1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,280 Speaker 1: What Manny Machado has done in the last two seasons. 2 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 1: It's one of the most impressive things I've seen. I'm 3 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 1: not overstating it, I promise you. 4 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 2: Virtolie Air kratz Ada Prasinski, joined by Kevin ac Kevin, 5 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:17,479 Speaker 2: how are you Padrey's beat writer? 6 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 3: Longtime Potter's beat writer? How long you been? You even 7 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:22,600 Speaker 3: covered the Potter's Kevin, I back. 8 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:25,720 Speaker 1: Doing baseball for only eight years. Actually, when I say only, 9 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:28,720 Speaker 1: it's only May, so by August that'll feel like twenty years. 10 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 1: You know how that is? 11 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:33,599 Speaker 2: They're dog years though, so really so really it's what 12 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 2: sixty four years? 13 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:38,640 Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, but hey, I've only been on a couple 14 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:40,880 Speaker 1: of times, but every time the lead in I always 15 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: find it very fascinating. I love your guys conversations. 16 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:46,920 Speaker 3: Thank you, Kevin, appreciate it. 17 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:49,639 Speaker 2: So we were talking about this last segment a little bit, 18 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:53,159 Speaker 2: but take me through the Padres jump out to this 19 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 2: incredible start, And you know, when I saw you in 20 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 2: spring training, I think the vibe was kind of like, well, 21 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 2: this team's window might be kind of shut or behind them, 22 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 2: and nobody really had outside big expectations. What has kind 23 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 2: of propelled them through this first month. I know, they 24 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 2: got spupped by Tampa Bay come down to earth here 25 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 2: a little bit later in April, but what has propelled 26 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 2: them into such a good month and being able to say. 27 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe they can't compete with the Dodgers again this year. 28 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 1: Maybe. I mean, one sixty two is a long time 29 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 1: to compete with the Dodgers. But they are a dangerous team. 30 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 1: And I don't know that anyone why anyone would have 31 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 1: thought that twenty twenty five was the closing of their window. Now, 32 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 1: the start to the season, I mean, Jackson Merrill was 33 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 1: just so significant in you know, his first ten games 34 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 1: and then had to obviously go on the injured list, 35 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:46,199 Speaker 1: and that had a lot to do with the slide. 36 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 1: Jay Coronerworth goes on the injured list right after him, 37 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 1: and then a little bit after that, they lost Luis 38 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 1: a Rise for a week and that's three of their 39 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 1: six core players, but Fernando Touchies junior start to the season. 40 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 1: The pitching staff, in particular the bullpen, which you thought 41 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 1: was a strength. I think what happened is they had 42 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: the kind of stretch, whether you go to the ten games, 43 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:12,680 Speaker 1: the twelve games, the nineteen games, when they were fifteen 44 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 1: and four before they went to Houston the middle of 45 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 1: last month. They had the kind of stretch that good 46 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 1: teams have. They had it at the beginning of the year. 47 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:21,640 Speaker 1: And now that's not to say they can't have it again, 48 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 1: but it just came at the beginning of the year. 49 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 1: You know, like when a player starts out hitting four 50 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:29,639 Speaker 1: fifty for the first month, and you know, guys do that. 51 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:32,240 Speaker 1: Good players do that in the middle of the season. 52 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:34,640 Speaker 1: The Potterys did it at the beginning of the season. 53 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 1: Everything was going right. They're playing a certain kind of way, 54 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 1: which I do think bodes well for them to be 55 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 1: a playoff team, to not go and sustain slumps. They 56 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 1: have good players, then most of them are playing well. 57 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:52,359 Speaker 4: Kevin, you said that the Dodgers and Potters have to 58 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 4: compete for one hundred and sixty two. 59 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 5: I disagree. 60 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:56,359 Speaker 4: All the Padres have to do is get into the 61 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 4: playoffs and beat them four out of seven or three 62 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 4: out of five, like the one sixty two doesn't matter. 