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Speaker 1: Managers meeting.

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Speaker 2: Blue Jays manager John Schneider sitting next to us right

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Speaker 2: now in Orlando live at the Winter meetings.

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Speaker 1: Schnid's good to see you, man.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, good to be here. Good seeing you guys

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Speaker 3: as always.

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Speaker 4: You see they put in the middle of the manager's meeting.

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Speaker 4: Do you see they put the like the last one

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Speaker 4: right in the middle, Big Tony. Yeah, like the best

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Speaker 4: looking manager.

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Speaker 3: Look, it's tough.

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Speaker 5: To be in the same room with that guy. Just

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Speaker 5: had him for the first time. I was kind of like,

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Speaker 5: you know, cowered away quickly. It just didn't want to

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Speaker 5: look at him too long.

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Speaker 1: Did you say, hey, Rookie, like a third of the room.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what's up, brook Welcome to the big leagues.

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Speaker 6: No, well, you could get that with Terry.

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Speaker 5: And there's a lot of a lot of new guys.

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Speaker 5: I feel like not the new guy now kind of

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Speaker 5: a little bit. So it's nice to get to know

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Speaker 5: these guys too. I think Tony's doing obviously cool stuff

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Speaker 5: with with Tennessee and you know, really well respected, so

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Speaker 5: I just kind of get to know him a little bit.

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Speaker 1: How are you feeling after your October tie?

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Speaker 5: I mean it was I think I'm at the point

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Speaker 5: now where you kind of past the obsession of looking

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Speaker 5: at everything and being disappointed and you kind of look

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Speaker 5: back at all the good that we did, do you know,

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Speaker 5: ninety four wins compared to seventy four of the year before,

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Speaker 5: you know, winning the Al, winning the division, so many

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Speaker 5: cool stories, and I think just you know, being really

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Speaker 5: really proud of how we kind of raise the level

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Speaker 5: of expectation and standards with the Blue Jays and on

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Speaker 5: to twenty twenty six and how we can get back there.

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Speaker 6: All right.

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Speaker 4: So that's that's gonna lead me right to my question.

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Speaker 4: We had Hinch on yesterday and yeah, they lost an

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Speaker 4: epic series to the Mariners. So you guys went on

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Speaker 4: to beat When did you get over it? Because I

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Speaker 4: asked him, I said, are you are? When do you

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Speaker 4: get over it? He goes, You're thinking I'm over it?

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Speaker 3: Right right?

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Speaker 4: And he didn't even get as far as I mean

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Speaker 4: you The guys were like, I mean, inches inches away

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Speaker 4: from having everything.

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Speaker 5: I got asked that yesterday, and I don't think I'll

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Speaker 5: ever get over it, you know. I think that the

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Speaker 5: only thing that gets you over it is getting back

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Speaker 5: there and winning it, you know. But I think just

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Speaker 5: you're going to all think about that he's in that

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Speaker 5: team and so many crazy plays forever, you know, So

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Speaker 5: you kind of take a lot of pride in being

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Speaker 5: part of it and being able to manage that. I

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Speaker 5: tried to really take in the days and the moments

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Speaker 5: before the game started and just appreciate where you are.

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Speaker 5: So in terms of getting over it, I think it'll

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Speaker 5: just be with me kind of forever.

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Speaker 7: What moment is it for you? Because in fourteen we

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Speaker 7: lost Game seven with Alex Gordon on third. For me,

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Speaker 7: it's the Joe panic moment where he dove back up

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Speaker 7: the middle to stop a ground or to start a

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Speaker 7: groundball double play. Like I think about that as much

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Speaker 7: as I think about Gordo hitting a triple in the

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Speaker 7: left center field gap. What's the moment for you when

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Speaker 7: you think about the loss, because that's what it is,

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Speaker 7: it's a loss.

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Speaker 3: Right What you think about?

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Speaker 5: The one I always go back to is bases loaded

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Speaker 5: and varsh in the ground ball to Rojas.

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Speaker 3: That's what I always go back to.

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Speaker 5: Like would be lying if I didn't say, you know,

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Speaker 5: you wake up in the middle of the night thinking

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Speaker 5: about that play. You know I still do not. You know,

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Speaker 5: every week, but maybe every couple of weeks at this point.

