WEBVTT - Rangers utility man Josh Smith 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:05.160 Josh Smith from The Rangers joining us right now on FT. Josh, 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:07.560 great to have you on the show. Welcome first off, 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:08.080 how you doing. 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:09.559 What's up? 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:09.799 Guys? 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:11.039 I appreciate you all for having me. 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:12.800 Yeah, thanks for coming on. 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:15.400 And you do have a lot to live up to 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:18.800 here for the next tenish minutes, because your teammate Rowdy 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:22.119 Telez comes on this show somewhat frequently and we're like, hey, 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:24.720 give us the name for the Rangers that we need 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:27.240 to bring on the show. And he didn't really hesitate. 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:30.639 He was like Josh Smith, Josh Smith, the guy. So 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:31.720 why do you think he said that? 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:35.080 Yeah, Well, I would probably say I got to keep 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:37.120 it a little bit more professional on here since we 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:40.400 are live and on television, but in the locker room 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:43.280 it's a little bit unfiltered. So I'd say that's probably 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:45.520 why Rowdy had me as the first option. 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:48.920 Unfiltered in what way? Like we just showed a highlight 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:52.240 of Troy Gilbert, Like that's pretty unfiltered and like out 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:57.440 there maybe borderline like r rated or what's the unfiltered 0:00:57.480 --> 0:00:59.240 part of it? And have you always been that way 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:02.320 even as a rookie? Uh? 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:05.199 I mean I would say I definitely probably just tried. 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:08.040 I talk a lot of snack in the locker room 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.679 to anybody and everybody, especially rowdy. He's one of my 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:14.840 favorites to uh, to mess with. But I would say 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:18.000 my first year, uh, in the big leagues, no, I 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:20.320 was super quiet. I was like I was in college. 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:24.160 I was always kind of kind of loud and obnoxious. 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:27.479 But uh, but for a rookie year, super quiet didn't 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:31.080 really talk much. And then I hit like one sixty 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:33.559 and it was just miserable and I had no fun. 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:37.480 And then I got sent down so called back up. 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:41.640 And in twenty twenty three, I would say we kinda 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:44.320 I kind of opened up a little bit more and 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:45.920 we won the World Series, and so I just kind 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:48.400 of kept it going and kind of just talk smacked everybody. 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:50.520 I like that yourself. 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:52.320 I'm not sure what I said. Did I say. I 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:55.160 didn't say Drew Gilbert. 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:56.560 No, you said try that was fine? 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:58.560 Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I didn't. I didn't get the 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:00.560 reference there, but I went along, like I knew you 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:04.320 were talking about. But I've seen some I've seen some 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:09.079 clips of that guy. I wouldn't say I'm quite like that. 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:12.200 He seems pretty uh. He seems pretty funny out there 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:15.440 in the locker room, I give guys a hard time, 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:17.800 but on the field, I really feel like I probably 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:21.680 don't show a ton of emotion, which, yeah, I play 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:23.320 a lot different than I act in the locker room. 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:27.160 I feel like, we know Rowdy loves loves the fact 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:29.320 that you know your your stick, all the stuff you're 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:32.160 getting on him. Who hates it? Who's the guy that 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:35.480 you're like going around and just like, I'm not talking 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:38.040 about somebody on a start day and then other days, 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:41.520 but who's like I'm not I'm not feeling you. I'm 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:42.639 not feeling this many. 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:47.200 My favorite person, I don't know whether he likes it 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:49.360 or loves it, but my favorite person will give a 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:52.040 hard time to a sion just because he is so. 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:55.280 He's pretty serious. I feel he's a great locker room guy. 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.760 But he's just serious and uh, Rowdy too. We kinda 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:02.119 we really get onto Marcus just to kind of give 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.880 him a hard time and he gets a little sensitive 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.200 with it sometimes, but he gives it back every now 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.000 and then. But he's a fun He's a fun one 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:11.520 for me to mess with, just because he's a he's 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:14.200 an older salty dog he's been in the league for forever, 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.680 and he's he's really fun to mess with, all right, So. 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:19.520 Let's get to the team here, Josh. 