WEBVTT - Kyle Gibson on retirement decision 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:06.560 Hey, congratulations to Kyle Gibson, who just announced his retirement 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:08.760 from the game and joins us right now in FT Kyle, 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:09.280 good to see you. 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:11.320 Congratulations man. How does it feel? 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:15.160 Thank you guys, appreciate it. It feels awesome. You know, 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:17.520 I've missed out on a lot of family time, as 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:20.400 these guys know, and I mean you've traveled around called 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:21.880 a lot of baseball games and you know as well. 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:24.880 So it's been good to jump right in and be 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:27.040 a dad to our four kids. I'm out visiting my 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:30.440 parents right now in Indiana, so seeing them and seeing 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:34.000 a couple of grandparents and doing things that I haven't 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:35.440 been able to do for a long time. So it's 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:36.120 been a lot of fun. 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:39.080 Was the decision tough when you made it? 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:41.440 Did you want to try and come back again for 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:44.080 this season and even next or were you, like am 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:46.920 thinking about it? Because I know you started up ramping 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:49.519 up late with the Orioles and then they three right 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:50.200 into the fire. 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:53.760 Yeah, I mean the whole late spring training was kind 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:56.920 of weird, honestly, you know, I think that was that 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:58.760 was a tough decision for me to leave home at 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:01.279 that point because I had missed all spring training basically, 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:05.280 and you know, was getting more acclimated to being home 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:08.080 in March and what that looks like. So you know, 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:10.440 I wanted to go play when when I ended up 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:13.040 signing with the Oarls and talking to the Orioles, and 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:15.760 you know, it's hard to go to the Rays. You know, 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:18.040 that was a place that I'd looked at probably the 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:20.000 last four or five years that possibly play in there, 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:22.520 and just really loving what they do with pitching. So 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:25.000 I kind of decided, you know, let's let's go there, 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.319 spend three weeks with with them in the minor league system, 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:29.039 see if there's a few things I can adjust and 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:31.560 work on, and see what happens at the end of it. 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:34.440 And I threw the ball really well, felt awesome physically, 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:39.280 and they're just for whatever reason, timing age, whatever it is, 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:41.520 there really wasn't the opportunity that that I thought was 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:43.040 going to be there when when I had thrown the 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:45.920 ball well, So came home just so happened to my 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:48.840 opt out date lined up with the family lake trip 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:51.240 that my wife and kids have gone by themselves on 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:54.639 with their family every year. So I drove down to Arkansas, 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:56.800 went to the lake trip and started thinking over the 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:58.320 next couple of weeks what it was going to look like. 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.320 Has there been a moment, Has there been a moment 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:03.120 when you've looked at Elizabeth and gone. 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:06.680 You still like me being here? 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:10.120 Or is it like, you know where she's like taking 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:11.920 care of the kids and then you hop in You're like, 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:14.080 I want to be helpful and you're not as helpful. 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:18.880 Yes, gratty. That happens every year and this this is 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:23.200 no different. You know, I normally disrupt timing, disrupt schedules, 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:25.200 and I did it in the middle of the year 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:28.880 two or three times now. So yeah, I sat down, 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:30.720 probably I don't know, a week and a half ago 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:32.760 and started, you know, writing some thank yous and stuff 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:34.679 that I want to post and you guys, wait, are 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:37.480 you sure you want to do this? So yeah, I 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.160 mean there's I think those questions are always gonna come up, 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:42.960 you know it. Everybody asked you know about you know, 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:45.240 when to retire, and you know, she kept saying, well, 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:46.960 if you want to keep pitching, you know, you know, 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.120 keep playing. I said, I'm always gonna want to pitch. 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:51.480 So this has a lot more to do with wanting 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.280 to be around you and the kids more and wanting 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:56.720 to be around my parents and grandparents and and her 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.919 family more because I'm always gonna want to play baseball, 0:02:59.960 --> 0:03:02.640 you know how that is, competing and doing that. There's 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:03.480 just nothing like it. 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:05.760 I don't know. I don't ever want to have to 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:08.720 see another slider again. So maybe maybe it's different, Maybe 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:11.960 you're built different. But you said, you said the Oriols, 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:15.680 you said, you said, you know, the opportunity wasn't quite 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:17.480 what I thought it would be. Can you explain that 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:18.160 a little bit more? 