Speaker 1: Always a pleasure to have Logan Gilbert on the show. Logan,
Speaker 1: of course, a right hander for the Seattle Mariners, a
Speaker 1: huge piece of a very formidable rotation for the MS. Logan,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for being with us. Great to see you.
Speaker 1: I know, everyone shows up to camp in the best
Speaker 1: shape of their life. Everyone's ready to go. But you
Speaker 1: guys have a lot to be excited about. What are
Speaker 1: you most excited about when it comes to this twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six M squad?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the expectations this year just seems a
Speaker 2: little different. Of course, we made the playoffs, so a
Speaker 2: few years back, broke the streak and for a little
Speaker 2: bit it was kind of make the playoffs or win
Speaker 2: the division, and things changed last year and we saw
Speaker 2: how good we can be and how close we got.
Speaker 2: So this year already, a lot of the meetings that
Speaker 2: talk has just been the expectations that we see ourselves
Speaker 2: as one of the best teams.
Speaker 3: Have you recovered from last year? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, feeling good physically, Not physically I'm talking mentally,
Speaker 2: because yeah, I mean I was in obviously you know
Speaker 2: that I was there for the Alds against Tigers, which
Speaker 2: was one of the greatest series I've ever seen been
Speaker 2: a part of.
Speaker 3: Game five was unbelievable. You guys pulled it out right,
Speaker 3: and then you go to the next series against the
Speaker 3: Bluejas and have another unbelievable series inner so close. Just
Speaker 3: how do you get over that? Yeah, it's very taxing.
Speaker 2: It's like the coolest thing to be a part of
Speaker 2: that mentally, but also you're it's very high highs and
Speaker 2: low lows too, so it takes a while in a
Speaker 2: good way. You want to reflect on it and like
Speaker 2: let it sting for a little bit and motivate you.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, this year, I think we
Speaker 2: kind of address it but get past it. At the
Speaker 2: same time, we're a new team and expectations to win
Speaker 2: it all.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for someone who's never got a chance to play
Speaker 4: in the World Series but lost some tough games, you know,
Speaker 4: getting a chance to go to the World Series, what
Speaker 4: are those conversations like with your teammates in the offseason
Speaker 4: where you guys just continuingly, you know, pushing each other
Speaker 4: to just get a little bit better because you know
Speaker 4: you were so close to getting over that hume.
Speaker 2: Definitely, I think bringing nails back right away was the
Speaker 2: biggest thing, and for a moment and the team and
Speaker 2: all that, But a lot of those conversations I think
Speaker 2: took place right afterwards, just getting back to Seattle Pack
Speaker 2: in your locker, Like we're talking about the sting of
Speaker 2: being so close and losing, but at the same time
Speaker 2: we were talking just different guys whoa cal bryce like
Speaker 2: how close we got and also the team that we
Speaker 2: have that you know, like I said, let it hurt
Speaker 2: for a little bit, but also motivate us and come
Speaker 2: up next year and not come up short.
Speaker 3: What does that look like? Because he's mentioned bringing back nails, right,
Speaker 3: he lost Geno, but then you bring in Donovan. You
Speaker 3: have a lot of essentially the same team back that
Speaker 3: was really good last year. Now you guys are the
Speaker 3: favorites in this division, right, everyone's looking at you guys
Speaker 3: to not only be the favorites of the division, but
Speaker 3: possibly represent the American League. That's different here for Seattle then,
Speaker 3: like you mentioned, so how do you deal with the
Speaker 3: expectations and what does Dan say? Dan Wilson say, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think it's where we want to be. It's fun.
Speaker 2: You want the target on your back and it's a
Speaker 2: big honor. Like we know we have a good division.
Speaker 2: We know the aos stacked. There's a lot of good teams.
Speaker 2: Be the top team at the beginning, it's a big deal.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, like honestly, it means nothing.
Speaker 2: You have to go out there, you have to prove
Speaker 2: it every single day. We have to win the games
Speaker 2: that matter. And Dan at the Helm, he's the man.
Speaker 3: He gets it.
Speaker 2: The players love him. He feels like a player still.
Speaker 2: He's setting the tone the right way from the get go.
Speaker 4: Yeah for someone who was drafted, you know, and his
Speaker 4: only pitch for the Mariners, take me inside kind of
Speaker 4: your head. You're dugout during Game five when cal Rawly
Speaker 4: hits that home run to tie the game, and then
Speaker 4: ultimately Gino goes and hits that home run. I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, I got a chance to play in the postseason.
Speaker 4: That was one of the greatest postseason atmospheres I've ever
Speaker 4: ever seen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was crazy.
Speaker 2: There's the loudest I've heard anything ever any stadium, any game.
Speaker 2: The fans in Seattle just going crazy. You can tell
Speaker 2: how long they've waited for something like that. All of
Speaker 2: us really, like you're talking about getting drafted here in eighteen.
Speaker 2: This has been the vision for years of what the
Speaker 2: team could be, where we could make it, and for
Speaker 2: years it was just kind of like seeing it. We're
Speaker 2: almost there, We're almost there, and then last year we
Speaker 2: actually got to taste of it that after seven or
Speaker 2: eight years, like this is what we wanted to happen.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, it can't be a one
Speaker 2: year thing. We want to be that team for five
Speaker 2: ten years. That every year is right there in the hunt, Logan.
Speaker 1: I'm here for the hard hitting questions, only the stuff
Speaker 1: that people want to know. You are a knicker style
Speaker 1: pant wearing guy, and all of a sudden, you're showing
Speaker 1: up in long pants and I need to know, Logan,
Speaker 1: what is happening?
Speaker 2: Why that got canceled? That didn't work out for me.
Speaker 2: I just I just wanted to change it. It's been
Speaker 2: like since high school or college that I tried that,
Speaker 2: and I always thought I would do it like last
Speaker 2: game of a season or something. But I can't bring
Speaker 2: myself to not take an outing seriously, even if it's
Speaker 2: just my pants. So I figured live VPS probably the
Speaker 2: most relaxed setting I could try it out, and it
Speaker 2: didn't work.
Speaker 3: So I'm back at pants up. Alani you have to
Speaker 3: understand that he's tall and skinny, so the short good.
