WEBVTT - Matthew Boyd on the viral balk debate, Cubs rivalries 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:06.400 Matthew Boyd to the Cubs. They all start joining us 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:09.159 right now on FT. I'll carry our conversation over to 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:11.400 you for a moment here. First off, how you doing, Bud. 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:14.079 Doing, good Man? How you doing? I actually got to 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:14.680 meet your parents. 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:18.159 I heard about that. I was going to bring that 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:23.000 up at some point. Were they nice? Were they nice 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:23.200 to you? 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:26.960 Oh? They were so kind? Yeah? Good bad, good, good good. 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:27.400 I'm glad. 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:29.360 Well, thank you for Santa Loo to them meant a lot. Yeah, 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:31.720 they were at regularly recently. So I want to ask you, 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:35.080 do you how much attention do you pay to the 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:38.600 history of an organization or a rivalry or a series. 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:41.440 We were talking about how the Yankees just stomp on 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:43.800 the Twins for like twenty years, going back to literally 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:49.160 AJ's rookie years in or early years in the Twins organization. 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:51.360 Does any of that come up? 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:53.480 Because most players I've spoken to are like, I don't 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:57.200 know anything about the history of this rivalry or whatever else. 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:58.959 I'm just playing ball. But what about you? 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:04.200 I mean, it comes up sometimes some of it you're 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:07.319 aware of. It's like Cups Cardinals, you know the rivalry there, 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:12.640 but like some of it at the same time, like 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:15.839 just doesn't hold the same you know, you know it's there, 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:17.520 but it's not going to really change anything. 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.920 Like it's just if you follow the game sometimes you're 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:25.120 aware of that stuff. But I mean, when it comes 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:27.520 down to it, it's like you go. 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:30.560 Do your thing and it's it's like hopefully, I mean, 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:32.440 you know, it just doesn't really have too much baron 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:32.679 on you. 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:35.560 But have you ever seen teammates get intimidated by going 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:38.400 into places? Because I played for the Blue Jays in 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:41.920 fourteen and I remember going into Yankee Stadium. 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:43.280 These dudes were doing. 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:46.560 Interviews on the on the field, and I'm like, you 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:48.960 guys never do any of this stuff anywhere else. And 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:51.240 then we go out and we get waffled by the Yankees. 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:53.560 Like you see teammates that get and how do you 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:55.040 even talk to them when you see that? 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:59.600 Yeah, I mean I think as you guys know, when 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.720 you're when you play in a place sometimes and you've 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:04.920 been there for multiple years unless I mean, I remember 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:08.280 in Detroit, it was always like Cleveland was always something 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:11.760 that was just hard for us, you know, like we 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:13.799 wish it wasn't, but we just lost there a lot, 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:17.760 you know, Kluber and Carrasco and Bauer would you know, 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:19.959 shut us down, and Tomlin would come in and shut 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:20.359 us down. 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:21.040 Like it was just. 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:24.839 Sometimes there's no rhyme or reason for it, but there's 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:26.600 just a mental thing there. And when you come into 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.040 another club sometimes you look at that. I just remember, like, 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:32.040 you know, when we were in Seattle and at the 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:35.240 time they were the Astros were a team that it 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:38.240 kind of had their number, and it's just like coming 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:39.799 from Detroit, it was like, oh, that's not that big 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:40.200 of a deal. 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:42.720 But then you know, like they're like why were you? 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:44.720 They'd have the same reaction to you, you know, kind 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:46.520 of feeling a way about Cleveland sort of thing. 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:49.400 Right, So sometimes that stuff just builds up over time. 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:51.240 But like when it is there, you just got to 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.600 recognize it and be like, Okay, it's still the same game. 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:58.079 You know, there's no there's no hidden hex or something 0:02:58.120 --> 0:02:59.960 on this game or whatever. It's still baseball. 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:02.600 Go do what you do, and more often than not, 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:04.560 if you do the things the right way, you know 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.160 the symptom of that's winning and you get over those things. 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:08.880 All right. 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:10.560 Well, I don't know if you heard the numbers, but 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:12.560 what'd you say it was one twenty two and forty four. 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.480 Scott was the Yankees records. It's two thousand and three 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:21.160 against the Twins. They're eighty games over five hundred and 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:24.080 against them in the last like twenty two years now. 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:25.600 So for me, here's the thing. 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:27.760 I was there two thousand and three in my last Twins, 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:33.480 I went away, okay, but teams changed, Yankees changed, Twins changed. 