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Speaker 1: Anthony Rizzo, David Ross Welcome to The Lovable Reunion Podcast,

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Speaker 1: our first official episode. We are here at the iconic

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Speaker 1: Murphy's Bleachers with my partner David Ross. I NA where

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Speaker 1: we talk about the unforgettable twenty sixteen World Series Championship

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Speaker 1: Chicago Cubs. We sit down with all of our former teammates, coaches, executives,

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Speaker 1: Tom Ricketts, theo Epstein, Joe matt and John Lester, you

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Speaker 1: name it. We're talking to him, we're interviewing him, and

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Speaker 1: we're telling you, guys stories, what we saw, where we lived,

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Speaker 1: things that you've all heard about, but now you're hearing

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Speaker 1: the real.

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Speaker 2: Stuff behind the scenes. Today it's about us. We're not

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Speaker 2: making this about us. It's twenty sixteen. We're gonna walking

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Speaker 2: through all the stories and all the episodes had a

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Speaker 2: lot of nakedness going on, but.

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Speaker 1: Dancing naked, lots of party and lots of king, lots

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Speaker 1: of teamwork, team camaraderie, all of it. So we've talked

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Speaker 1: to a lot of our guys already. It's the day

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Speaker 1: after opening Day. We're here at Murphy's Baseball seasons back

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Speaker 1: upon us. We can't be more excited for it.

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Speaker 2: I'm so pumped. Let's get the little things out of

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Speaker 2: the way first. What have you been doing since retirement?

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Speaker 1: Dude?

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Speaker 2: What's going on in your life? For what an epic

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Speaker 2: day you had when they brought you back here in Chicago,

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Speaker 2: Anthony Rizzo day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, sitting in the bleachers Wrigley Field summertime. It was awesome.

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Speaker 1: The ball hit to me, the retirement party, all of it.

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Speaker 1: And it feels good to be back in Chicago. It

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Speaker 1: feels good to be in the Cub's ambassador, feels good

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Speaker 1: to be back in the game, doing games on Netflix,

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Speaker 1: games on NBC, You're doing games on ESPN. So to

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Speaker 1: be back in the game is awesome. But this is

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Speaker 1: our passion project, this is our baby, and it's been

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Speaker 1: so much fun sitting down with our guys. I want

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Speaker 1: to get into you and me meeting Rossie and I

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Speaker 1: met back when I was going through cancer. Actually, ROSSI

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Speaker 1: was playing in the Alcus with the Red Sox in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and eight and we had the same agency,

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Speaker 1: and Rossie left me a ticket. He came and said

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Speaker 1: hi to me before the game near the bullpen. Probably

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Speaker 1: had no idea who I was.

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Speaker 2: My agents are like, hey, can you leave this kid's

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Speaker 2: tickets just say hey, maybe snap a photo, and I'm like,

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Speaker 2: all right, went to some you know, charity kid. I'll

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Speaker 2: go say, he turns out were brothers are life turns out?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I was.

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Speaker 2: That was kind of crazy, the fact that went full

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Speaker 2: I think I signed something on the sidelines right there

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Speaker 2: in Tampa Bay.

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Speaker 1: It's funny. I remember driving to Tampa that that for

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Speaker 1: that game. We drove over that night and my mom's car,

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Speaker 1: so we got back the whole game. The car was running.

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Speaker 1: I forgot to turn it off because I was so excited.

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Speaker 1: On empty we barely ruled. I think we had to

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Speaker 2: Well that that That's a good story, but not a

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Speaker 2: sign of things to come, because things got a lot

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Speaker 2: better for me.

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Speaker 1: Can you believe it's been ten years.

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Speaker 2: I can't believe it's been ten years. I can't believe

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Speaker 2: we met so long ago. You know, I my life

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Speaker 2: has been crazy since with you know, managing since then,

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Speaker 2: that was when DeRosa introduced me. He was like, and

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Speaker 2: So yeah, man, things have been nuts for me as well.

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Speaker 2: Ten years has gone by. I feel like it's happened

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Speaker 2: so fast. Our kids. We got to see everybody at

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Speaker 2: the reunion for Cubs convention. Everybody's kids have gotten older

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Speaker 1: It's really a husband. It's when we first met. When

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Speaker 1: I was like, the Chicago Cubs need David Ross because

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think like that was that was a moment.

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Speaker 2: We definitely hit it off and talking baseball and felt

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Speaker 2: and looking back, I can't wait for everybody to hear

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Speaker 2: our stories and the stories of our teammates are gonna

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Speaker 2: bring a lot of laughs, a lot of tears. We've

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Speaker 2: and some guys really pour the hearts out. It's pretty

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Speaker 1: He was the king of two year deals, and he

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Speaker 1: Like by the year or two, I was like, I

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Speaker 2: I had the clubhouse cancer second. Yeah, yeah, everybody not

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Speaker 1: When you came into Spring in twenty fifteen, you and

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Speaker 2: But well, it's a shit sandwich, right you just you

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you walk away like he just screamed

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Speaker 2: Well, I think looking back on the group we had,

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Speaker 1: But it was just we make the Grand Parassi account

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Speaker 2: those cursed things ever really creaked in.

436
00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:50,440
Speaker 1: I didn't think it'll never never. And so in sixteen,

437
00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:53,280
Speaker 1: our last two games of the season were in Vegas.

438
00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:56,399
Speaker 1: I'm sorry off spring training. Yeah, we go to Vegas

439
00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:58,720
Speaker 1: for two exhibition games and the whole team goes because

440
00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:01,320
Speaker 1: after that we're going to Anaheim start the year. So

441
00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:04,800
Speaker 1: Rossie and I we played in Vegas every year for

442
00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:06,480
Speaker 1: the most part. In spring training. I went on every

443
00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:08,680
Speaker 1: one of those trips. So Rossie and I were sitting

444
00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:12,640
Speaker 1: at the Cosmo tollog I wonder why, and we shared

445
00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:14,880
Speaker 1: the penthouse. The two veteran penhouse are like, hey, let's

446
00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:17,000
Speaker 1: share a room, right, Like, we had a whole night planned.

447
00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:21,680
Speaker 1: I think we went to Hakissan right at the MGM

448
00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:23,400
Speaker 1: and we went out all night. We had a game

449
00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:25,200
Speaker 1: the next day, but it was we were gonna get

450
00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:26,680
Speaker 1: like two of bats. Joe.

451
00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:29,080
Speaker 2: We walk in and Riz this guy like, welcome to Chicago.

452
00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:32,560
Speaker 1: We followed it out. We had like the whole team there,

453
00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:34,960
Speaker 1: and it's just one of those things I remember. I

454
00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:38,080
Speaker 1: remember in twenty fifteen Spreenching, I saw the Royals, the

455
00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:40,520
Speaker 1: whole team party and they ended up winning the world.

456
00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:43,520
Speaker 1: He was like, dude, right, and then we kind of

457
00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:46,800
Speaker 1: bonded like that. So the next day we go in

458
00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:49,520
Speaker 1: and again it's not about me. I hit a home run,

459
00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:52,600
Speaker 1: my first to beat. Rossi is on the training table

460
00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:56,240
Speaker 1: with towels over his head, dead, and I remember Matt Caesar.

461
00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:59,040
Speaker 1: I think we told this story with sees. Matt Caesar

462
00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:01,520
Speaker 1: walks in, He's like, hey, are you good, bro, and

463
00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:04,600
Speaker 1: he's like, fuck away from me. I was dying.

464
00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:07,840
Speaker 2: And then Cashman Field in Vegas, like that hard table

465
00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:10,320
Speaker 2: what I just put? I remember Davey Martinez coming up

466
00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:13,080
Speaker 2: like tapping me, waking me up. He's like, hey, you

467
00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:14,680
Speaker 2: think you can catch three innings? I was like, I've

468
00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:17,160
Speaker 2: got three. I've got three. So I got like one

469
00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:19,800
Speaker 2: at back and got out of there. Was not feeling good,

470
00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:21,119
Speaker 2: I think, went back to g nap and then went

471
00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:21,959
Speaker 2: back down. The next night.

472
00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:24,679
Speaker 1: Yeah, well we had a that was an epic. That

473
00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:28,120
Speaker 1: was well, some guys didn't want to go, and Joe

474
00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:32,280
Speaker 1: and Davey I'm not saying who up under my recommendation.

475
00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:34,719
Speaker 1: We had a Bloody Mary bar and a Mimosa bar

476
00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:37,280
Speaker 1: pregame for all of us because they knew we were

477
00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:39,399
Speaker 1: going out, and Joe was just we'll have mimosas and

478
00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:41,880
Speaker 1: Bloody's like, if guys need it for the hangover, it'll

479
00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:44,760
Speaker 1: be good going into the game. So it was just

480
00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:47,840
Speaker 1: those were the That was the vibe of our clubhouse.

481
00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:49,680
Speaker 1: It was so much fun. It was so relaxed, but

482
00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:51,439
Speaker 1: we knew when it was time to work. It was

483
00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:53,080
Speaker 1: and we rolled into Anaheim.

484
00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:56,080
Speaker 2: Remember the team Remember the team dinner A THEO and

485
00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,639
Speaker 2: or Tom the coach picked up the dinner that night.

486
00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:00,679
Speaker 2: Make sure everybody got out of the shore. Yeah, make

487
00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:01,800
Speaker 2: sure everybody left Vegas.

488
00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:03,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they wanted us. We wanted to stay in

489
00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,920
Speaker 1: Vegas another night. They were like, no, let's get to California.

490
00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:10,160
Speaker 1: We ended up going to Mastros there and at Newport

491
00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:13,399
Speaker 1: and mister Ricketts and THEO picked up the bill and

492
00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:16,680
Speaker 1: guys were ordering, like any any team dinner less than Lackey.

493
00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:19,720
Speaker 1: We're always fighting over the bill. So it was obnoxious

494
00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:22,280
Speaker 1: the food and wine and the seafood towers that they

495
00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:24,720
Speaker 1: would order. But it was amazing. And then we get

496
00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:28,320
Speaker 1: into Anaheim and in sixteen, I think it was the

497
00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:30,639
Speaker 1: end of fifteen. I always worked out in the morning

498
00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:33,639
Speaker 1: in the on the road with our strength coach Tim Buss.

499
00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:36,200
Speaker 1: It was like our time to just go talk the game,

500
00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:39,840
Speaker 1: go to a regular gym and just be a normal person.

501
00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:43,840
Speaker 1: So before the second game, we went to the Equinox

502
00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:48,320
Speaker 1: out in Newport. Newport and you came and it was upstairs.

503
00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:50,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, we had a blister.

504
00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there was an outside area upstairs that we

505
00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:54,320
Speaker 1: were just training at and it was a beautiful day.

506
00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:56,280
Speaker 1: So him and I both took our shirts off at

507
00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:59,000
Speaker 1: Bussy too. We're the only ones there and we're training.

508
00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,879
Speaker 1: There's these monkey bars and let's try these. And I

509
00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:04,720
Speaker 1: do the monkey bars one time and I get two

510
00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:08,400
Speaker 1: blisters on each hand. Second game of the season, and

511
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:12,600
Speaker 1: I am grinding trying to hit right, and I'm like, fuck.

512
00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:16,960
Speaker 1: But the point of this is you coming on the

513
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:19,080
Speaker 1: road and coming to those workouts. It was a way

514
00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:22,000
Speaker 1: to celebrate and like we went to the Rocky Steps

515
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:26,600
Speaker 1: that year in Philly, Forbes and Stanwix in Pittsburgh at

516
00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,040
Speaker 1: the Golden Gym was iconic. We would go there every

517
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:30,560
Speaker 1: time we were in Pittsburgh.

518
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:33,000
Speaker 2: San Diego Gas Lamp. We walked around and grab lunch.

519
00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:35,960
Speaker 2: We always grab the only thing Riz had to eat

520
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:37,800
Speaker 2: at when we go to Pittsburgh. He had to eat

521
00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:40,359
Speaker 2: at Modes. It's like, bro, it's ten thirty in the

522
00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:41,359
Speaker 2: morning and he's got it.

523
00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:46,159
Speaker 1: He's there. What are mos? Every time in Pittsburgh. It

524
00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:46,560
Speaker 1: was great.

525
00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:50,440
Speaker 2: But I think that was that to me, you inviting

526
00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:52,960
Speaker 2: me on that and you getting up and doing that me,

527
00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:56,560
Speaker 2: you and Bussy, that bond, I thought took our relationship

528
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:58,679
Speaker 2: to another level because it was so much fun for me.

529
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:00,840
Speaker 2: It created a kind of a new routine for me

530
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:02,960
Speaker 2: of getting up on the road, going and working out

531
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,640
Speaker 2: when we first got there, going to have lunch, coming back,

532
00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:07,359
Speaker 2: taking a little nap, and then heading to the field.

533
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:09,440
Speaker 2: And that's one of my favorite things. I look back

534
00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:12,239
Speaker 2: on those times. We bought the gold gym shirts with

535
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:16,400
Speaker 2: the with the we all had these bright highlighter colors

536
00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:18,520
Speaker 2: tank tops. It was it was I mean.

537
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:19,960
Speaker 1: We went I don't I don't think you were with this.

538
00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:21,040
Speaker 1: But there was a time where we went to the

539
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:23,679
Speaker 1: muscle beach. Yeah, and I wasn't there for yeah, we

540
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:26,600
Speaker 1: were outside working out. It was where Arnold worked out.

541
00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:31,720
Speaker 1: How cool was it for you when you hit your

542
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:34,480
Speaker 1: hundredth home runs? Backup Catcher when he had his hundredth

543
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,800
Speaker 1: home run, It was here Wrigley and like everyone exploded.

