WEBVTT - Miles Mikolas unveils tech world of sign stealing & pitch tipping 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:06.400 Hey, Miles, Michael List is here car parked. Good to 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:07.720 see you, Miles, been a minute. 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:08.360 How's the season? 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:10.840 How's it going. Good to see you guys again. 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:14.080 Yeah, you too. I watched most of your start the 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:15.840 other day and this is really how it happened. We're like, 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:17.799 I'm texting with the group. You know, we got the 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:19.960 whole ft team that keeps growing, and we're like, hey, 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:22.000 we haven't had Miles on in a minute's pitching. Well 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:24.120 we got to get them on. So how's life right 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:26.280 now with the season. I know, obviously it's been kind 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:28.720 of a weird year with the Cardinals still transitioning. 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:29.639 But how's it going. 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:33.280 Yeah, you know, I personally myself, I've been on the 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:36.080 roller coaster, you know, up and down, two steps forward, 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:40.000 one steps back, like good starts, bad starts. But you know, 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:41.600 I'm trying to keep it even keel, you know, in 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:44.400 the clubhouse for the young guys, you know, trying to 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:47.920 send an example, do do whatever I can in that regards. 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:50.360 But it's been a fun season. You know, we were 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:52.839 we were slow early, we got hot and we were 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:55.200 kind of in the mix, and then you know, unfortunately 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:58.280 the deadline, you know, we got rid of some of 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:04.160 our relievers, and you know, but we're still I feel 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:05.199 like we're still right in the mix. 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:07.040 And it's been a fun and as a team. 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:10.080 I know, like individually, I think I could speak for 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:12.160 everybody on the team, like we are having fun. We're 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:15.360 we're playing fun, We're playing loose. You know, we'd like 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:18.760 to play better. Probably I'd like to pitch better, you know, 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:24.520 more often. And you know, everyone always wants to be better, right, Yeah. 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:24.640 For sure. 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:26.320 I mean that's that's the name of the game. You 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:29.360 don't sit there and go, man, my mustache looks tremendous. 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:31.600 I hope, I just do mid. You want to play, 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:33.240 You want to play your best. 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:36.240 Yeah, yeah, you want to show up for the fans 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:38.240 and for everybody when you when you go into a 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:41.400 visiting city, you want to stick it to them. And 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:45.560 you just want to really just you know, be your 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:47.800 best and kind of, you know, kind of do that. 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:50.520 And I've been pitching really good at home. And I 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:52.080 like to make the joke. You know, my kids are 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:53.840 here in Saint Louis right now, so they come to 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:55.520 the games. I can't let them see their you know, 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.160 see their old man giving it up, right, So I 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:01.080 really gotta try my best. I start bringing my kids 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:04.560 on the road with me, don't you know, to keep 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:05.200 the pressure on. 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:08.440 No, don't, don't. Don't bring your kids on the road. 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:10.440 You do not need I'm sure you got a nice 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:13.520 suite and everything, but you do not need that. 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:17.639 Yeah, exactly, But it's tough traveling with four kids. Be 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:18.520 be real, real tough. 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:23.639 You're you're almost you're almost done. You'll get a lot 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:25.560 of time with them. Then, all right, a few more 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:28.480 years pitching, you know, you get like three or four, 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.320 maybe a fifth year pitching, and then you can get 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:33.200 you can go home and play with them all the time, 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:34.160 all year long. 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:35.960 They don't need to go round. 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:38.840 Road trips are for you know, golfing with the boys 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:40.640 and getting a good night's sleep. 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:44.359 There you go, maybe maybe maybe catch a few fish too. 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:46.200 But I want to talk about what you said about 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:49.600 being an example for the guys. Yeah, dude, you make 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.200 all of your starts in a day and age. We 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:54.400 just got done talk about the Dodgers, where it's like, well, 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:57.040 we're picking up these guys to make twenty to twenty 0:02:57.080 --> 0:02:58.280 five starts. 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:00.400 Do you feel like you're slow? Happen? 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:05.160 Dudes in the face, not just metaphorically slapping him in 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:07.799 the face. When you hear that, they're like, oh man, 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:10.480 you know I could. You know, we'll see him make 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:13.320 twenty to twenty five starts and you're like, I'm making 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:15.840 all thirty two. Sorry, And how hard is that to 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:18.720 do because you're trying to be an example for young 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:21.240 pictures like McGreevy and different guys that are coming up. 