1
00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,400
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the exter Earning postgame show with Bill

2
00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:04,440
Speaker 1: Laski and minored to bring a guest on. A good

3
00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:07,520
Speaker 1: friend of mine. He works for the Sacramento river Cats,

4
00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:10,920
Speaker 1: going nine years with the river Cats and starting his

5
00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:13,840
Speaker 1: tenth year with the San Francisco Giants. Let's bring in Hobert,

6
00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:15,280
Speaker 1: Cabra Hobert. How are you today?

7
00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:20,760
Speaker 2: Hi? Bill, I'm doing good. Thank you for the opportunity.

8
00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:24,160
Speaker 1: Well, the biggest thing is spring training is there? You're

9
00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:27,720
Speaker 1: you're you're in Scottsdale working with a lot of new

10
00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:30,360
Speaker 1: players as well as some players from the past. How's

11
00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:30,920
Speaker 1: it been going.

12
00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:33,400
Speaker 2: Everything's going well.

13
00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:39,720
Speaker 3: We have a group, a great group of guys, guys.

14
00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:44,680
Speaker 2: Just getting his vision what he brings.

15
00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:45,000
Speaker 3: Uh.

16
00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:49,559
Speaker 2: We have new faces in the coaching coaching staff like

17
00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:53,400
Speaker 2: Rome Washington learning from Rome as well.

18
00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:59,280
Speaker 3: I'm just you know, getting everybody to uh to put

19
00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:00,960
Speaker 3: in the same in the same direction.

20
00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:04,200
Speaker 1: Well, Albert, you're you've been a fundamental coach. This is

21
00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:06,720
Speaker 1: going to be your seventh year starting that with Sacramento

22
00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:10,440
Speaker 1: and it really works with you benefiting on defense. And

23
00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:14,160
Speaker 1: you just talked about Ron Washington adding to the staff.

24
00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:17,160
Speaker 1: What a premier coach he's been What have you learned

25
00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:18,039
Speaker 1: from him so far?

26
00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:26,440
Speaker 3: Well, we we wash is more about perfecting techniques.

27
00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:31,600
Speaker 2: I'm coding angles. That's the new team that we are

28
00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:33,440
Speaker 2: playing with, these.

29
00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:38,880
Speaker 3: Group of guys, both of big league starteris on the

30
00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:40,720
Speaker 3: backle guys and the guys that we're going to have

31
00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:44,080
Speaker 3: in exact command in Lowell A.

32
00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:44,800
Speaker 2: Richmond.

33
00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:48,080
Speaker 1: Well, one of the biggest things Obert you bring is

34
00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:52,960
Speaker 1: an eight year playing career. You played with Cleveland, the Dodgers, Seattle, Cincinnati.

35
00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,920
Speaker 1: I really think that's a plus when you're teaching young players.

36
00:01:57,320 --> 00:01:58,400
Speaker 1: What do you think about that?

37
00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:03,840
Speaker 3: Well, I was fortunate enough to to come up with

38
00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:09,639
Speaker 3: a with a great thing like the late uh nineties

39
00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:14,000
Speaker 3: early two thousand Cleveland Indians team, and I was able

40
00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:19,800
Speaker 3: to to learn from from guys that are legends in

41
00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:21,880
Speaker 3: the game, like Robbie Alomar.

42
00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:24,880
Speaker 2: I learned to play second base actually at the big

43
00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:25,800
Speaker 2: league level.

44
00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:31,680
Speaker 3: With Robbie uh I back up my Scale at shortstop,

45
00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:36,720
Speaker 3: Travis Freiman at their base. Jim Tommy was our first

46
00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:40,639
Speaker 3: basem and then we have then we added David.

47
00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:43,160
Speaker 2: Sege for a couple of seasons while Jimmy.

