WEBVTT - Jordan Yamamoto / Adam Ferrone 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:05.760 Welcome to the No Sports Report, a production of I 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:09.800 Heart Radio entry Fork Media. Small note this episode was 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:11.920 recorded prior to the murder of George Floyd and the 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:14.760 resulting global reaction in protests, which is the only reason 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:17.200 it's not mentioned. Something to keep in mind while listening. 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:25.479 My name is Jensen Carp and I'm a sports fan who, 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:28.480 right now, without any actual competition on an American field, 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:30.880 has had to, for lack of a better pun, move 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:33.720 the goalposts. You see, the only sport I'm watching right 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:37.479 now live is Holy Moldy. Yeah, it's Steph Curry's Extreme 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:39.120 Mini Golf Show, and it's as close as any of 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:41.519 us are getting to actual sports, so no need to 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:44.199 roll your eyes. There are chipping Dale's, they light one 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:47.560 of the contestants on fire, there's electric cutions, and since 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:49.640 it's in its second season, this is how they're able 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:54.600 to advertise it totally to the sequel The Balls Drop, 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.520 So yeah, it's super classy. Please Sports come back soon, 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:02.720 because in the meanwhile, I'm talking to athletes and sports 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:06.040 industry professionals about what they're doing in quarantine, hoping to 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.440 figure out if famous competing as much as I miss 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:15.560 watching it. This is the No Sports Report Hawaii native 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:18.759 in Miami Marlin's picture. Jordan Yamamota was someone you once 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:21.120 knew only as an afterthought. He was one of the 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:23.760 four unknown prospects traded to the Brewers for All Star 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:26.679 slugger Christian Yellich, and at one time it was seen 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:29.280 by fans as a true fire sale, a tradition known 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:31.280 way too well in Florida when superstars might get a 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:34.000 little too expensive and ownership hadn't cared about the product 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.840 on the field for years. But ownership had changed thanks 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.920 to new CEO Derek Jeter, and baseball insiders knew better 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.399 than to chalk this up to tanking, especially when it 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.280 came to Jordan's and the entire world realized that last 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:46.840 year when he was called up to the majors and 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:50.000 set a franchise record with fourteen scoreless innings over two 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:52.760 starts to begin his career. He didn't even lose until 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:55.720 his sixth appearance. Things evened out a bit over the season, 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:57.840 but he still ended up with the rotation's best whip 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:00.080 at one point one four four and had eight you 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:03.320 strikeouts in just under seventy nine innings. The dude was 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:06.400 throwing and even with a talented, crowded pool of arms 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:09.000 in Miami. Things looked even better this spring training for 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.080 Jordan's and he's currently seen as a favorite to make 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:14.480 the heavily contested starting rotation, and he knows how to 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.680 cut hair, so they better keep him happy in case 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:18.920 of Barbara isn't allowed to join the team. We talked 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:21.480 about his skills with a shaver, staying level headed through 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:24.680 professional ups and downs, and solving a Rubik's cube. And 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.560 in another installment of Pandemic, I talked to barstool funny 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.760 man and Battle Rap champion Adam Roan Farron about making 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:34.040 sports content in a pandemic. This is a new episode 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:49.799 of the No Sports Report from Yamamode to accept Press one. 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:53.800 Jordan's Yes, how's it going? I wanted to know how 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:58.640 where you're currently quarantined. I'm actually right now, okay, Jupiter, 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.119 because I spoke with Colton long recently and I'm still 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:03.120 trying to figure out that if you were quarantined in 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:05.200 the heaven that is Hawaii, if that's a good or 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:08.960 bad thing. No, I'm actually not home right now, but 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:11.799 but um we'll get back there sooner or later because 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.800 I wonder, like it seems good because it's Hawaii, but 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:19.639 then you're stuck inside just staring at the wonderful ocean 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:22.600 and and the surroundings around. It's like I feel like 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:25.799 maybe it's more of a torture. Um. Yeah, I mean 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:27.840 both places right now. You know, the water is very 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.440 nice on both places, beaches are nice. So it's kind 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.799 of like it's still still kind of torture over here too, 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:36.160 where I can't go to the beaches, peaches are still closed. Um, 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:37.960 so I kind of wait it out. You know, we're 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:40.800 trying to keep myself occupied totally. I assumed you were 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:45.640 quarantined with your fiance Madison. Does this pandemic mess Does 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.720 it mess with your wedding plans at all? I mean 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:51.920 right now, no, because our our wedding is in late November, 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:55.200 so almost into Decembers. I mean unless this runs to 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:57.840 the day, then we're not going to change it. Um. 0:03:57.960 --> 0:03:59.920 I mean everybody got their plans. Like I said, it's 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:01.520 it's not going to run into our day because it's 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.880 totally I mean hopefully. Yeah. That's very lucky though, but 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:06.320 it is sort of one of those things that I'm 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:08.680 sure you're