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Speaker 2: over the course of years, and I had said this before,

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Speaker 2: So I'm a baseball guy at heart. I used to

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Speaker 2: like baseball America was my bible out of college. But

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Speaker 2: then I got opportunities in TV and other things, and

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Speaker 2: I became very much a pro football guy and a

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Speaker 2: then a couple of years ago, I thought Rob Manfred

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Speaker 2: baseball's had a three year renaissance where and I never

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Speaker 2: Baseball had a weird, kind of a weird run for

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Speaker 2: because you know, the way to play the game. Stuff

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Speaker 2: So about a year and a half ago, I went

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Speaker 3: And it was pitched to me.

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Speaker 2: Somebody said, you know it's gonna be in like a year,

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Speaker 2: I'm like, what are you thinking? And they just threw

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Speaker 2: And then David Ross, the former fifteen year career Cubs manager,

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Speaker 2: Reunion that debuts in a week, and they're going to

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Speaker 2: of probably the most memorable world series. I'm trying to

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Speaker 4: It was amazing. It was amazing. But I think it

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Speaker 2: And I told the audience at Lovable Reunion and all

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Speaker 1: So you're just rooting for everybody super hard, and and

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Speaker 1: that ball is hit and you're just you're just praying

437
00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:57,960
Speaker 1: that it's hit to somebody and uh KB nice and easy.

438
00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:00,520
Speaker 1: Uh throws into riz and and and off we go

439
00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:04,120
Speaker 1: to celebrate. But yeah, you're definitely you're definitely nervous when

440
00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:06,160
Speaker 1: things start going. You've got young guys. When the young

441
00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:08,360
Speaker 1: guys on the mound too, you never know how that's

442
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Speaker 1: gonna how they're going to handle those biggest moments of

443
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Speaker 1: their career.

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Speaker 4: Uh And they did it. We did it.

445
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Speaker 2: I'm talking to David Ross and he and Anthony Rizzo

446
00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:23,600
Speaker 2: are going to host The Lovable Reunion and they're going

447
00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:26,399
Speaker 2: to interview. It's a ten year anniversary of the twenty

448
00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:31,040
Speaker 2: sixteen World Series win, which, as David pointed to, kind

449
00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:33,720
Speaker 2: of really started in twenty fifteen with that San Francisco

450
00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:38,720
Speaker 2: Giant Series. You know, one of the things I noticed

451
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Speaker 2: my first summer in Chicago. I always tell people if

452
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Speaker 2: if Wrigleyville was in Berlin, it would be like a

453
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Speaker 2: bucket list for Americans to visit. It's one of those

454
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Speaker 2: things like people don't understand who have never been to Wrigleyville.

455
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Speaker 2: And I've been to it probably six or seven times,

456
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:58,040
Speaker 2: even when I worked at ESPN and now I went.

457
00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:01,600
Speaker 2: I went for a football game the fall with Michigan Northwestern.

458
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:05,000
Speaker 2: It's probably as great as anything we have. It's sort

459
00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:08,000
Speaker 2: of our Wimbledon. There's nothing else really like it in America.

460
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:11,040
Speaker 2: It's like an SEC football game in Baton Rouge. You know,

461
00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:15,400
Speaker 2: there's lightning, it's eighty eight. Everybody's sweating that. You can

462
00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:18,280
Speaker 2: smell bourbon in the stadium. I've gone to a yeah.

463
00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:21,960
Speaker 2: I mean, it's like, there's nothing like an LSU night game.

464
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Speaker 3: There's nothing like Wrigleyville.

465
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Speaker 2: Uh.

466
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Speaker 4: They call it the biggest beer garden in Illinois. I

467
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:30,440
Speaker 4: think on game day it's wild.

468
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Speaker 2: The I noticed this last year. Kyle Tucker is now

469
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Speaker 2: a Dodger. He was a Cub. And one of the

470
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Speaker 2: criticisms of Kyle, who's a really good ballplayer, was I

471
00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:44,040
Speaker 2: heard Cub fans say, you know, he doesn't he doesn't

472
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Speaker 2: love it. He's just talented. Now, you know, people show

473
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Speaker 2: it in different ways. Baseball is a long Schloyd. I mean,

474
00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:53,919
Speaker 2: it's all it's you start in spring training, you go

475
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,480
Speaker 2: to the PLAYFFS, you're two hundred games in. But it

476
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Speaker 2: is interesting because the Cub fan is not you know,

477
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 2: you go to a Dodger game, it's a lot of

478
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:08,120
Speaker 2: old fans, Ricky's young, Rigly's a party, and I mean

479
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 2: every home game. Do you think, fans, do you think

480
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:15,480
Speaker 2: it's possible Kyle Tucker just wasn't a great fit with

481
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Speaker 2: the Cubs personality wise, or is it just one of

482
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Speaker 2: those Hey man, he didn't have a great year. People

483
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:23,520
Speaker 2: are gonna pick on him because I I mean he

484
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:25,639
Speaker 2: with the Dodgers, he may be the sixth best player.