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:24.079 Uh, the Orioles was that opportunity was was a good one, 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:26.560 you know. There there was a little bit of me 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:28.640 that was we had talked to him probably ten or 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:32.280 twelve days prior to me signing, and I don't know why. 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:34.040 There was just something about it that, you know, at 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:36.240 the time ten days prior that I wasn't, you know, 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:39.000 as comfortable with it. Could have been that everybody in 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.160 our family was sick and we were going through the 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:43.200 middle of a tough time just trying to get healthy. 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:45.320 But and then we talked two weeks later, you know, 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:46.880 towards the end of the march, I felt a lot 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.560 better about it and really enjoyed my time back there. 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:53.280 I love those guys, you know, a great organization. You 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:55.440 enjoyed being you know with both the minor league tams 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:57.680 that I was with, and sure the four starts didn't 0:03:57.720 --> 0:03:59.680 work out, but you know, that's a really good group 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:03.480 of guys, you know it kind of then going to Tampa, 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:05.600 you know, that was an awesome situation, the one that 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:07.240 I just wasn't really sure about to have too. It 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:08.600 was just after, you know, I had a couple of 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:12.840 chances after I opted out of Durham and then just 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:16.080 the opportunities didn't seem like they were quite what I 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:17.680 was looking for. Whether it was you know, only a 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:20.520 bullpen kind of a short term you know, inning situation 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:22.400 maybe like you guys are talking with the Braves, just 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:25.240 wasn't really one that seemed like a long term. Hey, 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:27.039 you're going to be one of the guys here for 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.120 the next four months and let's go after. 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:30.839 This, Kyle. 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:33.960 Was there a moment. Was there a moment when you 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.080 were like, Okay, I'm done. I know you said that 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:38.919 you're at your opt out date coincided with your family's 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:41.000 late trip. Was was there a moment when you're in 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:44.600 Durham or in Baltimore wherever you were when you're just like, 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.120 I don't want to do this anymore because listen, I 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:48.360 mean I had to retire. 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:49.440 Crafts had to retire. 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:52.599 You know, there is there a moment when you just said, ah, man, 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:54.240 you know, whether it was at the lake, maybe you're 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:55.640 at the lake with the family and you're like, this 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:57.680 is kind of cool. I don't have to work, I 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.000 don't have to go to pitch every days from now right. 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:02.440 I don't know, because I think we all kind of 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:05.000 have that moment now, you know, not all of us 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:06.839 get to Hardly anybody gets to go out on their 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.000 own terms and have the tour and do all that stuff. 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:11.839 But was there a moment when you said I'm okay 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:13.000 without playing baseball. 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:14.560 Yeah. 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.480 I think going into last year, I was actually fine 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.120 if last year was my last year playing, you know, 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:22.760 being you know, living in Saint Louis, playing with Saint Louis. 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:25.479 You know, I had the option for this year, but 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:27.440 we were as a family, we were good if that 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.760 was our last year, and I really was until I got, 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:32.960 you know, the opportunity with the Orioles, even as the 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.760 fake spring training and not being in spring training kind 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:37.680 of drug on I was okay if that was it, 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:41.039 you know, But once I started playing, I never had 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:42.919 that moment where, oh, a bad start, you know, I 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:44.960 just need to retire, or I'm a little bit more 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:48.440 sword day, Oh I just need to retire. Probably didn't 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:51.960 actually happen until probably after that lake trip, when I 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:55.320 got home and I had to decide am I gonna 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.239 play catch? Or am I gonna go throw a bullpen? 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.640 Or what am I gonna do here? And I still 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:04.640 felt good, and every every time the kids went to 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:06.160 bed and it was my time to go work out, 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:08.240 I was like, you know what, I don't know that 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:10.000 I really want to go do this anymore right now. 