Speaker 1: October fourth, twenty fourteen, Nationals park Washington, DC on a
Speaker 1: chill fall evening with a chance to get one step
Speaker 1: closer to the World Series. Two National League foes, the
Speaker 1: San Francisco Giants and the Washington Nationals take to the Diamond,
Speaker 1: but nine innings wasn't enough, not even close. This is
Speaker 1: Game two of the twenty fourteen NLDS. Hi, Welcome to
Speaker 1: Games with Names, presented by wind Bet. I'm Samurel and
Speaker 1: I'm Julian Edelman, and we're on the search for the
Speaker 1: greatest games of all time. And on today's episode, we
Speaker 1: talk about game two of the two thy fourteen and
Speaker 1: LDS Giants First Nationals. We got Hunter Pence coming to
Speaker 1: the studio. We're gonna check out what he we had
Speaker 1: going on in October twenty fourteen, and then we're going
Speaker 1: to take a look back at each of these squads,
Speaker 1: and then we'll wrap it up by talking legacy and
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Speaker 1: and rate and review this pod. Why are we doing this?
Speaker 1: This is the longest playoff game in MLB history at
Speaker 1: this time. Yeah, well there was one recently that was
Speaker 1: pretty long too. Was it was it longer? I think
Speaker 1: it was the same, right or was it longer? Eighteen innings?
Speaker 1: That's a great number. It was longer minute wise, but
Speaker 1: it was also eighteen innings. Eighteen damn wow, that's that's good.
Speaker 1: Six hours, twenty three minutes. Six. You know what this
Speaker 1: brings me back to when I was a kid and
Speaker 1: you go to Giants games, you always wanted it to
Speaker 1: go into extra innings because it would be like nine
Speaker 1: to thirty ten, and then you were hoping to death
Speaker 1: that if it got too late, your parents understood and
Speaker 1: they wouldn't late, like make you go to school the
Speaker 1: next day. You got to like have a day of hooky.
Speaker 1: It never went through, Yeah, never went through, But like
Speaker 1: I dreamed baseball. Yeah, as a kid, you're like, this
Speaker 1: is I get more my favorite thing to watch. You're
Speaker 1: at the park. You maybe getting another dog, You may
Speaker 1: get some peanuts, you get a foam finger. Like they
Speaker 1: cut off beer in the seventh inning though, did they
Speaker 1: they always do? I think do they reopening it? They
Speaker 1: have to reopen it for the playoffs. Why don't they
Speaker 1: reopen it? Everyone's sobering up? Is it because of safety?
Speaker 1: It has to be because they don't want you to.
Speaker 1: They want you to sober up at least three and
Speaker 1: a half innings before you drive home, right, I guess right, Well,
Speaker 1: this game went eighteen innings, six hours and twenty three minutes.
Speaker 1: We already said that. I mean, you're a beara kid.
Speaker 1: You were a huge Giants fan. I was a huge
Speaker 1: Giants fan. There's still I mean, I know, you're like
Speaker 1: a Red Sox guy. Yeah, now, but you're still kind
Speaker 1: of a Giants fan. I'm still Yeah, I'm still definitely
Speaker 1: a Giants fan. I mean that's part of what I
Speaker 1: grew up watching. Yeah, you know, so it was actually
Speaker 1: it was really cool. It's it's gonna be Actually it's
Speaker 1: gonna be really cool to get to interview Hunter Pence
Speaker 1: because I remember in his heyday, the guy with the
Speaker 1: long socks, fired up all the time, kind of tweaky,
Speaker 1: like he's like he was like a tweaker, you know,
Speaker 1: and and you know, we have to get behind that.
Speaker 1: See what what made him? He's like tweak from South Park? Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: what about Squeak squeak from Baseball Underrated gem I low
Speaker 1: key love it. We need to do basketball on this
Speaker 1: show and get Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Squeak, scillary, squeak,
Speaker 1: little bit scillari. That guy rules a little bitch. You
Speaker 1: guys rip on me thirteen or fourteen more times. I'm
Speaker 1: out of here. Epic line. That's a great movie. Let's
Speaker 1: go back to October twenty fourteen, the number one movie
Speaker 1: in America, Gone Girl, So Freaky. That was a good,
Speaker 1: good book and movie. I'm freaky though, Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: loved it. That girl plays. Who's the actress Rosenman Pike.
Speaker 1: She plays a really good thriller girl. Yeah she does
Speaker 1: like it's it's in her face, yeah, in and around
Speaker 1: her face. Yeah she's she's a good actress. But its
Speaker 1: just I feel like something. It just always like, is
Speaker 1: she not in a lot of these? I think she's
Speaker 1: in a couple thrillers. She's a thriller actress. She's got
Speaker 1: a big resume. It's so freaky. Was in it too?
Speaker 1: Who Emily Radakowski. Didn't you see her? Yes? She was
Speaker 1: the like the college student love interest. I think, right, wow, damn,
Speaker 1: look at you, Jack coming out shooting from half court.
Speaker 1: This guy, he's he gets facts all across the board,
Speaker 1: is killing it. The number one song all about the
Speaker 1: bass at the base and Ben Affleck wouldn't wear a
Speaker 1: Yankees hat in this one. Refused. Wow, they made it
Speaker 1: sounds like he's a pretty bad actor. A good actor
Speaker 1: would have been able to pretend to be anything. I
Speaker 1: have a little proof with him. You're a beef with Affleck.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know if it's beef. I just
Speaker 1: remember him calling into like a ESPN or doing something.
Speaker 1: He was doing some tour. Yeah, and it was when
Speaker 1: like two, it was in twenty nineteen. He's saying, oh,
Speaker 1: Brady has no receivers or no this, no that this guy.
