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Speaker 1: Get up, Get get up?

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Speaker 2: All right? What's up? Guys? Messed Up podcast?

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Speaker 3: Here for a player interview talking to Tommy Hunter, a

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Speaker 3: relief pitcher obviously for the metssess a few questions. Rainy

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Speaker 3: day here going up against the Marlins. No better place

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Speaker 3: to spend it, right, I mean on a nice Friday night,

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Speaker 3: little little human. Beautiful yeah, beautiful day. So obviously your

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Speaker 3: route back to the Mets has kind of been a

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Speaker 3: difficult one. You had a big back surgery and a

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Speaker 3: lot was going on. What was that rehab process like

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Speaker 3: for you?

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Speaker 4: It was different, different than most, but you know, they

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Speaker 4: let me go home. That was a good gain, but

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Speaker 4: pretty not not something you're gonna want to really go through.

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Speaker 4: But made it back and now we're here.

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Speaker 5: If you ever have any tenuous moments during the rehab

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Speaker 5: thinking like not knowing, but the feature is going to hold.

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Speaker 6: Oh I was done, Yeah, I was done.

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Speaker 7: Done.

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Speaker 4: You guys can thank my wife for sitting here right

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Speaker 4: now because she she you know, like, I don't put

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Speaker 4: up a little challenge and I took it and it worked.

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Speaker 4: So but yeah, it's laying in bed like that and

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Speaker 4: it's not it's not idea, but you know, there's you know,

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Speaker 4: big things that come out of it. And you know,

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Speaker 4: I was fortunate to be able to get back and

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Speaker 4: you know, have people that you know, get me a chance.

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Speaker 2: No, we're glad to have you back on the mound.

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Speaker 2: Just Mets fanage been great for us.

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Speaker 3: But we actually want to talk about the hitting side

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Speaker 3: because famously last year you got a big hit against

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Speaker 3: the Atlanta Braves and you had some famous quotes afterwards

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Speaker 3: reliving a chower. It got to live out a childhood memory,

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Speaker 3: felt like a real baseball player. Run me through that

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Speaker 3: at that, I mean what you got up there?

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Speaker 2: Did you think? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I mean yeah, no, I knew I was getting a

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Speaker 4: first cheater and I you know, it was my only

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Speaker 4: chance to get a hit, and I was like, I'm

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Speaker 4: not missing it. So you know, I waited a long

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Speaker 4: time for that, and uh, a lot of people talking

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Speaker 4: a lot of trash for you know, so many years

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Speaker 4: coming out for BP when I shouldn't have been, you know,

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Speaker 4: just doing all kinds of things talking you know, trash

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Speaker 4: to hitters. You know, like I mean, I've been doing

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Speaker 4: it for so long that like not not in that way,

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Speaker 4: but like you know, trying to get this hit for

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Speaker 4: so long that you know, I've I've I've made some

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Speaker 4: people really mad, tell them I can hit better than them,

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Speaker 4: and then I finally got my first hit.

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Speaker 6: So, I mean, you know, it was fun running down

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Speaker 6: first base was you know, yeah, I was. It was

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Speaker 6: sick so and there were people in the stands.

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Speaker 4: My agent was there with a church grew randomly like

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Speaker 4: I didn't even know I had other cousins that were there.

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Speaker 6: I mean, it was just it was fun.

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Speaker 4: And you know, Freddy at first was immaculate, right like,

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Speaker 4: And then the other crazy part was Ron Washington and

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Speaker 4: uh gosh, Rick Kranits So I played with both of

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Speaker 4: them they coached but me, you know, and they're both

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Speaker 4: there and they're laughing, and you know probably you.

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Speaker 6: Know it's it was.

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Speaker 4: It was fun so uh and they know my my

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Speaker 4: personality and the enjoyment that I got out of it

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Speaker 4: because they knew how many times they had to stop

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Speaker 4: me from going out and trying to hit PP So

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Speaker 4: how bid.

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Speaker 2: You watching it on TV? You could see like the

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Speaker 2: spot on your face. I feel like could have wiped

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Speaker 2: it off.

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Speaker 1: Bro.

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Speaker 4: It's it's seriously the greatest accomplishment, Like that was a

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Speaker 4: lot of a lot of stuff happened after that. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: that was fun. That was it.

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Speaker 6: And then and then round on the bases.

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Speaker 4: You know the guys I was, I was color commenting

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Speaker 4: myself round the bases. It was it was like, it

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Speaker 4: shouldn't be that much of a joke in baseball, but

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Speaker 6: It was fun.