just like refreshing, being like, Okay, are they 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:12.160 closing the venue? I got married, what now, two years ago, 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:14.280 and I feel like there's so much preparation that goes 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:16.520 into it. It's like you can't really stop the momentum 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:20.600 unless unless it's really over. Yeah, exactly. You know, we 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:22.800 un lucky because when we did the wedding, it was 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:24.960 more of a package deal. So we got a wedding 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:27.359 funder involved. Because it's so far away, it's hard to 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.000 kind of plan a wedding from being six thousand all 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.240 of the way, So we just decided to hire a 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:34.039 wedding fund to kind of do everything on the whole 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.560 lot of you side um, and then from there we 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:38.599 just figure it out on this how she was asked 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:40.240 this question, will hey, you want this or that? And 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:43.280 then you say yes or no, it makes a lot easier. Yeah, 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.640 would you get married? Because I was thinking of this myself, 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.680 like if my reception was canceled and I couldn't have 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:50.440 my whole family there, I would still probably go to 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:52.599 city hall get that part done and then just wait 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.360 for the pandemic to pass to have a party for everyone. 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:57.640 Does that seem I mean that seems right not to 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.520 when people are doing nowadays. Um, I mean this as hard, 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:02.480 you know, like because it was funny when when it's 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:05.719 hoping started, Um, Madison actually was talking about Elope, you know, 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:08.440 and still having a reception. But it's just like we're 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:10.040 not gonna be affected by it, least we don't think 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:11.800 we will be affected, you know. So it's kind of 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:15.080 like we'll just stay the course and it's happy that happens. 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.360 If it doesn't, well we'll figure it out and when 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:21.080 that time comes. Totally. She is a kindergarten teacher, which 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:23.479 is the least selfish thing she can be. I'm sure 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:25.720 her leaving her class in the middle of this whole 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:29.039 thing was not easy. Um. Yeah, that definitely wasn't you know. 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:31.359 But but she is working every day from home. She 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.600 does a lot for the kid, you know, but she's 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:36.760 actually building um goody vantage for them for the end 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:38.680 of the year. So it's actually kind of cute. Um, 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:40.680 she had her and she had all their names become 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:43.400 of bags and everything, so we have to go go 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.520 deliver them soon. And uh, I know all about Piper, 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:49.279 you like, millions of other people were kind enough to 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:51.680 adopt a dog during the pandemic. Tell me about the 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.640 decision to do that. Um, I've been wanting a dog 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:56.840 for a while. Um, it was funny because I've been 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:58.440 wanting a dog for a lot of year. Now, you know, 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.880 my own she's been really good. You're actually speaking right now, 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:05.000 which is really helpful for both of us because matters 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:08.440 is finally, um nail salon opened up, so she's gonna 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.159 go get her nails on and I'm just signing cards. 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.320 So it's's kind of like it's perfect time and no pertly. Yeah, 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.120 my my wife is gonna be extremely jealous when she 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:19.360 finds out the nail salon has opened in Jupiter, Florida. 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:22.240 That that is, it has become quite She's tried to 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:24.000 do it herself. She just isn't as good at it. 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:26.279 She actually, which we'll get into with you in a 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.120 little bit, she cut my hair and did an incredible job. 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:31.200 So I feel like it's just weird. It's the one 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:33.880 talent she doesn't have is her is doing her nails. 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:38.000 That's funny. I actually haven't really cut here too much 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:42.360 during this time either. Yeah, I assumed you also made 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:44.760 a great point on Instagram about people who are adopting 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:46.360 these pets right now and that when we go back 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:48.159 to our normal lives that we have to make sure 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:50.800 not to neglect them just because we won't be home 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:53.120 the entire time. Yeah, you know, like like that was 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.599 the first thing. I like, we said, so I'm lucky, 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.040 I got madicine, you know who, we don't know what's 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:00.320 gonna have. This whole thing was teaching everything that she 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:03.360 possibly could be home, my shaving at shortes. So we 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.680 really with the dolls um pretty often, you know. But 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:08.440 it's just it just sucks, you know when people go, 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:12.560 I can get a dog now because because I'm home, 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:14.200 But when I go back to work, when they do 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.640 like an impulse buy and they go, okay, I can 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:19.440 get a dog in and once that rolls around where um, 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:21.320 work comes back into player where they're not where they're 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.200 where they're gone for eight hours a day. It's not 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.000 what s in the kennel all day long. You know. 