Giants OF Harrison Bader joins FT

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Speaker 1: I like that last photo. There new San Francisco giant Harrison Vader joining us right now. Oh, we need a camera flip. We need a camera flip on. Give me if your vertical horizontal or.

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Speaker 2: Let's see stand by. Yeah, that's it.

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Speaker 1: We gotta yep. There we go, Harrison, have you on? Good to see you. Congratulations on the contract, so give us the goods. How did it all go down? How was the off season of free agency for you this time around?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, good to see you guys too, Thanks for having me free and two is awesome, man. I think, regardless of how long it takes, if you find yourself in a spot with an organization that wants to you, that's gonna play you, and that Davis have a great fan base and a great city, you know, I think it's a win all the way around.

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Speaker 2: So I'm extremely.

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Speaker 3: Excited, My family's thrilled, and I'm just looking forward to getting all going.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 3: It's a it's a storied franchise with a lot of superstars around me, So I can't wait to just add everything and anything I can on a daily basis, and you know, get as many ones as possible.

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Speaker 1: Before you ask you a question, I'm being told flip flip. Stand by they said they had it within the green room?

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Speaker 2: Is that it? Hold on?

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Speaker 1: I'm asking them. They're typing, that's it, that's it. That's the one. All right, there we go.

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Speaker 4: Now we see his fashion too, with the ripped shirts and stuff. My wife makes me get rid of those shirts when they get like that. I'm sure yours was really expensive, so I get.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they actually the more holes and rips they have in them, the more they actually go up in value. So that works out.

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Speaker 1: It's like why it means that it's it's more weather, so I pay for the same thing.

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Speaker 2: I get it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but people can tell the difference between the ones that are like worn through, like where over the year, versus like manufactured, So you have to be careful.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I won't. I won't even test those waters. It's not that's that's if I had hair like yours, I would test those waters. The only reason my shirts look like that is because I put them on my clip too many times in a row for them seasons that I played. But my question is, now we're I mean, now we got the full.

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Speaker 2: Now we're getting into it. We're doing it.

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Speaker 4: This is do you take two suitcases. I won't even ask the question I was gonna ask, do you take two suitcases on every road trip?

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Speaker 2: No? I don't. I don't at all.

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Speaker 5: One.

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Speaker 2: I know you just you learn how to pack over the years. Just keep it one. I don't want to, you know, drawing too munch time to myself. I'm bringing two suitcases.

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Speaker 4: Okay, but then there's Aj. Now tell me if this is good or bad? Because AJ dresses, well, he's not like he's not like that. Okay, he's not your status AJ. Oh yeah, well he's got the he's got the brown noser shirt. But AJ told us the other day he writes down what his outfits are for a road trip because he travels a lot. He does five he travels every every continent every year, so he writes them down so that he knows what outfits to wear. Excessive or not excessive.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think that's excessive.

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Speaker 3: I think AJ can dress however he wants it, well, however he wants to dress.

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Speaker 2: I think with that.

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Speaker 3: With that, it's hard because you know, you're always on camera every day, so you're gonna have people that are gonna be outfit tracking you and you're gonna get blown up about wearing the same nout for the same suit, so you gotta be careful.

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Speaker 2: Whereas you know, I know the schedule of.

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Speaker 3: How these guys are gonna like take photos of us, which generally happened like Big Series some of Night Baseball Friday Night. So like, I can you know, easily pick out one outphare that I know I'm gonna kind of wear for.

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Speaker 2: A camera or whatever, so I don't have to worry too much about it.

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Speaker 3: But if I was on camera every day like you guys, I would probably do something similar.

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Speaker 5: Listen, you just wear a gray shirt every day or I wore actually wore a Florida. I wore a blue one of these yesterday for no good reason other than it looks great with my eyes. And then they said you were coming on, so look for me. I had a black one that I could then wear today because the Gator ater the Gator was coming on, so I had to make sure that I represented two days in a row so people can make fun of me. But one was blue. One who's black. Sorry that you know. They hooked me up with some stuff every once in a while.

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Speaker 3: No, that's not good and I've also learned too that like the better you play, you could just wear whatever you want.

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Speaker 2: So let's just focus on that.

