 Hey Jay, how did it feel to just get back out there on the mound and face live hitters again? I very it felt great actually it was a little bit strange but I was actually surprised at the adrenaline and I heard a couple of the guys saying the same thing we feel like we're able to get that adrenaline with that sort of competitive nature jump them back in so it felt really good excited kind of for the next one. You had worked so hard this offseason and looked great during spring training what did you do during the shutdown period to make sure you didn't lose any of that progress? That was sort of the challenge to to do enough but not not too little I didn't want to waste too many bullets but I didn't want to lose the momentum I was having so we kind of stayed the course and you know I stayed around 60 pitches for the most part to kind of stay close to ready so that was kind of my plan. Just what do you take away from tonight? I think it was just I think it's smart that we're doing it this way and I think it felt good to get out there around game time in the stadium and and feel that and kind of just it just feels good to get back out there again so that was exciting. James Wagner, you can unmute now and ask a question. Hey Jay, I hope you and the family are doing okay. Just two quick ones. One did was it was it a difficult decision if at all for you and your family talking to your wife here your family about playing this year and then secondly just so much of your behavior is going to have to change everyone's to kind of you get this whole season going what's been the hardest thing for you to adjust to or even your teammates and talking to them like to adjust your behavior so far. Okay it wasn't that challenging of a decision I think we talked it over the hardest thing I think was was leaving the family for 30-something days to come up here at the time we thought maybe it would be in in Florida closer to home but that was the toughest part but I think I knew all along we were going to try to make it work and I think to answer your second part of the question I think everybody's really committed to trying to make this work in seeing if it can work and we're being as responsible as we can and you know I think it's just a little bit of a leap of leap of faith to you know we're in this position and we're willing to do it so we want to be responsible with it. Marley Rivera you can unmute and ask Jay a question. Hey Jay thank you very much for taking the time it's good to see you. Jay you have first hand experience with him being hit by a ball unfortunately. When you saw when that happened to Masahiro Tanaka what were your first thoughts and did you have any words of advice for him for the next time he gets on the mound? I've only briefly spoken with him and that was all good so I'm really relieved to see that it looks so far like he's gonna bounce back and judging by his comments he's ready to get back out there I'm sure I'll probably have more conversations with him that's kind of I think the best thing is to jump back out I think the longer you wait the harder it might be so I'm glad he sort of feels that way but seeing that happen you just you just hope you see you know it was really good to see him walk out under his own power and just to seem sort of bounce back it's pretty incredible really fortunate you know those things can go the other way so you know you feel for him but you know fortunately I think he was pretty pretty lucky. Next question from Eric Boland Eric if you can unmute. Hey Jay I appreciate you coming in. You guys as players are used to preparing for 162 game grind just as someone who's been in the sport for a pretty decent amount of time what do you think this 60 game season is going to be like? You know I think we approach it you know especially this organization this team you know you come to win every game and you come to play every day I don't think that part's going to change I think we're going to do our best to put the emphasis on every day and every game and you know not get too high or too low I think that's the thing I think we all realize a lot of things can probably happen in the 60 game season I think we're going to try to stay the course and I don't know that we're going to approach it that differently but I'm also not the manager so you know we'll see but I think we're preparing to to to play business as usual. Thank you. Next question from Lindsey Adler Lindsey go ahead. Hey Jay good to see you. Sorry I don't know why my headphones are echoing. James Paxton said yesterday that he finds sim games really useful to get feedback from teammates I'm curious how you use these types of situations for for feedback and for kind of getting ready for the season. Yeah I think I think that's accurate I think you know when you're facing guys on your own on your own squad it's a little bit easier to have that back and forth what did you think about that movement on that pitch or the location or how it played how it looked and I think guys are just more willing to be open you know obviously to help out when it's your own teammates so that part's definitely good to kind of get that instant feedback from from the header where it's sort of hard to get that you know during the season. I will take one or two more. Brendan Cuddy if you can unmute go ahead and ask a question. Jay good to see you. Thank you for taking the time. You got it. Good to see you. What what have your impressions been of Clark Schmidt getting a gnome during spring training if you saw him at all tonight on the mound I know you were pitching yourself. I did see him tonight I was watching for sure you know in spring training he seems like a really nice kid very confident and I think that shows on the mound he's got that confidence and a little bit of that swagger and you know you see his stuff how it plays and you know we saw that in spring and we saw more of that tonight I think he's definitely has a bright future. That's all I got thank you.