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Speaker 1: ready to bring in our next guest. KP, are you

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Speaker 1: good on your hosting? Chops?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 1: Are you going to do the proper intro for your

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Speaker 1: former teammate here who's been on the show? I believe

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Speaker 1: during spring training for a brief time, but now we

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Speaker 2: But I kind of feel like it's a new man,

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Speaker 1: Go for it. We'll bring him in as you say it.

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Speaker 3: Is he here? Is he here? He's here?

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Speaker 4: Well, first of.

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Speaker 2: All, huge honor to have you on. Good friend of mine,

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Speaker 2: we've played together in New York and he was just

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Speaker 2: the stuff was always there, the work ethic was always there.

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Speaker 2: But this is also going to lead into my first question.

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Speaker 2: Welcome one time All Star David Peterson? Does that get

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Speaker 2: old hearing that? What is that feeling like when someone

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Speaker 2: away from you. And the second part is, you know,

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Speaker 2: you're a father of a three year old and a

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, thank you guys for having me KP obviously, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: And no, it doesn't get old, you know.

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Speaker 5: I think you know, as kids, we watched the All

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Speaker 1: Hey J showing you're showing tell Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Look, so, since I knew that your father was big

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Speaker 4: into horses, I requested a hotel room that had a

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Speaker 3: You see that.

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Speaker 4: That's why.

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Speaker 3: Then that's Seattle Slough.

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Speaker 4: No, that's Seattle Slough.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's beautiful.

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Speaker 4: That David's dad used to work with back in the day.

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Speaker 4: So I had him, I had him mounted on my

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Speaker 4: were coming on. And by the way, yes, it's also

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Speaker 4: also because your innings that you've been pitching, because we've

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Speaker 4: let me say this, if it wasn't for you, if

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Speaker 4: he's Peterson's pitch today. We might get a break today.

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Speaker 4: So your team is also thanking you too, well.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate that.

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Speaker 4: Hey, big deal.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, David so on that there are few pitchers that

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Speaker 1: What have you learned out how to get there? Right

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but I think there's a lot that goes into it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is a good idea. All right, he's back,

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Speaker 5: So, you know, I think I had a lot of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's great to hear because I mean

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Speaker 3: And you know, it's nice KP.

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Speaker 3: Be able to lead.

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Speaker 4: Get after it, David. We all know the position players

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Speaker 4: We know the pitchers can't do it. But who's the

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Speaker 5: Whether it's vocally or whether it's just for performance, you're

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Speaker 1: This actually plays perfectly into my question. You are a

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Speaker 1: I'm curious from when you first got into this organ

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Speaker 1: because I believe it was twenty twenty. The team then

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Speaker 1: changed from like what you've seen around it. I'm saying, like, resources, whatever,

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Speaker 1: and it usually takes several years for an ownership group

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Speaker 1: give me some examples of what you've seen change over

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think it's you know, it's taken

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Speaker 5: And so, you know, I think one thing is is

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Speaker 5: take a couple of years, but I think we're starting

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Speaker 3: And and asking players, hey, what do you guys need? What?

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Speaker 3: What else can we do?

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Speaker 5: You know, and feeling like your opinion has heard sometimes

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Speaker 5: you know, I think people ask those questions and kind

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Speaker 5: of falls on deaf years, But in my experience, whenever

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Speaker 3: It's what do you guys need? How are you doing?

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Speaker 5: You know, there's there's genuine thought behind the question, and

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Speaker 3: And being able to work with the staff that's here, Hey,

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Speaker 5: And really attacking those areas, And so I think it

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Speaker 5: amazing and he's uh, he's always been had an open

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Speaker 3: Really starts there.

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Speaker 5: I mean, the resources are great, being able to have

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Speaker 5: the money is great to facilitate, you know, but to

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Speaker 5: have an open line of communication, whether it's playing time, rotation,

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Speaker 5: everything day to day long term stuff.

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Speaker 3: Steve and Alex have done an amazing job. Alex. I

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Speaker 3: mean I can't.

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Speaker 5: Speak enough on what she's done for the families, for

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Speaker 4: All right, So I can't believe you can you have

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Speaker 4: an open line of communication with Mendy. He's just so

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Speaker 4: hard to talk to. Every time we have him on,

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Speaker 4: it's just so hard to talk to Mendy. It's just

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Speaker 3: But I want to know.

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Speaker 4: What you asked for. What's the one thing. David Peterson

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Speaker 4: I need this.

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Speaker 3: I didn't really do that, you know, I was still.

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Speaker 4: Come if you have like I want I want my

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Speaker 4: ask for something.

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Speaker 5: No, I mean, I think, you know, a lot of

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Speaker 5: and just being more efficient running things better, you know,

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Speaker 5: there was nothing that I was like, I need this

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Speaker 3: Got to happen and blah blah blah.

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Speaker 5: But I think, you know, talking to some of the

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Speaker 5: know that we're that were directly involved in in getting

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I got I got one more question. I love

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Speaker 2: fluffing up my teammates, and I have a scale. You

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Speaker 2: can always be a good teammate, but the definition of

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Speaker 2: a great teammate is a guy when you make a

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Speaker 2: tea time with him earlier in the week, and you

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Speaker 2: get into a city late and that person doesn't bail

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Speaker 2: and that's you, my friend. You never bailed on a

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Speaker 2: tea time. I know you got young kids now. Just

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Speaker 2: want to know if you're still getting a chance to

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean you said I'm in. You know, we

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Speaker 5: make a tea time there, we're going. Uh, it doesn't

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Speaker 5: gonna make that tea time. We're gonna go play. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I mean, you know, kids obviously throw a rench into

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Speaker 5: the golf game. Wouldn't trade it for the world. But yeah,

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Speaker 5: you know, I try and play as much as I

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Speaker 5: set something up, we'll get out. So I think it's

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Speaker 3: And so yeah, try and get out as much as

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Speaker 3: I can.

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Speaker 1: You got every day draft McNeil. He'll never say no, right, I.

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Speaker 5: Know, he'll never say no, but then he does sometimes

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Speaker 5: like I'm gonna play tomorrow. But then we go out

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Speaker 5: and he's like, we're playing again tomorrow. You know, hit

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Speaker 5: that horror yesterday and I was like, hey, tea times

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Speaker 5: we're going you know. So he says he plays his

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Speaker 2: So, by the way, you need to get him out

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Speaker 2: there more.

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Speaker 4: I'd love to see that. I'd love to see like a.

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Speaker 4: It'd be like Soto, Alonzo, Lindor McNeil versus Manayah, Sanga,

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Speaker 5: That would be something I've never played with Singa. I

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Speaker 5: know he plays a little bit. Yeah, we might have

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Speaker 3: Hand on that. I don't know.

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Speaker 5: They've got the best player on the team. I will

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Speaker 5: give that to Jeff, but the other three, I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I could see Sodo being sneaky. I could see him

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Speaker 5: I feel like we could we could take care of

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Speaker 1: There you go. Well, David, this was awesome man. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for stopping by. Appreciate the time. Obviously, KP was very

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Speaker 1: excited to have you on so enjoyed the combo. Keep

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Speaker 1: doing your thing, man, we'll talk see it.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, guys, I appreciate it. Thank you, thank you,