Speaker 1: I'm like sitting here, like, bro, we had drinks at
Speaker 1: the fucking met Gala together, and you're gonna go out
Speaker 1: and throw me under a bus like I'm out a
Speaker 1: good receiver. Damn, that's messed up. It's messed up, no respect,
Speaker 1: no respect. I thought we had something, man, I thought
Speaker 1: we were talking. We were doing Boston accents together him Matt,
Speaker 1: damon me, Like, by the way, doing Boston accents, that's
Speaker 1: just his voice. No, he's doing accent. Geez, that's messed
Speaker 1: up that And you know what I want to I
Speaker 1: want to I want to be friends with them. I
Speaker 1: want to be cool with that. I respect that. I
Speaker 1: want to be no great director. But then he threw
Speaker 1: me under the bus. The town is a great movie,
Speaker 1: great movie. That's an epic Boston movie. But that is
Speaker 1: the fact that he can't weary Yankees. That you can
Speaker 1: think you could be Superman, but not a Yankees fan.
Speaker 1: Get the fuck out of here. A Fleck was now,
Speaker 1: Actually I'm back on his train. I'm back on you
Speaker 1: just got me off. Yeah, yeah, Look, I want to
Speaker 1: be friends with Affleck too. He too the great. He's
Speaker 1: like a great filmmaker. All right, Well you got a
Speaker 1: better shot than I do. You got the Boston connect. Clearly,
Speaker 1: I can't believe he said that shit about you. I
Speaker 1: don't think he I don't know. You don't think he was.
Speaker 1: You might have been on the sauce he does drink.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I was just I was a little disappointed.
Speaker 1: He's got no receivers. No receivers. I mean, he could
Speaker 1: have said he needs another receiver, could have said that
Speaker 1: you should go out on record and say that Matt
Speaker 1: Damon wrote good Wile hunting Alone. I think he did.
Speaker 1: I think he did. I heard that's what That's what
Speaker 1: we were talking about at the met Galan when we're
Speaker 1: all together drinking. You just said that Damon did the
Speaker 1: heavy lifting. That's that's what I heard. I think damn,
Speaker 1: he's probably gonna call me out and kill me right
Speaker 1: now or something. Uh he take affleck oh, without a doubt,
Speaker 1: no doubt, no doubt you could take. He plays superheroes.
Speaker 1: You are a fucking superhero. Let's go super Bowl MVP.
Speaker 1: That's my fucking partner. Yeah, dude, hype man, hype man.
Speaker 1: I'm flavor Flavor right now. I'm getting you fucking ready
Speaker 1: to go. Let's dude. October third, BB King's last live performance.
Speaker 1: I love BB King. Yeah, legend in the House of
Speaker 1: Blues in Chicago. That probably had to be awesome. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wish I would have got to go to that.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's the last one, the one you
Speaker 1: want to see though, Hell yeah, just to say you
Speaker 1: got to see him though, Just to say you got
Speaker 1: to see him him. I mean, I'm John Lee Hooka.
Speaker 1: I love me some blues. Ebola is popping off this
Speaker 1: and popping off. It probably isn't the right word, but uh,
Speaker 1: Ebola made a big splash. I remember. I remember driving
Speaker 1: down the pike and you would see the signs about
Speaker 1: like what is this ebola stuff? They'd be like, be
Speaker 1: careful of Ebola on like the traffic signs. You ever
Speaker 1: did you see those? I remember that it was from
Speaker 1: a was a mosquito? A mosquito? Yeah, fucking mosquitoes. Dude.
Speaker 1: You know you make a dinosaur and you also can
Speaker 1: make ebola. Oscar Pistori sentenced to five years in prison
Speaker 1: for the murder of his girlfriend. That was crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how did he only get five? Didn't? He got away?
Speaker 1: Then they redid it and he came back. He was
Speaker 1: the sprinter with with the medals, with the medals, dude,
Speaker 1: I think they he's not allowed to Actually was he
Speaker 1: out was is he in the actual Olympics too? Did
Speaker 1: they outlaw that? I think they did because it's like
Speaker 1: aerodynamic in their I mean, he was blowing people out.
Speaker 1: I think, wasn't he? He didn't? He didn't medal. But
Speaker 1: let me look into what it's looking like. We probably
Speaker 1: can't use any of this and use it. Why not?
Speaker 1: But I murdered someone. We can shoot on him, all right,
Speaker 1: all right, that's the rules of comedy. You're allowed to
Speaker 1: shoot on bad people all the time. Wow. How about
Speaker 1: this Baseball Hall of Fame inductee's list this year? Maddox Glavin,
Speaker 1: the Big Hurt, Frank Thomas, Bobby Cox, Tony LaRussa, and
Speaker 1: my man Joe Tory, New York legend Joe Tory. I
Speaker 1: thought he was the Dodgers, wasn't he the didn't he
Speaker 1: manage the Dodgers? Is that that guy? Joe Tory was
Speaker 1: the Yankees manager during that epic run, But didn't he
Speaker 1: go to the Dodgers for like a year? I think? Right? Oh,
Speaker 1: that's what he's known for. Dodgers he was known for
Speaker 1: he was there, oh two thousand and two. He won
Speaker 1: four with us during that stretch. Oh man, And that
Speaker 1: was a damn good stretch. I met Tony Larissa a
Speaker 1: couple of times. We knocked back a couple over and
Speaker 1: at Strega in the water front of him Boston. He's
Speaker 1: he's a legend, He's a llegend. He's crazy. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: who's the picture with the mustacheckers? It was me and
Speaker 1: him and Eckersley. Damn, how cool is it that he's
Speaker 1: just known as the picture with the mustache ecuracy. He's awesome.
Speaker 1: He's like good Hitler, He's the good mustag. You know,
Speaker 1: I mean that that thing's definitely a flavor saver, if
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. He's he looks, he looks
Speaker 1: awesome on the man with that mustache, especially in the
Speaker 1: era he played, Yeah, and in the A's uniform, remember
Speaker 1: he was in the age he looked those uniforms were
Speaker 1: are ready awesome. Then rocking the mustache, that was like
Speaker 1: pure eighties nineties just cool. Yeah, that was fuck energy.
Speaker 1: It was fuck energy, no doubt. M VPS that year,
Speaker 1: Mike Trout in the AL and he's still killing it.
