1 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:11,160 Speaker 1: Get excited for this season preview on the Cleveland Guardians. 2 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 1: What we do is we make sure you're caught up 3 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 1: on what they did in the offseason, and then we 4 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:17,680 Speaker 1: spin it forward to see what the projections say about 5 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,919 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six campaign for Cleveland. So first of all, 6 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,800 Speaker 1: this isn't going to take long. They added three arms. 7 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:26,759 Speaker 1: Sean Armstrong who they gave some solid money to on 8 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 1: a one year contract, Colin Holderman brought over and Connor Brogden. 9 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 1: And guys, those three, I'm sure we'll turn into studs. 10 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:35,279 Speaker 1: I mean, some of them had good times in their 11 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 1: career already, but we know what Cleveland does with these 12 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 1: types of signings. On the other side, losses include Shane 13 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:44,839 Speaker 1: Bieber mid season last year and Leane Thomas's and part 14 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:47,880 Speaker 1: of the mix for twenty twenty six Jacob Junas, Will Brennan, 15 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 1: Sam Henches and John Kenzie. 16 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 2: Noel's been bouncing around a little bit too. 17 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 1: So those guys are out, but primarily AJ they are 18 00:00:58,200 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: running it back. 19 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 3: Why not? They made the playoffs? 20 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 4: Why not? 21 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 3: Why not run it back? 22 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 2: Well they didn't. 23 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 3: Why not at all? 24 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 5: They don't have a lot of money to spend. 25 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 2: On towards the bottom, and well, they're. 26 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:15,120 Speaker 5: Counting on the young guys to take another step. Remember 27 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:17,680 Speaker 5: when we had Mike turn off on what he say 28 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:19,119 Speaker 5: they were young. We know we're going to be young, 29 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 5: and we're leaning into it. And the younger we got, 30 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 5: the better we got. So they're hoping those young guys 31 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 5: take another step and continue to grow. By the way, sorry, 32 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:28,960 Speaker 5: it's freezing and it's raining here, so I am also 33 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 5: in the rain because Mark doesn't know how to put 34 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 5: a tent up, so I am getting wet as we speak. 35 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:36,880 Speaker 5: So that's just my Cleveland Guardians season preview is they're 36 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:39,039 Speaker 5: running it back because they're young and they expect them 37 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 5: to take the next step. And they're in the division 38 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 5: the El Central where that can work. 39 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 6: I mean it can work because they have good pitching. 40 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 6: But you're looking at the Guardian's projected. 41 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 7: Lineup right here. 42 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 6: When your fifth hitter has an NA on it, he 43 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 6: means you're counting on somebody from the minor leagues to 44 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 6: step up and be your protection behind Jose Ramirez, who 45 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 6: might hit second, might hit third, But Kyle Manzardo is 46 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 6: a solid player. To me, I always look at the 47 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 6: Guardians and I think back to the Edwin and Carnassian signing. 48 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:19,359 Speaker 7: They went out, they got him. 49 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 6: I think it was three years twenty a year, so 50 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:26,119 Speaker 6: three years sixty And was Edwin er karnassiun the most 51 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 6: athletic person, the most versatile person, the most No, he 52 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 6: was a dude that was gonna come in and give 53 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:37,119 Speaker 6: you meaningful at bats and be an aircraft carrier behind 54 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 6: Francisco Lidoor, behind Lannie chisenhol Jan Gomes Like. They already 55 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:46,359 Speaker 6: had guys in that lineup that were going to carry 56 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 6: the weight, and then they added Edwin. That was gonna 57 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 6: be my question to Mike Chernoff if I had a chance, like, 58 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:56,839 Speaker 6: is there a time what's the magic bullet or what's 59 00:02:56,919 --> 00:02:59,680 Speaker 6: the like do they have to get a lottery pick 60 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 6: out and go, oh, this is the year we get 61 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 6: to spend it. Because I think there are a lot 62 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:06,920 Speaker 6: of good young pieces to this and their value is 63 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 6: in their pitching. But this lineup was abysmal last year 64 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:16,239 Speaker 6: at scoring runs and are they going to be abysmo again? 65 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 6: What makes me think otherwise? You have an MVP candidate 66 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:23,400 Speaker 6: in Josey Ramirez, and you have a bunch of other 67 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 6: guys who two years ago Yeah, they had a huge 68 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:31,640 Speaker 6: jump in there in their slug which nobody saw coming 69 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 6: and it dropped back down to Earth. So to me, 70 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 6: that's where the adjustment needs to be made for them. 71 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 6: Could they have made a big acquisition? No, I guess 72 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 6: financially not. But at what time can they do that? 73 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 3: You know how? 74 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 1: Sometimes we say the team is built around one player 75 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 1: in the lineup, and if he goes down, they're in trouble. 76 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 1: We've talked about this with guys like Judge. Is there 77 00:03:56,040 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 1: a team that's more leveraged with the Jose Ramirez your 78 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 1: top three or top five MVP thing? 79 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:06,000 Speaker 2: Aj? I mean no, they need to be a star 80 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 2: every year. Superstar can drop off. 81 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 5: I mean you could actually, I'll actually say this, you 82 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 5: can throw Judge in there too. For me, you could 83 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 5: throw You could throw Aaron Judge for the Yankees if 84 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 5: he gets hurt or has a down year, that's a 85 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 5: that's going to be a big thing for the Yankees. 86 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 5: But yes, Jose Ramiroz and Aaron Judge, off the top 87 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:25,479 Speaker 5: of my head or the two that mean more to 88 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 5: their organization than most. 89 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 1: Here's where things get interesting. So we'll start with the 90 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 1: fangrafts projections. On the win totals, and we'll go in 91 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 1: order here so you can see where they put them. 92 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: They have the Tigers at the top and here's their 93 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 1: first their own win loss, just seventy five point eight 94 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:48,279 Speaker 1: from Fangrafts. We've gone over the bet MGM number, which 95 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:50,840 Speaker 1: is eighty and a half wins. So bet MGM thinks 96 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:53,839 Speaker 1: they'll be a little better than what Fangrafts has them at. 97 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:57,039 Speaker 1: And I agree with bet MGM here over Fangrafts, but 98 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 1: we can put it next to the rest of the 99 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 1: teams in the division. I can make an easy flip 100 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 1: right here. Whatever call me biased, why, I just don't 101 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:07,160 Speaker 1: see it exactly. We all feel that way on Fangrafts. 