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The Pesky Podcast
The Pesky Podcast Episode 132 with Noah Dean
The following video is brought to you by the Boston Sports Entertainment Network. Please consider liking and subscribing for more Boston SportsCon. Shot to right, slicing toward the pesky pole down the line and it's got to be up. Lie down the right field line toward the pesky pole. Leaping up, and that ball is gone, that's a home run. They're proud of our nascent team as well. High fly down the right field line, headed toward the pesky pole. That one tucked in, and that ball is going to be against the wall. Welcome to another episode of the pesky podcast. I'm your host, The Rit. With me, like always, is my co-host Rob. B-O-G is, well, he's taking some time off because, well, he got injured, so we had to put him on the IL, and we've got, of course, our producer Brandon, and we are here with episode 132, brought to you by the Boston Sports Entertainment Network. And today, we have a guest, we've got Red Sox Minor League Baseball pitcher, who is still putting in the work. Mr. Noah Dean. Noah, what's going on, man? How you doing? It's up. How are you? I'm doing good. Yeah, Noah and I were on a little bit before this, and, well, we're going to be both playing this by ear, because both of our internet aren't quite living up to par today. But anyways, Rob, what's going on, man? How are you doing? I'm pretty good. Just got out of work, got out of the shower, excited to talk to Noah and ask him some questions about his career. And Brandon, what's going on with you, man? How you been doing? You've been doing good, man, you know, same old, same old just watching baseball live in the dream. Yeah. So, Noah, listen there, just a little casual, you're still watching the playoffs down there, and how disappointed are you about the AL representative? I mean, yeah, we're watching it a little bit, mostly my mom and dad reached out to me and I'm like, are you watching it? And I'm slacking on it, I'll tell you that. But me and me and my house, we're watching this TV show that we're kind of hooked on. So that's taking up most of our time. What show is that? It's called From. From. Okay. It's like this little town, and it's in this like, it's like never ending streets. Like you leave the town, and you just come right back to the town. And at night, these monsters come out and they try tricking people. And it's very interesting. I definitely recommend it. Well, okay. We don't get no advertising from me, but where can I watch this that now? Because now I'm kind of intrigued. It's on Amazon Prime, but I think you have to subscribe to something else through Amazon Prime. It's a little weird. Okay. For men. It is very good though. Yeah, I'm hooked. I thought you're going to throw with a curveball and be like, yeah, we're hooked on 90 day fiance or something. I was going to be like, great show, great show, by the way. Love is blind. Yeah. Was it the golden bachelor and we're not making fun of any of these. It's just something I don't see a sports athlete, you know, watching. That's why I'm throwing out these names. So but no, you know, you're down there in Florida, you're still putting in the work. You know, we're talking to you. You're going to be down there, continuing until November 22nd. So, you know, what's all going on down there from when you pitch a last for the Greenville Drive till, you know, today? We are just hitting the weight room. I mean, it's just bigger, faster, stronger. We're still continuing to throw, but it's very light, kind of just giving our bodies that rest. But majority of it is like making sure that our bodies are going to be as strong as possible going into the next season. Rob. My question for you and I wanted to ask, I know, I looked you up and I know you have a fastball on a couple of off-speed pitches. What pitch are you working on to develop a little bit more and then have you ever thought about developing another pitch for next season at all? So my slider I'm working on, it kind of falls in between a cutter and a slider. Sometimes it's a cutter, sometimes it's a slider, but I mean, if I can just kind of get that more as like a bullet and more consistent as a bullet slider, that's what I would like. And then towards the end of the season, we started working on a sweeper and I'm very intrigued to see how that one plans out to be. Now, I know pitchers usually, you guys are always helping each other out, you know, with different grips and stuff like that, you know, and you said you're about to sweeper. Is anybody came up to you and be like, "Hey, I throw a sweeper, I throw it like this, try this grip at all?" Not right now because we're not really working on pitches, we're just kind of keeping our arms moving, stuff like that. But I do throw every day with Blake Wiehan and me and him kind of pick each other's brains with pitch grips and stuff like that. And I mean, I also have Conley Early, we also talk about pitch grips and stuff like that. So I mean, it's nice to be able to talk to your friends and kind of get their ideas and their cues and their grips and stuff like that and then be able to switch it over to you and kind of hear it a little bit to make it, I guess, your own, I guess we'd say. But yeah, I mean, we just, it's always talked about and always in conversation. Now, I want to know how, oh, that's a quick follow-up, okay, especially in this post-season, Noah, you know, we had Devin Williams. We had possible tipping pitches. So like, do you guys have people, like on film, do you have people watching to make sure that you guys aren't tipping pitches, you know, constantly? Because, you know, if you get into a habit of throwing something and you're tipping at each time, you know, that could lead to dramatic problems. Yeah, I mean, I think it's more on the lines of like, if your stuff is good and