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- [Kyle] Just seeing the young guys around, the energy they have.
It almost renews things for you though it almost makes you feel younger it almost brings you back to the high
school/college level where you're always playing with new guys every year and it didn't matter, you know,
you just made new friends and I remember the days when I was first coming in here and, you know,
my first days trying to prove myself also.
- [Brandon] I gotta call, it was around 10:30, you're kind of thinking this can
only be like really one thing and so I pick it up my hearts pounding it was "oh it's Marty you're going
to be a big leaguer."
Walking into the clubhouse first time you see all these guys going about their day like normal it's
business for them.
That day I forgot to eat, I mean, I forgot to drink water.
And then it all becomes real.
- [Chris] Everyone's staring, there's 35,000 people staring at you the umpires are
telling you to hurry up and that moments like breathe and go slow.
Cause your body's going to go faster than it's ever went in your entire life.
Your arms going to be faster than its ever been in its entire life.
It's just breathe be slow and do your thing.
- Saying that I have more time than I think.
- Trying to make sure you feel when those doors open you're like Superman, all you gotta do is go out and do
exactly what you do and you're perfectly fine.
- [Carter] There's just so many things that happen and my sense is, it's really difficult for those guys
to actually even remember what's happening in that day.
It's a mixture of excitement and being nervous and being overwhelmed, being elated.
My first day I remember walking through the door and thinking to myself like,
these are going to be some of my best friends over the next few years.
These are the people that I'm going to spend my time with every single day for 360 days out of the year.
My first ask of you Jed, can I have a pen?
Did you want to go over anything else?
Great, the last lines great.
- [Jed] Whenever I see pictures from my own press conference I'm like "My God, my hairs dark."
and "My God, I need a haircut.", so.
- I love you.
- Thank you.
- He does have incredibly big shoes to fill but I know that he's more than up for the task.
Congratulations, Carter.
- Thank you.
- It's my pleasure.
- I appreciate it.
That's an overwhelming aspect of it as well right just, hey like, these are people that we're going to get to
know and I just don't know what the future's going to hold.
I'm nowhere near where I want to be.
I hope no one else in the organization is near where they want to be but I hope everybody's interested
in continuing to push themselves to grow and learn and I think if you get hundreds of people doing that all
in the same direction, like, the results can be pretty magnificent.
- It's just exciting when you bring in new guys and new energy and things just don't stay stagnant you know
when things are stagnant always staying the same you kinda stay the same.
- Watching players on their first day, there's just so many things that are going on around you.
You have the clubhouse guy asking what uniform number you want, you have the travel guy trying to help set
up your family so they can come in and see you.
You have somebody trying to help find your living arrangements for you.
You're just trying to figure out where things are in the clubhouse.
You're trying to prepare for a major league game against major league
pitching or it's major league hitters.
Talking to the players that have gone through it and all the emotions of that come to just one point
and just hit you like a freight train.
Who they would call and who they would call first.
- It was probably around like 8 or 10, 8 or 10 calls that night, yeah.
It seemed like every call I made it was like a new anxiousness running through my body about how I'm
going to tell this person.
It's like a new sense of nervousness to tell them and how they're going to react.
Every call was a new emotion coming.
- There's always this one memory that they'll have.
And I think that probably captures all those emotions and that's something those guys can go back to.
I can't even imagine.
- I don't even remember the situation.
I kind of blacked out a little bit.
Then I'm running in there it felt like a three year run.
It felt like I was running forever.
Trying to slow the heart rate down, trying to have some longer breaths,
longer conscious breaths.
Then I get to the mound just like I was so in the moment that nothing else mattered.
I went to work.
- [Commentator 1] Swing and a miss!
- [Commentator 2] That's four straight strikeouts for Brandon Hughes!
- I wanted to strike out everybody.
Some night's it happens, some nights it doesn't happen.
That night it happened.
- Knowing how hard all those players have worked to get there from the time they were 12 years old and the
sacrifices they made, its just unbelievable to think of what that moment represents and its no wonder that it's
so emotional for so many players.
- And then we both get called up on the same day.
Right after the game I saw Morel walking down the steps.
I stopped him real quick gave him a big hug and said what we just did out there, that was fun.
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