Pujols next Padres skipper? Shocking Schwarber > Shohei pick for Players Choice Awards

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Speaker 1: For the people. The Player's Choice awards were just announced. We're going to focus on the player of the year. Okay, the outstanding player in the American League, in the National League. We're gonna start National League'll already tell you American League because that's Kyle versus Judge. They went cal We can talk about that later. To me, the more interesting one here is Kyle Schwarber winning Player of the Year in the National League.

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Speaker 2: Fatigue chosen by the player, Showy, and you can make a little bit of a show, hey, Fatigue.

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Speaker 3: For sure.

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Speaker 1: We need to read some of the statistical differences stat at baseball comping Schwarber and Otani this year for the crowd that's going to listen to this podcast. Wise, both of them playing just about a full season's worth of games, the war number for show He Otani is seven point seven Kyle Schwarber at four point seven. Otani has the edge in patting average, on base percentage, slugging percentage ops ops plus stolen bases. He's one shy of Schwarber's fifty six home runs and he is thirty rbi shot.

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Speaker 3: That's more of a lineup thing, right, and it's I mean that doesn't. That doesn't even we didn't even talk about pitching.

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Speaker 1: Oh, right, and he pitched.

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Speaker 3: Oh and he pitched.

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Speaker 1: But what about Schwarbur's defense.

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Speaker 3: He doesn't have defense. He doesn't have defense either.

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Speaker 1: We're just looking offensively that that's so many players.

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Speaker 3: I told you.

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Speaker 2: Fatigue show a fatigue, right, cratzy Like people are just like, oh, I'm tired of hearing about Shoreber had a good year. I'll vote for him. Plus I'll also say that I don't know show at all. I know Swarber a little bit, but Schwarber has such a good reputation among so many players are being this great guy. People vote for people they like, and I don't know that how many people know show not the show.

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Speaker 3: He is not a great guy at all.

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Speaker 2: He could be the best guy every time they show him on TV, smiling and laughing and having a good time.

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Speaker 3: But I don't think.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that many people outside of the Dodgers know him that well or as you see schwarbron like college game day, Waring doing all these things. He was on Fox One Big Noon the other day talking about Indiana. So I think sometimes people see him and they're like, oh, I like that guy. I'm gonna vote for him.

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Speaker 3: Keep it coming, keep it coming.

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Speaker 4: I got I got so much hate when I was saying Otani is better than Ronald Acunya. Akunya was getting so much he got he won this award over show Hey, and I was like, what are we doing?

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Speaker 3: He's not a better.

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Speaker 4: Player, Like the best player in the game will always be sho Hey Otani. If you're at d H with him, he's better than you. Sorry, Kyle, Like Kyle Schwarber's season was awesome, all the things that AJ said, He's an awesome dude. Like they must have the Players Association must have left show Hey off the list for players to not vote for him over Schwarber, or the players are just taking this and not and not taking it seriously enough, which I think is a travesty, because, like I think it's cool to know where you stand from your peers probably means more to a player than what writers.

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Speaker 3: Think of you.

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Speaker 4: Yes, the MVP Award is an awesome, awesome award, but it's what writers think of you. You know, maybe somebody's you know, not a fan of you, so they didn't choose you as the m v P, but your fellow players. To me, I think they need to take a better do a better job of taking some ownership for this because it it would be it would be an honor to get this award.

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Speaker 1: Kyle Schroerver won't get one first place vote for MVP. He won't get one. He won't he's gonna be there. What is it gonna be unanious?

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Speaker 4: Again?