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:13.520 So I think it was probably more, you know, a 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:16.200 week or ten days after that opt out, I kind 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:18.000 of had, you know, come to the point before I 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.080 called my agent. I talked to Elizabeth and the family 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:21.840 and I was like, you know, I don't think I 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:23.240 want to do that anymore. I don't want to sit 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.320 and search and jump in and out of the house 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:27.320 and go to this team and you know, maybe get 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:30.440 defaided and then go find another team. And I felt 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:32.560 really good about how the results matched up in Durham, 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:34.880 and that's really what I was looking for. Just get 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:36.960 back to feeling how I knew I could feel. And 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.640 if there's not an opportunity, you know, there's not an opportunity. 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:40.400 And I was good with that. 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:43.279 Maybe if it was rainy at the lake, maybe you 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:45.920 would have been like, maybe come back. But I'm sure 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:49.680 it was nice, the water was clean, everything. But your 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:55.600 track record speaks for itself. Like people don't understand health, longevity, 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.920 pitching every day. Did you feel like the Orioles could 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.279 have given you a litle bit longer of a leash 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:04.640 than I think four starts because of the fact that 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:08.920 you are a thirty to thirty two starts. However many 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:12.440 starts you're allowed to get, you get at the end 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:14.440 of every year. It comes kind of comes out in 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:16.600 the wash, like you just that's what you do. Do 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.920 you feel like four starts was just not enough or 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.480 was it a chaotic time on a team that wanted to, 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:25.280 you know, make the playoffs and you were kind of 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.280 caught in a wash on that one. 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:31.520 I think everything you just said is probably the case, right, Yeah, 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:33.360 I mean I think if I look back in my career, 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:36.520 every year, I probably had four of the thirty two 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:39.960 starts that I really wish didn't happen, and it just 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.560 so happened that, you know, three of those were right 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:44.560 there in the first four starts of the year. You know, 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:47.840 I still felt really confident that I could get guys out, 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:50.920 still felt really good that I could go pitch and 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.440 be successful. And I think, like you said, that the 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:56.880 Orioles were at a spot where they needed to make 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.720 a decision. You know, they needed a bullpen guy for 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.360 that next stay after my last rough one, and I 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:04.200 just happened to be the guy in the crosshairs that 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:06.480 they needed to make the move. So I think they 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:08.160 would have liked to have given me more starts. I 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:11.360 think they probably thought to themselves, it's going to even out, 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:13.960 and I feel like I probably would have looked just 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:15.640 like the guy that's been there the last ten or 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.680 eleven twelve seasons. But you know, it's the decision that 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:20.720 they had to make at the time. 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Because people ask me 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.679 all the time, Oh, you're retired, you must have all 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:32.680 the time in the world. I'm like, I'm way more 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:34.920 busy now than when I played. So, now, what what 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.360 do you do all day? Just sit around right, feed up, 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:39.559 eating bond bonds, do nothing right. 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:41.080 Sit at the pool, like, so what do you do 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:41.520 all day? 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:42.440 So? 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:46.760 You know, anybody that has kids and works a lot, right, 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:48.480 I mean you come home, your kids have a schedule. 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:50.880 And that's been one thing that's been really cool for 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:52.880 me is you know, we've got an eleven year old, 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:54.600 eight year old and a five year old and two 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:56.440 year old, and the eleven year old eight year old 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:59.680 are deep into sports, deep into their activities and I 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.920 miss a lot of it, right, So the cool thing 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:04.760 for me is I've just been able to jump in 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:06.480 and be a part of it. So I haven't had 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:08.920 to figure out what to do, you know, for the 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:12.080 last month, you know, I haven't had to figure anything out. 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:16.440 So I'm just gonna enjoy jumping right in and being 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.160 a dad and being a husband. And then I'm sure 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:19.880 there's gonna come a time here in a couple of 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:23.079 weeks when they go to school and now I'm like, okay, uh, 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.840 three of the four here are gone. Uh what am 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.480 I gonna do today? I did end up getting a 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:31.000 new tractor right after we opt I opt that out. 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.120 So that's gonna be something I'm gonna run around. There's 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:34.559 a tree that needs to be cut up, but that's 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:35.480 only gonna take a day. 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:36.160 Uh. 