WEBVTT - David Peralta on Snakes Territory 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:16.479 Hello, and welcome to another episode of Snake's Territory, part 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:19.000 of the Foul Territory Network. Be sure to like this 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:22.080 video on YouTube, subscribe to our channel, maybe leave us 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:25.800 a five star review wherever you get your podcast. I 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:30.440 am Jesse Friedman, alongside the One, the Only Jack Summers 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:34.240 and Jack we have a special guest joining us on 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:39.360 today's episode. I imagine, imagine you've spent a fair amount 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:43.000 of time the past ten years watching this man play baseball. 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:45.040 Yeah, I'm really excited for this. 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:48.000 You know, David Perrault is going to be here, and 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:50.479 super excited to talk to him and see what he's 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:53.880 got to say about how his life's going and just 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:57.160 ask him lots of questions about his history and background 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:58.760 and career and all of that. 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:00.560 So that'd be great. 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:04.240 It was a lot of fun talking talking with David. 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:06.920 We're going to start out with that interview, and then 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:09.399 on the back end we'll come back and talk about 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:11.839 some d Backs spring training updates. We'll talk the latest 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:15.040 on Meryl Kelly his status going into the season, as 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:18.399 well as some other standouts in camp. So we'll get 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:20.479 to that stick around on the back end of the show. 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:23.240 But once again we have a special guest joining us. 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:26.040 We're going to start out with that. So, without further ado, 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:30.280 here is our conversation with the freight train himself, d 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:34.399 Backs outfielder David Peralta. Well, if you've been a fan 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:37.920 of the Arizona Diamondbacks for any length of time, chances 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:41.559 are you're very familiar with the man who joins us now. 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:46.199 It is long time Diamondbacks outfielder David Peralta. David, first 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.160 of all, thanks for hopping on the show. We really 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:50.880 appreciate it. And I also, of course have to say, 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:55.520 speaking on behalf of all Diamondbacks fans, congratulations on a 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:57.559 on a tremendous, tremendous career. 0:01:58.440 --> 0:01:59.880 Thank you, guys, thank you for having me. 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.040 Thank you, it's awesome. 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:04.880 And just so I want to say welcome as well. 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:08.440 From my standpoint, it's just tremendous to get a chance 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:09.120 to talk to you again. 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:11.440 Thank you. I appreciate it. 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:15.120 So, David, I imagine this had to be. I know 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:17.919 there are there are many positives that come out of this. Right, 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.240 you get to spend more time with family and whatnot. 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:22.800 I'm sure you're looking forward to that, but I imagine this 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:26.320 is also difficult for you at the same time, having 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:29.480 played this game for so long, Just what are the 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.400 vibes right now in the Peralta household? How are you 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:33.280 feeling about all this? 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:37.679 Well, the vibees just been crazy and spending like full 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:41.600 time with the family with the kids being a normal 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:43.840 doubt twenty four to seven, which is great. 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:45.639 Then, you know, that's what I was looking for. 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:50.239 The decision to retire, Like you said, it's not easy. 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.400 It took me like a full year to think about it, 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:59.000 to ask around to its teammates who did the same thing, 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.239 and you know, talk a lot with my wife, and 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:03.919 we got a conclusion. 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:07.600 I told my wife like, hey, you guys sacrifice. 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.840 A lot for me, you know, going whatever and go, 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:13.239 you know and everything. Knowing that I was traveling a lot, 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:16.120 I wasn't spending a lot of time at home, and 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:18.400 now I think it's time for me to dedicate full 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:20.200 time for you guys, because you guys. 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:23.840 The service so and and we made that decision. 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:28.639 You know, it was it was It wasn't easy because 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:32.000 you know, you's I love baseball based with my life, 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.680 but I love my family too. And my family one 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.960 of what was the main reason they made the decision 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:40.920 to retire. I need to see grow my kids and 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:44.480 see them grow because the times goes really fast, so 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:46.720 I don't want to miss that time at all. 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:49.640 How many kids do you have and how old are 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:50.040 they now? 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:51.840 I have three kids. 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:56.280 I got two daughters and a boy so eight five 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:58.080 and a little one. 0:03:58.160 --> 0:03:59.520 The boys is two years old. 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.200 H Do any of them have your Do any of 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:05.640 them have your swing? Are you starting to notice any 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:07.520 any resemblance yet? On that phone? 