1 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:06,560 Speaker 1: Hey, congratulations to Kyle Gibson, who just announced his retirement 2 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 1: from the game and joins us right now in FT Kyle, 3 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 1: good to see you. 4 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:11,320 Speaker 2: Congratulations man. How does it feel? 5 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:15,160 Speaker 3: Thank you guys, appreciate it. It feels awesome. You know, 6 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 3: I've missed out on a lot of family time, as 7 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 3: these guys know, and I mean you've traveled around called 8 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:21,880 Speaker 3: a lot of baseball games and you know as well. 9 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 3: So it's been good to jump right in and be 10 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 3: a dad to our four kids. I'm out visiting my 11 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 3: parents right now in Indiana, so seeing them and seeing 12 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 3: a couple of grandparents and doing things that I haven't 13 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 3: been able to do for a long time. So it's 14 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 3: been a lot of fun. 15 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 2: Was the decision tough when you made it? 16 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 1: Did you want to try and come back again for 17 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: this season and even next or were you, like am 18 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:46,920 Speaker 1: thinking about it? Because I know you started up ramping 19 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,519 Speaker 1: up late with the Orioles and then they three right 20 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:50,200 Speaker 1: into the fire. 21 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the whole late spring training was kind 22 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 3: of weird, honestly, you know, I think that was that 23 00:00:57,040 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 3: was a tough decision for me to leave home at 24 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:01,279 Speaker 3: that point because I had missed all spring training basically, 25 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 3: and you know, was getting more acclimated to being home 26 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 3: in March and what that looks like. So you know, 27 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:10,440 Speaker 3: I wanted to go play when when I ended up 28 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:13,040 Speaker 3: signing with the Oarls and talking to the Orioles, and 29 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 3: you know, it's hard to go to the Rays. You know, 30 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:18,040 Speaker 3: that was a place that I'd looked at probably the 31 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 3: last four or five years that possibly play in there, 32 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 3: and just really loving what they do with pitching. So 33 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 3: I kind of decided, you know, let's let's go there, 34 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:27,319 Speaker 3: spend three weeks with with them in the minor league system, 35 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:29,039 Speaker 3: see if there's a few things I can adjust and 36 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 3: work on, and see what happens at the end of it. 37 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 3: And I threw the ball really well, felt awesome physically, 38 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 3: and they're just for whatever reason, timing age, whatever it is, 39 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:41,520 Speaker 3: there really wasn't the opportunity that that I thought was 40 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:43,040 Speaker 3: going to be there when when I had thrown the 41 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 3: ball well, So came home just so happened to my 42 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 3: opt out date lined up with the family lake trip 43 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 3: that my wife and kids have gone by themselves on 44 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:54,639 Speaker 3: with their family every year. So I drove down to Arkansas, 45 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 3: went to the lake trip and started thinking over the 46 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 3: next couple of weeks what it was going to look like. 47 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 4: Has there been a moment, Has there been a moment 48 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 4: when you've looked at Elizabeth and gone. 49 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 3: You still like me being here? 50 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 4: Or is it like, you know where she's like taking 51 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:11,920 Speaker 4: care of the kids and then you hop in You're like, 52 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,080 Speaker 4: I want to be helpful and you're not as helpful. 53 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 3: Yes, gratty. That happens every year and this this is 54 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 3: no different. You know, I normally disrupt timing, disrupt schedules, 55 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 3: and I did it in the middle of the year 56 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 3: two or three times now. So yeah, I sat down, 57 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 3: probably I don't know, a week and a half ago 58 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 3: and started, you know, writing some thank yous and stuff 59 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:34,679 Speaker 3: that I want to post and you guys, wait, are 60 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 3: you sure you want to do this? So yeah, I 61 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 3: mean there's I think those questions are always gonna come up, 62 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 3: you know it. Everybody asked you know about you know, 63 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 3: when to retire, and you know, she kept saying, well, 64 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 3: if you want to keep pitching, you know, you know, 65 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 3: keep playing. I said, I'm always gonna want to pitch. 