WEBVTT - Ryan Howard joins TPS 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:02.519 Ryan, thank you so much for joining the Philly Show. 0:00:02.560 --> 0:00:05.920 We're really excited to have you. Jim Salisbury is also 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:08.000 on the show, but he couldn't make it, so I 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:10.280 asked Jim, I said, do you have any questions for 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:13.399 the big piece? And he said, I only have one question. 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:16.720 Please ask Ryan if he's still keeping it. 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:19.880 Crispy Man like always man with a two piece, like 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:22.799 a two piece with a biscuit. Steak's always coming through 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:24.800 Man steaks. I love him. 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:29.520 He had to ask that question, so he's gonna be 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:31.920 He's very happy. 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:33.080 No, you're keeping it Chrispy. 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:36.160 A lot of stuff we want to talk to you about, 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:38.440 of course, and one of them is, you know, you're 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:42.000 doing this new podcast. It's not even new right now, 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:44.680 but with with your young James as you like to 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:47.600 call him, on one podcast, and it's it's been a 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:48.040 lot of fun. 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:50.559 I listen, I'm a listener. 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:53.880 You've had Chase on, You've had Peter Martinez on, you 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.920 just had Simon Gratz, legend, Rashid Wallace on the show. 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:01.200 What have you enjoyed about it and what do you 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:03.560 how do you feel about being on the other end 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:09.759 and having to ask questions of I have to answer 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:10.680 the questions. 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:14.840 Oh well, first, no, greatly appreciate it, you know, listening 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:18.520 and tuning in. It's been a lot of fun. You know, 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:21.679 I had I had a lot of great mentors to 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:25.760 learn from over my career, you know, the John Salisbury's 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:28.280 and Todd's, Aleki's and and all of those folks that 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:31.319 would come into the clubhouse and just ask all different 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:34.000 kinds of questions. But but you know what, I went 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:38.120 to school for communications mass media, so you know, it's 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:40.240 it's the first thing was was just going and just 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:42.280 having a lot of fun with it and being able 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:44.440 to have the guests on and just kind of sit 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:46.679 back and chop it up as we like to speak 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:50.240 and and and hear their stories and uh, learn about 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:54.520 their paths to success and what they've gone through, their trials, 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:56.560 their errors, and being able to share that with everybody 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.600 has been something that's been really eye opening and uh 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:01.960 and a lot of fun doing so. 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:05.080 I had some questions about that, Like, you obviously had 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:05.680 some really. 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:06.560 Great guests on there. 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:10.000 Is there anybody in particular you haven't had on there 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:15.359 that you would consider like like your dream guest, I mean, 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:19.000 either in the baseball world or otherwise that you would 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.160 really love to have on there, anybody you had to 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:23.200 break it down with. 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:27.880 Oh man, I mean there's so many different people, I 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:31.840 think from different aspects. I think, you know, a sport 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:34.000 from the sporting aspect. I would love to get mj 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:36.160 on there, would love to get you know, Michael Jordan 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:38.080 on there, and he's one of the guys grew up 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.800 watching and and just kind of learn more about his story, 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:45.800 I think too, just as we try to hit different 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:51.280 genres right of people, different entertainers, you know, a Jay 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:54.040 Z or somebody like that would be great, you know, 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:58.160 kind of hear their perspectives on their past, because. 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:01.480 It's the cool thing about it is is you know, is. 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:07.520 The journeys are the backbone of the journeys are all 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:11.200 pretty much the same, right, but the past are different 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:15.040 in the sense of where it is, whether it's business, 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.960 whether it's music, whether it's sports. You still have to 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:19.720 put in the work, you have to put in the time, 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:21.880 you have to put in the grind, right, and there's 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:26.400 always going to be some type of hurdle that you've 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:28.520 got to get over. So how do you respond, how 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:31.919 do you react to that? You know, and everybody that's 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:33.760 you know, kind of had some type of success. We 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:35.720 had Michael Rubin on, you know, as one of our 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.760 earlier shows, and he was kind of going through his 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:40.000 trials and tribulations. 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:42.280 It's all about how you respond to it. 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.840 So it's it's really cool here in everybody's different aspects 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:47.400 and perspectives on that. 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:51.240 Definitely, I've learned a lot. You know, it was great 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:55.520 having Chase on, Having paid Re Martinez on was a 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:56.120 lot of fun. 