102 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: Move the Twins down and benham Jam has them lower 103 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 1: than that. But seventy eight point six is where Fangrafts 104 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: has the Twins a few games ahead of the Guardians. 105 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:18,600 Speaker 1: No thanks, Guardians won the division last year. That part 106 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 1: should be shocking alone. AJA The Tigers did some things right. 107 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:24,920 Speaker 1: They added to their irritation. They have fromber in there 108 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 1: to hopefully be a one two punch for them with Scooble, 109 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 1: and fromber they added Berlander towards the back end here 110 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: to kind of fill the riese Oulsen void that is 111 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 1: placed there when he goes down for the season with 112 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:38,040 Speaker 1: the shoulder surgery. But then it's the Royals, the Twins, 113 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:40,840 Speaker 1: the Guardians, the White Sox. Do you think the Guardians 114 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 1: are only going to be a seventy six win fourth 115 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 1: place team? 116 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 3: No? 117 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 7: No. 118 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 5: I will never been against Stephen Vote and I'll never 119 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 5: get bet against what the Guardians. 120 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 3: Have been able to do. 121 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 5: How they do it, I have no idea, but they 122 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 5: get it done every single year, and they do it right. 123 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:59,039 Speaker 5: They believe in pitching and defense and timely hitting, and 124 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 5: they've done it for what did Mike Cheernof say? They 125 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:03,200 Speaker 5: made the playoffs seven in the last ten years? So 126 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:06,479 Speaker 5: how can you say that they're gonna win seventy six 127 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 5: games when, like you said, Scott, they won the division 128 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:09,919 Speaker 5: last year. I think that numbers low. I think the 129 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 5: White Sex numbers low. I think the Twins numbers too high. 130 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:15,839 Speaker 5: The Royals you can say is about right, and then 131 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 5: the Tigers are you know, they're they're the favorite. So 132 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:23,840 Speaker 5: the numbers you can manipulate a little bit. But I'm 133 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 5: not betting against the Guardians. 134 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:28,599 Speaker 7: I don't think they're a playoff team. 135 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:32,479 Speaker 6: I don't think they're enough of a playoff team in 136 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:35,479 Speaker 6: this division. I think I think I'd flip flop the 137 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:37,919 Speaker 6: Twins and the Guardians. I think the Royals are going 138 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 6: to give the Tigers the biggest push this year. I 139 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,599 Speaker 6: think the Royals push to make adjustments. I think they're 140 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:48,599 Speaker 6: going to be a at you know, advantage Jack Kglion, 141 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 6: I think he's gonna make the next step. I think 142 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:54,720 Speaker 6: moving the fences in could hurt them in help them 143 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 6: a little bit. 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Please support our show and tell them Foul 183 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 1: Territory sent you. 184 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:58,040 Speaker 5: Back here on Foul Territory with Kate Smith, Guardian's Closer Extraordinary. 185 00:08:58,320 --> 00:08:58,960 Speaker 3: What's it like? 186 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 5: First of all, we get into spring because I hate 187 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 5: just jumping into spring training. University of Hawaii at Manoa. No, 188 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 5: that's not even the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. How 189 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:13,720 Speaker 5: does a Canadian run into it? Or is that Honolulu 190 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:15,679 Speaker 5: is the Honolulu one? 191 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 9: So they have a couple different campuses around the islands. 192 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 9: So Manoa is the one that's just outside Honolulu. 193 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 5: Okay, because I played at the University of Hawaii, the 194 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 5: main one, the Rainbow one. The Rainbow that's it. That's 195 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 5: the one you went to. Yeah, okay, yeah, so oh 196 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:29,600 Speaker 5: so you got to follow my footstuffs. 197 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 4: I guess. 198 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 5: Granted you weren't even born when I played there. I 199 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 5: played there in nineteen ninety seven in the Winter League. 200 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:38,200 Speaker 5: They had Hawaii Winter How does a Canadian end up 201 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 5: at the University of Hawaii? 202 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:39,679 Speaker 6: Uh? 203 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:41,960 Speaker 9: Yeah, I actually there was a guy that I played 204 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:43,720 Speaker 9: high school baseball with who was a year older than me. 205 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:46,000 Speaker 9: He ended up going there before I did, so there 206 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:48,960 Speaker 9: was a little bit of a president there already. And 207 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 9: then I went to the Tournament twelve in Toronto, which 208 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 9: is a big tournament that Jase put on for all 209 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:57,080 Speaker 9: sorts of Canadian baseball players coming up. And that's where 210 00:09:57,120 --> 00:09:59,439 Speaker 9: the Hawaii coach saw me pitch there and then had 211 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:00,160 Speaker 9: me out for visit it. 212 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:01,959 Speaker 4: And not too long after. 213 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 3: That, I was from Canada and you go to Hawaii though, yeah, 214 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:05,800 Speaker 3: that's automatic. 215 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:06,640 Speaker 9: Right, Well, I mean I knew that I wanted to 216 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:09,439 Speaker 9: be somewhere that you could be year round outside. I 217 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:12,560 Speaker 9: had had enough of the rain and the indoors batty 218 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 9: cage is thrown into a net and stuff like that. 219 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:15,959 Speaker 9: So that's one of the things I was looking for 220 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:16,559 Speaker 9: going to college. 221 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:19,439 Speaker 5: You know, when I played for the Bananas last year, 222 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:23,080 Speaker 5: I caught a kid that went to uh Hawaii. Really 223 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:27,120 Speaker 5: Arch is Arch daddy afy Arch Jeez, I forgot it 224 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 5: and I just blanked on his last name. 225 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:29,200 Speaker 4: But he pitched at Hawaii. 226 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:31,199 Speaker 5: And then I played with Colton Long, who obviously was 227 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:35,080 Speaker 5: a Rainbow Warrior legend forever. But I won a title 228 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:37,920 Speaker 5: there too, so it's okay, we have that in common. Okay, 229 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 5: when you get when you go grew up in Canada, 230 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:44,800 Speaker 5: how do you get into baseball? I know the Blue 231 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:45,520 Speaker 5: Jays were. 232 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 3: Popular or art now they're more popular probably than ever. 233 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:50,319 Speaker 5: But when you grow up in Canada, how do you 234 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:53,000 Speaker 5: end up getting into baseball when it's so hockey prevalent 235 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:54,480 Speaker 5: and it's hockey hockey, hockey. 236 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:54,800 Speaker 4: Yeah? 237 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:59,240 Speaker 9: Uh So both my parents played college basketball. My dad 238 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:00,959 Speaker 9: grew up just aside Toronto, so he was a fan 239 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,720 Speaker 9: of the Jays and then moved to just outside Vancouver. 