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Speaker 4: It wasn't good fun, hopefully, you know, nobody got their

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Speaker 4: feelings hurt when I was round second, They're gonna send Hunter.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, Peterson was helping me. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 4: he's like Sandy. I mean, they're top stepping.

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Speaker 6: It was a whole run like.

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Speaker 2: School, I hope.

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Speaker 6: So but uh yeah, man, that was that was wild.

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Speaker 6: That was fun.

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Speaker 2: That's amazing.

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Speaker 5: You kind of became like a bit of a folk

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Speaker 5: here after that, even without pitching. Uh not soon thereafter

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Speaker 5: just you're like, smile on the press.

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Speaker 2: Commerce.

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Speaker 5: But coming back this year after the whole year off,

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Speaker 5: come back to playing Buck show Walter.

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Speaker 2: For a manager for a little while in Baltimore. What's happened?

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Speaker 4: Like, uh, he's a good one. So it's it's fun.

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Speaker 4: You know, we had a lot of good runs. You know,

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Speaker 4: there and you know it was it was good to

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Speaker 4: give him a big hut. See Angela, my you know,

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Speaker 4: my wife and Angela setting many games.

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Speaker 7: Together as well.

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Speaker 4: And then you know, having my kids and Angela seeing

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Speaker 4: years in between, and you know it's fun.

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Speaker 7: He's uh, he's he's.

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Speaker 4: Definitely the guy that you want posted up, you know,

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Speaker 4: with that mean scroud that he has all the time

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Speaker 4: at the top step where you can just see his

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Speaker 4: But I mean, you know, he's uh, he's he's one

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Speaker 4: of the best. And you know there's a reason he's here.

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Speaker 5: Because anything you know, has changed about him over like

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Speaker 5: the almost a decade. Sent from Baltimore, New York, he's.

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Speaker 6: Lightened up a little bit.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, really, yeah, yeah, he's he's you know, I think,

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Speaker 4: I don't know, he's getting he's getting better with you know, age,

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Speaker 4: and you know, he's he's he's still I mean, he

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Speaker 4: know is you know, never.

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Speaker 6: Gonna go away.

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Speaker 4: But you know it's fun watching you know, the guys

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Speaker 4: in the in the meetings of stuff, having fun with

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Speaker 6: And it's it makes you, makes you file.

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Speaker 2: And we've seen the TV. He put like fingers in.

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Speaker 4: His ears as I love it, but you know it's

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Speaker 4: it's he kind of he lets things run, you know,

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Speaker 4: And I think he said it a few times like

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Speaker 4: just there to back them up and that's what he does.

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Speaker 4: So you know, I'm glad to be dark man.

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Speaker 5: Yea.

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Speaker 3: So it feels like the team has a lot of

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Speaker 3: bigger personalities and I feel like especially in the bullpen,

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Speaker 3: I mean we've seen you obviously now with the Mets

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Speaker 3: for a bit, you've seen Joelie doing his different things,

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Speaker 3: But whould you say is the biggest personality out.

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Speaker 6: In that pet? Joel is fun. He's fun. It's a

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Speaker 6: lot of fun. I think I think you're gonna go.

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Speaker 4: I have to go with him. You know, he brings

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Speaker 4: it every day and uh, you know he's he's loud,

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Speaker 4: Trevor Williams to be like, oh, Joel.

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Speaker 6: He's here.

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Speaker 4: You know you're hearing, You're hearing before you see him.

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Speaker 4: You know, he's that guy, and you know, I like

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Speaker 4: being that guy sometimes. But he's he's definitely he's got me.

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Speaker 4: He's eclipsed me on that.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna move away from baseball for a second.

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Speaker 5: For a question that I couldn't even believe when we

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Speaker 5: found it out in your Wikipedia, but apparently you're a

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Speaker 5: two times junior champion.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, judo, did you talk about that?

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Speaker 5: And maybe flow the snow if there's anyone on the

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Speaker 5: a fight.

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Speaker 2: No, those are like stage though.

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Speaker 6: It was good. I I was I was five years old.

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Speaker 4: I wanted to be a teenage mutant ninja turtle five

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Speaker 6: At a at a at a judo studio Mudo Quan.

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Speaker 4: It was a place right down the street and we

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Speaker 6: She was trained with the US Olympic team for the

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Speaker 4: She was out in Colorado Springs for a while doing that,

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Speaker 4: so she was way better than I was, but you

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Speaker 6: I was fortunate enough to win a couple of those.

