Latest / Foul Territory / Mets RP Luke Weaver joins FT

Transcript

Mets RP Luke Weaver joins FT · Foul Territory

• 0:04
  Speaker 1: I'll betching us.
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: We were on FT New York, met Luke. Great to
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: have you on, man, Congratulations, we haven't had you since
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: the deal. So first off, tell us how it all
• 0:14
  Speaker 2: went down this offseason for you.
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: Boys. Happy to be here, Thank you for this valuable
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: time on this wonderful show. It uh yeah, it's it's
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: an interesting process. I will say, I'm grateful to finally
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: be in a position where you know you're not just
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: scrapping at the bottom and hoping to fight your way
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: into finding a team a roster, and that's a really
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: tough place to be. So this game has its ups
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: and downs, and so it was a really smooth process.
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: It was learned a lot about myself, a lot about
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: the the the ins and outs of that industry and
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: the business side on both ends. And we just landed
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: in a similar I guess city and maybe in a
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: different location.
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: Right before we get into before we get into your
• 1:03
  Speaker 3: free agency and what happened and how you ended up
• 1:05
  Speaker 3: on the Mets, which I want to hear all about.
• 1:07
  Speaker 3: You played with Cody Bellinger last year? Is he worth
• 1:10
  Speaker 3: what they want him to be worth?
• 1:11
  Speaker 4: You?
• 1:12
  Speaker 3: You were there, you were in the you were in
• 1:13
  Speaker 3: the room with them every day for one hundred and
• 1:15
  Speaker 3: sixty two days, eight months of the year. Tell us
• 1:17
  Speaker 3: about Cody Bellinger and his worth, because there just seems
• 1:20
  Speaker 3: to be such as a difference of opinion on what
• 1:23
  Speaker 3: Cody Bellinger brings every day to a team.
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, I've I've enjoyed being on his team more
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: than I've had facing him over my time. So great player,
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: even better, dude. You know, he's consistent, He's just the
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: same guy every day. He's a guy who won your clubhouse,
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: certainly a player you want on your team. He's got
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: unique skill set, plays the outfit really well, runs really well,
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: and he's got an interesting approach at the plate where
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: it's kind of shifts depending on where he's at in
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: the count, and he uses all the field well. So
• 1:59
  Speaker 1: I'm make sure that I get a text from him
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: telling me thank you for all that. But at the
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: end of the day, I don't know the numbers personally
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: is what he's kind of going for. I kind of
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: just see the surface level stuff. I think at the
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: end of the day, he's as good as somebody wants
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: to pay him, right, that's what they always say. But
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: he is a valuable player, and I think he'll be
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: a great fit. I think he's worth all the money
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: that he wants. But at the end of the day,
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: the teams will decide that if they see that fit.
• 2:30
  Speaker 3: Did you have a number going into free agency? Did
• 2:32
  Speaker 3: you have a number or years or.
• 2:37
  Speaker 4: Even I guess location or was it something that we'll
• 2:39
  Speaker 4: wait and see where you're at. And then if you
• 2:42
  Speaker 4: did have a number, how close did the market come
• 2:45
  Speaker 4: to your number?
• 2:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: What I'll say on that is I just wanted to
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: try to land somewhere for at least two years if possible.
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: I know it's super hard to get multi year deals
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: as a reliever, especially in the three three range, So
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: to be able to land a two year deal was
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: a huge thing for me and my family to just
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: have some of that stability, some of that time where
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: and as a player, you guys understand that you just
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: want to be able to know where you're going to
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: be each day, but really in the next year or so.
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: So having that come together was great. The number side
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: of things, not necessarily in my head. I mean, I
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: don't really know what that market even looks like. I
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: know as relievers it can be a bit off of
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: what the guy did before you, or you know, the
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: people that you're looking left and right on in the market. So,
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm very thankful for like a Brad Keller
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: to go out there and get a nice deal and
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: kind of open up some some availability for me in
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: that way. And you know the guys before him just
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: settying different different you know, levels to it and just
• 3:55
  Speaker 1: be impatient through it and to see what happens.
