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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Bryce Harper and welcome to The Philly Show.

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Speaker 2: This is The Philly Show with Ruben Amaro Junior, Jim Salisbury.

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Speaker 2: I'm Todd z Lucky. Yes, we have a very special

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Speaker 2: episode for you today. Bryce Harper joined us recently, right

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Speaker 2: before the twenty twenty four London Series between the Phillies

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Speaker 2: and Mets at London Stadium. Of course, we talked about

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Speaker 2: the phillies incredible start to the twenty twenty four season.

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Speaker 2: We talked about what life might be like this summer

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Speaker 2: and fall at Citizens Bank Park, what it would mean

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Speaker 2: to win a World Series in Philadelphia. But we also

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Speaker 2: talked a lot about a lot of fun off field stuff.

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Speaker 2: The promo he just shot with Chase Sully and Rob McIlhenny,

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Speaker 2: some of the swag he'll be wearing this weekend on

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Speaker 2: the field at London Stadium. A lot of youth baseball stuff,

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Speaker 2: including his dad's influence, just some of the work he

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Speaker 2: put in as a kid, so much more. Jim Rubin

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Speaker 2: and I afterwards were like, Wow, that was a lot

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Speaker 2: of fun. I think you guys are really going to

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Speaker 2: sent you. Without further ado, Here is the Phillies Show

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Speaker 2: conversation with Bryce Harper. Bryce, thanks so much for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Phillies are playing so well right now. We're a little

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Speaker 2: more than a third end of the season. You're winning

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Speaker 2: at a remarkable clip. The ballpark is packed every night,

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Speaker 2: the atmosphere is electric, and it's not even summer yet.

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Speaker 2: I'm wondering what it is like just coming to the

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Speaker 2: ballpark today. Does it feel any different?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think as a team we've talked

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Speaker 3: about it and you know, obviously Philly fans man when

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Speaker 3: you're winning, when you're playing well, they're showing up and supporting,

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Speaker 3: and you know, being able to come to the ballpark

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Speaker 3: every night and know that they're going to show up

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Speaker 3: is an amazing feeling. You know. We had a random

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Speaker 3: Tuesday night maybe about three weeks ago, and it was slammed.

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Speaker 3: I mean there were thirty eight thousand people here and

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Speaker 3: we were all standing there going this is incredible. And

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Speaker 3: just being able to play in front of a fan

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Speaker 3: base like that. I love getting home. I don't think

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Speaker 3: people realize obviously because you know, my family and my

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Speaker 3: kids and stuff, but being able to play in the

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Speaker 3: Going on the road obviously it's it's the road and

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Speaker 3: you get back home, there is nothing like it. I mean,

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Speaker 3: we just got back from San fran and the last

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Speaker 3: day in San Fran I was just like itching to

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Speaker 3: front of this fan base, in front of this crowd,

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Speaker 3: and there's nothing like it.

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Speaker 4: So you had played against Philadelphia for years? Is that something?

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Speaker 4: Was that like something was important to you to be

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Speaker 4: able to play in front of a fan base like that,

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Speaker 4: I mean you feel I mean, I watch you and

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Speaker 4: it looks like you rise to these amazing occasions. Was

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Speaker 3: It's just that moment, right, just being able to you know,

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Speaker 3: when I came in here as an opposing player, I

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Speaker 3: didn't see it in the days of like Philly right, Like,

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Speaker 3: I didn't really see it in the seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven,

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Speaker 3: obviously because I was an opposing player, so I would

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Speaker 3: you know, I just it was a little tough for

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Speaker 3: I just you could see the passion, you could see

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Speaker 3: And I can say that just because I play here

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Speaker 3: and everybody just I think, obviously, when you're winning, people

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Speaker 3: you can just feel the emotion and the power and

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Speaker 5: I want to ask you. You talk about playing in

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Speaker 5: They lift you, they elevate you. What's it like playing

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Same, right, I mean obviously being able to play

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Speaker 3: in front of a fan base that just like Rubin said,

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Speaker 3: I mean, I love that moment. I love the opportunity

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Speaker 3: well like that, you know, and as much as our

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Speaker 3: as an offense to go out there and hey, if

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Speaker 3: me up. And I think everybody does that very well

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Speaker 3: in our clubhouse. And it's like that next man up mentality.

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Speaker 3: it's just like that next man up. And I've said

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Speaker 3: there and you really, you know, we don't care where

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Speaker 3: you're from, who you are, what you do, what type

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Speaker 3: of a demeanor you had on different teams, or if

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Speaker 3: you're part of our team, You're part of our organization.