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.240 Is that just an organizational mindset? Because you know, they 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:39.160 played in the playoffs, they got swept. Every time Yankees swept, 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:41.600 the Twins played in wildcard games, they beat them, right? 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:44.560 Is it because the press brings it up even though 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:46.080 the players like, I don't know anything about that. 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:47.760 I wasn't here, but you know the media. 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:49.800 So do you think that could possibly creep in a 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:51.960 team's head just because the media brings it up? 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:55.400 I mean, I guess, I guess it could. Anything's possible. 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.000 And you got to think about the turnover on those rosters, like. 0:03:58.040 --> 0:03:59.840 Oh, how far guys go back? 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.520 It's not you know, it's it's not probably not much 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.680 more between like twenty sixteen at this time, right, So 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:10.560 it's like, you know, maybe sometimes that sneaks in and 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:15.720 sometimes it just I don't know. Just sometimes there's just 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:18.040 winning and there may not be another explanation for it, 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:20.240 you know, it's just how it happens. But I mean, 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:22.279 i'd like to think that like when that stuff gets 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:25.360 brought up, you just I mean, all that stuff is 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.160 you become aware of it as a player, because, like 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:29.599 you said, the media is going to bring it up 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:33.960 to you, but you go, you acknowledge it and just 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:37.120 keep going about what you do. You know, it's it 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.920 is weird. That's a crazy record though. It's a crazy, 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:42.920 crazy stat going back that far. 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.679 All right, since you're with the Cubs, who's the Cubs? 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:50.880 Who's the Cubs rivalry with? Is it with Milwaukee? Because 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:54.120 I played in Milwaukee and it's like Chicago Cubs fans 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:57.360 love like ah, we come to at the time Miller 0:04:57.440 --> 0:04:59.840 Park and like, oh look how many Cubs fans there are. 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:01.880 It's like, well, you're just too cheap to drive down 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:05.839 to Chicago. Or is it with the Cardinals? So where's 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:09.160 where's where's the rivalry really at with the Cubs? Now 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:12.520 that you're in the organization and you can see it firsthand. 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:16.920 Yeah, I mean I think there's always but the historical 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:22.120 one just because of time and the leagues is the Cubs, Cardinals, 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.120 you know, like that's that's that's the reverie right there 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:28.080 with the Yankees, Red Sox and the Giants and Dodgers 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:29.800 that you hear about, right, It's one of the best 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:36.440 rivalries in sports, I think. I think the proximity and 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:38.800 since the Brewers came to the National League, you know, 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:42.680 a handful of years ago, like and that that proximity 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:44.279 of being you know, only an hour and a half 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:46.680 apart makes that a fun rivalry too, you know. And 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:52.720 I mean anytime you get to play like multiple games 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:55.479 against quality ball clubs, you know what I mean, like 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.920 or multiple games against anybody, you can always bring out something. 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:02.680 So I've been playing in Milwaukee, it's it's always a 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:06.680 fun environment there. I remember in twenty eighteen we went 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:08.200 there for the last series of the year when they 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:10.680 were pushing for a while or pushing for a playoff spot, 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.440 and that was you we were with the Tigers and 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:15.200 that was a great environment. And every time we've played 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:17.279 there this year against the Brewers, it's always been a 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:21.800 good environment. And you know, it's I love, I love 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:24.360 all the games that you know, the fans get into 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:26.159 I think it's awesome for baseball and whatnot. 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.320 But I think they're both good rivalries. I'm not going 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:28.880 to give any. 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:31.800 Locker room talk or you know, bulletin board material for 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:33.640 anything one's better than the other. 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:36.040 That's funny. 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:36.760 That's funny, Matthew. 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:38.039 But I got to ask you this, are you guys 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.240 sitting there going we have the third best record in 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:42.400 the National League and we're six and a half games 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:45.279 behind the Brewers. Have you guys gone to counsel and 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:47.160 been like, hey, have you thought about putting some pancakes 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.960 in your pocket or trying something different counts to keep 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.080 up with these guys, because I mean, ten wins in 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:53.520 a row, nine wins in a row, eight wins in 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:55.400 a row, it's like they lose one, they win nine, 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:56.400 they lose when they win ten. 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:58.280 You're like, you guys have gotta be sitt there go. 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:01.680 We're playing pretty damn well and we're losing ground rapidly, 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:02.920 Like what is going on? 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.520 I mean, it's hats off to them. They're playing great baseball, 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:10.680 and obviously you want to, you know, have runs like 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:14.120 they're having, and and that's it's amazing when you have them, 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:15.040 But when it comes down to it. 