WEBVTT - Pirates RP Luke Weaver joins FT 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:07.160 Hey, we're excited to talk to Luke Weaver right now, 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:10.200 the Pittsburgh Pirates joining us on FT Luke, it's great 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:12.399 to have you back on man. And also just before 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:14.400 we even get going, we haven't had you on since 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:17.200 the trade deadline? Does it feel weird like Luke Weaver 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:18.600 of the Pirates joining. 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:22.520 Us, thank you all for having me. It's definitely weird. 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:26.480 I've my six year old daughter does these little pregame videos, 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:29.480 so she's had to get a new script and try 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:31.920 to trip not trip over her words from time to time. 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:35.320 So it's been an adjustment period. But it's just part 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:37.080 of my journey and it's not the first. 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:40.600 All right, Look, I gotta ask you this. You've played 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:42.919 for both New York teams. Now you go to Pittsburgh. 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:45.200 Is that kind of like going and playing a road 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:47.440 game at the University of Florida and then having to 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:49.839 go to a crappy home game at Florida State. Is 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:53.000 that kind of the same like analogy that you would 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:56.720 use going from New York to Pittsburgh. 0:00:56.840 --> 0:01:00.280 You know, I think when you hire a good Lloyds, 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:02.440 they typically tell you to deplete the fifths, So why 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.720 don't you just put some respect its name and we'll 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:06.080 keep it. 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:10.080 Yeah, well that was more of a shot at Florida State, 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.720 by the way than the Pirates. So I got picked up. 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:13.440 I picked up. 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:16.440 Yeah. But but in all, in all reality, though, it 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:18.560 is a difference. I'm sorry. If you go from you 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:20.440 or the Yankees now when you're with the match, now 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.200 you're in the Pirates, there is a difference. Can you 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.120 explain that to people out there? The difference in I 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:27.160 don't know. I don't know if you want to call 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:30.160 it pressure or if you want to call it expectations, 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:33.360 media presence. What what's the real difference for a player? 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:37.720 Yeah, it's a little bit of everything. Like you mentioned, 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:42.800 it's the baseball is still baseball. You have history, you 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:47.000 have accolades, things that the team has done in its history, 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:50.040 Like what do you be done more recently? How much 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:53.120 money you get to spend every year? You know, are 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:56.080 you homegrown? Are you out there trying to get players 0:01:56.160 --> 0:02:01.240 in free agencies? So I think expectations, I think a 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:04.240 fan base that they're all very passionate no matter where 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:08.760 you're at. It just it could be anywhere from promotional 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:13.040 stuff and everything in between. I really don't I can't 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:14.239 put a finger on it. But at the end of 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:17.000 the day, it just has a different feel from time 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:20.960 to time teams come in. There's you know, when you're 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:25.799 playing a Yankees Dodgers series, it just has a. 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:27.079 Media or to it. 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:29.280 I think more than anything I would say if I 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:31.600 would really change my answer, it would just come down 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:35.080 to like what the media portrays the series to be, 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:38.800 because it's always hyped up more than it needs to be. 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:41.800 Before we get to some pirates stuff, did you think 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.760 there was any chance you would land with the Yankees again? 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:46.880 And would that have been weird? We saw you popping 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.520 up in some trade rumors there too. 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:53.799 Sure there was a part of me that was possibly 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:55.800 envisioning what that would look like, but at the end 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:58.639 of the day, it's so far fetched you can never 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:02.160 put your finger on Itbviously, the trade deadline works in 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:06.240 mysterious ways, So coming to Pittsburgh was definitely not on 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:09.480 the radar. But you know, at the end of the day, 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:11.200 I'm where I need to be, and I'll figure it 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:13.160 out and adapt and try to make the best of 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:15.639 it and impact the way I can. And I'm actually 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.640 excited being here and seeing what these guys provide and 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:20.239 what the future holds for them. 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:22.680 Now, just trying to give people a little glimpse into 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:25.240 the trade deadline. Did they give you any type of 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:26.840 heads up that you were going to be traded or 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.720 any kind of inclination, And now moving on from the 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:33.920 Mets kind of can you explain what kind of what 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:35.960 did from your point of view kind of what went 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:38.480 wrong kind of or what was going wrong there with 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:40.280 the season so far, because you guys always have the 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:40.920 roster there. 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:46.040 Yeah, they're a little bit of a heads up. You 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.280 can obviously see how it's being discussed in the media, 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:51.640 whether you want to see it or not. People talk, 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:56.760 you see things by accident, whatever. But there was good conversations, 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:00.520 you know, Stearns and I have a conversation, was quick 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.480 and understanding that being there was the priority. 