Speaker 1: He's still the m v P. He's still i mean,
Speaker 1: not on his team. They got uh, they got Otani,
Speaker 1: who's just on another level. But but it's crazy that
Speaker 1: Mike Trout might be the second most valuable on the
Speaker 1: team when he's a short fire Hall of Famer. Then
Speaker 1: you got n L m v P Clayton Kershaw still gray.
Speaker 1: It's still good. Yeah, good my young winners Kluber for
Speaker 1: Cleveland and Kershaw. Dude, Kershaw was dealing. He was, he
Speaker 1: was unhittable. It was I mean, it's it was so
Speaker 1: cool to watch, except when it was in the postseason.
Speaker 1: The one yeah, one, Yeah, I just don't like to
Speaker 1: I'm not a Dodgers guy. I'm not a Dodgers guy either.
Speaker 1: I can't be a Dodgers. I mean, that's that's where
Speaker 1: I told them, I l a sports is tough for me. Well,
Speaker 1: I almost same, Like that's like the number one fighting,
Speaker 1: Like we fight all the time with those people. They're annoying.
Speaker 1: And also Lakers fans are fucking it. Other than Jack,
Speaker 1: they're fucking annoying. Yeah, they really are because they they
Speaker 1: hate Lebron but then they accept his title and then
Speaker 1: then now they hate him again. Yeah, and they're just spoiled.
Speaker 1: They had like a couple bad years. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but you got those couple bad years because you got
Speaker 1: to have Kobe retire with you. You You got it. That's
Speaker 1: a privilege to have him only be a Laker. I'm
Speaker 1: only kind of a Lakers fan now because I met
Speaker 1: Jeanie Bussy and she's like really cool. She seems cool,
Speaker 1: she's a sweetheart. She's I mean, I'm trying to get
Speaker 1: her on the podcast. I told her she's a badass man.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, come on the podcast. We would love
Speaker 1: to have Genie Buss on this pod. That's where I'm
Speaker 1: taking on, Like, I don't I can't stand the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: but you know, I like the Lakers. Have a really
Speaker 1: quick list. Lakers don't say you like him. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: have to acknowledge historically they are impressed. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's they're fucking unbelievable. The Lakers franchise, fucking Lakers. All right,
Speaker 1: we're done with it. Fun fact, neither the Red Sox
Speaker 1: or Yankees made the playoffs this year in twenty fourteen,
Speaker 1: first time since ninety three. Another horrible year. Bad years.
Speaker 1: But guess what Yankees won in ninety six, so they
Speaker 1: don't have to wait that long. But yeah, this was
Speaker 1: Jeter's farewell tour this year in twenty fourteen, and I'll
Speaker 1: give you that. Yeah, And I fucked with Jeter And
Speaker 1: it was crazy even to see Boston give him that ovation.
Speaker 1: That's that's why I was like, all right, Boston, that
Speaker 1: was pretty classy. They did it for Mariano too. They
Speaker 1: did not do it for a Rod last season for
Speaker 1: Bud seligas commissioner well Bud. Then pool Holes hits his
Speaker 1: five hundredth home run. It's seven hundred now so cool.
Speaker 1: I'm mad he's retiring. Pool Holes has more than pool
Speaker 1: Holes could be the home run champ if he gives
Speaker 1: it like two more years. It's seven oh three right now, shits,
Speaker 1: he needs seven seven fifty five is the babe I believe?
Speaker 1: So let me double chack Bonds passed. The bay was
Speaker 1: seven sixty three, Bond seven sixty two. I was off
Speaker 1: by one. He could Poolholes could get there because he's
Speaker 1: still looking good. But it's crazy because he hasn't look
Speaker 1: good in years. I know there was a period where
Speaker 1: you didn't think you'd ever get to seven hundred, which
Speaker 1: but he did it. What were we doing in twenty fourteen?
Speaker 1: What were you doing? Geez? I was a road comic.
Speaker 1: I was just doing the road I guess. I this
Speaker 1: was before I just right before I take my first
Speaker 1: comedy special for Comedy Central a half hour. Uh, and
Speaker 1: I didn't. I did an album and uh in Boston.
Speaker 1: In Boston, Yeah, I did a special there. I remember
Speaker 1: I did a very pere uh. Fuck. It's right across
Speaker 1: from the wilbur I forgot the name of the venue,
Speaker 1: but it was I remember. I got pure silence because
Speaker 1: I did a Boston bombing joke. It was a terrible
Speaker 1: too soon, It was a terrible I said something along
Speaker 1: the lines of I was like, I was devastated when
Speaker 1: I heard about it. My first thought it was me
Speaker 1: and my brother. We don't do anything together anymore. Silence full.
Speaker 1: I had to save it. I saved it, but I
Speaker 1: was like fuck. I was like, you can't not take
Speaker 1: the risk. But how about you? You were You were
Speaker 1: just lost to the Kansas Kansas City Chiefs forty two
Speaker 1: to fourteen. We just got blown out by the Chiefs
Speaker 1: on was it Monday Night football in the king in
Speaker 1: the Chiefs Kingdom or Arrowhead? They blew the socks off us.
Speaker 1: This is the game where Garoppolo came in and like
Speaker 1: the question was to Belichick after the game, are you
Speaker 1: thinking about benching Brady? And that's why they said We're
Speaker 1: on to Cincinnati. This is the onto Cincinnati game. This
Speaker 1: this is the game that single handedly sparked our season
Speaker 1: to go on and win the Super Bowl of twenty four. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Trent dolper I believe said that you guys might not
Speaker 1: be good anymore. Yeah, Trent, Trent's eating those words so
Speaker 1: many times because we went and won three more after that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: fucking Trent. He's actually a smart guy. Is Trent Dolver
Speaker 1: the wor first quarterback ever to win a Super Bowl?
Speaker 1: Let me check on that, But he's the first one
Speaker 1: that comes to mind. Get the fuck out of here.
