Ricky Romero

But yeah, no, she was a lot of fun to watch.

Oh, yes, going all the way down to, what, eight seconds?

Yeah, it looked like he's...

I'm assuming not a fan of the pitch clock, and so waiting until the last possible second when we're all just looking there to see, is he going to get in the box?

Is he going to get called for it?

But, yeah, a little bit different.

But so many fun things this softball season to talk about.

Did you have any pre-at-bat routines like that or anything?

It kind of changed a little bit.

I'm a bit superstitious.

I like to joke with Jamie about that, that I am very superstitious.

So if something was working, whether if it was I was chewing gum or if there was a certain song that was going through my head, like that song stayed with me until I started to not do so well.

The one thing that I really never did when I was on deck or even up to the plate is take a full like game like hack.

I didn't want the other team to see either what I was working on or what my tendencies were because I always felt like the other team was scouting me on deck, scouting me.

Now, the film, we didn't have as much film when I was playing, so I didn't want to give anybody the advantage.

Now, hindsight, nobody was probably watching me on deck, but in my mind, that was kind of a way for me to almost take control of the at-bat before I even got in the batter's box was just by simply not taking full swings.

So if you see, like, pictures, I've got, like,

maybe hanging on to my bat halfway up the barrel, just barely swinging.

It looks like I'm not ready, but to me, that was strategy of making sure that they didn't know, the opponent didn't know what I was trying to work on.

Blake's mid-game, like, get it out of here.