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:22.520 What's it like to kind of, I mean, you're not 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:24.760 going to say this, obviously, but for the general public 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.280 to think it's not the year for the Rangers maybe 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:30.280 a few weeks ago and then things have resurfaced here 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:32.399 where your team is just a couple of games out 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:34.880 in the lost column of the playoff spot. So what's 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:38.320 that been like to feel like publicly the team came 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:40.440 back to life in terms of being in the playoff mix. 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.440 Yeah, I mean I'm kind of right there with the public. 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:46.120 If you'd told me two weeks ago would be a 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:47.880 game out, I've been like, I don't know, you're kinda 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:51.760 kind of overthinking it there, but yeah, I mean we've dude, 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:53.560 we've just kind of gotten hot at the right time. 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:59.080 We're playing with with so many guys down Seeger Simeon, Ebo, 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:01.480 all those guys, and uh, I don't know, I just 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:03.839 feel like we're playing with with nothing to lose, really 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:07.160 is what it feels like. And I mean, we're obviously 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:09.320 in a wild quarter race, but in my opinion, we're 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.800 kind of in the division too, so we uh, we 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:13.360 don't have a ton of time, but I think we've 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:14.680 put ourselves in a pretty good spot. 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:18.599 So all right. David Murphy, one of the TV guys 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:22.599 for the Rangers, coined coined the phrase the Little Rascals 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:26.080 for the four rookies that are now playing. Do you 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:30.920 feel like that's a decent nickname for those four guys 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:35.320 to get the name the Little Rascals? But also what 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:40.960 is it that they bring that Oh wait, wasn't around before? 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.920 Or why is it successful? Are they better than Corey 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.920 Seeger and Marcus Simeon. I'll answer for you. I don't 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:51.279 think so, but they're winning and it's working. 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:58.360 So what we're talking about Cody Freeman, Hellman Ozona and 0:04:58.400 --> 0:04:58.880 who else? 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:03.880 Uh I forget the fourth one? 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:07.719 Okay, So yeah, I mean yeah, I mean definitely doing 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.840 it differently. I think Helmet had five five RBIs for 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.200 us last night. Yeah. I think they just kind of 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:17.800 bring a a different energy. I'm not saying they're better 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:21.080 or worse than those guys, but it's it's just a 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:24.320 different energy. They're young guys excited to get the opportunity 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:29.359 and taking advantage of it. Uh. Cody Freeman. I honestly 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:32.359 see a lot of myself and Cody Freeman in the 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:35.320 locker room. Especially. He's he's pretty funny. I'm not calling 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.880 myself funny, but he's just kind of talking smack in 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.680 the locker room. He's kind of a it's just a 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:43.960 high energy guys. He's been awesome for us. I think 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:46.600 he's gonna have a really good career. Hellman has been great. 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:49.000 Like I said, Ozuna has done his part. But yeah, no, 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:52.560 they they definitely bring a different energy to us. Playing 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:54.320 with a little bit more motion on the field is 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:59.200 something we've probably lacked this whole year, besides Jack Peterson, 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.560 who gets after a little bit on the field. But yeah, 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:03.760 those guys are They're a lot of fun to be around. 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:07.120 Josh, I want you pay attention to the schedule and 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:08.840 who you guys play. I know you're gonna say it's 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:11.960 one day at a time. You guys, you have Milwaukee, 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:13.640 then you got the Mets, then you go to Houston, 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:15.920 and then you kind of end with the chance to 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:18.520 do some damage. Are you just trying to survive these 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:21.880 next eight games and then say, hey we got Miami, 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:24.040 Minnesota and Cleveland to end it and we can make 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:25.240 a little run there or try to. 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:30.680 Yeah, I mean we it's definitely we got some some 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:33.279 some tough guys ahead of us. But we're kind of 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:35.159 I mean, dude, we were so out of it. Like 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:37.559 two weeks ago, we were like kind of joking, We're 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:39.960 just like, hey, we kind of kind of win every 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.479 game from here on out. And I think it was 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.160 like twenty four or more or something like that at 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.160 the point of what we like when we mentioned it, 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:51.159 and it's like, we're actually pretty pretty close to achieving. 