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:56.680 I learned. 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.480 I learned some things about you guys that did not know. 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:03.000 I learned that your nickname, besides the Big Piece, is 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.480 the Big Sexy. I'm gonna leave it right there. If 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:08.000 you want to know why Ryan it's called the Big Sexy, 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:11.040 you got to go listen to Pedro Martinez podcast. But 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:14.720 if you learned anything new about j Rowl since you've 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:18.960 been doing this podcast. 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:22.680 I mean it's it's pretty much all still the usual suspect, 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:27.200 you know, like Jimmy, Jimmy is is smooth. 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:28.320 He's great, man. 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:30.600 I mean obviously you know I watch him on TV. 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:33.160 I watch you guys on TV. Ruby, you're doing an 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:36.400 amazing job, man. Congrats on on that, as you know too, 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:38.680 making making these types of transitions. 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:40.920 It's it's different, you know, when you're. 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:42.839 Like like Todd said in the beginning, it's like you 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.520 go from the person being asked the questions to the 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.520 person asking the questions. So it's all about, you know, 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:50.480 the deliveries and the flows and everything. 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:53.120 But Jimmy's great, man. 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:54.960 We just try to get out there, just have fun 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:58.159 and just continue to feed off each other. That's really cool. 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:01.039 You know, you've gone through like a bunch of things. 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:05.880 Personally, I'm sure you're like sort of I would assume 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:07.920 you're keep an eye on what's going on with Kyle 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:12.880 Schwarber with his season and the fact that he's you know, 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:14.599 sort of closing in. 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:16.360 A little bit on your home run record. 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:19.080 I mean, that was an historic season that I got 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:22.560 to enjoy and watch and and and uh, you know, 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:26.200 obviously watched your overall development as a you know, as 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:27.839 a slugger and as a hitter. 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:29.720 I was wondering, like. 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:34.240 You know, are you following what's going on? Are you 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:35.279 rooting for him? 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.680 Are you not rooting for him? Are you? I mean, 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:38.880 how big of a. 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:39.800 Phillies fan are you? 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:42.880 What's what's your your take on this whole man? I 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:44.880 follow the boys. I follow them all the time. I 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:47.600 love I'm a Schwarber fan. I love Kyle, Like, Uh. 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:51.520 The funny thing is is that when we trained together 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:54.040 in Tampa because we both had we were both part 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:57.039 of the same agency, We're both with c A, and 0:05:57.080 --> 0:06:00.920 we trained together in Tampa at a spot called Saddlebrook. 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.280 So this was when he was first breaking into the league. 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:04.920 I think he was still with the with the Cubs, 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.160 and so I got to see him, you know, we 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:10.520 were training, working out and doing all that kind of 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:11.920 stuff and hitting, and I was watching him. 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:15.640 I was like, this dude's got some some sock him. 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:17.239 He's got some stupid pop. 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:19.559 But even more so, like he was just a great, 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:24.359 like down to earth like humble person, right, And so 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.159 I was like, this dude's gonna be He's gonna be good. 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:31.600 So it doesn't surprise me one bit. I'm excited for him. 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.960 I'm rooting for him, cheering for him. I know it's 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:37.920 the fans. The fans love it, you know what I did. 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:41.680 And in two thousand and six, like it's one of 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:43.000 those things where. 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:45.480 It was just a pure. 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:47.800 Kind of like video game blackout moment in a sense, 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.520 I remember telling Jimmy. The one time I think I 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:52.320 told Jimmy. I think it was on a stretch. I 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.200 was like, man, Jay, like I haven't hit a homer 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:55.800 in like a week or something. He looked at me 0:06:55.839 --> 0:07:00.120 and like he said, shut up, like I'm struggling. I 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:01.880 was like, I'm struggling. Probably haven't hit a homer like 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:03.840 a week or something like that. And he's like, shut up. 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:05.840 I think I went and hit like two that night 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.279 or whatnot. But when you're in a zone like he's 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.440 in his zone right now and putting together great AB's. 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:14.720 That's the other thing too, is he doesn't waste abs. 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:18.760 That's been key and and rub as you know, like 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.280 you get a guy. Kyle's a guy that when he 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:25.440 gets going, he can carry a team. And you know, 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:27.280 I think with with what the guys have been able 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:30.720 to do thus far and getting into the postseason right now, 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:33.760 everybody's clicking on all cylinders, which is which is what 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.120 you want and what you need. But you know, Kyle's 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.120 been a guy to when when they needed him, he 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:39.520 can put them on his back. 