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Speaker 1: Joining us now, I'm about Thomas Show and Rosses promised

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our friend Christian Walker will be soon after he finishes

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the Major League for an analyst for Turner, NBC, ESPN, Peacock, Yahoo,

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it will be some someplace for you to go, far

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down the road, far down the road.

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Speaker 2: He wants to club another on hundred and fifty home runs,

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fre he calls at a career, it'll be nice. How

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many you got all together? Now?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, to be honest with you, Ye okay,

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how about this. You look it up and try to guess.

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Speaker 3: How I know I got one fifty over the course

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of last year during the first half.

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Speaker 2: This is a terrible guessing game.

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Speaker 3: Now, I'd say one seventy one, one seventy four. I'm

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glad I guess close though.

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Speaker 4: That's good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't guess. It will have been weird if

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you say four and fifty or so, then you gotta

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get to two hundred this year. That's it.

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Speaker 4: That's that's easy.

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Speaker 2: That's low hanging fruit right there right.

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Speaker 4: As first hals first half stuff.

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Speaker 2: Baby, come on, now, let's hope so.

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Speaker 1: Okay, uh so io in the clubhouse? How you lost

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the weight and grown ass? Men usually don't do that,

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but we just did. So you did you make it

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a concerted effort to say I'm caring too much weight,

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I want to drop ten pounds or how did you decide,

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you know what, I'll go a little lean of this offseason.

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Speaker 3: H Yeah, I mean a little bit of both. Step one,

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so first off season with its baby weight.

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Speaker 4: She dad strength.

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Speaker 5: Ye.

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Speaker 3: No, apparently men hold on weight too, because there's some

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hormon rests your body's prepping for sleepless nights or something.

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Really I heard some Yeah. I was like, oh, that's

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my excuse, go with that. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: But wanted to embrace parenting and not I feel like

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so many people survive and you know, obviously the baby's

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behavior has so much to do with that, more than

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you know, we think. But just just wanted to really

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make sure I had to grip on my discipline. Wanted

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to make sure I was eating right, sleeping right, hydrating,

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training to benefit obviously myself, but to be in a

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good to be a dad and to be a husband,

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and you know, parenting is a fun thing. So that

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was at the forefront of my brain and wasn't necessarily

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to like lose weight or I thought I was playing

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too heavy last year, but you know, me playing it

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two fifteen to twenty, I think is a is a

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much cleaner spot than you know, maybe mid two twenties

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or something.

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Speaker 2: Have you noticed it so far?

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Speaker 4: I'm running into some of the drills out there at

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this point.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think my fault works a little cleaner. Hard

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to tell.

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Speaker 3: It's it's you know, when you spend time with it,

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it's you don't see the big changes as much. But yeah,

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I think I think long term too, maybe a little

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less weight on the legs and helping recovery and all that.

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Speaker 1: All right, Christian, you were first and second half numbers

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were significantly different. Tell me about the first half. Tell

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me about the oblique and how much that puts you

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behind the eight ball in terms of getting off to a.

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Speaker 2: Good astral career start. Yeah, I think, you know.

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Speaker 3: As much as I don't want to admit it or

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using it as excuse, I think it's it's very much

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a thing. These at bats during spring training are important.

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Speaker 2: Having these, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, low stress andronments to explore some timing things and

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feel a different direction and play with your approach at

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the plate. You know, I felt competitive when I came back,

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but I think there's there's the being able to compete

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side of things, and then there's trusting your body and

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proven that you have the reps and you've built up volume.

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So I think, you know, looking back objectively, maybe I

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was caught in between. I felt like I was in

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a spot to help the team win, but maybe not

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just quite as you know, competitive as I wanted to be,

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right like I it was. It was an embarrassing first half.

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I'm not sitting here trying to like justify it or

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make excuses or anything like that, but it is also

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part of the game. By far, the start the slowest

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start I've had to a year, But you know, to

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be honest, I'm proud of myself for still putting up

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some some OKA numbers and the slow came back around.

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seen a lot of guys start with a really slow

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first half like that and you know, give up and

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pull the shoot. And I wanted to finish strong and

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I did that. I proved to myself that I could

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bounce back even with a really tough start. So you know, overall,

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I'm proud of of you know how it out finished.

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Speaker 5: Do you feel like you learn something about either either

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both physically and mentally with those struggles that you went to?

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Speaker 2: What do you learn about yourself?