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:16.880 You got to be you. 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:19.120 You acknowledge what they're doing, but it doesn't change what 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:23.880 you do, right, and. 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:23.960 Baseball is a crazy game. You know you can do 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:25.720 You can do stuff. 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.600 You can go on runs like that, you can have 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:31.960 stretches where the balls just not rolling your way right, 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:35.800 and despite it all, like you show up and you 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:38.640 know what you expect yourself individually and collectively as a team. 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.200 And sometimes that's harder than others. 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:42.880 When you have a team, you know, like the Brewers 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:44.800 and they're so hot right now, they're doing their thing 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:48.760 and it's they you know they're they're a good ball club, 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:52.600 you know, but we know how good we are too, 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:56.480 and you know, you just go okay, like they're doing 0:07:56.480 --> 0:08:00.520 what they're doing. You trust that come September when it 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:04.000 rolls around, like standings will be where you know, like 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.200 they'll they'll they'll settle where they're supposed to be. But 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:08.480 you just double down on what you're doing in those 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:13.800 times and saying okay, like you can't let outside things 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:17.200 change your process because that's when things start to go awry. 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:20.640 And you know they're playing great baseball, but you know, 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:23.840 we go out and we keep doing our thing, and 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:25.960 we trust what we're doing, we trust our process, and 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:27.360 you go from there. 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:31.880 Hey, we love ripping slab packs on Arena Club. I 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.840 just ripped one in a Ruby pack. Those are fancy 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:39.400 schmancy kip and I pulled a matt Shaw twenty twenty 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:43.599 three Bowman Draft Aqua Lunar Creator refractor card. 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:44.400 And I guess what. 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:45.320 Guess what? 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:46.200 I got a little offer. 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:47.679 You get the instant off or right away. 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.840 Okay, so they're offering me one hundred and twenty one bucks, 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:52.920 sell it back and then I can get a new 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:53.520 slab pack. 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:54.840 What do I do? 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.360 I want to see this thing. Hold on, look at that. 0:08:57.360 --> 0:08:58.400 That's a beautiful card. 0:08:58.880 --> 0:08:59.280 You know what. 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:01.880 I think that's a safe bet. I think it's gonna 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:04.120 make you a little bit money. I think the more 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.839 more big league time he gets, I'd almost take the deal, though, 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.640 I'm in it for the chase. I like opening more packs. 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:12.959 I think that one hundred and twenty one can buy 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.480 you a couple more slabs to open, and uh, I 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:17.720 think you keep chasing until you get someone you really like. 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:19.200 But that's the best part about it for me. 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:20.079 That's right. 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:21.880 You can sell it back one hundred and twenty one 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:23.840 bucks and then open up another slab pack Use the 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.160 code foul to receive twenty percent off your first slab 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.680 packer card purchase at arenaclub dot com slash foul. 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:32.800 Can you put your finger on what makes Craig Council 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:36.080 when he signed his contract the highest paid manager at 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:40.000 the time. Obviously Dave Roberts now is higher, but like 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:44.240 the value that he brings because I try to explain it, 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:46.880 it probably it's better coming from somebody that sees him 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:49.280 day in and day out, right now. 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:54.080 Yeah, I mean I think it was really like Steltony 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:58.480 when I got to be around you know, Craig in 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:03.120 spring training was just like the attention to detail over 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:05.600 the course of one hundred and sixty two games, right Like, 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:08.920 as you guys know, there can be things that that 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:12.800 slide down like that slide that were focuses early and 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:14.679 then they drift away, whether it's something as simple as 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:17.360 holding runners or throwing behind the runner. 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:18.439 Stuff that should be just. 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.560 Like the attention to detail and trying to wind in 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:24.120 the margins and all those different things. 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:26.719 And I think from day one in spring. 