you continuously get hit around, I think that's when they kind of deep dive into figuring out what could be the possibility of like, maybe my glove is a little bit more down or I move it a certain way before I throw the ball or whatever. Personally, I've never had that problem. So I don't really know the definite answer, but that's how I think they would kind of go about it. Okay. Perfect. I wanted to ask you something about being obviously a closer and at your school you had a record for 18 saves as being a school record. Is there a certain mentality that you have as like a closer compared to coming in as like a normal reliever? Is there something that you tweak? Is there something it's compared to like starting, obviously it's starting to have a routine? Is there something that you do as a reliever where you get a routine or you just go in there and just fire gas? I mean, in college I was, as soon as my name got called on, adrenaline went through the roof and I went into the bullpen just through pitches as hard as I could and then went right out and just try to hit the gas pedal as much as possible. Perfect. That's good. And then do you ever look at it like when you are doing like pitching, do you like have I know the red socks for instance, they crack the red bowls. Is there anything that you personally do before to get ready for a game at all? Um, not really. I mean, I always have a red bowl every single day. It's like my cup of coffee in the morning so that's that's pretty much it. I don't I don't have a like a specific routine. I mean, along with that line, it's like I always have like how I stretch my body out where I throw a ball of ball of ball, but but nothing like like the red bowl or anything like that Brandon, do you have anything? Yeah. So with that closer mentality, what kind of like closers, because we were talking pre show about, you know, the mid 2000s era baseball and stuff. So were there any specific closers or things like that that you grew up idolizing, trying to model your game after or any pictures for that matter? My two favorite closers was obviously Mariano Rivera. I mean, he was just dominant every single time he went out. And more like recently kind of, um, or all this Chapman, I mean, I think he's, he's lights out. I mean, yeah, he struggled just a little bit, but I mean, he throws a hundred and two and he just just dots people up. And when he's on the mound, you can see that he has that like that dominant mentality. Yeah. Rivera was one of those guys that, you know, even as a red Sox fan growing up, you had to look at him and go to jump the cap. He was one of those guys. Yeah. Yeah. And he had one of those iconic entrances of absolutely of all time. And you know, we've talked on the podcast before about entrances. My personal favorite all time, I'm, I'm kind of, you know, fond of Apple bond, like even he says that there is no one, you know, unless you were there when he would come out to shipping up the Boston and Fenway park, like there's no feel, you know, bigger than that one. But I'm kind of curious, I've asked this question before Noah, I have, I've had some people answer some people were like, ah, you know, I'm not really sure. And then I had CT say you're gonna have to find out when I make my debut in Fenway park. So what would your walkout song be, you know, two, three years from now, you're the closer, you can come in for the, for the first save for the Red Sox at Fenway park. I would probably stick to what I had in at ODU, um, it was crazy trained by Ozzy. That was, that always fired me up here in that, that, that kind of like demonic laugh and then go, I mean, that was, I got my heart racing. That's a little shout out to the OG because we know he loves some Ozzy. Yeah, Rob, I wanted to ask you a quick question on like the difference from collegiate ball and obviously playing organization, organizational baseball. What was the big difference that you noticed from the jump? And obviously what are some things that you can get advice that you can give to the younger people who are growing up playing baseball that you would give them if they want to pursue a career major league baseball? Yeah. I mean, that I think truthfully the difference between college ball and pro ball is having your own routine and having or knowing what suits you, not like someone else has a different routine. You don't have to follow that. It might not even work for you. If you can get a routine that works for you makes night and day difference. And that's probably what I would tell younger, younger athletes like if you can get a good and like sleep routine or, or like nutrition, um, or even, even just getting to the field and kind of knowing what you need to do to get ready to perform to the best your ability. That's, that's what success is. And then another question I wanted to ask you, growing up, obviously from New Jersey, what was your favorite team growing up and what, who was your favorite player growing up and what inspired you to play baseball? Um, well, being from South Jersey, I was a big Phillies fan and I, I loved Ryan Howard. Um, the reason why I liked Ryan Howard was because I just, I just loved how like, like I said earlier, like when he hits a home run and he had like that no doubt dropped that whatever. I thought that was sick. Um, and then I have one good memory going to the Philly stadium and, uh, me and my dad went and we got there a little earlier, it's all batting practice. Ryan Howard hit the ball and chase out, like pick the ball up and threw it up to my dad and my dad gave it to me and I was like, that's, that's pretty cool. So I would say Ryan Howard's probably like my favorite player. Yeah, uh, being, you know, co-hosting with Joey Stock, uh, a podcast together, you know, I've learned a lot of, of stuff that I never even knew about the ins and outs and behind the scenes of, you