485
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Speaker 3: He's a really good player.

486
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Speaker 2: But it felt like he kind of got beat up

487
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Speaker 2: by the Median fans here.

488
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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, I think everybody's personality is a little

489
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Speaker 1: bit different. I wish as a player I could have

490
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Speaker 1: stayed more Kyle Tucker as far as like he's gonna

491
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Speaker 1: play every day. I thought he was the reason to

492
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Speaker 1: turn around this year of them getting to the postseason.

493
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Speaker 1: I mean, he got off to such a great start,

494
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Speaker 1: had a little bit some apparently some injuries on the

495
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:54,359
Speaker 1: second half that had kind of hindered his numbers, But

496
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Speaker 1: I mean he carried those guys and to have that

497
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Speaker 1: staple in the middle of your order kind of like

498
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Speaker 1: they're gonna with Bregman this year and moving forward, it's

499
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:06,720
Speaker 1: such a you have to bring it every day. I

500
00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:08,919
Speaker 1: talked to Riz all the times like I was a

501
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:11,080
Speaker 1: backup guy. The reason why I got so much love

502
00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:15,800
Speaker 1: and the Grandpa Rossi and the leadership kind of kind

503
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,520
Speaker 1: of tag for that group was I was I was

504
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:22,520
Speaker 1: just responsible for catching Lester. It didn't matter. I didn't

505
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:24,480
Speaker 1: have to bring it every day. I brought my energy

506
00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:26,440
Speaker 1: to other guys making sure I was lifting them up.

507
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:28,760
Speaker 1: When you're the when you're the middle of the order bat,

508
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,280
Speaker 1: you've got to make sure you're taken care of and

509
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:34,440
Speaker 1: you're carrying the group. If if your horses suck, your

510
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,120
Speaker 1: the team's gonna suck. You know, if if the Mike

511
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Speaker 1: Trouts and the and the guys in the middle of

512
00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:41,199
Speaker 1: that order inner judge, if they're not very good, the

513
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,439
Speaker 1: team's not gonna be very good. So they have a

514
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Speaker 1: performance that they've got to carry every single day, and

515
00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:49,760
Speaker 1: the guys that that can stay a little bit more unemotional.

516
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Speaker 4: I think is a really really positive.

517
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Speaker 1: Going back to Kyle Tucker and not knowing him very well,

518
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Speaker 1: I do think it's such a good fit for the

519
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Speaker 1: Dodgers because, like you said, they have stars, they have

520
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:01,120
Speaker 1: guys who are gonna talk to the media when you

521
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,360
Speaker 1: when you're a guy that that would rather just kind

522
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:06,159
Speaker 1: of be left alone and do your thing, it's easier

523
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:08,680
Speaker 1: to be the fourth and fifth guy when you're the

524
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Speaker 1: The KB went through a little bit of that early

525
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:14,600
Speaker 1: on Chris Bryant with you know, like Riz would answer questions,

526
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:16,400
Speaker 1: Lester would answer some questions.

527
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 4: To the media. KB was more, you know, he wanted

528
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:20,720
Speaker 4: to just go out and play baseball a lot of

529
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Speaker 4: the time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, some guys are just wired like that, and I

531
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 1: don't think that's a bad thing, but I think I

532
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:31,159
Speaker 1: think Chicago is so close to the players and so

533
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:35,400
Speaker 1: passionate about their their sports and their teams that they

534
00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:38,199
Speaker 1: want to see a personality. They want somebody to to

535
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:40,920
Speaker 1: either be pissed or you know, I'm I got a

536
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 1: lot of love for yelling at umpires all the time,

537
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,320
Speaker 1: and now counsel doesn't. It's like, who, you know, I

538
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:49,199
Speaker 1: think it boys, and I wish I wouldn't have got

539
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,680
Speaker 1: thrown out of so many games. So everybody's a little

540
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 1: bit different how they handle them. I'm an emotional guy.

