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Eight seven seven 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.680 to three DP Show email address dpat Danpatrick dot com, 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:56.880 Twitter handle a TP show Hall of Famer John Elway 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:58.960 back on the program. John, How you doing. 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:01.920 And how you doing? I'm doing great? 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.840 What's the Is that a portrait or a jersey behind 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:07.400 you there in your office? 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:08.880 It's all you have? 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:10.600 You? 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:11.880 Well, I was trying. 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:16.440 I did it adds color, so yeah, I didn't think 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:17.840 you would have Montana behind you. 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:19.359 But no, that's it's very nice. 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:21.320 Yeah, yeah they did. 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:25.640 You did you collect jerseys from those guys? I did not. 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:29.280 I did not that that that that bad came after me. Yeah, 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:31.960 we never never really did that, even though I do 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:34.080 have a I have a marina in a Montana. I 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:37.000 do have some, but it wasn't something we did all 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:37.440 the time. 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.799 Do you care where you're ranked all time? When rankings 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.120 come out that greatest quarterbacks? 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:44.760 How? 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:46.760 I mean, I don't. You can't do anything about it now. 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:48.799 But how competitive are you? 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:49.000 You know? 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:54.240 I think that you know everybody, you know, everybody has 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:55.960 different opinions on different players. 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:58.040 Obviously we're all in different situations. 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:01.040 I think you just like to be in the common conversation, right, 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.440 That's the key thing is if you're in the conversation, 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:05.360 then you did all right during your career. And I 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:07.880 think that you know, you look at all the great 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:12.320 quarterbacks that I played against that you know during our 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:15.080 time that you know, I have so much respect for. 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:17.519 And sure we were competitive when we were playing, and 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:20.800 UH want to be the best, but you know, ultimately 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.359 to win football games and try to win world championships 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:25.400 and so yeah, we. 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:26.239 Were all competitive. 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:28.480 But what's funny is I think you know, once we 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:30.680 get away from the game, where you know, we were 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:33.200 good friends during while we were playing, but probably better 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:34.920 after we got done. 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:38.800 But do you think you're better than Joe Montana or 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:41.080 Tom like? Do you have to have that mindset to 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.600 play the position that you're you're the best at doing this? 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:48.800 I think yeah, I think so. I think that you know, 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:53.360 it's when you're going through it. Obviously, certain guys do 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:56.000 some things better than you do. They say, well, you know, 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:57.760 I wish I could do that a little bit better, 0:03:57.840 --> 0:03:59.680 do it as good as Danny. Danny obviously had a 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:02.200 tremend this release and got rid of the football quicker 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:05.640 than anybody. But you know, I think ultimately you have 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:09.360 to believe that you're the best and that nobody can. 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:11.360 You know, nobody can do it better than you can. 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:13.440 I think that that is a mindset you have to 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.080 have to even have a chance to get into the conversation. 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:20.440 Yeah, Marino was so ahead of his time with that 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:25.040 five wide Noro running back. I mean they were running 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:27.560 what you're running now. Did you ever think, hey, let 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:29.640 me talk to coach and see if we can run 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:30.640 the same thing in Denver? 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:32.160 Yeah? 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:34.440 I think yeah, I think that we were all kind 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.080 of jealous what Danny was doing down there, because, like 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.599 you said, I mean nineteen eighty four, I think you 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:42.800 threw for five thousand yards, right, and that was in 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:46.200 a sixteen game schedule, and that had you know, back then, 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.480 you just wanted to hopefully get to you know, it 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:51.760 was really three thousand was a good number, and then 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:54.719 if if you got to four thousand, that was like 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.160 over the top. And so and then Danny in his 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:01.039 second year, you know, he got well, you have forty 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:05.000 eight touchdowns and over five thousand yards, and so he 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:07.880 got there in a hurry. And yeah, from that point 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:11.640 and point on, I think, you know, statistically, we're all 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.240 chasing Dandy because he was, you know, setting the world 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:14.800 on fire. 