WEBVTT - Giants manager Tony Vitello joins Splash Hit Territory 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:10.680 All right, welcome back to splash Hit territory. We have 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:14.400 a very special guest with us. Tony Vaitello. Just got 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:16.720 back from picking up his parents from the airport, ran 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:19.440 in there, put his uniform on, jumped in a chair, 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:21.480 turned on his computer and now you get to talk 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:23.400 with us. So Tony, thank you for joining us for 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:25.560 a little bit today. We appreciate your time. 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:27.800 Yeah, thank you for having me. 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:30.720 And as always, i'd like to put it out in public, 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:32.520 thank you for how much you do for us during 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:35.360 spring training. I don't know what the other years are like, 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:38.000 but this year was awesome, so I appreciate it. It was 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:40.360 it was fun getting to know the guy that I 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:43.440 watched on TV and when you when you were out there, 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:45.440 I kind of thought you were crazy, and then getting 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:48.800 at getting the medium in person, it proved it true. 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:52.199 That's right, Hey man, I love that stuff. Man, I 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:53.800 like crazy crazy is fun for me. 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:57.080 Uh. You know, Tony, I appreciate you coming on. Man. 0:00:57.400 --> 0:00:59.800 You know what I was thinking about with you coming 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:01.800 on today and I was like, I want to put 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:04.600 away the manager hat for a second. You get a 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:07.760 lot of those questions. I'm sure Susan's going to have 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:09.800 some for you. I don't need to tag team that, 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:12.600 you know, that's her job. But I just first, you know, 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:14.959 I got to hang out with Bruce. We were fly 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:18.160 fishing a couple of weeks ago. Bochie and I was 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:20.640 just life man. We get to talk life and I 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:22.760 just love that about him and we put away that 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:27.000 whole managing thought process. And just for me for a second, 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:29.280 if you could take the manager hat off, I like 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:31.040 to talk about the human side. 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:33.200 You're one hundred and whatever we are. 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:35.560 We're one hundred and twenty, one hundred and twenty get 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:38.520 plus games into the season. But if you could give 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:42.600 a little insight, if you could just Tony Bytello, who 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:43.600 is he now? 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:48.800 From opening day? Like? What have who is Tony right now? Now? 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:51.760 These experienced one hundred and twenty games as a big, 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:52.360 big manager. 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:56.200 It has not been all roses. What thoughts do you 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:56.840 have on that? 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.480 Yeah, I mean it is all tied in the job. 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:03.560 I think maybe the key is in life when you're 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:05.400 trying to figure out what you want to do. You 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:07.880 want to figure out what do you want to do 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:10.799 for a living. That's your passion, not your job. And 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:13.880 so if you are fortunate, you know to be one 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:17.040 of those that are doing something that they maybe get 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:19.680 compensated for. But if they do it anyway, even if 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.400 they weren't, then your life is your job, and so 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:24.600 it's kind of hard to take the manage your hat off. 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.120 But I do think this. 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:31.840 Has been a healthier and trust me, no one's wearing 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:34.239 it more. And you guys come out to the field 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:36.480 and I have so much respect for the tradition here 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:39.680 and I meet a guy like Swan Dunstan's, I mean 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:41.600 that was one of my idols. I mean, I was 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:44.400 shaking myself that day, and then we don't perform well. 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:47.079 I'd like to say no one's wearing it worse than 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:51.320 I am internally. But having said that, this has been 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:54.880 a much healthier version of just being a human being. 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.680 I think I don't know how football coaches do it 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:01.800 one week in one game, and one game can literally 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:05.760 get you fired in the SEC or the NFL, and 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.720 it's it's not quite that heightened sense, but in college 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:12.080 it truly is. If you don't land a portal guy, 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:16.400 it can ruin your season or tarnish it. You know, 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:19.880 there's only ten weekends that there's such a big deal, 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.240 and when you get on that bus after a tough loss, 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:25.760 it rips you inside and out for a while. And 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:29.600 I kind of carried that theme into this season, and 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.040 a lot of it was just there was I don't 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:33.480 really read a lot, but I think there was so 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:37.839 much put into, you know, the storyline of someone. 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:39.480 Coming from college. 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:41.680 I just didn't want to be the one that interfered 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:44.920 with the success of the organization or these guys that 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.520 are adults, and a lot of them are established veterans, 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:50.280 you know. I just wanted to make sure I supported 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:53.160 and then you know, obviously did my job too. But 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:55.480 when it didn't go well right out of the shoot, 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:58.280 I was doing that sec thing. 0:03:58.200 --> 0:03:59.040 If it makes sense. 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:02.720 Over and old Charlie Condon is eventually going to get 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.040 called up with the Rockies. I remember when he called 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.080 and said he was going to Georgia instead of Tennessee. 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:09.560 I threw myself on the couch and I didn't move 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:10.480 for like two hours. 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:13.080 And at this level. 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:17.800 You have to adjust and become a human being when 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.840 you take your jersey off, take advantage of your off days. 