63 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 4: Just get in and take your shot. Because they had 64 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:06,640 Speaker 4: them last year. I mean, if you look at it, 65 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 4: you asked the Dodgers, you asked the Padres. 66 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 5: They had them. They were the last team to beat 67 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:13,120 Speaker 5: them them in the Diamondbacks. Remember in twenty two they 68 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 5: beat them in. 69 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 4: That great series with the Goose and all that stuff, 70 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 4: and then the Diamondbacks did in twenty three. 71 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:21,359 Speaker 5: But the Padres are not afraid of the Dodgers. 72 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 4: I think that's what we overlook And if they get 73 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:26,119 Speaker 4: into a series, forget the one sixty two, just get 74 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:27,840 Speaker 4: in and play them in a five game series or 75 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 4: a seven game series, and they'll take their chances against them. 76 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:34,640 Speaker 4: They love playing and the fans, oh baby, the fans 77 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 4: in San Diego beat Lachin and pet Goo is as 78 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 4: good as it gets. 79 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 1: I absolutely agree with you. I was responding to the 80 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 1: Dodgers competing for the division title over one sixty two. Look, 81 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 1: the Potters will not concede that, but they also feel 82 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 1: the way that you do. And it's the way that 83 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: I feel as someone who has watched them face the 84 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 1: Dodgers and watched the Dodgers in the postseason and knows 85 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: what the Padres bring and turns their off three starters 86 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 1: in terms of their dangerous players, in terms of how 87 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 1: Fernando Tatis Junior rises to the occasion against the Dodgers 88 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 1: year after year, so that you Darvish if you know 89 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 1: if he's back and healthy at that point, and how 90 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 1: he pitches against the Dodgers. Absolutely, that is what it 91 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:21,479 Speaker 1: has become about. I mean, it's I happen to like it. 92 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:24,840 Speaker 1: I happen to like how you go into postseason baseball, 93 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: and then it's it just changes so much. I just 94 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 1: think over one sixty two, the Dodgers can kind of 95 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 1: you know it, it's gonna be tough. But look, like 96 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,920 Speaker 1: I said, the Padres are a dangerous team, very very 97 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 1: dangerous team. 98 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 6: Before we get into the nooks and crannies of this team, 99 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 6: have they made enough adjustments to beat the Dodgers in 100 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:51,600 Speaker 6: the playoffs? Because in the offseason you go and you say, 101 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 6: all right, I want to make this adjustment. I wanted 102 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:55,280 Speaker 6: to make this adjustment. 103 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:57,040 Speaker 5: All we heard about the Padres. 104 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 6: Was we might have to get rid of Dylan Ce 105 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 6: shed payroll with getting Luis a rise off the and 106 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:05,720 Speaker 6: it was like, wait, what, you were so close that 107 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:08,160 Speaker 6: Dodgers even said you were so close. So have they 108 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 6: made the adjustments with the personnel on the field. 109 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,599 Speaker 1: I would have said emphatically so before they just went 110 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 1: thirty innings without scoring, But that was thirty innings without scoring, 111 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 1: without Louis a Rise without Jackson Merrill, without Jake Cronenworth, 112 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 1: and so I do believe that this team, the way 113 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:30,159 Speaker 1: that they play, the way that Mike Shilt has them playing, 114 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 1: and it is pretty remarkable how they have responded to 115 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 1: that over a season, plus every player and the buy in. 116 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:42,120 Speaker 1: I do absolutely believe that a healthy Padres team is 117 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 1: still that team that you know, the twenty four innings 118 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 1: at the end last year, that pretty much explains it, right, 119 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 1: Dylan Seas didn't have a great start in Game five, 120 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:54,279 Speaker 1: they chose to go with Dylan twice on short rest. 121 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:59,160 Speaker 1: I absolutely believe it to me, like the off season 122 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 1: and this isn't good for business, but it's like, folks, 123 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: like year after year the Potters have won the off 124 