 How would you describe your first time pitching at Yankee Stadium? Yeah, I think it's all experience. Yeah, I think it's really hard to put into words. I mean, obviously it's a not a normal circumstance, but it's a circumstance that I embrace. I'm extremely blessed to be in this position to be able to go out there and, you know, even being here day in and day out in the locker room and around the guys and be able to play on this field. It's a blessing in itself and to be able to throw this this game tonight was it was a lot of fun. For a lot of people as an inner squad for me, I felt like a lot more to me. You know, I felt I felt great. My body felt good and I was excited. So it was it was a lot of fun. I was amped up for sure. And I mean, is your goal this year to make the majors? Do you think that this can happen that you can help this team? Yeah, I think there's no question. That's what my mentality is. I think that I can produce at this level. I think I can get out to this level. I think I can, you know, I hold myself to a high regard. I always have. I'm a very confident kid and I'll do whatever it takes to make this team. I mean, whatever it may be, if I'm not on the opening day roster or whatever it is, it's that's apples and oranges. I mean, I just, you know, I think I'm a major league baseball player and, you know, I'm going to try to show these guys that I can compete at this level day in and day out and whatever happens, happens. And I'm just going to continue to get my work in. Thank you, Clark. Yep. Next question from Meredith Marokovits. Meredith. Clark, where does all your confidence come from on the mound? That's a good question. I think, well, first of all, I think I'm a man of faith and a lot of a lot of it is, you know, I've been extremely blessed and I recognize that I'm blessed by God. You know, he's given me so many talents and so many opportunities. I think I can't help but just feel, you know, overwhelming feeling of like just confidence and just, you know, whatever happens, happens. And it's kind of in his hands. It's not in mine. But another thing is, I mean, I've worked extremely hard at my craft and the work I put in is what you see on the field. I mean, you see what happens at the bright lights and stuff like that, but a lot of the work that I put in behind behind the scenes is what gives me all that confidence. I mean, I try to prepare as much as I possibly can, whether that's in the weight room in the training room, whether that's looking at a lineup, whatever it may be, I try to prepare to be able to go out there and have success day in and day out. And I might not always be the case. Everybody goes through their times. I think that I think that's another thing is that I'll, I mean, last year I would have my times where I was scratching. And it was, you'd have tough outing after tough outing. I think that the number one thing that I can't change with myself is my confidence. So if I had that confidence in myself and my stuff and in my preparation, I think that I'll be able to go out and get out to any level against any lineup. Solid spring training solid today. What do you view as your strengths right now on the mound and what do you view as areas where you think you can even improve a little bit? Yeah, I think that obviously I'm not a complete package. I think that everybody has things to work on. I think that the number one thing is for me right now is I'm able to throw any pitch at any count. I love throwing breaking balls behind the count, changes behind the count. I think that being able to mix pitches and throw pitches for strikes is my number one strength. I think I'm a strike thrower. I like to attack the zone. I don't want to give any walks up. I gave up a walk today and that probably killed me more than anything else. I don't like giving free bases and I think that the number one thing for me is just to continue to attack guys with my stuff and go right at them because I feel confident in my stuff. And you saw it tonight. I mean I was extremely confident in being able to face this lineup and go out there and just attack it with my stuff. But I think the things that I need to work on continuing to develop the change up a little bit more. I got a couple of swinging misses on it today. I was able to throw it for strikes today. But you know continuing to develop those fourth and fifth pitches. I think of the number one thing and then obviously continue to work on the fastball command. I think that that's the number one thing to be in major league pitchers be able to move the ball in and out up and down. So if I can continue to work on my fastball command, I think that I'll be in a good place. Thanks Mary. The next question from Marley Rivera Marley go ahead. Hi Clark. Thank you so much for taking the time. I just want to know how was it to follow all the rules of not keeping the same ball and giving it away. Like at what time some pictures would forget about it. Yeah, it's really tough. I think that it's definitely a learning curve obviously I mean we're all in situations we've never been in it's unprecedented for everybody. I mean the number one I always lick my fingers when I'm throwing