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Speaker 1: He's actually in the intro there.

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Speaker 2: Nolan Ironato joining us right now, new member of the

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Speaker 2: Arizona Diamondbacks. Nolan, great to see you man, and has

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Speaker 2: the off season going for you getting set up for

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going great, man, Thanks you guys for having me.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited back in talking Stick for spring training, which

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Speaker 1: is great and uh no, man, I'm excited. Great young team.

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Speaker 1: It should be fun.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I forgot right, you know, talking Stick pretty well.

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Speaker 3: Confused, He's gonna get confused. He's gonna go in the

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Speaker 3: wrong door. He's gonna park on the Rocky Side, and

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Speaker 3: he's not gonna realize he has to go to the Diamondback.

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Speaker 3: So he's gonna walk in the wrong door. He's gonna

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Speaker 3: open the door and there he's gonna go. Wait, these

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Speaker 3: aren't the Rockies, I remember, Sorry, strong door.

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Speaker 1: I did drive by. I usually stop at the Starbucks

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Speaker 1: right there, and then I kind of did go around

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Speaker 3: So is that why you agreed then to go to

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Speaker 3: the Diamondbacks Because they had the same spring training side

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Speaker 3: is the Rockies. So you felt at home.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it felt close to home, you know, obviously being

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Speaker 1: in Scottsdale for sure, But no, I mean I picked

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Speaker 1: And then also it's a great young team with great

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Speaker 1: as you know, as veteran players, it's nice to be

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Speaker 1: surrounded by a young group. It makes you feel younger

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Speaker 1: and kind of just helps you boosts you up a

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Speaker 4: How tough was that was? This decision? Obviously, you know

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Speaker 4: we hear rumors, but only you go through and actually know, like, oh,

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Speaker 4: I was really thinking about these different decisions and how much,

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Speaker 4: how long or how tough was it to weigh those

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Speaker 1: I mean it was pretty tough. I mean obviously, we

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Speaker 1: built our you know, we built our family. You know,

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Speaker 1: we had our babies in Saint Louis. You know, we

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Speaker 1: great house, great we lived in a great neighborhood. And

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Speaker 1: you know, honestly, when I opted in in twenty two,

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Speaker 1: I thought that would probably be where I ended, you know,

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Speaker 1: I finished my career. But as you guys know baseball,

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Speaker 1: things happened fast and things change and it just comes

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Speaker 1: with the territory. And you know, I think with where

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Speaker 4: Nolan, How does that work?

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Speaker 3: Did the Cardinals come to you and say, hey, we

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Speaker 3: got an opportunity for you or did you or did

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Speaker 3: they get because you see in other sports, you don't

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Speaker 3: really say it in baseball very often, right, You see

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Speaker 3: whoever quarterback to find his own trader. In the NBA

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Speaker 3: will allow whoever to find their own trade. Did the

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Speaker 3: Cardinals come to you and say, hey, if you can

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Speaker 3: a list of teams that you said, hey, I'll go to.

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Speaker 3: Because you know, your situation is so unique where you

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Speaker 3: said no to Houston from what we heard, right, and

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Speaker 3: then Arizona came and you said, yeah, I'll go there.

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Speaker 4: So how does that start? How does that conversation start?

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Speaker 1: Well, I started I like the end of the season,

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Speaker 1: and we talked about, how, give me a list of

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Speaker 1: the teams that you know i'd be willing to leave,

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Speaker 1: to be honest with you, but you know, honestly, having

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Speaker 1: I knew that I didn't play great last year obviously,

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Speaker 1: and I saw that as a place that you know,

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Speaker 4: It's playing third part of that and the part about

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Speaker 4: Chase Field. I looked up your numbers at Chase Field

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Speaker 4: your first two years. You were kind of since then,

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Speaker 4: You're right, you kill it in Chase Field. See, I

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Speaker 4: but it's as a first baseman and that's part of

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Speaker 1: Well, there was definitely comfort in like playing you know,

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Speaker 1: just sticking at third base and that's what I want

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Speaker 1: to play. But I was very open playing first. I

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Speaker 1: I would do anything, you know, whatever they asked. I

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Speaker 1: good to go. So if Arizona would a told me me, hey,

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Speaker 1: that's no problem. I would have no problem with it.

