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Speaker 1: Josh Smith from The Rangers joining us right now on FT. Josh,

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Speaker 1: great to have you on the show. Welcome first off,

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Speaker 1: how you doing.

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Speaker 2: What's up?

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Speaker 3: Guys?

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Speaker 4: I appreciate you all for having me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for coming on.

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Speaker 1: And you do have a lot to live up to

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Speaker 1: here for the next tenish minutes, because your teammate Rowdy

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Speaker 1: Telez comes on this show somewhat frequently and we're like, hey,

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Speaker 1: give us the name for the Rangers that we need

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Speaker 1: to bring on the show. And he didn't really hesitate.

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Speaker 1: He was like Josh Smith, Josh Smith, the guy. So

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Speaker 1: why do you think he said that?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, I would probably say I got to keep

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Speaker 4: it a little bit more professional on here since we

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Speaker 4: are live and on television, but in the locker room

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Speaker 4: it's a little bit unfiltered. So I'd say that's probably

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Speaker 4: why Rowdy had me as the first option.

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Speaker 2: Unfiltered in what way? Like we just showed a highlight

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Speaker 2: of Troy Gilbert, Like that's pretty unfiltered and like out

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Speaker 2: there maybe borderline like r rated or what's the unfiltered

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Speaker 2: part of it? And have you always been that way

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Speaker 2: even as a rookie? Uh?

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Speaker 4: I mean I would say I definitely probably just tried.

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Speaker 4: I talk a lot of snack in the locker room

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Speaker 4: to anybody and everybody, especially rowdy. He's one of my

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Speaker 4: favorites to uh, to mess with. But I would say

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Speaker 4: my first year, uh, in the big leagues, no, I

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Speaker 4: was super quiet. I was like I was in college.

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Speaker 4: I was always kind of kind of loud and obnoxious.

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Speaker 4: But uh, but for a rookie year, super quiet didn't

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Speaker 4: really talk much. And then I hit like one sixty

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Speaker 4: and it was just miserable and I had no fun.

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Speaker 4: And then I got sent down so called back up.

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Speaker 4: And in twenty twenty three, I would say we kinda

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Speaker 4: I kind of opened up a little bit more and

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Speaker 4: we won the World Series, and so I just kind

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Speaker 4: of kept it going and kind of just talk smacked everybody.

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Speaker 3: I like that yourself.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure what I said. Did I say. I

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Speaker 2: didn't say Drew Gilbert.

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Speaker 3: No, you said try that was fine?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I didn't. I didn't get the

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Speaker 4: reference there, but I went along, like I knew you

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Speaker 4: were talking about. But I've seen some I've seen some

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Speaker 4: clips of that guy. I wouldn't say I'm quite like that.

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Speaker 4: He seems pretty uh. He seems pretty funny out there

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Speaker 4: in the locker room, I give guys a hard time,

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Speaker 4: but on the field, I really feel like I probably

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Speaker 4: don't show a ton of emotion, which, yeah, I play

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Speaker 4: a lot different than I act in the locker room.

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Speaker 2: I feel like, we know Rowdy loves loves the fact

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Speaker 2: that you know your your stick, all the stuff you're

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Speaker 2: getting on him. Who hates it? Who's the guy that

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Speaker 2: you're like going around and just like, I'm not talking

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Speaker 2: but who's like I'm not I'm not feeling you. I'm

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Speaker 2: not feeling this many.

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Speaker 4: My favorite person, I don't know whether he likes it

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Speaker 4: or loves it, but my favorite person will give a

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Speaker 4: hard time to a sion just because he is so.

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Speaker 4: He's pretty serious. I feel he's a great locker room guy.

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Speaker 4: But he's just serious and uh, Rowdy too. We kinda

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Speaker 4: we really get onto Marcus just to kind of give

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Speaker 4: with it sometimes, but he gives it back every now

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Speaker 4: and then. But he's a fun He's a fun one

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Speaker 4: for me to mess with, just because he's a he's

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Speaker 4: an older salty dog he's been in the league for forever,

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Speaker 4: and he's he's really fun to mess with, all right, So.

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Speaker 3: Let's get to the team here, Josh.