66 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 3: So this has a lot more to do with wanting 67 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 3: to be around you and the kids more and wanting 68 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 3: to be around my parents and grandparents and and her 69 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 3: family more because I'm always gonna want to play baseball, 70 00:02:59,960 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 3: you know how that is, competing and doing that. There's 71 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 3: just nothing like it. 72 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't ever want to have to 73 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 4: see another slider again. So maybe maybe it's different, Maybe 74 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:11,960 Speaker 4: you're built different. But you said, you said the Oriols, 75 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:15,680 Speaker 4: you said, you said, you know, the opportunity wasn't quite 76 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 4: what I thought it would be. Can you explain that 77 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 4: a little bit more? 78 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:24,079 Speaker 3: Uh, the Orioles was that opportunity was was a good one, 79 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 3: you know. There there was a little bit of me 80 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:28,640 Speaker 3: that was we had talked to him probably ten or 81 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 3: twelve days prior to me signing, and I don't know why. 82 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 3: There was just something about it that, you know, at 83 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 3: the time ten days prior that I wasn't, you know, 84 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 3: as comfortable with it. Could have been that everybody in 85 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 3: our family was sick and we were going through the 86 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 3: middle of a tough time just trying to get healthy. 87 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 3: But and then we talked two weeks later, you know, 88 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 3: towards the end of the march, I felt a lot 89 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 3: better about it and really enjoyed my time back there. 90 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 3: I love those guys, you know, a great organization. You 91 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 3: enjoyed being you know with both the minor league tams 92 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 3: that I was with, and sure the four starts didn't 93 00:03:57,720 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 3: work out, but you know, that's a really good group 94 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 3: of guys, you know it kind of then going to Tampa, 95 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 3: you know, that was an awesome situation, the one that 96 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 3: I just wasn't really sure about to have too. It 97 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 3: was just after, you know, I had a couple of 98 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 3: chances after I opted out of Durham and then just 99 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 3: the opportunities didn't seem like they were quite what I 100 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:17,680 Speaker 3: was looking for. Whether it was you know, only a 101 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 3: bullpen kind of a short term you know, inning situation 102 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 3: maybe like you guys are talking with the Braves, just 103 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 3: wasn't really one that seemed like a long term. Hey, 104 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:27,039 Speaker 3: you're going to be one of the guys here for 105 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 3: the next four months and let's go after. 106 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:30,839 Speaker 4: This, Kyle. 107 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 5: Was there a moment. Was there a moment when you 108 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 5: were like, Okay, I'm done. I know you said that 109 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:38,919 Speaker 5: you're at your opt out date coincided with your family's 110 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 5: late trip. Was was there a moment when you're in 111 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:44,600 Speaker 5: Durham or in Baltimore wherever you were when you're just like, 112 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 5: I don't want to do this anymore because listen, I 113 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:48,360 Speaker 5: mean I had to retire. 114 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 3: Crafts had to retire. 115 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,599 Speaker 5: You know, there is there a moment when you just said, ah, man, 116 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 5: you know, whether it was at the lake, maybe you're 117 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 5: at the lake with the family and you're like, this 118 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 5: is kind of cool. I don't have to work, I 119 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 5: don't have to go to pitch every days from now right. 120 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 5: I don't know, because I think we all kind of 121 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 5: have that moment now, you know, not all of us 122 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:06,839 Speaker 5: get to Hardly anybody gets to go out on their 123 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 5: own terms and have the tour and do all that stuff. 124 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:11,839 Speaker 5: But was there a moment when you said I'm okay 125 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 5: without playing baseball. 126 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:14,560 Speaker 4: Yeah. 127 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:17,480 Speaker 3: I think going into last year, I was actually fine 128 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:20,120 Speaker 3: if last year was my last year playing, you know, 129 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 3: being you know, living in Saint Louis, playing with Saint Louis. 130 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:25,479 Speaker 3: You know, I had the option for this year, but 131 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 3: we were as a family, we were good if that 132 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:30,760 Speaker 3: was our last year, and I really was until I got, 133 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 3: you know, the opportunity with the Orioles, even as the 134 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 3: fake spring training and not being in spring training kind 135 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 3: of drug on I was okay if that was it, 136 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:41,039 Speaker 3: you know, But once I started playing, I never had 137 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:42,919 Speaker 3: that moment where, oh, a bad start, you know, I 138 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 3: just need to retire, or I'm a little bit more 139 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 3: sword day, Oh I just need to retire. Probably didn't 140 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 3: actually happen until probably after that lake trip, when I 141 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,320 Speaker 3: got home and I had to decide am I gonna 142 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:58,239 Speaker 3: play catch? Or am I gonna go throw a bullpen? 