WEBVTT - Red-Hot Rays Win Six-Straight 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:16.000 It's time to raise the roof for our latest regular 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:18.479 season podcast. Welcome back to the pod everyone, I'm your 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:23.040 host Alex Murphy. Today we have one of our famous 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:28.080 Raise interview podcast, a compilation of interviews from recent Raise games, 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:31.000 basically all over the last week. And if you guys 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:33.559 haven't seen what the Race have done, the Rais are 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:35.280 in a six game winning streak right now. They just 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:37.800 took down the Cleveland Guardians today in the second game 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:42.879 of their series in Cleveland. The Rays are thirteen and 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:47.560 one against the entire American League or the American League 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:49.320 teams that they played so far this year, and for 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:51.680 whatever reason, they're five and ten against specifically the n 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:54.760 OL Central because the Rays basically ran through what seems 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.080 to be the best division in baseball right now, all 0:00:57.120 --> 0:00:59.240 within the first month of the year. But the Rays 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:01.080 are eighteen and eleven, and right now, the Raids are 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:04.399 firmly in a playoff spot if the playoffs were to 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:08.520 begin today, which would be weird considering that it's only April, 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:10.920 but still, the Rays are playing out of their mind 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:16.520 right now, just in an incredibly good baseball team in 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:19.839 all facets of the word. It seems like even when 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:23.120 it seems like things have been down the race have 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:28.720 found ways to win tonight's game, specifically Nick Martinez, who 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:32.480 I think that it's a good reason to now believe 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:34.760 if you didn't believe before, and maybe that was a 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:37.559 me thing, but if you don't believed before about spring 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:40.040 training not matter. And considering that Curtis Meat hit like 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.800 six hundred and then didn't do anything spring training doesn't 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:47.680 matter because Nick Martinez was basically downright off when spring 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:50.760 training and now he's one of the league leaders in 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:55.840 all of baseball in earned run average. He has allowed 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:58.760 one run over his last two starts. He's been absolutely 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:02.240 stud for this team. If you guys haven't seen, he 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:05.000 had that really good outing in his last start against 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:08.520 his former team, the Cincinnati Reds, and now Toonati against Cleveland. 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:12.480 Seven shutout innings. He kept his pitch count low, he 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:17.400 pitched a contact, he struck guys out. He was incredible. 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.240 I mean, he's been one of the best pitchers, probably 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:22.280 the best pitcher for the Rays this season if we 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:27.440 have to pinpoint someone, so incredible stuff from him. The 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:31.359 bullpen was incredible towards the end of the game. I 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:34.000 know that Ian Seymour kind of ran into a little 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:36.600 bit of trouble. Kevin Kelly was able to shut things down. 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:38.919 Then Cole Sulzer in the ninth inning got the save. 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:41.720 Things got a little bit dicey, but the Rays were 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:43.800 able to find a way to push through. There was 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:46.000 a bit of a scare early on because Junior Camenaro 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.800 filed a ball that hit the ground and hit his jaw. 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:51.960 But according to Kevin Cash, he is good to play 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:54.960 or ready to play for tomorrow. I don't know if 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:56.800 that means that he's going to start or if he's 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:58.640 gonna come off the betcher what's going on, but he 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:00.640 is going to be available for tomorrow. So that's a 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:03.760 pretty big deal for the Raise. But yeah, I mean 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:08.120 this team has been really really good in this month, 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:13.280 eighteen wins and we still have two more days left 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:18.080 in April as of this recording. Incredible stuff from this team. 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:21.320 But going into the interview, so, like I said, interviews 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:27.040 basically over the last week or so, if those interviews 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:32.880 include Ryan Pepio, Nick Martinez, and Kevin Cash. This is 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:36.960 from April twenty. First, the Pepio interview is essentially just 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:41.640 him talking about his current rehab stuff, so you know, 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:44.920 interesting stuff there if you want to follow that. The 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:51.840 pregium postgame interviews from April twenty fourth, so pregame interviews 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:56.320 Junior Kamanaro, Sean McClanahan, Jake Fraley update on his injury, 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:59.880 and then Kevin Cash again going into postgame interviews for 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:05.560 April twenty fourth, Cash, Junior Camenaro, Aronda, and Drew Rasmussen. 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:10.440 And then for April twenty sixth, which was that Sunday 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:13.680 game in their last series against the Twins, with the 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:17.120 Raids ended up getting a three game sweep of the Twins. 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:19.800 I believe that's their third series sweep so far this season. 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:25.760 Postgame interviews there Kevin Cash, Griffin, Jack Jesse Schultens, Jonathan Ronda, 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:29.400 and Yondi Diaz. A big shot when it comes to 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:31.760 these interviews, A big shot at as always goes out 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:36.640 to our friend Chris Tilly, who has been fantastic. You 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:40.880 heard plenty of his interviews previously. There were plenty of 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.280 things that he did during spring training. He's already done 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.800 plenty in April, so we really really appreciate his help 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.719 as always, and I'm sure that you'll be hearing plenty 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:54.080 more interviews from him and company over the course of 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:57.839 the year, so all of those guys will be available 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:01.520 on this episode. A couple quick notes before we begin 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:04.120 this episode. If you guys didn't see, we hit ten 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:07.159 thousand followers on Twitter and we also hit four thousand 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:11.320 followers on Instagram. 