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:29.000 I don't want to see the dollars go go go 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:32.560 get it. It's such things dolls, the tent to shelters 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:34.520 and all that stuff, you know. So I just want 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.200 people to realize what they're doing and it's in it 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:38.960 for the long run and not in it just because 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:42.040 it's it's convenied right now, agreed. Also, like millions of 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.680 other people during the pandemic, you you gave into the 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:48.160 pressure and you opened the TikTok account. How do you 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:50.280 feel on the app? I have been vocal here on 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:53.080 this podcast that I have never felt older. I'm forty 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:55.760 years old. On TikTok, I feel a hundred and forty. 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.560 How have you been getting along with the app all time? 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:00.560 Post the video here and there? You want one of 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.840 the videos of Piper kind of blew up. But other 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:04.720 than that, I'm I don't really go on because it's 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.320 a younger generation of kids who are thirteenth or fifteen 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:11.840 years old, um where they're doing something. Impersonally, I'm not 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:13.560 a big fan of a lot of stuff to down 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:16.160 the book. There is funny content on it, so I 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:18.960 kind of like to watch between me, my fiance and 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:20.880 her brothers, like we send each other videos of the 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:23.440 funny stuff that goes around, you know, not so much 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.560 of all the ticktoff famous girls. It's more of the 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.120 funny pranks that go on or just a home videos 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:30.920 that are played on a couple of theres. So those 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:33.720 are the views I like to watch them. Couple up 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:36.080 of my feet. Yeah. I am a big fan of 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:39.560 that one challenge where it's like and you move an 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:41.000 arm and then an arm and then a leg and 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:44.680 then you run after your dog. Yeah. Yeah, I haven't 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:46.840 tried that with Piper. Yes, she's kind of like he 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:50.320 doesn't really get scared or skittish. She's more like, okay, 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.319 well you're playing, I'm much are biting you. So I 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:55.800 don't really want to do that because, yeah, we are 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:57.959 already have enough time with her biting us, so we 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.080 kindly kind of try to limit that. That's true, it 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:04.079 could end poorly. You also celebrated a birthday in quarantine. 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.480 I'm sorry to hear that. It must have been just you, Madison, 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:09.600 and Piper, But how did you celebrate? Well, now, the 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:11.679 sound it's actually come from the Tupid area too, So 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:14.000 we've kind of been quarantine with them where we have 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:16.199 our house over here, but we go there often to 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:17.839 kind of hang out. You know, they have a pool 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:19.960 over there, so we'll jump in the pool, we'll play 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:21.959 the dogs, and because we have two dogs over there, 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:25.160 so we're trying to get Piper afflimated to the two dogs. 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:29.040 So we hung out over there. For a little while. Uh, 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:31.080 and then we also had dinner. The night before that, 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:32.880 I started working on my truck. I work on my 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:34.840 truck all day pretty much, because that was what I 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:37.160 wanted to do. I got lights for my birthday for 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:40.000 my truck, and I put those in. But we hung 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:41.880 out and we also jove up to to the beach, 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:44.400 sat inside the back of my truck and watch the sunset. 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:46.480 So it's kind of cool. I love that. I know 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:48.120 you're a big car guy. What what truck are you 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:50.040 building out? What are you working on? How have my 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:53.040 silver rattle that I've been building for a while. Um? 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.480 I got it when it was pretty much fully stopped 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.040 um and white, but now it's black with other stuff 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.040 done to it. You know. It's fun because every other 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:03.959 week I get I order something. And when Magic, I 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:06.280 was like, oh, another thing for your trucks. Another thing, 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:08.880 pretty truck, you know, but I love my trucks. My 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:11.920 truck is like, uh, it is my bayby show. I 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:14.360 got to take care of her. So beyond these things, 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:16.320 how have you been able to stay in shape and 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:19.160 mentally prepared for a season that looks like it's kind 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:20.880 of on the brink. But but how have you stayed 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:24.120 Have you stayed active? Right before this whole quarantine shut down, 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:25.800 we kind of got a win from it that we 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:27.320 were about to go in to shut down and everything 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:29.080 like about a week and a half two before it 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:31.440 actually happened. So what I did is I kept searching 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:33.520 online for a weight set anything. I got lucky that 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:36.840 did down in thirty minutes away. He had like a 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.000 warehouse full of full of weights for that that I 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:42.200 bought a whole set from like an Olympic weight set 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:44.920 um from him, and then I also ordered one of Amazon, 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:48.000 which came in a month after. So it was definitely 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:50.440 a perfect timing. I got lucky with the weight So 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:52.560 that's why I keep it at my fiancee's mom's house. 