Speaker 1: Don't you ever say again? Jeez, Kyler, you eat that? Yeah, jeez, man,
Speaker 1: I mean Dilfer is close. I mean he's top four,
Speaker 1: top three. He's a Super Bowl champ, though he is
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco. No, Flacco is better than Dilfer Flacco, but
Speaker 1: they're still Deller for when he backed up Phil. Yeah
Speaker 1: that since he just came in for one. What's the
Speaker 1: key ingredient to having those quarterbacks having a defense where
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter exactly all of those teams? Cheez, let's
Speaker 1: go into the teams. Let's do it. Giants eighty eight
Speaker 1: and seventy four second in the NL. I believe they
Speaker 1: lost to the Dodgers. Yeah, to the Dodgers. Ugh finished
Speaker 1: six games behind the Dodgers. Yeah, they were coming off
Speaker 1: a season where they finished third. They had a letdown
Speaker 1: season after winning the World Series in twelve. Uh, they
Speaker 1: also wanted in ten Bruce Bouchie. Oh bouch loved Bouchie.
Speaker 1: He was always a cool dude. He was the manager
Speaker 1: All Stars, Hunter Pence, Bumgardner, and Tim Hudson, key players,
Speaker 1: Buster Posey, the catcher, he had the silver Slugger. He
Speaker 1: was a badass. He was pretty good. He was pretty good.
Speaker 1: He got taken out. They changed the rule at the
Speaker 1: home plate for him. Remember when he got taken out.
Speaker 1: Madison Bumgardner, the countryman, hitting dingers, throwing shutouts, and then
Speaker 1: big time Timmy jim linsegum guys like five five foot
Speaker 1: two and was throwing gas. Let's go the Nationals. What
Speaker 1: are the Nationals? He looked like young Mick Jagger and
Speaker 1: he's throwing like one hundred and two. It was fucking crazy.
Speaker 1: He was tiny. Can't forget Papulo's interval on that Giants team.
Speaker 1: Oh true, big Panda, good cat Panda and the Nationals. Yeah,
Speaker 1: ninety six and sixty six. They were first in the
Speaker 1: NL East, picked to win the NL East. Manager Matt
Speaker 1: Williams played as a Giant. Remember that I loved Matt
Speaker 1: Williams third base. That was the years. I used to
Speaker 1: love him. First manager, first year as a manager, he
Speaker 1: won Manager of the Year. This year they're all stars.
Speaker 1: Jordan Zimmerman, the guy who's throwing that night. Tyler clip
Speaker 1: Yard he threw. Let's go back to Zimmerant. He threw
Speaker 1: a no hitter in the regular season finale. Wow, no,
Speaker 1: no key players. Anthony Rendon, he was a Golden Glove winner.
Speaker 1: Ian Desmond twenty four homers and ninety one Ribby's young
Speaker 1: Bryce Harper, a young young I was watching that game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was a young boy. Yeah. Steven Strasburg, remember him,
Speaker 1: he was He had always he had the arm problems.
Speaker 1: He was a so Yeah. I remember he got the
Speaker 1: gas gas and then it took him like three years,
Speaker 1: two years to get back and he got gas again.
Speaker 1: Remember there are guys like that. Like remember like when
Speaker 1: the Cubs had Mark Pryor and carry Wood and it's
Speaker 1: like sometimes it's just hard to keep that arm cooking.
Speaker 1: It takes a lot to be a power pitcher, dude.
Speaker 1: Those it's gotta be hard when you're just throwing something
Speaker 1: as hard as you can all day, all day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like I I throw, I went out and like picked
Speaker 1: up the glove and just played catch. I couldn't lift
Speaker 1: my arm for like two two weeks after. Wow, I'm
Speaker 1: scared just because you're you go out and you feel
Speaker 1: you're feeling it, you're throwing. Oh, I could throw this
Speaker 1: thing pretty far. Let's do some hard nineties. Let's do
Speaker 1: some ninety yards or ninety ft feet throws, because I
Speaker 1: was always the thing you had to get the ninety feet. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Couldn't lift my arm the next day, damn. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: the game was a picture's due. It was Zimmerman and
Speaker 1: and Tim Hudson, who had a kind of a shitty
Speaker 1: record that year. I think I think it was like
Speaker 1: not thirteen no run support, no run support because the
Speaker 1: era was sick. But uh so this is a complete
Speaker 1: pitchers dual. Pence was thrown out trying to steal second
Speaker 1: in the second inning. Our guest, uh. The National scored
Speaker 1: in the third inning to go one zero, no score
Speaker 1: until the top of the ninth. The Giants rallied late
Speaker 1: with a man on first and second. Good old Panda
Speaker 1: Sandoval drives in the tyne run. Posey was thrown out
Speaker 1: at home trying to uh take the lead. There. Cabrera
Speaker 1: and the manager of Matt Williams. Both were rejected in
Speaker 1: the tenth inning. Love it and then the Brandon Belt
Speaker 1: home run Flcondly, I'm like a manager getting ejected. It's
Speaker 1: classic because it's it's it will energize the team. I
Speaker 1: think it's the dumbest thing ever, too, Like get out literally,
Speaker 1: like that happens in no other sports. I've never seen sketball.
Speaker 1: What happens basketball? Yeah, tossed, yeah, but like it's not
Speaker 1: even like a penalty or anything. They like it's like
Speaker 1: part of strategy some of theTimes, like shit, the boys
Speaker 1: need to pick me up. All right, Hey, fuck you,
Speaker 1: you're out here and the guys are rallying behind them.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's ridiculous. It's a ridiculous thing, but it's
Speaker 1: I mean, I used to remember remember old Loop Panela.
Speaker 1: He would just come out and kick dirt on people,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, this is amazing. Old school guys are
Speaker 1: the best because they would do like the little tedious thing,
Speaker 1: like the most disrespectful, Like they would spit right next
Speaker 1: to him where it didn't hit them, but it was
Speaker 1: going towards them, but they would keep eye contact with
Speaker 1: them and then if and then they would spit again
Speaker 1: in if a little it got on the umpiece. You're
Speaker 1: out here. The dirt on the shoes is like, it's
Speaker 1: not a manly thing to do. You know, these are
Speaker 1: like bulky men. You're like, oh fucking I'll ruin your shoes.
