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It's left 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:37.520 handed pitcher Caleb Ferguson. 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:38.680 That all coming up. 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:41.080 New pleasure to be co hosting this week with a 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:44.240 guy that's contributed to this show many times. You can 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.279 catch his work on Reds dot com, MLB dot com. 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:48.640 He is Mark Sheldon. 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:50.640 Mark. How's the offseason treating you? 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.400 The off season's going fast. It's already hard to believe. 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.719 We're well past a halfway point and spring training is 0:05:57.800 --> 0:05:59.960 right around the corner. But all was well. 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:02.200 Happy holidays, absolutely all right. 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:06.159 Without further ado, let's bringing man, I'm assuming we're going 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:09.360 to South Florida because that's where he resides. He is 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.640 sou Stuart Sow. How's the off season treating you? 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:14.000 Everything's going good. 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.920 I'm super happy to be around my family and friends, 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:20.559 and Christ's is around the corner now, so I'm super 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:23.080 super excited, and uh, yeah, everything's going great. 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:27.320 That is awesome. You had you got a taste. 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.200 You came up and got a big taste, even the 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:30.520 taste of the playoffs. 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.919 Broad question to start for you? What did you learn? 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.479 Honestly, I just learned kind of like the everyday life 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:40.839 in regards to uh in the big leagues. 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:41.920 Obviously the minor league. 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:44.600 The big leagues is different, not only from a playing aspect, 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:48.240 but also just the kind of weekly basis. I mean, 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:49.960 kind of when you're in the minor league, you play 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:53.200 Tuesday through Sunday, you're in one area for a lot 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:57.120 a more extended period of time, and then when you 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.080 get to the big leagues, now you're kind of in 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:01.600 three three three days in three out, three days and 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:03.440 three outs. So I kind of just learned like the 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:07.039 everyday life of a big leaguer and experienced it for myself. Obviously, 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.680 I have great mentors that have guided me but you 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:12.440 never really known to you experience it yourself. So it 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.560 was a great learning lesson for me. And obviously playing 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:17.440 in the playoffs that's what we all want. We all 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:18.840 want to be in the playoffs, and not only be 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:20.880 in the playoffs, but we want to go win it all. 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:24.440 So it was it was a great experience for sure, 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:27.120 and definitely learning lessons and another tool I can put 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:27.800 in my tool bag. 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:31.080 So I was super excited and learned a lot. 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:32.080 You know. 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:33.920 So one of the lessons you did learn in the 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:35.920 big leagues, and you learned it on the fly, was 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:39.960 was playing first base. I understand that that's obviously the 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.880 focus of your off season work and and Freddie Benavitez 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.680 was scheduled to pay you a visit recently. How how 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:47.880 was working at first base and how did you take 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:51.640 to the position learning it as you did in in 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:53.040 live games in the big leagues. 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:57.240 Yeah, it was definitely a new a new experience for me. 0:07:57.400 --> 0:07:59.880 Like like you said, in the minor leagues, I never 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:01.800 I never played for I think I played like one 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:03.840 game maybe, or one or two games. I don't really 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:07.480 remember exactly, but it's like I told him, when you 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:08.840 get to the big leagues. I mean, I was there 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:10.760 to help the team, so they asked me to go 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:13.320 play first, and obviously it's kind of tough learning on 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:13.600 the fly. 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:15.720 I mean, it's just a whole different angle from third. 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:18.679 But I did sprinkle in a little bit of second 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:20.720 so that angle wasn't too difficult. 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:22.040 But at the end of the day, we. 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:24.280 Got paid a lot of money to figure it out 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:27.480 and that was my job. And honestly, like the last 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:29.400 game where I kind of made I made that mistake, 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:31.720 it just let the bad taste in my mouth. So 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:34.040 I really wanted to get after this offseason and make 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:36.160 sure I could up my game and get it to 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:39.360 the part that it needs to be. So obviously it 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:41.880 was tough, but that's no excuse, and that's why I 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:43.520 came into the off season ready to work. 