Speaker 3: When you're short, it doesn't look good.
Speaker 1: Imagine how much taller he would even look in. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're six six, so long pants it's gonna elongate you
Speaker 1: even more. That is a menacing site on the mound looking.
Speaker 2: I was told it didn't look good though I was taller,
Speaker 2: but didn't look good at the same time. So I
Speaker 2: learned my lessons.
Speaker 3: So up here, so a lot of up here. There's
Speaker 3: a mural of like all the great A lot of
Speaker 3: the great, not all of them, A lot of the
Speaker 3: great Mariners. Most of them except for Felix, have long
Speaker 3: pants on. So would you go the Raula Banya's baggy
Speaker 3: look or would you go the Randy Johnson? These are
Speaker 3: way too tight, tapered, tight, rolled at the bottom line.
Speaker 2: I mean, Randy looks good. It's intimidating, but I don't
Speaker 2: know if I can pull it off. Cal told me
Speaker 2: today they were too tight, that's the problem. So I
Speaker 2: think maybe I go backwards with the baggy ones.
Speaker 3: Try that out. Yeah, someone showed me a picture of
Speaker 3: me from like twenty ten and my pants were like pajamas. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that was the look style, and we were jerseys baggy.
Speaker 3: Now everyone's gone super tight. Yeah, and it's like it'll
Speaker 3: go back to baggy. It always does it always, it
Speaker 3: always reverts back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got I got two for you. I want
Speaker 4: to know just I mean, obviously win all healthy, best
Speaker 4: starting staff in baseball. I want to know about your guys'
Speaker 4: kind of friendly competition with each other. You guys always
Speaker 4: consistently trying to one up each other. Someone goes out
Speaker 4: there throw seven, I'm saying I'm throwing eight. The next
Speaker 4: guy's trying to go nine. And then I was kind
Speaker 4: of always what's the word envious? I guess I love
Speaker 4: the way that you're starting pitchers come out of the
Speaker 4: bullpen and your high five routine. Kind of how that
Speaker 4: kind of started.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess since I got here really and I
Speaker 2: actually just ran into Marco yesterday with the pods now,
Speaker 2: but he was the one that was kind of the
Speaker 2: older guy when I got here, and establishing the culture
Speaker 2: and watching each other's bullpens every single day, being out
Speaker 2: there before the game to be ready for the starter
Speaker 2: coming in. It's just kind of the culture, at least
Speaker 2: on the pitching side, that we do that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: I know the hitters have their things too, but we've
Speaker 2: always been a tight knit group, and like you're saying,
Speaker 2: we the competition and internally is really fun because guys
Speaker 2: have really good years that you want to top somebody else.
Speaker 2: Guys have really good games that you want to top them.
Speaker 2: So it brings out the best side of us.
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Speaker 3: Thank you to see Geek any new pitches of Spring.
Speaker 3: Because you're you're known as a tinkerer, so you're always trying.
Speaker 3: Some people know that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying a couple of things, but I've I
Speaker 2: doubt they actually make it out of camp. I'm trying
Speaker 2: to cutter right now.
Speaker 3: You didn't throw a cutter because everyone throws like.
Speaker 2: I didn't twenty four and then I stopped throwing it,
Speaker 2: and now I might throw it again.
Speaker 3: So what's gonna make the decision?
Speaker 2: I guess just the feel I have Ford in Spring.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna try it out and sert.
Speaker 3: It doesn't work here in Arizona. The difference between Arizona
Speaker 3: and Seattle atmosphere is a big difference. It's a huge difference. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we'll see.
Speaker 2: We have smarter people than me behind the computers that
Speaker 2: are gonna help me out.
Speaker 3: Okay, as long as you listen, as long as you
Speaker 3: have that split, I think you're gonna be all right. Yeah,
Speaker 3: all the chances are a keep throwing that. Do you
Speaker 3: ever get tired of beating the crap out of cow
Speaker 3: with that split? Never?
Speaker 2: That's the fun part of it. Swinging missus okay too,
Speaker 2: but I like just bury it on them.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, but people swing and miss when it's in
Speaker 3: the dirt. Yeah, when it's up here.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Did you ever come to you and be like
Speaker 3: dude all the time?
Speaker 2: Seriously, all the time I hear him talking behind my
Speaker 2: back to it gets back to me.
Speaker 3: Does it? I hear it when you? Uh? Was it
Speaker 3: the postseason? It was in Detroit series? Was it you
Speaker 3: that threw the split and you missed it for a passball?
Speaker 3: And it was the first. I think it was the
Speaker 3: first the whole year it was. It's not fair that
Speaker 3: should go on your record like a knuckleball. Like, no,
Speaker 3: if you were a pitcher, you would be on my side.
Speaker 3: You would know that it can't ever be our fault, right,
Speaker 3: it has to be somebody else. Yeah, but that thing
Speaker 3: was so nasty. And I remember the stat when I
Speaker 3: looked at the stat and it was it was the
Speaker 3: first pass ball he had all year. Yeah, and he
Speaker 3: caught like one hundred and thirty games.
Speaker 2: It didn't even sound real. And somehow not being up
Speaker 2: for a Gold Glove. I don't want to be together,
Speaker 2: but he, I mean, that's no passball is in a
Speaker 2: whole season.
Speaker 3: He won the Platinum year ago. It doesn't get it
Speaker 3: didn't make sense to me that it wasn't even nominated.
Speaker 3: But that's I beat the drump for the m v
Speaker 3: P all year, so should have been. Yeah, but you're biased.
Speaker 3: I'm biased of a catcher, I get it. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: that was one of the craziest stats.
Speaker 1: I mean I think he should have gotten it. I mean,
Speaker 1: cal there's no reason that cal If I understand it.
Speaker 1: Went's Aaron Judge, but come on, I mean, and logan
Speaker 1: to that horn for him. I mean, this is a
Speaker 1: guy that the home runs. Everything he's doing, not to
Speaker 1: mention everything he's doing behind the plate to get you
Speaker 1: guys through a game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nobody's done it all like him. People have had
Speaker 2: good seasons, but he did everything at an elite level
Speaker 2: that if it doesn't go to him then then it's like,
Speaker 2: I don't know how. I don't know how it ever
Speaker 2: goes to a catcher for for doing every piece of
Speaker 2: what he's doing. Nothing against Aaron Judge. I still have
Speaker 2: to face him this year at some point. So got him.