Speaker 1: So weird, you know, at their white cleats. We were
Speaker 1: fighting righting things we might have forgotten. Jordan Zimmerman, he
Speaker 1: threw a gem eight point two Indians, pitched only three hits,
Speaker 1: six strikeouts, one earned run. Uh. You know Immerman uh
Speaker 1: pitched a no hitter six days earlier. We covered that
Speaker 1: this was a pretty slow game. Look at the stat lines. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Bryce herper oh for seven at bats? Yeah, crazy Tim
Speaker 1: Hudson seven inchine pitch. And Hudson wasn't like a pure
Speaker 1: strikeout guy. He was kind of like he'll find a spot,
Speaker 1: he'll throw a nice sinker. Yeah. Posey was three for six,
Speaker 1: that'll get you the haul. Yeah, oh he was. He
Speaker 1: was a fun ass player, Buster Posey. Oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: love I love catchers. It's such a it's such a
Speaker 1: gritty position, you know. Yeah, you he wasn't your guy.
Speaker 1: Don't tell me of an Affleck level story about Posey too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't have an Affleck level story with Posy. He
Speaker 1: was never your guy. I like Posey. I mean he's
Speaker 1: like the team general, but you could tell he was
Speaker 1: probably like I don't know he he remember he got
Speaker 1: hurt at at home plate. Yeah, they changed the rule.
Speaker 1: I loved that. I loved that. Damn. I love watching
Speaker 1: guys get murdered. Yeah. Hell yeah Pete Rose in the
Speaker 1: All Star Game taking a guy's head off, Like that's
Speaker 1: the most action I was a football player. Contact. It
Speaker 1: was awesome. It was an awesome rule. But you can't
Speaker 1: fault him for that. It's the Buster Posey rule. I know.
Speaker 1: But was he complaining about it or what? Yeah, he
Speaker 1: broke his leg and then like he said that they
Speaker 1: changed the rule. You can't take out the catcher no more. Damn.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean he's not a great player. And then
Speaker 1: I have he's a stud, stud but his catchers were
Speaker 1: always my fave. Like I was a huge war Hey
Speaker 1: pasad a guy growing up. He was just but he
Speaker 1: was my I have a shirt one jersey for the Yankees.
Speaker 1: The hoar he Pasada man Benito Santiago, Yeah from the knees. Yeah,
Speaker 1: throwing out guys. Oh guy, Pudge Rodriguez. Pudge pudg is
Speaker 1: a lovable guy. Everyone loved punch. Oh my god, he
Speaker 1: was the most incredible defensive catcher I ever saw. It
Speaker 1: was lights out. I loved. I loved baseball catcher. Catchers.
Speaker 1: It's a there's they're always like the hardy guys. Both
Speaker 1: catchers and this one played all eighteen innings, all eighteen
Speaker 1: They had knees savers. Let me see if he there
Speaker 1: was wearing them. I don't think they remember. It became
Speaker 1: a thing when knees savers came out. Guys wear them.
Speaker 1: But then the real catchers wouldn't wear the knee savers
Speaker 1: because they gutted it out. Dude, gotta be very pliable
Speaker 1: if be a catcher. I mean they gotta got on
Speaker 1: that TV twelve minute. That's a tough that's a tough
Speaker 1: eighteen inans eighteen. Ugh the finals. He's too good a
Speaker 1: hitter to take out. That's the thing. You can't take
Speaker 1: an an. Can you change position? You could, That's what
Speaker 1: you could do. You could change someone on like first,
Speaker 1: put buster at first, because you're gonna be scooping and
Speaker 1: scoring all who hit the game winner? The first baseman? Yeah,
Speaker 1: belt and belt belt was Brandon Belt apparently huge dong.
Speaker 1: What are we doing over here, guys, looks like we
Speaker 1: got one pair of knees savers? Sorry, okay, who who's
Speaker 1: wearing knees savers? My man on the Nationals? That would
Speaker 1: be hold on, let me get his name here here.
Speaker 1: All right, Well it wasn't Puster, so all right, I
Speaker 1: like him more. I guess I'm just glad we didn't
Speaker 1: have like two beefs in one episode. Man, because Affleck's
Speaker 1: gonna be hearing about this. No he's not. Oh it's
Speaker 1: this will get on his radar. Yeah, but New England
Speaker 1: sports legend having issues with Affleck. This is news. This
Speaker 1: is a news story. He's just gonna big league me.
Speaker 1: No he's not. Yeah, dude, we get you know, big
Speaker 1: league We need more receivers. We have no receivers. He's
Speaker 1: gonna big league me. You know he's going a big
Speaker 1: league v Julian Edelman. I've had fourteen surgeries, blood sweating,
Speaker 1: tears for his team and he's just gonna just throw
Speaker 1: me under the bus. It's all right, Matt, I understand.
Speaker 1: But you know who never does that is Giants fans.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Amani Tumor is one of the
Speaker 1: classiest guys I've ever seen. I love me some Mike Hilliard.
Speaker 1: I love I can go on and on about Giants
Speaker 1: wide receivers. I think they're all uh classy. Mario Manningham,
Speaker 1: U Plexico. We love you all here in New York. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, Giants fans don't do that. One little comment
Speaker 1: about Nies Savers and we end up on Mario Manningham.
Speaker 1: Somehow that was Wilson Ramos by the way, my bed.
Speaker 1: The final score was two to one. The Giants go
Speaker 1: to up in the series two zero. Uh, let's go
Speaker 1: to the gaming corner presented by win Bet. What what's
Speaker 1: our prop? Beck gonna be? Hum? I got a good one?
Speaker 1: What do you got? How many times I can get
Speaker 1: or you group effort? How many times we can get out? Uh?
Speaker 1: That you think of baseball during sex to delay orgasm.