• 3:59
  Speaker 3: That's awesome. Brad kil we just had on last week,
• 4:01
  Speaker 3: by the way, he was super excited about going to Philly,
• 4:03
  Speaker 3: so you get to face him. You guys, you have
• 4:05
  Speaker 3: some eighth inning showdowns possibly here in the near future
• 4:08
  Speaker 3: in the NL, so you know, be careful what you
• 4:10
  Speaker 3: wish for sometimes, Luke, were you shocked all the Yankees?
• 4:14
  Speaker 3: Were you shocked? Did the Yankees make an offer or
• 4:16
  Speaker 3: did they did not make you an offer? Correct? Were
• 4:18
  Speaker 3: you kind of shocked that they didn't try at all?
• 4:20
  Speaker 3: Because you did some good things? I mean, you closed
• 4:22
  Speaker 3: when they needed a closer, right, you were their eighth
• 4:24
  Speaker 3: inning guy who needed an eighth inning guy. You've done
• 4:26
  Speaker 3: a lot of things for them. Were you a little
• 4:28
  Speaker 3: bit surprised that they didn't come to you? And say hey, look,
• 4:30
  Speaker 3: we really value what you did for us.
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they didn't have a fish off or anything of
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: that deal. Uh yeah, you know, I have forever ingrained
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: into that organization these last two years of just kind
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: of resurrecting my career, gaining momentum and just being able
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: to play on a platform that is just really high
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: and to do some really cool things and to you know,
• 4:58
  Speaker 1: from my own personal gain, just to gain that confidence
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: and that love for baseball once again and just see
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: where it takes me to the finish. Yeah, I think
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: I really really loved and value every single person in
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: that clubhouse and on the team in general, and would
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: have loved to have been able to continue to things
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: to roll. But you know, we know there's always a
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: chapter that ends, and somewhere else you got to pick up.
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: And I got all love for those guys. I hope
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: they do extremely well and achieve all they want. You know,
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: there's no bad blood on my end. I don't flee
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: there is. I've got a lot of great text and
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: support from them and wishing me the best, and obviously
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: they're not going to root for me when the time
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: comes near and we're in a subway series, But at
• 5:43
  Speaker 1: the end of the day, just a really really cool
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: time there and and everybody there was just so impactful
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: in my life.
• 5:55
  Speaker 2: Hey, make good eats at home part of your twenty
• 5:57
  Speaker 2: twenty six New Year's resolution.
• 6:00
  Speaker 5: HelloFresh is what we're talking about.
• 6:02
  Speaker 3: Here, steaks, seafood, whatever options you want. They have stone
• 6:05
  Speaker 3: fruit to corn on the cops. Got I know you're
• 6:08
  Speaker 3: a big stone fruit fan.
• 6:09
  Speaker 5: Hey, you've eaten it all I have.
• 6:11
  Speaker 3: I've tried a lot of things, but HelloFresh always delivers.
• 6:13
  Speaker 3: They're fresh, delicious meals that you get to cook so
• 6:18
  Speaker 3: you feel like you actually accomplish something when you eat
• 6:20
  Speaker 3: them after you're done.
• 6:21
  Speaker 2: Cooking over one hundred mouth watering recipes each week. It's
• 6:25
  Speaker 2: made with wholesome ingredients like one hundred percent antibiotic and
• 6:28
  Speaker 2: hormone free chicken. Because when dinner tastes this good, nothing
• 6:32
  Speaker 2: hits like home cooking. Go to HelloFresh dot com slash
• 6:36
  Speaker 2: ft ten FM to get ten free meals plus a
• 6:40
  Speaker 2: freeze willing knife, a one hundred and forty four ninety
• 6:43
  Speaker 2: nine value on your third box offer valid while supplies last.
