1 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: One of the few managers not on that front end, 2 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:17,320 Speaker 1: by the way, is sitting next to me. The other 3 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: Aj that we've had on the show, one of many, 4 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 1: but one of the other as Aj hensch here is here. 5 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:24,239 Speaker 2: We're in Lakeland. 6 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: We're at Tiger's camp, and we were just discussing how 7 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 1: you had to put a covered field behind us so 8 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:30,320 Speaker 1: Joey Cora wouldn't get wet. 9 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 3: We have a This facility is incredible. We do get 10 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:35,360 Speaker 3: a ton of work in. We do have the brand 11 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 3: new turf field. It's go time that this summer pretty 12 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 3: hot down here. So our young players love it, and 13 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 3: Joey definitely probably uses it the most. He and George 14 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 3: Lombard earlier work program. George has been gone with Team USA, 15 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 3: Joey was gone for Puerto Rico. Our camp has changed 16 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 3: fundamentally since Joey came back with Puerto Rico losing. 17 00:00:57,640 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 2: Did you get on him about border and he tried 18 00:00:59,320 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 2: to die like. 19 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 4: The he did die. 20 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 3: He did dye his hair. One his dye his hair 21 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 3: turns out it you know, it looks pretty good. 22 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:08,840 Speaker 2: I'm not great. 23 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 3: It's not a difference between I gotta be nicer to 24 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 3: Joey than you do because he's on my staff. But 25 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 3: we welcome these guys back from the w b C. 26 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 3: It's it's good to get our cheam bats. 27 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:21,040 Speaker 2: Did you watch the game last night? 28 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:23,680 Speaker 3: Of course, the whole thing, the entire thing. What do 29 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 3: you think it's electric? I mean, this is this environment 30 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:32,279 Speaker 3: for players is is really really special, and so I 31 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 3: I loved it. I mean breaking down the game and 32 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 3: all the different you know, momentum moves and and the 33 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:41,080 Speaker 3: base running and the the bigot bats and. 34 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 4: No A B s at the end. 35 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 3: You know, there's like there's a lot that goes into 36 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 3: that game, but the emotion that these guys are playing 37 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 3: with is pretty special. 38 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 2: Pitching tonight and he's not tomorrow. 39 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 4: He's gonna be there. 40 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 3: I think he's gonna throw a pen and get everybody 41 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 3: all amped up and he's gonna throw. 42 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 4: So it's not about me. Yeah, exactly. 43 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 3: This is exactly why I only come on the show 44 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 3: once or twice, because like usually I want Krats to 45 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 3: do all the all the talking and I draw you 46 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 3: for Central Florida. 47 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 4: But. 48 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 3: I such an emotional time for everybody. It's also preparation. 49 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 3: It's hard, like it's hard to put it all together. 50 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 3: And when we made these decisions in January, everybody was 51 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 3: really excited and on board. I think the emotion of 52 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 3: the moment really took over. Trek had a really, really 53 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 3: hard time navigating it, but we stayed the. 54 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 4: Course so that he's ready to go in San Diego. 55 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 5: How hard is that to see him in the dugout 56 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 5: and you go, all right, well, I was kind of 57 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:38,400 Speaker 5: part of the decision to not let him play because 58 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:41,079 Speaker 5: yesterday US wins and all of a sudden, the first 59 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 5: second camera shot is Trek Scuoble and the first question 60 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:47,360 Speaker 5: is going to be Terrek Scooble. Obviously Holmes was in 61 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 5: there too, But you part of that decision. Was it 62 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 5: easy for you or was it hard for you? 63 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:54,520 Speaker 4: I think it's hard. 64 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 3: It's hard because it matters so much to the players, 65 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:00,640 Speaker 3: and you want to see these theatrical events. Who doesn't 66 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 3: love the the matchups. I mean dating back to Otani 67 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 3: and trout dating' you know, like last night seeing you 68 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,680 Speaker 3: know Mason Miller pitch and you're like, these are real 69 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 3: matchups that you only get in perfect scenarios, you know, 70 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 3: when everything's on the line. 71 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 4: So I obviously love Team USA. 72 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 3: I love the event as a manager, it's really hard 73 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 3: to I mean Juliol Rodriguez gets hit. I mean the 74 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:28,080 Speaker 3: entire Mariners front office and coaching staff is like in 75 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 3: straight panic mode. Likese got, Jose Al Tuovee got hurt 76 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:31,959 Speaker 3: a couple of years ago. 77 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 6: Like it. 78 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 3: It's gonna happen, whether it's in spring training or in 79 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 3: the WBC. It hurts more when it's in an event 80 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 3: that's not not your your group. So planning out wise 81 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 3: is really hard, and I think you know, the the 82 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 3: onus is on all of us to try to figure 83 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 3: out the best time to do this event so we 84 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 3: get this experience. I will tell you for pitchers Sevrino 85 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:59,120 Speaker 3: throwing one hundred at this point, watching Paul Skins navigate sixty, 86 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 3: it's not the same where they normally would be in 87 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 3: spring training. And we'll always have that problem when we 88 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 3: have this event right now. And so until we figure 89 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 3: out the safest time to do it, you're going to 90 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:13,000 Speaker 3: have these dilemmas, and you're going to have these situations 91 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 3: where it's not lined up perfectly and the timing didn't 92 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:19,040 Speaker 3: work the Like Arrek's belief in wanting to represent the 93 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 3: country and wanting to play in this event, the fact 94 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:24,039 Speaker 3: he did one start in a free agent year is 95 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 3: pretty remarkable, and here he is just getting beat up 96 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 3: left and right. 97 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 6: Great, people agree, That's all I was gonna say. 98 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:33,920 Speaker 5: Were we getting too greedy as US fans or baseball 99 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 5: fans because he did make one start in a free 100 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:39,720 Speaker 5: agent year where he could possibly make four hundred million dollars? 