WEBVTT - Max Muncy joins Dodgers Territory 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:01.920 There will come a day when I can sit down 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:04.080 and reflect on all this and think about the career 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:06.000 that I've had. But it's like I still want to 0:00:06.040 --> 0:00:08.560 keep going. We still have more championships to win. I 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:10.400 still have more to do in the postseason, in the 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:11.080 regular season. 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:28.240 Hi, Hello, welcome back to Dodgers territory. Katie Wu Clipasiasatchi, 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:32.280 Alana Rizzo on assignment. We're going to skip all the intros, 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:35.760 the usuals because we have a very special guest in 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:38.879 joining us today. He doesn't need an introduction. Gonna give 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:42.760 him one anyway, very dramatic third basement for the Los 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:46.280 Angeles Dodgers twenty twenty six All Star, the record holder 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.479 for most homels at Dodgers Stadium, Max Venci, thanks for 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:51.720 joining us, of course. 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:54.440 Thanks for having me on. Guys, do it MUDs get 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:54.760 a starter. 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:55.160 Woo. 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:58.640 All right, let's just go right into it. The Colorado 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:01.600 series came at a great time. I was not there, 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:04.679 but you guys looked much better on TV. What was 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:07.679 kind of the overall mindset coming in on Monday quick 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.280 three game series? Was it just hey, frush Slate, let's 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:11.280 take care of business here. 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:14.560 Yeah, I mean it's the same mindset that we have 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:16.320 every single time when we show up to the park. 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:18.679 You know, you have a game in front of you, 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:20.160 you try to take care of business. You do whatever 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:21.560 you have to to win that game, and then you 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:23.319 move on to the next to you. You know, you 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:26.960 kind of don't let anything else enter into the conversation. 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.880 And you know, that's that's a formula that's been warning 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:32.840 for us for a lot of years, and we always 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.720 continue to preach that. And sometimes when you go through 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.679 rough stretches, it gets a little bit harder to just 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:41.199 focus on the day and not think about what's been happening, 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:45.040 you know, the previous several games. But you know, for us, 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:46.520 it was kind of just to get back to basics 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:48.280 and you know, just trying to focus on the day 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:50.080 that we had ahead of us. And you know, I 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:51.400 thought we did a really good job of that. 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:55.080 You know, I'm generally somebody that that hates coors Field. 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:57.400 A beautiful ballpark and all that, but I hate when 0:01:57.480 --> 0:01:59.360 when you guys go to coors Field, does this feels 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:02.280 like something bad is gonna happen? But would you say 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.120 that series like just so to wake the boys up, 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:06.600 came at the right time. 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:10.679 Yeah, I mean sure, you know, it's always a great 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:14.000 place to go to go in and hit. The opposite 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:15.839 of that, though, is sometimes it's not a great place 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:18.840 to go in in pitch. Uh. So I for me, 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:21.280 I was very impressed with how all of our pitchers 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:24.760 handled the environment, you know, starting with snow game one, 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:26.840 and then Lower did a great job Game two, and 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:31.040 Rokie looked great yesterday. Uh. You know, just the pitching 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:32.720 staff I thought did a really great job of not 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:36.720 letting the environment affect them. And for us offensively, I thought, 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:40.720 you know, obviously the results were great, but just the 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:43.280 advass we were having in certain situations looked a lot better. 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:45.320 And uh, you know that's something that we needed to 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:49.160 be focusing on. And you know, like like you said, 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:52.000 Colorado is uh, it's just one of those places you're 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:57.040 playing on the moon. Anything happened, uh and you know, 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:59.640 no lead is ever safe there, and uh, you know, 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:03.120 so for us having that mindset of just we need 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:04.600 to keep adding on, keep adding on, I think that 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:05.560 was great for us. 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:09.760 We heard from you Sunday after the Brewer series. We 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:12.200 heard from Dave Roberts throughout the week. There just needed 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:14.560 to be a recommitment, I think to play in the 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.960 little things. The Dodger way of baseball. It looked a 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.560 lot better again over the Rockies. But one thing that 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:22.799 we hear about the Dodger certainly I did from afar 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:26.160 and now I'm seeing it firsthand, is you guys are 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:28.280 so experienced and this is a core that that doesn't 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:30.320 really need any kind of extra motivation. You know how 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:32.280 to go out there and do your jobs every day. 