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Speaker 3: We want you to feel that way because in any

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Speaker 3: to know that every single guy in ur Dugout has

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Speaker 3: your back no matter what, and if you come through, great,

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Speaker 3: If you don't, we'll get him next time because we're

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Speaker 3: hoping that you come through more times than none. And

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Speaker 3: that's okay with us, you know, And I think that's

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Speaker 2: So everybody's super excited about this team. And you guys

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Speaker 2: are going to London this weekend. I do want to

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Speaker 2: ask you about the Bryce Man cometh. It was of

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Speaker 2: the promos I have seen, one of the funniest I've

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Speaker 2: I actually went on your IMDb page to see if

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Speaker 2: you had done any cameos on any like Honourage type shows.

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Speaker 2: Can you tell us a little bit about the shoot,

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Speaker 2: because the comedic timing between you and Chase, it was

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Speaker 2: not like a couple athletes. I'm sure you've seen athlete

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we had a good time. Bonnie actually talked to

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Speaker 3: me about it in spring training. And you know, obviously

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Speaker 3: for Chase and you know, everything that he's done for

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Speaker 3: this organization, obviously I'm gonna say yes, just because it's

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Speaker 3: Chase Utley and just knowing, you know, study in Philadelphia

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Speaker 3: and that's one of the you know, top episodes. People

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Speaker 3: love that episode and so it's uh, just being able

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Speaker 3: and man, like these letters are kind of crazy, like

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Speaker 3: what you got for me?

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Speaker 2: But the line about I would get hitting tips from Rollins,

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Speaker 2: it was so good and how Chase kind of grabbed

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Speaker 3: Come on, I thought when I read the script for

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Speaker 3: And I was like, yeah, I think it'd be great.

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Speaker 2: And then going into London, I know you always for

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Speaker 2: like for big series, big games, special games, you always

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Speaker 2: have like something cool planned shoe wise, bat wise, arm

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Speaker 2: sleeve wise. What can you tell us if you can

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Speaker 2: have going on with any of that stuff, because I

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Speaker 2: think that's kind of a cool little touch that you

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So my Harper nine will debut in London, and

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Speaker 3: so I'm on the eight right now. Harper nine will

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Speaker 3: Our sleeve, wrist guard, you know, everything that I can

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Speaker 3: do it. So it's the bat. The Bat's gonna be

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Speaker 3: really cool. I'm excited about it. It has something to

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Speaker 3: do with the fanatic but also something else. It'll be

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Speaker 3: really cool. I mean, we'll see. I'm going to use it.

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Speaker 3: So we'll see if I get get a letter or

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Speaker 3: something like that, but I'm definitely going to use it.

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Speaker 3: It'll be really cool.

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Speaker 4: How important was that that whole I mean, the swag thing,

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Speaker 4: because I think you connect really really well with the fans,

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Speaker 4: especially here in Philly. I mean, obviously the fanatic was

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Speaker 4: a big theme for you. How did that manifest itself?

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Speaker 3: we have so many different uniforms now, yeah, the uniforms, Like,

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Speaker 3: And then are blues obviously, and I love the blue uniform,

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Speaker 2: So the shoe they like the average joke can buy, Like,

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Speaker 2: the eights. How are you actually did they actually send

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Speaker 2: that is that a real thing? Or is this just

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Speaker 3: No? So I'm I'm all in with it, like it really,

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Speaker 3: It's one of my favorite things to do. We've already

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Speaker 3: we go side by side with designs. He obviously designs fully.

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Speaker 3: He's been a designer with cleats for the last eight

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Speaker 3: I mean, I'll send them to designs and concepts of

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Speaker 2: I really enjoyed it when you were Like when I

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Speaker 2: You know, what, what did you have when you were

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Speaker 3: I really, I really believe that. When I was growing up, obviously,

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Speaker 3: this thing out of the sleeve, rubbed his name off

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like I never really had that.

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Speaker 2: I remember your mom. I was she always you know,

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Speaker 3: It's kind of I think about it when I'm on

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Speaker 2: I think it's safe to say you're.

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Speaker 5: Does that gnaw at you? And is this twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: it's kind of like, man, like, that's that's the one, right, Like,

432
00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:17,879
Speaker 3: that's that's what you want as a team. That's what

433
00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:21,879
Speaker 3: you want as an organization, And that's that's what I want,

434
00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:24,440
Speaker 3: you know, Like I just I think as a team

435
00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:26,880
Speaker 3: as an organization is as much work as we put

436
00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:30,000
Speaker 3: in and John and Dave and everybody else being able

437
00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:33,480
Speaker 3: to share that moment I was. I was leaving some

438
00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:35,679
Speaker 3: place today this morning with my wife and I was

439
00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:38,040
Speaker 3: driving down the street and I feel like people have seen.

