WEBVTT - Marlins SP Tyler Phillips joins 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:09.440 They're coming for you. 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:13.040 Seriously, they're on a heat. Tyler Phillips representing them today 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:16.000 for us and back on FT Tyler, good to see it. 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:19.079 Let's start with the headliner. What's going on with you 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:20.240 guys out there right now? 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:23.000 Uh? 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:24.040 Did? I don't know? 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:30.280 The boys are swinging the bats well, pitching. 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:32.360 I mean we've we've had a few meetings talking about 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:35.239 just trying to win four games a week, and I 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:37.479 guess we just like really took that to heart, you know, 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:40.159 like you win four games a week, that's that's two 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:41.239 series wins, you know. 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:44.080 So I think we just took that to heart. The 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:46.960 hitters or whatever meetings they're having. I'm not allowed in there. 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:50.000 I've been trying to get in there, but uh no, 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:52.080 they're just they're just doing everything right, man, moving the 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:56.040 ball forward, run the base is hard, playing awesome defense. 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:58.240 I want to give like credit to like Kyle Stowers. 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:00.520 I've been just thinking about them right now. Now guy's 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:02.480 moved over to first base and I think he's making 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:03.640 unreal plays over there. 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:07.399 But it's such full team round man. Everyone's doing their jobs. 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:11.240 That's good man. How's everything going, bro? You look good? 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:14.440 It's it's great. It's good to see you. Man, was 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:15.800 happy to see your name on there. 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:18.440 Bridy you keep working, dog. 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:21.240 I appreciate it. I appreciate it. 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:23.920 I'm sorry, ty hang on, can we can we go 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:26.600 to our full shot here? Because wait a minute, Like 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:29.320 you have never once talked about Tyler Phillips one time 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:31.080 and now it comes on the show and you're like, yo, 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.520 this is my guy. Bro Yo, this is yo yo. 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:35.520 For where are you back in Jersey? 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:35.840 Oh? 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:38.360 Oh yeah, you want to know about That's. 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:39.600 Just it's just it's natural. 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.720 That's how it goes, that auto connection, man, That's how 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:43.480 that's how it is. 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:46.480 Okay, So do you know Todd as Little League World 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.840 Series champion or Home run Derby champion. How do you 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:50.200 know Tom? 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.800 Here we go, dude, I mean, honestly, both of them. 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:57.200 But we were in Texas together, man, we were spring training. 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:01.720 Here's here's a funny story. Todd come in obviously always confident. 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:02.000 Man. 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:04.720 The thing that like really threw me off is that 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:07.320 he brought his son in. It's my first spring ever. 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:11.720 Son comes in. We're all playing cards, gambling stuff like that. 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:15.280 Whatever comes in first hand of blackjack takes a hundred 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:15.679 bucks for me. 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:17.839 I was like, what the heck is going on here? Man? 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:20.800 And Todds just like he's being the man over there, dude, 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:24.600 like good energy, son brought it in. So h I 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:26.959 wish I wasn't the scared player that I was back 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:28.480 then because I think we would have had a really 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:29.000 good time. 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.440 No, you weren't scared, bro, Listen, listen. 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:34.120 I got I was scared. I was scared. 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:39.240 No besides me, stop it. Listen, dude. 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:41.920 I love all the younger guys and just like Cratzy 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:42.600 too as well. 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:42.880 Dude. 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:44.880 We tried breaking you guys in a little bit so 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:45.960 you felt comfortable. 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:46.800 It is. 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:49.520 It's a different ball game up there, dude, and especially 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:51.520 you know with the times of what was going on 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:53.880 and what was that two thousand. 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:55.239 And that was twenty twenty. 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:57.480 Man, there's twenty twenty, yeah, right on the dome. 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:02.040 So listen, if you ever felt scared, I wish you 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:03.480 would have came to me a little bit more. But 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:05.440 you look like you knew what you were doing. Even 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:06.400 if you were scared. 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:09.079 You acted like you belonging where you started and where 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:09.560 you're at now. 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:09.799 Dude. 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.040 I'm proud of you, man, because I know you're an 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:15.400 absolute beast, and I'm sorry my son took the hundred 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:15.959 bucks from you. 