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:12.080 Well, I'm a coach right now from my daughter's team. 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:17.240 She started playing this year, Uh, coach pitch softball and 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:19.960 she's getting better. You know, she's a lefty. She's a 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.320 right but she's swing lefty. I told her like, okay, 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:25.640 you're gonna swing lefty. My older daughter, she's playing t ball. 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:29.240 She love it. She's fire yourself. She's loving it. And well, 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:31.480 the little one, he's too little right now, he's two 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.719 years old. But he's going to be the prospect. Definitely, 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:36.240 he's going to be the prospect. I'm going to do 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:39.360 everything again, you know, to stay in baseball. 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:41.719 That's great. 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.839 Do you have any plans you know, aside from coaching 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:49.320 and staying home, like to stay in baseball in any 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:50.960 other capacity at this point in time. 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:55.159 Well, right now, I think everything's like it's happened too soon. 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:57.520 I'm still like adjusted to be like you know, the 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.799 Neils every time and everything. Of course, I want to 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:03.480 stay in baseball, but I want to dedicate a little 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.359 bit time to my family. But I don't think I 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:09.000 want to do it like full time, like baseball job, 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:10.080 like being the coach. 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:11.040 I like to be. 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:14.800 More like a mentor for the young kids, especially in 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:19.560 mind league, because that really helped me to get to 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:22.280 the point and to be success for my career. The 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:25.640 mental side, because it's easy, like you have your skill, 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.960 you're a professional, but if you're not right right here 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:33.320 in your brain, like mentally, nothing's I know a lot 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:37.839 of friends they have, you know, super skills, like they're superstar, 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.480 but they couldn't figure it out for some reason. 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:42.599 And I think it's everything start right here. 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:46.279 So I want to help this generation to become mature 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.479 so they can handle the big league and be successful 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:51.719 for a long career. 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:55.240 I thought it was cool, David in your in your 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:59.080 announcement announcing or retirement officially, you gave a shout out 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:02.440 to a couple of your former coaches, one of them 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:05.600 being one that Diamondbacks fans are very familiar with still 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.520 of course with the team and Dave McKay, you talk 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.080 about mentors and kind of wanting to do that for 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:16.320 other people. Did what we hear so much about Dave McKay, Sir, 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:18.599 I'm sure it comes as no surprise to you that 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:21.960 everyone who comes to this organization just absolutely loves the guy. 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:25.880 But for you personally, like, what what made him just 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:29.120 such an outstanding, outstanding coach defensively. 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:34.480 Well, David McKay, he was my mentor, he was best coach, 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:38.640 he was my friend, he was everything. And since the 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:42.120 first day I got to the big league he told me, 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:43.520 and it was just crazy. 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:47.560 He was like, David, here in the big league it's 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.520 more easy to hit than minor league. And I didn't 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:51.240 get it. I didn't know what. 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:54.880 He just told me that, and and I was like, 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.000 And then days was buying four and everything, and I 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:01.000 started realizing that, Yeah, you're right, it's more discipline in 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:01.599 the big league. 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:03.280 That's where you're in the big league. You got to 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:04.200 go through minor. 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:08.200 Leagues to get to be disciplined because the big league is, 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:10.480 you know, one hundred percent. You have to do it. 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:12.240 You don't have to do everything right, but you have 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:15.200 to be very disciplined, too inconsistent to stay in the 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:17.800 big league. He teached me how to play the game right. 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:20.520 He teached me how to run the base. It's not 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:21.880 like I didn't know how to do it. He just 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:23.720 told me how to do it, how to look professional, 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.679 how to good pressure. He made me a gold Glub 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:30.280 And I remember that year in twenty nineteen, and that's like, 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:32.880 I have to give him all the credit because I'm 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:34.240 not going to go out there and say, yeah, I 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:34.480 did it. 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:38.400 No, he did it for me. I thought I was 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:39.840 playing right, I was playing good. 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.360 Different and he came one day before the game started 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:46.840 and he showed me some numbers and said, David, these numbers. 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.880 They're okay, but I know you better than this. And 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:50.640 I'm like and. 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:53.040 Inside I was like, oh, I was a little not 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:55.200 upset about like I'm doing well. 