Jeff Blair

See you.

Absolutely.

That's Buck Martinez.

And, of course, he will be the first inductee into the Toronto Blue Jays Hall of Excellence at the Rogers Center.

on august 29th 2026 that's going to be a very very very special day and uh boy if you've if you uh haven't had a chance yet when you're at the rogers center check out the displays they've put on down there it's uh it's it's very cool yeah and uh there'll be be a lot of us there yeah well you think 29 you think you're a cool dude and buck walks in and

He is really one of the faces of the game, not just here but in the U.S.

People forget that he did a lot of network work in the U.S.

And he is – yeah, he's Buck.

I always –

talk about watching him deal with people from a distance.

You know, he always, when you shake somebody's hand, he always says, Buck Martinez.

You know, everybody knows who the hell he is, but to make a person comfortable, he introduces himself.

And I just, there's, that's a small thing.

But it's something I try to do, and I never consciously thought of it.

But then you realize that that's the way of instantly putting somebody at ease.

Yeah, I've always –

I always found that dynamic, Bo and Vladdy, to be just kind of interesting.

Two guys coming up at the same time and their paths diverging in the offseason.

It would have been great, frankly, if the two of them

Could have been the cornerstone for this franchise going forward.