Speaker 1: Hey, we're excited to talk to Luke Weaver right now,
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Pirates joining us on FT Luke, it's great
Speaker 1: to have you back on man. And also just before
Speaker 1: we even get going, we haven't had you on since
Speaker 1: the trade deadline? Does it feel weird like Luke Weaver
Speaker 1: of the Pirates joining.
Speaker 2: Us, thank you all for having me. It's definitely weird.
Speaker 2: I've my six year old daughter does these little pregame videos,
Speaker 2: so she's had to get a new script and try
Speaker 2: to trip not trip over her words from time to time.
Speaker 2: So it's been an adjustment period. But it's just part
Speaker 2: of my journey and it's not the first.
Speaker 3: All right, Look, I gotta ask you this. You've played
Speaker 3: for both New York teams. Now you go to Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3: Is that kind of like going and playing a road
Speaker 3: game at the University of Florida and then having to
Speaker 3: go to a crappy home game at Florida State. Is
Speaker 3: that kind of the same like analogy that you would
Speaker 3: use going from New York to Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: You know, I think when you hire a good Lloyds,
Speaker 2: they typically tell you to deplete the fifths, So why
Speaker 2: don't you just put some respect its name and we'll
Speaker 2: keep it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that was more of a shot at Florida State,
Speaker 3: by the way than the Pirates. So I got picked up.
Speaker 4: I picked up.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But but in all, in all reality, though, it
Speaker 3: is a difference. I'm sorry. If you go from you
Speaker 3: or the Yankees now when you're with the match, now
Speaker 3: you're in the Pirates, there is a difference. Can you
Speaker 3: explain that to people out there? The difference in I
Speaker 3: don't know. I don't know if you want to call
Speaker 3: it pressure or if you want to call it expectations,
Speaker 3: media presence. What what's the real difference for a player?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little bit of everything. Like you mentioned,
Speaker 2: it's the baseball is still baseball. You have history, you
Speaker 2: have accolades, things that the team has done in its history,
Speaker 2: Like what do you be done more recently? How much
Speaker 2: money you get to spend every year? You know, are
Speaker 2: you homegrown? Are you out there trying to get players
Speaker 2: in free agencies? So I think expectations, I think a
Speaker 2: fan base that they're all very passionate no matter where
Speaker 2: you're at. It just it could be anywhere from promotional
Speaker 2: stuff and everything in between. I really don't I can't
Speaker 2: put a finger on it. But at the end of
Speaker 2: the day, it just has a different feel from time
Speaker 2: to time teams come in. There's you know, when you're
Speaker 2: playing a Yankees Dodgers series, it just has a.
Speaker 4: Media or to it.
Speaker 2: I think more than anything I would say if I
Speaker 2: would really change my answer, it would just come down
Speaker 2: to like what the media portrays the series to be,
Speaker 2: because it's always hyped up more than it needs to be.
Speaker 1: Before we get to some pirates stuff, did you think
Speaker 1: there was any chance you would land with the Yankees again?
Speaker 1: And would that have been weird? We saw you popping
Speaker 1: up in some trade rumors there too.
Speaker 2: Sure there was a part of me that was possibly
Speaker 2: envisioning what that would look like, but at the end
Speaker 2: of the day, it's so far fetched you can never
Speaker 2: put your finger on Itbviously, the trade deadline works in
Speaker 2: mysterious ways, So coming to Pittsburgh was definitely not on
Speaker 2: the radar. But you know, at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: I'm where I need to be, and I'll figure it
Speaker 2: out and adapt and try to make the best of
Speaker 2: it and impact the way I can. And I'm actually
Speaker 2: excited being here and seeing what these guys provide and
Speaker 2: what the future holds for them.
Speaker 5: Now, just trying to give people a little glimpse into
Speaker 5: the trade deadline. Did they give you any type of
Speaker 5: heads up that you were going to be traded or
Speaker 5: any kind of inclination, And now moving on from the
Speaker 5: Mets kind of can you explain what kind of what
Speaker 5: did from your point of view kind of what went
Speaker 5: wrong kind of or what was going wrong there with
Speaker 5: the season so far, because you guys always have the
Speaker 5: roster there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're a little bit of a heads up. You
Speaker 2: can obviously see how it's being discussed in the media,
Speaker 2: whether you want to see it or not. People talk,
Speaker 2: you see things by accident, whatever. But there was good conversations,
Speaker 2: you know, Stearns and I have a conversation, was quick
Speaker 2: and understanding that being there was the priority.