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:04.960 But things happen in our. 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:08.600 Business and we have to, you know, see what what 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:12.560 comes about, what teams are pushing and what the what 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:16.479 offers are available, and so just understanding that process. Have 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:20.360 been traded twice eighth team now, so I truly get 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:21.520 it like a lot of people do. 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.040 And so you know, I got a little. 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:27.839 Heads up earlier that day that it might be happening, 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:31.080 and you know, you got to figure out how to 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:34.359 dot the eyes and across the t's whatever business people say. 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:37.080 But at the end of the day, you know, I 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:40.240 locked in and here we are. But to the second 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:43.200 question with the Mets, yeah, I just it's a great team. 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:46.799 It's a lot of great people over there, young players, 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:51.880 veteran players, like it's not a team that should on paper, 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:55.480 you know, put out the way it was. I think 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:59.240 the real the realization of putting together chemistry of a 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:02.400 team and trying to have a lot of new faces, 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:05.440 some turnover, and just expecting that all to come together 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:09.680 at once, you know, is an expectation that you want 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:12.320 to happen, and we all believe that would happen. But 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.760 it's not always, you know, the truth of the matter, 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:20.680 and things take time. You know, there's great teams that 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:23.320 are built together on one year, but very rarely do 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:25.359 you see in sports that it just comes together all 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.680 at once right away. And the messhine as you've seen 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.520 of late, you know from from Afar now that I'm watching, 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:33.440 they're playing some good baseball. 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:36.120 And they happen, and that's just a matter of timing. 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:40.000 It's a matter of whatever you know, baseball brings to 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:42.279 them that given day, anybody can get hot. We've seen 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:45.080 it multiple times from teams like the Red Sox and 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:48.320 the Phillies right now. So you're just trying to get 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:50.160 on a heater when you can. And when you're doing 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:51.920 that and the conference is high, you just never know 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:52.560 where it takes you. 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:56.760 Luke, Let's let's go to some a little better. Let's 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:59.120 go to the Pirates or new team. What have they 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.279 told you when you came up? Do they leave you 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.040 alone when you first come over. Does their pitching coach, 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:07.640 their pitching department come to you right away and say, hey, Luke, 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:09.599 we've noticed system. You're having a hell of years. So 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:11.640 if I was in I'd just be saying, just keep 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:13.960 throwing that little cut of your throwing, don't walk anybody. 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:16.320 You're not giving up any hits. Let's just do it 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:17.680 that way. Or do they come with you to you 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:18.520 with little tweaks. 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:22.320 No, they've been great. They've let me do my own thing. 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:26.440 They've let me adjust into their system and just we've 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:28.800 had to sit down just going over normal stuff. 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.240 The way I think, the way I'm. 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:35.279 Going pitch to pitch, just my process and it was 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:37.880 probably me me talking more than they were. 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:40.920 But just trying to get familiarity. 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:44.200 And I'm always at the point where I'm at right now, 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:47.400 like I've just learned everything about myself in this game 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:51.440 and continuing to just sharpen I guess my iron and 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.080 being able to just tweak here and there. 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Okay, we'll take it back. 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:38.839 Just kidding on. 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:42.840 What I did was Yeah, So that's been a real 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.880 fight for me. Uh, it's always been a fight spinning. 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:49.920 Spinning pitches is just not really been the love of 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:53.120 pitching and the love of it's given back. It's always 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:56.920 just been a love hate relationship. And so twenty twenty 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.880 four I really erupted with that pitch and just found 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:02.240 a good feel for it and used it all over 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.720 the plate and just helped bridge the gap to both 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:07.760 sides of the plate. Last year it became real silent 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:10.600 because it was just had a lot of carry but 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.960 no cut, so it just felt like a really a 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:16.720 wonky fastball, you know, something that was a little less 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:19.800 v low and something that was a little bit straighter 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:21.000 or just flat. 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:23.400 So I avoided that pitch at all costs. 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.240 And then this year I was just really relentless in 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:28.880 my pursuit to find something that was going to bridge 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:33.000 the gap again and played around with different grips. I 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.680 think I ended up landing on like some type of 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.920 slider grip that would be like a normal slider for 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.400 somebody else, but for me, it's still like it's kind 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:42.440 of a cutter profile. 