Keegan Matheson

I've stopped caring because I'm always there, and I think they know me, and they know that I'm not trying to screw them.

But at the same time, you can't just ask a guy, so how did it feel today?

Because they will go up and down me and blow me up.

Like not this team as much as maybe like the Bautista and Donaldson years where I got told to go a lot of places.

But after a loss like that, I mean, it starts with John Schneider.

The first question, what am I going to ask?

It's, you know, you try to be a little forward thinking.

You try to at least acknowledge that these guys aren't idiots.

They're aware that they just got beat.

They're aware they lost.

And, man, you've got to try to get through that BS a little bit off the top without offending them, right?

Because if I'm only going to be there asking those bad questions, they're going to think that's who you are.

Part of the solution, too, is that if I'm going to pile on to Vladdy, if I'm going to pile on to Brendan Little or whoever it is, when they have a good game, I better show the hell up and do the same with the same energy, asking them about what went right.

So I think it's a long-term balance thing, but you see the drop-ins.

And let me tell you, this is a big week for tourist media down at the ballpark with the Dodgers in town.

You see a lot of people dropping in with the hard hitter off the top, and a player's just kind of taking that moment where they realize, do not blow this person up on camera, but they want to.

Back to normal.

Back to normal, exactly.

The expectations here matter because a whole bunch of people, a few million Canadians, started to give a damn about the Blue Jays last October.

And that's not a shot.