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Speaker 1: For it might it might be unanimous. But even if it wasn't, I can probably make a decent case for like five to seven other player that should be in the running. Kyle Schwarber had a great year with a lot of pop. He's a DH, so he doesn't play a position at all. That should be a huge, huge negative against your case when you're a position player. If you're a DH and you're going to win, you have to be like show Hay in pitch, or you have to put up dumb numbers. His numbers weren't dumb. They were really good and he had a lot of homers. They weren't dumb. If this is show Hey versus cal this is where I disagree with Kratz. Show Hey versus Cal or going back to show Hey versus Akunya, different story to me, This one stands out so much Kratz because this isn't even in the same stratosphere. That's what he stands out to me. I think with a Kunya setting records defense like that is more complete player. We're talking about two dh is being matched up, where one DH had a better season than the other. Show Hey, and then he pitches, Huh, what am I miss?

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Speaker 4: I agree with you, this is this is a wider app but I still think we should notice how much of a gap it is between show Hay and everybody else because we're comparing hitting stats with show Hay and then he pitches.

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Speaker 1: We know the question We're going to ask many of our current player friends in the off season where you wanted?

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Speaker 3: Were you one of those?

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Speaker 1: He voted for sure, and I'm genuinely curious what you saw made you question this year?

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Speaker 4: The question should be how much do you actually take ownership of this or how much do you like?

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Speaker 3: Hey? Who did who? Did you write down?

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Speaker 5: Hey?

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Speaker 4: Can you just fill this out for me? Hey, John Clubhouse assistant Clubhouse Scott, can you fill this in and send it off for me?

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Speaker 3: Exactly? That's what happens.

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Speaker 1: They might have thought it's just an offensive thing and then they comp numbers and they go, Homer's RBIs done.

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Speaker 4: What maybe didn't did the players from the nineteen eighties vote like show because every says player of the year, that's why. And then they were like Pitcher of the year the only thing I can think of, player of the year.

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Speaker 3: And then pitcher of the year. That's why. Maybe they didn't combine them.

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Speaker 1: But his stuff is supposed to combine, so maybe they were just like, again, it's fatigua, it's show, Hey, fatigue Okay, just wanted to get a check on that.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the rest of these are pretty yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, everything else is fine, and you want over Judge.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Raley over Judge is interesting.

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Speaker 1: But nobody's like what I mean, we're gonna have the same debate.

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Speaker 2: Marvin Miller Man of the Year is awesome. De gram comeback player of the Year cool?

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Speaker 3: Great? Yeah, Acuna comeback player of the Year in the NL.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I know that this is not gospel, but just to give perspective, I'm on Fangrafts fan Grafts war. It's a little higher for shorter than Baseball Reference, which is what we just showed, but Fangrafts has them at four point nine, that ranks twenty fifth in baseball, twenty fifth second on his own league players, right, Christopher Sanchez, no turn Trey Turner's and Sanchez zero point seven. But there are a number of other players in the National League that ranked higher for all their Perdomo, Corp and Carol. Yeah, Sanchez had the highest WAR in the National League, didn't he Perdomo.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he could be top three MVP.

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Speaker 1: Seven point one, Yeah, Lindora Tatis, Soto, Logan Webb, Lizardo, Sanchez, Schemes, I mean, we got a lot on here. We've got a lot rolling on here. All right, I'm a moto. Wait, actually, I don't know if Schemes is on here? Is it?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: He is?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah he is.

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Speaker 4: Schemes is a little bit below Christopher Sanchez. Christopher Sanchez somehow has a higher WAR. I don't know, that's right. And look at war when.

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Speaker 1: It's pitchers no, no for pitching.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Also it's six point five versus six point four. The purpose of this exercise was to say there are so many players above him, and again we're not knocking Kyle, but there's just a big difference there. So anyway, don't forget Otani still exists. This episode of FT is brought to you by hul Cheers, Cheers. We got a new Huel addition here, the daily Greens. I've got blueberry, lemon and time you've got I.

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Speaker 3: He's not going to the Orioles and he's not going to the Angels.

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Speaker 1: There's still a lot of other teams, but those are the two that he's going to manage. The Rockies, I.

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Speaker 3: Can manage the Dodgers.

