Angels Bench Coach Ryan Goins: MLB coaching journey, Halos future

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Speaker 1: Hey, we've got Angels bench coach and former Big League of Ryan goinges with us. Go go with the elite background too, how's life man.

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Speaker 2: Skills?

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Speaker 3: Just stealing some Starbucks, life file, joining the palm trees, It's all good. Nice.

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Speaker 4: They must pay, They must pay infield coaches so much money.

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Speaker 5: Look at that background. I thought infield coaches didn't get nothing.

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Speaker 2: Hey, l A got beautiful Starbucks out there.

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Speaker 5: Is that what it is?

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Speaker 2: That's what it is.

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Speaker 4: When you used to play in the field, you weren't buying. You weren't buying those Starbucks on the way, and you made way more money. Now look at you. You you buy your own food and everything.

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Speaker 3: Yes, you know, uh don't like to go to the field at ten, o't off anymore and just steal all the food and the drink similar sor right, let me stay away for a little bit.

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Speaker 2: That was back in the day. I was broke, you know, trying to make a living.

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Speaker 5: Trying to trying to grind. Yeah, no, I get it.

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Speaker 4: Hey appreciate you coming on here, go go, But look like to say, Ryan Goins has managed two Big League games officially. I know there's been ones where you were you stepped in when then there's ejections, I just got I gotta say publicly, congratulations like that to me, that's awesome. I don't care how you got there. You managed two big league games, but no way you thought that was gonna be what you were doing when you signed on this year to be the infield coach.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, not a not a chance. Yeah, it's like, you know, things happen this year. Obviously was watched going down and appreciative of the opportunity that I got, you know, and I stopped playing that to twenty two. I would have never said I made it was big league games three years later, but it was an awesome opportunity, so fun, you know, something that I've wanted to do for a long time when I haven't been do going forward.

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Speaker 2: So that's.

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Speaker 5: All right.

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Speaker 4: So what is what is that like when you're when you're getting hired to be the infield coach on Ron Washington's team. I get it Ron Washington. You know you you worked under him with the Brave right like you.

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Speaker 5: Were one of those infielders. Isn't that kind of intimidating? Isn't that kind of like dang? I better? You know Wash is always out here with these dudes.

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Speaker 4: He's always got all these videos and working with these guys, and everybody talks to them, even the other team. Are you kind of like looking over your back or was washed like you got.

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Speaker 5: This go go?

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Speaker 2: Uh not looking over my bat? Obviously, he trusted me to come in and be the infield coach.

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Speaker 5: I believe.

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Speaker 3: I was always really good at defense, and when I got with him, I became better, right. And I was like, I didn't think there was anybody like him doing anything to get me better on the defensive side, and he was one person and made me better. So a lot of our routine is exactly the same as is. You know, we do all the drills on the knees and I love angele stuff. You know, we switched a couple of things in start round ball team, but other than that, it's pretty much the same thing that he's done forever. And then, you know, when I'm going over stuff and he starts talking, it's kind of like, all right, you're gonna listen to him obviously, you know, because he.

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Speaker 2: Is who he is, So I just kind of take the step back and let him go.

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Speaker 6: I want to ask you a question about coaching. Did you find it hard transitioning from being a ballplayer to now a coach, especially being a young guy too as well, just coming out and all of a sudden boom, I'm heading up to here to be, you know, an infield coach, a bench coach, and now you know, have you and have you thought about maybe managing too one day? Is that a possibility?

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Speaker 3: I mean, that'll be for other people to decide if the managing of the possibility.

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Speaker 2: It's what I want to do. It's like my ultimate goals to manage.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 3: We'll see where infield coaching, where the bench Sultz thing takes me in the future. But you know, the transition to coaching wasn't tough. I knew when I was doing. It's all I've done my whole life. It's like the one thing that I really love to do. I knew I wanted to coach. So after twenty two I got back. I called that back up to the big leagues. I was there for seven games and like, I didn't play, didn't even like get my hamstrings loose, you know, So it was kind of like, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, I got back here.

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Speaker 3: I did what I wanted to do, but I just don't feel like I'm a big league option anymore. And then just knowing that, I went to the coaches, like, all right, let's just start the journey in a new way. And then I got really lucky, you know, went to Kansas City coach in Triple A. I signed a player contract, you know, and I was going to get to coach so coach there for a year and then you're talking to watch that off season and got this opportunity which I didn't think would come that fast. You know, you kind of prepare to grind it out in.

