Speaker 1: Hi, Hello, and welcome back to Cardinal Territory. Longtime viewers
Speaker 1: and listeners know this about the podcast. This show is
Speaker 1: a pro Michael McGreevy show, So I thought, why not
Speaker 1: live up to our hype, to our reputation, and indeed
Speaker 1: bring him in. Michae McGreevey is our player interview guest
Speaker 1: of the week. Mike, Nice to see it, Thanks for
Speaker 1: joining the show.
Speaker 2: Yea, thanks for having me, of course.
Speaker 1: So you're fresh off six shutout intings in Nashville. What
Speaker 1: two hits, five strikeouts? Yeah, I think so that memory,
Speaker 1: So another quality solid outing for you in Memphis. I
Speaker 1: know a wide majority of the Cardinals fan base we'd
Speaker 1: like to see most of your starts actually in Saint Louis.
Speaker 1: But when we start the show, we usually go like,
Speaker 1: let's talk about business, let's talk about baseball first, And
Speaker 1: I thought this would be a good topic to discuss
Speaker 1: because in our conversations when I do see you, I
Speaker 1: thought you've handled this whole shuttle between the majors and
Speaker 1: the miners really well. And the conversation happened in spring
Speaker 1: training about the lack of depth in the organization and
Speaker 1: where the Cardinals wanted you to be and where they
Speaker 1: felt like they had to have you be. How was
Speaker 1: that explained to you and what was your understanding of
Speaker 1: the situation.
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So all throughout camp, I each day by day
Speaker 3: like as like you know, like the team got smaller
Speaker 3: and smaller with cuts and spring training and sending guys
Speaker 3: back down to Memphis.
Speaker 2: It was like, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, like
Speaker 2: I might make it.
Speaker 3: I might make it, especially with ending the year last
Speaker 3: year in the big leagues for those last two weeks,
Speaker 3: which was great.
Speaker 2: It felt like of possibility.
Speaker 3: But then when you know, like you're the last guy
Speaker 3: hen go either way, and then they bring you to
Speaker 3: the office and hey, like you know, like like any
Speaker 3: other year, any other circumstances, you would make this team.
Speaker 3: You deserve to make this team, but like we need
Speaker 3: you down in Memphis, like to provide a little bit
Speaker 3: of depth. And you know that's it literally stinks because
Speaker 3: they're telling you they want you in the big leagues.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, like you understand, like you
Speaker 3: provide like a valuable like your a valuable.
Speaker 2: Asset if you are in Memphis at that time.
Speaker 3: So it's a little bit of a it's a crap feeling,
Speaker 3: but at the same time it makes you feel good
Speaker 3: at the same time that like, hey, like we need
Speaker 3: you here right now to help us in a way,
Speaker 3: in a way that impacts the team when you're not on.
Speaker 2: A big league field. So it's a little interesting.
Speaker 3: It's a little it's kind of a mental battle with
Speaker 3: how you have to deal with it. But at the
Speaker 3: same time, like at the end of the day, it's
Speaker 3: still just baseball, and like whether I'm in Memphis or
Speaker 3: Saint Louis, like I have to just like smile, like
Speaker 3: I get to play baseball today.
Speaker 1: You're righted a as a mental battle, and it's not
Speaker 1: one that I think a lot of players could have
Speaker 1: that kind of mindset that you do. I mean, when
Speaker 1: we've seen you for your various spots starts, it's been great.
Speaker 1: You know, you're very welcome in the clubhouse. Obviously, I
Speaker 1: think everyone knows that you should be there, whether that's
Speaker 1: the front office, the coaching staff, and your guys out
Speaker 1: in Saint Louis. But it's not easy to hear, hey,
Speaker 1: we want you here, but so sorry you're not going
Speaker 1: to be here. What kind of like what kind of
Speaker 1: mental work did you have to go through to get
Speaker 1: to where you are now. Because each time I see you,
Speaker 1: whether it's you know, in Saint Louis for a spot
Speaker 1: start against the Dodgers or calling up against the White
Speaker 1: Sox for doubleheader, like, it seems like you're just really
Speaker 1: assured of where you need to be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm very blessed to say I have a great
Speaker 3: support support system, family, coaches, loved ones, Like everybody that
Speaker 3: has been in my life and it's in my life
Speaker 3: has always just supported me through the ups and the downs.