101 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 6: Yeah? 102 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:43,479 Speaker 3: I think where Trek is wronged is like there's a 103 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:46,040 Speaker 3: lot of guys that turned this down to not play 104 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 3: at all, and so like, again, do you want credit 105 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:49,279 Speaker 3: for going and once start? 106 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 4: Of course? Do you want did he have the most 107 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:51,840 Speaker 4: to risk? 108 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 3: Of course, like this guy has and he cares the most, 109 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:57,279 Speaker 3: like he he wants to do right by everybody, and 110 00:04:57,320 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 3: by him being transparent, I feel like he got a 111 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:02,279 Speaker 3: little bit propped up to to take a little bit 112 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 3: of a beating by by you know, the fans and 113 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 3: the media and the and and the players had his 114 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:10,360 Speaker 3: back and we always had his back. And he's doing 115 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 3: the best he can under the circumstances provided, you know. 116 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 3: I do think, you know, we we think of this 117 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 3: as the regular season matchups, and it's not because I 118 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:21,479 Speaker 3: you know, I talk to players coming out of this, 119 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:23,679 Speaker 3: I see players coming. I mean even we had Jamie 120 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:26,039 Speaker 3: Jones who was with with Team Korea, like he needed 121 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 3: a full couple of days to come down from that 122 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:30,280 Speaker 3: to be able to go. And that's he's a you know, 123 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:32,440 Speaker 3: a role player for us on the bench who played 124 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 3: a little bit of outfield. Has gone all over the world, 125 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 3: traveling to Japan, traveling to Miami for a game, and 126 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:40,719 Speaker 3: it's not easy. I don't think people really care as 127 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:44,000 Speaker 3: much as they probably should. But I I trust that 128 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 3: the players that you know will handle it accordingly given 129 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 3: the schedule. Did you play any Olympics, Yeah, ninety six 130 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 3: at Atlanta. We want a bronze medal. In ninety six, 131 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 3: we were still the amateur team. We were coming out 132 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 3: of college, so a lot of guys from there went 133 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:00,599 Speaker 3: to the went to the big leagues. We had like 134 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:03,680 Speaker 3: you know, ra A Dickey and Braden Looper and Travis 135 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 3: Lee and Markcotte and Jack Jones, and we were we 136 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,039 Speaker 3: were had a really talented college team. But it was 137 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:13,120 Speaker 3: in July after our season, and eighteen to twenty one 138 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:15,960 Speaker 3: feels a little bit different than guys that are you know, 139 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 3: that are that are signed to these contracts and are 140 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:19,840 Speaker 3: preparing for a major league sedon. 141 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:20,360 Speaker 2: You know what it's like. 142 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 4: It's incredible, incredible. I mean it is, it's worthwhile. 143 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:27,719 Speaker 3: I mean when Tarreor called me in January asking about it, 144 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:30,400 Speaker 3: I was an immediate yes because that walking in that 145 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 3: room is different. 146 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 2: It's not an All. 147 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:35,719 Speaker 3: Star team, it's not a you know, it's not sort 148 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 3: of a casual event, and it's a meaningful step to 149 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 3: be one of the elites. Will Ves is there right 150 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 3: now and will Vest three years ago, I'm sending him 151 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:48,720 Speaker 3: out to go to Triple A because of a bad spring. 152 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:51,719 Speaker 3: Three years later, he's closing out playoff games and he's 153 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 3: going to Team USA. 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And I think 181 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 3: you're seeing the same thing with Lozardo with the Phillies. 182 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 3: These guys that are that are that are at a 183 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 3: different point of their career. It's hard to commit to 184 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 3: everything and do everything for everybody, and so Framber never 185 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:33,680 Speaker 3: mentioned it on the front end. You know, we talked 186 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:36,600 Speaker 3: a little bit about his entry into this team and 187 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 3: and obviously getting him, getting him up and running on 188 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:41,960 Speaker 3: the first team that he hasn't played that's not the Astros. 189 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 3: And so when when he got here and then he was, 190 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 3: you know, up and running. We went to the Dominican 191 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 3: for two games and I heard a little bit of 192 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 3: conversation of them wishing that he was on that team. 193 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:55,960 Speaker 3: And it that's where callies again, you're not allowed to 194 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:57,200 Speaker 3: map it out to make it perfect. 195 00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 4: You're not allowed to. 196 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 3: You would have prepared a little differently January and February, 197 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 3: knowing what was ahead. We started him late in order 198 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 3: to give him a little bit of recovery from the 199 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 3: volume that he's had over the last couple of years. 200 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 3: And then here we're gonna drop the most intense game 201 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:14,840 Speaker 3: like last night on his plate. That didn't make sense. 202 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 5: Well, I guess off of that, and then my original 203 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 5: question was different, But is he going to be ready 204 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:24,760 Speaker 5: for not opening day because Scooba is gonna be opening 205 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 5: a but is he gonna be ready for his first start? 206 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:30,199 Speaker 5: And how has he assimilated himself into this clubhouse? 207 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, he's been great. 208 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 3: I mean, Frember pitched yesterday in pitch five innings, was incredible, 209 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:38,840 Speaker 3: getting ground balls like we know, he missed a few bats, 210 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:39,199 Speaker 3: like we know. 211 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 4: You know, he. 212 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:44,679 Speaker 3: Is very ready for the season, and we used a 213 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:47,320 Speaker 3: couple extra bullpens, a couple extra live VP sessions to 214 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 3: get his volume up. That's a little less intense than 215 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:52,040 Speaker 3: a game, but a little bit more than just throwing 216 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 3: in the bullpen. So he's gonna pitch Game two right 217 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:57,200 Speaker 3: behind Trek. I was gonna announce it later this week, 218 00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 3: but he's lined up to pitch right behind Terrek and 219 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 3: and go in game two. And that's a pretty good 220 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 3: one two punch when you go and both guys can 221 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 3: pitch deep into games, they get out. They do it 222 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:11,600 Speaker 3: a little bit differently, but pretty good start this season. 