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:46.480 And I'm grateful, super grateful for Freddie. 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:49.520 Freddy came down to help with me and Yander, one 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:51.960 of my he's like an uncle to me. Uh he's 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.880 been We've been working almost every day together, So I 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:56.920 have a lot of good people surrounding me helping me, 0:08:57.640 --> 0:08:59.960 and I'm super excited for this next year to show 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:01.360 show all my hard work paying off. 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:05.199 Sure you're referring to former red Yonder Alonso. You can 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:07.200 now catch on email, but you network on know big 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:11.199 mentor for you, As you said, you've posted some videos 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.640 of you working out. Looks like you're pretty intense and 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:18.120 perhaps maybe even changing the body a little bit. Everyone 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:21.840 has an exit interview with the team in which they 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:24.440 try to tell you what they're expecting from you in 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:28.240 the offseason and going forward. Did any of that meeting 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.600 have to do with perhaps your conditioning and what are 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:33.319 you working on right now in that regard? 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.160 Yeah, Honestly, in the in the exit meetings, it was 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:39.840 kind of all super abrupt. We kind of like took 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.760 off right like right after, like everyone kind of dispersed. 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.000 The season just ends fast. You got people going all 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:48.000 over the place. So we ended up sit back. I 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:50.200 had a I called Tito. We had a super long 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:52.920 talk together. He just what he expects out of me, 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.000 and we're gonna be in this together. I mean, he knows, 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.520 he knows, and he expects a lot of good things 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.560 from me. So we talked about it. But honestly, it 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:04.880 came for me. It came for myself. Like I'm sure 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:08.960 the team expected things, but I'm someone that. I mean, like, 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:10.520 this is my job, this one I want to I 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:12.160 want to do this for for forever and ever. I 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:14.800 want people to remember my name for for years to come. 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:16.800 So I had to. I had to look myself in 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:18.200 the mirror. I had to, I had to say what 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:20.960 I needed to get better in and I felt like 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:24.160 losing some weight could not only help me, but allowed 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:28.280 me to go play first and even second. So to Actually, 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.360 today i weighed in, I'm down twenty six pounds from 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:32.640 when I left off. 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:36.960 Season, breaking news. So yeah, yeah, that's great already. 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:39.800 Yeah, but we can skip the spring training best shape 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:43.760 of your life question because you were Yeah. 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.920 So I really needed to make adjustments in my life, 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.679 which I did, and I feel like it's going to 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:54.040 better myself. Uh So, what my goal was to really 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:56.520 get down, really really low. 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:01.120 Kind of it was? Yeah, I'll say it's as someone 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:03.600 in the ballpark of twenty five obvious bounces up and down. 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:06.400 But I'm right around there. I feel really, really really good. 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:11.439 I feel lighter, I feel more agile. So I'm super 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:14.000 proud of where I've gotten so far. But the job's 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:17.400 not done. I want to continue to get better, bettering 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:20.959 my body and like I said, I want to be 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.319 a superstar in this game, and you don't have to 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:24.840 talk about it, you have to be about it. So 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:27.880 I'm super happy right now with where I'm at, and 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:30.160 I'm looking forward to get into spring training. 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:34.000 You know, as you're waiting for spring training and doing 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.520 your workouts, certainly the team is still working on its 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.560 roster and making choices, and you know they haven't signed 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:41.920 another offensive hit or does it affect you at all 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:44.480 if they sign a guy that might play the position 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:46.760 you're playing? Is that something that is in your head? 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:51.000 And how do you prepare yourself not necessarily knowing exactly 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:52.280 where you might fit on the roster. 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.520 Yeah, I mean, honestly, I leave that up to Nick 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:58.320 and everyone who makes those decisions. 0:11:58.320 --> 0:11:59.520 That's that's not my job. 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:02.000 My job's to prepare my body the best way I 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:04.840 can and give myself the best chance to go out 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:06.280 there and perform like I know I can. 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.600 So obviously I know what I'm capable of. 