know, going from high school, going to college and then, you know, getting drafted and stuff, but, uh, can you give us a little insight of the, the process that you went through, uh, you know, college recruiting and stuff and then even when the major league scouts were coming to look at you and stuff, because Joey was telling me that major league scouts college, I want to know your grades, where you sat in class, what type of student you were to see if there's any off it off the field stuff that they might have to work on, which a lot of kids don't know about, you know, uh, they just think, oh, I can throw a hundred miles per hour, a team's going to want me and stuff like that. Yeah, I mean, growing up in South Jersey, I wasn't in a, an area of like, of kind of getting your name out there, um, so I obviously played travel ball and, and that was all fun. Um, I went to Fort Myers a couple times, Jupiter a couple times for the perfect game, um, and then I want to say my junior year, I committed to Xavier, um, I went Ohio and was with them for the year, um, or committed to them for the year and then they decommitted me and I was like, I don't want to play baseball. I, that's, that's my call. I'm done. And, um, and my travel ball coach at the time was like, hey, listen, like, I am not letting you hang up your cleats just because someone said, Hey, you're not good enough. And, um, and he was like, I know the pitching coach at ODU, he was like, go to ODU, um, see campus, meet the guys, blah, blah, and then you can make your final decision. And I took his word. I went to ODU. Um, I met the pitching coach there, Mike Marin, met the head coach, Chris Finwood. Um, and I absolutely loved it. And I definitely could see myself there for the next three, four years that I was there. Um, and then when I went to ODU, um, each fall, I had something going on. Like I had like a forearm strain. And then I think the year after that I got, um, my nerve relocated. Um, so like I never had a healthy fall and realistically, I was just relying on my performances throughout a season. And, um, and luckily they were, they were good enough to have pro scouts look at me and stuff like that. And, um, I never, never really met, um, a scout that was asking me grades, stuff like that. Uh, it was more in the lines of they sent out this like, this like, uh, email or whatever. And you had to fill out like a, a questionnaire of like 50 to 75 questions. And, um, yeah, I think that's how they got to know you. Um, and then obviously the red Sox picked me up and here I am. And I guess. So a few minutes ago, you mentioned a travel ball. So talk about that experience and how that shaped you because like when I was growing up and playing, we didn't really do that. It was more of a, you know, just high school versus high school kind of a thing. And then like, I've encountered some older fans recently who don't even know what travel ball is. So talk about like your, your, uh, high school and travel ball experience without how that kind of shaped you to being the player that you are now. Yeah. So growing up, I was one of my good, good friends. It was me and him played baseball. Um, and he went on to a travel ball team and I kind of followed him. I mean, I, we were both were probably better ones in our high school and we were just like, we're going to, we're going to go out there and see what we can do in travel ball and, um, followed him. Uh, and then I kind of took my own different path and I went to, um, a travel ball team up in North Jersey and that's where I found out like that's, this is what travel ball is. I mean, you got guys from, from North Jersey, South Jersey, PA, like you got people from everywhere playing on one team and, um, and like you got, you also had guys that would come in for a weekend and pitch and then leave. So it was very, um, it was very weird kind of seeing how everyone kind of like reacts to their performances and stuff like that because, I mean, when you're playing travel ball, it's like, Oh, I want to be the best. I want to do this. I want to do that. But at the same time, it's like, I see where they're coming from because it's their performance. They want to get to the next level. They want to go to college and stuff like that. And then you got guys that come in for a weekend shove or do really good hitting stuff like that and then just leave, you don't even get to build a connection. It's kind of just all over the place, to be honest. Yeah. So then like building that connection, like you talked about, um, earlier we were talking a little bit before the stream about, uh, you know, some of the guys that you've been rooming with, stand with, working out with when you guys are down there doing extra work and, and you know, building those relationships and things like that. And we heard the big four, um, up in AAA talk earlier about how they're rising together, learning to win together. So what's that experience like with these guys that you're building a relationship with? You know, are you learning to, you know, play together, win together, that sort of thing and how's that been going? Yeah. I mean, for an example, I mean, I got up to Greenville this year and I knew, I knew some of the guys that were in Greenville. I mean, like Dalton Rogers, I was good friends with him when he was in Salem, but then I never got to really see him until the next spring training. Um, and then I had some guys that were in a Salem this year that moved up the Greenville before me and like, like, like we hunt and like getting to Greenville, seeing the guys that I are, I'm already comfortable with and then also seeing guys that I never played with, not really interacted with and then building a connection with them. I think that's, that's what it's all about. I mean, yes, everyone wants to get to the next level. And obviously it's competing against one, you