223 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:13,080 Speaker 2: How'd your recruiting pitch go to him? 224 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 4: Was it pretty good together? I think the common bond 225 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:17,719 Speaker 4: is just. 226 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 3: I saw this guy come from, you know, from where 227 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:23,560 Speaker 3: he was in his career late signed, had to work 228 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:24,120 Speaker 3: his way through. 229 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:25,440 Speaker 4: He's been doubted his whole life. 230 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:27,960 Speaker 3: He's a little bit been old for level as he 231 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 3: worked his way up through the minor leagues and then 232 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:31,240 Speaker 3: I had him his first couple of years in the 233 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:34,160 Speaker 3: big leagues, and you know, the thing that that I 234 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:36,240 Speaker 3: wanted him to know is one we're about winning, and. 235 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 4: Two there are high standards here. 236 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:39,720 Speaker 3: And of course we talked about his life, you know, 237 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:42,880 Speaker 3: his last couple of years with Houston. There is a 238 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 3: common bond. You guys know this when you play for 239 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 3: somebody and you have that immediate comfort level, both from 240 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:52,080 Speaker 3: manager to player and player to manager. I wanted to 241 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 3: I wanted him to come here badly because he he 242 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 3: can help you win that Nick. 243 00:10:55,320 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 2: Franklin, it is yeah, yeah, hello track. 244 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:03,280 Speaker 6: It's like a it's like a squirrel. It's like a squirrel. 245 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:04,240 Speaker 6: Run high school. 246 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 2: Here's my kids, high school coach, red coaches for. 247 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 6: Like for like three minutes, stay focused. We have a J. 248 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:11,559 Speaker 6: Hinch On here. 249 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:14,320 Speaker 2: He might be a better manager. You never know. He 250 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 2: almost won a state championship as an intern. Inch never 251 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:17,199 Speaker 2: did that. 252 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 4: No, I've not won a high school Central Florida state championship. 253 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:22,920 Speaker 2: That's well, it's the whole stage. 254 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:24,800 Speaker 1: It's not just it's not like California where they only 255 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:27,640 Speaker 1: play like parts. We do the whole stage. Anyways, back 256 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:30,600 Speaker 1: to back to the Tigers, we mentioned from ber there's 257 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:32,640 Speaker 1: another guy that you were a little familiar. 258 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:34,560 Speaker 2: I don't know, are you familiar with him in Verlander? 259 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 1: When he comes in here, does he just automatically get 260 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 1: the best locker and get everything because of his time 261 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:42,479 Speaker 1: with the Tigers from before. 262 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 3: Now he got a different locker, same number. I told him, 263 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:46,240 Speaker 3: you know what I told him the day before, so 264 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 3: I knew we were signing him for a couple of days. 265 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:52,000 Speaker 3: He was doing making some arrangements or whatever and getting Yeah, 266 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:53,600 Speaker 3: he got to got to get his end of all 267 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 3: out season stuff done. I was like, hey, I changed 268 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 3: my number to thirty five from fourteen. I've been fourteen 269 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:01,200 Speaker 3: the last like whatever, ten twelve years. But I don't 270 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:03,560 Speaker 3: really care about the number thing. But my goal was 271 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:06,079 Speaker 3: to try to get a watch or something out of Verlander. 272 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 3: And I tried at the last minute to say, hey, 273 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 3: I changed my number to thirty five, and he called 274 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:11,959 Speaker 3: me on it, which so it's true. I didn't get 275 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 3: anything for it, but nothing. No, I didn't actually change 276 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:15,199 Speaker 3: my numbers. 277 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 4: I should have. 278 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:16,319 Speaker 2: You should have. 279 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 3: Actually the we gave him his number back, and there 280 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:21,959 Speaker 3: was something different about the Verlander jersey being up in 281 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 3: the clubhouse and even watching him throw his bullpen like 282 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:28,080 Speaker 3: it didn't take me back as far as I wasn't 283 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 3: here with the Tigers when he was. But he's the 284 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 3: fan reaction the how he's handled his re entry into 285 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 3: this organization. We're a completely different organization than he was 286 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 3: here last and he's been awesome in the clubhouse around 287 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:47,319 Speaker 3: the young players. He and Errek developing a really good relationship. 288 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 3: He's in between Terrek and Framber, which is probably great 289 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:52,520 Speaker 3: for both. Frambert's got a ton of familiarity with him 290 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 3: from Houston. Errek has a ton of respect for someone 291 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 3: you know who is has done all that he's done 292 00:12:58,640 --> 00:12:59,040 Speaker 3: in the game. 293 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,160 Speaker 6: How many times have you heard him say? Whoa? This 294 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:05,560 Speaker 6: is different? Whoa? They didn't have this when I was 295 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 6: coming up. 296 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:09,320 Speaker 4: You know. One of the things that he's he joked 297 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 4: to them. 298 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 3: I was like, you're actually approachable on the day you pitch, 299 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 3: which I don't recognize that version that the thirty something 300 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 3: version of Erlander was like, you know, headphones on, stay 301 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:19,080 Speaker 3: away from me. But he was joking in the training 302 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:20,960 Speaker 3: room the other day and he was having a grandle time. 303 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 3: So spring training his perspective. He did say that spring 304 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,840 Speaker 3: training he did say, like, I actually think, you know, again, 305 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:28,840 Speaker 3: I as a manager, maybe I feel like I'm getting 306 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:29,600 Speaker 3: older in this job. 307 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:30,880 Speaker 4: And you've been around a little bit. 308 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 3: You see these guys go from like young players to 309 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:36,680 Speaker 3: getting married to having kids to that happened with JAV too, 310 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:38,559 Speaker 3: Like he got married, he has a couple of kids. 311 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:42,199 Speaker 3: Now his perspective on his career and what it means 312 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 3: to put on a uniform, I think is is awesome 313 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,320 Speaker 3: because I think he values it way more now as 314 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:50,680 Speaker 3: he knows whatever is this. You know, whenever he's going 315 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 3: to be done, he's going to be done, but he's 316 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 3: going to appreciate things a lot more than maybe you 317 00:13:56,200 --> 00:14:00,360 Speaker 3: do as a you know, a rising you know, first 318 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:01,079 Speaker 3: ballot Hall of Fame. 319 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 4: Yeah. 320 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 3: No, he's been incredible and like the resume speaks for itself. 