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:37.960 You know, there's gonna be things that that are gonna 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:40.400 need to be done. But we'll see when the kids 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:42.520 go back to school, you know what that's gonna look like. 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.160 I can see gibbee as the kids are going back 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.680 to school, like, you guys wanna stay home and like play, 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:51.520 stay home and play with me because that's that's home. 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:52.960 And they're like, no, we want to go to school 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:54.760 see our friends. 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:54.280 What are you? 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:56.640 What are you good at? 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:01.480 Man? Because because as a player, everybody, your entire family, 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:04.880 your friends, everything revolves around your schedule. I have to 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.199 go get my workouts in. I gotta hey, I'm going 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:09.199 to the field. Hey it's my start day. Are you 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.839 guys getting tickets? It's all about you. You you, and that's 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:14.720 the one thing that you do. What are you good 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.880 at that? You're like yeah, and don't say pickleball because 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:19.600 that's that's weak. That's a week week. 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:23.000 No, I know nothing to sit there and hang my 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:24.560 hat on and be like, oh man, I'm gonna go 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:26.959 do this five days a week and feel really good 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:29.600 about it. You know, one thing I'm trying to do 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.280 is I'm trying to learn how to work on some 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:35.440 engines and do some car work. Our kids are older 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.719 to race a little side by side you TV's in 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:41.520 the summer. My father in law is the mechanic on 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:44.199 all of those, and they're, you know, at times, are 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:46.760 fairly easy to work on. I am not mechanically inclined, 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:50.160 but I need to be able to be able to 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.880 wrench a few things here. So for the next rest 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:54.719 of this summer, I think I'm gonna try and see 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:55.760 if you can give me a little bit of a 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:57.400 crash course on what it looks like to work on 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:59.640 these a little bit more, fix a few things so 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:01.400 then next year he didn't have to do as much. 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:03.280 But our five year old is going to be in 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:05.680 it here soon hopefully, and they have a lot of 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:08.080 fun doing that. So if I can take a little 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.240 pressure off Randy and having to wrench all these little razors, 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:13.120 that's gonna be something I'm gonna try to get good 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:15.040 out here over the next four or five months. It's 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:16.920 gonna take longer than four or five months, whom I can't, 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.160 but I'm gonna try and work on that a little bit. 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:23.000 Nice little grease under your fingernails, all right, Yeah, to 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:27.360 thank it after it. Two things, favorite teammate and everyone 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:29.280 else is gonna be pissed at you because you said 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:32.079 this person and craziest teammate. 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:38.400 Oh man, I'm gonna go position player and pitcher for 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:40.960 favorite teammate because I can't. You know, I wouldn't have 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:43.880 had the career I had without you know, Kurt Suzuki 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:46.000 behind the dish for the first few years in Minnesota. 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:48.559 That guy showed me the ropes on you know, how 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:50.960 to be a pro. You know how to make adjustments 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:52.720 on the mound, how to take a plan that you 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:56.320 created and adjust to that plan. You know. He told 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:58.560 me one time in twenty fourteen against the Tigers when 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:00.880 they're trying to clinch the division. In the third ding, 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:02.960 he goes, Hey, we're gonna throw fastballs until they start 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:04.679 respecting your fastball. I'm like, are you kidding me? We're 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.959 gonna throw Meggie and Victor and all these guys just heaters. Well, 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:09.480 I look up in the fifth inning and I haven't 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:11.160 thrown her off speed pitch for the last three eating 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:15.199 so he was a special one. And as a pitcher, 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:20.320 oh man. Uh, Mike Pelfrey was that guy in in 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:22.960 Minnesota for me that kind of showed me the ropes. 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.160 And if it's not him, it's Lance Lynn. You know, 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.600 he's another Indiana guy that really got to enjoy getting 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:31.960 to know and being teammates with a few different times. 