WEBVTT - Matthew Boyd on Cubs perks, Load management, Uniform hack 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.680 Our pitching department does a great job of preparing us 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:06.120 every single day, every single series to bring out the 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:07.120 best in each of us. 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:12.799 Hey, we've got Matthew Boyd of the Cubs joining us 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:15.240 right now infout Territory. Matthew, great to have you back on. 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:20.160 First off, nice and simple. What's the best most underrated 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:24.120 part of being with this organization? Like, give me something 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:27.920 that you didn't expect that they do really well. It 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:29.840 could be something super simple like they have the best 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:32.480 cookies in the clubhouse or whatever, or could be something 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:33.320 about the ballpark. 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:34.879 What are you seeing it and how you doing. 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:37.160 Doing good? Man? 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:42.159 Loving being a Cub. The clubhouse is amazing. I mean, 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:45.040 you know yours. You heard about it from the visiting side. 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:47.880 The visiting side at Wrigley, you know is is older, 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:49.680 it's gotten better over the years. But you know, it's 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:51.800 like you hear about how great the home side was. 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:55.160 The home side's amazing. It's it's it's really special. The 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:57.880 food's a lead. Getting to play at Wrigglely every day 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.720 is really awesome though. Man, I mean that's that's like 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:05.000 three things. I'm I'm sold on it. But it's a 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:05.800 wriggly day. Game. 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:06.720 It is special. 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:09.520 Man, is it Matthew or matt Which one is it? 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:10.600 Before I dig in here? 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:14.679 Whatever you want, man, Matthew, is the game that you know? 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.080 That's the name that you know that mom and dad 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:18.800 gave me and go to make does you? 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:21.280 And when they get mad at you? What does your 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:22.160 mom and dad call you? 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:22.600 Matthew? 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:28.320 Robert Matthew, Robert matd Bob mad Bob. 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:30.760 Matt Bob So Matthew. 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:32.640 First of all, there's a couple of things I want 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:35.600 to say. You know, the clubhouse is great. It looks 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:37.640 like a club. Scot's jealous. I mean he's only got 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:39.520 one eye, but I mean all the neon lights and 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:41.160 all the stuff they have that goes on in there 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:44.679 is pretty cool. I have to admit it's a cup hater. 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:47.440 I have to admit that. But now playing it Wrigly, 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:51.640 you don't know this because you're only played at the 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:54.320 new Wrigley. But back in the day before they put 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.640 up those scoreboards in each side of the thing, it 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:01.160 was awesome, right, I must to call me, old guy, 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:03.160 get off my lawn. And I wish they would have 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:05.120 taken those and just left them down and just had 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:07.120 the one score work because you'd be behind the plane 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:08.760 and you're like looking up at the game and you're like, 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:14.560 number eleven's pitching for Cincinnati against number two for Pittsburgh. 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:16.239 And then you have to go look at the roster 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:19.400 and you're like number two is this guy? Number eleven is? 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:19.639 Oh? 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:20.880 Okay, now who's pitching? 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:21.480 Right? 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:23.240 Like that was the charm of Wrigley. 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:24.480 Now they don't have that. 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:27.040 I know. 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:28.320 I'm still trying to figure out. 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:32.720 The centerfield scoreboard is like with the numbers on the 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:34.760 starting pitcher, Like, is that is that the number they 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:36.800 are on the roster because it's not the playing numbers, 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:38.800 Like what do you know what that is? 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:41.079 Like, that's what I'm saying. It's the number on the roster. 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:43.240 So you have to kind of like I think it 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:45.880 goes alphabetical, so if you kind of know the teams, 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:50.520 you're like, all right, habit, Green Lodolo. 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:53.080 You're like, okay, okay, maybe I'm on this one. I'm 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:53.480 not sure. 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:57.400 Yeah, I'm still I'm still figuring that out. It's cool though, man, 0:02:57.520 --> 0:02:58.960 Like the history behind it is so. 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:02.840 It's it's it's just it's special. 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:05.880 You walk around, you walk around a lot, I mean 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.919 talking to guys that play there even for a year 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.600 or like five years and become like Cubs legends. They 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:15.399 always talk about walking around the stadium. Do you ever 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:18.120 do that? And like do you get noticed or you're 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:18.880 not get noticed? 