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Speaker 3: I think there's always time, you know. I think it's

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okay to have some stretches that are slow, that the

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baseball season is so long. You have a really good month,

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like it's like, no matter what you do, you're going

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to have a really great month, and you're gonna have

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a really bad month, right, and then those those handful

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in between, it's like are you on the two eighty

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side of things or are you on the two twenty

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side of things? So I think just being really you know, realistic,

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I think giving myself some grace. I'm hard on myself naturally.

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I take this thing really seriously. So I I think

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look at myself in the mirror and saying it it's okay,

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Like you're you're working as hard as you can, You're

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preparing the right way. It's the game's tough.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Was that something that you do that more in season?

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Or more? Maybe more as you look back.

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Speaker 3: I think I was forced to in season, Yeah, because

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I felt great about how I was preparing, and I

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felt ready to compete. I felt prepared to play and

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help the team. It just it wasn't showing up on

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the field as consistent as I wanted it to.

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Speaker 2: So you ask.

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Speaker 3: Yourself, like, Okay, what can I do different? Like, I'm

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not going to sit here and feel bad for myself?

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So how do I get out of it? How do

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I make it better? What should I be doing differently?

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And when I prepare the right way and I trained

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the right way and I feel like I'm living right,

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there's there's not much else to do but whether the storm,

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trust the work, trust yourself, know that you know, hey,

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I got another three hundred at bats on the table.

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I can do a lot of damage in that amount

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of time.

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Speaker 1: You came into camps that I want to play one

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hundred and fifty games. That's what you'd normally have done

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for most of your career. You've won the Gold Gloves,

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there's you get an outstanding resume, but you know, look,

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Twitter streets may not be accurate, but the reality is

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names get brought up. Yours was brought up a little

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bit here and there. Do you take that with a

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grain of salt? Do you go, all right, I gotta

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change things a little bit.

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Speaker 4: Do you go?

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Speaker 1: You know what unless my agent here's something. Alright, I

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talked to Dana. I'm not gonna worry about any of

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that outside noise. I'm in that in the ladder there,

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I'm a less I applaud you for that, because he

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and I are we have terrible self esteem issues. Or

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congratulations for that.

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Speaker 3: Now I've done my fair share of armchair GM and

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your share. But sure, yeah, honestly, it just it it

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gets exhausting for me. It's it's there's so many scenarios,

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there's so many possible outcomes, and none of it is

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in my control. Like, yeah, if I would have come

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out last year and hit three hundred and forty, like

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probably wouldn't be talked about getting traded, right, So that

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side of things isn't my control. But the business side

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of game is of the game is very real. So

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for me, I actually I deleted all social media off

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my phone for a while, like jealous. Yeah, not avoiding things,

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but it's it's just a a smoother day to day

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if if I'm not aware of all that stuff, if

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I trust Dana, the line of communication between me and

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Joe and Me and Dana is is pretty solid. I

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think if something had some traction, you know, i'd expect

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that somebody would reach out. And I understand it's not personal,

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it is what it is. But never never heard anything serious.

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So I just kept on with my business.

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Speaker 1: Your offseason is in South Carolina. That's not the epicenter

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of media in the world. So can you can can

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you really decompress from everything? Finning about what looking at

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your but just what is it like for the news cycle?

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I mean, do you watch the World Series?

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Speaker 4: You're not?

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you're running to a Columbia Sports

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Barn eight or nine playoff baseball games around you know

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what I mean?

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Speaker 2: It's you're heart on sec territory there. Yeah, it's very

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much a Gamecock football season when I get home in

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the fall, for sure.

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Speaker 3: But I love high stake sports, you know. Obviously the

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tide of baseball is there. I enjoy watching the postseason.

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I think it's something that we've grown to appreciate. I

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got a taste of the World Series in twenty three.

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It was a big part of why I came to Houston.

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I think it's it's fun, it's It's why the Olympics

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are fun. I don't know the rules of the half

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of these events and sports, but I'm into it. I'm like,

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I'm hanging on every moment. It's you know, when you're

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playing with something on the line. It's just fun to watch.

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And I think as a professional athlete, I just I

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really respect something about that.

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Speaker 4: All Right, So you've lost the weight.

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Speaker 2: Two stolen bases last year, eleven career high.

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Speaker 4: What are we thinking for twenty twenty six?

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Speaker 3: I'd like to sniff double digits again. But I think

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what's important about last year is Paradis had zero and

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I had two. So I just got to remember that

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as long as I steals than he can't, he can't

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Speaker 2: So who is the slowest player on the team? Yea,

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not counting catchers because they get a free pass. That's

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crazy catchers, man, it might be Paradis.

