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Chuck Arfine here with Ryan McGuffie, and we are here in Glendale, Arizona, literally sitting outside Camelback Ranch.

We're here at the entrance. And your thoughts being here at the start of a new season.

Well yeah, certainly there's an energy.

Not just from us being here, but the players that, you know, we just did this two weeks

ago at Sox Fest, so it kind of felt like that was like the unofficial start to the season

to me because of how

late, how close it got to spring training. But talking to some of the guys today, you know,

today was the pitchers and catchers are supposed to informally kind of report today. And there

were so many more guys here than pitchers and catches. And I know that that's not abnormal in 2018.

That hitters show up early too.

But the fact that people want to be here and that they just want to get going and are chomping at the bit, so to speak.

And they've been here.

Yeah.

I was told that over the weekend, there were already 45 Major League and Minor League players here.

I mean, it's incredible.

They have 66 guys at the

big league camp this year and they just some of the local guys or some of the local some of the

PR guys about beckdall and and some of the white stock staff were actually trying to remember if

that's ever happened before and i know they don't have some of the media guys yeah some of the

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