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Speaker 4: The reason I can't wear whatever I want. But anyway, I'm done now, so I don't need to worry about that. My question was gonna be when you see everybody in free agency going off the board and you're hanging around for a little bit, do you look at some of those guys and go, ah, man, like I kind of was. I was hoping to go there, or well, they had called and now they didn't. Now they're not going to call back, because that seems like a reciprocal move. Do you watch it that closely?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely. You know, I like to be involved with every step of this process, and it's my livelihood.

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Speaker 3: It's what I'm obsessed with. It's what my family's obsessed with. So you know, as much as I want answers, I also want to keep them informed. So I always really want to bring them information because as much as my mind might wander, you know, I get to train every day and focus on that, so I kind of get to take my mind off it. Whereas like my parents and my sister and my loved ones, you know, they think a lot, so I've remain informed and I just feel like, you know, the big thing with freeency is like letting your market develop. That was something that you just kind of always hear and people always talk about, and you know, really understanding what that means kind of requires some information, and a lot of it is asking questions on my end, like you mentioned, like why guys go a certain way, how much a team has available to spend, what their true needs are, what they're kind of identifying to teams is what they might need to build their roster in the off season, what they're going to kind of relinquish and salary and what that might free up. So all those other things I just really like to remain involved with. But I think at the end of the day, I think the ball really does take care of you, and you really do ultimately end up where a team kind of needs you, and whatever that looks like, whether it's the beginning of the off season in the middle of the end, I think ultimately you kind of land where you're where you're supposed to. So a lot of that kind of is based on what the team needs. So I'm just excited for the opportunity that I got. I think I land in the perfect spot for me, considering what the Giants stated that they kind of wanted and need based off of last season, And I'm just excited to go to work. You know it's going to be a tall task, but I'm excited to just you know, chip away at it every single day.

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Speaker 2: It's really all there is too.

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Speaker 3: It's just every single day just being my best version of myself on that field.

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Speaker 2: So I'm excited I landed exact where I belonged.

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Speaker 5: Hey, Harrison, why the Giants? What did they tell You're giving us all these reasons? Did they say all that to you? Did they promise you starting in center field? Why are the Giants? Why do you think it's such a good fit for you in your game?

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think anything in sports, specially in baseball, kind of where it's trending in terms of how the game's developed. You know, I really don't believe anything that's promised. You know, you have to prove that thing. You have to prove it every single day. That's something we know in this you know, in this on this zoom right now, is in the game, you have to prove it every single day. And they might you know, say there's an opening, but you know it's your job as that athlete to prove it every day. So so they did mention that they do have a you know, a necessity in center field and they want, you know, a better defensive outfield and everything. So that was mentioned. But you know, you can't take those things for granted. I think the opportunity for me to play as much as possible, which has always been my goal.

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Speaker 2: You know, I want to play every single day.

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Speaker 3: I think that opportunity was best in San Francisco, and that's really what it's about, you know, dollar Sign and everything involved.

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Speaker 2: You know, you want to be a part of a really, really good clubhouse and you want to play as many as many games as possible.

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Speaker 3: You know, you want as many exposure at bats, high leverage at bats, big time situations as possible. So you know, given that I really was simple, Sand fran was exactly where I wanted to be.

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Speaker 2: I can't wait to you know.

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Speaker 3: I've been an East Coaster and spring training for ten ten spring trainings, I think, so you know, San Francisco opened a lot of new opportunities I'm excited to dive into. I get to play in Arizona for spring training. I get to play on the West Coast full time. So all these things they might might see my challenges or something that you know, might be difficult, but I view them as the opposite. I view them as just really good opportunities to prove how versatile my game is, how quickly I can adapt. And you know, I really just want to captivate an already awesome fan base, you know.

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Speaker 2: I want to show them what I'm made of. I want to bring my game to San Francisco and to bring my game to a new lineup. And you know, anytime you get an.

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Speaker 3: Opportunity to be around superstars, or be in a new city, or be with a new manager, I think you should take advantage of it if you have the opportunity. So I certainly did, and like I said many times, I'm thrilled, and my family's thrilled.

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Speaker 2: So I can't wait.

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Speaker 4: I look at trends. When I look at stats from guys seasons and playing against guys, it seems like the better the team's doing, or the bigger the moment you do better.

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Speaker 2: Is there something to do with that?

