WEBVTT - Rays starting pitcher Ryan Pepiot 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.440 They don't necessarily want us to skip starts. There's gonna 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:04.640 be times where it may be a five or a 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:07.320 four inning start where you know they take you out early, 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:07.960 even if. 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:08.720 Your cruising. 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:16.000 As promised. Ryan Peppio kind enough to take some time 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:19.079 away from his day to join us here on foul Territory. Ryan, 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:20.840 it's great to see you. I'm bummed that I never 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:22.880 had the opportunity to cover you when you were in 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:26.000 LA when I was there, but I'm enjoying watching you 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:28.200 pitch now with the race. Tell me how that's been 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:31.000 going for you and kind of the biggest differences between 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:33.239 the LA Dodgers and the Tampa Bay Race, two very 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:35.199 different organizations, both having success. 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:39.040 Thanks guys for having me. Been following the show for 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:40.800 a long time, so it's fun, fun to hop on. 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:43.080 But going from. 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:46.240 Tampa or from LA to Tampa, it was a little 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:49.200 bit different. Obviously LA's major, major city and then Tampa 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:50.159 a little bit smaller. 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:50.760 But I love it. 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:52.320 It's been one of the best things that's happened to me. 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:54.880 The staff's been phenomenal with the guys over here in 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:57.440 the clubhouse are awesome, and they really just let me 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:00.760 be myself. And you know, pitch the way I want 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:03.200 to pitch. And then this kind of some minor tweaks, 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:05.280 nothing too crazy, but they just let you go out 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:07.360 there and be yourself and play how you want to play. 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:09.960 Ryan, first of all, thanks for joining us. But then 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:11.880 I want to know when they traded you for glass Now, 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:14.200 was it mandatory that one of you had to have 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:16.600 great hair? And you were the chosen one since they 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:19.000 got rid of great hair with glass Now, and then 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:20.440 they had to bring you back and say you have 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:21.120 to have the flow. 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:25.320 No, that wasn't one of the mandatory requirements. He's got 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:26.800 a little bit longer hair than I do. I actually 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:30.399 got to meet him this offseason, and awesome guy. But 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:31.920 I'll give it to him. He's got a little bit 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:35.319 better hair than I do. But Cash and Neander and 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:36.200 and Snyders. 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:36.360 Are really good. 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.520 When I got traded for when that trade went through, 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:39.920 they're like, hey, we want you to be Ryan. 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:41.199 We don't want you to be Tyler. 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:45.160 He's phenomenal in his own right, but we're not asking 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:46.240 you to go out there and be him. 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:47.400 We just want you to be yourself. 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:49.760 Hey, none of those guys have hair, so you can't 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:53.280 really go to them for hair advice cash No or 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:55.640 none of them have hair at all. I don't think so. 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:58.440 No, they have a little bit, but they don't have 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:00.520 they don't have flowing locks outside the hat. 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:03.800 Okay, okay, what's it like on Tampa Bay though, because 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:07.080 Tampa Bay for years was, hey, we'll get our pitchers 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:09.480 through five innings, our starters, then we'll go to the bullpen. 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:10.400 This year, the. 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.520 Starters are going six, seven, eight innings. Are you like, 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:15.920 thank God, I get to pitch all the time, and 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.040 I get to pitch deep. Now, this is so much fun. 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:19.680 It is fun. 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:21.920 There's some times last year when when we go through 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:23.640 some of the games you'd be at like five innings 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:26.200 through like sixty pitches, super a fishing game, and then 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:28.200 they kind of pull you in and you're like, well, why, 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:30.640 there's a lot of other underlying factors. You know, they 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.280 really take care of us and make sure that we're 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:35.840 good and healthy throughout the entire season so that we're 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.280 throwing our best in September and October when the games 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.600 mean more. But you know, coming into this year, our 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.680 pitching staff and especially the rotation, we're really close group. 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:46.560 So we kind of wanted to go into the season 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:48.600 to be able to prove that we can go deeper 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:51.239 in the ballgames save the bullpen, because. 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:52.520 We do have a really really good bullpen and those 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:53.120 guys down there. 