48
00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:48,400
Speaker 3: While Jimmy was the d H you know players like

49
00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:53,360
Speaker 3: Kenny love Tom. We also have many Ramires and we

50
00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:56,560
Speaker 3: have David Justice. When I first come into the league

51
00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:58,800
Speaker 3: and I was able to play one hundred and forty

52
00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:01,720
Speaker 3: games a year, backing everybody up, I was the utility,

53
00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:05,480
Speaker 3: super utility guy of the team. And that's how I

54
00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:08,320
Speaker 3: started my career in big leagues. Like I said, I

55
00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:11,600
Speaker 3: was fortunately, fortunately enough that I was able to learn

56
00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:19,040
Speaker 3: from really good players and and hence and hence my

57
00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:25,760
Speaker 3: game defensively in all these areas. So this makes makes

58
00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:29,079
Speaker 3: the teaching now for every position that I'm that I'm

59
00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:33,920
Speaker 3: trying to teach guys to learn or new changes that

60
00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,240
Speaker 3: we might throw at them doing the season.

61
00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:39,680
Speaker 2: It made it a lot of isha because I have

62
00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:41,360
Speaker 2: the experience that for.

63
00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:43,360
Speaker 1: You hearing the exter dning post game show, my good

64
00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:46,720
Speaker 1: friend Obert Cabrera. Of course he's the fundamental coach again.

65
00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:50,800
Speaker 1: Coming back to the Sacramento river Cats under Dave Brandige.

66
00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:53,840
Speaker 1: Dave brundis going into his tenth year as a manager

67
00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:55,800
Speaker 1: of the Sacramento river Cats. He said a lot of

68
00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:59,640
Speaker 1: good things about you on an earlier broadcast, an earlier

69
00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:03,400
Speaker 1: inter view, and it's the relationship of your coaching staff.

70
00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:05,800
Speaker 1: This is the only coaching staff the Giants are bringing

71
00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:08,720
Speaker 1: back where there has no changes. And when you look

72
00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:12,200
Speaker 1: at what Dave Brundage is as a manager, Alan Keano

73
00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:15,840
Speaker 1: as a pitching coach. P J. Peltier is the hitting coach,

74
00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:18,520
Speaker 1: and you're coming back as a fundamental coach. What does

75
00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:21,120
Speaker 1: that say to you guys coming back as a group

76
00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:24,760
Speaker 1: once again leading a very young team and the Rivercats

77
00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:27,599
Speaker 1: and and like we talked earlier, some new faces.

78
00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:33,560
Speaker 3: Well uh uh it shows the stability, you know, and

79
00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:39,480
Speaker 3: stability and trust from the highers up in the organization.

80
00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:43,400
Speaker 3: They believing in the warld that we've been doing. This

81
00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:48,560
Speaker 3: is this will be my ninth year uh with disagreement Cats,

82
00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:49,240
Speaker 3: with Brundie.

83
00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:50,040
Speaker 1: Uh.

84
00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:51,440
Speaker 2: This is my eleven.

85
00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:54,680
Speaker 3: Years with the San Francisco Giants.

86
00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:58,560
Speaker 2: It's just that you know, we we put on the

87
00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:01,960
Speaker 2: we put on the war uh. Brondie.

88
00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:06,599
Speaker 3: It is really good with the players, and I'm managing

89
00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:10,679
Speaker 3: the the ups and downs of being at that level

90
00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:12,599
Speaker 3: with you know, all the stuff that we had to

91
00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:16,080
Speaker 3: go uh through with the players going up and down,

92
00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:19,400
Speaker 3: and he gave me the he allows me to do

93
00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:22,719
Speaker 3: the work in the field with yours on defense, but

94
00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:27,640
Speaker 3: also based running on the bench coach, but also the

95
00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:32,800
Speaker 3: third base coach. I'm just working with all the guys,

96
00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:37,040
Speaker 3: all the young guys like Eldress last year, you know

97
00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:38,440
Speaker 3: pretty much I have to learn.

98
00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:42,360
Speaker 2: Uh at Triple A he had to to.

