Dodgers Pitcher Walker Buehler | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #285

coming up on his third season as a. starter for the Los Angeles Dodgers here. to talk about the the the revamped Major. League Baseball season and what that's. going to look like it's my friend and. all-star pitcher. mr. Walker Buehler. [Music]. [Music].

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now now how much training goes into. training like a hunt dog I'm gonna send. it away Oh same way for like six months. no wait out of America or no no to that. breeds I call South Carolina so you sent. it there Huntsville maybe dude I turn. that Levasseur to Japan's you never come. back like a little ninja you know they. wouldn't know what ducks are dude but. he'd be able to sneak into somebody's. house at night ever hunt dog he'd be. able to use a sword you like dang that's.

the only dog that can use a sword man. Walker Buehler you guys are back in. training camp right now what do you guys. what does baseball call it uh well I've. heard summer camp which is an. interesting one it sounds like yeah but. no I think kind of spring training 2.0. is what they're kind of going with and. so you were saying you had a place out. here in LA and then you had to get you. had to you were ready to come back for. the season right mhm and then you had to. just Nix it yeah so for us we kind of.

get six eight month leases just trying. to find somewhere for the season and. then I got wrangled into a ten month. lease because I really wanted this place. and I was up in the hills and I was like. this is my last year on my first part of. my rookie deals like alright I'll just. get the cool ones and a little extra I'm. gonna splurge a little bit and then. we're not here for three months so no I. got lucky somebody lease it out and I. got to find another place but yeah we're. a little disappointed. dang and so the time at home were you. like uncertain up until the last minute.

or is like is the players like who's. communicating with the excuse me who's. communicating with the players like. we're gonna do something we're not gonna. play we are like is there how does that. work for you guys yeah so we have. obviously we have our big players union. right but we have like a rep for each. team and of course I got thrown into. being our rep two weeks before baseball. ended up coming back so I jumped into. this stuff like way late for the Dodgers. yeah so it was JT and now I'm I'm our. rep but I've been kind of just sitting.

back chillin waiting on. when we were gonna play and then two. weeks before everything kind of came. together it was like hey walk now you're. talking for us so a lot of group me so I. said hey what do you guys think yeah. it's uh it's pretty complicated all the. you know all the stuff that goes. into it that I didn't even really know. about and then it's like hey you're. right in the middle of it so it's been a. little bit of a learning curve kind of. huh oh for sure for sure. yeah and do what is what's gonna be. different about the season so the season. is happening mm-hmm and you guys are in.

spring training summer camp 2.0 right. now and what's gonna be different about. the season first off they're telling us. that you can only have a certain amount. of guys in the dugout which is weird. because we all sit in there and hang out. and and whatever during the. games so now they're saying if you're. not playing you have to sit in the. stands so there are gonna be fancy looks. if they're gonna be us oh you should be. a lot of this change in a more relaxing.

right I mean it's yeah it's odd I told I. talked to Kurt and I thought they also. said we can go home which is like not. something that has ever been okay so um. hey I'm I may never watch you throw live. all year he's what are you talking about. I said I'm just gonna sit in the pool. watch John oh because you wouldn't have. to be there because usually the bullpens. there and stuff you right the bullpen. will still be out there but us we'll. just starting pitchers usually sit right. there in the dugout and kind of hang out. so if we can leave damn it's almost like.

you think you'll miss that part yeah you. know what's weird is in Asia Lee that's. like standard operating procedure for. them so they leave what like if they're. not pitching they're not there yeah they. go in during them you know during the. afternoon get their stuff done an hour. before the game they just head out but. we had a Korean guy hon Jin rue that he. like hated watching games cuz he'd never. done it it's her life and then he comes. to America and like expected to stay. forever dude I'm not kidding you that. guy would be out of the locker room. within five minutes of the last out I. don't even think our to the field I.

think he just threw a bowl. no he's like I'm not even pay for this I. want to go to dinner that's crazy. I went to actually a baseball game one. time in Japan look yeah it's pretty cool. went to one in Japan and I went to one. in Cuba once Cuba. yeah I went to I was in this school like. this school program I've got to go. abroad and and one of the like things we. got to do when we were there was good at. baseball interesting yeah yeah I got I. got to play in Cuba for a week Wow.

yeah so I guess they have some sports. diplomacy law or something like at that. time we were like the only Americans. ever allowed in there yeah and so we. went and we lost all five games so I was. really happy about this. well maybe subliminally I don't think. you really want to win over there right. but we did a good time it was fun dang. and do you notice anything different. like about do you notice anything. different about the way that they were. that they play Ernie yeah I will tell. you the big the weirdest thing that they. do so you know how like if you strike. somebody out they throw the ball around. mm-hmm and it just goes once the third.

baseman to shortstop to second baseman. and they throw it back to the pitcher. that's how they do it here in u.s. yes. okay and Cuba they make 30 throws they. throw it to the catcher the pitch will. get it throw it back to the shortstop. the game's taking major league gets it. he throws it home plate yeah fan gets. the toss I mean it's wild yeah and the. games took like 30 minutes longer. because they're just flinging the ball. around after every strikeout Johnny. that's pretty wild. our one time actually because one of the. things I was doing I was trouble I went.

to on this thing called semester at. scene it was like a school that guy was. on a ship and takes two different. countries when you're a student and so. we went to Hong Kong and so I remember. just walking around during the day and. play pick-up basketball games and stuff. and the thing that they do they're like. in that was different after somebody. scores they like run it back like. whoever gets out of the net runs it you. don't dribble it or pass it up if you've. run it up to the top of the top of the. key and then start the game again yeah. it was our to hood and they would kind. of frown on you like if you threw it up.

there they would kind of throw it back. and you had like run it okay stop it was. like and it feels weird just to run with. a basketball you know yes you're playing. running back yeah yeah it feels like a. crime so but I remember that was like. the strangest thing did I remember that. was just like um like a sport in a. different country I don't think I've. ever heard that so with the dugout. saying in a regular game you know can. you go over to the other team's dugout. er no if you do that normally there's a. fight involved I don't know if you saw. last year there was a guy named Amir. Garrett who pitches for the Reds.

he played basketball st. John so he's. big tall dude reliever for the Reds. right and they were res and Pirates had. this whole befall year he just ran. directly at their dugout one on 30. people I play with that catcher to Kyle. farmer he seemed like he's ready to. cause a little trouble to man. Georgia boy who he's been traded so much.

huh. well we seems like that girl in the NBA. that everybody banging this so they came. to get him out of there and then he said. all right come on that's a bad boy I.

think that one we got a slap look at. them all right yeah there's a little bit. man. so if you're on the mound right now. usually it seemed like the pitcher is. kind of the one that starts the brawl.

yeah it usually boils down to somebody. getting hit so the pitcher is always. involved now me being a smaller guy we. we do rehearse my moves if anything like. that ever happens like what do you mean. like you rehearse your moves well. somebody's gonna run at me if I ever get. into one of these situations okay yeah. because you'll hit them on accident yes. okay and then so they'll come at you so. you have it kind of rehearse what to do. then right cuz I they're gonna be bigger. than me. right cuz I'm small right so we've.

boiled down I either have to slowly. creep wait for the corner infielders to. come and get them for me right or I. gotta go with a dropkick I think it's a. sigh you know it's a it's a mass thing I. just can't yeah or you just fling the. glove that. it's been done before how do you here. move this a little closer if you don't. mind how do you so cuz your size like. how does your size compare to to some of. the pictures that are out there because. Kershaw is way taller than you yeah. Kersh is about two inches taller but. he's about 40 pounds heavier okay 80.

pounds I'll give him the benefit right. good out there yeah I'm just I'm skinny. you know compared to most guys most guys. are pretty thick and just one of your. arms weigh more than the other one of. your arms or not you know I don't know I. think they're probably pretty close I. would imagine the right ones a little. bit bigger mm-hmm just cuz the extra. ligament in there so maybe a couple. ounces heavier because you what you got. an extra ligament put in yeah so I tore. the one but they left it and put a new. one in there so where do they get that. one from they cut it right on my wrist. and that time yeah that's okay so Tommy.