know, each and other, um, to get obviously to the bigs, but at the same time, you got to see where your feet are at and building those connections as well. I mean, some of these relationships I'll have for the rest of my life. Yeah, when, uh, you know, being on Greenville, uh, you haven't, you have catch your preference, you know, or, you know, just don't care because, uh, I know, you know, talking a hundred diamonds, he always loved, uh, throwing the hickey. Uh, you know, that was kind of like his, his, his go to like he didn't have a problem with anybody else, but there was always that connection that chemistry, uh, overall. So is there a, you know, from being in Salem and then Greenville, uh, a catcher preference? The chemistry is whatever you call, I'm throwing, you know, type of thing. Yeah, um, Ronald Rosario, I he, I swear he knows what my brain is thinking about all the time when I'm on that mound. Like I, I'll throw a pitch, the kid will swing at it. And I'm like, all right, I'm throwing a slider here and like I'll, I'll come set. And then I see three and I'm like, oh, look at that. Here one for one. And then it goes again two for two and then again, three for three. So like me and him are always on the same page, but I think once again, I think all the, all the catchers are, are pretty spot. Um, I wanted to ask you too about, um, when it comes to pitching to now with the pitch clock implemented in Major League Baseball and in baseball in general, is there a change in like your routine, the way you pitch? Is there certain things that do you think it's good for the game as a pitcher personally experiencing it? Or do you, is there anything that you would have, you had to tweak, obviously be, obviously, would it be implemented into the game? Um, I mean, I don't, I don't mind it. Um, I'm a fast working pitcher. Um, the only thing I would say is like, obviously, if like, like if you have bad eyes or something like that, you can't really tell the difference between fingers or whatever it is, that's where it gets a little, a little sped up. But I mean, to me, it doesn't, it doesn't matter. And then also, I wanted to ask you too, sorry for the pause. I like my internet cutout for a second. I was going to say, what do you feel like, how do you feel like when you got drafted, obviously, by the Boston Red Sox, what, what can you describe that day, what it's like for obviously someone who grown up playing baseball, what was that moment like? I mean, honestly, it's a dream come true. I mean, it's everything that I've worked for, all the levels I've been through, all the hardships I've been through, sacrifices, everything, it kind of shows that like it pays off. But at the same time, on the other hand, it's like, I had such good friends at ODU that it was like kind of hard to kind of say like, all right, I'm not going to be there next year. I'm not going to be with you guys next year. Um, but in baseball wise, I think, I think me being at ODU and kind of getting drafted, I was like, I'm ready for this next step. I kind of want to get to the next level and see how I do there. So, no, I'm kind of curious a little bit about, and we've seen it up on the, you know, major league organization with the Red Sox. The pitchers taking that step forward. Tanner Halk was probably the, the biggest key to our starting rotation this year. And a lot of it is, you know, with Craig Breslow coming in, Andrew Barely is the pitching coach. So what difference did you have coming in from spring training this season with Bailey and Breslow and, you know, the whole new pitching aspect compared to the season before? Um, honestly, I think it was a lot more personal. Um, I think my first year, I was trying to perform to impress. I think if I was, I put a lot of, a lot of stress on myself, kind of like, all right, like obviously the starting role was a little different to me. Um, and I was like, all right, I'm going to be a starter. I need to go forensics. I need to do this. And unfortunately, when that would happen, I would just fall short of it sometimes, stuff like that. And then when I went into this year, I was, I was kind of sick and tired of putting all that stress on me. I just wanted to just have fun. And that opened my eyes to realize like, like I remember in down East, um, my first inning was, wasn't the best. And I was, I was sitting there and I was like, I'm, I'm putting a lot of stress on myself. And as soon as I went out for that second inning, it was me having fun and, and ended up going, I think I punched the next two guys out, ground ball, third inning, immaculate inning. So it was like, I was just having fun at that point. Yeah, I was talking to like Theo, Dentalyn. Oh, I think that a lot of them. Um, one thing I'll ask you is, um, playing obviously professionally and playing travel ball and growing up, what is the big thing that you would have to say for travel days? What are some of your essentials when you're traveling on the road for road trips? Um, probably headphones, a charger, and energy drinks, those travel days get along. Because we, I mean, you don't, you don't need anything more than that. I mean, when you're, when you're with a bunch of guys, you figure out a bunch of games to play. And when you're not, you're watching shows, you're listening to music, stuff like that. Yeah, so you talked, you talked about stuff like that, uh, you know, you mentioned at the top, you guys are watching that show right now and things like that. So what are some other things that you guys do for downtime and fun time around there? Cause you know, as, as much as you guys are competitive gamers, it can't be baseball 24/7. Yeah. Um, it's not baseball. It's golf. We're a big, big golf house. Now, oh yeah, I was going to say do you like, no, growing up, obviously growing up when you were doing it. Was there anything? Have you ever implemented, like, I