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:53.040 Then now if we just kind of keep up this 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:55.680 pace and so like it, like I said, just kind 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:57.560 of started as nothing to lose, and then we kept 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:00.400 winning some games, winning some games, and then I mean 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:02.560 last night we went out and beat a pretty good 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:05.560 Milwaukee Brewers team, and yeah, I don't know, we're just, 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:07.600 like you said, kind of taking it one game at 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:09.920 a time, cliche. But yeah, you got to survive these 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:12.280 next couple and then we get Houston again, so you 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:14.840 got a chance to hopefully make up some ground on them. 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:16.080 But yeah, it's been fun. 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:19.480 You said about two weeks ago you were thinking that 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:21.480 you were thinking like, oh man, you know, maybe maybe 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:25.080 we wouldn't be. What time or how long ago did 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:28.400 you start looking at the scoreboard start looking at the 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:31.520 fact that the Mariners kept losing on their East Coast 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:35.200 road trip. I assume you're watching every day. 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:40.280 Now, I mean at this point, yeah, but I would 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:43.120 say about a week, week and a half ago, week 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.160 and a half, two weeks ago, whatever it was, I 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:46.720 don't even know. 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I guess 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:43.599 now that you say, yeah, I didn't even know he 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:47.560 didn't have a Grand Slam, But yeah, no, that was huge, 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:51.480 especially for Helman to do that in that situation against 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:54.760 a really good team was sweet. But but man, our 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:57.560 ballpark has been I'm not making excuses for lack of 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:59.680 home runs, but like it's just kind of not that 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.120 rising that we haven't hit one, just because I feel 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:05.000 like the ball hasn't really been flying all that crazy 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:06.920 out of our park, so I guess it gives us 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:07.679 less of a chance. 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.040 Do you guys notice that? Did you notice that? Like 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:16.640 coming back from spring training? Like something changed because we 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.160 talked about it on here. How it's now the number one, 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:23.680 number one pitcher's park in the league, which I didn't 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:24.600 see coming before. 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:29.960 Yeah, it's uh. I remember my first couple of years here, 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:32.120 it was pretty true. I wouldn't say it was a 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:34.880 like boombox or anything. But it was if you got 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.280 a ball I was going. Now it's if you hit 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:39.959 a ball to center field. I mean I think Yellow 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:42.199 hit one at like one oh four to left center 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:44.480 last night and it didn't even make it to the track. 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.080 He had another one at one o six didn't like 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.120 barely made it to the train. I don't know. It's 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:51.480 I don't really know what's going on there. But if 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:53.640 you get it down the lines, it's pretty good. But 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:55.520 I mean if you you got to really get one 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:59.120 to center field to get it out, I mean it's 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:01.880 I don't know why. It's something's a little a little 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:03.679 different this year than your spast. 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:06.080 Did you notice in BP, Like, do you guys talk 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.679 about it in BP or is it like the culmination 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.640 of a lot of games where you're like, wow, man, 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:13.120 it is just not carrying. 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:18.319 No, it's it's both. For sure. BP is a little 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.120 bit demoralizing when you hit on the field. I mean 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:23.800 I went out and hit early the other day with 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.440 a light beat and I was struggling to get it 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:31.120 out on a BP heater. But it's definitely it's different. 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.800 But I mean I think that's kind of a little 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:36.480 bit of a home field advantage for us, especially with 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:38.280 our pitching staff and the way they've been doing it, 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:41.319 and I mean with us not putting up a ton 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.240 of runs consistently, it's I mean, in my opinion, it 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:45.800 kind of gives us a little bit of an inch. 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:52.000 Josh, what was it like last year coming off of 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:54.679 the World Series? Now we're two years removed, it was 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:58.720 an awesome twenty twenty three. You guys lost the division 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:00.640 in the final week. It ended up work now great 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:04.079 that wild Guard schedule in the momentum was awesome. 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:05.400 So what was that like? 