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The Dodgers and White Sox getting said
for game two of this three game series,

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and yesterday Dave Roberts said Landon Neck
is not going anywhere. He will

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start Friday in San Francisco, and
Young Neck is with us right now.

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Thanks a lot for the time.
Yeah, thanks for having me. I

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feel like I got you away from
bad influencer Austin Barnes. But a great

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teammate, I would imagine. Oh
yeah, absolutely, a great teammate.

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Just likes the mess with some guys, kind of like get them off their

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game and just kind of like get
some genuine reactions out of them. But

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yeah, no, he's a character
man. I was telling Mark Priri yesterday

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how much I enjoyed being around yourself, Gavin Stone and Bobby Miller and all

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three of you seem to be very
coachable. Yeah, we try to be.

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Yeah. No, we all kind
of came up together and kind of

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fed off of a little bit of
the culture that they've built down in the

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minor league system here and really just
kind of push it. Everybody kind of

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pushes each other to kind of get
the best version out of themselves. And

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yeah, I mean it's been a
great group and it feels like, like

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you said, the culture down there
is to be yourself. The way you

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pitch is not the same way Bobby
Miller pitches. Yeah. No, obviously

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very different guys as far as what
we do on the mound, but yeah,

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no, everybody, Our entire minor
league system is a lot of kind

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of being yourself. They're gonna give
you all of the tools to get to

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that best version of yourself, but
also just staying true to yourself because everybody's

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different. They know not everything works
for everybody. There's no cookie cutter way

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to do things, and so they
really are doing a really good job of

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making sure that everybody has the tools
to get to where they need to be.

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But being themselves in this day and
age of everybody looking at velocity,

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how did you separate yourself to be
recognized to be a pitcher? I think

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I was always a guy who could
just pitch. That was always kind of

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my calling card for a long time, and then I never even learned velocity

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until kind of later on. I
was always a pitcher first, and so

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I kind of learned how to throw
with lesser velo early on in college and

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then kind of kept on with that
and really just learning how to switch speeds,

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really play the front to back game
and just keep people off balance.

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And you also have four pitches.
The way I understand it, is there

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a temptation to try to use all
four or how do you mix and match

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when you have that many pitches in
your back pocket. A lot of it

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just kind of goes with the what
the game's calling for, what the batter

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calls for, just kind of like
with the matchups, I usually try to

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at least mix in a little bit
of the four just because the more pitches

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that they have in the back of
their mind, the less they can actually

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eliminate, and it just makes it
just a little bit tougher. Even even

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if it's something that they handle it
well, if you just kind of give

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them one look at it, it
still has that in the back of their

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mind. So we try to kind
of mix things up as well as we

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can just to kind of keep them
off Landon Nak is our guest in front

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of first pitch between the Dodgers and
White Sox. I mentioned Bobby Miller.

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He's on the mound tonight. What
have you seen from Bobby being teammates with

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him since the minor leagues and just
his growth to where he's at right now.

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Yeah, No, he has continued
to tune things this like the longer

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we've gone. Obviously got to see
Bobby from the alt side all the way

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through, played with him in Great
Lakes and in Tulsa, and then kind

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of getting to see him again here
now has been pretty cool. The guy

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has obviously, he's worked his butt
off, He's continued to develop his off

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speed pitches a lot, and he's
really a much more complete pitcher than minor

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league Bobby. You just mentioned the
alternate site that was at USC during the

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twenty twenty COVID season. It feels
like the players that were there formed a

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lifelong bond. Absolutely. Yeah,
I mean it was something that not many

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people kind of got to go through, and so the guys that did where

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we were kind of all kind of
just away from everything. It was just

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hotel, field and back, and
so it was just kind of those were

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your only group of people you really
got to be around during that time.

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And so yeah, of course you
kind of create a bond with those guys

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and have that shared experiperience that you'll
be able to remember for the rest of

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your life. Do you feel like
it helped your development or do you feel

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like you were a year behind because
of that. I think it helped a

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lot. Just being able to be
around some of the older guys. I

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think it kind of got us a
little bit more comfortable in kind of being

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able to like talk with them and
understand like professional hitters. Like obviously getting

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to jump straight into facing really Triple
A and big league hitters for your kind

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of your first taste of professional baseball. It was a huge help just kind

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of getting that step ahead of like
what you're working towards, Like they immediately

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show you where you're missing things and
what you need to work on. It

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feels like maybe the game slowed down
a little bit where you know, during

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a minor league season you're competing obviously
against other teams and you're trying to impress.

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Feels like that was somewhat of a
controlled environment with competition, but also

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giving yourself the grace to grow.
Absolutely, yeah, it's all obviously it's

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a different situation than most people get
to go into, but of course,

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yeah, the just kind of the
being able to control the environment of like

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how many innings you get, like
kind of making it more of it's not

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quite an inn squad, but it's
like more just like an intersquad type fields

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where they can control the game and
really like let you work on different stuff

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while still getting to compete against guys. Yeah, no, it was absolutely,

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it was a It was a great
experience. Landonnack is our guest,

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and he will be introduced as a
new character in the Dodger Giants rivalry.

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He pitches Friday night in San Francisco. How much are you looking forward to,

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obviously making another start, but getting
your first taste of pitching in San

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Francisco. Yeah, very excited.
Yeah, I've always kind of growing up,

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you always kind of hear about the
Dodgers and Giants rivalry that they've always

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had and kind of just how far
that goes back, and so yeah,

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getting to kind of get out there
and pitch in enemy territory in San Francisco

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and kind of getting to experience the
energy from those fans as they get fired

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up to play us. Yeah,
no, I can't wait. That's gonna

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be an awesome experience. And you're
unflappable like Gavin Stone as well, So

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I don't feel like that is any
sort of intimidation. Especially Nac a lot

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of Dodger fans show up in San
Francisco. Now, yeah, absolutely,

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Dodger fans travel really well, of
course, and going to play a team

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that your rivals with, of course
they're gonna want to be up there to

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experience it as well. And so
yeah, no, absolutely, it's it's

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something we all want to embrace.
All right. Thanks a lot for the

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time. Great to have you around
again, and I feel like this is

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only the beginning for landon NAC.
Thank you, appreciate you having me