Cardinals 1B Alec Burleson joins FT + Country Music Star Brad Paisley joins Dodgers Territory

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Speaker 1: Matter up. Alec Burlason of the Cardinals joining us right now, I'll give me one phone flip so that we can see you straight and sideways. Boom, there it is, is looking great, doing great? Yes, Hey, how you doing. How's the season going so far? For I think a team that you know, the public said, oh, this is the rebuild year. Cardinals are seven and five. You have a lot of guys that you've been playing with for years that are starting to break out. How does it look from your end?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, first of all, thanks for having me. But it's just been a lot of fun. Like obviously, I came up with a lot of these guys and you know, being around in for years, watching them, you know, progress through the minors and then you know, make their debuts and we all kind of came up together, and it's just it's a really fun clubhouse. Like I don't feel like there's any uh, you know, clicks or anything like nobody's know in little groups. We're all together and it's just been a lot of fun to be with these guys every day.

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Speaker 3: What does a fun clubhouse in Saint Louis look like? Because I know when some of you guys first came up talking to some of the younger guys in spring training or just like different times I see guys they were like, dude, these guys have so many rules, like we gotta wear beat, we gotta wear our jersey during BP it's so hot. No other teams do that. So what does that look like for you guys in the sense of like, well, we are our own people, we're our own group. We're gonna create this the way we want to create it moving forward.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think there's.

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Speaker 2: There's obviously a way to be a big leaguer, right, there's a certain way to go about your business and be a big leaguer and get your work in, do your video work.

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Speaker 4: All that good stuff.

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Speaker 2: But I think it's I think we've set the standard where you know, you're you're gonna do that stuff, You're gonna get your work in, you're gonna watch video, you're gonna you know, we're gonna have meetings and stuff, all that all that good stuff. But in between that, like we're gonna have fun, We're gonna, you know, go to dinners, We're gonna you know, even in the dugout during games, Like it's it's it's just different, like it's hard to put into words like what the feel is. But we just have a lot of guys that are just playing with their hair on fire, and you know, I think we've got some good results out of it so far.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, it's it's it's a it's a good group.

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Speaker 2: We're young, but we have experience and looking forward to seeing what we can do.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 4: You know. Moving forward, I want.

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Speaker 6: To talk about you personally as a hitter. H Can you talk about your approach? Can you talk about how you go about each and every day?

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Speaker 1: What's your plan?

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Speaker 6: Uh in the in the batting cage, Like, how do you get your day going?

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Speaker 1: Hitting wise?

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Speaker 6: I know there's probably a video you watch, but for you ultimately take us through, you know, a day for you, how you get set up and and and what's your approach?

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I could probably sit here for up hours and and go into detail with all that stuff.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean i'd show up.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: I found out last year that a bigger, the biggest part of my day is the first part of the day. When I get in the weight room, I get my body moving, uh.

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Speaker 4: In the ways that I need it to move.

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 4: So I take that very seriously. So I'm in the weight room first thing.

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Speaker 2: If there's anything in the training room I need, uh, you know, knock that stuff out, but definitely take pride in the weight room work, get my body moving, like I said, the way I need it to move. And then you know, my cage routine is strictly based on what the starter's doing that day.

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Speaker 8: Uh.

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Speaker 2: You know, I practice, we call it practice all your shots, whatever shots I need to take that day, uh, for whatever that starter calls for. You know, I practice those in the cage and then you know, come out and maybe take VP on the field. You know, most of the time I'm in the cage taking BP. I don't do too much on the field. But yeah, and the right before the game, I'm on a machine with a lot of VLAs, trying to get my body ready to go. H You know, I felt in the past that the first inning hasn't been my best friend. I wasn't ready to go. So I've really tried to hone in on that this year and be ready to go in the first inning. So yeah, that's the basics of it. It's very it's a lot more detail oriented than I just talked about it, but it's something that worked for me.

