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It's better and joining us from Boston, Massachusetts, the manager of the Padres, Mike Shilt. And Mike, I just have to say, this last week was very impressive for your team to deal with the setbacks of injuries at the end of a long-stretched games with almost no days off to play like you did through those last two series, especially against the Washington Nationals. I know you tip your cap occasionally. I'm going to tip my cap to you and the San Diego Padres, sir. What a nice week that was. Yeah, it was a good week. Guys played well and contributions throughout. It was a really good week. And now we build on it and move on. You know, he's just buttering you up, Skip, because I was going to ask you how close is the nearest Chipotle to your hotel? Oh, man, you guys are staying with the team. I actually did not get Chipotle. I said, I got five guys. So I'm going to really help the charge. Oh, all right. Five guys. It's good. It's pricey. But you know, you're major league manager. If it's per diem, I'm assuming that's that's pretty good. No, you know what? The first thing I thought of that series, obviously, was it like it was electric. It was wild. It was like a baseball fan's dream. I mean, it really wasn't had everything. But when I saw you get ejected the other day, the first thing I thought of was, all right, John Boy, I want to see this ejection on the next, the next time I open Twitter, because that was pretty electric, Skip. Yeah, I mean, I mean, it was a lot in that series. Obviously a lot to unpack. So much, you know, the whole home stand was was pretty special. I create a lot of memories of Pekko and and but yeah, man, that was there was a lot going on that ejection was in my world with, you know, unnecessary relative to the situation. But anyway, made my point 100% and I did want to ask you after the game, you know, they after, you know, cooler heads prevailed and everything. You know, you had said, I don't necessarily think it was intentional in that case. And I mean, listen, I don't know it from Adam. I thought immediately as a fan was, oh, yeah, he did that on purpose. What did you see or based on your experience? What made you think it wasn't intentional from Mackenzie Gore? Not that it matters now. I don't know. I mean, I like to get people to benefit a doubt. I watched his reaction. I mean, you can paint a reaction, you know, I get that for it. You know, as I said, Mackenzie, I got to know him when he was with us and have a lot of respect for him. And, you know, actually knows, gotten to know his parents a little bit. We're both living the same part of the world at Eastern North Carolina. So, you know, I just, after everything, whatever point they feel like they needed to make, which, again, I don't want to overly revisit it, didn't particularly understand it. But, you know, I got my own club to think about. They made, you know, their catcher made it. And, you know, we clearly exchanged words and people came out and, you know, did the dance. And, at that point, in my role, it's over. Now, whether he's still, after all that, decided to hit him. Only he and maybe a couple of people in that club really, really know. But, you know, I'd hate to think that was the case. But, I could get people to benefit a doubt. But, either way, intentional, unintentional, he's got to go. And somehow, after all that, in the morning, good, you know, issued, somehow he gets it and he gets to stay in the game. And I got to go. Oh, I mean, a hundred percent. We ever came. It's not just you can't throw at him intentionally. It's like, you better, you better make sure you don't hit him, whatever you do. And if you do, you are now responsible for whatever happens. I totally agree, Mike. Mike Schilders with us here on 97 three, the fan. I've got a question. And I don't know, as a manager, when you guys get, you know, bad news about, you know, tatisse and the stress reaction and you Darvish, not going to be able to come back. How do you address that with your team? I know you got pros and they're used to dealing with entries and stuff like that. But how do you not let that become a, oh, here we go again. Like, oh, that's more bad news. We got to deal with. What do you do as a manager when those things come up during a season? I mean, they come up. I mean, I don't, you know, I think the public, at least for me, there's not like these key meetings, but, yeah, you know, they're just, they're just not. I mean, you know, we've been in the game a long time. Unfortunately, you know, injuries happen. Like I said, you know, Wuzentadi and Joe and Vogie and you and some of the gang, Manny at certain time, you know, it's disappointing. It's a challenge, but, you know, that's ultimately what this game's about, you respond to challenges and, you know, want to support those guys, but, you know, really, you just, you continue to figure out a way to compete with the groups that you have and everybody is locked in to, you know, making sure they are ready to contribute and, of course, some roles change and people get opportunities. And that's what this game's about and about season the opportunity. No question. And one of the guys that has done that, talking to Mike Schilter on Ben & Woods this morning, one of the guys has done that is Kyle Higashioka. What a joy it's been to watch him play. I know he had a tough situation thrust upon him when he got here, took him a little while to get going and get some ABs, you know, because campy was in there and he was catching Waldron and wasn't getting a lot of opportunity. Talk about a guy that's made the most of his opportunities right now. And