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:57.880 No, I want you to do this because I know 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:00.520 you can be better than that. We went. 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.400 He always said, hey, it's not on any magic drill 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:06.680 to get better, and outfields are different. 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:07.240 But there is one. 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:12.400 So he made me check every single ball during VP 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:15.400 it doesn't matter. If it comes to you, you're gonna 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:18.280 react everywhere and that's going to make you be better. 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.480 And I was like, I trust you, mkay, I'm gonna 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:24.480 do it soon now I want to go gloves and 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:27.040 not even I didn't even play the full season. I 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:28.840 only play one hundred games because I ended all that 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:32.080 year having surgery on my shoulder. And I was the 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:35.000 best left field on the whole big just because him. 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:36.840 He just told me, this is what you gotta do. 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:41.199 It's just the trust that he tells you, like the 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:45.920 positive all this knowledge that he give it to you. 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:51.120 It's just like it's hard, like it's the best. I 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:53.800 think it's the best. That's why they always keep him. 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:56.480 They're gonna keep him for it. He's seventy five. And 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:59.719 the thing is he's seventy to seventy five years old. 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.560 It's amazing. How can you not admire that guy? And 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:05.600 I was like, I wish it could be like when 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:06.880 I'm all like you. 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:09.520 I mean, I shouldn't say that because you don't like 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:09.880 when you. 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:13.080 Call him all he looks like a twenty one years 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:16.520 old guy, but I mean he's I really love him. 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:19.200 And I texted him before that I announced my retirement. 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.160 I texted him before that and I say, I just 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:23.480 want to let you know that I made the decision. 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:25.680 I'm going to retire, and thank you for everything for 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.360 make me be a better person and make me be 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:29.559 who I am right now. 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:30.920 That's awesome. 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.840 You know, his his sheets are legendary, you know, the 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:37.360 papers with the with the marks and the good and 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:39.520 the bad marks, the check marks and all that. Like 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.800 the accountability he demands. What was it like when you 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.319 know you show up on the wrong end of one 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:46.280 of his sheets too. 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:50.920 Hey, that's the best part because that's that's the challenge 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:52.520 that you take. I don't want to be a red 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:54.600 mark over there, so I'm going to do my best. 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:56.600 So you're thinking like, hey, I have to make a 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:59.160 good turn, I have to rum hard and everything. And 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:02.440 that's going to make you better, a better player, because 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:04.920 he will tell you, Hey, remember it's not just the 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:08.440 d BAK who's watching you play. It's another twenty nine 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:11.960 teams in the big leagues that's watching you. You don't 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:14.920 know where you're gonna be next, so give you one 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:18.240 hundred percent effort every day because you don't know where 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:20.800 you're gonna be tomorrow and you're gonna and another team 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:22.920 that's gonna say that, you know, we want David Peralto 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:26.800 because he's a role model. He played the game the 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:28.960 right way, and I want this guy for my team. 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:31.120 And that's how and that's how it is. 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:33.120 But hey, I'm. 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:34.920 Telling you there was the guys that we got traded. 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:36.720 And this is a funny story. 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:37.000 J D. 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:40.599 Martinez who's coming for Detroit, when he got traded to 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:42.000 the d Bags and. 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:45.320 Kay told him, hey, this is a sheep you gotta follow. 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:47.680 If you get negative and everything, you're gonna you know, 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:50.520 the first week he was like getting a little bit 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.760 annoying about that. I have from heart all the time 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:54.800 and everything. 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:57.640 And I'm like, man, just trusted and you're gonna become 0:10:57.640 --> 0:10:58.280 a better player. 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.600 And he did it and he was like hustling. He 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:04.880 was like making base singles to the double and stuff 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:05.240 like that. 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:07.360 And he realized like, hey, yeah, maybe a better a 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:08.360 better baseball player. 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.880 Even just a simple thing a running chart, that's what 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:15.080 you called running chart. Something simple and make. 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:17.040 You be a better a better player. 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:20.840 Or something that's awesome. That's a great story. 