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Speaker 3: So since you hit in the cage or does that mean you're a you're a trajectorman you use the troject all the time or is that not part of your stick?

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Speaker 2: I use it a little bit more in spring just to see, you know, you haven't faced live pitching, just to use that a little bit. But no, I don't typically use it. I just used the regular machine and kind of shape that fastball for whatever that starter's fastball has. If there's somebody I haven't seen or they have a funky arm action or release point, whatever it is, I may jump on there, but I'm not you know, I'm not on that thing religiously like some of our guys.

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Speaker 3: All right, I got two guys and I want you just there are two different points in their career, but they're both have started out really well. JJ weatherholpt rookie something, possibly Rookie of the Year. Jordan Walker. I think he's got five dingers now if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, so I think he's tied for the league league. Talk about those two guys and how JJ's transitioned to the big leagues, and we saw Jordan's transition to the big leagues when he was like nine years old seventeen years ago, and now he's twenty three and we're like, wait a minute, that how is this going on?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll start with I'll start with Walker.

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Speaker 2: You know, he when he debuted, like he had a really pretty good debut year, and then I think you realized he needed to make some adjustments and because the league was adjusting to him, and you know, I don't know if he didn't make the right adjustments or he made the wrong adjustments, whatever it was, he just didn't look comfortable. But now, like you said, he's got five homers. He looks like he's you know, on another planet. But the biggest thing for.

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Speaker 4: Me with Jay Walk is, uh, you know, I've.

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Speaker 2: Noticed a maturity level from him that he's just gotten so much better at it.

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Speaker 4: Where you know, his first two at bats he made punch out. I saw the other day his.

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Speaker 2: First two at bats weren't great. You know, he didn't he didn't look great in the box, but he didn't let those affect his third at bat. And you know, I think in years prior you would have seen a little a little bit different from that.

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Speaker 4: But I mean he's, you know, he's doing his thing.

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Speaker 2: He's uh, you know, obviously swing swinging the bat really well, and you know, looking forward to seeing what he could do for a full year. And then JJ, yeah, he's very very slow, heartbeat. You know, the game never looked too fast for him. His defense has been incredible. It's been a lot of fun being on that right side of the endfield with him. And then, uh, you know, I can see the way obviously he's leading off for us, and it's he's a good he's a good tool for me to use to see how guys are, how guys are attacking lefties that day. So and then you know, they bringing a lefty in the bullpen for him and me at the top, and so I kind of use him as a little little bait to see what they're gonna do.

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Speaker 4: But no, he's good.

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Speaker 2: He's uh, you know, very mature for his age, and he's uh, you know, he's going to do a lot of special things in Saint Louis and you know, hopefully, hopefully I'm around to see that.

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Speaker 9: Wait, Alec, now you're you're the vet.

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Speaker 3: The words you say you're the vet. You got like three plus years, so you're the vet in this lineup right before you came on.

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Speaker 9: I don't know if you heard what we were.

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Speaker 3: Talking about about how like some people treat rookies like trash, and I think there's a fine line there and you need to be on the field with these dudes. You just start talking about how JJ weatherhol is, you know, he's so mature beyond his years. You still get on them a little bit though, right, Like there's something that like he's pretty jack Like does he not wear enough shirts? Does he like not eat enough cheeseburgers? Like you still need to get on a rookie correct or is the cardinal way?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 9: Everybody, peace, love and harmony.

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Speaker 1: Bro.

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Speaker 4: No, I'll get on anybody. I don't care who you are.

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Speaker 2: No, there's definitely you, you know with the rookie stuff where you got to sing on the bus and all that stuff. That was definitely definitely done. And you know, I'm sure that video you saw the video of us put him in the cart for all of his first that he did in two games, which was you know crazy. Took me a few weeks to get my first. But yeah, there's definitely a fine line where, like you said, you have to compete with these guys and you have to be able to to you know, communicate throughout a game. But on the other hand, some guys do it to themselves and they make it a lot more easy for us to you know, get on them or or you know, play with them, joke with them, whatever.