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.040 So we worked out almost four times a week. You know, 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:57.079 throw every day to the Spade shape. You know, it's 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:58.800 kind of like you don't want to be not ready, 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:00.559 and they go, Okay, you have to be backed by 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:04.839 this time, you know, so and be ready for the season. Yeah, 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:06.640 that is super lucky because a lot of people I've 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.680 spoken to were like racing to get to get equipment 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:12.200 at the last minute. Have you been able to throw? Yeah, 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:14.280 it's hard. To long thought turning because all the parks 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.920 are closed and everything, but um, we just don't have 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:20.720 the street. And then also have this indoor facility where 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:23.560 I got lucky with again in Jupiter, and it's like 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:25.640 you indoor preasility where has a mounditus. I go there 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.720 once a week and I felt bullpens with a cattut 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:30.840 that I've known for a little while. A good time 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:33.199 spread about my fianto them. So I got kind of 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.440 lucky in this area during this time. Absolutely last season, 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:38.440 you got called up to the bigs all after a 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.480 very high profile trade, you face the pressure head on. 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:45.320 Had a tremendous start, it seemed reading it all again 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.280 as for research, I knew it when had happened, but 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:51.959 reading it it made me it's almost like inhuman how 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:54.480 do you think you were able to overcome those nerves 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:56.480 and the tension of the first few games. How did 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:58.760 it not get to you? It's all in God's time. 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:01.559 But at the same time, you know, it's that competitive 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:04.600 side of every athlete. You know. The day I called 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:06.920 up and I had the most nerves you can imagine. 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.880 You know, I couldn't sleep. I was just I was 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.440 just ready to go and I just wanted to play. 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:15.319 But once I do that first pitch, you know, everything 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:17.520 calmed down. I just held everything just like kind of left. 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.080 All the nerves left, and it was like, Okay, I 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.320 got my first pitch, and I'll let's go. It's the 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:25.240 same game. It's the same distance from home to to 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.160 the mountain. You know, it's it's kind of like, I 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:29.400 just gotta pitch. How I know how um be the 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:32.400 person I am that got me here. So all the 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.320 nerves went away, and over time, you know, you still 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:37.120 get the genes of being the big league. You will 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:40.160 never get used to that, but just the competitive side 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.199 of kicks in during during the game. So it was 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:44.880 actually kind kind of cool. Yeah, it was incredible to watch. 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:48.600 You had a really strong spring before everything was postponed, 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:51.480 and you appear to be set for the starting rotation 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:53.600 in a battle that a lot of baseball was watching. 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:56.240 What hurdles do you think now you'll face once you 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:58.600 guys all get back into action. Are are there certain 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:01.360 things for a guy who started his professional career without 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:03.400 any fear? It looked like from afar, what are you 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.400 fearful of? If baseball were to start again pretty soon? Honestly, 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:09.720 I'm not really fearful and much because to me, it's 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.199 hitching God's fun, It's hitching God's home. You know, what 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:16.040 he wants is going to happen. And if, by chance 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:19.200 to anything that like happened, that that's that's negative in 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.440 my life. You know, it's just like, Okay, it happened. 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:22.840 You know what am I gonna do? How How do 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:24.559 I look at it as a positive? Alcome? You know, 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:26.599 how can I spend this to be positive? And my 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:28.839 thing is life too short to be negative? So you'll 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.720 you'll rarely hear me ever be negative. Um. I always 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:33.520 like to look at the positive leaf, and right now 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.040 there's a pretty good positive. You know that we will 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:37.920 have a baseball season, that we will be able to 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.040 play again. You know, I don't know where, I don't 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.400 know when, but for the most right now, just being 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:44.880 lucky to even put on the uniform is just good 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:47.000 enough for me. Yeah. I was looking through some of 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.839 your social media, and you know, obviously with the extremely 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:52.520 hot start that you had, you started to even out 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:54.920 afterwards a bit and when people would kind of get 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:57.280 on your case about it. I was super impressed with 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:58.880 your response to a lot of the tweets if you 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:01.360 just being like, yeah, man, it's baseball. There's ups and downs, 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:04.400 which I don't think is a very common answer. I 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.839 think sometimes people get in a slump, especially after being 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.920 such an amazing, hot rookie start. It's like you definitely 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:14.240 have a really tepid mind about those kind of things, 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:16.480 and where where did you start to get that? Like 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.000 how are you not getting down on yourself? If if 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.560 you're not living up to the expectations you have set 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:24.360 for yourself. It's a supportive to you know. It's it's 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:28.000 your family, it's your friends. It's not Beyonce, it's everybody 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.200 back home in Hawi. You know, no matter how I do, 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.200 no matter what the outcome is, I'm always gonna getting 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:35.000 Tex lessons after the game, you know, like hey, if 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:37.160 it feels good, like hey, congratulation like that the great 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:39.160 outy it feels bad, you know where it was just 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.520 like hey, it's all good. It's baseball, you know. So 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:43.480 you're done in yourself, like you'll you'll come back the 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:45.160 next out, and so it's just a support the stem. 