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:45.920 And it really came down to just if I can make. 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.800 This ball move left just a little bit, then I 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.199 have I'll have complete trust and knowing that I can 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:52.960 use it the way I want to. And I think 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:57.560 that's really shown up against right handers and no left handers. 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:59.880 It's been a little less on the usage. I need 0:09:59.880 --> 0:10:02.160 to kind of maybe pick that up. Maybe maybe not. 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:04.640 I don't know hitters, uh, But at the end of 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.640 the day, I think that's been the huge the huge 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:10.520 jump of getting back to that pitch is just getting 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:11.800 something that I know could move. 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:15.120 Luke, you played for the Yankees. Okay, they had a 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:17.880 guy that only threw cutters pretty much his career. Couldn't 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:21.280 you pick up the phone and call Mariano and just say, MO, 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:23.040 show me how to throw a cutter. 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:28.960 You know you know this better than anybody that it 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:30.360 doesn't just work like that. 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:31.240 It's not that he. 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.320 Doesn't, but he showed me once how to throw a cutter, 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:35.400 and he just he just said, take a force. 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:36.280 And you throw his arms. 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:38.839 And just rip it. 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:41.040 Next do you throw at his mindset? Do you throw 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:44.160 it with we The one thing that I've learned about that. 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:47.439 Hard, Luke, it's easy. The fans just it's so easy 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:50.960 to pick the ball up just do it. 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:54.000 Hey, when your heartbeat is out of your chest, you're 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.520 in over your head on the mound in a hard situation, 0:10:56.760 --> 0:11:01.040 and you're telling me just throw the ball like Mariana Rivera. Yeah, 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.560 I guess it could be that easy, But the problem 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.640 is is it's not. And I have too much going 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:08.720 on to think of that it's going to be that easy. 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:10.880 So no, I've tried. 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.240 I mean i've I've seen his grip, I've done research 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:15.960 on and I've I think as players were always trying 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:19.000 to find what guys or to our teammates or people 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:22.920 around the league are doing exceptionally well, and we copycat 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:24.480 it to some extent, or at least we give it 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.440 a shot. It doesn't always fit, you know. It's just 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:31.640 different releases, different ways we get through the ball, the mechanics, 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:35.200 the timing. Like, there's just some limitations that happen in 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:38.320 our game that don't allow us to achieve the results 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:42.400 that we want. So that is the beauty of our game, 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:44.880 the challenge of it, and what makes everybody unique in 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:45.600 their own little way. 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.720 Okay, Luke, I got to ask you this because every 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:53.199 guy has a superstition. It's coffee, or it's I got 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.040 to get dressed a certain way, or I have to 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.600 eat but wade bogs. I'd eat chicken before every game. 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:00.600 You drink orange juice? Is that because you're from DeLand 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:03.000 and all there is orange groves out there? Why is 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:06.040 it orange juice for you? Uh? 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:10.439 Man, you've been you've been reading, you're watching, or someone 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:11.800 slipped you a note. 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:17.360 Well, who doesn't like orange juice? 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:19.440 First of all, let me preface it and say, if 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:21.960 you don't like orange juice, like, it's such. 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:22.920 An easy thing to love. 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:28.480 It's good for you. It's it's nutritious, it's it tastes good, 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:30.760 it looks cool. I mean you can put ice in it. 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:32.640 You can put you can make it with drinks. You 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.560 could do it. It's a it's just like a number 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:39.840 one overall pick type thing. But in reality, to your question, 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.319 I would say orange juice is just it's one of 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.400 those things that fuels the brain. It helps, you know, 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:47.720 jump some glucose in there. It helps give a little 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:50.120 bit of energize mental health, mental clarity. 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.559 It tastes good again, and you could drink it throughout 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:53.920 the day. 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:55.920 And I'm just trying to gain any edge I can, 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:58.920 so I'll be down there in the bullpen, sipping on 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:02.360 some orange juice, throwing in a couple of you know, 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:04.560 gummy bears, and then just ready to go rock. 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.880 Alright, So you're either trying to get a sponsorship from 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:11.720 Trampicana minute man, I don't know. Florida. 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:17.240 Florida's Barlida Natalie is a good brand. That's a good brand, 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:20.280 that that tastes good, it's got a it's good family operated. 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:23.320 Yeah, I wouldn't look. Yeah, maybe you're right. Maybe maybe 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:23.679 I'm in. 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.360 Over my head and I'm I'm too naive to think 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:29.719 that my intentions aren't as pure as I think they are. 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:34.199 But uh, when people ask I I think we know. 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:39.080 By now, like I filter my question or my answers somewhat. 