Adam Ottavino

But, like, I have to be convicted on that because that's my job.

And also, like, I mean, it was the right pitch.

To me, it's obvious.

I mean, I guess to some other people, not so much.

But, you know, the guy who works with me at NBC, the great Bruce Kornblatt, he always tells me, conclusion first.

Just get to the conclusion, tell them what they want to know right now.

So I was like curveball in the dirt and then explain later.

In that case, I actually did a good job with that.

I said, yes, curveball in the dirt.

Oh, see, I'm learning this.

Yeah, and so we've done two of them now.

I felt like I was a little bit of the guinea pig in game one, which was the Mets-Pirates game that we did where we actually couldn't sit in the bullpen

for some reason.

So I sat in a camera well.

And in that situation, we're kind of learning on the fly.

Even them, they know that they want to utilize my expertise in moments with matchups and what should you do here and things like that.

But at first, we were trying to premeditate a lot of stuff, like what do you think could be coming here?

And that ended up not working because

Cause you know what a baseball game breaks out and you never really know what's going to happen until the moment.

So in game two, and you might've even seen it when Kershaw was in my role, uh, in the same role as me in the Dodger game that night, they, they left my mic open.