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00:00 --> 00:03 [SPEAKER_03]: Welcome to episode number two, eighty one of the Marine Lair podcast.
00:03 --> 00:06 [SPEAKER_03]: We welcome on Mariners second round pick Nikki Becker.
00:07 --> 00:14 [SPEAKER_03]: We chat with him about who he is as a baseball player, the feeling of getting drafted by the Mariners and his early impressions down in Peoria.
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01:25 --> 01:34 [SPEAKER_03]: And welcome you to this episode of the Marine Lair podcast part of the just baseball podcast network recording on Monday evening August eleven.
01:35 --> 01:43 [SPEAKER_03]: I think the rare off day while as almost a one eighty from what we were talking about earlier this year when we said thank goodness for off days.
01:43 --> 01:46 [SPEAKER_03]: It's a oh gosh darn for off days instead.
01:46 --> 01:50 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh gosh darn who you Philip Rivers.
01:51 --> 01:53 [SPEAKER_03]: It's off the sucks.
01:54 --> 02:00 [SPEAKER_03]: I started off the last episode by dropping an F bomb so I decided this episode in the first sentence that wasn't going to drop an F bomb.
02:02 --> 02:03 [SPEAKER_02]: Wow, look at you.
02:03 --> 02:06 [SPEAKER_02]: Appealing to all ages, appealing to all demographics.
02:06 --> 02:06 [SPEAKER_02]: How about you?
02:06 --> 02:07 [SPEAKER_02]: For the people.
02:09 --> 02:14 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, it was a lot more fun to have off days back in May than it is right now, right now.
02:14 --> 02:16 [SPEAKER_02]: I just want to see them keep playing because.
02:16 --> 02:18 [SPEAKER_02]: I think it was supposed to do tonight.
02:21 --> 02:22 [SPEAKER_02]: That's a good question.
02:23 --> 02:33 [SPEAKER_02]: Honestly, if you walk full transparency, I don't think the two of us are short on things to do in terms of work that keeps us busy, but it is more fun to stay busy and do all this work while watching the Mariners.
02:34 --> 02:35 [SPEAKER_03]: I know you should be doing.
02:35 --> 02:36 [SPEAKER_03]: You should be sleeping.
02:37 --> 02:38 [SPEAKER_02]: I was gonna say, are you gonna tell me going to bed early?
02:38 --> 02:41 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, you should probably go to bed.
02:41 --> 02:42 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, we're done recording.
02:43 --> 02:48 [SPEAKER_02]: I did get about three hours sleep on Sunday night because we recorded late, so that was not a lot.
02:49 --> 02:51 [SPEAKER_02]: maybe a nine o'clock bedtime tonight.
02:52 --> 02:55 [SPEAKER_02]: Dude, I don't think I've been in bed at nine o'clock since I was like, ten?
02:55 --> 02:56 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
02:57 --> 02:59 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, tonight's a great night to start dog.
03:00 --> 03:01 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we'll see.
03:01 --> 03:03 [SPEAKER_02]: I wouldn't hold your breath.
03:03 --> 03:07 [SPEAKER_02]: However, for the Mariners, I think they are probably more than happy to have the off day.
03:08 --> 03:13 [SPEAKER_02]: Also, I mean, they need the rest and all, but also, how do you spend an off day in Baltimore?
03:13 --> 03:14 [SPEAKER_02]: Like, what do you do?
03:15 --> 03:15 [SPEAKER_02]: Golf?
03:17 --> 03:19 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, there's probably nice golf courses.
03:19 --> 03:22 [SPEAKER_02]: It's just like Baltimore doesn't feel like exactly like a destination city to spend an off day.
03:23 --> 03:26 [SPEAKER_03]: There's enough touristy things to spend a day doing.
03:26 --> 03:27 [SPEAKER_03]: You go to some museums.
03:27 --> 03:30 [SPEAKER_03]: You can go down on, you can go down in the Marina.
03:30 --> 03:32 [SPEAKER_03]: Like, that's what we did when we were there.
03:32 --> 03:35 [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, we went and visited Baltimore earlier this year.
03:35 --> 03:38 [SPEAKER_03]: We were only there for three hours.
03:38 --> 03:41 [SPEAKER_03]: Maybe we went to the infamous Babe Ruth House.
03:42 --> 03:43 [SPEAKER_03]: That could do that while.
03:43 --> 03:44 [SPEAKER_03]: That's where we need sauce.
03:45 --> 03:47 [SPEAKER_02]: That was actually fun.
03:47 --> 03:49 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that was on the roster right now.
03:49 --> 03:51 [SPEAKER_02]: I would tell him to go visit that house immediately.
03:51 --> 03:53 [SPEAKER_02]: It's not that far away from Camden.
03:54 --> 03:56 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, it's like two blocks from Camden.
03:56 --> 03:56 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
03:57 --> 03:58 [SPEAKER_03]: So that's good thing to do on an off day.
03:58 --> 04:00 [SPEAKER_03]: Again, then you can just like go find somewhere to eat.
04:00 --> 04:03 [SPEAKER_03]: There's I've had some really good Italian food and Baltimore.
04:03 --> 04:07 [SPEAKER_03]: You can get some crab cakes like you can find enough to do.
04:07 --> 04:11 [SPEAKER_03]: And again, loan behold, most of these guys just golf anywhere, everywhere they go anyways.
04:12 --> 04:13 [SPEAKER_03]: That's fair.
04:14 --> 04:15 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so they'll probably be fine.
04:16 --> 04:17 [SPEAKER_02]: They'll probably spend the off day fine.
04:17 --> 04:24 [SPEAKER_03]: They're probably, they can spend all day at their five star resort with all the wonderful things they have available to them.
04:25 --> 04:26 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I must forgot.
04:26 --> 04:27 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they don't stay at best Westerns.
04:28 --> 04:29 [SPEAKER_02]: I must have slept in my mind.
04:30 --> 04:31 [SPEAKER_03]: No, they do not.
04:31 --> 04:37 [SPEAKER_03]: There is a couple questions though on the off day that we've been kicking around and trying to figure out what this Mariners team.
04:38 --> 04:44 [SPEAKER_03]: It kicks into your mind a little bit more when you watch Luke Rayleigh crush a grand slam off a lefty earlier this week down into coma.
04:44 --> 04:46 [SPEAKER_03]: He's getting just about ready.
04:47 --> 04:49 [SPEAKER_03]: to return to the Mariners roster.
04:50 --> 04:53 [SPEAKER_03]: There's a few ways the Mariners could go about getting him back on the roster.
04:54 --> 04:56 [SPEAKER_03]: What do we think is the best way for the Mariners to get him back?
04:59 --> 05:01 [SPEAKER_02]: What would we do as the corresponding roster movie mean?
05:02 --> 05:09 [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, if you were to make a decision for Luke Rayleigh getting back on the roster, and by the way, this is not playing time on the roster.
05:09 --> 05:15 [SPEAKER_03]: Launa already had the debate over Robless, Dom, Canzone, and Luke Rayleigh in the outfield.
05:15 --> 05:16 [SPEAKER_03]: That has been discussed.
05:17 --> 05:21 [SPEAKER_03]: But what we're discussing right now is how the Mariners sculpt their roster, otherwise.
05:22 --> 05:29 [SPEAKER_03]: So how would you, Lyle Goldstein, present in a baseball operations of the Seattle Mariners, activate Luke Rayleigh to this roster?
05:33 --> 05:34 [SPEAKER_02]: Let's be very clear.
05:34 --> 05:35 [SPEAKER_02]: Luke Rayley is going to be on the roster.
05:35 --> 05:38 [SPEAKER_02]: There is no scenario where he stays down in AAA.
05:38 --> 05:38 [SPEAKER_02]: None.
05:39 --> 05:42 [SPEAKER_02]: So when he gets back on to the roster, there is going to be a corresponding move.
05:42 --> 05:43 [SPEAKER_02]: And what would I do?
05:44 --> 05:50 [SPEAKER_02]: Look, I would shake Donovan Solano's hand, say thank you for everything you've done for the team, but tell him we're going to part ways and you defame.
05:55 --> 06:03 [SPEAKER_02]: It is, although if you were to widen the lens a little bit and say now what happens when Victor Robles comes back, that would be the second move.
06:03 --> 06:09 [SPEAKER_02]: But when you look at who replaces Rayleigh, or sorry, who Rayleigh replaces,
06:10 --> 06:14 [SPEAKER_02]: That feels like the one that would be the most seamless.
06:14 --> 06:16 [SPEAKER_02]: Salano is a first baseman slash DH only.
06:17 --> 06:18 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, Rayleigh gets some time at first base.
06:19 --> 06:21 [SPEAKER_02]: Obviously, it'll mix in in the outfield, too.
06:21 --> 06:32 [SPEAKER_02]: But that feels like Rayleigh's spot where if you were to then bring back Robles and DFA Dylan Moore, then you still have Miles Master Boney to sort of take over the Dylan Moore role.
06:32 --> 06:36 [SPEAKER_02]: Demo goes, or sorry, Robles goes and starts playing the outfield again.
06:37 --> 06:39 [SPEAKER_03]: that part does make sense.
06:39 --> 06:47 [SPEAKER_03]: The thing that keeps dealing more on the roster, I think, is the fact he can play still five positions, or he at least stand in five positions.
06:48 --> 06:51 [SPEAKER_03]: Third, second, first, go around field.
06:51 --> 06:55 [SPEAKER_03]: So that's what's probably the only plus left you have for dealing more.
06:56 --> 06:57 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, six, he's played shortstop, plenty.
06:59 --> 07:00 [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so six, six positions.
07:01 --> 07:07 [SPEAKER_03]: You can't promise he's any good at many of them anymore, and especially given he doesn't really play anymore.
07:07 --> 07:13 [SPEAKER_03]: Now they're just Donovan Solano, but... Okay, so I'll believe the Donovan Solano answer for Rayleigh.
07:13 --> 07:17 [SPEAKER_03]: What should happen with Robless and Rayleigh back on this Mariners roster?
07:17 --> 07:17 [SPEAKER_03]: What you would think?
07:19 --> 07:26 [SPEAKER_03]: The way it's kind of timed out, and I was listening to Mike Solk on Brock and Solk talk about this this morning with you, you heard this live.
07:26 --> 07:27 [SPEAKER_03]: I heard this after the fact.
07:28 --> 07:29 [SPEAKER_03]: Robless is timeline.
07:31 --> 07:36 [SPEAKER_03]: lines up almost perfectly with the roster's expanding at the beginning of September.
07:37 --> 07:38 [SPEAKER_03]: So you give him some off days.
07:38 --> 07:43 [SPEAKER_03]: You stretch out those fifty plate appearances and Victor Robless is ready to go for the final month of the season.
07:43 --> 07:43 [SPEAKER_03]: Great.
07:44 --> 07:45 [SPEAKER_03]: He's getting on the roster.
07:45 --> 07:45 [SPEAKER_03]: They paid him.
07:46 --> 07:47 [SPEAKER_03]: It's making five million dollars this year.
07:49 --> 07:49 [SPEAKER_03]: Five.
07:49 --> 07:51 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
07:52 --> 07:53 [SPEAKER_03]: He's on the roster this year.
07:53 --> 07:55 [SPEAKER_03]: So he's going to get activated.
07:55 --> 07:58 [SPEAKER_03]: The ideal moves for those two outfielders are
07:59 --> 08:01 [SPEAKER_03]: Don't more, don't even slumber off the roster.
08:01 --> 08:04 [SPEAKER_03]: You're going to be a little more outfield heavy, little less infield heavy.
08:04 --> 08:06 [SPEAKER_03]: The roster expands by one.
08:07 --> 08:08 [SPEAKER_03]: And you could.
08:08 --> 08:17 [SPEAKER_03]: So at that point, you would have master Rayleigh, Robless, and see bring up Ben Williams at that point with Mitch Garver being your backup catcher.