Speaker 3: They've given me great mental lessons to, you know, just
Speaker 3: get through the hard times, like giving me cliches like
Speaker 3: the ball doesn't care how you feel, or like hey,
Speaker 3: like you're entitled it absolutely nothing, but you have to
Speaker 3: be grateful for everything, and just like thinking about those
Speaker 3: like things that I've been taught throughout my life just
Speaker 3: kind of get me through. And you know, like you
Speaker 3: get to the big leagues and say, all you're in
Speaker 3: heaven and then.
Speaker 2: You just kind of smile and enjoy it.
Speaker 3: And then when you get back down, then you know,
Speaker 3: you could be sad about it for a day, but
Speaker 3: then it's just back to the business.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like the lessons that you learned from
Speaker 1: twenty one to twenty five. I mean, the amount of
Speaker 1: growth in four years for anyone is obviously a big deal,
Speaker 1: but for you, particularly coming in as a top you
Speaker 1: first round pick a lot of hype as a top prospect,
Speaker 1: you come in in twenty four, you dominate and now
Speaker 1: even you know, there have been maybe two innings and
Speaker 1: your five appearances in the majors where it didn't go well,
Speaker 1: but even after those two innings, you rebounded and you
Speaker 1: posted and you were able to settle down. What kind
Speaker 1: of growth have you made as a pitcher in that regard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been a huge change since I got drafted
Speaker 3: till now I feel like I'm a completely different pitcher.
Speaker 3: You know, that's just the hard work that people don't
Speaker 3: really see in the off season. It's taking care of
Speaker 3: your bodies, taking care of the non cool things.
Speaker 2: It's not about chasing Velo.
Speaker 3: It's about, you know, just refining the mechanics, getting the
Speaker 3: muscle mass up, eating the right things in the kitchen.
Speaker 3: The off season, all that just builds up into how
Speaker 3: you perform on the field and what the fans do
Speaker 3: see and Ben just getting experienced, like it's awesome to
Speaker 3: see guys fly through the miners.
Speaker 2: It's awesome to see the guys.
Speaker 3: That get drafted in twenty four and then all of
Speaker 3: a sudden they're making their big league debut in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five. Those are special players, and like not trying
Speaker 3: to take anything away from them, But the minor leagues
Speaker 3: are there for a reason, and while you know they're
Speaker 3: not the most fun place to be, they do offer
Speaker 3: you experience. They offer you great learning lessons. Whether you
Speaker 3: perform well or whether you perform badly in a stretch
Speaker 3: or two. It gives you experience so that when you
Speaker 3: do get to the big leagues, you're not figuring out
Speaker 3: how to deal with the loss for the first time
Speaker 3: in your career, or how to deal with a bad
Speaker 3: ending for the first time in your career. You're still
Speaker 3: you know how to do it because you have done
Speaker 3: it before.
Speaker 1: So things that you've done a lot of this year, Uh,
Speaker 1: the drive, I think at a really good Instagram post yesterday,
Speaker 1: ten out of ten caption.
Speaker 2: Racking thank you fire Miles.
Speaker 1: That was good? Is that you or was that your girlfriend?
Speaker 2: No? That was me. That was me.
Speaker 3: I came up that with all by myself. I just
Speaker 3: had to make sure I got the pictures approved by
Speaker 3: my girlfriend.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's you know, that's a good system. On
Speaker 1: the Instagram post we have on the caption, I was
Speaker 1: I was proud. When when you are being brought up
Speaker 1: and when you spot start, I mean it's very clear
Speaker 1: like this is the role that they saw you in.
