 Clark Schmidt, you know the drill. You ready to take a look at your top and form your social media post? Yeah, let's do it. All right, first one. Class clown, huh? Yeah, that's me. I was actually, it's funny. I was showing Joe Bellow one of our trainers the other day. He was like, dude, you're actually low-key funny, and he was like compliment me. I was like, dude, you know what? I actually got a class clown award when I was younger, and I showed him a picture and he was dying laughing, so that's funny that you brought that up. All right, we're gonna give you some time to think, but by the end of this, you want to hear your worst joke they've ever had. Oh, no. I'm more of like in-the-moment type. You know, I don't know if I can come up with a joke, but I'll try. I don't know. We'll see. We'll see. Maybe we get lucky. Maybe we get lucky. All right, so that's you as a kid, and you've always fished. Yeah, I think, you know, it's good in the off-season to kind of like move around a little bit and be able to be out in nature a little bit. We're in the city so much. It's good to be able to go out there and fish, so that's one of the hobbies I like to do in my downtime, and so yeah, I haven't cut any that big recently, but maybe I have to go back to the spot and try to find something out there. Yeah, and we saw the selfie with your dad, too, so you've gone to a bunch of fishing trips with him. Yep. His side, the whole side of the family's from Colorado, so we'll go out there like fly fish, stuff like that. And obviously, I'm from in the Atlanta suburb area in the off-season, and so there's the Blue Ridge Mountains right there, so we'll go fly fishing up there and spend some time. So it's good to get some father-son time, especially when we're on the road so much. So if you're not fishing, you're out there chilling on the boat, man. Yeah, I think, you know, like I said, like I like to be out, you know, out in the water, out in nature. You know, just chilling, hanging out with the boys, and spending a good time, so that might have been during COVID when we were really, you know, you had the whole summer, I was like, the only way to hang out was to get out on a boat or something like that. And are you the one who's usually driving the boat? Sometimes, my brother, he loves to do it, so I'll let him rip it and I'll hang out and just listen to music and chill, so I'm not the designated driver. Little brunch action down in Miami? Mm-hmm, yeah, these are, you know, I like good eats. Any city that we go to, I like to find the best food, and I'm always grinding yelp and trying to find out where the best coffee spots are, best food spots. So this is one of the spots we head up. And how much of this is yours? That is a lot of food, so I hope it's not all mine. The steak and eggs are definitely mine, that's a must. And then probably split the waffle maybe. And we've seen you get busy in the kitchen? Yeah, yeah. Little pizza action? Yeah, this is just another one, just hanging out with my family, spending time with them. You know, it's fun to be able to hang out with them in the off season, so we have some nights while I have pizza nights, and we'll have a little competition so we can make the best pizzas, so it's good. Are you a folder? No, I don't film, I just go, I'm just all in. I like to, I want that crispy, I want it not to have any flop, any of that, so I'm trying to, I try to get my game right, but I always end up losing, because I end up burning the pizza, I get distracted or something, so I'm not the winner at all. Alright, so of course, when you're eating all that good food, you're going to burn it off somehow. Yeah, this is actually, I think that's Newport, one of the spots I like to go to in the off season. I like California man, it's good, it's good energy out there, and especially with the nice weather in the off season, it's good to get out there and hang out with the boys. And the pictures too that you take, there's a great picture of you on the bike, and I don't know what it is, do you use filters for all these posts that we see? Some of these don't need filters, but honestly, I got into, I like photography a little bit, I'm trying to dabble with it, I bought a camera this past year, so maybe we'll see some more off season chronicles when I'm traveling and stuff. I'm planning on going to Europe and stuff, so I'll start taking some more photos. Nice, I love it. Oh, here we go. So that was the bike that you're on. Yeah. This was one of your cars. Do you still have this? This was actually my first, that was my first draft car. When I first got drafted, that was my first purchase. They always say don't buy a car, but I ended up doing it anyways. Yeah, so where is it now? I actually, I just sold that. I sold that recently to, you know, I just ended up dumping it and getting a new thing. Now I drive a Tesla now. Wow, that's a lot of fun. Yeah, I love those things man, they're crazy. All right, here you are in your homegrown hoodie. Yeah. Which is on yes, yes, yes. Okay. A little throwback dude, these videos always play