Kyle Schwarber (151:44)
Not great. And coming into that spring training, you looked around, you're like, man, we got a good team and no one. No one knows it. So, like, they expect the expectations already there in the. In the locker room. And there was a lot of different things that we had to fight through that year, too, where, you know, scarab breaks, breaks thumb harp. You know, he tours towards Tommy John, and then he also came back and he got hit. Broke his. Broke his thumb that year, too, and miss some time and a lot of different things that we had to fight through. But then, like, we knew, like, in the back of our heads, we're like, man, like, once we get the full strength. Because I even think Wheeler started late too, that year, and maybe Ranger got hurt. We were just in the back of our heads going, man, like, once we get the full strength, like, watch out. Like, watch out. And we get the full strength. And it was funny. Philly story. He was awesome. So that year, I think we. I forget where we were. It was near the end of the year and we come. We're coming off a road trip for our last home stand before we go hit 10 games and I don't think we finished. I think we might have got swept on the road and, you know, we're all pissed off, whatever it is. And we land in Philly or get on the buses and it's like three in the morning and we see like. So we pull out this gate and we see someone standing right there and like, man, what is this? And then all of a sudden, this dude, this whips out a sign, holds it up, says, like, same shit every year. We deserve better. This Guy waited till 3am for us to get back just for that. Like. Like we all. All laughing like it was. It was. It was funny. Yeah, it was funny. You know, then we. We play the home stand, whatever, and we go on the road again. It's ten game road trip. Go to Washington. I think we lose. Like, lose the first one. I think we ended up winning two out of three. Go Chicago. We didn't play good in Chicago, but, like, there was a race between like the. I think it was the brewers in us, and Miami is out of nowhere. This gets hotter than a Piston and they start beating the brewers. And we're like, man, we got a chance. And then we get the Houston, you know, shocking. We play Houston last series of the year and ended up playing them in the World Series. And all we had to do was go win one game, win that game, and, you know, we were like, all right, here we go, you know, on the. On the St. Louis. You know, go win the first two there. Then we're on the Atlanta. You know, Atlanta, I think just won the division. You know, we, you know, it feels like we always played them tough. You know, it's always close games. Then we go in there, we win the first one, then we come back home and like, funny, like, cool. Cool moment, right? Like, so we went to the Eagles home opener that year and we're like, man, this place is a mad box. It's crazy. It's unbelievable. Like, the electric atmosphere. And we come back off the road, and it was almost a month that we were on the road, and then it's like, we step out. You know, obviously, we're all excited. We got the postseason stuff going, flying around. We're taking bp everything. And then it's time for the intros. And we go out there and we're like, whoa, it's like an Eagles game in here. This is awesome, right? Like, this is. This is amazing. You got the whole stadium that's killing dudes, killing dudes from Atlanta. You know, like Ozuna steps at the play. You got the whole stadium going up there saying what they're saying. Like, like, like, it was like, you're like, whoa, this is awesome. And, you know, this. We. We're playing great baseball. We win that series, you know, San Diego go out there, you know, split, and then we're like, we're just not, you know, we're. We're telling ourselves, we're like, we're just not going back to San Diego. You know, like, we're not going back to San Diego. And, you know, we didn't. Bryce sits at homer, like, wow, what a moment. Like, yeah, that's like. Like probably one of my favorite moments of just sitting there, just watching baseball where it seems, like, cinematic kinda, right? Where, you know, we're all this. We're all, you know, on the top rail, right? And it just feels like it's something. Something's gonna happen, you know, like he's, you know, he's not gonna get out, but you don't know it's going to be that. And the ball leaves and then it's like drizzling on us. Like, it's so up that game where, like, it felt like it started raining on us, but it only rained on us when we were pitching. Like, Sir's out there getting soaked. Like, you know, he. He's got no grip on the ball. He's throwing things all over the place. Can't find the grip. Then it was the stop raining when they're pitching. We're like, what's going on here? But, you know, then it starts drizzling again when we're going and we get this rally going and Harp this, you know, hits this ball. Cinematic feel, and you're like, whoa. And the whole stadium just erupted. Red on the seismic. Like earthquakes. Yeah, Right. Really cool moment, but, like, the answer to the question. Expectations always there for us. Like, we know the group that we have, and we know what we're capable of doing and you know, sure. Like, you know, the start this year off right. It hasn't been the greatest start by any means, but also too, it's like there's the. You have to keep a perspective in your head of, okay, like, just because we haven't started off great doesn't mean that we don't have a good team. Right. It doesn't mean that we own a great team. Right. Like, you know, rocky roads, whatever it is, you just got to keep your head down, keep fighting, taking things on the chin. And there's going to be a light somewhere down at the end of the tunnel. You just got to find your way there. You know, you got to keep going. You got to keep playing. It doesn't mean that we quit, we're never quitting. Where it's not like the, the sense of urgency that's always there. It doesn't matter. I said it doesn't matter. If you're, you're on a 20 game win streak, you're off on a 20 game losing streak, there's always a sense of urgency because there's a game to be played, played tomorrow.