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:55.200 We have full trust in all those guys, and we 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:56.799 want to keep those guys fresh so that they're not 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:59.560 at seventy eighty outings by the end of the regular 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:01.800 season go into the playoffs kind of taxed. So trying 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:03.440 to take some of the load off of those guys. 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.560 And you know, Lattel's got a CG this year and 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:07.120 he's holding. 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.160 It over all our heads. The rest of us have 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:10.760 gone close to. 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:13.360 Eight, so we know we're trying to knock down the 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:15.320 door and join Lttel with a CG. And you know, 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:17.920 kind of like play at old school wise, where you know, 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:19.959 it's our day to take the take the ball, and 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:22.079 it's our game until until we get taken out. 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:24.760 Yeah, when you get your CG, I need you to 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.360 turn around to the bullpen and just salute them because 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:30.040 they didn't need to do anything the whole day. So 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:31.760 that's how you can hold it over those. 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.440 Guys exactly that, and you know, hopefully there's a you know, 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:36.920 six pack of beers in my locker afterwards something like that. 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:40.280 Okay, so you're at one hundred and one hundred and 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:42.920 two innings already. You had one hundred and thirty last year. 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:46.480 We talk about it all time with teams like the Rays, 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:50.480 teams like the Dodgers. When there's pitching injuries. You say 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:53.160 you're getting the most out of the pitchers, but you 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:55.760 know they're worried about these injuries. Do they ever have 0:03:55.840 --> 0:04:00.480 conversations with you guys, especially just you starters, Hey, you know, 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:02.200 this is the inning limit that we want to get 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.960 to because you guys are a playoff looking team. You're 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.960 gonna pitch upwards to two hundred innings if you guys 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:12.200 make a deep run into the playoffs. Are they like, Hey, 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.720 we're a little concerned about this. We'd like to skip 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.240 a start, we'd like to put another guy in the rotation. 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:18.760 Do they talk to you guys about that. 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:23.080 Yeah, they're pretty upfront with us about kind of the 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:26.120 innings management. I know, only through one thirty last year. 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:29.920 Kind of going into the season, you know, it's kind 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:31.760 of can shift the need a little bit, always add 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:34.279 a few more or taking you off. It's kind of 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:37.400 just down the stretch. Seeing they're always asking how we're 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:39.560 feeling between each start. They don't necessarily want us to 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:42.680 skip starts. You know, there's gonna be times where it 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:45.960 may be a five or a four inning start where 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:48.200 you know they take you out early, even if your cruising, 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.280 just to make sure that we're able to pitch all 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:55.000 the way through October. But they're very good at being 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:59.080 open and honest with us and having open conversations so 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:03.440 that it's not like out of left field kind of 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:04.960 get taken out of the game. We kind of have 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:07.120 a little bit of idea if if there's gonna be 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.039 a time especially when you have some of these road 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:11.599 trips that we have coming up, or when you're playing 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.360 sixteen to twenty games in a row, they might call 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:16.200 somebody up, you know, give everybody an extra day or 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:16.880 something like that. 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:22.400 The curveball is new, Ryan, the cutter is new, the 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.040 fastball usage is a little bit down. But you're having 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:27.839 success with all of the changes. Why switch it up. 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:32.560 More and more times you pitched against the same teams, 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.800 there's more information out on you kind of teams have 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:38.080 a better game plan and you know, just add next 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.960 to wrinkles, just to have more tools in the toolbox 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:42.840 to keep hitters off balance, you know, slow them down 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:43.320 a little bit. 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:44.720 I've always tried with a curveball. 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:46.479 I just kind of never really found a grip that 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:48.560 really worked for me that I could consistently throw. So 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:50.880 even if it's a five to ten percent usage pitch, 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:52.920 it just slows hitters down and has something in the 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.760 back of mind that they have to think about. Cutter 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:58.200 a little bit more for try to keep the ball 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:01.440 out of the left handed batters loop. And then I've 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:03.760 been working on a sinker as well, so it's not 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.960 necessarily like a down sinker, more of a two seam, 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.120 just kind of a runball to get on on the righties, 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.440 just so that they can't just sit on the heater 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:12.400 at the top of the zone. 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:15.479 I like that because you can't ever throw hard enough 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.680 right so you've got to be Now, I. 