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Welcome back to starting nine episode 145, the special episode.

It's a thankful episode.

Yes.

I'm thankful that we have no one hour or not on the podcast for a second time.

Repeat a fender.

Yeah, this is a guy.

You know, I get asked, you know, not all the guys that you talk to, like, who's like, you know, down earth and blah blah.

I mean, I would say out of all the superstar players that I've dealt with, the guys that are the most down to earth, normal guys, despite the fact that they are one of the best at what they do on planet earth.

JD Martinez Christian, yellow, no one are not out.

Yeah, those three guys are honorable and respectable trio there.

For sure. Like when you're talking about major leaguers that have every right to carry themselves in a way where it's like, hey, I'm too good for you.

Or they just have this air about them where they're untouchable or unapproachable.

They have the talent and the ability in the back of the baseball card to be able to carry themselves in that way.

They don't know.

I go back, I go back to spring training when we were talking with Nolan.

We had weather out there. Jared brought fucking rain with him to the desert.

I am the right place post.

And one day we were having just some scheduling issues and Nolan, Aaron Otto is running around the complex basically and like across the street in a golf car.

I'll kind of like like in his fucking shower shoes in the rain.

And like when he finally ends up, he gets on the bus, you know, he gets in his car drives over gets on the gets on the RV and he's like, hey man, like super sorry.

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