WEBVTT - Vinnie Pasquantino joins FT 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:06.200 One more thing, because I think this will play well 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.600 into our next guest. John Hayman wrote, congratulations to the 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:14.400 Carolina Panthers for reaching the playoffs with an eight and 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:17.079 nine record. If MLB ever had a team in the 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:19.920 postseason with a four to seventy one winning percentage, they'd 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:22.240 never hear the end of it. And there were great 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:24.759 comments because there were tons of football fans going after him, 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:27.800 but then they were baseball fans countering that would be 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:32.120 the A's or the Braves this past season making it 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:32.880 to the playoffs. 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:35.839 This apems a lot of foot teventy six win. 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:38.600 Yeah, it happens in football, but he was just saying 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:40.920 they would be uproar in baseball, and I do agree. 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:43.080 I think they would three win. Two thousand and six 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:44.480 Cardinals won the World Series. 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:47.080 They were about five hundred, and that's the one example 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:48.960 that was brought up. The other examples were crap. People 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:51.400 were bringing up a ton of twenty twenty examples like 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:55.040 Brewers and Astros. I'm like twenty twenty really, and then 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:56.720 also the week one that I saw for many there 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:58.600 were like there are plenty of stretches where teams go 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:02.040 eight to nine in baseball I'm like, that is completely irrelevant, 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:03.640 Like just them. 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:05.880 That would be like a football team going one and two, 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:09.840 not even let's see seventeen, that's about a tenth. So 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:11.800 that'd be like a team going one and one, going 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:13.640 too and you're like, oh, no, they can't make the 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:14.759 playoffs because they went on. 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:16.920 Too every no idea. 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:21.800 What we're talking about, right, the Jets. 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:24.280 I mean if they compared the Jets to a baseball team, 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:25.920 that'd be like, they never make the playoffs. 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:28.319 All right, Well, then you know what, it's perfect timing 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:30.600 to bring in our next guest who likes that team. 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:34.360 Here he is, Vinnie Pasquentino joining us right now. We 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:37.319 might start there, dude, do you think that how you doing? 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:39.240 First of all as your offseason? Then I'll get to 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:40.480 what we were just talking about. 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:44.280 Going very well, progressing the way i'd like it too. 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:46.520 The football season is over for the Jets, so I 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:47.440 can relax now. 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:50.720 They got the way to pick. 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:54.640 By the way, do you see what I'm holding up? 0:01:55.440 --> 0:02:00.240 A zero? Their team had zero interceptions for the whole year. 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:04.040 That's impossible to have and you have a defensive guy 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:04.600 as the coach. 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:06.720 How do you have Sorry, I know it's a baseball show. 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:08.040 But they had zero. 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:11.280 You would think like a gaball would get deflected and 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:13.240 somebody would catch one. 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:13.639 Somewhere. 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:18.080 There's a stat about the It's like a stat that said, 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:18.799 like who am I? 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:20.359 And it gave a list. 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:23.359 Of stats that all the quarterbacks combined had what their 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:25.600 numbers were against the Jets. It was like thirty six 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:30.320 touchdowns to zero interceptions, like whatever, a thirteen and three record, 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:32.440 fourteen and three record. The guy would have won the 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:34.480 MVP if you could have just played against the Jets 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:35.639 every week. 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:36.640 It was pretty embarrassing. 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:41.040 Defensive head coach, no interceptions, playing man defense with like 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:43.000 fourth string cornerbacks. 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:45.000 It's it was fun fun to watch. I'm glad it's over. 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.600 Where does that equate to baseball? Where does that equate 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:49.120 to baseball? 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:49.639 Jet? 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:51.639 We talked about it this morning. 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:56.560 That exact example would be like having like Hia guys 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:58.960 come up to the big leagues and not bunt or 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:01.760 do anything and just tell to just go bang like 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.000 it's just not going to happen. It's not that they're 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.760 bad players, it's just they're not ready for it just yet. 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:08.440 But what is uh? 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.560 What was the game where the Jets blocked the field goal? 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:12.400 Was it the Bucks game and they thought they were 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:15.000 gonna win and Aaron Glenn ran down the sidelines and 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:16.680 then the guy and they baker. 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:18.880 Yeah, it was oh man, I. 