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:07.960 What do you remember from it in terms of just 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:11.439 taking momentum despite what the season looked like. And then 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:15.440 part two here is the classic World Series hangover question 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:17.640 And if you felt like it was real? 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:22.920 Yeah, definitely. In twenty twenty three, we got hot at 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:27.040 the right time. I think we we thought we knew 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.880 we were good. And if you asked, probably our ownership 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:34.559 they year two, after getting all those guys the de Grams, 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:38.920 Evos Seeger Simeons. Year two, I guarantee you they wouldn't 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:40.400 have been like, hey, we're gonna win the World Series 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.200 this year probably would have been twenty twenty four was 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:46.200 more of their goal. But yeah, we got hot in 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:50.200 twenty three. We were a good team. We weren't great. 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:52.640 I don't remember how many wins we have, but we 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:55.800 didn't dominate the regular season. But we just got hot 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:59.439 at the right time, made a run and then and 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:03.040 twenty two four. It is a little blurry, honestly. I 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:04.680 know that's only a year ago, but I feel like 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:07.200 I do remember if kind of Oh, yeah, Josh Young 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:12.400 got hurt, and I mean when you lose a rookie 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:14.880 All star guy at third base is going to hit 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:16.960 in the middle of your lineup, I think, like four 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:20.120 or five games in that definitely takes a toll on you, 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:23.440 especially when he was kind of we I mean, we 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:25.520 expect a lot of Josh and he expects a lot 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.760 of himself, but he was gonna kind of be our 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:30.280 guy in the middle of the order, and he went 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:32.080 down pretty early, and then it was kind of just 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:35.160 like you said, just a hangover. I mean, guys were 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:38.440 probably dragging a little bit. I mean I went and 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.640 played in the dr for eleven whole days and just 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:46.120 like just a short offseason, and yeah, it definitely it 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.560 caught up to us. But we need to kind of 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:49.560 need to move on past that. 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:53.360 So yeah, but then you stepped up and won the 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:56.559 Silver Slugger, so that worked out for you. Maybe you 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:59.160 should go back to dr for eleven games and you'll 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:02.440 win a silver slug Where did you display your silver Slugger? 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:05.880 Apt Oh my gosh, dude, I have such a tiny 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:08.839 house here in Dallas that it's in my closet right now, 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:13.080 next to all my wife's purses. So yeah, I don't 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:16.240 really have any display on it yet. Maybe maybe we 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:17.680 get a bigger house, we'll be able to fit it 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:18.080 in there. 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:21.120 So you're ever going to catch a game? I look 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:24.240 at I'm looking at your Baseball reference and there's no 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:28.200 sea by anything play every single position. And you're on 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:31.160 a show with two catchers. Are you ever going to 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:32.800 catch a game in the show? 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:37.520 I hope not. Honestly, I don't ever want to experience 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:41.480 what you guys had to experience. We would be we'd 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:43.960 be in trouble. If I'm catching a game, I don't 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:45.800 I don't ever want to have to pitch, or I 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:47.720 don't ever want to have to catch. Those are two 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:55.480 positions I'm fine with never playing. You haven't pitched, no, surprisingly, 0:14:55.520 --> 0:15:01.840 not being a utility guy coming off the bench every 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:03.040 now and then. You would think you would, but no, 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:05.800 I have not yet. But it's almost a goal of 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:07.160 mine to never have to pitch. 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:10.480 So if they asked you, what would you say? 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:13.440 Yeah, I mean if they asked me, it definitely would. 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:17.680 But would you lob it or would you or would 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:18.760 you get after it a little bit? 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:23.320 I'm going with the probably like a lab approach. I 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:26.400 just like me hitting off of position players. It's a 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:30.480 little bit easier to hit when they're kind of like 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:33.880 throwing you VP heaters in there as opposed to like softball, 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:36.520 the high kind of slow ones. I think you're harder. 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:44.080 That's fair. I like that takes sense. Hey, before you go, Josh, 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:47.200 he's the best utility guy from LSU. You font No Tario, 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:50.040 who's the best one from Baton Rouge and LSU? Which 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:53.240 one's I know? Fontdo's got the best parking spot LSU 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:54.680 football game, so he might win. 