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:24.000 Of course, your your defense was a was a big 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.200 part of your game, David, I know your offense maybe 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.480 even a bigger part of your game. And in your announcement, 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:33.960 you have a shout out to Jose Amado. Yeah, was 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:37.359 one of your one of your coaches back in independent 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:39.440 ball way back in the day. I know you you 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:42.319 credited him for your Silver Slugger that you won back 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:45.240 in twenty eighteen. Can you take us through a little 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.800 bit of your relationship with him. I know he's also 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:49.600 a really big part of this journey for you. 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:54.080 It was the same thing like you know, when I 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:58.080 did my transition from from the pitcher to pasista player. 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.199 You know, just want to say him, just pull the ball, 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:01.840 all this stuff. 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:05.360 So I went to play in Wichita Witness that's my 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:07.920 second year independent ball, and he was a hitting coach. 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:09.480 He's from Venezuela. 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:13.040 Made and he saw the talent that I have and 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:16.600 he told me like, hey, I'm going to teach you 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:20.240 how to use the whole field because it's now about 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:23.800 pulling the ball, pulling the ball and everything. And I'm like, okay, 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:25.760 I'm going to follow you. So I trust him. He 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:29.200 was like every single day with me, and he made 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:32.920 me be a better player because you're landtry guys and 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:34.920 a guy who can hit the ball to the other way, 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:36.520 they're going to stay in the big lead for a 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:39.880 long time. And he was doing every even when I 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:42.280 made it to the big league. He was my personal 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:45.960 hitting coach. I always work out with him during the 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.680 off season, and when something was wrong during the season, 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:51.120 I was sending a lot of video to him, like, Hey, 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:51.920 I'm doing this, what. 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.640 Do you see And he knew me. It's the same thing. 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:58.320 Twenty eighteen, when I win my silver Slogger and the 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:01.120 month of May I. 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:05.240 Hate one thirty. I was like, oh boy, I can't 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:07.199 hear anymore. So I talked to him. 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:09.880 I'm talking to him and everything, and he said like, Okay, 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:11.800 this is what we're gonna do. You gotta trust me. 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.000 And I'm like, whatever you say, I'm gonna do it. 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.280 We're gonna start from zero. We're gonna start from zero. 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:18.199 Let's start over. 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:21.400 We're gonna recept and you're gonna do this trial on 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:23.120 the cage and just trust it. 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:25.600 Trust it, and just when you go up there to 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:27.800 hit during the game, don't think about anything. 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.880 Just let it happen, okay. And that's who we start. 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.720 How we start and I ended up hitting thirty homers 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:39.160 and winning the civil slogan. It's amazing, like how how 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:42.240 you can change just with the dob with the talk 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:47.200 and change you mentality and the way you see stuff 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:49.120 can make you go to the next level. 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.360 I know you spent quite a bit of time with 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:58.920 current Diamondbacks manager Tory Lavello as well during your time 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:04.560 in the organization. I'm curious what your relationship with Tori 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.200 was like over those years. And he's still add it. 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:08.840 I guess for a reason, right. 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:12.080 You said it. He's still there for a reason because 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:14.120 he's a good man. I really like it. We really 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:15.120 have a good relationship. 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:20.320 And since the day one he got there in twenty seventeen, 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:23.960 he was like the communication with the players and everything 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:27.440 they trust in, and he really trusted the group that 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.960 we have over there. And I always talking to him like, Tori, 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:35.320 we got you, like it's you know, the brotherhood that 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.560 we have. Okay, you worry about the game, that we're 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:39.960 going to take care of the club house, and that 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:42.240 was that trust. And if it's something was going wrong, 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:46.000 like we talk your shot all the time, because it's 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:48.520 I mean, it's a lot of a lot of responsibility 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:49.560 for the manager to be. 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:52.360 I got to manage the game. I got to do this. 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:55.240 I got to make the right mode and I need 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:58.280 someone to help me out to keep the players and 0:14:58.320 --> 0:14:59.120 the right track. 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.200 So it was it was cool. 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:04.280 And in the moment when I got traded, it was 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:08.440 a sad moment of course for everyone, and and and 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:13.240 you know, he wished me the best and everything, and 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.320 and I was like, hey, I'm gonna be here for 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:17.600 you guys forever you need men. And of course the 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:19.560 next year I signed with the Dodgers, and I'm like 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:24.320 everything went crazy, and you know how it is the situation, 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:26.040 but it's the same love. 