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Speaker 5: But there were so many other things. It was so

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Speaker 5: weird to have that play not go your way, you know,

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Speaker 5: by a matter of inches, and then twenty seconds later,

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Speaker 5: kind of the same thing happens when Ernie hits the

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Speaker 5: ball to left and Pages and Kik, you know, are

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Speaker 5: brought into each other. So you in your mind, you're

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Speaker 5: expecting a different outcome. You're expecting that ball to drop

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Speaker 5: or you're expecting, you know, a wide throw home, and

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Speaker 5: none of them really happened. So you just find yourself

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Speaker 5: in this in this moment of wow, and then you

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Speaker 5: kind of got you have three minutes to readjust and

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Speaker 5: get back to the next inning. But those obviously because

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Speaker 5: they were the last you know, images really for us

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Speaker 5: in the wall and you know, the eighteen inning game

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Speaker 5: in game three, There's just so many, but I think

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Speaker 5: the ones that just were the last ones is what

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Speaker 5: sticks out to you, all.

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Speaker 7: Right, So in spring training you go over things that

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Speaker 7: are going to help you guys win the world too.

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Speaker 7: That play you just talked about, the Dalton varshow play.

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Speaker 7: Is there anything in spring training that's going Obviously it's

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Speaker 7: gonna be brought up. People are gonna be like that

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Speaker 7: are still there? Is there anything that will change as

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Speaker 7: far as the like approach to that play, how you

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Speaker 7: guys will approach it and from the Isaiah Kiner FILEFFA base.

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Speaker 5: Running Yeah, you know, I think you're always trying to

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Speaker 5: learn to get better, right, That's like the corporate answer,

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Speaker 5: and that's kind of how we operate. But it gives

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Speaker 5: you a chance to kind of drill down a little

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Speaker 5: bit more. Looking back, I think we could have done

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Speaker 5: a better job of getting Izzy off a little bit.

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Speaker 5: You know, the it wasn't you know runner at third

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Speaker 5: on contact, You're just going he's reading the play, He's

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Speaker 5: understanding that Will Smith likes to pick the third with

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Speaker 5: the left handed hitter up Izz. He's a smart baseball player,

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Speaker 5: so all those things are going through his head. If anything,

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Speaker 5: just kind of drilling down a little bit more. And

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Speaker 5: the odds of Varsh I think lining out to third

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Speaker 5: are very very slim, so giving himself a little bit

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Speaker 5: more room off the bag and maybe that's the difference,

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Speaker 5: you know, So I think all those things you as

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Speaker 5: bad as it was in real time and as it

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Speaker 5: will be forever. You know, you say, what could you

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Speaker 5: do different? I think that's the one thing, you know,

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Speaker 5: that we could have done a better job for him,

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Speaker 5: to give him the freedom to get off a little bit.

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Speaker 5: But I know he's gotten the brunt of it, man,

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Speaker 5: and I hate that he's wearing it. You know, I

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Speaker 5: think the world of him as a player, and he's

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Speaker 5: a smart, smart baseball player.

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Speaker 3: So that's it.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 5: If we can prepare a little bit more and just say, hey,

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Speaker 5: if this situation comes up and it is Dalton varshow

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Speaker 5: against the right handed pitcher, you can give yourself a

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Speaker 4: I got two things, and I hate to bring this up,

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Speaker 4: but it was such a big thing. There was so

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Speaker 4: much back and forth. You get it right, he didn't

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Speaker 4: do it right.

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Speaker 6: Carlos Feblys, I've known forever at their base coach. You know,

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Speaker 6: there's the did he tell him where to stand and

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Speaker 6: where to start?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 4: Fine, that's neither here nor there. My thing is, you're

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Speaker 4: a catchman. I was a catcher. I played in the

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Speaker 4: World Series, I played in huge games. There's not a

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Speaker 4: chance in holy hell that he Ain's picking a third

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Speaker 4: base with the World Series on the line, because all

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Speaker 4: he's got to do is if IKF doesn't go in,

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Speaker 4: it hits him in the back, it lose the word

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Speaker 4: ain't happening, right, And we had Max Munsey and he.

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Speaker 6: Said, oh, we had talked about it.

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Speaker 3: Bullshit.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no chance that he is. There's no chance that

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Speaker 4: that pick is happening. And then so that's fine. I

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Speaker 4: get you know, all these things are going through your

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Speaker 4: head and it's happening fast. But have you seen the

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Speaker 4: new thing that teams are doing. The Tigers do what

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Speaker 4: the Rays do it. Or there's a right handed hitter,

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Speaker 4: they take their guy on third and they put him

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Speaker 4: in fair territory and they have the runner actually take

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Speaker 4: his lead in fair territory. And I asked why they

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Speaker 4: do this and Hinch, Hinch, Hinch drew me a diagram.

