Mason Miller joins Friar Territory + Casey Schmitt on Splash Hit

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Speaker 1: The closer for the San Diego Padres who is joining us even though we have a taipo in his name. Don't worry about that.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, that's okay.

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Speaker 1: That's okay. We'll blame Marty on that one. We'll clean it up and post.

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Speaker 3: Mason.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining for our territory.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate the time.

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Speaker 3: How are you. I'm good, I'm good. Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: I figured to name the hotel Mason.

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Speaker 3: I'm just gonna.

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Speaker 1: Ask her, are you guys, are you guys still staying in that haunted hotel in Milwaukee or what?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? They allegedly allegedly?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, do you guys believe it that? Or do you guys not so much believe in that?

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Speaker 3: Uh? Depends on what you ask told me.

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Speaker 4: I've heard it's only the one side of the hotel, So come on the side.

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Speaker 5: On the side, who's on who's on the haunted, who's on the other side the office?

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Speaker 3: All the guys are sweets or I don't.

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Speaker 4: Actually know, but I think it's the order. It's like two sets of elevators.

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Speaker 1: Who I'm staying in that hotel?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Okay, good, I'm glad. I'm glad.

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Speaker 1: Well, Mason, Thank you for doing this. We do really appreciate it. And as excited as we are to talk about you your on field success, pitching everything that you got going on in your universe, you're talking to a couple of Star Wars nerds here, So we are going to start with your opportunity to appear in a commercial for the Mandalorian with Brogan. Can you tell us a little bit the backstory about how this happened for you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it kind of came out of nowhere MLBU.

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Speaker 4: Obviously it was doing this, this partnership with it, and for some reason they wanted me me to be the guy.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: Obviously it's it's pretty awesome to get a chance to do something like that, and you know, the production of it was on a kind of a different level than anything I've ever done so easy. Yes, I've seen Star Wars, but I can't say that I fall in the bucket of like an avid Star Wars fan because I know that that comes with a lot of extra territory of knowing what is going on with.

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Speaker 3: The story and stuff.

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Speaker 4: I won't pretend to be that into it, but I have seen it, so it's not like not like I don't know it at all, but out of respect to people like yourselves that really really take it, really take it to another level. I didn't claim I didn't claim my type of fandom.

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Speaker 5: Wait a second, Wait a second, are you saying out of respect to all you nerves out there, because that's what you're that's what you're saying right now. You're calling out the nerds. I think you think now that I'm a nerd because I happen to have, you know, a baby Yoda picture at my disposal, which I do.

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Speaker 4: I felt like I didn't use the word nerd because I was being very considerate.

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Speaker 3: But they say the same thing. They say the same thing about big baseball fans or anybody like that.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's like, I'm respecting that that that fandom, and you know, I'm not going to claim to have the same I guess you know, I'm not going to claim that I go to two games a year and I know what's going on.

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Speaker 2: How many takes?

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Speaker 5: How many takes did it did it take for that for that spot, that's a great.

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Speaker 3: Spot for We were there for about an hour.

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Speaker 4: And we did we filmed a bunch of stuff, but obviously it was pretty short commercial so it's pretty quick as far as uh the actual uh stuff getting shown. It was funny though, because it was like, all right, let's do one more, and then it's like, all right, one more for safety, all right, one more, And I feel like that's just what they say. I don't know if they say that to actors too, where it's like they want you to think that like this is your last takes. You're like, all right, I'm just gonna nail this one, and then they're like they hit you with one more, you know. So I think there was some strategy to that, But it was good that the production was was amazing and I showed up and we were shooting in like probably six minutes after I got there, so it was really efficient. So hats off to that team that was there doing it.

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Speaker 1: And I want to say that was UCSD. At first I thought it was USD, and then upon further inspection, it looked like it was the Triitons right up there in Laoya.

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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, up in La Joya, about twenty minutes or so from the stadium.

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Speaker 1: And you had your line was the force was strong with that one, and then you tapped up Grogu. How did you feel like you performed and I don't know if this was your acting debut or not. Maybe you've been in some commercials and other junctures in your career, but how did you How did you do as an actor?

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Speaker 3: Do you think not to this scale?

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Speaker 4: They had me run through a bunch of different lines like this is this is the way. Obviously the force was strong with that one. The force is strong with you, So yeah, that's what they went with. Ultimately, Grogu was they had like four different people controlling like one person was controlling his arms with like a I don't know, like the.

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Speaker 3: Thing you see with like a remote control car pretty much.

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Speaker 4: So the four of them were like one would move the head, one move the arms would move the body like it was a very very intricate thing. They actually almost canceled the shoot that day because baby Grogu couldn't make it. It's what they said, See, he had another he had another commitment the day before, and he has rules about how much he can travel.

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Speaker 1: So this is amazing behind the scenes stuff that we're getting from Mason miller Man. That is phenomenal. Who was this poor Podrey person that you struck out at the plan? I was trying to see if it was somebody that I would recognize. But I'm just guessing this was probably an extra that they pulled off the street.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they had.