Speaker 1: He's a baseball player. He must have heard of this.
Speaker 1: He's got the baseball to not come. You just try
Speaker 1: to stay in the sexual moment. I'm down. What what? What?
Speaker 1: What's the What's what? How many times we have to
Speaker 1: hit it? We can hit it at least two five,
Speaker 1: I think without making it uncomfortable. So that means we're
Speaker 1: hitting it three times. It is two five, it is
Speaker 1: according to Jack. All right, we're gonna be joined by
Speaker 1: a hundred pence. But before then, let's take a quick
Speaker 1: break and let's welcome Hunter. Appreciate you coming. What's happening, Sam,
Speaker 1: And I'm doing aw saying this is quite an awesome
Speaker 1: little set you got here. Man, I'm pretty pumped. You
Speaker 1: got Jordan, you got like all the classics. Man. I'm
Speaker 1: feeling like a champion just sitting in this corner. Champion, champion, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, but I mean it's just like championships of everything.
Speaker 1: I mean, you got the John Madden over here. This
Speaker 1: is sick. This is fun. You know. We got Brady
Speaker 1: and Belichick loving each other up, which is yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: that's that's just love. That's got you see that one,
Speaker 1: that's one of my favorite. That's the Remember when the
Speaker 1: Giants took the the bye week boat trip before the
Speaker 1: playoff game and then they got knocked out up top
Speaker 1: with Odell and everyone. Oh dang, I remember that actually,
Speaker 1: oh man, Yeah, I think the Cowboys did that too.
Speaker 1: It was like that Romo had a bye week or
Speaker 1: something and went on went on like a vacation to Cabo.
Speaker 1: It sounds right, I remember that sounds they haven't won
Speaker 1: a play off game, so it seems focused. Was that
Speaker 1: when he was with Jessica Simpson or something. But did
Speaker 1: you go on anything? No? Absolutely not, absolutely not, Like
Speaker 1: you weren't allowed to curfew, right, No, you didn't have curfew.
Speaker 1: But football is different, you know, like we you have
Speaker 1: to prepare all week to be able to perform once
Speaker 1: a week for three hours. So you're you're putting all
Speaker 1: your eggs in that basket, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: So like you, it's so different. It's so much time
Speaker 1: to think about such a small window of time, right
Speaker 1: Like even like in baseball, you play every day, but
Speaker 1: when it comes to the playoffs, it feels like it
Speaker 1: takes forever for the game to get there. Like you're
Speaker 1: just thinking, I can't imagine a whole week of just
Speaker 1: being in your dome that you know, you can't afford
Speaker 1: to slide, you know, a couple of games here or there,
Speaker 1: because every game is rather important. That's why my respect
Speaker 1: level for baseball players and their competitive stamina is fucking outrageous.
Speaker 1: Because I had I loved baseball, I just had way
Speaker 1: too much add I was a kid picking daisies, running around.
Speaker 1: I couldn't I couldn't focus, and for someone to have
Speaker 1: the ability to focus, and it's crazy, we're getting into
Speaker 1: the game where you guys went like twenty five innings whatever, eighteen.
Speaker 1: It's so funny you bring up the add because I
Speaker 1: was like ten and we were doing baseball and we
Speaker 1: had the counselor the guy, the guy in charge. I
Speaker 1: space out at shortstop and he just sees me spacing out.
Speaker 1: So we just this is the day where you could
Speaker 1: just zing a hardball at a kid's face, just zings
Speaker 1: me in the face, bloody nose, unconscious. And they was like,
Speaker 1: you got to pay attention. I was like, I fucking
Speaker 1: paid attention. After that, you got to pay attention. After
Speaker 1: a guy will fucking throw a ball at your face,
Speaker 1: you definitely learn, you know, that's that's a quick way
Speaker 1: to learn. You know, you can tell your kid, hey,
Speaker 1: don't touch the hot stove, but until they burn their hand,
Speaker 1: they don't really know what you're talking about. Yeah, child
Speaker 1: abuse is good. I'm not saying first, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: child abuse, but like I guess I have the memory
Speaker 1: as a kid like. My parents were like no, no, no,
Speaker 1: and I just didn't understand it. And I was like,
Speaker 1: oh that's why they said, Yeah, when I learned from
Speaker 1: the pain. Yeah, sometimes I wouldn't. I wouldn't say throw
Speaker 1: baseball as at kid's face or burn your kid's hand. No, no,
Speaker 1: but experience is the best teacher. I guess would be
Speaker 1: my You know what. The crazy thing about that is
Speaker 1: what my dad actually has thrown a ball at my face.
Speaker 1: I charged the mount on him when I was fourteen
Speaker 1: years old. I was pissed off. We were doing VP
Speaker 1: before a game. Charge the mount he won to me,
Speaker 1: went to the game with the bloody jersey. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I learned never to to charge the mount on my dad.
Speaker 1: So you were actually charging the mountain. I charged. I
Speaker 1: was going to attack your dad. I tried to, but yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he's uh your Robin Ventura, he's Nolan Ryan. He
Speaker 1: beat the shit out of you. Yell. It was crazy,
Speaker 1: but that's that's definitely that's the way I lived too.
Speaker 1: My parents were like, if you want to touch the stove,
Speaker 1: go ahead, touch the stove. You're gonna find out why
Speaker 1: you're not supposed to touch the stove. Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: had a My brother was four years older than me,
Speaker 1: and like when I when I was growing up, like
Speaker 1: he was the legend. He was the best player, and
Speaker 1: like my dad would have me catch him, so like
Speaker 1: and we had like a tramp we didn't have a backstop.
Speaker 1: We're just in Texas, and he just puts the trampoline.
Speaker 1: He's like, use that as a backstop, and like he's
Speaker 1: going so hard, like I'm scared, and like he's like jamming,
Speaker 1: breaking my thumb, but like it's ricocheting and hitting me
Speaker 1: in the back of that. Yeah, and we're like, Dad,
Speaker 1: I don't think I need that the trampoline as a
Speaker 1: backstop anymore. Hey, it'll teach you how to block the ball.