John surgeries in the yeah so I think. you can see the scar here is right here. oh wow but they cut so if you go like. this and then move your finger up see. that in big line yeah that one but not. on this one cuz that's what they cut out. and put back in my elbow Wow yeah so uh. yeah because I always thought Tommy John. was the shoulder it's not no that's. Tommy John's Diavel labrum or rotator. cuff as a shoulder though that's a bad. deal it is yeah Tommy John they're like.

ninety percent with now like you're. probably gonna be fine. labrum labrum so like 50 do you know if. you is there a certain like life. expectancy on those parts of a pitchers. body where you like okay like an almost. like an oil change ok at 3 years I got. to take it in for this and then at 9. years I got to take any bum yeah you. hope you never have them like Kirsch has. never had an elbow or anything like that. but once you have when they say you got. about eight years with that new ligament. and they'll have to do something to to. keep it going but yeah I'm on your five. on my new ones so we're hoping it'll.

it'll you know exceed those those enough. do you feel different once you got it in. oh yeah I started throwing four or five. miles an hour harder no way oh yeah you. got 12 months of rehab so you just sit. there and lift and watch baseball and. play golf basically and then I started. was throwing away harder and I got to. the big leagues really quick after that. just because may became a lot easier to. use that in college I got it right after. I signed in the pros okay so because I. know you're out at you're from Kentucky. and that's where you live now also right.

yeah and um and then you went to. Vanderbilt you know three years there. and then that's when you get into the. pros yep so you drafted after junior. season typically and you still come back. for your senior season no no no no so I. never graduated none of that I didn't. graduate I'd only played three years got. drafted then you move on okay. and now when you get drafted a lot of. times it's like it seems like these guys. where did you get drafted at what do you. mean like you get drafted it a certain. picks right yeah so I was a 24th pick. okay but which for most people would be.

a really cool thing or first-round pick. I was a third guy on our team would get. drafted so it was kind of like I was. happy but I was also a little you know. pissed right but you get a little pissed. all the time but a lot of stuff though. yeah I'm kind of really angry that way. yeah you know you get that fire in you a. little bit yeah a little jealous a. little a little competitive chip on your. shoulder yeah you have to be I always. tell everyone my dad's like five foot. eight yeah I was like one of the only. things he ever gave me was my Napoleon. complex right I'm almost 60. I feel like I'm about five foot four.

that's funny it's like this guy has the. tallest Napoleon complex we've ever seen. borderline I think it's it's up there. probably and now and what did your dad. you what would your dad do for work so. he works. Bank of America kind of boring. commercial lending stuff but yeah he. does yeah he actually just moved to. Irvine so we're really excited to have. him out here so I'll get to see him. where he's been in Colorado the past few. years so and what about your mom my. mom's an attorney in Lexington around. little own little law firm there and and.

does all that stuff but she used to tell. him my favorite thing was she would tell. me a case when I was like six years old. and I would tell her what I think it was. worth and I'd be with this like 30 grand. every time yeah they left this gauze in. this woman I'm like 1.7 not 1.6 yeah. so that's 4,800 mile yeah that's why I. had some weird knack for it but I always. said that's probably what I would do if. I didn't play but I'm kind of glad I. don't have to do that yeah did you. um did you uh tell me a little bit more.

about some of the new rules that are. gonna be going on okay so they're saying. we can't spit number one so you watch a. baseball game you you know people spit. cuz it. yeah that's going to be interesting. they're saying instead of spinning we're. gonna have a wet rag in our back pocket. so we can touch that and then go to the. ball because you need a little moisture. sometimes so we'll see how long that one. lasts I think obviously the dugout stuff. because someone's gonna spin immediately. just by Nature yeah you don't even know.

you do it yeah you know you just spit is. it a penalty if you spit or this game be. like somebody saying hey I think they. can find you know yeah buying you I. don't understand why it would be a. financial thing I think it's a bacteria. in the air they believe I also know that. if you hit a ground ball and more than. two guys hit touch the ball so you threw. it. third baseman catches it throws the. first baseman three guys touch it gotta. get a new ball oh yeah. it's gonna be a while the unharmed.

blowtrotters and so are you concerned. about how um and now hold on there's. more rules though - I read one that. there is because I didn't know about. these so but there's one where if you. guys you guys aren't gonna bad anymore. correct. so the pitchers will no longer bat yes. which is a good thing bad thing it's all. it's all good and bad because I like to. hit but we all suck okay. so there's there's two pitchers maybe.

they can actually really hit I don't. have any of them no offense to Kirsch or. any of those guys none of our guys okay. so but now I got to face another actual. hitter I don't get to face myself which. is kind of a freebie a lot of the time. so yeah so a lot of those guys in. because the American League they have. they have the D H already so they have. the the pitcher never bats right so they. have nine professional hitters so they. have a so American league pitchers it's.

harder for them to get a no-hitter for. sure 100%. dang it's not easy regardless right. easier in the National League probably. okay so I'm just thinking about these. rules this is so insane dude I almost. feel like now I'm at the rodeo and it's. almost like we're not playing baseball. just playing like wiffle ball but okay. so now also there's a rule if you guys. go to. extra innings that they're gonna put. someone on second base yeah. so that that they've been doing that the.

Meyer leagues for a long time okay kind. of testing it out it'll JT actually came. out and said he won at Home Run Derby. and they see snow Justin Turner our. third baseman big red beard guy okay he. said he wants a home run derby to break. the break the extra innings which I love. I think it'd be hysterical at the end of. the camera but I'll tired hit homer and. that's what the X ratings really are. because everybody wants to hit the. walk-off so everyone just crazy at home. runs all the time in extra. anyway so they've done this rule at the.

guy in second forever in the minor. leagues trying to figure it out and now. we're gonna give it a go in the big. leagues I guess but it'll be interesting. do you have any thought yeah like what. are your thoughts on it. I like leave never like had to start an. inning that I didn't let somebody on. base and they just stuck somebody out. there but they be pressure right out the. gate cuz that guy's already there yeah. and then there's like a million. different strategies you know you can. bond or whatever to try and get him. two-thirds we can score easier and it. might be cool it might be a way for a. pitcher finally get back in the batter's. box though because pitchers are pretty. pretty good bunters typically and but.

but you ought but even if your team. doesn't get to bat first you still get. the bottom of that inning right yeah. yeah yeah yeah cuz that almost seems. like man you could easily get the yeah. maybe it'll make it a little more. exciting it might because sometimes. these games just go on forever yeah we. had that World Series game two years ago. went 17 innings and I threw the first. seven of it I was at the ballpark long. or not playing that was and I threw the. ball really good it was just took. forever we played should I got home at. like 3:00 in the morning that's there.

and when the game started like a so. whenever it gets into late innings guys. are just trying to hit that walk-off. yeah why no it's just a beautiful thing. to see on this 14 yeah I think so it's. it's very funny how it happens in the in. the in extra innings like everyone. either punches out or Hetzel hits the. homer. you know but sometimes that's why they. go so long oh I'd hit that home have to. so you can't go over to the dugout for. anything what if they tell the buddy. something can you run over there and. tell him something if he's another team. you know I don't know if they're gonna. let us have phones walkie-talkies for.

income but even before that like last. like say last season you wanted to tell. the buddy something oh yeah we just sit. there and the whole time but in. the other dugout I mean. okay nothing even if it's your buddy no. you can't and you know there's certain. times where it's okay to like go say. what's up and then there's certain times. that it's not so I can batting practice. and stuff sometimes will linger out. there and talk to the other team but no. after a certain point there's there's. nothing we've got a question here from a. young fella right here and this might be.