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Speaker 4: I know what happened.

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Speaker 3: You wanted to live in the same city for spring

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Speaker 4: That's smart.

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Speaker 3: That's like going to Arizona. Yeah, definitely, And so you

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Speaker 3: in your class. But I mean, I know we're harping

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Speaker 3: on this, but it's just such a unique situation. Last year,

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Speaker 4: He doesn't want to win. Right.

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Speaker 3: I've known you for a long time. I've known nothing

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Speaker 3: great dude, and you want to compete and you teach

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Speaker 3: those feelings hurt you a little bit when you see

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Speaker 3: I know that's not true. I know you want to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, obviously, I think I think when trade

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Speaker 1: stuff like this comes up and you have a full

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Speaker 1: no trade and you know, you obviously wish it doesn't

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Speaker 1: you know, it's part of the business and it just

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Speaker 1: you know, things get shared. I have the utmost respect

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Speaker 1: for Houston. I've said this so many times. You know,

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Speaker 1: So you know, I try not to show nobody up

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Speaker 4: You mentioned this several times. You get to go play

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Speaker 4: with some young players who from Afar, since you're only

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Speaker 4: played against them on the Diamondbacks, are you like, I

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Speaker 4: don't want to see this guy play one hundred and

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Speaker 4: sixty two games like this is this is legit. It's

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Speaker 4: no shade to anybody else. But you have to choose

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean Corbyn Carroll special, I mean I think

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Speaker 1: And I just think the stress he causes for other teams.

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Speaker 1: I've heard great things.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, I've played against Katel for a long time and

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Speaker 1: left side with Perdomo, who's an absolute stud. So, I mean,

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Speaker 1: Moreno's got a chance to be great. It's with great players.

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Speaker 1: So but Corbyn Carroll, for me, is one of the

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Speaker 3: Damn, you should be on the PR team for the

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Speaker 3: Diamondbacks right now. This got me pumped up. You got

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Speaker 4: Cam.

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Speaker 3: Now, I'm super excited about this team because listen, hey,

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Speaker 3: of the most underrated people you mentioned him that you've

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Speaker 3: moving out there, you won't be you won't believe it

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Speaker 3: when you see a plus. The way he stood up

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Speaker 3: for Marte last year was absolutely awesome when he had

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Speaker 3: problems with his mom and people were wearing him out. Unbelievable, unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: I want to go back to you, just here for

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Speaker 3: a second. People are saying, you're you're on the you're

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Speaker 3: on the decline, right, how do you fight that? I

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Speaker 3: played till I was forty years old. My year thirty

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Speaker 3: nine I had or thirty eight I had a great year.

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Speaker 3: My year thirty nine four, turning forty, I absolutely stunk.

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Speaker 3: It was my last year. How do you fight the

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Speaker 4: How do you fight that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, I think you know obviously when I first

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's okay, you're not You're not there anymore.

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Speaker 4: We don't have to worry about the Cardinals anymore.

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Speaker 4: Wait, wait, tell us about some of those d ms

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Speaker 1: My brother, my cousins get get a laugh at it.

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Speaker 1: They always send me like the funniest things when people

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Speaker 1: And uh. I love Yadi.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 1: He's one of the best people of smartest people I've

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Speaker 1: ever played with. And it was an honor for him

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Speaker 1: to ask me, and the fact that he thought about

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Speaker 1: me it fired me up.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, before we let you go, first

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Speaker 3: of all, I played with the Yaudia, I love Yadi. Also,

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Speaker 3: I never realized you had such like the so Cal

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Speaker 3: surfer guy accent. Like all the times I've had conversations

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Speaker 3: with you, I've never really caught on to like the

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Speaker 3: so Cal surfer, but with your whole vibe today I applauded.