• 6:47
  Speaker 2: Free meals applied as discount on first box New subscribers
• 6:51
  Speaker 2: only varies by a plan Get America's number one meal kit.
• 6:55
  Speaker 4: Hello Fresh, talk about teammates, Well, you're going over play
• 6:59
  Speaker 4: with one Soto again, but Devin Williams is going to
• 7:03
  Speaker 4: be in the bullpen with you again.
• 7:04
  Speaker 3: He signed before you.
• 7:06
  Speaker 4: Was there any process where maybe you were going through
• 7:10
  Speaker 4: the free agent process and they were like, hey, you
• 7:11
  Speaker 4: know what we offered Devin Williams, or hey you know
• 7:15
  Speaker 4: what you saw we just signed Devin. Did he reach out?
• 7:19
  Speaker 4: Was there any like not recruiting or was there any
• 7:22
  Speaker 4: kind of like, hey, you know what I enjoyed or
• 7:25
  Speaker 4: didn't enjoy my time with Devin Williams. Got go into
• 7:29
  Speaker 4: that process for you and your decision.
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, nothing to those elaborate details. It just was simple
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: like he signed pretty early, got an awesome deal for himself,
• 7:42
  Speaker 1: well earned stud picture, great dude, had a good relationship
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: with him each and every day in the trenches there.
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: I'm very grateful to be a teammate that is again
• 7:54
  Speaker 1: to him just be it his elite self and know
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: what that looks like, and to feed off of that
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: as well and help them in any way I can,
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: And you know, nothing recruiting wise, just you know, it
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: all speaks for itself. I mean, the Mets are a
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: big time organization who successful. You've seen the last couple
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: of years, and you know, being right there at the
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: World Series close to it, and then last year having
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: a lot of success and it just didn't go their way.
• 8:20
  Speaker 1: So they got all the pieces. One dear friend of
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: mine send me a nice text when I signed, and
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: we've stayed in touch off and on over the last
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: year or so. But Clay Holmes another one we've been
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: in a lot of communication with and the time we
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: spent in New York on the Yankee side. But just
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: really excited. I mean, it's they've obviously got a big
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: thing going on over there. They've got some pieces, they've
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: moved them, some things they've got to maybe continue to
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: work out. I'm unaware. I just show up and play,
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: but I'm very very excited to be a part of it.
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: And again, like that market in New York is unbeatable
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: in my opinion, and I just feel that intensity and
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: that the pressure just trying to rise to it and
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: try to put out some quality work.
• 9:07
  Speaker 3: Look, first of all, I thought Wan Sota lost everyone's
• 9:09
  Speaker 3: phone number when he went to the Mets remember that
• 9:11
  Speaker 3: whole thing last year, remember so well, okay, because they said,
• 9:14
  Speaker 3: remember he said, oh, I don't have anyone's phone number.
• 9:16
  Speaker 3: I got a new phone. So apparently he liked you
• 9:19
  Speaker 3: enough to give you his new phone number. I don't
• 9:20
  Speaker 3: know if that's true, but that's nice to hear that
• 9:23
  Speaker 3: he reached out to you. So that's good.
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: Well, well, I'll make sure I clean up and say
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: on his part, you know, I had to. I did
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: d M him on Instagram at a certain point and
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: then got his number through that, So you know, the
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: timing of it, I'm not sure when it kind of
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: a line, but I'm not definitely not here to mix
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: up timelines and to That's that later, Dave, But it
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter.
• 9:52
  Speaker 3: It was just more funny that, you know, because everyone said, oh,
• 9:54
  Speaker 3: he didn't talk to any of his ex teammates, so whatever,
• 9:57
  Speaker 3: it's just funny to me.
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: That's great.
• 10:00
  Speaker 3: Dude, Do you and Devin Williams, are you gonna this
• 10:04
  Speaker 3: guy's just gonna stay in the same place you live
• 10:06
  Speaker 3: last year? Do you have to move places in New York?