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:23.880 I remember Dusty yelled at me about how I was 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.400 spending my off days. So I've made an adjustment ever 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:29.880 since I had a really fun one yesterday. So in 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:32.680 a better place would be a summary of that long 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:33.400 winded answer. 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:36.320 Yeah, it's hard though, you know what you're trying to 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:38.919 say how I would say, how I would say And 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:42.680 it seems cliche, and Susan got cliche answers from us 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.719 all the time, but it is what it is. Hey, 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.320 there's one hundred and sixty two games. You can't win 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:50.040 them all. You know you're gonna be one hundred and 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:50.760 sixty to two and zero. 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:53.760 There is that thought process. It can be taken too far. 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:56.400 And I can tell you from what I've seen over 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:59.120 the last you know, one hundred and twenty games, or 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:00.840 four or five months, whatever you want to call it, 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:02.920 I've seen that growth in you, to be honest with you, 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:05.560 I've seen that where you're starting to me. I just 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:07.760 want to tell you what You're on the right path, 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:09.640 where you're coming out of that shell, where you're not 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:12.000 making excuses for the guys. I know what you did early. 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:13.720 It's great to protect you're a manager. You do what 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:15.720 you got to do. But now, like what you said, hey, 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:17.680 that when people say growing pains, you said, don't have 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:19.479 to be you know, it doesn't have to be. 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:21.000 It doesn't to be like that. 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:23.440 Like you are starting to push back a little bit 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:26.360 on the guys, which you should, because they are grown men. 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:27.840 Like you said, they make a lot of money and 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.400 they're going out there and they're grinding. But we're not 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:32.440 going to be complacent. We can't be okay with what 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.600 we got going right now. So I can tell you 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:37.919 that I've seen that growth in you and I appreciate it, 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:39.240 and I think you I don't. 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:40.200 I'm sure you don't listen. 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.400 You don't probably read a lot, but one of the 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:43.920 things I said is I need to see you get 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:46.200 thrown out about five more times, but I need to 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:48.960 see like good snaps, like I want you in the 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:51.719 like I said, he's do it like he's got to 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.839 do with these umpires, like get thrown out, man, get 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.240 in there, grill like snap on them. Get We used 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.840 to grade Boche's tosses like that was a freaking eight. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:01.840 You better clearly like. 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:04.320 Get out there, you know, like I need to see you, know, 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.400 I want to see that from you because I think 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:08.760 it's in there and I think that that fire that 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:11.520 you had when we did see you in the sec 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:14.120 when we did see you at Tennessee. When you're snapping, 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:16.600 it's okay to have that, and I think that you know, 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.160 you're you're feeling your way through that a little bit. 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:20.919 But what has actually been what do you think has 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:22.599 been easier than expected? 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:24.120 Though this year? 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:26.200 Man not a whole lot. 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.640 Would be the first name I think, to be honest 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.599 with you. You know, when I got my theories and 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:35.040 I just throw them out to Susan and the media 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:40.240 about the difference between there and here. But just dealing 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:47.279 with people, whether it's the front office, ownership, former players 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:52.360 like I mean, Pablo Santoval's respect level for me is 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.160 the most comical thing of all time. I mean, hit 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:58.360 three homers off off Erlander and I could barely put 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:04.039 the ball in play. But the people in the city too. Sure, 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:07.440 there's you know, comment here and there. You hear when 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:10.480 you're at home, you know if it's not going well, 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:12.960 and to me, that's justified to be honest with you. 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.240 But just dealing with the people has been some mesaged. 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:19.880 It's been kind of a carryover of you know, it's 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:23.120 with Peyton, it's with coach Hypel. The love affair for 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.800 any college USC is like that. You know, if you 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:30.640 perform well, they embrace you. And uh, it's been every 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:31.000 bit of that. 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:32.679 If not better good. 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:39.120 Let's talk fathletics, shall we. They have apparel for every season. 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:41.720 We're wearing it as we talk about it. It's soft, 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.280 it's comfortable. I wear it on the show sometimes on FT. 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:46.440 What else do you love about itcrats? 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:49.000 Well, I have it on right now and I'm all 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:52.320 about quality. But you know what, you know how good 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.240 your clothes are when you're a parent and your kids 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.920 keep stealing all of it. My daughter stole the sweatshirt, 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:01.960 my son sol my t shirts. So it's got to 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:02.640 be nice looking. 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:05.720 And if it gets a little bit chillier then it's 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:09.400 layering season and they've got layers for the fall. 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And I tell you, 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:15.200 we did make one comment one of my best friend's wives. 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:17.200 We talked about. 