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:18.000 We'll get it back to you. 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.160 Hey, I'm I'm not playing with him anymore. 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:23.600 Let me. 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:26.480 I want to talk about trust too. I mean, you're 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:29.079 talking about being scared and trust. You talk about how 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:31.959 you know one of your coaches is really helped you 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.760 out a little bit with your catcher in that kind 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:37.640 of game. You know, I understand as a pitcher's perspective, 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:40.200 the trust you have with your catcher has to be 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.839 spot on and for you sometimes you know, you want 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:45.680 to do a little bit too much, or you want, hey, 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:47.720 maybe this and there, but you have to let go 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:49.920 and let your catcher do his job. So talk a 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.520 little about that and how you've gotten more confident in that. 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:54.200 Yeah, of course then. 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:57.920 I mean I think it was against the Athletics my 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:02.600 last out two outings ago, kind of had a little hiccup. 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:05.320 It was the fourth thing I went out there, men 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:09.280 got on base, and being a sinker ball guy that 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:12.160 I am, being the contact pitcher than I am, you know, 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:14.680 obviously I don't want to the guy advance. So so 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:17.120 I had to swallow my pride a little bit and say, 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:18.360 like the next day. 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:21.760 There was some fear there of letting the runner advance 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:23.320 and letting guys get on. 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:27.560 But I got a Joe mack here who's unbelievable behind 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.160 the dish, and uh, that's like the very first thing 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:31.719 that we talked about, Like I was being way too 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:35.480 quick to the plate, and that was taking a hit 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:37.320 on my stuff. It was taking a hit on my command. 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:40.479 And then I just ended up giving up free passes. 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:42.599 So Joe can't even do a job at that point anymore. 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.200 And they said, hey, man, like nobody's running off of 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.400 this guy. You got to understand that. And when people 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:49.720 do run, he's he wants them to. That's something he 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:53.599 always talks about, is I want people to run. So 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:55.400 I mean, that's just helped me build a lot of 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:58.239 trust in there and me and Joe. Whenever he isn't playing, 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:00.919 we'll talk on the bench just if I ever do 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:03.440 get into a jam, ways that he can help mechanisms 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:05.800 he can use to to get me to just stay confident. 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:07.480 But the end of the day, when you have a 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:11.000 guy that's gonna throw somebody out, whatever percentage he's throwing 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:15.599 out higher than a lot of other guys, makes me 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.160 feel better. You know, just do my job, throw the 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.360 ball over the plate. If they want to run, please 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:23.360 please give it a chance, you know, give it a try. 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:24.200 Exactly. 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.000 Talk about Joe Mack. Talk about him because people that 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.159 they are not Marlins fans or Catching fans, because if 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:34.080 you're catching fan, you should know who Joe Mack is. Like, Yeah, 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:36.920 this dude is the real deal. But talk about him 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:42.160 as a rookie having these conversations with you behind a dish. 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.599 Yeah, I mean, gosh, guy is a goofball. I'm gonna 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:46.640 I'm gonna put it right out there. 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.280 He's a goofle Love him, Love him to death. 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.040 Though, And that's like the energy that I want because 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:53.440 him being a goofble on, him being like a little 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.839 bit naive if you will, that makes him eager to 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:57.760 just continue to learn. 0:05:57.800 --> 0:05:59.120 You know. That's the thing that's that's cool. 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:03.320 Yesterday in between innings, you know, we're watching, we're getting 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:06.320 excited for runs, whatever it is. But then out of nowhere, 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:08.680 we'll just start talking about like, hey, this is what 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:10.000 I need you to do, this is the setup I 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:11.960 need you to give me. Or he's talking about like 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:14.600 what he sees from the base runner on first just 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:16.400 like the most random stuff you could think of. But 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:20.160 he wants to get better every single day and he 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:21.640 wants he wants to serve. 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:24.080 And that's I think that's the biggest thing that a catcher. 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:27.240 Could could want, you know, when you're talking about the 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:28.000 best in the game. 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:30.000 It's something that I've learned back in the day. 