Speaker 4: But things happen in our.
Speaker 2: Business and we have to, you know, see what what
Speaker 2: comes about, what teams are pushing and what the what
Speaker 2: offers are available, and so just understanding that process. Have
Speaker 2: been traded twice eighth team now, so I truly get
Speaker 2: it like a lot of people do.
Speaker 4: And so you know, I got a little.
Speaker 2: Heads up earlier that day that it might be happening,
Speaker 2: and you know, you got to figure out how to
Speaker 2: dot the eyes and across the t's whatever business people say.
Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, you know, I
Speaker 2: locked in and here we are. But to the second
Speaker 2: question with the Mets, yeah, I just it's a great team.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of great people over there, young players,
Speaker 2: veteran players, like it's not a team that should on paper,
Speaker 2: you know, put out the way it was. I think
Speaker 2: the real the realization of putting together chemistry of a
Speaker 2: team and trying to have a lot of new faces,
Speaker 2: some turnover, and just expecting that all to come together
Speaker 2: at once, you know, is an expectation that you want
Speaker 2: to happen, and we all believe that would happen. But
Speaker 2: it's not always, you know, the truth of the matter,
Speaker 2: and things take time. You know, there's great teams that
Speaker 2: are built together on one year, but very rarely do
Speaker 2: you see in sports that it just comes together all
Speaker 2: at once right away. And the messhine as you've seen
Speaker 2: of late, you know from from Afar now that I'm watching,
Speaker 2: they're playing some good baseball.
Speaker 4: And they happen, and that's just a matter of timing.
Speaker 2: It's a matter of whatever you know, baseball brings to
Speaker 2: them that given day, anybody can get hot. We've seen
Speaker 2: it multiple times from teams like the Red Sox and
Speaker 2: the Phillies right now. So you're just trying to get
Speaker 2: on a heater when you can. And when you're doing
Speaker 2: that and the conference is high, you just never know
Speaker 2: where it takes you.
Speaker 3: Luke, Let's let's go to some a little better. Let's
Speaker 3: go to the Pirates or new team. What have they
Speaker 3: told you when you came up? Do they leave you
Speaker 3: alone when you first come over. Does their pitching coach,
Speaker 3: their pitching department come to you right away and say, hey, Luke,
Speaker 3: we've noticed system. You're having a hell of years. So
Speaker 3: if I was in I'd just be saying, just keep
Speaker 3: throwing that little cut of your throwing, don't walk anybody.
Speaker 3: You're not giving up any hits. Let's just do it
Speaker 3: that way. Or do they come with you to you
Speaker 3: with little tweaks.
Speaker 4: No, they've been great. They've let me do my own thing.
Speaker 2: They've let me adjust into their system and just we've
Speaker 2: had to sit down just going over normal stuff.
Speaker 4: The way I think, the way I'm.
Speaker 2: Going pitch to pitch, just my process and it was
Speaker 2: probably me me talking more than they were.
Speaker 4: But just trying to get familiarity.
Speaker 2: And I'm always at the point where I'm at right now,
Speaker 2: like I've just learned everything about myself in this game
Speaker 2: and continuing to just sharpen I guess my iron and
Speaker 2: being able to just tweak here and there. So I
Speaker 2: try to be transparent, make sure we have an open dialogue,
Speaker 2: and when I have questions and things that are any
Speaker 2: yellow flags, they're leading to red flags, I want to
Speaker 2: know immediately. So that's been a really good conversation that
Speaker 2: we've had, and it's been very minimal, but there's been,
Speaker 2: let's see, strategic conversations that aren't you trying to change
Speaker 2: much of me.
Speaker 4: It's just trying to get better any day that I
Speaker 4: can get better.
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Speaker 3: That's awesome, that's that's smarter them. By the way, I
Speaker 3: mentioned your cutter, did you make some tweaks to it
Speaker 3: other than throwing it more this year? Because it's basically
Speaker 3: been unhittable by everybody.
Speaker 4: Well, Jay, let's try to keep it like, keep it
Speaker 4: that way.
Speaker 3: Okay, we don't tell you, man, I'll take that back.
Speaker 3: We're not gonna talk about it. Okay, we'll take it back.
Speaker 3: Just kidding on.
Speaker 2: What I did was Yeah, So that's been a real
Speaker 2: fight for me. Uh, it's always been a fight spinning.