Speaker 1: I think candidly they probably thought you were going to
Speaker 1: be up here a lot more consistently because knock on
Speaker 1: wood there they've been very very healthy this year and right,
Speaker 1: and then a sport where pitch, your health is not
Speaker 1: where it's at, and there are plenty of teams just
Speaker 1: being decimated by injury. That's a great thing, right, But
Speaker 1: for you, they've still found ways to bring you up
Speaker 1: because they do want to see you when you are
Speaker 1: one of their best arms and in a season about
Speaker 1: the you know, the next core, it's very clear they
Speaker 1: see you in it. So they reward you by giving
Speaker 1: you spot starts against the Dodgers or hey come in
Speaker 1: and throw five innings and relief against the Mets when
Speaker 1: they were going really well. How do you prepare for
Speaker 1: those spots starts? You know, knowing that you're probably going
Speaker 1: to be here just for the day, but not really sure.
Speaker 1: You're jumping from the miners to the majors and then
Speaker 1: you're getting some really quality hitters that you faced against
Speaker 1: and you continue to post, how do you prepare for that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's really no way to prepare for it, honestly,
Speaker 3: which I think is good at the same time, like
Speaker 3: there's good and bad.
Speaker 2: The bad unfortunately it's like, hey, you don't get a
Speaker 2: good routine.
Speaker 3: You don't really have your legs under you because you
Speaker 3: were traveling the day before. You probably didn't get to
Speaker 3: have a nice steak dinner that you made at your apartment.
Speaker 3: It's driving up, stopping at a fast food restaurant and
Speaker 3: getting up there.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, it's you don't have time
Speaker 2: to think. You just go.
Speaker 3: You stick to what you know, You stick to your strengths,
Speaker 3: and you try not to deviate from that, because if
Speaker 3: you spend too much time trying to game plan for
Speaker 3: Juan Soto, Shoho Tani and you're not all there because
Speaker 3: you haven't had a weak routine in the big leagues,
Speaker 3: you're just gonna kind of mentally exhaust yourself. And it's
Speaker 3: been funny, especially against the White Sox. I flew in
Speaker 3: I woke up in Memphis that day at five am.
Speaker 3: Flight was supposed to leave at seven thirty at Memphis,
Speaker 3: didn't leave till nine. Get to O'Hare at eleven hour
Speaker 3: traffic down to the south side, get to the field
Speaker 3: at twelve. Game start at one for that day.
Speaker 2: One game one.
Speaker 3: I blink and it's the sixth inning because Betty had
Speaker 3: a good game. And then I'm in the game at
Speaker 3: four forty five pitch against the White Sox and there's
Speaker 3: absolutely no time to prepare.
Speaker 2: I'm super tired. I want to take a nap.
Speaker 3: Because I woke up in Memphis that day and it's like, dude, just.
Speaker 2: Throw the sinker, throw the slider.
Speaker 3: Let's just try to get out and hopefully we'll give
Speaker 3: them five plus and we'll win this game. And it's
Speaker 3: funny situations like that, so you don't have time to
Speaker 3: think and you just trust your stuff.
Speaker 1: And you did. You went through five cardinals, got the win,
Speaker 1: so it all works out. That's funny though, because you'll
Speaker 1: hear a pitcher sale the time and I didn't have
Speaker 1: my best stuff today or you know, and it's usually
Speaker 1: something like that where it's their routine is super messed
Speaker 1: up and you just kind of show up at the
Speaker 1: stadium and you're like, all right, we'll screw it, let's
Speaker 1: see what we got. And I think that's one of
Speaker 1: your strengths actually, to be able to just come in.
Speaker 1: You have such a mindset that that really handles this
Speaker 1: situation because it's weird, and I don't think anyone in
Speaker 1: the organization would argue that this is not a weird
Speaker 1: situation that they it's not ideal. I'm sure they've said
Speaker 1: it to you, but you've been able to keep a
Speaker 1: really level head and it's encouraging to see as we
Speaker 1: get into trade deadline month and maybe or maybe not,
Speaker 1: an opportunity opens for you at the rotation. It's just
Speaker 1: been cool to see your growth as not just a
Speaker 1: picture but as a person in regard. So yeah, all right,
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Speaker 1: and this is our last like, well, it'll try to
Speaker 1: be our last baseball question. Because you have such a
Speaker 1: fun personality, I want to really grill you about your teammates.
