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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to another episode of Crush City Territory. I'm Chandler

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Speaker 2: Rome with Tyler Stafford and we have a special guest

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Speaker 2: joining US State. If you can ever get in the shot,

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Speaker 2: there he is. It's Bryce Matthews, one of Houston's touted

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Speaker 2: infield prospects, fresh off of a winter ball stay in

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Speaker 2: Puerto Rico. But now he is in a place that

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Speaker 2: I never thought i'd describe it this way. He's in

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Speaker 2: snow covered Houston. Yeah, Bryce, you played baseball at the

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Speaker 2: University of Nebraska, so this can't be that foreign to

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Speaker 2: you that Houston's covered in snow right now. But still

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Speaker 2: had to be weird to wake up. I mean, you're

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Speaker 2: you're in a Taska seater, you're from You're from Houston.

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Speaker 2: Had to be weird this morning to wake up, look

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Speaker 2: outside your window and see snow everywhere.

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Speaker 3: It's funny. Like one of my best friends he called

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Speaker 3: him this morning. He's like walking around outside so and

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Speaker 3: was like, when I see that, it's like it's just

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Speaker 3: another day. It's funny to see, like it's crazy, like

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Speaker 3: people kind of overreact and it's like I went to

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Speaker 3: the grocery store last night, and they're just clearing everything

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Speaker 3: off the show, like this thing's going to be over

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Speaker 3: in a day and a half.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, my U. I had to travel up to d

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Speaker 4: C for work last night. So first off, Chandler, have

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Speaker 4: you seen the guy on TikTok that does the like

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Speaker 4: geo guessing stuff. Do you know what I'm saying? I

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Speaker 4: think it's about.

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Speaker 3: And he's like everything right like by the street almost.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what Chandler was when I logged on and

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Speaker 4: he just he just saw the like red background in

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Speaker 4: the fridge And Chandler goes, is that a residence in Like,

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Speaker 4: oh my gosh, this guy is amazing. But yes, I'm

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Speaker 4: jealous of all of the snow pictures. But yeah, I was.

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Speaker 4: I was prepping the house over the last couple of days.

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Speaker 4: And you're right, Brice, and there was you were fighting

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Speaker 4: people for bottles of water at a Kroger somewhere.

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Speaker 2: It was it was nuts, Bryce, what's the most snow

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Speaker 2: you saw on Lincoln? And what's like the what's the

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Speaker 2: coldest game you ever played in in Lincoln?

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Speaker 5: So my freshman year just got back to school after

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Speaker 5: fall break. It's like school had just started.

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Speaker 3: It's like the secondary school started those negative thirty five

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Speaker 3: degrees in fifteen inches of snow. I'm like, what am

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Speaker 3: I doing?

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Speaker 4: You have? Like, I mean, I don't even own clothes

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Speaker 4: warm enough?

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Speaker 3: Well you can't.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good bye.

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Speaker 3: Probably the coldest game I played in was probably like

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Speaker 3: my sophomore year. It was like twenty two degrees at

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Speaker 3: k State in the midweek.

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Speaker 5: It was a bad game, like I made two errors,

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Speaker 5: Like I couldn't feel my hands.

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Speaker 3: My hands were like just no blood flow.

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Speaker 4: What did I feel like to make contact when your

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Speaker 4: hands are that cold?

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Speaker 5: I don't think I took the bat off. It was

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Speaker 5: kind of a quick day for me. I got I

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Speaker 5: got pulled. I like, uh, I threw a ball in

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Speaker 3: That was a laugh.

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Speaker 5: I got in the game like I was done. Like

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Speaker 5: that's the coldest. I really didn't play any cold wear

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Speaker 5: the games at all.

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Speaker 3: I was like, what am I supposed to do? But

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Speaker 3: I learned from that really quick.

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Speaker 1: I remember when you were drafted. We all.

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Speaker 2: I remember you talked to us and you got to

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Speaker 2: remind me of the story exactly how it went. But

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Speaker 2: I remember you said something about, you know, there were

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Speaker 2: teams I think locally, I think some lower level teams

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Speaker 2: in Houston and around Texas were recruiting you, but you

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Speaker 2: wanted to make it a point to go elsewhere. You

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Speaker 2: wanted to kind of like be uncomfortable a little bit

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Speaker 2: and make it a point to go maybe away from Houston.