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Speaker 4: They had several extras, the Defenders, the Catcher. They all had brand like brand news like the catcher and a brand new glove. And I was just I was only throwing at like fifty sixty percent, so it wasn't anything crazy, But I felt bad because he was back there trying to catch the ball with church glove that barely was able to sweeze. But they did a good job. They and they were upfront about it, like we just need the like bones of it, like you're you're throwing motion, but we're going to do the edit with the ball and everything, so don't worry about where it goes or anything like that.

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Speaker 6: That was awesome.

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Speaker 5: That was that was awesome.

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Speaker 2: It really was such a such a good spot.

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Speaker 5: And I know that I know that you know, you have your entry in music, you have corn, you have that fantastic walk out, But if you were to change it, you couldn't go wrong with maybe too nerdy for you, but you could not go wrong with a Star Wars theme that that a.

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Speaker 3: Star Wars weekend.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Star Wars.

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Speaker 7: Weekend, I think so.

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Speaker 2: I think so.

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Speaker 1: Marty's already angling for the marketing job.

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Speaker 5: And by the way, by the way, speaking of the marketing job, Mason, you've had quite a stretch recently. You have you have the bobblehead, you got the scrape bobblehead from last the last homestand you have a deal with dex Com. Wait here it is. And the reason why I have this as big as my my brother in law, Jack actually designed the G seven, the device that you that you wear right now. So congratulations, and all these deals and all the marketing that you've accomplished. So that's a that's pretty cool. That's really cool.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is.

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Speaker 4: It's it's a good balance to you know, like fun stuff and dex Com is obviously.

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Speaker 3: Something that I care a lot about and I'm really.

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Speaker 4: Looking forward to working with them hopefully as long as I'm in San Diego and beyond, just because that's something that affects me so much day to day.

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Speaker 3: That's an easy yes.

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Speaker 4: And then uh, something something to the likes of the Star Wars commercial. It's like, yeah, that's pretty awesome life, Let's go for it.

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Speaker 1: I think it's amazing as well. And speaking of since before, we'll get into some of the baseball stuff, or maybe not, I mean.

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Speaker 3: We don't have to.

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Speaker 1: But one of the things you know that Marty's talking about there with textcom and you know when I was preparing for this, Mason, is I think everybody by now knows your story. Everybody in San Diego knows your story about being diagnosed with diabetes when you're twenty and how it really and literally changed your career. One of the things I think I didn't realize is I came across a story about how young diabetics are finding a champion in Mason Miller, and I don't know that I realized that you have young fans correct me if I'm wrong here pretty much every stop along the way for you as a home player, as a visiting player, fans young fans in particular, who show up who have been diagnosed with early diabetes, who do see a champion in you and do want to meet you, not just because you throw the ball one hundred and five miles per hour and you're in a commercial, but because you're an inspiration to them. I wonder if you could talk to us a little bit about those experiences when they pop up for you, not only in San Diego but in other places when you're playing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's an easy yes for me.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's not a huge lift on my end in the PR department of all those guys. I mean even when I was with the A's, the PR team helped me so much with kind of starting to do this, and then the Padres have also been awesome.

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Speaker 3: With it too.

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Speaker 4: Just bring a kid down on the field for batting, get them batting practice passed, they can watch some batting practice. I'll talk to them for like ten or fifteen minutes. You know, it's like it's a cool baseball experience in and of itself. And usually these kids are baseball fans to a certain degree also, so they get that level of things that like that's not something that every kid gets to do. But also having the chance to talk to me. I mean I was twenty years old when I got diagnosed, but I still remember searching like type one diabetic athletes on Google and seeing guys like Mark Andrews pop up, who has also done a bunch with dex Com and you know, Dexcomb's kind of just allowing me to expand the reach of it. You know, We've met at a Warrior Day at Petco and had had eight kids there. So you know, I've tried to do it as much as I can anytime that it comes up on my radar, and like, I'll see a kid tomorrow here in Milwaukee, and.

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Speaker 3: I tell the kids.

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Speaker 4: It's as cool for me because you know, I get I get to be that person that you know, I was kind of looking for, and it was a little bit different because I wasn't their age, but in the same light, you know, you I saw that there were athletes playing sports with type one, and at that point, it wasn't even about playing professional baseball. It's just about playing sports in general and seeing that they have the level of success they do. There's no reason that you know, I can't figure it out and do it as well. I think the biggest key is just that it was always we're all different, and you know, it's an imperfect level of care.

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Speaker 3: It's not like here's the roadmap and you know you're gonna be great.

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Speaker 4: It's adjustments and learning and uh, you know, havingt cover conversations too. I think it just gives you so much more confidence.

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Speaker 3: They're like.