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Speaker 4: Maybe they bring it on themselves.

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Speaker 2: So I won't name any names, but uh, there's a few guys that they just kind of do it to themselves.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, jj JJ is tough.

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Speaker 2: To He's tough to crack, so we'll I'm still working on them.

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Speaker 3: Wait, so there's rookies that that bring it on themselves because of the things that they do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, no no names or anything, but you know, you've seen those rookies that you know they say some things or you know, do some things that you're just like, what are you doing? And uh, you give them crap for it. So yeah, no no names. Maybe off camera we could talk about it, but uh, it's it's it's tough with when you have a team full of rookies too, right, you gotta you gotta be able to manage that stuff along with trying to show them the way of you know, being a big leader in what that looks like. So definitely a fine line. But this team's this, this team's got it for sure.

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Speaker 9: I love it.

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna put you on the spot here a little bit again here Wilson contrarash your old teammate, man, You see how mad he got getting hit by a pitch. I'm putting out a little threat there, a little action, just trying to figure out what side you're on on this little situation, and you know who's in the wrong. I haven't talked to any other players about it, so I want to get your take on the whole thing.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I love Wilson. I love Wilson, so probably on this side. If if it's true that he's been hit twenty four or twenty five, whatever the.

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Speaker 4: Number was, If that's a truth, if that's a true.

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Speaker 2: Statement, you know, I'm not for taking guys out or whatever he said, but uh, you know, he's one of my guys.

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Speaker 4: Obviously, spent a lot of time with him at first base.

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Speaker 2: He was asking me questions about first base, so you know, we spent a lot of time together, and so he's definitely one of my guys. And so yeah, you know when he was obviously we're playing him, playing him this uh this weekend so uh, you know, hopefully he doesn't.

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Speaker 4: Try to do anything too crazy. Hopefully we uh with him a little bit, stay stay down on the zone from him.

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Speaker 2: But uh, yeah, it's if you've been hit twenty four or twenty five, whatever the number is, if you've been hit that many times, then then there's there's some kind of issue.

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Speaker 3: Wait wait, wait, oh, you are playing him right now, and you said it like you gotta throw Wilson up and in. You gotta like the heat map, don't lie. You can't let Wilson. Hey, if you're gonna let Wilson Contreras lean out over the plate, Cardinals are gonna be playing from behind, I'm just you. You've seen it, and so you have to throw him in. But to me, as a ex teammate of his, if he charges them out and trying to think of some new pitch, dustin May, let's one run up and in. He wasn't there last year so they don't know each other. Yeah, and Wilson starts chirping, are you gonna get are you going to get in the way or you a little scot.

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Speaker 2: I'll just that'll be part of the rookie. I'll just throw JJ in front of him and let JJ fin for himself. So that'll that'll be his welcome to the big leagues. We'll just throw throw JJ in front of him and see what happens.

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Speaker 3: I think Wilson's like a mongoose or something. I think he's just gonna like I don't know, he would go he would go crazy. My last question for you, you are a two way player in college show Hay and what he's doing. I want you to comment on what show Hay does. But I also we talked about it yesterday about how Major Baseball kind of made the show Hay rule and it kind of makes it unfair for Alec Burlson to become a two way player in the big leagues because you would be you would need to have whatever thirty innings in to be able to qualify for the show Hey rule. So do you feel like that's something that a you could have handled being a two way player in the big leagues be do you think it's fair that Majorleague Baseball made it basically just only for show Hay.

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Speaker 4: Well, Number one, No, I cannot be a two way in the big leagues. I could hardly. I could hardly do in college.

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Speaker 2: Uh, you know, I threw my eighty nine mile r fastball down the middle and said here, try and hit it, and you know, had a couple of speed pitches with that, but it wasn't great.

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Speaker 4: Uh you know, I got outs.