Speaker 2: Spinning pitches is just not really been the love of
Speaker 2: pitching and the love of it's given back. It's always
Speaker 2: just been a love hate relationship. And so twenty twenty
Speaker 2: four I really erupted with that pitch and just found
Speaker 2: a good feel for it and used it all over
Speaker 2: the plate and just helped bridge the gap to both
Speaker 2: sides of the plate. Last year it became real silent
Speaker 2: because it was just had a lot of carry but
Speaker 2: no cut, so it just felt like a really a
Speaker 2: wonky fastball, you know, something that was a little less
Speaker 2: v low and something that was a little bit straighter
Speaker 2: or just flat.
Speaker 4: So I avoided that pitch at all costs.
Speaker 2: And then this year I was just really relentless in
Speaker 2: my pursuit to find something that was going to bridge
Speaker 2: the gap again and played around with different grips. I
Speaker 2: think I ended up landing on like some type of
Speaker 2: slider grip that would be like a normal slider for
Speaker 2: somebody else, but for me, it's still like it's kind
Speaker 2: of a cutter profile.
Speaker 4: And it really came down to just if I can make.
Speaker 2: This ball move left just a little bit, then I
Speaker 2: have I'll have complete trust and knowing that I can
Speaker 2: use it the way I want to. And I think
Speaker 2: that's really shown up against right handers and no left handers.
Speaker 2: It's been a little less on the usage. I need
Speaker 2: to kind of maybe pick that up. Maybe maybe not.
Speaker 2: I don't know hitters, uh, But at the end of
Speaker 2: the day, I think that's been the huge the huge
Speaker 2: jump of getting back to that pitch is just getting
Speaker 2: something that I know could move.
Speaker 3: Luke, you played for the Yankees. Okay, they had a
Speaker 3: guy that only threw cutters pretty much his career. Couldn't
Speaker 3: you pick up the phone and call Mariano and just say, MO,
Speaker 3: show me how to throw a cutter.
Speaker 2: You know you know this better than anybody that it
Speaker 2: doesn't just work like that.
Speaker 4: It's not that he.
Speaker 3: Doesn't, but he showed me once how to throw a cutter,
Speaker 3: and he just he just said, take a force.
Speaker 4: And you throw his arms.
Speaker 3: And just rip it.
Speaker 2: Next do you throw at his mindset? Do you throw
Speaker 2: it with we The one thing that I've learned about that.
Speaker 3: Hard, Luke, it's easy. The fans just it's so easy
Speaker 3: to pick the ball up just do it.
Speaker 2: Hey, when your heartbeat is out of your chest, you're
Speaker 2: in over your head on the mound in a hard situation,
Speaker 2: and you're telling me just throw the ball like Mariana Rivera. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I guess it could be that easy, But the problem
Speaker 2: is is it's not. And I have too much going
Speaker 2: on to think of that it's going to be that easy.
Speaker 4: So no, I've tried.
Speaker 2: I mean i've I've seen his grip, I've done research
Speaker 2: on and I've I think as players were always trying
Speaker 2: to find what guys or to our teammates or people
Speaker 2: around the league are doing exceptionally well, and we copycat
Speaker 2: it to some extent, or at least we give it
Speaker 2: a shot. It doesn't always fit, you know. It's just
Speaker 2: different releases, different ways we get through the ball, the mechanics,
Speaker 2: the timing. Like, there's just some limitations that happen in
Speaker 2: our game that don't allow us to achieve the results
Speaker 2: that we want. So that is the beauty of our game,
Speaker 2: the challenge of it, and what makes everybody unique in
Speaker 2: their own little way.
Speaker 3: Okay, Luke, I got to ask you this because every
Speaker 3: guy has a superstition. It's coffee, or it's I got
Speaker 3: to get dressed a certain way, or I have to
Speaker 3: eat but wade bogs. I'd eat chicken before every game.
Speaker 3: You drink orange juice? Is that because you're from DeLand
Speaker 3: and all there is orange groves out there? Why is
Speaker 3: it orange juice for you? Uh?
Speaker 2: Man, you've been you've been reading, you're watching, or someone
Speaker 2: slipped you a note.
Speaker 4: Well, who doesn't like orange juice?
Speaker 2: First of all, let me preface it and say, if
Speaker 2: you don't like orange juice, like, it's such.
Speaker 4: An easy thing to love.