99
00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:45,400
Speaker 3: Play first base really where he spent the most times

100
00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:48,280
Speaker 3: last year. But also the guys in Double A that

101
00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:52,360
Speaker 3: had to I started the year with him likely so

102
00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:56,800
Speaker 3: Nawa and Pelfrey, the man who managed the team over there.

103
00:05:56,839 --> 00:05:58,520
Speaker 3: They did have a good job with the KI. But

104
00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:03,400
Speaker 3: it's still, you know, as a Wogan process. Uh, it's

105
00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:07,520
Speaker 3: a it's a Wogan progress with the young guys that

106
00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:08,760
Speaker 3: that we have been able.

107
00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:12,520
Speaker 2: To develop to get to the big leagues. But it

108
00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:13,960
Speaker 2: speaks a lot of the.

109
00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:18,680
Speaker 3: Of the continuity, the and the trought that they our

110
00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:22,839
Speaker 3: guys are have put on us. And we just try

111
00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:26,039
Speaker 3: to recipro km and try to do a good work.

112
00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:26,560
Speaker 2: Well.

113
00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:30,120
Speaker 1: The biggest thing over is trust. It's friendship. It's how

114
00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:33,640
Speaker 1: you talk to these guys, how you bring your expertise

115
00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:36,760
Speaker 1: and making them better. One of the players that you

116
00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:39,960
Speaker 1: worked out really hard was Elliott Ramos. Elliott is more

117
00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:43,159
Speaker 1: like a son to you. You guys talk all the time.

118
00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:46,080
Speaker 1: He has been very close to you all through the

119
00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:49,320
Speaker 1: minor leagues. What have you seen in him and what

120
00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:51,440
Speaker 1: have you seen him getting better at each year?

121
00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:56,480
Speaker 3: Well, definitely it's getting more mature.

122
00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:00,840
Speaker 2: He's maturing at the big league level. Also have Sala now.

123
00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:06,080
Speaker 3: You know when when when he came up, we didn't

124
00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:11,400
Speaker 3: have as many as established Latino Bigley players for the

125
00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:17,320
Speaker 3: San Francisco Giants, but we have brought up a Damis Devors.

126
00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:20,640
Speaker 3: Now we got to Louise a Rise so that all

127
00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:25,120
Speaker 3: guy is gonna help with his development because he's still developing.

128
00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:28,160
Speaker 3: He's still development even though he already make a a

129
00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:30,920
Speaker 3: always start game and all start team all the start game,

130
00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:35,760
Speaker 3: he's still developing. He's young enough, but he's also for me,

131
00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:38,520
Speaker 3: that's one of the things that you don't want your

132
00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:39,800
Speaker 3: younger guys to have a ceiling.

133
00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:42,800
Speaker 2: He doesn't have a ceiling right now. He's still growing.

134
00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:46,480
Speaker 3: He's still in the game, but hopefully he will continue

135
00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:49,320
Speaker 3: to to put good numbers for us.

136
00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:52,520
Speaker 1: Albert Caberr joining me on the extra in post game show.

137
00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,480
Speaker 1: You do more than just being a coach. You do

138
00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:59,440
Speaker 1: a lot of mindset. You talk about the mental part

139
00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:02,000
Speaker 1: of the game. You're kind of like a psychologist. You're

140
00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:04,440
Speaker 1: doing the ups and downs. You're trying to keep the

141
00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:07,920
Speaker 1: mood at a balanced state. How do you do that? Obart,

142
00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:11,000
Speaker 1: Because there's guys that come in every day. There's some

143
00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:14,360
Speaker 1: moody guys, there's some happy guys, there's guys that have energy.

144
00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:16,400
Speaker 1: But you got to balance it all out. How do

145
00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:17,520
Speaker 1: you do that as a coach?

146
00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:22,400
Speaker 2: Well? Uh, Like I say, Brondie allows me to do

147
00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:23,080
Speaker 2: all these things.

148
00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:26,640
Speaker 3: I usually I'm walking in the clubhouse a lot while

149
00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:29,600
Speaker 3: he's in the phone with the with without General Money,

150
00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:33,719
Speaker 3: with a president, with our minor league director, you know.