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Speaker 2: The minor leagues.

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Speaker 3: But I've been lucky, you know, I've been on some good people. I've been lucky, and to get this opportunity to be great, So it wasn't tough to just transition. I knew I was done, you know, I just wasn't a big league player anymore.

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Speaker 2: And Nick wasn't right for two.

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Speaker 4: All right, two things right before he came. I'm not sure if you heard her or now we're talking about rookie dress up. One what did you dress up as when you were a rookie? And two technically you're a rookie coach? Did they make you dress up? Because I know sometimes coaches do that.

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Speaker 3: As a player, I dressed up like four timeels so I was a rookie like every year to everybody. I guess when you're the guy that talks the most trash to the older guys, they just say, all right, you're gonna dress up every time. I was a monkey, I was a sailor. I was like a bumblebee with like the tightest clothing ever. I sung on the bus about thirteen times, so I got like the rookie times. So and then as a coach thought nothing. As a coach, I think we're past that.

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Speaker 2: But it's been good. Man. We have a lot of experience. I think a lot from the guy.

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Speaker 5: We're not past it.

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Speaker 4: Look, go go if you were on my staff, you were my staff, I would make you dress up because.

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Speaker 5: You were that guy. You talk.

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Speaker 4: You you would talk some absolute smack and so you deserved all those dress ups. And I appreciate that how you handled it because you were pro about it.

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Speaker 3: I just say, you know, I got a mouth made for football, but I didn't get the bought.

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Speaker 5: You got a body made.

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Speaker 2: Mouth made for football, yeah, perfect, and.

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Speaker 5: Hands made for shortstop. That's all.

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Speaker 2: I got one good tool. That's it.

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Speaker 4: Hey, that go good tool got you a lot of time. I want to talk about your big league shortstop though you work with Netto. Obviously we can look at all his numbers, we can look at what he's done. But talking to one of his other hitting coaches from another year, talking to his ex manager, they talked about, like I guess the kids would say, Aura. They talked about how he kind of like he just got something different. Can you explain that and also explain how good Zach Netto is?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I get what you're saying with with the aora.

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Speaker 3: Just the way he carries himself, you know, for being what twenty three, twenty four years old, he knows he's good, right, I mean, the way he goes about his business.

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Speaker 2: Like Miami guy. You know all these that Miami guys are.

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Speaker 3: Always pretty swaggy, have some confidence to him, can throw some jabs here and there.

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Speaker 2: He's great. He's great to be around like. But it's no mystery why he's good.

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Speaker 3: The kid loves to work right, Like, he comes in, he works, he does everything he needs to do. He listens, he applies what we're working on, and like it's been easy to coach him.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 3: You look forward to going to the field and coaching this guy. Uh, I'm excited to see what he does. You know going forward, that's going to be something special. Obviously, last year getting cut short and then coming back from the surgery, and then this year getting back. Obviously, the injury this year is out of his console was getting.

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Speaker 2: Kicked by a pitch. But this dude is uh, he's special night for Sere tod Father.

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Speaker 6: I want to talk a little bit about another team who you played a bunch of times, the Mariners Seattle. You know you're a coach. Now you got to understand the ins and outs of other teams. Tell me how you how you would pitch the cal Rawley, Like, what's the scout and report on this team that's got a really good chance of making a big run here in the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: Uh, Washington this year is amazing. Right, I'm just gonna pray for a base opening two outs. I could intentionally walk him to first right, like every time he goes up there, you feel like he's gonna do damage. Limits the chase. He hits the ball in the air to the pool side, like from both sides to play similar to the hose Air Mirles does in the Cleveland Uh, we were actually talking him in thuthout and I was, you know, talking about MDP and I was ttarying to give somebody other coaches a hard time to say, oh, that's just.

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Speaker 2: When they win it. But I'm like, man, this guy's year has been unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: Catches, you know, a ton of games, hits like that, controls the pitching staff, which that pitching staf that was incredible. Uh, it's been a pretty impressive and special year for him.

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Speaker 5: So you've seen it. Is he the MVP? Is cal the MVP? Or one? Did the coaches say?