Kron Gracie right here this guy how do. you fill the whole sign ceiling scandal. that's been going on and you think that. is uh it's gonna affect in any way or. shape the way that you guys played. baseball disease or is it gonna be the. same thank you for anything. gonnigan gang game from Porto Rico man. the Lima the science and so you do you.

know much about this or no I know that. Houston got in trouble Reyes yeah so. what's interesting is they were doing. all this live so they'd know what. was coming before it even came right. wouldn't that's unfair right which we're. all against that a lot of got you know. we do scouting and things like that that. you can push a limit and we all kind of. know what that limit is and they were. past it so you know and then the Red Sox. got bang they weren't doing anything. near what what Houston was doing so. Houston was really what they were they.

were knowing what the signs were mm-hmm. and then communicating ways to. communicate it yeah they were hitting on. the wall was that stuff real or do you. think a lot of that spin exact I mean. the videos seem to seem to really say. that that was what was going on I wasn't. on the team really at that point I had. been in the big leagues but I didn't. make the place their postseason roster. so I wasn't there but from everything I. had heard I think it was it was pretty. legit that they were they were doing. something and so say if something like. that is going on who knows about it on. the team would everybody know or would.

just that kind of stuffs obviously gonna. be related to the pitchers and catchers. more than anybody because they're doing. the signs mm-hmm. but everyone's gonna know that stuff. kind of traveled like wildfire I guess. possibly wearing buzzers too yeah that. was the rumor I don't think that one was. ever proven but you know I think when. you do one thing you caught four. one thing everybody can say you could do. a million different things and it's kind. of hard not to not to at least think it. could happen but because once you start.

also taking advantage of the rules or. bending I man you know once you get one. way to do it it's easy to be like oh I. can also probably do press way right and. Jose Altuve after he hit that walk-off. and they like they all rushed him at the. mound at the time I was like oh that was. adorable cuz he's like don't rip my. shirt my wife will be mad at me but it. seemed like after it was cuz it would. uncover its buzzers conspiracy theories. are great yeah it seemed pretty lot. possible yeah I mean you know it is what. it is obviously we were in the locker.

room or in their locker room and knew. what was going on but but if something. like that was going on on a team right. say it's going on the even on your it. was going on and just hypothetical on a. team that your own wouldn't with. somebody on the team what is there a. code in there where it's like this is. how we do is it's just this is our we do. it this year do you think somebody would. raise their hand or with that person. raise your hand you like dude chill the. out yes there's some sort of. there's some sort of like clubhouse. security I guess where everything kind. of a lot of stuff stays in there and and. shouldn't go anywhere so leave somebody.

in your own team told told on you about. it like there'd be problems I think but. yeah I think if it's hoping you win I. think everyone's gonna know on the team. and everyone's gonna be involved. personally that would be my my guess huh. it's an interesting it's an interesting. deal do you do pitchers get are you when. you go out there to play and last year. you had your first all-star season okay. congrats man thank you when you go out.

there to play are you playing okay I'm. gonna beat this other pitcher I'm gonna. beat this team like what is the pitchers. kind of motivation or my own even. motivation but who is he who are you. against yeah I think I think it's the. other team is the big thing but when you. face guys that you like grown up. watching there's a little bit of like. like I'm facing Max Scherzer today. yeah and I think for me it was always. like oh I get to hit against him and.

just see what this is all about that's. gone but no I think most the time it's. the other team and the. is kind of secondary unless it's like a. certain guys okay so when you're. pitching in if it's a certain picture up. there then you might feel like oh this. is kind of exciting right like for you. it'd be I think like four you'd be like. oh I'm getting more views on this. podcast right if we had the same guest. who's did more it would be more. important you know what I'm saying yeah. your mom's also win probably but yeah. now I see what you're saying okay and if.

a pitcher gets up there so it's kind of. cool say if there's if there's a great. pitcher it's kind of cool for you to be. able to bat because you get to bat. against him yeah because you've watched. it on ESPN your whole life right so. you're like oh like why can't these guys. hit this and then he throws you that one. pitcher you're like oh now I get get one. edition Scherzer was like that for me. really oh yeah what was it about is well. he threw me a fast one the first one. look wasn't super hard and then a couple. more pitches he threw me another fast. one I didn't even see it was so firm I. guess he just kind of like laid off one.

and then threw one hard I think I was. like laughing walk it off no chance yeah. it seems here we got a kid right here. that has a question dole shirt yeah baby. Bob you know what up the Oh what up. Walker I just had a quick question for. Walker when I'm watching baseball. there's a couple guys I kind of key in. on wanting to watch guys like yourself. Jack Flaherty Max Scherzer guys that are. just Bulldogs on the mound I was.

wondering if Walker had any guys that he. likes to watch whether it's starting. pitchers or position players but guys. that he just enjoys watching them do. their thing out there on the ball field. anyway hope you guys are having a good. day and Theo gang gang thanks bro nice. guy where did that come from. gang gang yeah I don't know really it. was before my time here yeah just been. rolling up yeah I don't really know man. but people come to sign off on the end.

we gotta get Walker some slides yeah we. got to get you some slides man I'll rock. those awesome all right hey our trainers. get so mad because I just watch. Instagram videos all the time I like. working on my arm and they just hear all. these the oh. like look I'm not gonna Goodyear when I. first days back like a couple days ago I. was watching there's like up. dealers back well I think the first time.

you say you heard it Bobby all of us the. we're talking about Bryce Harper I've. been combing my hair with cocaine so we. always get these new interns sorry we'll. get to your question we always get these. new interns and I show them there's one. you start about eating pineapple and. somebody's grandmother's they're like. yeah welcome the caption is teamö them.

chunks I think Oh get a job with the. Marlins after getting really shot e over. you but know one of the guys he. mentioned Jack Flaherty's a buddy of. mine and we pitch against each other. twice and and back in the minor leagues. too so he's probably one of my favorite. guys to watch now yeah yeah he's from. out here somewhere I think it went to. harvard-westlake mmm that's a fancy. school oh yeah yeah I got three guys in.

the big leagues now that we're all high. school teammates oh yes Wow I was like. is stacked bro they have a really. stacked squad um so wow that's so. interesting. easier as a pitcher when you get up. there too bad against a pitcher it would. seem like oh well you know what they're. doing yeah you know I I think my career. batting errors under a hundred so I. don't think I have any any way to say. it's easy. kind of terrible but you know it's fine.

it was part of the game I guess it's sad. even walking up there sometimes with the. bat like is it certain guys you're. absolutely because there's a viewer. you're like oh this is real sad like why. would they do this is almost like when. they shoot the heavy and then stuff. Vande kind of feel like a gladiator but. you're like the guy without a sword yeah. yeah let's see what this couch the. notebook is gonna do over here damn. you can't act like you don't have a. chance no so a real hitter walks up and. they're like all right I'm trying to hit.

this ball hard I want to try and sit on. it I just walk up there and try and see. as many pitches like like my goal is to. foul balls off most the time yeah yeah. because that counts on this video guys. well yeah hell yeah if you see six. pitches you've done like a really good. thing. Wow oh yeah instead of just three right. down the middle Galahad over here and so. you can't tell though when a pitch. leaves a pitcher it's the same you are. you then not a pitcher once you're. batting it I mean I know that you know. technically you're still a pitcher and. you're batting but do you have any any.

insight as to what's gonna happen yeah I. was actually a really bad hitter in high. school because I would like give these. other guys credit Furla all right if. that was me pitching I'm like looking. for this pitch like I would do this and. they would never do it it's like. blackjack yeah you think like poker or. whatever like I had this hand I did and. they were terrible wow it's so I throw a. slider right here and they just throw me. fastball right down the middle I'd miss. him but it was it was just because they.

were a bad picture yeah and I was. overthinking it dang dude that's so. crazy man it seems like it is. man I'm where the first time I ever got. up to bat man they had this and I was. horrible at it I mean I remember one. time they put us out there I'm reading. psychedelic mushrooms I'm out yeah wait. dude we had right and double right on. our team didn't I always had a bike. double right back back right oh dude and. one time I end up working at the. snowball stand for two innings it was. like man but the coach said it still.