240 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:04,079 Speaker 4: And so. 241 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 9: They also are both pee teachers, and they emphasized just 242 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 9: playing sports and trying them. So I played basketball and volleyball, 243 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 9: I did a little bit track and field, and I 244 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 9: played baseball. Really I played all four, like multiple sports, 245 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:21,839 Speaker 9: all the way up until my senior year of high school. 246 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:24,080 Speaker 9: And so I just it happened to be baseball as 247 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:26,440 Speaker 9: one that I loved. It was also the one that 248 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:30,319 Speaker 9: I had the most potential in to develop and progress 249 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 9: the next level. 250 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 6: Who's your guy? Who's your guy that you followed that 251 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 6: you were like, I kind of liked that? Or were 252 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 6: you not a big baseball fan while you were coming 253 00:11:39,679 --> 00:11:40,679 Speaker 6: while you were growing up? 254 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:44,679 Speaker 9: I would say that I had other interests than just 255 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:47,160 Speaker 9: watching sports all day. But my dad would always tell 256 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:48,400 Speaker 9: me to watch Roy Halliday and. 257 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 4: The way he pitched. 258 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:54,280 Speaker 3: You pitched nothing like Roy. No, I know, you're as 259 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 3: big as Roy was, but Roy. 260 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 5: Was more of like a sinker, curveball lit a cutter. 261 00:11:57,920 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 5: You're just like rare back, here comes a forcing. 262 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 9: But that was also before I, you know, I really 263 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:05,440 Speaker 9: developed my strength and understood that and stepped into my own. 264 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:08,280 Speaker 9: It was just more so hearing the stories about how 265 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:10,599 Speaker 9: diligent he was with his work ethic and and you know, 266 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:12,319 Speaker 9: how disciplined he was and things like that. 267 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:14,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, he was he crutch, I think creps. Did you 268 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 3: play with him in Philly? 269 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 6: I played with him in Toronto well, coming up through 270 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:21,320 Speaker 6: the Blue Jays and then and then played with him 271 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:23,720 Speaker 6: in Philly for three years. And you're one hundred percent 272 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:28,080 Speaker 6: like very very humble and like he does. He just 273 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 6: assumed everybody was going to work just as hard as 274 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:33,200 Speaker 6: he did. And nobody ever ever got to that point. 275 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 6: People say that about people, but I watched it and 276 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 6: I he lived it out like he was diligent. 277 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:42,560 Speaker 7: In his work like crazy. It was awesome to see. 278 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:47,640 Speaker 3: Are you playing you playing WBC. No, you turned down Canada? 279 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 4: Yeah I did you had to? 280 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:50,560 Speaker 3: Or did you? 281 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:50,839 Speaker 4: No? 282 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 6: No? 283 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:52,040 Speaker 4: No, it was my decision. 284 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:54,200 Speaker 5: Okay, well what goes what goes into that? Because Freddy 285 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:57,720 Speaker 5: Freeman also turned down Canada? Right, so what goes into 286 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:00,560 Speaker 5: that decision of I'm not going to play? And you 287 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:02,160 Speaker 5: did it before, so it's not like it's just your 288 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 5: first one. 289 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 4: No. 290 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:06,560 Speaker 9: In twenty three it was a phenomenal experience, Like that 291 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:09,480 Speaker 9: was my first experience pitching in major league stadiums in 292 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:11,880 Speaker 9: front of sold out crowds in that kind of environment, 293 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:14,840 Speaker 9: and I had so much fun and enjoyed that. So 294 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:18,959 Speaker 9: just this year, being at kind of where things architecturally, 295 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:20,960 Speaker 9: I didn't feel that it was wise for me to 296 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,080 Speaker 9: take that time away, and so I wanted to make 297 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:27,400 Speaker 9: sure that I was here and completely president focused on 298 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 9: the year coming up. 299 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:32,040 Speaker 6: Talk about here, talk about being a guardian, because when 300 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:36,280 Speaker 6: I was in the organization twenty seventeen, they had a 301 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 6: very strict protocol on relievers. You would play high A 302 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:42,560 Speaker 6: and then you would finish the season in Double A, 303 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:45,559 Speaker 6: Double A for a whole season, and finish the season 304 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 6: in Triple A. Did you appreciate the slow trudge or 305 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:53,080 Speaker 6: because your path went a little quicker than some other guys. 306 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 6: Do you think it was something that maybe I could 307 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:56,960 Speaker 6: have gone faster. 308 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:02,959 Speaker 9: No, I'm I'm I think the timing was perfect in 309 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:06,359 Speaker 9: its own way, because when I came in this organization 310 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:08,760 Speaker 9: like I was, I was eighty eight to ninety two, 311 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:10,959 Speaker 9: I didn't have very good off site pitches. I had 312 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,240 Speaker 9: maybe topped out at ninety four, and I didn't know 313 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:16,280 Speaker 9: my you know, didn't know my strengths, didn't know how 314 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 9: to pitch, didn't know how to like try and read 315 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 9: hitters and work to my strengths in that regard. And 316 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:26,480 Speaker 9: so every subsequent season was I was learning something, I 317 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:30,360 Speaker 9: was developing something. I was building on that foundation that 318 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:33,520 Speaker 9: I have been, you know, working with with the staff 319 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:36,560 Speaker 9: here and trying to trying to take advantage of the 320 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:40,440 Speaker 9: resources they provide and dig in and just continue to 321 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:43,200 Speaker 9: build and build and build. So it never felt like 322 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 9: it was slow or like I was Stocker should have 323 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:50,600 Speaker 9: been moving on for me. 324 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 4: The whole whole, you know, way I viewed it. 325 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:56,160 Speaker 9: Was this is where I am because there's something that 326 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 9: I need to learn and work on in order for 327 00:14:58,520 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 9: me to move to the next level. 328 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:00,440 Speaker 4: And stick. 329 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 6: The Gardiens have proven that they can create starting pitchers. 330 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 6: But obviously you're a reliever. At what point did you know? 331 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:11,280 Speaker 6: At what point were you in Hi A Double A, 332 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 6: Were you like dang, like, I think I get what 333 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:18,120 Speaker 6: they're saying, and I think this is going to be 334 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:20,760 Speaker 6: dominant in the big leagues because you have only dominated 335 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:22,240 Speaker 6: since you've been up in the big leagues. 