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Speaker 4: But if Joey Kora had already told me why they

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Speaker 4: do it, and it's to get the third basement off

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Speaker 4: the line, because the chances of get Dalton VARs show

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Speaker 4: hitting a line drive to the third base and are

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Speaker 4: like almost zero, okay, but it makes the third baseman

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Speaker 4: get off the line. It takes away the pick because

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Speaker 4: the third basement's too far away. And plus when the

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Speaker 4: third is a sure when you look down there and

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Speaker 4: the guy's are got no lane to throw it. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: so and then it it eliminates let's say, bar just

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Speaker 4: a ground ball to third, they're already you're kind of

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Speaker 4: aurady in his lane to throw it home.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: So have you seen that play?

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Speaker 7: Now?

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Speaker 6: We think talk about that, like kratsaid in spring training.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there's always things that are just kind of counter

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Speaker 5: counter moves to a move, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 5: that stuff that we have to kind of you know,

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Speaker 5: take into consideration for sure, and it's really hard. Like

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Speaker 5: I agree with you, I would. I would have been

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Speaker 5: shocked if we'll try to pick him off at third.

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Speaker 4: I will if Will Smith it picks him off at third,

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Speaker 4: I mean, you know what you say, You're like, you.

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Speaker 3: Know what, right, you got it?

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Speaker 5: So it's like there's all these advanced reports and it's like, okay,

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Speaker 5: he does do that. I think just removing yourself from

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Speaker 5: just the information and just saying where am I right now?

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Speaker 5: Is that gonna happen? Probably not, you know, I think

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Speaker 5: it's just how is he checks down? You know, what

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Speaker 5: I mean, his his his checkpoint, just like here's where

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Speaker 5: I'm at, Here's where this guy is. But yeah, I've

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Speaker 5: seen that play. I know the Tigers are really good

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Speaker 5: at those things. We've seen guys do that. I saw

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Speaker 5: guys they year even scoring from second and they were

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Speaker 5: going into home plates. So those are because of that play. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: we've we've definitely tried to dive into some of that stuff.

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Speaker 7: You've seen, Vladdie. Since you guys were both babies, you

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Speaker 7: kind of came up through the minor leagues with him.

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Speaker 7: The run he put together in the playoffs, is that

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Speaker 7: the hottest streak? I'm even talking fisher Cat, Dunedin Blue Jay, Vladdie, Like,

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Speaker 7: is that the hottest streak or the most locked in

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Speaker 7: you've ever seen? And do you feel like maybe a

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Speaker 7: little bit. If it had been his free agent year,

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Speaker 7: it would have been a little bit tougher for him

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Speaker 7: to lock in. But since he had security, you know what,

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Speaker 7: that's where he was at.

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Speaker 3: Starting with the security part.

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Speaker 5: I think that when he did sign the extension, that

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Speaker 5: kind of freed him up a little bit and freed

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Speaker 5: up everyone a little bit, like, hey, here's what we're

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Speaker 5: doing right now, and here's what we're doing for the

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Speaker 5: long term. So yes, I have seen him as hot

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Speaker 5: as that before. I've never seen him as locked in,

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Speaker 5: you know, And I noticed it. Even we win the division,

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Speaker 3: And let's continue to do it all? Right?

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Speaker 4: Because I I kind of hit on this and when

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Speaker 4: Okay, then let's talk about another one of your pictures.

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Speaker 4: There's a big story that came out not too long ago.

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Speaker 4: A guy missed the World Series. Yes, did you know?

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Speaker 7: You anticipate anticipate anybody in the clubhouse, like from uprisings

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Speaker 5: You know, it wasn't that we wanted to take you

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Speaker 5: But you know, this is what we're doing right now

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Speaker 6: do it.

438
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Speaker 7: I can't.

439
00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:20,399
Speaker 6: I'm not going to name names, you know, you know, the.

440
00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:25,119
Speaker 5: Nation though the visitation document to visit our complex and

441
00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:27,200
Speaker 5: I said, no, it's only for free agents, but I'm

442
00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:30,080
Speaker 5: a free agent, said, I'm still a free agent.