08:17 --> 08:19 [SPEAKER_03]: That's the five on your bench at that point.
08:20 --> 08:28 [SPEAKER_03]: You throw an idea out to me, though, of what they could potentially do that would line up more with what they've done this season that I would like a lot less.
08:29 --> 08:31 [SPEAKER_02]: We can get to that in a second, but let me hit on two things.
08:31 --> 08:36 [SPEAKER_02]: To clarify about the Robles contract since you asked, Robles is making four point one million this year.
08:36 --> 08:38 [SPEAKER_02]: He makes five point one million next year.
08:38 --> 08:41 [SPEAKER_02]: And then in twenty twenty seven, there's that club option for nine million dollars.
08:42 --> 08:47 [SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, the other part of this is by that blueprint being executed.
08:47 --> 08:53 [SPEAKER_02]: You're saying that by bringing Robles back and activating them on September first and by bringing Ben Williams and back.
08:54 --> 08:58 [SPEAKER_02]: That means that's when Dylan Moore is hypothetically DFA.
08:58 --> 09:04 [SPEAKER_02]: Because if you were to only bring Robles back, you don't have to DFA, Dylan Moore, because Victor Robles would be the one guy added to the roster.
09:05 --> 09:09 [SPEAKER_02]: But if you're going to bring Robles and Ben back, then yes, that's when you DFA more.
09:09 --> 09:10 [SPEAKER_03]: Which they could still do.
09:10 --> 09:11 [SPEAKER_03]: They could leave Ben and AAA.
09:12 --> 09:19 [SPEAKER_03]: You and I've talked about like, there's things Ben could probably work on in AAA, which is positional versatility in elevating the baseball more.
09:19 --> 09:22 [SPEAKER_03]: But what if the Mariners would rather have his glove on the Big League roster this year?
09:24 --> 09:33 [SPEAKER_03]: I would, if you're going to make it me choose between the two infielders and who's probably going to bring more value right now, Ben Williams since defense is better than anything going more does right now.
09:34 --> 09:34 [SPEAKER_03]: Right.
09:34 --> 09:40 [SPEAKER_02]: And then you have master for speed if you want a pinch runner off the bench and we've seen master play a little bit of outfield.
09:40 --> 09:48 [SPEAKER_02]: So if you really had to do that with Master Boney, you could, but the roster would also be structured at that point where you have so many outfielders, you shouldn't really need
09:49 --> 09:55 [SPEAKER_02]: a utility outfielder that is plugged in multiple times a week in the outfield.
09:55 --> 10:01 [SPEAKER_02]: Because by that point, rovelace is back, Raylee's back, if Camzone, you have Julio, you have Randy, there's enough outfielders.
10:02 --> 10:03 [SPEAKER_03]: Now, what about this other scenario?
10:05 --> 10:05 [SPEAKER_02]: The other one.
10:06 --> 10:11 [SPEAKER_02]: And admittedly, I would see red.
10:12 --> 10:13 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I'd vomit if this happens.
10:13 --> 10:14 [SPEAKER_02]: Bye.
10:15 --> 10:28 [SPEAKER_02]: The other idea is, because the Mariners have essentially refused to DFA anybody this year, aside from Colin Snyder, is that when Rayleigh's ready to go, we assume in the next week, maximum, ten days?
10:28 --> 10:29 [SPEAKER_02]: We're never no dog.
10:30 --> 10:33 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, why is that?
10:33 --> 10:35 [SPEAKER_02]: You don't get transparent answers about this stuff?
10:36 --> 10:37 [SPEAKER_03]: It depends who you ask.
10:39 --> 10:40 [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, it does.
10:42 --> 10:45 [SPEAKER_02]: oftentimes in certain media scrums, you do not.
10:46 --> 10:49 [SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, let's say it's in the next seven to ten days with Luke Rayleigh.
10:52 --> 10:56 [SPEAKER_02]: I would imagine that that is the timeline for him to come back.
10:57 --> 11:05 [SPEAKER_02]: The other thing they could do is because they refuse to defy anybody, they could send MasterBony back down to the miners because he still has an option left.
11:06 --> 11:26 [SPEAKER_02]: He has this year to be optioned back and forth between the big leagues and the miners, where he gets sent back down, Rayleigh gets activated, Demo and Solano stay on the roster, and then come September first, that's when MasterBony or brought back to the big league club, and they say, hey, this is the guy we'll add, and we'll worry about Victor Robles when he's actually ready.
11:29 --> 11:29 [SPEAKER_02]: Dislike.
11:30 --> 11:31 [SPEAKER_02]: No.
11:31 --> 11:32 [SPEAKER_02]: Again, I'd buzz down.
11:32 --> 11:32 [SPEAKER_02]: No.
11:33 --> 11:35 [SPEAKER_02]: Like, guys.
11:36 --> 11:38 [SPEAKER_02]: This is none of this is personal.
11:38 --> 11:47 [SPEAKER_02]: This is just about putting the best baseball team on the field, which you very clearly were serious about at the deadline because you went and added Josh and Taylor, you went and added Gino, and look at the results it had.
11:48 --> 11:49 [SPEAKER_02]: The team has been awesome.
11:49 --> 11:53 [SPEAKER_02]: And you have a chance to lengthen this offensive roster even more.
11:53 --> 11:59 [SPEAKER_02]: Look at what this team's gonna look like when you get Luke Rayleigh and Victor Robles back, that is a loaded bench.
11:59 --> 12:01 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, the last time we said the Mariners had a loaded bench.
12:01 --> 12:02 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that's right.
12:02 --> 12:02 [SPEAKER_02]: Never.
12:04 --> 12:08 [SPEAKER_02]: So by doing that, I just hope they make the sound moves.
12:08 --> 12:09 [SPEAKER_02]: This is not personal about Demo.
12:09 --> 12:10 [SPEAKER_02]: It's not personal about Solano.
12:11 --> 12:12 [SPEAKER_02]: I've been a huge Demo fan forever.
12:13 --> 12:18 [SPEAKER_02]: But when Donovan Solano for two straight weeks, doesn't get in a game, doesn't have an abat.
12:20 --> 12:23 [SPEAKER_02]: Like, it makes you question what his role on the roster is.
12:24 --> 12:32 [SPEAKER_02]: He went two straight weeks without a play to parents until that extra inning game against the White Sox and the finale, then he played in one game over the weekend against the race.
12:32 --> 12:34 [SPEAKER_02]: Now, to be fair, he had two hits a night game.
12:34 --> 12:34 [SPEAKER_02]: Regardless.
12:36 --> 12:39 [SPEAKER_02]: It just feels like that is the seamless move and that it is time.
12:39 --> 12:41 [SPEAKER_03]: And he's not going in the game to run.
12:41 --> 12:43 [SPEAKER_03]: He's not going in the game to play defense now.
12:44 --> 12:47 [SPEAKER_03]: Now that you have Josh Nailer, there's also there's there is no reason.
12:47 --> 12:50 [SPEAKER_02]: And you know who can run and also play first base, Luke Rayleigh.
12:51 --> 12:51 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
12:52 --> 12:56 [SPEAKER_03]: It doesn't, it does not make your team better to carry those two players on your roster.
12:56 --> 13:11 [SPEAKER_03]: And I'm just going to bring back up a sentence I said, when they emptied out the bench for that game against the white socks, when you empty out your bench, when you empty out this current version of the Mariners bench, you just see how large the talent dropoff is and how much it puts you in a corner.
13:12 --> 13:19 [SPEAKER_03]: The Mariners, whether it be offensively defensively or base running wise, don't get better in any aspect by putting their bench on the field.
13:19 --> 13:25 [SPEAKER_03]: Like Mitch Garver, Mitch Garver doesn't, as a backup catcher, doesn't do anything better than Cal Rally does.
13:26 --> 13:37 [SPEAKER_03]: Masterless thing is base running, which is a plus when you need him to run, that is a plus better than some of the other guys say, late in a game, while in a one run game, they will probably try this.
13:38 --> 13:40 [SPEAKER_03]: They take Gino out and they put master on.
13:40 --> 13:45 [SPEAKER_03]: It's like in the eighteen inning game, they took Gino out of that game to pinch run for him.
13:47 --> 13:51 [SPEAKER_03]: So, I wouldn't be surprised if that happened again in a big situation.
13:52 --> 14:03 [SPEAKER_03]: So you at least have that, but Demo, like, not excellent, defensively, base running is like the base running solid, but when you can't get on base, it doesn't really matter.
14:04 --> 14:08 [SPEAKER_03]: When you have to go up to the plate and hit, and Donaldman Slano doesn't do literally any of those things.
14:09 --> 14:09 [SPEAKER_03]: No, any more.
14:10 --> 14:11 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it would be weird.
14:11 --> 14:14 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, the weirdest thing we've talked about this a lot this season.
14:14 --> 14:18 [SPEAKER_03]: The Mariners haven't defied anybody all year, really.
14:19 --> 14:20 [SPEAKER_03]: They have defied.
14:20 --> 14:22 [SPEAKER_03]: The guy they have defied the most is Casey Lawrence.
14:23 --> 14:32 [SPEAKER_03]: But Casey Lawrence was always going to get defied because he was up on the Big League roster with the sole purpose to chew up innings and get defied again.
14:32 --> 14:33 [SPEAKER_03]: That is literally it.
14:34 --> 14:36 [SPEAKER_03]: They've defied some guys into coma.
14:37 --> 14:47 [SPEAKER_03]: They've defaid like soaring loud, but the only regular guy who's spent significant time in the big leagues this year, that they've defaid his colon Snyder.
14:47 --> 14:51 [SPEAKER_03]: They have not touched anybody else and put them on waivers.
14:51 --> 14:57 [SPEAKER_02]: Also, if you're Casey Lawrence, I know he's been defaid a bunch, but he's probably the real of what the Mariners have done with them this year, because let's be real.
14:57 --> 15:00 [SPEAKER_02]: He's probably made some decent money being on that roster this year.
15:00 --> 15:01 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah.
15:01 --> 15:02 [SPEAKER_03]: So, those paychecks.
15:04 --> 15:04 [SPEAKER_03]: Those paychecks hit.
15:05 --> 15:05 [SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
15:06 --> 15:09 [SPEAKER_02]: So it has been odd all year that that's what they've done.
15:09 --> 15:15 [SPEAKER_02]: And maybe they have tried to wait out the idea of Salano and Dylan Moore turning it around for as long as possible.
15:15 --> 15:20 [SPEAKER_02]: But guys, like when Rayleigh and Robles are back, we are hitting the home stretch of this season.
15:20 --> 15:22 [SPEAKER_02]: The Mariners are as hot as ever.
15:22 --> 15:25 [SPEAKER_02]: You need the best possible roster on the field.
15:26 --> 15:28 [SPEAKER_02]: come the home stretch and the postseason.
15:29 --> 15:30 [SPEAKER_02]: You got to do what you got to do.
15:31 --> 15:33 [SPEAKER_02]: It is now time to make these decisions.
15:33 --> 15:36 [SPEAKER_02]: It doesn't have to be easy decisions, but you've got to make them.
15:36 --> 15:39 [SPEAKER_02]: And honestly, the Mariners have had points of the year where they've done that.
15:39 --> 15:43 [SPEAKER_02]: Remember how nervous we were about what the opening day roster was going to look like?
15:43 --> 15:46 [SPEAKER_02]: Which if you're going to talk about DFA is the one big one this year was Mitch Hanager.
15:47 --> 15:51 [SPEAKER_02]: Nobody thought the Mariners were going to have the guts to eat his money in DFA.
15:51 --> 15:54 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm everybody just said, including us, then they care too much about
15:55 --> 15:59 [SPEAKER_02]: not eating empty dollars, and they're going to refuse to cut them.