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:19.880 Feel you have to watch that one. 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:21.800 Nothing works out because we were still playing. 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:23.640 So it's fine, it's fine. I'm over it. 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:25.880 The season is long in the rear view now and 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:27.400 we're excited to look forward. 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:31.760 Good to tie this into baseball, Vinnie, do you think 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:35.480 that MLB fans would go nuts if a team made 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.120 the playoffs with a sub five hundred record like we 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:41.360 see in football. 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:41.640 Well, fans go nuts for anything. 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:43.640 When the one seeds make it to the World Series, 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:45.560 it's because they spend too much money and they buy 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:47.360 the wins. If a six seed makes it to the 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.080 World Series, it's because they didn't have a buye and 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.760 they were you know, they were continuing to play. So 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:56.480 it doesn't matter what you do, say or react to anything. 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:59.200 People are going to complain. So you just got to 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:01.760 keep moving forward and know that people are going to 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:02.640 complain no matter what. 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:05.920 Yes, they will find a way and actually embrace the 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:09.320 complain because it just means that they're passionate and they're fans. 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:11.280 Right, fanatic? Right? 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:14.280 Isn't that some the definition of fans fanatic? They just 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:16.000 go crazy for everything as they should. 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:20.080 Yes, well on that topic, I mean, obviously you're a 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:23.000 big deal in Kansas City and you love Kansas City. 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:26.080 But maybe you love Kansas City too much. Now I 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.600 think we have the video of this, so it sounded 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:31.800 like you were adopting a real football team temporarily and 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:34.279 then that didn't work out for you either. This is 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:37.680 you on FS one saying that you're officially a Chiefs fan, 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.160 and I was told that since you did that, they 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:43.159 went three and eight. We're not superstitious, We're not blaming 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:47.400 the Chiefs destruction on you, but is it disheartening to 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:50.280 adopt a new team that then falls apart? 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:53.719 So all you can do is go with the data 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.240 that has been provided to you, and me being a 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.839 fan of your team is bad news. I have supported 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:02.520 the Chiefs for years, gone to plenty of games, gone 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:05.440 to many of playoff games, but this was the first 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.240 year that I publicly, like on national TV, said I'm 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.960 all in on the Chiefs and this is what happens. 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.120 So I would not want me to root for your 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:20.560 football team basically publicly. So yeah, it's been tough. It's 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:22.560 been tough. I'd like to just see some winning football 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:26.800 for a team that I like, and it's gonna happen 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:28.640 one day. I'm going to keep the faith, and you know, 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.320 we just keep faith. 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.719 Two things, to get the priests that bust the field 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.400 for the Steelers last night to come to the Jets 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:38.320 and just bless their locker room maybe. 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:40.279 And second of all, can we show that clip again? 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:43.160 I want to know who has the worst look, you 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:46.080 or Nick Right in that video, because you have your look. 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:49.040 You're going for the Nick Right haircut and look right 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.040 there in this video, like what's happening there? 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.760 I wish I would have tied my hair up that day. 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:57.800 I didn't realize how to the side it looked. I 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:01.240 thought like when I left makeup, it was backed, and 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.040 then I guess I had shook my head or something 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.480 and it completely moved to the side. Not my best, 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:09.039 not my best to look. But but as you can see, 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:14.080 I cut my hair rectified the situation. Yeah, so we're 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.080 going short hair now, don't have to worry about anything. 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:19.080 Yeah, but isn't strom gonna be pissed that you were 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:20.680 on the same show as him. It looked like Matt 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:22.960 Strom and now you guys got him back with the Royals, 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:25.640 Like yeah. 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:26.800 Like, is he gonna have to cut his hair? 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:26.919 Like? 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:28.800 Is that is that a Royals thing this year? Like 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:32.240 are you guys all Samson locks or getting taken off. 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:34.359 India? 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:36.880 Cut his hair? So he's got short hair now, I've 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:39.960 got short hair now. So Strom is the only one 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:43.400 that I can think of that has long hair. So yeah, 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:46.160 you know, he'll have to adjust. Maybe we're gonna make 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:51.159 We're gonna become the Yankees and short hair. We do 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:54.159 what we did in the minor leagues. Short hair, no beard, 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:57.400 wear your socks up. I just go back to nothing 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.520 but rules. Yeah, just as many rules as human possible 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:03.239 We're gonna do. 