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Speaker 5: Is there?

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Speaker 4: I mean, Yankee fans kind of remember a few of the swings that you had when you're in the playoffs with them, you look back at your regular season with them, they're like, oh man, you didn't even show up. Okay, like pump the brakes he wasn't quite healthy, but okay, Philly's last year, you guys were coming down. Like it's there's so many times with Saint Louis, the years they were good, Like, there's so many times. Is there something to that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean I think.

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Speaker 3: I think in those big moments, you just you really dive into your preparation, you really rely so have it on their preparation, you know.

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Speaker 2: I think it's.

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Speaker 3: It, you know, when you're playing for something so much bigger than your own stats.

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Speaker 2: I think I've just kind of found a way.

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Speaker 3: And this is because I've had a lot of really good players around me, especially when I was younger, that I kind of learned from to just in order to take the pressure off yourself, you have to.

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Speaker 2: Think about the team. You know.

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Speaker 3: Some of those really good treatches you mentioned the Cardinals, I mean that that seventeen game winning treat we had in seventeen to sneak into the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Seventeen games win seventeen one games in a row. I think it was in twenty twenty one was that stretch?

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Speaker 3: Sorry, you know, the entire time, you just like learn that you play better if you think about the team and you think about just passing your.

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Speaker 2: Baton and passing your batton on the line up means a lot of things.

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Speaker 3: You can walk, you can get hit by a pitch, you can grind out a ten.

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Speaker 2: Pitch that bad. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we know the Couless examples, but I think it really comes back to just just being super prepared for how can I help my team win as much as possible, and it takes all the pressure off yourself.

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Speaker 2: It kind of relieves any you know, individual duty you.

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Speaker 3: Might have, and you know, the glory kind of doesn't come from a big home run in a big situation and simply comes from just doing your job and being a part of a team win, which once I finally bought into at a at a younger age. I think, you know, sliding into these new clubhousets and these big moments with new teams that I really don't have a lot of familiarity with, I think I just learned how to turn myself over to the game situation, and a lot of times those game situations require you to be totally selfless and just be a good basic player for the you know, for the guy to left in tier right in your clubhouse. So yeah, I think I'll have a lot of those with the Giants, and I'm looking forward to it.

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Speaker 4: You couldn't have had a better transition getting traded over the Phillies last year. The fan base loved you. I get it. You didn't get to play in the playoffs like you wanted to because of injury. Is there was there a time at the end of the season you packed your stuff up, you went home, and you said, most likely I'm gonna be back in Philly because of all that happened, all the transpire. Couldn't have done more.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 4: It was like you were in a tryout and you just killed it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely no doubt about it. I thought that there was a really good chance to be back in Philadelphia. But at the same time, I've been around for long enough and heard a lot.

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Speaker 2: Of enough stories.

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Speaker 3: Some other players have gone through similar situations, or they've even been with an organization for six or seven years, and you know it didn't work. Out the way they wanted to, So I certainly also prepared myself for that in the off chance at the time it wasn't gonna work out. But again, that's that's what the game is, that's what life is about. Life is about preparing for things and having them go a different direction, and it's about how you can pivot to keep the energy going in the right direction to still manage to be successful.

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Speaker 2: And that's why I've.

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Speaker 3: Always said, you know, I've it's always been my dream to be a major League baseball player. And you know, the uniform is obviously nice, but that's a by product of the preparation. It's a by product of the work. That's why I really learned, I think, at a young age, to always just keep my allegiance to the baseball.

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Speaker 2: You know, I keep my allegiance to the work behind the scenes.

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Speaker 3: I always take care of the baseball in the field. I always treat the game nicely, always talk about the game nicely. You know, pour your love and your your soul into the game. And you know, if the allegiance to the ball, you know, all these trades that might happen, or you know, being let down by not going to a team you might have wanted to go to. All of them are kind of secondary because at the end of the day, you still get to go out there and suit up in whatever uniform and go out there and play, you know, the game that you love, and you get to entertain fans, and uh, you know, that's really what it's all about. So as excited as I was to be in Philly and potentially back, truly I think I went through a great learning lesson and I was a great reminder that life always for you know, constantly reminds us, you know.

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Speaker 2: These these these lessons. So I'm thrilled.

