Jameson Taillon

When you have those guys setting the example, I think it's a lot easier for everything else to just follow through with.

Yeah, 100%.

Yeah.

And then, you know, Matt Shaw, like Matt Shaw blown away by his defense at third base, by the way, like he had never really played third base coming into this year, but like, I don't, it has to help that Dansby Swanson's to his left, you know, and like Nico Horner's up the middle and Michael Bush is at first, like that infield group is tight and they're all talking and learning together and pushing each other.

And so, yeah, that's what makes teams good.

And obviously we have a long way to go, but like, I think we're starting to build something really cool here.

It really is.

Yeah, again, dude, I was thinking about this the other day, actually.

These are off-season thoughts, you know, as I'm driving home from my workouts.

But yeah, in Pittsburgh, I got to play with Joe Musgrove, who's one of the best teammates I've ever had, and Trevor Williams, and Chad Coole, and Josh Bell, and Adam Frazier, and Andrew McCutcheon, and some of those older guys, David Freese.

And then I get traded over to New York, and now I'm in a locker room where I'm rubbing elbows with some greatness and future Hall of Famers.

And I feel like everything I learned in Pittsburgh set me up for that.

And then everything I learned in New York set me up for Chicago.

But yeah, I was thinking about just...

When I was younger, I was so concerned with my draft status and position and how am I ever going to live up to, you know, where I was drafted and what I was given as an 18-year-old.

And then as you get older, you just learn, like, dude, we're all just on our own journeys.

We're all just figuring it out.

And what I've been able to do, I should be proud of.

And even though it's not... I'm never going to be in the Hall of Fame.

I'm never going to get Cy Young votes.