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 1: season and it hasn't worked out, like spectacularly hasn't worked out. 125 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:12,960 Speaker 1: The Potters have been kind of like, as you said, 126 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:15,480 Speaker 1: that was the narrative and it was not a false 127 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:19,159 Speaker 1: narrative for this off season. And now look they're, you know, 128 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 1: arguably one of the top five teams in baseball. They're 129 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:26,920 Speaker 1: certainly looking like a playoff team. It's like the off 130 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 1: season like. 131 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 7: If you want a razor that looks good, makes you 132 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:35,479 Speaker 7: look good, gets the shave done, and doesn't cost much. 133 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:38,799 Speaker 1: Uh oh oh is it nice. 134 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,920 Speaker 6: That's a Harry John and you can smell it too. 135 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 6: Oh wow, that's Harry's. That's the shave, Jael. I'm telling you, 136 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:54,119 Speaker 6: I mean you look scary man fresh coming coming. 137 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:56,160 Speaker 1: I don't want to touch. 138 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 7: God looks like German engineered blades made in their own 139 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:04,240 Speaker 7: factory that stays sharp longer. 140 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 6: I'm using the razor and it does not. You can 141 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 6: start to feel when it gets dull. I mean you 142 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 6: guys only do like here and like up here. True, 143 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:17,360 Speaker 6: I'm doing acreach get the edge on your shave with Harry's. 144 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 6: Normally their trial set is ten dollars, but right now 145 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:22,240 Speaker 6: you can get it for just six dollars at Harry's 146 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 6: dot com slash foul. That's our exclusive link harrys dot 147 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 6: com slash foul for a six dollars trial set. 148 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 1: And yes, you answer your question, it's not like they 149 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 1: did nothing. They have made some strategic moves. Nick patheta 150 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 1: for goodness sake is like a revelation. 151 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 3: Yeah. Still, though they haven't done that much. 152 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 2: Considering aj Preller is their GM and it seems like 153 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 2: he just loves making move after a move and surprise 154 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:50,480 Speaker 2: after surprise. 155 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 3: With the ownership situation, Kevin, is that. 156 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:56,160 Speaker 2: A little more Has it given them a little bit 157 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 2: more stability kind of knowing who's in charge and if 158 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:01,840 Speaker 2: they are going to continue to compete like this, do 159 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 2: you feel like aj Powler will be allowed to make 160 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:08,120 Speaker 2: adjustments at the deadline and maybe take on some more payroll, 161 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:10,280 Speaker 2: even though, like you said, they've done so much over 162 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 2: the last couple of years, it would be a shame 163 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 2: to all of a sudden now tighten the purse strings 164 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 2: or to say, no, we're not going to go all in. 165 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 1: It is my understanding that they have what some in 166 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 1: the organization called dry powder for the trade deadline like 167 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: they had last year. I mean, those were some incredible, 168 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 1: cost effective moves that made them, at the end of 169 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 1: the season probably the best bullpen. Now I stayed that 170 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:37,439 Speaker 1: and then they ran up against the perfect bullpen game 171 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:39,320 Speaker 1: against the Dodgers. So that was a pretty good bullpen 172 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:42,200 Speaker 1: in the postseason. But the Padres had a really good 173 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:43,720 Speaker 1: bullpen as a matter of fact, one of them's with 174 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:48,440 Speaker 1: the Dodgers now, and so I do believe they have 175 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:52,959 Speaker 1: that dry powder. They need to stay healthy. Like their 176 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,199 Speaker 1: bullpen is pretty darn good. They have some ascending guys 177 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:59,680 Speaker 1: in there in Estrada Mora Hoane Jason Adams one of 178 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:03,560 Speaker 1: the best. Robert Suarez is picked very well that he has 179 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 1: done some things to add to his repertoire and become 180 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:11,239 Speaker 1: very very efficient as a closer. They have to stay healthy. 181 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:20,320 Speaker 4: Try I don't know what dry powder is, but you know. 182 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:20,560 Speaker 1: Either do I. But the gist is I think this 183 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 1: goes back to you know, guns and that sort of 184 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 1: thing and and all that they have the ability to spend. 