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:19.560 Trying to assess these rookie quarterbacks, I mean, even drafting, 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:23.279 how difficult is it. You played the position at the 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:26.560 highest of levels, but you're trying to find a quarterback 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.599 when you're with the Broncos. What is it that you're 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.080 looking for? And maybe what is it that you missed 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:33.400 with these quarterbacks? 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:37.080 You know, Dan, I think it is. I think it 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.840 is such a combination you have to have. Not only 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:44.200 do you have to have the quarterback. But I really 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:47.320 believe even more important because all these kids coming out 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:50.120 of the coming out of college or high draft picks, 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:53.200 they are all great athletes. Can throw it, can make 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:57.120 all the throws, can move around, and you know, I 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.359 think the key thing is to get them in the 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:04.400 right situation with the right coach offensive coordinator, quarterback coach. 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:05.040 Or head coach. 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:08.520 I think is so important because how these kids are 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:12.520 brought into the league and how they are brought along 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:16.520 because as you know, there is no patience anywhere in 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:18.800 the NFL when it comes down to waiting on a 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:22.280 young guy, especially at the quarterback position, to get used 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:25.520 to playing in the NFL, because it's a huge, huge jump, 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:28.800 and so not only is it tough to find, it's 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:33.400 hard to see what's inside. You can see it on tape, 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:35.920 but it's hard to see what's inside. But I think 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:39.600 the most important thing is is that combination of a 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:43.360 head coach or as I said, an offensive coordinator that 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:48.000 brings that quarterback along slowly, doesn't get them put them 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:52.479 in situations where they're over their head. And because as 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:54.400 you know, the criticism in the NFL can be a 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:56.280 lot and I think and I always say this too, 0:06:56.400 --> 0:07:00.160 especially those high picks. They they've been great in high school. Oh, 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:02.440 they were great in college. They've always been great athletes, 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:05.440 and they've never experienced a lot of negative press, and 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.160 I think that a lot of times the world can 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:11.120 start caving in on them when they don't have success early, 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:14.800 especially if they're putting situations that they can't handle, because 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:19.320 not only is the complication of the offenses in the NFL, 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.920 but also what they're doing defensively, and that takes a 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:26.760 lot of time, and obviously you got to be patient 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:28.840 be able to do that, which I think. You know, 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:31.440 Sean Payton's doing a great job with bo Nix and 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:33.840 Denver while you're seeing him have the success that he's 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:37.600 having because of the way that he's bringing them along. Obviously, 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:41.000 Vans Joseph's got the defense going. They're playing great defense 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:45.200 to where they're not loading everything up onto that quarterback 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:48.840 and expecting him to win football games week in a 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.680 week out. And so I think that's the progression, and 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:54.640 I think that's why, you know, we you know, the 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.840 success rate is not as good as it should be 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:01.040 because of the fact of the combination of the player 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:04.240 but also the combination of the situation is getting put in. 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.760 Talking to John Elway, the Hall of Famer, Tom Brady 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:10.680 once said, if he was drafted in the first round, 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:15.800 he wouldn't have survived. You started, Peyton. You guys were 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:20.320 probably in over your heads those rookie years. And here's Brady, 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.600 maybe the greatest quarterback or certainly the most decorated. He said, 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:26.680 I needed to sit and watch. You didn't get that luxury. 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:30.679 How over your head were you that first year, first 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:32.080 couple of years. 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.280 You know, Dan, I was, you know I was. 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:36.520 It was fortunate and not looking back on it at 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.240 the time because my rookie year, I started the first 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:42.679 four games. The first two games I played, I got 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:46.080 benched at halftime Steve de Berg with her backup and 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:49.400 actually I got benched at halftime in Pittsburgh, and then 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:52.960 we went to Baltimore, I got benched. Fortunately Steve came in. 