15:59 --> 16:05 [SPEAKER_02]: They defate them, because they knew that at the time, putting Roudi told us on the roster instead, was the best roster they could put out there.
16:06 --> 16:09 [SPEAKER_02]: It is time to have that same mindset when Rayleigh and Robles get back.
16:10 --> 16:13 [SPEAKER_02]: You need to understand that it is time to have the best possible roster that you can put out there.
16:14 --> 16:16 [SPEAKER_02]: Am I activating Rayleigh in Robles?
16:16 --> 16:20 [SPEAKER_02]: That involves finally letting go of Solano and Dillon Moore.
16:20 --> 16:25 [SPEAKER_03]: And it's not like I think anyone is gonna pick up those guys and they're gonna go on someone else's roster.
16:26 --> 16:26 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't think.
16:27 --> 16:27 [SPEAKER_03]: Do you think?
16:28 --> 16:33 [SPEAKER_02]: No, and if those guys would accept an assignment out to the miners for the final month, then sure, they can go to Tacoma.
16:33 --> 16:34 [SPEAKER_02]: That's fine.
16:34 --> 16:39 [SPEAKER_03]: Reminder to any team that wants to pick up after the Mariners DFA, Donovan Solano, or Dillon Moore.
16:39 --> 16:45 [SPEAKER_03]: If a team claims them, they have to pay their full, not the full three million, or however much they're each making about three million.
16:46 --> 16:51 [SPEAKER_03]: You would owe them one full month a big league salary that the Mariners are now completely off the hook for.
16:52 --> 16:57 [SPEAKER_03]: And again, don't more has been one of the least valuable players in baseball since about the middle of May.
16:58 --> 16:59 [SPEAKER_03]: And I'll think teams want to pay for that.
17:00 --> 17:01 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't think so either.
17:03 --> 17:05 [SPEAKER_03]: It doesn't make much sense to keep them on the roster any longer.
17:06 --> 17:11 [SPEAKER_02]: And I know Donovan Solano did a lot in that clubhouse early in the year, but you mentioned this pre-recording and it's absolutely true.
17:12 --> 17:13 [SPEAKER_02]: You have your clubhouse guy now.
17:13 --> 17:20 [SPEAKER_02]: Now that you didn't before with guys like Cal and guys like Julio and guys like JP and guys that are absolutely leaders in that clubhouse.
17:21 --> 17:24 [SPEAKER_02]: But if you're looking to the guy that everybody kind of turns to now that's the veteran,
17:25 --> 17:26 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, that's Gino.
17:26 --> 17:27 [SPEAKER_02]: That's how you handle Swara's.
17:27 --> 17:29 [SPEAKER_02]: You have that guy now.
17:29 --> 17:36 [SPEAKER_02]: The role that Donovan Solano was filling is the vet with a ton of experience that a lot of people would turn to and that could help some of the younger guys.
17:37 --> 17:38 [SPEAKER_02]: You have that in Gino.
17:38 --> 17:41 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think that fills enough of a role anymore.
17:41 --> 17:42 [SPEAKER_02]: All right.
17:43 --> 17:43 [SPEAKER_03]: Yep.
17:44 --> 17:44 [SPEAKER_03]: Pretty well said.
17:45 --> 17:48 [SPEAKER_03]: We hope they make the right decision coming up here in the next couple of weeks.
17:48 --> 17:49 [SPEAKER_03]: Because that's when it's going to be made.
17:50 --> 17:51 [SPEAKER_03]: They've been on such a good role recently.
17:52 --> 17:53 [SPEAKER_03]: Such a good role.
17:53 --> 17:54 [SPEAKER_02]: Please keep it going.
17:54 --> 17:57 [SPEAKER_02]: Do you think we'll be talking about it at all?
17:57 --> 18:01 [SPEAKER_02]: If we see Master get sent to the miners, we're going to let that go by the wayside.
18:02 --> 18:21 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm sure we'll talk about it, but they're also going to be playing hopefully too well for us to really worry about it that much, but there will be a little, it's going to be like a little thing in the back of the mind, like when Dan Wilson makes his bullpen decisions, just like the offense is too good to get by his bullpen decisions for the little birdies, continue to chirp and chirp and chirp and chirp and chirp.
18:21 --> 18:27 [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, but you don't think there's going to be certain reactions on social media if they make that move between one of us.
18:27 --> 18:28 [SPEAKER_02]: We'll do a reaction.
18:29 --> 18:30 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we're going to do a reaction.
18:30 --> 18:35 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm just saying we're not going to spend a whole podcast on them sitting miles Master Boney to the miners.
18:35 --> 18:37 [SPEAKER_02]: No, no, but you think we're not going to talk about it.
18:37 --> 18:38 [SPEAKER_02]: We'll talk about it.
18:39 --> 18:41 [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, yeah, we'll say, I think this was the wrong move.
18:42 --> 18:43 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't think this makes the team better.
18:43 --> 18:49 [SPEAKER_03]: How does it make the team better to keep Donovan's choosing to keep Donovan's Solano and Dylan Moore on the roster?
18:49 --> 18:50 [SPEAKER_03]: Nope.
18:50 --> 18:55 [SPEAKER_03]: Just that all you have to do is the team better with Donovan's Solano and Victor.
18:56 --> 19:02 [SPEAKER_03]: Donovan's Solano would deal more on the roster over, say, MasterBony and Ben Williamson, because those would be the two that's fighting over.
19:03 --> 19:04 [SPEAKER_03]: Is that does that make you better?
19:04 --> 19:05 [SPEAKER_03]: I do not think so.
19:06 --> 19:08 [SPEAKER_03]: No, they'd be Rayleigh and Robles.
19:09 --> 19:14 [SPEAKER_03]: Right, but the two you would have, but you want Mastro and Ben on the roster in September.
19:16 --> 19:17 [SPEAKER_03]: When the roster expands.
19:17 --> 19:17 [SPEAKER_02]: We'll write.
19:17 --> 19:20 [SPEAKER_02]: So Rayleigh and Robles would take the spots of Solano and Dylan Moore.
19:21 --> 19:24 [SPEAKER_02]: Mastro stays on the roster and Ben Williams sends the extra guy activated.
19:25 --> 19:26 [SPEAKER_03]: Here's how I think about it.
19:27 --> 19:29 [SPEAKER_03]: The two outfielders are going to be on the roster no matter what.
19:30 --> 19:32 [SPEAKER_03]: The roster is going to expand.
19:32 --> 19:35 [SPEAKER_03]: So it's deciding on which two infielders you want on the roster.
19:36 --> 19:42 [SPEAKER_03]: I guess if you had the two of the outfielders on there and the two current infielders on there, once the roster expands, you have room for all of them.
19:43 --> 19:44 [SPEAKER_03]: That makes more sense.
19:44 --> 19:45 [SPEAKER_02]: I get what you're saying now.
19:45 --> 19:45 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
19:46 --> 19:46 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we'll see.
19:47 --> 19:49 [SPEAKER_02]: It'll play itself out in the next seven and ten days.
19:49 --> 19:50 [SPEAKER_02]: So it'll be some to watch for.
19:51 --> 19:51 [SPEAKER_02]: There's no doubt.
19:52 --> 20:00 [SPEAKER_02]: I am really fired up to get to Nikki Becker, who we are not just fired up to watch start playing baseball games because the ceiling is something to dream on.
20:00 --> 20:03 [SPEAKER_02]: But he was awesome to get to know here too.
20:03 --> 20:05 [SPEAKER_02]: But before we do that, let's take a quick pause.
20:06 --> 20:08 [SPEAKER_02]: We'll tell you guys about our friends over at Pagaches Pub A.V.
20:08 --> 20:09 [SPEAKER_02]: and we'll continue to do so.
20:10 --> 20:11 [SPEAKER_02]: Because it's an awesome spot to hang out.
20:11 --> 20:13 [SPEAKER_02]: You guys, you want to watch the home stretch of the season for the Mariners.
20:14 --> 20:14 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you do.
20:14 --> 20:16 [SPEAKER_02]: You want to watch college football or the NFL.
20:16 --> 20:17 [SPEAKER_02]: You want to watch all of it at once.
20:18 --> 20:19 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, there's twenty TVs in that place.
20:19 --> 20:20 [SPEAKER_02]: So you can watch a bunch of different things.
20:21 --> 20:28 [SPEAKER_02]: I'll hang it out with your friends, play in some games, have in some great food, and you can get amazing happy hour specials, which are two to six p.m.
20:28 --> 20:31 [SPEAKER_02]: on Monday through Friday and drinks are three and four dollars.
20:31 --> 20:34 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, three and four dollar drinks on Monday through Friday for four hours a day.
20:35 --> 20:41 [SPEAKER_02]: Go over there, have a good time with your friends, have some drinks, go watch some games over at Pagaches, Povey, Five, and Kirkland.
20:43 --> 20:44 [SPEAKER_03]: This is a fun dude, guys.
20:44 --> 20:49 [SPEAKER_03]: I think you guys are really gonna enjoy listening to Nikki Becker and what you want to pay attention for.
20:49 --> 20:55 [SPEAKER_03]: You hear a little bit of his personality here, but he talks about how he is as a baseball player and makes me very excited.
20:55 --> 21:09 [SPEAKER_03]: He is bought in to the athlete part of being a baseball player, a being athletic in the batters box, about being athletic on the field, about learning how to run, about maximizing all of his tools and sort of pushing that.
21:09 --> 21:15 [SPEAKER_03]: to help his power, to help his arm strength, and to help him run around the base pads, which makes it very exciting.
21:15 --> 21:17 [SPEAKER_03]: Remember what Joe Doyle said about Nicky Becker?
21:18 --> 21:23 [SPEAKER_03]: He compared Nicky Becker roughly to Gunner Henderson, because like, here's the set of tools.
21:24 --> 21:25 [SPEAKER_03]: How is he going to go utilize this?
21:26 --> 21:31 [SPEAKER_03]: I loved how he said he was going to go utilize this, and I want you guys to listen for that in this interview.
21:32 --> 21:49 [SPEAKER_02]: it's a blast man again and like he tells you a little bit about you know growing up and playing baseball in New York and New Jersey and you know it's draft day and he does into a bunch of stuff including getting into the Mariners system now and some of the guys he started to get to know so
21:51 --> 21:57 [SPEAKER_02]: This draft class, although already, sounds like it's pretty close, which is cool because they've only been together for a few weeks, but the Mariners are good at this.
21:57 --> 22:03 [SPEAKER_02]: They're good at getting these guys to mesh and get to know each other and spend time together.
22:03 --> 22:05 [SPEAKER_02]: And he talks about that.
22:05 --> 22:08 [SPEAKER_02]: So again, overall, really fun conversation.
22:08 --> 22:13 [SPEAKER_02]: This is a guy you should be nothing but fired up for moving forward.
22:13 --> 22:15 [SPEAKER_02]: Because him is a dude and him is a player.
22:16 --> 22:19 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you can get yourself pretty excited about it pretty easily.
22:19 --> 22:21 [SPEAKER_02]: And hopefully this interview helps you do the same thing.
22:22 --> 22:23 [SPEAKER_03]: We won't keep you guys any longer.
22:23 --> 22:25 [SPEAKER_03]: Let's get you to the interview with Nikki Becker.
22:28 --> 22:28 [SPEAKER_03]: All right.
22:28 --> 22:34 [SPEAKER_03]: We got Mariners second round pick Nikki Becker on with us out of Don Bosco prep in New Jersey.
22:34 --> 22:36 [SPEAKER_03]: Nikki, welcome to the Mariners organization.
22:36 --> 22:37 [SPEAKER_03]: Thanks for taking some time to join us.
22:38 --> 22:40 [SPEAKER_03]: Can I get a rating on the Arizona heat so far?
22:41 --> 22:42 [SPEAKER_00]: the heat.
22:42 --> 22:45 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's, it's, I mean, he wise is probably out of ten.