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Speaker 4: To be okay with not being perfect, I guess, you know. And it's difficult for a lot of kids because sometimes it's their parents doing everything and then they have to transition to doing it all themselves. So it's almost like two whammys of getting diagnosed. I guess, like they have no idea what's going on when they're five years old, so you know, once they get a little older and they have to start taking over stuff, and there's probably a little bit of disdain for it, and you know, I think it does put the parents in a tough place because they just want to care for their kids. But it also is like kind of a nuisance to the kid too. Sometimes they don't want to do it. They just want to eat candy like everybody else.

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Speaker 2: I think J Color is the one.

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Speaker 5: The J Color is the athlete that comes to mind when I think about some high profile athletes that dealt with dealt with diabetes. Mason, what's the what's the what's the question? The most common question that you give from kids.

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Speaker 4: Some kids come take some kids comes loaded up with questions, and some kids don't have They get super shy, and usually it's I just try and ask them what it's like, what they like to do. Probably the one that gets the best answers, in my opinion, is like what your ask them what their least favorite part about having diabetes is and what their favorite part is. And usually the least favorite parts like I have to leave class at school to go to the nurse's office, or.

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Speaker 3: Just waking up the middle of the night with.

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Speaker 4: The low or something to that nature, and favorite favorite parts kind of range. I think that question catches a lot of them off guard.

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Speaker 1: You know, what is what is your favorite part of And.

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Speaker 4: I, at least of my favorite part is that I get to I get to meet with them and you know, be an inspiration to them. Might good for you, Matt, I tell them, it might not, it might not look the same, but you know, someday you'll have the opportunity to do this for somebody else.

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Speaker 3: And I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I just tell him, like, I hope that you would do that because I don't know how much this means to you. But it could it could be huge. It could it could be bigger, it could be not. But take the time or take the opportunity to talk to somebody about it, if you ever get that chance.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember the first time you threw a hundred miles per hour or the first time that you were clock throwing a hundred.

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Speaker 3: A A C L.

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Speaker 4: After I got drafted with the a's that's that's fall. I might have done it in college, but we didn't have like radar and technology and all that stuff. That's normal and broke ball.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, now it's so normal for you. Do you remember, though, like the first time you're like, yo, that's a hundred. That's trouble digits on the board there, My goodness, Do you remember the reaction when you did it? Like you said, you knew you were probably doing it anyway, but to see it officially, document went back.

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Speaker 4: I went back and watched it on the on the computer, so I have a picture of like the track man log or whatever.

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Speaker 3: Yes, that's cool.

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Speaker 4: I mean it's like, so you're throwing hard, if you're throwing like ninety ninety five, and then it's like you'd be like, I want to.

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Speaker 3: Hit one hundred. I want to see three digits.

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Speaker 1: And do you take a peek at the board? I mean at home or when you're on the road. I mean sometimes, you know, these road board operators will mess around a little bit with some of it. We've learned throughout the years. But do you look over the shoulder and take a peek to see what it looks like?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 4: I mean there's there's some stadiums where it's not super convenient, and there's other ones like Milwaukee where it's on the facade right behind home plate. So I mean, you're a human, so you're not going to miss that one.

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Speaker 9: I should I should know this.

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Speaker 5: But how many times have have you been involved in an ABS challenge yet this season?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Several.

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Speaker 4: I think the majority of them have gone my way, though Freddy's got me. Freddie and Camp you've gotten me a couple of pitches, and then I think we've also challenged and late in the game and we have both or one of our challenges left, and Freddie will challenged something that's close that we're both like, that's probably a fall, and usually that one is. But he's gotten some for me, and I don't think there's been a like.

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Speaker 3: Real bad one that ha's hurt me.

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Speaker 4: I guess one was close against the Cardinals, the last ipe against weather Hold, the one oh pitch, he challenge weatherhold challenge it and it barely caught the inside corner.

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Speaker 2: So that was.

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Speaker 3: A big pitch to go one to one instead too.

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Speaker 5: How much do you trust yourself on the challenges or you're leaving it to You're leaving it to your catchers.

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Speaker 4: I think I have a pretty good idea, but I don't really have any interest in challenging just I feel like it's like, if I feel pretty good about it, I think that the catcher is also going to feel pretty good about it. And I've told him that that. You know, I'm trusting you. You a ton of pitches every single day. You've seen where umpires are missing pitches. You know, I'm coming into the game and like, visually, I feel like I have a pretty good idea of it, but uh yeah, I don't want to.

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Speaker 3: Pull the trigger on that and lose the guy's a challenge.

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Speaker 1: But see, Yeah, I don't think a pottery picture has challenged yet. Yeah, I don't think a pottery picture is challenged.

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Speaker 3: Walker challenged one the other day. I think that was the first one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's it's such like a new system. It's such a weird thing to try to get to get used to as a matter of personal preference, do you care? I mean, is it is it more enjoyable for Mason Miller to to to strike somebody out swinging or looking?

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Speaker 9: Mmm?