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:58.840 I can't give Trio any credit. I'm not going to 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:05.800 give Trio any credit, although him and fun overstudsh my gosh. 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:08.560 I mean, you guys are forgetting the Mayhew. The Mayhew's 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:10.840 a stud too. He was he was. Mayhew was my 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:14.400 guy when I was when I was I'm gonna go 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:16.840 with the Mayhew just for for me. That's that was 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:19.720 my guy growing up. I loved watching him, No. 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:23.080 He said, he said, utility guys, the Mayhew. If le 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:26.120 Mayhew's your guy, and you're talking about how boring Seeger 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.160 and Simeon are, you must love being around dudes who 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:32.600 are just boring baseball nuts. But what's the deal with 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:37.280 fun No fun o, Tario, and you can lsu get 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:42.000 somebody over five foot ten to play utility a utility position. 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:45.480 I think it's just the requirement at this point. Man. 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:49.960 It's uh, they I don't know. Five ten is a stretch. Honestly. 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:53.680 I did the little laser thing at the beginning of 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:58.120 the season for the strike zone or whatever, and they 0:16:58.120 --> 0:16:59.960 gave me five eight and a half. So five ten 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.680 a push that I kind of wish I would take. 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:05.320 But no, not even five ten. And I don't think 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.320 tyry On Funo or either not even close. 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:12.919 Oh yeah, that's the thing where you you want to 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:15.040 be smaller, right, didn't we talk about that at the 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:17.800 beginning of the year. You don't want to It's it's 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:20.520 kind of the balance of you want to sound good 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:22.080 on paper, but you also want. 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:26.640 To shrink and kind of right. That was for the 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:27.640 the ABS. 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:30.400 Yeah, yeah, for the a bs. So all these big 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:32.960 guys are kind of getting the brunt end of it 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:35.960 instead of a small guys or kind of have a 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:36.720 little advantage. 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:40.359 So I did you slouts when you did it? 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:43.119 No, dude, I was standing up as straight as I could. 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:45.840 Five eight and a half that's a h that's a 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:47.840 tough look. So I was trying to get to at 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:48.600 least five nine. 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:52.640 Well, you round up obviously. I mean people on dating 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:54.440 profiles round up like two and a half inches. You 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:56.840 can at least round up half an inch to five. 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:59.880 I think. I think that's the worst type of human 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:03.239 being actually, is someone who rounds up their height. I 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:05.480 want you to tell me exactly what you are, like, 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:08.960 don't lie about your height. If you lie about your height, 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:12.280 you have a little bit of insecurity to you that 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:14.760 that makes me not trust you as much as as 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:17.560 another person who tells me exactly how tall they are. 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:20.960 Wait, but if you're five so, well it's the line 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:21.600 you have to do. 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:22.400 Have these. 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:26.119 I mean, dude, five eight and a half is a 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:29.080 lot different than five to nine in my opinion. 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:31.919 So yeah, say with your test, do you agree? 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:37.000 Yeah, I don't have that problem. I mean I'm six 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:39.240 three and a half and people ask me and I 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:41.840 say six three six four. I don't know. 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:45.080 Yeah, you could say six three six, But when you're 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:48.920 six three six four, it's not a I mean, that's 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:51.360 those are both pretty good. When you're five eight, five ten, 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:54.120 that's a big five to eleven. That's a big difference. 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:56.520 So okay, there you go. 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.000 And a lot of people don't to switch their profiles 0:18:59.040 --> 0:18:59.440 right now. 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:04.680 Nobody can switch your baseball reference page. And we joke 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:07.080 on the show, but it's kind of serious. We talk 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:10.440 about ft magic. The last two guys that have come 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:13.399 on that have been one home run behind me in 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:18.160 my career end up getting a home run pretty soon afterwards. 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:20.960 So enjoy your home run when you cross home plate. 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:24.800 Just remember you tied one of the all time great 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:27.840 four A players with thirty. 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:31.240