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Speaker 2: But no, definitely could not do that in the big leagues with playing one hundred and sixty two games and then you know, definitely couldn't start. If guy's game plan for me, it would not be good. So no, I cannot do that. But you know, it's it's been said so many times, but what he does is so impressive. Uh, just not from a production standpoint, not from a you know, how many homers he hits and spaces he steals and strikeouts he has. This it's more of just the wear and tear on the body and how he is able to post every single day, just from being from the inside, you know, obviously being a big leaguer like that's probably the hardest part of it, not the production aspect of it. So yeah, I mean I've tried to vouch for you know, thirty innings or whatever that rule is and see if I can be a two way guy next year, and uh, but.

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Speaker 4: I don't think that's gonna happen anytime soon.

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Speaker 2: But it's it's just too it's just too hard to do what he does, so like, yeah, that he the rule is for show hey, obviously, and I just think it's too hard to do that in the big leagues effectively and productively. Like, I just think it's too hard. So yeah, I'm fine with the show Hay rule or whatever you want.

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Speaker 8: To call it.

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Speaker 1: There you go. We figured we'd find someone with some real world pological experience.

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Speaker 4: Yep, it's it's way too hard. It's way too hard.

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Speaker 2: I felt every day in college, I felt like my body was going to fall apart. So could imagine doing it every single day?

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Speaker 3: You're like the poor man's Jack Caglione. Then okay, so we're gonna leave it at that, and that's what it is, you and Jack. Like we could put a graphic up like Jack Kglione Alec Burlson.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, probably not the same category, same, not the same same, same, same but different, same but different Okay, different.

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Speaker 1: There you go, same but different exactly. Well still even to get that far doing both, yeah, and to get that perspective that it's crazy, right, not many even doing it like you were doing back then, in college. But yeah, stick stick to hitting. We're liking what we're seeing out there and Cardinals are looking good. It's been fun to follow so far. Here for the team at seven and five, Alex, thanks for joining us man always really appreciate it and love the combos.

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Speaker 4: Good luck this weekend of course, thanks guys.

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Speaker 10: Brad Paisley joining the show today, Brad, thank you so much for being a part.

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Speaker 1: Of the show day.

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Speaker 8: Thrilled to be here. This is my favorite thing to talk about right now.

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Speaker 10: Yes, the Dodgers. I know that you're a huge fan. Before we get into your fandom and how that came about, I want to talk to you about something that is super cool. I saw when you gave Mooky Bets the Dodgers shortstop, a fender that you presented to him, and John Suhu, the team photographer, wanted me to tell you, Brad that Mooky has been practicing on your fender a ton.

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Speaker 4: How did this come about?

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Speaker 10: How did you find out Mouke was learning the guitar and what made you want to do this?

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Speaker 8: Well, I mean it's well known he's practicing the guitar, and first of all, I find that offensive, but he's because he's too good at everything. And I figured, you know, it was something where I saw that he had a certain guitar and I.

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Speaker 1: Thought, you know what I should give him.

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Speaker 8: That's one of my Fender models they make, and I was like, we should give him one of these. And I actually reached out to his people and just said, does he want an electric to learn on? And they they said immediately yes. But what's weird is when I handed it to him, he winced, like you maybe hurt his back. I don't think it was me. They keep talking about him going around the bases and maybe heard something, but now I saw him WinCE when I handed him that guitar.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, you know what I was wondering.

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Speaker 7: I mean, obviously with where you're at there, it's a guitar or a guitar where you.

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Speaker 8: At in that range, uh, guitar.

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Speaker 9: I just want to make sure. I want to make sure. Have you heard him play at all? Mookie play at all?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 1: I haven't.

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Speaker 8: I handed it to him on the field and we didn't stop the game or anything, so I haven't heard him. Though I anxiously await his debut. It could go either way, folks. He's really good at what he tackles. As you know, Alana, I mean you've seen him. It's like the guy just dives in. But that this is a different animal. I mean it could be, it could be, you know, wonderful, and it also could be I want that back, Brat.