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Speaker 4: I don't really care if they count the same to me. I think swinging is as they're both goods. Like I executed a chase, picture executed a you know, I set set up the path to get to a strikeout looking. I don't strike out that many guys looking, But I feel like I don't really discriminate on strikeouts. They're all they're all my favorite.

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Speaker 3: That is such a great answer.

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Speaker 1: I do wonder like if it's more satisfying to watch a guy just like ah to give up on or just go, hey, listen, I got no chance, So I ain't swinging anyway. Like so you know, I'm just gonna leave it up to the umpire here right because I'm done.

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Speaker 3: I'm toast.

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Speaker 1: I got no chance in the situation. See, I want them swinging, ridiculous, twist themselves into the ground.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's usually the way that goes. Anyways.

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Speaker 4: That's the more clear too, Swinging over looking, Like it's probably like eighty five percent swinging at this point, maybe like four four of my four my thirty eight, I can think of four four looking five looking.

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Speaker 3: I guess, yeah, so maybe a little bit more than that.

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Speaker 5: Mason, just a couple of quickies before we let you go, because I know you had to get you a coffee person.

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Speaker 4: Uh not not as big as the next guy, but I'll probably get something. Yeah, like if I go get breakfast, I'll get a coffee. I'm not big on like I'm gonna go to a coffee shop and just get a coffee.

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Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, So Michael King. When I spoke to Michael King a little while ago, he said that, you know, before he takes the mound, you know, he has to to psych himself up, right, he has to get mad at something. He'll invent being a reason to be angry and use that fire. How do you get fired up before you know you're about to go ahead and take the mound? And I was telling Darren before you came on, you're like the most chill person I have ever met in sports. Like this, Darren, the way Mason is right now, this is how he is pregame, this is how he is postgame. You're just You're just super even keeled all the time, how do you go ahead and flip that switch when you pitch.

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Speaker 4: I think that's what competition brings out on you. I mean, I do have the luxury of, like the game kind of builds to the point of when I get to play, so you know, seventh inning, eighth inning, I feel like the adrenaline starts going, and you know, I just start moving around the bullpen and throwing and just get the opportunity to play.

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Speaker 3: Is kind of like all the energy I need.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I feel like I definitely have more more emotion on the mound than I do like normally, But I do think that like the even keel attitude is also what allows me to have a lot of the success I do because I don't you know, get too high. Like my mound presence on Saturday with the bases loaded was pretty similar to how it was with nobody on and striking three guys out. You know, like that's something that that I try to do because I look at that as something that I can control. You know, I'm not you know, starting to panic or letting things speed up on me when when guys are on base, and you know, I'm not like overly confident. I guess with nobody on basis like I'm still executing, like I could get hurt here. You know, I'm gonna be fine with my pitches. I'm going to be in the zone, but you know, I'm also going to respect the hitter in the box and know that we're playing a close game here at the end.

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Speaker 3: You know, every single pitch matters. Mason.

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Speaker 1: My final question on the way out, Marty and I once did an interview with Houston Street a million years ago, and when Houston Street was closing for the potrace, he wore the number sixteen. I don't know if it's a superstition or if it's a routine, right, routine. We're not superstitious, We're routine oriented, as Trevor Hopman said, but he used to set the alarm or or arrange for wake up calls based on the number sixteen. So like nine oh seven, right, like nine seven sixteen ten o six sixteenth. Do you have anything any routines or superstitions if you prefer Is there anything whether it's on the field, off the field, preparation, game day, is there anything in your universe that you would you would put in that kind of category. As Houston Street for us.

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Speaker 4: I would say not till I get to the ballpark. No, I don't have like an alarm system or anything like that. I don't know that. To this question, I always just said, like left suck first, But that's just more have it. I think I don't like I do that if I'm I'm me sitting here and going out or if I'm going out to the field, like left socks first, right sock, left shoe, right shoe?

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Speaker 3: About it?

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Speaker 4: I mean I thought I thought the same. I had the same I had the same pair of socks for pretty much my whole scoreless streak.

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Speaker 3: Then I threw them out when I was done.

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Speaker 5: Did you wash them the same pair of socks?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, they get they get washed. Yeah, I'm not. I'm not. I'm not some animal.

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Speaker 6: And you tossed them.

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Speaker 1: I mean, people want to pay good money for that.

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Speaker 4: Man, they had they had a hole in them, so they were like on their last legs.

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Speaker 3: Anyways.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean, I'm aware of certain things that have been the same for a while, But what are you gonna do? You know, that's kind of like it's done that. I've done that with cleats in the past. Too, like if I, like, if I gave up runs out to take my cleats off after and just throw them out, but I've stopped doing that.

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Speaker 5: So you should have sent those socks to the Padres Hall of Fame. There's a hall of fame out there in the western Middle supply buildings.

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Speaker 1: Nobody sent them to Clay Meredith.

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Speaker 3: Sent, we sent, we sent walleeball.