Speaker 1: What has been your favorite performance so far with the
Speaker 1: big league club and why.
Speaker 3: I would definitely have to say the last start in
Speaker 3: San Francisco. That was my first time pitching back in
Speaker 3: California since college. So I had about fifty plus family
Speaker 3: and friends there and it was just really cool to
Speaker 3: see them all.
Speaker 2: After the game.
Speaker 3: When I was watching video again, I have my last
Speaker 3: strikeout from like the side view, I see like Pagro
Speaker 3: like catch the ball, and all of a sudden, I
Speaker 3: just see this guy in a white jersey just stand
Speaker 3: up immediately before and everybody else. I'm like, there's my dad,
Speaker 3: and like then you see like the other fifty people
Speaker 3: stand up.
Speaker 2: I'm like, ah, that's where they were sitting that day.
Speaker 3: So it just means it meant a lot to be
Speaker 3: able to pitch back in the home stay there, to
Speaker 3: have a game like that end the season after two
Speaker 3: just amazing weeks in the big leagues, despite how that
Speaker 3: year had started as well for me, just coming off
Speaker 3: to a very slow start, not thinking I was going
Speaker 3: to make my debut in twenty four and for it
Speaker 3: to end like that was just like kind of the
Speaker 3: cherry on top to a great year.
Speaker 1: Remind me, was that the final game of the season?
Speaker 2: It was, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: So what I do remember about that game is we
Speaker 1: talked to you after the start and you're, you know,
Speaker 1: hyped up. It's like a bittersweet feeling because everyone last day,
Speaker 1: but here you are all smiles and I ask you, like, hey,
Speaker 1: what's what was you know, what stood out to you
Speaker 1: about this game? You know, great start to end the season,
Speaker 1: features looking good and you said that you were pretty
Speaker 1: amped up because the Giants did a flyover that day.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was not expecting me to say that.
Speaker 2: About the flyover.
Speaker 3: I was still warming up in the bullpen during the anthem,
Speaker 3: and you know, the Jets fly by, and like I
Speaker 3: look at Dusty and like that was so sick.
Speaker 2: He's like this kid? What is this kid? Like thirteen?
Speaker 2: Like he's like focus for Dusty.
Speaker 1: I can picture that face too. But you were super
Speaker 1: excited about it, for that's the first thing you said
Speaker 1: after that start. I was like, oh, that must have
Speaker 1: been a lot to him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, totally.
Speaker 1: All right, So let's let's talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: your teammates. And this is fun because we can do
Speaker 1: both Saint Louis and Memphis. We'll start with an easy
Speaker 1: one because you are in the minor leagues and there's
Speaker 1: a lot of weird transportation. It's beat writer travel. There's
Speaker 1: no charter like, for example, I didn't get into Chicago
Speaker 1: until eleven thirty last night because my flight was delayed
Speaker 1: three hours. So you know all of this very well.
Speaker 1: You do a lot of driving. You do a lot
Speaker 1: of road trips. If you have to create your ideal
Speaker 1: road trip car, okay, and it can be major league
Speaker 1: and minor league teammates. Who's in the car? Who are
Speaker 1: you road tripping with?
Speaker 2: You have four?
Speaker 3: Geez, that's tough, so like just like a minivan full
Speaker 3: of like four like four other guys. Okay, gosh, you
Speaker 3: could probably throw Gavin Collins in there. He's a good time.
Speaker 3: I put Andre Grenio in there as well. I'll go
Speaker 3: I'll go two more.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't. I wouldn't put Quinn in there.