know it's some people in major league baseball, like I forget who it was. They said they, oh, pog is on the Dodgers. He said he faces pitchers and MLB the show to be able to get a good repertoire. Have you ever thought of implementing that into your game at all and trying to see like different pitch mixes or like how to locate a little bit? Yeah. Um, last year in Salem, or my first year in Salem, um, for some reason, I woke up one day, I've read before my start and I was like, I'm going to play the game of Emily, the show and I'm going to work on kind of mixing my pitches, tunneling my pitches, stuff like that. And kid you not, it actually worked. So it was, it was very interesting to see, um, like, cause I think it was at that point, um, that's when MLB the show kind of gave all the minor league players their cards as well. So I was able to pitch myself and I was able to use like, all right, fastball low and then put a slider off of that and then put a change up off of that. So it was, it was, it was pretty cool. Now, did you ever like play them growing up? And if you did, how does it, how did it feel seeing yourself in the game for the first time? Oh, I mean, I played, like I mentioned earlier, I played, um, MLB 2K, like I did in the last almost 2011 or whatever it was, 13, um, I was, me and my buddy, uh, we were huge on that. And then when MLB the show started getting popular, that's when I started playing, um, and it, it is pretty cool to see to, uh, see your own card and, and kind of like with, uh, on your card, it says like the real 99. So it's like, so like when you play and they shows like you're lined up and like, who's your starting pitcher and stuff like that, it's like people will message you and be like, dude, there's no way. And all that stuff. And it's, it's actually pretty cool. Yeah, that's got to be cool for you guys. I mean, I've been playing baseball video games basically my entire life and I, you know, I play a little bit of DD, but I play a lot of franchise. Have you ever looked at your, uh, characters load out in there because they give you the wildest hair for some reason, your hair is like out to you here. Yeah, I mean, the, the character they gave me looks nothing like me. I mean, I mean, I mean, it does have the long red hair. I, at the time, my first year, I had really long hair and there was obviously curling and red and stuff like that. So it had that, but like, I think it made me like six four, I like, I was like 185 pounds and I was throwing, I think my guy was sitting like 99 and I was like, that's just not me. And I'm, I'm one of those guys that I'll, I'll get the roster that they put out. And then I'll go in there and I'll do all that research and I'll give, give you guys the edible players, uh, your roster edits, so I'll make you, you know, your right height and things like that. So, but I just, I always go back to that because that's the first thing I thought about, uh, when Rick texted the other day and said that we had you on, I was like, I remember that wild hair that they gave you at the default. Yep. Yeah. When we all found out what our cards were put into our accounts, I remember because there's like an app. It's called like that movie show app or whatever. Yeah. I opened it up and whatever and everyone somewhat looked like them and then all of a sudden I pull mine out and I look like a bird with really long hair. Oh, man. So, uh, man, I, I kind of can't remember what I was going to say with my internet. Like ridiculously went out and you were talking, you were talking about Theo Dellinger, or Detlinger. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You know, he was, he said that the, that it's more, uh, developing you as a pitcher and instead of actually going through it and, and trying to put you with six other pitchers and you guys all throw differently, it's, it's more per, you know, personal development. And to me, that just makes more sense, you know, it will, why, why, if you don't have, uh, a cutter and, you know, you are a fastball slider guy, you know, why am I putting you with four other pitchers that have cutters, you know what I mean? And trying to work it, it just didn't make, doesn't make sense at all. But, uh, yeah, you said it's more, you know, in tune to the individual instead of the, you know, a blanket over everybody. Yeah. It's nice now because we have all this technology that, I mean, slow-mo out of the hand and all the metrics on it and stuff like that. I mean, my first year, I didn't even have a slider. And then going into this year, I had a slide, I had a cutter slider, um, but it was, it was effective. I mean, it was, they told me the metrics I needed on it. And most times I hit it and it was, now it's just more like gain the V-Lo on it and make sure it's a consistently those metrics. But I mean, having that technology, I'm certain that I'll be able to have that. Okay. I kind of want to get a little fun here. So I know you guys always get roommates. So, so Noah, if you don't want to say it's okay, who was your favorite roommate? And then who is that one guy in minor league baseball that you're like, fingers crossed, do not room him with me? Um, favorite roommate? I mean, the three roommates that I was with, Dalton Rogers, Kayla Bolden and Matt Duffy, I mean, they were all all good in their own ways. And I think we, we all clicked together. I think I would say, like I had a little bit more fun with Duffy because Duffy was a little more outgoing and you could joke with him and like a spontaneous, it's like, oh, you want to go play golf? He's like, yeah, sure, let's go. And then you just go. One person that I hope that I don't get, I don't know, I mean, I don't, I like everyone. I'm not, I'm not one of those guys that's just like, oh, I hate him, please don't, please don't put me with them, I just, it seems like you're like outspoken. You're