This is the baseball tonight podcast for Friday, June 12, 2006, presented by Le Quinta.

By Windham, my buster only working from my hotel room in Baltimore.

On Thursday night, we broadcast the Seattle Mariners and the Baltimore Orioles from Camden Yards.

Kenny Ligon is working from back in Bristol.

Today, we finally get Cam Sittler of the Yankees.

We've been excited about this.

We've been talking about this.

Well, he's joining us, and he'll tell you a story about the leadership of Aaron Judge,

the first time that he hit 100 miles per hour on a radar gun and how he went from being a seventh round pick to now one of the best pitchers in baseball.

Jorge Castillo is going to join us to talk about a couple of big moments for rookies.

How about Bryce Eldridge?

How about Braden Montgomery?

Let's get to it.

Today's check-in is brought to you by Lakeinta by Wyndham. We now welcome in Yankees pitcher, Cam Schlittler. He is among the early leaders in the American League Cyang Award in his first 14 star to 1-870RA, and he leads all AAL pitchers in war. Camp, thanks for joining us. Yeah, thanks for having me. All right, I had a conversation recently with your manager, Aaron Boone, in which he said that you really welcome feedback. And he talked about how you could be really self-deprecating and kind of brutal on yourself. Where does that come from? I don't know. I think it's just kind of a mentality. You know, you get up here, you got a lot of guys that, you know, have a lot of experience and kind of just from high school and college as well, just being able to, you know, handle that criticism and, you know, if it's needed, try to make adjustments off that. So the best way to learn is, you know, through the experience of others. So that's what I've tried to do since, you know, been drafted by the Yankees in 22. What I'll always remember about you is I was working the sideline of that game you pitch against the Red Sox in the playoffs last year, eight scoreless innings, no walks, 12 strikeouts.

And I remember talking to you at that time and you were very measured in your answers, but I could just see in your face, you were just bursting with emotion.

And then after, you know, you got done talking with idiots like me, you went into the Yankees

clubhouse and the players all welcomed you in. What do you remember about that night?

Yeah, it was a great feeling. You know, I don't really remember much. You know, you remember a little

bit, you know, before the game starts and how, you know, everything went up to that and sleep I got.

But, you know, after the game, you know, everyone celebrates a good feeling. You know, family was there. So we got to, you know, see them after the game on the field. and just kind of a special night

and gone on the plane to Toronto

and didn't really get good sleep

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