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:18.720 She's like, man, at least you don't have to check 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:21.400 your phone every five minutes while we're hanging out anymore 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.559 to see if teenagers are texting you or you got 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:26.120 to call somebody or something like that. 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:29.000 So this is a different kind of grind. 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.679 It's definitely a grind, But like I said, I think 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:34.360 it's taught me to be a little bit more of 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:36.280 a person, not just kind of a robot. 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:37.520 Well I do. 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.760 I also, Jeremy's right, I'm going to ask the baseball stuff. 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:44.080 But one of the interesting things here at post trade 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:47.280 deadline is how do you look at this last two 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:51.040 months I guess six weeks now when you've mentioned winning 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.600 is still very important. Of course the wins and losses 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:55.880 are important, but you've also got a factor in some 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:58.320 development because you've got a lot of young players, which 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:03.400 seems like a right in your wheelhouse, and also sorting 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:06.840 through your various options as you look at next year's roster. 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:09.439 How do you how are you looking at finding that 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:11.200 balance with all of those things. 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:13.719 Yeah, I think a little bit of it as always is, 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:16.280 and again at the end of the day, I've got 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:18.320 to make a call or put pen to paper and 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:22.520 things like that. But I've always enjoyed group discussions and debates. 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:25.240 So part of it is the group getting together and 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:29.320 mapping out to this point, who does everybody want to see? 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:31.000 And then how are we going to balance it out? 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:33.600 So I think, you know, early on it was just 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:35.480 kind of these are our guys and they're out there. 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:37.600 I think we're going to go from one extreme to 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:39.920 the other and kind of map out ahead of time, 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:43.000 just this guy's going to get sixty percent of the games, 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:46.120 this and that, So I think it'll it'll be a 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:49.000 little bit of an organizational challenge, but it'll be a 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.439 lot of fun as far as being organized. 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:53.200 But yeah, I. 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:56.520 Think it's extra time before the game and after the game, 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.000 and maybe even on an off day checking on a 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:02.040 guy and reminding them this or that because he is 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:05.480 a younger player and needs to learn quicker. But when 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:08.520 the game starts, it needs to be better baseball and 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:13.720 it'll probably come out of me. So Jeremy will be on. 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:15.719 An umpire, but it'll be on somebody. 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:18.440 There's been a lot of there's been a lot of extra, 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.840 little extra stories this year, and you got to write 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:25.480 about stuff, and there's it's fun to debate, but at 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:27.320 the core of everything is we just have to play 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:31.640 better baseball. There's not a guy that's gonna step on 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:33.760 the field for us tonight that that can't catch a 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:37.240 baseball or throw strikes or compete in the box. And 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:39.880 you know, if you can do it once too, it 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:42.640 means you can do it again. So we've just got 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:45.480 to execute better. And I think the coaches have slowly 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:48.280 started to learn each other better and maybe how to 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:52.120 communicate with some of the players and then eventually us 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:54.240 working as a group together, because it isn't just on 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:56.000 the players, but they are the ones out there. 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.000 We just have to play better baseball. 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.360 Right, You got to play better baseball, and you got 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:01.960 to be able to get the veterans to be able 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:04.240 to step in and be leaders too. Right, Yeah, not 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:06.560 only do we gotta play better baseball, I need you 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:08.440 guys to go out there and lead show these young 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.160 guys what it takes to prepare for a major league 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:13.800 baseball game. This is the big leagues. This is like, 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:17.240 this isn't like we're not developing. We can always get better, 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:19.240 but this isn't the minor leagues. We called it semi 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.480 pro ball down there, right, It's not semi pro. This 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.520 is pro ball, and there's an expectation at this level. 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:27.640 And so for you going out there and managing that 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:30.640 and having that that thought processes is to me, is 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:32.800 going to be a game changer because these kids need 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:36.400 to know that. But managing veterans is not the same. 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:39.319 It's very, very tough to do. What have you seen 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:42.360 when you got college kids that you have been that 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:44.200 you've been managing, versus now. 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:47.240 You did skip it. It's it's you can't not ignore. 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:49.280 Everybody talks about it, Well, he went from college to 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:50.760 the big leagues, blah blah blah. 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:53.120 Great, But what does managing veterans? 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:55.480 How does how? How did that feel? I mean, it's 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.800 got to be something a little different than what you expected. 0:12:58.000 --> 0:12:59.280 How has that been this year for you? 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.679 Yeah, it's been different because I think. 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:08.440 A lot of people, a lot of people thinking I've 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:12.280 stepped back too much. But to be honest with you 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:14.439 and talk with Buster and the guys in the offseason, 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:17.120 like that's how I've always been. I've been a big 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:20.960 believer of freshman year to sophomore year to junior year. 