counted you know right we had to play. two innings right yeah that was the that. was the saddest I was the worst get in. there I had an appendectomy in my. appendix burst when I was a kid lapping. the bases really between two bases so I. hit the ground man you know cuz I. couldn't I'd you out or no uh they'd. give you the base I don't know what. happened to coach was furious he's like. frog call me after this back and you can. still call kids in a buffer you know. he's like Ron MF or run you know and I. was just like squealing is it okay yeah.

can I mean I couldn't I know I was gone. and he came and dragging about both my. arms from. third - home dude and we got the run but. it was like dude gave a he was. horrible we're playing at the American. Legion it's just men you doing it. slaughter oh yeah everybody there's a. Vietnam veteran do getting sunburned. waiting for their check it was just. Rocky so any other any other. expectations you have going into the. season does it feel like going into a.

regular season like absolutely not okay. it can't we've been sitting at home for. three months you know I mean so I don't. know well I hope we get all our games in. that'd be the biggest thing in the. playoffs and all that but with all the. new kovetz around I get you know I don't. know what's gonna happen yeah. and they are planning on traveling dead. yeah so what they did normally we play. every national team so we go to the East. Coast back and forth all the time which. sucks because we get screwed on the time. stuff but we're only playing I think. we're only playing like the the NL West.

so our division and the AOS so we're. kind of staying out here which will be. nice travel wise yeah you know what I. mean instead of six hours flight six. hour flights to Washington so that's so. they're making it easy that way there'll. be nobody in the stands correct what do. you think like is that kind of is. everybody still gonna care about the. game as much it takes some of the ego. out of it almost yeah it takes some of. the energy out of it for sure you know. like I think a lot of teams talked about. buying crowd noise or pumping crowd. noise in there so it feels a little bit.

oh yeah more like I saw in Korea they're. using sex dolls you understand yeah some. teams I heard or you can pay 50 bucks. and get a cardboard cutout of yourself. put in the stadium which is kind of. interesting. yeah it's not a bad idea no but they're. doing some they're doing some wacky. stuff especially over there in Korea Wow. yes those were sex dolls cheering on a. South Korean soccer team I think they. got in trouble for that why some loser.

takes our ha and they're wearing masks. it's an interesting - yeah and there's. six feet of our yeah that's an. interesting one Wow someone social-media. go back up to the top if you don't mind. Nick over the weekend mannequins were. placed in the stands for a match against. wangju FC someone superiority that. telltale signs business logos for sex. toy marketers tried to add some funny. says finding the no spectator match I. like it kind of I love the idea of.

having somebody be able to send a. pitcher in or like themselves put in the. stands like for a certain like I said. you can do that as a gift to somebody. yeah you know like you're there yeah. happy birthday we threw in Conger. station and maybe somebody it doesn't. want to be there's like Grandma you know. imagine open that for Christmas it just. says you have a cardboard cutout yeah. you never get to see it but you might. get one of those stars it's like. somebody buys a star like oh thanks some.

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have a season probably to keep the. flagship of the whole business going. correct which is pretty important oh. yeah yeah you know I think one of the. big things have been the owners come out. saying we're not gonna make it we're not. making money we're gonna lose money but. everybody's franchises keep going up so. these owners yeah they're not marrying. in cash right but they can sell this. thing for X amount more every year that. they keep it so you know we're excited. to get back out there and play obviously. and and you know at least people can. watch this at home which would be fine.

now are you in the end were you excited. like yes we're gonna get to play we're. gonna get to do we're gonna get to do. something yeah all of us I think are. there's a few guys that have opted out. of it which I think if you have family. and stuff I think that's a that's a. decision that you have to really like. stare down I'm ready go I'm excited they. have a Latino friend of mine named Rudy. and he's owned aids not just Latinos. specifically Mexican and he works at. this he's like the manager at this cafe. that I go to all the time I neighborhood. and he loves you and he's like oh good.

guy that got local that's how he always. says time I go in there you don't even. say your name anymore he's just like oh. that guy had a couple any time a little. bit Asian unfortunately my accents are. not good my rookie are two to live TV. f-bombs we've tried to try to curtail. those yeah it's a very family-friendly. but but do you think that chip wears. that chip on your shoulder come from man.

cuz you definitely like you have an. intensity about you that I think like. when I first met you I was like wow just. cuz your size and I mean you're you know. you're bigger than me but then I am but. and this was the same way when I met. drew brees are like wow I this is not. exactly who I expected maybe if I. thought these days of a major league. player yeah I think as I said earlier. Napoleon complex is for sure part of it. but I think the other thing was being. small I played a little football I was. always too scared I think when I play. baseball it's like oh I'm the smallest.

one but I'm. not to be scared of this you're gonna. hurt me you know and so I think you take. that little fear and turn it somewhere. else so you can kind of function I guess. and as the stakes get higher I think it. just amplifies it for me at least where. I get a little more you know a little. more jazz juiced-up. yeah when you're pitching do you is. there a pitch like does the catcher who. gets to pick what pitch throw you throw. the catcher are you so the catcher gives. the way they explain that catcher gives. you a suggestion and you agree to that.

suggestion 95% time we have a whole big. meeting that's like 30 30 minutes on. going over every hitter and and what we. want to do before the game so we kind of. know like at least out there I don't. have to think as much I told them what I. think now they kind of just remind me. and then I throw that pitch okay but my. rookie here we had a really veteran. catcher so couldn't really shake them. off you can't really say no really yeah. certain guys 15 Mike Piazza or something. sitting out that you'd probably go along. with what he says yeah Wow because he's.

seen these batters so many times right. and you and those the assumption is that. he's been there longer so he knows what. you're doing better than you do you know. now if you throw a pitch that they. choose it it's also kind of nice to you. because then if it gets rocked you have. somebody to blame it on right right. right. you know it's that's an inch the worst. possible scenario is you shake the guy. off three times and throw it then he. hits a home run because then the catcher. just says listen dumbass I told you you. know yeah that's actually exactly what. they will say so that so that.

relationship between catch our pitcher. and catcher is pretty it's pretty severe. Wow really super trusting you know you. have to be or else you're gonna freak. yourself out the whole time and do you. have does every pitcher have every same. pitch as everybody else do some pictures. have know everybody's got different. different stuff and even we all call. certain things the same thing and they. act completely different it's just kind. of the way you are you know I mean it's. like how you run or how you talk it just. oh I throw a slider and mine moves like.

this and there's moves like this and. like like your boy Clevenger yeah and I. throw very similar stuff change up I. don't his stuff is bigger mine's kind of. harder it's just they're all different. little variations he's a little more. flashy or too. had it up oh dude wild yeah oh he tried. to send me a unicorn egg one time yeah. he's got yeah that's not surprise me man. he definitely did he pulled a seashell. out of his hair one time and I listened. to it bro and it totally the future. whole story but then he made me give it. back to him you know yeah that's just so.

he yeah we saw him we're in Phoenix. eating breakfast or lunch or something I. saw his shorts were about halfway down. those legs we have tied I tanked up on. all his boys dressed exactly the same. I've never met the guy I wanted to sell. that's my Clevenger oh that it makes a. lot more sense now I think he's a flower. on his glove he's one of a kind ood he. told me he was trying to uh he told me. his glove was vegan and I was like. that's a made of leather too yeah but.

yeah man he's one of a kind man um how. much does some of the pictures I noticed. like even microphone of the guys who. their leg movements will be different. how much are you allowed to do there. before it's like considered a type of. trickery or something if there's nobody. on nobody on base mm-hmm you can. basically do whatever you want Wow. basically there's some rules if you've. heard of a Bock yeah bulk is so that's. when you're creating deception in an.