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Speaker 3: What have you heard it on your Yeah, everybody's got cal Raley. I want him to win it his why, I mean, he deserves it for what he's done, right, probably what special year the catcher's ever had in this.

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Speaker 2: Game and game time. Uh, the man twenty five and fifties pretty good year. That's how did you get.

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Speaker 5: Around squad for sure.

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Speaker 4: But let's go back to earlier in the year. I was watching Angels game. The Yankees came in, and Ron and Wash was still on the he was still on the bench and he was like.

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Speaker 5: Four four.

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Speaker 4: Now he's got I think he broke the record for a season of intentional walks by a Yankee judge did just last night or maybe it was the night before.

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Speaker 5: I haven't seen that from cal Raley.

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Speaker 4: So is there really that same fear of cal Rawley that there is a Aaron Judge And doesn't that go into the MVP vote?

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Speaker 5: Hey, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how the voting goes, but I know when they both step up there, they have a chance to go deep.

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Speaker 2: And I don't really want to throw strikes to either of them.

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Speaker 3: So, uh, you know you're not gonna pick one wrong, right, You're never gonna have one wrong either way.

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Speaker 2: I know Ey was talking about co MVPs. I don't think that'd be terribley.

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Speaker 5: There.

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Speaker 2: You both have incredible use.

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Speaker 6: Mmm. I like that too. I think that I don't see that as a bad I mean, the way things are going now, I know, so I.

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Speaker 2: Know one guy, let's not get participation trophies.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, there let go, thank you, bro.

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Speaker 2: You know that somebody just got to finish.

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Speaker 3: Second, they don't give the World Series trophy to both teams?

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Speaker 5: There you go.

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Speaker 6: I like what he why said? I like what he said?

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Speaker 5: Hey, go go. I'm going to jump in here a question for you.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the Angels obviously are postseason bound this year. I know the team's got a nice little young core going here. How do you cut down the strikeouts? I know that's been the big talk the last couple of months. What are you seeing there and what can you advise, you know, take away the mechanical portions of things. What is going on?

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know if you've pulled up my baseball reference page, but I'm probably not the poster boy for talking about people striking out.

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Speaker 2: But then I will say that I don't want to.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to make it sound like oh news school disc Like I watched these pictures go out there and pitch, and I'm like, thank god, I don't have to grab a bat. You know, it's like top top of the zone, ninety eight, ninety nine slider down.

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Speaker 2: Like you go, face Seattle. It's like top of his own slider, top of his own slide.

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Speaker 3: It's like I was talking the other day, like these pitching labs, right, the guys go to they're creating pitches they know you can't hit, right, Like they're doing things you know you can't get to and we have all the information. So like as hard as it is to already get a hit, they just hit the ball forward like they know what you can't do, you know, and they're just trying to expose that over and over and over.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 3: Like as much as you want to say, choke and poke it, I get it, Like choke and poke it. But if you hit a ground ball to a guy like me or you guy like exactly, you're out.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we don't. We don't play.

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Speaker 4: We don't play high school where it's like, hey, put the ball in play, like something's gonna happen. Normally it doesn't happen, even even on the worst fielding teams. Normally, something doesn't happen.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I mean you can say I'll go like you'll back the ball up, it'll push you on time for a breaking ball, this and that. But like and then hitting is getting so wid I watch it, not even us other team for hitting. How these guys just like get better, like the pitching, the pitching side of it, how they just keep getting better or like the stuff becomes different, you know, like now the sweeper right, like you know, you could throw a ball one movie this follow that way, I mean one moving the same the other way, like good luck.

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Speaker 5: That is that is good for you.

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Speaker 4: You are you are because you've been out of the game the perfect amount of time. You've been out of hitting the perfect amount of time where you're like, I figured it out. But you're so honest and real you realized this John was super tough.

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Speaker 3: Now it's crazy. So yeah, I mean I don't I'm not going to bad and he looks all right. Stuff not going in the right direction. I can still seal the ground ball with the best of them, but hitting it forward started to be a problem.

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Speaker 5: All right.