541
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Speaker 1: I wear my heart on my sleeve, and I think

542
00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:58,920
Speaker 1: it's gonna be great for this podcast. But I do

543
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:02,000
Speaker 1: think Kyle Tucker pro gets a little bit of that

544
00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 1: because people just want a little bit more from their superstars.

545
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 4: When you usually get paid a lot of money. Fans

546
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:08,879
Speaker 4: want a law out of you.

547
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, you were the bullpen coach for Team USA. And

548
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 2: I had said this on the air, and because I

549
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,399
Speaker 2: work at Fox and Fox broadcast that, people said, oh,

550
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:18,919
Speaker 2: you're being a shill. But I said before it started,

551
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 2: I said, the most undervalued property in sports, in my opinion,

552
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 2: for the last ten years, has been the World Baseball Classic.

553
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:28,800
Speaker 2: Now it's not annual and it's not as big as

554
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Speaker 2: the Olympics or the World Cup.

555
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 3: But I said, when I was at.

556
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Speaker 2: The other place, ESPN, I'm like, I couldn't believe the passion.

557
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 2: And I also, you know, we good players, great players

558
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 2: want to play, and so I mean Bryce Harper and

559
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 2: Judge and Otawi and were you maybe you weren't surprised.

560
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,679
Speaker 2: I wasn't surprised because I've seen in the World Baseball

561
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:55,880
Speaker 2: Classic the passion from everybody, and anytime anybody beats USA

562
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 2: and anything, it's a big deal.

563
00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:57,840
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, it.

564
00:27:57,800 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 3: Could be Olympics, World Cup.

565
00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:01,240
Speaker 2: It's it's it doesn't matter what it is.

566
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Speaker 3: So Venezuela's reaction.

567
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 2: That's that country's gone through a lot over the last decade. Like,

568
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Speaker 2: I get it, but I was a little surprised how

569
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 2: much the loss stings and just the intensity of the players.

570
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:20,720
Speaker 2: I mean, it's the middle of spring fricking training and

571
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,359
Speaker 2: you're asking them to go play in an international event.

572
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 2: As somebody that was there every day, were you surprised

573
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 2: how pissed Bryce Harper could be, how emotional Aaron could

574
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 2: be with I mean it felt like playoff games.

575
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it did feel like every one of

576
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 4: them felt like playoff games.

577
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Speaker 1: And even leading up to it, you know, the expectations,

578
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 1: even when you're facing Great Britain, you know, like we're

579
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Speaker 1: supposed to pound them, We're supposed to we're supposed to

580
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 1: tend run rule them. It's it was definitely a playoff

581
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: atmosphere immediately in the mill spring training where nobody's really

582
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 1: you know, there's so many guardrails and things Mark de

583
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 1: Rosen was dealing with with with teams, and these guys

584
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 1: wanted to throw all they didn't care. They wanted to

585
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 1: they wanted to pitch. They want to go past their

586
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,360
Speaker 1: their numbers as far as pitching and their pitch counts,

587
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 1: and it was and I had I know Mark Well

588
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 1: and Brian McCann a lot of this staff. They told

589
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 1: me last time four years ago, Venezuela was the loudest

590
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 1: game they had ever been a part of. And I

591
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:29,959
Speaker 1: can second that Mexico in Houston, excuse me, was one

592
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 1: of our loudest games for sure inside that dome in Houston.

593
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 1: And then the dr game Dominican Republic that was so loud,

594
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 1: one of the best lineups I think ever created. Say,

595
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 1: the Venezuela game was epic. That one of the best

596
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 1: things I could even hear. I had to sit next

597
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 1: to the bullpen phone in the bullpen because I could

598
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 1: not hear it ring if I sat and watched the game.

599
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 4: I had to watch it on the screen down there.

600
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 1: Pat McAfee told me after the game, I've gotten kind

601
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 1: of close with him, and he said, he said to me,

602
00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 1: that may be the best sporting event I've ever been

603
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 1: to live, and that I mean, like, just like you,

604
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 1: that guy lives and breathes sports. Yeah, when you're in

605
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 1: these environments of college football, professional football, professional baseball, and

606
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 1: you go to the World Baseball Classic, and he said

607
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 1: when Bryce Harper hit that home run, how loud that

608
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 1: place gotten it was.

609
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 4: It was amazing.