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Speaker 4: So maybe I think we're seeing if they want to come to UH any of these East Coast trips and then maybe meet up for a game on the field or something.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, that was a cool video that they said that. That was awesome with them to do.

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Speaker 5: Mason, congratulations to you and your wife. I'm sorry you're expecting your first your first, your first baby, so huge congratulation to the expanding Mason Miller family.

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Speaker 2: That's freaking awesome.

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Speaker 5: Love it you have your own baby, Yoda come in.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I love it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much for doing this, Mason. We appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate it too.

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Speaker 10: It's another episode of splash Shit Territory. We've been trying this for ten minutes to get the tech right. But we got a special guest today, so nice for you to join us.

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Speaker 6: He's in his.

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Speaker 10: Hotel room in La I'm in my hotel room in La. Susan Sluster's in her hotel room in La. Casey Schmidt joins the show casey Man, thanks for making time.

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Speaker 6: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I don't even know where to start. I don't even really know where to start right now.

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Speaker 10: I guess we will start with a little fun. I guess you've been moving all around. You're a utility guy now. I mean you're playing first and second and third, haven't really got the shortstop yet. I saw you shaggy with fly balls in the outfield the other day.

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Speaker 6: I mean, how are you doing all this?

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Speaker 10: And you're a DH and raking, so you've got so many things going on every day and you're still so successful so far this year, Like, how are you managing all of this and how are you succeeding?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I think it's uh.

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Speaker 11: I think it's just taken a couple of years of experience of doing it. But yeah, but I think from what I found is just keeping it as simple as possible and you know, not.

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Speaker 2: Not overcook it.

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Speaker 11: You know. I think, you know, before I would maybe overcook things a little bit, you know, with kind of just the moving around. But I think just keeping it as simple as I can is just really helped me a lot, helped me out a lot.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a that's a great attitude to have.

00:25:29
Speaker 10: Do you mind if I share the funny story we talked about on the bench the other day with your glove, because I think it's awesome.

00:25:35
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:25:36
Speaker 10: So, yeah, you were telling me that all of a sudden, the giant said we want your shag in the outfield. You panicked a little bit and you ordered a glove on Amazon. One of the best stories I've ever heard. Could you share that with us right now?

00:25:51
Speaker 2: Yeah? So I ordered, I ordered too. I ordered one with my agent, and then I ordered one.

00:25:57
Speaker 11: On Amazon just I could have, you know, two, so I could see which one I would like better. And then it turned it out the one that I would on Amazon. I ordered it to be it was a left handed glove on accident.

00:26:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it was.

00:26:11
Speaker 11: Yeah, it was kind of was a little bit of a mix up, but uh, but we were I returned it, so we're good target.

00:26:20
Speaker 12: Yeah, go ahead, season, Yeah, Casey, I mean you're you're multi talented, but you're not ambidextrous yet, but maybe.

00:26:26
Speaker 9: You could work on it. Maybe you could work on that.

00:26:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, it would be an off season.

00:26:32
Speaker 12: How are things going to the outfield? Do you feel comfortable there? Like, could you play there in a pinch?

00:26:37
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think so.

00:26:39
Speaker 11: You know, I played there, and it's obviously it's obviously different, but I played there my first first two years of high school. I had some experience playing left right center, So it's it's it's it's foreign, but you know, it's just taking a little bit of reps, just kind of get to get me back in the the move of things. You know, obviously the balls go a lot higher, but uh, yeah, I mean I'm feeling good out there.

00:27:02
Speaker 2: It's uh, it's feeling more comfortable every single day.

00:27:05
Speaker 11: I've been making sure i'm you know, out there with with Jason and uh just just doing things to be out there, and uh, I just just get as.

00:27:14
Speaker 2: Get as comfortable as I can be out there.

00:27:17
Speaker 6: Do you be sick to see you play right one game and just see the.

00:27:19
Speaker 10: Cannon unleashed, like, let it eat on a medium fly ball and.

00:27:23
Speaker 6: A sack fly I want to see that.

00:27:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see if I got the opportunity for that one.

00:27:32
Speaker 12: Do you order any other stuff off the internet? Like do you order all your equipment off the internet?

00:27:40
Speaker 11: Some sometimes this this last this, this this offseason, I found uh, I found some some really like cool like Nike cleats that were orange that were from like the last year's model.

00:27:53
Speaker 2: And I really liked the last year's model.

00:27:55
Speaker 11: So I found like three or four pairs on eBay and I just I just I just got I got him and I started him in my room and now I'm.

00:28:03
Speaker 2: Using them for the season.

00:28:05
Speaker 9: Very resourceful.

00:28:07
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think we've determined that Casey Schmid is addicted to Amazon and eBay uh in the show yet. But hey man, didn't Ernie Clements for the Blue Jays get his glove off eBay and he said it's the best glove you ever had, something like that.

00:28:22
Speaker 11: I remember, Yeah, I heard that story during the during the world too. Yeah, I remember them talking about that on the broadcast.

