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It's a Thursday. It's our two here in Scottsdale. Beautiful once again,

temperatures should be in the 70s. They start out in around 40 degrees when we get here at 530 in the

morning. And then the sun comes up and we're good to go. Great backdrop here. We're in right field

at Scottsdale Stadium home. The San Francisco giant's got to take some batting practice early,

early this morning. And I wanted these guys to hear what 100 miles an hour sounded like.

And we got into the cage down below. Fritzy, Fritzy looked like Babe Ruth there. He was swinging.

You were you were making contact. No, no, no, you look good.

There's five or something. Then Fritzy was kind of get batting gloves.

I go, it really gets stuck when you make contact. Oh gosh. Didn't you guys feel that that kind of

hurt? You didn't even get in when they were throwing a hundred. I did not. I stayed with the guy

that was just kind of lobbing it over. A guy named Pedro was throwing about 50 miles an hour.

What's about as far as I was working? You were getting in. Make good contact. And then I said,

all right, let's get in, dial it up to a hundred. And I just wanted to make contact. I fouled one off

and I went, all right, I'm good. I'm out of here. The sound of a hundred miles an hour is unsettling.

It's like, yeah, I remember there was a baseball player who faced Nolan Ryan and he complained to the

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