610
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Speaker 1: When he said that to me, I was like, Okay,

611
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Speaker 1: I've been in a ton of World Series games played

612
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 1: in front of a lot of people. It was that

613
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 1: epic and that loud and that many people cared about it.

614
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 1: Two countries going at it, like you said, Venezuela dealing

615
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Speaker 1: with a lot and what their country's been through. Those

616
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 1: guys are crying after that game, guys, I know, Wilson Contreras,

617
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 1: Daniel Palencia, like a lot of these guys that you

618
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 1: played against and know really well. They their passion for that,

619
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Speaker 1: and our guys, my goodness, man, our guys were credit.

620
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 1: Paul Schemes paced the locker room probably for twenty thirty

621
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Speaker 1: minutes after that game, just as pissed as I've seen

622
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 1: a guy in a long long time.

623
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:57,120
Speaker 4: Guys cared a lot.

624
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Speaker 1: I've never seen a group of men come together so

625
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:03,760
Speaker 1: fast and get so close in such a short amount

626
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 1: of time. And my time in baseball as that team

627
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 1: USA team was we were doing dinners, we were having

628
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 1: team meals, speakers come in. It was really really one

629
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 1: of the best baseball experiences of my life.

630
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:21,200
Speaker 2: The you know, I've been defending people keep talking about

631
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 2: the Dodgers dominance and that we need a salary cap,

632
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 2: and I keep saying, folks, if the Dodgers lost Game seven,

633
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 2: and I thought they were I thought Toronto outplayed them.

634
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 3: For most of the series.

635
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 4: What a game? That was? What a game?

636
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 2: Best best baseball game to me? I mean, there's been

637
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:39,200
Speaker 2: a lot of great ones. I'm so old now that

638
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 2: I can remember the the Carlton Fisk home run at

639
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 2: Fenway against the Reds and Pat Darshon and that that

640
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 2: was when I was, you know, young, growing up. It

641
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 2: was one of the best baseball games ever, postseason games.

642
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 4: I compare it to our game set. I thought the

643
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 4: two best Game sevens of my lifetime.

644
00:31:56,680 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 1: And you know, short memory and obviously biased towards ours,

645
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 1: but like when I watched that Game seven in Toronto

646
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: that I was like, Okay, somebody, there's another one that

647
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: we can put in the book next to ours, because

648
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 1: that was that was that was an amazing game. Back

649
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: and forth. Yeah, what Yamamoto did like just unheard of.

650
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: I just insane and.

651
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 2: Aaron f and Boone again in the ALCS that that

652
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 2: goes up there as well.

653
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I have defended off Wakefield. Yeah, that's right,

654
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 4: it goes out there. That's right, that's right.

655
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:32,719
Speaker 2: So but I've said, okay, listen, I don't believe if

656
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 2: the Dodgers would have lost that the Kyle Tucker signing

657
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 2: wouldn't mean anything. People would laugh at him. The Mets

658
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 2: spend so much money, but nobody's threatened by the Mets, right,

659
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 2: They're threatened by the Dodgers because they've won back to

660
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 2: back World Series. But Toronto outplayed him. I said, what

661
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 2: I think baseball needs is a floor if you can.

662
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 2: Milwaukee spent one hundred and forty three million, they were excellent.

663
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 2: Mariners spent you know, one hundred and sixty million. Cleveland

664
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 2: spent one hundred and thirty million. If you spend about

665
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 2: one thirty to one thirty five, you can have a

666
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:06,719
Speaker 2: really good baseball team. If you have a smart front office,

667
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 2: if you got the right pieces, if you spend one

668
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 2: to eighty, you can win the World Series. You can't

669
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 2: do the A's, the Marlins, the White Sox, you can't

670
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 2: do that. So my take is, don't force high income

671
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 2: teams Houston, Atlanta, Dodgers, Yankees to play by Saint Louis's economy, like,

672
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 2: I want great if you can stack a roster, stack

673
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,960
Speaker 2: a roster. Milwaukee's proven you can be a small market.

674
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 2: But when I've talked to players, there doesn't seem to

675
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 2: be a lot of Dodger animosity. Bryce Harper's like, I

676
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,560
Speaker 2: love what they're doing, so as somebody that managed the

677
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 2: Cubs won it when the Red Sox. You were with

678
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:51,280
Speaker 2: the Red Sox when they had some big time money.

679
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 2: Cubs went out and spent. Cubs are a third biggest

680
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 2: revenue team in the sport, behind New York Yankees and

681
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 2: the Dodgers.

682
00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 3: They're there.