Speaker 2: Great player. Can't say anything bad, but cal Cal is very,
Speaker 2: very good.
Speaker 3: I think he was well deserving.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was just gonna say, I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: we give cal a lot of credit for what he
Speaker 4: was able to do offensively, but just I mean, you're
Speaker 4: someone who works with him every single day. You're pitching staff,
Speaker 4: and I mean you got five monsters and your pitching
Speaker 4: staff all throwing, you know, from different angles and different stuff.
Speaker 4: You know, just kind of like Alana said, just kind
Speaker 4: of give him his flowers for what he's able to
Speaker 4: do behind the plate as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's so good at it, knowing what works for
Speaker 2: different people. Arsenals approaches sequences also like what gets you right.
Speaker 2: He knows the language to use with us that makes
Speaker 2: us the best version of ourselves. It's hard enough focusing
Speaker 2: on your own career, I know, and I only have
Speaker 2: to play thirty times a year. He's playing every single
Speaker 2: day and worrying about twelve other guys thirteen other guys too,
Speaker 2: and then putting up sixty homers.
Speaker 3: It's it's unreal. It'll be fun to see what he does.
Speaker 3: Do you a yeller at her? Or you? You need
Speaker 3: kind all to come out there and yell at you.
Speaker 3: Are you a joke? Do you need a joke? What
Speaker 3: does he put his arm around you and coddle you?
Speaker 3: What does he do for you?
Speaker 2: He's been saying he thinks I need a joke here
Speaker 2: and there, and I keep telling him that that's not
Speaker 2: that's not the I he knows when it get on
Speaker 2: me at the right times. I like that he knows
Speaker 2: he has good feel for the people in the situation.
Speaker 2: It's not all the time you prefer. I like when
Speaker 2: he when he brings some attitude every once in a while.
Speaker 3: So if he comes out of your mask on it,
Speaker 3: puts his glove over his face, he's like, you suck,
Speaker 3: what's wrong with you? And then you're like laughing, and
Speaker 3: you know what he's saying, you need that every once
Speaker 3: in a while. I agree with that. I agree, okay, Logan.
Speaker 1: Gave's fires up after you. What's something we should know
Speaker 1: about Gabe that we don't know?
Speaker 3: Oh Man, something about Gabe.
Speaker 2: Gosh, I'm trying to think if I know anything about Gabe.
Speaker 3: Oh so oh no, no, Aloni, this is perfect starting pictures.
Speaker 3: They can't hang out with the bullpen guy. They're the five,
Speaker 3: they're the group five. They have to stick together. Saved
Speaker 3: like twenty runs a year for me. So I can
Speaker 3: only say good things about him. Uh, I don't know.
Speaker 2: He's got a son that's been out here. He's one
Speaker 2: hanging out at the field every day. Maybe asked about
Speaker 2: that or Team USA. He's got a lot going on.
Speaker 2: He loves a sauna back at home.
Speaker 3: He's big. Did you have any I didn't hear much
Speaker 3: nont here much.
Speaker 6: I hear much.
Speaker 3: I mean skiing scooble web. Gilbert would have been a nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's some good other pictures. I can't hold a grudge.
Speaker 1: It's true, true, Logan, thank you, You're a pleasure to
Speaker 1: talk to, get to know. I'm glad you made the
Speaker 1: decision on the pants. Appreciate that. Good luck this year.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 1: We can't wait to see you guys back in that postseason.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I appreciate it. Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to foul territory. Everybody. You can see that
Speaker 1: we are at Mariners camp of course today A J. Pierzinski,
Speaker 1: Kevin Palara, Alana Rizzo with you, and Rob Refsnyder sitting
Speaker 1: next to Aj. Nice to see Rob in an M's UNI.
Speaker 1: Not quite used to it yet coming over from the
Speaker 1: Boston Red Solide. Rob, good to be with you. You
Speaker 1: guys were just talking off camera about the fact that
Speaker 1: you know you're still doing it. Kevin said that if
Speaker 1: he had that swing, he'd still be playing too. What
Speaker 1: are you excited the most about in terms of getting
Speaker 1: going with the M's obviously a team that has sites
Speaker 1: getting back to the postseason.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean you can kind of feel the the
Speaker 6: excitement even though like kind of the sense of urgency
Speaker 6: even in spring training. They had such a great run
Speaker 6: last year and added some some really good pieces with it,
Speaker 6: with like Donovan and things like that. So now it's
Speaker 6: a it's an exciting camp and you can kind of
Speaker 6: feel it. You know, everyone's pretty focused and yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3: What have they said to you as far as role
Speaker 3: wise on this team? Are you're gonna do what you
Speaker 3: normally do just bash lefties, play kind of all around
Speaker 3: the outfield and just mash. Yeah, I mean Jerry Justin.
Speaker 6: Dan's communication has been pretty pretty amazing honestly all off season,
Speaker 6: even in camp, so a lot of looks against lefties
Speaker 6: and mixing in the outfield. So yeah, but the communication
Speaker 6: has been, you know, incredible so far.
Speaker 3: Hey, Rob, what changed for you?
Speaker 4: Because we were teammates in twenty seventeen in Toronto and
Speaker 4: you kind of bounced around and then you end up
Speaker 4: in Boston and find a home there for a couple
Speaker 4: of years. You know, what's changed with you? Swing wise,
Speaker 4: mentality wise, because you know, you were one of those
Speaker 4: guys that was kind of a four A player and
Speaker 4: now you know, four years later, you're one of the
Speaker 4: best left handed you know, specialists in the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess, uh.
Speaker 6: I mean at that time, I had really no like
Speaker 6: identity as a ball player. I was I was mixing
Speaker 6: in a bunch of different positions and really kind of
Speaker 6: lost with my swing and really what I wanted to
Speaker 6: focus on and kind of what I knew I could
Speaker 6: handle what I couldn't. So, you know, at that time,
Speaker 6: I was just searching, honestly, and but I had some
Speaker 6: really really good teammates at you know, with with Kevin
Speaker 6: and Steve Pierce at the time helped me a lot.