321 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 3: I mean I always say, like you want to know 322 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:08,520 Speaker 3: something about a player, look at the back of the 323 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:09,400 Speaker 3: baseball card. 324 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:09,880 Speaker 4: And his law. 325 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:13,440 Speaker 2: All right, Oh sorry, go ahead, craps. 326 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:15,520 Speaker 5: Oh no, no, I just have one more JV question. Can 327 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:17,520 Speaker 5: he be a distraction when you know you're signing a 328 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 5: guy like that? Obviously everybody says in tangibles he's in 329 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:24,160 Speaker 5: between the locker of Scooble and Framber. But can he 330 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:28,280 Speaker 5: be a distraction that some managers aren't able to handle 331 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:32,040 Speaker 5: because of well JV back in Detroit all this stuff. 332 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:35,040 Speaker 4: I don't. I don't think he's going to be a distraction. 333 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:37,800 Speaker 3: I think I think that that that week was kind 334 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 3: of crazy, right, So you had the talk of Tarrek coming, 335 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:43,640 Speaker 3: you know, coming back, he went through his arbitration stuff, 336 00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:44,600 Speaker 3: He's going to WBC. 337 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:47,800 Speaker 4: You have Bam Framberg, Damn Mam JV. 338 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:50,120 Speaker 3: And like all of a sudden, it became like a 339 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:54,320 Speaker 3: completely different clubhouse, you know. And and ironically as a manager, 340 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 3: I was scrambling less about JV and more to other 341 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 3: guys who were in our camp, Drew Anderson, we had signed, Hey, 342 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:03,080 Speaker 3: you're possibly moving too, the pen cater Montero, your your 343 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 3: role has changed. He's gonna he's gonna start for Venezuela tonight. 344 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 3: So like there's there's like I go into manager mode. 345 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 3: But that the overall like storm, so to speak, or 346 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 3: this big topic that came. Jv' has handled it with 347 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 3: a ton of cloud. He has not wanted to be 348 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:22,200 Speaker 3: the center of attention and has not tried to pull 349 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:25,400 Speaker 3: away from this team. This team is has been in 350 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:27,960 Speaker 3: the playoffs the last two years. Like, that's the conversation 351 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:30,160 Speaker 3: about what you know, what we're about. He didn't want 352 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 3: me to even talk about the nostalgia of coming back 353 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:33,840 Speaker 3: in Detroit. He wants to talk about helping us win. 354 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:36,040 Speaker 1: Did you make him do a rookie program when he 355 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:38,360 Speaker 1: got when he came back. If he doesn't want the nostalgia, 356 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:41,200 Speaker 1: you should have made him do like a rookie presentation. 357 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:43,200 Speaker 3: Now, No, he's not a rookie, so it's hard to 358 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:45,520 Speaker 3: make him do a rookie This is why Presentky hasn't 359 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:45,920 Speaker 3: managed it. 360 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:48,320 Speaker 4: He doesn't. He has all these great ideas that he 361 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 4: would never do in that room. 362 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:51,119 Speaker 2: So I'm not a manager. 363 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:55,320 Speaker 3: Of people that are actually managing and have to worry about. No, 364 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:57,080 Speaker 3: I don't have to worry about Jav doing a presentation. 365 00:15:57,160 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 3: I just want to I'm just happy he comes to 366 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:01,360 Speaker 3: my meeting every morning. Like shit do one Like back 367 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:04,000 Speaker 3: when I was a rookie, the had somebody doing on 368 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 3: him on his birthday. But I left that one alone. 369 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 3: Like forty three is in number. You know, I've been there. 370 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:12,000 Speaker 3: I know what it's like to have the number climb. 371 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:13,600 Speaker 4: So I left him. 372 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 1: Alone, okay, and position player wise, it's it's it's a 373 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 1: similar team to what you guys had last year. The 374 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 1: thing with you guys last year, especially in the postseason 375 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 1: that you know was a strikeouts. Is there a way 376 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 1: you guys can cut down on the strikeouts. We'll get 377 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:25,880 Speaker 1: more contact. 378 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 4: I hope, So, I hope. 379 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 3: So although I would tell you, like you ever strike 380 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:30,440 Speaker 3: out and say like, oh, I wasn't trying to hit 381 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:32,400 Speaker 3: it like all of us when we swing and miss, 382 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 3: we're trying to hit it, like the guys are actually 383 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:36,920 Speaker 3: taking a pass at the ball to hit it. And 384 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 3: so you there's two ways to go about it. I 385 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:41,680 Speaker 3: think you can address it and just say, hey, we 386 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:44,800 Speaker 3: need more contact, like that doesn't make it easier to 387 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 3: hit some of these guys. You can also, you know, 388 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 3: talk about what you need to do a little bit more. 389 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 3: Maybe we need to play the game a little bit more. 390 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 3: Maybe we do need to have a b hack a 391 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:57,160 Speaker 3: little bit more. Maybe the game situation will dictate maybe 392 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:58,640 Speaker 3: not empty in your tank and try and hit. 393 00:16:58,520 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 4: The ball on the ballpark. 394 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:04,639 Speaker 3: But offense has changed over the years that there is 395 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:06,640 Speaker 3: there is you know last night in the dr game, 396 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:10,159 Speaker 3: like you make contact in the game can change, but 397 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:13,480 Speaker 3: it's tough sport man. The pitchers are getting really good 398 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:16,080 Speaker 3: at at finding the holes. I think you're going to 399 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 3: find that the hitting the hitters start to adjust back 400 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:23,360 Speaker 3: to a little bit more play the game mode as 401 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:25,800 Speaker 3: opposed to trying to hit every ball five hundred feet. 402 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 2: Agreed? And what about McGonagall. 403 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:30,399 Speaker 3: He's awesome, he's been great. This camp are starting in 404 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:32,439 Speaker 3: San Diego. And I don't know, I don't know. You 405 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:36,120 Speaker 3: know these decisions you don't have, no, no, stop why 406 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:37,880 Speaker 3: I'm not a manager, because I would just say it 407 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:40,040 Speaker 3: not And if you didn't know, you wouldn't say it. 408 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 3: You know, No, you don't, you don't. This is where 409 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:44,400 Speaker 3: you're wrong. You're you have to. 410 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 1: Wait when you're gonna make you guys leave on Saturday, 411 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:48,640 Speaker 1: that's five days from now. 412 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:51,120 Speaker 2: You're gonna make that decision in three days from now. 413 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 3: No, we have we have the off day in Arizona, 414 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:55,520 Speaker 3: we have two games against the Rockies. We have an 415 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 3: off day before San Diego. So decisions aren't made emotionally, 416 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:02,160 Speaker 3: like you're coming out at me about making it now 417 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:04,280 Speaker 3: because you want to know. There's no benefit of making 418 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:07,200 Speaker 3: the decision now. Gather more information, put a little bit 419 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:08,120 Speaker 3: more in front of him. 420 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 2: He's got to pack his stuff, he's gonna. 