illegal fashion that's what a Bock is. okay so is that shady to do if you. bought it just sucks they gonna freebase. okay so they got a man on third and Bock. they score they don't have to touch it. they don't have to touch the ball. nothing they just walk home Wow so. that's if you come everybody gets a free. base yeah no matter where they are oh. yeah oh it sucks have you ever lost a. game on a Balkan before no my high. school loss I was in eighth grade going. to watch our varsity team I was like so. excited they lost on a walk-off Bock.

that was tough to watch you seniors last. game guy up one time and games. over. season's over so what constitutes a balk. like what do you have to do when you're. on the mound there's a few things so. when you get your sign you come you have. to stop so your body has to fully stop. before you pitch so when you're young. you just kind of get it and throw it now. you have to get it pause and then throw. that's probably the most common one. mm-hmm. there's some certain pickoff moves you.

have to like disengage the rubber all. these kind of boring rules but okay. you've just learned the normal way and. then like you Bach a lot when you're. young guys you don't know what you can. and can't do. okay yeah probably once you get called. for it then you start to really like. okay I've got a malfunction here the. weirdest one I've seen guy just dropped. the ball on the mat if you drop the ball. while you're touching the rubber to balk. oh wow. is this an accident yeah Cena got. bringing it to his you know bringing it. down and he hit his leg dropped it buck. that's course would you ever how much. pride is in it where say if you're not.

doing well out there you're just having. a game where it's not you're going your. way. would you take yourself out of the game. ever Wow absolutely so there is a point. in every game where it's all about. preservation of the bullpen cuz the. bullpen super super important if you're. getting crushed you just try and like. survive as long as you can oh because. you want that to save the bullpen fresh. fruit in other games yeah I said yeah so. guys don't have to cover you you know I. mean you want it so I got killed in. Atlanta my first playoff start first. inning goes great second inning I walked.

a pitcher to force a run in which is as. embarrassing as it gets. not even I didn't even throw a pitch. close my first playoff game we're down. one nothing like alright there are three. straight balls I get this on Instagram. people send it to me just for fun all. the time the fourth one. it was a ball umpire calls it a strike. next pitch mucuna hits a grand slam. we're not five nothing huh and at that. point I ended up throwing three more. innings gave up no more runs but we were. gonna lose probably but those three. innings safe three innings at one of our.

other guys didn't have to throw so it. also gives you a little bit of. redemption then yeah a little bit of. like listen I I screwed this one up. pretty good but at least I kind of I'm. doing my best to help us out a little. right mmm it'd be like if you bombed. mm-hmm if you went on bombed which I'm. sure happens mmm at least you finish. your 10 minutes right instead of oh. a minute - this is going really poorly. so now my back up now the guy after me. has to do my eight minutes as well as. right in yeah so you want to try and at. least just get there even if it sucks. for you yeah damn is it real and bit. like is the feeling when you're out.

there like like is it once if it starts. going bad like saying that game okay so. it starts going to start off bad but you. were able to get it back on. like does it feel like you lose your. confidence like what does it feel like. it just feels like everyone in the world. staring at you telling you that you suck. you know and even though you don't and. you know you don't you know you know. that you go home after that game you. obviously don't get food because there's. too many people that could see you yeah. right.

so you get a room service and whoever. brings a room service if they'll smile. and you think they're just laughing at. you they're not they're just being nice. they just want that five dollar tip that. is driving off a salad right you're like. God that guy he's must be a UH. he must be a Cardinals fan yeah you also. sometimes will change your whole diet. for about twelve hours after you get. beat like that you just like you eat. another salad Otis or change it I think. in water bottles yeah because you think. I might as I something up along the. way that that led me to get killed so.

well so there's almost like that taboo. element like you're like how do I. because you've been doing well and how. do I solve this something's going off. here what have I done. yeah karmic a lot of karma elements and. in baseball the whole superstition and. all that stuff now what's harder then so. say you're having a tough game yeah you. know you're having a tough game and you. know you feel everybody staring at you. is it better when you're in that dugout. then when the team's batting at least is. there some like respite or is that. hellish to because it that's when your. heads going nuts when you're out there. it's kind of right fastball we'll try. this one again it's already sucks but.

we'll give it a shot when you're sitting. in the dugout and you're just like. looking around everybody's we're down. sixteen everybody and you're always by. yourself too when the cameras posted. Hitler is losing he's always by himself. over there and he's pissed. who did this this is my fault damn. that's heavy man sucks yeah so you have. a contract now mhm and then what happens. so how long does a rookie contract is. there a year imagine so you become a. free agent after six full services. information man it's just you know stuff.

I think it's interesting because I think. people probably know the least about. baseball contracts of any of them like. when somebody Ziya Williamson gets. drafted yeah everyone knows how long he. has to be a pelican and what he's gonna. make and issued nobody knows about. us yeah we have to play six full seasons. in the big leagues so 172 days is a full. season. so if you don't whatever six times 172. is you have to have that many days in. the big leagues to be a free agent after.

three years you get arbitration okay. it's like Clevenger's in arbitration I'm. next year will be an arbitration so I'm. on my last year in my three years okay. so once you get into arbitration then. what what does that mean then it's you. versus the team and an arbitrator and. your agent you need to go out a nudey. and you basically argue what you're. worth so the team will sit there and. tell you to your face how bad you suck. right and you'll tell them how great you. are right and then the guy it'll tell. you here's where we're at. okay huh interesting so after this next.

year you'll be able to go in arbitration. yeah so this is a big season for you in. some ways that third season is a big. season for guys because they want to do. well that's easy yeah you have to. it's called up they call it a platform. year so this is like the worst season. you could get hurt that's what I'm gonna. Corey Seager got hurt in its third year. he did primate half of what he would. have if he would have played hell huh. and but also it's interesting because. this season counts as a season right. this upcoming so I wonder if they'll. really put as much value it's almost.

like well they still just go off of lash. what's a double-edged sword right. because if you do great they can say you. wouldn't sustain that and if you do. terrible they can say you were terrible. right but are you well I couldn't. sustain the shitty part either you know. but so in the end it's gonna be the same. you're gonna say one thing and it yeah. yeah everything I mean everything counts. but yes just business yes what about. some of these guys so you go up against. a guy like are there pictures where. you're like okay I'm excited about this.

duel today like do you feel like it's. this is gonna be a real pitchers game do. you feel well you don't ever feel like. any more gonna be hitters games because. you don't want that team to be hit yeah. can't we just want us to hit right I. don't want them to at all Jack flirty. and I have had too good we both were. really well against each other we just. got lucky and scored a couple of runs so. Scherzer and I had a couple good games. at pitch against Gerrit Cole which was. cool the playoffs really get like that. that's when it that's when it really is. like when the matchups are really that. good yeah because it's all over social. media and it's like we're the only 100%.

starter right like the manager could. flip the lineup if they felt like it. right. but the media knows it's Buehler versus. Strasbourg tomorrow and that's. everywhere so yeah I gotta beat him yeah. that's I think it's a little more like. that I think here's a question I hear. from someone my question for Walker is. who's the hardest hitter you've had to. face so far see I like this black.