336 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 9: It was probably, I would say that it was probably 337 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 9: when I was in Triple A. There there was an 338 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:33,000 Speaker 9: adjustment period when I got there, but then there was 339 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 9: there was a stretch down the end of the year 340 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 9: where I was starting to see things coming together and 341 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 9: I was starting to pitch and feel like I was, 342 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:44,640 Speaker 9: you know, understanding that I have a complete arsenal on 343 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:47,800 Speaker 9: how to use it and to really work with my 344 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:50,240 Speaker 9: strengths and also compliment them with my other pitches and 345 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 9: roll from there. 346 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 5: When you start figuring it out, you come up to 347 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:58,040 Speaker 5: the big leagues. You have an incredible rookie season in 348 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 5: twenty four right, I mean under a two VR a 349 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 5: way more strikeouts than aning's pitched, and everyone's talking about 350 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:05,840 Speaker 5: you. You go in the postseason, you dominate, You get to 351 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 5: you get to become a legitimate person that people talk about, 352 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 5: and they say, oh, no, we don't want to get 353 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 5: to Kate Smith coming into the game in the seventh 354 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:17,080 Speaker 5: or eighth inning because you had Class A behind you. 355 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:19,560 Speaker 5: Stuff happened with Class A. Then you get thrown to 356 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 5: the closer's role. How do you just jump from a 357 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 5: seventh eight inning guy to oh, my gosh, I have 358 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:26,080 Speaker 5: to get the last three outs of a game. 359 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 9: I think that the biggest thing comes down in my faith. 360 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:33,960 Speaker 9: My identity is not in in how I perform or 361 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 9: what I do. That's temporary. That's going to be taken 362 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 9: for me at some point, whether I want it to 363 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 9: be or not. And so it really is that's the 364 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:43,240 Speaker 9: thing that I'm going to be anchored on. That's the 365 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:46,240 Speaker 9: thing that I am stable in and steadying. And when 366 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:48,040 Speaker 9: I pitch, I get to go out there and just 367 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:50,640 Speaker 9: compete and have fun. So regardless of the context there, 368 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 9: I'm sure there was a there was an adjustment. Yes, 369 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:57,160 Speaker 9: it's a it's a different situation, there's a different energy 370 00:16:57,160 --> 00:17:00,320 Speaker 9: in the ballpark, but it's fun and it's it's an 371 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 9: opportunity that you know, I got to pitch in last 372 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:05,080 Speaker 9: year that I'm grateful for and so I'm going to 373 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:07,960 Speaker 9: make sure I'm doing everything i can before the game, 374 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,119 Speaker 9: after the game, between the next game, during the offseason 375 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 9: to prepare and put myself in the best position to, 376 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:17,160 Speaker 9: you know, step up and fulfill that responsibility. If they 377 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 9: if the phone rings and my name is called. 378 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 6: Explain that because you were a rookie, explain you know 379 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 6: your faith and what the feeling, the feeling that you 380 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:29,479 Speaker 6: have because you were a rookie in some of the 381 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:33,560 Speaker 6: biggest spots and it was like, lou get kid up, 382 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 6: like he's coming in in the playoffs. Yes, we're talking 383 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:39,840 Speaker 6: about closer and regular season now on a consistent basis, 384 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:43,560 Speaker 6: but in the playoffs, tell us how your heartbeat was rolling, 385 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:46,600 Speaker 6: and tell us like the enjoyment, because on the mound 386 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 6: it looks like you're just like that was cool. 387 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:51,560 Speaker 7: That was a fun game. Thanks for letting me play. 388 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:54,960 Speaker 9: Guys, No, there's no doubt it is. It is so 389 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 9: much fun. And the anticipation that's a very real thing. 390 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 9: Like that energy builds in the bullpen as as we're 391 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:05,639 Speaker 9: watching the game and how things progress, like everyone's aware 392 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:08,440 Speaker 9: of what's going on and you know it's a close game, 393 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:11,560 Speaker 9: it's back and forth. It's gritty, like we're we're bought in. 394 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:16,320 Speaker 9: We're completely aware of what's going on there. But that 395 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 9: was one of the big lessons I took from the 396 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:21,639 Speaker 9: WBC in twenty twenty three was going into pitch in 397 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:24,760 Speaker 9: for the first time in a sold out stadium and 398 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 9: looking back on it and being like, oh, that was 399 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:29,119 Speaker 9: that was fun? Like I actually I enjoyed that, Like 400 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:30,840 Speaker 9: there was There's no part of. 401 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:31,879 Speaker 4: Me that was like that was awful. 402 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:32,920 Speaker 3: I never want to do that again. 403 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:35,679 Speaker 9: But it was seeing that actually, for whatever reason, there 404 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:37,359 Speaker 9: is something in me that thinks it's fun to be 405 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:39,679 Speaker 9: in those situations, and so I just I, you know, 406 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:42,160 Speaker 9: I enjoy that and I look forward to it. And 407 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:45,439 Speaker 9: it's really I think as simple as that is that 408 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 9: I enjoy it. 409 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:48,920 Speaker 6: Are you going to have a walk out song or 410 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 6: walk out theatrical performance. 411 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:54,280 Speaker 9: I think that's up to the media team how they 412 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:57,199 Speaker 9: want to do that. I'm that's not That's not what 413 00:18:57,280 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 9: I know how to do. But yeah, there will be 414 00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:01,760 Speaker 9: a song. I have some choice you have to pick. Sure, 415 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 9: they're not gonna run you out there just so, but I'm. 416 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:07,240 Speaker 4: Not gonna go make the video myself, not make the video. 417 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:09,840 Speaker 5: But you get to pick the song right and then 418 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:11,560 Speaker 5: right now it's what fire fired up. 419 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:13,280 Speaker 3: You're gonna stick with that, right? 420 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:14,320 Speaker 4: I think I'm gonna switch it. 421 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:16,360 Speaker 3: You're gonna switch Breaking News two? 422 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:17,720 Speaker 4: Not sure yet? 423 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:21,120 Speaker 3: So dang, I thought we had something there. I thought 424 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:25,840 Speaker 3: we had something. I've been done a lot of Guardians games. 425 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:28,480 Speaker 5: The last few years because you guys, uh, you guys 426 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:30,600 Speaker 5: have been good, so I've had to. I've been there 427 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:33,320 Speaker 5: for for a Budge, had many many means with Tito 428 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:35,040 Speaker 5: before Voter got there. Now I just sit there and 429 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:37,159 Speaker 5: listen to Voter talk for like twenty minutes. He fires 430 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:37,479 Speaker 5: me up. 431 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:40,280 Speaker 4: He does have an act for that. 432 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:43,719 Speaker 6: Yes, who's your favorite? Who's your favorite? Walk out of 433 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:52,840 Speaker 6: the other closers in the league? Active, active, war or past? 434 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:56,120 Speaker 3: Uh? 435 00:19:57,160 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 4: I think that I I I like Howsley looking out 436 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 4: to Hell's bells. 