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:44.120 Tod Father, you and me grew up in Jersey. We 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:47.760 liked to collect cards. But the way the process got 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:53.080 was ridiculous. You open up a pack, there's a bunch 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:54.800 of cards you don't care about. Then you want to 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.720 get certain ones graded takes forever right, then you want 0:07:57.720 --> 0:07:58.840 to maybe sell one. 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:00.360 It's such a to do. 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:02.480 Arena Club has been the solution for us. 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:06.240 Arena Club has been a solution for everybody. You go online, 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:08.520 go to Arena Club and you check out what they have, 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:10.880 put a little cash down. You might get one of 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:13.360 the best cards that you've ever seen in your life, 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:15.680 and autograph card and guess what, if you don't like 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.720 the card, easily you could sell it back and make 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:21.040 a little cash. You never know what to expect. It's 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:22.600 a cool way of doing it. You're gonna get a 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:24.760 surprise every time. And if you're in the cards, this 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:26.559 is something you really need to get into. 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:27.120 Right now. 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:29.480 You can get twenty percent off your first slap pack 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.120 or card purchase by going to Arena club dot com, 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:35.160 slash foul and use code foul like Todd Father is 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.720 talking about. With those slap packs, every pack is a 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:41.040 grail that's at least twenty x the price of the pack. 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:42.040 Check it out. 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:43.800 What do you like about his swing? 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:47.800 I mean he's got such a short, quick, fast, powerful swing. 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:50.559 What do you kind of admire about it? 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:51.840 What do you like about watching them hit? 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:55.240 I guess I mean it's just that so like when 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:59.679 you watch guys that hit home wrongs, there's always a 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:05.240 certain an aspect to their swing, and there's always like 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:09.120 a certain type of I don't know, just different explosiveness 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:11.640 and finish to their swing. Like I always loved watching 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.480 Prince filled or hit homers, Like I loved when we 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:17.920 played Milwaukee, right because when Prince hit a homer, it 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.880 was almost like the bat would just explode out of 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:21.319 his hands. 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:21.559 Right. 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:23.720 Kyle's one of those guys where it's like it's so 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:28.280 quick and it's just everything stops. I don't know, Like 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.800 when I'm watching it's it just seems like everything after 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:36.200 the swing just just stops because the ball, the ball 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:39.240 just explodes off his bat and it's so quick and 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:42.880 it's so short. As you said that, he just puts 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.400 the fat part on the bat, of fat part of 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:48.240 the bat on the ball, and the rest just takes 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:49.120 care of itself. 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:49.320 Man. 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:51.400 I mean, it's like he's not trying to It's like 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:53.520 he's not trying to hit the ball out of the ballpark. 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:57.120 It's like he's just letting the ball run into the bat, 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:58.559 or letting the bat run into the ball. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.880 I admired about you is that you had that ability 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:06.559 to just take a nice, smooth, easy swing and drive 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:09.120 the ball. I mean, you hadn't majestic home runs even 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:10.400 the opposite way like that. 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:14.480 It was like you were like a left handed hitting, 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:17.880 power hitting right handed hitter. When you were hitting balls out, 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:22.120 it was really really awesome. I mean you always had 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:22.719 that sort of that. 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:25.800 Ability to to drive the ball the other way. 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:29.280 Can you talk a little bit about how Charlie's influence 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:31.600 when you were a little bit younger as you were 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:35.800 moving forward, how that like all that that development of 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:37.760 like hitting the ball to the right side of the 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:41.360 field and you know you're still utilizing that power. What 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:43.720 kind of influence Charlie had on your swing? 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:46.280 Yeah, I mean Charlie was great. 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:50.120 Charlie always had, you know, the positive reinforcement in building 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:53.480 it up and for me actually learning I was a 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:57.439 dead pool hitter in high school. Growing up, I did 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:00.360 not know what center field or left field was because 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:02.680 my thought process I was very raw. So my thought 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.319 process was was if I'm not hitting it down here, 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:08.200 I'm late. Right if I'm hitting it anywhere else, I'm late. 