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:35.600 So how do you keep that mindset so consistent where 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:37.920 that's just the expected culture in the clubhouse. 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.560 Yeah, you know, that's just something that's been created over many, 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:44.680 many years, and you know, honestly it started before I 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:47.840 even got here. But you just you focus on the 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:51.080 things that you're supposed to do right. And you know, 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:53.240 one of the things for me that I thought was 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:56.760 back to how we play baseball in Colorado was, you know, 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.760 the base running. We were taking the extra bass when needed, 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:02.600 we aren't making outs when we weren't supposed to. We 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:04.280 were doing the little things right. And that's something that 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.480 we had done so good all year long, and the 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:09.480 last couple of weeks we've been, you know, not as good. 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:12.400 We've been forced you know, making force outs on the 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:15.120 basis just stuff that we shouldn't be doing. And we 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:17.520 kind of got back to to playing the game how 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:19.400 we how we played it, you know, last couple of 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:24.240 last couple of days, and so, you know, going back 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:27.360 to your question, I think it's just we've just created 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:31.080 this culture where that's that's the focus. You know, we 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.600 we preach it every single day, starting back in spring training, 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.360 and uh, we don't let it ever get away from that. 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:38.040 And when it starts getting away from that, we we 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:39.920 always rein it back in and we we continue to 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:41.880 preach you know, years, taking it one day at a time. 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:44.880 You're focused on this, don't let the things ball go 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.479 out there to your U team, make sure what you're 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:50.159 working on, and you know it's it's worked out really 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:50.680 well for us. 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:54.359 Hey, for those of you that are on your phone, 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:56.520 it's very often or even if you don't use it much, 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.279 you should check out your wireless bill and make sure 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:02.000 that it is that's treating you well. 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Obviously, 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:03.560 he's he's battling, he's trying to figure some things out. 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.200 Figure out ways to contribute to this team and we've 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:10.120 seen it. How how does the team, uh, you know, 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:12.120 this group that has been together for so long, how 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:16.120 do you kind of, you know, help keep him not motivated? 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:19.480 But just like like, don't worry about it. Everything's gonna 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:21.720 be fine. The season doesn't mean one sixty two doesn't 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.200 mean anything to the Dodgers anyways. Is about the postseason? 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.200 We know we're gonna get there. Like, how do you 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:28.400 kind of you know, put your arm around him and 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:31.760 tell them a famous Alana line here, it's going to 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:35.280 be great. What's the motive? Like motivation and help for Tuck? 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:38.480 I mean, you just just let him know that you're 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:42.000 there for him. You know. It's it's it's this first 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:45.080 year in La. You know, he's he's a cross country 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:48.680 from his home. Uh's first year with a new baby 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.520 for him. Uh, you know, obviously the big condition there's 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:53.800 a lot of things you know, going on right now, 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:55.200 and he has to find a way to battle through 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:56.640 all that. And so the biggest thing that we can 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:58.120 do is just let him know that we're there for him, 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.320 and you know, we have his back my matter what. 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:02.200 And he's part of this team. He's part of this clubhouse, 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.760 and nothing's ever going to change that. No matter how 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:07.240 good or bad someone plays, You're you're part of this team, 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:09.840 and you you're you're part of the family. And so 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:11.400 for us, that's always the biggest thing is just let 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:14.880 him know that we're there. Max. 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:16.520 We're going to change it to a topic that I'm 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:18.360 sure you're gonna love talking about. We're going to talk 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:22.120 about yourself and your performance this year. I know, I'm sorry, 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:24.040 but we got we gotta hype you up on the show. 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:28.360 It feels like this season you're you look at the numbers, 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.080 some of your best numbers on both sides of the 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.280 ball in the past few years. The All Star birth 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:35.120 you get to share that with your family. Recently celebrated 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.600 ten years of service time, which which is a huge deal. 