544
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:38,360
Speaker 1: We are counting down for it.

545
00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:38,720
Speaker 2: Counting down.

546
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:41,399
Speaker 1: It was just we rallied so hard behind you.

547
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:43,240
Speaker 2: I have funny story the guy hit that if I

548
00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,080
Speaker 2: ended up pitching for me, and he walked into my

549
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,159
Speaker 2: to my office in spring training. He was like, you

550
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:49,520
Speaker 2: don't remember remember me? Dude.

551
00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:52,320
Speaker 1: I'm like, what remember what?

552
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:54,560
Speaker 2: And he's like, you hit your hit your under the

553
00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:56,159
Speaker 2: home run of me. I was like, oh, back to

554
00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,320
Speaker 2: back change ups I do it was. It was a

555
00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:02,080
Speaker 2: funny little sto. Yeah. I remember, like looking in the dugout.

556
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 2: There's a couple of things I think about the Game

557
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 2: seven home run that we'll get to, but the look

558
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 2: on my teammate's face with the one hundred home run

559
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 2: and the Game seven home run, when you look in

560
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:12,879
Speaker 2: the dugout A round it second and you guys were

561
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:16,199
Speaker 2: going absolutely crazy for me, Like, those are those moments

562
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 2: you can't get back, and to see the joy of

563
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 2: the people you're grinding with every single day that love

564
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:23,359
Speaker 2: you and are rooting for you, that that was a

565
00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:25,600
Speaker 2: special one for me. Here. You know, I got so

566
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 2: many standovations, little curtain calls that year, that.

567
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:33,399
Speaker 1: Washout when Yati at the end here we're playing the

568
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:34,040
Speaker 1: Cardinals as.

569
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,040
Speaker 2: The last series of the Sunday Night Baseball.

570
00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:40,600
Speaker 1: Sunday Night Baseball, and Rossi's first at bat, Yachti gives

571
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,199
Speaker 1: him his runway and gets a standing ovation. You do

572
00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:45,320
Speaker 1: a curtain call. But I thought that was so cool

573
00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:49,200
Speaker 1: that Yadi realized that moment, understood how much you meant

574
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:51,240
Speaker 1: to our team and gave you that moment.

575
00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:54,320
Speaker 2: Every He's such a professional, and there's so I must

576
00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:56,159
Speaker 2: have thanked him a million times every time I see him.

577
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,880
Speaker 2: But that was one of my favorite moments of my career.

578
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 2: Back on that that year and that game, you know,

579
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:07,120
Speaker 2: I got I hit, I got another ovation. He gave

580
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:08,480
Speaker 2: me two of them my second a bat, then I

581
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:10,680
Speaker 2: hit the home run. We end up winning I think

582
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:14,040
Speaker 2: two to one, and I gave us the lead. And

583
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:17,280
Speaker 2: then Lester goes in and tells Joe the story he

584
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:19,520
Speaker 2: talks about to take me out of the game. I

585
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:21,120
Speaker 2: wanted to kill Joe when he was coming out. Thought

586
00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:23,119
Speaker 2: he was taking Lester out. And I go out and

587
00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:25,440
Speaker 2: then you put your arm around me. I'm about to

588
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 2: start crying now, and I'm like trying to give everybody hugs.

589
00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 2: And I didn't know, I didn't even know what to do.

590
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,840
Speaker 2: Like that was one of my favorite games at that year,

591
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen. It was such a special moment. Everybody gave

592
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 2: me so much love. The fans gave me seven curtain calls,

593
00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:41,439
Speaker 2: and you know, it was just it was it was,

594
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:43,639
Speaker 2: I mean, the people here, we're going to do some

595
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 2: stuff about the fans and like we're so thankful for

596
00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:48,119
Speaker 2: Cubs fans or I am, at least, and I know

597
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:52,159
Speaker 2: you are but how you guys rallied around us, support us,

598
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:56,040
Speaker 2: loved our personalities, and I got so much love walking

599
00:26:56,040 --> 00:27:00,240
Speaker 2: around this town, going to restaurants and playing Grandpa. You

600
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,080
Speaker 2: still still get that's the only thing they know my

601
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:03,399
Speaker 2: real name. I think it's just Grandpa.

602
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 1: I know that that team too, That team we in

603
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,159
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, we had seven All Stars that year. I

604
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,679
Speaker 1: remember us rolling into San Diego and at the All

605
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,120
Speaker 1: Star game it was, you know, the pitchers weren't pitching.

606
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 1: I don't think Lesser or Areat they were pitching, so that.

607
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 2: It was nine of you guys, right, it was nine

608
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:20,640
Speaker 2: I think.

609
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 1: Seven, seven knows okay. But the clubhouse was dry in

610
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: lesser An area, like the fuck, so they like go

611
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 1: out and like buy all this stuff for the clubhouse,

612
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 1: and like we rolled in there like again, we didn't.

613
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 1: We never showed up teams. I didn't. I didn't feel

614
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,320
Speaker 1: like we were ever arrogant. I felt like it was

615
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:40,399
Speaker 1: really easy to root for us because it's been one

616
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,120
Speaker 1: hundred and eight years. There is a real curse here, right,

617
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,640
Speaker 1: Like there's so much that went into it. We went

618
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:48,480
Speaker 1: so far in fifteen, so I really felt like in sixteen,

619
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 1: even at the All Star Game, but going into the playoffs,

620
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 1: like we were America's team.

621
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:54,640
Speaker 2: We were dancing and I remember like they played whoop

622
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 2: there it is every time on the on the home run,

623
00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:00,199
Speaker 2: and like the whole dugout, that small tiny dugout was

624
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 2: high five and the dance, we all all the coaches

625
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,440
Speaker 2: had their high five. Speaking of we had a little

626
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:06,400
Speaker 2: handshake pre game.

627
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:07,400
Speaker 1: Do you remember that we did.

628
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 2: We were that.

629
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 1: We had a little uh we called it the cock bump. Yeah,

630
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 1: we had we had where I never wore a cup

631
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:15,679
Speaker 1: in my career, but Rossi did, so it hurt me

632
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,679
Speaker 1: a little bit more than him, but we would exchange.

633
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:19,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, we had.

634
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:20,159
Speaker 1: We had that.

635
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,200
Speaker 2: We had to tell that with the that's a J

636
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 2: one We should say that for J and details that story.

637
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 1: We did that after homers. But our handshake was just

638
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:28,240
Speaker 1: it was very professional.

639
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 2: Yeah. He was always love like he was fun loving

640
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,720
Speaker 2: getting into his routine and then the game. Right before

641
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,399
Speaker 2: the game, he kind of like put on this' is

642
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 2: go time kind.

643
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 1: Of like I always said I was a switch guy,

644
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:44,200
Speaker 1: So like he wasn't he when he was playing every

645
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 1: fifth day or a couple of times a week.

646
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably you'd come in.

647
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 1: And he'd be like, in game mode, right, I'm playing

648
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:52,440
Speaker 1: every day. I planned playing one sixty two. I think

649
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 1: of sixteen, I played one sixty or one sixty one.

650
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 1: So I always said I'm a switch guy, Like I'm

651
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,280
Speaker 1: I keep my mind off as long as I could

652
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 1: until I have to turn the switch on and then

653
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 1: I'm go. And he couldn't understand that. So like when

654
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 1: I'm joking around thirty five minutes before the game, He's.

655
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 2: Like, get the fuck in, and I go russy, I'm

656
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 2: always locked in.

657
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:13,000
Speaker 1: I'm always locked in.

658
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 2: But I would go to me be like, good luck today,

659
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 2: ann looking right now? Yeah, he just stayed for as

660
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 2: luck has nothing to do with it. Well, it has

661
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 2: nothing to do well.

662
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 1: In fifteen, at the end of the year, you came

663
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: up to me after I think I grounded out and

664
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 1: Joe took us out of the game as the last

665
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:30,960
Speaker 1: game of the year and we already going to the

666
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 1: wild card. He took me out and I was pissed,

667
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 1: and you walked up to me, and I think I

668
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 1: was already annoyed at you from a Pittsburgh story a

669
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 1: week before. You wore me out for not being out

670
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 1: there for first pitch. So I'm like, this fucking guy's

671
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 1: it's it's September. A lot of your teammates are. You're

672
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 1: over him at that point. And you come up to

673
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:50,200
Speaker 1: me after I ground it out and you go hey,

674
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what the fuck you're gonna say to me?

675
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 1: And you just go you shake my ego, congratulations on

676
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 1: a great year. And I was I went from like

677
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 1: I wanted to kill you, like, oh, thank you. Gave

678
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 1: you a big hug. Remember that. So next year, that's

679
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 1: why we started the handshake.

680
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 2: I remember that. I remember that you were definitely ready

681
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 2: to kill me, but you were. It was it was done.

682
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 2: We we had a playoff spot locked in and yeah,

683
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 2: it's like I think we forget about telling guys like, man,

684
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 2: the journey's over. Now we start a new one. You

685
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 2: know that reason. Let's get let's get to let's get

686
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 2: to some some the playoffs, the playoffs, SA, we got

687
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 2: to get.

688
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 1: Go to that game one. San Francisco were the best team.

689
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 1: The Giants are coming off of their every other year

690
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:36,160
Speaker 1: even year World Series runs. So they won in ten, twelve, fourteen.

691
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 1: Now at sixteen, and I'm in my head, I'm like, damn,

692
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:42,080
Speaker 1: like I'm playing the Giants right like, we got to

693
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 1: go out West. I personally, my numbers at AT and

694
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 1: T at the time are the worst of my career.

695
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: I've zero home runs. I think I hit under two

696
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 1: hundred there. It's just I don't know why I never

697
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,960
Speaker 1: hit well in that ballpark. But Game one, Hobby hits

698
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 1: that massive home run into the wind. Thought it was

699
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: going to go on to Waveland and it goes in

700
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 1: the basket basket and we went won nothing off Quato.

701
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 1: Who was Del? I think in the contention that year,

702
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: Del and we go I think it was game three

703
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: or four when we do this crazy backpick with me,

704
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: you Hobvey.

705
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 2: I wanted to bring that up. And I know we're

706
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 2: in the playoffs, but like you were, there's only so

707
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 2: many guys that got to play with that were like

708
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 2: locked in as much as I was to picking guys off,

709
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,480
Speaker 2: and you were so into I remember the game we

710
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 2: ended in Washington when ron Dome was getting getting getting

711
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 2: a little squirrely. Remember and it was no it was

712
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 2: my first base Robinson or something.

713
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we did one here too, Yeah, yeah, we.

714
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 2: Had a couple of good ones and yeah for that

715
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 2: the one I remember Game three, Remember Arietta. We talked

716
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 2: about this a little bit, tacks Bumgardner Deep. We're up

717
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 2: like three nothing, and it was so loud and our

718
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 2: dugout was going crazy. And then I pulled the whole

719
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 2: veteran card and was like, in my mind, I'm like,

720
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 2: everybody thinks we just won the World Series. Everybody's going crazy,

721
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 2: like long way to go. I think we're in the

722
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 2: third inning and uh second or third inning, and sure

723
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 2: enough they came back and beat us. But I was

724
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,239
Speaker 2: the old man, like, keep it together, people, we got

725
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 2: a long way to go. But that was a nut.

726
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 2: That was a crazy crazy, that.

727
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 1: Serious, was that serious intense five games too, the first game,

728
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 1: the first series two. We're nervous. We know our expectations

729
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: are up here, we're the best team in the league.

730
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 1: We have World Series or busts really all over us.

731
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 1: So but that backpick was just another, I think symbol

732
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,000
Speaker 1: of our team of how loose Joe let us play

733
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 1: we're calling. So the backpick, I'll take you through it.

734
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 1: It's a bunt play where there's a guy in first,

735
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 1: the pitcher's up, or we know the guy's bunting.

736
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 2: You're the best the way business.

737
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:48,360
Speaker 1: I come all the way up basically like ten feet

738
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 1: from the hitter. If he hits the ball at me,

739
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 1: I'm dead. I understand that. I just play the odds

740
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 1: of like there's no way he's going to hit it

741
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 1: at me, right, Thank god, I never got a hit

742
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: at me. But then Hobby comes around behind the first

743
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 1: runner after the pitch and ross he picks it off

744
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 1: and it's a ballsy player at the time. Yeah, but

745
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,960
Speaker 1: we do it, and it's just momentum for us. But again,

746
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 1: like Joe, let us play that.

747
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 2: When you trust. Hobby was so good and he was

748
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 2: such his baseball IQ's some of the best I've ever

749
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 2: been around, Like he knew what he was doing, and

750
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 2: you trusted I could just let it go because his

751
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 2: hands were so good and he was going to block

752
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 2: it up, saying with you when you were back there

753
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 2: and just a regular backpick, you know, like if you

754
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 2: have trust in your teammates that they're going to sacrifice

755
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 2: and do all they can to either keep it in

756
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 2: front of it's a bad throw or be on time

757
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 2: to get there. Like that's the stuff we had within

758
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 2: this team. We had a lot of good trusts. Talking

759
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 2: about Game four, against the Giants.

760
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean literally is just talking a hundred pence

761
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 1: about this. When we were out in San Francisco and

762
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 1: we were down three runs going into the ninth we

763
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 1: had Johnny Quato. They did Johnny Quato go in Game five. Yeah,

764
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 1: and he's nasty and he had had good success. He

765
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 1: had good success off us when he was in Cincinnati.

766
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 1: He had our number. And we came back in that

767
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 1: ninth inning and I fell like a did. Not only

768
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 1: did we party in San Francisco and on the play home,

769
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 1: but we ran out of there like thieves steal in

770
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 1: that game.