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Speaker 2: How did you end up at Nebraska? How did that

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Speaker 2: all work out for you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: So start off, I go to this like little like

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Speaker 5: Bendido's camp where I think it's like Oklahoma.

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Speaker 3: One of the hitting coaches there and and two other schools.

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Speaker 5: I'm assuming and coach Childress is there, but he's not

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Speaker 5: like he's there with his son Max. Yeah, And I'm

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Speaker 5: hitting really well, and then all of a sudden we

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Speaker 5: start talking. I'm like, he looks familiar, and it's like

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Speaker 5: that's suppose children, And so that happens, and then they

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Speaker 5: have a camp and so we we go to the camp.

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Speaker 3: We email coach children just let them know we're gonna

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Speaker 5: Do really well, and the coach bolts, the hitting coach there,

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Speaker 5: and so start talking to them. I do really well

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Speaker 5: with everything, and the scrimmages like playing great.

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Speaker 3: Fast forward, go to Sam Houston. I play a game

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Speaker 3: like a little tournament with the Bandidos, and coach Web's

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Speaker 3: there just watching and he actually played at Kansas with

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Speaker 3: my dad, and my dad kind of like spotted him

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Speaker 3: he started talking to my dad and he's like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: my son's like playing shorts.

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Speaker 5: And I was like, oh, he looks decent. And that's

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Speaker 5: how that kind of relationship started. And then one of

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Speaker 5: our pictures Caleb Cannon, he was already committed to San

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Speaker 5: State and kind of built that relationship.

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Speaker 3: Start talking coach Ivell.

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Speaker 5: Because he was a coordinator, and uh, coach Jays was

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Speaker 5: They keep watching me to come to my game my

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Speaker 5: junior year and then they offer me and.

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Speaker 3: So, uh that's where I thought I was gonna go.

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Speaker 1: And then he trying to go to Sam Houston.

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Speaker 5: I had offers from a northwestern state in prayer View,

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Speaker 5: and then that was the only offers I had.

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Speaker 3: Text A and M didn't offer me. And then two

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Speaker 3: weeks before I was going to commit, the whole coaching

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Speaker 3: play for those guys, and it's like I didn't know,

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Speaker 3: like coach Sirianni, the who came to new head coach.

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Speaker 3: I didn't really speak to him at all, so it

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Speaker 3: was kind of like I didn't know.

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Speaker 5: And then coach Arvela goes to Nebraska. They were really

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Speaker 5: interested and I was kind of like shooing them away

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Speaker 5: because I honestly I didn't want to go like far.

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Speaker 3: Away from home because I'm a homebody. Like I just

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Speaker 3: liked being home and.

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Speaker 5: Just just kicking it so my all my friends and

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Speaker 3: Thought I was going to go to Northwestern State.

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Speaker 5: And then one day I'm just sitting in the house

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Speaker 5: like just watching TV, and like my dad just stopped,

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Speaker 3: He was like, you always say you.

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Speaker 5: Wanna this is like after my visitever that I didn't

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Speaker 5: like it. It was like so far away from home

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Speaker 3: And then bestward were in the house stops just like

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Speaker 5: Wanted to play in front of, like play the biggest

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Speaker 5: away from that right.

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Speaker 3: Now, and he's like, just think about it. After he

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Speaker 3: said that, mine was like the next day I called

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Speaker 3: coach Arvell and coach Bull and I committed and.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's awesome man. So I mean you mentioned being

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Speaker 4: a homebody. You just got back from playing in Puerto Rico.

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Speaker 4: What what was that like? You know what, what's the

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Speaker 4: what's the vibe of that over there doing winter ball?

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Speaker 4: How does the process work? And then you know, how

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Speaker 4: do you you you know, how do you play baseball

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Speaker 4: living in a new country with with brand new teammates?

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Speaker 4: You know what? What what's that experience? Like?

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Speaker 5: It's kind of the same as like when you when

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Speaker 5: you get drafted and like I did when when the

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Speaker 5: short season happened, you you go to a different place. Luckily,

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Speaker 5: so I'm from North Carolina with the fate though, so

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Speaker 5: that wasn't like pretty foreign.

