Simon Mathews

So through some friends, I was able to catch on.

I was terrible at it.

And I was, uh, I was trying to sort of launch my coaching career at the same time I started working at push and working with driveline.

And I just, I had my sort of intentions and energies elsewhere.

Uh, and yeah,

I'm really grateful that that was able to allow me to not get evicted in the summer of 2020.

And I learned a lot about work ethic and kind of sticking your nose down and getting things done that you might not have any interest in whatsoever.

But other than that, my focus was elsewhere for sure.

I think my sort of foundational belief about pitching is that

you really have to honor the individual gifts of the player, right?

And one of the things that's really fabulous about the modern age of baseball is we can shorten the feedback loop on identifying those.

Like, really, what is it about this guy that makes him awesome, that makes him a major league pitcher?

And I want guys to feel celebrated for that.

And I want that to become the centerpiece of kind of how we approach baseball

building a successful major league arsenal and game plan for them.

Um, and I want to bring them in and feel like partners in the process.

Right.

Um, and I think ultimately when, when first you promise to do that and then day in and day out, you deliver that and people feel as though that's what's happening.

That's their experience of playing for you.

Um,