683
00:33:57,960 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 2: I think they make well. I won't say the number,

684
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 2: but I talked to Tom Ricketts about it.

685
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 4: They do very well.

686
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, how do you now, because you've been in several chairs,

687
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 2: how do you view what the Dodgers are doing?

688
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 3: Does it were you a little bit? They're pulling away?

689
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 4: No, I think I fall on the same boat as you.

690
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 1: I you know when I when you're when I was

691
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 1: a rookie coming up with the Dodgers, you had to

692
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 1: go to They've made the rookies go to all the

693
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 1: union meetings and MLBPA meetings and learn a lot about that,

694
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:28,880
Speaker 1: and I think the scare. I think everybody would be

695
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: okay with a floor without a ceiling, right, without a cap.

696
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,239
Speaker 1: And I think I'm in the same boat as you

697
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 1: as I think that's that's needed. I love the teams.

698
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:42,719
Speaker 1: You know, these are smart businessmen. They're not going to

699
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 1: if they can afford it, they're going to spend it, right,

700
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 1: They're not going to go in debt over just trying

701
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 1: to win a championship one year, two years. The Dodgers

702
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 1: have created a money machine there with Otani, with how

703
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 1: they've expanded across the globe in Japan and all the different,

704
00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:01,760
Speaker 1: uh graphical geographic players that they put on that roster

705
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,799
Speaker 1: and the big market players. But if you look back,

706
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 1: I mean, Freddie Freeman's a steel for one sixty, you know,

707
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 1: if you look back and some of these some of

708
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 1: these things and the way Otani structured his contract, uh,

709
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:14,720
Speaker 1: it probably helped them get Tucker.

710
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:18,359
Speaker 2: I mean their hell d Edmund was a defensive guy

711
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,720
Speaker 2: with the Cardinals. Tommy Edmond was available to the league.

712
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 2: Max Munsey got let go by the aids.

713
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 1: They're smart and they've got money, and that's the and

714
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 1: that's the secret, right you got to have and they

715
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:30,440
Speaker 1: built it the right way when they they went and

716
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 1: got a lot of veteran played Adrian Gonzalez and these

717
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:34,839
Speaker 1: guys back in the day when they've got the new

718
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:37,879
Speaker 1: ownership and built up the farm system. Now they've kind

719
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 1: of integrated a piece of two a year of some

720
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:44,360
Speaker 1: young guys, the Pajz of the world. You know Will Smith,

721
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:46,319
Speaker 1: Like I just got to be around him. What a

722
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 1: winner he is three world championships. I think he's you know,

723
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,880
Speaker 1: in his young thirties or I think he is thirty.

724
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 1: And they they they built it the right way and

725
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 1: then they go out and spend with their with their excess.

726
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 1: I don't think guys worry about the dogs because it

727
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 1: is baseball, and you would look at the team USA

728
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 1: and think, and I know it wasn't a series, and

729
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 1: I know it's a long season, but like anybody can

730
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 1: win in baseball, and you've got to have smart front office.

731
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 1: You've got to spend your dollars well, no matter how

732
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 1: much money you have. Because you mentioned the Mets and

733
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:17,839
Speaker 1: not making the playoffs and them spending the most money,

734
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 1: and also like being able to develop a farm system

735
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 1: and use the young guys to supplement, and there's gonna

736
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:25,920
Speaker 1: be injuries and depth. I don't think I think I

737
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:28,360
Speaker 1: think the Dodgers are good for baseball. I think you

738
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 1: know the big markets, there's that you said it earlier.

739
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:35,040
Speaker 1: There's not been a better run of a three year

740
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:38,880
Speaker 1: five years. Baseball is fine, Like you were tuning in

741
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,879
Speaker 1: everywhere and all these different platforms are grabbing these guys.

742
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,480
Speaker 1: I can't wait for Netflix tomorrow night and watching riz

743
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 1: debut is first his first broadcast and how that's going

744
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:50,840
Speaker 1: to go. Like, there is a lot of excitement around baseball,

745
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 1: and obviously there's things where we can clean up to

746
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 1: help grow the game, but I just we've got to

747
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 1: keep the game going because it's in such a good

748
00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 1: place and there's so many young fans.

749
00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:00,280
Speaker 4: I love the new rules.

750
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 1: The clock is amazing, especially being in the booth broadcasting

751
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 1: for ESPN back in the day and how that can drag.