you'd never know if he went 0 for 4 or, you know, 3 for 4 with two home runs and 6 RBI, just he's just a very even keeled guy. How much does that help, you know, your pitching staff when he's working with them? Well, I've done that. So we're gonna start just just with Kyle, like how, how, you know, him season the opportunity, his kind of temperament too in the clubhouse and what he's like as a, as a member of the San Diego Padres. Yeah, he's been a great addition. You know, got a lot of great feedback from New York people, people in the NCAA, people who played with him about just, you know, just quality a guy is a starting point and then clearly a good player and what his skill sets are. And you know, he's really, you know, stepped up and done a nice shot for us. He's a really stoic guy, really smart guy, got a, got a good IQ, got a good way about him, got a good sense of humor with, with how he goes about things. Just a really, really, really good guy in the clubhouse, but also clearly a good player, you know, and he, he stayed patient, you know, he got his opportunities early on, not as many as, as maybe he would have liked and, you know, with campy being looking to be our everyday catcher and giving him those opportunities to prove his way, you know, in the big leagues and the staff and himself as that guy. And then, you know, over the course of time, you know, started to create a little bit more opportunities for him, which he's done more than earned. And of course, with Higgie going on a kid, going on the IL, you know, creates even more for him and he's just done a nice job and clearly some really big hits for us. He feels like one of those guys as a manager, you know, that you don't, you know, I like, he's good. Like your attention. Don't even worry about it. Yeah, like, you don't have to go like, I don't know, that's just, that's just my perception of, you know, even interviewed him a couple times and great dude, but he just feels like one of those guys as a skipper, you don't have to constantly, you're good, everything okay. Yeah, yeah, low, low heartbeat and just kind of walk by, hey, Higgie, hey, hey, skip. And, you know, he's in the lineup and doing his job. Yeah, no, you're great. I mean, we got a lot of guys like that. I mean, we got to really a pretty professional clubhouse that, you know, we just are able to communicate with. And, you know, I spent a lot of time with our catchers, you know, with our pitching coaches and Brian Asazito, as I'm touching and helps me during the game. So we have a lot of communication and, and I've enjoyed the communication with, with campy and Higgie and now it's only about, you know, how we're, how we're leading our staff and how we're seeing the game. We all belong outside. 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I mean, most of the time you get to the big leagues, you kind of know how to play a position. What kind of instruction goes on to maybe get a guy ready to play out of position, so to speak, if you want to get his bat into the lineup, especially against lefties where he really does some good damage. Yeah, he swings about good against lefties had a big, big swing the other day, you know, to get any started, you know, start off with two running, double off the wall against the left, he does really well against lefties. So, you know, we're just trying to be creative on what that looks like, where that back and play, there's always a balancing act between the offensive defense, the least for me, you know, defensive run savers, the ones, important ones to drive in, but, you know, always want to try to get to that in the lineup to do some damage appropriately. And, you know, perhaps an opportunity for him in the outfield. He's never, when I say never, never played outfield. But, you know, Jackson Hatton will show, you know, but it's a hard place to just pick up and learn, you know, he's getting some work with A and the CS or outfield coach and see what that looks like. And, you know, we'll see if there's an opportunity for himself to get him out there. Talking to the skipper, Mike Schilth here on Ben & Woods this morning. And, boy, you guys haven't had any trouble closing out games when Robert Suarez comes in to, you know, throw six, nine fastballs by guys and, you know, call it a day. But, closing out some of the other games, been a little bit of a challenge, Skip, the eight nothing that turned into eight five, the other day had to make your little bit of hair turn gray for you. You know, how do you, how do you get a little bit of hair? Yeah, you got a little bit of hair, right? And the hair that's remaining turns gray. Oh, I got pretty good hair actually. A little bit of hair, it's not great hair, but it's not a little bit. So, so for you, when that happens, I mean, it's, it gets, it's an empty feeling. Certainly you want Cosgrove to be able to just get through that and not have to get Suarez up. Just, would you tell us a little bit about what, what kind of you're going through with that? It's happened just a couple of times. I know it happens to all teams, but certainly got to be a little bit frustrating. Yeah, I'm not sure what you really want me to say. I mean, I really don't. I mean, you know, I don't know how to answer the question. So, throw strikes to get electrocuted. Right, right, right. Yeah, I think so, man, you know, it's been, you know, to be a challenge, you get the last three out. And the easiest thing in the world, like when people say, oh my gosh, you know, you've got a forerunner here. You don't use your clothes or right. And then you've got to use your clothes or you give it up. You know, it's like, you know, so