143 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 3: Or what am I gonna do here? And I still 144 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:04,640 Speaker 3: felt good, and every every time the kids went to 145 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:06,160 Speaker 3: bed and it was my time to go work out, 146 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 3: I was like, you know what, I don't know that 147 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 3: I really want to go do this anymore right now. 148 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 3: So I think it was probably more, you know, a 149 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 3: week or ten days after that opt out, I kind 150 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 3: of had, you know, come to the point before I 151 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 3: called my agent. I talked to Elizabeth and the family 152 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:21,840 Speaker 3: and I was like, you know, I don't think I 153 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 3: want to do that anymore. I don't want to sit 154 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 3: and search and jump in and out of the house 155 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 3: and go to this team and you know, maybe get 156 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 3: defaided and then go find another team. And I felt 157 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 3: really good about how the results matched up in Durham, 158 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 3: and that's really what I was looking for. Just get 159 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 3: back to feeling how I knew I could feel. And 160 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 3: if there's not an opportunity, you know, there's not an opportunity. 161 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 3: And I was good with that. 162 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:43,279 Speaker 4: Maybe if it was rainy at the lake, maybe you 163 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:45,920 Speaker 4: would have been like, maybe come back. But I'm sure 164 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:49,680 Speaker 4: it was nice, the water was clean, everything. But your 165 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:55,600 Speaker 4: track record speaks for itself. Like people don't understand health, longevity, 166 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 4: pitching every day. Did you feel like the Orioles could 167 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:01,279 Speaker 4: have given you a litle bit longer of a leash 168 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 4: than I think four starts because of the fact that 169 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 4: you are a thirty to thirty two starts. However many 170 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 4: starts you're allowed to get, you get at the end 171 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 4: of every year. It comes kind of comes out in 172 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 4: the wash, like you just that's what you do. Do 173 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:19,920 Speaker 4: you feel like four starts was just not enough or 174 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 4: was it a chaotic time on a team that wanted to, 175 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:25,280 Speaker 4: you know, make the playoffs and you were kind of 176 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 4: caught in a wash on that one. 177 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 3: I think everything you just said is probably the case, right, Yeah, 178 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 3: I mean I think if I look back in my career, 179 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 3: every year, I probably had four of the thirty two 180 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 3: starts that I really wish didn't happen, and it just 181 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 3: so happened that, you know, three of those were right 182 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 3: there in the first four starts of the year. You know, 183 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 3: I still felt really confident that I could get guys out, 184 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 3: still felt really good that I could go pitch and 185 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 3: be successful. And I think, like you said, that the 186 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 3: Orioles were at a spot where they needed to make 187 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 3: a decision. You know, they needed a bullpen guy for 188 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:02,360 Speaker 3: that next stay after my last rough one, and I 189 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 3: just happened to be the guy in the crosshairs that 190 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 3: they needed to make the move. So I think they 191 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 3: would have liked to have given me more starts. I 192 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 3: think they probably thought to themselves, it's going to even out, 193 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 3: and I feel like I probably would have looked just 194 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 3: like the guy that's been there the last ten or 195 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:18,680 Speaker 3: eleven twelve seasons. But you know, it's the decision that 196 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 3: they had to make at the time. So that's just 197 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:21,400 Speaker 3: kind of how it goes. 198 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 2: Krats. 199 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 1: If I'm new to card collecting and I'm looking for 200 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:30,760 Speaker 1: the safest, most trusted way in the game to acquire 201 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 1: cards or to buy a card, but not go through 202 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:36,440 Speaker 1: a ton of work where I'm going to the shows. 203 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 2: I'm going online doing auctions. I want it all in 204 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 2: one place. I'm going to Arina Club. 205 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 4: It's all one place. You know you're getting a good price, 206 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:47,560 Speaker 4: whether you're buying it or you're selling cards. 