Speaker 6: I don't think he really realized how much he helped
Speaker 6: me at the time, but he really wanted me to
Speaker 6: just kind of simplify it. And then you know, I
Speaker 6: met some incredible hitting coaches. Kevin Knows, uh, Pete Fatsy
Speaker 6: with the Red Sox, Uh, Cody Atkinson Uh. Now I
Speaker 6: think assistant with Toronto, a couple others. I'm leaving a
Speaker 6: couple out, but Borgs hitting coach now with the Nationals.
Speaker 6: So without those guys, I'd be, you know, at home
Speaker 6: doing something else. So a lot of credit goes to
Speaker 6: those hitting coaches.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, was the one approach?
Speaker 6: Was it in like twenty seventeen. It was big on
Speaker 6: just like I don't know, it was like pull side air,
Speaker 6: but no one really knew how to teach it. So
Speaker 6: we had all this information and my assuming was just
Speaker 6: super underplane. So underplane, I mean a lot of golfers
Speaker 6: out there, I'm sure it's just I was just hooking
Speaker 6: the ball to the left as already I was just
Speaker 6: underneath the ball and then through contact my bat was
Speaker 6: rolling up through the zone and just super super just
Speaker 6: high up through the zone, so a lot of top spins.
Speaker 6: So anything I pulled was either at the shortstop or
Speaker 6: over the shortstop's head, and then I would catch it
Speaker 6: deep and I would flush it to write, but I
Speaker 6: didn't have the juice hit it out to write, so
Speaker 6: it was just a whole lot of nothing. I always
Speaker 6: did an okay job of controlling the strike zone, so
Speaker 6: I think that helped me stay in Triple A and
Speaker 6: get some some ambassing Triple A. Just working through those things,
Speaker 6: just having I guess, like competitive at bats but without
Speaker 6: those hitting coaches, and getting my swing a little bit
Speaker 6: more flat through the zone and learning some things I
Speaker 6: could handle some things I couldn't. Yeah, like I said,
Speaker 6: I would be, I'd be doing something else.
Speaker 1: Rob do you play to the park obviously you're going
Speaker 1: from Fenway to Tea Mobile or do you just stay
Speaker 1: within the same approach and not try to adjust too
Speaker 1: much based on where you're playing.
Speaker 6: I think it's important for younger players to realize who
Speaker 6: you're facing. You know, AJ Kevin can talk about it.
Speaker 6: Just there's some some pictures out there that it doesn't
Speaker 6: match up with your swing and for you to try
Speaker 6: to do certain things to those pictures, it's just not
Speaker 6: any You're not going to have any success. So just
Speaker 6: kind of realizing the pictures you can maybe take a
Speaker 6: chance on, and then the pictures you realize, you know
Speaker 6: they're going syncer away, change up away, like you're going
Speaker 6: to kind of bury your head and try to drive
Speaker 6: it in the four hole, hit over the second basement's head.
Speaker 6: Also if you're not feeling that great that day and
Speaker 6: you're kind of leaning off working the counts and trying
Speaker 6: to get on base for the big guys in the order.
Speaker 6: So just trying to play that kind of game within
Speaker 6: the game has helped me a lot, especially as a
Speaker 6: kind of platoon not playing every day. You got to
Speaker 6: pick those kind of battles.
Speaker 3: You're you're like the perfect guy for me that I
Speaker 3: have conversations with players, especially veteran players for winning teams.
Speaker 3: You know what your role is, right, You have a
Speaker 3: specific job on the Mariners to hit lefties, play your
Speaker 3: positions when you get in there, and then you also
Speaker 3: help the young kids. You guys don't have a ton
Speaker 3: of young kids, but the young kids you can help
Speaker 3: out and show them how to be a bench guy
Speaker 3: or show them how to how to make adjustments like
Speaker 3: you did. I think teams that win have guys like you,
Speaker 3: and that's why you're so valuable.
Speaker 6: I appreciate it. Yeah, you know, awesome coming from you.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I just think, you know, I've you know,
Speaker 6: when I play with Kevin in twenty seventeen, I was
Speaker 6: really searching kind of you know, staying afloat, and I
Speaker 6: had some incredible veterans just take time out of their day.
Speaker 6: And you know, I wasn't a father at the time,
Speaker 6: but like these guys have kids, they have a lot
Speaker 6: of responsibilities, places to be, and for them to take
Speaker 6: extra time even away from the ball park through text
Speaker 6: or phone calls, just to help me out. I mean,
Speaker 6: I'm just always been so I guess gracious and thankful
Speaker 6: for that. So anytime I can pay it forward. And
Speaker 6: you know, I've had a couple guys kind of reach
Speaker 6: out this camp and it's been cool, kind of digging
Speaker 6: a little bit deeper and some of their their numbers
Speaker 6: and things like that. Their approach. I think the easiest
Speaker 6: thing you can do is adjust your approach in today's game,
Speaker 6: because pictures are just so dang good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, to kind of piggyback on that. You know, I
Speaker 4: know how difficult it be to be a platoon guy.
Speaker 4: You know what's kind of your preparation to stay ready,
Speaker 4: locked in every single day? And is there someone that's
Speaker 4: kind of helped you, you know, learn how to be
Speaker 4: the best at that position.
Speaker 6: Trying to think of some some great I mean fatsy in.
Speaker 6: You know, I still searching for a lot of different things,
Speaker 6: but in twenty two I met Pete and just you know,
Speaker 6: keeping it simple, but I think a j can talk
Speaker 6: about it. We're always searching for a feeling or like
Speaker 6: feeling really locked in and as a platoon, as.
Speaker 3: A harder is a guy that doesn't get to play
Speaker 3: every day.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's important that the younger players know
Speaker 6: and and things like that that that's just not a
Speaker 6: reality in our role. You're not going to play. There's
Speaker 6: days where I don't play for seven or eight days.
