 Mike one of the newer Yankees on the team so a lot of your posts on Instagram are fresh for the Yankees fans ready to check out some of them? Yeah, let's do it Cool. All right first one. Baby, this is big. Yeah Yeah, that was in Colorado like kind of breaking up the monotony of some spring training stuff So the owners of the Rockies the Monferts they they made their fortune cattle So that one of our pitchers had to do a presentation about cattle and he had a special guest Which was this guy, you know, we were all taking pictures with it. I mean, it was incredible How big the thing was I think one of our guys like jumped on its back and those horns were no joke So have you seen an animal this big in person before nothing nothing quite like that But I mean like at the zoo Not not up close and personal like that now seems like you're an animal lover who you are Yeah, that's Albuquerque ice. So they always try to do some fun for our team picture day and stuff So that year they had like the animal humane come in and they had some dogs So kind of brought awareness to that too and it's actually where my wife adopted our dog from yeah So it's gonna say that sparked an interest for you for sure. Yeah, you are. Yeah He came to us as like we were just gonna supposed to foster him for a couple weeks and After like a day or two we kind of kind of just look to my wife and you know This dog's probably not going back. So he's been with us since yes summer of 2017 and his name's Kota And he's pretty great. He looks like a great wingman and he even looks awesome in the Yankees. Oh, yeah Yeah, that's that's all my wife. She could be a professional dog photographer. That might that might be her dream job So yeah, the hard parts get him to pose So usually there's a treat behind the camera or something trying to get him to pay attention Hopefully one of the pictures he's actually looking at the camera. Well once Kota gets that down I'm sure you'd be welcome to come out here and take some cool photos like this So you guys are such good buds that you guys do take photos together often And they always say a dog is a man's best friend and definitely isn't this photo Yeah, that's my best impression of any time somebody has food. He's very like food motivated Like any time that somebody sits down to eat, you know, he'll be he'll be right next to you I kind of give me the puppy dog eyes that was Countertop that we had at our apartment in Albuquerque He would climb up on the couch and kind of hang his head over when anybody's sitting there having food So I was just taking a leaf from him and checking that out and St. Seen was going on there. So you mentioned puppy eyes. How do you leave your house? I know when that's looking at you out the window, man. It's gonna be hard, right? It's really hard. Yeah, that's my parents house. So anytime, you know, he stays there You know, we drop him off or we come back He's staring there and he does it at our house too now and it's when I was leaving the all-star break and he's staring at me From the window. It was like It was tough. It was tough leaving. No doubt about it Well, if New York fans didn't love you enough for your hustle They definitely love you now because you're a big-time dog lover. So it's always nice to see, right? Yeah, yeah, switching gears a little bit. We see you on the field and You always put it together really well, but off the field you do as well. That's a nice suit And your wife's looking great too. Yeah, that was that was her sister's wedding this past fall So, you know, she was obviously the the matron of honor or whatever for a sister's wedding And she loves to get a pick at every event. So try to make sure I don't have any food stains on any of my clothes And hopefully one of them I'm not blinking it Great tie she's combo by the way. Thank you digging it digging it which this tie. Yeah, so he's nice to have fun with ties What exactly is going on with this one? That's a talkman family family tie that's my dad's been wearing that tie to family Christmas for Just about as long as I can remember just so that tie might be older than me That was just yeah, my wife's work Christmas party and needed a tie I wanted to wanted to represent so Pop that one. I got a lot of positive feedback on that. Oh, yeah And once you have kids too, maybe if you got a boy down the line He could be rocking that too one day just pass it down from generation. Yeah, shoot. Love it, man And you also have some other cool shirts in the closet Big-time Star Wars fan and also to love the location We went and saw the premiere of the the most recent one that came out that last Jedi and felt like we needed to You know kind of get in the spirit a little bit So I think they're just target t-shirts, but that's that shirt still in the rotation and for me I don't think I don't think it's in it for my wife. That's okay. It's all right You can just wear it here to fit. Yeah, at least cut off the sleeves. Maybe yeah, maybe maybe a tank Coming down the home stretch So our two C2 cc sabati and Ryan Ruka They had you on the podcast and they had tweeted out this photo and this looks pretty accurate and your huge game of Thrones fans Yeah, it's a very very wow. Yeah, it's high praise. Maybe a future Halloween costume for the three of us Who knows I'm not gonna lie that one I was pretty fired up about that one So even though I wasn't a huge fan of the most recent season, but I'll still I'm still gonna take it as a compliment Yeah, you know what I was gonna ask without spoiling it. Yeah, how would you rate that last season? Very mixed reviews online. Yeah, it was it was a little bit disappointing having waited a couple years for it to come up I like it. I like it. That's very good And now the last one here you are again you and your wife went out to a nice restaurant We're going right here in the city. Yeah, looks like must have been a fun time. Yeah, there was this most recent Homestand last couple Saturdays ago and you know, some of the guys had really been hyping it up So, you know, we were able to able to get a reservation able to get a table and had a great meal and you know, it was about 100 degrees outside with 85% humidity So I don't know if she had to edit out all the sweat But it was a good meal and you know, we definitely went to a bit of a food coma about 10 minutes after this I love that you're able to take advantage of the nice restaurants in Chicago and also be able to experience once here in New York It's a great experience for you. Yeah, definitely a lot of good food cities, which is right up my alley We see all these posts obviously your big-time dog lover. You like to have some fun What would you say is your favorite part about social media and Instagram and the voters that you post? It allows you to allow the fans to see a little bit behind the curtain, you know as much as you want I know some guys post a lot some guys, you know post every so often But I think it just lets us get humanized a little bit because I mean obviously, you know People come to the game. They cheer. They boo. They, you know, get on guys. They cheer for guys Everybody has their favorite players, but you know a lot of us are just Normal dudes who happen to be really fortunate to have You know the skill set that we do that allows us to do this So I think it just kind of lets kind of humanizes the players a little bit and lets them know that you know guys have interests just like everybody else and guys, you know You know have great, you know personalities and and there's more to them than just you know Even though being a Yankees a huge part of you know who you are. There's a there's a lot more as well Before we go Got to throw the plug out there. Watch somebody's volume. What do you have to offer? It's a lot of dog content so if you're a fan of If you're a fan of dog photos then might have some stuff that might interest Basically, he's the guy to follow so make sure you throw one