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.600 We won both those football games. I started the next 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.960 two games, and then Dan said, hey, listen, we're gonna 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:01.559 we're gonna make a chance. So Steve de Berg ended 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.360 up I ended up getting benched after my fourth game, 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:08.640 and which actually was the best thing that could ever 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.319 ever happened to me because Steve de Berg came in 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:15.400 played the next four games, and I had a chance. 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:16.360 To stand on the sideline. 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.079 And so this is where I agree with Tom and 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:21.280 the fact that the perspective of not being in the 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:23.560 middle of the heat and having a chance to be 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:27.520 the backup watch from the sideline was a big, big 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:30.200 plus for me. And then Steve ended up getting hurt 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:34.000 and in the fifth game, and then I was back 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:36.400 in and he separated his shoulder. So I played the 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.560 rest of the year, but that four week period that 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:43.960 I saw on the bench helped me tremendously for the 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:46.040 next time when I ended up starting the last half 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:48.319 of the season. So I think it's always good too, 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:51.800 you know, not to be in that fire right away, 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:54.160 to get a real good feel of exactly what's going on, 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:57.200 because nobody knows what a big jumping is coming from 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:00.080 college football at the NFL, especially at the quarterback position, 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:05.560 and and so, like I said, that four week time 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:07.880 that I got banch was probably helped me the most 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:09.640 of any any time in my career. 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.720 Steve Young has said on numerous occasions on this show 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:17.719 he wishes he was playing now because they protect the quarterback. 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:21.760 They're begging you to run. They protect you when you run, 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:25.960 and he said that it's too easy. Now, what do 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:29.960 you think about you in today's game, given your skills? 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:32.640 Well, you know, I think that. 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:33.200 Yeah. 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:37.319 Obviously the rules have changed and you know, they're making 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:40.640 the game a safer game, which is a good thing, 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:44.000 taking some of those unnecessary big hits out of the game. 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:48.120 You know, obviously the quarterbacks have get protected a lot more. 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:48.520 You can't. 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:51.360 You know, My biggest fear was, you know, defensive lineman 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:54.240 falling off guys and hit me in the legs when 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:57.400 I'm you know, throwing a twenty five yard to come back, 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.400 all my weights on that front leg and you know, 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:01.960 they can't hit there. And the other thing I always 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:05.080 say too was, you know, I get asked many times 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.960 as well, who hit you the hardest? And it was 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:11.280 usually the ground when they were on top of you 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:13.920 and they landed on top of you. The ground is 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:18.640 what hurt the most, right, So they can't they can't 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.280 land on you anymore either, So but I you know, 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:24.240 you know, that's the transition of the game. I still 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:28.080 you know, obviously what they do with the game and 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:31.040 the past game, how important it is now that you 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.160 know it would be you don't get hit as much, 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.840 but it's still a physical game. And I still say 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:39.800 I wouldn't trade when I played, you know, back in 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.800 the eighties and nineties to now, just because the game's changed, 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:46.880 the camaraderies changed. The locker room to me was a 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.120 place that was almost home for me and so and 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:52.960 I think all that stuff's changed with the amount of 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:57.240 money that's out there, that's that's all changed. But you know, 0:11:57.520 --> 0:11:59.839 you know, even though I wouldn't change it, I'm not 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.200 going to say it wouldn't be fun to play today's game. 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:06.840 When Fritzie said that we could get you on and 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:11.640 he said that you've been suffering dupatrin and people who 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:15.520 don't understand I have it. I have it in both hands, okay, 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:19.960 And so when Fritzie said that you have this, and 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:25.440 you know, you're working with a pharmaceutical company, and I 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.800 had surgery on my right hand and I haven't and 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.440 it didn't really clear it up. So give me, help 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.960 me understand what I can do explain the condition to 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:37.680 the audience, because there are a lot of people who 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:39.400 have it and may not realize what they have. 