WEBVTT - Pete Fairbanks on Rays LONG road trips, Last run for owner Stu 0:00:02.000 --> 0:00:04.600 All right, we've got Rais clothes Repete Fairbanks back in 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:06.880 the house on FT. I just wanted to say house 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:10.360 to intro this because I know it's been a minute. 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:12.080 I was looking at the schedule. I'm like, you know, 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:15.000 I've been watching some Rais games here and there, Pete, 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:16.680 and you know I've been home in a minute. 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:17.200 So I checked. 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:20.520 Do you know the last day on the calendar that 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:21.840 you guys played a home game? 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:30.200 No, sir, I'll tell you worth an attempt to try. 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:35.960 I know it was, was it ya? Wah? No? August third? 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:37.720 Maybe nailed it? 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:41.159 Yeah, August third, you finished the Dodgers series, and then 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:44.320 three on the road against the Angels. So in Anaheim 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.159 in Seattle. Now, of course you're in Sacramento. Then you 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:48.920 go to San Francisco. At least they kept you on 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:51.320 the West coast for this trip. But what's it like 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:53.320 to be on the road for this period of time. 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:56.120 You guys have the imbalanced schedule this year for good reason. 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:58.040 But what's it like to actually be in it? 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:03.800 M I mean, I'm not, I'm not. It's kind of 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:06.160 weird for me, more so just the three hours behind 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:10.560 the rest of the family. But I mean, it's a 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:12.480 it's a road trip. It just happens to be extended. 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:15.959 It's uh, you know, you're used to going on the road, 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:18.760 maybe just not for the extended amount of time. And 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:21.119 then you know, I get to see a city I've 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:22.959 never seen before. So maybe there's a positive there. 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:28.560 Okay, Sacramento. Yeah, I can see that. There's that's one 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:30.880 POSITIVEWL Sacramento. Let me know if you have any others. 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:34.839 But is there is there a time? Is there too 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:38.160 many days that year that three hours behind where it 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.120 starts to drain on you a little bit, or it 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:43.039 starts to reverse it, and then you guys go back 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:46.119 home when it's supposed to be an advantage and then 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:48.880 you're like, crap, I'm still in that three hour time difference. 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:50.720 Because I never felt like the trips that we took 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:53.840 were that bad. It never really affected me that much. 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:54.880 But you guys are out there. 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.160 Yeah, I mean, I think maybe the uh, you know 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:01.720 that first series when you're out on the West coast 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:04.000 and you're waking up at you know, six thirty instead 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:06.800 of nine, and it's you're feeling wide away, but your 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:10.200 your days have stretched that little bit. I think we're 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:15.560 all excited to uh, you know, hopefully turn this and 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.079 and in this roady on a high note and then 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:20.760 get back to uh, you know, lovely Florida. 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:25.880 Hey, hey, you know you love Florida. You move there, 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:27.040 so don't make fun of Florida. 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:29.920 I'd be I do love it. Who that was? That 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:31.960 was nothing but a positive? I love Florida. 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:38.480 Okay, don't be craft. Okay, I I call myself a Floridian. 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:42.080 Now that's right. That's what everyone trives to be. People 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:43.600 don't move to New Jersey when they. 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:45.280 Retire, Okay, that's for sure. 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:50.480 They moved to Florida, So save it. But no, what 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:53.120 you mentioned those days where you know, you get out 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:56.040 to the West coast and and and and the day 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:57.560 is stretched? What do you do for those three hours? 0:02:57.560 --> 0:02:58.840 Do you try to go back to sleep? Do you 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:00.400 get up and go for a walk, do you go 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:03.280 to the gym? Do you get breakfast early? What do 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:04.840 you do to Because I used to just I could 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.080 sleep anywhere, so I just would forced myself back to 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.440 sleep and didn't bother me that much. But what what 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:12.720 do you do, as Pete Fairbanks when you wake up 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:14.280 at six thirty instead of nine thirty? 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:16.840 Yeah, I mean, I try and go back to sleep. 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:19.240 I think the first day out there, I woke up 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:22.800 at like six fifteen and then forced myself to not 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:24.680 get out of bed for at least a couple more hours, 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:28.320 trying at least feel like I slept more. But yeah, 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:30.680 I'm up. I'm walking around. I'm trying to find coffee, 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:33.640 you know, seeing what I seeing what I can find 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:39.480 out there to get up to. And speaking of the Sacramento positives, 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:41.360 I found a great coffee shop out here, So that's 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:43.960 that's a big positive for me. That's two. 