Wow.

Now it took her away quite a bit, but we managed.

And I think kind of to speak to your original question of what challenges did I face? I think because I had that approach, I didn't tackle most of the common challenges men face at the same degree.

They're still there.

They're still present.

Like I find myself explaining what my career is now, but also going back to my old career when people ask.

Or during that transition period, probably the challenge that we had that is very common, that was most prevalent in our relationship was gatekeeping.

And he's very open to hopping in Where do you start with a couple like that that's like, okay, we need a better system for this, but we're both ready and willing to work to divide this up more equally?

But there's so much comedy and energy in that film that it's almost like you don't care, you know?

Yeah.

No, I agree.

The, that, I w- we were thinking about that, sort of a Who Done It versus Nitwits sort of, um, scenario, and I agree.

The mystery in The Nitwits is so much better.

It's so much better.

The film itself, because what's, you know, s- what Stevens does is he pretty much gives you a Hollywood noir kind of thriller mystery, and then he, he puts Wheeler and Woolsey as actors.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm

... "Hey, my slider's getting hit at a, you know, higher batting average than I would expect.

Uh, I'm missing my command and locations." Like, on the pitching side when we talk about that topic, that's where Rapsodo comes in and, "Hey, in my...

Between my next sta- start, I want to actually work on my slider.

Can I sharpen it? Can I tighten it up? Is it creating the break profile I want?" So that's kind of, like, on the pitching side of utilizing that data of, hey, the in-game data is telling me I'm struggling on this.

Now that I have time to experiment a little bit and sharpen my craft, we get a lot of that.

Um, but then on the hitting side, and, you know, all of these pitchers throwing so hard these days, and it's the hardest it's ever been to...

What's the purpose of that?

Is that something you guys can look at or have kicked around, you know, or theorized about? Like, is this something that's actually trainable and, and fixable in a swing, the ability to impart spin on the ball off the bat, not just out of the pitcher's hand?

Yeah.

That, that's a great question.

So [clears throat] kind of a cool, uh, story that, you know, I can share is, so we're out of St. Louis, um, and we had a facility at the time with high ceilings, um, you know, in 2018, 2019 timeframe.

Um, and guys like Matt Adams, Carson Kelly, uh, some other Cardinals at the time would be, you know, hitting in our cage throughout the off-season, uh, and specifically looking at spin rate type of data and spin direction.

Uh, because what that tells the hitter is the quality of contact.

Um, so when, you know, all baseball, softball players, coaches, you know, when you see that ball that's hit that just center to center from barrel to center of the ball and you create that knuckle type action, you know, the spin rate's almost y- you know, under 200.

If you can answer that and it's not proprietary, can you tell me a little bit about, um, you know, how Rapsodo could work with injury detection and injury prevention as well?

What are the metrics today on the pitching front that when you are working with scouts or even players that seem to be on the forefront of pitchers' minds when using your guys' technology?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Happy to dive into that.

That's really our bread and butter.

So we're talking, you know, I manage the MLB business here at Rapsodo, so I'm working with these organizations throughout the whole year of the spring training, um, rolling around through the season to the winter meetings, and these teams are talking at the MLB level.

There's really, like, three big ways they utilize this data.

So on the hitting side, how are you guys helping them to try to catch up with all the things that pitchers are focused on?