Dan Shulman

I'm sure half a second after he did this, he went, I don't know if I should have done that.

Right.

But you're, you know, again, Kevin, you're in the box.

Your heart is beating pretty quickly.

It's your at bat.

And I don't think it's Andres Jimenez or Miles Straw being consciously selfish, but John Schneider has said, don't be selfish.

You have to think of the team first.

And our understanding is before every half inning, DeMarlo Hale says to the hitters who were coming up, here's how many challenges we have left guys.

And Drew Butera says to whoever's catching when they go on the field, here's how many challenges we have left guys.

And I think all you can do is keep reinforcing that and try to drill it into them that, um,

um unless you've got a really really good reason you better have one for the eighth or ninth inning when the when the stakes are at their highest you know in the ninth burn them all even if you're not sure because if you don't have any you get one back in the 10th but boy you you got to do a better job in the early innings no that that's a great question by kevin and a great answer because it it it has become noticeable as the season has gone on i i

Right, so a couple of quick things.

I think Valenzuela, and I'm just getting to know him better, but I think he's a very confident young man.

You know, he's tried a couple of back picks.

Like, he's tried things that maybe a lot of young catchers would be hesitant to do.

So maybe, you know, his M.O.

in the game in general is...

error of commission rather than error of own.

Like I'm going to try to help.

If I don't make the play, I don't make the play, but I'm going to try to help.