very spontaneous. I like to have fun. But so there's got to be that one player that's so conservative that, you know, that might just sit and read books all day. I truly can't even think of anyone. I think everyone, everyone's cool in their own way. Like I click with everyone, everyone just has fun. I mean, it's, it's a good time. Okay. Rob. Now, my question for you too is playing in the minor leagues. What is something that obviously minor league baseball compared to the major league baseball, they have more, a lot more events, a lot more theme nights out of all the times you've played so far and they've had theme nights. Which one was your favorite theme night and then obviously with the hats, they do like fancy hats. Which one was your favorite to wear in your so far in your career? And in Salem we did, it was Star Wars night and we had Darth Vader on, on the jersey. I mean, that was pretty cool. And then I really enjoy the beermongers Salem hat too. I think that's, it's fun colors, it's cool logo and it only happens once a week. So it's, it's cool just to switch it up a little bit. And also speaking about like cool stuff like that as well, growing up, do you ever, or even loud when you're playing career, do you have any like collectibles at all that you've collected throughout your career or before growing up that you treasure a lot and like is there any particular one that sticks out to you? Growing up I never really collected anything. I mean, the one thing I probably would say would be that Ryan Howard Ball hit and chase out, he threw it up to my dad. And actually that night it was Carlos Ruiz book bag day and it was a book bag of his chest, his chest guard, so that was, that was pretty cool. So I do, I do have those too, I would say that that's probably the only two things that I really hold on to. Oh, Ren. Hey guys, I think I'm over it. Oh, okay. So you sit there and you say you guys golf a lot, but do you guys ever try, was that disc golf or something like that? Yeah. So yeah, I went with Theo and Saluchi during spring training this past one, that was my first time going. It was actually a lot of fun. Yeah, I haven't played one of my old co-hosts DC, he was in the disc golf and I knew Theo was really big and into it, so huge into it. Yeah, I looked into it and I almost like, wait, wait, you've got to have it. I did a different Frisbee, just like you'd have to have a different like club. Yeah. I'm like, wait, what? I'm like, can I just throw the same Frisbee every time? And he's like, oh no, there's different weights and there's different sizes. I'm like, dude, I'm like, this is too much for me. Yeah, I remember, I remember going out there and he's like, so this is your driver. This is your mid-range, uh, one, and then he's like, and this is your putter. And I was like, man, I'm just trying to throw these things as hard as I can to get him as far as possible. Exactly. So, uh, what is your favorite video game that you play that's not sport related? I am a huge Fortnite guy. I get a lot of crap from it, but I love Fortnite. No, no, I'm going to sit there and tell you, uh, I am also one and my, my son gets so mad because we would, when I first started playing, he used to make fun of me how I would, like, because I play on the computer. So he would like, oh, your, your guy goes like this and, you know, he's, and then we were playing, uh, Red vs Blue, and we were snipers only, and he got so bad when I was headshotting him, one shot, and then I was no scoping him. And I'm like, and I hear him because when he comes over on the weekends, hit me three floors up and I just hear, like, stomping and him yelling in the microphone. And I'm like, the master has become the student, you know, but, but he just gets so mad, uh, Macio Campbell, uh, him and I sit there and, and played, you know, because he said the same thing. I'm like, we're going to have to swap gamer tags and play sometime. And I thought I was getting better, but playing with him, I, I had a lot to learn. Him and, him and Connor Butler, those two guys, I ruined with Connor, Connor Butler, my first, uh, season for like two weeks. And I have never, you know, like those, like, those like memes or whatever. And it's like, oh, you take one shot at them and they build to the sky. That's what I have never seen someone build faster in my life. Uh, I, I've tried building and I can't. So it was like, like, for, for instance, uh, the, was it the doom that just happened, uh, where you had to save, like, save the crystals or whatever it was. And I'm sitting there and standing there and I'm like, how do I protect this? Because I can't build with crap. I'm like, you have to do wall, wall shot dead. I'm like, uh, yeah, you're gonna need someone else to protect the crystal. I can't do this stuff. Yeah. As soon as I saw Butler start building, I was like, maybe it's time to go to no builds. And I can't, I can't build, you know, um, it's, it's horrible. But now four, four nights addictive. Like, I, I, I can't say they're ran. And you play Fortnite. No, I do not play Fortnite. You're missing out. I've, I've played it a little bit. Um, I just haven't gotten into it on a level. I'm still like stuck on like, and I'll be the show and like offline, uh, single player games. Okay. Okay. As soon as, as soon as reload came out, that's when I'm like, me and my buddy from back home, we play it all the time. And I recently just got a computer. So, um, I was big on PlayStation. And then as soon as I got the computer, it was like night and day difference. Not like, all right, here we go. Let's have some fun. The only thing you end up missing is, uh, aim assist. That's it. Yeah. So, but, but you get so much better and you don't really need aim assist after a while. So I love how you could just click one button and it goes right to that loadout spot instead of like spamming one side to get that