Speaker 6: So I think, you know, mixed BP, which MIXEDVP is
Speaker 6: just sounds like it is. It's just you know, I
Speaker 6: never really know what's coming. So never getting too comfortable
Speaker 6: in the cage I think is important because you're never
Speaker 6: going to feel that comfortable in the game. So mixed speeds,
Speaker 6: different angles and things like that have been really really
Speaker 6: important for me. I think being an't about my time
Speaker 6: on the road. There's usually in one cage, so I
Speaker 6: try to get in there early, do my routines, to
Speaker 6: stay out of some people's way, and just make sure
Speaker 6: I have enough time to get my routine in and
Speaker 6: things like that. But a lot of mix vp and
Speaker 6: making sure I'm super slow and early and on time.
Speaker 6: That's the most important thing. Staying behind the baseball, just
Speaker 6: so you know, just not not trying to do too
Speaker 6: much when you're up there is really important. I'm saying
Speaker 6: a bunch of cliches, but that's really my routine. And
Speaker 6: and being okay with not feeling locked in all the
Speaker 6: time or ever, because it's it's it's really hard to
Speaker 6: even do when you're in every day, every day guy.
Speaker 6: So just making sure I'm behind the ball and when
Speaker 6: I'm in the in the batter's box is just like
Speaker 6: what I want to do to the baseball, not like
Speaker 6: where my hands, where is my foot? There's my toe tap?
Speaker 6: Because strike one, strike two really fast.
Speaker 1: It's almost like being comfortable with the uncomfortable rob and
Speaker 1: I think what I think about you, it's almost like
Speaker 1: a Swiss army knife and that utility role of kind
Speaker 1: of being able to I mean, and you have more
Speaker 1: time as a corner outfielder than you do uh as
Speaker 1: an infielder, but you can do it all. Do you
Speaker 1: think that's I know, what's valuable. But do you think
Speaker 1: that type of thing has been able to elongate your
Speaker 1: career and and really find a place for yourself because
Speaker 1: you can do so much.
Speaker 6: I'm not I'm not exactly sure how I stay in the.
Speaker 3: Game for this long, but because you can hit, because
Speaker 3: you hit your teammate and you can play there.
Speaker 6: But you know, honestly, being receptive to coaching and h
Speaker 6: but knowing yourself is important, you know. I think when
Speaker 6: I was younger, it's you know, you can you can
Speaker 6: almost be too coachable, not having identity, so making sure
Speaker 6: you're surrounded by people that that can help you identify
Speaker 6: things that you're that you're good at and things that
Speaker 6: you can work on. But yeah, just being receptive to
Speaker 6: coaching and then always kind of pushing the limits in
Speaker 6: the off season and the even season of like you know,
Speaker 6: a training a certain way and things like that. I think, shoot,
Speaker 6: my first year was in twenty fifteen in the major leagues,
Speaker 6: and from twenty fifteen to now, how much like development
Speaker 6: in the major leagues is going on. It's it's wild.
Speaker 6: It's just it's constantly pushing the envelope and things like that.
Speaker 6: So I think that's the biggest growth I've seen in
Speaker 6: our game is just like you know, you're you're in
Speaker 6: a coach's office at one thirty before a game and
Speaker 6: you're kind of figuring out things you can get do
Speaker 6: to get better that day. But also it's important that
Speaker 6: you have a staff that recognizes and Dan said that
Speaker 6: in our first meeting, like the most important thing is
Speaker 6: the game at seven, so making sure you're ready for that.
Speaker 6: So it's a huge balance and I think that's why
Speaker 6: you see so much staff now.
Speaker 3: It makes sense. It's tough, all right. Before to let
Speaker 3: you go, I have to ask you this. I didn't
Speaker 3: know this about you. So I just found out that
Speaker 3: you were actually born in Korea. Yeah, but you grew
Speaker 3: up in the US. And as the Olympics are going on,
Speaker 3: the figure skater who was born in China just won
Speaker 3: a gold medal for the US. Right, So if WBC
Speaker 3: would you play for Korea or would you play for
Speaker 3: the US. And then if they do happen this year,
Speaker 3: let's say they play each other somewhere down the road,
Speaker 3: what were you root for?
Speaker 6: It's a great question, man, It's a tough question to
Speaker 6: end it on.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was adopted in Korea, born in Korea, and
Speaker 6: then I grew up in south southern California. Both my
Speaker 6: parents are are white. My dad's six foot eight. I
Speaker 6: used to go to Lakers games and uh he looked
Speaker 6: like Tilt Jackson.
Speaker 3: So he like, would you say Phil Wareons? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, all the all the guys had a couple of pops.
Speaker 6: Uh no, on the on the JumboTron. He'd always like
Speaker 6: he would get on it sometimes as like to looklike, yeah, So,
Speaker 6: I mean, I don't know. I almost want to go
Speaker 6: play in Korea in kind of when I was floundering
Speaker 6: in the minor leagues a little bit and maybe like
Speaker 6: twenty eighteen. But to answer your question, I have no idea.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so then then it leads me to one
Speaker 3: more question. Sorry, if you went and played in a couple.
Speaker 6: Of good corner outfitters for Team USA, I know I understood,
Speaker 6: but it was it this year judge and jeez, they
Speaker 6: have every Roman judge who's in center.
Speaker 3: Jeez, it's everybody, anybody, you can think of everything. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't think you're out Iron Buxton. Yeah you're not
Speaker 3: running those two. Yeah, they're stacked. So if you went and.
Speaker 6: Played, I don't think I'm pitch hitting for any of those.
Speaker 3: Even if they brought in a left I think. Okay,
Speaker 3: I think if you if you were going to go
Speaker 3: and play in Korea, because I I didn't think about that,
Speaker 3: would you count as a because you know, they can
Speaker 3: only have so many for as.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Would you count as a formal because you're you're born.
Speaker 6: I'm sure the team would try to get me as
Speaker 6: a non foreign, but I don't know. That's a good question.
Speaker 3: We have to figure that one out and let you know. Yeah,
Speaker 3: hopefully you don't have to worry about unless you want
Speaker 3: to go like Adam Jones did at the end of
Speaker 3: his career and play a couple of years ago.