771
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 2: Everybody was getting I mean, balls were up the middle,

772
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 2: Contrere's hobby like things. Everything was going our way in

773
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 2: that inning and they were just Bruce Boach kept just

774
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:19,759
Speaker 2: rolling guys out of the bullpen and didn't matter.

775
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 1: It was just like a sign of like when you

776
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: really look back at that World Series run, winning that game,

777
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:29,359
Speaker 1: coming back down three in the ninth we were down

778
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 1: two to one versus the Dodgers. Right then we come

779
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,919
Speaker 1: back and win in Game six. So we win three

780
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:38,400
Speaker 1: games or four games two, Like we faced our adversity

781
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,839
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, right, no doubt we had we were

782
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 1: down two to one. We get back to Wrigley, we

783
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 1: tie it. Then we have Kershaw.

784
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 2: Game six, when you remember the whole Retael with Caesar

785
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,439
Speaker 2: using his bat and that whole thing, like like we've

786
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 2: got so many stories, but then our stories that these

787
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:56,880
Speaker 2: other guys and and memories that they have of just

788
00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:00,200
Speaker 2: watching from different perspective, like it's been so fun fun

789
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 2: to do this and that that. That Dodger series, I mean,

790
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:03,359
Speaker 2: they were good.

791
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 1: Forget, they're really good. I think, always good, you know

792
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 1: what I mean. And there was a game where Kenley

793
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:12,799
Speaker 1: Jensen was pitching and I was using Matt Caesar's bat,

794
00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:16,360
Speaker 1: or I was using my bat and he jammed me.

795
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 1: My bat shattered, but he didn't cover first base and

796
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 1: I got a hit. We lost the game, but for me,

797
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:25,719
Speaker 1: I was kind of grinding up until that point and

798
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 1: I walked in the clubhoufs. We lost, but in the

799
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 1: playoffs you have to be real quick, you know, you

800
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 1: gotta be like like a goldfish ted Lasso, right, like

801
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:35,319
Speaker 1: memory of a goldfish. So after the game, I was

802
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 1: just like, that's that's it for me, Like that little

803
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 1: meaningless hit. I'm about to go off next game. I

804
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: think I got three or four hits, hit a home

805
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 1: run and then carried that into the post you roll

806
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 1: into the World Series Game six, one of my more

807
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 1: memorable home runs, hitting a home run off Clinton Kershaw.

808
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 2: Not about me, it is about you. That was the bomb.

809
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:57,319
Speaker 1: Then we clinch at Wrigley, like the game was at

810
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,160
Speaker 1: the front front. Yeah, from one hand, and it it's

811
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 1: like game clinching game at Wrigley to send us to

812
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 1: the World Series, and the party outside of Wrigley, like

813
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:12,560
Speaker 1: the fans, the emotion it was like it was so insane.

814
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:16,759
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. It actually annoyed me because I

815
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 1: was like, we still have a job to do, and

816
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:22,840
Speaker 1: like Cubs fans were almost like just so happy we

817
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:24,879
Speaker 1: got to the World Series, like that was good enough,

818
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,279
Speaker 1: and on the inside we're like no, no, no, like

819
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 1: we need to finish the job.

820
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 2: I remember thinking like, I mean, we had an epic

821
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 2: party at Lester's after that, which was crazy. But I

822
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 2: remember thinking like I thought, I was so worried about

823
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 2: my last year and like wanted to go out, you know,

824
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:43,360
Speaker 2: as best we could, and remember like taking a step

825
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 2: further than we went the year before and fifteen for

826
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 2: these people bringing a world series back here, like I

827
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 2: sense I had a sense of like, oh hit, now

828
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 2: we go like it doesn't you know a little bit,

829
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 2: like we've we've were back to where further than we

830
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 2: were last year. Like now it's all gravy, go win

831
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:01,800
Speaker 2: this thing, you know, not me I was.

832
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,799
Speaker 1: I was head down in the tunnel like we need

833
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,800
Speaker 1: to win this. Like yeah, this was cool. The celebration,

834
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 1: it really but it's going to be better when we

835
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 1: went And obviously it was a lot better when we

836
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:16,359
Speaker 1: want and all that, but I remember Game one here

837
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 1: is like we didn't really give them a lot to

838
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:22,479
Speaker 1: cheer about. But the energy in the stadium of Game

839
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 1: one or I'm sorry, Game threeley was just off. It

840
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 1: was like everyone was nervous. I don't know if it

841
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 1: was the corporate money that was here, but everyone was

842
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 1: just like quiet. The energy I remember, like every guy said,

843
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 1: it is like what's going on here? Like usually we

844
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 1: had fans on our feet, like if it was a

845
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 1: two oh pitch and we were hitting, everyone get wild,

846
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:44,880
Speaker 1: and that Game three was just I don't know, it

847
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 1: was nerve wracking.

848
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 2: We've got to get to an episode with fans for

849
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:50,239
Speaker 2: this because I want to know thoughts and I think

850
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 2: we're going to try to get some some celebrities and

851
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 2: some guys that we know and get some fans perspective,

852
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:58,240
Speaker 2: because there was that they want that fans roller coaster

853
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:00,880
Speaker 2: of emotions. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we had our own, We

854
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 2: had our own stories. I want to know the fan

855
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:05,800
Speaker 2: stories of like what they were thinking, what they were feeling,

856
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 2: what they were talking to about with their families.

857
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 1: Yeah. And then we roll into the World Series, right,

858
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:15,120
Speaker 1: we split in Cleveland. It's iconic World Series. The Indians

859
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: are having won in what fifty something years, We're going

860
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:20,839
Speaker 1: we're one hundred and eight years. Both fan bases were

861
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 1: so happy. It really was like I played the Guardians

862
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 1: with the Yankees and those fans were absolutely ruthless to us.

863
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:30,879
Speaker 1: They hated us. But when we were in the World

864
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:32,759
Speaker 1: Series and sixteen with the Cubs, it was just like

865
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:36,239
Speaker 1: everyone you saw, everyone's just so happy, right like, no

866
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 1: matter what, the outcome was going to be good because

867
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 1: one fan base is going to break their their own drought.

868
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:47,359
Speaker 1: What was cool winning Game five? Well, that's my favorite game.

869
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:49,279
Speaker 1: We go well, we go down three to one, right,

870
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 1: and we had been down three oh last year of

871
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 1: the Mets, and it was like we almost deflated in fifteen,

872
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 1: and when we lost in sixteen and we went down

873
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 1: three one, I remember you saying, like, most of the

874
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: times we've won three games in a row. How many

875
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 1: times have we won three games in a row this year?

876
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 2: Well, I remember, I remember, I don't know who it was.

877
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 2: My back was turned after game four, putting my stuff

878
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,440
Speaker 2: on my locker, and somebody threw their glove and their

879
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 2: lock like pissed off, and I was like, I couldn't

880
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:21,799
Speaker 2: wait my next start after game one where I feel

881
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 2: like I went scouting report heavy rather than John Lester's strengths,

882
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 2: I couldn't wait to get to game five, maybe my

883
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 2: last game of my career ever playing because John's not

884
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:35,919
Speaker 2: starting another game and it's here at Wrigley Field. I'm

885
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 2: going to retire afterwards, and I just want to feel

886
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:40,240
Speaker 2: I want to take this field in a World Series

887
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:44,359
Speaker 2: with Johnny Lester and the boys. And so whoever threw

888
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 2: their glove, I remember saying, no, no, no, like like anybody

889
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 2: give their left nut to be here tomorrow playing game

890
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 2: five in the World Series at Riggy Field. There's you know,

891
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:56,799
Speaker 2: twenty eight other teams home sitting there on the couch

892
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:58,759
Speaker 2: is gonna be watching us tomorrow. And I remember thinking

893
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:00,920
Speaker 2: of that and then you say to VJ.

894
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,399
Speaker 1: No to bussy, Bussy, and VJ I was like, no,

895
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:06,719
Speaker 1: it's not how many times you get knocked down? How

896
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 1: many times you get back up? And I was like,

897
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:11,839
Speaker 1: We're putting Rocky one and every single Rocky on them,

898
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 1: every single TV TV when we come in tomorrow, no

899
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:18,680
Speaker 1: Baseball on the on the TVs. It's all Rocky like inspiration, right,

900
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 1: And like then we started doing the boxing and you

901
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 1: walked in that day and.

902
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 2: They put on dent and you come in doing all

903
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 2: this and and just kept screaming.

904
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:28,879
Speaker 1: Like, it's not how many times you get knocked down,

905
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 1: it's how many times you get back up?

906
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:33,279
Speaker 2: Adrian, Adrian and on top of the on top of

907
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 2: the couches and the U and the little bar we

908
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:38,239
Speaker 2: had in the locker room. Like that was that was

909
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:41,800
Speaker 2: an iconic moment because I think, like, just how loose

910
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:46,360
Speaker 2: you know, your leadership looking back was so much about

911
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 2: taking the field every day and you're one of the

912
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 2: horses that had to produce, But your leadership was You're loose,

913
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 2: You're fun you always. I tell people this whole time

914
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 2: you always make sure everybody else is having a good time.

915
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 2: When we go out, you're making sure the group's having

916
00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 2: fun and you're just enjoying and everybody else's enjoyment. Like

917
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 2: that's how you you're You're wired that way. And so

918
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 2: as a teammate, it's fun when you come in and

919
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 2: and you're kind of veteran guy that had been there

920
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 2: in Chicago and we know how hard you grind, but

921
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 2: you're loose. You're fine, Like, let's forget about everything else.

922
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 2: Let's go Rocky. You know, everybody knows Rocky. So that

923
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 2: was a big That was a big, big moment for me.

924
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 2: So we got to fast forward to game seven?

925
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: Can we we win Game five?

926
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:26,399
Speaker 2: We win Game five?

927
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:29,719
Speaker 1: Amazing for me actually looking back ten years that I

928
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:31,960
Speaker 1: was literally just sitting at my house and I have

929
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:35,360
Speaker 1: the Game five jersey framed and it's like World Series

930
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,800
Speaker 1: Game five, the World Series patch, and I didn't understand.

931
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 1: I just clicked the significance that's the only World Series

932
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 1: game we won at Wrigley and what, well, look up

933
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:47,839
Speaker 1: the numbers he started that game, you know what I mean?

934
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:50,359
Speaker 1: But that game was such a grind and chatting and

935
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:53,800
Speaker 1: grinding through that throwing I think two and a third innings.

936
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 2: I remember Eddie Better gave me a shout out during

937
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 2: the during the seventh thing stretch on that one. Yeah,

938
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 2: yeah talking, but it may retire, but it would always

939
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:04,240
Speaker 2: be in our hearts and never forgotten.

940
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 1: I don't know.

941
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:07,840
Speaker 2: It was unbelievable, Like a what a cool moment that was, Like,

942
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 2: there were so many That's my favorite game because I

943
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 2: remember I was so jacked up before that game and

944
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 2: Lester had Jason Alden song playing. I had my I mean,

945
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 2: I had told him one of those moments you're talking

946
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 2: about earlier, Like I'm walking in and we talked about this,

947
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 2: but I told him like we usually go over signs

948
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 2: and I was like, hey, I love you man. He's like, bro,

949
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 2: go do that right now. You know, he's like game

950
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 2: face all the time. He's like, bro, don't do that

951
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:33,360
Speaker 2: right now. And so I was gut behind there and

952
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 2: I was streaming the top of my lungs to get

953
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 2: all my energy and singing a song, yeah, singing out

954
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:41,280
Speaker 2: Dean song. But that was that was that was my favorite.

955
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 2: What a cool I mean, there's so many emotions going

956
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 2: into that one and we win.

957
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:48,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, our mindset at least the mindset I was thrown

958
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 1: out there in that the universe was whatever we got

959
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:52,520
Speaker 1: to do to wing game five. We knew we were

960
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 1: going to win Game six, like that was our mind.

961
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 1: Like well, boat Race Game six, which we ended up

962
00:42:56,560 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 1: doing winning game six, and then game sevens games, Well,

963
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 1: you helped just.

964
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 2: Boath race at that big home run and they're late

965
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 2: was huge, the whole World Series home run.

966
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:08,919
Speaker 1: I'm sorry about it, yes, but we get to game

967
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:14,600
Speaker 1: seven and we're pregame for the World Series. I did

968
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: not take batting practice once because when you get to

969
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:20,280
Speaker 1: the World Series, you have you have so many different routines,

970
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: especially playing here in Chicago, you have to have a

971
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:25,319
Speaker 1: few different routines with the day game, with different night games.

972
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: We usually have late travel. So KB and I didn't

973
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 1: take KB actually took VP only in game seven, and

974
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 1: he took it for like a round and he tells

975
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 1: the story about it and it's hilarious. But I didn't

976
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 1: go out there once because the media is just crazy.

977
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 1: It's so much people talking to you. It's not your

978
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 1: normal routine. So before game seven, I'm just chilling, like

979
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:49,319
Speaker 1: playing playing Mario Kart. He got pissed off at us.

980
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:53,879
Speaker 1: The game was until eight o'clock. I remember the night

981
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:55,840
Speaker 1: before sleeping. I'm up at like four in the morning

982
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 1: just staring at the ceiling like, holy shit, I got

983
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:01,479
Speaker 1: to sleep like I'm not going to four pm. Yeah.

984
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 2: I woke up that morning. My son Cole is sicker

985
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:07,719
Speaker 2: and the heck and coming out of both ends, and

986
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:10,279
Speaker 2: I'm like, what is going on? And he I guess

987
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 2: he was like five at the time. So I'm going

988
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 2: off to my last game my career, waking up early

989
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:17,239
Speaker 2: like well, this is a good distraction in the morning,

990
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:18,719
Speaker 2: trying to take care of him a little bit, and

991
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 2: then walk to the field. I walk in, It's like

992
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:23,319
Speaker 2: all the boys are locked in on Mario Kart. I'm like,

993
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:26,280
Speaker 2: what are we doing? Nobody, no Mary.