22:45 --> 22:46 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the hottest place.
22:46 --> 22:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Probably I've ever been.
22:47 --> 22:50 [SPEAKER_00]: This, this, he is, this crazy.
22:50 --> 22:53 [SPEAKER_03]: Can you compare it to like an East Coast summer though?
22:53 --> 22:56 [SPEAKER_03]: Cause I've been in some East Coast summers and it, it's also pretty unbearable.
22:56 --> 23:00 [SPEAKER_03]: It's not quite as hot, but it's like you're walking through a humid or at all times.
23:01 --> 23:01 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.
23:01 --> 23:08 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the East Coast heat is nothing compared to heat out here, but it's definitely a lot more humid.
23:08 --> 23:11 [SPEAKER_00]: So the good thing about here is that it's pretty dry and there's no humidity.
23:12 --> 23:17 [SPEAKER_00]: But I can't even imagine this with a new York humidity or a Florida humidity.
23:17 --> 23:19 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, lucky you, you're never going to have to deal with that.
23:21 --> 23:21 [SPEAKER_03]: I promise.
23:22 --> 23:25 [SPEAKER_03]: If it does happen, you can come find me and tell me I'm wrong.
23:26 --> 23:30 [SPEAKER_02]: Have you ever, like, have you spent much time in Arizona before getting out there over the last couple weeks?
23:30 --> 23:34 [SPEAKER_00]: No, so I mean, the only time I was, other time I was in Arizona was at the, the draft combine.
23:34 --> 23:36 [SPEAKER_00]: I was there for two days.
23:37 --> 23:40 [SPEAKER_00]: And then I flew back home and then this is the longest I've been out here.
23:42 --> 23:43 [SPEAKER_02]: How's it all been so far?
23:43 --> 23:46 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, there's so much we could get into here and we'll get into a bunch of stuff.
23:46 --> 24:00 [SPEAKER_02]: But as you're sitting down there and as you're getting acclimated and you go through draft camp and getting ready to start to play in some games here, how's the experience all been just between getting to know some of the coaching staff, some of the guys in your draft class?
24:01 --> 24:02 [SPEAKER_02]: Has it been a whirlwind?
24:02 --> 24:03 [SPEAKER_02]: I'll take in a little bit so far.
24:04 --> 24:07 [SPEAKER_00]: So it was a lot of emotions going through the first couple days, right?
24:07 --> 24:10 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, draft days is really, really high of emotions.
24:11 --> 24:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Then came out to Arizona and it was ready to get to work.
24:14 --> 24:21 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, our draft classes are really, really close and a bunch of good guys, only high school guy in the draft.
24:21 --> 24:29 [SPEAKER_00]: So everyone else is pretty much older than me, but it's been real fun, real cool hanging with all the guys and all the coaches and just getting better every day.
24:29 --> 24:32 [SPEAKER_03]: Who are you roaming with and how are they as a roommate?
24:33 --> 24:36 [SPEAKER_00]: So when we were in the first two weeks, I was room with Luke Stevenson.
24:38 --> 24:43 [SPEAKER_00]: He was a good roommate and it was fun being with him and then we moved to the apartments.
24:43 --> 24:47 [SPEAKER_00]: I actually spent a couple of days with Johnny Camelo here who was rehabbing.
24:48 --> 24:50 [SPEAKER_00]: But now I'm an empty nest there.
24:50 --> 24:51 [SPEAKER_00]: I got no one else in thanks.
24:51 --> 24:52 [SPEAKER_03]: Nice.
24:52 --> 24:59 [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, I actually have a question on LALS behalf here because we've seen the stories on Luke and the amount of PB and J.C.
24:59 --> 24:59 [SPEAKER_03]: eats.
25:00 --> 25:01 [SPEAKER_03]: How many PB and J.C.
25:01 --> 25:02 [SPEAKER_03]: did he eat those two weeks?
25:02 --> 25:06 [SPEAKER_00]: So he's probably told that story a couple times now.
25:06 --> 25:08 [SPEAKER_00]: I think they're reported blew it up a little bit.
25:09 --> 25:12 [SPEAKER_00]: But he's he's a one of the type of guy.
25:12 --> 25:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
25:13 --> 25:16 [SPEAKER_00]: I think I think reports had him going over a thousand, which is kind of crazy.
25:17 --> 25:21 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the math on that doesn't really add up unless you're eating like four throughout every game.
25:21 --> 25:24 [SPEAKER_02]: That's like, I mean, that like I won every day.
25:24 --> 25:32 [SPEAKER_02]: It's my favorite food and has been since I've been like four years old, but you eat four day that that's where it gets to the point where you start to warn a little bit of concern.
25:33 --> 25:34 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, definitely.
25:35 --> 25:35 [SPEAKER_02]: That's cool.
25:35 --> 25:37 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, that's cool that you guys room together.
25:37 --> 25:37 [SPEAKER_02]: Are you the
25:39 --> 25:43 [SPEAKER_02]: Like, do they like to give you a hard time as the only high school guy in the class?
25:43 --> 25:45 [SPEAKER_02]: Like, you're a couple years younger than everybody else.
25:45 --> 25:48 [SPEAKER_02]: Like, do people like to get on you a little bit, like on a good way, but do they?
25:49 --> 25:51 [SPEAKER_00]: I think they all seem like the little brother of the draft class.
25:52 --> 26:02 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean there's been a lot of instances where coaches are comparing baseball to cars and I remember they asked me if I was old enough to drive.
26:05 --> 26:07 [SPEAKER_00]: But all the guys kind of look at me as a little brother and it's pretty cool.
26:07 --> 26:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Look at that because I got an older brother and he does the same thing.
26:12 --> 26:19 [SPEAKER_03]: Is there such thing as like the rookie of rookies since you are the youngest like do you have to wear a pink backpack do you have to like carry everyone's luggage to the bus?
26:21 --> 26:34 [SPEAKER_00]: No, I don't so I mean I've seen much gift all that not going on the college route But I know a lot of the guys have been I've been talking to me about if I was a freshman in college and and will I have to do with them?
26:35 --> 26:38 [SPEAKER_03]: Speaking of this, give us a sneaky personality in this draft class.
26:38 --> 26:44 [SPEAKER_03]: Some guy like that you've gotten a note since you got to Arizona that you just like you can't get enough of now.
26:45 --> 26:51 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to have to go with either outfield or braiding corn or pitcher Griffin Hughes.
26:52 --> 26:52 [SPEAKER_03]: Why?
26:54 --> 27:20 [SPEAKER_00]: uh... well looking at at griff uh... i really didn't know who he was and and now getting to know he's he's a really really funny guy uh... i mean he kind of just owns the room and in when he owns the room it's kind of like everyone's laughing when he's talking uh... and then bread and i spent a lot of time a bread and uh... he's a good guy i mean uh... i was joke around with him saying that he's a lot of the meaning he was jokes around with me saying that i'm
27:21 --> 27:24 [SPEAKER_00]: a eighteen-year-old kid who can't do anything right now.
27:25 --> 27:27 [SPEAKER_00]: So he's a really good dude to be around to.
27:28 --> 27:34 [SPEAKER_02]: Do you have one like fun fact about you that you want people to know that you want Mariners fans to know?
27:34 --> 27:44 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean we've got a laundry list of things we want to kind of check off with you throughout the conversation, but just before we even get into that, like is there one thing about you that you think it would be cool for Mariners fans to know?
27:46 --> 27:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, one fun fact I tell a lot is that I got a twin sister But these last couple like all days on like Sundays.
27:53 --> 28:04 [SPEAKER_00]: We got off and hanging with a Brady O'Brien a bit and and I'm starting to learn how to juggle so be pretty cool if I if I can get that down Can you do all three ball of the ones?
28:05 --> 28:11 [SPEAKER_00]: I've gotten I'm kind of an early stages right now But I can do like two or three times in the area.
28:11 --> 28:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Huh
28:14 --> 28:15 [SPEAKER_03]: Is the fourth sport you can play?
28:16 --> 28:17 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think so.
28:17 --> 28:23 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think I'm ready to handle that as a juggling athlete, but I hope I can pretty soon.
28:24 --> 28:35 [SPEAKER_03]: Are you going to try and rally up some of the guys on like an off day for like what you guys are allowed to do to like either play basketball or maybe play some some flag football or something because you're pretty good at both of those too.
28:36 --> 28:43 [SPEAKER_00]: So, I mean, there's a basketball court in the back of our complex, so I ain't that down.
28:44 --> 28:46 [SPEAKER_00]: But we kind of take our off days off.
28:46 --> 28:48 [SPEAKER_00]: We stay over here, take your late days late.
28:49 --> 28:52 [SPEAKER_00]: So I think the week is pretty high in tent.
28:53 --> 28:58 [SPEAKER_00]: So that's Sunday, isn't those off days are pretty much a relaxing rest day to get ready for the next week.
28:59 --> 29:01 [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, help me, help me decipher this.
29:01 --> 29:04 [SPEAKER_02]: You talked about of the three sports you played in high school.
29:04 --> 29:08 [SPEAKER_02]: You said I basically only played basketball for conditioning for baseball season.
29:09 --> 29:11 [SPEAKER_02]: Did you start on the varsity basketball team with all that being said?
29:11 --> 29:13 [SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no.
29:13 --> 29:16 [SPEAKER_00]: So I, I stopped playing basketball and I got to high school.
29:17 --> 29:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
29:17 --> 29:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Just yesterday at my high school was like really, really high athletic.
29:22 --> 29:24 [SPEAKER_00]: So I mean, it's pretty hard playing multi sport at my high school.
29:25 --> 29:27 [SPEAKER_02]: I was just curious how hard you were about to flex on us.
29:27 --> 29:28 [SPEAKER_02]: It's like, yeah, I didn't love basketball.
29:28 --> 29:32 [SPEAKER_02]: I only do it for conditioning, but I average like a team of game on the high school team.
29:32 --> 29:32 [SPEAKER_02]: All right.
29:33 --> 29:34 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, one of the guys jumped under the basket.
29:34 --> 29:37 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm probably dunking on this.
29:38 --> 29:39 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't dunk this.
29:40 --> 29:40 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, really?
29:41 --> 29:41 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
29:41 --> 29:42 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you're six four.
29:42 --> 29:46 [SPEAKER_02]: So that doesn't really shock me, but like you can do it with a full basketball or just with like a tennis ball.
29:47 --> 29:48 [SPEAKER_00]: I do it with a full basketball, yeah.
29:48 --> 29:48 [SPEAKER_02]: Huh.
29:49 --> 29:50 [SPEAKER_02]: And then what position did you play in football?
29:51 --> 29:53 [SPEAKER_00]: I was a quarterback in middle linebacker.
29:56 --> 29:58 [SPEAKER_02]: Is it fair to assume you would run a decent amount playing quarterback?
29:58 --> 29:59 [SPEAKER_00]: I did run a lot.
29:59 --> 30:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
30:00 --> 30:03 [SPEAKER_00]: So I mean, growing up, I was planning a lot with my cousin who's running back.
30:03 --> 30:07 [SPEAKER_00]: So it was either him getting the ball or me taking like a boot on the outside and running the ball.
30:08 --> 30:10 [SPEAKER_03]: Who's the hardest player you had to tackle?
30:11 --> 30:12 [SPEAKER_00]: hardest player, I had a tag.
30:12 --> 30:17 [SPEAKER_00]: So I mean growing up, I played up with my brothers, there were two grades, two years older than me.
30:18 --> 30:19 [SPEAKER_00]: So we had a pretty good team.
30:19 --> 30:21 [SPEAKER_00]: So we were just playing up that level.
30:22 --> 30:28 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, whenever I was in sixth grade and all those guys were in eighth grade, guy, kid named shake on Walters.
30:29 --> 30:37 [SPEAKER_00]: He is playing now in college and we were good friends with him growing up, but he was definitely the hardest.