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:22.039 Don't throw a hundred you know, best bullets in ninety eight, 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:26.160 so I'm not you know Misrawski with the Brewers, who's 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:28.000 out there ripping one hundred and two every pitch, So, 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:32.040 you know, just trying to add extra wrinkles to keep 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:32.920 the hitters off balance. 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:35.600 What a what a cage e vet. What a cage 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:37.400 e vet you are? Now, I got to ask you, 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:40.400 you hit on it a little bit. Your schedule obviously 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.520 they shifted y'all schedule around to be more on the 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:46.200 road later in the year. Have you guys, because when 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:48.520 I played for the Rays, they had a sleep specialist, 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:52.600 they had you know, they had whatever road trip planning 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:55.440 for each road trip and then what's coming up? Have 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:57.719 they changed anything because you guys are gonna be on 0:06:57.720 --> 0:06:59.839 the road a lot, and they talk about a lot 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:03.279 of sleep choices, a lot of that kind of stuff. 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:05.800 Do they change anything in that sense because you guys 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.080 will be on the road a ton here because you 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:09.359 were at home a ton early. 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:12.800 Yeah, July we have eight home games. In August, we 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:13.640 have eight home games. 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.480 We have a four city West Coast trip in August too, 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:18.640 so that won't be a long one. You know, I 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:22.280 don't even know how to pack for sixteen days, I think. 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:22.760 Is what it is. 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:25.800 But you know, we'll figure it out, find a laundromat 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:29.840 somewhere or whatever. But they've been talking a lot, a 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:31.840 lot of it early on during spring training was about 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:35.640 hydration and recovery, just about playing outside in the Florida 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.040 heat and the humidity, and especially we're playing day games 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:42.440 at noon at home now and those are they're warm. 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:43.280 To say the least. 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.920 But for sleep purposes, we have all the resources we 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:49.920 could ask for, and it's just about us going if 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:52.440 you need the help that you need, or if you 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.160 don't need anything, they're not going to force anything you 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:57.600 to do anything. But all the resources are there, and 0:07:57.600 --> 0:07:59.280 it's really just about making sure we're taking care of 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.400 our bodies. You know, play a game, maybe have a 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:03.200 night game, get away and you get into the two 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:04.720 or three in the morning sometime and then you have 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:06.680 to play the next day. Just trying to do whatever 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:08.960 we can to just stay on top of the recovery 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:11.360 modalities and make sure that we're ready to play the 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:11.800 next day. 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:15.960 AJ we're in Vegas right now and I have not 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.240 had a lot of time to eat during the day. 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:19.320 No, what could we do? 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:19.920 I could? 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:22.400 I would love a huel right now. Vanilla fuel would 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:24.600 go down perfectly because I'll have to skip meals because 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.120 I'm too busy doing what you do in Vegas, which 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:29.800 is not eat. 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So go 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:03.280 to hue Slash Foul and get fueled today with the 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:06.280 exclusive offer for the ftfam of fifteen percent off for 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:09.200 new customers if you use the code you Know It 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:14.360 fo Ul minimum seventy five dollars purchase Get after it Ron. 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:16.360 Obviously, you guys are doing the best you can with 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:20.120 the situation with the hurricane and Tropicana not being there. 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:22.439 But how long did it take or is it still 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:25.640 a process of getting used to the stats and just 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:28.480 kind of how to maneuver a sign Brenner Field with 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:31.199 that as your home ballpark, it. 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:32.560 Took a little bit to get used to. 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:34.400 You know, you play in the trap and you have 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:40.600 seventy degrees, no humidity, no wind, and no other external factors, 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:42.120 and you know your game is getting played that day 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:44.920 and never have to worry about rain delay. You could 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:47.760 look up on the video board that shows all the 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.640 pitch data. You know, a lot of guys look up 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:55.120 in their radar gun checking. We're mostly pitch metrics checking. 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:57.560 So you know, you go into some of the games 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:59.600 outside and maybe the win's blowing out, maybe it's blowing 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:03.240 in your face or cross wind. It's gonna do something 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.880 different to the ball every single time. And after a 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.960 couple starts, we kind of figured it out. And then obviously, 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:10.480 you know some of the fly balls that get hit, 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:12.840 you're like, oh cool, that's just canicorned to right. 