437 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:02,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, but so you stole that. You can't. You can't. 438 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 3: It doesn't work. I'm sorry, it doesn't work. No, because 439 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:08,359 Speaker 3: I was Trevor Hofflin, So you can't. I get it. 440 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:10,720 Speaker 5: But there's got you gotta go highway to Hell. You know, 441 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:12,240 Speaker 5: there's got to be another strong with Hell and it 442 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:14,800 Speaker 5: Besides Hell's bells. We just can't go, you know, like 443 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 5: I told him that too when we got him on, 444 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:19,720 Speaker 5: I'm like, Brian, I love you, but you can't. You 445 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:22,879 Speaker 5: can't steal Trevor Hoffins. Sure, and it's iconic. He's in 446 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:25,359 Speaker 5: the Hall of Fame banks hundred saves. He laughed, and 447 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 5: he still went with it. He really didn't listen to 448 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:28,120 Speaker 5: me very well. 449 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:31,520 Speaker 6: All right, Kate, I got I got one last one 450 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 6: for you. You guys still do the beep test in 451 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:39,679 Speaker 6: spring training? No we don't, Okay, no you don't do it. No, 452 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:40,360 Speaker 6: we don't do it. 453 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:43,240 Speaker 7: Did you ever do it when you were a minor leaguer? 454 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:46,680 Speaker 4: I did it in high school. That was the last time. 455 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:47,520 Speaker 4: What's the beep? 456 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:50,600 Speaker 7: Terrible question? 457 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:53,080 Speaker 6: They used to do the beep test in spring training, 458 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:56,200 Speaker 6: and basically, you have to get you have to get 459 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:59,679 Speaker 6: to the to the end point and back before it 460 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:02,080 Speaker 6: beef twice. Anyway, it was a big It was a 461 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:03,679 Speaker 6: big Guardians when I played for him. It was an 462 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:07,639 Speaker 6: Indians thing. So terrible question doesn't apply anymore. I figured 463 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:10,080 Speaker 6: you would have won because pitchers usually competed for it. 464 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:12,880 Speaker 9: And then they shortened the time between beeps. You gotta 465 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:14,440 Speaker 9: be running faster and faster and faster. 466 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:16,960 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, we didn't have I never had that, so 467 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 5: I don't even know. I never even ran a sixty 468 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:22,200 Speaker 5: when I was playing. So I one of the funniest 469 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 5: I thought, beep test is like to check your hearing. 470 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:28,480 Speaker 3: No, okay, all right, I had no idea. All right, 471 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 3: before I let you go, I gotta ask you this. Uh. 472 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 5: Sebrowski was here and he's a Canadian born and he's 473 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:36,800 Speaker 5: a giant, like you, What the hell are y'all putting 474 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:37,359 Speaker 5: in your water? 475 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:41,000 Speaker 9: But there's been comments that we might switch our bullpen 476 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:42,440 Speaker 9: into an offensive line or something. 477 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:45,200 Speaker 5: And so I mean every Canadian I'm looking at a 478 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,080 Speaker 5: list of active Canadians are all gigantic. So what I 479 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:53,280 Speaker 5: mean besides you and Sebrowski and then Quantrell's big, Romano's 480 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 5: a big guy, Pavetta's a big guy, Brash is a 481 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:56,080 Speaker 5: big guy. 482 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:56,600 Speaker 3: I don't know. 483 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:58,879 Speaker 5: You guys are only pitchers, so I mean you have 484 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:02,399 Speaker 5: nailor right, So he's he's the token, uh position player 485 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 5: in the Canadian group. Everyone else is just gigantic pictures. 486 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:07,359 Speaker 9: Yeah, I can't speak to them, but I drank a 487 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:09,439 Speaker 9: lot of milk growing up. Maybe that has something to 488 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:09,880 Speaker 9: do with it. 489 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:11,920 Speaker 3: Okay, all right. 490 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:15,159 Speaker 7: That's okay. Hey, last one, you and I. 491 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,159 Speaker 6: This is the first guest we've ever had on the 492 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:20,399 Speaker 6: show that we're starting our fourth season here in March. 493 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:23,720 Speaker 6: You and I are the only two that have ever 494 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:25,760 Speaker 6: been on the same show that went to a Mennonite 495 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:29,960 Speaker 6: high school. I went to a Mennonite high school in Pennsylvania, 496 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 6: Christopher Dock Mennonite High School. You went to a men 497 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:36,920 Speaker 6: in high school clearly farther away in BC. 498 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:41,959 Speaker 4: Mm hmm, that's wild. No school dances at those men 499 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:42,960 Speaker 4: in night high schools. 500 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:44,120 Speaker 7: There was no. 501 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 5: Site your amish like Crats. Dude, do you have a 502 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:50,360 Speaker 5: horse and buggy growing up like Krats does? 503 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 7: Totally different? 504 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:52,760 Speaker 4: No, totally, I know. 505 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 5: Sorry, I'm just we always give Crats because he's from 506 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:57,680 Speaker 5: rural Pennsylvania where there's a lot of. 507 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:00,000 Speaker 9: When I told my wife that when we were dating, 508 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 9: she was like, I told her parents, I think he 509 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 9: might be Amish. 510 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:03,840 Speaker 4: No, I'm not. 511 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:06,800 Speaker 3: Okay, that's good, but your faith based. We love that. 512 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 5: So all the best, good luck, and I can't wait 513 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:12,199 Speaker 5: to see what song you pick and what entrance that 514 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:14,160 Speaker 5: you choose yourself when you come out to. 515 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:15,200 Speaker 3: The to the mount. 516 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:16,160 Speaker 4: Thank you. 517 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:20,199 Speaker 5: We have Hunter Gaddis here with some of the best 518 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:24,280 Speaker 5: flow not only on his head but also on his 519 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:27,479 Speaker 5: chin right in all of Major League Baseball. And can 520 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:30,800 Speaker 5: we do we call you a setup guy extraordinary as 521 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 5: Kate Effecion officially taking the closers, and you're the setup 522 00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:35,480 Speaker 5: for Kate. 523 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:38,399 Speaker 4: Now, hey, I'll take whatever. I just I just like 524 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:38,840 Speaker 4: the job. 525 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:41,119 Speaker 5: You just like a job or the job. I like 526 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:47,560 Speaker 5: the job you started at one point, Yes, I used too, the. 527 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 3: Job of starting, or the job of relieving. 528 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 10: I like reliving. I like the spur of a moment 529 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:53,440 Speaker 10: going a game. 530 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:54,800 Speaker 3: Did you throw a bullpen today? 531 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:56,360 Speaker 4: I did not? I think one yesterday. 532 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:58,399 Speaker 3: And did you use the iPad and all the tools? 533 00:23:58,440 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 4: Oh? Yeah, all the technology? 