spot. Yeah, it's, it's, it's absolutely way better. Uh, and the seasons are getting better as they go too. So, uh, I don't want to make this a Fortnite show, but. But my son and I was playing today and we were playing reload and the dude that killed us was level 400. Oh, Jesus. Those people there, it's like, okay, you don't have a life. Like, like, like, uh, I think I, I think I just hit 150 level 150. And I'm like, yeah, and, and, but I'm like, I got, I got down to a guy level 400. I'm like, okay, this guy, no offense to anybody listening has no kids, has no girl. He sits in his basement, like, you know, that or he just buys all 400 levels. Mm hmm. Like, there's no four. Why do you need to get me level 400? You don't get nothing after level 200. Sure. That's true. It's crazy. Yeah. So I promise, I promise it won't be a Fortnite related show. I have two more questions about it, first off is out of all of them, what is your favorite skin that they've ever released? And two, do you ever get the wife to play? Cause I play with my girlfriend all the time and we always go back and forth. Cause it's like, what are you doing? This is my, you'll be able to play with the wife at all. So I use two skins right now. I use the John Wick and there is, it's like an orange skeleton. It's like a glowing orange skeleton. I like that one. And yes, the wife has played a couple of times. It hurts to see her play because I'm like, oh, there's someone to your right. And she looks left and shoots to the sky and what's going on. But she's she's getting the hang of it, which is good. Perfect. Yeah, my favorite skin was I play anything peeling. OK, that's my, that's my man. And, and my, my wife is, we set her up and I count on Xbox. And we, I've watched her play and which was funny because my stepson, which was playing with him playing, but then my stepdaughter grabbed a controller because she actually plays and she's moving around shooting people where he actually thought she was playing. And he's like, Mom, you're really good at this. She's like, yeah, yeah. Oh my God. And the funny thing is it is they're upstairs probably right now this and that. And he never knew that she wasn't that she wasn't playing. But Rob, go ahead though. I was also going to say baseball related now. This is a baseball related one out of all the ballparks that you visited, whether it's any of the minor leagues or even a major league ballpark. Which one is your favorite that you visited in your whole entire life? Um, for minor leagues, I would say, I mean, Greenville, Greenville's field is unbelievable. I mean, just from Salem, the Greenville is like such a big change. And I just think the atmosphere, like when they play Sweet Caroline, it's like the whole stadium sings it after it's done. Like that's unbelievable. Um, big league fields. I would probably just say, I mean, I've only been to the Phillies stadium and the Yankee stadium. Um, so I would probably say the Philly stadium. As I said, it better be the Phillies, you know, two of your two of your favorite closes of all time came from the Yankees. You know, it's not a good, good impression for Red Sox nation, Noah. I said Phillies. I said Phillies, I promise Brandon. So alternate universe. Um, if you weren't doing baseball, what other sport would you be doing? Or what would you be doing right now? Um, I mean, I'd love to say golf, but I'm not good enough to say that I'd try to pursue golf, but, um, I, I'm very big into computers. Um, growing up, I built my own computer. I did like I would, it was really weird. Like I would, like my, my phone, I jail break. Like I was, I was really big into like that, that technology field. So I would probably be doing something within that, like cybersecurity or something like that. And I respect that because I do a lot of weird techie stuff too. So I feel you on that one. Yeah. So, um, I take it. You're the guy or the kid that people went to. Hey, my PSP. Uh, how many games can you get on this? Is that you? Yeah. Me too. Yeah. I, I, uh, one time I jail broke my phone and I was like, swipe over to this side and all my apps would like combine and like swirl out. And everyone's like, how'd you do that? And I was like, give me 20 bucks. I could do it for you. And they're like, all right, sweet. I feel you, man, I was the, I was the kid. It was like, Hey, can you get my system to do this for free? Can you find me this album for free? This movie, this, that all the, all the stuff that we used to be able to do. Yeah. Oh, but back in my day, we was what? Lime wire and what other, what other that was completely 100% not right. We shouldn't have been able to, you know, to do that. Yeah. All that stuff. And if you, and if you didn't protect your, your IP, your internet would get flagged and you would get so many times before you had to switch internet providers. We had to do that a couple of times. Yep. Yeah, the stuff that we did when we were younger was probably not the best choices. We live in the, we learn. So, yeah, so, OK, let's sit there and go around the pole. Let's go one last question. I will start with Rob. All right. So I want to ask you, I am asking a lot of travel questions, but it's good to get into the mind of the traveling baseball player out of all the places you go. What is your favorite restaurant to go to when you're on the road out of anywhere? And what's the go-to meal I should ask? What's your go-to meal if you have to? Well, nowadays, it's just Thor dash, just Thor dash everything. And unfortunately, when games are done, it's so late that you're only selected to like three places and hugely fast food. Big Wendy's guy, but when biggy bag, we roll the road and we have like a later game and our buses until later, any breakfast place. I mean, I like, I love some scrambled eggs, bacon, huge pancake guy, chocolate chip pancakes up my alley. But that's probably about