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Speaker 1: No, he's not managing I'm talking about the openings. There's still like five or six other opening But this seems to be.

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Speaker 2: If someone really wants them to be a manager, like they're really trying to get Albert Poole's a managerial job. Yeah, somebody him him, I know I know him, But like there's a lot of other people that that throw their names in these rings. Like we'll use Mark de Rosa. He's been trying, begging for years to get a managerial job and he hasn't gotten one. I don't even know if he's gotten to the second stage of any of the interviews. But here Pools is again. So it's like somebody I always felt like if you, especially if you weren't a coach on a staff that wins, like if you weren't like Craig Alberny's right, who was on the Guardians. He's been around a little bit and he's coached and everywhere he's kind of gone, they've done well, and then someone's like.

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Speaker 3: Oh, we really should look into this guy.

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Speaker 2: Right, Will Venable kind of the same way, right coach under Bochie and coach have been around a little bit and did this and that and the boom. Brandon Hyde was under Madden right for all those years, and Phil Nevin was under Madden and Boone and then gets a job, right. But for Albert Pooles, the next player, I always felt like he either won a had to know somebody really well, one of the front office people or beat. There's got to be somebody behind you, whether it's an agent, MLB, whoever, pushing you to get a job like we need Albert Pools in the dugout ya Yati Molino has been doing this. He's been kind of he's been kind of politicking a little bit, not as much, but he's kind of been doing it a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I think the difference with those two, without getting into how you think they'll manage, is the media situation. Poohles now is putting himself out there. There are still question marks with Yadi about how he'll be as a team ambassador, having to talk to media, whether he likes it or not every single day. Is he going to be okay with that? Is he going to like that? Mean, it's an important part of the job these days, you're one.

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Speaker 3: Of the largest parts.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Pooholes is putting himself out there a lot since he retired. Yeah, yes, Yadi hasn't And that's okay, that's his choice. But I think that makes it easier for spots because what do you do to try and get the job, the manager jobkrats, What do you have to do? What's the main thing that you have to do. It's what's happening right now. It's a up question.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, just get your name out there, have people talk about you, give your interviews.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're interviewing, and so owners are like, oh yeah, pools like he's been around, he's he's talking. The guys are talking about him.

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Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: But I feel like, again though, you feel like you have to Yeah, but you again, oh, you have to have people talking about you. They have to have people pushing for it. But again, DeRos has done that. Why hasn't he gotten a chance? I mean again, I'm not I'm not knocking Mark the Rousse. I'm just amusing him because he's on TV every day and he's managed Team USA and there's people.

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Speaker 1: That have Yeah, I know him. I mean I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Again, I don't want people to think I'm I'm knocking Mark the Rousse. I'm just using him because he's the first one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just know from the past he had younger kids at home and now they've gotten older obviously, but I know you had, you know, two kids at home and it's paid well and has a good setup. I don't think you wanted to leave that setup. So I don't know how serious he was taking it. So I don't now, I don't know what the current situation is, but in the past, I know that was part of it. But Pooholes is ready to run, Yeah, and he wants to go. He's like, send me back into the bigs man. He's got the edge. Yeah, it doesn't mean he's gonna get the Padres job. And also Padres job is interesting. There's a lot going on there. It's a good competitive team. That's great. There are a lot of strong persons.

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Speaker 2: Will see how they are next because they've got to cut payroll again, is what they're saying.

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Speaker 3: And they have ceased as a free agent, right Suarez King? Possibly isn't King King? Possibly a free agent. They don't really have a catcher.

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Speaker 1: They have work to do.

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Speaker 3: They have some serious work to do. And again their donors good, now, sorry, I forgot about me.

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Speaker 1: They do have a catcher.

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Speaker 2: I think a rise of free agent. He has one more year rise free agent, rise free agent. So they got some They're gonna have some things to plug in. And if I think it wasn't about a few weeks ago, wasn't there an article I thought I read whether there's been some infighting amongst San Diego people and they want to cut.

