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can listen on apple podcast Spotify or wherever you get your pods joe welcome how are you i'm good mike

how are you all right jo it's been a couple of eventful days for you i know you don't like being a

star attraction you've been a star you've been a been a headline maker and the back page for the last couple of days. Yeah, no, I try to stay off that back page in the headlines. You prefer that your players are in the headlines. And, you know, if I look at it yesterday, it was Sanaka and Burr, just a tremendous job on both their parts. But big decisions, again, and you have a million of them. And yesterday, after a tough game, too, and we don't have to re-go through all that. But I want to get to the human side of this for a second. I know no one likes getting booed, and I saw Mickey Mantle get booed. They booed Joe DiMaggio, so we know they can boo anybody, but still it doesn't make it. It's no fun when it's you. How tough was that for you? Well, I expected it, Mike, so I think I was mentally prepared for it. You know, I think what you, you know, more important to me, I wanted to prepare my kids for it because I don't think they've ever seen that from, you know, happen to their father. And my kids are fairly old, you know, they're 18, 15, and 11. And, you know, I think they're starting to understand it. But, you know, kids are protective. And I just wanted to make sure that they didn't answer back or do anything silly in the stands.

It is what it is.

And it's because our fans care so much and are passionate.

All right.

Hey, listen, it happens at some point to everybody.

So that was just the sidebar.

But, you know, there was a lot of question about when you'd pitch Tanaka, when you'd pitch Severino.

Tanaka being up and down, you put him in a spot at home where he likes to pitch, and he obviously responded with a brilliant game last night. Yeah, I mean, that's as good as I've seen him against a very tough hitting club that really grinds out at bats. And, you know, he's had some appearances against them where they've seen to follow a lot of pitches off. But that wasn't the case last night. I mean, he just, his stuff was so good last night. And obviously, we needed it. And we needed it in a bad way because we only got one run, because Carrasco stuff was really good. But that's as good as I've seen him. Joe, I never saw a game that he pitched. Now, maybe there's a more unhittable game he's pitched,

but I never saw a game where he was consistently down as much as he was down yesterday.

He made every hitter go down there and chase those pitches

batter after batter, and he made a lot of good hitters look bad last night.

Yeah, and they didn't seem to recognize his split very well. And they've seen him before. I mean, it's not, you know, they've had some of bats off him before, and they've had some success off him before. But I think, you know, him using his fastball really effectively, having a little more velocity last night, put a bigger discrepancy between the speed of those two pitches and it worked out really well.

You know, it's funny when it's after the fact, he's pitching brilliantly and now it's all

well he had to come out of the game. Taking him out is always an issue as well as he was dealing.

And he said after the game through the interpreter, I was done. So you knew when to take him out. Now, it always looks easy when it works, but you know what, even taking him out, he hadn't thrown 100 pitches. So that's always can be a debatable issue. What did you see his last inning that told you he was maybe losing it? Well, it was more of what he said, you know, than what we've said. and we've dealt with that a number of times, you know, during the course of the years that we've had him, where he just feels that his stuff is not the same anymore. And, you know, even though we may not recognize it, who's going to recognize it better than him? And you've got to listen to him because you can't have a picture going out there and not feeling good about his stuff so you know sometimes we have to make moves that we don't necessarily

want to make but you know it's the right move if that's the feeling that he has so after seven

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