Dodgers RP Brock Stewart joins FT

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Speaker 1: Hey, here comes Brock Stewart of the Dodgers joining us right now on FT Brock, We really appreciate the time. Thanks for joining us. So how is a glorious off season of celebrating for you and then resting and recovering and now spring training is around the corner.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been good. First of all, thanks for having me on, guys, but it's been good. You know, the World Series backed back to be part of that little part I was was pretty cool and the trade worked out really well for me. I gotta World Series ring and some playoff money out of it, but that's you know. I wasn't a huge part of it, but just to be around it and experience it, it was awesome. And looking forward to having way more to do with the three pet this next season for sure.

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Speaker 3: There you go.

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Speaker 1: Now, have you, guys gotten into the conversations like a team such as the Dodgers will do. Hey, we want you to do your thing a little bit, but now let's talk. This is what we really like about you, this is why we traded for you, and this is maybe one thing we would like to see you do differently, whether it's mechanical or pitch usage. Any of that. Have you guys had that conversation or is that more something? Now you can kind of reset to your own thing and then talk in spring training because you'll have plenty of time there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we had.

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Speaker 2: We had meetings right when I got traded over, and I had some familiarity because I was Dodger in the past from sixteen to nine, up and down, Triple A, the Big Leagues and all that. But I had some familiarity, so they knew my stuff. You know everybody's They know everybody's stuff. Everything's on true media and everything's recorded, every pitch you throw and everything, so everybody knows everything, everything about everybody. So the Dodgers knew what I had coming in, and they knew that I was really good against right handed hitters, and they wanted me to pretty much continue what I was doing against righty's. But they did have a couple of suggestions about lefties, maybe throwing the sweeper to get ahead into the count. Just get me over a little sweeper to get into account and then go from there, because last year, in particular, I fared way better against.

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Speaker 4: Rightis than I did lefties.

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Speaker 2: But no, the Dodgers had a great plan for me, It's just unfortunate that I only was able to throw four times for before my shoulder flare back up. But like I said, just looking forward to helping out much much more this twenty twenty sixth season.

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Speaker 3: All right, before I asked the question, because I was going to ask you by your shoulder when you grew up in normal Illinois, were you a Cubs or a White Sox fan, because that's gonna dictate how the next ten minutes your life goes.

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Speaker 2: Adrian, I'm glad you brought this up. I was actually a White Sox fan, so uh, thank you? Okay, good, Yeah, now we can be positive.

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Speaker 3: Thank you. Now he can have a great passage.

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Speaker 2: What I think at that time, I was thirteen or fourteen when you guys want it all and pretty cool to be talking to talking to you now because I mean back back when I was thirteen or fourteen, you you were larger than life, and that whole team was larger than life. That was really cool. And I actually I went to Illinois State. Do you know which one of your World Series teammates went to Illinois State?

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Speaker 4: Neil Cox Katzi. Yeah, yeah, he's a great guy.

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Speaker 3: He is a great gross great guy, great good should have been him all day.

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Speaker 5: Hey day before I asked this question, Brock, like, don't come on here and be you know, we don't need to lie to be friends. Like this could be a great interview. There's no such thing as you either had a bunch of friends and you were a Cubs fan, or you didn't have friends and you were a white Sox fan. Isn't that how it goes in northern Illinois.

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Speaker 4: I think I had that.

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Speaker 2: I had he's some central just enough friends, and I was a Sox fan. I was one of like so my hometown let me to normal Illinois, right in the middle of the state. So like, I would say, sixty percent Cubs fans, thirty percent Cardinal fans, and then I was one of the ten percent.

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Speaker 4: White Sox fans. And it might it might not even be ten percent, but I was one of those small, small percentage of white Sox fans.

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Speaker 3: By the way, yeah, I can live with Cardinals or white Sox so normal, You're normal. The sixty percent of the problem, okay. But by the way, crowds is just jealous, because Brock, you had a fathead of me in your room growing up, and crats never have that, So it's okay, it's okay.

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Speaker 5: I always fathead.

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Speaker 4: I don't know about the fathead. I don't know about that.

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Speaker 3: It's always a head. Yeah you were you weren't that. You weren't that coy Oh I had a fat I have one. I had a fat head. I was the White Sox fathead guy, which is kind of no. I mean his in his mind, you aren't. That's fine, that's fine. In your mind.