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:46.480 We're counting, we're putting, We're putting check marks out there. 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:49.880 We'll keep bringing them up. Do you find yourself getting 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:51.920 tired at the end of games, though, I know that's 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.720 your time. Like when you're sitting in the sixth seventh 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:57.800 inning and you know, you left the clubhouse and you 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:01.640 saw other teams games end, and you're sitting there in 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:03.920 the six or seventh inning and it's like a nice 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:06.480 cool breeze flowing in your face. 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:08.400 You're like, I'm good, I'm good. 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:10.000 Okay, I'm awake, I'm awake. 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:14.240 Yeah, no, I've I've pavel off myself to the extent 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.120 that you know, I started doing certain things and then 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:20.200 regardless of what time it is, I'm you know, getting 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:20.800 ready to roll. 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.279 Okay, So your routine keeps you awake talking about the 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:29.159 trade deadline, talk about the trade deadline, pending free agent 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:31.720 that you are. You know, they went and got a 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:35.520 Griffin Jacks. They kind of you know, Danny Janssen got shipped. 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:39.560 And how did you guys perceive it in the clubhouse 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:43.000 and was there other talks that maybe didn't come to fruition. 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.760 Yeah, I think overall, I think we took it as 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.320 a as a positive, you know, to have Bell out, 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:53.400 to have Yandy, to you know, remain with the team 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:55.360 for you know, the end of it. I think we 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:57.600 kind of took that as a as a net positive 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.240 that we were you know, there's still some belief in 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:02.320 this group, and I definitely think that, you know, as 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:05.120 a group, there's there's the belief there. Obviously, you know, 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:07.599 we haven't played up to you know, what we think 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:11.080 we're capable of, and obviously that's something that we're you know, 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:14.719 working towards. But yeah, there was a there were some 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.440 there were some rumors, a lot of rumors. Nothing that uh, 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.520 you know obviously came to fruition. But you know it's 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:24.520 uh that uh that what seven day period really leading 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:26.960 up where you start seeing your name and articles on 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:29.600 trade rumors and you're like, well, I guess this could 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:29.960 be it. 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.680 Does Neander do a good job of communicating with you guys? 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:38.040 Does he call like a veteran like in the office 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.840 and say, hey, man, like there's been offers, I'll keep 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.279 you posting, I'll give you ads up if something's closed. 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:45.839 He just like, hey, you'll find out on Twitter after 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:46.240 I do. 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:51.120 No, he's uh, he's great about it. It's you know, 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:54.320 and I obviously I let my agent do all the 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.719 uh the liaisons there, just so I can you know, 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:58.040 kind of push that to the back of the mind, 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:00.760 keep it, keep it away from you know, be in 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:04.800 too far to the forefront of your daily activities. So yeah, 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:07.520 he's in. My agent have a pretty relationship, so they 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.560 were able to keep me abreast of anything that I 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:13.880 needed to know. And then obviously if things had started, 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:16.000 you know, really going, I feel like we would have 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:17.640 had some I would have had some more dialogue with 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:18.400 Eric himself. 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:23.120 All the closers that went you kind of had a 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:26.640 feel once once one closer goes, You're like, wait a minute, 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:30.400 some of those things that Eric said could possibly happen. 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:33.440 Are you folding? Are you folding your clothes and leaving 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.360 them in a nice pile so that you're ready to 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:38.160 just pull them right off the locker and put them 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:41.600 in a bag, or like did it? How close did 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:43.040 it ever get in your mind? 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:48.200 You know, you start seeing those names go. I definitely 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:51.280 was probably seventy thirty that it was probably going to 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.280 be probably going to be shipped. I'm obviously glad that 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:57.919 it didn't happen. I'm so excited to be array and 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:00.040 be able to chase some things here. But yeah, it 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.880 was Uh we were already on the road, so I 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:06.040 tried to uh maybe overpack a little bit for that trip, 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:07.080 even though it was a week long. 