so well. Yeah. Especially when you guys pitch like this. Yeah, the angle, the angle is crazy. I think the angle just like makes them look better. Sometimes I don't think it looks like that to my eye. You know, maybe it does to the hitter's eye, hopefully. But yeah, it's, these are cool angles I like seeing behind the catcher. My brother gets pissed every time I throw two seams and I blow him up on his thumb, so he probably got angry when I was on that one right there. Yeah. What do you say for like young pitchers out there who are trying to get better because a lot of people watching this right now, they've seen your career progress as a member of the Yankees. So like what's been the key to your success? I've had like bits of my successes and failures and I think the number one thing is always just keep going and you know, I think there's a lot of growth that can be had in this game. You know, it's a tough game and there's things that you're constantly learning. I think myself I'm always learning and even these older guys like Judge and guys like this, I think there's a constant adjustment process throughout this game. So for me, it's just learning from those failures and be constantly evolving, constantly growing and learning more in this game. And it's gotten you to this point. Did you show so much fire and passion on the field, man? Yeah. Yeah, I think, you know, some of these big games, like you know, big moments like that, it brings it out of you. I've always kind of had that, you know, I try to bring that competitive spirit and that kind of fire and a little bit of dog when I'm out there. So sometimes it comes out. You never know when it comes out, but I think this was, I think that was an extra inning game. I'm pretty sure. So yeah, those moments bring it out of you. Yeah, there's another one on your Instagram page too if you got to check it out. You're just pumping your chest and like really grabbing the DIY logo right there too. So anytime you do something like this, it just shows the love that you have for the game. Yeah, I think it's, you know, there's so much work that goes on behind the scenes and preparation and, you know, I'm extremely grateful to like really be doing what I'm doing. Like I know like every day it's just a dream to be able to like to do what I do and to be with this team and in a city in a big market like this. You know, where like, you know, pressure is like a privilege here. You know, you got to, every time you go out there, you're expected to perform. So for me, I hold that to a high regard. That means, you know, that means I got to go out there and do my job. So when you get the job done and in big moments like that, it's definitely like a rewarding kind of like this is, you know, it's almost like, all right, we let this out. We got it done. And so you got to kind of enjoy it a little bit. Yeah, so it's fun. All right, last post. Now you said there's a lot of pressure. Yeah. When you're hitting the ball off the tee, is there a lot of pressure that goes into these swings? How are you on the golf course? Yeah, I'm pretty, I'm okay. I can hold my own. These are, these are, I probably have feel more pressure there than I do out here, honestly, because I'm so locked in here. It's like, you know, when I'm there, you know, you got money on the line. You're trying to, you're trying not to lose to your brother or whoever you're with. You got bragging rights. So there's a lot of pressure out there, but I enjoy it, man. It's good to keep the competitive juices flowing, you know, in the off season. That's one of the things I do, I spend a lot of time doing is playing golf, being able to compete against friends and family and put a little money on the line and have a little fun. So it's good. What would you say is your favorite part about social media when it comes to sharing these posts? Yeah, I think, you know, like even Instagram specifically, I think being able to, and in Twitter also, like I think there's a way that you can interact with fans and people who support you and they get to see a side of you that you might not necessarily get to see on the field. And, you know, you see those moments where you have the spurts where you're showing excitement and stuff like that. So it's good to kind of show, you know, people who you are behind the scenes with your character and stuff like that. And it's also fun to be able to interact with people and you meet so many different people through it. So it's a good, it's good. I like it. Awesome. So for everybody out there who isn't following you, just where can they go and also to what can they expect? Yeah, in season, I'm on Instagram and I'm trying to interact with people. And that's, I think it's just Clark Schmidt is my name. Yeah, just straight up. No numbers or anything like that. So yeah, it's good. I like to, I'm going to start putting being a little bit more interactive on Instagram and stuff like that. But it's always tough when you're locked in in the season. Dude, Clark, thank you so much for having me. I appreciate you. I appreciate you.