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.240 You know, you're right, it's amazing you know, I think 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:45.079 five percent of the population has du Patron's contraction. It's 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.640 really kind of a constriction of your hand, you know, 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:50.920 your fingers and your hands and the cords in your hands. 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.000 It's a college and build up in your hands to 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:55.760 where you know, your hand starts restricting. You can't put 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:57.280 your hand flat on a table. 0:12:57.880 --> 0:12:58.160 You know that. 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:00.560 I don't have a lot of pain with but it 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:02.079 was more of annoying. 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:04.040 The fact that it's and it's a condition that doesn't 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:06.959 get it doesn't go away, and it doesn't you can 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:09.600 make it better, but it doesn't go away. So it's 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:12.880 a progressive condition. And so I just went to break 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:14.760 our trainer and say, you know, what's going on with 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:18.760 my hand, and and so I didn't. To me, it 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:20.640 was the annoyance, and so I ended up with the 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:24.480 non surgical side of it, and so it was it 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:26.880 was much better that way. I know, surgically, it's it's 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:31.160 six to eight weeks recovery, whereas the one the thing 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:34.160 that I did was the non surgical was you know, 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:36.360 probably about a week to two weeks, and it's it's 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:39.240 actually it worked in both my hands, and so I 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:41.360 was able to I'm now able to, you know, put 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:43.840 my hands back on a table flat and I don't 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:44.680 have that constriction. 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:49.520 Oh, so how do how do you help me? John? 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:53.760 Well, you know what you're supposed to. 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:56.680 Go find your hand specialists and ask them about the 0:13:56.760 --> 0:14:02.320 non surgical way to go about this and be able 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:04.600 to release the collagen and the cords in your hands 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:06.680 so you can stop the constriction. 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:09.640 Yeah, I don't want to have surgery again. It's go 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.840 to facts on hand dot com for more information before 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.920 I let you go. If I gave you two weeks 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:18.920 to get ready, how far could you throw the football? 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:23.960 Ooh, that is a good question. If he gave me 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:28.960 two weeks, I think I could probably eventually get it 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:32.920 to fifty yards I think, but not pausitive. 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.240 But then the recovery time might be longer than the. 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:39.640 Have you talked to bo Nix? 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:42.160 I have not had a chance to talk to him. 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.840 I went out to OTA's and obviously it just got 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:46.640 to town and so there was a lot of different 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:48.520 things going on in his world and a lot of 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:51.360 people pulling at him. But you had a chance to 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:54.040 watch him, and I think DEM's in great shape. They're 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:57.040 excited about what he's doing and I think Sean and 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.560 Davis Webb are doing a tremendous job and hand and 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:01.120 breaking them. 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:02.760 In the right way. 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:05.120 Good to talk to you, John, Thanks for joining us. 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:07.440 My pleasure, Dan, thanks for having me. 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:11.800 John Elway Hall of Famer. And yeah, I have that 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:14.680 same condition both of my hands. I had surgery. I 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:16.760 don't know how many years ago. But you can't put 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:20.720 your hands flat on a table because your your fingers 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:22.920 are they call them trigger fingers. So if you have that, 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:26.760 you can go to facts on hand dot com. All right, 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.120 we'll take a break. We'll talk to the raining, the 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:32.760 freshly minted rookie of the Year, Paul Schemes from the Pirates. 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.440 Your phone calls as well. We're back after this Dan 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:36.160 Patrick show. 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:39.200 Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:42.600 the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:46.840 dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR to 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:47.640 listen live. 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:50.440 Since we just had John Elway on, I have the 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:56.200 odds to make the NFL Playoffs DraftKings the Broncos. Broncos 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:59.119 have better odds than the Niners do to make the playoffs, 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:02.080 better than the Bengal and certainly better than the Jets. 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:03.880 Stat of the Day has always brought to you by 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:07.680 Panini America, the official trading cards of the Dan Patrick Show. 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:10.040 He is the National League Rookie of the Year. He's 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:13.720 Paul Skins, the Pirates pitcher back on the program. Last 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:15.880 time I saw you when you got the honor, you 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:20.320 had a fireplace scene behind you look really nice and cozy. 