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You know the intimate feeling and being just doesn't notice the park like setting you know so it's easy it's going to be very very very special whenever Derek. -- escaping the sand when it does it all grows up. We've seen big truckloads of trees coming in he had wanted to go to. Tremendous investment here in -- White Sox the practice facilities on the side of our practice facilities around the outside. Fourteen shields told -- And you conceded combine them maybe even in my -- we have -- separatist could have are finally headquarters right there. He has twelve months here.

Grass where we just met him up by industrial. That's going to be eventually -- The conference center and hotel goes okay and the way we designed this is on that Andersen and companies and don't tell one NAACP.

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Is this stadium so there's that two anchors of the lake its next. The two -- but it also divides the site in house with the White Sox have here -- We have our hi how -- he can just like at -- turning on their -- everywhere and so what field you see that that the voice on bicycles and so forth.

I would bring and that plus you'll see -- side it's no fences and still look like idiots like you feel that you want to live really amazing to see a doctor. You -- did you hear you can interact with the fans and the fans get a big big kick out of that.

It's sort of like being nice -- you know and out of baseball diamond again attack kind of feeling if you don't come. -- fruition Michigan great great feeling I'm.

Five months ago we showed up at camelback ranch in the heat of July remember we're way out there right about without light -- was and back then it was just a big pile of dirt. Now with just one month ago before spring training opens we've got almost a completed stadium and bull owners here to talk about the new venture.

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Socialism. At the end of the day we know what our stewardship is committed just like Jerry's is with the White Sox stick to giving the fans are great experience. And spring training is one of the great great parts of baseball life and you -- twins fans really can bond with players. And vice versa where the fans get to get to really talk interact with with what stands and hear what's on their mind and and death. Favre fans couldn't get severity Jimmy needs just it was got it was an affordable for promotion and then it was it was a huge. Time commitment to get there I mean you can apply here an hour drive here in five hours for dodger fans this is just going to be yet he and.

Right with the good anguished but the decision to leave vero beach when you walk around here and see where you're -- does it make the decision. Feel better yeah it does it really doesn't and you know Steve I. I knew what was the right decision in my -- Because we've we've we've.

We talk to fans all time and you know fans.

When you get into a conversation about it that they love the idea. Under a beach because of the history so what's been in most instances they've. And then there it's nostalgia and history more than anything else and and that which is important right but -- have what's also important is -- Yeah giving our fans to experience. They didn't giving them that experience to submit themselves that they can feel. And touches and as we walked into the complex through the other Miley feels it will be used to be utilizing that. That was the feel of -- can you point to other specific things it will see here. That will remind full time dodger fans of -- well the biggest thing is what you won't see.

And that is not going to see. Offense is everywhere. Separating the players from our fans networks and and.

It's a very simple way -- to just say let's let's let's great great experience here for each other. And it's worked for sixty years in -- I'm sure it's gonna work for sixty years here and so is that intimacy.

That made that -- it made -- Such a special place may dodger town -- count and so that's what we've brush your switch which you won't see that's I I think will be its biggest attribute what you will see. -- eat is the get go at times when earlier in the history. What a layer and what makes the Dodgers the Dodgers. And the other thing he will see the right after that is an amazing park like setting here just like doctors -- it's oasis it's a place to get away from at all it's baseball haven't.

There's an update. I haven't even seen the finished product but what I've seen so far is tremendous and you know I I know that you can come spring training you can get to working and you can become a better player no matter where you go. How much nicer to going to be for everybody involved to be able to do it here. It's going to be great justice to have I think more fans in the course of cancer on the west coast and I think they're going to appreciate averaging a lot closer to home. It's just never. I mean I think it's everybody's a winner here player is a winner because -- facilities we get. No better way to train. Come to place where I don't want to leave this is naturally here I can't wait I'm from get out there it.

It's great having Russell curtailed because we can steal one way right sort of -- fan's perspective. But Brussels out there saying okay pretend you're throwing the ball and do this and do that let me check batter's eye on let me do this and it's just exciting -- in the locker room in. It's like kidney cancer just.

Yeah and I think that you know so much of that has been taken into consideration to whereas in years past is like they build -- stadium expect the guys about play but didn't really take. Their perspective in the play at all it.

And that's really been thought about here yeah I'll.

Everything's been thought about the training rooms you know what is important for medical staff what's important players what's important important for the visitors what's important for. You know if there's different function here it's it's pretty excited it's great.

You know accomplish is -- is I didn't realize of the what I got my first look at had a few days ago when. Do it's it's really really nice can -- it done and so little did you mean you have to access to different machine you have access to different -- access to. We always stay as a being able to to be inside the facility uses his next.