Speaker 2: It's good for you. It's it's nutritious, it's it tastes good,
Speaker 2: it looks cool. I mean you can put ice in it.
Speaker 2: You can put you can make it with drinks. You
Speaker 2: could do it. It's a it's just like a number
Speaker 2: one overall pick type thing. But in reality, to your question,
Speaker 2: I would say orange juice is just it's one of
Speaker 2: those things that fuels the brain. It helps, you know,
Speaker 2: jump some glucose in there. It helps give a little
Speaker 2: bit of energize mental health, mental clarity.
Speaker 4: It tastes good again, and you could drink it throughout
Speaker 4: the day.
Speaker 2: And I'm just trying to gain any edge I can,
Speaker 2: so I'll be down there in the bullpen, sipping on
Speaker 2: some orange juice, throwing in a couple of you know,
Speaker 2: gummy bears, and then just ready to go rock.
Speaker 3: Alright, So you're either trying to get a sponsorship from
Speaker 3: Trampicana minute man, I don't know. Florida.
Speaker 2: Florida's Barlida Natalie is a good brand. That's a good brand,
Speaker 2: that that tastes good, it's got a it's good family operated.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I wouldn't look. Yeah, maybe you're right. Maybe maybe
Speaker 4: I'm in.
Speaker 2: Over my head and I'm I'm too naive to think
Speaker 2: that my intentions aren't as pure as I think they are.
Speaker 4: But uh, when people ask I I think we know.
Speaker 2: By now, like I filter my question or my answers somewhat.
Speaker 2: But it's not like a robotic, you know way that
Speaker 2: maybe most guys might just play it safe.
Speaker 4: And I don't know why.
Speaker 2: That just tits to come out sometimes and it's typically
Speaker 2: because it's probably sitting right here across the desk, hidden
Speaker 2: behind the backside of it.
Speaker 3: Do you have a juicer? Do you have a juicer?
Speaker 3: So you know how stars have their little so when
Speaker 3: you go on the road, when you go on the road,
Speaker 3: do you have, do you tell the hotel, you tell
Speaker 3: the traveling secretary there, Hey I need freshly squeezed orange
Speaker 3: juice or juicer in my room or do you carry
Speaker 3: one with you?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: Well, my wife had ordered me like a delivery of
Speaker 2: orange juice when we were just sen La to the
Speaker 2: hotel because I don't really quite not operate at that
Speaker 2: at that level.
Speaker 4: But and then the team dietist nutritionist dietician has upgraded
Speaker 4: orange juice options that get sent to the field for
Speaker 4: everybody's use, not just mine. But I think there's I
Speaker 4: just keep telling them, if we want to be elite,
Speaker 4: we gotta we gotta take an elite things. We gotta
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Speaker 3: OJ. He'll cut you up with this cutter, with this connor, okay,
Speaker 3: with us cutter.
Speaker 4: Are you going to settle for filtered tapwater?
Speaker 2: Are you going to try to go in the you know,
Speaker 2: the mountains of the Himalayas and the Elastin Grace Glacier
Speaker 2: and just drink something pure like it's just it's gonna
Speaker 2: be different.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's kind of got a point. We're in Florida,
Speaker 3: we do. Yeah, you are from Florida, so you do
Speaker 3: have to understand that we did produce Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean if you're just not trying to be elite.
Speaker 4: That's okay. Not everybody's trying to be elite, but some
Speaker 4: of us are, Luke.
Speaker 3: You know what I was elite at McDonald's.
Speaker 4: Was pretty solid. So particular.
Speaker 3: It was a different time. Look, it was a different time.
Speaker 3: We had ice cream, We had all these cool things
Speaker 3: in the club out.
Speaker 4: They won't let you eat ice cream these days.
Speaker 2: It's like, I'm not gonna name names. I'm not saying
Speaker 2: now when I'm not putting a time period on. I'm
Speaker 2: just saying, baseball's got a little more strict on the
Speaker 2: diet stuff, and I'm like, look, as a guy who
Speaker 2: is just pushing every day for every calorie, please don't
Speaker 2: allow this to be a thing for me, Like, just
Speaker 2: let me spread my wings.
Speaker 4: I'm a peacock.
Speaker 3: Hey here, I know I think can't playing swampiero, Luke
Speaker 3: if I I played with Wampier for multiple years. Shredded, Shredded,
Speaker 3: that was your favorite player?