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Speaker 11: I so I'm heston to admit this to our live audience. I don't even think Alana and Clint know. But back in my prime, my college days, I actually say in the national anthem for a couple of spring training games. Now, the difference between yours and mine is that yours were actually great, mine.

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Speaker 4: Not so much, and mine at that Mine don't.

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Speaker 11: Go eighteen innans. Yours tend to you tend to give us a little bit of free baseball. Are you aware of the effect that you have, especially in the postseason, with your performances.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's pretty it's pretty fun. Actually, it's a great it's a great stat in the sense that we usually win. So I'm good with that. But like the it's a very strange. You almost couldn't you couldn't plan for it. I mean, it's the type of thing that I don't think it'll probably ever happen again. No one's gonna have I don't think anybody's gonna have the anthem at to the two longest games in World Series history to eighteen inning games, in addition to the one just as memorable, maybe more more memorable, honestly, was Game one against the Yankees with Freddy's walk off Grand Slam. So having sung for all those, it's a wild feeling. It's like in the middle of the in the middle of Game three in the last World Series, I just kept thinking, no way when it got to the tenth and then the eleventh, and at that point I thought, well, this is really wild, my and this is what I thought. I thought my last couple World Series went extras, including the longest ever. By the time we got to the eighteenth I.

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Speaker 4: Was like, this is insane.

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Speaker 1: This is it.

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Speaker 8: And I remember when they said around the fourteenth inning, They're like, well, this is officially the second longest World Series in history, World Series game in history, and I thought, well, I sang it the other one, and then the next thing, you know, it goes eighteen. I don't really and then I ran into all these people. You know, it was a fun stat that got talked about. It's a hard thing to end up in some sort of Baseball trivia book without actually ever having played. But it's brad fun.

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Speaker 10: You are such a fan of the team, but certainly the fan of the players too personally. And I know you have a great relationship with Clayton and Ellen Kershaw. How odd was it or is it for you to not see Kersh wearing a uniform and just seeing him kind of hanging out and enjoying it in a different way. I know, during the ring ceremony you got to hang out with him a little bit and watch the game with Kersh with a different perspective.

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Speaker 8: It was unbelievable.

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Speaker 5: It was so surreal to see him gallop onto the field.

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Speaker 8: They did it really cool.

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Speaker 4: They had Oral.

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Speaker 8: Pretend to throw out the first pitch and then act like he hurt his arm, and Doc came out and motioned to the bullpen or whatever, and now pitching and relief please welcome, you know, and they've started tonight.

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Speaker 6: We're young.

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Speaker 8: As he ran out and you know, and here he wore a jersey one last time and he ran out there and his wild you know, it was the feeling of a new era, like in that moment, more than anything that I have sort of felt like and he was so he's so as you know, he's the most down to earth human being you'll ever meet. And he's so at peace with it and grounded with it, I think, and he like, I know, it had to be weird for him, but he just kept kind of grinning. And even we went to uh we went up and watched from a suite and that was something I will cherish for the rest of my life, is getting to watch. I asked him, I said, have you ever been to a Major League Baseball game before without you know, riding the bus in through the tunnel? And he said it had been a while, you know, probably since he was a kid or something. I think he said he might have gone to like a Detroit Tigers World Series game early on, but he hasn't. He had never been to a Dodger game other than you know, as an as a member of the team. So it was really really neat.

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Speaker 5: And he walked out in the in the suite area and I looked at the field and it's just.

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Speaker 8: That vibe and he just went, oh, I see why people do this. It was really it was really magical to see him, you know, experience honestly, the house he helped build right.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I mean it's got to be kind of surreal for you being such a massive fan, but also having such a tight relationship with Clayton. Obviously, you guys have been involved in each other's charities in different ways. I was at this this ping pong event there in twenty nineteen, great one that was put on the suit.

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Speaker 9: He brought it out, he brought he brought out the best he could.

