Brewers rookie sensation The Miz: facing Skenes, journey to the Bigs

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Speaker 1: I thought I would allow more hits, you know, I thought I'd hit around my first game and then kind of figure out settle in.

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Speaker 2: But you know, it's not the way it happened.

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Speaker 3: We're back on Foul territory and we've got rookie Jacob Mizraski joining us right now from the Brewers. The Maze has a gun? Can we call you the miz by the way?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fine.

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Speaker 3: Hey, how's life in your first two starts? And thanks for joining us? Has everything?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: No, it's good, it's awesome. It's everything I ever expected.

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Speaker 3: What did you expect in your first couple starts? Like, I'm sure you envisioned this for a while, right and the Brewers were patient with you and felt like this was perfect timing and so far looking great. So what did you envision the major leagues would be like for you? And how has that differed from what actually played out these first couple starts.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think I I thought i'd allow more hits, you know, I thought I'd get hit around my first game and then kind of figure out and settle in. But you know, it's not the way happened.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So you actually thought with one hundred and two nasty wipeout secondary stuff six foot seven, a ninety nine percentile of extension, one hundred percentile of you thought that you were going to give up hits, my guy, Like, I don't know if anybody told you your stuff is gross and nasty, but I wanted to ask you, okay with you saying that, you know, as a prospect, you know, when I was coming up, I was a little overconfident at sitting down there in the minor League's wondering, Yo, what are they doing?

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Speaker 5: Why am I here? When I look at your stuff, when I look at your.

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Speaker 4: Ability to miss barrels and attack, Was there any point where you were thinking, hey, like I'm ready, Like I'm ready to go and help this rotation.

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Speaker 5: I'm ready to go and help this staff.

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Speaker 4: I need to be called up, Like, can you talk about that process for you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think you always think that. I mean I think anyone does. But yeah, I mean the whole thing with family and everyone back home is like be patient, b bury feeder, and uh just accept what's gonna happen is gonna happen, all.

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Speaker 6: Right, Jacob. I can't call you the miss because I'm a wrestling fan. Sorry, I know, I know your parents were in the shirts. We had this conversation the other day, but I'm gonna go with Jacob. All right, Jacob, was it?

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Speaker 7: Now?

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Speaker 6: I'm assuming you're Polish because I'm also Polish. We have the ski at the end of our name. So was it the most polish thing of all time to sprain your ankle on your first start trying to get the ball back from the I mean that was like, that was like the perfect Polish thing to have happened. Right, You're dealing throwing no hitter, and then all of a sudden.

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Speaker 7: You're like, oh man, I sprained my ankle.

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Speaker 2: Crazy Yeah no, yeah, it sucked, but it is what it is.

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Speaker 5: I mean.

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Speaker 6: Then you went out your next start and went six more no hits, so just for fun, you're like, I'm a toy with these guys a little bit. Then when you said you finally face gave up your first hit, were you like, wait, I gave up a hit? What is wrong with me? I went eleven plus innings no hits. Youn I there a no hitter?

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Speaker 2: Yeah no, I mean a right, you expect it, but yeah, no, it's awesome that it happened out far into my career.

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Speaker 4: So I want to talk about this next big start that's coming up. You're talking about pitching for a Brewers team that you guys are right in the middle of this central race. The Cubs are as good as they get, but you guys are right there facing Paul Skeins.

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Speaker 5: Is there a.

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Speaker 4: Guy that you were excited to when you finally major debut or came up to the big leagues. Is there a guy that you couldn't wait to face off against and a hitter that you couldn't wait to face in the box? Who are those guys that you have been excited to see and match up against?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, of course Paul Skins is up there.

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Speaker 1: I mean Jacob de Gram, you know Verlander, you know the guys that I grew up watching. I think it would be really cool to face but hit or wise, I mean, you got Judge and Soto, and you know, my first game against Saint Louis was really cool because it's you know, being from Missouri, like I went to countless Cardinals game, So it's really cool.

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Speaker 7: All right, Jacob Thursday, you scheme no Wednesday? Sorry? Wednesday? U verse schemes in American family field.