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Thanks so much to sea Geek for sponsoring us, 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:31.320 and let's get back to this latest episode of Raise 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:31.760 the Roof. 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.480 Please give us maybe an update of where you are cash. 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:41.480 It made it sound like we're not going good. 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:44.160 Yeah, great, Yesterday was great. 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.160 Last week was a very easy week after getting the 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:52.200 injection Monday last week in Nashville, so you know, we 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:54.320 had that Sunday home game and we could go watch 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:55.920 a little bit of that and then flew to Nashville 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:59.360 and got the injection on Monday and came back first. 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:01.800 Last week was pretty relatively easy week for me, just 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:05.400 to let that do its work. Still a weekend, you know, 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:08.560 itching to get back out and play. So obviously I'm 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:10.600 very nitpicky on how I'm feeling and all that stuff. 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:12.000 But yes, it was great. 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:13.680 I mean, I played catch just sixty feet and didn't 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.319 feel one hundred percent. But it's as to be expected. 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.160 I got an injection a week ago. It's still gotta work. 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:20.840 It's time and got to you know, clear out the inflammation. 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:23.600 I've thrown a lot of innings on my legs and 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.080 just have some normal wear and tear and everything. But 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:28.840 it's just go out every day, kind of take it 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.200 day by day and see how my body's feeling, how 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.840 I'm reacting, and just continue on the program. So today 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:35.240 it was anasier day. Tomorrow get back out there and 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:36.720 play catch and hope it was a little bit better. 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:39.040 Was yesterday your first time playing catch? 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:40.520 Yeah, after an injection? 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:42.640 Yeah, last week was you know, the first few days 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:44.240 were pretty chill, nothing, and then it was kind of 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:46.760 get back into movement exercises and just kind of get 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:48.560 it back and going and then. 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:50.360 Slow ramp up with the catch. 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:52.720 But I threw a bullpenally the day I flew to Nashville, 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:54.640 so just to do everything I could to keep my 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:57.840 arm from you know, obviously lose a week, but it 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:00.800 wasn't like I hadn't thrown you know before that. 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:03.640 A lot you mentioned, like the updowns and the stop 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:05.000 starts and then yeah, kind. 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:06.840 Of when does it aggravates you the most? 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:09.920 If you go it's weird because there's a lot of 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:11.600 things I can do that feel very normal. 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:13.680 And then I get on the mound and get into throwing. 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:15.439 You get in your leg and load. 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:18.319 And when getting your legging load, there's just a lot 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.360 of instability and just I'll lean toward fall towards third 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:25.080 base or you know, it'll like catch her not catch 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.839 for me, and you know, drift and just feel like 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:29.760 I can't get into my legs and mechanically, so you know, 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:31.320 you get on the mountain and you get a big situation. 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:32.880 You're trying to make a pitch and you don't necessarily 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:34.199 know what your leg's about to do. It's kind of 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:36.600 hard to do, kind of hard to x get pitch 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.960 when struggle where your body's gonna be. 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:40.320 At the time. 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:42.680 He has any more imagery or anything, or. 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:44.280 No, I did. 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.240 I mean, I've had MRI. I've had three different X 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.760 rays looked at it. Those are more fun because those 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:51.679 take about two minutes. The MRI is about good forty 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:54.679 five minutes, So no, I haven't any When I was 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:57.320 a naturally with few more X rays just uh, each 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.000 of the different doctors I've gone and see they want 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:02.720 their u however, they want their positions for the X race. 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:05.040 But I haven't had any more MRI since the original ones. 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:08.160 And haven't talked to some people will be at the sixty. 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:09.640 Yeah, you have the initial. 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.840 Thug that you were beat on their first home standings 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:16.720 to kind of manage this kind of frustrating. 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.400 Yeah, of course. I mean I thought it was a 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:21.600 whole lot of nothing. I think we all did, and 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:24.600 it's just kind of not bounced back or you know, 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:25.880 still feeling things. 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:27.320 It's just it's a weird one. You know. 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:30.160 It's tough because it's I can walk around and it 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:31.760 can do things, and I feel like I'm fine, and 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.240 then I get to do my job and I physically 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:38.600 am struggling to do that, and so obviously it's frustrating, 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:40.360 and I'm getting frustrated when I'm out there because I'm 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.200 trying to do what I know how to do, and 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:44.000 you know, I've thrown thousands and thousands of pictures. I 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:45.560 know where my body's supposed to be and to be 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:47.840 able to execute something get in the zone. 