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:41.040 Do you feel like this twenty sixth season is kind 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:43.240 of your resurgence year. What has it been like to 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:44.680 celebrate all of these things. 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:47.240 Yeah, it's been you know, it's been a great year, 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:51.640 and honestly, the biggest thing that comes out of it 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:53.600 is I've been healthy. You know, you look at my 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:57.960 last couple of years and the numbers and the pace 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.360 have been very similar. It's just I haven't been healthy 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.200 and so I haven't been able to you know, put 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.240 up the numbers throughout it in an entire year. But 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:06.760 you know, they're very similar to what they have been 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:08.120 in the last couple of years. It's just this year 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:10.280 I've been healthy and you know, that's been the biggest 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:11.920 thing for me. And obviously I've been way better on 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:13.520 defense this year too, but that's just you know, the 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:16.360 culmination of hard work and just the understanding of the 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.760 position and a lot of things coming fruition finally with that. 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:22.960 But yeah, the biggest thing for me is just just 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:25.480 being healthy, and that's the biggest thing that I've been 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:28.080 proud of this year, is you know, finding a way 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:28.800 to stay on the field. 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:31.800 Yeah. The third base thing is something I wanted to 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:33.920 talk to you about because people talk about, you know, 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:36.920 Mooki moving to shortstop and the insanity of that, which 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:39.000 it is, the fact that he is a goal glove 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:41.640 shortstop just hasn't won the hard word for it. But 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.760 I like to talk about Max Munsey playing wherever this 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:48.240 team needs. Over nine seasons, You've been fantastic at first 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:51.320 base in the past, only displaced by a future Hall 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.520 of Famer and Freddie Freeman, just putting in the work 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:58.800 at third base, a position you vocally hated or well, 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:01.319 let's say maybe it's a strong word. Okay, you agree, 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:05.840 vocally hated. Now it's a spot where you're pretty flipping 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:09.720 good at it. What goes into that work? And I 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:12.360 think you getting good at third base. And by the way, 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.720 we're just getting going with the Mounsey glaze here. You 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:18.800 putting in that work. That is part of the whole 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:22.559 Max Munsey, as a Los Angeles Dodger, it's always about grinding, 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:24.800 getting better, and you see it at third base. 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.800 Yeah. I mean, look, my whole life, defense has always 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:31.000 been the thing that's been questioned about me. You know. 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:32.560 I was always told that I could hit and I 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:35.040 was going to do things, but defense was always the 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:37.800 question about me. And so that's just from an early 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:39.880 age I learned how to put in the work defensively. 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:43.360 And you know when I when given enough time, every 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:45.200 position I've played, I've been able to get good at. 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:48.160 You know, I thought I was very good at second base. 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.200 At first base, I was extremely good. I shouldn't want 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:51.599 I should have won a Gold Globe, but came in 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.600 second one year, and then we bring a guy, like 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:56.760 you said, a future Hall of Famer crew to kick 0:09:56.800 --> 0:10:01.400 me off position the next year. You know, it's just 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:05.080 I understand how to work. And that's not only do 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:06.920 I understand how to work. I love to work. And 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:09.240 I feel like that's a huge thing when it comes 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:11.320 to it, is you have to you have to love 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:14.760 to work at your profession. And you know, that's something 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:17.200 that I've always really enjoyed. I love going out there 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.679 putting on the work because it helps you understand it. 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.439 It helps you understand the game, you know the position, 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:24.520 how you're playing it, and I feel like it just 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:28.280 increases your knowledge of the game in general. And for me, 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:31.240 you know, baseball has always been everything, and so just 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:33.280 the more knowledge I can have about the game of baseball, 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:35.439 the better I feel about it and the better I 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:37.480 feel about putting myself out there and put myself in 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:39.560 a good position to help the team win. And you know, 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:42.040 that's just like I said, it's many years of hard 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:45.400 work and understanding, and the biggest jump was just getting 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.440 the knowledge, and a lot of that was talking with 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:50.560 with Mookie because when he moved to short stop, he 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.200 had to learn, you know, the knowledge of how to 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:55.280 play short stuff, not just going out there and putting 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:57.600 in the work. You know, that's something that I think 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:01.240 a lot of people kind of push to the side, is, Yeah, 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.440 you can go out there and take ground balls, you know, 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:06.320 for seven hours a day, but if you're not getting 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:09.480 the knowledge of how you're doing it, you know, what 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:10.920 what are you doing with your footwork, what are you 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:13.520 doing with your hands? Why should you be doing that? 