994
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,840
Speaker 1: In Cleveland we played they had they had a like

995
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:32,840
Speaker 1: an arcade game at Arcade Machine four player Mario Kart,

996
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 1: and we just I mean, that's got our competitive juices going.

997
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:37,400
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, looking back, I worried about shit that I

998
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:39,680
Speaker 2: shouldn't have worried about, for sure, and trying to keep

999
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:42,480
Speaker 2: everybody locked in like you guys were already you know,

1000
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:44,439
Speaker 2: like you said, it was already written, and you guys

1001
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 2: were were so good at that point, and like but

1002
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 2: I remember and then Caesar and everybody's like, bro, you

1003
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 2: all right your last game. Everyone's like, don't worry about me,

1004
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 2: lock in, I don't care about me right now, let's

1005
00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 2: win this game.

1006
00:44:57,360 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's just win. Before the game we're playing Rocky.

1007
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:05,080
Speaker 1: This is probably fifty minutes, fifty five minutes before the game.

1008
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:08,200
Speaker 2: And we did this before game six, right five six.

1009
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,120
Speaker 1: And now this game seven. So this is my third

1010
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 1: act of what I'm about to tell here. So before

1011
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 1: the game we started playing Rocky, I stripped down to nothing.

1012
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:21,880
Speaker 1: I'm completely naked and I'm I'm up on the table

1013
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 1: dancing like it's not I'm just giving the same Rocky

1014
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 1: speech that everyone's tired of. Now, it's not how many

1015
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 1: times you get knocked down, it's not how many times

1016
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 1: you get up, Like we got this fuck, then we're

1017
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:35,319
Speaker 1: gonna win this. Like literally just putting myself out there,

1018
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:38,839
Speaker 1: making everyone try to be loose. I'm obviously as loose

1019
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:41,760
Speaker 1: as I can be. I'm completely naked and I'm dancing,

1020
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 1: and hector On Doone comes and like sprays me with

1021
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:48,840
Speaker 1: like the shoe cleaner stuff and like ruined, like my

1022
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:51,640
Speaker 1: whole like hoorah thing that I had done for Game five.

1023
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 1: In Game six and I was like, set me off.

1024
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:57,319
Speaker 1: I was so pissed, and I went poudy into the

1025
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 1: into the showers, and then Ross he comes in and goes, hey,

1026
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 1: it's not how many times getting knocked down you get

1027
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:06,760
Speaker 1: your ass back out there and you show the boys,

1028
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:08,560
Speaker 1: it's how many times you get up. So I ran

1029
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 1: out of the shower, so you're right, get back up,

1030
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 1: start dancing again, restarted the song, restart, restarted the song,

1031
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 1: get back into the shower, and then I remember going

1032
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:20,239
Speaker 1: out to the field and the backstory to the dance

1033
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:24,319
Speaker 1: and naked was There'd be time to time throughout my

1034
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 1: entire big league career that if I was in a

1035
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:32,120
Speaker 1: really bad rut or a slump, one of my coaches,

1036
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:34,400
Speaker 1: Jamie Quirk, suggested, when I was really young, hey, why

1037
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:37,879
Speaker 1: don't you just hit naked? So one day, I think

1038
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:39,759
Speaker 1: the first time I ever did it was in Cincinnati.

1039
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:42,839
Speaker 1: They just walk in there. I'm like, fuck it, And

1040
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:45,799
Speaker 1: then I just developed like maybe once or twice a year,

1041
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 1: if I was in a rut, I would just close

1042
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:50,200
Speaker 1: the door. No one ever know it's coming, and I

1043
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 1: just walked completely naked. The coaches would die laughing. They'd

1044
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:55,200
Speaker 1: be throwing me BP and I just hit for like

1045
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:56,799
Speaker 1: ten minutes, and I'd just be like, ah, I'm just

1046
00:46:56,840 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 1: so sure enough every game. I would a good game,

1047
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:01,839
Speaker 1: every single game.

1048
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:05,719
Speaker 2: There may or may not be photos of this, and it's, uh,

1049
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:08,279
Speaker 2: it's a nice it's a nice little it pops up

1050
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 2: on my feet every once in a while and puts

1051
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:10,799
Speaker 2: a smile on my face.

1052
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 1: Feat your photo.

1053
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:14,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, I might need to throw it in the contact photo,

1054
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:17,840
Speaker 2: but it's uh, it's uh, it's definitely was one of

1055
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:21,319
Speaker 2: those things again where he kept everybody loose and we

1056
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:24,640
Speaker 2: needed that, like that that three game speech, the Rocky,

1057
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 2: all of us just shaking our head and like here

1058
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:30,480
Speaker 2: goes Riz again. Game seven and then you know, ron

1059
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:33,400
Speaker 2: Don tried to tried to put a little put a

1060
00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 2: little salt in your pancakes. Whatever. Yeah, and you came

1061
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 2: back out and and and we did it.

1062
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:43,759
Speaker 1: But I remember after that, there's a long walk in

1063
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:47,160
Speaker 1: Cleveland to the to the batting cage, and I would

1064
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:50,200
Speaker 1: go to the batting cage in Hinsky, John Eric Hinsky

1065
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:52,400
Speaker 1: and John Mayer hitting coaches are in the batting cage

1066
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 1: and it's like I'm the I'm usually the last one

1067
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:57,239
Speaker 1: to get down there. I do my whole routine and

1068
00:47:57,280 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 1: there's maybe four words set. It was just like tunnel

1069
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:04,080
Speaker 1: vision walking down David Ortiz and the Fox crewers in

1070
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:06,480
Speaker 1: the hallway, like I just give them like the locked

1071
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:09,160
Speaker 1: in look, like give them hello, David Ortiz a legend

1072
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:13,240
Speaker 1: and I'm just maybe said four words to those guys.

1073
00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:15,239
Speaker 1: And they were just playing music or no, I didn't

1074
00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 1: like to hit with music, and through to me, took

1075
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:21,239
Speaker 1: my two rounds and they just go, let's fucking go.

1076
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:24,319
Speaker 1: Walk onto the field for warm up, and they had

1077
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:28,280
Speaker 1: been playing Phil Collins Into the Night and like literally

1078
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 1: there's fifty thousand people there and Phil Collins Into the

1079
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:34,440
Speaker 1: Night comes and I'm just doing my pregame stretches and

1080
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:37,680
Speaker 1: like the adrenaline, I'm getting goosebump talking about every time

1081
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:39,759
Speaker 1: I hear that song now it takes me back to

1082
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:43,359
Speaker 1: like this moment of stillness before game seven of just

1083
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 1: like I took in the whole stadium and I heard

1084
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:49,520
Speaker 1: nothing except that song and it was like the coolest

1085
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:50,560
Speaker 1: moment for me before games.

1086
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:52,440
Speaker 2: Stuff. That's it. I got a chance to do that

1087
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:55,279
Speaker 2: on deck in Boston, and I tell people all the

1088
00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:59,799
Speaker 2: time like that changed my thinking about prep sometimes, like

1089
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 2: being able to step outside of kind of your skin

1090
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 2: a little bit, or your your thoughts and your routine

1091
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:07,720
Speaker 2: and just taking that in, Like what a special moment

1092
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 2: you got for yourself, Like you you never forget that moment.

1093
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:14,800
Speaker 2: Steven Drew hit a home run in game six that

1094
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:16,360
Speaker 2: put us up big. As soon as he hit, I

1095
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:17,719
Speaker 2: know he was gone. I was on deck and I

1096
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 2: look to the crowd behind me in Boston, You're so

1097
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 2: close there, and then I just I remember the hands

1098
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 2: just going up in Unison and like it's slow motion.

1099
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:27,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, everything is slow motion.

1100
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:30,000
Speaker 2: And it's like I can't believe I took that in

1101
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:32,080
Speaker 2: and how that played out and the same the same

1102
00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:35,760
Speaker 2: story for you. But what a crazy game, dude.

1103
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:39,279
Speaker 1: We go up early, right, yeah, we go early? In

1104
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:43,239
Speaker 1: game six we were winning big, well it felt big.

1105
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:44,560
Speaker 1: I think we had a five or six run lead,

1106
00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:46,279
Speaker 1: and all the boys and the dog are like yeah

1107
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:49,719
Speaker 1: fuck yeah. And Rossi's pacing. The games are fucking over

1108
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:54,799
Speaker 1: games on over like beat red rightm Like Rossie, this

1109
00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 1: games I could finish this game like and obviously no

1110
00:49:57,600 --> 00:49:59,279
Speaker 1: game is you're never count but just the way the

1111
00:49:59,320 --> 00:49:59,680
Speaker 1: game was.

1112
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:02,200
Speaker 2: Going, Game seven was no reader or was it Raj?

1113
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:07,560
Speaker 1: So we're up right, and at whatever ending it was,

1114
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:09,880
Speaker 1: I came up to ROSSI and this is the glass

1115
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 1: Case of Emotion story where it's I go to you, bro,

1116
00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:15,600
Speaker 1: I'm so nervous right now, Like I'm a glass case

1117
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:17,080
Speaker 1: of emotion, right.

1118
00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:20,640
Speaker 2: And I gave terrible advice yea, stellists the next But.

1119
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 1: The reason I did that is because I knew how

1120
00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:26,760
Speaker 1: stressed he was, and like, in that game, it's so intense,

1121
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:30,480
Speaker 1: and I go up almost I'm partly joking about it,

1122
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:34,160
Speaker 1: but also like, dude, like this is fucking nuts, right,

1123
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:37,560
Speaker 1: and they it gets aired and it's just became this

1124
00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:42,239
Speaker 1: this point clip, it's gonna get worse and it's totally

1125
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:44,560
Speaker 1: gonna get worse. And then Raj hits the homer.

1126
00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 2: And I knew, like you just know, like sporting events

1127
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:51,040
Speaker 2: and the best of the best, and you know college

1128
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:53,160
Speaker 2: basketball is going on right now in the World Series

1129
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:56,400
Speaker 2: last year with the Dodgers and the Blue Jays, like

1130
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 2: the back and forth, and you.

1131
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:01,160
Speaker 1: Just know, well, you you came in, you came in

1132
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 1: in Game seven, him and Lester come out of the

1133
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:06,279
Speaker 1: hit the fans saying, and you'll get in the Travis Wood.

1134
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:08,720
Speaker 1: When Travis Wood tells the story of them in the bullpen,

1135
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 1: it's literally like you're gonna hear this story, like this

1136
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 1: is what was going on in the biggest game of

1137
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 1: World Series history. So they come in. Lester spikes the ball,

1138
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:21,080
Speaker 1: concusses ROSSI like, ROSSI has no idea was two guys

1139
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 1: score on it?

1140
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:24,360
Speaker 2: When I almost killed you matter the swinging bunt from Kittnus,

1141
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:26,160
Speaker 2: I just came in. He swinging bunt, and I turn

1142
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 2: and spin throw launch it. You try to save me

1143
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 2: and Kidness hits you. That's why they go second third.

1144
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:35,200
Speaker 1: I always said on those plays, I will always usually bail.

1145
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:37,680
Speaker 1: During the regular season, I always said to everyone, like

1146
00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:40,080
Speaker 1: when it really mattered, I would let it out.

1147
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:41,000
Speaker 2: It matters.

1148
00:51:41,080 --> 00:51:43,719
Speaker 1: And in Game seven, you literally Kidness is like a

1149
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:46,239
Speaker 1: freaking He's like a running by, he's like a full back,

1150
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:48,200
Speaker 1: and he crushed They crushed you.

1151
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:50,680
Speaker 2: They crushed you, And I'm like, oh God, just got

1152
00:51:50,719 --> 00:51:54,840
Speaker 2: in this game. John is no strike, breaking ball still indoor.

1153
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 2: So he shakes the breaking ball. I'm like, Okay, he's

1154
00:51:57,560 --> 00:51:59,120
Speaker 2: gonna bounce it. Well, he took it literally is like

1155
00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:01,439
Speaker 2: a forty foot and I go to blog. It hits

1156
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:03,720
Speaker 2: me in the mask. I go to stand up. Everybody's

1157
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:05,360
Speaker 2: like you, lily, you got knocked out. It's like I

1158
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:07,759
Speaker 2: rolled my ankle. The next day, I remember waking up

1159
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:09,560
Speaker 2: that why's my ankle hurt? And I watched the video

1160
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:11,719
Speaker 2: and that was why. But two runs come in and

1161
00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:14,080
Speaker 2: I'm like, wait a minute, I'm I'm the defensive guy.

1162
00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:16,239
Speaker 2: I'm not. I'm not supposed to let runs in this.

1163
00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:19,080
Speaker 2: I just let the and the place went absolutely nuts.

1164
00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:21,640
Speaker 2: Think of the momentum kind of switched to their their

1165
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:24,480
Speaker 2: their side. And I remember getting in after we got

1166
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:27,239
Speaker 2: out of the inning and John's like, what do you got.

1167
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:29,800
Speaker 2: I'm like, Bro, your ship's nasty. I should have blocked

1168
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:32,359
Speaker 2: that ball, like you're throwing the ball great. And then

1169
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 2: I got to I got to get I had to

1170
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:35,439
Speaker 2: get on deck. I was I was second that inning,

1171
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:38,560
Speaker 2: and and I had to get loose and start trying

1172
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:39,680
Speaker 2: to focus on facing.