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:23.400 You get noticed a little bit. You know. 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:25.480 It's such a cool like regular Ville is such an 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:30.200 awesome area. So uh, it's just so so different. You know, 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:32.720 it's a stadium in a neighborhood, so you get to 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:35.440 there's so many cool things to do, get spots to eat. 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:39.160 So we're a huge family. We got four kids, man, 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:42.520 so you can't really miss the Boyd family. So uh, 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:44.440 you know we're getting noticed a little bit. But yeah, 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:47.960 we walk around and experience it and it's again, it's 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:48.520 so special. 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:48.680 Man. 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:50.440 I'm just I'm grateful to be a Cub and get 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.360 to you know, call that place my office right. 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:56.000 Now, Matthew. Two things about this one. You know all 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:57.880 the workers they are a white Sox fans. So don't 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:00.560 let them full you. They're all white Sox fans down, okay, 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:02.680 because you know how many well come employees I have, 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:04.480 we would play Cubs white Sox. 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:06.400 That they would be like, hey, listen, I might be 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:08.680 wearing this color but go White Sox. I really don't 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:09.200 like them. 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:11.600 So just keep We'll keep that quiet for now. And 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:13.800 then second of all, I played in the Kingdome and 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.320 that place was a rat trap. Okay, So I mean 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:19.840 from go from Kinggo to the Safega was like, oh 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:22.000 my gosh, like what a great place. But the King 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:24.360 Goo that it wasn't quite as bad as like Old 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.040 County Stadium, but it was when that place went down, 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.200 it wasn't like there wasn't a lot of people crying, 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.880 except for maybe some inters. All right, But when you're 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:34.719 in Chicago and you say you have four you know, 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.520 you have four kids, you're walking around, what's your spot? 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:39.440 You I don't want you to tell me where you 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.640 i''m assuming you live somewhere around Wigleyville, right, do you 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:44.520 have a spot you kind of sneak into with your 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.159 family just to get away. 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:49.159 We're finding some right now. 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.080 You know, it's still it's still new to us, right, 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:56.120 Like we're we've we've hit up some good restaurants and 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.760 uh and uh, we've we found some places really like 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.039 my wife and I are finding some good date spots, 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:06.400 you know, but uh, the kids, the kids found a 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:09.160 good ice cream spot and they're they're all about it. 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.240 You know, there's that Jenny's ice cream in the area, 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:13.360 and uh that's a real treat for them right now. 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:18.120 So yeah, all right, No, My my question is we're 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.280 going to bring up a picture here and we talk 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:25.160 about jerseys and jerseys changes. Can you confirm or deny 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:29.640 for me? Is that a jersey that doesn't button the 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:32.880 whole way down? Is your Is that a shirt or 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:37.040 is that a piece of velcrow that's holding that holding 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:42.360 your jersey clothes? Because you have a top two buttons undone. 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:45.400 So I yeah, I like the top. I like the 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:49.640 top buttons undone. That's a that's a Happer move right there. 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:54.520 Ian happm uh in spring training he was he saw that, 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:56.200 he saw the jersey open. He's like, hey, you gotta 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:57.719 try stitching it like this, and. 0:05:57.839 --> 0:05:59.280 His is stitched all the way down. 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:05.120 Is Danny the clubhouse you know, clubhouse manager. He kind 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:07.600 of puts a little seam in there. So I tried 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.280 it out in Tokyo. I'm a fan. You know, it's 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:11.800 got to go over the top. You can't un button 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:14.760 it anymore. But uh, yeah, I like that. That's a 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:17.160 that's a hat tip to Ian happ right there. 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:20.640 So you got your jersey customized and last year Nike 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:24.720 said no customizations. Did you have to get this? Did 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:26.960 you have to get this like passed by the league? 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.280 Are you allowed to do this? And do you think 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:33.000 other guys are going to follow? I? 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:37.159 Okay, so it happened in the clubhouse. After the fact, Danny, 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.880 Danny's navigating all those things. If there was anything, I 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:43.239 know nothing of it. No one's gonna follow a thirty 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:46.800 four year old left handed pitcher in terms of fashion sense. 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:47.960 Let's just say that, right. 