• 10:09
  Speaker 3: Obviously for spring training go from Tampa to Port Saint Lucy,
• 10:11
  Speaker 3: But in New York, do you stay. I don't know
• 10:13
  Speaker 3: where you lived in New York. I'm not going to
• 10:15
  Speaker 3: ask you where you live. Well, will you just go
• 10:17
  Speaker 3: back to the same place and Devon do the same
• 10:19
  Speaker 3: thing and then just just drive maybe a little bit
• 10:21
  Speaker 3: different route, take the seven train or tuck the Long
• 10:24
  Speaker 3: Island Railroad into Queens instead of going to the Bronx.
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, great question.
• 10:30
  Speaker 3: Well, but the better thing is will you take the
• 10:31
  Speaker 3: wrong train? Will you maybe make the wrong turn at
• 10:34
  Speaker 3: some point.
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: If you do, I'm not doing the train life. I'm
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: a Florida guy. I like to live in the woods.
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: I like peace and tranquility, and staring at a deer
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: every once in a while has its benefits and such
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: to be useful. I think Devin is more of that
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: that speed, and I'm sure he's got some sites to
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: where he'll be if not similar. I know you had
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: a good spot there in the city. So for me,
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: I'll be driving in and like you said, it'll be
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: a different route. You know, I'm sure this time will
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: be hit with a toll or something which add up,
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: but you know it'll be okay. We'll just get back
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: to the city.
• 11:19
  Speaker 4: Did the Mets talk to you like they talked to
• 11:21
  Speaker 4: Clay Holmes about starting. Did they have a conversation and say, hey,
• 11:25
  Speaker 4: you know what, there's a chance we like we see
• 11:27
  Speaker 4: what the adjustments you've made in the pen, could we
• 11:31
  Speaker 4: see you as a starter with the New York Mets.
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, that was an interesting feeler I threw out
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: there at one point. H You know, I did have
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: aspirations if that was something that was on the table,
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: not necessarily something that I was like one hundred percent
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: wanting to do. Necessarily, I felt like the relieving life
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: is kind of comeing to my own on and finding
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: ways to be more efficient and to try to be
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: my best version of myself. A lot of the teams
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: that I was communicating with it was kind of the
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: first question was I guess tech checking my temperature on
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: what my goal was from a relieving or a starting standpoint.
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: And I think basically one hundred percent of them we're
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: all looking for a relieving position. So I don't think
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: I take too much offense to that. I do feel
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: like it would be a better starter than I was.
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: And that's not to say that there's a big jump there.
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: I mean I didn't necessarily kill it, but I did
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: have some moments, but I think relieving is the way
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: to go.
• 12:43
  Speaker 5: I like to do one of the reflective questions, So
• 12:47
  Speaker 5: you know, if.
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: We go back like you could be, I mean, you've
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: had some you've had some different spots, You've you've been to, right,
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: I would say, because I was trying to do the
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: look as you were talking, like maybe twenty three, I
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: think you bounced to a few different teams, right, and
• 12:59
  Speaker 2: then end up with the Yanks.
• 13:00
  Speaker 5: And then of course you know, took off in the
• 13:03
  Speaker 5: reliever role.
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: I was even looking back to you know, twenty sixteen,
• 13:07
  Speaker 2: for example, I think you were battling for a starting
• 13:09
  Speaker 2: spot with like Alex Reyes, who was super talented, and
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: you just look right like he's been out of the
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: sport for years, right, And it was a guy that
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: we thought might be the best pitching prospect in baseball.
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: So my reflective question is, just like when you do
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: a look back and you sign a contract like this
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: for big money with a big market team, do you
• 13:25
  Speaker 2: think back to the whole journey just now?
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: I promised myself I wouldn't cry on this show. N Yeah,
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: I mean I absolutely do. I don't necessarily give myself
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: time to do that. I think we never really slow down.