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Speaker 4: We we love, we love getting into like, you know, how's the background of this stuff going? You texted me this morning when I texted, hey, looking forward to seeing you on the show, you were like, shipp in my truck? What's that process like? Because people don't like people come to watch our show because they're like, I kind of want to see more than just like the Bobo answers. You got to ship your truck home. This is something that people don't understand. The season's almost over, so you're doing some other planning stuff. What's that look like? And what else are you doing?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, you got to pack up all the clothes, get it in boxes, pack it up, find car shipping.

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Speaker 2: We have it nice though. The person that we've always used here with Anaheim and our.

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Speaker 3: Our travel guy, Tom Taylor, kind of put me in contact with the lady, and every time I've shipped my car, I've just gone to her and she figures it out. But yeah, you know how it is like, oh, we'll be there between eight and twelve, and you're like, oh, perfect, Yeah, just let me know when that window is, you know. So they called me like eight in the morning, like, oh, we're gonna be don in thirty minutes.

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Speaker 2: And I'm like, well that's great. So you know, a guy just comes in takes your truts drivers on the ramp. He's like all right done.

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Speaker 3: I'm like that's it, nothing, no pictures, So sign one little sheet. Good to go, you know, kind of just get all your ducks in the road. And then now from this Starbucks life, I got to go to the airport and you go get a real part. Until I had a home, you know, I got real people problems.

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Speaker 5: Real people problems.

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Speaker 6: So last one for me here, I gotta be honest with you. It drives me crazy every time I see the video online. Once a month, I get somebody somebody to send me this video of you doing the hidden ball trick on me. I have my players that I coach at are nine, ten, eleven, twelve years old. Every time it comes up, they go, oh my god, I didn't know you got hitting ball trick. You're you know, you're supposed to be like knowing everything, you son of a gun. It's once a month for the rest of my life, I get somebody either sending it to me or or bringing it up and I was, Oh my god, you and I just remembered. It still drives me crazy to this day. You got me, you got me bad?

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Speaker 2: Oh hey. The same way it's someone's like, hey, I saw you on Instagram. You know, I saw a real of you. I'm like, I know, let me hitting, So what it is you get ascrash?

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Speaker 3: I did that so much like it was that in that one moment, Like when that time I was like, it's gonna work.

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Speaker 5: This time.

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Speaker 2: It was the one time. Usually I'm like, oh, just wait whatever. That one time I was like, I just feel like it's gonna work. You got why I saw it. I was hoping the umpire saw it. I was like, I just hope he saw this, and he saw it.

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Speaker 6: I was like, yes, that was the only time you got somebody on a hitt and ball trick.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I was. I'm one for about two thousand.

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Speaker 6: So I'll tell you what. Never, at least once a month I get that video from somebody or a kid comes in and goes, oh, you're the guy that got tagged out. I just saw it on Instagram. They posted non stop. I'm like, all right, we can get rid of it now. I get it.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, good, good for you.

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Speaker 4: Good for you, Todd, pull your pull your trophy over so that you feel better than go Go, so go go. You can see your your home run Derby trophy which you keep next to you all the time.

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Speaker 2: Hey, way more show homers over there.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 6: Luckily, luckily we won the division that series, Thank god, because that would have been that could have been really bad.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Ellis, Ellis, you just tell him, just tell him, I had so many show homers.

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Speaker 2: I'm not used to be on second base, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, I'm usually just jogging around him.

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Speaker 4: It's a good thing. Go Go wasn't a good hitter. It's a good thing. Go Go wasn't a goodhit more trash.

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Speaker 3: Wow, God knew what he was doing, you know, pop Like he knew if I was six, if I looked like Aaron Judge and hit fifty homers, it would not be good.

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Speaker 6: Oh man, I would have loved that.

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Speaker 5: I would have loved it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, exactly, Yeah A.

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Speaker 5: Plus trash talk.

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Speaker 1: But but bring it, man, Make some of those angels guys do that.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 1: Obviously a few games to go here and the rest of the way. We love that, We love that game needs more of it. In my mind, we always push for that on here. Just bring more fun, more entertainment to the sport.

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Speaker 6: So pre mhm.

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Speaker 4: Okay, somebody has appreciate stopbo just he must be on that minor league Yankees WiFi at start about.

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Speaker 5: I was one, I was one eighty and like six.

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Speaker 3: Great, Yeah, appreciate Aci, appreciate than man.