421 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:11,600 Speaker 3: Have he's going, he's gonna go with us to Arizona 422 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:15,160 Speaker 3: like there. He's gonna finish spring training regardless, and we're 423 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:16,719 Speaker 3: gonna make the decision when we need to. I mean, 424 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:21,359 Speaker 3: there's nothing pressing outside of this question that would like 425 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:24,240 Speaker 3: pause us to even care about making the decisions. 426 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:28,880 Speaker 5: So back off, dude, back Okay, Well, then I'll ask 427 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:31,679 Speaker 5: you the next pressing question. How much are you going 428 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:34,600 Speaker 5: to be glued to the screen when kaider Mantero takes 429 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:37,440 Speaker 5: the mound? And how many pitchs? How many pitches is 430 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:38,879 Speaker 5: your guy gonna be a throw tonight? 431 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:41,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, every pitch I'm gonna watch, and I did for 432 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,680 Speaker 3: Terrek and de Jesus, who's been incredible for Team Venezuela. 433 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:46,119 Speaker 3: He put him on the forty in the middle of 434 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:48,360 Speaker 3: all this, he got on our forty. Man, he's still 435 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:51,840 Speaker 3: exactly you get on the forty Like it's not that easy, 436 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:54,680 Speaker 3: but there there's you know there. I watch all these 437 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:57,119 Speaker 3: glabor you know, is it bats against Yamamoto? 438 00:18:57,320 --> 00:18:57,480 Speaker 7: Was? 439 00:18:57,800 --> 00:18:58,439 Speaker 4: They were awesome? 440 00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:01,440 Speaker 3: So I'm glued to the TV as a fan I'm 441 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:04,720 Speaker 3: also as as their manager. But you know, right now, 442 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:08,280 Speaker 3: Cater's at that like three inning, fifty pitch count, Mark, 443 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:09,879 Speaker 3: I think he's going to start the game. Omar and 444 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 3: I are really close to their manager. I had him 445 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:15,199 Speaker 3: in Houston, and you know he's gonna piece together the 446 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:19,400 Speaker 3: game and Cater's gonna go first and to get out 447 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:21,400 Speaker 3: of the gate hot. I mean, he's he's got nasty stuff. 448 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:23,480 Speaker 3: He was really good in the playoffs for us. This 449 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:25,800 Speaker 3: one time through the order, three inning burst is a 450 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 3: perfect role for him, given the stuff that he has, 451 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:30,680 Speaker 3: and that's what I expect tonight. 452 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:35,520 Speaker 1: Any thoughts on what Diro went through, which part about 453 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:39,399 Speaker 1: the whole misspoken and you know, I mean the lineup stuff. 454 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:42,000 Speaker 1: Is the lineup like he Yeah, there's some people don't understand. 455 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,280 Speaker 1: He's given parameters. And you know this because I'm sure 456 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:47,880 Speaker 1: I'm sure you and Scott Harris have called him and said, hey, Deiro, listen, man, 457 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 1: like this guy can only do this and this and this, 458 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:51,480 Speaker 1: and our relievers can only do this in this and 459 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:54,119 Speaker 1: you called Omar and probably said, hesus, hey, this is 460 00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:56,080 Speaker 1: what he needs to do right to get ready for spring. 461 00:19:56,119 --> 00:19:58,159 Speaker 2: And they're fighting all this forget forget that far. 462 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:02,880 Speaker 3: He's super stressed about the Bregman Henderson's decision. I mean last, 463 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:05,080 Speaker 3: by the way, but let me tell you that's a 464 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 3: tough one. 465 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:08,800 Speaker 1: But you know what I'm talking about, the feelings of yes, 466 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:11,080 Speaker 1: second guessing you you say something because you're out there. 467 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:13,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, So it kind of mirrors what we go through 468 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:16,159 Speaker 3: every day. Like we know as managers, the criticism is 469 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,359 Speaker 3: part of the gig. Like we are here to protect 470 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:22,679 Speaker 3: the players, we're also here to take all the criticism 471 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:25,200 Speaker 3: when things don't go your way, like whenever something happens 472 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:27,360 Speaker 3: the other way would have obviously worked out, Like that's 473 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:29,159 Speaker 3: that's the that's the what we live in for one 474 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:31,960 Speaker 3: hundred and sixty two games plus the playoffs. I think 475 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:35,920 Speaker 3: we're where the fans and most of us out outside 476 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:38,640 Speaker 3: of that clubhouse don't know those parameters. They don't know 477 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:41,720 Speaker 3: what their restrictions are, like you don't know, you know, 478 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:44,880 Speaker 3: even restrictions. We think of them as holding guys back. 479 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:47,840 Speaker 3: It's also pushing guy like like there are guys that 480 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:50,400 Speaker 3: can't pitch on this team because you can't promise them 481 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,800 Speaker 3: four and five ups because it's not it's not a 482 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:56,160 Speaker 3: spring training game. And so when you know, inheriting runners 483 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 3: or can Ken Mason Miller go three of five, like 484 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:02,199 Speaker 3: that stuff's not cited by the manager, and so that 485 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:05,719 Speaker 3: he is put in a really, really really tough spot. 486 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 3: And and the nuances of this job you only really 487 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:11,120 Speaker 3: get by being in the job. 488 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:13,960 Speaker 4: And so it's not d Ro's fault for. 489 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 3: Trying to navigate these things the best he can with 490 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:21,280 Speaker 3: with a lot of unspoken things that are you know, 491 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 3: that are on his plate that shouldn't be spoken about. 492 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:27,160 Speaker 3: Like I don't think that everybody should know every restriction 493 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:31,000 Speaker 3: or every situation or every you know, complaint box that 494 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 3: he gets from a manager because his guy's not playing, 495 00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:35,119 Speaker 3: or his guy's hitting too low in the order, or 496 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 3: his guys you know, getting pinch hit for or whatever. 497 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:42,159 Speaker 3: Like it's it's not an exact science in general. And 498 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:44,560 Speaker 3: then in tenfold for for d Ro Timios. 499 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:46,800 Speaker 2: Before before we let you go, I just want to say, 500 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:47,760 Speaker 2: can I give me a watch? 501 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:51,720 Speaker 1: Maybe you've given watches to every manager in the WBC, 502 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 1: almost every manager in the big leagues. 503 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 2: Can I Can I get me a boss watch? 