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We're in Pittsburgh with my guy that
I predicted would finish in the top three

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of National League Rookie of the Year
voting, and he's making me look good

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so far. And I know that's
his motivation on the mound and in between

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starts every single step he takes,
and that is the one and only Gavin

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Stone. Gavin, thanks a lot
for the time. Did I feel like

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I tapped into your motivation? Oh
yeah, yeah, definitely. Yeah,

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it's good to be on. Thanks
for having me again. Hopefully I get

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a boom box after this, but
yeah, it's going to be. It's

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in the mail. Oh yeah,
thanks, thanks for shure. I just

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need the charger honestly. Okay,
we'll get you the charger for the boom

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box I gave you last year,
courtesy of Travis Matthews. Yeah, thank

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you, Travis. Hey, how
about this. Not a lot of people

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realize back in LA you and Bobby
Miller are roommates, and he said he

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was a good roommate. After that
torturous flight last week from New York back

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to LA he was leaving while you
were coming home. Yeah, we got

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back at like I don't know,
it was probably like eight o'clock. Yeah,

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and he was going to the field
that day. It was our off

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day. And I come in and
and I eat something, I order some

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door dish, eat something, and
then Bobby wakes up and it's literally probably

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like twenty minutes rot whenever I got
home, he left, and then I

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went straight to bed after that.
How many interactions do you guys have living

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together? Oh? Yeah, I
mean we see each other all the time

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at home, at the field.
You know, we're pretty much always together.

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It sucks that he's been hurt,
you know, this long, because

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he hasn't been on the road trips
and stuff. But uh yeah, whenever

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I come home, like, we're
always together pretty much. Can you tell

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his demeanor has changed in any way
while he's been on the io because he

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wants to pitch so badly? Oh
yeah, he's itching the pitch. That's

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all he wants to do is pitch. I mean, you can tell he's

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he's, uh, you know,
anxious to get back out there for sure.

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But no, he's got a good
head on him. Do any of

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you cook? Does anybody make a
home cook meal? I don't. I

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don't cook. Bobby cooks. Bobby
likes to cook Bobby. He just got

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we have this little pool area and
there's a girl downstairs. He just got

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a bunch of Kershaws Kershaw's beef.
Yeah, so he's been cooking that downstairs.

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Have you tried any of the Kershaw
beef? Is it what they say

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on the package? No curveballs?
No, I actually haven't tried it.

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Bobby said it's really good though.
So Bobby knows his way around the grill.

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Yeah, he's a grill master.
All right. That's a good roommate

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to have a guy that knows how
to grill. Oh, I know he

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doesn't never cook me anything, but
I'm sure he would if I. Gavin

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Stone is our guest, just head
a first pitch here in Pittsburgh. How's

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the season been going for you?
Obviously we know things seem to get into

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a rhythm, but for you personally, I'm sure you want more. Yeah,

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I mean, I'm just trying to
win ball games for the club,

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to be honest, it's been a
lot of fun so far. I don't

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get a lot of strikeouts of the
defense has helped me out a lot,

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sou and they've been great. We've
had a great defense all year. But

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no, it's been a lot of
fun. I'm enjoying it. Still got

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a long ways to go, though. On the flip side, strikeout pitchers,

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sometimes the guys behind them kind of
get bored when they're not doing much

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stuff. But it seems like the
pace that you pitch at and the way

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these guys play behind you, it
works that you work fast and you induce

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a lot of contact. Yeah.
I mean it's always been something that I've

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done is just work fast, try
and get the guys back in the dugout,

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trying and put up more runs,
get them off their feet as much

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as I can. Do you pay
attention to that when people want to poke

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holes in your game and say,
well, you know, he puts up

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zeros, but he doesn't strike out
a lot of guys. No, I

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don't care. Zeros is it's the
only thing that really matters. Do you

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feel like you're starting to find pitches
that can dial up for you to be

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able to get that strike out when
you need it. Oh? Yeah,

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there's opportunities certain pitches of certain areas. You know, the last couple of

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games, I've gotten a couple of
strikeouts on fast on heaters up and heaters

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around the zone and stuff like that, and then I think that'll open up

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my change up. Uh, And
the slider has been good too, so

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you know, just trying to find
ways to open up the change up and

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then and then you know, catching
them off guard with the other crap.