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Speaker 1: What's it like to kind of, I mean, you're not

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Speaker 1: going to say this, obviously, but for the general public

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Speaker 1: to think it's not the year for the Rangers maybe

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Speaker 1: a few weeks ago and then things have resurfaced here

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Speaker 1: where your team is just a couple of games out

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I'm kind of right there with the public.

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Speaker 4: If you'd told me two weeks ago would be a

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Speaker 4: kind of overthinking it there, but yeah, I mean we've dude,

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Speaker 4: we've just kind of gotten hot at the right time.

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Speaker 4: We're playing with with so many guys down Seeger Simeon, Ebo,

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Speaker 2: So all right. David Murphy, one of the TV guys

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Speaker 2: for the Rangers, coined coined the phrase the Little Rascals

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Speaker 2: for the four rookies that are now playing. Do you

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Speaker 2: feel like that's a decent nickname for those four guys

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Speaker 2: to get the name the Little Rascals? But also what

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Speaker 2: is it that they bring that Oh wait, wasn't around before?

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Speaker 2: Or why is it successful? Are they better than Corey

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Speaker 2: Seeger and Marcus Simeon. I'll answer for you. I don't

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Speaker 2: think so, but they're winning and it's working.

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Speaker 4: So what we're talking about Cody Freeman, Hellman Ozona and

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Speaker 4: Okay, So yeah, I mean yeah, I mean definitely doing

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Speaker 4: it differently. I think Helmet had five five RBIs for

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Speaker 4: us last night. Yeah. I think they just kind of

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Speaker 4: bring a a different energy. I'm not saying they're better

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Speaker 4: and taking advantage of it. Uh. Cody Freeman. I honestly

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Speaker 4: see a lot of myself and Cody Freeman in the

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Speaker 4: myself funny, but he's just kind of talking smack in

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Speaker 4: high energy guys. He's been awesome for us. I think

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Speaker 4: he's gonna have a really good career. Hellman has been great.

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Speaker 4: Like I said, Ozuna has done his part. But yeah, no,

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Speaker 4: they they definitely bring a different energy to us. Playing

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Speaker 4: something we've probably lacked this whole year, besides Jack Peterson,

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Speaker 4: who gets after a little bit on the field. But yeah,

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Speaker 4: those guys are They're a lot of fun to be around.

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Speaker 2: Josh, I want you pay attention to the schedule and

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Speaker 2: who you guys play. I know you're gonna say it's

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Speaker 2: one day at a time. You guys, you have Milwaukee,

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Speaker 2: do some damage. Are you just trying to survive these

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we it's definitely we got some some

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Speaker 4: some tough guys ahead of us. But we're kind of

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Speaker 4: I mean, dude, we were so out of it. Like

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Speaker 4: just like, hey, we kind of kind of win every

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Speaker 4: Then now if we just kind of keep up this

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Speaker 4: last night we went out and beat a pretty good

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Speaker 2: You said about two weeks ago you were thinking that

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Speaker 2: we wouldn't be. What time or how long ago did

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Speaker 4: Now, I mean at this point, yeah, but I would

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Speaker 3: Dig in Hey, Josh.

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Speaker 1: Another surprising stat I learned yesterday while watching the game.

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Speaker 1: Your team was one of three remaining that hadn't hit

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Speaker 1: a Grand Slam yet this year? So how cool was

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Speaker 1: that for Helman? But also for the team. Did the

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Speaker 4: Honestly, I don't even know if I didn't. I guess

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Speaker 4: now that you say, yeah, I didn't even know he

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Speaker 4: didn't have a Grand Slam, But yeah, no, that was huge,

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Speaker 4: especially for Helman to do that in that situation against

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Speaker 4: a really good team was sweet. But but man, our

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Speaker 4: ballpark has been I'm not making excuses for lack of

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Speaker 2: So yeah, but then you stepped up and won the

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Speaker 2: So you're ever going to catch a game? I look

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Speaker 1: And a lot of people don't to switch their profiles

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Speaker 2: Nobody can switch your baseball reference page. And we joke

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Speaker 4: One home Need it, man, It's been about a month

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Speaker 1: Good luck there you will now you know you got

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