443
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Speaker 4: I've actually been to it because my son played for

444
00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:34,560
Speaker 4: the Blue Jay scout team, so they used to do

445
00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:35,520
Speaker 4: all kinds of stuff there.

446
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Speaker 5: It's incredible, pretty nice. It's unbelieva. Yah, it's the best

447
00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:40,520
Speaker 5: one I've seen. I think it's one of one, I

448
00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:42,879
Speaker 5: really do. I think I hate though, and this is

449
00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:45,520
Speaker 5: me being nitpicky as hell. The stadium's not there.

450
00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:47,359
Speaker 4: You got to get on the bus, you know, if

451
00:18:47,359 --> 00:18:49,080
Speaker 4: you got the double decker bus, you guys have to

452
00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:49,520
Speaker 4: get on the.

453
00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:51,320
Speaker 5: Grid to build the whole complex by the stadium. There

454
00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:53,800
Speaker 5: wasn't enough land, so we kind of had to do

455
00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:56,760
Speaker 5: what we got to do. But in terms of what's next,

456
00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:59,280
Speaker 5: I think you get cees, you know, you get ponds

457
00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:02,080
Speaker 5: in the rotation. And we're still looking to add We're

458
00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:03,760
Speaker 5: still looking to add a bat. We're talking with Bo,

459
00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:06,720
Speaker 5: We've met with Tucker. We'd love to have Bo back,

460
00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:08,160
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. I think that what he

461
00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:11,359
Speaker 5: does for our lineup in our clubhouse is kind of

462
00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:14,320
Speaker 5: underrated and undervalued. When you have guy like Vlad who

463
00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:17,080
Speaker 5: signed long term, but I think that's an area we

464
00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:19,119
Speaker 5: want to address, you know, make sure we have another

465
00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:24,440
Speaker 5: bat there and then looking for some high leverage relief options,

466
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Speaker 5: you know, at the back.

467
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Speaker 3: End of the pen.

468
00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:28,720
Speaker 5: So it's it's cool right now because we're we're hitting

469
00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:30,840
Speaker 5: that part. You know, this has been building for a

470
00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:36,440
Speaker 5: few years in Toronto in terms of ownership, support, payroll, players, facilities,

471
00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:39,680
Speaker 5: and it's it's shown on the field. So I think

472
00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:43,080
Speaker 5: having this success we've had makes it a little bit

473
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Speaker 5: more desirable to come here. We've definitely heard that from

474
00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:50,720
Speaker 5: players and agents and comfortable to say that we will

475
00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:54,520
Speaker 5: continue to try to get better as this month unfolds.

476
00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:56,960
Speaker 7: Can you put an over under on the amount of

477
00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:00,600
Speaker 7: starts that your organization feels Trey us average is going

478
00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:03,920
Speaker 7: to make. Obviously, just coming up last year now has

479
00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:07,760
Speaker 7: more playoff starts than regular season starts. We heard all

480
00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:09,960
Speaker 7: the stories, just like you hitting a home run and

481
00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:12,439
Speaker 7: then hanging up your cleats. They told the story like

482
00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:18,000
Speaker 7: a yeah, they told it though, Joe Davis told that

483
00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:20,320
Speaker 7: story probably seven times, sick of it.

484
00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:23,240
Speaker 5: So that was when the Dodgers were losing. He just

485
00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:24,840
Speaker 5: wanted to fill the air because when they were winning,

486
00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:27,320
Speaker 5: he was going crazy. Stop it, I got I got

487
00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:28,280
Speaker 5: a bone to pick with Joe.

488
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Speaker 6: Stop.

489
00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:31,200
Speaker 3: Okay, to stop broadcast anyway, stop anyway?

490
00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:33,000
Speaker 4: Okay, hold on, no, no, now we're going to have

491
00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:34,880
Speaker 4: a bone to pick because I do these games. Yes,

492
00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:40,160
Speaker 4: what you understand is whoever's winning is who they're who

493
00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:42,280
Speaker 4: we talk about, because what am I going to talk

494
00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:43,199
Speaker 4: about if you're losing?

495
00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:45,600
Speaker 5: True, maybe me hanging up my spikes as a bad

496
00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:49,119
Speaker 5: player at spring training. But anyway, that's a cool story.

497
00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:51,240
Speaker 5: That's cool story for like one second, you know what

498
00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:53,240
Speaker 5: I mean. But I think Bobashid didn't the three on

499
00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:56,400
Speaker 5: Homer off Otani's look cooler, and you know fly ball

500
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Speaker 5: to center that Boll's gone.