534 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:00,000 Speaker 3: Do you? 535 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:00,840 Speaker 4: Yeah? Oh? 536 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 5: Man, man, man man, So are you the the throw 537 00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:06,720 Speaker 5: one pitch? And then I'm I gotta see what I. 538 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:10,399 Speaker 10: Threw that only if I'm specifically working on something okay. 539 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 10: Otherwise otherwise I don't touch it. If I feel good 540 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:15,040 Speaker 10: and it comes out good, good location, I don't look at. 541 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:16,280 Speaker 3: What are you looking for? I always asked. 542 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:18,800 Speaker 5: Yesterday we're in Kansas City and we had Reagan's and 543 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:23,480 Speaker 5: Waka and Stevian and you're like, Okay, what are you 544 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:25,159 Speaker 5: looking at? So when you pick up the iPad and 545 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,720 Speaker 5: you throw a pitch and you're like that was it? Oh, 546 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,200 Speaker 5: and then you say, oh, it's ninety seven point eight 547 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 5: with this vert or horizontal? Are you looking for a 548 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:33,679 Speaker 5: specific metric? 549 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:39,119 Speaker 10: Yeah, not exactly vert or velo per se, Like like 550 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:41,639 Speaker 10: if it if it comes out good, like it and 551 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:43,720 Speaker 10: it feels good, I'm not gonna look at it, okay, 552 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:45,800 Speaker 10: because the only thing the numbers could maybe tell me 553 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:47,080 Speaker 10: is that it wasn't good. 554 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:49,760 Speaker 4: It's like, if it feels good, I'm gonna rock with it. 555 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:53,680 Speaker 10: But uh, it's more like if I'm coming around the ball, 556 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:55,560 Speaker 10: like on the side of my fastball and I'm not 557 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:57,560 Speaker 10: getting that it doesn't feel like I'm getting that vert 558 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:00,919 Speaker 10: I'll go look at the spin direction, say, am I 559 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:02,760 Speaker 10: on the side of it? Am I truly behind it? 560 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:05,720 Speaker 10: And if it just feels weird that day, but I'm 561 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:07,720 Speaker 10: still behind it, good, Just look at it a couple 562 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:08,000 Speaker 10: of times. 563 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 4: Just make sure Hunter. 564 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:13,560 Speaker 6: So many people are looking at like the screens and 565 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 6: the numbers, and you guys have six coaches watching each 566 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,600 Speaker 6: bullpen like there's so much going on. Do you feel 567 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:23,919 Speaker 6: like that lends to arm health for pitchers, or do 568 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:28,280 Speaker 6: you feel like it is something that could could make 569 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 6: guys more susceptible to injuries, especially younger guys who are like, 570 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,480 Speaker 6: everybody's watching me. Every pitch is videoed, it's all in 571 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 6: the iPad. I have to throw my mac's best pitch. 572 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:45,840 Speaker 4: Ever, I mean, it can definitely add to it. 573 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:49,199 Speaker 10: I wouldn't say, you know, it's easy to do it, 574 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:50,879 Speaker 10: especially the first time. It took me a couple of 575 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:54,040 Speaker 10: years to like, you know, get over. Hey, everybody's watching. 576 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:57,880 Speaker 10: The numbers are on me. But once I realized, like, hey, 577 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:01,679 Speaker 10: those numbers are there to help, just you know, hurt you. 578 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:03,919 Speaker 10: Like you're throwing eighty eight in the bullpen and then 579 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,600 Speaker 10: it feels good and everything's coming out good. You know, 580 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:09,120 Speaker 10: that's just as good if you're throwing hard and it's 581 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:11,640 Speaker 10: you know, it looks just as good to me. It's 582 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:14,200 Speaker 10: just it's just a bullpen to me. It's always just 583 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,760 Speaker 10: a bullpen to you. Well, what about when you're warming 584 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 10: up for a game. Okay, well let's say now you're warming. 585 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:20,920 Speaker 4: Up for a game. Is you don't care? 586 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,080 Speaker 10: No, the only thing I care abouts on the mountain 587 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:24,920 Speaker 10: in the in the field in the game. 588 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:25,320 Speaker 4: Okay. 589 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,119 Speaker 5: So when you're warming up to come into the seventh 590 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:31,320 Speaker 5: eighth inning, right in a game, do the coaches stand 591 00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 5: there with the iPads. 592 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:33,360 Speaker 4: No? 593 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 3: Not in the game, No, no, not in the bullpen. No, okay, 594 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:37,120 Speaker 3: So you warm up. 595 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 5: So the first pitch of the your outing whatever, let's 596 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,199 Speaker 5: you throw a four seamer up right and the guy 597 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 5: swings and misses. 598 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:50,119 Speaker 3: Are you a creeper of ninety seven point six twelve 599 00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 3: inches of vert? 600 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:52,720 Speaker 4: For sure? Look good? 601 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:55,000 Speaker 5: Not every time you hide it, or you just because 602 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,159 Speaker 5: the guys who just would hide it were worse than 603 00:26:58,160 --> 00:26:59,080 Speaker 5: the guys that would just go. 604 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:03,199 Speaker 10: Okay, baifically. I don't have to turn around behind you. No, 605 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:05,239 Speaker 10: it's a it's up broad behind the cutcher. So it's 606 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,520 Speaker 10: a little it's a little maybe you get the ball back, 607 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 10: catch it up here. 608 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:08,800 Speaker 4: A little peak. 609 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:11,080 Speaker 5: And because I remember when they first started doing that, 610 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:12,480 Speaker 5: we would yell at the picture. 611 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:15,360 Speaker 3: Four you don't have to look ninety two? 612 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:17,439 Speaker 4: What uh? You know? 613 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 10: In high school and college, like I didn't have the 614 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,480 Speaker 10: velos like on boards and stuff. So I finally started 615 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,400 Speaker 10: like being able to look at it. I looked because 616 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:26,920 Speaker 10: I I like it especially if you throw hard, Yeah, 617 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:27,440 Speaker 10: it's fun. 618 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:28,360 Speaker 4: It's fun. Yeah. 619 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,679 Speaker 5: So when you when you punch your guys ticket, you 620 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,720 Speaker 5: ever look up and be like you just pointed the scoreboard. 621 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,240 Speaker 4: I never, I liked. I like to strut around, catch 622 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:37,720 Speaker 4: my breath. 623 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:39,440 Speaker 3: Okay, you're tired for that pitch clock? 624 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:44,320 Speaker 4: Yeah? Run No, what's more? 625 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:48,399 Speaker 6: What's more disappointing absolutely getting on one like you're like 626 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:53,200 Speaker 6: that came out good? Looking up? Oh it was actually 627 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 6: two miles an hour slower. Or giving up a little 628 00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:58,960 Speaker 6: bleeder base hit that you should have made the play on. 629 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:02,000 Speaker 4: It matters. 630 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:03,800 Speaker 10: I mean in the game, I'm just trying to get 631 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:07,320 Speaker 10: three outs. If I'm throwing ninety, if I'm throwing a hundred, 632 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:10,120 Speaker 10: three outs, three outs to me, you. 633 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 4: Know you want to strike everybody. 