WEBVTT - Orioles SP Kyle Bradish joins FT + Young Nationals are RAKING 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:13.200 Kyle Bradish of The O's is hopping on with us 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:15.560 right now to talk about the Orioles and being in 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:17.799 the mix right now. Kyle, thanks for joining us. How's 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:18.520 the season going? 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:24.560 Yeah, thanks for having me on. Guys, you know season's going. 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:29.319 It's been a grindy one. Obviously, it would be like 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:31.600 to be in a better position than where we are 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:34.280 right now, but you know, there's still some games left 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:37.120 to play, so hopefully we'll pick it up and make 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:39.800 a whole playoff push. 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:43.800 Hey, Kyle, isn't every season grindy? Isn't every season grinding? 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:46.160 This isn't your first season. You've been through a bunch 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:48.199 of these now, isn't doesn't? I mean I love when 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:50.920 you're like, oh, it's grindy, But isn't every season kind 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:51.440 of grindy? 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:54.560 Good, bad? I mean they're different kind of grinds. Do 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:56.480 you feel that way? Yeah? 0:00:56.520 --> 0:01:01.840 Absolutely. It's a long one sixty two. This one's felt 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:05.800 a little longer at some stretches, so I think it's 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:09.120 been a little more grindy than in the past. 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:12.760 But you're a starting pitcher. You're a starting pitcher. You 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:14.920 only gotta go out there thirty times a year. Shouldn't 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:18.640 it be shouldn't it be like, oh, vacation, vacation for 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:20.480 the next four days, and then oh yeah, now I 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:22.400 gotta get ready to pitch. So I feel like it's 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:24.920 a starting pitcher, it's a little bit easier to get 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:25.600 through every day. 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:27.520 Yeah. 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:30.200 I mean there's a lot that goes on behind the 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:32.920 scenes as a starting pitcher, but you're also out there 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:36.560 with your guys every day trying to win. So when 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:39.840 team's not playing good or team is playing good, you're 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:40.720 right there with them. 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:44.480 I can. I can comment on this. Sitting there and 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:47.480 not playing makes it way longer than going out there 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:49.920 and playing every day, so I can comment on that. 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:51.960 Wasn't a starting pitcher. I just sat on the bench 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:54.400 with you guys a lot. But do you feel like 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:58.800 the season's different now that you are fully off of 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:02.960 your recovery from Tommy John fully back where you're like, Okay, 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.960 you played a little bit. Rehab is extensive for as 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:09.799 long as you were out, but now you're like, Okay, 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.200 I'm in it for a whole season. Is this season 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:15.640 feel different coming back from that? Yeah? 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:16.280 Absolutely. 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:19.639 The past two years, just having to be going through 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:24.399 that rehab process, it definitely made the season feel longer 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:28.239 in a different way, mostly because I wasn't able to 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:30.400 be out there with my guys competing. I was just 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:34.720 watching the whole season, not just every four days, but 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:38.600 right now. It's just get my body right in between 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.440 starts to go out there and compete for the thirty 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:43.440 three starts that you try to make all year. 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.000 All right, So you went through that the last two years. 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:49.880 Then the team comes to you with an extension offer. 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:52.560 Can you give us a little bit more of what 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:55.000 goes on in that than we normally get, because it's 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:57.320 like extension. Really happy to be part of the team, 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.120 love to be here for the next few years. 0:02:59.120 --> 0:02:59.960 It's going to be great. 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:04.640 How does that process start? Is it stressful for you 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:08.680 or is it something that you say, agents take care 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:10.760 of it. I'm gonna throw speedballs up there. 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:13.240 Yeah. 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:16.600 So this was not the first time they came to 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:20.520 me with an offer. We didn't agree to like our 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:24.320 our number. So in between not agreeing and then going 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:29.639 to the hearing they made an offer, nothing really came 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:33.680 out of it. So then kind of went in the 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.400 season not really thinking anything of it. And then first 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:38.240 they all start break they reached out to my agent 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:41.880 with another offer, and then we spent kind of that 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:45.240 four or five days just going back and forth negotiating, 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:50.280 and then we got to a number where I think 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:54.080 everybody was comfortable at, and it really came down to 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.120 that this is kind of where me and my wife 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:00.160 wanted to spend the next five years. We're comfortable here. 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.040 We really like the staff that's been brought in this 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:06.280 year and the pitching guys. I've been with them for 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:10.360 the past two three years, so they're great, and just 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:14.000 really comfortable with those guys, Kyle. 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.839 So it came together really quick. Then, from what you're saying, 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:20.920 was there pressure? Was there any pressure from on you? 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:21.120 Not? 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.240 I don't want to say from anyone outside of because 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:26.320 nobody can understand the pressure as players we put on ourselves. 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:28.400 What was their pressure when you first heard it. 