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:25.440 Yeah, I think it's you know, that's that's one of 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:27.720 the abilities, right. I had a coach before, and he's 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:30.440 got all the abilities. One of the abilities is durability 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:35.400 or availability. And you know, for someone like myself who, 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:37.480 like I heard you guys talking about a minute ago, 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:39.600 I don't throw one hundred and ten. So maybe it's 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.400 easier for me to stay healthy because I'm not throwing 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:45.400 one hundred and ten. But you know, that's that's one 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:47.400 of those things that I feel like I can really 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:50.680 control is my health. And it's something that I that 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:52.680 I've really grown over the last couple of years. And 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:57.000 it's tons of off season work, you know, in the gym, 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:00.480 you know, stretching, being in ship, it's a healthy diet, 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.840 it's knowing my body, you know, as i've gotten older, 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:06.200 like like what I need, Like, man, I really need 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:08.480 to focus on, you know, my shoulder or my elbow 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:11.360 or my back, and there's other things that I can 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:14.280 take less time with because that's that's not what I'm 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.359 I'm needing, that's not what I feel. And you know, 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:20.640 trying to set that example where even after a bad start, 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:25.560 I'm I'm in there the next day, you know, whenever 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:27.560 I'm supposed to be there, I'm in there the next day. 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.360 I'm in the training room getting my work done. I'm 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:32.640 in the gym, you know, working my tail off. You know, 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:36.080 I'm a big lifting weights guide. Not everybody is. I'm 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:38.000 you know, I lift weights for baseball, but I also 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:40.560 want to look good, you know, in a bathing suit 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:41.800 when I go home and I'm on the boat in 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:42.120 the winter. 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.080 You know, I domple for my kids. You know, we 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.240 we eat healthy. We're a healthy family. 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:50.719 And I think all those things tie in together, and 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:52.880 I think it a lot of it goes to attitudes. 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:53.560 You know. 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:55.960 I have a running joke with our head trader here. 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.040 It says, how's you know, how's miles to that said, 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:00.000 I feel great, nothing hurts, I'm in the best shape 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.760 my life and just you know, having that like that 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.919 kind of attitude, you can almost mentally trick yourself into 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:07.800 just feeling great. 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:08.800 I feel great. 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:10.599 The more you say it, I'll say it a couple 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.200 of times more, I feel tremendous. I mean great shape, 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:16.000 nothing hurts. I'm gonna go run and shag BP and 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:18.960 throw a bullpen and lift weights. And you know, I'm 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:21.200 gonna empty the tank today because I start on Sunday. 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:22.960 I'm gonna empty the tank. Get used to the heat. 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:25.960 It's hot as all get out here in Saint Louis, 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:28.800 and you know I'm gonna get after it. And I'm 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:30.559 and I'm gonna get after it for you know, thirty 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.479 thirty two starts. 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.320 So cratch your set at thirty six. You got five 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:38.120 more years ago, which I think would be absolutely incredible. 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:42.400 Do you think after playing in the MLB, there any 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:44.719 any truth to going, you know, back to Japan and 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.040 playing over there at the MPB any rumored today? 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:49.320 I would love to. I would love to. 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:49.800 It was. 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.440 The the more I look back on it, the more 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:56.920 I can really appreciate that experience. I mean, the fans 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.600 I still get, you know, messages from fans and When 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:01.640 I talk to the Japanese media, they're always telling me, 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:04.279 you know, the Japanese fans are always you know, checking 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:06.200 in on me. I haven't been there in eight years, 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:09.760 and I get messages on Instagram from you know, people 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.080 I met passing by that have found me, had been like, oh, 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.239 you had a great start yesterday, Like you know, Tokyo 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.719 is still you know, still watching you, and you know that, 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:20.640 you know, maybe hopefully wherever I am next year or 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:22.479 if I'm back in Japan, I'll be getting messages on 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:24.720 Instagram from people in Saint Louis like, oh, I'm you know, 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:27.119 I'm glad you're doing well in Japan. I think it'd 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.360 be fun for my kids. That's a great cultural experience. 