 Andy pettit one of my favorite people that I've ever covered announced whatever the case may be His numbers up on the wall in Monument Park number 46, and he joins us now Andy Michael Donna Peter. How are you? Hello, what's up guys? We're great Well, it's been a while since the billion show I know where you been Ma'am, I just I've been down hanging out in Texas coaching high school baseball. How's that going? It's grinding away It was terrible. We had a rough year Thank you. It's been good. It was good. Not a great year this year for us, but it's been fun I'm obviously enjoying doing that Oh, I'm gonna ask you this question because I do wonder this because you have you have so much to give in Teaching pitching and you're doing it with high schoolers Do you ever see yourself taking it to the major league level and doing it full-time? Still at this point, I would say I wouldn't think so You know, I am traveling now a little bit, you know with the Yankees So going around seeing our farm teams, which I've absolutely loved doing and then obviously this This came up For me with Scott brochures to be able to get down here with these high school kids They got 80 of the top high school players in the country down here We're trying to evaluate them and and we're gonna be down here for almost a month with them and You know break it down to 20 Here in a month or so and and hopefully try to go win a gold medal in South Korea Is what they're gonna try to do so this is this is the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida You see inaugural prospect development pipeline that major league baseball is doing so it's you Alan Embry, Gerald Laird, Scott Rodinski, Andy Stankiewicz Scott brochures Marcelle Lachman a lot of people with big league pedigree So I guess that's gonna be a lot of work, but also a lot of fun for you It is I mean, I like I said, I enjoy being around These young men not only try to teach in baseball to try to help them develop as hopefully as young you know good solid men and Also for me the Intruding part was and I'm not gonna be traveling the South Korea It's just gonna be way too much for me to try to do as far as that But just be part of something for Team USA. I never had an opportunity to play in the classic I wanted to every time it came up, but just my elbow Just I felt like that it would put my Yankee career in jeopardy If I went and competed at that level and all you know We're in the off-senors when we do it or early in spring training and I just was more concerned with Hey, the Yankees are paying me a salary. I should be ready for my my New York Yankee You know team and start so I wanted to so badly play and if I would have felt great and my arm wouldn't They give me any issues I would have but just with the elbow injuries that I had in the time that the classics came up It seemed like I was always kind of scuffling with my bow a little bit So we never had an opportunity to do this So this is that's really what's been so intriguing for me You know to be able to come here and maybe kind of part of the team USA deal And you know we hear a lot about starting pitchers don't go deep in games anymore They don't have the ability to throw more than a hundred pitches and a lot of it's blamed on how they are when they're Younger are you conscious of that working with these young kids to how they can build some stamina how they're able to Last longer in games and not not tax them so early in their careers No No, not that's not what we're we're doing down here You know we get we get these kids and and I would love to see that and I would love to be able to Coach these kids and and to take care of them, you know all the time But we're down here with these guys. We're gonna we're gonna really really protect them You know these these kids all obviously have huge futures It's amazing You're talking these kids are juniors out of high school this year and most of these kids as far as far as the mound guys Are are sitting in the low 90s and touching mid 90s and a handful these kids are Last week, I believe down then there's on that a perfect game event I think a few of them hit 98 miles an hour. So You know, we're gonna protect these guys. We're gonna probably be over cautious with them But we're trying to evaluate them and we'll have nine games down here over the next three weeks and we'll play games on Thursdays Fridays and Saturdays and we'll evaluate them on those days they won't throw more than three innings the starters won't and You know, there's gonna be strict pitch counts as they move forward even when they go into You know the competition and you know for the gold And that in that in South Korea will still really watch their pitch count Just we want to make sure we take great care of these kids. And so We're definitely not trying to build people stamina up or stretch them out But now we'll leave that more for the minor league Coordinators the minor league pitching coaches when they get in these organizations whenever they might get there or when they get to their college team Yeah, they don't do it there either Andy which leads me this question Would you be able to pitch in today's major leagues where they don't want you to face a lineup for the third time where? You know five and a third innings is really really good And they don't care about wins or losses for starter and their shifts and all that would it be difficult for you to accept all that? It would be difficult for me to accept it and then you could probably ask my manager is that because Whenever I got pulled at a hundred pitches and they told me that I had a you know And hey Joe Torrey and Joe Gerrard you'd be like hey I got guys in the bullpen that that are that are so harder and you and are better than you And that's why we're putting them in this game And that's hard for me to swallow on was hard for me to accept then and it would have been really really hard for me to accept If I would have had to do that on an air on an outing basis, you know, so But you know that's where the game's gone and and and it's changed in that sense and I'm not a huge fan of it But you know, it's it seems to be working out and and you know, we'll see we'll see how how it