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Speaker 7: To also play a little bit of ping pong for you know, ping pong for a purpose.

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Speaker 9: Brian Cranson was there. But yeah, what's that kind of like having such a.

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Speaker 7: Close relationship with somebody you also to a degree, you know you're watching them, You're kind of idolize these players on the field, and you know they make you happy, they make you mad, they make you sad.

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Speaker 9: What's that like?

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Speaker 5: It's the most it's such a pleasant surprise to see that he's a better person than he is a picture I was, you know, I mean we're talking like the best picture of our generation, and yet he's an even better person.

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Speaker 8: You know, I didn't know he'd be this cool when I became friends with and you know, I've we Kim and I have said all along we model how we sort of utilize success to make the world a better place based on Clayton and Ellen. There's nobody that does more, I think with what they've been given than those two. It's a pretty inspiring thing to watch in spite of juggling, you know, and half a baseball team of children, you know, honestly, and then also finding time to like raise money for these causes that they're always championing. I think also there was an article I saw recently that kind of summed it up that the heart of the Dodgers and the giving nature of it and the way the team, the leadership, hierarchy, and the class that I think the team at its best personifies comes from Clayton, which was sort of the top down I mean he as far as the players go, like, he set the tone in terms of he always had the ping pong avan. He always made sure that players knew they needed to do charity things. It's no I think it's no coincidence that somebody like Chris Taylor has his polar Bear type challenge that he does and Will Smith's now doing comedy. Mookie's got his stuff. Although Mookie probably would have done it anyway. But it's like, but it's wild to see. I think the effect he had on the team in every way.

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Speaker 12: You know you can you can contribute, or you can attribute his contribution to to the to the success they've had in a giving sense, you know.

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Speaker 7: The giving keeps happening. When you're talking about twenty two. Another event you were involved with was Casey Live and there was a couple of years ago where Clayton graced us all.

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Speaker 9: Maybe it's not as good as Katie Woo's national anthem, but.

00:27:18
Speaker 7: He graced us with his voice on stage with you. I'm gonna play the clip and maybe it's been a little while since you've seen it, but I need you to grade him. Here, guys, here's the future Hall of Famer Clayton Edward Kershaw singing with legendary country music musician Brad Paisley.

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Speaker 4: See guy, earl you wow O. Sounds crazy? Alright to give it in.

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Speaker 12: A world.

00:27:48
Speaker 7: No notes, no notes? That's that's beautiful notes boom, that's pretty good.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, there were were not in any danger of him. You know, he's a Hall of Famer, but not in the country.

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Speaker 7: What's what's that show where you push the button the chair turns around. You're not pushing the button and calling him on the voice, Yeah, the voice, there you go.

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Speaker 8: Sorry, he's he is such a he's such a good good sport though a lot of a lot of players are sort of a little too cool for school and they would never get up and goof around like that. So yeah, it's it's it's a fun, it's a really it's really neat friendship. And it's interesting now, you know what. It's his playful nature with you know, he's Andrew Friedman has him as a special assistant now. And he got a badge that is his like employee badge, you know, alta you have one, and it's and he wore it around the stadium the whole day like on his belt. Like anyone's gonna ever stop him from walking in there. But you have I have a feeling every time you go there, he'll he'll show his badge.

00:29:02
Speaker 7: He's job, I'm supposed to be here.

00:29:05
Speaker 9: I promise it's corporate.

00:29:06
Speaker 8: Yeah, exactly. Meanwhile, he'd be walking past a statue of himself with his badge.

00:29:14
Speaker 1: That will be the.

00:29:15
Speaker 8: Next Yep, he's a rule follower, exactly.

00:29:21
Speaker 11: There's nothing wrong with that, No, no, Brad. Let's let's take it back a little bit to the twenty twenty three Winter meetings. They were in Nashville, and I believe you actually hosted the MLB Draft Lottery also, and then you were kind of post the Dodgers at your house. We saw some Dave Roberts action friend of the show, Dave Massey.

