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Speaker 1: To see you. Man, how you doing great?

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Speaker 2: Opening day?

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Speaker 1: Huh, yes, sir, that's the goal.

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Speaker 2: So they did what did they tell you?

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Speaker 1: So? I flew in on I think it was Monday.

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You thought you were in trouble, right, Yeah, that was

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a joke that I guess.

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Speaker 3: Uh, I don't know, terrible a little better DFA, gotta.

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Speaker 2: Work on your stand up?

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Speaker 1: No you yeah, I know, right, and just you know,

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usually when you're in the building for it was I

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think about thirty seconds and then uh, Joe's like, yeah,

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come see me. I was just like, oh man, you know,

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it's like it's like when you're in school. What did

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I do already? Kind of I'm kidding.

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Speaker 3: So okay, let's be brutally honest. You knew what the

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conversation was about, right, come on, don't lie.

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Speaker 1: No, I actually I didn't expect that. Oh it's like

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camp had started. I didn't really know. It could have

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been anything, you know, Joe could have just been like, hey, what's.

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Speaker 2: Up, Yeah for something like that, who knows.

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Speaker 1: You know. So, but now then he broke the news,

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I was obviously really excited, and you know, just got

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to get through, get through the next couple of weeks.

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Here and in rolland opening toy.

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Speaker 3: So is there literally a Hunter Brown calendar that's I'm

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doing this this day?

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Speaker 2: I mean, even if you didn't know your opening.

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Speaker 3: Day, do you have a specific calendar about what you're

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doing every single day leading up to that opening day?

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Speaker 1: For the most part, you kind of just know what

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what games you're projected to pitch in. Yep, you know

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what your lives and bullpens look like. Usually you get

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that when you when you get to camp. So yeah,

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I mean every year they kind of have it. You know,

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maybe TBD here or there, but for the most part,

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you know, and then especially as a starter, it's like, okay, well,

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if I'm thrown alive here or in a game, more

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than likely five or six days from now doing it again.

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Speaker 3: So did you give from Bernie Detroit Eats locations to go. No.

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Speaker 1: I just told him if he if he needed any

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to let me know, just a could hook him up.

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That's right, And that's right. I told him he's got that.

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And then obviously all the other guys on the team,

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but I said, hey, I got I know a lot

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of people over there. If you need anything, let me know.

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Speaker 3: Now you're a Detroit guy, like myself. You went to

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Wayne State. My mom went there, so shout out to Wayne. Wow,

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that's right. How about that? Have you gone to the

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Spike hot dog store in Detroit?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: I have not.

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Speaker 3: Downtown Detroit, there are two hot dog places. They share

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the same wall, their families, and they've got in a fight,

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like fifty years ago.

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Speaker 1: You're talking about Lafayette and yeah American, Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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I've been there. I'm a Lafayette guy, are you really? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: You gotta pick? Is it like you have to pick

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a side type of thing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're kind of committed. You know. When I was younger,

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my dad and uncle they just always did Lafayette. I

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think Americans probably a little bit a little bit better aesthetic,

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if you will, But you know, Lafayette is where I go.

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Speaker 2: All right, So what's the number one eat for you?

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In Houston, Texas?

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Speaker 1: Houston, I've been doing Blue dooring a lot. I like

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that place. Nice, calm, yep, they're great over there. They

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treat me well and think it's you can't you can't

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really miss with anything there. I like, uh, I mean ironically,

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I like gold to Tony's Detroit Southizza. That's good. It's

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a gives spot. I love jets.

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Speaker 2: You had jet yet, Yeah, it's.

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Speaker 1: More of a change.

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Speaker 2: I'm just throwing it out.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, go ahead, and then I'm trying to think

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of what else?

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Speaker 3: Last thing and very detroit. Yes, and then we're done

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with this. Do you like werners?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? What is it?

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Speaker 2: Ginger soda?

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Speaker 1: It's disgusting.

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Speaker 2: I can give it a shot. It's not whiskey.

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Speaker 1: And if it's bad, that's right.

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Speaker 2: All right, back to baseball we're having. We got around

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for like nine minutes. I got focusing on food for

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the first three of it. It's good stuff.

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Speaker 3: You've got a lot of bros now in your are

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you getting introduced yourself and you guys been I.

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Speaker 4: Mean if you get name tags, name tags, a lot

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of new arms is uh, it's new.

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Speaker 2: It's exciting. It feels depth wise hunter a bet not

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the thing bad.