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Speaker 3: I I tipped my cab and I applaud it today.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I just I mean, I didn't just yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm I just came on here and just yeah, man,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Thank you.

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Speaker 4: No, it's it's it's cool.

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Speaker 3: I wish I wish, I wish, I wish I had

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Speaker 3: that that vibe, okay, instead of the superintense I can't

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Speaker 3: get enough, you know, But the so cal vibe is

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Speaker 3: something I guess.

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Speaker 1: You grew up in the off season. Man, you know

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Speaker 1: the O first haven't come yet and all that stuff.

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Speaker 4: Sleep, you sleep a little bit more calm. I want

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Speaker 4: to go back to ya.

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Speaker 1: Sleeping great right now, I'm sleeping great. Right now?

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Speaker 4: You play with YACHTI now you're gonna play for yachty.

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Speaker 4: Do you think he can manage? Not? Can he manage

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Speaker 4: a team? And like does he know the x's and o's,

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Speaker 4: But can he do two interviews every single day for

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Speaker 4: one hundred and sixty two days plus spring training? Where

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Speaker 4: is that? Like? Is there something that's like ah, man,

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Speaker 4: Like I don't know, Like he's just so intense and

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Speaker 4: locked onto the field.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely he can. Being around him, he is really intense.

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Speaker 1: And I wouldn't be surprised if there are some bad

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Speaker 1: questions being asking those interviews, he would let them know,

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Speaker 1: like that's not a good question, but he would He

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Speaker 1: would most definitely be really good at it. He knows

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Speaker 1: he loves the game of baseball. He's the smartest man

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Speaker 1: I've ever been around. He would absolutely be great coach.

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Speaker 1: I really do believe that. You know, he's smart or

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Speaker 1: he knows what people he wants to have surrounded by him.

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Speaker 1: He's not someone that that I've seen so far, even

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Speaker 1: because he's coaching in you know, Venezuela. He's coached, he's

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Speaker 1: been trying to coach all the time. You know, he

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Speaker 1: wouldn't surround himself with people that aren't smart either. He'd

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Speaker 1: make sure he's surround himself with some of the best

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Speaker 1: coaches to make sure he's constantly getting better and learning.

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Speaker 1: Like he's like that, he's he's he's a special one

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Speaker 1: for sure. I Mean I don't know, I wasn't all

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Speaker 1: playing with him and like he was like managing while playing.

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Speaker 1: I mean it was like he's so smart, like he

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Speaker 1: was above and beyond everyone else. I Mean, he was

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Speaker 1: thinking like the way coaches think now, Like you know,

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Speaker 1: like I don't know how it was back in the day,

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Speaker 1: but like teams are not afraid of walk guys now

488
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Speaker 1: because they like they just love the matchup against you

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Speaker 1: know whoever. Yeah, he's been doing that, Like he's been

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Speaker 1: all over those things, like way before everyone else. He

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Speaker 1: you know, he just thinks outside the box and he's

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Speaker 1: the smartest baseball guy I've ever seen.

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Speaker 2: No on last one, let's go off the field, so

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Speaker 2: I'll give you the floor here wherever you want to

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Speaker 2: go with this. But but I'd say you're a wine

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Speaker 2: aficionado or a huge fan involved business wise, so just

497
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Speaker 2: want to lay out whether that's you know, what your

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Speaker 2: world and wine is like, or a favorite bottle or

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Speaker 2: just your passion. We always like to get something off

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Speaker 2: the field that you're really into, and I think that's

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Speaker 2: the lay up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Diamond and Keys our wine. We're really excited

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Speaker 1: about it. I don't know. Yeah, you guys got that. Well,

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Speaker 1: thank you. Well. I appreciate you guys doing that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and uh, it's it's a great cab. Obviously I'm biased.