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Speaker 5: You were that cool.

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Speaker 3: I was.

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Speaker 2: I was also a fan of I mean, yeah, you were great, AJ. But that's starting rotation, especially in the postseason. That starting rotation was silly.

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Speaker 3: What they what they preaed, but they couldn't have done it without the catcher, Brock. Don't ever forget.

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Speaker 4: That the game manager behind.

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Speaker 3: The dish exactly. All right, So let's get back to you now that we're now the Cratch has done glazing me. Thank you, Cratch. How's your shoulder because you missed the end of the year with the shoulder and you had surgery? Am I am? I correct? Do you have surgery? Ye? So how's the rehab it? Will you be ready for spring or what's the prognosis for you going forward?

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Speaker 4: So the rehab's going well. It's a you know, it's been mostly smooth. You know, there's some.

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Speaker 2: Days that it's kind of you got to knock the cobwebs off when you play catch, and especially each step up in intensity, I've had to deal with a little bit of the cobwebs. But the recovery has been really good. I'm able to play catch the next day. Everything's feeling clean, feeling great going through certain ranges, which is not always been the case. So yeah, I mean, I'm not exactly sure when I'll be activated for the season.

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Speaker 4: I think I'll have.

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Speaker 2: To spend a little bit time on the injured list just to start the year. I'm not off the mound yet, so I think I'll get off the mound within the next few weeks, once I get out to Arizona and get some cleats on. I think at that point that then we can, you know, they get eyes on me and then see where I'm at and maybe think about getting off the mound within another couple of weeks. But I don't think I'm getting the vibes that there's no rush with this. We want to make sure, we want to make sure the shoulder is good to go for the you know, the dog days of summer and then leading into leading into the fall baseball when it gets really fun. I think that's when they want me at my best, and that's when I am expecting to be at my best. So whatever it takes to get to that point, it is what it is. I've dealt with injuries before, so I'm familiar with this rehab process and.

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Speaker 4: Really take it day by day.

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Speaker 2: So every every day I go into tread athletics here in Chars, then I go to my PT clinic down the road and just do what I have to do. Try to try to be better than I was the day before and try to feel better than the day day before. So yeah, I like where I'm at. There's still a little bit of a road to go, but you know, I'm out to one hundred and fifty one hundred and fifty feet throwing in the mid eighties, so I think I'm I think I'm on the right path to getting where I need to be to help the twenty twenty six Dodgers.

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Speaker 5: Can you confirm that they told you to take your time? Because we hear all the time. We see, you know, like this guy had this and we always just say. It feels like the Dodgers are just they're playing for the postseason, and to me, it's the smartest thing, Like why try to just burn some dude out when he's going to be elite in the postseason. So, can you confirm that the Dodgers have said slow down, take your time. The most important time of year is October.

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Speaker 2: They know that everybody knows that that the most important time is late in the season, the playoff push and then in the playoff. But no, I I can say with a hundred percent honesty, they have not told me to take it easy.

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Speaker 4: It's more so just the the.

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Speaker 2: Vibe I'm getting from the training staff and kind of the throwing schedule that they're sending me. But no, I honestly, they they have never said, you know, we're gonna we're gonna hold you back until you're one hundred percent and you know if that's you know, July or August, and so be it. No, they have not said that. I'm I'm fully anticipating being activated, you know, not too far into the season, hopefully sometime I really don't know, but around around the beginning of May. Maybe we will see, you know, like I said, there's a long there's a there's some road.

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Speaker 4: Left to go before I get activated.

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Speaker 2: So uh, like I said, just take it one day at a time, and UH should be good.

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Speaker 3: By the way, you mentioned something you mentioned you're a tread You don't work with, you don't work with Justin Nicolino. Do you have a trick, because if you do, I'm gonna tell you to stay far far away from him.

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Speaker 4: So I don't.

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Speaker 2: I don't work directly with him, but it was always around and he's one of a kind. He's he's the man. I've got to got to know him a little bit this offseason, and I know he spent some time in the big leagues. So yeah, just just to talk with him. He's he's awesome and he's a character too.