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Speaker 3: Last year was bad, but it feels like there is

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gonna be some greater competition, especially the back end.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, I think we got a lot of

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guys that are, you know, coming in ready to compete

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for a job. I think, you know every year in

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including myself, you know, this year's a little different with

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being named that, but I think every year you come

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in trying to try and protect, protect your job or

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get a new one. So I think, like you, like

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you mentioned, there's a there's a ton of new faces,

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and then there's a lot of guys who maybe you know,

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maybe didn't have the year that they wanted last year,

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or you know, can build on doing some really good things.

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You know, I saw a blue ball, throw, throw a

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bullpen or throw a lovy p today. You know, he

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had a great end of the year. Alexander had an awesome,

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awesome ten twelve starts for us. So you know, the

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door's open for a lot of guys to come in

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and and and make a you know, earn a job.

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Speaker 4: What is that like for you now to be named

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the opening day guy? And you know we've had you

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on for the last couple of years here to where

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you were the you were the young pup, you were

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the sponge choking up everything from everyone else. Have you

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seen it is a little bit of a change in

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the guard of that or what what is that like

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for you just as being one of those guys in

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the clubhouse.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think guys asked me, you know

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already we've only been in camp for a week, but

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guys definitely asked me a few more things that you know.

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I mean, I'm like, oh, I remember, yeah, now I

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remember asking that question now. But I think I think

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that's how our clubhouse is. You know, it's pretty it

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starts with, you know, with hel two the right anybody

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he's he's so great and open about anything, and it's

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kind of the transparency of that throughout the clubhouse. It's, uh,

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you know, open door policy was just about everybody, so

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you know, from the coaching staff down to the players.

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So you know, you're opening those questions and guys, guys,

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let a you know, fire away.

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Speaker 3: You've had a chance not of playing all the different ballparks.

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I want to ask you about West Sacramento. It was

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tough to watch games there. Uh that ball They should

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do something because I felt like every game I watched

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between you and the age was like eleven to ten

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or something crazy like that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's uh, I mean, just just call a spade

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a spade here. It's not a great park. You know,

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you play in big league parks and it's the big league,

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so you should be playing in a big league park.

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That's kind of where I stand on it. I'm happy

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Tampa's going back to the trop this year.

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Speaker 2: That had been weird too.

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Speaker 1: Huh. That was yeah, that was I mean I think

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I gave up a home run at fifty degrees that

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you know, off the bed. I thought that'll too, they

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would catch it at second and went over the fence.

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But yeah, it's just something we got to deal with

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until they get over to Vegas, if they do. But yeah,

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it's definitely not It's not one you circle on the calendar.

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They can't wait to go there and try to change anything.

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Speaker 4: I mean, what can you do, Like you don't want

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to get it in your head too much?

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Speaker 1: Maybe Yeah, No, I think it's more just like it's

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more of I'm trying to think of like the best

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way to play it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we're on for another hour and a half and

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we're roasting.

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Speaker 1: You know, when you go when you go to when

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you go to Fenway, go to Yankee Stadium. When you're

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pitching a diking park, you know, there's that innate like

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all right, this is you're ready to go. Whereas there

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it was like there was just no no vibe and

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it like for us at that point the season when

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I pitched there at the end of the year. It

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was like, all right, this is kind of the biggest

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series of the year for us at this point, and

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you know, you kind of got to bring your own

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juice and and you don't need that from from outside factors,

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but you know, the stage sets itself, right, So I

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think I think that was something that you know, I

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thought about going into it and was like, all right,

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I need to kind of turn up the energy a

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notch before that.

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Speaker 3: So you're one game away from making the playoffs last year,

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Seattle obviously got to you guys late to.

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Speaker 2: Win the division. Tell me I'm wrong if you can't.

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Speaker 3: It feels like there's gonna be some extra sizzle if

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there already wasn't when the Astros and Mariners even playing

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April coming up this year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think all in all in division

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games kind of bring that. But yeah, I mean it's

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fair to say that we we are not happy that

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they won the division last year and we want it back.

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you know, I mean, even though they swept us, it

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was it was for the most part, a good series.

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We just just didn't go our way. You know, didn't

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come out on top of the games that we needed to,

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so they ended up winning the division. And yeah, and

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Speaker 3: So yeah, do you spend a lot of time in

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that minute you collected by yourself but collectively saying hey,

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if we'd have gotten that series or that game.

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Speaker 2: The margin of era is so thin even if you

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play one hundred.

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Speaker 1: And sixty two games, No, because you can look back

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at you know, maybe whatever miscellaneous game in April and

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if you would have won that one, right, you know,

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so it's hard to pinpoint it, but you know in

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the moment that it's hard to it's it's hard to

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not say that too at the same time of like, okay,

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well this is the one, at that moment that we

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had the chance to and it just didn't go our way.

