Joe

Kevin, I know at least with my parents, my mom is somebody that cries at just about everything.

My dad has always shown very little emotion.

I know you won't really know until the moment hits you, but what do you anticipate the emotions being like when your son gets his name called, he runs out onto the field, and there's roughly 40,000 people that are on their feet for him?

I was really hoping that we could make that happen.

And, you know, after meeting Kevin last week when we had Connor on the show in Indianapolis, I was really hoping that, hey, it would be cool once that he makes his major league debut that –

we could have his dad on the show because his dad told me last week, he's like, I listen to you guys all the time.

And I'm like, man, that's awesome.

That's sweet.

Your son is going to be a pirate hopefully for a long time, and it appears it'll be for a long time.

But he's already listening to us, trying to get the feel maybe of what the hype train is.

So that was something I was hoping to happen.

I had actually shot him a message on social media yesterday, but I'm sure he was just inundated with his inbox.

So getting to see him in person here, getting to have him sit down with us, that was sweet.

Because you get in the mind of the...

the father and the parents of the player that a lot of people are going to come to this ballpark and see.

There was going to be a lot of people here anyway.

It's the home opener.

But there will be more people throughout the season to see this kid.

Yeah, and you are accurate.

Like, he carries himself as if he's somebody in his mid-30s.