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You can rip a 214 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 1: pack for as low as twenty five dollars and hit 215 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 1: on a card that's worth tens of thousands of dollars 216 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:13,439 Speaker 1: because every pack has grails that are at least twenty 217 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:17,040 Speaker 1: x the price of the pack. So get involved at 218 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 1: arenaclub dot com slash foul use the code foul to 219 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 1: get twenty percent off your first slab pack or card purchase. 220 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 5: All right, I'm always fascinated by this question. Now, what 221 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 5: what do you do all day? Because people ask me 222 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:30,679 Speaker 5: all the time, Oh, you're retired, you must have all 223 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:32,680 Speaker 5: the time in the world. I'm like, I'm way more 224 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 5: busy now than when I played. So, now, what what 225 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 5: do you do all day? Just sit around right, feed up, 226 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:39,559 Speaker 5: eating bond bonds, do nothing right. 227 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:41,080 Speaker 3: Sit at the pool, like, so what do you do 228 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 3: all day? 229 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:42,440 Speaker 2: So? 230 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 3: You know, anybody that has kids and works a lot, right, 231 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 3: I mean you come home, your kids have a schedule. 232 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 3: And that's been one thing that's been really cool for 233 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 3: me is you know, we've got an eleven year old, 234 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:54,600 Speaker 3: eight year old and a five year old and two 235 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:56,440 Speaker 3: year old, and the eleven year old eight year old 236 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:59,680 Speaker 3: are deep into sports, deep into their activities and I 237 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:02,920 Speaker 3: miss a lot of it, right, So the cool thing 238 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 3: for me is I've just been able to jump in 239 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 3: and be a part of it. So I haven't had 240 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 3: to figure out what to do, you know, for the 241 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:12,080 Speaker 3: last month, you know, I haven't had to figure anything out. 242 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:16,440 Speaker 3: So I'm just gonna enjoy jumping right in and being 243 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 3: a dad and being a husband. And then I'm sure 244 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 3: there's gonna come a time here in a couple of 245 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:23,079 Speaker 3: weeks when they go to school and now I'm like, okay, uh, 246 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:25,840 Speaker 3: three of the four here are gone. Uh what am 247 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 3: I gonna do today? I did end up getting a 248 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:31,000 Speaker 3: new tractor right after we opt I opt that out. 249 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 3: So that's gonna be something I'm gonna run around. There's 250 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:34,559 Speaker 3: a tree that needs to be cut up, but that's 251 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 3: only gonna take a day. 252 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 4: Uh. 253 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:37,960 Speaker 3: You know, there's gonna be things that that are gonna 254 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,400 Speaker 3: need to be done. But we'll see when the kids 255 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 3: go back to school, you know what that's gonna look like. 256 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 4: I can see gibbee as the kids are going back 257 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:47,680 Speaker 4: to school, like, you guys wanna stay home and like play, 258 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:51,520 Speaker 4: stay home and play with me because that's that's home. 259 00:10:51,559 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 4: And they're like, no, we want to go to school 260 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 4: see our friends. 261 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 2: What are you? 262 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 3: What are you good at? 263 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 4: Man? Because because as a player, everybody, your entire family, 264 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:04,880 Speaker 4: your friends, everything revolves around your schedule. I have to 265 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:07,199 Speaker 4: go get my workouts in. I gotta hey, I'm going 266 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:09,199 Speaker 4: to the field. Hey it's my start day. Are you 267 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:12,839 Speaker 4: guys getting tickets? It's all about you. You you, and that's 268 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:14,720 Speaker 4: the one thing that you do. What are you good 269 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 4: at that? You're like yeah, and don't say pickleball because 270 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 4: that's that's weak. That's a week week. 271 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 3: No, I know nothing to sit there and hang my 272 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 3: hat on and be like, oh man, I'm gonna go 273 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:26,959 Speaker 3: do this five days a week and feel really good 274 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:29,600 Speaker 3: about it. You know, one thing I'm trying to do 275 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:32,280 Speaker 3: is I'm trying to learn how to work on some 276 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:35,440 Speaker 3: engines and do some car work. Our kids are older 277 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:38,719 Speaker 3: to race a little side by side you TV's in 278 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 3: the summer. My father in law is the mechanic on 279 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:44,199 Speaker 3: all of those, and they're, you know, at times, are 