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.880 Is that why Curtaro got an extension? Because he said, 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:09.720 no TV, no fun, all rules, cut your hair, and 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:11.640 then they signed him to a three year extension with 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:12.080 an option. 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:14.080 I mean, is that why what they needed? 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:15.360 That's right? 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.920 We just yeah, he also came out. I just saw 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:20.960 it before I got on the show. I checked my Twitter. 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:22.800 He told me that I called him and told him, 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:27.280 you're welcome. Uh, that is not how that conversation went well. 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:32.040 He goaded me into telling him you're welcome. I said congrats, 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:33.880 and he's like, oh, really, I should be saying thank 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:36.000 you to you. And I said, yeah, okay, you're welcome. 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:38.240 So that was a good thing. 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:39.240 That was a good. 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.000 He looked it sounded like I called him, was like, 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:44.000 hey man, you're welcome. 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:44.920 Congrats. 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:47.280 Actually that is an extension you just got. 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:49.760 That is what you actually should have done. You should 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:52.600 have been you're welcome for my second half. So therefore, 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:54.600 you know, now I'll take a little pay a little 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:56.120 cut of that pay raise you just got. 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:58.120 Yeah, but if I'm going to say you're welcome for 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:00.960 my second half, I better apologize for my first half. 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:04.440 So that's why I just I just stay out of 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:05.760 all those conversations. 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:09.240 We've got qu later this week, so we'll talk to him. 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:12.360 Actually, i've got you tomorrow. He's coming to see me tomorrow. 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:14.680 So you guys have him this week. I have him tomorrow. 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:15.360 We'll see how that can. 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:17.160 Where are you watch? Where are you located? 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:19.320 I'm in Nashville, Tennessee. 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:20.680 He's gonna watch. 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.080 He's not really Yeah, he's not really coming to see you. 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.720 He's really coming to to go to Broadway. I mean, 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:27.840 let's be serious. Yeah, he's just pretty much. I think 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:30.120 he's flying in tomorrow morning and then flying out, so 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:32.600 we'll see. I'm gonna put him through the ringer tomorrow. 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:34.920 I might make him work out too, and yeah. 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:37.360 What's he gonna do? What's he gonna do? 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:37.640 Like? 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:39.560 Is he gonna spot you on the bench? Is he 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:42.560 gonna like? Is he gonna hold your hips while you 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:43.560 while you backsquash? 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:44.400 What's happening? 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:44.720 Whatever? 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.319 Whatever he can handle, we're gonna find out. I might 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:48.599 make him hit some fungos. 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:53.360 Well, we'll see, are you gonna. 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:55.800 Am I gonna have him do what. 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:58.480 Call balls and strikes when your dad throws VP to 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:01.560 you because the other day with you and your. 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:08.560 Dad, Yeah, and objectively speaking, that was a ball. Like 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:12.720 the fact that what I almost had a reply like 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:16.520 to everybody tweet where I wanted to say, this is how, 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:21.599 this is why players should not look online after games because. 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:23.600 People have no idea. 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:25.680 There were so many people saying strike, so many people 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.079 saying ball you won. You can't tell in the video 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:30.880 because of depth perception, but there was people calling me 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:35.840 like Buddy Pal, different derogatory like things to say to 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.400 somebody being like that, take a seat, pal, grab some 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:42.400 pine buddy, like Okay, First off, I had to explain 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:46.160 we were doing live at bats. Second off, grow up, 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:49.240 don't come you know, I'm just I'm just having a 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:51.240 little bit of fun online. Don't need to be mean 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:55.600 to me. It's you know, whatever, whatever it was a ball. 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:00.840 That is what happens when you throw things out of me. 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:06.600 They need a track man, dingy whatever the track man. Yeah, 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.120 whatever the hell, They're all right, righty wherever you're doing that. 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:10.160 I've been. 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.320 I have recently dabbled into the world of TikTok. I 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:16.000 still don't watch anything on it, but I post videos 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:17.680 of me hitting and stuff like that on there so 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:19.960 that there's an entire video of us doing live at 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:21.920 bats and the second swing he makes me fall down. 