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:11.840 And it wasn't actually until I got to college that 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:17.880 my coach shout out my man G. Keith Gutton, Missouri 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:22.600 State University. G my man G was the one who 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.760 opened me up to the entire field. So he took 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.920 me and he said, hey, we're going to make your 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:34.360 foul polls from right center to left center, which basically 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.480 it just opened up the entire field for me, and 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.559 it actually slowed everything down to where I was able 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:42.920 to recognize pitches a lot better because I stayed up 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:45.400 the middle of the field now where Charlie came into 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:49.920 play in the minor leagues where he came in, Charlie 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:54.800 would notice at times I would close myself off too much. So, 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:57.600 just like with Tony how Tomy would hold the bat 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:01.400 out towards the pitcher, League had me start to do that, 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.839 so it aligned myself up where I was open and 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:06.040 can see the picture. 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:06.560 With both eyes. 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:11.520 And then that helped me even more to where it's like, okay, 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:13.560 some of those balls that were more middle middle end, 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:15.440 I was able to kind of turn on them and 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:18.000 then stay back up the middle and then again go 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:19.160 go away. 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:23.200 So the fun part about it was was I used 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:24.360 to Uh. 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:26.840 I feel like I used to bait pictures in because Rube, 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:28.440 you used to see me all the time. I stood 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:31.400 way off the plate yep. And so I swung a 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:33.320 longer bat. I swung a bigger bat. My bat was 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.200 like thirty five inches thirty four ounces yep. And so 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:39.720 those guys would see me so off, so far off 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:43.880 the plate that they would throw it middle, middle, away 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.840 and sometimes even off the plate away, and I was 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:48.720 still able to get barrel on it. So for me, 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:50.920 I wanted to try to stay in the middle of 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.720 the field. So by doing that, I stepped off the plate. 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:58.480 So now middle is away, away, is away, in is 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:03.680 now middle, and anything that's more off the plate in like, yeah, 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:06.000 I can catch it. I think there was one pitch 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:10.920 that uh. And the reason why I don't forget this 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.440 is because I don't know how I hit it was 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:18.000 off of uh. There was like a slider from John 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.120 Smoltz that was like down and in like off the plate, 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:24.120 and I don't know what happened. I just got somehow 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:27.160 got the barrel to it. But again, being off the plate, 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.280 there's no other way, if I'm on the plate, I'm 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.080 missing at or I'm following it off my shin. 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:35.839 You mentioned like that that the slider off Smoltz. Do 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:38.160 you remember does anything stick out about that fifty eight 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:40.439 home run season any one of those specific home runs? 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:43.520 Is that the obvious one, that Tim Hudson three homer 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:45.600 game when he hit fifty to fifty one fifty two? 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.400 Anything else jump out about that that season? 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:52.240 Yeah? There was two. There was. 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:56.319 I mean obviously that game was was fun and it 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:57.720 was fun to watch. 0:13:57.800 --> 0:13:59.040 That was that was. That was a good day. 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:05.640 And then and I would say the Mike, you seen 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:09.439 a home run the game, but that the one to 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:13.560 the third deck and seeing uh, Matt Dog and Brett 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:17.920 Myer's reaction like when it landed. So I mean it 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:19.640 was it was when I when I hit it, I 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:24.040 was like that felt There's those times where you hit 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:25.960 a ball and you feel like you didn't even feel it, 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:28.320 and I was like, oh, that felt good, Like I 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:30.200 didn't even feel it. And then the next thing it 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:35.360 was just you know, landing the third deck. So yeah, 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.760 that that reaction that was that was good. 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:40.480 And I will say there was another one. There was 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:41.200 another one in. 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:44.640 Houston groupe that I feel like I got robbed in Houston. 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:48.680 I think it was off Who is it? 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:49.320 Like? 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.400 Was it Wandy Rodriguez? I hit it. 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:56.880 I think it was against Wandy and I hit it Appo. 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:59.960 It was a day game in Houston. Smoked the guy 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:03.400 in the chest in the front row in Houston and 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.720 left field, and they called it a double because of 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:08.920 the glare from the sun, so they couldn't tell. 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:12.120 And we didn't have replay. Why back then? 