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Speaker 4: not forgetting that where Yeah, I mean, but judo is

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Speaker 4: the fighting thing. It's it's not like real fighting, like

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Speaker 4: anybody can knock me out because you know, any good

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Speaker 2: It's more good a sense if anyone has to size

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, no, we'll have fun. I mean, well,

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Speaker 4: I'll play around with anybody I want to in the clubhouse,

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Speaker 4: But still still like riding a boy.

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Speaker 3: And then the last question here, because we know you

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Speaker 3: got to get righty for the game. The Alabama guy

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Speaker 3: went to the University of Alabama. You think about the

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Speaker 3: football team this year, they've got a chance yet.

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Speaker 7: I mean I don't.

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Speaker 4: I'm not counting them now. So they you know, they

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Speaker 4: put they have a good program down there. They put

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Speaker 4: a good, good product on the field every every Saturday.

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Speaker 4: And I mean, somebody's gonna have to beat him, right

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Speaker 4: like I mean, it's everybody keeps saying it's you know,

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Speaker 4: this is the year that alme was they get crushed

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Speaker 4: or this and that and not really crushed, but somebody

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Speaker 6: And you know, I don't know as a game cock,

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Speaker 6: I'm you know, it's yeah, people slow down. We want

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Speaker 6: BAMA signs are kind of slowly dwindling out.

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Speaker 2: They right before I got there and since then.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so no, I I I enjoyed watching my wife

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Speaker 4: went to Ohio State. Yeah yeah, so Ohio State, the

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Speaker 4: state fans are are are built different, yeah, Travor very different.

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Speaker 4: They are very passionate. So yes, so I've gotten to

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Speaker 4: see that. And I mean it's just I stay quiet

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Speaker 4: on Saturdays and you know they show out.

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Speaker 5: That's funny too because the last like eight years, like

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Speaker 5: we'll have a steak out VAMA once and VAM State

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Speaker 5: pretty badly once.

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Speaker 2: You guys, wait for the rubber match.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, we need it. Let it happen. I hope,

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Speaker 7: Let's do it. Awesome.

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Speaker 2: That was great to be here with Tommy Hunter for

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Speaker 3: I really appreciate you coming out and taking this time

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Speaker 6: Appreciate you, guys, Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 3: We're talking with Chris Bassett. You guys know he's been

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Speaker 7: Everything? The payroll?

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Speaker 5: What's your favorite thing about New York so far and

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Speaker 8: The least favorite thing is how crazy traffic and these

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Speaker 8: The best I would say is, like the restaurants, there's

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Speaker 8: See, I'm like, I'm not a person to ask that

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Speaker 5: I feel that bring it back to baseball, though you

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Speaker 1: There was a meme that went viral early in the season.

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Speaker 5: Not sure how much track you guys keep it that

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I think it's a it's been great because you

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Speaker 7: You make mistakes.

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Speaker 8: But when you have guys that have been there and

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Speaker 8: it's a. It's it's it's it's been a real blessing

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Speaker 7: But I would like to have the button where I

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Speaker 7: I understand there's certain catchers and stuff that will absolutely

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Speaker 7: I think that would be make the game faster. Put

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Speaker 5: Do you think it's been a unique more of unique

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Speaker 8: I think we've done a really good job of it

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Speaker 7: And it's been fun.

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Speaker 1: How does it feel to be competing? You know, the

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Speaker 3: You guys made playoffs a few times in the past,

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Speaker 5: Changing tones a little bit now, we saw that you

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Speaker 7: Okay, I'd be the point guard. Schureser would be like

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Speaker 1: Shoot, but he's like, yeah, he'll work hard.

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Speaker 7: He's he's the four for us. I'm I'm gonna go

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Speaker 8: I think ty is gonna sneaky get somebody. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 8: I think it's gonna keep going. Ty Lore is gonna

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Speaker 7: See that's why I don't I remember played battle anybody.

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Speaker 1: We looked up. We looked up.

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Speaker 3: We saw McNeil average seventeen points a game in high school,

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Speaker 7: See, well there you go. I did not know that either.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure if Jeff knows it either.

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Speaker 3: Okay, last question, because you brought up Marte, who had

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Speaker 8: This body count like Marte. Marte is like a Greek god. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: I would say Mark's awesome.

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Speaker 3: so much for taking the time with us and l

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Speaker 7: Let's go, mates, Get up, Get get up, Get Up.

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