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:49.280 And not being able to do that. 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:50.880 It's it's hard, and then you know, you sit there 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:52.559 and you watch the guys going down there and do 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:52.920 their things. 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:55.760 You miss road trips, you missbus rids, the planes. 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:59.160 Like being a home in my own bed, that's great, 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:00.400 but I'd rather be in a whole tell with the 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:02.800 guys hanging out and going out and playing games. And 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:05.120 even the ones when they were in Minnesota and it 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:07.560 was thirty degrees and snow and I was like, yeah, yeah, 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:09.200 I might be eighty degrees and sunny in Florida, but 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:10.800 put me on a plane and get me there with 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:14.400 the guys. So you know, mentally going through it, but 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:16.040 you know, we've got enough guys in here that have 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:16.720 gone through stuff. 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:18.679 And you know, I missed time in twenty three, so 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:19.480 I've been there before. 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:21.800 But it's just it's a hard one because a lot 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:23.520 of expectations for the team. 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:25.720 With a lot of excitement, you know, and then not 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:26.240 be a part of it. 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:27.880 It's it's been hard, but it's been fun to watch 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:29.120 the guys, you know it's at home, watch the games 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.360 when they're on the road, and then get a front 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:33.160 row seatull I'm here and the guys who went out 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.640 and doing it and pitching and playing defense and hidden. 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:37.400 It's just been a lot of fun to watch. What 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:37.720 do you. 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:43.160 Yeah, I think it's hard to know. I think it's 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:45.280 hard to put a timetable. It's just a day to me, honestly, 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:48.080 it's a day to day thing. It's how you know, 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:51.960 I think the the initial sixty day thing. When I 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.480 told I was doing it, I obviously frustrate about it. 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:55.800 But it also gives me time where it's not like 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:57.720 I have a strict timeline where I need to be back. 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:00.720 Where it's okay when you're ready, when you're strong, when 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:02.360 it feels like you're comfortable, you can go out there 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:04.080 and execute pitchures, when you got guys on base in 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:05.880 a big situation, when I want to run ball game 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:09.320 or something trying to get an out, then and I 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:11.400 feel comfortable I can do that, then it's hey, all right, 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.480 here we go, not hey, you need to be back 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:17.200 by this date whether how you feel. They don't want 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:18.520 to do that to me, and that's not good for 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:22.000 the benefit of the team. So it's see how I'm 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.120 feeling each day, see how the throwing progression goes, and 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:28.240 you know, push myself and I'm doing everything I can't 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.120 I'll get back out there. It's you know, been here 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:32.680 since nine this morning. I'm trying to do whatever I 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:36.400 possibly can, so I'm metching to get back. 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:39.040 But I don't necessarily have a date or a timetable 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:39.280 for you. 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.560 It's just see how I feel each day, let the 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:46.120 program go and continue going forward. And you know, obviously 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.559 frustrated after day one of throwing, but it was day one, 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:50.080 h so tomorrow hope. 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:50.520 Would be better. 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:51.800 Fine. 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.920 Thanks, As we've talked about, you're very familiar with over there, 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:59.040 a lot of the similar guys when you run that team. 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:01.160 What do you feel like the against that? 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:04.199 I think it'd be a lot of fun, right, adds 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:07.320 another layer to, you know, to the pitching game, more 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:11.679 of a cat and mouse, and you know, obviously it 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:15.280 should be a lot of fun. You know, Steve has 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:18.160 caught me a bunch. They've seen me play now for 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:21.160 for a couple of years, so uh it as for 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:21.920 for an extra. 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:25.720 You know, level of excitement and talking too yesterday about you, 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:28.280 he was just so complimentary of obviously the guy you are, 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:31.480 what you meant to that clubhouse, what you meant to him, 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:32.840 What did it mean to you to be able to 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:33.800 play for him? 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:35.760 And obviously it was great. 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:37.120 I loved it. 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:40.960 I had such a great time. Man, he wants to 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:42.840 win so bad and I obviously we share that. And 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:46.120 so again, like we talked about yesterday, he keeps it lose, 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:49.240 he keeps it fun, and he makes it so easy 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:51.920 to play, play for him, and you know, same same. 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:52.480 Goes for cash. 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.440 You feel similar, Yeah, very very similar. 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:59.680 Yeah, again I said it yesterday, no knock on Teto, 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:01.040 but I'm playing for a younger Tito. 