 And Keith joins us now. Keith, it's Michael and Peter. How are you today? I'm great guys. How are you doing okay? Well, you made a little news yesterday. Did you think that what you said during the broadcast would be received as as intensely as it's been received? Well, the Twitter world is very excitable. That's for sure. I don't really see that I said anything wrong. I feel firmly about what I said. I know that you were very vehement about how it doesn't belong to the game. Okay, fine. I know the game has changed a little bit. I didn't think the pitch was that bad when I saw it. I mean, I draw the line and I made it perfectly clear in the broadcast that I draw the line on head hunting, anything from the neck up, or a pitcher that throws at someone with the intent to hurt. And I just looked at the pitch and it started out on the inside corner and ran in and was waist high. Whether he did it on purpose or not only a rain in nose, I just didn't think, you know, there was just he's been such a hot streak. He's such a fine player and the homerun streak he's on and what he did to the Marlins the first three games, you know, I'm from a different generation. I know that if I had been in his shoes and I'm that kind of a streak, I tell you what, after my second home run going into a third game, I would be able to play very great my first at bat. It's interesting. Joe Madden of the Cubs was just interviewed, Keith, and he said there's a Neanderthal aspect to our sport that has to change. Do you agree with that? Okay. Well, everybody has their opinion and they're entitled to their opinion. I disagree. There's very few circumstances or something like this comes about and what are you going to do? The pitchers out there making a living. They're getting there. They're getting the killed and the first three games and, you know, you're rained out because living on the Marlins are in last place. We know I've heard why the mother in last place. So what do you want the last place team to do? Lay down and die or be competitive. And I just, I don't have an issue with it. And that's just my opinion. That's one of the most interesting part, Keith, is that I find I disagreed with some aspects of your opinion, but I just don't understand why people freak out. People act as if you made, you decided to jump on the air and just give out your religious beliefs and tear down other people's religious beliefs. It's a feeling you have on the game. I just don't under everything these days, especially with Twitter, you just get so shouted down. So in 24 hours, they will move down and started shouting down someone else. Well, whatever. I can take it. I'm not going to back down what I said. I feel strongly about it. Look, I've been thrown at and I found out because of Twitter that I got hit 32 times in my career. And that doesn't even say how many times a whole lot more where I dodged the bullet and wound up on my back. And then I voted getting hit. It was just part of the game. And I always felt that if they were throwing at me, A, it was always the one rule. If you throw up their best hitter, they'll throw at your best hitter. And if it was me, you know, then now they consider me the best hitter on the team. Great. And if pitcher hit me, I always said, okay, I'll never charge the mound, which I thought Acuna handled it beautifully. He did not charge the mound. He handled it totally professionally. I was so impressed with that. And, you know, when I got hit, I would say, okay, fine. I went the first base and I said, okay, I'll remember that. And I'm going to get you the rest of my career. Now, I certainly don't want to belabor this because we've got other things you want to talk about. I'm just wondering the way it's been received. And it's been such a hot button issue in this in the baseball world. Do you do you wish that you hadn't said it or are you cool that you said it? I am perfectly fine. I'm not going to back down from it. And, you know, they can scream and yell and holler all they want. I'm entitled to my opinion. I certainly was very clear. I don't want anybody hurt. I thought it was perfectly fair pitch. And really, you can make an argument if you look at the video that the pitch could have got away from him. Only your Iranian knows it started out. Usually when you hit someone, you start it out behind his butt because the first reaction of a hitter is to back away and he backs right into the pitch. The pitch started off a couple of inches inside and it ran in and got him. And if, you know, if a coon you didn't drop his elbow, the ball would have hit him in the small of his back or on his side. And if you throw one there to me, that's fair game. But, you know, I played in a different bar and I've, you know, I've read some of the tweets from terrorism. They're from a different generation and I'm fine with it. Jose Bautista just had a grand sign to give them that's a 10 run fifth inning. The Phillies have made four errors. They're just playing a horrible game. Do you see it? In the games I've been able to watch, Keith, I think they're playing better. I don't know if the pressure has been released for some reason or are you seeing a team that's playing a little bit better? Well, they're a lot looser. You know, when you got, when you're not, when the games aren't important, you know, the second half now there's the games aren't really important. It does take a lot of load off, but still we got a lot of young players out there that are getting a look and that's how I look at it. You know, this team is going to be in transition. We'll see what happens next year. Bruce will probably come back. Is he going to, is he going to have a normal year? How much did that hit bother him? Seth, but if he'll be back in the middle of June, you know, I saw the x-rays on his heel. He actually had a bone fragment that broke off his heel and they had to reconfigure that heel. So it had to be bothering him and we know what he can do. Conforto has been the big question market just so I can't figure that out why he has been, had such an unproductive year. But you know, it's all growing pains. He's still relatively young. We'll see what happens. You know that a lot of people have written, Kevin Kern of The Post is one of them, that he could see Ahmed Rosario being the leadoff guy all next year and you know, maybe even play him in the outfield. Do you look at him as a shortstop or an outfielder and could he be a leadoff guy? Well, I don't know about outfield, but I never seen him play the outfield. He's always played shortstop and you know, he's does an adequate job there. He's got to learn a little more discipline, play discipline. He's hitting 238. I can see him leading off. I like Nemo up on the top of the order. He's not a middle of the order guy and he really had a good day yesterday in Baltimore. Hidden line drives all over the field, sprayed him all over the field from one field over to the down the right field line and that's five hits game he had and he's passed as a left hand hitter. I can see Rosario leading off and Nemo hitting second. Do you worry about Nemo got hit today and how to lead the game x-raiser negative? Yep. He gets hit a lot, Keith, and he dives in and I don't think he minds being hit, but do you worry about his long-term ability to stay on the field if that happens? No, he's a tough kid. This one was a serious one. He had two strikes on him with the left-hander who was throwing a ball that runs into left-handers and it just ran in and hit him while he was trying to check his swing. So this was a real legitimate hit by pitch. I mean, he did have to be painful, but he's leaned over and tries to get hit sometimes. He's actually been called back twice this season after hit by pitches. The umpire negated the hit by pitches. All right, before we let you go, who's the Cy Young winner, DeGrom or Scherzer? Oh, gosh. DeGrom's got to put together a string of, like Wheeler did. It's went around six to seven in a row. He was, he got 10 starts left, something like that. Maybe eight, yeah. He's got to, he's got to put a string together to make it work and it looks like, you know, it looks like the national have problems. Something's going wrong there with that team and I don't know what it is, but they've got issues. So I don't know. It's a tough one. I know that wins aren't as important today. I caught with the new analytics. No, I think they are, but we'll see what they both had terrific years. Keith, very cool of you to answer the questions today. Obviously, you're a man who stands behind what you say and you'll be on SNY tonight. Metsville is the second game of the double header and it looks like coverage will start at about 705. So we always appreciate you giving us some time, Keith. All right, Michael, thank you guys. Thank you guys.