00:29:39
Speaker 4: Look at that guy, look at that smile.

00:29:41
Speaker 8: Oh good lord, that David made the cut today.

00:29:47
Speaker 11: He made the cut, made the cut. But I'm curious to know because some some Dodger Laura might have gone down that night. What was your take and your experience watching this Tyler Glass now trade come to fruition.

00:30:00
Speaker 8: It was one of the most fun things I've ever done, I really, as far as like, first of all, hosting Dave and Andrew. And when I say Dave, I mean Dave Roberts, not David ns No, but hosting all these guys. They are amazing and they just had the day they walked in this house. I was waiting with really expensive whiskey for them because Dave had stuck his foot in his mouth that day. Well not really, but he made the mistake of being honest with the media and said and basically was like, yes, we've talked with showhey. And so everybody thought he blew the deal if they were going to have one because they were supposed to not talk about it or something. And so next thing you know, it was Defcon five and everybody was having emergency meetings and when they came down, they had just been sitting and talking about like, Okay, did we hurt anything? Did you mess up? And it's great because they I got to let them unwind and they got to kind of like when when Doc walked in, I handed him a glass of Pappy Van Winkle and was like, I think you need this, and he said I need more than one of them of these bees. And the next thing you know, Andrew came up and said, are you a Tyler glassnew fan. I've been trying to get that deal done. He said here, say hi, and he put Eric Neander on the phone. He said, say i'd Eric Neander and I said, he Eric, you're with the wrong team or you could be here and and then he said, well, man, I wish I could. And then he got on there with Andrew and he said that sounds like Brad Paisley. That's a good impression. And Andrew said, no, we're really at his house having he's got a bar and we're all hanging out. And I said, and then he came to me and he said, were you serious about him coming down here? Because I was like, y'all should come down And I said, will it help? And he said I think it might, and I said, yeah, send him down. Next thing, you know, eight Tampa Bay Rays front office people walk in, so we've already got about thirty Dodgers. There's eight Rays. They stayed till four in the morning and called an uber. One of the front office people with one of the team's face planted in the front yard on the way to the uber not kidding, had grass stains on their face. When they got back to the hotel at five in the morning, and yeah, and this is all this is all true. And I watched as him and Andrew sort of like when Eric walked in. It was about eleven o'clock when Eric came in, and here's the GM of the Rays and he sits down at the bar and he's like, what do you got? And I said, well, this whole top shelf's the most expensive stuff, and you don't get that till Tyler Glassnell's a Dodger and he's like say, all right, well fine, I'll just deal with you. What do you think of so and so? And I'm like, that'd be a great ray and then and that's really how it was going. And then the next thing you know, he disappears into the next room with Andrew and they sort of talked for a while and came back and and when they left, I asked Andrews, so what do you think? He said, I think it's probably that's looking good. I'll let you know. And then a couple of days later he wrote me you get the assist, which was really fun. I mean, but it is what you what you hope. Like when when I think of baseball movies or any of these things, I think of guys at a bar, you know, piano music in the background and they write some stuff down on a napkin and they're like, what do you think and they're like, yeah, we'll do that. And that's kind of how it happened.

00:33:51
Speaker 9: Do you get an employee badge out of that? I mean, that's that's.

00:33:53
Speaker 8: An you would think, But no, I need to be there with Clayton or they're gonna not let me in.

00:34:00
Speaker 10: Come on, man, we have some questions from our boys on the Foul Territory show, Brad. So this is coming from Todd Frasier, obviously longtime big leaguer. He wants to know from you, what is your scouting report on yourself as a player when you were younger. For fans that don't know you're from Virginia, you played a little ball yourself. I think the musician side of you worked out just fine. What's your scouting report on young Brad Paisley?

00:34:31
Speaker 8: Subpar speed, subpar bat speed, not good at strike zone coverage, weak arm, probably not suitable for single A. Should sing the national anthem

00:35:08
Speaker 1: H m hm