0:02
I felt good, you know, just playing
0:04
against the best players here and, you
0:07
know, just just come out and play.
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That's that's what I did. Just enjoy
0:12
myself here and, you know, take it take
0:14
everything in, you know, and you only
0:16
get just being here is is such a
0:19
blessing for me. Just coming out of
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Hawaii. It's a small little small little
0:23
island you're from. just woke up in the
0:25
morning and they texted me that
0:26
something about claiming your claiming
0:29
your Gatorade something and I was just
0:31
like, "Wow, I want it." Called my
0:33
parents immediately after that. I didn't
0:35
pick it up yet. It probably got sent to
0:37
my house. So, yeah, when I get when I
0:39
finally get home from the combine, I
0:42
I'll definitely take a picture with it.
0:44
Uh, it means a lot. you know, you just
0:45
you're not only representing Hawaii,
0:47
you're representing your family,
0:49
yourself, and you just want to you just
0:52
want to, you know, do do great for that
0:55
for your state of Hawaii. You know, it's
0:56
a small island. Just kind of scrappy,
0:58
just scrappy kids just playing having
1:00
fun playing baseball. It's the greatest
1:02
feeling just hearing how, you know,
1:04
they're they're Mets fans and they love
1:06
my dad and, you know, just what he did
1:09
in New York. Just Yeah, just hearing
1:11
about it. It's it's fun. when he hit
1:13
that walk-off in the against the Giants
1:15
in the division series that that's
1:18
really when I was like, "Wow, I can't
1:19
believe he really did that." It's always
1:21
about baseball. Yeah. Just everything
1:23
about baseball, you know, he wants the
1:26
best for me and he knows I love
1:28
baseball, too. And I just want to follow
1:29
in his footsteps and become a big leager
1:31
like him. No, I don't. I just do do what
1:34
I am and just be myself out there. Yeah.
1:37
Oh, it was definitely tougher. You know,
1:39
I had to get a better feeling of the
1:42
game moved real quick. Like the game was
1:45
moving a lot quicker than high school
1:46
ball. And I had to get like I was
1:49
struggling in the beginning, but got
1:50
when I got used to it, then it started
1:52
getting easier for me. When July 13
1:54
comes around, they'll they'll be picking