Speaker 6: Yeah he did Japan, right, Yeah, Yeah, Now I know
Speaker 6: a couple of guys playing right now, Bobby dollbacks in Japan,
Speaker 6: and yeah, I mean a bunch of guys are coming
Speaker 6: back though as pitchers, and yeah, and getting a nice
Speaker 6: little pay day. Okay, well thanks Rob, Yeah, thanks guys.
Speaker 3: Gabe Spire now joining us from the Seattle Mariners, And
Speaker 3: I just want to say this before we get into this.
Speaker 3: He's a lefty, so he probably would have dominated me,
Speaker 3: but his cousin, Justin Spiers, I was three for eight
Speaker 3: off of So I'm just gonna say that I own
Speaker 3: the whole Spire family. Okay, I'm just gonna I'm just
Speaker 3: gonna put a whole umbrella over the entire Spire pitching family.
Speaker 3: That three seventy five feels pretty good. So I owned
Speaker 3: the whole family.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm gonna have to show this clip to Justin.
Speaker 8: Let him have a rebuttal hair. But I mean, man,
Speaker 8: I guess you know we'll never know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, like sinker cutter guys, I could hit those Yeah.
Speaker 4: A j There's a reason I'm sitting here now because
Speaker 4: the guy's like him. He used to eat my lunch.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 4: I used to have to come off the bench and
Speaker 4: pinch it against this guy, you know, go on the
Speaker 4: on deck circle.
Speaker 3: They'd bring him in and.
Speaker 4: Then he just he just punched my ticket.
Speaker 6: So I thank you for that.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 8: Oh, I guess you're welcome. I'm sorry, I don't know
Speaker 8: what to say.
Speaker 3: I'm happy. I'm happy. Man.
Speaker 6: Life's good.
Speaker 3: Life's good. Have you seen his strikeout numbers, like justin
Speaker 3: Joel was it thirty twenty one to one strikeout to
Speaker 3: walk ratio last year? So he was punching everybody's ticket
Speaker 3: last year. It's fun.
Speaker 8: Strikeouts are my you know, it's the most fun you
Speaker 8: have out there is striking guys out.
Speaker 6: That's what you do.
Speaker 3: So you're not just but you're not just a lefty specialist.
Speaker 3: I mean you punch lefties and righties thout.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, you know, it's taking some work to
Speaker 8: get to that point. I you know, righty's always have
Speaker 8: hit slightly better off of me, and this last year,
Speaker 8: just having that four seam that I could throw into
Speaker 8: them and up really was a game changer for me.
Speaker 8: It was, you know, I would I think there were
Speaker 8: some pretty big splits there early on, but last year
Speaker 8: I was able to kind of clean those up. And
Speaker 8: I think that that's I attribute that to the forcing
Speaker 8: fastball to arieties for ninety seven.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean that helps.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's insane. Sorry A j But you
Speaker 1: guys are just talking about the strikeout to walk ratio.
Speaker 1: Only one other picture of the three hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: one pitchers were better than you, and that guy just
Speaker 1: won his second cy. Young. I mean, you've got to
Speaker 1: take a lot of pride in that. I mean, being
Speaker 1: able to strike guys out, because in this game, which
Speaker 1: has changed so much over the course of the year,
Speaker 1: is to either you know, guys strike out or hit
Speaker 1: home runs. But you are just dominating regardless of who
Speaker 1: you face. I mean, you got to take a.
Speaker 7: Lot of pride in that, yeah, for sure, you know.
Speaker 8: And and coming over to the Mariners, they they preach,
Speaker 8: you know, dominate the zone. And I think I got
Speaker 8: to thank them a lot because they showed me the
Speaker 8: numbers on just you know, getting ahead of guys and
Speaker 8: just being on the attack, being on the offense as
Speaker 8: a pitcher, I think that's really hew And just limiting
Speaker 8: free bases is so huge and just really challenging guys,
Speaker 8: and you know, you find yourself in a lot more
Speaker 8: to strike counts when you're you know, on the attack,
Speaker 8: and then once you get to two strikes you can
Speaker 8: kind of go from there and maybe expand a little
Speaker 8: bit and you know, it worked out last year and
Speaker 8: I you know, hoping to carry it into this year
Speaker 8: as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was gonna be my question. The Seattle Mariners.
Speaker 4: What have they done for you? And it sounds like
Speaker 4: it's been more of a mentality than it has been
Speaker 4: you know, physical adjustments.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, absolutely.
Speaker 8: I remember when I got claimed off waivers coming to
Speaker 8: the Mariners, I was expecting, you know, we want you
Speaker 8: to grip your slider a different way, we want you
Speaker 8: to throw add new pitches and whatnot. But it was
Speaker 8: quite the opposite. It was really you know, we claimed
Speaker 8: you off waivers because we like what you're doing already.
Speaker 8: We just need you to throw it in the zone
Speaker 8: more and be more aggressive. And and you know, I
Speaker 8: wouldn't say it was easy for me, but I really
Speaker 8: just kind of put all my marbles into that basket
Speaker 8: of really just attacking and and then you know, the
Speaker 8: results fall and confidence followed, and then I was kind
Speaker 8: of able to, you know, just have that snowball effect
Speaker 8: and and really just keep attacking guys. And you know,
Speaker 8: it became easier and easier as I went. I guess
Speaker 8: That's what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 3: Kay, did you know that we were teammates for about
Speaker 3: two months. I didn't realize this, not even months, about
Speaker 3: three two weeks.
Speaker 7: Really when you were brave, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you were really a brave, but you
Speaker 3: were like a brave. So teople that don't know Gabe
Speaker 3: was traded. You came up. You were originally with the
Speaker 3: Red Sox and you got traded to the Tigers for Cesspadoes,
Speaker 3: which is kind of nice. Yeah, that's cool, and for
Speaker 3: Rick Pricello and then you went to the Diamondbacks right
Speaker 3: for Ian Kroll, Ian Croll and you for cam Maven.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's I went to the Braves in that trade.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And then two weeks later they traded you and
Speaker 3: Shelby Miller for Dansby and Er and Aaron Blair. Yeah,
Speaker 3: your teammates technically for those for about two weeks.