504 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 3: No, I'll give Crats one. Maybe he can he can 505 00:21:58,119 --> 00:21:59,359 Speaker 3: give you one. Give Krats one. 506 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:02,600 Speaker 4: I'll give Braun one. You got a little bit of 507 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:05,200 Speaker 4: work to do here because my. 508 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:13,240 Speaker 2: Name is better than fine. Yeah, Pelo got one. 509 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:17,680 Speaker 3: Cratch one's in the mail for you, brother, appreciate too, Thanks, Thanks, 510 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:19,720 Speaker 3: good luck this year. 511 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:32,000 Speaker 1: Here we are with Kerry Carpenter, the official owner of 512 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:34,199 Speaker 1: George Kirby. I know we're not going to talk about that, 513 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:37,760 Speaker 1: but if you haven't seen his numbers against George Kirby, 514 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:40,520 Speaker 1: uh yeah. 515 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:42,119 Speaker 2: It's like every swings of Homer. 516 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:45,360 Speaker 4: It seems to me either a homer or a strikeout. 517 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:47,440 Speaker 8: He's gotten me a couple of times too, so first 518 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:49,240 Speaker 8: and bad in that game, he punched me out with 519 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:52,800 Speaker 8: ninety nine at the top, so he's he's pretty dang good. 520 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:54,439 Speaker 2: Then all I do was make you mad, so then 521 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 2: you're like, okay, I'll get him again. 522 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:58,280 Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, no, that was a fun one. 523 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:00,760 Speaker 8: And it's fun to battle guys like that because he's 524 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 8: so good and he pounds his own, so it's it's 525 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 8: it's fun. 526 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,360 Speaker 2: Yeah. How's how's camp going here in Lakeland? So far? 527 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:06,679 Speaker 6: For you? 528 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:09,199 Speaker 8: It's good? Lakeland is paradise. Like we were talking, thank you, 529 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 8: I mean Hinch. 530 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:12,640 Speaker 1: Hinch said, No one likes Central Florida off here now 531 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,520 Speaker 1: here we are and we have two guys from central Florida. Exactly, 532 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:18,359 Speaker 1: how can you not love? It's like seventy degrees. I 533 00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:20,199 Speaker 1: can I have a hoodie on just because I have 534 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:23,639 Speaker 1: thin blood. Carrie has the Flee song or No, it's 535 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:25,880 Speaker 1: just I've been getting warmed up. I'm all good to go. 536 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:27,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly now. 537 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:29,240 Speaker 8: But camp's been good. It's been fun to get a 538 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:31,120 Speaker 8: lot of at bats. They take care of us here, 539 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:34,720 Speaker 8: so it's kind of crazy. We're getting ready to leave 540 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:36,679 Speaker 8: this weekend, so it's coming quickly. 541 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 6: What do you need? What does that mean? You get 542 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:41,840 Speaker 6: a lot of at bats? Like, what do you need. 543 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:47,840 Speaker 5: As a pseudo established big leagueer slash budding superstar? 544 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 4: Yeah? 545 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:52,200 Speaker 8: I like it. I think you hit the nail on 546 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:54,440 Speaker 8: the head. I just need a lot of at bats. Personally, 547 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:57,080 Speaker 8: I feel like the more at bats I get, the 548 00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,320 Speaker 8: more I figure it out. The more I mean, I 549 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:02,000 Speaker 8: could take DEEPVP in the cage or on the field 550 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:03,600 Speaker 8: all day and I'll. 551 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 4: Never really figure out if something's wrong. I can. 552 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:08,760 Speaker 8: I feel like I can manipulate the ball on VP, 553 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:12,520 Speaker 8: but whenever it's it's the bullets are flying in the game. 554 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,679 Speaker 4: I feel like that is what will expose me. 555 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:20,120 Speaker 8: And so just learning through at bats in the game 556 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 8: and getting a lot either in the games or on. 557 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:25,960 Speaker 4: The backfields doing lives. It's been good this spring. 558 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: How many bests does it take you? How many best 559 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 1: would you like before the season starts. 560 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:31,639 Speaker 4: That's a good question. 561 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:33,399 Speaker 8: I don't know if I figure out a number, but 562 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:37,520 Speaker 8: I would say twenty to thirty. And then I start 563 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:41,280 Speaker 8: getting really comfortable, like I can start start understanding the 564 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:45,199 Speaker 8: zone more again. I can start, you know, formulating a 565 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:48,399 Speaker 8: real approach and like seeing the different arm angles that 566 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,119 Speaker 8: guys are coming with. I think I would say I 567 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 8: would say twenty to thirty or more because it takes 568 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:54,440 Speaker 8: me a little bit. 569 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:56,560 Speaker 2: Do you are you a minor league get back guy? 570 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:57,320 Speaker 2: Do you count those? 571 00:24:58,000 --> 00:24:59,680 Speaker 1: Inch comes you and says, hey, we need you to 572 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 1: go get twelve at bats in the minor leagues? 573 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:02,280 Speaker 2: You count those? 574 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:03,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, I do, and. 575 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:05,920 Speaker 2: Then you're like one hundred of you. 576 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:08,679 Speaker 1: Team goes on the road, You go to Hinch and 577 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:12,120 Speaker 1: you say, hey, Skip, I'd like to get some of the bats, 578 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:13,840 Speaker 1: and then he runs you on four different fields and you 579 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:15,040 Speaker 1: get about twenty at bats. 580 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,359 Speaker 4: I love doing that. 581 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 8: I personally take live at bats like it's a real game, 582 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:24,000 Speaker 8: like I can, I can get up for for live 583 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:26,960 Speaker 8: at bats. I know some people pictures especially, you know, 584 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 8: I can't necessarily get the adournaline going for those, but 585 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:34,639 Speaker 8: I love it. I think it's for me. It's a 586 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:37,000 Speaker 8: real at bats. So I love seeing the ball just 587 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:38,080 Speaker 8: come out of a picture's hand. 588 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:41,800 Speaker 2: Do you talk trash to say you take one of them? Deep? 589 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 8: No, I haven't yet, but but you gotta flip on him. 590 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:48,920 Speaker 4: I haven't yet on that either. 591 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,920 Speaker 8: Some I mean, I'm not, you know, hitting homers every 592 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:57,120 Speaker 8: at bat against god thing, But yeah, yeah, you're right, 593 00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 8: you're right, But no, I don't. Sometimes they're like, you know, 594 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,399 Speaker 8: play and don't run the bases. That's kind of a 595 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:04,400 Speaker 8: weird feeling. But no, it's been good. 596 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:06,280 Speaker 1: Oh you dropped the I'm a big leaguer because you 597 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:07,720 Speaker 1: only have the one flap helmet. 