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Speaker 3: I'm excited, and I'm certainly with an organization, and I landed in a place that that definitely wants me from sendate porad of time, which is something that you know, I've had now for the first time in my career. So again, I'm thrilled, and I really just can't wait to put those callers on and go out there and compete with a locker room full of full of superstars.

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Speaker 2: So I'm excited.

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Speaker 5: All right, Harrison, you're with the Twins last year. What what do you make of what's happening in Minnesota? Derek Falvey brought you in. Now he's gone. The Twins fans are up in arms because they switched owners from Joe Polaud to Tom Tim, Tom Poll whatever, Tom Tim polad forget which one it is, right, But what what was your experience like in Minnesota? I played in Minnesota forever ago. It was a great place to come up in, a great place to play. So what was it like playing in Minnesota obviously before you got traded to Philadelphia.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Minnesota was great, It really was. I will tell you.

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Speaker 3: The playing surface is one of the best I've ever played in, hands down. The batter's box is fantastic, The batter's eye is fantastic. The outfield grass, the shape of the field, the way the sun would play, I mean all these things, and there was a fantastic playing service. So I mean I loved every second of truly just simply playing the game there and then listen outside of that, I mean, what is there to say. You know, it's outside of my control. You know, I was brought there to do one thing, and I was I was playing left field and play centerfield. When when Buckney today, which I'm thrilled wasn't often because he hasn't been healthy for a long time. And I've always said that Bron bocks and is probably my favorite player in baseball. So being up close to him, being close to Carlos Creo, you know, I've known Christian Vasquez for a while, so I got to, you know, be with him every day. I mean, there was a fan tastic experience, you know, outside of ownership and moves and trading everybody at the deadline.

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Speaker 2: You know, I don't have anything to do with that.

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Speaker 3: I think it just goes to show you that it's just so important to have your own team behind you at all times. Whether that's a hitting coach, whether that's an analytics guy or a biomechanist, whether it's a support system and you know, loved ones, family members, whatever it is. You know, you just never know how quickly and drastically things might change on that field, whether it's your teammates or you know, the decision makers, ownership groups, you know, all the noise that might happen as quickly as a as a drop of a pin. You know, you have to still have the team behind you to get you prepared for that game. So again, it was a good reminder knowing that my team behind me as solid as they come. You know, I designed it that way because I've been traded for a number of years now, where I've been on one year deals for you know, past three seasons.

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Speaker 2: So I realized how important it was to have my people behind me. So listen, I wish everybody.

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Speaker 3: I wish everybody luck in their in their ventures, if they stay in baseball or not. Everybody that met in Minnesota was fantastic. I mean everybody says how nice people from Minneapolis are.

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Speaker 2: That is absolutely true. So yeah, I'm not a blast man. I really was. As I say, it was a gift.

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Speaker 3: So you know, I wish that organization all the best. I wish the ownership group all the best. It's still a lot of players there that I played with that I love and respect, so I just want them to ball out and be successful.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, you.

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Speaker 5: Were just one of like the whole team that got traded.

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Speaker 2: So you know, it's okay, eleven guys crazy.

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Speaker 5: They're all spread out all over the league now, and now you're in San Francisco. One of your buddies from from way back is Pete Alonzo. You guys went to college together, played in college together. You got to play with them then in New York. What were your thoughts on him and his free agency? You know, you mentioned having a team behind you and and all the things you were just talking about. But Pete Alonzo, you know, setting records in the Mets for home runs, he went to free agency, they signed him to the one year deal. Then he gets another free agent job and they seemed like there was no interest there. He ends up in Baltimore. What was going on with Pete Alonzo? Because he seemed like the perfect guy to fit in to the Mets forever.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.

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Speaker 3: I mean his trajectory definitely had his number being hung up there, There's no doubt about it. But again, I mean I think, you know, they're just countless examples of guys that have gone through the process and they don't you know, they don't get that callback to continue their careers there.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: So I don't want to speak on his behalf, but you know, in training with him every single day and being around him every single day and just knowing him, you know, again he his focus is just to be the best base of here he can and I'm sure he would have loved for it to be with the Mets, given his career path and given the records, like you mentioned, what he's done there, and the fans how much they love him.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm in New York. I know the fans love.

