Do you-- What's your signal for this week? Did you bring anything that we should consider?

One of the signals I've been seeing, and it's exciting in some ways and scary in another, is, you know, I've been in and out of this industry a couple of times now, about twenty-five years of experience in it.

But I've left a few times, and the first time I came back, I really didn't see anything different, right? We had the same challenges, the same problems that we were trying to fix.

But one of the things I've seen since returning here to, uh, Scientific over the last six months or so is that people are becoming much more comfortable with imperfection in our industry, and I think that, uh, you know, historically we expect software to be deterministic, right? You click on something and you get a predictable result.

But more and more what we're seeing now is in the AI world is prompts and probabilistic results, but nothing that's exact, right? And so from an enterprise perspective, it's exciting to see how industries will respond to this and how I think this would be also a good conversation from a TMS perspective on really how embracing that imperfection is such a huge behavioral change.

Jeff, have you heard much around that kind of no TMS kind of sense of the vision of the future from enterprise? What do you think around that?

It's definitely a fascinating question, and certainly we do hear that, right? And I think when customers are talking about TMS-less, no TMS, they're maybe talking about the visibility of those features, right? Are they visible or not? Are they still there? To your point, Vince, as far as are things changing? Yes.

Does that mean it's no longer a TMS? I would say not, right? It still certainly could be.

I wonder, do you reflect back on going to college with maybe people who viewed the world differently from you actually was a really crucial part in your development as a person?

No, absolutely.

Cal opened my eyes to the whole world rather than just this little bubble in Orange County, Huntington Beach, you know, being on the beach, surfing and racing motorcycles.

It opened me up to bigger things that I didn't experience in Southern California.

I really like Northern California.

That's why I really like playing for the Giants.

The people there were awesome.

Can you share for those that don't know how soon in your journey you met Jose and how it seemed that the two of you were just always playing together at every stop?

Why was it developed?

Like a lot of jobs, not just in the sugar mills, but I guess throughout a lot of Queensland, there's been a lot of staff turnover.

And particularly among the loco drivers involved, And so there's been this continuing need for quite a lot of driver training each year.

Now, driver training is not that easy to do out of season because you really can't drive the trains that you want to train them on.

There are issues with locos and track being out for maintenance.

But more importantly, you can't have a full train of cane bins because there's no cane in the bins.

So the only opportunity then to get realistic conditions is through a simulator.

How exactly does the simulator work? Can you kind of paint that picture for me? Because I'm trying to imagine it and I feel like I might be imagining something completely different to how it actually looks in practice.

That's what you experienced, huh, Jeff?

Yeah, he, he did.

And, and I hope that, you know, that, I hope that people give, uh, uh, Buster a little bit of rope.

It takes time.

It takes time to build culture.

You know, uh, uh, Posey's come in, he's trying to build culture.

He gets it.

In today's game, in the era of launch angle and exit velocity, does the money still lie in the RBI?

What's it like? What did you see? Is there one or two items where you were like, yo, that's pretty special?

Yeah, they bring you out.

They bring you downstairs in an air-conditioned, kind of like a warehouse.

They call it the vault, but it's a big, you know, lock.

controlled, atmosphered warehouse that's down in the ground so it doesn't get too cold, doesn't get too hot.

And they slide out these big drawers and they put stuff out on tables and you put your white gloves on and you get to handle some mitts and some old helmets and balls and bats.

You know, what was neat, man, I feel bad that I don't remember the bat that I picked up, but it wasn't the name that was impressive to me.

In today's game, in the era of launch angle and exit velocity, does the money still lie in the RBI?

I don't remember, but can you share what we don't get to go on that tour? What's it like? What do you, what did you see? Is there one or two items where you were like, yo, that's pretty special.

Yeah.

They, they, they bring you out.

They bring you downstairs in an air conditioned, kind of like a warehouse.

They call it the vault, but it's a big, you know, locked, controlled, atmosphered warehouse that's down in the ground so it doesn't get too cold, doesn't get too hot.

And they slide out these big drawers and they put stuff out on tables and you put your white gloves on and you get to handle some mitts and some old helmets and balls and bats.

You know, what was neat, man, I feel bad that I don't remember the bat that I picked up, but it wasn't the name that was impressive to me.

In today's game, in the era of launch angle and exit velocity, does the money still lie in the RBI?

So what was it like? Tell us who, who or what, or what was the feeling in the, in the faces of being around those who are already inducted, in that room, what it was like?

You, you feel small.

You know, a lot of people talk about, uh, how the, the heavy weight of a moment or an award, but what it is, is you- the weight just makes you feel small.

Uh, the, the biggest moment was, uh, sitting in the green room.

So behind the stage, we're all gathered up in, in this tent area, in the shade, and, and getting ready to go out on stage.

And, uh, so you're standing around, everybody's got nothing to do, and it's a very tight area, so people are close.

I mean, uh, you're not spread out like you are in a ballroom, which they had most of our events were in big ballrooms and stuff.

In today's game, in the era of launch angle and exit velocity, does the money still lie in the RBI?

Jeff, along those lines, as Andrew talked about the history of the game, going through the hall, what part of baseball history has surprised you? What thing did you learn in the last few days that you didn't know before you got here?

Well, I hadn't had a chance to walk through it the last few days, but I did in, I think it was February, I'd come to do a tour here for the first time.

And so I was walking around and being told stories of certain areas, you know, the more specific or the more special places in the hall.

And, you know, the one that hit me the most was seeing Jackie Robinson's box and telling the story of jackie and seeing the letters and and seeing some of his equipment in there and and and it takes you back you know they've made a lot of movies about them too so you're pulling in movies and you're pulling in conversations that i have had with dusty baker uh about uh you know the black players way back in the day and then you get to see some of that stuff in the And the trials that Jackie went through, Jackie played second base too.

So I'm attracted to guys that played my position.

So I was attracted to that story.

And to see that, that one really hit me, especially the letters.

Along those lines, what have you learned as being a youth baseball coach yourself about how to communicate to kids?

What was it like for you to hear the news?

Overwhelming because I, you know, I'd left the game.

I, you know, I've...

Being on the ballot for 10 years and, you know, being about in the middle pack, you know, I, I kinda understood the math and, you know, I'm, I'm more of a realist and more of a mathematical guy, which is, uh, you know, okay, it's not in the works.

You know, the arguments aren't good enough.

Well, that's fine.

Uh, so I let the game go, and the, the game has come rushing back in a fast way.

What team? Giants?