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Speaker 6: It's got to be a sellout, right, Can we get this thing on national TV so everybody in the world can watch you one of the best young pitchers and schemes. I mean, he's still one of the best young pitchers even though he's got a year in Now, can we get this on national television whatever channel it is. I'll broadcast the game for free just so I can watch this. This is must see TV YouTube matching up. I mean, both of you guys are gonna be throwing one hundred. You do it different ways, but this has gotta be one of the best matchups of two young pitchers in a long time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's really cool.

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Speaker 1: I mean I never expected it to, you know, happen the soon, but no, I'm excited.

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Speaker 2: I think it should be. But I don't make those choices.

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Speaker 5: Hey, Jacob, I want to ask you. I want to also ask.

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Speaker 4: You, you know about this early going this early start of your career. You got as a pretty young team, but you do have a veteran guy like Freddie Peralta. Has there been a guy that you have really appreciated with a guy who's kind of drawn to who's been drawn to you to kind of go, hey, Jacob, you do this or this is gonna help her. Who's been the guy to kind of take you under their wing and kind of show you the ropes this this in this early stages of your career.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's been it's been really awesome. I mean you have Mester Protez down here, and would you know, Brandon Woodriff and Freddie as you say, like, it's awesome. All those guys helped me all out out a lot, and uh, you know, it's always fun to just talk chopping the dugout about what's happening in the game.

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Speaker 6: So it's really cool, by the way, I've heard, and you got to verify this for me. You were a catcher when you were growing up. You wanted to be a catcher. You're a little bit too tall and a little bit too skinny to put on those things back there.

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Speaker 7: Okay, I think you made the right choice.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely. I mean yeah, going through high school and stuff, I was catching, so now I need that.

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Speaker 6: But did you go like ses because six foot seven catchers. I'm like six four and that's kind of about the top, but like a six foot seven catcher back there just doesn't look right.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I was that tall in high school, but yeah I was up there.

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Speaker 3: Wait to give me more, like yeah, when and when did you? When did you stop? Were people trying to talk you out of it? When you were throwing hard?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, that that happened like my junior year of high school. They're like, hey, you gotta you gotta choose one. You gotta choose one or the other, and you gotta be done.

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Speaker 2: So no, it was. It happened quick.

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Speaker 7: Okay, you were it made the right decision.

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Speaker 5: Big facts, You made it right.

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Speaker 4: Let me add Jacob, let me ask you this already two starts in been dominant?

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Speaker 5: How does it feel to already be headed to the Hall of fame? Like that's pretty cool to me? Like can you can you talk about that? Like I'll never be there a jam?

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Speaker 4: Sure he's got some cool memorabilion there has it failed? To already be headed to the Hall of fame and you just got to the big leagues?

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Speaker 2: I mean, to be honest, I don't have any words for it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's an honor and I think it's really cool that, you know, but I physically I don't think I can say anything about it because I'm like so shell shocked that it actually happened. You know you, I went to Cooperstown as a you know what, twelve eleven year old and did all that tournament, you know, install the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 2: So it's a dream come true.

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Speaker 7: Hey.

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Speaker 5: I also want to ask you this.

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Speaker 4: I asked a couple of my guys because I'm a big MLB this show advocate, right, I love the show. And when the first time I heard about you outside the draft or you know, the second time I found out about you was on emailb the show Jacob Mizrawsi got my Jacob Mizerrawsi car.

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Speaker 5: Do you play the show by any chance? And do you know how nasty you are on the show? Do you know they have you throwing.

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Speaker 4: Just like you doing real life one hundred and two nasty whitebout stuff. And I just want to let you know you just made my starting rotation. Okay, there's some nasty guys in it. So I want to ask you. Do you play the show, And I want to let you know you made my start in rotation?

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Speaker 2: Just fly that's awesome, But no, I don't.

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Speaker 3: I don't.

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Speaker 2: I like to try and stay away from baseball when I'm not up the field. So yeah, it's.

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Speaker 1: It's one of those things that that game is a little too frustrating for me because I get a little bit too competitive in it.

