 Welcome to the field here I dodged your stadium as you can see we got special guest galore our usual crew with the big hurt Hall of Famer Frank Thomas big poppy his protege Mookie Betts is here miss morel into hit one to the moon is here a rod Alex Rodriguez and I'm Kevin Burkhard Red Sox What a win it and let's let's start here Mitch you guys you know this was a marathon last night, right? I mean here you are it's four nothing tweak. It's a home run That's a tough spot and I want to know what you guys are thinking they're coming up and that anything when you got this thing going Yeah, obviously You know we went a few innings there didn't have a whole lot going for us You know everybody was fighting it's just one of those grinds. You you know you could feel it But you know we kept our heads in the right place You know kept trying to create that that havoc on the bases get some opportunity out there We've got a couple base runners and you know able to capitalize. Hey, I had a question for y'all How do you guys feel about Richard coming out of the game? I mean, you know, he was He was pitching great, you know, but Just tried to grind through a bats and kind of wear him down and get him out of the game Maybe get to somebody else where we can put some runs on the board But you know he pitched a great game. Hey, we talked about Dave Dombrovsky and he doesn't get enough credit for bringing guys like Nathan of Aldi and obviously Steve Pierce who's like all world, right? How big have guys like that? Obviously Nunez guys like that been for you guys I mean they've been they've been great for us, you know, obviously a new knee came over last year and You know hadn't quit doing what he did, you know As soon as he got here last year, he's done that all year for us Obviously, uh You know piercey Nate kins all those guys have stepped up and helped us get to where uh, where we are As far as acquisitions in the middle of the season these guys have been huge for us for sure I saw chris sell yelling and screaming in the middle of that dugout. Did that have an effect in that seventh inning? Oh, absolutely. You know, he was uh, he was letting us have it for sure You know, we were we were slow, but you know, once he started yelling I think everybody kind of knew we need to pick it up, you know, because uh, he's not gonna yell for no reason I mean guys, you know, just give me a sense for the ability to hit with two outs, right? I mean, this has been a state all year. You guys were better than anyone in the league But in the playoffs, it's been a stable. How have you been able to consistently do that, Mitch? Um, I don't think we changed a whole lot. Um, I was telling somebody the other day that I asked that I feel like we've been pretty consistent with it across the board and uh, in every part of it, but uh, You know, we we approach all of them the same. We're grinding out at bats trying to win the pitch That's something AC preaches a lot just go up and win the pitch And uh, you know, I think we don't take we don't take it bats off We don't take pitches off whether it's no outs one out two outs bases loaded It doesn't matter we go up there and you know, we're trying to win that win that pitch in that situation Can somebody talk to me about steep ears, please preach I mean For some reason everybody thinks he's this serious guy, you know, I guess the way he looks or whatever, but he man He's he's hilarious He's one of those people you got to have with the team just because he brings laughs brings joy But he also brings that intensity that everybody needs and then obviously he's a he's a great player And you know swings it plays defense does everything you need him to do And he's just one of those guys that kind of flies under the radar But it definitely carries the team Hey fellas, you're one win away from the world series tonight. What are you sleeping? What are you thinking about when you wake up just one win away? I don't even know if I want to go home right now I'm ready to get back out there and uh, let's do it again tomorrow. Let's play right now There you go. Well, you got Chris cello tomorrow. So, you know get a few runs And hopefully the rest of people to say him all season long a big victory for the socks Yeah, I mean like you said just try and get a few runs and uh, let him do his thing Unbelievable night for the red socks and I got out. Hey poppy have one one question Why are you holding mookie like he's your son? My son right here boy. You can go in the charter. He's going to the hotel with me now And you can get a ring if you want to We went to the hotel man. Can I ask a serious question mookie? We got poppy. We saw poppy's first journalistic sit-down interview the other day with you right So we got his take. How did he do? Well, tell me about his reporting skills and his sit-down interviewing skills He did all right, you know, it wasn't uh, it wasn't You know fantastic All right, but he did all right. I can't I can't I can't kill him man I can't say you did amazing. Just yeah, you need to do one more and then I got you. I got it All right, there you have it the true the true scoop poppy. Hey, you gotta be I like it