30:38 --> 30:48 [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, we joked earlier about kind of asking if you were the little brother who people like to try to get on a little bit throughout this draft camp because there's not many high school guys in the class.
30:48 --> 30:52 [SPEAKER_02]: Your actual older brother specifically who's a good baseball player in his own right.
30:52 --> 30:53 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, he's out at Virginia.
30:54 --> 30:56 [SPEAKER_02]: Who would you say is the better athlete between two?
30:56 --> 30:58 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm a hundred percent the better.
30:59 --> 30:59 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
31:00 --> 31:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah.
31:01 --> 31:02 [SPEAKER_02]: Like was he not a three sport athlete?
31:03 --> 31:04 [SPEAKER_00]: He was also a three sport athlete.
31:04 --> 31:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, but I think in my eyes, um, athleticism comes from like how you run and how you jump.
31:11 --> 31:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, and all that.
31:12 --> 31:15 [SPEAKER_00]: I think I got better numbers than him in those in those categories.
31:16 --> 31:18 [SPEAKER_02]: No, would he admit that?
31:18 --> 31:21 [SPEAKER_02]: Like if we were to ask him and we said, hey, between the two of you, who's the better athlete?
31:21 --> 31:22 [SPEAKER_02]: What do you say?
31:23 --> 31:23 [SPEAKER_00]: I think he would say himself.
31:24 --> 31:25 [SPEAKER_00]: I think he doesn't like to admit it.
31:26 --> 31:28 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, but he knows that I'm the better athlete of us.
31:29 --> 31:30 [SPEAKER_02]: So, okay, that's what I was gonna get at.
31:31 --> 31:43 [SPEAKER_02]: So Kyle Seager and Corey Seager have a little bit of a funny story where Kyle Seager, even when he was in established big leader and Corey was making his way through the minors, when Kyle would get asked a question, he would always say, look, Corey is the better player.
31:43 --> 31:47 [SPEAKER_02]: That guy's way better than I ever could be, which was super rare.
31:47 --> 31:56 [SPEAKER_02]: I was like, most older brother, there is no answer you'd get that out of a younger brother to just kind of give way and admit that the younger brother's got to leg up on you, but your brother goes more the status quo.
31:56 --> 31:58 [SPEAKER_02]: He's like, oh yeah, Nikki's not a better athlete than me, there's no shot.
31:59 --> 32:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he will never admit it.
32:01 --> 32:09 [SPEAKER_03]: You guys measure this head to head or we just basing it off of like I've run faster here I've hit the ball farther like how do you determine that?
32:10 --> 32:28 [SPEAKER_00]: So when he's home from college, you pretty much do a bunch of testing and that's kind of my favorite part So like last year he was home I just couldn't wait to get hit the gym with him to kind of show him up And we do all of our running stuff together and jumping stuff So it was pretty funny when he came back and we went on like head to head
32:29 --> 32:31 [SPEAKER_03]: What is the thing you guys are most competitive at?
32:31 --> 32:37 [SPEAKER_03]: There's one like exercise, is there one like activity that you guys do that really gets you guys both fired up?
32:38 --> 32:39 [SPEAKER_00]: It's got to be baseball.
32:39 --> 32:41 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's the what we're most passionate about.
32:42 --> 32:49 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's pretty much who it's the ball or who it's a further, who's a better defender and everything that goes along like baseball lines.
32:50 --> 32:57 [SPEAKER_02]: So do you guys go up in a lot of home run Derby's growing up where you just like go out to the park either to a little league field or your high school field and just go out it.
32:58 --> 33:00 [SPEAKER_00]: So we kind of do everything.
33:00 --> 33:01 [SPEAKER_00]: So we got a cage at my house.
33:02 --> 33:05 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's kind of like my dad throws to us all the time.
33:05 --> 33:08 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's kind of like, you know, he still does it to his day.
33:08 --> 33:13 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the last time I was sitting within my backyard, he'll hit a ball good and just stare me down for the box.
33:13 --> 33:16 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, like nice use of the cage bomb.
33:17 --> 33:23 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, but yeah, I mean, we're pretty much going at it every time we cage and who had a better day that they or anything like that.
33:24 --> 33:25 [SPEAKER_03]: Are you churper?
33:27 --> 33:37 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not just because I've kind of grew up in my place with him, so I haven't been a churper, I've never been one and I'm kind of held back for laid back.
33:38 --> 33:42 [SPEAKER_02]: All that being said, is it fair to say you play the game with some fire, though?
33:42 --> 33:51 [SPEAKER_02]: Like you might not cheer up opponents or you might not cheer up your brother, but just watching your highlight reel, the biggest thing that jumped out to me aside from all the tools you've got is, oh, he plays with a lot of fire.
33:51 --> 33:57 [SPEAKER_02]: Like you hit a home run, you make a play at short, like, you know, you let yourself get fired up, which I think is a great thing.
33:58 --> 33:58 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah, for sure.
33:58 --> 34:02 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I think I'm a completely different player on the field and I a person off the field.
34:03 --> 34:06 [SPEAKER_00]: My kind is getting to the zone and whatever happens happens.
34:07 --> 34:12 [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I mean, off the field, I'm kind of like I said earlier, laid back and put on the field.
34:12 --> 34:15 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm fired up and pumped for a play that happens to me.
34:15 --> 34:16 [SPEAKER_00]: I play at my teammate.
34:16 --> 34:19 [SPEAKER_00]: My teammate gets a home run or if I hit home, it's the same feeling.
34:20 --> 34:27 [SPEAKER_03]: I heard a reporter on MLB network describe you as an old school player and I'd want to pose this question to you.
34:27 --> 34:30 [SPEAKER_03]: Do you think of yourself more as an old school player or a new school player?
34:31 --> 34:32 [SPEAKER_00]: I think I'm more old school.
34:33 --> 34:36 [SPEAKER_00]: I think I go to the field trying to better my craft every day.
34:37 --> 34:39 [SPEAKER_00]: And I like to see myself as an all around player.
34:39 --> 34:41 [SPEAKER_00]: That could do everything.
34:41 --> 34:45 [SPEAKER_00]: And I just want to be very good at what I can do, right?
34:45 --> 34:48 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, hitting offensively defensively on the bases.
34:49 --> 34:52 [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I think I could classify myself as an old school player.
34:52 --> 34:55 [SPEAKER_03]: So when you say old school, I hear versatility.
34:55 --> 34:58 [SPEAKER_03]: This is that I guess what you'd most try to hammer home.
34:58 --> 34:59 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah.
35:01 --> 35:04 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm curious within all that about your speed.
35:04 --> 35:07 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think it's any secret that you can run the bases and that you've got wheels.
35:08 --> 35:15 [SPEAKER_02]: But you're also six foot four, and I feel like the combination of that size and that speed, you don't just find it growing on trees every day.
35:15 --> 35:30 [SPEAKER_02]: So I'm curious, like whenever you hit your growth spur, whenever age that was, was there a point in time where the speed kind of slowed down a little bit, and then it had to catch back out with you, because I've seen plenty of kids growing up where it's like, oh, once they hit a growth spur, they slowed down.
35:30 --> 35:34 [SPEAKER_02]: But with you, I'm curious if that ever happened at all.
35:34 --> 35:37 [SPEAKER_00]: I think I kind of learned how to run as I got bigger.
35:38 --> 35:41 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I think I'd always, I mean, the speeds always came to me.
35:42 --> 35:43 [SPEAKER_00]: But as I got bigger, I think I got even faster.
35:45 --> 35:50 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's kind of when I started to learn how to do my motions and all that.
35:50 --> 35:54 [SPEAKER_00]: And again, it's all been about competing with my brother.
35:54 --> 35:56 [SPEAKER_00]: It would be the fastest.
35:56 --> 35:58 [SPEAKER_00]: So I was always trying to be some better than him at something.
35:59 --> 36:01 [SPEAKER_00]: And speed was where I was at at that time.
36:01 --> 36:05 [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, you talk about you learned how to run.
36:05 --> 36:07 [SPEAKER_02]: Can you elaborate on that a little bit?
36:07 --> 36:08 [SPEAKER_02]: What you mean by learning how to run?
36:09 --> 36:15 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so I mean, it sounds pretty stupid and crazy, but there's a lot going behind it.
36:15 --> 36:18 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, just the form and emotions behind it.
36:18 --> 36:27 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I was running with my legs and I got back home with a good speed guy and Tony Williams that kind of taught me how to run these past three years.
36:29 --> 36:35 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's kind of clean down my movements and it's allowed me to move more freely.
36:38 --> 36:42 [SPEAKER_02]: How do you get a great jump on the base paths?
36:42 --> 36:53 [SPEAKER_02]: For example, because if Josh Nailer showed anybody anything the last few weeks, you don't necessarily have to be the pure, coldest fastest guy on the planet to get good jumps.
36:53 --> 36:54 [SPEAKER_02]: How do you learn to get a great jump?
36:55 --> 36:57 [SPEAKER_00]: It's pretty much all from instincts, right?
36:57 --> 36:58 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I think I would born with it.
36:58 --> 37:00 [SPEAKER_00]: I think I could see stuff like a slow motion view.
37:02 --> 37:05 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's pretty much your born with it and it's just instincts.
37:05 --> 37:11 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's kind of everything about the picture and just, you know, just seeing like the future, I guess.
37:13 --> 37:22 [SPEAKER_03]: So we've heard from people about your tools, like, and you're described as having plus speed as we just talked about, plus raw power and a plus arm.
37:22 --> 37:25 [SPEAKER_03]: What do you think is your best tool and why?
37:26 --> 37:31 [SPEAKER_00]: I think my best tool is my, I mean, it's not a tool, but athleticism, right?
37:33 --> 37:39 [SPEAKER_00]: I think it allows me to stick at short and make plays that others can't.
37:39 --> 37:46 [SPEAKER_00]: I think it allows me to be athletic in the box, you know, hit for power, hit for contact, and then also run the bases as well.
37:47 --> 37:48 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I love my speed.
37:49 --> 37:53 [SPEAKER_00]: I think my speed impacts the game and I also size the ball.
37:54 --> 37:56 [SPEAKER_03]: Are you hoping to be like a thirty thirty guy?
37:56 --> 37:58 [SPEAKER_00]: That would be awesome.
37:58 --> 38:01 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that was that's one of the goals I have if I make it to the big leagues.
38:02 --> 38:02 [SPEAKER_02]: Thirty thirty.
38:03 --> 38:03 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah.
38:04 --> 38:04 [SPEAKER_02]: I'll be sick.
38:05 --> 38:06 [SPEAKER_02]: How many times you want?
38:06 --> 38:08 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I'll put you on the spot a little bit.
38:08 --> 38:10 [SPEAKER_02]: Like, is it to do it one time or is it to do it?
38:10 --> 38:11 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, ten times.
38:12 --> 38:14 [SPEAKER_00]: It would be awesome if I could do it ten times.
38:15 --> 38:17 [SPEAKER_00]: But I would love to just get there once and then go on from there.
38:18 --> 38:18 [SPEAKER_02]: Sure.
38:19 --> 38:26 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm always curious to ask guys this, especially guys that get drafted, decently high, or had really good high school careers, including good baseball players forever.
38:26 --> 38:29 [SPEAKER_02]: But did you play normally growing up or were you on like the travel circuit?
38:30 --> 38:31 [SPEAKER_00]: I did play normally growing up.
38:33 --> 38:35 [SPEAKER_00]: So growing up, I played the league and really played travel ball.
38:37 --> 38:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Really cool experience.
38:38 --> 38:40 [SPEAKER_00]: My team was one game away from playing the league well series.
38:41 --> 38:45 [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I was a really, really cool experience playing with all those guys.
38:46 --> 38:54 [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so that means you guys got all the way to Bristol, like for the region all, but not what William's port is that, but it was your twelve year old year that year.