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:13.120 I know that there's been like there's awesome, great bads, 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:15.560 great players out there, But at the end of the day, 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:18.280 I know what I can do, and I want the 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.720 chance to go out there and do it. So whether 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.839 they do, go get somebody or they don't. Honestly, like 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:25.280 like the same thing, we keep Brian. A lot of 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.360 people kept asking me all this a bunch of questions, 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.120 like keep Brian's one of my favorite teammates. That doesn't 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:33.720 change anything. All I have to do is show show 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.760 the team I'm available whenever in any capacity they need me. 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:40.079 So that doesn't change a single thing. I'm just gonna 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:43.119 go out there, keep playing hard and giving. 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:44.360 Myself the best chance to go out there and play 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:45.240 the best of my ability. 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:50.560 You're known as a pure hitter. What was the jump 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:53.520 from the minor leagues, particularly trip away to the big 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:59.240 leagues like and the taste that you got, particularly specifically 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:02.439 in the bad box, What did you learn that you're 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:03.720 going to take it the next season? 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.120 Honestly, I just learned, like I need to stick to 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:09.200 who I am as a hitter. 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:11.480 It showed that when I got up there. 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:13.520 Obviously it was a small sample size, and I've done 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.440 nothing in this game. I've done absolutely nothing. But I 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:19.760 think it showed myself that whatever I do and whatever 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:21.679 I'm capable of doing is enough. I don't need to 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:23.680 go look for more. I don't need to try to 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:25.840 do more what I who I am as a player 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:28.400 is enough. And that was a big thing for me, honestly, 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:30.120 because every time you get you go up to the 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.440 biggest you want to prove like, hey, I am who 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:34.880 they say I am, or I am who I think 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:35.200 I am. 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:36.080 You know what I'm saying. 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:39.320 So it kind of just taught me like, hey, you're 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:41.719 like who you are as a players enough, go out 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:42.760 there and be who you are. 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.920 And that's a big thing for me. So it was great. 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:49.160 It was a great little learning experience for me, and 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:49.600 it was a. 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:51.760 Great kind of a great push into the offseason to 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:54.240 now go get ready and come back ready to go. 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:57.319 So it was a great It was really really great. 0:13:57.480 --> 0:13:59.679 But it just showed me that who I am as 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:01.120 a player enough at the big league level. 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:02.960 Now just need to go do it for an extended 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:03.680 period of time. 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:07.680 I'll ask you one kind of quick, silly question before 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:10.360 going to the break. You obviously when you debuted you 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:13.080 were number forty three. Have you decided on a new 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:15.280 number or are you gonna stick with that number in 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:17.240 your in your next full big league season? 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:21.400 No, I ended up switching my number. I'm number twenty seven. 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:23.880 What made you come up with that number? Was that 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:25.280 your choice or is that what they gave you? 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:29.080 Well, my my regular number is number thirteen. 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:31.040 I mean, obviously, you guys know, it holds a lot 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:34.040 of weight in my life and it's someone I looked 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:37.240 up to in the game of baseball. Obviously thirteen tired, 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:40.000 but a really really good player, So I didn't really 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:42.720 I had to choose from what I from the options 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:44.880 I had, and I mean, I just like twenty seven, 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:45.320 twenty seven. 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:47.080 There's a lot of good players for number twenty seven. 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.880 Scott Rowland another great player, So I just felt like 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:51.640 it was a great number. 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.120 And yeah, not really too much I went into it. 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:56.680 Hey, for those that don't know, we know. But for 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:59.720 those that don't know, why is thirteen so specialty? 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.920 All because of my relationship with Manny. I mean, I've 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:06.320 we we're like best friends. We talk every single day, 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:09.600 and to see what he's done in his career, I've 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:12.080 always I always wanted to work thirteen to on the 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:12.800 baseball field. 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:16.280 So yeah, I obviously that's the number I wanted. 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:19.200 But a great player hasn't retired, so had to make 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:20.160 an audible. 