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Speaker 1: I think it's the best cab out there. I know

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Speaker 1: some great ones, but it's really great. And obviously teaming

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Speaker 1: up with Klay Thompson and Joe Harden and Joe McLean,

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Speaker 1: these guys that they work extremely hard on it and

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Speaker 1: we think it could be really great. I would, Uh,

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Speaker 1: if I see you guys in spring training, maybe I'll

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Speaker 1: bring you guys a bottle. You guys can let me know,

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Speaker 1: you can give me an honest critic. But we're really

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Speaker 1: excited about it. We're just trying to keep it moving

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Speaker 1: and get it out there. But it's it's very good

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Speaker 1: and we're excited for the future. I love that. How

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Speaker 1: can people get their hands on it? Can?

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Speaker 2: Can you order cases?

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Speaker 1: You got to be in stores for it. No, you

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Speaker 1: can order cases online and stuff like that. Yes. Absolutely, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I know my dad's watching. He's gonna order a case.

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Speaker 3: That's I'll be expecting a case in my front door

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Speaker 3: in about a week.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean absolutely, if you and you could be honest,

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Speaker 1: you can let us know what you guys think. We're

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Speaker 1: we feel very good about it. But yeah, we will

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Speaker 1: definitely get some bottles out to you guys.

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Speaker 3: But by the way, hold on, before he goes, I

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Speaker 3: have to ask him one question. He was the first

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Speaker 3: guy that didn't wear his team colors on his batting

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Speaker 3: gloves and his shoes. Because if when you remember you

532
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Speaker 3: were at the Rockies, you had like the color shirt

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Speaker 3: on that you have now on your cleats, right, it

534
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Speaker 3: was like and I was like damn. I was like, damn,

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Speaker 3: how come he gets to make all these cool colors,

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Speaker 3: and I can only be black and white because like

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Speaker 3: I was with the white Sox or black and gray, right,

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Speaker 3: But now you're with the Diamondbacks and they have every

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Speaker 3: color under the sun uniform teal orange had purple blue.

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Speaker 3: So what color are you gonna pick to represent the Diamonds.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm old school in the sense

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Speaker 1: of like the bait because like when I first got

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Speaker 1: called up, obviously you guys know, like the shoe had

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Speaker 1: to be fifty percent black or like whatever the team

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Speaker 1: color had to be. The base had to be black.

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Speaker 1: It couldn't be like just some random color like it

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Speaker 1: is now. And I'm kind of still like that. I'm

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Speaker 1: not a big like white shoe. Like obviously the teal.

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Speaker 1: I added the teal to the black because it made

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Speaker 1: the Rockies color because purple and black kind of just

551
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Speaker 1: looked the same, so that's why I added it. But

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Speaker 1: with the Diamondbacks, I'm definitely gonna have teal in my cleats.

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Speaker 1: I still have a black bassed shoe. I'm you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm thirty four, Like I can't be

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Speaker 1: wearing like neon colors out there. Like some of these

556
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Speaker 1: young guys can who are nasty and they could fly.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just kind of old school like that.

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Speaker 1: So the base would be good. But I'll have the

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Speaker 1: teal and I'll make sure the flash is still out

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Speaker 1: there though on the shoe. There you go, Hey, and

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 4: Where he's back.

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Speaker 1: Tell them, Oh they know, well, I tell them all

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Speaker 1: the time. We need it back. All right, Well, we'll

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Speaker 1: be in camp.

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Speaker 2: I just was told February twenty sixth, not me, but

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Speaker 2: AJ will definitely be there, So stop by and AJ

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Speaker 2: will pass the line on the show.

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Speaker 1: Awesome, okp Polar Kevin Pillar will be there.

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Speaker 2: Okay, there you go. Well, yeah, we enjoyed it. Thanks

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Speaker 2: for the extended time and great to catch up with you.

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Speaker 2: We'll see in camp.

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much. You guys have a going

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Speaker 1: all right, you too, have a good one. That's Nolan

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Speaker 1: Iron not out diamond Back, third Basement. See you