440
00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:40,120
Speaker 3: I don't know if you guys have, but as I've walked,

441
00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:43,080
Speaker 3: as I've drove down the street, you see, you've seen

442
00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:45,720
Speaker 3: a lot of Phillies gear, a lot of wear and

443
00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:48,520
Speaker 3: like their stuff. And I said to Kayla this morning,

444
00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:51,240
Speaker 3: and I said, man, what it would be like to

445
00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:54,320
Speaker 3: win a World Series? What an incredible thing it would

446
00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:57,320
Speaker 3: be like? And she's, I mean obviously all in on sports,

447
00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:00,200
Speaker 3: and you know she grew up playing soccer and competitive

448
00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:03,640
Speaker 3: and so she gets the winning parts things like that.

449
00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:06,199
Speaker 3: So I mean, just telling her that, just saying that

450
00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:08,360
Speaker 3: to her, it just like it makes it that much

451
00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:10,119
Speaker 3: more like you just you want it, like and I

452
00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:12,760
Speaker 3: think as a team right now, like that's all we want. Like,

453
00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:14,880
Speaker 3: I mean, if if you're not playing this game for that,

454
00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:17,359
Speaker 3: then I don't know what you're playing it for, because

455
00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:19,960
Speaker 3: there's there's no greater you know, no greater thing that

456
00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,480
Speaker 3: you can do for a city or organization then to

457
00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:23,520
Speaker 3: bring back a World Series.

458
00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:26,679
Speaker 5: Did you Rubens been in won two World Series? And

459
00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:29,439
Speaker 5: you were in both parades, right right, that's right. You

460
00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:32,199
Speaker 5: were as a bat boy and then as an executive.

461
00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:35,200
Speaker 5: Do you see pictures and videos of the oh wait,

462
00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:38,480
Speaker 5: parade and what goes through your mind when you see it,

463
00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:40,160
Speaker 5: and what do you think it would be like, uh,

464
00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:41,600
Speaker 5: if you ever had one?

465
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I I just remember the comment everybody does, right,

466
00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:51,520
Speaker 3: but no, I remember a lot of affliction in ed

467
00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:55,960
Speaker 3: hardy stuff. That is so great.

468
00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:00,560
Speaker 2: Oh my god, to pull that out is amazing, so much.

469
00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:04,720
Speaker 3: That is so great. I remember that a lot and

470
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:08,280
Speaker 3: all those like crazy looking glasses. But I mean I

471
00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:10,760
Speaker 3: was still in high school, so I was was it

472
00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:12,920
Speaker 3: just got downe my freshman year, So I remember that

473
00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:16,199
Speaker 3: vividly in my head seeing that, and then obviously the

474
00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:19,520
Speaker 3: next year no. Nine, you know, not being able to

475
00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:22,440
Speaker 3: get done terrible but you know, great series against the Yankees.

476
00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:25,120
Speaker 3: But I mean just seeing those moments and being able

477
00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:27,240
Speaker 3: to kind of when you're that age too, like you

478
00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:29,760
Speaker 3: don't really think about the concept of winning a world

479
00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:32,280
Speaker 3: Series because you're thinking about winning a state championship, right,

480
00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:34,240
Speaker 3: Like that was that's kind of like the feeling. And

481
00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:36,680
Speaker 3: I never got a state championship, but I've won gold

482
00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:38,600
Speaker 3: medals and I've won a lot of tournaments and things

483
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:41,480
Speaker 3: like that and nationals and all that stuff. And so

484
00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:43,640
Speaker 3: to get back to those moments like that's what you want,

485
00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,359
Speaker 3: because those are the cool parts of being young and

486
00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:48,479
Speaker 3: playing with your buddies and winning with your buddies, and

487
00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:51,000
Speaker 3: you know, putting your arms around everybody in those moments

488
00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:54,359
Speaker 3: and just having that fun. And I couldn't imagine, you know,

489
00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:56,639
Speaker 3: sharing it with the city this big and this great,

490
00:22:57,240 --> 00:22:59,080
Speaker 3: and so we're hoping as a team we can get back.

491
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Speaker 4: I want to ask you a little bit about your

492
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:04,879
Speaker 4: childhood because and because you were a great athlete period,

493
00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:09,000
Speaker 4: end of story. Why baseball? What made you take your

494
00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:10,200
Speaker 4: world to baseball?

495
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:13,280
Speaker 3: And why? Yeah, So when I was younger, I actually

496
00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:16,000
Speaker 3: my first love was football, Like I absolutely loved it.