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Speaker 3: The payroll a little bit more. I don't know. I could be wrong on that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they had in fighting last year just over the ownership of the team. And also they've shuffled through a lot of managers. And you know, you can blame the manager every time, but eventually you're like, why are there so many manager shufflings going on here?

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Speaker 3: Too?

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Speaker 1: It's interesting.

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Speaker 3: It was a good job though.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Now my thing with Poolosts is I'm going to go back to what Phil Nevin said when Aaron Boone. I was there when Joe Girardi left and Aaron Boone came in. Phil Nevin had been in the game, he was managing in Triple A. He really wanted to be a manager, and he goes. I really felt like when I came over to be here with Boone, he would have a tough transition into being a manager, coming from coming from TV, and I would have a with him, and Boonie could not have done better like he was. He was so locked in, he knew, he knew what was happening for not being on the field. So I'll be interested to see when puhost gets a job, because clearly he's gonna get a job. And as hard as he's pushing for it, how how locked in to Like, who's that bench coach? You know? To me, you need an absolute g as a bench coach. If you haven't been in the game like I've been coaching high school baseball. If I would go back and manage a big league team right now, you to me, you have to get back up to speed. I don't think it just happens like that. So I'll be interested to see who they'd make his bench coach.

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Speaker 1: In credit to Kevin Acy good reporting, he's been all over the.

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Speaker 2: I'm stilling to hear who the coaches for the Giants are going to be with, Like Tello.

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Speaker 3: I haven't heard any of those names either.

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Speaker 1: Well, his press conference is on the off.

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Speaker 2: Day, Thursday, so I want to hear that's what That's what's going to be interesting to me because he's never even been in pro ball. I mean, Albert can probably call up anybody in baseball and say, hey, you want to come coach with me. I don't know Buster does too, but like, it's not about Buster, it's about the manager. And you got to work with the manager every day. That's the thing, right Crash. The coaches have to be able to work together. They have to get along, because I've been on teams where coaches.

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Speaker 3: Don't get along. That's a miserable year. When you got the hitting.

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Speaker 2: Coach and the pitching coach fighting, and the GM and the manager and the division. It's just like, oh my gosh, how would they expect us to win when these guys are all fighting each other. Back to the Yankees again in eighteen, they brought in Matt Blake, pitching coach. Was in college and I remember looking at like, dude, this guy has never he's never been in pro ball. Was he was working with the with the Indians before that, And I'm like.

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Speaker 4: Man, how is he going to? Like there's so many things you don't know. You've never been on a big league flight. You don't know about, you know, clubhouses and tipping and all this stuff, and the schedule day to day. You're just thrown right into the big league stuff that you kind of learn when you're in the minor leagues. So Tony Vattello, I assume he's going to get somebody that is big lea, you know, has big league experience, because there's a lot going on. You can't be like, hey, why is our spring training not that efficient? You're like, bro, you ain't never been to a big league spring training? How do you know how it's supposed to go? Like you want us to run sprints, you want us to, you know, make sure we make it to class like that's where he's been. So I think having a big league bench coach and when I say a g I'm talking about somebody that has run spring training, somebody that has been through it for years and knows how that works, because that is a huge, huge undertaking.

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Speaker 1: He will, he will. He's not bringing dudes up the street. That's and Matt Blake's worked out pretty.

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Speaker 3: Well, so good.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he was awesome, but he's a great person, and so I think that's where That's where Tony Vittello, from what I've heard his communication is ability to listen but then also give instruction has to be, has to be through the.

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Speaker 1: Roof, Padres, Giants, Batello versus Pooholes. That's fun storylines for next year. That's what it looks like.

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Speaker 3: Versus the Rockies.

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Speaker 1: Hey, somebody is going to take over the Rockies GM and manager soon too. We'll get to all that in the off season. We had a few days left world series wise,