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Speaker 3: But it's kind of the same process. You you learn

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Speaker 3: the guys like, you meet them, talk to them, just

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Speaker 3: hang out, You play baseball, and it's kind of the

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Speaker 3: everyday process is just trying to get better. And winter

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Speaker 3: ball it's kind of like there're a lot of those guys.

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Speaker 5: Everything over there, so you go in there to compete

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Speaker 5: and just try to win, and that's what we did.

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Speaker 3: It was a lot of fun, building a chance right now.

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Speaker 3: It's crazy. It's a nine game series.

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Speaker 5: Really, Yeah, it's such that they're down too all right now,

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Speaker 5: but well, let's trying to get them to pull it

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Speaker 4: So I've got a buddy who lives in Puerto Rico,

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Speaker 4: and he told me that the stop lights there are

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Speaker 4: just a suggestion, whyeah, you're driving? What? What? What is

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Speaker 4: that like?

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Speaker 3: It's just like what is going on around like after

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Speaker 3: eight o'clock. It's like it's almost like no rules, But

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Speaker 3: it's kind of cool to see. It's like, hey, they're

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Speaker 3: just going, They're just going how they please and kind

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Speaker 2: You you had you had some familiar faces there with you.

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Speaker 2: Ricky Rivera, who was going to be the Astros double

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Speaker 2: A manager this coming season.

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Speaker 1: He managed the team.

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Speaker 2: Jason Bell was the bench coach, and then Alex Centron,

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Speaker 2: the Astros hitting coach, was the GM. And then you

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Speaker 2: had a familiar roommate too.

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Speaker 3: Right, yeah, Zach Decenzo.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So what did what did you and Zach get

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Speaker 2: into in Puerto Rico? I heard there was a Puerto

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Speaker 2: Rico is apparently known for its sushi. So you guys, uh,

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Speaker 2: you guys went in on sushi.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was fire.

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Speaker 5: We ate a lot of good food, a lot of

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Speaker 5: uh pork chops and rice, Jurassical steak and rice and beans.

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Speaker 3: So I had rys and beans every day.

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Speaker 5: Probably when I got back home, it was just like

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Speaker 5: I cannot do rice or being But it was good

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Speaker 5: just to have somebody with you every day. And uh,

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Speaker 5: they're they're putting into work and we're just trying to

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Speaker 5: get better, just compete and just play ball.

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Speaker 3: It's like it's our job, is what we love to do.

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Speaker 2: Those The one thing you hear about Puerto Rico and

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Speaker 2: winter one thing you hear about winter ball everywhere is

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Speaker 2: just how crazy the environments are. And you said, like

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Speaker 2: a lot of times, like it's everything for a lot

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Speaker 2: of like the players and a lot of the fans

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Speaker 2: go to these games. Like for maybe if you could

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Speaker 2: describe like what the stadium and what the environment is

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Speaker 2: like for these answers, you can get pretty heated. Like

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Speaker 2: you see videos of brawls, You see videos of a

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Speaker 2: lot of stuff going down, like it gets eat.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, some places a lot better than others. So like

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Speaker 5: my glass, they're like.

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Speaker 3: On the the west end of the island. The first

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Speaker 3: game that's where we started out at, and they had

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Speaker 3: like a full band playing it was it was awesome.

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Speaker 3: They're NonStop. It felt like I was in a soccer arena.

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Speaker 3: It was like like closed in on you, like like

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Speaker 3: to see that. Felt like I was playing football again.

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Speaker 3: So I love that.

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Speaker 5: It was so much fun, just like to be celebrated

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Speaker 3: Yeah, big guy, heavy fastball, really sharp slider. He's gonna

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so.

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Speaker 4: Did you play basketball with him too? No?

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Speaker 3: He wasn't much of a basketball guy?

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Speaker 4: What No, what a waste? What are we doing.

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Speaker 3: We should have got him out there.

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Speaker 3: Yep, and then you went.

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Speaker 3: Involved in your head with how much baseball you're playing,

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Speaker 4: I used to work for the Hooks, and I saw

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Speaker 3: So every morning it'd be like three eggs or bacon

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Speaker 4: Okay, Well it worked out for Bregman. What was he doing?

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Speaker 1: He's still all over the doctor pepper man pepper.

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Speaker 4: The spreads?

