All right, I'm here with the big sexy Gavin Lux, who is feeling
sexy these days at the plate. Thanks a lot for the time, appreciate
it always for you, Dave. Oh yeah, it feels like sexy is
another word for confidence. You feel like the confidence is getting back and you're
trusting what your legs can do for you. Yeah, I mean, for
sure, I think just you know, kind of going over the course of
the year and more at bats, you get the kind of better you feel,
and you start to figure stuff out in the game. Instead of you
know, using the cage and trying to figure it out, you kind of
actually figured it out in the game and try to figure out your feels whatever
it is. So yeah, I think you know the last price since Philly,
it's been pretty good. So just keep trying to ride the momentum and
hopefully you can just keep carrying it on during the All Star breaks. Since
you are the pride of Kenosha, Wisconsin, what'd you do? Take the
boat out on Lake Michigan, you know, take the whole Lux family out
there. No, I actually went back home where my house is now.
I'm not going to stay where in Wisconsin. But yeah, yeah, and
I just had a cookout a bunch of my buddies, family, my fiance,
Miley, her family, her friends. So one of those nights that
was good. And then I got to hit with my uncle, who has
kind of been my hitting coach, you know, ever since I was a
little kid, So that helped too. And then I think, you know,
just getting a mental reset away from baseball for a couple of days always
helps. How much custard was served at the luxe party, No custard,
but a lot of a lot of beers, brots and burgers. Man,
a lot of that. No, no custard though, all right, since
Milwaukee is known for the brots. I actually learned my recipe from my in
laws. They're from the same area that your family's from. They kind of
taught me how to make the brots. Can you give us the lux family
recipe on brots? I don't think we have one. Man, we just
go to go to the store and get whatever we see. I don't know,
my family doesn't know how to cook like that, so I just,
you know, I go get them from the store and then throw them on
the grill. No, I actually boil them with beer onions and then put
them on the grill. Get that char that's fair, that's that's the true
Wisconsin way. I can't I can't claim I do that. I'd be lying
to you. Gavin Lux is our guest. You talk about the mental reset,
you guys come out of the break now winning four in a row.
It feels like this team is starting to get their swagger back. Is that
just coming with the wins or how you're winning these games? You know,
I think a little bit of both. Going into the break. Obviously we
lost a couple of tough ones that we probably you know, wish we had
back. But I mean baseball is just it's so up and down, and
you know, I think even you know, people thought like, oh,
it's the end of the world, and I look at the standings and we're
still eight games up and you know, twenty wins over five hundred, so
it's never as bad as you think it is. And yeah, I think,
you know, we gotta have a couple of good wins against the Red
Sox where we came back and fought our ass off to to win those ones.
And then even yesterday Tayo with three huge hits, and you know,
just little things like that over the course of the year. You just try
to keep saying to like ride the wave, and I think you know,
our team's doing that and we're gonna get healthy at the right time and then
hopefully just keep rolling like that. Gavin Luck that's what he's been doing,
fighting his ass off every day. Yeah, and out here. You're out
here every day since the beginning of spring training trying to get better. Can
you describe the level of accountability you have for yourself and your teammates have for
each other. Yeah, I think you know, no one's harder on ourselves
than we are internally as you know, individual players, so you know we
as a team. I think you know, the work ethic is contagious.
I mean, you look out on the field every day. Keyk's out of
her early, Mooki's out of here early. Vargie and Pahes are out here
like everyone's out here early, getting getting stuff done. And you know,
I think you look around the league and not every team is like that.
So I think just the work ethic is contagious, and I think we just
kind of feed off that from each other. All right, Kevin, thanks
a lot for the time, appreciate it. You're dripping sweat before first pitch.
You got a game tonight and look how much work you put in already
already, when every day, baby, when every day love it, Gavin
Lux is winning the day. Thanks a lot for the time, and you
know we're always rooting for you, always, guy,