501
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Speaker 1: You know.

502
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Speaker 3: Anyway, that's not Wait.

503
00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:03,720
Speaker 1: So is it because he's a Dodgers guy?

504
00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:09,240
Speaker 6: Well, you know you sound like right now every Blue

505
00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:10,359
Speaker 6: Jays fan on the planet.

506
00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:11,080
Speaker 3: I had to get it out.

507
00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:15,520
Speaker 5: I was actually and he covered us the entire postseason.

508
00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:18,720
Speaker 5: Him and Smulti, they're awesome and he's got one of

509
00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:21,680
Speaker 5: the best voices in the game. I love his energy.

510
00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:23,520
Speaker 5: He reached out to me before it even started. If

511
00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:24,840
Speaker 5: we saw him for three days in l a and

512
00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:26,320
Speaker 5: he told me Hey, if you hit to the postseason,

513
00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:28,600
Speaker 5: I'm going to cover you. I got all the respect

514
00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:30,400
Speaker 5: in the world for him. He's really cool. I think

515
00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:31,720
Speaker 5: he's great at what he does. But I had to

516
00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:33,199
Speaker 5: get that out there. It's a little subtle.

517
00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:35,800
Speaker 4: I can't put my phone will be as soon as

518
00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:38,560
Speaker 4: this airs, my phone will be ringing and it'll be

519
00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:39,840
Speaker 4: Joe and he's gonna be like, you need to.

520
00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:41,560
Speaker 3: I should like text him, And I'm done with this.

521
00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:45,800
Speaker 4: Because we have this conversation all the time, Like when

522
00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:48,960
Speaker 4: I do games and I don't care honestly, Now Joe's

523
00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:51,679
Speaker 4: a little different because he I really don't care who wins, right,

524
00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:53,000
Speaker 4: I just want a good game. Right.

525
00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:55,320
Speaker 6: But as you're doing the game, if you look on

526
00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:57,440
Speaker 6: Twitter and you go to social media, why do you

527
00:21:57,600 --> 00:21:59,040
Speaker 6: like this team? Why do you like the Blue Jays?

528
00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:00,000
Speaker 6: Why do you hate the Dodgers?

529
00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:02,280
Speaker 4: Right? And then two seconds later somebody be like, why

530
00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:04,040
Speaker 4: do you love the Dodgers? Why do you hate And

531
00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:07,359
Speaker 4: it's the same within a minute of each other. That

532
00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:09,080
Speaker 4: was just depending on how you look at it.

533
00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:09,760
Speaker 3: That wasn't me.

534
00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:12,359
Speaker 5: We didn't hear the broadcast. That was some complaints from

535
00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:14,600
Speaker 5: some family and some friends and some other people around

536
00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:19,000
Speaker 5: because they're rotten for us, you know. So, But going

537
00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:22,479
Speaker 5: back to Trey, going back to Trey, Uh, there's going

538
00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:24,399
Speaker 5: to be no restrictions, really, you know what I mean.

539
00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:26,960
Speaker 3: I think that we were really deliberate and careful with.

540
00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:30,159
Speaker 5: His innings this year, his first full season, and there

541
00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:33,200
Speaker 5: wasn't an innings limit this year, and it's going to

542
00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:36,360
Speaker 5: be a normal workload for him next year. I think

543
00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:38,560
Speaker 5: just being very mindful of his offseason work. We've already

544
00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:40,479
Speaker 5: been in touch with him numerous times about when he's

545
00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:43,879
Speaker 5: starting to throw, and I think, look, looking ahead, man,

546
00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:47,919
Speaker 5: you pencil him in to make pretty regular starts for us.

547
00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:50,520
Speaker 5: If that means thirty two, great, you know, if it

548
00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:53,040
Speaker 5: means twenty seven, great, But we're looking for him to

549
00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:54,280
Speaker 5: just lot right into the rotation.

550
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Speaker 6: Did you keep him hidden a whole year on purpose?

551
00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:58,800
Speaker 4: Because there's this big conspiracy theory that you guys didn't

552
00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:00,640
Speaker 4: want to bring him up too early because we knew

553
00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:02,320
Speaker 4: what we had and we don't want to show anybody.