185 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 4: Okay, good, I was thinking something else, So thank you 186 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:31,280 Speaker 4: for getting me back on the right track. 187 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:32,559 Speaker 6: Okay. 188 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 4: So I gotta know this as somebody that that Brent 189 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:39,080 Speaker 4: covered for years, Manny Machado. Does he not get enough 190 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:41,959 Speaker 4: credit because we've heard bad things, you know, There's been 191 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 4: a lot of stories about Manny and you've seen it 192 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:47,839 Speaker 4: and this and that. But he's the one constant on 193 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:51,040 Speaker 4: this team since he got there. He plays every day, 194 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 4: he plays through injuries, he plays their base, He hits 195 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 4: third in the lineup, he gets big hits for him. 196 00:09:56,640 --> 00:09:58,720 Speaker 4: Does he not get enough credit? And maybe brit can 197 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 4: also answer this because she covered him. He was a 198 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 4: younger player. But does he not get enough credit? And 199 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 4: do we still look back and think, man, he's still 200 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 4: the guy that threw the bat at the picture and 201 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:08,600 Speaker 4: him and Donaldson got into it. 202 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:10,199 Speaker 5: Has he matured to a point where we need to 203 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:11,439 Speaker 5: give him more credit as a leader. 204 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you asked I must. I don't 205 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 1: want to say astounded. I like to think that I 206 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 1: have great faith in human beings, but I got to 207 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:24,600 Speaker 1: if I am astounded. It is a one compliment to 208 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:28,880 Speaker 1: Manny Machado and the growth as the person, the growth 209 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 1: as a leader, the growth as a teammate, the maturity, 210 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 1: the buy in. I give a lot of credit to 211 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 1: the guys around him, to Mike Shilt as well, but 212 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:42,480 Speaker 1: Manny Machado's the guy who had to say, like I'm 213 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna actually be this leader and I'm gonna 214 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:48,440 Speaker 1: actually be this guy. And that's not to say that 215 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:51,440 Speaker 1: he didn't have those some of those qualities, that he 216 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 1: didn't do some things, but like we all evolve, and 217 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:56,080 Speaker 1: many will be the first person to tell you that 218 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 1: in not so many words, that you know that we 219 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:05,240 Speaker 1: all grow right, thankfully so, but I could not be 220 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:06,920 Speaker 1: And I talk about all the time. I talk about 221 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:09,480 Speaker 1: it with teammates. I've talked about it with Manny. I've 222 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:13,200 Speaker 1: said it elsewhere. Like what Manny Machado has done in 223 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 1: the last two seasons to become the Manny Machado he 224 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:20,920 Speaker 1: is now the member of this the member of this team, 225 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:25,000 Speaker 1: so leader and teammate. It is one I've been doing 226 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 1: this for thirty years. It's one of the most impressive 227 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:31,880 Speaker 1: things I've seen. I'm not overstating it, I promise you. 228 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree with that, Kevin. I also think 229 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:39,320 Speaker 2: too what people don't realize. And I had somebody in 230 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:42,040 Speaker 2: the organization say, you know, there's no one that's misunderstood 231 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 2: in baseball as Manny Machada, which I find is a 232 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:47,480 Speaker 2: perfect way to kind of encapsulate it. What I kind 233 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:49,520 Speaker 2: of point to a lot is that many posts, and 234 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:52,280 Speaker 2: I think that's a dying thing in baseball, in the 235 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:56,400 Speaker 2: age of workloads and in mode management and all this 236 00:11:56,520 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 2: other stuff. Manny Machada plays, he plays hurt, he plays 237 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 2: banged up. He prides himself on not going on the 238 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 2: injured list. And I think even when he wasn't this 239 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 2: great leader even when he was evolving and figuring out 240 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:10,199 Speaker 2: who he was. That speaks volumes, right, And that goes 241 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:12,960 Speaker 2: back to Adam Jones Pickmark Cacus days in Baltimore. But 242 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:16,920 Speaker 2: you know, I think that guys now watch guys like 243 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:18,440 Speaker 2: that and they're like this guy I saw in the 244 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 2: training room for two hours. 