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Dugout Discussions with Chris Rose

Alek Manoah can DEFINITELY hear his mom from the stands

Dugout Discussions with Chris Rose

Jomboy Media

Sports, Baseball

4.9689 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Alek Manoah joins Chris Rose to talk about going to West Virginia as a two way player, hearing his mom while he's on the mound, getting drafted, challenges growing up, facing his idol Miguel Cabrera, the Blue Jays homer jacket and the possibility of going to the All-Star Game!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to episode number 123 of the Chris Rose Rotation, a production of John Boy Media,

0:05.1

and today presented to you by our friends over at Seekkeek.

0:08.6

I am Chris Rose, joined today by the, I don't want to say it too loud, but soon to be future

0:14.2

All-Star, the Toronto Blue Jays, Alec Manoa.

0:17.7

Big Puma, as he's like to be called on his screen here. So we were supposed to do this

0:23.1

yesterday, but you have to explain to everybody why this got pushed back today. Yeah, so

0:30.7

day after my start, I usually go and I float. It's kind of like a meditation kind of thing.

0:37.6

Just really good for recovery, for the body, for the mind.

0:41.0

So when I went to float, came back to my building.

0:45.1

There's fire trucks outside and just a bunch of people outside and all the stuff.

0:49.6

Like, what the hell's going on?

0:51.7

Basically couldn't get up to my apartment or anything for about an hour. So here we

0:57.5

all today. All right. So the place did not burn down. No, it was a false alarm. False alarm.

1:05.0

You know what it is? It's somebody partying after Blue Jays win on a Monday night, pulling the fire

1:10.3

alarm. See what you did after

1:12.0

pitching six shutout innings? You're causing all sorts of havoc in your building now.

1:16.2

If that's the reason, I'll take it. You take it every start? So you said you go float?

1:22.9

Yeah. Did I hear that right? Yeah, it's a float tank. I've never heard of this. You got to fill me in.

1:29.8

Yeah, so it's just like a big tank, um, fill with like salt water and then you kind of just get in there and like literally float on the salt water.

1:41.0

Put like a little neck, like a little neck thing so your neck doesn't get all cramped up.

1:46.9

And then you kind of just let your body completely relax.

1:50.4

And when you get out of there, it literally feels like you slept 24 hours straight.

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