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:31.520 What really impressed me was counts, like demanding some of 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:33.440 these things out of us, whether it was holding runners 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:35.920 in bolt, like doing something as simple as like, hey, 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:37.720 we want to be quick to the plate. We got 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:40.480 to if we can eliminate extra bases, that's going to 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:42.800 be huge for us. So in our first few bullpens, 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:45.360 let's put an emphas on holding runners, like, you know, 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:49.439 shouldn't be too much to ask when you're going through 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:52.520 PFP's all these little things that may seem minuscule and 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:57.640 small in the moment, those can win baseball games, you know, 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:00.959 all through the stretch, and that can be the difference 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:02.880 that when it comes to the end of September, you're 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:05.000 going remember when we kept that guy on first instead 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:06.839 of Thatch and he didn't it wasn't able to get 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.599 that extra base, and then that ball that might have 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:11.199 been a hit ended up being a double play and 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.319 we're out of the inning. Like, those are the little 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:16.640 things that can make differences over the course of the season. 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:20.440 And I think counts being able to ask ask those 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.800 things of us in a way that and he's such 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:26.520 a good communicator too, you know, you know where you 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:31.800 stand with him, and I just it's I think it's 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:33.600 what elevates him as a leader. 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:35.640 And it's been great, you know, and I mean. 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:39.440 I've really appreciated it down to our picture talks, Like 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:41.520 in spring training, it's like, hey, you know, the big 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:43.000 thing for you is going to be healthy this year. 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:46.000 Like you haven't done you haven't you haven't pitched you know, 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:48.000 massi amount of innings since twenty nineteen. 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:49.760 So it's going to be you got to communicate with me. 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:51.120 I'm going to communicate with you. 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:54.840 We're going to find ways to you know, do this 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:56.720 and that to make this work so we can be 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.160 pitching all the way through October. And it's just like 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.760 having those conversation up front and then checking in on 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:04.600 it and whether it's you know, something as simple as 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:07.680 that or demanding we do something different in a baseball 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:11.040 game to help us win games. Like it's awesome, and 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:13.520 it's like you see why he had the success he 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:16.400 had in Milwaukee and he's had as a manager, and 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.079 and it's I'm so happy. 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:19.560 To play for him. It's a lot of fun and 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:21.079 you know, we got a great ball club. 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:23.760 It's a great answer. I'm gonna ask you a fan 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.920 question here. A lot of Cup fans watching on TV 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:30.760 and in our chat on YouTube, Chris says boyd how 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:33.160 or who taught you your move to first? 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:33.880 That thing? 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.680 Damn near a back dog. And I'll add to the 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:39.200 question because I think it was your last start or 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.800 the start before when it went a little viral. There 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.920 was just people going back and forth on Twitter like it's. 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:46.200 Not a bock because blah blah blah. 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:48.400 And I actually think like that's the form of social 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:50.840 media that I really do enjoy where people are just 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.720 debating a sports topic going on during a game in 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.760 real time. So anyway, I don't know if you caught 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:57.280 that at all, but your thoughts and your answer to 0:12:57.640 --> 0:12:58.360 Chris's question. 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:04.360 Yeah, So Mark Yeshino, Bellevue Community College out by Seattle, 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:08.880 Yosh taught me my pickoff move when I was at 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:13.080 Bellevue Community College's summer baseball camp. Like it's a place 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:15.400 where my dad, my mom and dad dropped me off 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:18.640 when I was nine years old, and Yosh is a lefty. 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:19.760 He kind of took a liking to me. 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:23.560 Taught me my move then, and every off season I've 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:26.880 just continued to go back and work on it with him. 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:28.800 It's one of those things if you get an out, 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:31.040 that's a bonus. If you can hold a base runner 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.520 at first base and not get it out just because 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:36.400 the threat of the move. I mean, that's that's a win. 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:39.440 And those are kind of the little margins that like 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.280 can make a difference. And we've gotten some more outs 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:45.240 on it this year and that's been awesome. Tommy's helped 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:46.480 me get toime with it too, temm me how to 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:48.439 be because you know, it's one of those things where 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.320 if you don't practice it, you can get into some 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:52.400 bad habits, and those bad habits can tip a runner 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:56.520 or whatnot. And I mean scatting reports, you know, spread 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.520 like wildfire in this league. So if there's something that 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:02.679 like you do that you know can help a base 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:04.800 run or getting extra base or whatnot, you know, it's 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.320 it'll get out there. So Tommy's been being a lefty 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:10.520 has helped me, you know, stay sharp on it in 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.600 the season. I think I've only been called on one 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.560 bock on it on that move, and that was Joe 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:19.720 West and he was hiring third base and there was 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.360 a guy on third and he bockd a run in. 