00:28:31
Speaker 10: A see talk about d H and you know that's not an easy thing to do, especially for a younger guy that's you know, can play any position, play at a high level in your routine. And how you've kind of embraced this thing because you talk to guys oft DH.

00:28:45
Speaker 6: Some will say you don't feel like you're part of the game.

00:28:47
Speaker 10: It's like four pinch hits, Like what's your routine and how have you adapted so well to being a designated hitter?

00:28:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think.

00:28:55
Speaker 11: I mean the first time I did it, I was, or the firston I did it this year. We were in I think we're in Baltimore, and you know, I've told this story a couple of times where the cage, you know how far like the cage is from you know, the the actual like clubhouse and like the dug out of the tunnel, right, So there I was.

00:29:14
Speaker 2: That was the first one I was doing it.

00:29:15
Speaker 11: So I was like in my head, I'm like, okay, I'm gonna go to the cage, get loose every single time, and then get ready for my bat.

00:29:21
Speaker 3: Right.

00:29:21
Speaker 11: Well, it turns out I was getting ready to hit and you know, the inning are the inning end, and so I was like, okay, I got I got time to go to the cage. So I go to the cage and by the time I got there, it was like already like.

00:29:36
Speaker 2: One out in the inning, and I was like, well, that's that's not good.

00:29:39
Speaker 11: So I took a couple of swings off the tee and I was like, okay, this was like this.

00:29:43
Speaker 2: Is this and then I go, I gotta go. I'm watching on TV.

00:29:46
Speaker 11: There's two awesome like and I'm leading off the inning, so I'm like sprinting back. So I'm sprinting back to the dugout and by the time I got by the time I got there, it was already the third out and I'm like already putting my stuff on it.

00:29:56
Speaker 2: I'm like breathing.

00:29:57
Speaker 11: I'm like like out of breath, like going up there to to hit, and yeah, I was, and so I ended up I am getting a double and I'm getting a hit and then I was like, okay, I can't do that again.

00:30:10
Speaker 2: That was just that was just way too That was too much exercise.

00:30:13
Speaker 3: It was.

00:30:13
Speaker 11: It was funny because me and Drew like we were running like we were like running to the like to the cage, and it was it was so far. But yeah, then after that, we just we ended up just putting a t and then a net in the locker room. And so from from that point, I was just like, Okay, I'm just gonna do more up swings and the tea in the locker just keep it as simple as possible. And I just did that, and it's just had it had some success with him. It's just they're just keeping it simple and over you know, not overcooking it, just going up there and just hitting off the tee and just keeping it as simple as possible. And uh yeah, Now I just kind of just been doing that when I d H just going there, hit hits them off the tee, you know, keep them, keep them off the low liners.

00:30:57
Speaker 2: And yeah, I just go from There's.

00:30:59
Speaker 12: So funny, Casey, because you went you'd been their pregame that first day in Baltimore.

00:31:05
Speaker 9: I think you'd been out that way and you went walking past me.

00:31:08
Speaker 12: I was waiting to go get in and talk to Craig albernast in Baltimore, and you were like, it's so far, so far, and I was kind of gave you like a poor baby, are you gonna be okay?

00:31:19
Speaker 9: I didn't realize that was going to be like a formative moment for you. pH Yeah, I was.

00:31:26
Speaker 11: I came back and I was like in the middle of the game and I was like I was, I was literally out of breath.

00:31:34
Speaker 10: For everybody watching this in Baltimore, there's a bunch of steps that go down to the clubhouse.

00:31:39
Speaker 6: Then there's the clubhouse. Then you go outside the.

00:31:41
Speaker 10: Clubhouse into the tunnel into the hallway that you enter the clubhouse.

00:31:45
Speaker 6: And that's where the cages.

00:31:46
Speaker 10: So that's a long way for Casey to get all the way through the clubhouse down the stairs.

00:31:51
Speaker 6: So it is a hike, and it sounds like.

00:31:54
Speaker 2: The whole entire thing.

00:31:56
Speaker 10: Yeah, the other out of the stadium. So it's a long way before we get to the ball club. Casey out. I want to ask you, do you think of yourself as a utility player or you know, because you're just trying to help the team win right now, or do you see yourself someday being a gold Glove quality third basement Because that play you made at Mookie Betts last night, Dude, that was one hundred and six off the bat and you just went to your left backhand boom feed a second double play on a really fast runner. I think you could be a gold glove third basement. Do you see that in your future or do you just whatever it takes right now?

00:32:32
Speaker 11: I mean, obviously it's it's whatever it takes, you know. I just I just want to be out there as much as I can. And you know, the way that I think about it is, you know, wherever, wherever I'm at that day, that's I want to be the best version of that. You know, whether I'm at you know, left field and will be the best left field or today, whether I'm at second wing to be the best second basement today, at first at best you know, first baseman today, and.

00:32:53
Speaker 2: Just just just go about it that way.