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:30.000 I mean, you said it came together in a few days, 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.240 But when they first came back to you, were you 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:33.960 just like, man, I really want to get this done. 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:35.600 I just want to get this done because I love 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:36.440 it here so much. 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:38.400 Yeah. 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:42.000 I think with that first offer that they came before 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:45.960 spring training kind of laid some groundwork, so it kind 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:47.760 of made this one a little easier to get to 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:52.520 where we needed to get to. But I think the 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:56.000 only pressure was it was me putting it on myself 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:00.159 if I was really comfortable turning down that amount of 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:03.960 money to take the chance of whatever happening over the 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:06.440 next two and a half years. And then kind of 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:08.760 looked at myself and talked to my wife about it 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:12.600 is like, we're really happy here, so why not spend 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:13.600 the next five years here? 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:16.680 What about the team that you look at, the guys 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:19.080 that are on the field, does that go into your 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:22.280 thought process? You said right after the All Star break, 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:25.240 you go, okay, I'm looking around. We got basioh we 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:30.680 got Boz, we got ad Okay, no, so we got 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.840 Westburg coming back, we got Hunt, Gunner, all those things. 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:35.719 Does that go to your thought process? 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:36.800 Yeah? 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:41.320 Absolutely, It's more so how I feel comfortable, Like in 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:44.200 the clubhouse. We have a great clubhouse, great group of guys, 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:48.320 and the talent speaks for itself. Like you said, you 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:52.640 got Gunner, Bassio, Wessey coming back, Shane signed on for 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.120 the next four years. Obviously the big one is the 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:58.520 polar bear kind of leading the charge right there. But 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:03.200 I think having those guys and just knowing that you're 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:04.680 going to be around those guys for the next four 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:07.920 or five years and being able to compete with them 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:09.440 definitely makes this. 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:14.200 Easier to sign. And you wanting to do that. 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:19.200 Science experiment for the one minute, we have to tell 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.960 you about why we love Quint's electrolytes, including watermelon salt, 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:26.159 raspberry salt. And I'm holding a citrus salt. 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What's your 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:33.520 reaction or interaction with him since that trade? 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:40.640 Yeah, I think it was definitely surprising that it actually happened. 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:44.800 Everybody saw all the rumors and everything, but for it 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:50.960 to actually happen was definitely surprising. I know it hit 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:56.800 this clubhouse hard. I've played with Adli or against Ali 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:59.200 basically my whole life. Not a lot of people know 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:02.720 you're up in Oregon, fifteen minutes from each other, playing 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.520 literal league against each other. He caught me in the 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:09.840 cape during summer ball in college and then throughout like 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:13.000 our whole minor league and now major league career. He's 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:14.880 kind of been that guy that's been behind the plate 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:19.360 for me. So yeah, it was definitely difficult, and it's 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:24.240 tough to kind of get behind the business side, but 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:29.800 also I understand the personal side of like, that's that's 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:32.840 our guy, and now you see him in a different uniform. 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:35.520 Are you gonna throw at him, Kyle first time? 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:37.440 You're just gonna buzzle on up and not hit him 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:39.320 because look, I have my ildly shirt. He makes his 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.040 debut today, So when you play the Red Sox, I'm 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:46.040 not advocating hitting him, but you know, just buzz the tower, 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:48.199 trim some beard up there for him a little bit. 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.880 Yeah, I texted him, tell him I'm gonna miss you, 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:54.920 wish you the best luck, and be on the lookout 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:58.120 for that front hip syncer. So if it, if it 0:08:58.160 --> 0:08:59.679 doesn't sink, we'll see what happens. 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.240 Nice. I love it. I love it. Was there anything 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:03.640 that happened for you on deadline day? 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.480 You obviously signed the extension, so you weren't worried, But 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:08.520 were you checking your phone every couple of minutes because 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:10.960 you guys are still in the wild cards, So were 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:12.600 you sitting there going all right, if we can make 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:14.880 this move, we can make this move, then we can 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:16.160 really get into this race. 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:17.720 Yeah. 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:20.640 I think I think everybody likes to play GM, especially 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:24.400 around that time, I was I was more looking at 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:27.440 what we were going to do kind of with like 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:29.920 Rogers or those other guys that were kind of on 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:31.080 the end of the contracts. 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:32.920 Especially with the Adlee news. 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:35.720 You never knew what was going to happen, but just 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.000 knowing we are still kind of in the hunt for 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:43.480 that wildcard spot. You're hoping some things are going to happen, 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:48.040 but you understand some things that don't happen. But at 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:51.480 the end of the day, like a lot Dean Kramer, 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:54.520 one of my best friends, Welsey one of my better 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:58.440 friends on the team too. Wardy and Adley are gone now, 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.000 but I think it wasn't like a full tear down. 