Charlie Blackmon is the guy that has the. best numbers off me in my career got. hair like yours really I don't know if. you want to pull up a picture this guy's. a good player though I'll hit off. his head plays out in Denver there you. go Oh does he oh yeah look at the Hat. here Matthew and Brian Wilson a little. bit a run Wilson oh yeah see I think if. you threw a little beard we could get a. mic chiesa MMA fighter who's that. michael Chiesa huh there was he looks.

like that UFC fire that one this past. week to a big heavyweight oh yeah Tanner. bow sir. yeah the Canadian do I didn't see that. fight I really gotten into that stuff. since uh since its quarantine it's been. like the only thing what I was saying. about this thing about you guys the. other day when I was thing about. baseball was like man if you guys get. just coming back and being there for. people right now is gonna be huge. because people want to watch anything. yeah they want to watch some competition. you can't even get there's no fresh. television shows but as everything.

they're put on shitty televisions really. weren't gonna pick up right enough -. yeah I mean have like dodgeball it like. you know it's getting real bad rumors. it's just people just sharing remembers. as quick as they can. I mean it's hitting really really. limited out there like a cross between. cops and cheaters yeah dude cheaters. used to be good I think I think there's. a little before my time to be honest. with you yeah might have been I like it. I remember watching I was like 12 and be. like this is so old dude the best.

cheaters with written the guy I bust. somebody got a boat and the guy stands. up just tough to watch I met that guy at. a wine function out here now he was like. yeah man that was a tough episode which. guy the guy who stabbed him or the host. the guy who got stabbed yeah pretty cool. that's my favorite thing about LA man. you. the toughest dude I met oh yeah let me. see if we can see that stabbing launched.

off. yeah you're gonna rest it at sea - huh.

yeah police that's a weird thing what um. now there's offseason stuff you can't do. right there's or is it is it for you or. not yeah I mean I think kind of the. obvious stuff skiing stuff like that we. can't do and you can't do it at all well. you can but if you break your collarbone. your contracts gone right you know. really risky I love to ski and stuff but. you can't do it yes chemo yeah some. people have some weird stuff in their. country if her guys aren't a lot of wear.

flip-flops you know because they're bad. ankles the team will put that in that. contract like no no no flip-flops for. you but yeah Golf is even supposed to. not be allowed any to being skiing. snowboarding on none of that show so do. you feel lemonade it everywhere your. contractor no you just kind of know that. those are the rules in the a of the the. business done man yeah I mean you sign. it you can't not sign the contract right. so yeah I mean I'd like to go ski but. you just can't do it yeah um do you.

think you guys love the opportunity to. bring in new fans with the games go with. the game starting up um they said that. at UFC I was listening the other day I. think it was it was on kale saunas. podcast but that they brought in a. hundred thousand new fans a hundred. thousand people watched yes all right. UFC for the first time really this past. week of fights yeah yeah that wouldn't. that doesn't surprise me at all you know. I think they did a really good job. actually being the first you know what I. mean I think they probably have the. bread the most controllable environment.

though because you have the least amount. of people in the locker room probably so. I think they did a good job of like. taking advantage of it I think more so. our fans are like gonna be happy that. we're back I guess right oh yeah I mean. hopefully everybody watches and you know. we're getting back before the NBA so. it's maybe get some of those fans a. little bit waiting for for them to come. back but do you um do you think so you. know it will be interesting is they. should have more focus and information. maybe about you guys the players because.

they're not gonna be focusing on the. stand you know there won't be anything. really to look at in the stands right. right yeah yeah they're probably have an. extra 20 minutes a game to fill you know. just a. you have seen good fights in San. Francisco by the way my home plate yeah. this woman just smoked this guy pretty. cool stuff dude I was I'll tell you. before you were a Dodger I was high on. cocaine this is when I was using drugs. and I was high on cocaine at the Dodgers. game dude and I sat up in the top bro. dude the nosebleeds literally and the.

nosebleeds I think are also a gang. that's up there as well literally a gang. called the nosebleeds up there and there. was one dude man I was so sketched out. there's one guy the whole time is. threatening to kill me but I think he. knows I'm I mean he keeps saying man I'm. gonna kill you papa and then. there's another kind of sell me more. drugs it was angel in the devil actually. and he been anybody there I could have. been home man seemed like so like two. Devils yeah yeah double Devils man I.

could have been at a Raiders game but it. dude I remember it being for all I was. like please this and then every time. there was a foul ball or any time the. ball hit the bat I thought it was coming. right at me have to yeah that'll happen. I think you know altitude up there - hey. you guys play it one of the biggest. stadiums don't you yeah it's gigantic. that was the one thing I remember the. most from my debut was like you never. really know how it's gonna feel you know. you run out there and you're all tired. from running and adrenaline you look up. and the stadium seems like it goes on.

forever and you just I it's so weird to. me how big they built these things here. we got a young fella right here twins. fan what up yo what up Walker this is. Noah from North Dakota. Minnesota's neighbor if you didn't know. we didn't North Dakota was a state um. I've got a quick question regarding a. specific mo B stadium I know that you. play the Rockies often being in the NL.

West and you had 16 K's on them last. year at home but does your approach. change when you're going into crews. field the pitch in Colorado. due to that high altitude you looking. for more ground balls you pitch around. people more often so let me know gang. game. good luck in your modified season yeah. like that nice nice guy a lot of nice. people man um yeah what is it Coors. Field sucks so the ball acts completely. different it flies a lot further when. they hit it so you know I think every.

time at Pitzer I just come up with some. new thing in my head it makes me think I. can survive and so it's almost more. about survival there so that's not the. kind of place you think I can probably. get a no-hitter out here today oh no mo. who was big asian pitcher for us yeah. back in the day he threw a no-hitter. there though Wow which I think's maybe. the most impressive thing of all time. but yeah the pitches are stacked. different you know I almost feel bad for. some of the pictures that got drafted. there because you're not really like. playing on the same same game that we.

are because it's just and why is it what. is it cuz the air is thinner so what. right so the ball can't like it as the. ball goes it'll move certain ways. because it gets air and you're spinning. it and it pulls it other ways there the. air is thinner so it doesn't pull it the. same way Oh interesting so if there's. less moisture in the air than there's. less for the ball to grip on moths in. the air yep. yeah so you can't do the same things. that you normally do or you have to try. and aim certain you know all season you. throw one pitch the same way to the same. area and it pretty much does what you. think it's going to do in there it'll.

end up half moving half as much and. right in the middle and they just kill. you now what about um how do you pitch. so say you want a guy to hit a ball like. a ground ball like how do you powdi how. do you pitch to him typically you're. gonna throw a lower okay higher means. ground balls or higher means fly balls. lower means ground balls typically know. obviously the scouting and all that. stuff and kind of the research that we. do so certain guys really can hit the. ball low and whatever but typically. you're gonna aim lower yeah a big thing.

do you guys is there a lot of like do. you feel like there's good team unity as. as much team unity as you've gone up. through the ranks because you did you. play some at triple-a for some yeah so. you play in the minor leagues and that's. like the toughest thing to actually have. like a cohesive team because every week. that team has two or three guys that. they didn't the week before everyone's. he got to be super selfish in the minor. leagues you try not act like it but 95. percent of your thoughts are about how. good you're doing. once you get to the big league is about.

winning yeah so yeah and the big leagues. is where you kind of come together more. but at the same time you've got guys. that are making crazy money and live in. a completely different life than you and. your if you're making the league minimum. some guys are making twenty five thirty. million dollars you're just gonna live. differently you know what I mean yeah. the other thing I think that's hard. about LA is none of us live near each. other I think you're playing Cincinnati. you're gonna live in two or three little. neighborhoods their neighborhood yeah. and you can go have a barbecue on off. days and stuff like that' and we try and.

do it but for me to go to Kirsch's house. from marina last year it was hour and a. half well yeah so it's hard to do that. kind of stuff I think but I think inside. of our Clubhouse all of us are pretty. close is there a sport that you guys. compete in off outside of baseball we. play a lot of cards oh really yeah. yeah I've kind of a swimming you know in. some other waters yeah and then playing. against guys that are making real real. money and not that like we don't make. enough money but comparatively right so. you could just get bullied and and lose. our money but so she doesn't meet up and.

do some poker games or stuff like that. and the flights most the time right. that's like the big past the time on the. flights thing is we play poker is it. just poker you uh play rummy gin any. things we used to play a game called. three five seven which is per my. personal favorite and what screwed me is. I won a lot of money playing that game. because you and so then I had to stay in. the poker games or else I was like the. that won the money and then. bounced Yeah right so we're playing this.

other game and then this was my rook. here we got some new guys on the team at. the trade deadline they're like no no no. we're playing poker all right and I just. lost but I'd rather lose it then be the. guy that ran away I think yeah still not. fun what were some other things going up. in the egg going into those minor. leagues and being in that vibe where. it's uh like are the things that you. miss about that a little bit yeah I mean. Sharon you used to share like a. two-bedroom apartment for guys you know.

