Joe Mazzulla reflects on the Jays' unique situation
Joe Mazzulla reflects on the unique situation of the Jays playing together over the past nine seasons
Joe Mazzulla reflects on the Jays' unique situation originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
Video Transcript
You don't see a lot of, teammates go through good and bad together for such a long period of time.
And, and, I don't think enough is highlighted on the positives, as to what W- one, individually, what they bring to an organization.
They're, they're different.
I think it's, one, unfair that they get grouped together so much.
They're completely different people, they're different players.
and so keeping them, you know, from the standpoint of they're uniquely different and uniquely important to our organization.
And the humility that both of them show, but the competitiveness of, you know, we're gonna be together for nine years, we're gonna fail, we're gonna fail a lot, but we're also going to succeed.
And at the end of the day, we're gonna keep the main thing, the main thing where, winning is the most important thing and, and growing the organization.
So both those guys do that.
They do it in their own way, but they do it, and they care about that first, and that's the most important thing.
That, that's what everything goes back to.
All these questions about, coaching, blah, blah, blah, all that BS, it comes down to, your locker room, it comes down to your best players, it comes down to the, the example that they're willing to set and, the competitive fire that they have.
And, you can't be who you wanna be as an organization or a team if it doesn't start at the top with your best players.
And those guys take ownership over that.
They take ownership in, in their different way, but they take ownership of it, and that's what matters.