Speaker 7: That's crazy.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that.
Speaker 8: I mean, yeah, I never wore a Brave Braves jersey
Speaker 8: in my life, you know. I was part of that organize,
Speaker 8: like you said, for two weeks in the off season. So,
Speaker 8: but that's funny.
Speaker 3: So good thing you don't get tattoos of all the
Speaker 3: teams you've.
Speaker 8: Been No, no, no, because I would have be covered. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, how crazy of a journey if you you mentioned
Speaker 4: going from you know, getting claimed off waivers to the
Speaker 4: Mariners now about to pitch for Team USA. You know,
Speaker 4: could you envision that maybe four or five years ago.
Speaker 8: No, you know, it's it's it's been crazy for me
Speaker 8: to kind of take a step back and reflect on,
Speaker 8: you know, how I've gotten to this point. It's been
Speaker 8: a windy road, but you know, I wouldn't change it.
Speaker 8: I've I've made a lot of good friends in each
Speaker 8: organization I've been with, learned a lot from different coaches
Speaker 8: in each organization I've been with, And you know, it's
Speaker 8: it's the road I've been on. Like I said, it's
Speaker 8: been windy, but it has gotten me to this point,
Speaker 8: so I wouldn't change it. It's been learned a lot,
Speaker 8: and I'm happy to be a Mariner. I feel at
Speaker 8: home here and hopefully I can pitch here in a
Speaker 8: Mariner's uniform for a long time.
Speaker 1: Day Big Sonica logan Gilbert told us your big sauna guy,
Speaker 1: So I need to know how particular you are when
Speaker 1: picking out the sauna. What are the things you have
Speaker 1: to have?
Speaker 8: Oh, it has to be a traditional sauna over infrared.
Speaker 8: I like the actual heater with the rocks and you
Speaker 8: can throw the water on it and steam it up
Speaker 8: in there. But yeah, no, the Mariners have one in
Speaker 8: the clubhouse, and I was in there quite a bit
Speaker 8: and and it didn't force me, but I really wanted
Speaker 8: to get one of my own to put in my house,
Speaker 8: and and I did. I pulled the trigger and got
Speaker 8: one installed in my house and I'm in there every night.
Speaker 8: It's it's part of the routine now, it's relaxing. I
Speaker 8: feel like it helps with my recovery. And I get
Speaker 8: my wife in there too. It's it's become a little
Speaker 8: u you know, ritual of ours. So it's a good
Speaker 8: time and I really do enjoy it.
Speaker 3: Are you super particular a lot of it? I wonder
Speaker 3: if you have like an exact temperature or you like
Speaker 3: it has to be at two hundred and one degree.
Speaker 8: Well, yeah, it's like normally I go two hundred for
Speaker 8: twenty minutes and bored.
Speaker 3: Though because I try to do it, because I can't
Speaker 3: take my I'm afraid my phone's gonna blow up in
Speaker 3: the sauna. Yeah, for twenty minutes.
Speaker 8: I you know, breathe, work on my try to like
Speaker 8: meditate and relax, you know, the first ten minutes, and
Speaker 8: when it's two hundred degrees it's it's really hot in there.
Speaker 8: In the first ten minutes is relaxing, and then the
Speaker 8: next ten minutes is a bit of a grind and
Speaker 8: you really gotta kind of dig deep, work on your
Speaker 8: breathing and all that. But when you get out, you
Speaker 8: just feel so refreshed. And I do it at night
Speaker 8: before bed, so it helps me fall asleep off faster
Speaker 8: right to bed, or just I mean I should I
Speaker 8: rinse it off, because if you go.
Speaker 3: Sauna right to bed, there's no way your wife's allowing you.
Speaker 7: No, no, no, no.
Speaker 8: I I probably go in and then have about an
Speaker 8: hour before I go to sleep. It's I, you know,
Speaker 8: cool off, and cause even if you you rinse off,
Speaker 8: you're still sweating after, so you need to take a second.
Speaker 8: I like to stretch a little bit because you're you know.
Speaker 3: You're hot in the sauna.
Speaker 8: It's not quite big enough. I gotta like a two
Speaker 8: persons onner. So there's a there's a couple of things
Speaker 8: I can do in there.
Speaker 3: But the other day I was in one and it
Speaker 3: was a it was at a country club and there
Speaker 3: was a guy in there stretching and it was like
Speaker 3: the most awkward thing. I'm in the corner, sitting there
Speaker 3: in the corner, all all scrunched up, and he's like
Speaker 3: bending over, touching his toes with just a towel. I'm like,
Speaker 3: this is really awol.
Speaker 7: You should get your own then you don't have to
Speaker 7: worry about that.
Speaker 4: Hey that that that playoff share money made a little
Speaker 4: easier to buy that sauna, I'm sure.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, oh yeah, that's always nice, you know it is.
Speaker 7: It's a like it was.
Speaker 8: I was just telling somebody earlier, like the postseason it
Speaker 8: was like the best part of last season, absolutely, but
Speaker 8: also the hardest part. You know, I've never pitched in
Speaker 8: the postseason, and you know, I've been done in the
Speaker 8: end of September every year, and that extra you know,
Speaker 8: three weeks of baseball. It's tough on the body and
Speaker 8: all that. But like I said, also the best part
Speaker 8: of last season. But you know, that playoff share it
Speaker 8: was nice to see hit the Bay account and so yeah,
Speaker 8: I can't complain about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I had asked Logan about, you know, being in the
Speaker 4: dugout when Cal Rowley hit that home winning Game five.
Speaker 4: It was one of the best atmospheres, you know, I'd
Speaker 4: ever seen in a baseball stadium.
Speaker 3: Were you still in the.
Speaker 4: Bullpen during that time?
Speaker 3: And what was kind of that view from the bullpen?
Speaker 4: Where had you already come in the game.
Speaker 8: I had already pitched. I was in the dugout. But yeah,
Speaker 8: I mean, Cal he did it all season long. It
Speaker 8: was like, you know, at times it's almost expected for
Speaker 8: him to go yard, but I mean, that was such
Speaker 8: a big moment, and you know, super happy for Cal.