497
00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:19,000
Speaker 3: I wanted to be an outside linebacker and kind of

498
00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,040
Speaker 3: line up and come up front and drop back, and

499
00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:23,600
Speaker 3: that was I loved hitting guys and going across the middle,

500
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:25,879
Speaker 3: come around the corner and the edge and crushing a

501
00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:28,520
Speaker 3: quarterback that didn't see me coming like that was like

502
00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:32,159
Speaker 3: my favorite thing to do. And so I would. I

503
00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,440
Speaker 3: started playing football eight years old, Pop Warner, And as

504
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:38,520
Speaker 3: I went through I would sit there and we I'd

505
00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:41,399
Speaker 3: have football practice, and before football practice, I'd always go

506
00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:43,479
Speaker 3: to the cage and I'd have my football pads on

507
00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:44,919
Speaker 3: and I'd hit in the cage with my dad and

508
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:47,639
Speaker 3: then go to football practice. And so I did that

509
00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:49,480
Speaker 3: all the time. And then obviously the more and more

510
00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:52,720
Speaker 3: I grew up, you know, ten eleven, twelve years old,

511
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:55,719
Speaker 3: i'd play baseball. And my dad was all about playing

512
00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,920
Speaker 3: every other sport too, like he wanted the athleticism from

513
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:02,320
Speaker 3: all the sports, right, And so I played basketball the

514
00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:04,119
Speaker 3: way up into eighth grade. I played football the way

515
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,560
Speaker 3: up into my freshman year, and obviously played baseball the

516
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:10,720
Speaker 3: most out of any of those. But he loved the seasons.

517
00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:14,199
Speaker 3: And my snowboarded growing up. Every every winter we'd go

518
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:16,640
Speaker 3: up and I'd snowboard, and that was a big thing too,

519
00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:19,000
Speaker 3: Like he wasn't scared of us getting hurt doing anything else.

520
00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:21,240
Speaker 3: Like he just didn't matter. Like there was a lot

521
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:22,840
Speaker 3: of you know, there's a lot of things that like

522
00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:27,159
Speaker 3: parents were scared of their kids to get hurt skateboarding

523
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,200
Speaker 3: if they had a tournament that weekend, or you know,

524
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:30,880
Speaker 3: anything like that. My dad wasn't like that. He wanted

525
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,159
Speaker 3: us to skateboard. He wanted us to you know, boogie

526
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:34,919
Speaker 3: board and surf and do all the things that we

527
00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:38,000
Speaker 3: could do. Because he would pull that athleticism from all

528
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,000
Speaker 3: those other you know, all those other sports, and he

529
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,320
Speaker 3: would interpret it of like, hey, let's go play baseball.

530
00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:46,440
Speaker 3: But I loved the game of baseball. There was something

531
00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:49,639
Speaker 3: about it that just pulled me, and I gravitated towards

532
00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:53,640
Speaker 3: towards it so much. And I mean we'd come home

533
00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:56,840
Speaker 3: after a weekend, I'd played seven eight games in a weekend,

534
00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:58,879
Speaker 3: We'd win the tournament, and I'd come back on a

535
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:00,960
Speaker 3: Monday and go, Dad, let's go hit. Like it was

536
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:02,600
Speaker 3: just that's just how That's how I wanted to do.

537
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:04,800
Speaker 3: That's how that's how I kind of programmed and processed it.

538
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:09,840
Speaker 3: And I really really enjoyed that, you know, just the

539
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:12,720
Speaker 3: dynamic of that. And he instilled so much confidence in

540
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:15,679
Speaker 3: me and my sister and my brother and everything that

541
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 3: we did. I mean, he was he was just so

542
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:21,200
Speaker 3: good at it. I mean, I'll tell you one snip

543
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:24,080
Speaker 3: of so. When I was younger, you know, we were

544
00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:27,120
Speaker 3: lower middle class, Like we weren't. My mom and dad

545
00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:28,920
Speaker 3: worked their butts off to get us everything we needed

546
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,399
Speaker 3: to get. They wouldn't into you know, thousands of dollars

547
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:33,280
Speaker 3: in debt to put us in tournaments and everything else,

548
00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:36,880
Speaker 3: like that. But like my dad would always like we'd

549
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:38,760
Speaker 3: go and it we'd hit right, and we'd be on

550
00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:41,359
Speaker 3: two hundred foot fences or something when I was like nine,

551
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:43,639
Speaker 3: and he would go buy the best baseballs in the

552
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:45,840
Speaker 3: store and it'd be like baiten or like a ten ten,

553
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:48,280
Speaker 3: just so that we had pearls, so that we could

554
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:50,520
Speaker 3: hit the ball as far as we could. He wanted

555
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:52,960
Speaker 3: us to have the confidence and everything that we did.

556
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 3: So like I'd go deep on a two hundred foot

557
00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:57,560
Speaker 3: fence and I'd go, you know, two hundred and twenty

558
00:25:57,560 --> 00:25:59,720
Speaker 3: five feet, tw hundred and thirty feet. But these baseballs

559
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,639
Speaker 3: were as a rock, just like professional baseball, right, And

560
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,359
Speaker 3: so you know, we'd go into three hundred offences and

561
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 3: I'm like twelve, and I'm going deep on three hundred

562
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:10,359
Speaker 3: offences and it's like going three thirty five, you know,

563
00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:12,879
Speaker 3: and He's like, gosh, dang, dude, these balls are jumping,

564
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:15,159
Speaker 3: you know. And so like as I got older, i

565
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:17,639
Speaker 3: was thinking, I'm like sitting there, going Dad, what you know?