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Speaker 3: He's ask him just do me a favor. Next time you see him, just say, hey, tell me about the time you went to Baker's Bay. Just just ask him that and then just let him go for about two hours on his experience when we went we went on vacation. One time went on vacation, we went on a guy's trip to play golf together, and just let him fill you in on that. It'll take it's going to take you a bit. It's a hilarious story, especially when we returned home. They'll tell you what happened and you probably won't believe it.

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Speaker 4: That's great.

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Speaker 2: So I'm not very confident in my ability to tell stories, but I'll tell you what. I don't know him super well, but that guy seems like he could tell a good story.

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Speaker 4: So I'm gonna go. Ah, I'll see him tomorrow, so I'll ask him tomorrow about it.

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Speaker 3: Okay, just call him Tiger Dick. Sorry, I know, just say hey, Tiger Dick, A J says, Hi. I guarantee you'll know what you're talking about.

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Speaker 4: All right, sounds good.

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Speaker 5: All right, Well, you have to tell the story about when you got traded last year along with the cavalcade of guy did they give Did they get a whole bust together and ship you all to the airport at the same time when they got rid of half your team?

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Speaker 4: No, but that would have made sense.

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Speaker 2: That was a you know, Dodgers aside, la aside, the Dodgers aside. That was a really sad day because you know, I got to be really close with all those guys up in Minnesota, and there's so many good people in that organization and in that city, and that you know that a whole area Minnesota nice is a real thing. Those people are the best. They deserve a winning team. It's kind of unfortunate to see what transpired last year.

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Speaker 4: And then.

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Speaker 2: You know the issue with the president, Derek Falvin kind of breaking up with the Twins here recently. You know, I don't know what it's all about. I just know that the Twins deserve a winning team. And like I said, a lot of great people up there. But that that day was crazy. I mean, I think I was one of the first guys to go on that trade deadline day and then kind of just you know, watching as the day went. It was shocking. It was shocking. They did a total fire sale. Pretty much everybody that was you know, a rental, a free agent definitely was gone. And then even some controllable guys like I get in my case, you know, I'm thirty at the time, thirty three now thirty four, battled with some injuries my whole career, so maybe trade.

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Speaker 4: Me, get some value back for me.

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Speaker 2: But you know, some of the controllable guys were a little head scratching, like Louis Barland going to Toronto. I mean he was controller for four or five more seasons and throws one hundred could have been their closer. But yeah, I mean there's reasons for everything. I don't know what's going on with ownership in the Twins at the front office or.

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Speaker 4: Anything like that, but.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just a wild day for me and my Twins teammates. But then when I learned that I was going to LA where I had some familiarity, and that I was joining.

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Speaker 4: Quite possibly the best team ever, pretty cool. Yeah, pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: That side of it was awesome, and I was really looking forward to getting out of there, out of Cleveland. We were on the road in Cleveland, really looking forward to getting out into LA is what I meant to say.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, only three or four times for him last year, but looking forward to helping out a lot more.

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Speaker 5: There's a lot of negative around the Twins with getting rid of everybody ownership, not sure all that stuff. But if you look at twenty four, twenty three actually and twenty four maybe one of the most dominant bullpens that I've seen that really didn't get to shine their light brightly in huge, huge playoff games. What do they do like part of the fact that they got rid of everybody. It almost seems like the Twins are like, yeah, sure, we'll find Brock Stewart from the injured list independent league, and we'll go and turn them around into this elite bullpen guy. You know, who heard of Louis Varland before?

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Speaker 3: Who?

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Speaker 5: You know, they really created this bullpen that kind of came.

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Speaker 3: Came out of nowhere.

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Speaker 5: What were they doing during that time and is it something that they can continue to do to find that massive value in bullpen guys.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't really know what they did necessarily.