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:16.640 You know? For me, that was that was one of 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:20.440 the biggest jumps. It was just kind of understanding how 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.680 my body and how I field ground balls, work work properly. 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:26.520 And one of those things for me was learning how 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.680 to field one handed. You know, my entire life it's 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.840 both hands, you know, gator, whatever you want to call it. 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:36.680 You feel the two hands, you funnel it to the body. 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.240 And for me, it was understanding that I was much 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:42.719 better one handed and not funneling kind of pushing through 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:46.640 the ball. And you know, part of the reason why 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:48.040 I took a couple of years to get better at 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.400 third base was you have to break a lifetime of 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:51.440 habits to do that. 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:55.720 Max, I'm gonna ask you this question knowing that I 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:57.720 think if I asked it to a majority of your teammates, 0:11:57.720 --> 0:11:59.720 I think you would be the answer. But one of 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.960 the covering the Dodgers every day is that there are 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:07.240 no shortage of storylines because seemingly everybody is doing something incredible. 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:08.960 If you were going to take yourself out of this 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:11.920 equation and you're looking at the season so far, which 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:14.640 teammate stands out to you in terms of the most 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:16.920 impressive season you feel like they're having. 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:22.240 Oh man, it's tough to single guys out with this 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:24.240 question because there's so many guys having good years. But 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:27.920 you know, off the bat, I think any Piz just 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:31.560 jumps out there. You know, the work that he put 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:35.960 in defensively becoming one of the best center fielders in baseball. 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:39.520 He's throwing, He's one of the best throwers in baseball. 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:43.000 It's a cannon front arm. It's super accurate. You know, 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:46.560 he's he's always hitting the cutoff guy, and that's something 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:48.480 that you just don't see a lot with young players. 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:50.320 Sometimes they always want to show off the arm and 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:54.080 they overthrow the cut off guy. And you know, offensively, 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:58.280 obviously his numbers are amazing, and just for him, there 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:02.319 was a clear emphasis on dialing back swinging out of 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:03.920 the zone. I feel like he's done a really good 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:05.840 job of that so far this year, and he's only 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:09.320 getting better. He's been taking more walks, and you know 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:11.600 he's he's only going to continue to get better. So 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:13.520 for me, you know, he kind of jump off the 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:15.719 page for me this year, just the year that he's 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:16.160 been having. 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.600 Well, go ahead and fallow, all right. 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:22.680 This is another one. And I like to preface this 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:24.920 one with I usually ask about one dumb question today. 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:27.280 You're well aware of this by now. This one, I 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:31.679 feel like is for you specifically. One thing about Maximunsey. 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.560 The lore is the bat drop, and I would like 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:36.760 to know, because you've hit so many this year, what 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:39.120 goes through your mind is when you decide if it's 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.920 a bat drop, a bat toss, a bat chuck. 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:42.800 I don't know. 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:44.559 Is it like an out of body experience. Do you 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:46.080 just let the moment take over because you've had some 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:46.880 good ones this year? 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:49.839 Yeah, it's usually, you know, it's usually kind of just 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:54.400 like an emotional thing when you when you connect on 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:58.320 the ball and you're able to hit it to you know, 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:00.319 like a no doubt shot that you just know mediately 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:03.000 is gone right off. The bat before even seeing the trajectory. Like, 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:07.480 it's just a certain kind of feeling and so you know, 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:10.120 depending on the situation of the game, what inning you're in, 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:12.400 it just kind of becomes like an emotional outburst for me. 