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.800 Japan is a beautiful place in spring and summer, you know, 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.800 the cherry blossoms, the culture. 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:41.400 It's such a clean, safe country. I don't know, forty one. 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:41.760 I don't know. 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:44.080 You're gonna talk to my wife about, you know, me 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.320 playing until I'm forty one. I'm I'm finishing up nine 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:49.880 years this year. Next year would make ten. That's my 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:53.640 main focus is just going your year. Finish this year healthy, 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:57.640 hopefully finish it strong. So some teams can be interested 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.440 and you know work, you know kind of work from there. 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:02.919 You know, I want to play as long as I 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.880 can healthy. I've seen what it looks like to be 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:10.280 old and really struggle through those last you know, a 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:12.920 couple of months or that last year. I'm not chasing 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.360 any records. I'm not chasing the Hall of fame. I 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:17.240 don't even know if I'm chasing the Hall of pretty good. 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.600 I'm chasing the hall of the guy had a nice career, 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:24.560 you know, ten years, that's an accomplishment. But at this point, 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.040 you know, I want to play for teams that want 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:28.640 to win that I can help win in any way, 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:31.960 shape or form. And if that means playing one year, 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:35.080 two years, five years, we're helping a team win the 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:38.920 you know, the Nippon Cup, you know over there in Japan. 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:40.800 You know, that's that's that's what I want to do. 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:44.600 We have a little breaking news on Hello Fresh. We've 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:46.960 talked about them for a long time, but this summer 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:50.160 they have their biggest menu upgrade yet. 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Plus, and the other part that you 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:01.240 just talked about is I'm gonna tell Wayne Right that 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:04.280 you said he was broken down, looked terrible in amathing suits. 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.960 No, no, no, no, no, not him, not him. 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:09.640 No, it was definitely it was definitely Wayne Right. I'm 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.760 gonna make sure he knows that, so that we had 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:13.480 it here first. 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.520 I mean I've i've again, I've seen what that looks like. 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.199 And that's a lot of work. It's a lot of work. 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.400 And he was chasing he was chasing numbers. You know, 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.439 he was chasing two hundred wins. He was chasing two 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.680 hundred wins. And he I mean I get almost getting 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:31.719 like goosebumps and chills thinking about it when I talk 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:35.360 about it, Because when when when you talk about like 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.520 I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm not gonna play catch today. 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.000 I'm gonna save my bullets. You know I'm gonna save them. 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:42.680 You're talking about a guy used. 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:48.200 Every single bullet getting two hundred wins. It was the 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:51.079 most incredible thing to watch, every single bullet. I mean, 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:52.920 he got that two hundred wins. I think he was 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:54.880 golfing like next week and he went to throw a 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:58.000 pine cone out of a bunker and it just like 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:01.720 like it was just noth like all bullets were baseball bullets. 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:03.600 Could even throw a pine cone out of the bunker. 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:04.520 Whoop. 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:07.520 You know, after he hits it three hundred yards, you know, 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:11.560 a little bit left, maybe maybe right. You know, probably 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:14.319 went up and down. It's a great golfer, But talk 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:18.280 about just using it. It was incredible. It was an 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:20.640 incredible thing to watch and make that run. And I was, 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:22.320 you know, I always gonna be a huge fan, best 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:23.160 best teammate ever. 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.120 All right, I won't. I guess it's not winning, right. 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:30.080 But my question to you, you guys are three and 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:32.760 a half out in the wildcard. I say on here 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:36.520 all the time, and you guys traded some key pieces 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:39.120 to your team, but you go out every day, like 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:43.560 you said, to compete. How much is too much at 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:46.640 one point of the season, Because I always say three 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.800 games is so hard to overcome, and you guys are 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.400 at that three and a half game mark, It is 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.439 so hard to overcome in August. 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:56.240 How do you guys look at it? 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:59.000 I get it, you're gonna say the whole generic one 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.320 name at a time, one pitch at a time, and 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:04.160 cardinal way, and we're gonna smile and all that stuff. 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.000 But truly, how much because you don't have a lot 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:07.880 of teams in front of you. 