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Speaker 2: I joined as a minor league free agent with the Twins back in the summer of twenty two, and right off the bat, I could tell that the Twins were very forward thinking when it comes to pitching and very analytical, and you know, they wanted you to lean on your strengths and they you know, they did that that really well with the pitching staff and you know, the pitching staff and the front office side of things, and then like the player development side of things. Everybody was open and honest with everybody, and it just seemed like a well oiled machine when I got there, and I know, I knew we had a lot of talent in the bullpen and in the starting rotation, I mean, and on that team. Honestly, if you look at the twenty three to twenty five rosters for the Twins, I mean, pretty good rosters. Never really put it together consistently, but I mean last year, I remember, we were part of a I think we won thirteen in a row early in the season, So we definitely were always capable of playing winning baseball. We just never really strung it together totally. But no, like you said, there was a lot of talent in the bullpen. You know, I really think we have a lot of talent this Dodger's bullpen. But I'm not sure if I'll be part of a bullpen that had more talent than some of these Twins bullpens. And yeah, shoot, what was it last year? Five of the guys, the eight guys in the bullpen were traded.

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Speaker 5: All right, Well, then you have to ask the typical Dodger player question, have you talked to Show Hey? Or do you have to have more than five appearances to have talked to Show Hey? And do you have any good Show Hey stories?

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Speaker 4: Oh Man stories?

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Speaker 2: I don't know, I just I just it's really intriguing to watch him go about his business every day and inspiring honestly because he I mean, I am a bullpen middle reliever and I'll maybe pitch you know, every other game, every third game. So but I'm I'm training, and my my training takes you know, pretty much all day. Like I have maybe an hour hour and a half of downtime before the game starts, where I just chill. But to see him train for both hitting and pitching is incredible, and he has his routine down to like the minute, and he knows what he has to do, and like I said, it's really inspiring. I haven't spent a time, you know, as much time as I want to around him, and I'm looking forward to this spring and then this season.

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Speaker 4: But so I don't have any crazy stories. I just know he's a super good dude.

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Speaker 2: And when I came off the mound after my first outing when I joined the team, he just looked.

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Speaker 4: At me nasty. I said, yeah, let's go, man. So it's cool.

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Speaker 2: It's just cool to see that he's a great person, you know, along with other guys Freddie MOOKI all those guys you know that'll have all the money in the world. A lot of people might think that they they're just gonna cash it in and show up and yeah, I guess this is what I do and just take home a paycheck and just you know, get ready for the game and go play. But no, they're the they're the first some of the first guys there. They're the weight room all the time. Like I said about show Hey, and it's the same with Freddy and Muki and all those guys, like they they get after it, which is really inspiring because they could easily, you know, just kind of cash it in and take it easy and know that they're going to play every day and know that they're going to have a paycheck coming in every uh every other Friday. But no, some of those guys are the hardest workers on the team, which is really really cool to see. And show he's the man. I have nothing but good things to say about show Hey.

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Speaker 3: Brock. What about your view? Oh a J? You got or no? Yeah, sorry, Scott, cheez you want to talk so much? Change you missed, You missed one day of work and now you just want to cheez.

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Speaker 1: We have so we don't talk over each other too much. And a J didn't say next.

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Speaker 4: So it's okay, it's okay, yeah, chat all.

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Speaker 3: Sorry, we do it.

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Speaker 1: We do it every day on the show. But I guess matters right now, you've got a white Sox fan.

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Speaker 4: You talk ship behind guys backs as you're talking at all.

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Speaker 3: We I mean, I do not know has been there's been times where you're sitting next to a guest and when I come to spring training starting like next week, you'll see that. I'm like, hey, just reminder, guys, people can see my chat, so just careful what you're right, Okay, just be careful. If you did steroids nexting Tiger Dick, sorry, I apologize if you make sure it gives you some ship tomorrow.

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Speaker 5: If you do steroids, I will put it in the thread so that you see it when you're sitting next to AJ. So spring training is coming up and any x p D guys, I'm just gonna be like, hey, j ask him about doing steroids.

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Speaker 3: That's not true.

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Speaker 2: You know it goes for you guys. See how it goes for you guys in the whole the whole show.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, not true, not true. Not good. Anyways, Now onto Yamamoto. I think Yamamoto might have been on something which called adrenaline this this postseason because the Dodgers are super careful with everybody and they all muddles like, Oh, I threw Game six, don't worry, guys, I'll come in and shove in Game seven the next day. To how impressive was that Because you mentioned, you know, you're a middle reliever and you might pitch every other day. This guy started and then closed it out the next day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just I'm just thinking back to when I was a starter, you know, coming through the minor leagues. You know, I'm a bullpen guy. Now they're all failed starters, but when I was a starter, I just know how I felt after throwing six seven innings and the next day especially, I mean.