1173
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:44,480
Speaker 1: You come up facing Andrew Miller, Game seven, your last

1174
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:47,400
Speaker 1: of bat ever in the Big League. Game seven home run,

1175
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 1: oldest player in Major League Baseball history. Thank you, thank

1176
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:53,840
Speaker 1: you lord. It was bro I mean, like, what ending

1177
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:57,560
Speaker 1: well we had. I remember thinking, you're in the league

1178
00:52:57,640 --> 00:53:00,359
Speaker 1: because you're catching. Yeah yeah, and your leadership career twenty

1179
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 1: hitter you let two runs in catching, and then on

1180
00:53:03,719 --> 00:53:06,440
Speaker 1: the offensive side you hit a home run. It was

1181
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:08,480
Speaker 1: completely the scribble of slipped it totally.

1182
00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:10,280
Speaker 2: Well, what I used to tell you when you were struggling?

1183
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:10,720
Speaker 2: Do you remember?

1184
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:12,719
Speaker 1: I remember I was struggling one time and I look

1185
00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:14,799
Speaker 1: at Rossi and I'm complaining about my swing. He looks

1186
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:16,719
Speaker 1: at me, he goes, bro, don't ask me. I fuck,

1187
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:18,120
Speaker 1: you had two twenty my whole career.

1188
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:20,359
Speaker 2: Imagine going to work every day with my swings. Well

1189
00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:23,640
Speaker 2: he is to tell him, like, you got a good one. No.

1190
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:26,319
Speaker 2: I remember, like, you know, doing some homework and watching

1191
00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:27,719
Speaker 2: I didn't watch a lot of video, but I remember

1192
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:29,080
Speaker 2: the World Series, like, if I'm on facing by, he's

1193
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:32,120
Speaker 2: probably gonna be a lefty. I had good numbers off

1194
00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:34,400
Speaker 2: Andrew Miller when Andrew Miller was in Florida and he

1195
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:37,000
Speaker 2: was going ninety one, not when he I called him

1196
00:53:37,040 --> 00:53:39,920
Speaker 2: in Boston. We were on a championship team together ninety

1197
00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:44,840
Speaker 2: six with freaking that nasty slider. So just remember watching

1198
00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:47,560
Speaker 2: some video and him shaking to heater. Uh, and he

1199
00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:50,680
Speaker 2: did that within my bat and before that last pitch,

1200
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 2: I knew he had had me one two and I

1201
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:55,759
Speaker 2: was just trying to put good swing on it. And

1202
00:53:55,920 --> 00:53:58,719
Speaker 2: sure enough, Raj, Raj goes back like this and I'm like,

1203
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:02,440
Speaker 2: if this dude catches this, I'm gonna kill myself. And

1204
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:04,480
Speaker 2: it went out, and thank god, I was just like,

1205
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:06,120
Speaker 2: you know, not even know You're.

1206
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:08,480
Speaker 1: So in the dungout too. We're so hyped, and the

1207
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 1: momentum comes back to us.

1208
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:13,120
Speaker 2: Well the picture I've got too of all you guys.

1209
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:16,920
Speaker 1: Just like, it's just we've met. Everyone cared so much

1210
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:19,799
Speaker 1: about our teammates in sixteen, and that's really another reason

1211
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:23,120
Speaker 1: that this team was so special. We're on defense. Raj

1212
00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:26,160
Speaker 1: comes up. Chapman's in the game. Chapman has been our

1213
00:54:26,719 --> 00:54:30,960
Speaker 1: literally our workhorse all playoffs. Joe went to him early

1214
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:33,840
Speaker 1: and often, and Joe left him in Game six. And

1215
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:36,239
Speaker 1: we talk about Joe's decision in Game six to leave

1216
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:38,920
Speaker 1: him in, and we break that down with Joe and

1217
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:40,880
Speaker 1: you'll hear that on one of the earlier episodes. But

1218
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 1: Raja comes up, you're calling all fastballs and he was. However,

1219
00:54:51,120 --> 00:54:54,359
Speaker 1: he hits this home run and it's like off the bat,

1220
00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:57,839
Speaker 1: I'm like no, no, like get down the high wall

1221
00:54:57,880 --> 00:55:00,879
Speaker 1: in Cleveland and it goes right the camera. Well, it's

1222
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:03,520
Speaker 1: like the most iconic, Like that's such an iconic home run.

1223
00:55:03,560 --> 00:55:05,200
Speaker 1: Like I still think of that home run. I get

1224
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:08,040
Speaker 1: the bigb GBI's and we won when I still see

1225
00:55:08,120 --> 00:55:10,640
Speaker 1: RaSE to this day and I hate them but I

1226
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:13,200
Speaker 1: love them, but it's like, we won, and I'm like, no,

1227
00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:14,640
Speaker 1: he is.

1228
00:55:14,680 --> 00:55:17,239
Speaker 2: What he was working for the MLBPA and he'd walk

1229
00:55:17,239 --> 00:55:18,880
Speaker 2: into my office when I was managing. I'm like, bro,

1230
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:20,680
Speaker 2: you gotta get out. Like my stomach starting to hurt,

1231
00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:22,640
Speaker 2: like it just I still go back to that moment,

1232
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:25,200
Speaker 2: and I you know, we turned the page pretty fast

1233
00:55:25,239 --> 00:55:28,040
Speaker 2: as big leaguers. I remember being behind the plate just

1234
00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:30,240
Speaker 2: not being able to get myself to stop thinking about

1235
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:31,160
Speaker 2: what just happened.

1236
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:35,799
Speaker 1: You know, like I one hundred and eight years, we're

1237
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 1: the best team. We won one hundred plus games. We're

1238
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:40,680
Speaker 1: in Game seven of the World Series. We're down three one,

1239
00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:42,680
Speaker 1: we come back, we're up in the game. Everything that

1240
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:45,239
Speaker 1: goes into it, and Raj Davey sits that home run.

1241
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:49,279
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there literally another moment where everything went deaf,

1242
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:53,319
Speaker 1: like I heard nothing. I couldn't hear myself breathing, and

1243
00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:55,839
Speaker 1: I'm just swiping dirt, like looking down, like trying to

1244
00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:57,680
Speaker 1: like not show.

1245
00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:00,160
Speaker 2: Like, oh my, what's going world just came to and

1246
00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:00,480
Speaker 2: in my.

1247
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:03,319
Speaker 1: Head, I'm just like, dude, like this curse is fucking real.

1248
00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:05,440
Speaker 2: Like there's a bunch of guys that talk about that.

1249
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:08,439
Speaker 1: Holy shit, like there's no way that just happened, right,

1250
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:12,360
Speaker 1: And he ties the game, and then it's like Chapman

1251
00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:15,040
Speaker 1: goes out in the ninth and I can't wait to

1252
00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:17,080
Speaker 1: sit down and Chatman and talk to him. The fact

1253
00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:18,719
Speaker 1: that ear all this, Chiman went back and in the

1254
00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:20,880
Speaker 1: ninth inning and got us through the ninth inning in

1255
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:23,480
Speaker 1: a tie ball game is like the unsung hero all

1256
00:56:23,520 --> 00:56:25,440
Speaker 1: of this, because there's so many times, if you're a

1257
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:28,120
Speaker 1: baseball fan, you watch the closer give it up in

1258
00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:30,520
Speaker 1: the eighth, like the game's over. In the ninth, yeah,

1259
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:34,040
Speaker 1: and then it got a miracle.

1260
00:56:34,239 --> 00:56:36,520
Speaker 2: I remember Miggi throwing a ton of sliders all of

1261
00:56:36,560 --> 00:56:38,839
Speaker 2: a sudden, coming in and throwing just all sliders those

1262
00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:41,120
Speaker 2: guys and getting him through. Miggie is another unsung hero,

1263
00:56:41,239 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 2: getting that that last RBI for us that we ended

1264
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:47,600
Speaker 2: up eventually meeting. Yeah, I mean big hit, like uh, chappie, Well,

1265
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:49,960
Speaker 2: we got to get to you know, before we skip ahead,

1266
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 2: like the range.

1267
00:56:50,719 --> 00:56:54,920
Speaker 1: Of seventeen minutes of literally the tears in heaven, tears

1268
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:58,560
Speaker 1: of joy, I think, Dexter said of all the Cubs fans, right,

1269
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:04,399
Speaker 1: and Joe West was the umpire, the chief of that crew,

1270
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:07,880
Speaker 1: and he called the delay. Until this day, whenever I

1271
00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:09,560
Speaker 1: saw Joe Wes, I was like, Joe, you call the

1272
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:13,240
Speaker 1: greatest delay in baseball history. Thank you. He would just laughing.

1273
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:15,919
Speaker 1: I love Joe West that. But we we come down

1274
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:19,439
Speaker 1: and we're just like, dude, our dugout in the ninth

1275
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:22,240
Speaker 1: inning was like ghosts, like you look over to like

1276
00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:24,640
Speaker 1: THEO two. He was right down and everyone's a ghost

1277
00:57:24,720 --> 00:57:27,400
Speaker 1: and it's just like we get through the ninth and

1278
00:57:27,400 --> 00:57:29,440
Speaker 1: then when the rain delay happens. And then during that

1279
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:32,880
Speaker 1: reign that I remember, I re upped on my pregame

1280
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:38,120
Speaker 1: concoction that talk about in the Dexter series, but Dexter

1281
00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:40,479
Speaker 1: and I are pregame concoction was a shot of wood

1282
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:43,560
Speaker 1: for reserve and a five hour energy presented by Bill Murray.

1283
00:57:44,080 --> 00:57:47,480
Speaker 1: So Bill Murray. I think Game six of the NLCS

1284
00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:51,040
Speaker 1: came in. He's in a fishing vest right and we're

1285
00:57:51,120 --> 00:57:53,920
Speaker 1: just talking. It's Bill Murray and Vince Vaughn in our clubhouse. Yeah,

1286
00:57:54,200 --> 00:57:55,720
Speaker 1: just like this is like.

1287
00:57:55,920 --> 00:57:58,320
Speaker 2: Rule number three hundred and seventy five met whatever.

1288
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 1: Like, so Bill Murray, me and Dexter talking to him.

1289
00:58:01,160 --> 00:58:03,480
Speaker 1: He's like, hey, take this. It's a Woodford reserve and

1290
00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:05,520
Speaker 1: a fire energy saying I called a speedball, and I'm like,

1291
00:58:05,560 --> 00:58:07,400
Speaker 1: all right, let's do it. Dex Like we've we've done

1292
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:09,920
Speaker 1: shots before the game before, It's like, let's do it.

1293
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:11,520
Speaker 1: And then we just did it every game of the

1294
00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:14,200
Speaker 1: World Series. So we get to the rain delay, me

1295
00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:17,040
Speaker 1: and Dexter re up on our pregame stuff because we're

1296
00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:19,560
Speaker 1: about to go into extras. We're in the weight room,

1297
00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:22,520
Speaker 1: just like, there's no fucking way we're losing this, you know.

1298
00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:25,920
Speaker 1: I was talking to Dexter. Bussy guy started gravitating in

1299
00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:28,480
Speaker 1: and then Jay Hey pulls everyone in and it was

1300
00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:33,000
Speaker 1: like that moment for us is it's a legendary moment

1301
00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:36,880
Speaker 1: because Jay Hay and a few of other of us

1302
00:58:36,960 --> 00:58:39,760
Speaker 1: brought us all together and was like, we're not fucking

1303
00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:42,439
Speaker 1: losing like when whichever who we are.

1304
00:58:42,520 --> 00:58:44,400
Speaker 2: When Jay Hay speaks to the fact that he came

1305
00:58:44,440 --> 00:58:46,120
Speaker 2: up to me, was like, hey, team meeting in the

1306
00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:49,680
Speaker 2: in the weight room, and I just remember, like wow,

1307
00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:51,040
Speaker 2: like he's got something to say.

1308
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:51,320
Speaker 1: Right.

1309
00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:53,160
Speaker 2: He was not a guy that was like vocal, but

1310
00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:55,840
Speaker 2: when he spoke, uh, it kind of carried some volume.

1311
00:58:55,880 --> 00:58:57,440
Speaker 2: I remember walking in and everybody's in there and I

1312
00:58:57,440 --> 00:59:00,800
Speaker 2: had to go get Chappie off the walk back out,

1313
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:02,960
Speaker 2: like everybody's like, where's roll this. I walked back out

1314
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:05,400
Speaker 2: to the dugout. He's got his hands in his face,

1315
00:59:06,040 --> 00:59:08,840
Speaker 2: just crying ball and crying on the bench so like,

1316
00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:11,760
Speaker 2: and he walks in. Everybody talks about remembering that and

1317
00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:14,760
Speaker 2: like he wouldn't like yeah, we wouldn't be about you, bro,

1318
00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:18,120
Speaker 2: like you know, and and then we we closed and

1319
00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:21,800
Speaker 2: guys start start talking and I remember coming out of

1320
00:59:21,840 --> 00:59:24,080
Speaker 2: that and we talked about this. Shore talks about his

1321
00:59:24,640 --> 00:59:26,840
Speaker 2: kind of journey in his rehab back and then coming

1322
00:59:26,880 --> 00:59:29,000
Speaker 2: out of that meeting, he was leading off against Shaw

1323
00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:31,840
Speaker 2: And remember right before that, he walks up to me

1324
00:59:31,920 --> 00:59:34,000
Speaker 2: and looks me in the eyes. Guy's batting gloves on, he's

1325
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:35,800
Speaker 2: tightening him up. I'm out of the game and he

1326
00:59:35,840 --> 00:59:37,520
Speaker 2: looks at me. He goes, this guy throws me a

1327
00:59:37,560 --> 00:59:39,960
Speaker 2: cutter in I'm gonna knock the fuck out of it.