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:30.160 It's the same love, same relationship. And and like you said, 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.440 he's steal in the d Bacs because he's the best. 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:33.080 He's a good man. 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:39.520 I remember, just your good natured humor joking. You know, hey, 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:42.120 you told Mike stop drafting left handed outfielders. 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:46.960 Yeah, yeah, doing it because the're gonna take it. They're 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:47.640 gonna take my job. 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:52.280 And I'm like, hey man, you have to have fun 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:56.040 in baseball because like look, that's that's that's what you're. 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:57.280 Gonna take with you. 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:00.200 You know, the game is gonna keep going the game, 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.160 it's gonna be changing and everything, but what you're gonna 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:05.560 take is all this great moments that you spend with you, 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:11.040 with your teammates, live bat moments, because you gotta take 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:13.800 your bat moments too, Like Hey, the big slam and 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:18.920 couldn't do anything for strikeout day. That's gonna happen because 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:20.960 you're gonna learn from that. But there's gonna be a 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:22.600 lot of good moment That's what you gotta take. You 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:25.160 gotta have fun. And I always tell the guys like, hey, 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:29.560 and you're your day, and you're today enjoying the big league. 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:32.200 You're in the big league. Enjoy your day because you 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:35.320 don't know where you're going to be tomorrow. And I 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:39.160 always tell them like, hey, yesterday, when I was yesterday, 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:42.280 I was playing independent ball. Today I'm in the big league. 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:43.880 I don't know what am I gonna be tomorrow. So 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:47.120 I'm gonna make sure that today I'm gonna give my one 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:47.800 hundred percent. 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:49.400 I'm gonna have fun. 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:51.680 I'm going to jump everything, and when they give me 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:55.480 the change to play, I'm gonna give everything I got. 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:58.040 By the time I go to bed and pull the 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:00.480 head on my pill up, I'm gonna be like I 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:02.680 did everything, so tomorrow is going to be a new day. 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:06.520 That was my mom sat every single day and it 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:07.600 worked for me, and it worked. 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:09.800 It worked for me, and that's what I was trying to, 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:13.960 like curse all these young kids, because there's a lot 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.560 of kids they come from Triple A just thinking, oh 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:18.679 I got a good, dude, I got a good I 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:20.520 gotta do this because they're. 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:22.720 Gonna send me down. Now this is my phone. You 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:24.560 don't know if that's going to be your only change 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:25.600 and you're gonna be just. 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:29.720 Worry about stress. No, enjoy Bigley. It's not easy and 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:32.720 it's not for everyone. So if you got the opportunity, 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:35.800 just take it and just enjoy and do everything you can. 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:38.840 And they said that was my mom set every day. 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:40.520 I know that. 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:44.480 The fans, I mean they totally felt that vibe from you, 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:47.359 you know, from the from the day you arrived and uh, 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:49.679 you know, just the way you played the game with 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:53.639 both joy and hustle and and well all. 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:56.960 Of the mind you know, made your favorite. 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:01.000 Now you had that nickname, of course, it's a fabulous nickname, 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:01.720 the freight Train. 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:05.440 I'm trying to remember how that came about. Was that 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:07.800 from from the broadcast booth. 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:12.199 Or yeah, Steve Steeper f you, yeah, the one who 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:13.160 named it that way. 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:17.199 It was like, because you know, Chase Field is a 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:19.959 huge gap, big Bullpark, and I was hitting a lot 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:23.320 of triples, triples, and I was like, I assume every 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:25.720 time when I was hitting those ball, oh, hitting the gap, 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:26.560 I'm running. 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:29.400 And he was keep saying he's running like a freight train, 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:30.560 like a freight train, and. 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:34.800 You know, the friends love it, and I was like, 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:38.159 I like it, it's working, so why not so and 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:40.399 I became the freight tram and everyone and then you 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:40.879 gotta do it. 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:42.439 You got to have some stuff. You know. 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:47.760 That's awesome if I'm getting the history right, which corrects 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:48.440 me if I'm wrong. 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:49.080 Uh. 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:51.639 I believe there was a point when you were an 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:55.080 independent ball maybe on the verge of signing something with 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:58.480 the Diamondbacks. I believe it was Jose Amatto, right, who 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.920 was maybe looking an opportunity for you to play baseball 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:04.719 in Mexico, maybe earn a little bit more money that way. 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:07.200