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:11.040 Well, yeah, so you were. You were a little nervous. 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:12.520 You got a little nervous. I can't believe you'd have 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.880 to leave Florida for somewhere else. I listen, we all, 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:17.920 we all we have to leave Florida. Everyone gets nervous. 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:18.360 I get it. 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:21.640 I totally get it. You were prepped. I love that, 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:23.760 and I love that you're you know that that the 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.160 Kneeander is a great guy as far as that goes. Now, 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:28.440 let's go above knee injured. Let's go to Stu Sternberg. 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:31.040 Have you guys heard the stuff about the team being sold. 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:33.240 Has it been talked about at all? Or is it 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:35.440 just something that's out of your guys control and you 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.680 guys worry about it when that actually goes down. 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:42.400 Yeah, we So we had a meeting once like that. 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:46.080 I don't know who reported at first, but kind of 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:48.760 when that first broke earlier in the year, had a 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:51.600 meeting or just you know, kind of get it out 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.160 there that it's not going to affect, you know, what 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:56.920 we're doing day to day. 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I know 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:34.439 they haven't played as well lately, but I liked that 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:36.680 the team didn't, you know, sell peace way related to 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:39.520 this conversation, I'm going to relate it to what ajas too. 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:42.520 Do you think any of that had to do with saying, Hey, 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:45.480 you know what, this team's gonna probably move ownership groups 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:47.320 next year, let's try and keep this together and see 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:49.240 if we can have a little fun and do something special. 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:53.839 Yeah, I think I think that that, you know, it 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.840 was definitely obviously not an owner, but I think if 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.600 I were, I think that that would be my you know, 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:01.680 if it's you know, potentially my last run at it, 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:03.200 I'm going to, you know, try and make a run 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.760 at it. So, you know, if that was a thought process, 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:08.080 obviously the guys in the clubhouse are grateful for it, 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:11.760 and you know, hopefully we can get a little get 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:13.800 a little streaky here and see what happens. 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.480 If you were going to if you were asked at 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.160 the trade deadline, hey I want to go somewhere. Is 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:23.760 there a team or a player? Most guys shake at 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:25.160 the like, oh, I don't want to say a team. 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:27.440 Is there a player you'd want to go play? With 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:28.760 and go you know. 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.080 What, I'd like to try to win a World Series. 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:40.200 With that guy. Oh, a player, and it can. 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:42.000 Be somebody that you face that you're like, Man, if 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:43.520 I don't ever have to face them, that's just like 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:45.800 a net positive for me. My numbers would go through 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:46.240 the roof. 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:52.079 Yeah, let's go for strictly for that, Let's go for 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.640 a seer because I think I think for the first 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:57.520 I think I got him out for the first time 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:01.040 in my career this year, after racing him for however 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:04.680 many it's been, I'm pretty sure that it would have 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:06.640 been the first time I've gotten about was this year. 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.720 And he has a winning player, he definitely has. 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:14.440 Yeah, he's before that's for sure. Yeah, one of the. 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:16.959 Most clutch hitters of our era of baseball here the 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:20.560 last you know, ten fifteen years Pete, how is Griffin 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:23.599 Jacks so new teammate? Great stuff looks like one of 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:26.360 those classic raised fines where you know he's gonna work 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:30.800 out well for a bullpen that always seems to replenish. 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:35.080 Yeah, great find mainly because he knows how to play cribbage, 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:38.000 and we've lost a lot of cribage players at the deadline, 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:40.440 so it was nice to uh to add one back 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:44.280 in so we could still play a fourth person crib Yeah. 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:47.680 I mean, he's the guy, super super talented, works very hard, 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:50.079 very diligent with with everything that he does on a 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:54.079 day to day basis. And you know, he is an 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:57.360 incredible arm talent and might throw the best breaking ball 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:59.240 in the game. So anytime you got those things going 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:01.600 for you, I think that that's a huge boon for 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.000 the team. All Right. 