554
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,280
Speaker 5: There was maybe a little bit of gamesmanship, but at

555
00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:08,400
Speaker 5: the same time, you're not trying to call a guy

556
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:11,480
Speaker 5: up in and disrupt everything he's been. He's been doing,

557
00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:13,399
Speaker 5: you know, just a transition to the big leagues.

558
00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:14,159
Speaker 1: You know.

559
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:15,919
Speaker 5: He came up and I think there was like two

560
00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,200
Speaker 5: weeks left in our season and he pitched against Tampa,

561
00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:22,040
Speaker 5: pitched against Kansas City, and then pitched against Tampa again.

562
00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:25,760
Speaker 6: You know, all non playoff teams, you know, but all.

563
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Speaker 5: I kind of must win games to try to win

564
00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:30,159
Speaker 5: the division, you know, So we the one time we

565
00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:32,800
Speaker 5: thought about, Okay, Boston was in there. We were playing

566
00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:36,440
Speaker 5: Boston at home and possible playoff opponent. Do we want

567
00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:38,520
Speaker 5: them to see him because it's a unique look, like

568
00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 5: it's it's tough to game plan for unless you've seen it,

569
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:43,399
Speaker 5: So that that played into it a little bit. That

570
00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:45,280
Speaker 5: was kind of the appeal to have him pitch against

571
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Speaker 5: the Yankees as well, against a veteran team that can

572
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Speaker 5: game plan really well.

573
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Speaker 3: But no, we didn't. We didn't hide him.

574
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,440
Speaker 5: I think we wanted to wait for the right time

575
00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:56,679
Speaker 5: that we were really comfortable that he could contribute when he.

576
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Speaker 3: To come up.

577
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Speaker 2: I have aim more something really grinding my gears that

578
00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,119
Speaker 2: I think you're gonna like. It's about Dylan's pace. We

579
00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:04,760
Speaker 2: had him on yesterday. He signs with you guys, and

580
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:06,800
Speaker 2: then of course, if you're a fan of say the

581
00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 2: Padres are gonna miss him and you're pissed that he's

582
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:12,800
Speaker 2: going somewhere else whatever. Right, so we see a lot

583
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 2: on social media and you just get the endless like, oh,

584
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:19,080
Speaker 2: if Reuben Nablin, the Padres pitching program couldn't get him

585
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:21,360
Speaker 2: to be a number one, then like this is such

586
00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:24,840
Speaker 2: a bad signing whatever. I basically told this to him, Yeah, yesterday, Okay,

587
00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:26,920
Speaker 2: So I just wanted to get your take on how

588
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:30,120
Speaker 2: you guys had conversations with him and this is zero

589
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 2: knock on prior teams. Let's also remember Dylan has had

590
00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:38,359
Speaker 2: cy young high level voting periods right and finishes in

591
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:40,320
Speaker 2: his lifetime. So I just want to get your take

592
00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:42,320
Speaker 2: on that, because part of his answer was about, you know,

593
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,960
Speaker 2: his slider shape, and it seemed like he was giving

594
00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:47,240
Speaker 2: us a little taste of Hey, you can grate a pitch,

595
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:48,840
Speaker 2: but then what if I open up a little more

596
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,240
Speaker 2: and then you can see that pitch better? Is the

597
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:53,359
Speaker 2: pitch really grading well in terms of the shape, but

598
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:55,320
Speaker 2: they're seeing it out of my hand? So I just

599
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 2: thought he got really granular, and it sounded like he

600
00:24:57,920 --> 00:24:58,920
Speaker 2: did that with your team.

601
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:02,480
Speaker 5: He did, Yeah, he's he's a he's a sharp guy,

602
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:06,600
Speaker 5: you know. And I think that when you're presenting yourself

603
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:08,720
Speaker 5: to these players on a zoom call with the agent

604
00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:11,479
Speaker 5: and all this, you didn't get a yeah. I mean

605
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:13,840
Speaker 5: that might have been next if you didn't sign, might

606
00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:15,639
Speaker 5: have just tried to show some bells and whistles off.

607
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,439
Speaker 5: But it was weird, Like I think, it was an

608
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:20,359
Speaker 5: hour and a half conversation and we all on the

609
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,680
Speaker 5: call kind of hit it off, you know, Pete Walker, Graham, Johnson,

610
00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 5: Sam Green, bullpen coach and assistant pitching coach. They you know,

611
00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:30,160
Speaker 5: kind of had some ideas, you know, on a power

612
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:33,600
Speaker 5: point to say, here's where we think obviously respecting his

613
00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 5: stuff and his swing and miss stuff is profile of

614
00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:40,159
Speaker 5: all of his pitches. Dylan was pretty adamant about, Hey,

615
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:41,920
Speaker 5: how can you help maximize my potential?