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.800 If they do, that's cool, you know, and that'll be 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:54.080 a first for me. Hey, my wife likes the way 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.279 I look in the uniform, so that's all that's that's 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:58.320 going for me. You know, That's what matters. 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:03.800 Most FT fan by now, you know, if you're buying, selling, trading, 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:06.880 collecting cards, Arena club is the spot. We've been talking 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.200 about them all season long. But I do want to 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:12.800 focus on the slab pack experience, scrats, since you've been 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.640 ripping some slab packs digitally and what happens. 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:18.480 I mean, as a kid, you wanted to rip open 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.600 the packs. How can they do this digitally? Oh? Baby, 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.920 this is exciting how the graphics come out and everything. 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.800 And oh yeah, the card that you pull you can 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:31.800 actually get that John physically, so it's perfect. It's all 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.520 in one place and it's a super exciting experience. 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.080 Yeah, they send that to you from the vault if 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:38.560 you want it. But if you look at it and 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:40.640 you're like, it's not the card for me, I want 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:42.480 to sell back, go for it. You can do any 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:45.000 of that on Arena Club, and you can acquire the 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:48.360 best value for your money with those slab packs, transparent checklists, 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:51.680 and Arena Club's slab Safe program. Right now, you can 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.120 get twenty percent off your first slab pack or card 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:56.800 purchase by going to Arena club dot com, slash foul 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:57.640 and use code foul. 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:01.320 Matthew, are you I was never on button my jersey guy, 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:03.240 Like I just took it off every time, Like, never 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:05.640 un buttoned to put it on, never on. So you 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.360 must be a non unbuttoned guy, right, you just pull 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:11.240 it off? Yeah, like a shirt. Now, I think at 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:13.520 the top, Now, now, is there a reason for that? 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:15.320 Because I was just lazy? Now, there were times that 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:17.120 I would get mad and I would rip them off 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:19.520 and all the buttons would go flying like whole coomnia. 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:21.800 But I don't think with the new style that I 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:25.120 can be stuck. So I don't know. I like it, 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:27.560 but I don't know. It's not practical. When you get angered, 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:29.880 you're like, I know, you know. 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.520 I mean I I don't think I had that kind 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:34.360 of grip strength, like you had to pull that thing 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:36.360 off and let the buttons stead of shooting everywhere. 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:42.319 You know, I've anger wise, I don't know if. 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:44.319 The jerseys what's gonna get you know what the anger 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:45.199 is gonna get taken. 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:46.040 Out on the jersey mean for me? 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:50.079 But uh yeah, you're not tearing those stitching. That thing's reinforced, 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:53.240 so uh something else is gonna go before that stitching does. 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:56.000 Danny does a good job with that thing. All right. 0:08:56.400 --> 0:09:01.679 Now, actual baseball questions, Okay, with your history with how 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:04.880 you kind of came back last year, injuries that you 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:08.679 were coming back from when you sign this contract. We 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:12.360 talk about it all the time, starting pitchers, injuries, starting 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:16.080 pitchers on teams that want to make the playoffs. Cubs 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:19.560 are in place to make the playoffs. Do you fight 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:24.360 back against organized or the organization front office if they're like, hey, 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.040 we want to make sure you're healthy for the postseason, 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:29.560 We're going to miss a start, We're gonna go to 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.480 six man here, we're gonna do a bullpen day. Do 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:34.080 you fight back against that? 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:36.839 I don't know. 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:41.280 I mean, when those situations arise, Counts us such a 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.560 great job and Tammy of like, you know, they have 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:48.640 a plan for everything, right, So when I'm sure there's 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:51.120 nothing we can't talk through, you know, I know, I'm 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:54.319 already over my innings total for the regular season and 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:58.680 the playoffs combined last year. That being said, I feel great. 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.760 You know, I think the ball's coming out of my hand, 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:04.040 you know, in terms of velocity better than it really 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:07.120 ever has, and feel like you were in a great 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:10.160 spot with that. The training staff has been awesome, and 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:12.720 you know we've got a good plan going forward. But 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:17.280 I mean Counts has a lot of experience, Tommy has 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.000 a lot of experience bolst on the coaching and the 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:23.520 playing side. So when those situations come up, the goal 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:25.240 is to be healthy all the way through the end 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.920 of October. The goal is to be ready and pitching 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:31.040 your best. So you got to be open to everything 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:32.480 that's going to help the team win. You got to 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:33.880 be open to just have the conversation. 