goes No, it's not too often talk about things changing of having a manager with no experience becoming manager of the New York Yankees And that happened with Aaron Boone. Did you see that coming? Did you see that on his resume deep in his career that he'd eventually be a manager? No, you know, I didn't and I didn't know Aaron extremely well at all Obviously, I've had a chance to get to know Aaron and it's great Enjoyed being around him and the staff have had a chance to be up there plenty over the last two years And they have been so awesome to me and and love being around the staff and he's done a fabulous job But again, that's you know, it's another deal where you know, things are changing and and you wouldn't think obviously from if you were outside, you know baseball or whatever looking in but They're doing it and and and that's the way it's going and and Aaron has done a great job He's showing that that you can do it, you know You don't need a whole lot of managing experience and in today's game and and he's like I said I'm a fabulous job. He's got great people around him of course and of course Larry's the pitching coach there and his hand on the Pitchin and obviously I've spent a ton of time with Larry and you're not gonna find anybody better than that So They're doing a great job and really proud of the team and the way they've played With all the injuries and everything that has happened this year just what a fabulous job They've done just holding everything together now. Let me ask you this I know you're you're really close with CC you communicate a lot. He's struggled the last three or four times out What do you think's up? Do you think his knee might be bothering him? Yeah, you know, I've talked with see Yeah, and just talk to him recently. I man, I have been so busy I haven't had a chance to really to follow him as closely as I usually try to like to do But he told me you know stuff with the field a little bit of his pitches right now. That's gonna happen You know, I think he's healthy And and he's gonna be fine You can be fine the same old thing or you know, you just sometimes you lose your feel for your pitches It's not always gonna be there and And and probably I think you know, it's usually I think more than anything. Sometimes it's just We kind of Almost outthink ourselves Maybe out there on the mound and just kind of step back and just if you don't have something Let's don't try to force it, you know, you know, he's got all kind of weapons See she's got great change up because you know, it's lighter to both sides of the plate So he's he's gonna be fine. He'll get it going again and had it did have did have a chance to talk to him The other day and he's my he's my man, man. I'm always pulling for him and I love it We got two more lefty with half and Pat's been there and like I said, I felt like I was doing a pretty good job Oh, then the year following them But this last month and a half or so I've just been crazy bearded and hadn't had quite the chance to follow the big league club Like I wanted to have also like I said, I went to a few of the minor league Places now and seeing some of the arms down there. I'm trying to keep up with all those guys too now So it's it's a full-time job of me trying to keep up with everybody where I got them I got my second son and playing in the Northwoods League and was talking to trying to watch everyone in his games each night He's in the bullpen. So man, I got baseball on my phone I've had I'm walking around sometimes with three three technical things trying to watch baseball games now Because of the the commitment you have in Bradenton. Will you will you make it up for the Alzheimer's Day on Sunday? I'm not Yeah, I I'm not gonna be there for that So I hate that but not gonna be able to get up there for it. We stop guilting Andy I feel like everything you're doing here. You're watching enough Let me ask you let me ask you what I always ask Moe, okay Most 49 years old and I say to him well even on the air I said if you've had a couple weeks to get ready and he goes of course, I could get major league hitters out No problem Well the Yankees are a little short and starting pitching. Could you do it? No, I couldn't I couldn't get somebody out. So, of course, I can get somebody out No, I couldn't I couldn't I could not go back into it. No, do you want to do you miss it? Oh I think I always yeah, dude. Do I miss going out there? I think I told you this plenty of times I missed yes, I miss I miss, you know, I'd be lying to y'all I told you I didn't miss going out there and taking the man and competing and I do miss that I mean a lot of people I talked to say don't miss it at all. I do I really do I don't know why because it was such a grind for me and and I was ready to hang myself more than half the time I feel like after a bad outing and stuff like that, but I Loved it. I mean, I loved competing. I love the work. I love training and looking forward to each start I did. I mean, that's just that's what I did for so long. So yes I did I do I do miss taking the mound under I miss the travel and going sitting in the hotel room on the road When I'm not pitching and you know, you're being away from the family I don't miss that at all But as far as wishing I could still run out there and didn't have to do all that every fifth day I wish I was 30 again. I can tell you that much for sure Well, good. Have you prepared CC when you talked to him about what life's gonna be like when he retires? Oh Yeah, yeah, and he's you know, he's getting he's getting involved. He's doing stuff. It's good He's getting he's ready for that. He's setting things up and and and that's gonna be that's good for him You know, he's got his I know his podcast as I believe he's doing something so set up some stuff for ESPN and stuff like that So man, you got to do that. You got to stay busy as a man. You got to feel productive and and so he's doing things right now I know just kind of set that up. So well, we miss you here Andy Good luck with the the USA team. That sounds like a blast for you and I always love talking with you Okay guys, thank y'all man. Y'all take care. Say hello to the family. Thank you. That's Andy Pettit