Speaker 3: He'd be boring talking about investment banking and how he
Speaker 3: should have been an investment banker. Dang it, who I
Speaker 3: put Darwin morero in there, our pitching coach, pitching coach,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, oh yeah, good times, and then probably Brody Moore. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: but then if I put Brody Moore in there, I
Speaker 3: also have to put Jimmy Crooks in there as well.
Speaker 3: So maybe I'll maybe I'll just be a player only
Speaker 3: I'll kick Darwin out, Jimmy Crooks and Brody.
Speaker 2: Moore as well.
Speaker 1: You can have Darwin drive, yeah, exactly. So a funny
Speaker 1: story about Andre Gonno. We saw him make his debut
Speaker 1: in Milwaukee. Just I love debuts. I get so emotional,
Speaker 1: but you know, I'm like trying to be a professional,
Speaker 1: like don't cry for these guys, but inside in like
Speaker 1: crying of happiness. And he was just a media delight.
Speaker 1: It was so pure the emotion. I mean, he almost
Speaker 1: basically started tearing up before like talking about it again,
Speaker 1: and I was like, you're gonna start a chain reaction here.
Speaker 1: But he did mention that you guys are usually roommates correct.
Speaker 2: Uh, yeah for the most part, sometimes just with how the.
Speaker 3: Room situation works, loose up and who's not like, but yeah,
Speaker 3: I've been roommates with Andre plenty of times in our
Speaker 3: minor league career.
Speaker 1: Okay, so correct me if I'm wrong. When you got
Speaker 1: your call up, he was your roommate, correct.
Speaker 2: For Thomas Conor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Andrea was my first road roommate in low A.
Speaker 3: So like he because he played in the Cape, like
Speaker 3: straight from the draft, they put him in Palm Beach immediately.
Speaker 2: I was like three weeks after the draft.
Speaker 3: They build me up a little bit, and then I
Speaker 3: get put in low A and so in Fort Myers
Speaker 3: and Dunneat and Andre Gernio is my first minor league
Speaker 3: baseball road roommate and so him for me to be
Speaker 3: in the room when he got the call from DJ,
Speaker 3: I was like, no way, this is so cool.
Speaker 1: That's what it was. I knew there was like a
Speaker 1: starting moment for you, but you got to you got
Speaker 1: to hear the call.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and literally an hour and a half before, I'm
Speaker 3: like geez man, like we're like we're talking about, like
Speaker 3: you know what the future might hold. How he's pitching,
Speaker 3: like dude, Like you're pitching great, Like, dude, I want
Speaker 3: to be surprised if you get called up soon, man,
Speaker 3: like you deserve it. And we had a day game,
Speaker 3: so I'd take a nap, like before I was gonna
Speaker 3: get some dinner later and then some kind of in
Speaker 3: and out of sleep, and all of a sudden, I
Speaker 3: just hear, hey b JA. I'm like, oh my god, like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, and like he like looks at me
Speaker 3: like what I'm like, it's literally the call.
Speaker 2: It's the call, like.
Speaker 3: And then he's like, what what You're kidding, You're kidding,
Speaker 3: And so.
Speaker 2: Then I'm like, oh my gosh. I started freaking out.
Speaker 1: That's awesome, that's great, my Because he was telling that
Speaker 1: story in Milwaukee and he was also mentioned that he
Speaker 1: saw a number from Memphis, Soj's number saved.
Speaker 2: He was like, well, he should not have out of
Speaker 2: himself like that.
Speaker 1: I know he needs more media training.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you were like there too.
Speaker 1: You were twenty one.
Speaker 2: I was like that, Yeah you were.
Speaker 1: I remember our first we were on the field and
Speaker 1: you were great. You still are great. You still are
Speaker 1: like a top three in the clubhouse, but you're more
Speaker 1: polished now.
Speaker 2: I was twenty one.
Speaker 1: No, now you're now, You're still authentic. This is what
Speaker 1: I really like about getting to know players, because I
Speaker 1: can imagine it's really hard to all these cameras are on,
Speaker 1: especially after a start that doesn't go well, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: turned around, cameras in your face, all these people like
Speaker 1: crowding your locker. Especially in Saint Louis there are a
Speaker 1: ton of like hoverers around and you're just like, okay,
Speaker 1: but you always do such a good job of just
Speaker 1: talking and being in communicating and just being authentic. Do
Speaker 1: you is that does that come naturally? Do?