because I like you know I'm always spitting I'm always doing things that technically I shouldn't be doing now. So that's the number one thing for me is I've been like even in practice or whatever we're doing I'm like okay I can't spit can't lick my fingers so it's been an adjustment period for sure. But you saw me like wiping the ground because I was trying to get moisture on my hand from the grass because it rained. And I think that we're going to start getting the wet towel rags I think we didn't have them today for some reason. But anyways it's just like it's definitely a learning curve to be able to be like alright I can't lick my fingers and just continue to focus on it. But obviously you know these are the cards we've been dealt and we got to do with what we have and you know I think that everybody eventually will get adjusted to it and maybe a year or so from now people won't even be spitting or spitting seeds or whatever it may be so we'll see what happens. Next question from John Schwartz John you can unmute. Hey there. You know you're doing really well in spring training everything like that and then you go into these last few months forgetting about all the stuff that's going on outside the game but I mean with all the uncertainty for you about where you would be when did you start knowing and hearing kind of like where you would be going come. As far as like where was spring training be or you would even be going anywhere really. Yeah I think that it was tough it was like in the beginning it was like all right am I doing too much am I doing not enough throwing working out wise and then as things kind of like OK this is going to be maybe a longer term thing. It was it was like all right I'm going to kind of back down on the bullpins and the live BPs or whatever it may be. I think that was the toughest part I think that being able to manager. I mean I was even talking to the starters like now I think that being able to manage your whatever whatever you want to call it off season or whatever it was off season 2.0. I think that was the toughest part for the pitchers I think you don't you don't really know when to ramp up am I doing too much am I doing too little. So that was a big adjustment period for me. And so I think that towards the past couple months or so you kind of got that vibe that made when people negotiations it felt like in the media that is like all right this isn't happening but I think behind the scenes guys started kind of getting seeing the writing on the wall and was like this is happening. So I was good to have people in high places telling me giving me information say hey you need to you need to probably be ramping it up. And for me I was like I want to be over prepared and under prepared. So I wanted to be when I came out here like today I wanted to be ready to go 100% throwing as hard as I can feeling as good as I can. And I think that the big thing for me is being able to bounce back after outings like this. I think not being able to throw in a game and then just jump right into stuff. It's tough in the same hand but you got to be able to do it and adjust. So for me it's all about bouncing back and continue to get back on that five day rotation. We'll take a last question because we need to go get Jay Hap Eric Boland if you can unmute. Hey Clark thanks for coming in just a real quick one. How difficult was it for you to be having the kind of spring that you were having where you impressed a lot of people whether it be teammates your manager opposing team scouts etc. And then they have it just suddenly and like that. Yeah it's that was the toughest, toughest one of the toughest things for me was just be like okay. It was like now I was like I was I kind of had the ball rolling down the hill I was feeling really good. And I was impressing guys like you said it was just it was tough and I had to take it in stride I had to take it like everybody else I mean I couldn't really do anything about I could see here and complain about it all I wanted to but that's not going to change anything. So tonight being able to have the opportunity I had to face pretty much the starting lineup for the Yankees and Yankee Stadium. I remember I was looking at the lineup card. This afternoon and I was like I was so excited I mean it was it was like one of these feelings I was just like this is awesome I was like there's no better opportunity for me to open guys eyes whatever I did in spring training one or whatever you want to call it. All that's behind me. So if I want to open a door I want to open somebody's eyes tonight's the night to do it. And so I wanted to go out there and you know I kind of embraced that moment I it's tough to when you're playing you can hear every single thing in the stadium like if it's a foul ball it sounds like it's 110 off the bat so and you can hear the coaches talking and so it's tough to you can't really get a bunch of adrenaline from from fans or crowd noise. So what you got to do is I just built built myself up off the moment and that was facing these guys and being able to make an impression in front of all the people watching today or tonight and so it was a lot of fun for me.