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:24.040 He still can't make me swing and miss, but I 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:27.160 did maybe slip on the turf very slow curveball and 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:30.040 fell all the way to my back, which was exciting. 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:33.400 But I do have good video that I sometimes post, 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:35.360 but that that day I was feeling froggy, so I 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:36.439 posted some bad video. 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:40.439 I like that, but everyone needs that so they can 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:42.280 look at that and go look a big leaguer fell 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:42.839 on a swing. 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:44.080 I'm gonna make it. 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:45.400 Yeah. 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.760 I mean, like if if the ball cross film plate 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:50.600 where I said it did, which is the picture on 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:52.880 the left, and you think that that is a strike, 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:55.720 which pratch, you might think it's a strike because you're 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:57.559 a catcher and then live at bats, you guys, Oh, 0:10:57.600 --> 0:10:58.280 you're both catchers. 0:10:58.320 --> 0:10:58.480 A J. 0:10:58.600 --> 0:10:59.320 You're a catcher too. 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:03.280 Sorry, you guys call everything strikes and live at bats, 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:04.160 So maybe it would be then. 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:05.400 But I think the A B S is going to 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:10.160 protect me there. Oh you're excited about the A B S. 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:12.199 A AJ is trying to look at it. AJ is 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.360 like AJ had over two thousand hits. Yes, he caught, 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:18.040 but he's definitely he's definitely more in the hitters. 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:20.000 I'm just trying to find the ball in that picture, Like, 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:23.680 where's the ball that's the outside corner. 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:30.360 Left shop. 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.200 I mean, it's over the plate. I agree with it 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.760 is one hundred percent over the plate. People too, there's 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:38.760 definitely hundred percent. 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:42.280 Is it a fastball a breaking ball? That's a breaking ball. 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.760 It's a fastball. That's a ball that's up. 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:50.640 Get the bat off your shoulder and swing one time. 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:52.520 This is the off season. This is when you start 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:55.079 like expanding your zone one time, Vinny. 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:55.920 That's right, that's what. 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:58.480 But the funny part in the video is a lot 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:00.520 of people in Kansas City like to at me because 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:03.120 my walk rate has steadily gone down every single year. 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:05.760 But then my second or third at bat on the 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.440 video I posted, I walked, and I look at the camera. 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:10.079 I'm like, people in Can't City, you are going to 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:13.440 like that because it's all that matters nowadays. Fellas you 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:15.000 look at all the data, you look at all that 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:19.040 just walk you walk, That increases your floor apparently by 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.559 a ton. Do a lot of damage. Doesn't really matter, 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:23.280 but I talk about that all the time. 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:24.480 Walk and steal bases. 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:28.880 Walk and steal basis the more if you steal ten bases, 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:31.920 your war goes up like four runs. Just because you 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.440 stole ten bases, even though it could be fifteen to 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:36.440 nothing and you're stealing third with two outs and they're 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:37.000 not watching you. 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:39.040 Doesn't try to be more positive. 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:40.880 I'm trying to be more positive, so I don't want 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:42.720 to get into war or else I might have a 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:43.440 panic attack. 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:48.000 So, by the way, more positive. 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:50.640 And you know Eric greg Is, he said that pitch 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:52.959 was not even like close to being a ball. If 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:55.160 you saw the ninety seven game with the Braves and 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:58.719 the Marln like that was that was like right down 0:12:58.760 --> 0:12:59.800 the middle then that game. 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.439 So you're like arguing the wrong way here. 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.960 Yeah, that's right, that's right. Shit, Yeah, I can't win 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:06.360 them all. 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.800 Was Vinnie was born in ninety seven a that game 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.400 of that game, just like he was. He was a baby, 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:14.680 like literally a baby in the month of October. So 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:16.880 that doesn't apply. That game doesn't apply. But he's probably 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:20.559 seen the highlights. But those highlights of your dad thrown 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.360 to you. How often have you done that? Because so 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:26.200 many times people are like, oh, man, you know, I 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.520 want to take a couple of pitches and BP and 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:30.320 I just want the ball. Can you just get it 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:32.920 right down the middle? How many How long have you 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:35.679 been doing that? And obviously you own your dad because 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.800 you're a big leaguer and he's not, But how long 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:39.679 have you been doing that? 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:44.600 Uh? We've been going live like that my entire life. 