00:32:55
Speaker 11: And you know, I think I've I've spent a lot of time just over over thing, a lot of a lot of stuff, you know, throughout my beout the beginning of my career. So I think just just going out and just keeping it, keeping it simple, yeah, not not looking too far in the future, not looking you know, in the past, but just kind of just staying stay eating keel.

00:33:17
Speaker 6: Yeah, Katie.

00:33:18
Speaker 10: I used to have a theory and this was in my head that I played second, short and third center, left and right that I wanted if a fan came to the ballpark that day, say there's a good second basement, not there's a utility player second basement.

00:33:31
Speaker 6: Her, boy, that guy's really a good center fielder.

00:33:33
Speaker 10: So that was like the trick I played in my mind where I got my work in every day at that position, and I didn't want fans that saw me for the first time to ever think I was a utility player.

00:33:43
Speaker 2: Mmmm.

00:33:45
Speaker 11: Yeah, I just yeah, that's kind of how I think about it. It's just wherever, wherever I'm out that day, that's.

00:33:49
Speaker 2: What i'm That's what it is, that's what that's that's that's who I am today.

00:33:53
Speaker 6: Yeah, and you're doing a great job at it. Talk about the ball club right now.

00:33:56
Speaker 10: I mean a couple of great wins in Los Angeles, the twelve NUM one walk off at home, the vibes in the clubhouse. You guys seem to be playing with a lot more energy, a lot more excitement, a.

00:34:06
Speaker 6: Lot more enthusiasm.

00:34:07
Speaker 10: You fist pumping at first the other night when you Tomahawk could base hit the left center field Jung, who's screaming on second base last night after his double.

00:34:15
Speaker 6: It seems like you guys.

00:34:15
Speaker 10: Are starting to take on the personality or manager a little bit. Did he say something or has this thing changed? But you guys are playing some really good baseball.

00:34:24
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:34:25
Speaker 11: I think I think it's just been you know, we were just waiting for that that one, that one moment to kind of just just to to get everything going.

00:34:32
Speaker 2: And I think the last series is is.

00:34:34
Speaker 11: Kind of what what got us there, and I think we just we just could just continue to build off of that, and you.

00:34:42
Speaker 2: Know, it's it's just been a it's been a it's been a good vibe.

00:34:45
Speaker 11: You know, we've we've all were all really we're really tight group, and you know, we all love being around each other, and we're all rooting for each other, and we're all just we're all having a lot of fun and you know, just just keeping it just keeping it as as simple I keep saying simple, But that's that's kind of that. The main thing is just to go out and have fun and be competitive and just just to play hard.

00:35:06
Speaker 2: And that's that's what we're doing right now. And you know it, like I.

00:35:09
Speaker 11: Said, it felt like it it kind of started with that last series with that walk off that Hey SU's hit, and it's kind of just brought us all all in and now now do you feel like we're starting to kind of find ourselves.

00:35:23
Speaker 12: It's funny, Casey, because you guys had that terrible road trip obviously and losing his doubleheader in Philly, and then you know not great games in Tampa, and I remember thinking, and I might have even written like this, this seems this almost feels like one of those this is rock bottom. We're going to look back and remember this after things turn around.

00:35:46
Speaker 9: Did did it kind of feel like? That's to you guys?

00:35:49
Speaker 12: Like all right now we really you know that? Then there was booing at home on Saturday night. Willia Domas said something to the effect like, you know what, I have not heard that from home fans ever, and.

00:36:00
Speaker 9: He's like, I understand why they did it.

00:36:01
Speaker 12: He's like I deserved it, Like we haven't been playing well, and you felt like that kind of kicked him into gear.

00:36:06
Speaker 9: How did you feel about all of that?

00:36:09
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think you know, going back to that Philly series, you know it was it was obviously, you know, it was tough. You know, there's the games were so close, and you know, we just we just didn't get the big hit, and you know they ended up getting the big hit. But yeah, yeah, the booing at home, you know, that's obviously not something you want to you want to hear, but I think that's, you know, it's it's you know, got us going a little bit because you know, we we we want to go out and we want to put on a show for those fans, and we want to win for them, and you know, we're doing everything we can. And yeah, we feel like right now we're in we're in a good spot where we're kind of finding who who our identity.

00:36:48
Speaker 2: We know, we feel like we know who we are.

00:36:51
Speaker 6: Are you in there tonight again?

00:36:52
Speaker 11: So Tony, No, not tonight. I'll probably be in there a little a little later, you will.

00:36:58
Speaker 10: You'll be somewhere a little bit later or maybe a big pinch hit late in the game. You talk about you guys loving each other. Your outfield really loves each other after a win. That was they're real close, and that was I thought it was hilarious. But apparently Major League Baseball didn't think of it as hilarious. But they talked to you guys yesterday, say you got to clean.

00:37:22
Speaker 6: It up a little bit.

