What have you seen from Carson both on and off the field this season?

Yeah, it's an incredible season.

And he's a small number of doubles away from reaching 30 doubles, which from what I know is even... more rare than just the 30-30 home run and stolen base season.

So incredible year for Carson, one that he'll definitely always remember, but one that's propelled him into serious prospect talks, serious future major league roster spot talks, 40-man roster talks, all this stuff that comes with a season like that at the upper level.

So it's a credit to Carson.

It's a Touched him this year, not only in Northwest, but Bijan here and Tripp.

And it's great for our organization because when you have a plus center fielder, premium defensive position that also offers that type of offensive impact, you have a special Pete on a potential championship club.

What did you see from Lucas in his time here? I mean, it really just, it was a matter of time before he went up to Kansas City.

How impressed have you been with what Alejo's done for this team over the last, call it, five, six weeks?

He's been huge.

Losing Jack, who kind of manned down our shortstop position to be able to plug Alejo in there and really not miss a beat.

He's a magician with the bat in his hand.

You don't see guys with his hand-eye, bat-to-ball skills anymore.

It's a different style of offensive philosophy these days, but he's a guy that...

You watch him hit, and these pitchers that face him, they must just be so frustrated because he'll foul balls off, and then he'll find this way to just magically place one right in front of the left fielder just perfectly, and he can steal a base.

Has it been what you expected, more than you expected? How have you been able to construct a lineup and manage a bullpen when there are so many moving pieces this year?

Starting

off in Toledo, I thought that was an outstanding series going four and two.

We played well.

We pitched well.

We got to see Lucas Braun make his Kansas City Royals Omaha Storm Chasers debut, which was a treat.

And he followed that up again.

Last week in Columbus, but running to Columbus, that lineup, I was talking to someone, I think it may have been Matt Quattraro, that their lineup for me this past week was the best lineup we've faced.

On top of Carson Rockefeller getting to the AAA level today, what do you make of where the offense is at right now and what they've done well in recent weeks?

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How impressed not just are you with what Gavin did last week in Salt Lake, but the body of work that he's put together over, I mean, we could really say the last couple of months at this point.

Yeah, I went back and looked at it.

I was just curious.

And I went back 30 days, so a month.

And that was, I think I did that Tuesday or Wednesday in Salt Lake.

So before the end of the series, and by the end of the series, his numbers even improved.

It's hard to imagine.

How important are not just veteran arms, but such big league experienced arms to this team? And I guess if you kind of speak to how impressed you are with some of these older guys that have put up good performances so far.

What did it take to bounce back like that?

It really is kind of who this team has become, in my opinion.

It's a team that really from the start, no matter the score, no matter the situation, no matter the inning, they weren't going to give anything away.

And that's what we saw last week.

Tuesday was ugly.

There's really no other way to put it.

But we came back and we sweep a double header and we play two really, really close games and lose once in the ninth, I believe, and once in extra innings.

How has that ability been so impactful for this team? And what's it like kind of going between the bullpen and getting a start for them?

Pauls, Indies, Iowas that we're seeing three to four times a year and have historically seen them a lot?

I think the thing that jumps out of my mind right away in regards to that question is when you see someone over and over, at least you know who they are, what they can do.

And if you need to stay away from certain hitters or if there's a pitcher that could give us an issue, maybe we can plan around that.

But when you You've never seen a team or a group of players.

You don't really know what you're going to get.

We look at the numbers.

We look at what they've done up to this point, their careers.

What do you make of not just what he did last week, but his body of work in the season? Because I kind of feel like it's flying under the radar a little bit in the landscape of maybe the Royals organization or the International League.

When did you first come across Jesse, Patrick?

Yeah, well, I mean, congratulations to Jesse.

That's an unbelievable, unbelievable thing even to be nominated.

let alone with it I first probably met her when Marina I got married in Killarney so I'm a blow in but I know all the callers actually two of my kids went to Fiona's school of acting maybe they should have kept her up because Fiona's brilliant but yeah when I got married in Killarney the organist was sick and actually Marina so Jessie's mum she stepped in and she played the harp and she's an unbelievable harpist and also singer.

And also singer.

So that was actually very, very unusual to have, you know, here comes the bride done with the harp and all.

But she was brilliant.

and

yeah listener says I'm delighted you're having this conversation about horror and its benefits at last I'm a woman and I absolutely love horror movies but people think I'm really weird Halloween is my favourite time of the year The Descent is probably one of the best underrated horror movies ever made what about you Patrick Osborne Patrick of course is an author and screenwriter why do you think we love horror movies Patrick?

I suppose, again, we love the thrill, don't we? We love to be frightened, but then be safe.

And great horrors, I think, if you look at the amount of them, we say that the child is the, you know, like, think of Damien Omen and Halloween, even when Michael Myers, when he first starts killing, that really, really kind of sets it up, you know, that we shouldn't be afraid of children, but we still have to be afraid of children.

You know, like it's, but it is the whole safe space so definitely I can understand where they're going that this can help with anxiety and stress obviously it causes a lot of stress at the time well that's

what I would have thought I mean I spend most of my time watching a horror movie whenever I have watched them over the years behind a cushion

yeah Yeah, no, I think it's safe.

Although there's a friend of mine, he says his horror movie is his wedding video.

Oh, stop.