Speaker 3: I like to think so My dad when like just
Speaker 3: when I was younger, he'd always be like you always
Speaker 3: pretended to be like an interviewer, like a reporter, like
Speaker 3: Michael McGreevy, you went two for three in your Litterle
Speaker 3: League game to day, how'd you feel?
Speaker 2: So like we'd do a little fun.
Speaker 3: Like, well, Dad, you know, I really saw that ball
Speaker 3: way and so just stuff like that, I guess kind
Speaker 3: of trains you a little bit. But hearing all the
Speaker 3: cliches from movies like Bull Durham and stuff like that,
Speaker 3: like you try to sprinkle those in as much as
Speaker 3: you can as well, and just you know, like the
Speaker 3: people that get it, like, oh no, I get it.
Speaker 1: Miles. Michael was one time. He does this every now
Speaker 1: and then. He playstle games, but he did an entire
Speaker 1: meet post game scrum with just cliches, and I was,
Speaker 1: I was, I was like, are you kidding me right now?
Speaker 1: Are you serious?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Those guys are fun. Do you have a favorite veteran
Speaker 1: in the Saint Louis Clubhouse?
Speaker 2: You know, you could say all of them.
Speaker 3: I feel if I don't touch on all of them,
Speaker 3: they're gonna next time I see them, they're like, oh,
Speaker 3: no love for me, but true. I think in my
Speaker 3: minor league career, I mean unfortunately, because I've seen Steve
Speaker 3: the most and with him rehabbing the last couple of years,
Speaker 3: and you know, thankfully he's up there being healthy now
Speaker 3: and doing great. I really like talking with Steve a
Speaker 3: whole bunch. He's always been super supportive, always just watching
Speaker 3: my bullpens. He stays to watch my game sometimes when
Speaker 3: he was rehabbing and we're all like, dude, go home,
Speaker 3: like you don't need to be here, and he just
Speaker 3: watched all of us. I texted him the other day
Speaker 3: after his ten years and stuff and got back to me,
Speaker 3: it's just guys like that are special, and like it's
Speaker 3: guys like that make an impact on you, like starting
Speaker 3: out in your career and to see how they've had
Speaker 3: success and they like kind of give it right back
Speaker 3: to you, like it's just awesome to see.
Speaker 1: That's awesome Matt's. Matt's is one of the good ones
Speaker 1: you have. You have a great clubhouse. I don't spend
Speaker 1: actually I've got a Memphis at all this year, but
Speaker 1: both Saint Louis and down there are just a bunch
Speaker 1: of good guys. It's it's fun to be around you all,
Speaker 1: and it's just fun to just see how the careers prosper.
Speaker 1: I think this year specifically watching guys like Polante and Libby,
Speaker 1: they're both on the show together. They actually did a
Speaker 1: really good job. I was so proud to see where
Speaker 1: you all started because twenty one was my first year
Speaker 1: in the organization, and to get to know you all
Speaker 1: as you advanced through your careers. To see the success
Speaker 1: that Libby's having as a starter, to see Polante start
Speaker 1: to figure things out as well, and to know that
Speaker 1: you're next in line, like that's really cool. I think
Speaker 1: from my perspective, how much do you enjoy getting to
Speaker 1: be ideally the next core of this Cardinals team and
Speaker 1: knowing just one how much of responsibility that is. But
Speaker 1: also it's kind of an honor to be able to
Speaker 1: be trusted this early in your career to help build
Speaker 1: something back up in a town like Saint Louis.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, I mean it's definitely big shoes to fill.
Speaker 3: I mean, you got rich baseball history in Saint Louis,
Speaker 3: so there's high expectations. But they're high expectations for a reason.
Speaker 3: And seeing the guys that I've come up with, people
Speaker 3: ask me, oh, have.