566
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:19,320
Speaker 3: I never knew? And he goes, you know, I did that,

567
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 3: he said, because I wanted you to have the confidence

568
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:23,800
Speaker 3: to go deep in any park that you hit no

569
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:26,240
Speaker 3: matter if it was a high school ballpark or a

570
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:28,639
Speaker 3: little league ballpark or anything else. I wanted you to

571
00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,520
Speaker 3: have the confidence. And it doesn't I don't care like

572
00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 3: the it was. I'll never blink and wish I had

573
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,680
Speaker 3: that money back because I wanted to instill that confidence

574
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:38,919
Speaker 3: and everything that you did when you were younger, no

575
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 3: matter what. And so I always thought that was pretty cool.

576
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:45,880
Speaker 2: Really cool. We've got to let you go, and thanks

577
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 2: so much for the time.

578
00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:48,199
Speaker 3: Just keep going. I want to keep going.

579
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, till your dad.

580
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:52,440
Speaker 3: I watched him three ten.

581
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:55,360
Speaker 2: I wanted to ask it, nowt is Crew old enough

582
00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:56,800
Speaker 2: to play t ball yet? Or is it give me

583
00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 2: next year? And how cool is that going to be?

584
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:00,480
Speaker 2: Have you thought about that? Because that's you know, whether

585
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 2: he becomes big leaguer or doesn't have any interest in baseball.

586
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 2: I means now you're a dad, So now you're in

587
00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:09,680
Speaker 2: the shoot right now, you know what I mean?

588
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 3: Literallygue will be a lot different, you know. I think

589
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:14,119
Speaker 3: being able to kind of have him go out and

590
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:15,959
Speaker 3: just do his thing, just have fun and enjoy it.

591
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 3: I really I don't want to push him to play anything,

592
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 3: you know, I want him to kind of pick and

593
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,080
Speaker 3: choose kind of what he wants to do, and you know,

594
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:28,119
Speaker 3: have not think like, hey, my dad's affilly, I have

595
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 3: to be a filly, or like, hey my dad's doing this,

596
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 3: so I have to do this. I want him to

597
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:34,679
Speaker 3: draw his own line and really, you know, drive his

598
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 3: own course, you know, really like go out there and

599
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:38,320
Speaker 3: just if he wants to play ball, then then I'll

600
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:41,160
Speaker 3: teach him to play ball. But anything that he does,

601
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 3: I want him to do to the best visibility, right Like,

602
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 3: I don't want him to just go out and just

603
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 3: do it, like if we're gonna do it, if we're

604
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 3: gonna put the time in, like, I want him to

605
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 3: do it to the best of visibility. And you know,

606
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 3: I obviously it's going to be you know, the Harper

607
00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:58,919
Speaker 3: name and things like that, right Like, I feel like

608
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:01,200
Speaker 3: there's a lot of kids that have gone through that

609
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 3: in professional sports and it is what it is. But

610
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 3: also like I just want him to go out and

611
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,159
Speaker 3: play the game and love the game, you know, like

612
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:12,159
Speaker 3: really like sit down and love the game and smell

613
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:14,520
Speaker 3: the grass and the leather and like putting on a

614
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 3: new pair of cleats and hearing the metal cleats clack.

615
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,159
Speaker 3: You know what, I'm saying, like, those are like the

616
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 3: things I want him to kind of learn and and see.

617
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,119
Speaker 3: And I think him coming into clubhouses and stuff like

618
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 3: that when he gets of age, like and kind of

619
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 3: learning from from different big leaguers and stuff like. I

620
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,440
Speaker 3: want him to respect the game and understand the way

621
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 3: to play and all those things. And you know, but

622
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,600
Speaker 3: also I want him to gravitate towards other sports because

623
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:39,040
Speaker 3: of the athletics is the part. If he wants to

624
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 3: play hockey, if he wants to play baseball, if people

625
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 3: wants to play football, I want him to do that,

626
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 3: just like my daughter, like if she wants to play

627
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 3: soccer or whatever she wants to do, like I want

628
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,840
Speaker 3: her to gravitate towards whatever she wants to do. You know,

629
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 3: you were.

630
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 5: Mentioning your dad and how he built confidence in you,

631
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 5: and that is such a gift that he gave to you.

632
00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:00,120
Speaker 5: But I still remember the night he pitched VP at

633
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,360
Speaker 5: the home run derby in Washington. I mean, that man

634
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 5: can bring it.

635
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 3: No, he's good man. He's got he's got a cutter

636
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 3: that goes right into my barrel. And he's been that

637
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 3: way since we were younger. Man, he uh it was

638
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 3: crazy because I'm so lucky that I had a dad

639
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 3: that I did and still am today because I can

640
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 3: still call him and be like, Pop, what do you

641
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 3: got for me? I mean, I remember we were going

642
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 3: from San Diego to Anaheim. I'd been struggling and I

643
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 3: struggled in San Diego and I came up to Anaheim.