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:05.040 You still have Rogers, who's kind of been one of 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.280 the leaders in this rotation for the past two years. 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.760 So I think we're we're still in a good spot. 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:11.760 Just one games. 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.599 It's three games insurmountable though, Like we look at it 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:17.720 and we go there's a lot of teams right in 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.679 that spot. For you guys on the field right now, 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.120 when you look up at the scoreboard and you're lying 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:24.680 if you don't look at the scoreboard, because you got 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:26.560 a lot that you're not doing while you're not pitching. 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:31.480 But what is it? Does a feel Does three games 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:32.719 feel insurmountable? 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:39.160 No, I think we've been in the worst position earlier 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:40.840 on in the year than where we are right now. 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:43.800 And I think it all just takes. 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.679 Is you get on a run three five games here 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.160 and you're right back in it, or you're in the 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:49.959 playoff spot. 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:53.600 Three games is not that bigger deal. 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:57.760 I mean, we've been playing these guys, We're playing the 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.640 Twins right now, just got done with the Rangers. We 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:04.600 got a lot of other good games coming up, So no, 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:07.719 three games is not crazy to think about. 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:11.720 Hey, Kyle, you mentioned Kramer and we talked about Adlete. 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:15.079 He pitched against you guys last night in a Twins uniform. 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.880 He got he got a win. Sorry, but the facts. 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:21.360 Was there any extra trash talking from your bench, like 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:23.400 to him when he goes out there and takes around. 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.800 Did you see any extra emotion from from from Dean 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:28.600 and what you would normally see because you watch him 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:29.199 pitch a lot. 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:30.920 Yeah. 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.960 Yeah, I've been watching him pitch for the past five years. 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:37.520 He's pretty even keel out there. He doesn't show too 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:42.160 much emotion. I know that he was definitely We talked 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:44.400 about it before the start, and then we went and 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:48.160 got coffee this morning and kind of recapped it. But 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:51.160 there was definitely some emotion going into it, just knowing 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:53.960 these are his friends, he's been playing with him for 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:57.199 the past five years, but also wanting to go get 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:00.560 that win for his new team is ahead of us 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:05.000 in the standings. But I know there was some trash 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:10.760 talk early on from myself as well, But I mean, 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.880 he pitched a great game, so it's kind of kind 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:16.400 of tough to keep talking trash when he's doing what 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:16.760 he did. 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:19.920 I wait, trash talk, like what are you like, I'm 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:21.960 gonna watch you better than you're gonna watch me from 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:25.240 the bench, Like how do pictures? Trash talk back and 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:26.080 forth to each other. 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:30.079 We got our own little inside jokes that we've had 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:33.000 over the years, so kind of take his mind off 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:36.000 of the game plan out there and focus on what 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:36.480 I'm saying. 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:39.800 All right, So, who has the advantage? We talked about 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:42.320 Adlie talked about, you know, the front hip, Who has 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:45.040 the advantage when a dude caught you for what you 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:49.560 said essentially your entire life. Who has the advantage? Do 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.000 you know him better than he knows you. Does he 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:56.679 know you better than you know him? 0:12:57.800 --> 0:12:58.480 That's a good one. 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.520 I mean, I don't think I've really ever thrown to 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:04.320 a against the guy that's caught me as much as 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:08.760 Ali has, so he might think he has advantage on pitch, 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.840 secret sing and stuff. But I feel like when I'm 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:14.480 out there on my game, I have I have the 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:16.720 advantage with the ball in my hand. 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:21.560 That's fair, that's fair, that's fair. 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:23.280 But you know, as a catcher, you always think, oh, 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.720 I knew exactly what he's gonna throw right. I faced 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:28.520 him in I faced him in BP and spring training 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:31.160 and he broke my bat once, but only because I 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:33.400 wasn't ready. So as a catcher, you always think you 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.120 have the advantage, and then the pitcher is always like, 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.040 oh no, here's a new pitch that I just learned, 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:39.240 a trick pitch you didn't you didn't know I had, 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:40.800 And then they get you out and then they laugh 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:42.760 and yeah, whatever it. 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:44.400 Is, might have might have to get a new one 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:45.120 when I face him. 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:47.080 We'll do it. 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:50.040 Yeah, why not try it? Then? 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:52.520 Just don't give up a hit, because then you know 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:56.200 something bad might be said back to you, So you 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:57.000 know it's it's. 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:58.560 All fair though, it's all fair, it's all part of 0:13:58.559 --> 0:13:58.920 the fun. 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:01.600 People just don't understand how much there is a lot 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:05.120 of trash talking amongst friends that people don't really get 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.360 to see. It's more there's not a lot of words, 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.160 there's some verbal there's some hand signals that a lot 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:11.400 of people don't see. 