616
00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:43,719
Speaker 3: And that kind of opened a door for us.

617
00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:45,199
Speaker 5: And I think what we've been we've been a really

618
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:47,879
Speaker 5: good job of hiring coaches that have good content, but

619
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:49,879
Speaker 5: they can coach it, you know. So when you get

620
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:53,480
Speaker 5: into that little presentation some biomechanical stuff, some pitch design

621
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:56,399
Speaker 5: stuff with Sam and Graham, and then you kind of

622
00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,600
Speaker 5: finish off the pitching thought as a whole with Pete

623
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:01,960
Speaker 5: Walker was going into year fifteen with the Blue Jays.

624
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,359
Speaker 5: It's a pretty inviting thing to have for a picture

625
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:07,480
Speaker 5: who's very well aware of how his stuff works. So

626
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:10,159
Speaker 5: we felt when we hung up the phone that it

627
00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 5: was a really good match. He had some really cool

628
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:17,720
Speaker 5: feedback in that in that call, and you know, Scott

629
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:19,920
Speaker 5: Morris followed up with Ross and said he was really

630
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,399
Speaker 5: impressed with what we had to offer. So it happened

631
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 5: quick really. I mean we signed him maybe like a

632
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:27,720
Speaker 5: week later after that call. And so everyone's different. You know,

633
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 5: some guys they don't want all that information. We have

634
00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:32,399
Speaker 5: it all, and he was a guy that really seemed

635
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 5: like he wanted to hear it all, so that I

636
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:36,080
Speaker 5: think played into it.

637
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:38,720
Speaker 3: And Dylan's an easy guy to.

638
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 7: Like, right. Last one. First of all, Trey needs somebody

639
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,479
Speaker 7: to throw with. I'm just twenty minutes south of him,

640
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,240
Speaker 7: so give him my phone number. If he needs somebody

641
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:50,119
Speaker 7: a long toss I'll go, Ye are you.

642
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 3: Still long, Austin? Are you still long?

643
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:52,200
Speaker 1: Toosson?

644
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 6: Yeah?

645
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm high school coach. I got to show these kids,

646
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:58,640
Speaker 7: I'm pretty sure. By ucl Is gone though. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

647
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:02,159
Speaker 7: but it's the days are numbered. But my last comment

648
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 7: is during the World Series, we have a group thread

649
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:08,920
Speaker 7: that you're not on called the Round Up Slayers. It's

650
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 7: it's Brad Hasse, drag Yesovich and we were all going,

651
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,640
Speaker 7: I mean, it's it's the Crew, Veto Chaer Belati, everybody,

652
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 7: Carlo Coda. We were all going to come up if

653
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:23,560
Speaker 7: you guys won the World Series, we were going to

654
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 7: come up and surprise you at the parade. So just

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Speaker 7: remember that when you're pushing the rest of the year.

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Speaker 5: Okay, okay, all right, Well that is a carrot at

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Speaker 5: the end of the stick that is like no other.

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Speaker 5: To try to win it next year, joining the parade

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Speaker 5: and if I do see you guys, there'll be some

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Speaker 5: beers involved and drinks and beyond me.

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Speaker 1: That was it that pushes you over the top.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's all that's all I need. Right, So I

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Speaker 3: want to know.

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Speaker 6: Where your cleats are They still hanging somewhere?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's some backfield in Saint Pete, you know, somewhere.

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Speaker 4: Three Carlos Klado he got them put them on.

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Speaker 8: What was his name, Kretzi who you said Carlos was

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Speaker 8: one of the guys car are a ball double Carlow Coda, Yeah.

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Speaker 6: He took that.

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Speaker 1: Plus Carlos Colaso from.

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Speaker 7: Uh Jose, Ambria took him because he was.

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Speaker 3: He was standard standard. Yeah, I'll make it work.

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Speaker 1: You give it to me, I'll fit. It's good to

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Speaker 1: see you man, Thanks for your guy.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate to catch up and see you After all that,

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Speaker 2: it was a freaking hell of a bride to watch.

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Speaker 3: Thanks man. It's fun to be part of and hopefully

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Speaker 3: we get bactors