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Mailbag! Nothing personal word of the day. It's another mailbag, because I am still in Africa.

I may be with the gorillas in Uganda, maybe rafting on the Nile, whitewater rafting somewhere,

but I wanted to get these mailbags out because all of you are amazing. You ask so many questions on Twitter, David P. Samson, Instagram, David P. Samson, maybe on TikTok, who knows,

when you are on Apple and you review and ask a question, we got to get to it because it's a full show, and it's interesting because there's been a lot going on in the baseball world.

And these are some specific, how did that go, Coco? Do you like that? These are some specific questions. Hi, David. I hope you had a good weekend.

It was fine, thank you. How much control do top MLB pictures really have as to where they place the ball?

Or if it were target practice, how accurate would they really be from the mound?

On the flip side, how much of where a ball is hit and play is because the better places a ball where he wants it.

Ooh, do I love this question? We're leading off the mailbag with this. Remember that brawl that took place with the angels? Now, this is funny, right?

Because this is being released probably two weeks after I record it. And the brawl just happened. I covered it on the nothing personal that I think I did today.

And I'm wearing the same clothes because I didn't even take them off because we're recording this much later in the day though.

But this is something that people ask me all the time. How do players get hit in the head?

How do pictures walk batters with a four run lead when all you have to do is throw strikes or an eight run lead?

So when I first started in baseball, I had the same questions. It was incredibly frustrating to me. I would sit and watch a game in my first or second or 30 year early on in my career.

And we would say to the pitchers, if you don't throw strikes, you're going to be sent down.

Strike one is your best pitch. Don't tell me you throw 98. Don't tell me that you've got a knee buckling breaking ball. Strike one is the best pitch in baseball, no matter what.

Even if Tony LaRussa doesn't believe it. Strike one is important.

When pictures are walking hitters, and these hitters are 200 hitters, or you've got a big lead and no one's on base.

And we say to them, our performance psychologist says to them, our manager, our pitching coach, the GM, me.

Hey, give up the solo home run. It's totally fine. Do not give up a crooked number. That's what you say to your team.

No crooked numbers. One is a straight number. Every other number after one is a crooked number. You don't want to give up beginnings.

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