00:00the giants as it stands right now are three and eight they've dropped four in a row matt chapman
00:07was very open and honest about a base running blunder that he had and this is on the heels of
00:13him effectively eviscerating casey schmidt during a mountain visit in san diego tony vitello the
00:21manager who again came from the university of tennessee he was the head coach at the university
00:26of tennessee first guy to ever skip the pro ball ranks entirely and go from college head coach
00:30to major league manager he mentioned aside from the chapman schmidt mound visit altercation there
00:38have been two other incidents behind closed doors that have been very similar he said there were
00:44cuss words involved in both it's just fascinating to me and i know that you put out your opinion on
00:51on twitter like i mean dude yes okay you've got the public interaction why does the world need to
00:59know about the two others that happened in privacy we mentioned behind closed doors there's a reason
01:03why the doors are closed uh you should probably just keep that one to yourself or two i should say
01:08i
01:09i tony look i i i'm rooting for tony i really am i i i hope that you know things
01:16start to work out for
01:17the giants i just think this team has constructed with the personalities that it has and the vets that
01:21it has it was a really interesting ball club for vitello to make the leap with like i'm imagining a
01:29younger like a younger energetic less experienced team that could maybe be a great situation for him
01:36to launch into um this is an interesting one because when you see that there's some clubhouse friction
01:44the college head coach is probably not the guy that's going to be able to get this right and the
01:49thing that's interesting to me is you went out and acquired a great player in rafael devers and i think
01:56the trade itself from a baseball perspective makes a lot of sense but a big part of his issues in
02:02boston
02:02were the friction that he had with front office maybe the rest of the team some other players and that
02:09guy comes in you have some other vets as well right and then you bring in the college head coach
02:15to work with those guys that's the part that blows my mind tony's gonna get better i think at the
02:20media
02:20side of things it's not like it was at tennessee and knoxville where you know you can say whatever
02:26was happening in these college kids it's that there's not really any repercussions you could say
02:29yeah they argued but we i i you know whip them into shape we're all good now you can't you
02:35can't do
02:35that it's different with these guys he's a 30 plus year old grown man 10 year vets uh guys on
02:40nine figure contracts you got to keep that to yourself um i i i think in the early going here
02:47we've seen vitello be very open and willing and even start conversations like revisiting and rehashing
02:54all the details of what happened when he uh left tennessee or right before and when the reports came out
03:00and here now is another instance of potentially oversharing and my concern is in a situation like
03:06this where you're already just trying to get by the optics of the last situation why would you even
03:12bring it up so people like us can talk about it that's my that's my biggest problem is things are
03:16already going really rough for your team on the field it's early why bring up and add fuel to the
03:22fire that there's something going on you should be just saying yeah we're just not playing good ball
03:26right now it's 162 game season through 11 games we look like crap it's fine
03:30instead it's like now all you can do is just infer that there's a lot more at hand that might
03:36be
03:37long-term concerning and that maybe he might not be the right guy to you know figure this out
03:42i'm trying to put myself in the mind to tony vitello why would you publicize those private
03:47conversations in this moment is it an effort to galvanize the clubhouse is in an effort to say hey
03:54guys what's happening even behind closed doors is unacceptable we need to have a level of professionalism
03:59and accountability and we just need to up the positivity in the maybe the show he's not worried
04:04about it i i don't know and and he did mention like the caveat that the three blow-ups in
04:11the
04:11clubhouse have all preceded wins for the giants so like he tried to put a positive spin on that where
04:17it's like every time someone lashes out we win so maybe it should happen every single time i don't know
04:22it was just a little it was a weird spin zone to read after the fact yeah that's you just
04:30need about
04:30a 84 more of those and you got a good shot at the wild card so just someone start yelling
04:34at somebody
04:35else that would be good oh man i like and again you look at this team it's it's a lot
04:40of vets and
04:41personalities i just find it interesting and this is the most already i feel like i've and you know
04:46maybe i haven't been as tapped in in the past um it's the most i've seen matt chapman just be
04:52in
04:52the headlines about it seems like it stuff at least it's anecdotal i don't know maybe an athletics fan
04:58can say something or a giants fan that noticed something in the past but i i just feel like this
05:03is already the most i've heard from matt chapman um in terms of of issues and also the the scenario
05:09where you're ripping a teammate and then you end up making mental mistakes of your own is is just
05:16an interesting other layer to it that generally tells me that there's like a diffusion of blame
05:22in the clubhouse like i don't know it's too early for this stuff it's too early two weeks in i
05:27get it
05:27like july you pack a bunch of people in a room dude like i love you you love me maybe
05:32we get sick of
05:33each other every day in the same clubhouse for for five months and say something we don't mean
05:36but there's no way i'm snapping on you 12 games into the season there's no way
05:40you
05:40you
05:40you
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