1328
00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:44,600
Speaker 2: But he hit the ball, didn't get Yeah, he was

1329
00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:46,080
Speaker 2: like if he would have been in the air, had

1330
00:59:46,080 --> 00:59:48,920
Speaker 2: been a bomb, but he hit it about this far.

1331
00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:51,760
Speaker 2: It fell from Jason Kidness and who was playing short

1332
00:59:51,800 --> 00:59:53,960
Speaker 2: right field. Uh, and it got by and that's how

1333
00:59:53,960 --> 00:59:56,760
Speaker 2: hard it was hit. But uh, yeah, I remember that

1334
00:59:56,760 --> 00:59:59,120
Speaker 2: that speech was so that that kind of moment reset us.

1335
00:59:59,120 --> 01:00:01,480
Speaker 2: Everybody talking about out how we're the best team in

1336
01:00:01,520 --> 01:00:05,480
Speaker 2: baseball all year are win totals, and just how we

1337
01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:06,200
Speaker 2: played for me and.

1338
01:00:06,200 --> 01:00:08,600
Speaker 1: Two our bullpen was set up and theirs wasn't. They

1339
01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:11,400
Speaker 1: blew all their guys, So we knew we were in

1340
01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:14,000
Speaker 1: a from a pitching standpoint, we were in a better

1341
01:00:14,040 --> 01:00:17,120
Speaker 1: position too. So I remember talking about that and then

1342
01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:19,440
Speaker 1: going out on the field, it was like everyone got

1343
01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:21,280
Speaker 1: their color back. It was like we were able to

1344
01:00:21,320 --> 01:00:25,439
Speaker 1: take those seventeen minutes and like regroup because that Raj

1345
01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:28,520
Speaker 1: Homer was like just the most gunt wrenching thing. And

1346
01:00:28,600 --> 01:00:33,120
Speaker 1: what's so cool on this podcast is every guy tells

1347
01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:36,480
Speaker 1: their version of the of the rain delay. And it's

1348
01:00:36,480 --> 01:00:39,880
Speaker 1: so cool hearing their stories and through their lenses. And

1349
01:00:39,920 --> 01:00:43,000
Speaker 1: I remember going back to Cleveland every year. Every time

1350
01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:45,240
Speaker 1: we went back to Cleveland, I literally looked in the

1351
01:00:45,240 --> 01:00:46,880
Speaker 1: weight room and I wherever what every team goes on

1352
01:00:46,920 --> 01:00:48,720
Speaker 1: he goes That's exactly where I was sitting. I was

1353
01:00:48,720 --> 01:00:50,800
Speaker 1: sitting right there, right by the door with Jackie. I

1354
01:00:50,840 --> 01:00:51,960
Speaker 1: was sitting right on the treadmill.

1355
01:00:52,240 --> 01:00:56,400
Speaker 2: What do you so Schwarver leeds a pintron al Mora

1356
01:00:56,960 --> 01:01:00,240
Speaker 2: KB deep fly ball, thought it was gone? Wasn't rate

1357
01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:03,360
Speaker 2: tag up by al Mora car Newgaggin History of the game.

1358
01:01:03,440 --> 01:01:06,880
Speaker 2: I think so? And you get walked? What was going

1359
01:01:06,880 --> 01:01:09,280
Speaker 2: through your mind? You're going to the plate? Did you

1360
01:01:09,280 --> 01:01:10,800
Speaker 2: feel like you were gonna be were gonna walk yet?

1361
01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:13,280
Speaker 1: There's there was a lot going through my mind because

1362
01:01:14,360 --> 01:01:16,200
Speaker 1: that's the cat and mouse game of the game. There's

1363
01:01:16,240 --> 01:01:19,560
Speaker 1: a base open, and this is all of my advice

1364
01:01:19,600 --> 01:01:21,800
Speaker 1: that I've got in my career is coming to the

1365
01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:24,080
Speaker 1: biggest moment. And then it ended up potentially walking me.

1366
01:01:24,160 --> 01:01:27,320
Speaker 1: But walking to the plate, in my head, I'm like,

1367
01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:29,800
Speaker 1: all right, there, he's gonna pitch around me. He might

1368
01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:31,840
Speaker 1: try to steal a pitch pitch one, so I'm gonna

1369
01:01:31,840 --> 01:01:35,600
Speaker 1: be really aggressive pitch one, but he might totally pitch

1370
01:01:35,640 --> 01:01:37,400
Speaker 1: around me. So all these things are going through my

1371
01:01:37,440 --> 01:01:39,360
Speaker 1: head of like, don't try to do too much. And

1372
01:01:39,360 --> 01:01:41,640
Speaker 1: then I get up there, I'm like dialed in. And

1373
01:01:41,640 --> 01:01:44,760
Speaker 1: then I see Tito put the four out, and I'm like,

1374
01:01:45,160 --> 01:01:48,360
Speaker 1: fuck right, because like you were in that moment, you want.

1375
01:01:48,160 --> 01:01:50,120
Speaker 2: To you want to swing in the back, and you

1376
01:01:50,160 --> 01:01:52,000
Speaker 2: were swinging the back as good as anybody in that moment.

1377
01:01:52,080 --> 01:01:55,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they walked me and I'm all right, like

1378
01:01:55,600 --> 01:01:57,360
Speaker 1: now it's on those oversts.

1379
01:01:57,760 --> 01:02:01,000
Speaker 2: So and then he hits that and the iconic picture

1380
01:02:01,040 --> 01:02:03,800
Speaker 2: where Riz has got his eyes and your hands.

1381
01:02:03,840 --> 01:02:07,760
Speaker 1: It's just the adrenaline of that, the meaning of that,

1382
01:02:07,880 --> 01:02:13,120
Speaker 1: Like I was here when we sucked, right, Like we

1383
01:02:13,200 --> 01:02:15,320
Speaker 1: lost one hundred games my first year, we lost ninety

1384
01:02:15,320 --> 01:02:19,480
Speaker 1: eight my second year, like otis rest in peace. Our

1385
01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:22,640
Speaker 1: clubhouse attendant the first year I got here was pushing

1386
01:02:22,680 --> 01:02:25,080
Speaker 1: balls in a shopping cart for batting practice. Like that's

1387
01:02:25,080 --> 01:02:29,000
Speaker 1: how far the organization was behind. So in that moment

1388
01:02:29,080 --> 01:02:32,200
Speaker 1: when Zobers hit that that ball and we scored, I

1389
01:02:32,280 --> 01:02:35,040
Speaker 1: was like, holy shit, Like we just won the World Series.

1390
01:02:35,120 --> 01:02:38,400
Speaker 1: Like we just won the World Series, right, and then

1391
01:02:38,480 --> 01:02:41,760
Speaker 1: Miggy with the Insurance run just adds on. But like

1392
01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:44,160
Speaker 1: in that moment when sobers hit that I knew, like

1393
01:02:44,240 --> 01:02:46,640
Speaker 1: I just had that belief we were gonna win again, right,

1394
01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:51,240
Speaker 1: and everything was coming full circle. It was like, we're

1395
01:02:51,440 --> 01:02:55,520
Speaker 1: literally now three outs away from being World Series champions,

1396
01:02:55,560 --> 01:02:58,120
Speaker 1: breaking one hundred and eight year cursed. We know how

1397
01:02:58,200 --> 01:03:01,240
Speaker 1: much Cups fans this means to what the city of chicague.

1398
01:03:01,240 --> 01:03:03,120
Speaker 1: We've seen the city of Chicago partying for the last

1399
01:03:03,160 --> 01:03:05,880
Speaker 1: two years because the fifteen run and now sixteen. So

1400
01:03:06,840 --> 01:03:09,280
Speaker 1: that iconic moment of me in my head all that

1401
01:03:09,320 --> 01:03:09,919
Speaker 1: was running through.

1402
01:03:09,800 --> 01:03:13,240
Speaker 2: The crazy I at such a good visual, like when

1403
01:03:13,360 --> 01:03:17,000
Speaker 2: I watch it back and like your genuine surprise and like,

1404
01:03:17,120 --> 01:03:20,400
Speaker 2: holy shit, we're about to win the World Series. This

1405
01:03:20,720 --> 01:03:22,880
Speaker 2: is all over your face and we do I didn't.

1406
01:03:23,000 --> 01:03:25,560
Speaker 2: I didn't have on my being Goo card. Mike Montgomery

1407
01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:28,720
Speaker 2: closing it out, no, and he told us a great story.

1408
01:03:28,480 --> 01:03:31,880
Speaker 1: Story Mike talks about is his pitches is like it's

1409
01:03:31,920 --> 01:03:34,760
Speaker 1: such a full circle podcast because so many guys talk

1410
01:03:34,800 --> 01:03:38,479
Speaker 1: about their their personal journeys to that Game seven and

1411
01:03:39,520 --> 01:03:43,080
Speaker 1: him coming in and Michael Martinez is hitting in the

1412
01:03:43,120 --> 01:03:46,840
Speaker 1: grounder to KB and that was That was Michael Martinez's

1413
01:03:46,840 --> 01:03:49,760
Speaker 1: first at bat of the series. I thought it was

1414
01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:52,000
Speaker 1: a lot faster, and I thought I didn't read the

1415
01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:53,800
Speaker 1: ball good because I had to bust over to first

1416
01:03:54,640 --> 01:03:56,720
Speaker 1: and before that inning, I like loaded my glove up

1417
01:03:56,760 --> 01:03:59,040
Speaker 1: with pin tar like I'm like, I am not fucking

1418
01:03:59,040 --> 01:04:02,120
Speaker 1: missing this ball. Like if a ball comes to me,

1419
01:04:02,160 --> 01:04:07,400
Speaker 1: it's it's time card. And KB gets it and I'm like,

1420
01:04:07,440 --> 01:04:09,200
Speaker 1: oh shit, if he throws this over my head, there's

1421
01:04:09,200 --> 01:04:11,480
Speaker 1: a guy in second, like I need to catch this ball,

1422
01:04:11,520 --> 01:04:14,120
Speaker 1: and he sails it. At first, I'm like caught thousands

1423
01:04:14,160 --> 01:04:14,479
Speaker 1: of balls.

1424
01:04:14,680 --> 01:04:14,880
Speaker 2: KB.

1425
01:04:15,320 --> 01:04:18,800
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh no. And I ended up catching it

1426
01:04:18,840 --> 01:04:20,840
Speaker 1: and it was like the perfect It.

1427
01:04:20,800 --> 01:04:22,560
Speaker 2: Wasn't as high as you felt, It wasn't as high

1428
01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:23,480
Speaker 2: it was about to go.

1429
01:04:24,280 --> 01:04:27,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, his ball just went and I caught it and

1430
01:04:28,240 --> 01:04:32,840
Speaker 1: like right away my first reaction, and I get emotional

1431
01:04:32,840 --> 01:04:36,320
Speaker 1: telling the stories. When I was a kid, me and

1432
01:04:36,320 --> 01:04:38,560
Speaker 1: my dad would always play catch in the house and

1433
01:04:38,560 --> 01:04:40,360
Speaker 1: we can do like lightning around. He'd hit me golf

1434
01:04:40,400 --> 01:04:42,640
Speaker 1: balls that at the end if I won, I we'd

1435
01:04:42,640 --> 01:04:44,360
Speaker 1: always raise our hands and do like Champion of the

1436
01:04:44,400 --> 01:04:47,600
Speaker 1: world and like we would just scream of the world

1437
01:04:48,240 --> 01:04:50,120
Speaker 1: and like KB threw it high and my other hand

1438
01:04:50,200 --> 01:04:52,360
Speaker 1: goes up and I'm literally just like a champion of

1439
01:04:52,400 --> 01:04:55,000
Speaker 1: the world. And then you and I had talked about

1440
01:04:55,440 --> 01:04:58,560
Speaker 1: getting all the baseballs and just like immediately I've watched

1441
01:04:59,720 --> 01:05:02,360
Speaker 1: Pro twenty World Series that I remember of the last

1442
01:05:02,360 --> 01:05:04,600
Speaker 1: out in all the reactions, and like I always say

1443
01:05:04,640 --> 01:05:07,240
Speaker 1: what I would do, and like in that moment, it was.

1444
01:05:07,200 --> 01:05:13,880
Speaker 2: Like that's history. That's history. That was that was like

1445
01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:15,600
Speaker 2: so I could barely get over the railing. I was

1446
01:05:15,600 --> 01:05:17,280
Speaker 2: trying to get out there so fast. I remember my

1447
01:05:17,280 --> 01:05:19,760
Speaker 2: spike getting caught in and then we go whether.

1448
01:05:19,640 --> 01:05:21,400
Speaker 1: It was like this ending grandpa moment.

1449
01:05:22,680 --> 01:05:25,520
Speaker 2: Serious question I'm gonna ask Jay two that I really

1450
01:05:25,520 --> 01:05:28,920
Speaker 2: have never heard the answer to. I'm doing an interview,

1451
01:05:29,000 --> 01:05:31,360
Speaker 2: we're all celebrating. I get pulled over with Ken Rosenthal

1452
01:05:31,400 --> 01:05:34,920
Speaker 2: doing an interview and you guys come and pick me

1453
01:05:35,040 --> 01:05:37,160
Speaker 2: up and put me on your should Like I don't

1454
01:05:37,160 --> 01:05:42,680
Speaker 2: want to get emotion. That's crazy, Like who's that? Who's that? Always?