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:03.600 It's a it's been a lot of fun. 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:06.840 With the familiarity you have with those guys. Is they're 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:08.800 kind of the extra level of the chess. 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:09.320 Match to you. 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:11.080 Yeah, there can be you know, obviously you don't want 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:12.720 to straight too far from from what you do well, 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:16.280 but there's gonna be. Yeah, there's gonna be, uh, you know, 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:17.160 a lot of familiarity. 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:19.560 And again I think it adds to uh. 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:20.640 That actual level of excitement. 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:25.840 Saw the frustration of playing against. 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:27.360 Different when he's on your side. 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:31.800 Yeah, it's an He's such a dynamic player, and it's 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.560 it seems like even just one game that I've seen 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:37.160 him play this year, it seems like every year he's 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:41.400 mature and grown into an even more established superstar. 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:41.800 And so. 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.040 I mean if he if if he's not beating you 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:46.840 with a long ball, he's beating you with with with 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:50.480 stealing bases, taking the extra bag with his defense. And 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.760 so I mean again, someone like that, you know, very 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:57.400 very enjoyable to play with. And you know we have uh, 0:15:57.520 --> 0:15:59.080 you know we have guys like that on this team too. 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:00.440 That that's very exciting to watch. 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:03.320 How impressed have you been with you have a couple 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:06.840 of guys down, really important key guys with obviously being 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:08.440 one of them in your bullpen, but it seems like 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:10.680 slotting guys in like Jesse and tell the others. 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:11.680 Were able to pick up the slack. 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.080 Are you pretty impressed with how this organization. 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:14.400 Continues to do that? 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:16.440 Yeah, it's not it's that's not easy to do, right, 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:18.960 But the guys coming up, if you know, when their 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:21.000 name is called there they're ready and and you know, 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:23.280 giving a chance to win ball games, and that's important, 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:25.520 right This can be an opportunity for them to show 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:28.800 that they can be you know, a mainstain in in 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:29.560 a in a on. 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:30.280 A big league roster. 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.280 And I think those guys are proving that they're throwing 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:34.600 the heck out of the ball and uh giving us 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.560 a chance to win. And it's it's a hard position 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:39.480 to be in, right, you know, losing, you know, not 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:43.880 having Pep and not having Boil in the rotation hurts us. 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:44.880 But these guys have you. 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.360 Know, slid in nicely and transitioned nicely into you know, 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:48.480 helping us win ball games. 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:51.360 And I think it shows good to back up to. 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.720 Your time with Tito is someone who's always learning and 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:54.240 always learning. 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:56.200 What did you learn playing under him? It's made you 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:56.680 a better. 0:16:58.120 --> 0:16:59.960 Play to win the game, you know, play to win 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:04.800 the game. It's it's always uh, I don't know the 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:08.480 right word really, but I don't want to say refreshing, 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:11.000 but it's not you know, uh, it's not really the 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:16.840 best way to describe it. It understanding that we're you know, 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:18.800 we're playing to win the game. I think gives us 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:23.800 direction right as players with you know, with Cincinnati, he 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:25.760 came in at the right time where you know, guys 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.600 were already shown that they can play at the big 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:29.400 league level. 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:30.960 And now it was like, all right, you know. 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:32.600 Let's let's have a purpose. 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:34.560 And why we're doing this, right, We're trying to win 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:36.440 ball games. Get to the playoffs, have a deep run, 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:38.800 and so there's a great you know, there's a great 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:42.560 step for those young players last year to give themselves 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:44.159 a conference that they know they can, they know what 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:46.360 it takes to get to the playoffs, and now they're 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:48.159 you know, I think it's leaked over into this season 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:50.920 with uh, you know, with how they're playing. 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:53.240 Some talk with how well all the teams in that 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:55.760 division are doing from somebody who was in there last year, 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:57.320 Is it surprise you does hee kind of the way 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.760 those teams all seem to have set forward right now. 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:03.560 I don't know if surprised is the right word, but yeah, 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:08.679 that that division. You know, the last few years, you know, 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.359 you had Chicago Milwaukee kind of running things, and then 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:14.280 you know, even the last two years in Cincinnati, we 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:15.760 felt like we can take a crack at it. But 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.959 now they're really showing, you know, that they belong at 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:23.399 the top of those standings. And then you know, Pittsburgh 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:26.199 maybe the most surprising, just because you know, they had 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:27.919 the young players, but they were kind of missing a 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:30.240 few pieces, and they seem to have found those pieces 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:34.840 and put together a really nice pitching staff, you know, 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:37.240