Brandon Gomes

you know, go back to back and accomplish what we have as an organization.

So there's a, in the moment there's a, when you're going through, you know, you're so mired in it that you don't get that chance, but like on the parade last year, this year, being with my kids and my wife, there's definitely like, Oh my God, like this is, this is pretty cool.

And like some real appreciation of how special it is.

I think a couple of things.

there's a lot of different ways to win.

You know, I think as we were getting to the point, we won in 20, you know, in the strangest of strange seasons.

And then doing it in 24 with, you know, we had heard so much like, well, you got to have, you know, it's the starting pitching.

You got to go deep and you got to do that.

And then 24, we win it with basically our bullpen victory.

and a huge collective effort in, like, timely hitting.

And then last year, yeah, great.

Like, our pitching was – our starting pitching was 100th percentile outcome and totally dialed.

And we used that and, like, played amazing defense.

And we hit, like, probably not great, not as well as we could have.

And I think so much of it is having guys that are relentless in their preparation and how they go about it and feeling like they're never actually –

done right they're never out of it I think all along the way we had those guys and there's like a really special group I think you know getting over the the hump in 24 of doing it you know in a full season however you want to you know I've heard enough of the 2020 stuff but I think then it was like okay we understand how challenging this is

And when things got really, really tough, I think that group became even more tight-knit and not anybody trying to do too much.

I think everybody kind of doing their part and understanding that's how we ultimately win.

You just take care of business, and you focus on winning that game, and that's all you can worry about.

Yeah, I think it's obviously way more enjoyable when you're doing it around people that you love to be around and have the same goals.