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Speaker 3: Pete Alonzo, but it didn't shake out that way, and knowing his personality, he's wanted to just put his head down and go to work.

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Speaker 2: So again, it just kind of comes back to the feeling of.

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Speaker 3: It feels really good to be wanted by an organization that he got a fantastic deal with the Orioles. I think that's a really strong young team with a fantastic core. A lot of players on that team that I respect. I respect everybody, but some level of talent. Those guys just sit at a different table. So he's surrounded by superstars. I know he's excited and he's gonna do damage at that stadium, There's no doubt, so the way the stadium is constructed.

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Speaker 2: So as much as he may have loved.

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Speaker 3: To be back with the Mets, you know, the game had had a different a different route for him, and I know he's fully embracing it because we've been training, you know, every single day in preparation for spring training, so I'm excited to see what he does. He's still hung on to one of the colors. He still has orange in his uniform, so that's a win. So I just I'm excited for him. There's a guy who's you know, you're potentially gonna hit five hundred plus from on to the magic level.

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Speaker 2: I think we know how incredible that is. So I'm just looking forward to seeing his journey continue. And you know I'll see him, I'll see him on the line.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, Harrison, can can you help us settle a debate here? So I want to ask you one more question about your time with the Mets and with Pete. We debate the measurement of how many gimmicks are okay for a season the Mets. Carlosman Doz is on the show all the time, and he's mentioned, you know, a little too corporate. In twenty twenty five, they were whatever. I don't know what the exact words. I don't want to use, you know, his quotes or misuse him. But we debated, like I loved it all right, Iglesias with the song and Grimace and Pete had his own things run in And you've been around clubhouses like say the Yankees that are a little more straight edge for lack of a better term. So in your mind, how much can that help?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: And the Mets had many other issues and pitching blah blah blah from twenty twenty five. There was a difference from twenty four to twenty five, but just you experienced twenty four, So can you take us inside what that was like and if you felt like that truly helped the vibes and if there's a line for how much you can do that.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's it goes back to that classic thing of like, you know, as long as it works, it's not weird or you know, I think whatever whatever it takes, whether it's gimmicks, whether it's songs, whether it's a playoff pumpkin, I think whatever it takes is what's necessary, you know. And I think it really just goes back to like, you know, chemistry. Chemistry can certainly build towards winning championships, you know, And we didn't win a championshipther year, but we got really close. And team chemistry, locker room chemistry, clubhouse chemistry is tremendously important, you know.

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Speaker 2: I think front offices do their best to build.

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Speaker 3: The the biggest, you know, the like the best, high character, positive chemistry clubhouse, and I think a lot of times that will translate into wins.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: I think energy is everything on that field individually, what you bring to the stadium every day, how you go to sleep at night, and how you communicate with your teammates on the field.

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Speaker 2: I think energy is everything. Chemistry is everything.

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Speaker 3: So specifically in twenty twenty four, we had we had the chemistry going.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that was a special year.

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Speaker 3: I mean I I still get messages and whenever I'm like walking around if there's a Mets fan, you know, I'm getting you know, the oh my god chant, you know.

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Speaker 2: A couple of years later, and it all started.

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Speaker 3: From you know, the players, And I think when your front office, when your manager gives the players the right and the ability to truly govern their clubhouse and govern the chemistry and protect the energy of the clubhouse and protect the chemistry of it all, you know, I think good things can happen and you know, fun things that the fans can engage with. So now it's not only us on the field that are in the energy, but now it's the fans that are living it, you know, in the stadium and maybe when they go to work that week or they come back, whatever it is. I mean, we were kind of captivating with a lot of stuff we did, which is so much fun. And I think think the guys in the clubhouse, the players are the ones that kind of dictate that for better or for worse, So it can work both ways obviously.

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Speaker 2: So that was just a great team.

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Speaker 3: I'm happy to have been a part of it, and I definitely learned a lot about myself and how I fit into a clubhouse as a result of that season. So that really wasn't inviable and invaluable.

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Speaker 2: Year for me.

00:22:18
Speaker 1: Boom Mic drop Crafts. It's settled. You're not allowed to reply on that one. Harrison gets the last word on kids.

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Speaker 5: We need some skits and.

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Speaker 1: They need to bring it back. Yeah, maybe we'll.