752
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 1: And now we've got a nice pace to the game

753
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: and baseball is in a really, really good place. And

754
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 1: you know, I hope, I hope, I hope the MLBPA

755
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 1: and and and the league figure figure something out to

756
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 1: continue to to get some of these teams that aren't

757
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:24,800
Speaker 1: spending that are just okay with the revenue sharing, I

758
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:27,400
Speaker 1: hope they can help bring that, bring those guys up

759
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 1: and have more competitive It's a shame Paul Skiing should

760
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 1: being on a good team, you know, Like that pitch

761
00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:35,840
Speaker 1: of staff Pittsburgh has is really really good, and I

762
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 1: think they put some other pieces around to help compete

763
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 1: this year.

764
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,879
Speaker 4: But last year was was not you know, it didn't

765
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 4: feel like they moved the needle very very well.

766
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:54,399
Speaker 3: Ten years.

767
00:37:56,200 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 2: Later, what does the CUB Championship mean to you?

768
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:02,319
Speaker 4: Man?

769
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: Well, I mean me personally, those guys and how they've

770
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 1: how they lifted me up in that. I mean I

771
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:12,840
Speaker 1: got carry off the field game seven, Like, who's that

772
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,920
Speaker 1: happened to? You know, Like I'm so thankful I got

773
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,759
Speaker 1: to do so many things off the field after that.

774
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 1: I'm working for ESPN, getting back to manage. They put

775
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 1: me on this platform to be on here talking to

776
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:28,400
Speaker 1: you and to start this thing with Riz and just

777
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 1: baseball is a part of my life and a lot

778
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 1: of that has to do with my two championships, but

779
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 1: especially at the end the way those guys, you know,

780
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:39,360
Speaker 1: I tell people all the time, I wasn't telling the

781
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 1: media I'm this leader or I'm this guy or that guy.

782
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:45,759
Speaker 1: Just my teammates were saying nice things about me. And

783
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:49,719
Speaker 1: the thing about doing this pod and reminiscent about these

784
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:52,880
Speaker 1: stories is it just I mean, there's there's laughter, there's tears,

785
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 1: there's everybody's getting emotional at a certain time, just talking

786
00:38:56,040 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 1: about what a special group we had and me personally,

787
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:05,720
Speaker 1: my my career backup catcher most of my career career

788
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 1: two twenty hitter, got to got to go and do

789
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,160
Speaker 1: so many great things and represent that group on so

790
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 1: many different platforms and talk baseball and my my life

791
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 1: has taken off since that championship, and a lot of

792
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 1: that has to do with the people there, the front office,

793
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 1: the staff, and obviously the players and that that city.

794
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 1: It's meant, it's meant so much to me, and I'm

795
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:30,399
Speaker 1: just so happy to be able to get on here

796
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:34,759
Speaker 1: and share these moments with behind the scene moments with

797
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:38,239
Speaker 1: all these fans. I'm so thankful and grateful for so much.

798
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:40,799
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's a it's a big one. That's That's

799
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 1: the only thing anybody knows before walking through the airport

800
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:46,480
Speaker 1: is my my world series with Chicago and Dancing with

801
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:47,319
Speaker 1: the Stars.

802
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 2: Two days, what of all the and I want people

803
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 2: it's called the Lovable Reunion. How many guys have you

804
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 2: interviewed so far?

805
00:39:57,920 --> 00:39:58,280
Speaker 4: Twelve?

806
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:00,760
Speaker 3: Okay, who was the most emotional?

807
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:05,279
Speaker 4: Kyle Schwarber this last one. We just did. We did him.

808
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 3: Uh, he's such a he's such a dude.

809
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 1: He's a dude. Dude, Golly, but he he you know,

810
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:15,720
Speaker 1: people just say such nice things to me and Riz

811
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:19,320
Speaker 1: uh as they're talking about it and talking about our leadership,

812
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:22,879
Speaker 1: but also talking about just how it changed their life.

813
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 1: And Michael Mike Montgomery got a little choked up talking about,

814
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:28,879
Speaker 1: you know, what it's done to him just to get

815
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 1: that last out. And man, I think Schwarber just talking

816
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 1: about this last one, talking about, you know, how his

817
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 1: career's gone and how thankful he is for being on

818
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:45,320
Speaker 1: that championship team and his journey coming back from that

819
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 1: injury and the example that that room set for him

820
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 1: that he's carried and everywhere he's went and now he's,

821
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 1: like you said, he's he's a dude.

822
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 4: He's a he's a leader. Uh in Philadelphia.