38:54 --> 38:58 [SPEAKER_00]: How many home runs did you hit it?
38:58 --> 39:01 [SPEAKER_00]: I couldn't even tell you, I had a pretty good year, my twelve year old season.
39:02 --> 39:04 [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so we're talking like fifteen plus if that's fair.
39:05 --> 39:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
39:06 --> 39:07 [SPEAKER_02]: That's pretty good.
39:07 --> 39:08 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
39:08 --> 39:11 [SPEAKER_02]: And little league season, they're, I don't know, it's twenty twenty five games.
39:11 --> 39:11 [SPEAKER_02]: That's a lot of homers.
39:16 --> 39:23 [SPEAKER_03]: What was the, no, here's a question I'd ask you because Kate Anderson got asked it at his press conference, so I'm curious to hear your answer on this.
39:24 --> 39:25 [SPEAKER_03]: Before you got drafted by the Mariners.
39:26 --> 39:28 [SPEAKER_03]: Did you know where Seattle was?
39:28 --> 39:29 [SPEAKER_03]: Of course.
39:29 --> 39:32 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I knew where Seattle was.
39:32 --> 39:34 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, of course I knew that.
39:35 --> 39:42 [SPEAKER_02]: Did you know much about like, did you either know much about the city or I'll even say had you visited before before getting drafted?
39:42 --> 39:45 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know, honestly, I didn't know anything about the city.
39:46 --> 39:49 [SPEAKER_00]: I just knew Seattle's from Washington, talking to Johnny from LA.
39:49 --> 39:54 [SPEAKER_00]: I told him I didn't even know what T-Mobile Park looked like until after I got drafted.
39:55 --> 39:59 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's just really, really cool and kind of learning through the process.
40:00 --> 40:01 [SPEAKER_03]: You didn't play on it and MLB the show?
40:02 --> 40:07 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm actually not a big video game guy, so I'm really gonna play on the show, but yeah, I haven't.
40:08 --> 40:08 [SPEAKER_03]: That makes sense.
40:08 --> 40:09 [SPEAKER_03]: So are you just always outside then?
40:11 --> 40:23 [SPEAKER_00]: pretty much so when I was younger I played video games but as I got older and in pretty much hit like middle school that's when I kind of put it away funny though because like my dad and I brother were always called me a gamer and I always hated it.
40:26 --> 40:32 [SPEAKER_00]: I thought it was like the biggest insult to me so I got away from it and then really just tapped and really played it since
40:33 --> 40:41 [SPEAKER_02]: Now, okay, do they call you a gamer because in baseball games, you were a grinder and you would go hard or did they call you a gamer because you played a bunch of video games?
40:42 --> 40:44 [SPEAKER_00]: They call me a gamer because I played a bunch of video games.
40:45 --> 40:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so that drove you to get away from it.
40:47 --> 40:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, oh yeah, definitely.
40:49 --> 40:50 [SPEAKER_02]: Back then, what did you like to play?
40:52 --> 40:55 [SPEAKER_00]: I was a, uh, I was a fortnight called duty kit.
40:55 --> 40:56 [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
40:56 --> 40:56 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
40:56 --> 40:58 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, that's pretty cliche.
40:58 --> 40:58 [SPEAKER_02]: Right.
40:58 --> 40:59 [SPEAKER_02]: That's pretty status quo.
40:59 --> 40:59 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
40:59 --> 41:01 [SPEAKER_02]: It like growing up playing video games.
41:01 --> 41:01 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.
41:02 --> 41:02 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
41:02 --> 41:06 [SPEAKER_03]: That's how you heard about the, the mystery of hitting in team mobile park.
41:07 --> 41:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Never.
41:08 --> 41:08 [SPEAKER_03]: You had not.
41:09 --> 41:15 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, it has gotten quite a bit of attention to the last couple of years as being one of the hardest places to hit in all of baseball.
41:16 --> 41:22 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if you're going to go do some research after this, but some guys say it is much more difficult to see the ball.
41:22 --> 41:23 [SPEAKER_03]: The ball doesn't carry.
41:24 --> 41:33 [SPEAKER_03]: It's just not as inviting of an environment as somewhere like Yankee Stadium, for example, where you can poke one down the line or even city field is, you know, better than this.
41:34 --> 41:49 [SPEAKER_03]: Taosker Hernandez once after he left the Mariners in twenty twenty three said the ballpark said the batter's eye was crooked in center field and did and it was really hard to see the baseball.
41:49 --> 41:55 [SPEAKER_03]: Imagine you played in some tough hitting environments in the northeast growing up so are you are you acclimated to something like that.
41:56 --> 42:00 [SPEAKER_00]: I think so, I mean, by high school, we had silver bleachers in center field.
42:01 --> 42:12 [SPEAKER_00]: So when we were playing at four o'clock games, someone set over the pressbox behind-home plate, and you would just get a glare from the silver bleachers out in center field.
42:12 --> 42:21 [SPEAKER_00]: So we actually had to put like a mini batters eye, if you will, over the fence to kind of block it, but I played in some pretty tough places.
42:22 --> 42:22 [SPEAKER_03]: perfect.
42:22 --> 42:28 [SPEAKER_03]: So the people one of the things people complained about with the ballpark is that it glares too much.
42:28 --> 42:31 [SPEAKER_03]: So I think you've already you're already way ahead of it.
42:31 --> 42:31 [SPEAKER_02]: What are you?
42:32 --> 42:33 [SPEAKER_02]: What are you doing to him?
42:33 --> 42:35 [SPEAKER_02]: TJ like he just got drafted.
42:35 --> 42:37 [SPEAKER_02]: He's just getting activated and you're sitting here for two minutes.
42:37 --> 42:38 [SPEAKER_02]: Like all this ballpark sucks.
42:39 --> 42:40 [SPEAKER_02]: Nobody likes it.
42:40 --> 42:43 [SPEAKER_02]: Like you're just throwing them under the like into the fire too.
42:45 --> 42:45 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, okay.
42:45 --> 42:47 [SPEAKER_03]: So the biggest thing is that the ball doesn't carry a lot.
42:47 --> 42:49 [SPEAKER_03]: I think that's the thing most people agree on.
42:49 --> 42:52 [SPEAKER_03]: But Nikki can do so many other things that, you know, it makes up for it.
42:52 --> 42:53 [SPEAKER_03]: It's like, look at Josh Nailer.
42:54 --> 42:56 [SPEAKER_03]: It's running all over the place.
42:57 --> 42:58 [UNKNOWN]: That's fair.
42:58 --> 43:00 [SPEAKER_03]: Um, and oh, by the way, here.
43:00 --> 43:00 [SPEAKER_03]: Fine.
43:01 --> 43:04 [SPEAKER_03]: Let's let's let's gas Nikki up here a little bit in Everett and HyA.
43:05 --> 43:08 [SPEAKER_03]: The center field fence is three hundred and fifty seven feet.
43:08 --> 43:09 [SPEAKER_03]: So you're welcome.
43:09 --> 43:10 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what you're saying.
43:11 --> 43:11 [SPEAKER_00]: You win a little bit.
43:12 --> 43:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.
43:12 --> 43:14 [SPEAKER_00]: Talk to Johnny from L. He says, uh,
43:15 --> 43:18 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a pretty small field and it's a hitters park over there.
43:18 --> 43:21 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, then you jump to double-eye and you're like hitting on the moon or whatever.
43:21 --> 43:22 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
43:22 --> 43:26 [SPEAKER_02]: That field's probably more like hitting a team all the way apart because I don't know how far it's supposed to be big.
43:26 --> 43:35 [SPEAKER_02]: But speaking of like you getting acclimated, what was your draft day like in terms of like, did you have a big party where there were a lot of people around you, or did you keep it small?
43:36 --> 43:45 [SPEAKER_00]: So three, two days leading up to the draft to all my parents that I didn't want anyone coming over this day.
43:46 --> 43:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Like I want to be as less stressful as it can be.
43:49 --> 43:50 [SPEAKER_00]: And then
43:51 --> 43:59 [SPEAKER_00]: The day before my mom was like, you have to have people over, like, I'm gonna make you have people over and I was like, you can just keep it to family.
43:59 --> 44:08 [SPEAKER_00]: I had my aunts, uncles, grandparents over cousins, and then the day, it kind of just kept going and going.
44:08 --> 44:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, the longest couple hours of my life.
44:10 --> 44:14 [SPEAKER_00]: And that finally, the manager's called at, uh, fifty-seven, you know, as a go.
44:14 --> 44:17 [SPEAKER_03]: That's the thing.
44:17 --> 44:19 [SPEAKER_03]: Who's your first call to who wasn't there?
44:21 --> 44:30 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, it was, uh, my, uh, all my high school teammates, uh, we're all at, uh, like a draft party at one of my, uh, good friends house.
44:30 --> 44:31 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, so they were all there.
44:32 --> 44:34 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, I knew they were all there and they got a really, really cool video.
44:35 --> 44:39 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, but, uh, first calls to them and they were all excited.
44:40 --> 44:44 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, but it was just sort of like a big, big emotional roller coaster.
44:45 --> 44:47 [SPEAKER_03]: Did you get to go like swing by thereafter and go celebrate?
44:48 --> 44:55 [SPEAKER_00]: So it was, it was really, it was about, I don't know, I was about eleven o'clock, but a couple of them actually drove to my house.
44:56 --> 45:03 [SPEAKER_00]: So with my thing, like my high school went to high school in Jersey, lived in New York, so it wasn't like it's a five minute drive for their house.
45:03 --> 45:05 [SPEAKER_00]: They drove like thirty five minutes to come see me.
45:06 --> 45:07 [SPEAKER_02]: That's really nice.
45:08 --> 45:11 [SPEAKER_02]: So you lived in New York but went to high school in New Jersey?
45:11 --> 45:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, so I live in Rock and County.
45:14 --> 45:15 [SPEAKER_00]: It is about
45:16 --> 45:19 [SPEAKER_00]: thirty minutes from my high school domasco prep and ranch in New Jersey.
45:20 --> 45:20 [SPEAKER_02]: Interesting.
45:21 --> 45:27 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so were you pretty close with all your high school teammates then like were you guys did you guys grow up playing together and everything to so we didn't grow up playing together.
45:27 --> 45:28 [SPEAKER_00]: I kind of I met them.
45:28 --> 45:30 [SPEAKER_00]: I was going in right I mean.
45:31 --> 45:35 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, my dad coach, I knew I was going to Bosco from really, really young age.
45:36 --> 45:39 [SPEAKER_00]: And going out had no friends at all of these kids.
45:40 --> 45:40 [SPEAKER_00]: Jersey kids.
45:40 --> 45:43 [SPEAKER_00]: And then first year was like making friends.
45:44 --> 45:48 [SPEAKER_00]: And then after that first year was like, this is like, these are my best friends for life.
45:49 --> 45:50 [SPEAKER_00]: And we have a really, really good group.
45:51 --> 45:52 [SPEAKER_00]: And we're all really, really close.
45:53 --> 45:53 [SPEAKER_02]: That's sick.
45:54 --> 46:04 [SPEAKER_02]: If you were drafted and like the call came and everything happened at about eleven PM your time, what are you doing for that full day before the draft even starts?
46:04 --> 46:07 [SPEAKER_02]: Like what do you do to distract yourself before the pick start rolling in?
46:10 --> 46:12 [SPEAKER_00]: So in the morning my dad and I went to go hit.
46:13 --> 46:18 [SPEAKER_00]: We went on a field to hit just to get back into things and then we came back.
46:19 --> 46:21 [SPEAKER_00]: We started cleaning our cars just the past time.
46:22 --> 46:27 [SPEAKER_00]: So I cleaned my car, cleaned his clean my mom's, and we came back.