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Speaker 5: Yeah. Verlander was great. Oh yeah, it was a great one. Well,

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Speaker 3: It was so shout out to Bagwell for that. It

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Speaker 2: What was Verlander like like just coming on a rehabit signment?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: It was like it was very detailed to to how

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Speaker 5: I got to see everything, to see what he was

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna grip my slider a little bit different this

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Speaker 3: Striking, striking out. That's why he's a Hall of Famer.

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Speaker 5: So just to see that stuff and be like, dang, yeah,

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Speaker 4: That's awesome. So, I mean you mentioned Bagwell Berlander, those guys.

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Speaker 4: Do you have any that you remember seeing in person?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? My first game it was I was little, and

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Speaker 5: I remember Prince Fielder hitting like a ball off the

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Speaker 3: The most memorable one was I think the year they

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Speaker 3: won the first World Series.

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Speaker 5: It was Game seven in the Championship Series against the

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Speaker 5: against the Yankees, and watch out two v hit a

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Speaker 3: So that's pretty cool.

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Speaker 4: Oh you were at that game?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I was at the game, dude.

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Speaker 4: So you saw the that's the mccollors curveball game. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: that's crazy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. And then my dad actually went to the game

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Speaker 3: five against the.

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Speaker 4: No Way in the World Series.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, get in the World Series game, so he was there.

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Speaker 3: I was like, dang, that kind of sucks. Man.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead, yeah, soon we'll you'll get to share a

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Speaker 2: club out. You're gonna get to share a clubhouse with

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Speaker 2: Lance mccullor.

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Speaker 1: Here coming up.

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Speaker 2: You got an invite to big league camp. Congratulations, by

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Speaker 2: the way, that's a big deal. First first big league

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Speaker 2: camp for you. How do you approach this? How do

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Speaker 2: you approach going into a clubhouse where you know the names,

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Speaker 2: you know the faces, and I'm sure you've met them

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Speaker 2: a couple of times. But this is gonna be kind

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Speaker 2: of a different thing like that. You guys are going

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Speaker 2: to be in a routine. This is this is work now.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, what have you sought any advice or kind

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Speaker 2: of how are you going to approach going to your

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Speaker 5: I think it just like just be myself, like, don't

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Speaker 5: try to do too much, Like I'm not really worried

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Speaker 5: about anything, like no pressure putting on myself, like with anything.

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Speaker 5: Just have fun for yourself and just going there and

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Speaker 5: work and do what I do what I know how

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Speaker 5: to do. Now make it complicated.

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Speaker 2: What is there one thing you're looking forward Because you

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Speaker 2: came up last year and backed up in some minor

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Speaker 2: in some Great Fruit League games, so you've been in

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Speaker 2: big league spring training games. But is there something you're

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Speaker 2: looking forward to being in the big league camp? Grind

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Speaker 2: just seeing, you know, maybe how a certain player goes

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Speaker 2: about his routine or just kind of how the big

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Speaker 1: Is there's something you're looking forward to.

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Speaker 5: I definitely picking the brains of those guys that have

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Speaker 5: been there and just asking him questions, being a sponge

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Speaker 5: and just enjoying it because like, not many people get

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Speaker 5: to do this. I'm very blessed to be in the

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Speaker 5: position I am, so I thank God every day and shit,

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Speaker 5: without him, like I wouldn't be here. So I just

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Speaker 5: let him take control. He's in the driver's seat and

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Speaker 5: I'm just following wherever he leaves me.

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Speaker 4: That's awesome, man. Well, best of luck. We're we're excited

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Speaker 4: to see you know what lessons you learned in the

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Speaker 4: last year and and how this year goes for you.

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Speaker 4: But best of luck, Bryce.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and Bryce, we appreciated You're the first player guest

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Speaker 2: we've had Crush City Territory, so you'll be the answer

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Speaker 2: to a trivia question for forever when this podcast takes off.

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Speaker 2: You'll be the first player guest we had. I appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you taking some time.

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Speaker 2: I know there's not much else to do TODA because

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Speaker 2: we're all so appreciate you giving us thirty minutes or so.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure the fans will love to hear from you,

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Speaker 2: and we will see you in West Palm Beach soon,

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Speaker 2: in about about a month, we'll see you there.

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Speaker 3: I was good, how a go one?

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Speaker 4: All right,