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:23.880 It was a first and third and I picked off 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:27.080 and and and and Joe called me for a bock. 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:28.200 In twenty nineteen on that. 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:30.480 But uh, I think that's the only back I've been 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.480 called it going over And I know people, I mean 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:38.000 getting thrown some mentions here and there, people very you know, 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:40.680 passionate about my move on one way or the other. 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:41.200 But it's a. 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:45.040 It's it's it's never I haven't been called a bock 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:46.560 on it, you know, And it's and it's I don't 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:48.760 I don't think it breaks the rules at all, you know, so, 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:53.120 but yeah, it's it's a weapon, and you know the 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:55.080 goal whether it keeps a guy at first or gets 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.320 it out either way, you know, it's it's something that's 0:14:57.360 --> 0:14:58.240 that's beneficial. 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:01.720 Before you before we got a little bit off baseball. 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.480 Mark Burley never got a ball called on him either 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:06.920 until Joe West got him right, same thing because you 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:09.960 know why, because Joe get picked off by the bitcher. 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:12.480 He'd like, oh wait picked Oh wait, I'm not Oh 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:14.840 he got me back. It has to be a buck, right. 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:16.040 But he was up the first. 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:17.480 I don't know if you've ever seen Burley throws his 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:18.920 glove up in the air, gets subjected. 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:20.600 Ozzie comes out and gets subjected. 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:23.840 It was in Cleveland, Okay, next time Burley started Joe 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.520 West was like Angel. It was Joe and Angel Hernandez 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:29.080 on the same crew, so we had Angel Hernandez at home. 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:31.960 Joe was like, it's second or first, And I told Mark, 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:34.560 I go listen, if you throw over, you're gonna have 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:37.120 to give the most generic move in the world, like 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:39.440 pick your leg up and just go to first. 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:39.920 Right. 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:43.080 So we call throw over and sure enough, picks his like, 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:45.320 I mean, the most obvious, like I'm going to first, 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:49.000 woom back by Angel Hernandez the homeplate umpire, I'm like, 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:51.800 I knew it. I can't believe it. And they just 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.400 did it to prove the point that Burley's boot move 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:56.960 was a back, even though he literally did like the 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:00.880 most generic like hey guys, I'm going to first, and 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.240 you're like, yeah. 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:06.000 It was unbelievable, unbelievable. So Angel's gone now so you 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:07.680 don't have to worry about that. So it was but 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.360 just be careful, Oh I will, I will. 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:12.440 He really had a good move. 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:13.880 That was he was. He was on the Blue Jays 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.240 when I got u when I got called up. It 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:19.760 was a quick minute, but yeah, that was a It's fun. 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:21.680 It's fun to watch all the lefties move too. I mean, 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:23.840 you know, Freed, Freed's got a great one. Showed has 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:25.400 got a really good one too. He got a guy 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:27.880 this week. So that was that was so it was 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:30.000 fun to watch, all right. 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.360 So my question is July and August. 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.280 I try to tell people when I played, like people 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:37.480 say the dog Days. What I liked about July and 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:41.960 August in baseball was dudes start getting pissed off at 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:42.360 each other. 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:43.600 Do you have any good. 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:47.440 Like, because because the season just grinds on and like 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:51.040 some people like aren't doing as well, it's hot, all 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:54.440 that stuff, do you have any good stories about dudes 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:56.160 getting mad at each other at the end of the 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.120 season that kind of like then you know, fizzled out 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:01.040 and everybody everybody calmed down. 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:04.800 I mean, I don't know if I have any good 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:08.280 stories that I can recollect. They definitely happened, They didn't 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.800 mean a lot of it's over a little petty stuff 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:12.920 over the course of the year. I will say this 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:15.440 and and and he's probably gonna get mad at me 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:17.600 for telling us. But last night a team dinner, Bridge 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:19.520 was just angry the food couldn't come fast. 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:23.360 Enough and h and. 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:24.760 It's like dang Bradge, like can we just enjoy your 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:27.280 show dinner man and and have some fun and like 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:30.600 once he got fed, he was all happy. But but 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:32.679 but I think you start to see little things like 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:35.199 that where on and most of it when you have 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:40.080 a good perspective, it's pretty comical in hindsight. But uh yeah, 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:42.760 as you guys know, you can get around some guys 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:46.320 over the year that get a little salty. It's one 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.119 cool thing about this ball club is that, you know, 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:52.240