1455
01:05:42,840 --> 01:05:45,480
Speaker 2: Always I've been too many bows to the head, But like, seriously,

1456
01:05:45,520 --> 01:05:48,840
Speaker 2: like to have that moment in looking back and for

1457
01:05:49,000 --> 01:05:52,400
Speaker 2: me it's like, holy shit, like these guys like I

1458
01:05:52,720 --> 01:05:56,960
Speaker 2: I nobody deserves that. Like it was like Rudy, Rudy,

1459
01:05:57,080 --> 01:06:00,240
Speaker 2: what what? Like what how did that all transpire? I've

1460
01:06:00,240 --> 01:06:02,040
Speaker 2: never heard this story you Just.

1461
01:06:04,400 --> 01:06:07,360
Speaker 1: Through my personal career, I've had so many people in

1462
01:06:07,400 --> 01:06:09,880
Speaker 1: my life that helped me get to where I am

1463
01:06:10,040 --> 01:06:12,959
Speaker 1: literally today ten years later. But up to that point,

1464
01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:15,120
Speaker 1: I had so many good veterans and like, you were

1465
01:06:15,160 --> 01:06:18,040
Speaker 1: just so life changing for me. And another guy comes

1466
01:06:18,040 --> 01:06:20,480
Speaker 1: out the top of his Eric Hinski with hitting and we

1467
01:06:20,520 --> 01:06:23,000
Speaker 1: talk about this how he helped me become the hitter

1468
01:06:23,080 --> 01:06:27,560
Speaker 1: I was. But you shaped perspective for me. You shaped

1469
01:06:27,600 --> 01:06:32,600
Speaker 1: how to handle all phases of the game, the bullpen, pitching,

1470
01:06:32,760 --> 01:06:37,479
Speaker 1: like situations, talking like a manager and just what you meant,

1471
01:06:37,520 --> 01:06:39,720
Speaker 1: and like going out the emotions of you going out

1472
01:06:39,760 --> 01:06:42,919
Speaker 1: hitting your hundred with Homer hitting a game seven home run,

1473
01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:45,360
Speaker 1: like the glass case of emotion coming to you because

1474
01:06:45,400 --> 01:06:48,040
Speaker 1: you're like my big brother. Like I remember there's a

1475
01:06:48,080 --> 01:06:51,160
Speaker 1: time his son Cole was running out to his dad

1476
01:06:51,720 --> 01:06:54,000
Speaker 1: in left field before a game at Wrigley and he's

1477
01:06:54,040 --> 01:06:56,320
Speaker 1: like dad, and I go, no, he's my dad, And

1478
01:06:56,360 --> 01:06:58,360
Speaker 1: I go Dad, And like me and Cole are sprinting

1479
01:06:58,360 --> 01:07:01,440
Speaker 1: to you and like all that and I know how

1480
01:07:01,560 --> 01:07:04,720
Speaker 1: much ja hey man. When Jay signed here in sixteen,

1481
01:07:05,760 --> 01:07:08,200
Speaker 1: Jay hay in his I don't think in his contract,

1482
01:07:08,200 --> 01:07:11,240
Speaker 1: but told vj our traveling secretary, Hey, every single road

1483
01:07:11,280 --> 01:07:16,720
Speaker 1: trip we go on, Rossie gets a sweet so his

1484
01:07:16,840 --> 01:07:18,440
Speaker 1: mentors and Jay was in Atlanta.

1485
01:07:18,600 --> 01:07:20,160
Speaker 2: In Atlanta when he was coming.

1486
01:07:19,960 --> 01:07:21,480
Speaker 1: Up, that's how much you meant to us. And it

1487
01:07:21,560 --> 01:07:23,800
Speaker 1: was like we knew that was your last game and

1488
01:07:23,920 --> 01:07:25,680
Speaker 1: like to carry you off the field. It was just

1489
01:07:25,760 --> 01:07:28,560
Speaker 1: like a celebration of the boys and for you, and

1490
01:07:28,640 --> 01:07:29,640
Speaker 1: like how cool was that?

1491
01:07:29,760 --> 01:07:29,920
Speaker 2: Bro?

1492
01:07:30,080 --> 01:07:30,600
Speaker 1: That picture?

1493
01:07:30,840 --> 01:07:33,280
Speaker 2: That picture well, and it's like you see the look

1494
01:07:33,320 --> 01:07:37,200
Speaker 2: on you guys's face, like you're smiling so big skis

1495
01:07:37,280 --> 01:07:40,240
Speaker 2: behind you, Like I can't believe it that's happening. I'm

1496
01:07:40,320 --> 01:07:41,840
Speaker 2: up there. I don't know. I like what to do

1497
01:07:41,880 --> 01:07:43,880
Speaker 2: with my hands. I remember like putting up a number

1498
01:07:43,880 --> 01:07:46,440
Speaker 2: one and then I'm like blowing kisses. For some reason,

1499
01:07:46,520 --> 01:07:49,080
Speaker 2: I'm like what am I doing up here? Like it

1500
01:07:49,120 --> 01:07:50,120
Speaker 2: was so yeah, like.

1501
01:07:50,120 --> 01:07:51,120
Speaker 1: What is this?

1502
01:07:51,200 --> 01:07:53,680
Speaker 2: But what a special moment for me? I like I

1503
01:07:53,720 --> 01:07:55,480
Speaker 2: put up the end in my career versus anybody that

1504
01:07:55,800 --> 01:07:57,760
Speaker 2: played the game, not because of the stats, but because

1505
01:07:57,760 --> 01:07:59,920
Speaker 2: of how you guys treated me. So that was the

1506
01:08:00,000 --> 01:08:02,200
Speaker 2: I was really really special. And then we go we

1507
01:08:02,320 --> 01:08:03,600
Speaker 2: go celebrate. We got a parade.

1508
01:08:03,880 --> 01:08:07,280
Speaker 1: The celebration was I mean the plane ride back to

1509
01:08:07,720 --> 01:08:10,240
Speaker 1: there's pictures and I just put it up on our

1510
01:08:10,320 --> 01:08:13,960
Speaker 1: level reunion. The pictures we put up of us on

1511
01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:16,280
Speaker 1: the plane with the World Series trophy and like our

1512
01:08:16,280 --> 01:08:19,960
Speaker 1: families are all together. Our families too, Like I remember

1513
01:08:19,960 --> 01:08:22,559
Speaker 1: in the World Series, especially in Cleveland, after every game,

1514
01:08:22,840 --> 01:08:25,120
Speaker 1: we had a hospitality room with all food and everyone

1515
01:08:25,120 --> 01:08:28,240
Speaker 1: would just go and decompress after the game. And our

1516
01:08:28,280 --> 01:08:30,720
Speaker 1: families were so invested and they flew back with us.

1517
01:08:31,040 --> 01:08:33,200
Speaker 1: We have to take pictures of my parents with the trophy,

1518
01:08:33,640 --> 01:08:36,559
Speaker 1: my wife with the trophy. It was just like such

1519
01:08:36,560 --> 01:08:39,519
Speaker 1: an amazing thing. And we get off. We get back

1520
01:08:39,520 --> 01:08:40,720
Speaker 1: to like five oh six.

1521
01:08:40,920 --> 01:08:44,200
Speaker 2: My daughter Landry tells a story all the time Cole

1522
01:08:44,320 --> 01:08:46,240
Speaker 2: was six, we gave him his own row and just

1523
01:08:46,320 --> 01:08:48,519
Speaker 2: laid him down, and my wife at the time was

1524
01:08:48,600 --> 01:08:50,960
Speaker 2: sitting down with him, and I was kind of bouncing

1525
01:08:51,000 --> 01:08:53,080
Speaker 2: back and forth, checking in going with the boys. Well,

1526
01:08:53,240 --> 01:08:55,759
Speaker 2: my seven year old daughter was in the back partying

1527
01:08:55,800 --> 01:08:57,559
Speaker 2: with the Leicester family. And the Lackey family. She kept

1528
01:08:57,560 --> 01:08:59,600
Speaker 2: coming up with one hundred dollars bills and I'm like,

1529
01:08:59,640 --> 01:09:01,760
Speaker 2: where are you getting these hundreds? She's like, Dad, the

1530
01:09:01,760 --> 01:09:03,880
Speaker 2: guys are giving them to me. I'm like, go tell them,

1531
01:09:03,920 --> 01:09:05,640
Speaker 2: they're not allowed to give you more money. And and

1532
01:09:05,800 --> 01:09:09,120
Speaker 2: Lester's in the back going show kids, show Kids, was

1533
01:09:09,120 --> 01:09:11,719
Speaker 2: given them a hundred dollars bills everywhere. So the player,

1534
01:09:11,800 --> 01:09:13,599
Speaker 2: she tells that story all the time they were playing, right,

1535
01:09:13,680 --> 01:09:14,040
Speaker 2: was epic.

1536
01:09:14,120 --> 01:09:15,560
Speaker 1: It was just and I remember.

1537
01:09:15,320 --> 01:09:17,320
Speaker 2: Gimpster and remember Dempster and Theo.

1538
01:09:17,240 --> 01:09:19,599
Speaker 1: Reil racing down the hallways on the in.

1539
01:09:19,560 --> 01:09:21,920
Speaker 2: The cars, down the down the aisles and the little

1540
01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:23,280
Speaker 2: uh the Beverans cards.

1541
01:09:23,360 --> 01:09:26,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're like taking off, Yeah, it's going down.

1542
01:09:26,560 --> 01:09:28,679
Speaker 2: They're flying down there and not not safe.

1543
01:09:28,720 --> 01:09:31,679
Speaker 1: I remember too. A big thing for me. I think

1544
01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:34,720
Speaker 1: being with the Cubs for so long up to that

1545
01:09:34,800 --> 01:09:37,840
Speaker 1: point and then playing after was like there's so much

1546
01:09:38,640 --> 01:09:41,320
Speaker 1: there's so many guys who played before us that set

1547
01:09:41,360 --> 01:09:44,679
Speaker 1: the tone for us there, and I after we won,

1548
01:09:44,760 --> 01:09:46,800
Speaker 1: like I made sure to say that, like this is

1549
01:09:46,840 --> 01:09:50,320
Speaker 1: for Ernie Banks, the Ron Santos, the Samberg's right, even

1550
01:09:50,320 --> 01:09:53,200
Speaker 1: the Starlin Castros, the Shorianos, the veterans, I played with

1551
01:09:53,280 --> 01:09:56,080
Speaker 1: Ryan Dempster, Carrie Would The list goes on on, but

1552
01:09:56,200 --> 01:09:58,920
Speaker 1: those guys were such a big part and so loved

1553
01:09:58,960 --> 01:10:01,840
Speaker 1: here in Chicago. Like I always wanted to make them

1554
01:10:01,840 --> 01:10:03,639
Speaker 1: feel like they want it with us, because they they

1555
01:10:03,680 --> 01:10:06,320
Speaker 1: laid the groundwork first. And I remember driving back is

1556
01:10:06,360 --> 01:10:08,839
Speaker 1: like five in the morning on the buses and Dempster

1557
01:10:08,960 --> 01:10:11,720
Speaker 1: was with us. Ryan Dempster was was with us on

1558
01:10:11,720 --> 01:10:13,559
Speaker 1: the bus. I'm like almost like, dude, take the trophy,

1559
01:10:13,640 --> 01:10:15,760
Speaker 1: and like I gave him the trophy forly and he

1560
01:10:15,840 --> 01:10:17,720
Speaker 1: like he he literally reminded me the other days like, dude,

1561
01:10:17,720 --> 01:10:19,920
Speaker 1: that was so awesome that he did that, Like, because

1562
01:10:20,040 --> 01:10:22,600
Speaker 1: that's how much those guys mean. It's like respecting the

1563
01:10:22,680 --> 01:10:25,920
Speaker 1: guys before you, right, no doubt. And then we get home.

1564
01:10:27,040 --> 01:10:29,040
Speaker 1: I have the trophy getting off the bus and I'm like,

1565
01:10:30,040 --> 01:10:33,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take this home, right, So I took it home.

1566
01:10:33,760 --> 01:10:35,760
Speaker 1: I have a picture of it, like with the perfect

1567
01:10:35,800 --> 01:10:38,120
Speaker 1: shot of like it's in my bed with Lake Michigan

1568
01:10:38,120 --> 01:10:40,360
Speaker 1: in the background. And I got a text at like

1569
01:10:40,360 --> 01:10:42,080
Speaker 1: eight thirty in the morning. It's I literally get home

1570
01:10:42,120 --> 01:10:45,240
Speaker 1: at like six thirty, barely slept. My phone's blown up

1571
01:10:45,240 --> 01:10:47,800
Speaker 1: by VJ are traveling secretaries like, hey, Lester's pissed you

1572
01:10:47,800 --> 01:10:49,639
Speaker 1: have the trophy. I'm like, I don't really give.

1573
01:10:49,479 --> 01:10:52,759
Speaker 2: The fuck left they're talking about that. Why does Tony

1574
01:10:52,800 --> 01:10:53,519
Speaker 2: got the trophy?