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:37.079 You know, I don't know what. 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:39.760 The future holds, but if any of those things come about, 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:43.280 you just talk it through, right and and you know 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:45.240 those guys have a lot of wisdom to lean back on. 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:47.200 Well, I want to ask you about the bullpen. Then. 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:48.240 I don't know how much you know. 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:52.520 You focus on individuals around you and what changes they make, 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:55.280 But the bullpen for the Cubs over the past month 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:57.800 or so in terms of BRA has been towards the 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:01.640 top in baseball. Is there something that you can pinpoint 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:05.120 that's done within the organization or by pitching coach and 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:09.400 manager that helps guys really find themselves Because this isn't 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:13.800 the marquee, big name bullpen at least right now that 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.160 I'm looking at on paper. It's some guys that have 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:18.760 kind of bounced around the league and now end up 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:22.040 as valuable members of a really strong bullpen that's also 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:23.199 missing a couple pieces. 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:25.560 We have a lot of awesome guys down there, We 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:28.040 have a lot of awesome arms. Our pitching department does 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:30.880 a great job of preparing us every single day, every 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.880 single series to bring out the best in each of us. 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:37.360 But I think one thing that's always preached here is 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:40.360 just like we we all have unique strengths and that's 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.360 what makes us like who we are. That's what got 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:45.360 us to where we are, whether it's you know, Press 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:49.080 or Palencia or Palm or you know, anybody else. Like 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:53.000 it's across the starting pitching side too, is that we 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:55.400 you know, we all have game plans, we all know 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:01.640 what the opponent does, but like what we do and 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.400 what makes us inherently like you know, who we are 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:07.320 individually is that's what that's what got us here. So 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.120 you know, I think you see guys that you know 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:12.600 it's it's preached to like, you know, double down on 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:13.240 our strengths. 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:14.800 There's a lot of good. 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:18.280 Veteran leadership in the bullpen too, and you know that's 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:19.240 what makes this club as. 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:20.040 A whole really special. 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:22.160 It's just the top to bottom, we got good people 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.200 and we have a really fun clubhouseman to be a 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:27.560 part of. We really like being around around each other 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:29.960 and that's a it goes a long way when it 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:32.600 comes to a baseball season, right and uh, you know, 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:34.840 you're around these guys more than you are your own family. 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:37.320 So I mean, we have a lot of fun. We 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.000 pull for each other, we make each other better and uh, 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:41.920 you know that's definitely the case down of the bullpen too. 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.920 Okay, so you said that happ was the one who 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.840 came up with the jersey idea, right, pie Crow Armstrong 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:51.320 changes us hair every day. Dansby Swanson is like the 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:52.880 All American perfect kid. 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:53.320 Right? 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.840 Did you expect the offense out of this team that 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.880 you're getting? And can Pca win the MVP? Because I 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:00.680 think he's kind of a little dark o course there 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:02.520 for the old PC and he needs to go back 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:04.719 to the stars in his hair now would help him. 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:05.839 But like, what do you. 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:10.400 Think, Yeah, we got a great offense, man, it's a 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.320 it's a really deep lineup. We got guys that attack 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:15.960 you in different ways. You know, they know how to 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:17.800 work in a bat in different ways. We got guys 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:19.600 that can run the ball out of the yard, give 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:22.960 you along at bat. I mean, I think what's so 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.080 special about this offense is like when you get to 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:28.520 sit back and watch it, is like we can like 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:31.319 score runs in so many different ways, whether it's a 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.560 long ball, whether it's taking an extra base here, whether 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:36.320 it's just getting a guy over, like I said, working 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:39.920 in a bat, and it's really cool. Pete is special, man. 