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:45.960 Like, to be honest, I think it's one of the 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:49.640 reasons that I am able to control my swing and 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:54.640 miss because my entire life we've been doing these at 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:56.840 bats where he's trying to make me as uncomfortable as 0:13:56.920 --> 0:14:02.160 humanly possible. His face quote, especially what I'm not hitting 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:03.840 well is you can't walk your way out of a slump. 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:06.840 So he's always like the point of the the point 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.079 of the live at bats is like, be aggressive, get 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:11.839 your pitch, let it rip, and then get to two 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.199 strikes and just be a prick. 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.080 So like, that's kind of what I learned my entire 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:18.160 life with him was. 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.040 Basically, just try to do some damage or less than 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:23.840 two strikes, and you get the two strikes, be a prick. 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:26.440 And so the goal he has always tried to beat 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.200 me one but to make me swing and miss, which 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:32.280 he hasn't done in a few years. And we just 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:33.680 have a good time with it. We try to keep 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:35.600 it light. We talk a lot of a lot of 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:37.360 crap to each other, Like there's points where we are 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:43.840 yelling at each other, as you can imagine too strong 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:47.640 minded people trying to get one up on each other. 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:49.600 So we have a good time with it. And he 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:50.960 lives right down the road now. 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:53.040 He's a coach at spring Hill High School here in Nashville, 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:55.880 so he's got a field that we can get to 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.000 whenever we want, and the weather's been pretty nice, so 0:14:58.000 --> 0:14:58.480 we get out there. 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:00.000 I might text him and try to get out there today. 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.040 See see what I got for him? 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:04.040 Very nice. I love it. 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:06.120 Like my son talks shit to me all the time. 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:07.800 He just told me that he could beat me in 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:10.480 a home run derby right now, and I said, listen, 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.160 I haven't. I haven't touched a bat in like five 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:16.160 plus years. Actually made fun of me because I played 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:18.800 for the Savannah Modanas and I hit a ground ball right, 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.320 and I hadn't touched a bat for like five years, right. 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:23.080 And he's like, he's like, I'll beat you a home 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:27.120 un derby. And I'm like, listen, you don't want that smoke, Okay, 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.920 you just don't. You never forget how to do it right. 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:30.760 So it's fun. 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:33.600 It's fun to have father son little shit talking back 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:34.040 and forth. 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.640 I'm all for it. Here's my question for You're playing. 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.360 For Team Italy right in the WBC this year coming 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:42.320 up is Jack cagleone? 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:44.000 Is he going to be on that team with you? 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.040 And can you figure out how to get that gigantic 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:50.160 Italian guy to hit? Because he was unbelievable Florida. Now 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:51.680 can you get him to figure it out with Kansas 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:52.280 City please. 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:56.040 Uh yeah, we're working on it. So one. 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:58.440 I do believe he's playing on Team Italy. I think 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:03.960 it's been confirmedially, but he's playing. I've been working the 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:10.360 phones pretty heavy, so I'm laughing thinking about some of 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:11.960 the people that I've called and things that I've done 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:13.000 to try to get him on the team. 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:16.920 But it's, uh, can we can we get some? Can 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:17.200 we get? 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:20.280 Like there's a certain there's a there's a certain young 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:23.440 left fielder or right fielder for the Boston Red Sox 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:27.440 that I sent a voice memo to. I don't know 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:30.040 him at all, sent a nice voice memo to of 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:32.960 just describing the situation of him walking walking up to 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:34.640 the plate playing for Team Italy. 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:37.880 So we're still the phones. 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:39.400 Are we talking about a guy named Roman? 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:43.800 It's very Italian name. Yeah. 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:48.400 So it's going to be a very left handed hitter lineup. 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:51.360 So I'd imagine we will be seeing some a lot 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:54.280 of left handed pictures in the WBC. But we'll we'll 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:57.960 see what happens. Ned Coletti's putting together a cool team. 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:00.360 So he's working the phones all the time. I'm working 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:03.120 the phones all the time, and we're we're looking forward 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:06.679 to uh to breaking some hearts down in Houston. 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:08.560 That's the that's the that's the goal. 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:09.960 When do you play there? 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:10.200 Wait? 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.000 What do you know? Who do you guys play USA? 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:12.400