it. Nice. Brandon, what about you? Last question. All right. So when that day finally comes and you get the call that you're going to the show, what's the first thing you're doing? Probably call my parents. I think I think that's a special, a special moment and my mom's been there with, with me for everything. I mean, my dad was in the military. So there was a couple of times where he couldn't come to games or couldn't travel with us, stuff like that. So for them to be a part of it, I think they both deserve to know like right then and there, hey, I'm going up. And then call the wife if she's listening and then call the wife. I was just going to say, I'm like, so, OK, I get mom and dad. But where's the wife coming to play? Because like, man, you'll be up there and you'll be sitting in the bullpen. You're like, I swear, I forgot to do something. Well, good thing. Good thing to watch from Sweden. So this is a six hour time difference. That'll work. So should we flip it through the chat? I'll see the red socks and there you are warming up. Wait, no, no, no, I didn't mention that he's with the boss in our air. He looks at awful lot like Noah. So and then your first strikeout, you know, the parents would be there and then you always zoom up to the press box where the parents would be like, those look like his parents. Oh, man. So OK, my last question, of course, you I gave you a heads up and most people, I don't do that. But hot tub time machine, Noah, you get to go back in the time and face any MLB hitter, one on one, bottom of the night, who is it and why? I would say Ryan Howard, one, because he was my favorite player. I think two would be an awesome moment because, I mean, I think me and him could go ahead and head and I think it'd be a lot of fun. And three, I think just watching him grow up and seeing the things that he could do. I would love to see how my stuff plays as well. Well, you do have the advantage watching him his whole career. So and he don't have the film on you like you do of him. Yeah, and it's left on the left, so that'd be better. Yeah, yeah. So OK, well, Noah, well, thanks for sitting there and coming on. You know, the floor is yours now. Tell everybody where they can find you at, you know, and where they can expect you at. And if you happen to get called up, make sure you tell your wife that you're going up. Yeah, I'll give her that call. I don't want that. Is she on Instagram? Who? Your wife. Yeah. I'm going to clip. I'm clipping that part and tagging her in it. Oh, God. Just for you. That's awesome. But yeah, the floor is yours. Yeah, let everybody know where they can find you at. Yeah, I mean, Instagram underscore, no, a dean underscore. I mean, that's the only thing I usually go on. But I just want to say thank you for having me. And it's been blessed. Hey, Noah, thanks for coming on. And I have to say, like one. Talking to the, you know, you guys, I love building relationships and stuff like that. Because I'd like checking in. You know, you're in Greenville now. You know, Portland next season. And I love to keep the relationship and keep building. Yeah. And I've done that with a lot of the minor league players, Dobbins, CT, you know, Hoppy and stuff. But this podcast with, has to make me laugh. Probably the most out of any player overall. And I love that because, you know, it's, it's fun to see what's behind the curtain. You know what I mean? Well, when you actually, you know, take the uniform off and, you know, you're, you're just a great guy, great sense of humor that, you know, takes advantage of a six hour time difference. Yeah. I guess you could say that. Well, I appreciate it. Rob, any final thoughts that anywhere you, where you can sit there and find you at? And then Brandon. Well, also thank you for coming on. No, we truly appreciate you coming on. If you guys are looking for me, you can follow me on TikTok. Bade line. Same thing as Instagram. Just a baseball content creator trying to make it as hopefully a reporter one day knock on wood. I'm Brandon. Yeah. You know, same as usual real BCX three on X. I'm also back on Instagram now. Mainly for the point of following baseball players because that's where, as Noah said, most of you guys are just, you know, follow some guys and keep in touch. But then of course we got the black Eagle two, four, zero, seven over on YouTube and Twitch. That's where we do a lot of live streaming, game streams, baseball content. We do a little bit of everything over there. So come on by and have some fun. But you know where to find me. Yeah. You know, I just want to say thank you. Thank you, Noah, for coming on and Brandon. After the story, I don't want to know if you were there. Instagram is definitely where to connect with players because, uh, Noah, Noah got my message from on Twitter three months afterwards last. Yeah. So, but, uh, yeah, uh, it was fun. It was fun. I think about it. Made it right to the end. I'm back. I'm back. Okay. So this is going to be live tomorrow on Spotify. iTunes, Apple, iHeartRadio. Head on over to our store. You can get all your merchandise. This red socks related, not only just red socks related. We're kicking it up because it's hockey season. We're going to be dropping pasta mafia for the Bruins shirt. We're going to redrop it actually. And then we're also going to be throwing out there a new it's sway day. Uh, for, for Jeremy Swamin. And also, uh, our puck around and find out Bruins shirt. Uh, or hooding. Like so make sure you make sure you head on over there and find that. Get yourself some great merch. And see what else. I think that's it. So for Rob. For Brandon. For Noah and for myself. Thanks for stopping by the pesky podcast. I'm going to tell you story. I'm going to tell you about my town. I'm going to tell you big fat story baby. I talk about my town. Yeah, down by the river. Down by the banks of the river. [BLANK_AUDIO]