280 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:46,760 Speaker 3: fairly easy to work on. I am not mechanically inclined, 281 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 3: but I need to be able to be able to 282 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 3: wrench a few things here. So for the next rest 283 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:54,719 Speaker 3: of this summer, I think I'm gonna try and see 284 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 3: if you can give me a little bit of a 285 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 3: crash course on what it looks like to work on 286 00:11:57,440 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 3: these a little bit more, fix a few things so 287 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 3: then next year he didn't have to do as much. 288 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:03,280 Speaker 3: But our five year old is going to be in 289 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:05,680 Speaker 3: it here soon hopefully, and they have a lot of 290 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:08,080 Speaker 3: fun doing that. So if I can take a little 291 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 3: pressure off Randy and having to wrench all these little razors, 292 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 3: that's gonna be something I'm gonna try to get good 293 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:15,040 Speaker 3: out here over the next four or five months. It's 294 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:16,920 Speaker 3: gonna take longer than four or five months, whom I can't, 295 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:19,160 Speaker 3: but I'm gonna try and work on that a little bit. 296 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 4: Nice little grease under your fingernails, all right, Yeah, to 297 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:27,360 Speaker 4: thank it after it. Two things, favorite teammate and everyone 298 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 4: else is gonna be pissed at you because you said 299 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:32,079 Speaker 4: this person and craziest teammate. 300 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:38,400 Speaker 3: Oh man, I'm gonna go position player and pitcher for 301 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:40,960 Speaker 3: favorite teammate because I can't. You know, I wouldn't have 302 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:43,880 Speaker 3: had the career I had without you know, Kurt Suzuki 303 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 3: behind the dish for the first few years in Minnesota. 304 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:48,559 Speaker 3: That guy showed me the ropes on you know, how 305 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:50,960 Speaker 3: to be a pro. You know how to make adjustments 306 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:52,720 Speaker 3: on the mound, how to take a plan that you 307 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:56,320 Speaker 3: created and adjust to that plan. You know. He told 308 00:12:56,320 --> 00:12:58,560 Speaker 3: me one time in twenty fourteen against the Tigers when 309 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:00,880 Speaker 3: they're trying to clinch the division. In the third ding, 310 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:02,960 Speaker 3: he goes, Hey, we're gonna throw fastballs until they start 311 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:04,679 Speaker 3: respecting your fastball. I'm like, are you kidding me? We're 312 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:07,959 Speaker 3: gonna throw Meggie and Victor and all these guys just heaters. Well, 313 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:09,480 Speaker 3: I look up in the fifth inning and I haven't 314 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 3: thrown her off speed pitch for the last three eating 315 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:15,199 Speaker 3: so he was a special one. And as a pitcher, 316 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:20,320 Speaker 3: oh man. Uh, Mike Pelfrey was that guy in in 317 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:22,960 Speaker 3: Minnesota for me that kind of showed me the ropes. 318 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:26,160 Speaker 3: And if it's not him, it's Lance Lynn. You know, 319 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:29,600 Speaker 3: he's another Indiana guy that really got to enjoy getting 320 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:31,960 Speaker 3: to know and being teammates with a few different times. 321 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 3: And you know, I would say as a pitcher, he's 322 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:40,880 Speaker 3: he's the guy who's the craziest. Was Lance was Lance 323 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:44,200 Speaker 3: the craziest? Oh man? Uh No, I feel like had 324 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:48,440 Speaker 3: I been teammates with him, you know, pre children, uh 325 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:51,440 Speaker 3: and and pre that maybe I've heard that, you know, 326 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:54,199 Speaker 3: from his his own words, he settled down a little bit, 327 00:13:54,600 --> 00:14:00,679 Speaker 3: so he might have been craziest teammate. Oh man. Shoot, 328 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 3: I don't know I've ever been asked that question. Chratsey, 329 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:05,280 Speaker 3: Quite honestly, you know, I don't know that anybody really 330 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:09,480 Speaker 3: wants their name out there as the craziest teammate. Had 331 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 3: quite a few guys who are pretty damaging to equipment 332 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:18,840 Speaker 3: when they make outs. You know, I feel like that's 333 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:21,040 Speaker 3: that's the crazy part to me. That's I don't know 334 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 3: how you position players did it, quite honestly, but man, 335 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:28,240 Speaker 3: I don't know. I'll have to do some I'll have 336 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:29,680 Speaker 3: to answer that question next time I'm on here. If 337 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 3: you guys have me back on, you put me on 338 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:33,240 Speaker 3: a spot with a crazy teammate. Maybe I'll think about 339 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:34,240 Speaker 3: it here before we're done. 340 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 1: Fine, Yes, homework, homework and then and then we'll talk 341 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:38,200 Speaker 1: about it again at some point. 342 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 2: My last one. You pitched for the Oriols in twenty 343 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 2: twenty three. They were awesome. They won one hundred one games. 