00:37:23
Speaker 11: I mean, from from what I know, it's from the rule is three pumps.

00:37:29
Speaker 2: That's that's why. That's that's what I've known, That's what I've heard.

00:37:36
Speaker 11: I mean, it happened to to recoder.

00:37:41
Speaker 10: Carolina watched the video this morning on the group chat.

00:37:46
Speaker 6: You know, I was dying.

00:37:47
Speaker 10: There's a there's a video with this comedian and I'm drawing a blank on his name where he scores touchdowns and it's a parody thing and it's.

00:37:53
Speaker 2: A it's a key and peel sketch.

00:37:55
Speaker 11: Yeah.

00:37:56
Speaker 6: Yes, if you do.

00:37:57
Speaker 10: Three pumps, it's a penalty. And anyway, we're getting deep in the weeds right now. But yeah, I liked the bout last night.

00:38:04
Speaker 9: That was cool.

00:38:06
Speaker 6: I think it'd be cool. You know how the Mariners do the thing where they.

00:38:09
Speaker 3: Do the kicks.

00:38:09
Speaker 10: I think it'd be cool if you guys all got together after the game.

00:38:15
Speaker 6: Up a little bit.

00:38:16
Speaker 11: Yeah, they're gonna they're starting to take like classes, so they're gonna start doing some good stuff.

00:38:24
Speaker 6: That's good stuff. So you got one more for Casey, so we can let them. Let them go.

00:38:29
Speaker 9: Well, I mean, it's the Dodger series.

00:38:31
Speaker 12: I feel like, you know, a little remiss just to not you mentioned Otani, but uh, you know, they're they're a little bit down now. Tony Vaitello has talked about the importance just of winning divisions and games. How do you guys look at these series especially you know, you guys get off to a rough start, but now you're playing well. Is there a sense like the Dodgers games do mean a little bit more, either just.

00:38:52
Speaker 9: Because of the division or because it's the Dodgers.

00:38:55
Speaker 12: Or you know, the the Dalton rushing is added a little more spice. It feels like sort of to this series too, the Dodgers.

00:39:03
Speaker 9: Are they still special?

00:39:05
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean I I think I think the big thing is is you don't want to look into the other dugout and you know, be like, Oh, it's it's this team, or oh it's you know, it's that team.

00:39:15
Speaker 2: You want to play to the level that you're capable of playing in.

00:39:18
Speaker 11: I feel like for us, you know, we're we're playing with we're playing at the level that we want to play at, and you know, it doesn't matter who's who's in.

00:39:25
Speaker 2: That other dugout. We want to we want to go in there and we want to we want to get that game.

00:39:30
Speaker 6: Well, I got one more take me in the dugout.

00:39:32
Speaker 10: When hasted a second home run last night, were you guys losing your minds?

00:39:36
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we're I mean we're freaking out.

00:39:38
Speaker 11: I mean, I mean I I called the first one. You can you can ask Hunter, you can ask Tang, you can ask them. I said I said, I have a host homer right here, and you hit and it was literally two pitches later he swings and I looked at him, went, yeah, I.

00:39:52
Speaker 2: Told you called it.

00:39:54
Speaker 9: I didn't.

00:39:54
Speaker 12: I didn't.

00:39:55
Speaker 2: This The second one was good, but man, he almost had that third one.

00:39:59
Speaker 6: He almost had three.

00:40:00
Speaker 11: I mean, I mean a hundred and eight to center. That's that's gotta go.

00:40:06
Speaker 6: Late in the game.

00:40:06
Speaker 10: You know, you played enough games at Dodger Stadium. When it gets cold, it's late, the ball goes nowhere. You got to hit your taters early. When you hit your Grand Slam last year? Was it that was earlier in the game, wasn't it.

00:40:18
Speaker 11: I want to say it was probably like the fifth or sixth.

00:40:23
Speaker 2: Man, it was like my second at bat or something.

00:40:25
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's that's really enough.

00:40:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right.

00:40:30
Speaker 11: Case I thought that one was gone, the one to center, I did too.

00:40:35
Speaker 6: I was.

00:40:35
Speaker 10: I was laughing during the broadcast in the middle of John Miller's call because I thought he had his third and we were saying, if you got two, you're playing with house money.

00:40:43
Speaker 6: You gotta try for three. And that was for two strikes. That was his two strike approach, and he almost went deep.

00:40:49
Speaker 3: That was awesome.

00:40:50
Speaker 2: Gosh, that would have been great. But yeah, two homers is pretty cool.

00:40:54
Speaker 6: It is well, it's pretty cool that you came on here today. Case.

00:40:56
Speaker 10: We really appreciate it. Man, I'll see you at the yard and a little bit. It's great job. You're killing it. Keep it up, keep keep it simple, baby, Seaball. Hit ball, catch ball, throwball, keep it simple. You're doing a great job. We appreciate you coming on.

00:41:10
Speaker 2: Thank you having me, of course, thank you, all right,