598 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,760 Speaker 2: Do you like I don't have to run the bases, Guys. 599 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 4: I don't do what I'm told. I just do what 600 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 4: i'm told. 601 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 2: Okay, you don't. 602 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:17,080 Speaker 5: Seem like somebody talks any trash ever. But if you 603 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:20,200 Speaker 5: hit a live at bad against your teammates, is there 604 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:22,920 Speaker 5: a little bit like that smile. You can't say I'm 605 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 5: sorry and have that smile that you have. But do 606 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:28,480 Speaker 5: you talk a little bit against those against your own teammates. 607 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:32,880 Speaker 4: A little bit? I just like I can't bring. 608 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:35,040 Speaker 8: Myself to do it all the time because I would 609 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,000 Speaker 8: feel so bad because they could punch me out easily 610 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:38,800 Speaker 8: the next at bat. 611 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:42,200 Speaker 4: So I always I'm always careful with what I say. 612 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:45,160 Speaker 8: But uh, it's fun to kind of job back and forth, 613 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:46,959 Speaker 8: you know, Like I've done it with Casey before. I've 614 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:48,520 Speaker 8: hit a homer off the end, but he's struck me 615 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:50,919 Speaker 8: out a couple of times. So he's fun to go 616 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:51,440 Speaker 8: back and forth. 617 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,000 Speaker 1: What about if you get a hit you're facing Schooble, 618 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:55,680 Speaker 1: even if he tells you what's. 619 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:58,200 Speaker 2: Coming and you hit just a rocket somewhere, you. 620 00:26:58,200 --> 00:26:59,840 Speaker 4: Just, yeah, I'm about it. 621 00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:02,720 Speaker 8: I'm might never let him forget about that one right now. 622 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 8: I'm all for one with a pretty bad strike out 623 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:05,680 Speaker 8: against Schooble. 624 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,800 Speaker 2: So in life, Yeah, that was this year, that was 625 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:09,400 Speaker 2: last year. 626 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 8: Yeah, a little change up. Thought it was a heater 627 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:13,040 Speaker 8: right down the middle and end up bouncing and I 628 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:16,480 Speaker 8: saw it. So he's, uh, he's tough, and I'm glad, 629 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:18,080 Speaker 8: you know, I'm glad he's on my team. 630 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 6: So there's no such thing as a bad strike out. 631 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:24,080 Speaker 5: They're all equal one, Mike, you might think it looks bad, 632 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:26,320 Speaker 5: they're all they all look like exactly. They going the 633 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:28,480 Speaker 5: same column. But I got a questions for you because 634 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:31,760 Speaker 5: one of our people behind the scenes said, you have 635 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:36,399 Speaker 5: your above way above league average in your third time 636 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 5: through seeing a pitcher. 637 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:40,480 Speaker 6: Is there something to that? 638 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:42,480 Speaker 5: Is there something that you're like, Man, if I just 639 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:44,280 Speaker 5: see this guy a little bit more, if I could 640 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,239 Speaker 5: get a little bit a few more at bats, and 641 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:48,720 Speaker 5: is that something that can be solved for you off 642 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:50,400 Speaker 5: of traject pregame. 643 00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 8: Yeah, to answer the traject question first, I like to 644 00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:59,639 Speaker 8: do traject to see kind of pitch shapes if I 645 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:01,520 Speaker 8: haven't seeing a guy before. 646 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:03,640 Speaker 4: But I I. 647 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 8: Don't know why, but I have a kind of a 648 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:09,160 Speaker 8: photographic memory when it comes to seeing pitches and how 649 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,800 Speaker 8: it comes out of the hand. And so I feel 650 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:15,399 Speaker 8: like the more that I face a guy, I feel 651 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:17,960 Speaker 8: like even if I'm over to or two strikeouts off 652 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:19,520 Speaker 8: the guy and I get a guy the third time, 653 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:24,000 Speaker 8: I still feel pretty confident because I just think the 654 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,240 Speaker 8: more I see somebody, the more comfortable I get even 655 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:32,119 Speaker 8: if he's had success before. So I really just I 656 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:33,760 Speaker 8: like seeing guys more than once. 657 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:34,879 Speaker 4: I will admit. 658 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:36,679 Speaker 1: That's why you were an Eastern League Player of the 659 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,640 Speaker 1: Month back in May two. By the way, I bet 660 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:40,719 Speaker 1: you never won that award. 661 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:43,800 Speaker 6: Not a chance. 662 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:46,240 Speaker 4: You got to go into the depths to find that. 663 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:50,160 Speaker 2: It's not as wikipedia. He also said he was good 664 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:51,440 Speaker 2: Golf Coast League player of the week. 665 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:52,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, I did brag about that. 666 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:54,720 Speaker 2: That was like, that wasn't even a humble brag. That 667 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,560 Speaker 2: was a big brag. Like few of us played in. 668 00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:59,400 Speaker 4: The golf exactly exactly, so, I. 669 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,400 Speaker 2: Mean some of us were seventeen so much for twenty one? 670 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:02,800 Speaker 4: What league? 671 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,240 Speaker 1: But where you're at in your career, Kratzy, how can 672 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:09,040 Speaker 1: this team get past where you guys have gone in 673 00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:10,000 Speaker 1: the last couple of years? 674 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 8: Yeah? 675 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 1: The ultimate goal obviously to win a World Series. Last year, 676 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,719 Speaker 1: you guys beat the thing happened in September. 677 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 2: But then you get revenge. 678 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:21,680 Speaker 1: You beat Cleveland in the wildcard, then you go to 679 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:23,760 Speaker 1: Seattle and just have an epic series that. 680 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:25,200 Speaker 2: Didn't end the way y'all want it. 681 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:27,520 Speaker 1: How do you guys get to the next step, which 682 00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:32,080 Speaker 1: is obviously LCS World Series eighty four, you know, restore 683 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:33,200 Speaker 1: the roar in eighty four. 684 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:35,800 Speaker 2: How do you get to that next level? 685 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:37,400 Speaker 4: That's a good question. 