Speaker 1: You're either tough or you're not right, like catch the ball.
Speaker 1: You can't back away. But let's let's get it. We
Speaker 1: went off topic. Let's get into some of your accolades.
Speaker 1: My accolades, all right, Texas born and raised, played at
Speaker 1: UT Arlington. Yeah, Texas, Texas Arlington. Is that sound? We're
Speaker 1: not out of that Texas. Where's that Texas Uta? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's in Arlington, Texas Arlington. I gotta get that. So
Speaker 1: it was like it was like a block away from
Speaker 1: my high school, was it? Yeah? I also played a
Speaker 1: year in junior college at Texarkana cheu coo guy. Heck yeah, baby.
Speaker 1: Was that annoying to play so close to high school
Speaker 1: with like with everyone hitting you up for tickets all
Speaker 1: the time. No, man, I wasn't that popular UT Arlington
Speaker 1: baseball games. There's not that many fans there. It's not
Speaker 1: a University of Austin. This is yeah. But what's what's
Speaker 1: crazy is there was like three extraordinarily successful big leaguers
Speaker 1: on my team there. Who oh man Mark Low who
Speaker 1: was like a bullpen pitcher. He was with the Rangers
Speaker 1: when they went to the World Series. He was with Seattle.
Speaker 1: And then Ryan Roberts, who was known as the Tatman.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember these you know these days,
Speaker 1: but he was had some good years with the Diamondbacks,
Speaker 1: played for the Yankees a little bit. But yeah, all
Speaker 1: three of us were went to ut Allington at the
Speaker 1: same time and both had all three had long careers. See,
Speaker 1: you could tell he's a good hitter because the way
Speaker 1: he's looking me in the eyes. He's got a focus
Speaker 1: that like I can see him focusing, so that's what
Speaker 1: I picture your eyes looking like when you're looking at them.
Speaker 1: Our focus is improved. You see me play like, it's
Speaker 1: like twitchy. I'm a little everything's unorthodox. The high the
Speaker 1: high high pants. What's up with that? My all my boys,
Speaker 1: I told him you're coming on because we're all fucking
Speaker 1: we're all Giants fans. They're like, ask him, why is
Speaker 1: he wear his socks like Babe Ruth. So I always
Speaker 1: liked him like high, just because it was comfortable, like
Speaker 1: when you're kid like and I had like these long,
Speaker 1: lanky legs. I could never get them to like really fit,
Speaker 1: so just pulling them up was just comfortable. And then
Speaker 1: it always annoyed me that it tugged on my knees.
Speaker 1: But there was one day like, so, you know you're
Speaker 1: sliding or whatever, you're running, the fields aren't that soft, like,
Speaker 1: so I'm just like ripped bloody everywhere, right, And the
Speaker 1: pants with the Giants at the time were these like
Speaker 1: rubber bands that were just squeezing on a bloody open
Speaker 1: wound and on both of them, and I was just like,
Speaker 1: this freaking sucks, and like I just I need some relief.
Speaker 1: So I was just like I'm just gonna pull it
Speaker 1: up above my knee and then pull it down, and
Speaker 1: it was like it felt so much better. And then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the pants weren't tugging at my knee.
Speaker 1: I felt faster, and and I was like, ah, no
Speaker 1: one's really gonna notice, but this feels so much better.
Speaker 1: So it was just some relief. But then I was
Speaker 1: just like I just I always mess with my team,
Speaker 1: like cause I I just I just like to talk
Speaker 1: shit like I'm just like, you know, I had a
Speaker 1: home wreck, and like I don't ever like show up
Speaker 1: the opponent, but when I come into the dugout like
Speaker 1: I lose my mind. I'm like eat shit like whatever,
Speaker 1: you know. And and so I always called myself super speed,
Speaker 1: like I loved being on everyone complain Oh man, I
Speaker 1: gotta run to you know, I gotta score. From first,
Speaker 1: it's I loved it. I was like, I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm fucking super speed. I'm wide receiver speed. So like
Speaker 1: that was just my I was just messing with them,
Speaker 1: and I was like, super speed needs to be in
Speaker 1: wide receiver pants, and that was kind of the thing.
Speaker 1: So it just started with bloody knees and then it
Speaker 1: just felt more functional, dude, It's so crazy what the
Speaker 1: mind does for an athlete. Like before you had to
Speaker 1: wear pads in your pants, no one was wearing like
Speaker 1: I didn't wear pads in my knee pads, thighpads in
Speaker 1: my pants my first like four years until they mandated
Speaker 1: it because like you're like, I don't feel it. You
Speaker 1: feel faster, and if you feel like you're faster, that's enough.
Speaker 1: You're faster. Mental it's all men. So you didn't, so
Speaker 1: they mandate you have to have to no now and
Speaker 1: they have to be over your knees. Why would they
Speaker 1: force you to do that because they think it's gonna
Speaker 1: like they think it'll help you not tear an aco.
Speaker 1: I don't know, no funly bro dangna. But we love
Speaker 1: the NFL. We love the NFL, So there's nothing because
Speaker 1: just to me, like for instance, like I guess there's
Speaker 1: like for me, it's like function is what mattered the
Speaker 1: most about it, like and also like feel like you said,
Speaker 1: if it gives me a mental edge like whatever, like
Speaker 1: looking sweet sometimes makes you feel a little better. I
Speaker 1: would always like try to add some like some random
Speaker 1: flare for the playoffs, just to feel a little sweeter.
Speaker 1: You know, what was your flair for this game? For
Speaker 1: which game? For the eighteen inning l DS man, I
Speaker 1: don't even crazy, I think I don't even remember. I know.