644
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 3: I talked to him for like an hour and a

645
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 3: half and just talk to him, just like, you know,

646
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 3: what do you got, what do you think? And just

647
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 3: he he kind of just he just mellows me out,

648
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 3: you know. And I mean there's times obviously we go

649
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 3: back and forth and no, you're wrong, you're this, you're that,

650
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:42,960
Speaker 3: you know, and like we'd go back and forth and

651
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 3: we chewed each other, eating each other a little bit.

652
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 3: But that was our that was our you know, that

653
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 3: was us. That was that was kind of how we

654
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 3: went about it. And you know, he was he was

655
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 3: my hero growing up. You know, he was my guy

656
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 3: like and he's still like he is that. You know,

657
00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 3: he's my best friend. I call him all the time.

658
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 3: We talk about anything and ever thing. But he's just

659
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 3: some of the drills he did too. He'd pull some stuff, man,

660
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 3: and like I'd have a broomstick with uh with uh

661
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,880
Speaker 3: red beans, Like I'd do that stuff a lot, and

662
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 3: he'd pull that stuff from like the Dominican like, you know,

663
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 3: I'd say a lot of that from I talked to

664
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 3: our hitting guy bottle caps. You know, we did bottle

665
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 3: caps all the time. We would have so I'd have

666
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:24,600
Speaker 3: the broomstick and he'd do bottle caps. But our bottle caps.

667
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 3: And this was different from the Dominican way is you

668
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 3: know Dominican way, they kind of do it out front,

669
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 3: like flick them. So he would flick them this way

670
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 3: and hit into a net, but he would put a

671
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 3: fan like right next to it, and so he would

672
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 3: flick it right in front of the fan and it

673
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 3: would yeah, and you'd have to hay that coordination would

674
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 3: make sure empty like empty T.

675
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:48,640
Speaker 2: Was like so cool.

676
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:50,600
Speaker 3: So he would put it right in front and it

677
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 3: would move and he'd be like wam. And so empty

678
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 3: T was like really big to him, and he pulled

679
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 3: that from like Jeter, Like Jeter was big, like empty T.

680
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:00,200
Speaker 3: And Jeter would never look down the cage and so

681
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 3: like he would be like, hey, empty T, empty tee.

682
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 3: And so it was like the little things like that.

683
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 3: Like I would get out of whack a little bit

684
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 3: and go, well, you're not seeing the ball right, like

685
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 3: your head's out in the right field, your head out

686
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 3: left field, Like see the ball, get it deeper, hit

687
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 3: it out of the cuff left center, boom, and like

688
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 3: I'd block it right back in. You know. So those

689
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 3: are things when I was younger, Like it just was

690
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 3: fun because he would make it funner, like ATX, like

691
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 3: he would he would throw at X to me a lot,

692
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,160
Speaker 3: you know, the yeah, And so that was like when

693
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 3: I was younger, younger, and they would rise, and so

694
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:30,560
Speaker 3: I'd really have to get on top of the ball

695
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:32,640
Speaker 3: or like I would be missing it a couple of times,

696
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 3: you know, in two games, I'd miss it or I'd

697
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,479
Speaker 3: be like fallon balls off. When I was younger, and

698
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 3: he would he would throw me tennis balls. And so

699
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 3: when you try to hit a tennis ball with a

700
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 3: metal bat, it would flip off. Even if you would

701
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 3: square it up, like it would kind of flip off,

702
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 3: but when you really squared it up and see it,

703
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 3: it would you know, you blind driver exactly. And so

704
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 3: I'd get so mad sometimes, but it was so funny,

705
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 3: like and he would like I'd be like eleven years

706
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 3: old and I'd be found stuff off fell stuff, I

707
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 3: throw my bath, I'm pissed, and and he just he

708
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 3: started laughing, you know, he started laughing. He goes, Okay,

709
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 3: it's okay, you're fine, you're gonna get it. You're gonna

710
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 3: get it. And sure's crap, man. I'd you know, six

711
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 3: of them had hit feel good. And then we switched

712
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 3: to regular baseballs and I'd mash, you know, like that

713
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 3: was big, you know, and he'd always he put a

714
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 3: wood bat in my hand immediately. I was like eleven

715
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 3: years old, ten years old, wood bat, heavy wood bat

716
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 3: immediately into my hands. And then I'd switched to aluminum,

717
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 3: and that would like that'd be like my prize.

718
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 4: Rent.