Speaker 4: Yeah, favorite player growing up, one.
Speaker 3: Of the greatest dudes of all time. Shredded. Okay, like
Speaker 3: Shredded eate twelve ice cream bars a day. I've never
Speaker 3: seen it. He'd ate four ice cream bars and go
Speaker 3: out there and run a hundred sprints and come in
Speaker 3: and eat more. I ate more ice cream bars for
Speaker 3: the game. And I'm like, if I look like I'd
Speaker 3: weigh four hundred pounds.
Speaker 1: You don't.
Speaker 2: That sounds like that sounds like a friend of the
Speaker 2: program Tommy Canley.
Speaker 1: Yes, Yeah, that man was freaking.
Speaker 4: Ruthless and he just and he go throw his change
Speaker 4: ups and call it day.
Speaker 3: Yea helmet.
Speaker 5: I just wear my hat with the helmet like one
Speaker 5: because of that. Oh no way, that's so cool the
Speaker 5: longest time. Yeah, can we wish this man happy birthday?
Speaker 4: Too? Oh boy, happy belated birthday. Thank you.
Speaker 2: We're researched. These guys are unprepared.
Speaker 4: They're not trying to be elite.
Speaker 3: By the way, it was Wan Pierre's birthday fourteenth, so
Speaker 3: not that long a ten days ago.
Speaker 1: Too Well's birthday. Wait, why wasn't Luke Weaver an all star?
Speaker 3: Luke?
Speaker 1: Can we finish with that?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 7: I've just because they didn't wrap fifty staves, you don't
Speaker 7: get love. And I did my piece on this and
Speaker 7: was saying, like specific guys that would get picked over
Speaker 7: you because of how many saves they have. And I
Speaker 7: know sometimes guys get picked that aren't closers, but often
Speaker 7: the you know, set up guy or the fireman or
Speaker 7: whatever gets overshadowed by a closer, even though we're trying
Speaker 7: to value a player like that just as much. So
Speaker 7: I have I have to go there, man, I was like,
Speaker 7: this is.
Speaker 2: The appreciated look. I wanted to say something on that
Speaker 2: real quick. I I appreciate it. I think I've come
Speaker 2: to the conclusion that this game is obviously hard. Winning
Speaker 2: and and trying to achieve things that we all want
Speaker 2: to as a player is really hard.
Speaker 4: It's a lot of a lot of it's out of
Speaker 4: our control.
Speaker 2: Like you said, there's a lot of stipulations and things
Speaker 2: that go into.
Speaker 4: It that that create those those results.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm finally at a place where I just I
Speaker 2: do care, but I don't care anymore, right Like I'm
Speaker 2: my my goal right now is to like try to
Speaker 2: serve my teammates, try to like make an impact, try
Speaker 2: to you know, full circle this whole career.
Speaker 4: And try to make something impactful out of it.
Speaker 2: And so those things, yeah, they bother you a little
Speaker 2: bit because that's why we play, you know, beyond other things.
Speaker 2: But we want to have recognition for the hard work
Speaker 2: we put it into, and they make it very important
Speaker 2: to have those labels. But I'm at peace with it,
Speaker 2: like it is what it is, and I'll play the
Speaker 2: rest of my career however long that is, and I
Speaker 2: don't need those things in order to to to.
Speaker 4: Feel like I accomplished something.
Speaker 2: I do feel like there's moments where, you know, I
Speaker 2: do like I played well enough to earn some of
Speaker 2: those things, But if it's not in the cards, not
Speaker 2: in the cards, and I think that other people can
Speaker 2: deserve those things and be happy with them. But I'm
Speaker 2: all good, So I appreciate that. But it's taken a
Speaker 2: long time to finally come to peace of that and
Speaker 2: just be like, that's just part of this, is part
Speaker 2: of how it goes.
Speaker 1: That's fair. You can't control it, so you might as
Speaker 1: well just enjoy the ride.
Speaker 3: By the way, Do you miss Devin Williams? You were
Speaker 3: with him forever? Do you miss Devin? Do you call
Speaker 3: him every day?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Mess big D. That's why I call him big D. Yeah, No,
Speaker 2: I'm he got a little emotional. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2: I don't want to call him out, but I know we.
Speaker 4: Were just as tight as friends as you could possibly be.
Speaker 2: And I'm you know, but we were good friends and
Speaker 2: we you know, we went through in the last couple
Speaker 2: of years together and he's just a good dude.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: He's a great pitcher, and obviously I wish him the
Speaker 2: best on his health with this recovery of the injury.
