 We reached out to Shane to get his thoughts on Voight and how 2018 is feeling a lot like 1998 Shane joined us now by phone from South Korea where he's the manager of the minor league nexon heroes Shane before I ask you about Voight I have to ask you how did your baseball journey take you to a manager's job in Korea? Well, I coached a couple years of the Padres and I coached the Atlantic League and then they They reached out for to me and asked me to be a coordinator here run their minor league system And so I do that too and now and it's like they're the top minor league team, too So I know you're thousands of miles away, and you're focused on what is going on with your team But how aware have you become of these comparisons of Voight to you? I haven't and not really into the last day I had a couple guys in my fantasy football league that are here foreigners And they posted it and were ragging on me and stuff and saying, you know, it was 20 years ago So that's kind of how I knew then you reached out to me So I had to do a little research on the guy and check them out So when you did your research on Voight and you you saw this muscular guy hitting home runs for the Yankees Hey, what did you think and be did it remind you of anyone? Yeah, you know, I just looked at his bio and stuff like that and you know, he's a mid-late round guy a football player Played, you know his years in the minor leagues It just there's a lot of similarities just the way It's all happened. The one thing I'm gonna give you some serious credit for is that when I came up You know, I hit a lot of home runs at the end and we had such a big lead that I was able to play He's doing it right now With you know playoff contention online and and it's great to see you see the energy that he has. I love it That's an excellent point. I wanted to ask you about another similarity. You were 26 in 1998 Voight is 27 right now What does it say about persistence and perseverance for what you did back in 98 and what he's doing right now? Well, you know, I use it as teaching I have some older guys here like in the minor leagues that have been up and down haven't been successful So you try to know let them know like listen just because people say you can't do something You can do it if you put your mind to it and and put the work in and and it pays off And I have a few players that are on the big lead team here now that are being very successful So it's it's paying off and it's working out as my coaching career, too You hit 10 homers in your last 51 at bats in 1998 eight of those homers came in your last 14 games Did the confidence grow and grow because I think we're seeing that with Voight with every at bat It almost seems as he's becoming a more confident hitter Yeah, you do and I saw one of the interviews he was talking about He knew he's facing Rodney and he he knows this change up is the best pitch Okay, just because you know it's changed up to the best pitch doesn't mean you have to swing at it He said I was looking for something up in the zone I think that's so huge just because you know what could just come doesn't mean you have to swing in and that But that takes discipline and it more confidence you get the better you get at that chain the 1998 team was recently honored at Yankee stadium and I'm sure you told a ton of great stories and heard Even more great stories But when you think about your role and reflect on being a guy who had been in the minor leagues for his entire career And the impact you had on that 1998 team how staggering is it to think about that? Yeah, you know in the moment you don't think of it You know you're just one of the guys playing the game But you know when you get back 20 years and you reflect on it. It's it's pretty special and you know To know that you're getting some playing time when you have guys like Tim range and strawberry You know Neil and Bernie Williams in the outfield. It's uh, those are pretty good names Just in the locker next to let alone play with I know you haven't met Luke void and you said that you've only recently heard about him But if you had the chance to sit across from him, you're walking He's walking the walk that you already walked in 1998. What kind of advice would you give to him? You know what I probably wouldn't I said just because I don't think anything anybody can say Can distract you from what you're doing? It doesn't matter like oh, you're you're living a dream Are you doing this? But really you're just playing baseball and you're getting a chance to play and that's that's what it's all about If I was sitting next to him, I'd seriously we'd be talking about football. I Bet you what his brother was a college football player played at West Point So that's one area that you could go with that. Yeah. Hey Shane. Thank you so much for joining us We really appreciate you giving us a few minutes You know, I appreciate the time and good talking to you again Jack