, these games do count, I mean they are you know,

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Speaker 4: Do you see them pressing it all?

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Speaker 2: And when you said no, it's only seven games so far,

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Speaker 3: Mean, yeah, maybe, I mean, maybe there's a few guys

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Speaker 3: But I don't see there being panic. I know there's

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Speaker 3: seven losses is seven losses, So you're not happy about it.

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Speaker 3: No one's you know happy right now in there. But

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Speaker 5: On the mount with the bullpen holing yesterday. Forwardings you

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Speaker 5: get two from uh Smith and three from manual. How

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Speaker 5: much has that helped, like, even with the losses and everything,

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Speaker 4: Well, it's reset, but we're getting our butt kicked.

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Speaker 3: That's why I mean we're using some of the length

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Speaker 3: not you're you know, you'd be liking to use Scott

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Speaker 3: When you're covering multiple five innings a game, it's it's

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Speaker 3: if they've thrown so many innings. Yeah, they've done a

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Speaker 3: nice job. Hoeing especially did a nice job of keeping

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Speaker 3: where we're at. That's not what we're trying to do. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: they're resetting, but you know we're we're trying to win

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Speaker 3: a game. And I'm not worried about reset. The last

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Speaker 3: thing in my mind today was trying to reset the bullpen.

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Speaker 3: I was trying to win a game, So you know

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Speaker 3: that's us. Yeah, Hoeing and those guys have done a

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Speaker 3: nice job, but you know, trying to win my rise.

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Speaker 4: Of Jazz look like to escape the injury. What did

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Speaker 2: Cat starre at center field in the fifth when he

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so I didn't get the video.

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Speaker 3: The video cut on the in the dugout, so I

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Speaker 3: didn't see it, honestly. I mean from the live view,

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Speaker 3: I have to, you know, watching over during replay.

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Speaker 4: Uh. And then Riot got hit you're talking about the

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Speaker 4: hip by pitch.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, a couple of guys in the league

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Speaker 4: I shouldn't say Grays got hit on the hand. But

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