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: I think I just speak for myself. You just kind
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: of get in the rhythms of the day. I do
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: know for a fact that during the twenty twenty fourth season,
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: you know, I had nothing to lose. It was just
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: a complete like you know, I didn't know I was
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: in a play again. I just was at that mental
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: battle of like injuries and just is this what I
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: want to do? And then you get that spark of
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: like I'm not a quitter, like I'll go until you
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: know they tell me not. So there's just several times
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: to that year where things to success just kind of
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: continue to build. The positions changed out of the pen,
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: and just got kind of two cooler moments, you know,
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: higher leverage, and just had a lot of reflecting moments
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: that kind of hit your question. That hit me the
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: hardest then was just like where I was, you know
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: what I went through, and you know my own journey
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: and to where I was now is just overwhelming. It
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: was just a very peaceful, humbling, grateful time to just
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: show up every day. And you know, my two biggest
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: prayers were just stay healthy and be just be a
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: good dude. Just be a good teammates show up and
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: just be consistent. And you know, I didn't really care.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, of course I cared to be successful, but
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: I wasn't really asking to myself to like be good
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: or bad. I just wanted to be healthy, to see
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: what was possible. Like if it was like, hey, you stink,
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: you're not cut out for it anymore, Like go get
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: a different job, Like sure, I'll do it. But if
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: it works out the way you you know, envision it,
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: and your confidence is at an all time high and
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: you what you always thought you were going to be,
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: then let's ride on that as well. And you know,
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: I think I hope whoever I shocked or whatever I did, like,
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: there's no shock in my mind, right, it was just
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: a time where it just finally came. And I think
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: that's the whole the cool part about journeys, and you know,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: especially in our game, is like you could be good
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: at thirty five, you could be good at twenty one,
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: you could be good the whole time, you could stink
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: the whole time. But I think lasting the course of
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: time and to look back and to be like the
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: percentages are pretty small each year you get to stay
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: in the big leagues is a pretty cool and just
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: humbling moment.
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: Overall, a great degree. But let's say one thing straight.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: You went to Florida State. There's not a lot of
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: jobs you're you're qualified for. Let's just make sure we
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: established that fact. Because you're like, oh, I could go
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: find another job. I don't know what those jobs are.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: My wife went to Florida State. She doesn't work, so
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: you know, I don't know what.
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: We have Florida battling going on right now. We've got
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: mister UF, mister mister f s U.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: If you want to have an alliance, I'm happy to
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: do that against them.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: You know. I look, I'm not going to comment on
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: my wife by any means. I think that was very
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: honorable of you to do that. You know, I've looked
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: at the Mets colors. The funny thing, right, I'm looking
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: at the colors and I'm just going, okay. The great time.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: I wasn't prepared for it. My agents didn't tell me
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: is the team certainly didn't speak on it, and I
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: didn't have that reflecting to think that this switch was
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: going to be one of transition. I came across an
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: FSU hat and it was near like a Mets shirt,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: and I'm just like, oh boy, those are just different colors,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: you know. But I certainly can stand behind it and
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: just kind of take like a a small exception for
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: my time wearing the gear, and then I'll just shower
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: and make sure that I got the right garding gold on.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: But they do not correlate to be the same. UF.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: It's not the Mets.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: That's not as mess as you can get right there.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry that Mets.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Like a knockoff helmet. It looks pretty cheap.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: This is not enough.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: It's just like a it's like a retro like you
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: couldn't use their trademarks, so you decided to paint it yourself.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: This is I mean, I have plenty of real ones.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: I just can't get up because I'm tethered in this
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: is real. This is real.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: This is real. This is the real one that.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: We are. You in Florida right now? Are you in Florida?
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: You still live in Florida?