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:42.240 But it's not like a robotic, you know way that 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:44.960 maybe most guys might just play it safe. 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:47.120 And I don't know why. 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:49.240 That just tits to come out sometimes and it's typically 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:52.400 because it's probably sitting right here across the desk, hidden 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:53.320 behind the backside of it. 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:55.480 Do you have a juicer? Do you have a juicer? 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:58.440 So you know how stars have their little so when 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:00.480 you go on the road, when you go on the road, 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:02.200 do you have, do you tell the hotel, you tell 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:05.840 the traveling secretary there, Hey I need freshly squeezed orange 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.280 juice or juicer in my room or do you carry 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:08.760 one with you? 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:10.560 Uh? 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:14.360 Well, my wife had ordered me like a delivery of 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:16.720 orange juice when we were just sen La to the 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:20.000 hotel because I don't really quite not operate at that 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:21.440 at that level. 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:29.040 But and then the team dietist nutritionist dietician has upgraded 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:33.400 orange juice options that get sent to the field for 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:36.840 everybody's use, not just mine. 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We're in Florida, 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:11.200 we do. Yeah, you are from Florida, so you do 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:14.080 have to understand that we did produce Yeah. 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:15.680 I mean if you're just not trying to be elite. 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:19.200 That's okay. Not everybody's trying to be elite, but some 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:20.680 of us are, Luke. 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:27.160 You know what I was elite at McDonald's. 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:28.440 Was pretty solid. So particular. 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.480 It was a different time. Look, it was a different time. 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:34.040 We had ice cream, We had all these cool things 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:34.920 in the club out. 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:37.040 They won't let you eat ice cream these days. 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:40.240 It's like, I'm not gonna name names. I'm not saying 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:42.400 now when I'm not putting a time period on. I'm 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:44.880 just saying, baseball's got a little more strict on the 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:47.680 diet stuff, and I'm like, look, as a guy who 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:51.880 is just pushing every day for every calorie, please don't 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.600 allow this to be a thing for me, Like, just 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:55.720 let me spread my wings. 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:56.480 I'm a peacock. 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:00.800 Hey here, I know I think can't playing swampiero, Luke 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:06.240 if I I played with Wampier for multiple years. Shredded, Shredded, 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:07.240 that was your favorite player? 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.119 Yeah, favorite player growing up, one. 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:12.479 Of the greatest dudes of all time. Shredded. Okay, like 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:15.919 Shredded eate twelve ice cream bars a day. I've never 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:17.919 seen it. He'd ate four ice cream bars and go 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.560 out there and run a hundred sprints and come in 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:22.320 and eat more. I ate more ice cream bars for 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:24.720 the game. And I'm like, if I look like I'd 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:25.919 weigh four hundred pounds. 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:26.120 You don't. 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.560 That sounds like that sounds like a friend of the 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:31.080 program Tommy Canley. 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:35.960 Yes, Yeah, that man was freaking. 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:38.320 Ruthless and he just and he go throw his change 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:39.480 ups and call it day. 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:44.119 Yea helmet. 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:45.880 I just wear my hat with the helmet like one 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:49.840 because of that. Oh no way, that's so cool the 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:54.560 longest time. Yeah, can we wish this man happy birthday? 0:17:54.560 --> 0:18:00.000 Too? Oh boy, happy belated birthday. Thank you. 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:04.359 We're researched. These guys are unprepared. 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:05.520 They're not trying to be elite. 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:10.840 By the way, it was Wan Pierre's birthday fourteenth, so 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:12.320 not that long a ten days ago. 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:14.920 Too Well's birthday. Wait, why wasn't Luke Weaver an all star? 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:16.240 Luke? 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:18.600 Can we finish with that? 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:20.080 Why? 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:23.560 I've just because they didn't wrap fifty staves, you don't 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:25.960 get love. And I did my piece on this and 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:28.520 was saying, like specific guys that would get picked over 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:31.239 you because of how many saves they have. And I 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:34.480 know sometimes guys get picked that aren't closers, but often 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:37.359 the you know, set up guy or the fireman or 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:41.720 whatever gets overshadowed by a closer, even though we're trying 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.080 to value a player like that just as much. So 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:46.520 I have I have to go there, man, I was like, 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:47.000 this is. 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:49.480 The appreciated look. I wanted to say something on that 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:55.640 real quick. I I appreciate it. I think I've come 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:59.680 to the conclusion that this game is obviously hard. Winning 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:02.680 and and trying to achieve things that we all want 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:04.320 to as a player is really hard. 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:06.480 It's a lot of a lot of it's out of 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:07.040 our control. 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:10.399