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:06.320 First of all, a couple of things on Griffin Jacks. One, 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:10.240 he's played in Minnesota. Everybody in Minnesota knows how to 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:11.880 play cribbage, so you should have known that as soon 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.560 as you saw his name pop up. Anybody that is 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.960 from Minnesota around Minnesota played for Minnesota. And that's the 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:19.800 other day a buddy of mine was playing cribbage and 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:21.719 I'm like, oh, you should do this, and and it 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:24.959 was in where was I just in Texas? Oh, think 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:26.400 the Phillies guys are playing, They're like, you know how 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:28.880 to play? Or no, the sorry, the Rangers guys are playing, 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:30.280 They're like, you know how to play cribbage. I'm like, dude, 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:31.880 I came up with the Twins. Everybody knows how to 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:32.760 play Priviage. 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:36.199 In Minnestoa hand at hand. Yes. 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:38.240 And then also when next time you see Griffin Jacks, 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:40.000 we asked the missis on the on the on the 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:42.480 air here. He hates the taste of water, so next 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.360 time you see him, be like this water is tasty. 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:46.920 And then just see what he because I guess when 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:48.840 he was in the Air Force, they had to drink 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:50.960 so much water, he just got sick of it, so 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:55.080 he just wanted to So one of the famous facts 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:56.640 about him is he hates the taste of water. 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:59.719 All right, that he is. It's great. We were not 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:03.120 today when we got into a Sacramento and he is 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.360 a sparkling water guy. So we finally I finally got 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.400 somebody else that you know at the team dinners. Will 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:09.560 we'll drink? I can? 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.640 You should be made fun of. Nobody drinks sparkling water. 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:19.040 Oh somebody drinks sparkling Stop. I'm with you on the 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.080 Florida take. I'm not with you on that take. 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:25.040 You're that's the look who drinks sparkling water right there. 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:28.880 I love Florida and I love sparkling water. And do 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:29.920 you like sparkling water? 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:32.200 I do, I don't drink it. All the time. 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:34.559 You can't chug sparkling water. But it's a nice. 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.439 Nice it's a good dinner. It's a good dinner. It's 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:40.559 a good you know, assist to a nice dinner. I'm 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:42.480 not gonna, you know, take it out to the bullpen 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:42.840 with me. 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:46.840 No, it's not. It's not hydrating me. You're so we 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:48.880 thought you would be more high class than that. Aj 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:58.000 mmmmm No, no, you. 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.480 I mean Essentia. It's not. He's not drinking hose water. 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:03.240 That's essential. That's that's some some high quality still water there. 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.800 As funny as we're talking about this, listen, the water 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.440 tastes different in every bottle. I'm sorry, every bottled water 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:10.800 tastes a little bit different. I don't care what you're saying. 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:12.960 There a certain ones I like and certain ones I like, 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:15.199 So you have to kind of yes, I'm picky about 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:16.960 my water. I apologize, yes, call. 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:21.560 And lowest, lowest on that list is designing every time. 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:25.120 Well, that's because it's not. It's it's just tap water. 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:26.920 They run through a filter and they say, here you go. 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:27.800 It's from Florida. 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:32.640 That's why No. Zephyr Hills is from Florida. 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.240 Purified and spring et cetera. 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:39.800 Yeskrats, no last one for me. Pe you had set 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:41.960 you kind of glazed over a little bit. You said, 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:44.240 we make a run here. You guys are six and 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:46.920 a half out. We talk about how far out is 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.560 too far out? What are those conversations like in the 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:53.280 locker room? Because you can look at different numbers and 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.600 it can say, you guys have been super unlucky. You 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:59.400 guys should actually be seven games over five hundred if 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:02.320 you look at some of the numbers. So is it 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:06.280 something that you guys say, hey, if this happens, or 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:08.480 we can do this, or we can change this. We 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.120 see this because that's a lot of scoreboard watching. You're 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:15.680 looking at everybody, but like you know, the Marlins and 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.040 the Rockies and the and they're not even in your 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:21.000 in your league, so it doesn't matter. But like, what 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.440 are you guys doing, How is that? How is that 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:27.560 coming together? And some people do some people say, come on, Pete, 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:29.160 you know that's not gonna happen. 