151
00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:36,680
Speaker 2: Having hard conversations with these people.

152
00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:41,280
Speaker 3: While I'm doing the dairy work behind behind closed doors.

153
00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:45,120
Speaker 3: You know, I'm going and I'm feeling the what is

154
00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:48,760
Speaker 3: going on in the in the clubhouse, how guys are acting,

155
00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:53,040
Speaker 3: Especially when guys get sent down. They hear stuff that

156
00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:55,679
Speaker 3: they don't want to hear. They they send down and

157
00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:58,520
Speaker 3: they they need to learn a new position or stuff

158
00:08:58,559 --> 00:08:58,960
Speaker 3: like that.

159
00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:03,240
Speaker 2: You know that. I pray for twenty two years. I

160
00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:04,920
Speaker 2: pray and a half in the big leagues.

161
00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:06,560
Speaker 3: I went to your time, I came back to the

162
00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:10,040
Speaker 3: big leagues, and I spend some time, you know, in

163
00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:11,360
Speaker 3: triple A at times.

164
00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:14,720
Speaker 2: So that experience alone helps a lot.

165
00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:20,000
Speaker 3: You know, I'm pros give you the veracity and the trust.

166
00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:23,439
Speaker 3: You know, those those young prayers, they can see themselves

167
00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:24,319
Speaker 3: on you.

168
00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:27,120
Speaker 2: So usually I go, hey, is I can't do Is

169
00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:30,440
Speaker 2: I did that? You way better than I that I was.

170
00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:31,280
Speaker 2: You can do it.

171
00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:33,760
Speaker 3: It's just you know, a matter of time. You just

172
00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:36,720
Speaker 3: don't got to manage the way the team, you know,

173
00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:41,480
Speaker 3: baseball goes. Sometimes just when you don'n here, you just

174
00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:44,640
Speaker 3: try to get better. You try to get better right here.

175
00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:48,000
Speaker 3: You numbers really don't count. It's what you do in

176
00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,520
Speaker 3: the field to get better. But when you go to

177
00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:53,640
Speaker 3: the bigleague the next time, you stay there longer.

178
00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:57,000
Speaker 1: Oh you know, but the biggest thing in baseball. I

179
00:09:57,040 --> 00:09:59,000
Speaker 1: was a big league pitcher, you were an infielder and

180
00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:03,079
Speaker 1: outfield it's repetition. How many times you catch that ball

181
00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:05,400
Speaker 1: it's a backhand, how many times you come in and

182
00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:10,040
Speaker 1: feel that that ball that's short to you, the bare hands,

183
00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:14,040
Speaker 1: all different things that happen before the game starts, all

184
00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:17,600
Speaker 1: the early work. How do you teach this and repetition

185
00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:20,600
Speaker 1: thoughts about these guys where its just comes natural.

186
00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:26,000
Speaker 2: Well, it's it's it really helps help.

187
00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:28,280
Speaker 3: Me a lot that I that I got a guy

188
00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:35,360
Speaker 3: now like like Rown Waters that he's in the with

189
00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:38,679
Speaker 3: the Big Lea Club now at home, but once they

190
00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:42,560
Speaker 3: leave for the on the road, he comes down to

191
00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:43,800
Speaker 3: and helped me.

192
00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:44,520
Speaker 2: Out in triple A.

193
00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:47,760
Speaker 3: You know, with all the experience that he has all

194
00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:52,160
Speaker 3: that knowledge, it's easy for me to do the work

195
00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:55,720
Speaker 3: with the infielders and stuff that because it's kind of

196
00:10:55,760 --> 00:11:00,000
Speaker 3: like he brings whatever he's hearing in the big lead

197
00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:03,480
Speaker 3: in the meetings and whatever. Then we we know what

198
00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:07,200
Speaker 3: we need to focus on and who who we might be,

199
00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:12,800
Speaker 3: who we might be sending up if something come up.