634 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:11,560 Speaker 3: I don't. 635 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,760 Speaker 4: I want to for sure that three outs and a 636 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 4: zero on the board. That's my goal. 637 00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:19,440 Speaker 5: So if you give up like three piss missiles, three, 638 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:21,720 Speaker 5: you know, three line drives, you're like, oh, let's fine, 639 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,960 Speaker 5: three outs, three ounces of zero three. I may not 640 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 5: be the happiest, but three three ounces there on the board. 641 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:31,280 Speaker 3: I like it. I like it. What was what was 642 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:35,680 Speaker 3: it like when you went from starter reliever? 643 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:37,840 Speaker 5: You say you like relieving more. To me, you come 644 00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:39,800 Speaker 5: across as more of a reliever than a star. Most 645 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,880 Speaker 5: starters don't look the way you most relieve. You have 646 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:45,200 Speaker 5: a reliever look right, which is great. 647 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:45,720 Speaker 4: I love it. 648 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,640 Speaker 5: I think every reliever should look mean and tough and 649 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,440 Speaker 5: as nasty as they possibly can, because when you look 650 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,000 Speaker 5: out there as a hitter, you look at the guy 651 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,080 Speaker 5: and you're like, oh, look, how cute he is. Meanwhile, 652 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:57,160 Speaker 5: you know I want a guy that's out there snarling 653 00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:00,760 Speaker 5: and breathing fire. So what was that trends like for you? 654 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:02,600 Speaker 5: Did they did the guardians come to you and say, look, 655 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,600 Speaker 5: we tried to get starter, we think your stuff plays better, 656 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 5: or did you go to them and say, I think 657 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:08,400 Speaker 5: I'd be better as a reliever. 658 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:12,280 Speaker 10: I was this spring training of twenty four. I prepared 659 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,920 Speaker 10: the off season as a starter, you know, building up 660 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:19,160 Speaker 10: doing forty to fifty pitch bullpens and whatnot. And then 661 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:22,000 Speaker 10: we started games. I think I do an inning here 662 00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:24,200 Speaker 10: through two innings, kind of building a starter, and then 663 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 10: it was just like, hey go get one inning, Hey 664 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,280 Speaker 10: go get one inning, Hey go get one inning. I 665 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:32,240 Speaker 10: was like, okay, probably not starting, you know, made the team. 666 00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:34,480 Speaker 10: They told me I was be in the bullpen, not 667 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,320 Speaker 10: no set roll, no nothing, just when my name's called go, 668 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:40,480 Speaker 10: And that's what I did. And I've really enjoyed, like 669 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:42,960 Speaker 10: spur of the moment every day I can be in 670 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:46,040 Speaker 10: the game and it's a lot more fun to me. 671 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:48,880 Speaker 10: We just talked to Mike Turnoff and I had to 672 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,960 Speaker 10: ask the terrible question in the room, but he said, 673 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:54,480 Speaker 10: you guys were pretty pissed when the whole class A 674 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:58,080 Speaker 10: thing came out. You're actually somebody who's down there in 675 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:01,480 Speaker 10: a pen with him when that all came out. What 676 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:04,880 Speaker 10: were your emotions and did it galvanize you as a 677 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:05,760 Speaker 10: group in the bullpen? 678 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:07,880 Speaker 4: Uh? 679 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:09,440 Speaker 10: You know, at first it was just kind of like 680 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:15,360 Speaker 10: a stun moment. Uh kind of just let it be, 681 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:17,720 Speaker 10: you know. I just kind of swept it on the rug. 682 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:19,840 Speaker 10: I still had a job to do every single day 683 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:22,640 Speaker 10: showing up, and I just tried to control it I could. 684 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:31,440 Speaker 3: That's a very that's a very veteran answer on Yeah. 685 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,000 Speaker 2: Well wait, I have a followed just on the season there. 686 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:39,120 Speaker 1: What a well, Okay, so this is kind of the 687 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,920 Speaker 1: fan in me here, hunter, and it's getting more to 688 00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,200 Speaker 1: how Yeah, you guys certainly were galvanized. You came back 689 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:48,440 Speaker 1: from a ridiculous deficit to take the Tigers down for 690 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,320 Speaker 1: the division. I know the postseason didn't go the way 691 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 1: the team wanted it to go, but the regular season 692 00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:57,640 Speaker 1: is a freaking marathon, and usually when you see double 693 00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:00,640 Speaker 1: digit deficits that late in the season, you're like, yeah, 694 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:01,280 Speaker 1: we're toasted. 695 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:02,320 Speaker 2: So here's my question. 696 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:04,320 Speaker 1: We're not going to throw any player under the bus, 697 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:06,160 Speaker 1: but you don't have to say the name of the player. 698 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,360 Speaker 1: There had to be one person at one moment that 699 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:10,920 Speaker 1: joke at least like, well, it's not our year, We're 700 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:14,440 Speaker 1: not winning the division. It's something right like, did you 701 00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:17,200 Speaker 1: guys actually look the entire time, and every single person 702 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:19,280 Speaker 1: was like, oh, we got this. We got this, guys, 703 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:22,560 Speaker 1: fifteen in the back of the Tigers, We're getting them. 704 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:24,840 Speaker 1: Like there had to be some moment of whatever it's 705 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:28,160 Speaker 1: called brevity or something. We're like, all right, not this time. 706 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,640 Speaker 10: You know, I did one hundred percent honest, I'd never 707 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:35,800 Speaker 10: heard anybody say that we were out of it by 708 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,320 Speaker 10: any means. The voter did a real good job of 709 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,000 Speaker 10: talking to us each shit every day and just keeping 710 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,760 Speaker 10: our spirits up in the down moments, just you know, 711 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,600 Speaker 10: to take it one day at a time, and then 712 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:50,240 Speaker 10: it kind of it got I mean we had a 713 00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:53,280 Speaker 10: tough time, tough stretch where it was like not as 714 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,160 Speaker 10: easy to show up to the park for sure, and 715 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,360 Speaker 10: then once when you got there, it was game time 716 00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:59,520 Speaker 10: and it kind of goes away, and then we got 717 00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:02,640 Speaker 10: hot and started rolling for us and it was a 718 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:04,880 Speaker 10: lot of fun to end it. 719 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,600 Speaker 6: Steven Vote's one of my good friends. We played together 720 00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:13,080 Speaker 6: several different stops. What does he do that you think 721 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,560 Speaker 6: other managers? And I get it, you haven't had other 722 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,240 Speaker 6: manager a ton of other managers in the big leagues, 723 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:22,479 Speaker 6: But what does he do that brings you guys together 724 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,600 Speaker 6: or what's his like most endearing trait? But then you 725 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,800 Speaker 6: also have to say, what's the one thing that's really annoying. 726 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:29,080 Speaker 4: That he does. 727 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,920 Speaker 10: I mean, he's really good at just being personal with everybody. 