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.000 It's always like, hey, we're here to serve, you know, 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:35.599 like you have to be selfish in this game. But 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:37.279 at the same time, as a catcher, you're there for 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:39.760 the entire team. You're watching the whole rest of the 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:41.680 eight guys, you see the whole field. You're there to serve, 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:44.640 and especially for our pitchers, just being able to get 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:46.800 us on track. That's that's gonna be the biggest thing 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:48.839 for him to just continue to learn, is how to 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.000 go and talk with the picture in between innings or 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:53.239 when they get into a jam. 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:56.560 All right, Well, you talked about his throwing ability, and 0:06:56.600 --> 0:07:00.560 I'm going to swing another question. Have you seen anybody 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:02.720 throw like him in the game? Because right now, Joe 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:06.600 mack leads the league in caught stealing, not percentage, but 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.800 in guys thrown out. I think he's got like seventeen 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:11.720 dudes Hey's thrown out and he didn't get called. 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:12.320 Up till May. 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:18.320 Yeah. Have I seen anyone throw like him? I mean, 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.120 obviously I was around JT was. He was awesome to have. 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:25.680 But Joe does some some different stuff, man, Like I 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:27.720 remember seeing a video of him in triple A, like 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.280 he was looking at third and he somehow like did 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:31.760 like a little snake guys moving through it. 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:32.960 The second. Got a guy. 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.800 A few games ago against the Cardinals, I was pitching, 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:40.120 I was out of the game at this point, did 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:41.920 a backpick the third. It's just like you don't even 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:45.120 see it, like from the sideline, you know, Like it's 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:46.679 just the quickest snap throws. 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:48.880 It's the quickest pop time I've seen in a long time. 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:51.320 And it's a lot of fun to watch, at least, 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:53.880 I guess if you can't see it, if. 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:57.440 You so so, my question to you is, I'm not 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:58.720 sure if you were going to come on here as 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.320 a starter or as a lever, so as a catcher. 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:06.160 Are you different personalities, Because for Joe Mack being a rookie, 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:10.000 if I'm like constantly catching all Tyler Phillips starts, since 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:13.080 you've been a starter since most of his Big League 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.040 time so far, and then all of a sudden they 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.640 shift you back to the bullpen. Is he gonna have 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:19.400 to look at a different guy? Is he gonna have 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:20.680 to approach you different? 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:21.080 Like? 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:23.800 What is what is this energy that you're putting out 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:30.280 from from both sides of your pitcher persona. 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.760 I mean from the bullpen. I do feel like an 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.720 animal coming out of the gate there. I don't know 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:37.520 something about the adrenaline, Like if you ever seen the 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:39.560 movie Split, Like I feel like the Split guy just 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:41.760 like getting bigger, you know, like you coming out of 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:44.960 that Gate's it's a different feeling. But we do try 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.199 to be the same every every time. I know that's 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:49.040 like a kind of a boring answer, but the same 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.760 thing out of the As a starter, we're trying to 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:56.640 preach me feeling that animal the whole time. Granted, bullpen, 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.200 you're throwing one to two to three innings starting, you're 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:03.560 trying to go five, six, seven innings, so it is 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:08.040 a little bit harder to sustain and like maintain that mentality. 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:11.640 You get tired. It's like kind of a mental grind. 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.120 So they've been challenging me to check in and check 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:16.480 out in between innings when there's two outs, it's like 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:18.560 back to that animal mindset. 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:23.280 But those first two outs, when we're sitting in the dugout. 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:24.880 That's when Joe has this opportunity to come in and 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:26.280 get whatever out. 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:27.080 Maybe we'll joke a. 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:28.880 Little bit, but when once there's two outs, it's like, 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:32.120 get away from me. It's like just lock them back in. So, 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:35.920 I mean, dude, we're we're all we're all really close here. 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:38.600 I think we're really typed that team, and we're all 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:40.560 the same guy every day. Even if guys are struggling, 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:42.760 we all come in and we're having a blasts. 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:43.959 That's the number one thing. 