Speaker 2: But he's gonna be He's gonna be great. He's going
Speaker 2: to continue to do his thing. And I don't know
Speaker 2: what you're looking for on this. It's just them being
Speaker 2: the greatest guy ever.
Speaker 3: I just want it was a legitimate question. I played
Speaker 3: with guys. They went and then you leave them, and
Speaker 3: then you're like, man, I kind of miss hanging out
Speaker 3: with this dude, because especially you guys are in the
Speaker 3: bullpen every day. You guys are on different teams. You
Speaker 3: guys signed free agent deals to be with each other, right,
Speaker 3: I mean that was a legitimate question.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, Well you know, look we uh
Speaker 2: you for him? Yeah, you form some good relationships. You know,
Speaker 2: bullpen guys come and go all the freaking time. It
Speaker 2: seems like there it's a revolving door.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: The next thing, you look this guy through three innings
Speaker 2: and he's not there the next day. But yeah, you
Speaker 2: have the guys that have signed and they're kind of
Speaker 2: staples down there that you go to war with every
Speaker 2: day that you're trying to pick each other's uh bases
Speaker 2: loaded or a couple of guys on mess and just
Speaker 2: give him a big old hug, maybe not a kiss,
Speaker 2: but you know, we don't go that far. But at
Speaker 2: the end of the day, I will miss him. I'll
Speaker 2: miss guys like Brooks, Ralia Mentor and you know, the
Speaker 2: guys with the Yanks all the things.
Speaker 4: Man, you just but you get to see him across
Speaker 4: the field and.
Speaker 2: You get to compete, and it's just an added list.
Speaker 2: And thankfully I'm already married for a while, so there's
Speaker 2: not a bigger list growing for some type of wedding
Speaker 2: and where the but then there would be.
Speaker 4: More presents and stuff which I wouldn't tell them about.
Speaker 1: But well, it was like Lucas Juli, Renaudo Lopez.
Speaker 3: They went from my team to team to team with
Speaker 3: each other.
Speaker 1: It was cool, like randomly they would get traded or
Speaker 1: in the same trade or whatever. They just kept ending
Speaker 1: up in the same spot. So you guys add that
Speaker 1: for a couple of years there, but Luke. Great catching up, dude,
Speaker 1: Thanks for the time, if you enjoyed it. On a
Speaker 1: wild ride.
Speaker 3: Quick question, what do you think Florida State's record will
Speaker 3: be in football this year? Well, they win, but they'd
Speaker 3: be over six and six. This is this is leg
Speaker 3: This is.
Speaker 2: A serious questions for everybody goes through growing pains, and yes,
Speaker 2: am I showing up to any of these games?
Speaker 4: Absolutely not. I mean they're not They're not trying to
Speaker 4: be elite. I mean, you know, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: You go from being spoiled and and you know, going
Speaker 2: to school there with Jabu Winston and winning Natty Champs
Speaker 2: and then hucking in on the field and watching them
Speaker 2: getting pickles on the baseball path and you know, just
Speaker 2: doing crazy stuff. But yeah, I mean, I guess we'll
Speaker 2: shoot for five hundred a j I don't know, like
Speaker 2: what's the expectation anymore.
Speaker 1: That's what it is. They're projected six and six.
Speaker 2: You know, and got Yeah, I don't know, but either way,
Speaker 2: you know, we'll just focus on the baseball side.
Speaker 4: I don't know where basketball's at.
Speaker 2: I'm sure I think we got a great golf golf.
Speaker 2: We got Miles Russell and Charlie woods that are committed.
Speaker 3: Congratula Florida State. Florida State is a golf school. Congratulations. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And the us AM kid, the kid, I think you
Speaker 3: finished second in the us AM Miles Russell.
Speaker 4: Miles Russell, they had Lefty. Yeah, just two top dogs.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, I might be out there walking the
Speaker 2: course with Tiger just hey, you know it's you draw
Speaker 2: chip it or do you cut? What do you what
Speaker 2: are you doing with the hands? You know it's the
Speaker 2: body good. You know's we'll chop it up, We'll figure
Speaker 2: it out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta go back, all right. Luke, do your thing. Man,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for all the Shenanigans. Appreciate you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, of course, thank y'all. Have a good one.
Speaker 3: Thanks you too.
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