it's just like it sucks it's not perfect. but it's kind of fun at times I think. you know everybody rolls the field. together goes home kind of it's fun to. have people to clown around with yeah. just mess around with that for games. especially because your first time at my. leisure not making no money you're. making it $1,200 a month really oh yeah. so you're making yeah you're talking. taxes you're kidding like 400 bucks. maybe every two weeks and that's only. for seven months of the year six months. of the year then we don't get paid in.

the offseason so yeah you're just. splitting and kind of an EMC almost a. lot of these guys have to have somebody. to bankroll a moment there or you got a. really share share places yeah I know a. lot of guys who get jobs all offseason. and then try and train and whatever but. that's that's where the luxury being. picked on the draft is you get this. little bonus that you know kind of sets. you up to where you can live and just. train and get ready to get to the big. leagues I think but what what do you. think the dismantling of that like this. season they didn't have it you know they. didn't have the minors and I don't even.

know I'm not sure if those guys are. still getting paid maybe they all got. little stipends I think would that be. tough to say like if you two gone. through that I mean do you right what. would that have been like you think you. still would have been pitching are later. yeah I mean I think I would have played. out as I said I was really fortunate to. have kind of a little nest egg - oh yeah. that's right look you hadn't had that. you know right I think it's very tough I. think those guys and the other thing. that sucks about that is they do there's. no clue if if and when they were gonna. play so it's not like you can walk into. Lululemon and get a job and say hey you.

know I can be here for a year where I. can be here for six months you have to. say listen I'd love to have a job but. but I'm gone three weeks you know so. that's where I was pretty financially. tough and David Price who we just traded. for from the Red Sox came out really. gave all of our minor leaguers like a. thousand bucks. June which is just super super cool it's. really nice just to kind of help guys. try and stay afloat during this whole. thing. yeah and just set up that support that. other people are thinking about you like. hey you know somebody else is thinking.

about what's going on with you yeah he's. he's never played a game for us we just. got him and he still did that for our. guys which which I think was really. really cool and and some other guys have. done similar stuff and you know some. teams have committed to playing they're. paying that stipend for awhile and but I. you know I don't think minor league. baseball will ever ever look the same. because you're thinking. like we have a lo a team in the city I'm. from in Lexington that was on the list. to be chopped. yeah before all this little hone after. so Lao. you know these tiny small towns that's.

there's just not that many people so. it's hard to hard to own a baseball team. in rural Iowa you know but it's a bummer. to cuz then the kid the kids that were. gonna go there and watch the game who. are then like oh I want to play this you. know who were finding that you know. filling that space in their head where. inspiration Luis aren't gonna have that. right less less chances and you know. you're not gonna I don't think you'll. have as many kind of Cinderella sort. like you talk about Mike Piazza he was. like the last round pick or whatever. well I read his book I forget what round.

was back then they had like 70 round. he's a 65th round last slice of Piazza I. think was that's horrible but obviously. we tell some pretty bad here oh man I. was gonna ask you about Rudy start. wondering about the minor leagues you. you do a golf tournament is that what. you do I do. as a geyser yeah so we did our second. second one this past year which is. pretty cool the first year I had an. uncle passed away from kind of long-term.

complications of child pediatric cancer. so he beat it and passed away at like 42. hey young huh yeah he dad's brother yeah. he's my dad's older brother he beat. Hodgins at like 13 or 12 but you know. back then the 87 City know what they. were doing they were just kind of trying. to say back when they put you on a jar. murmur they put a picture on a jar and. just yeah they just see what happens. that was the original like Facebook. share dude they would put a picture on a. jar and set it at the pizza place yeah. and raise money yeah but no so he he.

passed away so we did the first year for. that we raised like $37,000 which was. awesome which was cool and we were so. excited and then Rich Hill who played. with us last couple years started a. foundation called Field of jeans which. didn't know much about we kind of talked. a lot he and I ended up becoming really. close and talked about he had lost a son. which was devastating obviously. we you know I told our whole team story. and so this past year we did it for his. his new initiative and where he's 100.

grand this year which was really really. cool it's cool. so yeah I mean you know I think everyone. does a to the golf tournament right but. it is really fun and cool and I think. we're doing some good stuff yeah ya know. it sounds like it man that's brave of. him to even wanna rent room you know. memorialize that I think even. memorialize and things can be kind of. break because you have to go through. that some turbulence and stuff yeah you. know he was super emotional about it. obviously and I spoke at the event and. stuff and people were just like all.

right let's we're buying all this. and we're in yeah and obviously you know. the city of Lexington being from there. is pretty close-knit and really cool. city man yeah I love it it's you know a. lot of southern cities to get a bit get. a rough wrap everybody especially right. now everybody you know the news wants to. make the South look kind of bad. sometimes I feel like and that stuff. really makes me mad because there's some. amazing cities there man Lexington is. one of them it's super diverse you get. down to the university man it's so much. fun the strangest people dude I've had. some of the strangest times I saw a guy.

I took I do I do the worm all the way. around the a four way warm Eddie yeah. look it look like he had some miles on. his belly. you know calluses oh really yeah he was. calloused around the belly button no I. was gonna. oh so one time I got invited I used to. work as a tour manager for this guy Josh. Kelly who was a music who is a musician. and he and his brother were both.

musicians and they had a golf tournament. because his brother works in that band. Lady Antebellum and I got to stay in a. they put us up it was in Augusta Georgia. and they put us up in different you know. and Ozzie Smith was in mine mm-hmm which. was really really cool man Chris Dolman. was in there he used to play for. Minnesota this a little bit for your. time Jim Furyk was in there golfer me up. and and it was me and that guy Dan.

member Dave versus Dan for the Olympics. or whatever you were probably too young. well but it was like date. Dan versus danvers' day. Danya yeah they're both him remembers. well yeah you have this in this before. that yeah this back when uh when it was. just man versus man dude when man was. less lonely and now it says man vs. wild. like the Calphalon guys yes yes the. Catholic guys and this was huge and I. was a kid they were boat supposed to go. to the Olympics and I think one of them. didn't qualify and so that was like the.

big bummer yeah Dan vs. Dade can you. find it on Wikipedia - thanks bud and. advertising the campaign is a television. commercials O'Brien and Johnson were. favored to win medals in Barcelona which. had recently lost US market share to. Nike was hoping to rebound with their. endorsement did when arrived five weeks. before the games began when O'Brien. failed to qualify for the American. Olympic team by missing the pole vault. huh damn.

yeah dude so the Hall of America's fired. up for them to go to the Olympics while. and it didn't go the this was where he's. at now well so my my Olympics story the. first guy or this spring first spring. training I got to play golf with Michael. Phelps which was no way the coolest at. long belly huh hey Mike dude he looks. real he's like a damn pine looks like a. fish for the face nothing really. no but you just see him swimming yeah. I'm telling you that guy's golf I've.

never seen so many shoulders so he wraps. he's done that golf it was awesome cool. dude yeah it was fun dang that's pretty. cool man. now golf tournaments I will say one. thing that's amazing about him is the. people you get to meet at him yeah. there's a lot that one in Phoenix is. crazy apparently I still haven't gone. that what is it the way the waste. management oh no it's a PG that's the. one they have the whole word buddy. screams and yells oh wow have you never.

seen this oh that's oh Michael yes see. that's at waste management because he. lives in Arizona I think yeah put up. this I think it's a 17th hole waste. management or whatever or type in waste. management and it was Michael Ehrlich no. no just put up the waste management. I think it is a 17th hole yeah so this. is the only thing in golf like this 16th. hole they built up this giant stadium.

all around this hole and people can yell. the whole time. the I think this is Ricky Fowler he's. like pumping up the crowd it's the only. place in golf and they just scream the. whole time I really did see that guy in. the Jersey yes John Romney played at. Arizona State so it's like his home city. you know huh he's from Spain till he's. fired up and so he's wearing a he's. wearing a ASU uni damn Rickie Fowler's.

damn beautiful for a damn golfer huh. that's jordan Spieth how it is sorry. Ricky. oh that ain't met and so this is a part. three huh yeah it's like a little short. there's Ricky right there in the gray so. they play so people can yell her and. there's Donald Trump jr. as the caddie. do you see that Trump son looks like the. caddie right there with that it looked. like him a little bit but on it's like. it's like damn club in Vegas around this. place they say it's wild wow it's in.