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.720 The more you mean on them is the more you'll 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:49.760 have success, because the more you start meeting on the 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:51.960 people who would probays do down there time and you've 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:54.040 got negative bodes is what you're gonna go to, you know, 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:56.680 So tell me it's like I said earlier, a positive bodges. 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:00.360 What is positive outcomes? You know? So you some people 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:02.920 don't understand that. People don't understand it's getting always ye 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:06.280 is numbers and always he is figure on TV. And 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:09.720 if we lose their money and say Fantasy Baseball, they 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:11.200 thin getting mad at us, you know. But at the 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:13.840 same time, I'm a human ding, I'm a person. So 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:16.920 they are achieving, people making mistakes, people talking about things 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.200 that that they're passionate about. And if they're passionate about 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:22.200 their money, meaning that they're like a gamble um, hey, 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:23.800 so be it. But I'm not gonna judge them. And 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.880 I'm not gonna get to an argument over something I 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:28.640 can't can show you know that that I know I 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:30.400 did my best at that I know I prepare for, 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:32.600 you know, and it just didn't go my way. So 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:35.040 there's no point in arguing there, says No. There's really 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.440 no pointing arguments. More to take the high road, you know, 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.000 kind of spread love, and that's spread law, and that's 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:45.400 how I live. Derek Deeter is an owner of the Marlins. 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:50.960 I'm asking you, are you guys text friends? No? No, No, 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:54.280 he just keeps professional. I've never texted in and I'm 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:56.720 talking in person all the time whenever I see him. 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:58.240 But that's just that, that's what they say. You know, 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:00.120 he's my boss, you know, as much as I'm a 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:02.480 fan of him and growing up was a fan of him, 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:04.680 you know, you got to keep on a professional basis. 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:07.440 So whenever I see him, I said, Hi, shake his hand. 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.040 You know, I have a little conversation. But that's to 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:11.920 the extent I have with him, you know, and if 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.080 I meet anything, you know, he's open to kind of 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.000 advice where he can help us out, you know. But 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:18.480 at the same time, he has his work cut out 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:20.320 for him. I have mind, so I cannot be bothering 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:25.520 him every single day there but Christmas card, uh, I 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:26.960 mean I had one of these things where I kind 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:29.760 of I kind of uh made a fool of myself. 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:32.360 You know, we were at this um we have fan 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.040 fest there this past spring training and we were at 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.640 top Golf. But we had all the sponsors of the Martins, 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:39.360 you know that each had a boots of their own. 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:41.840 We had our communications guys who was giving out the 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:44.680 like where which boots we belong to? So each play 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:46.400 I have to get a different boots and everything, and 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:48.800 I don't know where I'm going. They didn't tell me 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:50.280 at the front door. So I'm gonna trying to find 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:52.600 a guy running around and everything, and I see in 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:54.200 my spot of so I started running towards him. I 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.560 get caught behind somebody and I feel someone poked me, 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.920 like jab me from the back. Turned around and they're 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.880 your folks are here, what's helping that all? I'm so 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:05.280 sorry I did not see you there. I was going 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:07.399 to mission, like, I'm so I had a conversation with 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:09.960 him myself bad because I walked right past and you know, 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:12.760 not not even realizing he was there. So I felt 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:14.240 kind of like a fool of that moment. But he 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:16.560 started laughing and he's like, okay, as long as you're 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:19.280 doing something, you know. So it was definitely fun. That's great. 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:21.119 I mean his gambles. You know a lot of people 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:23.159 looked at stuff like the trade for for you with 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:25.640 Christian getting sent away. I mean, this was the year 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:27.359 it was supposed to pay off for him. So I 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:32.120 kind of I'm I'm excited just for his redemption of Yeah, 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.879 you know a lot of people um felt what up 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.159 Mormons are doing. But you kind of you kind of 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:39.880 expect change right away, you know, like what they say, 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.840 rebial takes time. And then if you expect like the 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:46.439 trade just instantly magically worked, it's not gonna happen. You know, 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:48.720 we're on the fourth place in that Yellow trade has 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:50.320