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:22.200 Did you make the fire. 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:25.240 I did not, and I think it looked all right, 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.600 but not quite as good as the fireplace scene You've 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:28.480 got behind you. 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:32.920 So similar, but I'm not winning any awards. How did 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:36.200 you celebrate when you got the honor? 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:39.560 Yeah, I mean we had a number of my teammates 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:42.240 and coaches and you know, some people that have just 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:45.200 kind of affected my career in the past couple of years. 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:47.840 So they were all there. Got to celebrate with them, 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:52.200 and you know, just it was nice to be able 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:56.600 to to experience it with them, because it takes a 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:58.600 village to have any sort of success. 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:01.720 What was it like in April when you're in the 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:05.879 minor leagues wanting to be called up but not getting 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:06.320 that call? 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:11.439 Yeah, I mean that was the thing that that you know, 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.760 people have been telling me, my parents, my coaches that 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:17.600 kind of thing since this time last year was just 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:22.200 be patient because we don't know what the plan is. Necessarily, 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:25.600 we don't know, like I mean, truthfully, we didn't know how, uh, 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:28.040 you know, how how I was going to be because 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:31.080 I you know, had a feeling that I was going 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:32.760 to do, you know, have success and I believe to 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:34.840 myself and that kind of thing. But you don't really 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:36.439 know how you're going to do until you're in it. 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:39.480 So just be patient and put in the work and 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:42.280 and uh go compete and then it'll all take care 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:42.800 of itself. 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:47.119 How does your personality help you benefit you because you 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:48.720 seem pretty even keel. 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:52.200 Yeah, I think, I mean, it's just how I am, 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:55.640 and I've I've I think I've realized it a lot 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:58.520 more over this year, this past year, this past season. 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:02.600 It definitely doesn't hurt. I think just being able to 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:07.399 stay consistent in this game because it is because you 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:10.600 can really ride the roller coaster, the ups and the 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:14.040 downs through through one hundred and sixty two. So just 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:16.440 being able to stay consistent, and I think it helps 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:16.920 me do that. 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:21.159 Okay, but when you give up a home run, you 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:24.680 get mad internally, you don't show it, but when somebody 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:27.760 hits a bomb off of you. What's going on? 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:33.480 Yeah? Sometimes I get mad sometimes, I mean there's I 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:36.320 think there's pictures of me this year, like smiling after 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:39.280 I give it a home run. Sometimes frankly, sometimes I 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:39.959 think it's funny. 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:43.800 So why why is it funny? 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:47.120 I mean it's just you know, kind of kind of 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:52.800 their approach, whether they executed it or not. Like there 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:54.439 were there were a couple of times where, you know, 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:57.080 guys just jumped me this year and I was just like, well, whatever, 0:18:57.119 --> 0:18:59.439 you can't. You can't. You can't really avoid that to 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:01.680 some extent, so who cares? 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:03.960 What was it like? Facing Otani? 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:09.119 It was cool. It was cool obviously the you know, 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:10.679 the first a B and then the second AB he 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:13.480 got me. But that that is cool because we you know, 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:15.320 we went back to his uh you know, back to 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:19.160 their place, and just having the opportunity to face him 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:22.160 I don't know what, five or six times this year 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:25.040 and knowing that it's going to be five or six 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:27.360 times next year and in the year after that like that, 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:30.120 that that's pretty cool to to look forward to where 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:32.639 it's not just you know, reading a scouting report and 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:36.879 throwing to a certain uh certain location, like you got 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:39.520 to play baseball and and actually get the guy out. 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:41.520 It's it's a cool, cool experience. 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:45.360 He's the rookie of the year. Pirates pitcher Paul Schemes. 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:47.600 What's a pitcher do in the off season? 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:52.360 So what I Yeah, what I did was took three 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:54.600 weeks completely off and really just on my body and 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:58.480 my mind, settle, relax for a little bit, and then 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:01.399