 Welcome to Intentional Walk. I'm Jack Curry. Today, we're going to talk about mothers and sons in baseball. So often, the narrative is fathers and sons in baseball, but yesterday, during their respective press conferences, both Luis Severino and CeCe Sabathia reminded us about mothers in baseball, and that really resonated with me, and I'll explain that why in a second. At Severino's press conference, he was due to have an arbitration hearing with the Yankees. The Yankees were offering 4.4 million. He wanted 5.25 million. So when he called his mom, she said, did you win? And Severino said, I didn't win, but I got 40 million dollars. Obviously, that's because he signed that extension with the Yankees. And then CeCe Sabathia at the beginning of his press conference thanked his mom, thanked his wife and members of his family. Afterwards, he said if his mom had been at the press conference, he thought that he would break down and become emotional. Now again, that all resonated with me because of the influence my mother had in my life, in every facet of life, but definitely in baseball. She was the one who showed up at Little League Games and screamed. She was the one who screamed at the TV and taught me a lot about baseball, even more so than my dad. Both my brother Rob and I were influenced by what my mother felt passionately about baseball. Now next week, my mother would have been 80 years old, but unfortunately she left this earth more than 20 years ago. So I want to thank Severino and Sabathia for reminding everyone that mothers are important in baseball too. And every time I walk into a stadium, I think about my mom. I did it today. I'll do it tomorrow. And I'll do it when her birthday would have been on Thursday when she would have been 80. I miss you mom, and this song of the day is for you. Got to go with Let It Be by The Beatles.