Speaker 1: We are inside the Dodger Clubhouse. It's a great college
Speaker 1: football Saturday, landon Nack last night. Starting Pitcher is joining
Speaker 1: us right now. Pretty fun ending to Notre Dame in
Speaker 1: Northern Illinois. There were a lot of Northern Illinois fans
Speaker 1: in here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously you always enjoy seeing the upsets and on Saturdays,
Speaker 2: and so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that was a fun one. You did not
Speaker 1: go to Tennessee. But since your college doesn't really have
Speaker 1: a football team, you're all in with the balls.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're We're not exactly a powerhouse over there. It's
Speaker 2: been a couple of years since our old coach retired
Speaker 2: and then now we're kind of been kind of stuck
Speaker 2: in the middle. So yeah, we've all but we've always
Speaker 2: been Tennessee fans since I was a little kid, so
Speaker 2: we've always root for the balls.
Speaker 1: Do you remember going to a college football game there?
Speaker 1: Who was the first Tennessee quarterback you ever saw play
Speaker 1: tem Martin.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think who was the first one I
Speaker 2: saw play? The one? I mean obviously like whenever I
Speaker 2: was in like high school and stuff, it was Josh
Speaker 2: DAWs was like the main guy I watched a ton
Speaker 2: when I was younger. I don't exactly remember who the
Speaker 2: young young guys were, but yeah, Josh Dobbs was probably
Speaker 2: like the guy I remember watching the most games of I'm.
Speaker 1: Gonna show him my age as an eighth grader. I
Speaker 1: saw Peyton Manning play at the Rose Bowl against UCLA.
Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously Peyton is Knoxville Royalty. Yeah, they go crazy
Speaker 2: for him anytime he comes around. He's still a big
Speaker 2: part of the program out there. And so yeah, obviously
Speaker 2: we love Peyton.
Speaker 1: Landon Neck is our guest after Northern Illinois and Kevin
Speaker 1: Kiermier are victorious here in the Dodger Clubhouse. Landon last night,
Speaker 1: you obviously did what you've done all season long and
Speaker 1: pitch pitch well and get the job done. When you
Speaker 1: look back at your season, how have you been able
Speaker 1: to navigate all this?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's it's really just like trying to
Speaker 2: to kind of take care of what you can take
Speaker 2: care of. Like obviously it's as you kind of go
Speaker 2: back and forth a little bit, it's hard to like
Speaker 2: not kind of like think about where you want to
Speaker 2: be and think about other things, and so it's just
Speaker 2: trying to kind of just stay focused, do what you
Speaker 2: continue to do all the time and just like take
Speaker 2: advantage of the opportunities that you get when you're up here.
Speaker 1: Last night, you used all four of your pitches. Is
Speaker 1: that how you do it? When landon Nak is successful,
Speaker 1: do you use all four the way you were using
Speaker 1: him last night?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? Yeah, No, when I'm at my best, yeah, all
Speaker 2: four available at any any counts, any situation. And so yeah,
Speaker 2: whenever I kind of can especially land the land curve
Speaker 2: ball early and be able to get the offbeat in
Speaker 2: there early to get ahead in the count, it just
Speaker 2: kind of sets up everything else that I do. And
Speaker 2: so yeah, no, absolutely, last night is kind of what we're.
Speaker 1: What we're looking for in this day and age of
Speaker 1: pitchers chasing velocity and spin ray. Do you feel like
Speaker 1: you're a little underrated in how you go about things
Speaker 1: because it's not like you throw lukewarm. You got ninety
Speaker 1: five heater coming at guys to go with your other
Speaker 1: three secondary pitches. How does land and Nak fit into
Speaker 1: this landscape and get noticed to be this guy to
Speaker 1: get this opportunity?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel I feel like I've always been a
Speaker 2: guy who just knows how to pitch. I kind of
Speaker 2: learned how to throw harder later on in my career,
Speaker 2: So like whenever I was in college, I didn't exactly
Speaker 2: throw gas until kind of really the end of college
Speaker 2: and then so I've always been somebody though who just
Speaker 2: before that just knew how to pitch, and so it's
Speaker 2: really just continuing to showcase that and kind of make
Speaker 2: like changing speeds, getting people back, like off the heater,
Speaker 2: and then just just mixing.
Speaker 1: Well, you're one of the few young pitchers that understands
Speaker 1: that you can change speeds by throwing fastballs, maybe putting
Speaker 1: a little extra, taking a little off. Where did you
Speaker 1: learn that?
Speaker 2: It's just kind of always been something I've done for
Speaker 2: a long time. I feel like, I mean I was
Speaker 2: I didn't I had to kind of learn how to
Speaker 2: deal with less on the fastball whenever I was younger,
Speaker 2: and so it's really just kind of just learning how
Speaker 2: to pitch and just understanding like changing speeds with different things,
Speaker 2: including your fastball, is a big piece of success.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like now, unfortunately with the injuries to
Speaker 1: certain pictures on this staff, you may have an opportunity
Speaker 1: here now to be on a five day schedule.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, obviously there's been a tough time around here. Obviously,
Speaker 2: you want to see your guys kind of get back
Speaker 2: out there, and hopefully we can continue to get some
Speaker 2: of our guys back here soon, and hopefully obviously we
Speaker 2: got Yoshi coming back Tuesday, and hopefully you can get
Speaker 2: Glass back in here at some point soon, and the
Speaker 2: same with Kersh get him back. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: obviously it's just trying to take advantage of the opportunity
Speaker 2: that's in front of me and continue to to showcase
Speaker 2: what I can do and help put our team in
Speaker 2: a position to win games. And so yeah, obviously you'll
Speaker 2: embrace that.
Speaker 1: You've come up with a lot of these guys, Gavin Stone,
Speaker 1: Bobby Miller, Emi she and Ryan Pepio to name a few.
Speaker 1: What's it been like for you to watch them go
Speaker 1: through some serious injuries that have, you know, put a
Speaker 1: put a pause button on their careers.
Speaker 2: Obviously you want to, Yeah, you hate to see some
Speaker 2: of your guys go down, especially guys you've grown so
Speaker 2: close with. Uh, seeing Sa Gavin go down here recently, Like, yeah,
Speaker 2: obviously not not h makes you makes you your heart
Speaker 2: hurt a little bit kind of hate saying that for
Speaker 2: those guys, and seeing like she had this the entire year.
Speaker 2: But uh, it's just really just trying to stay with them,
Speaker 2: like talk to them, kind of know that like you're
Speaker 2: with them and uh and hopefully get them back soon.
Speaker 1: All right, Landon, Thanks a lot for the time, Great
Speaker 1: to see you back out here. Did you show up
Speaker 1: in a Bentley yesterday for your start?
Speaker 2: And now just the normal car for yesterday and nothing
Speaker 2: too crazy this time.
Speaker 1: Hey, you got a good agent that treated you in
Speaker 1: first class style. Thanks a lot for the time and
Speaker 1: always great to see you and always appreciate how candid
Speaker 1: you are with your answers.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you, man,