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:49.080 Take us through the conversations, but then also the physical 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:53.240 ramp up to go from a reliever at the beginning 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:55.360 of the year. The role you had last year was 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:57.719 way different than what you're doing right now. So is 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:00.560 this a conversation in spring where they go, hey, we 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:04.120 could possibly do this since we bought brought Pete Fairbanks in, 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.040 but then they just had to transition you because to 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.920 build up to be a starter in the regular season 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:11.960 in the big leagues is no joke. 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:17.280 Take us through that, yeah, you know, I mean, it's 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:19.320 a tough game, man, Obviously, we had a few injuries, 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:22.280 some of our some of our death down at the 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:23.720 lower level. Some of the guys that we thought were 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:27.600 gonna be ready went through tj uh and that's that's tough, man. 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:31.120 I hate to see that. But in spring I was 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.880 throwing one to two innings, you know. I think there 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:35.880 was one outing where they wanted me to go three. 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:39.040 And that was a grind too. Just off season, I 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:41.560 wasn't necessarily preparing for that. It's preparing to be just 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:46.440 like a short burst reliever. During the season, though, I 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:50.319 was getting tossed into that, like the I don't want 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.040 to call it the mop up role, but it was kind. 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:52.800 Of like a mop up role. 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.040 You come in games, kind of in a gym and 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:57.000 you're in a buying and you gave up, like you're 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:59.080 losing by five or winning by five, something like that. 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:03.040 You don't want to waste your your leverage arms. I 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.360 was really good at just being efficient and going through 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:11.560 adage quickly, keeping the pitch count low. And then once 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:13.560 they just kept getting injuries, they just pulled me in 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:15.760 the office one day and said, hey, like, you cool, 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:17.040 if we just let you start. 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:19.720 You've been going three Ning's pretty much every time anyway. 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:22.920 So then at that point it's just it's a matter 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:26.880 of just going out doing the exact same thing, some 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.160 minor tweaks and to the starting plan. 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:33.720 But I've been pretty much treating my day to day 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:34.680 like a reliever. 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:38.480 Like obviously, like the lifting schedules different, the conditioning schedules 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:41.960 a little different, but mindset wise, preparation wise, I've been 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:43.520 treating it pretty much the same as I would when 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:46.520 I was a reliever, And all I'm doing is going 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:47.600 on a few extra innings. 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:50.480 Hey, for the families out there looking for a different 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:52.880 path to help your child succeed at home, looking to 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:57.320 K twelve powered schools, K twelve offers tuition free, accredited 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:00.960 online public education for students in case through twelve, all 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:03.560 in a setting that works for your family. 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I know teams that I was on that 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:04.840 we were in the playoff hunt, or we were actually 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:07.680 in you know, a wild card spot or division lead. 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:11.320 The conversations in the clubhouse were very few and far 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:13.960 between about trade deadline. Because if you're like, bro, we 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.760 need to pick up another starter, And you look across 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:18.520 like your locker next to you is the dude that's 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:21.560 the fifth starter. You're like, I wasn't talking about you, 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:24.800 like you feel like you're almost hurting your teammates. How 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:27.240 is that conversating and what do you guys talk about? 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:32.680 And to be honest, I haven't I haven't heard any 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:37.480 chatter about trades. And maybe I'm just like maybe I'm 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:40.920 just like not paying attention to anything. But I wouldn't 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:42.640 even have been able to tell you what our record was, 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:46.000 you know, Like, I know we've been playing well, dude, 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.040 we get in that clubhouse and it's just like we're 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:49.120 just looking to have fun. 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:52.040 We've been We've been switching the vibes up a lot. 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:55.679 On my start day, I know that we've been going 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:58.440 with a lot of like some soul music I like, 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:00.880 I like Rick James. I've been putting a lot of 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:03.080 ham on. We've been kind of going with a little 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:06.880 funky fish vibe. Guys have just been enjoying that. We 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:10.160 like to dance around, joke around. We got got a 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:12.840 few games in the clubhouse. Everybody's just competing. Nobody's really 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:16.680 talking about trade deadlines or where anyone's going. Like, see 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:20.160 the injuries suck, but like nobody really talks about that. 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:22.000 We just keep it keep it light, keep it loose. 