344 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 1: I know the playoffs didn't work out the way you 345 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 1: guys wanted to ran into a hot Rangers team. Then 346 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:48,720 Speaker 1: you were just on this Oriols team I know for 347 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:52,400 Speaker 1: a shorter period of time. How difficult was that when 348 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 1: you were that I don't remember. I think you were 349 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:56,480 Speaker 1: still there when they made the manager change too, and 350 00:14:56,680 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 1: almost everyone I've spoken to just loves Brandon Hyde or 351 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:02,680 Speaker 1: How tough was that to navigate the you know a 352 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:04,960 Speaker 1: couple months that you were there when this team was 353 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: supposed to be good again and it was probably the 354 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:10,320 Speaker 1: biggest disappointment of a team in baseball this year. 355 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, you want to talk about a wild day, you know, 356 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:16,080 Speaker 3: we had a it's a wild twenty four hours we 357 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 3: had a team meeting at Friday night. I actually pitched 358 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 3: the day he got fired, So I got a message 359 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 3: about thirty minutes before I was heading to the parque. 360 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 3: We got a team meeting at the park. You know, 361 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 3: he got relieved that day. I went on, pitched, pitched terrible. 362 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 3: I got relieved of my duties later that day. So 363 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:38,240 Speaker 3: what a twenty four hours that was. Everybody loves Brandon 364 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:41,040 Speaker 3: Hyde man, He's he was so much fun to play for. 365 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 3: I'm sure that was a tough decision for a lot 366 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 3: of people in that organization because he was beloved by 367 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 3: a lot of the front office, community, people, players, everybody, 368 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 3: and it was it was kind of a tumultuous season there, 369 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:57,840 Speaker 3: you know, I think between some injuries, between some players 370 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:02,960 Speaker 3: struggling and starting off cold. I think Anthony Santander was 371 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:06,320 Speaker 3: somebody who did a lot for that locker room. So 372 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:09,560 Speaker 3: that was something that was a jolt to the system. 373 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:11,560 Speaker 3: And it was just kind of the perfect storm in 374 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:15,160 Speaker 3: a negative way, quite honestly. And then how it how 375 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:17,800 Speaker 3: it is in other places I've been unfortunately. You know, 376 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 3: when they make changes, you know, they normally start at 377 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:22,640 Speaker 3: the top, and Hyder was kind of the guy to 378 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 3: go and see what that does. But you know, it 379 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 3: was it was a wild couple months. Obviously, it wasn't 380 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:29,560 Speaker 3: what I thought, you know, March twenty fifth, whenever I 381 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:31,640 Speaker 3: signed with him, was gonna happen. Because they still have 382 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 3: a really good roster, still have a lot of great players. 383 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:37,680 Speaker 3: We'll see what this deadline brings. But you know, it's 384 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 3: it's still a really good group of guys that that 385 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 3: was just really going through. You know, I heard you 386 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:43,480 Speaker 3: guys talking about the Braves before I came on here. 387 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:46,280 Speaker 3: They're a team that's kind of going through it, a 388 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:48,640 Speaker 3: really good team going through it, and the Oora was 389 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 3: the same way. You know, Baseball is so funny because 390 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 3: nothing is guaranteed. And that's why, you know when you 391 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 3: guys talk about the Royals making trades and kind of 392 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:57,880 Speaker 3: quote going for it. When you have a chance to 393 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 3: make the playoffs as a player, you want to go 394 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 3: for it every time. I understand front offices have their 395 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:06,400 Speaker 3: ideas and their plans, but you just don't know when 396 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:09,159 Speaker 3: it's going to work out, and sometimes injuries derail what 397 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:11,239 Speaker 3: you think is going to be your chance, and then 398 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:12,720 Speaker 3: you don't have a chance. So I feel like you 399 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:14,320 Speaker 3: always need to take advantage of when you have a 400 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:16,959 Speaker 3: chance to make the playoffs. Go try man, Go make 401 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:18,679 Speaker 3: the playoffs and see if you can do something special. 402 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:22,119 Speaker 1: Well said, the winning window always closes sooner than almost 403 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 1: everyone expects it to. 404 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 2: Kyle, Thank you so much, great stuff man. Great to 405 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 2: have you on. Obviously we would love to have you 406 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:30,560 Speaker 2: back and congratulations. Enjoy the fan time. 407 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 3: Appreciate you guys.