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:22.080 That's one question I had about so so people often 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:26.240 ask this question. I mean, do you ever really or 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.280 how many times in your career do you think you 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:32.000 actually tried to hit a ball out of the ballpark, 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:36.080 Like on this particular swing, I'm going to try, I'm 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:39.120 thinking about hitting it out. Did you do that a 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:43.240 lot or did it just happen naturally? I did it 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:45.200 one time I actually hit a home run with in 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:47.600 the minor leagues where I actually wanted to hit one 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:48.200 home run out. 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:49.520 That was the only time I ever did it my 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:52.080 whole life. Now I couldn't hit home runs, but I 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:55.720 was just curious, like a power hitter like yourself, do 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:57.320 you actually. 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:00.480 Think to the go and you know one particular swing. Okay, 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:01.760 I'm hitting this ball out of the ballpark. 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:06.080 Majority of the time, it's all natural, like it just 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:09.320 it's just reactionary, and it happens. There's sometimes where either 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.240 like you get into a certain count and you know 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:15.040 like you're a thousand percent sure, like this is what 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:21.080 this guy is gonna throw me, like I'm not missing this. Yeah, yeah, 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:25.800 I forget that. I forget the guy's name. It was 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:28.400 a picture on the Nationals. I think I hit like 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.880 two grand slams off the guy and he was the 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:34.760 second ball that I hit in the third deck, and 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:37.120 I just remember when he threw it. I was I 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:39.840 was sitting dead red change up, and I remember I 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:41.560 was like, he throws his change up, I'm hitting this 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:44.520 thing out of the ballpark like we're going on the street. 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:47.440 And when as soon as I hit, I was like, oof, 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:49.680 that might leave everything. 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:51.640 I felt like it felt better than the one off 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.920 of you've seen it, and that that time was like 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:58.440 one of those times where I knew, like, Okay, if 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.240 they give me this pitch, I'm gonna be But you 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:03.600 have to be feeling good though, too, right your swing 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:05.560 and everything's got to be feeling good to where you're 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.520 even telling yourself that as a hitter, because you can't 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:10.320 go up there feeling like garbage and be like, all right, 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:11.960 I'm gonna go up here and I'm gonna hit this 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:13.399 out like everything. 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:14.760 You got to be in the flow right there. 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:17.280 It's funny you should say that because for me, I mean, 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:20.040 this is a story about me. But you remember Claude 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:23.280 os Dave Ostein was a big change up guy. But 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:25.639 Claude Osting used to be a pitcher pitching coach for 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:27.280 many many years in the Big Land, pitch in the 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:30.040 big leagues. So Dave Ostein, same thing. I sat on 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:31.760 a change up, but he's towing me a change up. 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:33.600 I'm gonna hit this one out And I actually hit 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:38.040 it out of the stadium in Little Rock, Arkansas, which 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:41.840 was weird because I had no pop, but he actually 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.320 threw it. Oh my goodness. But it's funny that it 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:47.879 was a similar bridge. I just can't imagine that you 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:50.560 ever put yourself in a position to do that like 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:54.840 all the time, and so it's interesting to actually pinpoint 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:55.560 the one. 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:59.119 Time that you know you did well, you know what, ahead, 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:01.360 oh go ahead, go ahead, no no, no, no, go right. Yeah, 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:04.080 I was just I was just gonna say because it 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:07.240 made me think back to nine, the whole get me 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:12.000 to the plate thing, right, and I just remember, I 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:14.680 don't know what happened. I just again another blackout moment 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:17.440 over the course of my career. But when I went 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:19.040 when I went through it because I knew what the 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:22.600 situation was and with like Houston, like Houston Street, right, 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:26.479 because we're playing the Rockies and Houston was my teammate 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:29.159 in the Fall League, so I'd gotten to see a 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:31.879 lot of Houston like pitch. 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:34.119 And so I was just like, all right, I know 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:35.720 what he does. I know what his ball does. 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:38.880 I'm like if he if he does this, I'm hitting 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:41.760 it out, Like, just give me to the plate, like 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:43.400 I I'm gonna. 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:45.160 Hit it out. And then I just I just missed 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:48.080 it and hit that top spin and hit it off 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:50.160 the wall. And yeah. 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:52.480 So it was It's like one of those things where 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:55.080 you just it just kind of comes together when you 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:57.600 know exactly what a guy is gonna try to do 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:00.720 and you're feeling good enough to where it's like, hey, 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:03.600 all right, if you get me to the plate like this, 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:04.440