823
00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 1: And every time I talk to any teammate of his

824
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:01,839
Speaker 1: or people that have been around him or teams he's

825
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 1: been on, They can't say enough about his impact in

826
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:06,360
Speaker 1: the locker room.

827
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 4: Which we know is so important outside of his skill set.

828
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:13,400
Speaker 2: Well, it's baseball so unique because again, you know, football,

829
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:16,400
Speaker 2: you don't spend that much time together the new CBA,

830
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:19,719
Speaker 2: there's only so many practice days, you know. Baseball, man,

831
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 2: it takes one bad guy. I mean that shit can

832
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 2: go sideways fast in that clubhouse, like you know, I mean,

833
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 2: and let's be honest. Good teams go on losing streaks.

834
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 2: I mean it just I mean it is heart.

835
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:33,759
Speaker 3: Was you go back to that.

836
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 2: Was there was there a moment because you guys were stacked,

837
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 2: but you also had some veteran arms. Was there ever

838
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,880
Speaker 2: a moment in twenty sixteen A series, a moment, a

839
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:47,720
Speaker 2: stretch that you're like, man, we're.

840
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 4: Got to a good good story. Lester tells about Rizzo.

841
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:56,399
Speaker 4: We were struggling right before the All Star break.

842
00:41:56,440 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 1: We're in Pittsburgh and was I think Riz was raped

843
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 1: at the time, and the pitching just was giving it up.

844
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 4: A little bit. And Riz made a comment in the

845
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 4: media about you know, we just we gotta.

846
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 1: Get something about we gotta get the pitching going, or

847
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:14,720
Speaker 1: we just got to pitch a little better, or something

848
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 1: like that, and Travis Wood was waiting with the article

849
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:19,400
Speaker 1: in John Wester's walk where he.

850
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:24,399
Speaker 4: Walked and Lester was not happy, let's say the least.

851
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:27,439
Speaker 1: But that's a really funny, good story of Riz thinking

852
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:29,239
Speaker 1: John was going to beat the shit out of him,

853
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:34,920
Speaker 1: and he met him in the weight room and started

854
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: started mf and about don't worry about the pitching, you

855
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 1: just worry about the offense.

856
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 4: Stuff like that.

857
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:43,520
Speaker 1: So there's definitely you go through moments. Man, you feel like,

858
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:46,480
Speaker 1: you know, it's baseball. Everybody. You know, I say all

859
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 1: the time, everybody's going to go through that. You gotta,

860
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 1: you know, don't let the highs get too high, lows

861
00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:52,279
Speaker 1: get too low, and try to keep on that even

862
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 1: even path. But right before the All Star break, we

863
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 1: were scoffed a little bit trying to get to that

864
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 1: finish line and get our break.

865
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 2: Yeah. Man, you play those afternoon games in Saint Louis

866
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:03,680
Speaker 2: and it's about ninety eight degrees and you're dragging and

867
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 2: you're doing you're on an over eleven streak, and it's

868
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Speaker 2: baseball is so random you can just I mean, you know,

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Speaker 2: I remember listening to Derek Jeter once talking about somebody

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Speaker 2: he didn't have a lot of slumps, but somebody asked him,

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Speaker 2: you know, he was in a slump, and what do

872
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 2: you think about And he goes, I don't hit it hard,

873
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 2: he goes, He goes, I've hit the ball. I have

874
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Speaker 2: tagged it six times in the last two weeks, and they.

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Speaker 4: Will show for it. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, and that's the like, thank goodness for analytics and

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Speaker 1: some of the stuff you can look at now where

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00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:36,640
Speaker 1: you know some of these guys are able to keep

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00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:40,080
Speaker 1: themselves a little bit sane even though it doesn't work

880
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:41,879
Speaker 1: a lot of times. But with a hard hit rate

881
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:44,920
Speaker 1: and you know you're expected this, you know outcome and

882
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:47,480
Speaker 1: just keep it hard. But going back to what you

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00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:50,800
Speaker 1: were talking about and being around guys every day, I

884
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:54,239
Speaker 1: tell people like, we start around Valentine's Day and mid

885
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:57,840
Speaker 1: February and we go for seven and a half and

886
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 1: we we didn't get home till November. I think we

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Speaker 1: won the World Series November second, you know, And that's

888
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:07,360
Speaker 1: a long journey that you're with these guys every single

889
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:09,240
Speaker 1: day and you have a handful of off days throughout