719
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 3: He'd be, Okay, you can hit with the luminum, that's great,

720
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 3: but can you go backside three hundred and fifty feet

721
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 3: with a wood bat? You know, like let's do that,

722
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 3: because that's cool, you know, going going light tower power

723
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 3: to right field, like that's that's fine, but left center

724
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:44,960
Speaker 3: would bat, that's cool, you know. So like those are

725
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 3: the things that like he really he did so good,

726
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 3: like and those are the things I want to And

727
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 3: he'd always be like, hey, where I went, where I

728
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 3: went left? I want you to go right with crew?

729
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 3: Like those are the things like he would teach me,

730
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 3: you know really still to this day, Like you know,

731
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 3: there was days where we'd have bad, but we had

732
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 3: a lot of good days as well, and you know

733
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 3: he was so good still is great.

734
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 2: One last one for me. A lot of parents are

735
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 2: going to be listening to this. What would you tell

736
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 2: a parent that's trying to get their kid in a

737
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 2: good position ahead of baseball at maybe cruise age or

738
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 2: just a little bit. What's the most important thing you

739
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:17,959
Speaker 2: would tell him?

740
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 3: Let him be athletic. Let the athleticism kind of play,

741
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 3: you know, don't try to teach him all these different

742
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 3: swings at this point in their life or their career. Right. Obviously,

743
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 3: if you look at a baby, a baby is perfect

744
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 3: a toddler, right, So like when you look at a

745
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 3: baby or a toddler, the way they pick things up

746
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 3: or the way they do things is the perfect human body.

747
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 3: And so when they go down to pick stuff up

748
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 3: off the ground, they always go into a squad they

749
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 3: pick it up, and it's perfect. And so life kind

750
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 3: of hits us and we get away from that perfection

751
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 3: of Okay, hey, we're just going to bend down and

752
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 3: grab something instead of squatting down, grabbing something and going.

753
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 3: And so we lose the athleticism at times in our

754
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 3: life because we take the easy way, right, Like we

755
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 3: take the easy way, or we want to do something

756
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 3: this way or that way instead of just doing it

757
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 3: the normal human way of going down picking it up. Oh,

758
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 3: that feels a lot better on my back, or hey,

759
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,440
Speaker 3: that feels a lot better on my knees or whatever.

760
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 3: And so the athleticism still has to play, like we

761
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:19,360
Speaker 3: still have to let the game, you know, evolve with

762
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 3: athleticism first. And then you can find two things like

763
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 3: I want Crew to have the athleticism and just hitting

764
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 3: on baseball, right like, obviously he's four years old. He

765
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 3: can hit off a tee. I'll throw to him, and

766
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:32,319
Speaker 3: he likes when I throw to him better than off

767
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 3: the tea, and he'll whack off you know, me throwing

768
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 3: to him, and I mean, he just the way his

769
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 3: athleticism plays first is what I want. And so I

770
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 3: would say athleticism is huge in the first couple of

771
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 3: years of life, really just letting the.

772
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 2: Pull from that.

773
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 3: And then as you get older. You know, fine tuning

774
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 3: a swing is you're going to fine tune it the

775
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 3: best way you can. But your swing is always your swing.

776
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 3: Like you can move or do this or do that

777
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 3: in multiple different ways. And you guys see me all night.

778
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 3: I go, I go at bats at bat. I mean,

779
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 3: there's there's signs where I don't really do it, and

780
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:07,800
Speaker 3: it's just it's just I mean, but I feel like

781
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 3: that's my athleticism, kind of like playing through my swing.

782
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,399
Speaker 3: But it's just I think people kind of, oh, hey,

783
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 3: I want you to hit like Judge, or hey, I

784
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:17,360
Speaker 3: want you hit like Sodo, or hey, I want you

785
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 3: to hit like you know, Mike Schmid, or hey, I

786
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 3: want you to hit like Chase Utley. Like not many

787
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:23,320
Speaker 3: people can have their bat out like this when a

788
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 3: pitcher starts and comes up and slaps on their you know,

789
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,799
Speaker 3: their shoulder and swings like Utly, you know, like Utley

790
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 3: would stay out here and the guy would go into

791
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 3: emotion and be like the second this guy gonna be

792
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 3: ready to hit, and he'd go up here, tap and

793
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 3: go and hit like a double in the gap and

794
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 3: you're like, holy crap, but only Chance Outly can do that.

795
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,399
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Like, there's only certain things

796
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 3: that people can do with their athleticism and their game,

797
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 3: and be yourself. That's my biggest thing to a lot

798
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 3: of guys in our clubhouse too, is like be yourself.

799
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:52,840
Speaker 3: Don't try to be anybody else because they drafted you

800
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 3: for a reason. Like you're here for a reason, right,

801
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 3: Like they got you to where you are for a reason,

802
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 3: or your swing and your athletic ability got you you

803
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,359
Speaker 3: to where you are now. Obviously, you can always get better,

804
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 3: you can always find tune and do everything you can,

805
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 3: but like, let your ethis, let us play first and

806
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 3: then find too.