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.640 Yes you did, all right, Sam, We've got more to 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:24.680 talk to you about, including I think you took a 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:27.760 trip to Spain to take in some soccer. You went 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:32.200 into enemy Terry Torri with the you and we'll talk 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.960 about that more when we come back with Sal Stewart. 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.360 This is the Budweiser Reds hont Stove League here on 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:51.160 the Reds Radio Network. Welcome back to the Budwiser Red 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:54.160 Hot Stove League here on the Reds Radio Network with 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:54.880 Mark Sheldon. 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:55.800 I'm Jim Day. 0:15:55.840 --> 0:16:00.560 We continue our conversation with Sal Stewart and a sound 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:04.360 You've went, I guess went overseas during the off season. 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:07.920 Here you went to Spain. How was it? And I 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.600 think I saw you a post of you were at 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:11.400 a soccer match. 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:12.280 Tell us about it. 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:15.600 Yeah, honestly, like when I get to the off season, 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.600 it's kind of funny, like it's hard, it's hard to 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:19.920 contact me because I just like. 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:21.200 To be with my family and friends. 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:23.680 So we took a trip out there to Spain, and 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:26.640 I mean, honestly, it was great, just a nice getaway 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:30.080 with my family. I mean, like, obviously I'm an athlete, 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:31.360 but I'm a I'm a person. 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:33.280 Tell my son, I'm a brother. 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:35.200 So it was great to go out there with my 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:38.280 family and just go experience like a different culture. 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:38.360 And it was. 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:41.320 Honestly, it was amazing. The soccer game was awesome. It 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:44.960 turned me into a huge soccer fan now. So honestly, 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:47.680 it was a great, great trip and it was awesome 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:48.880 just to spend time with my family. 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:51.840 Then close to home, I saw you were on the 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:54.440 field for a Dolphins home game as well. I'm sure 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:56.280 that's your favorite team. Was that your first time on 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:56.680 the field. 0:16:58.080 --> 0:16:59.880 Yes, that was my first time on the field and 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:03.240 it was It was pretty awesome. Honestly, it was a 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.000 good time. So yeah, I was able to go with 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:07.119 my dad and experience that. 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.040 With him, so it was a great time for sure. 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:11.360 Were you at Texas A and M for the U 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:13.919 In Texas A and M, I thought I saw a 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:17.120 post that said I'm in enemy territory. 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.119 Yeah, it was kind of spare of the moment. 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:22.360 I trained Monday through Friday, so I was I wasn't 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:23.600 sure if I was gonna be able to make it 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:26.639 out and spare of the moment. I texted my dad like, hey, 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:28.320 let's go, and he's like, all right, let's go. So 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:31.360 we left Saturday morning and flew back Saturday night. 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:34.639 So how was it? It was good? 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:38.640 Oh, it was honestly, like the people in the atmosphere 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:41.719 in College Station, like, even though we were cheering for Miami, 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.200 was something I've never seen before. That people were great 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.680 and that atmosphere was like none other. So honestly, it 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:49.000 was a great, great, great time. 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:53.040 Will you be getting back to Texas again in a 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:56.320 short speriod about a week from now for against the 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:58.560 Ohio State University at the Cotton Bowl. 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:01.600 No, I think I think this. I'm just gonna stay 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:03.560 back home and watch some and watch it on TV. 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:06.120 I don't think I'm going to make that trip again. 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.879 Full disclosure, I am drinking from an Ohio state YETI 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:10.800 right now? 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:14.040 Oh so, so where we're rivals, so, I mean I'm 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:15.760 an enemy territory as we speak. 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:17.760 I think we're in Yeah, you know, I was. 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:20.600 I was born I was born in Columbus, So don't 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:22.400 hold it against me, just like you're you know, you're 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:25.159 a Miami guy, So don't hold it against me. 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:28.440 But uh fair, and don't hold it against Caleb Ferguson. 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:31.480 Our next guest is from Columbus. Yeah, yeah, careful in 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:32.040 the clubhouse. 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:35.119 Yeah, well, well you you let him know wehe're coming. 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:40.320 Uh, it should be a good one looking forward to it. 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:45.000 Hey, when you look forward to uh this season, this 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:50.760 nucleus that's together. What was the clubhouse like and what 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:52.520