00:00And I want to go to San Francisco now because Tony Vitello met with the media.
00:03Tony Vitello entering his first season as the manager of the San Francisco Giants.
00:08And it was an interesting scrum, to say the least.
00:12And I know you've got some thoughts on this.
00:15Let's hear some of the best quotes from Tony Vitello right now.
00:18So, what do you ask?
00:22Because somebody tweeted it out.
00:24I don't know who told them.
00:25I wish I did.
00:28And, you know, it might have changed the course of history if I would have known who did, to be
00:32honest with you.
00:33But it just bothers me because, I don't know, you see people angry on the streets.
00:38I hate to get philosophical, but you see people angry on the streets for a lot of times stuff that's
00:44not even true.
00:45You know, people arguing and you don't know what reality is.
00:49So, but that was, I did, sorry shrink-wise.
00:54I did a really damn good job at keeping that away from our team, our recruiting, and it was not
01:02a distraction.
01:03And then all of a sudden, in the middle of practice, I see our first and third base coach freaking
01:07out.
01:08And they freaked out on me, too.
01:10And for no reason, because at that point, nothing was going to happen.
01:16But somebody decided that it was going to happen.
01:19And then the whole, you know, the whole world started spinning real quick.
01:23And I had to address the team.
01:27So, that for context, that was Tony Vitello, first day of full squad workouts in his new job as the
01:35manager of the San Francisco Giants,
01:37asking the media who leaked him taking the Giants job while he was the head coach at the University of
01:45Tennessee.
01:46Tony Vitello, the first guy to ever make the jump from college baseball to major league baseball without any minor
01:52league baseball in between.
01:53And this was him asking the media why they leaked when they did that they learned that he was a
02:00candidate for the giant managerial opening.
02:03And there was so much there that makes you just rub your head in confusion and frustration, I guess.
02:10He didn't even wait for a question, too.
02:12So, that was the meaty part that I really wanted to focus on because there's a couple bizarre quotes from
02:16that.
02:17But literally the second he sat down in the video from Matt Lively, who you can find at Matt B.
02:22Lively on X.
02:23Yeah.
02:24You literally see the second Vitello's his time, he looks over to his right to one of the reporters and
02:28said,
02:28when did you hear that I was taking the job?
02:32Immediately.
02:32So, you could tell that this was something he wanted to address very clearly.
02:36And he's had 10 sessions, by the way.
02:38He's had so many opportunities to do this with the San Francisco media contingent.
02:43I think something must have probably happened behind the scenes and he wanted to clear it out.
02:47And by behind the scenes, I mean, on the Tennessee side.
02:49This is the first day of big league camp, right?
02:53And this is the opportunity to really focus on that.
02:55A couple of the quotes that were really, really weird to me.
02:58And I think it's just poor verbiage and framing.
03:00I don't think he meant it this way.
03:02But even more reason to not just dive head first in this.
03:06The quote of, I don't know who told them.
03:08It might have changed the history if I had known, if I would have known who did.
03:12Changed what?
03:13You wouldn't have taken the job then?
03:14If you knew it came from the team or something like that?
03:16You're banging it?
03:17You're just saying, no, never mind.
03:19It got leaked out.
03:20I took that as, like, he might physically, like...
03:24That was the other thing I thought of.
03:26Here's the problem.
03:27Don't leave it for us to just interpret that now.
03:30Another dumb one.
03:31And I'm sure he'll learn from this.
03:32This is the first big league media experience.
03:34But it's not like Tennessee is not a place where he's getting questions pretty frequently.
03:40The other one was...
03:41It's bigger than some media scrums for Major League Baseball teams, Tennessee Baseball.
03:45Correct.
03:46The third and first base coach freaking out thing.
03:48So this was because the report came out four days before that he was closing in on the job.
03:52Or that, you know, the Giants and him were pretty much set in stone to have an agreement there for,
03:57you know, Vitello to be the next manager of the Giants.
04:01One, he's still defending himself, saying there's no reason for them to yell at me.
04:05I'm sure the first and third base coach are thrilled to be hearing that through the media now.
04:09I'm sure that was really nice for them to hear.
04:11But also, because at that point, nothing was going to happen.
04:15But then somebody decided that it was going to happen, and then the whole world starts spinning real quick.
04:23You're telling me four days before, even if that report jumped the gun, that there was nothing going, that this
04:30deal happened in the two days prior?
04:33Of course there were things working.
04:34Now, was it final?
04:35Did it come too early?
04:36Was it not fair to Tony?
04:38Very possible.
04:38But the idea that nothing was happening at that point, that a managerial hire of this magnitude doesn't take weeks,
04:46maybe more than that, to unfold and happen, that it was just nothing, that it wasn't going to be talked
04:51about for him before or after practice with whoever else, that wasn't going to be a phone call that he
04:55takes, is bizarre.
04:56And then also the framing of that quote literally makes it sound like he took the job because it got
05:01reported that he was taking the job.
05:03Nothing was happening at that point.
05:05Nothing was going to happen, is his exact words.
05:08What does that mean nothing was going to happen?
05:10You interviewed for the job.
05:12It was four days before you officially took the job.
05:15I just, that part really didn't make sense to me either.
05:17I think to me it sounds like a guy that regrets the way he handled it because he very much
05:23had to go out of his way to say, I did a good job of making sure it didn't affect
05:26the team at all.
05:27And then reminding us that these are SEC players.
05:30They're not affected by their coach, which is ridiculous because I'm sure one of the biggest pitches you make to
05:34your players to join your program is that we will help affect you.
05:37We will, we will, we will, we will make the effect you in a positive way.
05:41This all felt like kind of justification and undoing for him when he should be turning the page onto his
05:48big league career here.
05:48But if it can change out, we'll do that and call him to beat him before him if hejet dennicfully.
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