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Speaker 5: Get it, but no, you gotta have all. You know, San Francisco, they're gonna love your skit. Dude. Come up with all kinds of crazy skits out there and just see see which one sticks. Every day, have a contest with like some of the young kids, like make Bryce Aldridge come up with a skit every day and have the veterans vote on it and see which one sticks. I don't know, come up with some fun like that.

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Speaker 2: One hundred percent.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, listen, I mean, it's just it's just such a great opportunity to be able to get into a new another another clubhouse, man, you know, like that's what it's about. I mean, is there a version of this, of this ride and this journey where maybe I would have loved to have been a Cardinal my entire career, Like sure, absolutely love San Louis more than anything. However, the game did not have that in store for me. So you have to pivot and you have to keep it going because I know, you know, I can make an impact not only in my own game on a team's win, but also a lot of young players. The same way when I was coming up in the Cardinal, those guys looked after me, guys you know, took me aside.

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Speaker 2: We went to dinner and they saw I was struggling, and they asked me that are you okay? You know, stuff like that. So it's just so.

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Speaker 3: Important to just constantly be that positive energy, that that vibrating energy that you know, guys turn to when things get tough, because it's so easy to play this game when everything's going right.

00:23:31
Speaker 2: You know, it's how quickly.

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Speaker 3: Can we minimize what's going wrong to get back on track? And I just really do try to pride myself on being one of those guys and it's.

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Speaker 2: A team effort.

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Speaker 3: So you know, I get to do it again in a new clubhouse, and I can't wait to just dive into it all and see how it all shakes out.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's incredible. So you know, what a gift, right, what a gift?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, we're excited for you, dude.

00:23:52
Speaker 2: No, no way you got that for you.

00:23:53
Speaker 5: By the way, no way you got any of that from Soly just saying.

00:23:59
Speaker 4: I want to lie.

00:24:00
Speaker 2: I learned a lot from Selly. I learned a lot from Selly, but.

00:24:05
Speaker 5: Not that positive like, hey, you guys are good, because I've seen his meetings after games. They're not like, hey, you guys are good.

00:24:11
Speaker 3: Definitely, well you know, yeah, but you know a lot I got it from you know, you know, Brad, Brad I get, I get.

00:24:15
Speaker 2: I get everything. I get everything from Brad. I get everything from Bad. I've said is coless times.

00:24:20
Speaker 3: I still have Brad's voice in my head in between pitches of that bad sometimes just to reel me in to get the job done. I mean, you know, I got a lot from Sully, but man, I still I'm still learning from Brad to this day. So you know, you know, a shout out to Brad.

00:24:37
Speaker 1: Brad, just real quick, who's Brad smartest guy in baseball?

00:24:42
Speaker 2: Hands down, hands down, smartest guy in baseball?

00:24:46
Speaker 3: Was was a pro scout for it nineteen years prior to coming to Florida, I believe it was, and he was just assistant baseball coach at University of Florida. And everyone who has been around him AJ knows him. He's just just an incredible base online just keeps it so simple, just to rill it all in there.

00:25:06
Speaker 2: So again, shout out to Brad whitson.

00:25:09
Speaker 1: There you go, Yeah, he got a nice minute on a on a promo cut there.

00:25:15
Speaker 2: I like it.

00:25:16
Speaker 5: By the way, Scott, for people that don't know, he's the scout the drafted and signed me. So that's why he's the smartest guy.

00:25:22
Speaker 2: That's a good connection. I didn't realize that. That's cool.

00:25:25
Speaker 5: Yeah, I like that. Still talk to him to this day, Still talk to him to this day.

00:25:30
Speaker 2: I spoke from a couple days ago.

00:25:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. There's your UF promo video right there. So enrollment through the charts after those two minutes. Un thank you for joining us. Always really good to see you. We'll catch it, some of us will be out there. Congrats on the deal man.

00:25:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you. I really do appreciate you guys, and I talk about the game. I watch you guys a lot, and I think everything you guys say is correct. So I watch you guys, and I'm looking forward to seeing you.

00:26:01
Speaker 1: First person ever say angels always correct. We'll take it on it.

00:26:07
Speaker 2: Thank you, guys are on it.

00:26:08
Speaker 1: Thank you. We're working hard and appreciate it. Thanks Harry, as soon as you do.