245 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 3: He could barely walk and he's still playing. I'm gonna play. 246 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:23,400 Speaker 3: I think that speaks volumes as well. 247 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:25,320 Speaker 2: And I hope we get back to a place in 248 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:28,959 Speaker 2: baseball where we are still valuing games played as well. 249 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:33,240 Speaker 1: Absolutely Bretton And one of the reasons that I mean, 250 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 1: I've always I came on because of Britt. I'm pretty tired. 251 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 1: I took a red eye, but I was like, I 252 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: got to get on there with the Manny Whisperer. I 253 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:42,480 Speaker 1: got it, so always like to talk to Britt and 254 00:12:42,559 --> 00:12:46,280 Speaker 1: like to talk Manny h with Britt. I it would 255 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:48,720 Speaker 1: be simplifying it too much for me to say, like 256 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 1: even look, even when I was one of the guys 257 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: who wrote stories about and one story in particular about 258 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 1: where Manny needed some growth, I was consistently writing about 259 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:02,560 Speaker 1: him posting and about teammates looking up to that. What 260 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:07,400 Speaker 1: he has added to that is also this like willingness 261 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:12,920 Speaker 1: to then Whereas before, let's say, Manny's whole thing was 262 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 1: I post and I have a nine hundred ops and 263 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:20,559 Speaker 1: that's good enough. That's my leadership. Now Manny is involved 264 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:25,400 Speaker 1: in infield before games because that's important to Mike Shild. 265 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:28,560 Speaker 1: Now they works together and it's five minutes to keep 266 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 1: mister no small talk, you know, keep me engaged, to 267 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 1: keep Manny buying into it. And so that's like a 268 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:38,600 Speaker 1: you know, work together thing that I give Mike Shilt 269 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:41,720 Speaker 1: credit for, but Manny credit for for, like, hey, this 270 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:44,640 Speaker 1: is important to my manager, to my coaches, to the 271 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:48,120 Speaker 1: young guys to see that I'm also out here doing this. 272 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 1: And last, of course, you know I need to be 273 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 1: in there because I could barely move my hip or 274 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 1: my elbow and I'm still gonna play. But I got 275 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:57,320 Speaker 1: to get my two and a half three hours four 276 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:00,360 Speaker 1: hours of treatment, like Manny has always done that. What 277 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:03,320 Speaker 1: he's evolved to is becoming more of like a guy 278 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: who's who's involved and everything that the team wants him 279 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:10,040 Speaker 1: to be. And like ah, and I guess maybe the 280 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:12,960 Speaker 1: reason that I'm so impressed by that is. I was 281 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:16,520 Speaker 1: kind of like, hey, this guy plays every day, like 282 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:18,760 Speaker 1: leave him alone, dude. Like I mean, I covered a 283 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:21,920 Speaker 1: lot of guys like that back in the nineties early 284 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 1: two thousands, where it's like that's all they do is play. 285 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:28,760 Speaker 1: They don't give you know, whot about anything else. But 286 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 1: Manny has now become like this full service like superstar. 287 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 1: And that's the part that has impressed me. Kevin. 288 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 6: Let's talk about you, not the present you, but you 289 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 6: Darvish my favorite when he's oh dang it and when 290 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 6: he's coming back, not just him being able to be 291 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:50,840 Speaker 6: active and being on this roster and building his pitch 292 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 6: count up, but the fact that they're going with a 293 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:56,880 Speaker 6: four man rotation right now. How much is this going 294 00:14:56,920 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 6: to affect them? And how are they going to ease 295 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 6: him in? 296 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:04,200 Speaker 1: Should I say, Yeah, this four man rotate isn't gonna 297 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:06,440 Speaker 1: last for like a week because they got six games 298 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 1: in our own next week, and the way that the 299 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:10,160 Speaker 1: off days line up, it's just not gonna work out. 300 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:12,040 Speaker 1: So they'll they'll go through it right now and then 301 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:14,680 Speaker 1: get back and then you the way it's lining up, 302 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 1: maybe the end of May, five innings, you know, five 303 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: innings a couple of times and then beginning of June 304 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 1: maybe be able to even face