1575
01:10:54,120 --> 01:10:56,519
Speaker 1: So I bring it back to Wriglely, Like I get

1576
01:10:56,520 --> 01:11:01,719
Speaker 1: there like nine nine thirty, leave Wrigley, go to Bottle

1577
01:11:01,800 --> 01:11:05,679
Speaker 1: Blonde here in Chicago, me and my wife my girlfriend

1578
01:11:05,720 --> 01:11:09,479
Speaker 1: at the time, and we just go siting Bottle Blond

1579
01:11:09,520 --> 01:11:15,599
Speaker 1: in Chicago from ten am to about five am, like

1580
01:11:15,720 --> 01:11:18,920
Speaker 1: we literally go. We sit there for like probably ten

1581
01:11:18,960 --> 01:11:22,040
Speaker 1: hours in battlah blah all. My friend opened it up

1582
01:11:22,040 --> 01:11:23,640
Speaker 1: on like, hey, are you up. He's like, yeah, you

1583
01:11:23,640 --> 01:11:25,880
Speaker 1: want to come in. I came in. He still has

1584
01:11:25,880 --> 01:11:28,200
Speaker 1: the bottle of Crown that I drank that day. He

1585
01:11:28,280 --> 01:11:30,040
Speaker 1: had me sign it like years later. He's like, dude,

1586
01:11:30,040 --> 01:11:31,800
Speaker 1: this is the bottle your first bottle of Crown you

1587
01:11:31,920 --> 01:11:36,800
Speaker 1: drank after winning the World Series. And then we go

1588
01:11:36,880 --> 01:11:39,960
Speaker 1: out there, all my friends come. Then I come back

1589
01:11:39,960 --> 01:11:41,920
Speaker 1: to Wrigley at some point with all my friends. I

1590
01:11:41,920 --> 01:11:44,640
Speaker 1: have pictures on the field like with the trophy just

1591
01:11:45,080 --> 01:11:46,160
Speaker 1: you could do whatever you want.

1592
01:11:46,280 --> 01:11:48,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, And then we got a ride home at

1593
01:11:48,120 --> 01:11:51,600
Speaker 2: way from the plate a ride from I don't know

1594
01:11:51,640 --> 01:11:53,719
Speaker 2: if you're at town. We we're meeting everybody at country

1595
01:11:53,720 --> 01:11:55,439
Speaker 2: club and we're in the back of the police cup.

1596
01:11:55,520 --> 01:12:00,640
Speaker 1: Yeah. It's just like you see all the reactions ofs

1597
01:12:00,960 --> 01:12:04,160
Speaker 1: and it was like, holy shit, we knew. I knew

1598
01:12:04,160 --> 01:12:06,720
Speaker 1: how big it was gonna be. I really did. Everyone's like,

1599
01:12:06,720 --> 01:12:08,640
Speaker 1: do you don't understand. I'm like, no, I do understand.

1600
01:12:08,880 --> 01:12:12,520
Speaker 1: And then it happened and it was like my expectations

1601
01:12:12,520 --> 01:12:15,439
Speaker 1: were here of it and they were high, and it

1602
01:12:15,479 --> 01:12:17,320
Speaker 1: blew them out, blew them out of the water. Like

1603
01:12:17,760 --> 01:12:21,280
Speaker 1: the people at the graves going and saying like laying

1604
01:12:21,280 --> 01:12:24,880
Speaker 1: the w flags on their parents or grandparents or whoever's graves,

1605
01:12:24,920 --> 01:12:28,559
Speaker 1: and like people listening to the final out pat use

1606
01:12:28,720 --> 01:12:30,800
Speaker 1: iconic moment at the gravesite.

1607
01:12:30,840 --> 01:12:33,800
Speaker 2: Like it's just that's my favorite thing to ask when

1608
01:12:33,800 --> 01:12:36,040
Speaker 2: I travel is people come up and say, you know,

1609
01:12:36,040 --> 01:12:38,439
Speaker 2: thanks for twenty sixteen, or they want a picture or something.

1610
01:12:38,479 --> 01:12:40,479
Speaker 2: It's like I want to hear their Game seven story

1611
01:12:40,600 --> 01:12:44,280
Speaker 2: and the passion they have the fans, like you're so

1612
01:12:44,400 --> 01:12:48,759
Speaker 2: thankful for just the generational fandom that has been passed

1613
01:12:48,800 --> 01:12:51,479
Speaker 2: down from so many people. And I mean Michelle Obama

1614
01:12:51,520 --> 01:12:54,160
Speaker 2: told us at the White House about Washington with her

1615
01:12:54,240 --> 01:12:57,160
Speaker 2: dad started crying. I mean, like it just like those

1616
01:12:57,200 --> 01:12:59,559
Speaker 2: stories that fans give us are so much more valuable

1617
01:12:59,640 --> 01:13:02,120
Speaker 2: than you know, the Ring or any of that. Like,

1618
01:13:02,160 --> 01:13:03,120
Speaker 2: I love hearing their story.

1619
01:13:03,200 --> 01:13:05,719
Speaker 1: I think the best part too, is look ten years later,

1620
01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:09,320
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding, the passion that the fans have when

1621
01:13:09,320 --> 01:13:12,559
Speaker 1: they tell those stories are literally still the same. It's

1622
01:13:12,640 --> 01:13:15,880
Speaker 1: like these people. I literally it was at opening day

1623
01:13:15,960 --> 01:13:20,280
Speaker 1: yesterday twenty twenty six, and people are crying about what

1624
01:13:20,360 --> 01:13:22,160
Speaker 1: it meant to win the World Series, and it was

1625
01:13:22,880 --> 01:13:27,040
Speaker 1: it's just so awesome. Yeah, what Cubs fans meant to us,

1626
01:13:27,200 --> 01:13:29,320
Speaker 1: and how they showed out for that parade, because that parade,

1627
01:13:29,360 --> 01:13:30,320
Speaker 1: that part six million.

1628
01:13:30,400 --> 01:13:32,280
Speaker 2: I remember looking of being on stage and like you

1629
01:13:32,320 --> 01:13:34,720
Speaker 2: said so many nice things, and you know you're not

1630
01:13:34,760 --> 01:13:37,120
Speaker 2: concussed at the time, but you started getting a little

1631
01:13:37,120 --> 01:13:39,120
Speaker 2: teary eyed too. And I couldn't even get any words

1632
01:13:39,160 --> 01:13:41,519
Speaker 2: out because how I wanted to thank all the guys

1633
01:13:41,560 --> 01:13:43,160
Speaker 2: and tell them all what they meant to me, like

1634
01:13:43,200 --> 01:13:45,840
Speaker 2: and how each guy affected me, and I couldn't.

1635
01:13:45,520 --> 01:13:49,040
Speaker 1: Get a little Like you, you.

1636
01:13:47,360 --> 01:13:50,040
Speaker 2: Could barely get anything out. But like you looked out

1637
01:13:50,120 --> 01:13:52,680
Speaker 2: and I just saw like the heads of people and

1638
01:13:52,720 --> 01:13:54,760
Speaker 2: then the tree tops like it just like people were

1639
01:13:54,760 --> 01:13:57,120
Speaker 2: in the trees way off, way off in the distance.

1640
01:13:57,160 --> 01:13:58,320
Speaker 2: It was. It was.

1641
01:13:58,680 --> 01:14:01,080
Speaker 1: It's iconic. Yeah, it was just it was literally and

1642
01:14:01,160 --> 01:14:04,920
Speaker 1: the parties to follow the parade and like, bro, literally

1643
01:14:04,920 --> 01:14:08,240
Speaker 1: that yesterday again, I'm that opening day and it's just

1644
01:14:08,320 --> 01:14:12,800
Speaker 1: me because I've had a crazy schedule and everyone's coming

1645
01:14:12,880 --> 01:14:16,240
Speaker 1: up and it's like, hey, how are your parents, how's Emily?

1646
01:14:16,479 --> 01:14:20,120
Speaker 1: Like we haven't been here in ten years, right, and

1647
01:14:20,160 --> 01:14:22,760
Speaker 1: everyone's like, how's your wife doing? We loved her like

1648
01:14:22,800 --> 01:14:26,240
Speaker 1: we missed her so much. Were your parents? Your father? Man?

1649
01:14:26,360 --> 01:14:29,519
Speaker 1: Like your father we drank one night and just like

1650
01:14:29,600 --> 01:14:32,760
Speaker 1: all the ushers and people that working at Wrigley are

1651
01:14:33,520 --> 01:14:36,080
Speaker 1: like genuinely asking about my family, and it's just like,

1652
01:14:36,160 --> 01:14:39,519
Speaker 1: that's how much of a family playing here in Chicago is.

1653
01:14:40,160 --> 01:14:43,640
Speaker 1: And it's just why you call this home, why I

1654
01:14:43,680 --> 01:14:45,680
Speaker 1: love this place much. Yeah, it's a special place. The

1655
01:14:45,720 --> 01:14:48,479
Speaker 1: friendly confinence is real, and the people around here. I

1656
01:14:48,520 --> 01:14:51,120
Speaker 1: remember all the police officers when I come back and

1657
01:14:51,160 --> 01:14:53,040
Speaker 1: go to a football game or whatever, they thank us

1658
01:14:53,040 --> 01:14:54,160
Speaker 1: for the overtime they got.

1659
01:14:54,160 --> 01:14:55,880
Speaker 2: In two thousand six time, they got a big check

1660
01:14:56,479 --> 01:14:59,160
Speaker 2: for forgetting right and then like crown, all the people

1661
01:15:00,280 --> 01:15:01,320
Speaker 2: play more years here.

1662
01:15:02,000 --> 01:15:04,760
Speaker 1: Obviously, I get traded, go to New York and really

1663
01:15:04,840 --> 01:15:06,599
Speaker 1: enjoy my time in New York, go to another World

1664
01:15:06,600 --> 01:15:10,040
Speaker 1: Series and lose, and like it's gut wrenching, right, that's

1665
01:15:10,080 --> 01:15:12,080
Speaker 1: like exactly you you won their last game you ever

1666
01:15:12,120 --> 01:15:16,200
Speaker 1: played and I lost it, okay, And funny story, I

1667
01:15:16,240 --> 01:15:19,439
Speaker 1: was at the final of the WBC and Rossi's getting

1668
01:15:19,439 --> 01:15:21,960
Speaker 1: a silver medal after they lost, and I have a

1669
01:15:22,040 --> 01:15:25,760
Speaker 1: video and I got to boom in and I go, hah,

1670
01:15:26,040 --> 01:15:28,360
Speaker 1: how's it feel to finish second? Now? Because he used

1671
01:15:28,400 --> 01:15:31,040
Speaker 1: to always screaming, I don't know what finishing second feels like.

1672
01:15:31,120 --> 01:15:32,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, that wasn't a good feel and that was a

1673
01:15:32,439 --> 01:15:35,760
Speaker 2: good field, but this was this was I mean, this

1674
01:15:35,800 --> 01:15:38,640
Speaker 2: podcast is going to be unbelievable with telling all these stories.

1675
01:15:39,720 --> 01:15:40,800
Speaker 2: We're so thankful for.

1676
01:15:41,200 --> 01:15:42,880
Speaker 1: The fact that we get to sit down with all

1677
01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:46,680
Speaker 1: of our guys, like you're it's such a treat and

1678
01:15:46,720 --> 01:15:50,439
Speaker 1: it's it gets emotional. There's so many stories there's it

1679
01:15:50,560 --> 01:15:53,360
Speaker 1: all comes full circle and the fact that all the

1680
01:15:53,400 --> 01:15:55,760
Speaker 1: guys were so nervous coming like what's this going to

1681
01:15:55,840 --> 01:15:58,160
Speaker 1: be about and then when we're done, they're like, dude,

1682
01:15:58,200 --> 01:16:01,920
Speaker 1: I could have talked for four more hours. It's just

1683
01:16:02,120 --> 01:16:05,439
Speaker 1: it's so special. We had our reunion already a little bit,

1684
01:16:05,600 --> 01:16:08,320
Speaker 1: the one night and having all the guys back was incredible.

1685
01:16:08,720 --> 01:16:11,599
Speaker 1: And in July when we have another reunion the whole weekend,

1686
01:16:11,600 --> 01:16:14,479
Speaker 1: it's just going to be such a celebration. I hope

1687
01:16:14,760 --> 01:16:17,479
Speaker 1: everyone can get the behind the scenes that they want

1688
01:16:17,760 --> 01:16:21,200
Speaker 1: follow us on all of our socials. Everything but the.

1689
01:16:21,240 --> 01:16:23,360
Speaker 2: Lie get subscribed, and that what they say on you.

1690
01:16:23,600 --> 01:16:25,120
Speaker 1: What the kids say. I think I don't even know.

1691
01:16:25,200 --> 01:16:29,120
Speaker 1: But the Lovable Reunion Podcast, it's going to be celebrated

1692
01:16:29,160 --> 01:16:30,760
Speaker 1: all year, and we can't wait to tell you guys

1693
01:16:30,760 --> 01:16:31,519
Speaker 1: for the ride with.

1694
01:16:31,560 --> 01:16:35,080
Speaker 2: Me and Anthony, it's it's not about us again. It'll

1695
01:16:35,120 --> 01:16:37,439
Speaker 2: be about everybody else. This one was about us, but

1696
01:16:37,520 --> 01:16:39,160
Speaker 2: the rest of them will be all the stories from

1697
01:16:39,160 --> 01:16:40,360
Speaker 2: everybody else. I can't wait, bro.

1698
01:16:40,960 --> 01:16:45,479
Speaker 1: And next episode next week will be our skipper Joe Madden.

1699
01:16:46,160 --> 01:16:48,080
Speaker 1: Amazing episode we sat down with him. He's one of

1700
01:16:48,120 --> 01:16:50,800
Speaker 1: our first episodes, and we go so deep with Joe

1701
01:16:50,920 --> 01:16:54,840
Speaker 1: and what he meant to us. You'll find out through

1702
01:16:54,880 --> 01:16:56,679
Speaker 1: all of these episodes on what he meant to every

1703
01:16:56,680 --> 01:16:59,960
Speaker 1: player throughout their careers. But without Joe, there's no way.

1704
01:17:00,040 --> 01:17:01,400
Speaker 1: We don't have we don't have the success.

1705
01:17:01,479 --> 01:17:04,360
Speaker 2: So tune in, tune in, Thank you, thanks fans.

1706
01:17:04,520 --> 01:17:05,880
Speaker 1: Is a rap

1707
01:17:07,880 --> 01:17:11,439
Speaker 2: Ah nah, all right,