Manny Machado on the playoffs, Padres offense and why he doesn’t like the word urgency

Manny Machado on the playoffs, Padres offense and why he doesn’t like the word urgency

How nice was it to play? [Music] Uh just to finish the season off on a high note, you know, I mean uh we know we’re capable of doing and um you know to to start start running on all cylinders. Um you know, it’s the way to start it off. How important you guys have? Uh I think just I mean the importance has always been there. I don’t think it’s it’s it’s a matter of being important now. I mean, it’s it’s always been there for a month and a half. So, uh just finish off strong. Um finish off how we started the season. Um you know, and get ready for for postseason, which is which is the ultimate goal. The types of at bats you guys have taken the last week or so. Look like the offense kind of in whole in general is in a pretty good spot right now. Uh yeah, you can say that for sure. Um I think everyone’s uh you know, kind of been working on their things and things are finally starting to click. So, um you know, just continue to play. I think at the end of the day, the season’s over. It was a great season for all of us. you know, we we had our our bumps and bruises, um our ups and downs, and um you know, we made it to game 162. So, um you know, it’s a blessing to do it to to be here, but uh you know, I think as a as a overall as a group, I think we’ve accomplished a lot overall and um you know, season’s over now and now it’s time to go out there and just leave it on the field and and play some good baseball. Playoffs obviously are always an amazing thing. Does it add maybe a little bit more of a place like to bring me feel kind of history that ballpark has? Um postseason is postseason. I mean I don’t care where you play. It doesn’t matter where you play. Um you know it’s it’s it’s an honor to make it there and um you know at the end of the day it’s about going out there and trying to trying to be the best team for 27 outs and um you know we’re capable of capable of doing that as a collective group. So um you know just continue doing that and continue playing our our game. for honestly. I haven’t even thought about that far ahead, bro. I’m going to be honest with you, bro. I haven’t even I haven’t I haven’t um But what do you like about just winning is winning. I mean, you got to win. It’s do or die. Was there a lot of urgency in that three games? Urgency. You see this? This is why I do not like reporters. This is why words that you guys use. Urgency, you know, the team getting hot at the right moment. I mean, the these are words that you guys make for bigger stories than what it is. You got to go out there and play baseball. You got to go out there and make 27 outs. It doesn’t matter about urgency. There’s no urgency. You put urgency, you’re going to be in you’re going to be in a you’re going to be in a hole. So, it’s a matter of playing our game. Um, you know, let’s keep it simple. We got to catch the ball, hit the ball, and play the best baseball that we could possibly have and leave it up to you guys to write stories about it. You enjoy that environment and set it. [Music] I mean, yeah. I mean, postseason is postseason is the best. This is what we play for every single day. This is where I grinded 162 games to to to have an opportunity to do something special. And it’s not urgency. What were your jokes? I’m not a I’m a baseball player, so that’s why I picked a good sport to play, so yeah, I have no idea. How much did some days off your feet this week do you like? Um, just being off your feet kind of helps. Yeah, for sure. Timing. I mean, nice to end it on home, right? Yeah, for sure. For sure. Nice. Yeah, swing’s feeling pretty good. Yeah. So, what do you think of sliding like this? I mean, he had a goal and he got it. It’s awesome, you know. Um, it’s great to see coming down to the last game, you see guys trying to, you know, baseball’s not not personal, you know, baseball’s not personal and it’s about a team team game, you know, making it to the postseason. It’s all about the team team effort. Not one guy could make it, right? Um, but on the last day of the season, you you see guys trying to have, you know, their own little personal goals that they reach, you know, 30 doubles, whether it’s 100 RBI’s, whether it’s keeping your ops over 800. I mean, we have multiple guys um you know, trying to reach some goals and seeing that at the end of the season, guys fighting for that. I mean, it’s kind of cool, man. I mean, I think we put our line our body on the line for a long time and um you know, come down to the last day, you you kind of have an opportunity to do it and you succeed on it. I think it makes it that makes it cool. Obviously, everyone knows the team you guys had last year. Why do you think this team? I mean, every year is different. I mean, every year is different. We already forgot about what happened last year. Um, you know, it’s about writing our new story and you guys write stories every single day and every single night, every single week, you know, so it’s it’s our time to do our own story. This team has had some good teams over the last couple years. This is the first time in franchise history you guys gone nine back to back season. Oh, sick. Does that kind of emphasize just how hard the grind is for one season? I mean, yeah, baseball’s hard. Baseball’s really hard, but yeah, I mean, that’s a cool accomplishment to to have for an organization. Um, yeah, that’s that’s pretty special. That’s cool.