46:28 --> 46:30 [SPEAKER_00]: And I kind of, I think I took the longest shower of my life at there.
46:32 --> 46:33 [SPEAKER_00]: Just trying to pass some time.
46:33 --> 46:37 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it felt like it was like a year that went by when the draft came.
46:37 --> 46:40 [SPEAKER_00]: And then when it came, I was kind of just locked in on the TV.
46:40 --> 46:44 [SPEAKER_00]: And that was really the longest couple of hours of my life.
46:44 --> 46:53 [SPEAKER_03]: You still had to feel pretty confident though that you were going to, like, there was a pretty solid chance you were going to lane with somebody on that day, right?
46:54 --> 46:54 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
46:55 --> 46:56 [SPEAKER_00]: So I was confident going in.
46:57 --> 47:00 [SPEAKER_00]: And then it just, it was kind of just like, when is this going to happen?
47:01 --> 47:05 [SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of like, my mom always does a washing the movie and looking how it ends before it happens.
47:06 --> 47:10 [SPEAKER_00]: So I think I've got that from her and I kind of wanted that to happen to me there.
47:11 --> 47:15 [SPEAKER_03]: And then how much of a whirlwind was it after for you just to get down there, Zona?
47:16 --> 47:16 [SPEAKER_00]: It was.
47:16 --> 47:18 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, we were there.
47:18 --> 47:19 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I think I left.
47:19 --> 47:22 [SPEAKER_00]: So the draft was on Monday, I think.
47:23 --> 47:23 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe.
47:24 --> 47:28 [SPEAKER_00]: And then I think I left like two or three days after the draft happened.
47:30 --> 47:32 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that is one quick turnaround, I will say.
47:34 --> 47:36 [SPEAKER_02]: Is it cooler if you have to pick between the two?
47:36 --> 47:40 [SPEAKER_02]: Is it cooler to get the call from Scott Hunter or Jerry DePoto or whoever it is?
47:41 --> 47:43 [SPEAKER_02]: Or to see it actually announced on TV?
47:44 --> 47:47 [SPEAKER_00]: I think it was cooler with for the phone call.
47:48 --> 47:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Scott Hunter called me and it was kind of like, man, this is real.
47:51 --> 47:52 [SPEAKER_00]: This is awesome.
47:52 --> 47:55 [SPEAKER_00]: And then everything after on the TV when it was announced is like,
47:56 --> 48:01 [SPEAKER_00]: like you did it, but I think Scott Hunter's cause was pretty memorable.
48:03 --> 48:07 [SPEAKER_03]: Which Marin or Nikki are you most looking forward to talking to and learning from?
48:08 --> 48:09 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, I think Cal Raleigh.
48:10 --> 48:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, right on the Cal Raleigh where it's same agency.
48:13 --> 48:15 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he's the best player in the league.
48:16 --> 48:18 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, he does it all both sides and played.
48:18 --> 48:23 [SPEAKER_00]: So you're really cool to pick his brain about how he's doing, what he's doing in the box and how he got to where he is.
48:23 --> 48:27 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, but yeah, he'd be really, really cool to meet Cal Raleigh.
48:28 --> 48:30 [SPEAKER_03]: Have you heard from any of the big leaders?
48:30 --> 48:30 [SPEAKER_03]: Once you got picked.
48:31 --> 48:36 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't hear from any of the big leaders, but uh, some of the, uh, the guys in the affiliates heard from.
48:37 --> 48:37 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, so I was pretty cool.
48:38 --> 49:03 [SPEAKER_03]: who Johnny from all right away Ryan Sloan right away so yeah it was pretty cool so you know guys people have been comping you and Sloan's path pretty similarly because Sloan is sort of your story of last year had to go way over slot to get you in the second round just this highly touted high school guy you were like so Sloan in high school like
49:04 --> 49:05 [SPEAKER_03]: What's the good way to describe this?
49:05 --> 49:06 [SPEAKER_03]: So Sloan is pretty polished in high school.
49:06 --> 49:09 [SPEAKER_03]: You have a ton of tools at Georgetown.
49:09 --> 49:11 [SPEAKER_03]: But the idea is both the same with the two of you.
49:12 --> 49:14 [SPEAKER_03]: It's like we're throwing the upside play here.
49:15 --> 49:16 [SPEAKER_03]: Throwing the upside play here.
49:16 --> 49:19 [SPEAKER_03]: And Sloan has had a great first season with the Mariners.
49:19 --> 49:21 [SPEAKER_03]: Did you guys get to talk about that at all?
49:21 --> 49:23 [SPEAKER_03]: It's like how he acclimated into everything.
49:24 --> 49:28 [SPEAKER_00]: So it was pretty much just like a text and it would be really, really cool to meet him.
49:28 --> 49:32 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure I'll meet him in spring training, face to face, but it was just a quick text.
49:33 --> 49:37 [SPEAKER_00]: I think he texted me like a couple minutes after I got picked.
49:38 --> 49:42 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so he was kind of right on and it was pretty cool to see a player like he reached out.
49:43 --> 49:48 [SPEAKER_02]: I was going to do something with you about like overrating or underrating new jersey things.
49:48 --> 49:52 [SPEAKER_02]: But did you not spend that much time in New Jersey growing up if you were in New York?
49:53 --> 49:57 [SPEAKER_00]: So I was pretty much in Jersey a lot from my life.
49:58 --> 50:04 [SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, I mean, I think my dad was coaching at Bosco, like when I was in there of four, fifth grade.
50:04 --> 50:07 [SPEAKER_00]: So I was taking the trip up to Ramsey a lot.
50:08 --> 50:11 [SPEAKER_00]: And then I've been in there, much of my friends are from there.
50:11 --> 50:14 [SPEAKER_00]: So I've spent a good bit of my life from Jersey.
50:15 --> 50:20 [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, let me throw a couple things out because I wrote a couple down and I'm curious if you're gonna go overrated or underrated for these.
50:21 --> 50:29 [SPEAKER_02]: Atlantic city and it doesn't have not saying like you're in the casino or whatever but like even like the boardwalk and just the whole area is that area overrated or underrated.
50:29 --> 50:30 [SPEAKER_00]: I think he's overrated.
50:30 --> 50:32 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, not not that fun.
50:32 --> 50:42 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think it's I think I'm more of a you know just a quiet like small group type of guy that that place is just packed every single time and no matter the time.
50:42 --> 50:47 [SPEAKER_02]: All right, so I'm going to do another and I feel like I might know the answer to this based up how you just answered that one.
50:47 --> 50:48 [SPEAKER_02]: Jersey Shore.
50:49 --> 50:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Jersey Shore, there's some good parts in the some bad parts.
50:52 --> 50:57 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's nice when you got a good group of friends that you're hanging out with, but boardwalks are not my thing.
50:58 --> 51:04 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, if you go to beach, you have a couple of your friends with you at a good time and go back to someone's house.
51:05 --> 51:05 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a really good time.
51:07 --> 51:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, the Jersey Shore is, I think it's better than Atlantic City.
51:11 --> 51:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
51:12 --> 51:13 [SPEAKER_00]: But I think it's a good rating.
51:13 --> 51:15 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think it's overrated or underrated.
51:16 --> 51:20 [SPEAKER_02]: What's the deal with these like pork roll egg and cheese sandwiches?
51:20 --> 51:21 [SPEAKER_02]: Are those overrated or underrated?
51:22 --> 51:24 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's a big, it's a pork roll or tail and ham.
51:25 --> 51:29 [SPEAKER_00]: I've always thought growing up, it was a pork roll but all my Jersey friends thought, say it's a tail or ham.
51:31 --> 51:41 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm actually not a pork roll tail or ham type of guy, I'm more of a sausage-jag bacon egg type guy, but my one of my best friends always gets it and he loves himself.
51:41 --> 51:42 [SPEAKER_00]: It's got to be pretty good.
51:44 --> 51:46 [SPEAKER_02]: Last one, uh, Newark airport.
51:47 --> 51:48 [SPEAKER_02]: Is it overrated or underrated?
51:48 --> 51:49 [SPEAKER_00]: Overrated.
51:49 --> 51:54 [SPEAKER_00]: That is not that in JFK or two of the most the worst airports I've been to.
51:54 --> 51:58 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, there's so much people there and flights delayed and, uh,
51:59 --> 51:59 [SPEAKER_02]: It's funny.
51:59 --> 52:08 [SPEAKER_02]: All three New York airports you can find horror stories from because people talk about the quality of being awful, people talk about jam cabing awful and people definitely talk about Newark being awful.
52:08 --> 52:09 [SPEAKER_02]: So I was curious you'll take on that.
52:10 --> 52:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
52:10 --> 52:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
52:11 --> 52:15 [SPEAKER_03]: If you're going to stamp it yourself, are you more New Jersey or more New York?
52:16 --> 52:19 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's funny because all the guys in the draft class have been talking.
52:19 --> 52:22 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm from New York, but I think I'm rep in Jersey more.
52:23 --> 52:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Just because, you know, I think that's kind of like my home.
52:26 --> 52:27 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the Oscows there.
52:27 --> 52:31 [SPEAKER_00]: I've been all my friends are over there, so I can turn myself with Jersey Boy.
52:32 --> 52:36 [SPEAKER_03]: What Jersey thing do you think needs to be established in the Pacific Northwest?
52:36 --> 52:43 [SPEAKER_03]: And before before you answer, you will answer, you might not know if it's established yet.
52:44 --> 52:45 [SPEAKER_03]: It's established yet.
52:46 --> 52:48 [SPEAKER_03]: I'll now tell you if it's established or not.
52:48 --> 52:51 [SPEAKER_03]: So like your favorite Jersey thing that you would establish in the Northwest.
52:52 --> 52:52 [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
52:52 --> 52:57 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I guess from being out in Arizona right now, you got to have some good pizza and the bagels.
52:59 --> 53:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Because there's
53:01 --> 53:08 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't find a spot right now in Arizona, and I'm kind of missing that pizza and a bagel taste from the Northeast.
53:09 --> 53:11 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's very hard to replicate.
53:12 --> 53:12 [SPEAKER_03]: There's some good spots.
53:13 --> 53:14 [SPEAKER_03]: It's not as good.
53:14 --> 53:17 [SPEAKER_03]: So in probably, you have to set your expectations lower.
53:17 --> 53:18 [SPEAKER_03]: Unfortunately.
53:18 --> 53:20 [SPEAKER_02]: You think in Seattle, there's good spots.
53:20 --> 53:24 [SPEAKER_02]: I feel like there's like not good pizza and bagels in Seattle.
53:24 --> 53:28 [SPEAKER_03]: Good for my rating, but if we're comparing to New York, it's not close.
53:31 --> 53:36 [SPEAKER_03]: Like we have New York family so we're there all the time and the pizza and bagels are unbelievably good.
53:36 --> 53:39 [SPEAKER_03]: Like there are some good spots in Seattle, but it does not match up.
53:44 --> 53:47 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you can go anywhere and get a good slice.
53:48 --> 53:51 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, there's a really, really good pizza spot in New Jersey.
53:51 --> 53:53 [SPEAKER_00]: It's called Grouse, not New Jersey.
53:54 --> 53:56 [SPEAKER_00]: One of the best pizzas I've ever had.
53:56 --> 54:00 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I went there before the draft with much of my Bosco friends and one of our coaches.
54:01 --> 54:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Just a good time and we ordered a bunch of pies and an eight of them all.
54:05 --> 54:06 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that pizzas amazing.
54:07 --> 54:09 [SPEAKER_02]: So, okay, you're spot on with that though.
54:09 --> 54:18 [SPEAKER_02]: If you like to take pizza and bagels from the East Coast and from the Northeast and take them to the Pacific Northwest, that's a good answer because they need a whole lot more good pizza to answer your question.
54:21 --> 54:26 [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, we got five like wrap up questions to end with you on.