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: I am currently in Tallahassee, Florida.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, of course. Okay, that's that's why you have
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: the blanket. Everyone's commenting on how cozy that green blanket
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: looks behind you. The thing about it is. We're having
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: a cold front here, so make sure that you bundle
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: up with that blanket because it is freezing here. It's
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: like sixty five craziers.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Oh it's it's as low as thirty five this morning,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: we're seventy one.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Now, we got up to seventy one.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: I didn't see what Yeah, you see this cold this morning.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: I know when I was doing my quick ten miles
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: you know, CrossFit stuff.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're mad.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: I'm really good at weight cross the weight the training
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: just expedentally, just super high here at Florida's Stay. We
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: put in the work ethic, that's for sure.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: How much did you give to the new football complex
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: because I've seen it. It's pretty snazzy, you know.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: I unfortunately, I feel like they got to prove themselves
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: to get back on the high horse here because I'm
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: not a fair Weather fan. But I know when I
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: went to school, we won a national championship and my
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: good friend Jabu Wins was leading leading the pack then
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: and there. So my expectations are pretty high.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: I know it's a process, but at the end of
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: the day, we only have what we know, and what
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: I know is success. I've seen it, and I just
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: need to see it again, Luke.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: National Championships the UF got when AJ went to school there,
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: like when he went to class there.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know, is that like a primee.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Some of you have to go to college, some of
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: us skip it, you know, but I've seen him.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: What a team.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Say, Oh, you didn't go to us.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: Actually no, he didn't even attend any classes. Count See
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: it's not even.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: An entire conversation and you never attended He's he goes right, yes, Okay,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: I'm feeling a lot better about myself. Thank you.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: Educational doing.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: I just can't wait to see you in Port Saint Lucy.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: And I'm just I might even bring you a Gator
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: baseball jersey to wear and just be like, hey, Luke,
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: look these colors match perfectly.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: I did take a visit to Florida and then I
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: just said, nah, I'm gonna go to Florida State.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: You couldn't get in. We get it. You had a
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: hard time spelling.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: I was trying to play shortstop and pitts. So I
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: mean you can look however you want.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Hey, on that note, one more baseball went on our
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: way out, just playoff related to get us back on
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: track for one. I know, I think last time you
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: were on with us you talked about Yamamoto and how
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: you were a big fan and also kind of watched
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: the way he worked and it impacted you. So just
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: have to ask, I mean, what did you think of
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: the performance just now from him in the postseason Slash
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: World series.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it was it was a bit unreal, right,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Like it's you know, you watch your Otani's, you watch
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: those guys do like unbelievable stuff. And then from a
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: pitching side, right, you just want to see you want
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: to see some love. And uh, I just don't think people,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: and I think you guys understand this just as well
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: as I do. The magnitude of him being available to
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: pitch that soon, like this doesn't make any sense. Like
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: it's taken me a full five days up to the
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: hour to the minute of pitching as a starter to
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: be ready to go fully healthy, to feel decent, and
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: he's doing it after throwing many pitches, Like it's unfathomable,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Like I don't know how you replicate that in any
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: other sport to do what he did at that stage
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: and to do it successfully, And you know, I also
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: want to give a big shout out to and I
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: don't know him, but Varlin. They were running him out
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: like crazy, and it was just so impressive to see
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: his availability and to be able to to do that
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: and successfully and have his his run too. So it's
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: really cool to see when players just kind of push
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: on the gas and just empty it and just to
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: see success through it. It's just a really cool thing
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: to sit back and watch.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's cool to hear from guys like
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: you when you're seeing that. So obviously you've been through
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: the playoff grind too, but to get your perspective.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: You should try that at Florida State. Maybe they'll win
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: a College World Series. Oh wait, sorry too soon.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Sorry, Look, look that that would have hurt a lot
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: more if you would have went to UF. But it
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: is devastating, So thank you for freaking it up.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: This is my time right now. I get one week.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: You do. He's a Miami guys, so he didn't even
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: watch family must Stanley.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: We've got Yeah, we've got like eight cousins all everybody went,
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: So this is a big week for us. We get
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: to have our one week. Yeah, Louke, great stuff man,
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: great to have you on all seriousness. Congratulations on the deal,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: and yeah we're excited.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: To see you in camp. Thank you, guys, appreciate you,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: thanks for what you do and talk so