Postseason baseball is the purest form of the game
“Postseason baseball is like the most purest form of baseball because no one really gives a [__] about if you're hitting 400 or if you're hitting nothing, right? It's about Did you win the game at the end of the day, right? And you know, you play a course of 162 games throughout the year to put yourself in that position. It's not like the team with the best record is going to go out there and win the World Series. Um, I think that's why it's such a cool thing that you get to go out there and just worry about trying to win a baseball game versus how are you doing right now?”
Teams shouldn't chase specific home run milestones mid-season
“I was like man like I didn't enjoy playing those last three games like that. Like I me personally I didn't like it just felt weird to me because I never really thought about something like that. And I'm like, man, like I I was like this make made a promise yourself like I'm just never going to think like think about any of that stuff, right? Like I just need to go out there and do what I do and worry about what you always worry about because when you do that, you're obviously pretty damn good. That's what I always tell everyone. Like you don't need to go out there and tell yourself to go do anything, right? Like that just brings in the little devil on the shoulder, right?”
A coach/manager firing can shift a clubhouse's mentality
“I feel like the manager in baseball at least because you're you're with them every day and lineup changes are there's a lot more. I think it's more so just like it changes the mentality of the clubhouse. Yeah. Which is what you need. It makes everybody feel bad that they got their boss fired. And baseball is such a mental game that like one thing like that could really wake up a wake up a ball team.”
Players must remain objective to avoid self-defeating doubt
“It's funny how the mind works. You know, you're just sitting there and you're looking back, you go, man, why was I thinking like that, right? Right. Like, why am I trying to tell myself do this, this, this, this, that, right? No, like I I've done this plenty of times. I've driven in dudes plenty of times. Just do what you always do, you know? It's just like the the nature of the beast and the more that you can kind of like stay objectively objectively in that mindset besides just really you know beating yourself up from the inside that the game you know one it becomes easier to play.”
