 Thank you on with Yankees head athletic trainer Steve Donahue now Steve Ryan Rucco and Ken Singleton were in the booth last night and they were campaigning for you to be named the player of the game after that ninth inning expertise in the dugouts take it take us through it. Well the umpire at first I didn't see him and all of a sudden some hey the umpire is coming coming this way better go home now and I was like I didn't know what was wrong with him and he says bug just flew my ear so naturally I'm expecting a small little Nat you know a little mosquito or something so I try him with a cotton tip applicator and nothing's coming out and finally he's like you have a tweezers I'm like okay let's get I get the tweezers out of the kid and all of a sudden I'm starting there a little bit I'm like look you might want to try this yourself because I don't want to dig too deep he he tried he started feeling something I helped him get it out and it was like I mean I I don't know if he was bats in the belfry but that was a big moth I'm gonna tell you this thing was flying so what was the reaction of the people around you in that dugout when they saw the size of that moth I can't repeat the language was crazy it was nuts it was it was he had to be feeling terrible because this thing was big and flapping and I can't imagine what was going on inside his head although some of those umpires I don't know what's going on inside their heads anyway have you ever seen anything like that before on a baseball field besides the midges with Jabba a few years back in Cleveland no no I haven't those two instances aside what's the weirdest thing you've come across throughout your long career here with the Yankees oh well that's that's a hard one that you know I don't know I don't I'd have to it'd be crazy to venture to guess for that so now not a lot of people know this but you put in a tremendous amount of hours what time do you actually get to the ballpark normally and kind of take us through your day what does it entail well we do get here around 12 30 for a seven o'clock game we usually have a one o'clock meeting with the staff and I have a great two at two great assistant athletic trainers Mike Shuck and Tim Lentick and then along with our conditioning coach Matt Krause who's super and and his assistant Andrew Weisberg and then our our massage therapist Doug C so we have a really great staff so we meet about one o'clock go over all the players all the injuries where everybody's at where they're at in their rehab and then from there players start coming in the rehab guys coming early the dl players try to get them through it and then we start working on the game guys to get ready for to start the seven o'clock game so now now like these guys on the 25 man roster you actually came from the minors as well take me back to that day when you got the call up do you remember yeah I was in it was in the winter I was working at Columbia University for the off season um oh no I was yeah I was at Columbia and I got a call from the farm director saying that Mark LaTon who was the assistant before me went to San Francisco Giants as the head trainer and that I was going to the big leagues as Jean Monaghan's assistant so that was that was a special day for sure I was that was crazy but he spent 26 years working under Jean Monaghan what was it like working for Gino you know Gino not only is he a mentor he's my best friend you know we've uh we were like family and so or still like family talked to him all the time we text we we talk and he's still a big part of the Yankee lore and a part of the Yankee family he'll be here next weekend for the or next week for the 98 reunion I look forward to seeing him as uh as we do for all the big occasions when he comes in and he comes to spring training with us which is super to have him have him with us all the time then and it's it feels like home when he's around so two questions before I let you go you've obviously been around for a long time have you noticed a big difference in the way that players take care of their bodies over the years there's no doubt that the players are so much more in tune with nutritionally and exercise wise what they're doing all the different therapies I mean guys come in knowing exactly what they want it used to be you know for example I 40 years ago players would come in and want baby oil and spring training to go outside now it's like you have spf 70 because they know they know they've learned about skin cancer they've learned about the effects of sun they're looking at vitamins they're looking at nutritional values to the foods they want more of the the better food choices that they're not coming in with the with the bags of fast food and french fries like they used to it's definitely uh it's definitely a whole turn towards healthier stronger better performance better players you know it's a lot of hours a lot of work but do you love what you do you gotta love this you gotta love it it's a passion you have to have a passion for the game and for this profession to be an athletic trainer Steve thanks for the time thank you