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:15.840 You know, I think you guys know me. Uh, I'm 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:19.960 not super you know, emotional on the field in terms 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:23.040 of you know, showing things, and so the the the 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:26.160 bat flip or bad drop has always been my you 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:28.920 go kind of outburst of emotion and it just kind 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:31.320 of happens. It's not planned, there's no thought behind it. 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:34.640 It's just whatever comes out comes out. And you know, 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:36.840 the only thought behind any of that for me is 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:41.600 always it's it's make sure you're not like throwing it 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:44.280 at the picture. You're not disrespecting the picture, even though 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:46.640 you hit hit a home run off him. It's not 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:50.440 about you know him, It's about you and that that 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:52.360 that that for me is always and that's why I 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:54.520 never get mad if pictures celebrate their strikeouts, it's not 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.160 about you. It's about them getting out of a situation 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:59.320 and they're excited about it. And you know that's a 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:00.760 that's a kind of how it is. 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:06.720 For the families out there looking for a new path 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:09.120 to help your child succeed. Take a look at K 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:14.000 twelve Powered Schools. 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I think he's doing double 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:16.760 barrel like like uh, finger guns there when Like I'm 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:18.560 all for letting the kids play and all that. I 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:20.960 think baseball is fun. It's supposed to be entertaining. But 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:23.560 when does and we're not saying this, he is what 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:25.760 he's doing is too much. But when does it become 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:26.600 too much? 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:32.480 You know, that's a good question, and it's kind of 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:39.280 a tough question. Yeah, I feel like when it's no 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:43.200 longer about your performance and it's about you trying to 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.240 put on a show. And I know that's kind of 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:49.800 a weird statement, but like, uh, you know, if if 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:52.120 you give it for me, like if you're a pitcher 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:54.640 and you give up you know, two base hits, a 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:56.360 run scores, and then you get that strike out and 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:58.520 then you're doing the celebration, it's like, well, he didn't 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:00.480 really do your job, did you. You just wanted to 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:03.320 do something to make it a show. Now you strike 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:05.560 out the side cartwheel off the mound, I don't care 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:10.080 you well, like, you know, like it's kind of the 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:12.239 same thing with you know, when you when you hit 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:14.000 a home run, if it's a seven to one game 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:15.359 and you hit a solo home run to make a 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.480 seven to two and then you're you know, backpedaling around 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:20.399 the bases. It's like, Okay, that's not the time for that. 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:23.400 Like to me, it's all about kind of the situation 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:25.240 of the game and the circumstances leading up to it. 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:29.280 And you know, the other thing for me too also 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:33.560 is a for for like starting pitchers. I never like 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.640 when starting pitchers celebrate before they're coming out of the game. 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:40.040 I always feel like, if we're facing a team in 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:43.040 the postseason and I see the guy screaming and fist 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:44.840 plumping in the second inning and he still have to 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:46.480 get through three more innings, I'm like, oh, we got 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:48.520 this guy. He's given up way too much emotion and 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:50.680 energy too early in this game. Like, we we got 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.520 this guy. So I don't like when starting pitchers do 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:55.560 the whole emotion in like the first or second inning 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:57.080 because you still got a lot of innings you got 0:17:57.119 --> 0:17:57.560 to get through. 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:02.480 Yeah, say save it for five, six, seven, then really 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:04.960 let out a let out a Yama moto roar. That's 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:07.879 what we're here for. Katie said she was gonna make 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:09.639 you feel a little uncomfortable. I'm gonna make it a 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:12.080 little bit more so. She also mentioned ten years in 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.480 the show. Again, congrats for that. That is awesome. Nine 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:18.600 seasons of those. Of course, in Dodger Blue, I've been 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:21.119 somebody who's been hard on the paint, hard in the 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:24.199 paint about talking about Max Munsey Dodgers legend. I know 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:25.840 you don't want to hear that kind of stuff, but 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:30.239 you look up and down franchised numbers and all this. 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:32.719 Of course, we've talked a whole lot this year, second 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:36.240