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:10.240 Guys. You have one team right now, and they're in 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:10.880 your division. 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:15.959 It's the Reds, right, it's the Reds. So we do 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:18.600 have a handful of games against the Reds. Those are 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:22.559 gonna be important, you know, talk about those three and 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:24.640 you know, if it's still three and a half games 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:26.680 after we play the Reds, and you know, and it's 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:30.200 second third week, you know, first week of August or 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.920 first week of September, I was gonna say, you know, yeah, 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.679 but we've got you know, and the the Giants are 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.959 still you know, the Giants are behind us, I know that, 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.199 but they're they're beating up on the Well, the Giants 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:47.280 fell further back in Arizona. Okay, Well, you know the 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:49.840 Dodgers and Padres can really beat up on each other. 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:51.800 You know, that's one of those things. But it's you know, 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:54.560 it's Cincinnati, New York. New York sliding a little bit. 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:58.280 They've had a rough go. When you put yourself three 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:00.760 and a half games back, you start needing other teams 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.120 to lose, which is I think. 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:05.239 Why you say that that three games. 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:07.040 Is tough, right, because we have to win and I 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:08.960 think we ran into this last year where like we 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:10.920 were playing kind of good at the end of the year, 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:13.240 but so is everybody else that was in the mix. 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:15.400 Like we would win three in a row and the 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:17.080 Mets or Phillies would win three in a row, we 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.000 wouldn't make up any ground. It's like, man, we just 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:24.120 swept we just swept somebody, and we're still three games back. 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.600 So I'd have to look at those at the other 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:30.760 team schedules. You know, maybe the Mets have a really 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:35.200 tough run. You know, maybe the Padres and Dodgers, or 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:38.320 you know, the Phillies, whoever else is there, maybe the Reds. 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:40.840 But maybe we can sweep the Reds and make up 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:41.319 some ground. 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:43.360 You know, maybe we can have good series against Pittsburgh 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:46.000 that got some good pitching. You know, maybe we can 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:48.080 we can steal something from then. We got a couple 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:50.680 of games against the Brewers. I mean, they're they're they're 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:54.360 way out there. You know, we won seventeen games in 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:55.280 a row the one year. 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:58.960 True, you know, true. All you gotta do is win 0:12:59.000 --> 0:12:59.920 seventeen games. 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:00.000 In a row. 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:04.960 If you guys win seventeen in a row, you will 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:08.600 be in the postseason. I'm pretty sure that this much time. 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:11.800 Left we were like it was like twenty games left 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:13.360 in the season that year, and it's like all we 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.679 gotta do is win out and we're good and we can. 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:17.160 We did it. 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:22.160 You know, you talk about losing those bullpen arms. I've 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:24.440 been so impressed with our bullpen arms that have come 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:26.840 up and down in this organization. 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:27.120 Share. 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:31.679 I mean, you got O'Brien, you got you know, Sponson, 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.520 you know, Lea heat Fernandez is back up and looking 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:35.160 really good. 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:40.040 I mean, you you lose back in bullpen guys. 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:42.000 But like it seems like in this day and age, 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.120 half the guys every other guy gets called up from 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:47.200 Triple A s throwing one hundred was sync or throwing 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:49.520 one hundred with a ninety three min hour cut or 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:52.079 something like that. And you know, those are the kind 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.600 of guys that that we brought up and they've been tremendous. 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.560 They were they were tremendous working earlier in the games 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:00.480 when they you know, in Hellsley and Phil and Matts, 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:02.800 we're still here and they've they've slid into those you know, 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:06.440 the back into those games, uh, pretty seamlessly, so I think, 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:09.440 and then you know, relievers are really important. But if 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:11.800 there's one thing that you can kind of mix and match, 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:13.880 like late in the seasons, like you can play matchups 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.760 with with relievers, and it's a little tougher than saying, oh, 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:17.760 you know, we got our closer. 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:18.880 Boom, hell's it coming in. 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:22.200 Here's one hundred and two, shut the door, you know, 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:24.040 as opposed to Okay, here comes the ninth. 