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What's the biggest difference between the way
your change up appears and the way your

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two seamer appears to hitters because they're
both pitches down in the zone. Yeah,

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I'm honestly, I mean, I'm
not sure. I know two seamen

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has more vertical on it obviously,
Uh, probably more run too, but

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I mean that feels the natural pronation
feels good out of my hand. Uh,

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And so that's why the two seam
works really well. And then and

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then the changeup I've had since I
got into Pro Bowl, and it's,

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uh, you know, it's a
it's a pitch where you gotta you gotta

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keep making adjustments on week to week. But no, they've been, they've

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been, honestly two of my best
pitches this year. Gavin. Just hearing

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you talk about pitching, it feels
like you're constantly learning and you thrive and

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trying to to figure out different shapes
for these pitches. How much do you

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enjoy that part of it. Yeah, when you have multiple pitches that do

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different shapes, it's fun to play
around with different parts of the zone.

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Like a couple of weeks ago,
me and Walker and Connor and all,

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like Mark was talking about, you
know, front hip two seamers to lefties

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and stuff like that, and so
trying that out in the ball game.

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And then you know, backdoor cutters
and stuff like that. It's always fun

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to just mix it up, mix
around the zone and stuff like that and

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see whatever, see what holes I
can find, to be honest. Gavin

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Stone is our guest. Speaking of
Walker Bueller, your roommate Bobby Miller talked

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about how he's started to become more
friends with him. What's the relationship between

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the young guys and Buehler, who's
really not that much older than you guys.

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Yeah, that's funny. He was
talking about Jones the other yesterday saying

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that Walker was his guy, and
Walker's like, I'm not even thirty yet,

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no, but he's he's literally just
a book of information. He's got

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so much stuff that he can lay
on you and it's all useful, you

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know, It's it's great information.
He's been around the League for a while.

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He's pitching a lot of high leverage
you know games and stuff like that,

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and so the information that he gives
is you know, it's really really

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fun and entertaining to listen to him, especially in his bullpen work, you

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know, him talking back and forth
to Connor and Mark. You know,

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you honestly learn a lot from that. And like he's one of the guys

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that likes to, I don't know, throw different shapes in different areas kind

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of like I do. And so
just watching him and learning learning from him

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has been really really helpful. That's
awesome to hear. And the one thing

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that I love about you and him
is that you're able to keep your composure

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and your mound presence in different situations. Where does that come from for you?

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Because it never feels like you're rattled
on the mound. Yeah, that

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was something that you know, I'm
thankful for UCA whenever I went there.

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Coach Arline, he's he was the
pitching coach then he's the head coach now.

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But he was all about mentality and
being strong on the mount and keeping

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your composure and having a little heartbeat. And I mean those three years were

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that's that was that's where I learned. That was from those three years in

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college. And he does a great
job and he's got he got the head

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job after I left, and so
that that program is still flourishing. And

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I'm really thankful, you know,
from my time there and what he taught

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me. That's not just you on
the mound, just being around you the

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last couple of years. That's the
way you live your life. It doesn't

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seem like you get too excited or
too sad about many things. Yeah,

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there's no reason for that. I
mean, uh, it's just life,

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to be honest. You go through
life. Some days are gonna be better

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than others. Some days are going
to be, you know, worse than

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others. Uh. You just have
to you know, be the same person.

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Really love it. I need to
learn that. I'm forty plus and

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I'm very emotional. That's okay,
That's okay. Some people are some people

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are wired different. But right,
Thanks a lot for the time, Gavin.

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Really appreciate talking to you. And
like I've said many times, you're

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an easy guy to root for.
And we'll certainly uh find that battery for

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your boombox soon. Thanks appreciate it. There he is the man Gavin Stone

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even when the power goes out,
cool as a cucumber,