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:35.000 And you know, I would say as a pitcher, he's 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:40.880 he's the guy who's the craziest. Was Lance was Lance 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:44.200 the craziest? Oh man? Uh No, I feel like had 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:48.440 I been teammates with him, you know, pre children, uh 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:51.440 and and pre that maybe I've heard that, you know, 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:54.199 from his his own words, he settled down a little bit, 0:13:54.600 --> 0:14:00.679 so he might have been craziest teammate. Oh man. Shoot, 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.240 I don't know I've ever been asked that question. Chratsey, 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:05.280 Quite honestly, you know, I don't know that anybody really 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:09.480 wants their name out there as the craziest teammate. Had 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:15.120 quite a few guys who are pretty damaging to equipment 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.840 when they make outs. You know, I feel like that's 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.040 that's the crazy part to me. That's I don't know 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:25.000 how you position players did it, quite honestly, but man, 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:28.240 I don't know. I'll have to do some I'll have 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:29.680 to answer that question next time I'm on here. If 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:31.160 you guys have me back on, you put me on 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:33.240 a spot with a crazy teammate. Maybe I'll think about 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:34.240 it here before we're done. 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:37.160 Fine, Yes, homework, homework and then and then we'll talk 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:38.200 about it again at some point. 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:41.000 My last one. You pitched for the Oriols in twenty 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:42.880 twenty three. They were awesome. They won one hundred one games. 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:44.440 I know the playoffs didn't work out the way you 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:46.880 guys wanted to ran into a hot Rangers team. Then 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:48.720 you were just on this Oriols team I know for 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:52.400 a shorter period of time. How difficult was that when 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:53.880 you were that I don't remember. I think you were 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:56.480 still there when they made the manager change too, and 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:59.560 almost everyone I've spoken to just loves Brandon Hyde or 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.680 How tough was that to navigate the you know a 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:04.960 couple months that you were there when this team was 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:07.400 supposed to be good again and it was probably the 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:10.320 biggest disappointment of a team in baseball this year. 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:14.400 Yeah, you want to talk about a wild day, you know, 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:16.080 we had a it's a wild twenty four hours we 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:19.840 had a team meeting at Friday night. I actually pitched 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.600 the day he got fired, So I got a message 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.760 about thirty minutes before I was heading to the parque. 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.320 We got a team meeting at the park. You know, 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:31.360 he got relieved that day. I went on, pitched, pitched terrible. 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:33.720 I got relieved of my duties later that day. So 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:38.240 what a twenty four hours that was. Everybody loves Brandon 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.040 Hyde man, He's he was so much fun to play for. 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:43.640 I'm sure that was a tough decision for a lot 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:47.440 of people in that organization because he was beloved by 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:50.560 a lot of the front office, community, people, players, everybody, 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.280 and it was it was kind of a tumultuous season there, 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:57.840 you know, I think between some injuries, between some players 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:02.960 struggling and starting off cold. I think Anthony Santander was 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:06.320 somebody who did a lot for that locker room. So 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:09.560 that was something that was a jolt to the system. 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:11.560 And it was just kind of the perfect storm in 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:15.160 a negative way, quite honestly. And then how it how 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.800 it is in other places I've been unfortunately. You know, 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:20.360 when they make changes, you know, they normally start at 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:22.640 the top, and Hyder was kind of the guy to 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:25.480 go and see what that does. But you know, it 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.440 was it was a wild couple months. Obviously, it wasn't 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:29.560 what I thought, you know, March twenty fifth, whenever I 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:31.640 signed with him, was gonna happen. Because they still have 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:34.280 a really good roster, still have a lot of great players. 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:37.680 We'll see what this deadline brings. But you know, it's 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:39.720 it's still a really good group of guys that that 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:41.440 was just really going through. You know, I heard you 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:43.480 guys talking about the Braves before I came on here. 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:46.280 They're a team that's kind of going through it, a 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:48.640 really good team going through it, and the Oora was 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.240 the same way. You know, Baseball is so funny because 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:52.760 nothing is guaranteed. And that's why, you know when you 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:55.160 guys talk about the Royals making trades and kind of 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.880 quote going for it. When you have a chance to 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.640 make the playoffs as a player, you want to go 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:03.120 for it every time. I understand front offices have their 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:06.400 ideas and their plans, but you just don't know when 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:09.159 it's going to work out, and sometimes injuries derail what 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:11.239 you think is going to be your chance, and then 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:12.720 you don't have a chance. So I feel like you 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:14.320 always need to take advantage of when you have a 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:16.959 chance to make the playoffs. Go try man, Go make 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:18.679