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.200 We're gonna use a little bit lefty, little righty. We 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:27.560 got some sync, we got some cut. 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:31.320 But I think we have the bullpen to to to 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:32.840 kind of do that and kind of, you know, kind 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:35.360 of fill that fill that gap. I've been super impressed 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.160 with all these young guys coming up out of the bullpen. 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.120 Yeah, and hey Tigers last year mid August, they were 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:43.480 in a bad spot. Twins collapsed, they row there you go, 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:45.600 so all right, yeah, one more for you before we 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:47.200 hit the brake. And it could be a little bit 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:50.120 of a loaded question, but last weekend you're playing the Cubs. 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.000 What was the whole deal with the base coach stuff. 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.560 We've had a lot of pitchers on lately that are like, hey, 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.160 base coach has got to stay in there lane. We 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:59.960 don't want anyone you know, looking for tips, the whole deal. 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:02.000 So what was going on there? 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:08.040 I think it is that that that's a little question. 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.440 You know, the box is there. You could stay in 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:12.280 the box. I mean, that's why it's there. If the 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:15.600 league wants to, you know, make that box bigger. They're 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.960 making everything bigger. The strike zone is smaller, the zone bigger, 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:21.160 the field whatever, they want to make the box bigger, 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:21.760 make it bigger. 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:23.920 Other than that, you know, you could stay in your box. 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:27.760 But I think the whole the thing that's different now, 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:31.920 like with signs stealing is like the video stuff, right, 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:35.280 It's like you know, back in the day, you know, 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:38.240 like my rookie year twenty twelve, and then before that, 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:42.160 like way back in the day, as a player, you 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:43.360 had to have some savvy. 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:45.840 You had to like be on second base and you're 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:47.120 looking at signs and you're. 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.520 Sneaking or like and even like the video you had 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:52.360 to watch was pretty grainy, and you'd have to be 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:54.880 on base or the coach would have to be like 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:59.400 a wizard at stealing signs. And and you know, now 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:03.240 you've got you know, five guys probably sitting in a 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.920 room just ripping through video looking for like oh, the 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.520 freckle on the back of his neck moves an inch 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:13.440 to the left when he's throwing a curveball. It's like, well, 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.000 that's kind of ridiculous, Like I don't I can't control 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.920 my freckles. I can't, you know, And you know, maybe 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:22.800 like guys like with a spike curveball, and it's you know, 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:26.640 the the angles are the boxes maybe where it is 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:28.880 for a reason. You know, you're gonna put your first 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:31.680 base coach behind my pitcher so he can look into 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:33.720 his glove, Like just put the put your first base 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:36.040 coach behind the mound, put him in a lawn chair 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.240 so you can watch every grip that I have in 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:42.560 my glove. I mean, there's there's there's some showmanship to it, 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:45.520 right Like if I'm really bad, if I come set 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:47.960 and my glove is here and I'm showing it to you, 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.480 shame on me. But if I've got it tucked in 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.760 tight to my chest and you're halfway down the foul 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:59.080 pole getting an angle on it, I don't know, that's 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:00.240 a little sketchy to me. 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:06.200 Right, Like there there's there's gamesmanship there. There there's there's gamesmanship. 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:11.440 There's like okay, like you're going second sign at second base, 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:13.840 like we're picking him up all day because he's second signed. 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:17.800 And then there's oh, our scouts ripped through the whole video, 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:20.960 like this is why we have pitch com now, because 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:24.199 you got people and I'm not gonna name names. You 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:29.920 got stadiums with the camera in center field flashing, lights moving, blinking. 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:34.680 You got people banging on trash cans. You know you're 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:38.200 gonna bang on a trash can, hit a home run 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.080 because you knew what was coming, and then step on 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:42.440 home plate and thank Jesus for it, Like, no, dude, 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:46.920 thank the trash can. Your first base coach, Your first 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:49.160 base coach is telling you, hey, you got a heater coming. 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:50.200 You know what's coming. 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:54.200 He's halfway down the line, and then you're gonna be like, oh, 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:55.960 you know, thank god, I hit that ball. 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:58.000 No, dude, thank your coach. He's halfway down the line 0:17:58.080 --> 0:17:59.360 stealing pitches. 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:02.120