807
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,960
Speaker 2: That's awesome, Thanks man, Thanks man, And play every sport

808
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:13,440
Speaker 2: that you can.

809
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 3: Because like a lot of.

810
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 4: The things like you are saying things right now that

811
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 4: my brother and I preach, we were involved in youth

812
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 4: sports that we talk about all the time. Everybody wants

813
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 4: to specialize so much that those words ring so true

814
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 4: about the athleticism playing different sports.

815
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:30,440
Speaker 3: I mean I remember playing three of them right.

816
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:31,799
Speaker 2: Every you know, every single season.

817
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 3: Well, you can look at Jackson Holiday right now, right

818
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 3: and he didn't really do any of the perfect game stuff.

819
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 3: You know, you look at Ethan holiday as well, Like

820
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:41,759
Speaker 3: they'll go to like the big ones they need to,

821
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,319
Speaker 3: but they play their high school ball and they just

822
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:46,000
Speaker 3: hang out and do whatever they want to do with

823
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:48,759
Speaker 3: you know, everything else. Like what I did in my

824
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 3: career is a lot different. I played one hundred and

825
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:53,879
Speaker 3: sixty seventy games a year in baseball, and I loved it.

826
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 3: I did, Like I love traveling across the country. I

827
00:36:56,520 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 3: loved going to Oklahoma and Florida and California and Zone

828
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 3: and playing all this ball. But I just I love

829
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 3: doing that. That was something I love to do. But

830
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 3: also I just snowboarded. You know, I played football. I

831
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 3: played basketball like I played my seasons, but on the weekends,

832
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:13,799
Speaker 3: I was playing baseball. You know what I'm saying. Like

833
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,839
Speaker 3: I did, But I just I feel like parents get

834
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 3: so locked in on the rankings and like, oh, hey,

835
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:21,920
Speaker 3: you got to be number one in your state's eleven

836
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:23,800
Speaker 3: years old, and it's like you look.

837
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 5: At you look at Jeter. Jeter was a great basketball player,

838
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 5: and you know you can see that when you play

839
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 5: When he played short stuff, you can see that lateral

840
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 5: movement almost as an extension of guarding a player on

841
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 5: the basketball course.

842
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 3: Sure, no doubt and like that's the thing, right, you're

843
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 3: going to learn I mean outfielders going and getting a

844
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 3: ball in the outfield if you're running a round or

845
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 3: you're playing corner or like whatever it is, like you're

846
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:47,279
Speaker 3: jumping routes and things like that. Obviously, you get to

847
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 3: the point in your life that you need to pick

848
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,280
Speaker 3: what you want to do. You know, you get to fifteen, sixteen, seventeen,

849
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 3: like you kind of get into that like era, like

850
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:57,800
Speaker 3: are you as good at football? Are you as baseball?

851
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:00,479
Speaker 3: If you are, keep going be a two way great,

852
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 3: that's awesome. But if you're not, then that's when you

853
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,439
Speaker 3: kind of like, Okay, I can specialize in this. I'm

854
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 3: sixteen years old. I kind of got to figure it out,

855
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:10,839
Speaker 3: you know, to a point where I need to and

856
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 3: then go from there. But at such a young age,

857
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 3: it's just.

858
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 5: Why right with you specialize well rounded?

859
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:20,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, being a great athlete.

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Speaker 4: That's why the great athletes are great athletes, because they're

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Speaker 4: so athletic for sure.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, thanks man for the time. We appreciate. Enjoy Enjoy London.

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Speaker 2: Interested to see with the shoes and the bad.

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Speaker 5: Anything you anything you want to do in London? Non baseball, just.

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Speaker 3: Dinner, just food. I love food, you know, being able

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Speaker 3: to kind of go over there and try some different restaurants.

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Speaker 3: I love Indian food. That's one of the places to go.

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Speaker 3: I love Indian food. So I'm excited about that. Obviously.

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Speaker 3: I think there were I've already looked up some places,

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Speaker 3: so I'm really excited about that. I have a thing

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Speaker 3: called Michelin Guide on my phone, and so everything's like

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Speaker 3: mission restaurants, right, so expensive four star you know, or

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Speaker 3: five star like all that kind of stuff. But there's

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Speaker 3: actually on the Michelin app there's this like lower grade

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Speaker 3: Michelins that don't have stars yet that are really really

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Speaker 3: good restaurants. It's like Michelin Guided, right, And I mean

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Speaker 3: you can get like an incredible meal for like twenty bucks.

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Speaker 3: You know, it could be like a it could be

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Speaker 3: like a you know, hole in the wall place that

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Speaker 3: nobody knows about, and it's like one of the best

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Speaker 3: meals you've ever had. It's awesome. Yeah, that's right, man,

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Speaker 3: really cool.

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Speaker 3: That's great.

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