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Speaker 3: So, Jacob, so I like to do this with someone like you who did spend a decent amount of time in the minor leagues. We have quite a few current players in Major League Baseball, really, but it's more about the minor leaguers that listen. College players, high school players, et cetera. Right, they love listening to the player in reviews specifically, So I like to make sure I always mention this. It's not like you were drafted five seconds later you're up in the bigs, right, you had to go through a lot of learning. And I know even you know, looking at you now versus watching some starts a year or two years ago, the repeatable delivery that you've got working now, can you walk us through you know what what it was like since you got drafted up until they point like that middle portion of what you experienced.

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Speaker 7: Was it difficult?

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Speaker 3: You know, what did you learn that got you to this level?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it was definitely a ton of work. I mean, you know, you're grinding. Get out in Biloxi, Mississippi, when it's one hundred and seven degrees out and you walk outside and.

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Speaker 2: You feel like you just got out of the shower.

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Speaker 1: But no, I mean it was awesome having all the coaches and stuff going through the system, all their support they had. But I mean, yeah, I mean it's just one of those things that you can't stop. You can't stop grinding and working on your game each day, and eventually it'll, you know, come true.

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Speaker 6: Hey tell Vasalo to get a better computer with silence on it.

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Speaker 7: Okay, mute Vesalo's computer.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean not only, but.

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Speaker 7: I got a couple of things for you, all right.

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Speaker 6: First of all, you switch numbers after your first start from thirty three to thirty two. What are you counting them down? So next one's going to be thirty one? So is that way you can try to make thirty three starts? And that way you know how many you have left on your back? I don't get it.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: So that was just a number that I've had forever, you know, through college and it all through the minor league.

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Speaker 2: So it was more of a sentimental thing. So now I'm gonna stick with thirty two.

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Speaker 7: Are you sure?

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Speaker 6: Because you know if you keep switching, you're gonna have to buy all those jerseys parents. It's gonna get expensive for your parents because they're gonna have to keep changing them every.

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Speaker 7: Time you start.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure.

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Speaker 7: Okay, why can't.

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Speaker 5: You get Why can't you get it the first time? A j Why?

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Speaker 4: Like, why didn't you get it the first time? Why did it take one day? Why did it take a start?

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Speaker 2: Was?

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Speaker 5: Did somebody have it? They get DFA like what they didn't have it ready for you? I'm confused?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so Aaron Tavali had it and we traded him the day after my start.

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Speaker 7: So yeah, yeah, you.

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Speaker 5: Were the one.

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Speaker 6: You were the one that told him to request that tree.

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Speaker 5: It was you all if you will?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right. Oh you think you have power here? Eric, guess what I'm getting? You traded so I can have that number? Was smart? That was smart? All right?

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Speaker 6: I gotta ask you if you're a big Chiefs fan, right, you're lucky that Crats isn't on today because he's a big Eagles fan, so he would be wearing you out that the Eagles beat the Chiefs. So, I mean, are you sad? Can they do it again? And are you at Kelsey Mahomes? Which who's your who's your guy on the Chiefs?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you have to root for Kelsey and you also have to root for Mahomes. I mean you can't not.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's the best quarterback in the league and the best tied end. So no, I mean, I think they got another two or three in them. So I think I think I'm excited for this year and what's what's to come for the team?

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Speaker 7: All right? What's where's Crowder College? I want to know where's Crowder College? I've never even heard of it.

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Speaker 2: It is South Missouri, just by just south of Joplin, Missouri.

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Speaker 7: Okay, So where.

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Speaker 2: In the.

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Speaker 1: In between, like you know where Oklahoma and Arkansas and all that meets so right there?

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Speaker 7: Okay?

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Speaker 6: And how the heck did you end up there? Because you were a catcher and they were like, hey, we needed to a pitch.

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Speaker 2: No, So I was committed to Oklahoma State out of high school.

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Speaker 1: And then I decided that like, I was going to try and get drafted, and Iowa Western and Crowder both came to me, and I fell in love with Crowder because I had some family down in northwest Arkansas. That's you know, right there, just south of it by thirty minutes. So got to be close to family and had a really good coach and team down there.