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:13.400 So I live for it. I live for it, Kyle, 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:14.040 and listen. 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:17.320 I hope you'll have an awesome time when you do 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:18.720 get to face them for the first time. 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:19.680 Yeah. 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:21.600 No, I'm definitely, I'm definitely looking forward. 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:24.760 To all right, Kyle, I got a one nerdy looking 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:27.320 at the stats. At the beginning of the year, you're 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:31.640 walking way too many dudes, way more than and recently, 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.640 I don't know if it's the last six or eight games, 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:38.440 whatever it is, it is dropped. I think you had 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:40.920 a five walk game and then since then you have 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:44.840 been nails, not perfect, but nails. Was there a concerted 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:48.640 effort to do something different so that obviously no picture 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:51.120 wants to walk dudes, But was there a concerted effort 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:53.680 from that line that day that you had five walks 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:54.880 till now? 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:59.200 Yeah, I mean we've been kind of talking about it. 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:05.120 Me they're starting pitchers and are like pitching coaches. Just 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:08.120 as a whole, we've walked way too many guys, especially 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:12.040 early on in the year, and I think the biggest 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:15.480 thing that we've kind of gotten back to is strike 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.920 one percentage, winning kind of the one to one counts 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:22.240 and then putting guys away when you have two strikes 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:24.760 on them. 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Make sure you click the link in the 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:44.640 description to download the app and have the code automatically 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:46.600 added to your account so you can use it later. 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:49.440 I got a question about your manager when he got 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:52.040 hit in the face and then he came out and 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:56.600 he had whatever orbital whatever he had. People were like, WHOA, 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.920 this team needs to get behind that. Does a manager 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:02.440 hit in the face and then coming back out like 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:05.439 pump the dudes up? Or you guys like from your 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:08.840 pitcher's bench, are you like get out of the way, Craig. 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:16.040 No, I mean that was I was actually inside for that. 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:17.800 I saw it on TV and then I saw him 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:21.160 walk in, So that was that was scary. But thankfully 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:24.480 I was not doug out to see that, but yeah, 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:27.159 I mean, I think that's one of those things where 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:31.280 you want to kind of rally behind your manager for 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:33.240 doing that and then come back out and finish in 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:37.320 the game. Just kind of shows you that toughness of 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:42.320 what this team needs to be about. And I think 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:46.680 we came back and won that game. But no, I'll 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:50.440 be great guy. I'm very very happy and very fortunate 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:51.600 to have him as their manager. 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:55.520 An Kyle, I know you're a starting pitcher, and sometimes 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:58.919 it's hard for starting pitchers to talk to position players 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:01.080 because you know, we have to grind every day. We're 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:04.120 not special teams players. We can only play half the ball, right, 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:06.359 we have to play on both sides. But do you 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:10.320 say anything to Gunner or Jackson, Holiday or Cowser or 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:14.160 any of the position players on a daily basis, like, Hey, 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:16.080 come on, like I need you today, We need you 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:17.280 to have energy today. 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:18.800 I need to win out of you. 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:20.320 I need a home er out of you today, Gunner, 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:22.000 Or do you just kind of walk by and give 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:23.160 them the old picture like. 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:28.600 Some days. 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.800 I mean, we all kind of joke around in the clubhouse, 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:36.359 and I don't think it's a secret in the clubhouse, 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:39.959 that offense has been struggling as of late, just like 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:41.480 early in the air pitching was struggling. 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:44.280 And I think we have. 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:47.520 That good of a clubhouse to where guys feel comfortable 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:51.800 to go talk to them. But with those guys you mentioned, 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:55.080 I mean I have my handshakes with Gunner and Kowser, 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:58.000 and we talk kind of on a daily basis, whether 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:02.439 it's playing games or actually talking baseball. So I think 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:05.679 we have a pretty good relationship to where, yeah, if 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:07.800 I went up to them and said, hey, need a 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:08.760 homer are you today? 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:12.200 They completely get it. 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:15.159 Has somebody stepped into Adlie's role you talk about the 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:18.960 handshakes and everything, that leadership role or is that something 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:21.520 that's not even We don't even need somebody to be Adlie. 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:23.800 Everyone just needs to be themselves. 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:30.200 Yeah, I think Adley's such a kind of special personality, 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:33.879 Especially in that clubhouse. He was friends with everybody, So 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:38.480 I don't think you really build that that. 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:42.000 Role that he was to this clubhouse. 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:45.639 Everybody kind of goes about their business and Adley was 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:49.680 more of a kind of lead by example guy anyways, 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:52.480 but he definitely was one of those guys to keep 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:55.920 a clubhouse light and kind of he was our DJ 0:19:56.040 --> 0:20:01.320 on the bus, so finding those spots to Phil, just 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:04.360 having fun and not making them the game too serious. 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:10.080