Phoenix in like early February I think. huh and so they got a little quiet for. when the action will hit but there was. still a lot of chatter usually dead. quiet type in Ricky Fowler cuz he. there's one where he full-on like pumps. up the crowd gets the ball and he's like. it's too quiet and he steps back and. starts screaming at him place the crowd. there you go yeah there you go. [Applause]. oh I'd be so nervous ro look at the.

character sign he's usually telling. people to be quiet. [Music]. Wow point they're just screaming are you. any are you any good. well alright yeah okay I did a little. lesson yesterday we're working on the. game okay.

we're working on are there any things. about pitching that you correlate over. to golf that that help your you know. what I think playing baseball and hang. golf are actually like you have the. basic like you can rotate your hips. quick and so most of us can hit the ball. pretty far but in baseball and golf your. work your legs work completely different. so we all have bad swings even if they. look alright because our legs don't lie. operate the way they should I think is. the biggest thing like hitters don't. really play golf much because they feel. like it's gonna mess with their swing so.

I came here when we were growing up like. in high school they bag I'm gonna play. golf I know you're not you have a game. tomorrow right you can't mess up your. swing right don't be thinking about. slope plays right yeah huh. um trying to think of anything else man. you got anything new. mm-hm I was curious this is just small. who is the armored arbitrator is it. someone who play baseball agent the. arbiter arbitrator our head guy yeah so. the head of the union's name is Tony. Clark he had a pretty successful like a.

really successful career in the big. leagues and then we have like his help. not the helpers not the right word I. don't know his official title his name's. Bruce Meyer he helped with the NBA CBA. with the NFL CBA she's professional. arvid there's a professional. professional. yeah but the head guy the guy that comes. out and speaks that you've heard him. comment was a player Tony Clark yep so. you know we have some interesting stuff. we have big group phone calls and kind. of talked through some stuff and wow. that's totally do I mean it seems like.

you're kind of growing up a. little dude you know trying man I got. engaged and. and then no you got a second although. second dog. you know we had Nala for about a year in. all his day off 21 is her Instagram the. new one barrel doesn't have one yet but. he's my Allah's day off in all his day. off 21 and then barrel Bueller will be. the new one yeah we don't know what. we're gonna do he's a Boykin so Beryl. Bueller the Boykin kind of works mm and. a Boykin is what is it. it's like a small cocker spaniel but. they're all brown they all look exactly.

the same okay. he'll be about thirty pounds but I. wanted a hunting dog I do a little bit. of duck hunting here and there mmm so we. we got that one cuz it's the smallest. one you can get that can really go do. that stuff but also small enough for my. fiance to travel with a little bit okay. so she likes the dog too yeah she she is. absolutely obsessed with the first dog. Nala our little our little french. bulldog. okay yeah yeah we got that one opening. day last year so oh that's cool.

yeah then we drove down and we get one. each year you think you're know I think. this is it for a while two twos kind of. you know people told us that that. puppies are harder than kids and and I. some upheaval yeah our first kid or our. first dog was kind of easy and all it. was like pretty good this other one just. pissed set everywhere he's tough but. anarchist sounds like a drunk friend. yeah they're they're tough you know but. then I just left him in at home with. McKenzie so she's oh they're in Kentucky.

right now well you get to go back at. home and all during this stretch know. she'll come out here okay here she. usually does about half the half the. season I don't know what we're gonna do. this year we had it all planned out but. obviously that got changed up a little. bit so yeah we'll figure it out. and you think you'll go ahead to head. with Jo Musgrove this year or not no we. won't play them licensed in the playoffs. because they're in the East so normally. we would we played he pitched against us. last year who do you have an arch rival.

out there that you love to pitch against. me you said clarity but uh not a single. guy I think for us is more teams. obviously the Giants are big and you. know the Rockies have some a lot of. talent over there so playing them is. always a big deal but that stuff happens. more in your division I think than. anything is it fun to play against uh is. it fun to play against teams. have you want teams that have a lot of. good hitters or do you are you better if. teams are kind of I mean I'd rather face. your little league team yeah then team. the club's yeah in all honesty but no I.

mean I think I think it's good stuff. when you're trying to get ready for the. playoffs and things like that when he. faced these good teams and get used to. all right like these guys could. legitimately kill me not kill me but. crush me you know so you know it takes a. little something to get get ready to get. go like that yeah what we're gonna say. about Charlie Blackmon I think we kind. of went off on that you have the same. hair and he's the hardest hitter to well. he's he has he's had the most success. off me in the big leagues ever ham so. there's there's a you know there's a. little bit of then power yeah power flow.

what do you attribute it to is there. anything about him specifically that you. noticed you know I think as we Scout you. learn like oh this guy hits this pitch. really good and this pitch really bad. and things like that and you know my. strengths as a pitcher what I can do. best it's kind of his strengths a lot of. times you you know you want to stay with. your strengths unless a guy has a. glaring weakness and he doesn't have any. glaring ones so I just kind of have to. go with what I do well and he happens to. handle it pretty well mm-hmm but there's.

just bad matchups and good matchups. there's really good hitters that just I. match up well against or a really bad. hitters you know against most people. that still get do really well against me. that just that's that's what baseball's. kind of a weird game in that way I think. what about bonkers do you guys hate it I. think it's it seems dumb but is it dumb. is this you know you guys are is what's. weird about that is one of God bunts. like that's our only chance like kind of. look athletic and when it's happening. you feel so athletic do you really oh my.

god you sprint off grab and throw it and. then I see it on replay. and I run like an idiot yeah really yeah. everybody gives me about how our. what's going on. is it mechanics what is it yeah I got. bad hips yeah oh you might have. dysplasia like my buddy Scott's. Australian Shepherd yeah it's I bet that. that athletic shepherd still runs way. better than I do.

and Walker Buehler thanks so much for. joining us it was fun man yeah I. appreciate you best of luck dude. congrats on you know that was your first. all-star season right yep Wow man you. know see if they can you know I don't. know if you're gonna be able to come to. any games well see feel pretty some. tickets I could just send them to your. house yeah I'll just have dude I might. go in a shower cut out yeah we might. have to do that. or what's in my calendar Wilson Nick it. will give him a day off well good what. we'll do is we'll get some some. everybody's a find some bad photos of. them just a minute oh you know fine if. we paid for Brian and printing with just.

some horrible pictures of them yeah. which are a lot of their pictures. we really should that would be so good I. guess. Brian just got his eyes done part of his. eyes sending the picture of him all. swelled up yeah that's a good idea maybe. we'll do a little fundraiser or. something and we'll buy that and then. we'll donate the rest to uh to your. charity or something like it'd be. awesome. yeah do that of him and maybe Schaub.

after he got knocked out or something. yeah I agree with you a hundred percent. bro oh dude I went to more TFE antenna. two forty how it take him I have to gain. 60 pounds but I could do it bro I might. have to meet these guys before we do it. maybe that's what I'll meet them and. then we'll reveal in the next there we. go if we get it done man we'll have to. get you over on the fighter in the. carrying off to be fine touch base with. the man up obviously I had a good time. enjoy good to see you yeah you too man.

and thanks for yeah you took me out to. the game last year man it was a lot of. fun I got to bring my friend Steve dude. we had a blast we sat right behind. Kershaw's family actually yeah yeah good. people - yeah it was it was nice over. there best of luck man thanks man. [Music]. [Music].

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