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Speaker 3: I'd like to think I'm faster than I look, but

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maybe we need a race.

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Speaker 5: You know, well, we can probably look fine. The feet

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per second, Yeah, it's the max. At least we had

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a big mattress guy. He'll find it, don't worry. Yeah,

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but no, this's just keep you trotting. Yeah, hit it

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over the fence and then you can try like Ron

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Speaker 2: We love too.

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Speaker 1: We had zero issues with that. Yeah, Jose's before let

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you run. Jose looks like he's gonna be back at

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second base. Uh, he's not gonna say it, So we're

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gonna interpret it as you know, he did what was best,

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what he thought was best with the team. But I

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think naturally you know this too. Guys want to be

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in their natural possession of positions. What will be like

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to have consistency within that infield, at least for twenty

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twenty five.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's important that consistency.

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Speaker 3: I think just as a player, I've tinkered with learning

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a new position.

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Speaker 2: I played a little bit of left field in the

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miners coming up.

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Speaker 3: And I think it's like one of two things that

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either really frees the guy up and they think like, well,

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there's no pressure because I'm not supposed to play this

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position and it can really help. I think the other

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camp is like, oh no, I'm learning a new position.

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I don't want to be the reason why, you know,

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we lose a game where I give up runs for

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my pitcher or something like that. So you know, I've

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seen I've seen both things. I think Jose did a

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great great job of flowing into a new position in

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the big leagues. Like the guy has done something at

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an elite level for so long and then you ask

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him to do something new. His mentality never changed, his

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energy never changed. He was embracing left field for us,

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and he helped us win a lot of games. That's

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that's another huge bat to have in the lineup. And

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if he's willing to do something like that, that's you know,

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as far as like a team captain and a leader,

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that's I mean, that's everything you're asking for.

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Speaker 4: Anything else, my man, I think I'm pretty good.

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Speaker 1: I mean, well, we're rooting for a lot of I know,

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I know it's a little awkward with all the talk

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here and there.

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Speaker 2: I just you guys, get you were so close.

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Speaker 1: Do you think about one game or do you think

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it's such a macro sport in which you play you

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can't go to one game? Go man, if we would

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have just turned that double player, or if I would

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have just got that key hit, or we would have

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scored that last run on the night, and do you

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do you think about that kind of because it was

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such a close, uh separation between you and Detroit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's easy. You could probably pick out

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some spots.

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Speaker 3: To be honest, I think when I look around the

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clubhouse at the team we had last year, I feel

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like it shouldn't have come down to one game. We

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should have been a handful of games out in front

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of the division, right like we we had plenty of talent,

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plenty of opportunities.

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Speaker 2: To win the division last year.

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Speaker 3: Not taking any credit away from Seattle and these other teams,

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they did, they did a great job, right, They did

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what they.

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Speaker 4: Needed to do. Though.

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Speaker 2: Yeah it's I mean it's good.

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Speaker 3: You know you should be. You won the division like good? Yeah,

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you know, it's it's we had a target on our backs.

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We have a target on our backs where we're we

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have a reputation. I want other teams to come in

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and try to try to knock us off the pedestal.

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But you know, to answer your question, no, I don't

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think it's fair to anybody or ourselves to try to

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pick one spot. The season's long for a reason. You

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got nine guys on the field for a reason. It's

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it's very much a team sport and we're playing a

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long game.

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Speaker 1: Lastly, playing in West Sacramento. Is that like playing in

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Triple A, like PCL, Like I can swim with one

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on hand and hit the ball four and fifty feet.

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Speaker 2: That place looks like that. He and I could hit

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a home run in that ballpark.

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Speaker 4: I love it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's awesome. I wish we played twice as many

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games there. No, it's it's uh, I mean it's it's.

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Speaker 3: A hitter friendly park for sure. I don't know what

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it is other than that, like it's good wind.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. If I don't know, like know where

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the altitude is. If you're really grown, you should switch

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on the other side of the plate. Unc. I'm trying

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to make them count.

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Speaker 4: I got to.

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 1: Chris to thank you very much for the time. We

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wish you know about the very best graduations on the baby.

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Enjoy that beat, Juice you ever.

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Speaker 2: Had a beat?

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Speaker 4: Juice ROSSI get you going? And Nitrak Coxide where get

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me going.

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Speaker 2: We'll be on vessel dilation. We'll not be doing it

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in the show much longer.

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Speaker 1: Chris your walker here to start the final hour of

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the Bad Times Live program. We're gonna be with you

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till two o'clock to a here on Sports Talk seven Idy.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Quess, Thanks