Terry Francona

I could not agree more.

And again, you said something that resonated with me once again.

It seems like every podcast we do, you say something that resonates with me.

And I absolutely love that.

I'm glad that it's home.

But, you know, you said something a couple of minutes ago about that things in the Reds organization, the Reds coaching staff from previous regimes were doing things a little differently.

Can you shine a little bit of a light on what those things were?

And I, again, I completely agree with that.

It's just, you know, like you said, it's almost like a teaching moment, right?

Like it's a teaching moment that, okay, let's readjust your mindset here.

You're not, you know, you're not getting in trouble, like you said, but you're readjusting that mindset to kind of mold into a winning ball club that we saw a lot from you guys this year.

So that's great.

That's huge.

I completely agree with that.

And, you know, there's been a lot of talk about that third wildcard spot that you guys got in on.

You know, do you think that a team – and obviously it worked in the Reds' favor this year, so I don't want to throw cold water on that.

But do you think a team that's won 83, 84, 85 wins should be considered a playoff team?

And one thing that I think we did talk about this last time, too, one thing, and we certainly saw this particularly in the National League, was so many more fan bases were right involved in literally the last game of the year, right?

You had the Mets sweating every single thing going on in your game.

So it is good for baseball in that respect that there's so many other fan bases that are, you know, sweating these games now and more eyes on the product.