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I wanted to introduce Dodger fans to
a left handed reliever that you're going to

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see more and more of as the
season goes along, and that is Anthony

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Banda, straight from Texas, Tajas, Houston area. Right, Anthony,

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thanks a lot for the time.
It's Corpus area. But yeah, no,

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no, it's uh. I'm happy
to be here, and it's it's

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great. You know, everything about
this organization has been great. But you

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know, yeah, since in Texas
exactly where I'm at, where I'm from,

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it's about thirty five thirty minutes outside
of Corpus, between San Antonio and

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Corpus CHRISTI what you told me yesterday, it was baseball that found you,

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and you not finding baseball to get
here. Yeah. Yeah, So,

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you know, like playing high school
baseball, I was primarily a right fielder,

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just a kid out there that could
pretty much sling it, you know,

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the second base wherever, wherever it
needed to be. But you know,

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I was just playing for fun.
I was just you know, with

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my friends, and that's kind of
you know, how I went about it.

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I didn't really know much about you
know, college and how that other

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good stuff worked. I was small
town kids, so it was just more

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about like just playing with my friends
and just having fun. When you got

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to the Dodgers, obviously everybody raises
their eyebrows because they have a knack for

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finding pictures like yourself and turning them
into guys that are household names. What

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have you learned about yourself during your
eight year career and what have you learned

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in the short time you've been with
the Dodgers During the eight year career,

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It's been a lot of ups and
downs, you know. It's it's mostly

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what I've learned about is how to
you know, take the good from the

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bad and leave the good where it's
at and just continue going trying to be

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consistent and you know, trusting my
stuff. It's you know, everybody says

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trust your stuff, trust your stuff
to any any picture, you know,

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But when you get, you know, into competing mode, it's just more

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about, like you want to get
swings and misses, you want to get

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you know, get the outs quickly
and stuff like that. So like it's

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just there's a fine line, I
guess you can say where you have to

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jump over and have to absolutely dive
into like trusting your stuff, And I

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think that's that was a big thing
that I've been doing this year. It's

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just trusting my stuff end zone and
and it's been great so far. What

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have you learned from Connor McGinnis in
the short time you've been here. I've

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learned a lot of good things about
you know, without being too technical,

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I've I've learned a lot of good
things about you know, what my arm

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action does and how you know,
how certain pitches fix it or fit it

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really and you know, just you
know, pounding the zone and being myself.

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That was a big message to me
when I first got here, was

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just hey, be yourself. There's
a reason why you're Here's the reason why

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we came and got you. But
there's also with Connor that he's by far

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the absolute best I've ever been around. He knows how to, you know,

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get that dialogue and get it to
understanding with players, and he knows

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how you know, he really really
just knows how to communicate, and he

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understands the craft of different arm angles, different things and stuff like that.

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So it's it's he's he's definitely like
one of the most incredible guys that have

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been around in baseball as far as
a pitching coach Anthony Bunda is our guest

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out of Corpus Christi, Texas.
And you grew up on, for a

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lack of better term, a farm, right and you and your brothers would

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help out your father. That's a
long ways away from college baseball and Major

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League baseball. Yeah it was.
It wasn't like a legit farm like I

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like to say farm, just because
you know, we had animal we have

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livestock. We did all the you
know, we just some four h showings

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with people that don't know what that
is. It's just like a livestock show

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to help kids, you know,
get some some scholarship money to go off

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to college and pursue their dreams.
But yeah, we grew up around animals.

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We helped my father a lot around
the house. We had a big

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piece of land and it was the
best thing in the world for me as

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grown up as a kid. That's
it was. I woke up wanting to

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do stuff like that, and I
still do. I still want to do

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stuff like that to this day.
Every time we get on the phone,

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I asked him like, hey,
how's the fence and do you need help,

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like you know, and he'll talk
to me like, yeah, I'm

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doing this or doing that. I'm
like, hey, I wish I was

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there to go help you. And
you know, but it's been great like

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growing up out there and being able
to go out there and just be a

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kid and run around on the land
and you know kind of like you know,

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just mess around with the animals and
just you know, see different things.

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It's been fun. It was.
It was a lot of fun.

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I had a great childhood. Did
you throw against the side of the barn?

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Where would you throw? I would
actually get a tennis ball and I

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would throw it on the roof and
wait for you to come down and catch

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it. That's how I learned how
to catch Yeah, that's how I learned

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how to catch it. It was
a big thing. And I grew up

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with you know, with a bunch
of cousins around within the area. So

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like we would always get together and
we would get like rocks and stuff and

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would be about fifty yards apart throwing
rocks at each other and dot and rocks

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and all this other stuff. So
we're always doing you know, different things

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like that, and uh, you
know, we would get bottle caps and

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get a stick hit him, you
know, just anything we could find to

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like play around with and like just
be a kid. That was the thing

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that that was That was the benefit
of having all that land and being able

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to run around free and just kind
of get into trouble and you know,

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just doing kids stuff, and it
was it was a lot of fun.

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What does your father think of Anthony
Bondan now after eight or nine years in

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Major League baseball? I still think
he still sees me as his little boy,

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you know, and I love it. You know, I'm I'm a

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daddy's boy. I mean, mom
is mommy's boy too. I love my

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mother, Don't get me wrong,
I love your mom. But no,

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he's proud. He's he's a proud
you know, hard blue collar worker.

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And you know, I've I've learned
a lot from him, all the characteristics

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I've gotten being a good, good
father, good man is I learned from

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him. And you know, he's
he's I know he's proud. I know,

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I know every time I'm out there, he's smiling, he's just enjoying

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it because you know, he never
you know, he wanted the best for

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me. But you know, with
the baseball thing, how it happened,

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it was just it was it's unbelievable, so I know he's proud. The

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dream is still going. The livestock, the animals, they're gonna have to

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wait because Anthony Bunda is with the
Dodgers, and good things seem to happen.

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Thanks a lot for the time.
Great stash too, by the way,

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I appreciate it, Thank you.
It's taking me a long time to

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grow it. He's still trying to
perfect it. Anthony Bunda a good guy

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to root for.