890
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 1: that and usually spend time together. So the fact of

891
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:14,800
Speaker 1: like becoming family and that's what these guys are for

892
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 1: brothers for life, I say all the time, because your

893
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:21,160
Speaker 1: family within that clubhouse, you see those guys every single

894
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:23,440
Speaker 1: day and you're working and pulling for them, and their

895
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:26,439
Speaker 1: success is your success. And that's not always the case

896
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 1: in every sport. You know, it's these individual sports and

897
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:32,560
Speaker 1: guys you don't see so much. Baseball season is really

898
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 1: really long, and you're gonna go through some ups, and

899
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 1: that guys are gonna go through stuff off the field

900
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:39,200
Speaker 1: and tell a story about you know, one time I

901
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,839
Speaker 1: got emotional during the podcast John Lester.

902
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:46,160
Speaker 4: Two times flew me home on a private plane.

903
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Speaker 1: My wife at the time at emergency C section, was

904
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Speaker 1: got to see the birth of my child, my last one.

905
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Speaker 1: And then my grandma passed away in the middle of

906
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 1: the season. Flew me home on a private plane for

907
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:02,080
Speaker 1: her funeral. So like I mean, this is these are

908
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Speaker 1: these are guys that not just only care about each other,

909
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 1: but when willing to give their hard earned money to

910
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:11,960
Speaker 1: take care of each other. And you know, there's there's dinners,

911
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 1: and there's just just so many off the field that

912
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 1: used to rent boats and go out on the lake

913
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Speaker 1: on off days or after a day game. Like there's

914
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Speaker 1: nothing better than that, going out there hanging with the

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Speaker 1: boys and kind of decompressing after a game at Wrigley

916
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Speaker 1: and enjoying that skyline in Chicago and that nice cold lake.

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Speaker 2: Anthony Rizzle will join us next time, Rizzo and Ross

918
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Speaker 2: the Lovable Reunion. We're going to look back. They will

919
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Speaker 2: on the ten year anniversary of the twenty sixteen magical

920
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:43,239
Speaker 2: Cubs World Series win and a Cubs team that upgraded

921
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Speaker 2: on their staff. Bregman, they're favored to win their division

922
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Speaker 2: and should be. You know, Milwaukee just up the road

923
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Speaker 2: is becoming quite a rivalry. I'll tell you that it has.

924
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Speaker 1: They've done a really good job up there, and they

925
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Speaker 1: keep rotating guys out and bringing new ones in and

926
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a good It's gonna be a good one.

927
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm so excited that stat Kate Horton for a

928
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Speaker 1: full season. Hopefully he can stay healthy. Uh. They've got

929
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Speaker 1: some dudes up there in Chicago. And being around Bregman,

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Speaker 1: I've known him. I've never gotten to be around him

931
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Speaker 1: as much as I was in this WBC. This guy

932
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Speaker 1: is up first thing in the morning looking at scouting reports,

933
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Speaker 1: sending coaches text like, you know, here's where we need

934
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Speaker 1: to look.

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Speaker 4: Here's where we need a tunnel. You know, this guy

936
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Speaker 4: throws a lot of behind.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this guy is a baseball rat, and he's

938
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Speaker 1: gonna be everybody in that clubhouse better. So they're gonna

939
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Speaker 1: have a really good season. I'm pretty confident in that,

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Speaker 1: and it should be a fun fund see opening day.

941
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Speaker 1: Opening day is here upon us.

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Speaker 3: How great is that, David? This is great. We are

943
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Speaker 3: so excited.

944
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Speaker 2: Like I said before in the intro, when I heard

945
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Speaker 2: this was gonna be our first baseball podcast and they

946
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:56,880
Speaker 2: had met with you, I'm like, guys, I need Mariano Rivera,

947
00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:59,440
Speaker 2: I need a closer. I said, we got to close

948
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Speaker 2: this podcast. I think the audience is gonna love it.

949
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna be at Wrigley several times during the summer.

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Speaker 2: I'll be listening to the podcast. And I just appreciate

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Speaker 2: you guys trusting us.

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Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate you guys jumping on board and trusting us.

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Speaker 1: I know you guys have really created a name in

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Speaker 4: You've been around a really long time doing this.

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Speaker 1: You know, all the things from ESPN to the pod

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Speaker 1: and your show, like it's just it's so great to

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Speaker 1: be a part of this group. They're a phenomenal group

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Speaker 1: make it really enjoyable for us. So I can't wait

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