the Dodgers. It was 305 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:25,320 Speaker 1: always going to be a plan. It was gonna be 306 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: thirty nine in August. Has had obviously a little bit 307 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:33,600 Speaker 1: of nagging stuff, the verge of serious stuff for almost 308 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:35,480 Speaker 1: every year he's been with the Padres, So it was 309 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:38,240 Speaker 1: always gonna be a plan. We're gonna find a way 310 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 1: to rest you, Darvish. So that guy we saw in 311 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:43,040 Speaker 1: September I had like a two era and then that 312 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 1: you know, pitched well enough to win one game and 313 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 1: should have you know, well enough to win another game 314 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Like that that you, Darvish, Like, that's 315 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 1: what we need in September and hopefully October. So we're 316 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 1: gonna be careful with you. That's what they're doing now 317 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:05,440 Speaker 1: with him. They look if Pavetta is really this guy 318 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 1: who's not giving up homers, who is getting swing and 319 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 1: miss in the zone, whose basketball looks like it's going 320 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 1: one hundred and twelve miles an hour when it's going 321 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 1: ninety four, Like, if that's Pavetta for the whole year, 322 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 1: Dylan Seze finds himself. We haven't talked about that. He's struggling. 323 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:22,160 Speaker 1: Michael King is who he's been. If you Darvish can 324 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 1: be added to that, that's a heck of a rotation. 325 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:25,920 Speaker 5: Agreed. 326 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 4: By the way, Kevin, I'm just going from your comments, 327 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:30,280 Speaker 4: and you're not a big NBA fan, you know, load 328 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 4: management and sitting out and the NBA. 329 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 5: Playoffs are going on. 330 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:35,600 Speaker 4: There was I know there was quite the I don't 331 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 4: know if it was an upset last night, but there's 332 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:38,400 Speaker 4: a guy who's all into the load management. 333 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 5: They couldn't get it done. I'm just saying, just saying, 334 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 5: so let's get him about that of. 335 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 4: A certain cover about that, Let's get him out of 336 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 4: a certain conversation. Please. 337 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 1: Well, I talked about how with Manny wants. You know, 338 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:51,840 Speaker 1: Manny likes to lecture me. And I'm not saying just me, 339 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 1: but like he likes to lecture me as if I've 340 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:55,840 Speaker 1: never thought of these things. But that's one thing electrically 341 00:16:55,920 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 1: on Spring was baseball and how difficult it is and 342 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:01,560 Speaker 1: how different it is. Uge NBA fan, so he knows 343 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:04,320 Speaker 1: all about that stuff. He talks about that's very important 344 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:06,679 Speaker 1: to him that he plays every day. So believe me, 345 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:08,399 Speaker 1: Manny has schooled me on the NBA. 346 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 3: Well, thanks so much, Kevin. We will let you get 347 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 3: back to is that coffee? Is that alcohol? We don't 348 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:17,080 Speaker 3: judge either way. I don't know what's in that hotel 349 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:18,919 Speaker 3: cup that you got going on right there. 350 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:22,879 Speaker 1: This is pre workout, so that's both to keep me 351 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 1: awake and so that I can work out at my 352 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:25,400 Speaker 1: advanced age. 353 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 3: Well, thanks so much. 354 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:33,639 Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you. You guys. 355 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:37,320 Speaker 5: Enjoy Pittsburgh. 356 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:39,479 Speaker 1: You guys need to talk more about Pittsburgh. It's my 357 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:40,480 Speaker 1: favorite city. 358 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 2: It's great. It's so underrated. Just fix the team. It 359 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:46,159 Speaker 2: is like one of the best cities to go to. 360 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 3: Agreed. You got primanty brothers. 361 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:51,480 Speaker 2: You got the beautiful like walking over the bridge seeing 362 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:52,680 Speaker 2: the Clemente statue. 363 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 3: You got the awesome press box. It's a great setup. 364 00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:59,160 Speaker 3: There's just no favs. 365 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 1: Hobbies are missing Skemes for the second year, how about that. 366 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:07,240 Speaker 1: But they're missing Merrill. So hey, yeah, don't see you guys.