Speaker 2: You ever played with Mason Win?
Speaker 3: Like I played with Mason Win and Hia in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two, Like I've been with him in Peoria and
Speaker 3: with Jordan, and like you add like a couple more guys.
Speaker 2: You get to Memphis and you see all these guys.
Speaker 3: Like Ivan Herrera Libby, like guys that are going to
Speaker 3: be like the next generation here in Saint Louis, and
Speaker 3: you see like their best games when we're in the minors,
Speaker 3: You're like, oh, my gosh, Like this guy is insane,
Speaker 3: Like this guy through his fuel, this guy hits bombs,
Speaker 3: and you just see, like you know, like while there
Speaker 3: is like, oh, expectations are high, it's like, yeah, my
Speaker 3: expectations would be high too if I saw what these
Speaker 3: guys are doing in the minor leagues and when I
Speaker 3: know they can do in the big league, so it's
Speaker 3: super encouraging and just to have my name thrown in
Speaker 3: that has just awesome to see as well.
Speaker 1: Definitely, and I know I speak for myself, but also
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Speaker 1: All right, before we wrap it up here, because you
Speaker 1: have well you're pitching today, but you have a game
Speaker 1: in Nashville. I have a full off day in Chicago.
Speaker 1: I can see the water right now.
Speaker 2: Do you want it?
Speaker 3: You want to trade? Do you want to trade? I
Speaker 3: get the off day. You have to go watch the
Speaker 3: game in Nashville.
Speaker 1: This off day was like my reason to live when
Speaker 1: I was suffering through Pittsburgh. Okay, we were all suffering
Speaker 1: through Pittsburgh, Okay we can say it. I just thought,
Speaker 1: just get to Thursday, get to the off day. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'll be taking full advantage of that. But some things
Speaker 1: you might be like to do on your off day.
Speaker 1: Oh great segue by me is I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's fair to qualify you as would you say you're
Speaker 1: a scratch golfer.
Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you're eighteen birdies, but you know you don't. You
Speaker 1: don't finish your sometimes, you.
Speaker 3: Know, sometimes the eighteen birdies, I'm like, oh, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: track it on eighteen.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I definitely don't use eighteen birdies all the time, but
Speaker 3: when I do, it's always when I play a terrible round,
Speaker 3: I'm like, you know what, I'm just.
Speaker 2: Gonna keep this one of myself.
Speaker 3: I don't need Katie to see my kind of shot
Speaker 3: ten over today. But yeah, like I haven't been playing.
Speaker 3: I got to play a good amount in spring. I
Speaker 3: played once the day that the Battle of the Birds
Speaker 3: happened in Memphis, and then like when I got called
Speaker 3: up for that met series, I just put my golf
Speaker 3: clubs in my Saint Louis apartment and because I just
Speaker 3: don't want them sitting in the back of my truck
Speaker 3: in Memphis.
Speaker 2: Just din't.
Speaker 3: I want to put all my extra stuff in my apartment.
Speaker 3: I like to see the back of the back seats
Speaker 3: of my truck and not have it just cluster with
Speaker 3: all my extra stuff that I don't really use or wear.
Speaker 2: So just put those away.
Speaker 3: But so I haven't been able to play a whole bunch,
Speaker 3: so I can't really say I'd be any good once
Speaker 3: I get out to the chorus the first time.
Speaker 2: Soon.
Speaker 1: Well, usually if you haven't played for a while, your
Speaker 1: first round back are like kind of dialed in. I
Speaker 1: think that's what's helpening. I hope happens to me training.
Speaker 1: But if you are creating your ideal like your ideal round,
Speaker 1: your ideal foursome, who are your which three are you taking?
Speaker 1: It can be for vibes, it can be for skill,
Speaker 1: it can be whatever you want.
Speaker 3: There's there's a lot of different ways you can go.