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Speaker 4: I it's unbelievable. It's unprecedented.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if it'll ever happen again what he did, and not just to you know what, he throw eight innings Game six and then coming back for Game seven. It'd be different if he just went out for Game seven for like a hitter to finish an inning, but no, he pitched what was it two and a third or two and two thirds to finish that game seven. Truly incredible. Another guy that has all the money in the world but works so hard. I mean, you should his mobility routine, and I think there's been viral clips of him doing his mobility stuff where he's doing like headstands and handstands and back bends. He can contort his body like I'll never be able to. But no, he's a really hard worker. And what he did, I mean it should be national news. I say it all the time, but like show Hay's three homer game, the ten punchies and then Yamamoto what he did. I mean, this should be even if you don't like baseball, if you just you know, barely follow sports, like this should be front page headline news.

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Speaker 4: What those guys did for us truly incredible.

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Speaker 5: Where were you during that run? A lot of people know about where Shohey was during the World Series run? He was on the field, Guys that are injured, guys that are not active. Where were you and how did you feel like the Dodgers, Like was there a give and take in all of that?

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Speaker 4: So I was with the team until the CS, and then I came home to Charlotte after the CS and everybody was super with it. I mean there's mental mental warfare on my side. I just didn't. I the last thing I wanted to be for the team was in the way. You know.

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Speaker 2: I only pitched four times for him in August and then tried to come back at the end of the season, didn't work out, ended up getting surgery. So I was on the shelf, and I, you know, barely helped the team.

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Speaker 4: So the last thing I wanted to do was be in the way and for PT.

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Speaker 2: When the team was on the road and the Philly See Philly series and then the.

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Speaker 4: Brewers series, I was going to. UH.

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Speaker 2: I was going to a PT clinic in Beverly Hills, So that was like a kind of an hour, like an hour long drive work from where I was. So just because I wasn't traveling with the team, and just because I had to drive about an hour to Pete and I had kids that we wanted to get back to Charlotte and get into a they call it school, but it's basically daycare.

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Speaker 4: It's called weekday school.

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Speaker 2: But UH, I was just open and honest with the daughters, and UH they kind of let me do whatever I wanted to do, so they had no issues with me heading home, and it was kind of weird just watching the team, but like I said, I was barely part of it. So but I was big old cheerleader from my couch at home. But to be there with the team for the home games of the playoffs this past season was super cool, and it's a you know, I really want to be part of a three peat and I really want to have a lot more to do with it, and that then that's when I can really enjoy the celebrations, enjoy.

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Speaker 4: The parade and all that. So no, I'm working each and every.

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Speaker 2: Day to feel to feel what those guys felt after the last out of this game seven was made. I think that's what everybody dreams of, So in twenty twenty six, really looking forward to being a part of it. And you know, everybody knows we got a great team and could go for the three peat. So that's, you know, that's where my mind is going to be each and every day. I'm going to try to try to go to work and be better than I was the day before and help out the team and be able to be around the celebrations and you know feel like, you know, you really earned it.

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Speaker 4: So I'm really looking forward to that.

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Speaker 5: I was the reason I asked that was because I was pretty much in the same situation. I fired halfway through the year from the Royals. I was on the team Salvador Perez played all the time, so even if I was on the team, I probably wasn't going to do a whole lot anyway, and I watched this team. I watched the Royals win against the Mets from my couch. The rest of my family had watched pretty much the whole postseason, and they all went to bed in game I think it was Game five they beat the Mets, or Game six, I forget exactly what it was. So when they won, or even that whole Game seven, how stressful or and how much elation did you have when they won? Did you pop your own bottle of champagne?