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:14.079 Nope, it's going over the fence. 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:16.000 You know, it took a little bit to get to 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:18.080 used to, but our hitters have also adapted to it 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:20.760 as well. And I've been smoking the ball out of 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:22.319 the ballpark and you know, giving us a lot of 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:24.480 run supports. So it's it took a little bit to 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:26.080 get used to, but we're making the most of the 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:30.120 situation and you know, we're we're the team like in 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:33.160 the city. But there's a lot bigger things that are 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:35.640 more important than us, which the hurricane took a lot 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:37.439 of stuff from a lot of people in the area, 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:40.079 So you know, we're just trying to be an exciting 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:41.760 team that people can gather and rally around. 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:44.840 Just have Westy do your laundry when you're on that 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:47.960 sixteen day trip. Just tell blest you drop a bag 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:51.000 off in Westy's office, and Westy's their travel guy. Just 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:53.240 have them just drop a bag off and say, AJ 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:55.120 told me to do that, you would do this for 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.640 me and you He'll do it automatically. I promise you. 0:10:57.679 --> 0:10:58.000 I'll go. 0:10:58.200 --> 0:10:59.959 I'll go around and take one of the big host 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.160 tell laundry carts and just go to everybody's room and 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:03.880 just stack a giant pile and then leave it at 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:07.199 his door. And then that's from you. So yes, I'm 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:08.880 sure he'll get it done. It'll be it may take 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:10.640 a couple days farm but it'll get done. 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:12.719 You'll also not be sleeping in the hotel, You'll be 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.920 sleeping in a ten outside. But whatever, you probably should 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:16.280 do that. 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:17.280 Nah. 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:19.360 You know, my wife likes to go on all the 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:21.360 road trips, so I'm gonna make sure I keep them 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:23.440 in his good graces smart smart. 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:25.320 All right, So you mentioned your schedule, and you mentioned 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:27.400 how they prepare and all this, all these things, and 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:29.280 you're at stein Binnerfield and you look ahead and see 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:31.360 when you're pitching. Do you ever look at the schedule 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:34.280 and say, all right, we're in Detroit. Who we missed 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:37.280 schoogle because oh man, we get three days of h 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:39.800 no schooble, so I don't have to fit. You get flairty, 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.160 but you don't get Schooble. So you're like, oh, thank you, 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:44.160 no schooble against me. 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:47.319 I got this pitching against school last year and it 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:51.680 was very entertained watch from the dugout. Yeah, that was 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:53.959 talked about yesterday when he was throwing that we're like, oh, 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:57.160 we get to miss him again. But you know, it's 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:59.640 always fun to go up against some of the best 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:02.040 you know, and he's phenomenal and it's fun to watch, 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:03.800 as you know, as a pitcher, you go out and 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:06.440 watch him just dominate with all the different pitches and 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:08.680 throwing one hundred from the left side, and it's cool 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:10.600 to watch. And what he did last year and then 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:14.680 reciprocating it again this season. It's always enjoying enjoyable to 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:16.480 go out there and pitch against the best and you know, 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:18.800 toe the rubber and you know, compete against them. 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.239 But I'm not complaining. I don't have to pitch against. 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:25.199 Them, all right, you're a three sport athlete in Indiana. 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.960 AJ will say Indiana is not a real real state. 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:31.719 But as a. 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.600 State, I mean it's a real state. I mean they 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:36.920 have they're in the state your fifty states. 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:40.000 I mean, it's a state. It's the country, it's the country. 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:43.199 He will say, it's not an athletic state. And pitchers 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:47.240 are not athletes. Where do you rank on the team? 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:50.960 Where do you rank on the team as far as athletes? God, 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:52.800 you kind of look at some of the guys like 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:56.040 you watch you watch Simpson around, You're like, dude, you're fast, 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:58.240 but I could probably do a lot of things better 0:12:58.280 --> 0:12:58.520 than you. 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:01.760 I'm not beating him in a forty yard dash. I'm 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:03.720 not beating him in the first base or stealing a base. 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:07.080 I'd like to think I'm semi athletic. You know, I 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:09.640 played football. I played basketball. I mean from Indiana. It 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:12.120 might not be a state according to AJ, but from 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:16.400 Indiana you have to play basketball. But you know, I 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.080 like to go out there and shag and batting practice 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.360 and you know, get a little power shag in. So 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:24.839 you know, yesterday we ran out of people on the bench, 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:27.120 so someone had to be cleaned up and ready to 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:27.880 go if anything was. 