Speaker 8: He's he hasn't changed at all. You know, some people
Speaker 8: hit the limelight and they changed a little bit. He's
Speaker 8: he's been the same guy. He's you know, he's the
Speaker 8: leader of this team. He's a grinder back there in
Speaker 8: the plate, and you know he hits from both sides
Speaker 8: of them. He's just so special, such a special player
Speaker 8: and so special for this organization, this team.
Speaker 1: Dabe, tell me about the tats I think you have
Speaker 1: on your knees, right, I can see some tats.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah, I've got up both my thighs. I've
Speaker 8: got one on my shin here, I've got my arms.
Speaker 8: I was kind of going hard there for a little bit.
Speaker 8: I haven't had one in a couple of years now.
Speaker 8: I had my son two years ago and and that
Speaker 8: slowed the tattoo process down a little bit.
Speaker 3: Go full body? Well, would you go full body?
Speaker 7: You know, it's hard to say. I mean, it's I
Speaker 7: think I would.
Speaker 8: I don't know if I would have like my neck
Speaker 8: and face done, but you know, I'd like to continue
Speaker 8: on my arms, maybe creep onto the my chest a
Speaker 8: little bit or something like that, but full body probably not.
Speaker 7: But are you I definitely want more.
Speaker 1: What about your left arm? Did you tat your because
Speaker 1: a lot of guys won't tat the arm that they
Speaker 1: throw with. Do you have them on your left?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 8: The first tattoo I ever got was on my left arm.
Speaker 8: It was right here as my grandpa had passed away,
Speaker 8: and I got a little remembrance tattoo for him. But yeah,
Speaker 8: I mean I have I think I have more on
Speaker 8: my on my left arm than I do on my right.
Speaker 8: So I need to go under my right and even
Speaker 8: it out. But I said, it's just slowed down since
Speaker 8: I had my son. It's just it's just not as
Speaker 8: much of a priority now, I guess. But I do
Speaker 8: need to make some time and go get more because
Speaker 8: I do.
Speaker 3: I do want more.
Speaker 4: Is there a Team USA one coming here soon?
Speaker 3: If you guys win the gold?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 8: You know, I haven't considered that. Maybe if we win
Speaker 8: the gold, you know, I'd have to consider it, but uh,
Speaker 8: I'm not going to commit to anything just yet.
Speaker 3: How excited are you for it? Talk about how excited
Speaker 3: you are to pitch for the USA.
Speaker 8: So excited I mean to to be able to wear
Speaker 8: USA across the chest and play the game I love
Speaker 8: is is a dream come true. You know, we were
Speaker 8: talking about it earlier. I never really expected this, so
Speaker 8: it was a bit of a shock to me to
Speaker 8: get the call, and when I did, it was it
Speaker 8: was a no brainer for me. I mean, just such
Speaker 8: a such a cool event to be a part of
Speaker 8: and to be in that locker like I feel like
Speaker 8: it fully hasn't hit me yet. But once I feel
Speaker 8: like I put the jersey on and get in that
Speaker 8: locker room with some of those guys, it's gonna be like,
Speaker 8: oh my gosh, this is this is crazy. And you know,
Speaker 8: I've talked to some of the guys in the clubhouse
Speaker 8: that have played in the WBC and they just say
Speaker 8: it's it's an experience like no other, and just just
Speaker 8: looking forward to getting to going.
Speaker 3: Who are you most excited about meeting?
Speaker 8: I mean Clayton Kershaw, is you know tired, Yeah, but
Speaker 8: he's playing I know, no, he he jumps to the
Speaker 8: top of my mind for sure.
Speaker 7: Just you know, arguably the best picture of our generation.
Speaker 8: And just just to be able to shake his hand
Speaker 8: and and you know, talk to him about pitching is
Speaker 8: something I'm really looking forward to.
Speaker 1: Curse is a great guy, first ballot. Hall of Famers
Speaker 1: certainly gave the text thread I heard the chat for
Speaker 1: the WBC has been lit as the kids say Corbyn.
Speaker 1: Carrol was saying that some of the hotel choices are
Speaker 1: a little suspect. But what other things are you guys
Speaker 1: talking about in that chat? What can you share with
Speaker 1: us about the conversation so far?
Speaker 8: Just everyone's really excited, you know, everyone's throwing the America
Speaker 8: gifts out there, and you know, I think I've seen
Speaker 8: some Kenny Powers ones and if you guys know, you
Speaker 8: know it's he's a just a funny show.
Speaker 7: But yeah, it's just, uh, it's super light.
Speaker 8: You know, guys are having fun, super excited about it,
Speaker 8: and it's it's just cool to you know, have some
Speaker 8: of those guys in my phone, you know, like honestly
Speaker 8: like to see Clayton Kershaw texting, like and I'm getting
Speaker 8: text from Clayton versus position players text right, yeah, so
Speaker 8: our our text that is just the pictures. And you
Speaker 8: guys just you just don't want to be part of
Speaker 8: the team, you guys. Yeah another name, yeah, you know,
Speaker 8: like just to it's wild. You know Andy pettit's the
Speaker 8: pitching coach. I have Andy Pettitt's number saving my phone now.
Speaker 8: It's just, uh, it's just kind of crazy, how how
Speaker 8: all this is going, and uh just really excited.
Speaker 6: That's awesome.
Speaker 3: That's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it is awesome. What an honor well earned,
Speaker 1: the well deserved game, thanks so much.
Speaker 3: Hold on, all these guys are walking by and they're
Speaker 3: all jacked. Wait only sees Kershall walk around those shirt
Speaker 3: on it, He's gonna be like, wait, wait, this is
Speaker 3: what they look like.
Speaker 1: Is an interesting uh like kind of a dad bod.
Speaker 1: But you know what, hirsh has earned every ounce of
Speaker 1: that dad whatever the heck he wants to do.
Speaker 3: Okay, I agree with that. I agree with that.
Speaker 1: Gabe. Good luck man, have a great season. It's such
Speaker 1: a pleasure to get to know you. Can't wait to
Speaker 1: see you guys, what you do this year. Thanks for
Speaker 1: being with us
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you for having me and I appreciate it.