200
00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:16,760
Speaker 3: So we have ideas just like that because wrong is

201
00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:19,760
Speaker 3: there in the field and in the in the dog

202
00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:22,319
Speaker 3: out with with the Bigley Club.

203
00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:23,480
Speaker 2: That helps a lot.

204
00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:29,000
Speaker 3: But when it comes to to repetition and all that

205
00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:32,320
Speaker 3: kind of stuff that that we're trying to to teach,

206
00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:38,400
Speaker 3: what we're trying to teach really it's just routines, right,

207
00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:42,360
Speaker 3: So like once you establish your routine, we and they

208
00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:46,400
Speaker 3: know what to expect from me. They chow to a

209
00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:49,640
Speaker 3: ball park, they know their schedule, they know what time

210
00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:52,360
Speaker 3: they got to be outside to do some kind of

211
00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:56,679
Speaker 3: work with me. Then their ability will take care of

212
00:11:56,679 --> 00:11:57,720
Speaker 3: the rest during the game.

213
00:11:58,160 --> 00:11:58,400
Speaker 1: Right.

214
00:11:58,600 --> 00:11:59,880
Speaker 2: So that's that's.

215
00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:02,720
Speaker 3: Pretty knows what we're trying to accomplish here and and

216
00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:03,520
Speaker 3: so far.

217
00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:07,280
Speaker 2: I feel like we had done that. That's what that

218
00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:08,400
Speaker 2: was the idea.

219
00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:11,920
Speaker 3: One day I was first saying to to people lay

220
00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:16,760
Speaker 3: because we were our players didn't seem to be as

221
00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:18,600
Speaker 3: radio or prepare.

222
00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,559
Speaker 2: Before I got there. And I'm like I said, I

223
00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:24,160
Speaker 2: and was doing my part.

224
00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:28,000
Speaker 3: I'm just passing the knowledge that I was given to

225
00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:31,240
Speaker 3: me for by some some people, A lot of people put.

226
00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:35,000
Speaker 2: A lot of time and a lot of and through

227
00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:36,840
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff on me. And now I'm just

228
00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:40,840
Speaker 2: trying to pass a little bit to the to all players. Over.

229
00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:42,920
Speaker 1: As we've finished up here, we got to talk about

230
00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:47,160
Speaker 1: your family. Your dad, Obert Junior, your senior, signed Edgar

231
00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:50,120
Speaker 1: renter Rea as a scout. He was a scout uh

232
00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:53,360
Speaker 1: in Colombia where you guys grew up. Cartagena, Colombia is

233
00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:56,840
Speaker 1: where you were born. And then your brother Orlando was

234
00:12:56,840 --> 00:12:59,320
Speaker 1: a two time goal Glove winner, a two thousand and

235
00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:03,840
Speaker 1: four Worlds is champion Baseball in your family is blood?

236
00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:05,559
Speaker 1: Tell me a little bit about your dad and your

237
00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:06,199
Speaker 1: younger brother.

238
00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:10,199
Speaker 2: Well, definitely that was always involving baseball.

239
00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:21,160
Speaker 3: But then the Colombian Professional League in the winter. We

240
00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:24,040
Speaker 3: we were able to bring some really good players back then,

241
00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:30,679
Speaker 3: and teams have affiliations with some of the some of

242
00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:34,760
Speaker 3: the organizations share in the States. But then Mary Martinez

243
00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:37,640
Speaker 3: was the manager for one of the teams, so for

244
00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:41,240
Speaker 3: the teams and my dad becoming really good friends with

245
00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:46,800
Speaker 3: Marry Maria at the time was there. It was the

246
00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:50,880
Speaker 3: infra coordinator for the Seattle Mariners. So this is just

247
00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:52,520
Speaker 3: you're gonna fast forward.

248
00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:55,040
Speaker 2: That.

249
00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:58,560
Speaker 3: So that used to come to Tempe for spring training.