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:29.640 An emergency, and that was me yesterday. 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:32.360 So you know, luckily I didn't have to go in 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:34.760 there because I knew the ball was coming right to 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:36.680 me no matter where I was out on the field. 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:38.040 You know, the ball away is fines you. 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:40.040 So I got to stand in there with cleats on, 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.360 ready to go, but I wasn't needed and. 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:44.640 We ended up pulling out a win yesterday. So win 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:45.400 win for the team. 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:49.560 But I don't know where I rank myself on the team, 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.120 but I'd like to put myself pretty high up there. 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.160 Okay, all right, let's let's let's get one things rat. 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:58.319 Indian Indiana is a real state. I played in Fort Waite, 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:00.480 so I know it's a real state. Okay, let's not 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:03.360 let's not get Eric all trying to get me in trouble. 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:06.000 But I will say it does say something about Indiana, 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.920 or more maybe more specifically Indianapolis, that Lance Lynn is 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.200 the best athlete to ever come out of Indianapolis, So 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:13.880 maybe that's more of the point. 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.000 That's fine. Lance is a phenomenal athlete. The guy can 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:21.080 field the position and uh knows how to pinch uh 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:22.160 me spent. 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:23.680 I got to spend a lot of time with Lance, 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.280 you know, also growing up and that we played. His 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:29.040 high school was in the same high school conference that 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.000 mine was, so I got to watch him when he 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.320 was with Drew Storn on the same high school team, 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:35.920 and then Tucker Barnhart went through the same school district 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:39.160 as well afterwards, so their team was very very good 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:42.000 to Washington I was growing up, and then getting to 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:43.840 play with him a couple of years ago was it 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:45.920 was really cool and really special. You know, he taught 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:47.960 me a lot and we still talk to this day 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.240 and consider one of my good friends. So it kind 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:52.840 of took me under his wing and it was it 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:54.160 was a lot of fun to be around him. But yeah, 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:56.280 I'd give it to him. Or Keer Myers also from 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:59.240 from Indiana, from Fort Wayne area, so uh, I think 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:00.000 he got a little confiden. 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:03.200 Yeah, there's a lot of athletes that you brought. A 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.640 good athletes that you just mentioned coming out of the 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:08.720 state of Indiana. Larry Bird didn't he go to Indiana State. 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:11.480 I mean, come on, now, state. Yeah, there's some there's 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:13.400 some good athletes coming out of that state. All right, 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:16.520 So you're an Indiana kid living in Florida. Are you 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:18.680 more of a let's go play hoops guy, or let 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:22.560 me go to the beach guy. 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:23.160 I don't know. 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:25.080 I'd probably say go to the beach, but I can 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:26.760 only go there for about like an hour before I 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:27.600 get to sunburnt. 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:30.400 So you know, I'll go to the beach for a 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:32.560 little bit and then I and then I pack it 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:34.880 up and go back. I'd rather go on a golf 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:36.680 course than go shoot hoops. 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:39.280 Okay, what's your what's your handicap? 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:41.960 Like a five? Oh? 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:46.560 Oh okay, Like that's not there's no like a five. 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:48.320 It's either five. 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:51.040 Or it's but it's it's I can play on any 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:52.560 given day. I can play like a fifteen and I 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:54.440 can just start spraying it or I could I can 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:56.520 play like a scratch sometimes if I keep the ball 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:58.880 in play. But I'm definitely not the best on our team. 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:01.680 Curtis me it is our best by far. 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.400 He's like a plus two. In the offseason. 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.640 He lives up in Adelaide, Australia where the live golf 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:10.800 tournament is. That's his home course and he's shown me 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:12.680 all his rounds that he's shot under part there and 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.040 it's it's impressive. When we're out there playing golf with him. 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:17.200 You never won a gamble against him because he's going 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:18.520 to take your money every single time. 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:20.560 Do you take your clubs on the road. 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:22.240 Oh, yeah, they go. 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:24.280 I didn't bring him on this road trip. We had 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:25.880 a bunch of day games in Minnesota and then we 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:27.840