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:34.360 No, I said the other day, you know the last 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:37.520 thing that we need to do is to look forty 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:40.000 two games out or forty games out now, whatever it is. 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:44.800 You know, nothing nothing starts obviously, I mean, you have 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:46.400 to have a big picture, right, the big pictures make 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.600 the playoffs to win, et cetera. But then how do 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:51.960 we go about it. We go about it by playing 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:53.800 good baseball every day, and we think that, you know, 0:15:53.840 --> 0:16:00.200 when we can get to that, you know, that mindset 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:02.000 of we're just going to do it every day. We're 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:05.480 not going to go and you know, think three weeks 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:07.040 down the road, think a month down the road. We're 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:09.080 going to sit there and go do what we need 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.480 to do, you know, on a daily basis to win 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:14.400 a ball game. I think that you then you take 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:16.120 that and you can pound it and you go from 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:19.720 there as opposed to you know, storeboard watching it and 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:21.640 looking at all this stuff that you can't control. We're 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:22.920 just going to try and do what we can do, 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:26.080 you know, and have our good at bats, get ahead 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:28.080 and the account execute with two strikes, et cetera, and 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.360 focus on the stuff that internally we can control as 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:35.760 opposed to you know, anything else. And then hopefully you know, 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.640 when you're moving that to an internal goal and focus 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:40.680 on what you can do. You know, you can compound 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:41.240 it after that. 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:44.440 P my last one of then AJ's got one for 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.960 you to finish up. So you play the Yankees a lot. 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:49.640 They clearly have had some issues last couple of seasons 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:53.240 with sloppy play, sometimes fundamentals, et cetera. Right, they'll they'll 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:56.640 even admit that themselves. My question is from a fan perspective. 0:16:57.080 --> 0:16:59.920 Fans just think the manager is the one in charge. 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:02.480 And I'm generalizing here, but I've gone back and forth 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.639 with the can you speak to how much influence a 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:09.360 manager has for a thirty year old player who's been 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:12.280 playing his whole life and makes a mondemental mistake or 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:15.159 maybe just isn't as much of like the fundamental player 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:18.159 and is more of like a power only guy. I 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:20.359 guess you know where I'm going here. You know, you 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:22.280 played for Kevin Cash for a long period of time. 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:24.760 I'm sure the team has gone through stretches where it's sloppy. 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:27.040 Is that the manager's fault? 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.840 I don't think that you can scapego to manager for 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:35.800 you know, us not being locked in, right. I think 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:38.560 that you know there's thing that you can scapegoing to 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:41.200 manager for, et cetera. And they usually are the ones 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.840 that end up, you know, taking the fall if we're 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:48.240 not doing our jobs. But you know, for me if 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:50.280 we're not locked in, and if we're making the mental 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:53.240 mistakes and we're doing stuff that we shouldn't be doing 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:58.080 out there, that's different than you know, the stuff that 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:00.520 that a manager has control over, whether it's you know, 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:03.240 moves that they're making, et cetera. Like, are the stuff 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:05.720 that we do out there, you know, if we're not 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:08.800 locked in, that's that's on us. 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:09.919 Agreed. 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:10.479 Agreed. 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:12.399 Speaking of locked in, all right, let me ask you this. 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:15.280 You've been on the road for a month, okay, pretty much. 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:15.680 The home month. 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:18.280 What do you do about the lego situation? Because I 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:20.200 know you're a big lego guy. So do you bring 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:21.879 legos with you on the road or you just do 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:24.080 them at home? How does this work? Because you've got 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:25.920 to have something to get your mind off of trying 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:27.439 to close out the night. So what do you do 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:29.560 with the lego situation on the road for a month? 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:34.520 So road for me is typically I'll go more, I'll 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:36.119 try and find card shops, I'll go more on the 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:40.879 pokemon side, leave the legos at home. But my wife 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:45.120 and son went to a Lego convention down in Tampa 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:49.400 this past week, and I have might be the most 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:51.159 jealous I've ever been on a road trip. Because there 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:55.360 were some some incredible mocks. And then you know, anytime 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:57.399 you get to see a really happy kindergartener is a 0:18:57.440 --> 0:18:59.960