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But but you know, how many how many games throughout

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the year do you do you win that you maybe

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on paper shouldn't have won. You know that you come

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back all the way out exactly so, and you play

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one hundred and sixty two of them on.

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Speaker 4: A brown with us here on Sports Talk seven ninety

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What about you you personally? Obviously Opening Day Starter had

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a great season last year? Uh, what do you want

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to do more? Are There's certain things you're trying.

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Speaker 2: To refine, like how how do you get better?

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Speaker 4: Because we know you're a great competitor, You're always looking

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for an extra edge and doing whatever. What was the

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off season like for you to where you don't want

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to get complacent, which I know you're not going to,

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but you also don't want to push yourself too far.

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Speaker 2: Just this your mindset, I suppose.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, my mindset was more so. And I've tried to

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take this pat together the last couple of years of

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stacking them together. I don't think it's really hard to

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make an overhaul in three months, especially when you know

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I threw a bunch of innings last year excuse me,

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the last uh you know, the last three years I

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had career highs. So it's something necessarily that you can't

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You can't overdo the the amount, the workload, so you

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try to stack them up over Okay, maybe this is

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my two year plan, This is my plan for this

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season going forward. You know, how is this offseason gonna

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help me for next offseason and into the next one.

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you want to play for a long time. So this

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this offseason was kind of just stacking those together with

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the with the couple of years prior, and then as

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for the baseball stuff, you know, just trying to perfect

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what I what I do, and then you know, you

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can take it on a scale of like, Okay, I

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probably walked too many lefties, probably fell behind more guys

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than I than I wanted to. I always have room

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to improve my slider, you know, my sliders, cutters, sliderish,

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So you know, would love the two plane, the two

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plane break on it. You know, I've been chasing that

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well really since I got into pro ball, so you know,

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and then you just try to refine those things and

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then be able to apply them in the season.

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Speaker 3: Last question, the easiest way to calm you down if

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you've missed a pitch, or you're in a rout where

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you've given up two or three in a row, somebody

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coming up to the to the mountain talking to you,

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the catcher doing it, or stepping off the rubber and

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just walking around and kind of giving.

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Speaker 2: Yourself a second. What's the easiest way to settle you down.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think it's it's it's internal for me.

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You guys might see me. You know, I think most

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pitchers I can speak for if you if you throw

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two balls or you give up a home or something,

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that the first thing guys want to do is is

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grab the rods and bag or you know, take a

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couple extra steps behind the mound. You know, kind of

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recenter yourself. I think is kind of the easiest way

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to go about it, especially because you know when things

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are going wrong, that's that's the number one thing you

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want to do is slow it down. Okay, get back

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to what I need to do, get ahead of guys,

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execute pitches, things like that. You know, when Josh comes out,

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you know, for the most part, it's talking about what

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to do next. Whereas you know, maybe a catcher comes out,

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they got a little bit more of hey, I think

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you've been doing this. You know, Josh does do say that,

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but he's more about the next hitter that's coming up.

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Whereas you know, a catcher or even you know in

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years past, it's it's Breggie. Now we got Carlos comes

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into the meetings and stuff like that, and they can say, hey, okay,

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need a big ground ball here. However it is that

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you're going to do that, and then that's where Josh

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can kind of say, hey, so and so it's a

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bunch of ground balls on this pitch. Maybe maybe we

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lean into that, just have that. But yeah, I would

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say I would say all those All right.

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Speaker 2: Well, you're going to be announced on opening day, you're

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gonna be in the bullpen. Will you tip the cap?

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Will you just throw the pitch? Have you had?

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Speaker 3: Do you go to Jessein er leonder and say how

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do you handle this when you hear your name and

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you're sitting here trying to warm up your opening day?

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Speaker 1: No? Maybe I should, Maybe I should ask him. I

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have not thought about that one bit until until that's.

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Speaker 2: A difficult, difficult question that I get asked.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the hard hitting questions.

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Speaker 2: Yes, hey, we're so happy for you. Congratulations on your success.

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Speaker 3: It is uh, you know, you weren't a baby when

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you got here, but meteen you grow up and become

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a kick ass. Picture is a delight to see and

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we wish you the great best this year.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, guys. I really enjoyed it and thank you

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for thank you for having me.

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Speaker 3: All Right, Hunter Brown with us here on the Matt

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Thomas Show with Ross we take this time out to

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quick break come back. We're with you till two o'clock

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here from West Palm Beach here on Sports Talk seven

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