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Speaker 2: No, no popping champagne. I think we did have some wine that night though. Game seven night, me and my wife. But yeah, I just watched for my couch. I actually Game seven, as the game got laid into the laid into the Game seven, I was looking at the MLB app, like the game day app, and it's actually like a minute ahead of the broadcast. And I'm not proud of myself for I'm not proud of myself for doing that, but it made it made it easier once whatever transpired on TV, I already knew it was going to happen, so I kind of made it easier that way. So I saw, you know, Alejandro Kurr grounds into double played in the game, and I just shot up off the couch, you know, threw my hands in the air, started jumping around, and then sure enough, like thirty seconds later, it happens on TV. I just had a big embrace with my wife, and maybe it got a little emotional. You know. I wasn't a part of it, but you know, just to play a small part of it, and I wasn't part of the postseason, but just to play a small part of the regular season and just to be around the team and just to see how they work every day and how special of a group it was was really really cool. But that game, I think it was Game three that went into fifteen sixteen, seventeen innings, whatever it was, I was so I was on the couch and then I was like, I gotta go lay down.

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Speaker 4: So I went to my bed and I had my phone and I was watching YouTube TV. So I was watching the game on my phone in bed, and you know, the twelve inning or.

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Speaker 2: Whatever rolls around, and I fall asleep, but you know, I fall asleep with my phone on my chest, still playing, still loud from the volume of the broadcast, and I wake up like like two hours later, and I pull up my phone and the game literally just ended. I'm seeing like the on field celebration from Freddy's homer just wild. I mean I'm on East Coast in Charlotte, so three hours ahead of that, and I mean that game went to after midnight on the West coast, so it was like three point thirty in the morning when I happened to wake up and look at my phone and saw him celebrating.

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Speaker 3: Super cool.

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Speaker 4: And then you know, of course, it took me two hours to get back to sleep, So the next day was rough, but no, super super cool to be a cheerleader and to see those guys have that success, because like I said, great group of guys. They work so hard. But yeah, uh, to be to be a part of a playoff push and hopefully a playoff run this season coming up will be awesome.

00:24:02
Speaker 3: I don't Oh yeah, okay, hey Brock, did you get any outs during the regular season. I just want to know, did you get any outs?

00:24:11
Speaker 4: I got some big outs with the Twins, and then yeah I got.

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Speaker 3: No I'm talking about for the Dodgers. Did you make any outs with the dot Did you get any outs with the Dodge? I then, do you know what? You deserve it because you helped them get there. I don't care what anyone says. You helped them get there if you got one out. Hell, if you got made one appearance and got face to batter, you saved somebody from facing that batter. So you deserve it. So anyone that says you don't deserve it, screw them. They're wrong because you if you if you appeared on the field and did anything, it showed up one day talk to somebody. You deserve it. So hold your held up high. If anyone says all you didn't pitch in the playoffs, screw them because that's not true. You helped people get there whether and you were hurt, which is not your fault, So screw them. And then the second thing I want to know is, imagine you got to fall asleep, Okay after that game that ended like three in the morning. Now imagine if you're me and you have to do a postgame show at three in the morning after that game's end because your bosses are mean to make you stay up and stay up and then have to go on the air. So happy you got your sleepy, sleepy time in, but some of us had to stay up, watch the whole game and then discuss it.

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Speaker 4: That's what coffee's for, right, I mean you can you're a grinder, age, you're a grinder. You're a catcher. You know your backstop. You guys are.

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Speaker 3: Grinding, not a grinder. No, exactly, Yeah, why am I? First of all, Bro, what do you consider a grinder? Because Kratz says, oh, you only spent six years in the minor leagues, you're not a grinder.

00:25:39
Speaker 4: It's different for everybody. I consider ninety.

00:25:44
Speaker 3: Oh actually seven years, if we're going to get technical.

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Speaker 2: I think it's different for everybody personally. I think you can tell if a guy's a grinder simply by watching him for like twenty thirty minutes about how he approaches each day and how he goes about his day.

00:25:58
Speaker 4: That's my this opinion. So under the fact that the fact that you pushed through and we're able to do that postgame show at four and am man, you're keep it up. You work like you and.

00:26:11
Speaker 3: Well I like you. You're to be a regular on the show now. Thank you. We just just signed you to it.

00:26:15
Speaker 4: Thank you perfect.

00:26:19
Speaker 3: Well.

00:26:19
Speaker 1: It's worked out great, Brock.

00:26:20
Speaker 4: Hope you enjoyed it.

00:26:21
Speaker 1: I didn't even realize the White Sox connection, so you made AJ's day. Thanks for joining us, and uh we'll see out in spring training.

00:26:30
Speaker 2: Awesome, see you guys soon. Thanks for having me on. Really appreciate it.