couldn't get it done. They had some of that, you know, but the lead-off lawsuit didn't help at all. They had two, three, and I had two of the right guys. And I don't know. I mean, I prefer talking about dating. We're, we didn't give up any runs. Absolutely. Well, you know, that's just part of it, man. You know, sometimes it's the last three are hard to get. We had it in Kansas City. We've had it. You know, we were in the season, you know, with six nothing to leave. But we ended up having to use Robert. And, you know, like I said, it's just the people can say what they want about the last three outs. But, you know, it's an acquired taste of people to learn to get. That's the other point to the conversation. You got to learn it. And that's a learning curve in the night that people don't want to really want to deal with with the lead. And so, but if you don't give those guys this opportunity, they don't learn from them. So it's the, you know, that's one to take you crush that answer. You knew how to answer that question. You know what he's crushed also, Mike, you've always explained how you manage real people in the real world that are, you know, not always feeling 100% or tired. You know, it's a long season. There's not a lot of days off. As fans, I, especially me, I'm a radio host, I manage on paper, you know, in my mind, and I look at the off days coming up. You had one yesterday, you got one Monday, you got two more next week. And I look, well, maybe you could, you know, get Dylan Sees out there. He's pitching so well and move him up a day. How do you look at that in that equation? Is there like no thought, like, I don't want to move him up. I want to give him those extra days. All offers, that's something you might look at here before the all-star break with now the extra off days that you've got coming up. Yeah, I mean, we'd be responsible not to look at it, right? Yeah. So we do, me and Ruben look at it. We partner with AJ in the front office, and we also talk to our, to our players. And it's not a, you know, it's not in the vacuum. It's, uh, it's, yeah, what can be best for Dylan Sees is X. What can be best for Michael King? It's Y. What's best for Matt Waldron is, is Z. Um, you know, best goes, it's Maser, et cetera. And so, you know, individually, you can say, yeah, we could do this with Dylan. Oh, but has that in pack Michael and has that in fact, Matt, and what do we got on Adam and, and Randy. So, um, we know we put it all together and figure out, you know, the balancing act of making sure that, you know, the competition is taken care of, the rest is taken care of. And then, of course, the short term versus the long term of what that can look like. And, and we do our best we can to balance all that. And we've had some, you know, like I say, conversation with them and some internal conversation, then we, we put the best play that we can lay out there together with all the barriers. Mike, I really appreciate it. Before you go, any, um, any updates on, on you, Darvish, I know, we saw as Andrew Bogart's taking some batting practice before you guys went on the road trip. Just kind of overall general health updates on your team. Yeah. So, um, you know, it looks like Darvish, the imaging is negative. So, it's positive. Nothing overly alarming with that. I do think he was going to seek another image, which is pretty standard. Um, you know, and then it's just a matter of getting inflammation out, which is the biggest culprit. It feels like right now. Well, the second place in the Zobo, getting it out and getting to where you can play catch and recover. Um, you know, the longer he stays away, the longer it's kind of, you know, longer. You can't throw, the longer it's going to be for him to get back. So, no real, you know, great time on there. Bogart's training in a really good place. We're going to have another stand through. And the CT scan that I'll determine, um, how much further he's healed. The most recent one was favorable. It looks like he's a little bit ahead at a schedule, but the next one will be the one that allows us to determine with him how much he can ramp up with the good news is, you know, he's taking ground ball, he's taking some swings. And then I guess they rolled into the next little beat, how much the ball you can take to where you can start to get some, uh, a lot of it bats and, and, uh, potentially rehab and get back, you know, working with us. So, um, good news on that broad. He's with us. Obviously, he's returned to Boston. So I'm sure that'll be, um, bittersweet for him. Um, but I know this organization is going to be something that the reward is, is, uh, is really productive time here. Her eyes back from his ouchy. Uh, we're determining that, determine that one. Okay. And I have fun managing at Fenway Park. I mean, that's got to be kind of special for anybody. Anybody gets to go in there. It's a, it's a temple of baseball history. Oh, it's amazing. Yeah. I love coming here and, um, I'm right here in the dugout right now, looking at this beautiful field. Awesome. I like it. Good. Very blessed. All right. We'll have a good one series and I keep up the good work. As we said, very impressive week. And we'll talk to you actually two weeks to get next Friday off with, uh, the 4th of July holiday. So we'll talk in a couple of weeks. Skip. Oh, you guys aren't working? No, we're not working. Yeah. We're taking a four day weekend, of course, like, you know, we're not based all the way. And you guys, country clubs. Okay. All right. Well, believe it. I'll see you next month. See you next month. All right. I'll start break. There we go. 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