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Speaker 6: Okay, Now, Ashley got to save in your win? Didn't He also go to Crowder College? So was it like Crowder College? Was it Crowder College Appreciation Day? That day when you got your start and he got the save? Did the coach? That's got to be the biggest thing of all time right at Crowder College.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty close. It's huge, huge from the program figured all right.

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Speaker 6: Now before we let you go, your last name is Miserowski. Okay, I'm Persinski. The Polish national team needs a good starter. Can we count you in for the Polish national team?

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Speaker 7: Now?

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Speaker 6: Don't be going to America. Okay, we need to go pitch for Team Poland.

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Speaker 7: So are you in or out? Because I know the guy that can get it, get this done.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if they reach out to me, I'm yeah, I think I think I'd be down.

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Speaker 7: Yes, suck it, Aaron Judge and Team US.

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Speaker 5: Already is we got the same Poland man. That's right, the Poland. He committed the team Poland. Now he's the men. See that's now, you're now you're the miss.

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Speaker 6: Now he's gonna come out to the miss theme song and the whole deal. He's now he's fully locked and loaded.

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Speaker 4: Miss a Barrel instead of Jason Jason, instead of Jacob Mizowski, Jacob miss a Barrel.

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Speaker 7: I like that.

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Speaker 3: Wait, did you you had the song? You had the theme song for the mizz in spring training?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the guys had the had the theme song for my walk out in spring training.

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Speaker 5: I love that.

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Speaker 3: I love that. I mean, last last one for me? Was it cool that your parents wear that, Like they're kind of embracing the you know, the miz and all that, right, it was. It was I saw at least them, if not others that they brought to your first start, and I'm like, that's cool, you know, like let's let's bring a little bit more of that. You know, obviously they're nervous, they're excited, but they're also kind of like embracing the persona.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I love them. They're awesome. You know, couldn't ask for any better parents and family they came with. So No, it's really cool that they made surets and everything for it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was obviously fun to watch you in that first start, but it was fun to They had the cams on the family lot and it was fun.

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Speaker 6: By the way, Murph nickname for you? Does Urph have a nickname for you? Is no way he calls you by your full name.

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Speaker 1: I think he just every time he's talked to me, it's just been mizz. So I don't think he has like a crazy one. I know some of the guys have some really off the wall stuff, but not me so far.

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Speaker 4: Okay, before we let you go, Before where we let you go, I have to ask that, why can you talk about just real quickly, Pat Murphy, like how he how great he is instilling confidence and just guys in general.

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Speaker 5: Can you tell have you noticed that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean definitely he's awesome. I mean it's just Pat. I mean that's how he is. That's how he is with everyone. It doesn't matter if you're a first day guy here and or if you're Christian Yelich. You know you've been here for a while and you're like the face of the team. He's still gonna be there to support you and root you through everything.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, it's awesome.

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Speaker 6: Miss Before you go, our two things one in Milwaukee being a Polish guy, you're the king of the city. By the way, I'm just saying, like you can rule that forever, all right. I mean the pollock in Milwaukee, that's like a pollock in Chicago. Like we can roll, we can roll me and you, we can roll the whole Upper Midwest. Okay, so we got this. So remember Team Poland twenty twenty six. Now, but lastly, before you let you go, Vasalo, I know he's in the room. Have you seen him watch Game Changer with the son and has he had to interrupt one of your interviews to say, hold on, my son is taking a ground ball at third base, so you got to stop talking while I watched this vide Hey, have you seen this video of my son mis like fielding a grounder.

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Speaker 7: It's amazing.

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Speaker 1: He has not shown me that yet. That hasn't happened, but I've heard stories.

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Speaker 3: It's really he's a weekend, he's a week in give it time. Well, you set the record for our guys saying hey, before we let you go. That means they had fun. So miss thanks for joining us. Man really get great getting to know you.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate it. Keep doing your thing.

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Speaker 3: We're excited to watch the matchup coming up this week and we'll catch you down the road.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, thank you guys,