54:26 --> 54:29 [SPEAKER_02]: We do it with every guy that we usually talk to and try to get to know.
54:29 --> 54:35 [SPEAKER_02]: Just try to let Mariners fans let like learn a little bit more about you, learn about your personality a little bit more.
54:36 --> 54:41 [SPEAKER_02]: So we like to start with this one is your go to pre game and post game meal before game is what?
54:43 --> 54:45 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I'm not a really big eater before games.
54:46 --> 54:48 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just a big, like, water chugger.
54:49 --> 55:01 [SPEAKER_00]: So I've never been a meal guide before games, but after games, it's kind of just, you know, like chicken parm or like pizza, like I said earlier, I mean, it's pretty, it's pretty easy getting those back home.
55:02 --> 55:04 [SPEAKER_00]: Homemade are you eating out?
55:05 --> 55:08 [SPEAKER_00]: So my mom and grandma make a really good chicken poem.
55:09 --> 55:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, so, uh, is that in the pizza's always, it was always out.
55:14 --> 55:14 [SPEAKER_03]: True Italian.
55:16 --> 55:16 [SPEAKER_03]: True Italian.
55:17 --> 55:19 [SPEAKER_03]: Um, next question, Nicky.
55:20 --> 55:22 [SPEAKER_03]: What are your three favorite TV shows ever?
55:24 --> 55:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, all right.
55:25 --> 55:27 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, I got to go.
55:28 --> 55:29 [SPEAKER_00]: not in order.
55:29 --> 55:34 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to go with Reacher on Amazon Prime.
55:34 --> 55:38 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to go the flash on Netflix.
55:39 --> 55:39 [SPEAKER_03]: Flash is good.
55:41 --> 55:43 [SPEAKER_00]: And then last one.
55:45 --> 55:46 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I've watched a bunch of shows.
55:49 --> 55:50 [SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of hard to pick that third one.
55:50 --> 55:52 [SPEAKER_00]: I think my top two though are Reacher and Flash.
55:54 --> 55:55 [SPEAKER_02]: Have you seen either of those?
55:55 --> 55:56 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if I have.
55:56 --> 55:58 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I've seen a flash.
55:58 --> 55:59 [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
55:59 --> 56:04 [SPEAKER_00]: I think if you guys want, I've got a richer, richer show with three seasons, not long at all.
56:05 --> 56:06 [SPEAKER_00]: I've watched it all down here.
56:06 --> 56:07 [SPEAKER_00]: It's amazing.
56:07 --> 56:11 [SPEAKER_03]: I was waiting for one of the classics to come in here, like the sopranos.
56:11 --> 56:13 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, breaking bad.
56:13 --> 56:14 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, breaking bad drones.
56:15 --> 56:16 [SPEAKER_03]: Bigger bad is real.
56:16 --> 56:17 [SPEAKER_03]: We better call Saul.
56:17 --> 56:17 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
56:19 --> 56:20 [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, the flash.
56:20 --> 56:23 [SPEAKER_02]: Is that the one with like the zooms the anti hero like he's the bad guy?
56:23 --> 56:24 [SPEAKER_02]: Do I have that right?
56:25 --> 56:26 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that sounds easy one.
56:26 --> 56:27 [SPEAKER_03]: There's a lot of episodes.
56:27 --> 56:28 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
56:28 --> 56:28 [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
56:29 --> 56:34 [SPEAKER_02]: So I've got it like partially right then maybe I think a couple of those episodes with with the zoom, but okay, reach her.
56:34 --> 56:36 [SPEAKER_02]: I'll back pocket that one if I need to show to watch.
56:38 --> 56:40 [SPEAKER_02]: This is a little bit of an interesting question for you because obviously
56:41 --> 56:45 [SPEAKER_02]: you'd be on your way to Virginia right now, but I'll still ask it anyway.
56:46 --> 56:48 [SPEAKER_02]: What would you be doing if you weren't playing baseball?
56:48 --> 56:50 [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, like what do you think your major would be in?
56:52 --> 56:56 [SPEAKER_00]: I've always said like economics, right?
56:56 --> 56:59 [SPEAKER_00]: I think economics is one of the foundations to the business world.
56:59 --> 57:05 [SPEAKER_00]: So just going on there and kind of getting the foundation and getting ready, starting the world world, I think I would be it.
57:06 --> 57:08 [SPEAKER_03]: Do you know what you would want to do off of that?
57:10 --> 57:10 [SPEAKER_00]: I couldn't tell you.
57:11 --> 57:17 [SPEAKER_00]: I think I would have learned what I want to do if I want to school, but hopefully the space program works.
57:18 --> 57:19 [SPEAKER_02]: That's actually a very East Coast answer.
57:19 --> 57:22 [SPEAKER_02]: I feel like it's a very North East answer yet, economics, or work in the business world.
57:23 --> 57:32 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know how much you've talked to Johnny for a mellow about this, but the story out on him is he is super into like all the Wall Street stuff, all the like, all the stocks, everything.
57:32 --> 57:36 [SPEAKER_02]: So I don't know if that would have been up your alley or not, but it's clearly up his because he's talked about it.
57:36 --> 57:39 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I mean, I walked down each morning and Johnny was on the stock market.
57:42 --> 57:45 [SPEAKER_00]: So it was a pretty funny and cool talking about that.
57:47 --> 57:53 [SPEAKER_03]: Nikki, I have a guess what the answer could be to this question, giving your position and where you're from, but I'm going to ask anyways.
57:53 --> 57:55 [SPEAKER_03]: Your favorite all-time baseball player is who?
57:56 --> 57:57 [SPEAKER_00]: Third cheater.
57:58 --> 58:02 [SPEAKER_02]: Exactly who else?
58:03 --> 58:04 [SPEAKER_02]: Did you grow up going to a lot of Yankee games?
58:05 --> 58:07 [SPEAKER_00]: So I drew a boxing a lot of Yankee games.
58:08 --> 58:11 [SPEAKER_00]: It's funny because I every single sporting event I go to.
58:11 --> 58:13 [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like the New York team loses.
58:13 --> 58:22 [SPEAKER_00]: So I think last year I went to like six jet games and like three Yankee games and I was oh and nine and all.
58:23 --> 58:25 [SPEAKER_00]: All those games.
58:25 --> 58:27 [SPEAKER_00]: So I think I might be a little bad luck for them New York teams.
58:28 --> 58:30 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if you're the bad luck for the jet.
58:31 --> 58:32 [SPEAKER_03]: I really don't think so.
58:32 --> 58:34 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they're in the hole, so.
58:35 --> 58:39 [SPEAKER_02]: You need like a special type of positive voodoo to fix the New York Jets.
58:39 --> 58:41 [SPEAKER_02]: And this is coming from somebody who had two parents that grew up jet fans.
58:42 --> 58:48 [SPEAKER_02]: So I'm worried the I don't think you were showing up to those games is what's affecting those wins and losses or probably more losses.
58:49 --> 58:50 [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so you're a jet fan too then.
58:51 --> 58:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
58:52 --> 58:53 [SPEAKER_02]: Are we up on Justin Fields?
58:53 --> 58:55 [SPEAKER_02]: Like, okay, he avoided the injury.
58:55 --> 58:56 [SPEAKER_02]: No, we're feeling about him.
58:57 --> 58:59 [SPEAKER_00]: I think he's a great quarterback to get out of the pocket.
58:59 --> 59:04 [SPEAKER_00]: I think they do some work on their offensive lines so I think getting the guy I can run a little bit is going to help them.
59:05 --> 59:10 [SPEAKER_00]: But I mean, man, it's just things like watching them lose.
59:11 --> 59:18 [SPEAKER_02]: Were you, were you bought in on all the Aaron Rogers hype when the trade happened or were you like one hand or were you one foot in one foot out?
59:19 --> 59:22 [SPEAKER_00]: I was Super Bowl or bust at the front.
59:22 --> 59:23 [SPEAKER_00]: They had them.
59:23 --> 59:24 [SPEAKER_00]: I was like, yeah, they're winning it.
59:25 --> 59:26 [SPEAKER_00]: It was real bad.
59:27 --> 59:28 [SPEAKER_00]: And then the first series happened.
59:30 --> 59:35 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you've probably like the video Aaron Rodgers running out on that Monday football game with the flag.
59:35 --> 59:38 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you probably see that get meamed online now, right?
59:38 --> 59:42 [SPEAKER_02]: Because that's like everywhere when it's like, look at how short live this was.
59:42 --> 59:43 [SPEAKER_02]: That video.
59:43 --> 59:44 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, always.
59:46 --> 59:47 [SPEAKER_02]: Last one I got for you.
59:47 --> 59:51 [SPEAKER_02]: If you were to make your big league debut today, what was your walkouts on B?
59:53 --> 59:59 [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's got to be... It's got to be... I don't even know.
59:59 --> 01:00:04 [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's got to be some country song or some Bob Marley song.
01:00:05 --> 01:00:08 [SPEAKER_00]: I always love them walk-up songs that get the crowd involved.
01:00:09 --> 01:00:13 [SPEAKER_00]: So I think something like that and we'll be able to play where the crowd's involved will be pretty nice and pretty sick.
01:00:14 --> 01:00:16 [SPEAKER_03]: Are you primarily a country guy?
01:00:17 --> 01:00:18 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm all country, yeah.
01:00:18 --> 01:00:19 [SPEAKER_00]: I only listen to it.
01:00:21 --> 01:00:24 [SPEAKER_00]: And the car rides, listening to the country music is the best.
01:00:25 --> 01:00:27 [SPEAKER_02]: So you like to stay in like a pretty mellow state then.
01:00:27 --> 01:00:29 [SPEAKER_02]: That's what that makes sense.
01:00:30 --> 01:00:30 [SPEAKER_02]: That's cool.
01:00:30 --> 01:00:35 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I'm curious to see what country song you pick in a couple years when you dance to do it.
01:00:35 --> 01:00:37 [SPEAKER_02]: So Nicky, this has been awesome.
01:00:37 --> 01:00:39 [SPEAKER_02]: Like we have had a blast getting to talk to you.
01:00:39 --> 01:00:41 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure Marin fans had a blast listening to this.
01:00:41 --> 01:00:44 [SPEAKER_02]: We are fired up to see what you do when you start getting into games here.
01:00:45 --> 01:00:47 [SPEAKER_02]: And hopefully we'll catch you down in spring training.
01:00:47 --> 01:00:49 [SPEAKER_02]: We usually make it down there for a week or so come February March.
01:00:49 --> 01:00:51 [SPEAKER_02]: So hopefully we'll catch you in person then.
01:00:51 --> 01:00:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Awesome.
01:00:52 --> 01:00:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you guys for having me.
01:00:56 --> 01:00:58 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, shout out Nicky Becker, that was a really fun conversation.
01:00:58 --> 01:01:04 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm looking forward to getting to know him more as his minor league time progresses and his time in the organization progresses.
01:01:05 --> 01:01:11 [SPEAKER_02]: I can't wait to watch him start playing games because again, that combination of speed and power and defense.
01:01:11 --> 01:01:12 [SPEAKER_02]: He's got a chance to be really fun.
01:01:13 --> 01:01:17 [SPEAKER_02]: So hopefully that conversation and learn a little bit more about him, far do you guys up to.
01:01:18 --> 01:01:21 [SPEAKER_02]: All right, that'll just about wrap up this edition of the Marine Lair podcast.
01:01:21 --> 01:01:24 [SPEAKER_02]: I'll tell you guys what, if you're still listening, I would tune in Friday.
01:01:24 --> 01:01:26 [SPEAKER_02]: I think Friday's got a chance to be a fun episode.
01:01:26 --> 01:01:29 [SPEAKER_02]: I'll leave it at that, but we're looking forward to it.
01:01:29 --> 01:01:30 [SPEAKER_02]: Tune into Friday's pod.
01:01:32 --> 01:01:32 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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