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:23.400 You get coached different, and the whole goal is to 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:27.640 build a player that is a junior draft guy or 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:31.439 a senior. You're coached in a way that you can 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:34.079 coach yourself on the field, and you become a coach. 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:37.480 You become a basically like Drew Gilbert was so good 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:41.400 at being another voice, basically repeating things that we would 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:44.520 say in a meeting, then repeating him in the locker room, 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:46.240 and he became like an additional coach. 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:47.840 The difference is. 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:52.120 And I'm not saying we were geniuses or knocking anybody, 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:56.640 But we had that time beforehand to build that foundation. 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.120 And then when you get a guy like Gavin Keelan 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:02.000 who comes from a great program at Louisville, he's kind 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:04.679 of got that foundation he had there. We meet with him, 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:06.360 we talk about the changes, and then we have a 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:10.440 whole semester in a half. Even just having Gavin for 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:12.680 one year, we still got a semester and a half 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:16.360 to build that foundation of like, this is what we're 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:20.680 looking for, this is what works, not this doesn't work here, 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:25.000 and instead here it's just come and you know, some 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.280 of these guys have had an insane amount of success, 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.880 so to come in guns blazing didn't make a whole 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.560 lot of sense to me. 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Make sure you 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.040 click the link in the description to download the app 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.280 and have the code automatically added to your account so 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:38.160 you can use it later. 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:39.200 Yeah. 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:42.280 Yeah, I think Boats helped me out as a veteran player. 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.960 Him and I would tow a line a few times 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.200 because I get weird a few times and I expected 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:52.760 certain scenarios. But you know, I remember getting after him 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:54.840 and he looked at me and he said, Hey, here's 0:15:54.840 --> 0:16:00.200 the deal. My door is always open to everybody, veterans, rookies, etc. 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.040 I'm gonna have different conversations with you as a veteran 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:05.200 as I might have with some of the younger guys. However, 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:07.680 you can ask me any question you want, but if 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:09.600 you don't want the answer, don't ask it. Because I 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:12.200 would get on him about not pitching me in certain scenarios. 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.440 I wanted to pitch right, So I'm like, I did 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.000 not him, and I did not agree. Sometimes when I 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:19.320 did not go into the ballgame and he said, well, 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.960 if you don't want you want the answer because you 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.240 asked a question, I said, yeah. He's like, your feelings 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:26.280 don't matter to me. He's like, I'm trying to win 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:28.400 a ball game here, and that to me is a 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:30.960 huge thing for a veteran to hear your feelings do 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:33.440 not bother me. So I can pull you out of 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:35.800 a game like you did the other day with Rupe. 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:37.920 Great, I know you want in the game. 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:41.320 I love it. I freaking love it. That's your feeling. Great, 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:42.880 I gotta try to win a ball game. I'm making 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.040 the decision, you know. So those are kind of things 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:47.200 that for me, a manager leads well in when they're 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:50.080 not afraid to look at veterans and say feelings do 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:50.640 not matter. 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:52.360 I'm trying to win a ballgame. 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:55.120 I hear you, you're coming out or maybe you'll talk 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:57.000 me into it, but I make the final call. And 0:16:57.160 --> 0:16:59.160 man Boach kind of put me in my place a 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:02.520 little bit there and didn't let me influence too much 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:04.440 of it. And I think that's where I fell back into, 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:07.280 like really choosing to let him lead, you know. 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:09.199 So that's a big deal for me. So those are 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:10.720 kind of things I think veterans need to know. 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.240 Yeah, and something I think as a as a coaching group, 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:19.560 starting with me, it's gotten better with some individuals. Looking 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:22.440 back on it started off too slow in that category, 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:27.199 but still trying to break down that barrier of you know, 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:29.760 you pitched like a guy that wasn't afraid to go 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:31.880 into the manager's office. And I'm not saying I don't 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.679 have guys that do that, but I don't, and I 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.600 don't know how other people were. It's been awesome to 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:41.879 get to know Boach and Dusty, but I still think 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.320 the manager label just comes with this list of stereotypes. 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:49.159 But we're all different, and I'm all for somebody like 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:51.800 I love the roop thing, and you know, me and 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:54.280 Webby had our you know, when he stayed in that 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:57.240 Cubs game, it was probably more interesting than everybody realized. 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:01.120 But we haven't had a lot of conflict. I mean, 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:04.720 the Chapman Schmidty thing is maybe the only thing that 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:08.320 the public knows. And then, you know, I tried to 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:10.760 blow it up and say, there's only been two other times, 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:14.760 you know, anyone that has said anything unfriendly, And next thing, 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:16.880 you know, we had three incidents in the locker room 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:17.440 or whatever. 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:21.879 But we just haven't had conflict. And I told the 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:23.720 player the other day, well, yeah, it was ruper and 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:24.720 I came in here, we sat. 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:27.320 We always talk after his outings, and I feel like 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:30.040 I'm maybe as close with him as anybody. 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:32.879