686 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,440 Speaker 8: I mean, I think that everything we've done in the offseason, 687 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:44,960 Speaker 8: bringing in guys like Framber and JV again, but the 688 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:48,479 Speaker 8: at least speaking from my experience with the offense, I 689 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:52,800 Speaker 8: think that we were so close that Game five, we're 690 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:57,320 Speaker 8: hat runners on, we were threatening, and one hit goes 691 00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,280 Speaker 8: our way or one at back goes our way. 692 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:00,920 Speaker 4: And we do make the LCS. 693 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:04,480 Speaker 8: And so I think realizing that we're we're not that 694 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:08,360 Speaker 8: far away. We've we've come so close, and it's just 695 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,440 Speaker 8: like little things on the margins that are gonna, you know, 696 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:15,280 Speaker 8: help us get there this time, and just believing that 697 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:18,560 Speaker 8: we can do it going out and trusting the work 698 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:20,280 Speaker 8: that we've put in in spring training. I mean it 699 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:24,240 Speaker 8: starts in February and going for eight months straight. It's like, 700 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:29,640 Speaker 8: I think this time around, if we have another opportunity 701 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:33,160 Speaker 8: and then Wildcard Series or DS, I think we've had 702 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 8: the experience. Now, we've been in those those tough situations 703 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:38,600 Speaker 8: and we've come out on the losing end twice. But 704 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,920 Speaker 8: I think that everybody is more confident now than we've 705 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:43,440 Speaker 8: ever been. 706 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,840 Speaker 5: Can you take a confidence from the first half of 707 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:51,000 Speaker 5: the season offensively throughout the season, there's there's something like, 708 00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:53,400 Speaker 5: did you guys run it too hot early and go 709 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 5: who we got kind of gassed? Or was it something 710 00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,600 Speaker 5: that you guys changed your approach or you didn't change 711 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:02,600 Speaker 5: your app There's so many different angles that we from 712 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:04,560 Speaker 5: the outside look at it and go, this is one 713 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,600 Speaker 5: of the better offenses in the game, and it didn't 714 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:08,840 Speaker 5: quite happen after the All. 715 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 6: Star break anymore. 716 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:17,680 Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I can speak for myself in that regard, because, yeah, 717 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:20,160 Speaker 8: we had a ton of guys that were super hoth early. 718 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,800 Speaker 8: For me, I kind of was the opposite. I wasn't 719 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:27,440 Speaker 8: great the first half of the year, and then I 720 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:29,200 Speaker 8: came off the I l at the end of July 721 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:32,280 Speaker 8: and and and had a better end too my my 722 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:39,000 Speaker 8: personal season. So it's it's something that you know, as 723 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:42,760 Speaker 8: a team, we need to The best teams are are consistent, 724 00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,760 Speaker 8: they're good all year. They don't go through those prolonged 725 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:47,760 Speaker 8: slumps like we did in September. 726 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:51,360 Speaker 2: By the way, just pull you guys didn't hear the call. 727 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:55,680 Speaker 8: I thought I heard something, but but yeah, electric. 728 00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:57,800 Speaker 4: I don't think so. 729 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:03,080 Speaker 8: And uh, but I think it's just a consistency, like 730 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,520 Speaker 8: you're mentioning. Fine, I think as a as a team 731 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:08,959 Speaker 8: we need to find it. As individual players, we need 732 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,600 Speaker 8: to find it. And so by going through that last 733 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,440 Speaker 8: year exposed us all and so I think that we 734 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,520 Speaker 8: are better off for it, and we can make adjustments 735 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:19,520 Speaker 8: now that we've been through it. 736 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:21,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, before we let you go, Alan Tram While 737 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:23,720 Speaker 1: I was just talking to Alan Trump, who's awesome when 738 00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:25,960 Speaker 1: he was a coach that I had in the Fall 739 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:27,959 Speaker 1: League and just obviously a Hall of Fame or Hall 740 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:28,600 Speaker 1: of Fame person. 741 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:29,160 Speaker 2: Great guy. 742 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:32,120 Speaker 1: I mentioned the eighty four team and the last team 743 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:33,960 Speaker 1: for the Tigers to win the World What would it 744 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,520 Speaker 1: mean if you guys to the city of Detroit, if 745 00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:38,680 Speaker 1: you guys were the team that could finally get him 746 00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:40,960 Speaker 1: to stop talking about eighty four and talk about this 747 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:42,640 Speaker 1: wave of Detroit Tigers. 748 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:45,000 Speaker 8: Yeah, we had like a forty year anniversary with the 749 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:46,880 Speaker 8: eighty four team a couple of years ago, and they 750 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:48,840 Speaker 8: were all like, all right, it's your turn. I need 751 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:52,880 Speaker 8: to stop talking about us. But I think for the city, 752 00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:56,280 Speaker 8: it's amazing. It's a great sports city. The fans are 753 00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:00,400 Speaker 8: so supportive. I mean even just the last couple of years, 754 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:02,240 Speaker 8: like the second half of twenty four and then all 755 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:06,160 Speaker 8: of last year. It's it's been a completely different just 756 00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:09,120 Speaker 8: vibe in the city with us doing well, the Piston's 757 00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,760 Speaker 8: doing well, the Lions and the Red Wings are doing well. 758 00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:15,560 Speaker 8: So it's just like when the city rallies around us 759 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,320 Speaker 8: like that, I can't imagine what it's going to be 760 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:20,400 Speaker 8: like if we can make a run at it. 761 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,440 Speaker 4: And and win the World Series this year. 762 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:28,280 Speaker 8: I think it would be an unbelievable accomplishment. But for 763 00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:31,200 Speaker 8: the city, I just think they would they would wrap 764 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:34,440 Speaker 8: they wrap their arms around the eighty fourteen forever. So 765 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:36,640 Speaker 8: it's like it would be cool for that to happen 766 00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:38,760 Speaker 8: to us, to Schoogle, to Berlin, or to all the 767 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,320 Speaker 8: guys that that really deserve one. 768 00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:43,920 Speaker 1: Well, they do a Kerry Carpenter Day if you guys win. 769 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,280 Speaker 1: In Eustace. They have a parade of if you down 770 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:48,120 Speaker 1: the street in Eustace. 771 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,640 Speaker 8: They haven't mentioned it yet, but I'm saying, if you 772 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,800 Speaker 8: guys win, But I mean, I don't know if I'm 773 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:56,520 Speaker 8: making that decision, but I haven't. 774 00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:00,000 Speaker 4: I would say no, but maybe maybe. 775 00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:01,240 Speaker 2: We'll that'd be a key to the city. 776 00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:04,000 Speaker 8: This is growing, it's it's not as much of a 777 00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,880 Speaker 8: small town anymore. So I don't know how many people 778 00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:10,360 Speaker 8: know me around there, but it's uh, it's I love that. 779 00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:11,840 Speaker 2: Last time I was there there was a sign that 780 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:13,240 Speaker 2: said home of Kerry Caerverenter. 781 00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:17,560 Speaker 4: I don't know if I believe you, no, but it'll 782 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:19,600 Speaker 4: always be home, so it would be cool. 783 00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:21,719 Speaker 1: Well, Kerry, thank you very much, thanks for joining us 784 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:22,920 Speaker 1: to They have a great season.