250
00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:01,480
Speaker 3: I was I was about fourteen, Orlando was twelve, but

251
00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:06,880
Speaker 3: we were playing little laid back in Colombia. So one

252
00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:09,520
Speaker 3: of the funniest stories, I'm one of the most. Like

253
00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:15,040
Speaker 3: baseball is such a complex sport, but it's also a

254
00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:22,600
Speaker 3: big family and his stories history and stories around baseball,

255
00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:25,400
Speaker 3: they always seem to get together.

256
00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:26,360
Speaker 2: Or connected somehow.

257
00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:32,880
Speaker 3: My dad as this young short stuff of the Seattle Mariners,

258
00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:36,120
Speaker 3: supposed to be it was a really great prospect. Was

259
00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:38,040
Speaker 3: in the Birds to go to a Big leagues named

260
00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:41,360
Speaker 3: Omar b Scale for a glove for his fourteen year

261
00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:44,240
Speaker 3: old sold that was gonna start playing short stop.

262
00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:47,360
Speaker 2: Fast forward, I.

263
00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:50,000
Speaker 3: Made my debut with the Indians, and I spent him

264
00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:52,720
Speaker 3: on the next four years on the Roma B scale

265
00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:58,120
Speaker 3: and our locker rooms, our lockers are right next to

266
00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:01,800
Speaker 3: each other for the last next four ye years. So

267
00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:06,920
Speaker 3: I would say, year, my two and a half years

268
00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:09,400
Speaker 3: in the big leagues, my day is coming to town.

269
00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:13,120
Speaker 3: So I know, once almost see him, he's gonna he's

270
00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:14,840
Speaker 3: gonna recognize him.

271
00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:17,320
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna have to count him.

272
00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:20,640
Speaker 3: So we having we haven't drinks one night and I thought, oh, hey,

273
00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:24,400
Speaker 3: you know, I wanna thank you, thank you for sending

274
00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:25,240
Speaker 3: that glove to me.

275
00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:27,840
Speaker 2: And he goes, what are you talking about? Said, do

276
00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:29,600
Speaker 2: you remember this? And this? And so I told him

277
00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:32,560
Speaker 2: the story and we both started crying. It was it

278
00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:34,840
Speaker 2: was an ambulial moment. I'll never forget that.

279
00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:38,040
Speaker 1: Oh that's a great story. Oh thank you so much

280
00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:40,680
Speaker 1: for your time, great memories, and and like I said,

281
00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:43,640
Speaker 1: your family is rich in baseball. I'll definitely get to

282
00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:46,640
Speaker 1: Sacramento and see you again this year. But again, thank

283
00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:49,360
Speaker 1: you so much for your time and again continued luck.

284
00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:51,920
Speaker 1: In spring training. You got a lot of work ahead

285
00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:52,040
Speaker 1: of you.

286
00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:57,680
Speaker 3: Well, thank you again again, bill uh you know what

287
00:15:57,680 --> 00:15:59,800
Speaker 3: what I is for what I'm seeing a few of

288
00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:05,520
Speaker 3: both the Giants and the Sacrament of Rivercas We're going

289
00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:08,720
Speaker 3: to have really really good seasons this year. We have

290
00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:12,280
Speaker 3: a bunch of younger guys, yes, but at the same

291
00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:15,840
Speaker 3: time we're going to have the way everything is looking

292
00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:17,520
Speaker 3: right now, I think we're going to have a solid

293
00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:23,160
Speaker 3: boop and a solid pitching staff in triple A that

294
00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:27,200
Speaker 3: helps a lot, and hopefully everybody stay healthy this year

295
00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:30,360
Speaker 3: and we can both make a round for the playoffs.

296
00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:32,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, I really agree. I think health is the big

297
00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:36,440
Speaker 1: word and in every part of the Giants organization. Hopebard again,

298
00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:38,680
Speaker 1: thank you so much. That was Hlbert Cabrera on the

299
00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:41,320
Speaker 1: Extraining post game show. More coming up right here on

300
00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:42,920
Speaker 1: K and BR The Sports later