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.560 I don't know if the team would appreciate me saying it, 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:28.960 But like I have a we do have like a 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:32.880 little extracurricular in the clubhouse next to my locker where 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:36.880 we all just like gather around after games. Uh you know, 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:38.640 I have a little have a little drain ski and 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:42.440 we're just on really well, like there's no there's no 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:44.920 talk about trades, there's no talk about records. 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:46.960 We just go out there and we're just having a blast. 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.520 That's really just That's why I said I think I 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:51.640 said it the other day, like it feels like high 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:54.800 school or college, like you don't even pay attention to 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:55.320 what's going on. 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:57.160 You're just having fun with your boys. 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:00.440 Is it celebrating? I mean you celebrate after win. Liked 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:02.600 you boys, because I've been on teams where we take 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:06.440 tequila shots after a win. We do different types of 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:10.120 What is the routine after Marlin's win? Who leads it? 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:12.720 What are the chants? And is there a certain music 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:13.280 that's played? 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.320 Yeah, man, I mean we there is definitely a routine. 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:23.080 We all get in there, we all gather around mister Fairbanks. 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:26.600 He grabs the. 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:27.960 The game log and he's going over all the all 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.400 the positives from the game. Who's gotten hits, who pitched well, 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.400 like obviously we all pay attention, we know what happened 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:32.760 in the game. 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:34.840 Just honor all those guys. 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:39.360 And then we have this like wwe like Marlin's belt 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.480 hand that out to the player of the game, usually 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:44.760 like we're just screaming at him, like telling him to 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:48.760 say it, to do a speech, and when he's about 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:50.960 to start doing his speech, we just keep screaming at him, 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:54.280 keep like tossing stuff at him, and then they'll do 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:56.400 his speech, usually something short and sweet like hey, let's 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:57.800 go get another win tomorrow. 0:15:58.800 --> 0:15:59.880 Bump the music up. 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.280 I don't know what the music vibe is, kind of 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:05.800 just like stuff that we like, and then eventually we 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:09.520 get back into that funk vibe. But then over by 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:11.520 my locker, we do have we do have the curtains, 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:13.880 we pull them open. I got a bunch of polaroids 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.680 in there with guys. After the wins, we take pictures 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:23.360 with them, and we definitely do sweep shots and most 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:25.280 of the pictures will all gather around there, you know, 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:27.160 position players, they got stuff to do the next day. 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:29.240 Pictures is a little bit of a different animal, but. 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:33.400 Usual together around have a drink together, just decompressed talk 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:35.640 about the game, whatever it is, and you know, it's 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:37.480 just like I said, just keeping it tight knit, keeping 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:40.920 it close, and just bonding, man like, just hanging. 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:42.480 Around each other. Like those are the teams that are 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:45.280 going to be successful. I love that. 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.560 That's awesome, And I hope people know what goes on 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.120 behind the scenes to help build the camaraderie because that's 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:52.720 important and you can see it with the way the 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.160 team's playing. So I have a question in terms of 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:59.000 how to appeal to the fan base. I lived in Miami, 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:01.520 and there's just so much competition down there. There's so 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:04.719 many people that aren't born there right that go down there. 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.159 They're fans of other teams, the whole deal. So my 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:11.600 question is, how do you organically produce more people like 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:14.439 you who are so good on interviews like this, Like, 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:16.760 are there any players on the team that you're like, hey, 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:19.639 you can give give a little more crack some of 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:23.240 these jokes to the media to help fans, casual fans 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:25.320 catch a viral moment, because you know how it is. 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:27.360 It's like in Miami, you could basically be the best 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:29.679 team in the league, but then still if there's not 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:32.040 some viral moment or some star name who's a Hall 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.639 of Famer. It's just hard to break through the noise. 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:36.320 That's just what it is in that city. 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:40.080 Yeah, I mean there was so much other stuff going on. 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:43.119 Like I know, we have a fan base. I just 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:45.360 I would love to see him come out to the game. 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:48.800 I know Marlin's and network they DM me the other 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:50.880 day they got like forty thousand followers. Asked me to 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:53.359