Speaker 3: Gavin Collins is a very golfer. Actually I actually played
Speaker 3: with three of them that actually I played two times,
Speaker 3: once the Battle of the Birds by myself and another
Speaker 3: day at Mira Michi Golf Course in Memphis. On one
Speaker 3: other off day, it was Michael Factor, our tech guy,
Speaker 3: Peter Mooney, and Gavin Collins, and all three of them
Speaker 3: just kicked my butt like really insane like, and I
Speaker 3: had to pitch the two days later and I was
Speaker 3: just gassed. I was like, I'm calling after it was
Speaker 3: super slow. They keep giving me crab. I'm like after nine,
Speaker 3: I was like, guys, like, this isn't fun. I'm waiting
Speaker 3: two hours for the force them in front of us
Speaker 3: to hit ten putts.
Speaker 2: I'm like, this is not fun. I'm going home.
Speaker 3: And they're like, all nine home Mic nine, Wow, he's
Speaker 3: calling it today, And yeah, I'm over this. But three,
Speaker 3: all three of those guys are absolute sticks. And like
Speaker 3: I say, me and Gavin are about the same. And
Speaker 3: then Michael Factor and Peter Mooney, like those guys can
Speaker 3: swing it on the golf course and it was fun.
Speaker 3: Michael Factor Almos hit a hole in one and I
Speaker 3: was like, oh my gosh, these guys are dialed. So
Speaker 3: I love to do that again, but I need to
Speaker 3: get my clubs again from Saint Louis, and hopefully when
Speaker 3: I do get the opportunity to get my clubs in
Speaker 3: Saint Louis, hopefully I don't have the opportunity to bring
Speaker 3: them back to Memphis.
Speaker 2: Next.
Speaker 1: There's that part when when you're back in Saint Louis,
Speaker 1: it's for good. Hopefully, Yeah, you're going I don't know challenge.
Speaker 1: I feel bad because Pedro catches a lot of un
Speaker 1: I'm very sure.
Speaker 2: Me and Sianni still laugh about that video.
Speaker 1: That was one of my favorite things.
Speaker 3: That was unreal and like for me and Sianni to
Speaker 3: start out that day, we started off Birdie Birdie and
Speaker 3: Pedro had like a ten and that's all the people
Speaker 3: saw on the video and Pedro actually turned it.
Speaker 2: Up like at the next couple holes. They just never
Speaker 2: used the footage.
Speaker 1: No I would.
Speaker 2: They went like bogie parr, parr after the ten that
Speaker 2: he had on the first hole.
Speaker 3: So me and Sanna just like, dude, it had one
Speaker 3: opportunity Pedro and you're stunk.
Speaker 1: That is incredible. Poor Pedro. It's gonna be all right though.
Speaker 2: He's catch and hit. He doesn't need to hit the
Speaker 2: golf ball.
Speaker 1: Right, that's an off season thing for sure, exactly all right.
Speaker 1: Mike McGreevey, thank you so much for doing this. I
Speaker 1: know that you are a Cardinal's fan delight, and I
Speaker 1: really appreciate you taking time out of your schedule to
Speaker 1: uh to come on the show. Hopefully the next time
Speaker 1: we talk it's you're back in Saint Louis. We'll keep
Speaker 1: our fingers crossed for that. Is there anything you will
Speaker 1: would like to say to our loyal listeners. You're a
Speaker 1: Cardinal Territory.
Speaker 2: Oh, I can't wait to see you guys next time.
Speaker 1: I'm above awesome. Yeah, it'll be great, hopefully again, sooner
Speaker 1: rather than later. All right, Bernie and I are back,
Speaker 1: ideally Sunday. Apparently at Sunday night Baseball goes to show
Speaker 1: you guys again. I'm only focused on the off day.
Speaker 1: We'll get to the CUB series on Friday morning, so
Speaker 1: ideally Sunday night, maybe Monday morning, we'll see, but we
Speaker 1: will have an episode recapping the CUB series and hopefully
Speaker 1: goes a lot better than whatever we just watched in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: For Michael McGreevy, I'm Katie Woo. This is Cardinal Territory.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for watching