728 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:38,200 Speaker 10: He knows everybody really well. I feel like, you know, 729 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,960 Speaker 10: we know him really well. Just when it's time to 730 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:42,800 Speaker 10: joke around and how fun, I mean, that's gonna be 731 00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 10: the time, and he'll do it. And then when it's 732 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:48,400 Speaker 10: game time, I think he's like a different person. He's ready, 733 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:51,840 Speaker 10: he's locked in, and I just feel like he's locked 734 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:53,920 Speaker 10: into the game. But then you see him the clubhouse 735 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:57,040 Speaker 10: after and he's hot, like high fiving, smiling and just 736 00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,960 Speaker 10: real personal. But the only thing I guess to say, like, 737 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:03,360 Speaker 10: I don't know what you said. I was like, don't like, 738 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:04,680 Speaker 10: I don't know if that's the words. It's not that 739 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:08,160 Speaker 10: I don't like anything about him, but We'll be having fun, 740 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:09,640 Speaker 10: have a fun, and then I'll have to snap out 741 00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:11,280 Speaker 10: of it, and he's like, oh, I'm your manager. 742 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:13,720 Speaker 4: I gotta got my job. 743 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:19,880 Speaker 5: Yeah, well, welcome, welcome to life in the corporate hierarchy. Yeah, 744 00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:21,680 Speaker 5: it can only it can only be a player, so 745 00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,120 Speaker 5: long in the fun stop exactly Not I understand that. No, 746 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,640 Speaker 5: I'm just kidding. It actually gets better as you get older. 747 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:29,440 Speaker 5: All right, I have two more before we let you go. 748 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,040 Speaker 5: One you said, vote gets to know you personal. So 749 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:33,320 Speaker 5: what what does he talk to you about? 750 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:37,280 Speaker 4: Uh? Golf? Really? Yeah, we both enjoy golf. I love 751 00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:39,440 Speaker 4: golf and it's just my Uh So. 752 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:41,320 Speaker 5: Now that you're done, it's eleven fifty two, are you 753 00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:46,840 Speaker 5: going to play fifteen? And hear that mark here, that's 754 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:48,680 Speaker 5: good man two fifteen tea time. 755 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,040 Speaker 3: Ma, It's unbelievable. Some of us can't ever get out 756 00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:51,320 Speaker 3: of here. 757 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:53,760 Speaker 4: You gotta get it in when you can. That's right. 758 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:55,440 Speaker 5: I know someone's got some of us gotta You know, 759 00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:57,320 Speaker 5: we gotta work twice today, Hunter. We can't all just 760 00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:59,600 Speaker 5: throw a bullpens yesterday and take it easy. And then 761 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:02,400 Speaker 5: the last for me, we had Kate on or we 762 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:02,960 Speaker 5: had Kate on. 763 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:04,640 Speaker 4: I talked to Kate. 764 00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:07,480 Speaker 5: He said he has a new song he's coming out to. 765 00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:12,640 Speaker 5: I'm a firm believer that only the closer gets the 766 00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:16,440 Speaker 5: walkout song and the fire entrance. You're not a closer yet, 767 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:18,960 Speaker 5: you might be someday. Do you think it's okay for 768 00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:22,320 Speaker 5: setup man to get the fire entrance in the song? 769 00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:23,000 Speaker 4: For sure? 770 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:28,359 Speaker 10: I think anybody should go, sir, we're playing a game 771 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,560 Speaker 10: for the fans out there to enjoy. I think a 772 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:31,840 Speaker 10: good intro and everything. 773 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:32,719 Speaker 4: Why not? 774 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,600 Speaker 3: Oh man, I was liking you too, and then you 775 00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:38,400 Speaker 3: went ruined it. Oh come on, now, I'm not talking about. 776 00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:40,320 Speaker 9: No. 777 00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:40,879 Speaker 7: It's fun. 778 00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:43,680 Speaker 2: It's like can you imagine? Can you imagine? 779 00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:46,040 Speaker 1: It's like maybe like five years from now, like Edwin 780 00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:48,520 Speaker 1: Diez isn't a closer anymore, and he's like a fifth 781 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,920 Speaker 1: inning guy, and like the starter gets like just destroyed 782 00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:55,520 Speaker 1: and it's like ten two and it's like burn up, like, 783 00:34:55,560 --> 00:35:02,000 Speaker 1: oh here, gos, it's funny. 784 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:03,440 Speaker 3: Do you have to have the lead when you come 785 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:04,280 Speaker 3: in to have the music? 786 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,479 Speaker 10: I don't know if you necessarily have to, but it's gotta. 787 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,000 Speaker 10: It's gotta be a good, enjoyable game for the fans. 788 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:11,200 Speaker 10: That's I mean, that's why we're there, That's why they 789 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:15,399 Speaker 10: show up. Okay, I mean give it to it Hunter. 790 00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:18,320 Speaker 6: My last question, I asked Kade this, but off camera, 791 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:23,239 Speaker 6: I asked Kad Smith this, does the boneyard, the plane boneyard, 792 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:26,520 Speaker 6: which is right next to Goodyear, does it freak you 793 00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:28,719 Speaker 6: out at all? Because when I played there, freaked me 794 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,799 Speaker 6: out because planes will take off and land there, But 795 00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,480 Speaker 6: it's all decommissioned planes that are there, and I'm like, 796 00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:37,239 Speaker 6: who is flying those? I feel like it's like the 797 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,120 Speaker 6: bullpen guys of of pilots? 798 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:41,360 Speaker 7: Am I right or wrong? 799 00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:43,560 Speaker 4: I don't know. 800 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:45,839 Speaker 10: I've never even thought about it. You put way more 801 00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:48,000 Speaker 10: thought into it than I have. I just see planes there, 802 00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:48,359 Speaker 10: I don't. 803 00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:50,520 Speaker 3: I actually just think it's cool that they're all there. 804 00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:52,040 Speaker 10: It is kind of cool to see her unless you 805 00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:53,759 Speaker 10: gotta play catch here and you got planes in your 806 00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,280 Speaker 10: someone's letting go of the ball right into a white plane. 807 00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:57,200 Speaker 4: That's not too funny. 808 00:35:57,920 --> 00:35:59,640 Speaker 10: But now I see a bunch of the small planes 809 00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:03,040 Speaker 10: I like take off and on a weddy day, even 810 00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:06,799 Speaker 10: like today, you're not in there. You're not a flyer. No, 811 00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:08,400 Speaker 10: I feel like I'm already over the weight them in 812 00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:08,799 Speaker 10: those days. 813 00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:16,080 Speaker 1: Hunter, this was great. Thank you for the time. Enjoy camp, 814 00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:19,200 Speaker 1: Enjoy your tea time. Think of a j you know 815 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:23,440 Speaker 1: at every tea time that he doesn't get to enjoy, 816 00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:26,880 Speaker 1: and feel really bad for Him's. 817 00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:30,040 Speaker 5: Got a grind man, teams players. 818 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,240 Speaker 2: He chose to be a catcher, that's his loss. 819 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:35,439 Speaker 1: And now he's chosen to be a broadcaster for really 820 00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:37,399 Speaker 1: a number of networks, Ours, box, et cetera. 821 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:39,840 Speaker 2: So he's a busy man. So enjoy your free afternoon, 822 00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:41,879 Speaker 2: all right, Appreciate it.