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.200 What he can do in all facets of his game, 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.280 whether it's on the base paths, how he plays defense, 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:49.360 and how he can work in at bat, how he 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:51.160 can you know, I mean. 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:52.120 The power that he has. 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:56.400 It's it's really fun to watch, man. It's like watching 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.640 them dude really come into his own and he plays 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:00.200 the game. 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:01.559 At a at a at a high level. 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:04.120 And I'm grateful he's in center field behind me, man, 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:06.000 because there's balls that you watch get hitting the gap 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.439 and like you just see him close on it. 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:10.440 And you're like, oh, that's that's nice to have on 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:12.880 our team. It's really special. All right. 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:16.600 Last one, you're projected to start tomorrow. Correct, you're starting, 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:19.280 So we're gonna let you go so that you can 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:24.040 make it to your uber, your bus or your taxi 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:26.840 at I mean, you're making some big cheese. Now are 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:28.520 you still getting on the team bus to go to 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:31.440 the field? And what does that schedule look like the 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:32.400 day before a. 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:36.760 Start coming up with those Tiger teams, I took way 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:39.400 too many taxi cabs and ubers to beat the veterans 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:45.120 to the field, you know, like Francisco Rodriguez and salta Lamachia, 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:47.360 I mean salty was making like if you were there, 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:50.440 if you beat you to the field. It was not 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:55.400 good on any level. So you know, life was going 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:59.360 to be miserable for the foreseeable future. So I did 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:02.480 my taxi Uber time. Yeah, I'm hopping on the team 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:04.520 bus and I'm not ashamed to say it. It's it's 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.560 it's there and uh, you know, prestart, it's it's going 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:10.440 over and going over. The guys I think are gonna 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:14.040 be in the lineup tomorrow, understanding who's gonna you know, 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.880 understanding some tendencies, seeing their swings for guys I'm not 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.880 familiar with. And it's, you know, just kind of a 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:23.400 prep day. Make sure you're getting to your top speeds, 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:26.880 you know, weight room and you know, throwing wives and whatnot, 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:30.240 and uh, just preparing for tomorrow, you know, and tomorrow's 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:30.640 the fun day. 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:31.560 You can deal compete. 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.040 Yeah, ain't no way You're taking taxis. You make way 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:35.880 too much money. So it's bus or Uber black. 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:36.160 Dude. 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:39.440 These people don't understand, like I tell them, like, I'm 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:42.240 taking Uber black, and they're like, you gotta get the 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:45.960 XL man, you gotta get the Uber the Ruber super small, 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.600 Like we're tall people. I need the extra leg room. 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:50.440 They get all mad at me because it costs like ten. 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:53.720 I'm like, no, we're getting the big bar because I'm 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:54.400 a big leaguer. 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:56.160 Ten I mean. 0:15:58.720 --> 0:15:59.640 Not ten dollars. 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:00.640 Yeah. 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.960 Also, sometimes zuber X gives you a better car. Do 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:05.240 it like an escalade. 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:06.800 No, but you don't. 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:07.520 Always get a big car. 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:09.520 Sometimes you get like a little. 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:10.120 Lincoln or whatever. 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:14.240 When you get the blacks black is not you're getting 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:15.280 a black or the XL. 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:17.960 You ain't getting the You ain't getting the taxi, the 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:18.800 yellow taxi. 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:20.840 Like back in the day we used to take taxi 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:23.640 because there was no Uber. But he he's a big leaguer, 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:25.120 he ain't taking a taxi. 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:28.480 I'm on the bus now there's always la him on 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:30.640 the bus, you know, so I'm not not a shame 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:31.000 of that. 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:33.520 We're gonna get a bus from now on that. 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:35.680 Yeah, you know, you guys should give me a prevost 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:38.280 and I'll take it to have all the four wings. 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:40.120 You know what, you guys can you I might even 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:40.960 let y'all sleep on. 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:42.640 Thank you. We're getting a party bus. 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:44.240 But Matt's got to get on his bus. 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:46.960 So Matthew, thanks for joining us Man really appreciate it. 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:47.880 Good luck tomorrow. 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:49.160 We'll catch you again in a few weeks. 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:51.960 Thanks guy, have a good one.