Courtney Finnicum

For me, it was.

On the first day of spring training, you know, I think every manager probably says pretty similar stuff.

You know, hey, play the game hard.

Don't be late.

We never had somebody be late the entire year.

And to me, that's so important because I think when you are late, I think you're announcing to the whole world, this is not a priority.

And it has to be a priority for us to get where we want to go.

So those are little things that maybe don't show up in the win-loss column.

But nonetheless, I was really proud of our guys for that.

So it's so funny you say that every time we would head out to the ballpark, it'd be me.

Freddie Benavides, who I've grown to love, Brad Mills, who I've known forever, and then a lot of times Brad Meador, our GM, would go with us.

And if we'd set a time, say 1230,

It would be like 1145 and I'd be texting those guys like, hey, we said 1230.

Let's go.

I think guys that will do that.

It's the same thing with running balls out to first.

It's not just how it looks.

One, you want to run players into mistakes because I think that's the way you can win.

But I really believe guys that will run the ball out when they're frustrated, they're the same guys.

It's not going to be late.