Speaker 1: I think in twenty twelve, I was like unbuttoning a
Speaker 1: couple extra buttons because I'm naturally a nice guy, and
Speaker 1: I like when I take the field, like I have
Speaker 1: to become a different person. You have to be a
Speaker 1: little mean, like you have to have a little killer
Speaker 1: in you. And so it was like to like turn
Speaker 1: that on. I think that year I put like I did,
Speaker 1: like the little tight wristband around my bicep to just
Speaker 1: show off ultra bicep. It will get you vascular when
Speaker 1: you cut the circulation. Yeah, so I had that like
Speaker 1: up here for that ageen digit. Yeah, that eighteen A game, man,
Speaker 1: that was interesting. That was like we talk about this
Speaker 1: like sometimes you think of baseball during sex to delay orgasm.
Speaker 1: This is the game talking about eighteen innings picture duel,
Speaker 1: you know. So I was thinking about it a couple
Speaker 1: of times. I have a lot of thoughts on this game,
Speaker 1: but I want to hear y'all's questions. So do you
Speaker 1: do you ever think of baseball to delay orgasm, by
Speaker 1: the way, is that just No, I don't even think
Speaker 1: about baseball as a delayed orgasm. No, you've never heard
Speaker 1: about that. You think of baseball during sex to last longer?
Speaker 1: Oh that's how you bore yourself. Yeah, okay, you never
Speaker 1: heard that. No, he probably gets fired up. He's like, man,
Speaker 1: he's all you can't think about it this. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: rock hard. Now I think a weight thought. I mean
Speaker 1: definitely wouldn't like turn me on. I'm not like, ah, baseball, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is sexy. Do you do you do it? Or no?
Speaker 1: I have I have Wade Bogs in my head and
Speaker 1: Yankees pinstripes and it's just like that weird lefty swing
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, I'm hard as a rock. I
Speaker 1: stay good. No, never heard of that. I've heard of it.
Speaker 1: I've heard of it, but I've never I'm sure of
Speaker 1: the opposite though, Like I got a like hyper focus
Speaker 1: to actually get off, like it's like an effort. Interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you are a competitor. That guy's got, Like
Speaker 1: I said, competitive stamming the lock in competitive eighteen inning game.
Speaker 1: I mean this was like I got a question the
Speaker 1: way to it. Let's lead into this so you get
Speaker 1: traded to the Giants in twelve. Yeah, he was on
Speaker 1: the Astros. H I was on the Phillies. Phillies, you
Speaker 1: drafted Astro drafted Astros trade to the Phillies twenty eleven.
Speaker 1: Probably the best most talented team I was ever on.
Speaker 1: It was like Roy Holliday, Cliff Lee, both side young candidates.
Speaker 1: Cole Hamil's was our three and Royals Walt was our four.
Speaker 1: That's insane that Coarl Hamil's was a three. Yeah, Cole
Speaker 1: hamils was a three. That's insane. And this is in
Speaker 1: his prime. Madson is our setup guy who's like an
Speaker 1: elite closer. World Series Champion closer. Brad Lidge is our
Speaker 1: actual closer. Yeah. Like our team was like absolutely insane.
Speaker 1: It was like Brian Howard hit forty homers that year.
Speaker 1: Utlely yeah, uh you know me and my prime, Like
Speaker 1: it was that team was insane. Did it hurt to
Speaker 1: get traded off this stacked team? Uh? Well? The next
Speaker 1: year so we were like four games out the next year,
Speaker 1: and I remember Howard and Utley were out, so it
Speaker 1: was literally just me, j Roll, Victory know, Ruiz was
Speaker 1: having a heck of a season, but we were missing
Speaker 1: Utley and Howard. Yeah, well luckily you were in Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: which is a very forgiving fan base. Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: We were four games out and so it was super weird,
Speaker 1: Like I did not expect to be traded that. I
Speaker 1: was like, dude, we're gonna We're gonna come back, We're
Speaker 1: gonna win this division. We were on like a streak.
Speaker 1: We're getting to Utlely, We're getting Howard back, and they
Speaker 1: trade Victorino, they trade me, and like I was like
Speaker 1: super shocked. How does that go down? Hey, yo, Hunter,
Speaker 1: you we gotta talk to you, dude, bring your playbook,
Speaker 1: Like what is that? What is it? What is getting?
Speaker 1: Do you get traded? How do they is it your agent?
Speaker 1: Did you find out from your agent first or the
Speaker 1: manager give it to you? This is super weird. Like
Speaker 1: so the night before there was like a fake Twitter
Speaker 1: thing where they were like just all the Giants fans
Speaker 1: were like, we got on our pants. We traded that
Speaker 1: like as a fake thing the night before, And I
Speaker 1: was like what, Like, so I thought I was trading
Speaker 1: and I was like, no, You're not trading. And this
Speaker 1: is like kind of pre Twitter. It's like this is
Speaker 1: like the beginning of the beginning, like it was like
Speaker 1: it was like a troll. They were like trolling me.
Speaker 1: And then the next day, you know, so that happened.
Speaker 1: We had an off day in Washington. The next day,
Speaker 1: I wake up and ESPN starts saying Hunter Pence traded
Speaker 1: to the Giants. This is how you find out. I
Speaker 1: see a ticking and I'm like, it's super weird because
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, I'm headed to the field with
Speaker 1: ty Wiggington a couple of the teammates and they're like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: it says you're traded. I was like, I haven't heard anything,
Speaker 1: and so I'm like, what do I do. I was like,
Speaker 1: I guess I go to the field. So we're all
Speaker 1: in a cab headed to the field and I get
Speaker 1: a call from Ruben Tomorrow, Junior, the GM at the time,
Speaker 1: and he's like, hey, look like I just want you
Speaker 1: to know, like, you know, we've traded you the Giants,
Speaker 1: but like we don't want this to be you know,
Speaker 1: we want to talk to you whenever you become a
Speaker 1: free agent. Like so he was actually super cool. How
Speaker 1: many years do you have on your deal? I still
Speaker 1: had the next so it was like I was going
Speaker 1: to play this year and the next year arbitration. How
Speaker 1: do you feel about them saying that to you, we
Speaker 1: still want to work this out someday. It actually made
Speaker 1: me feel a little better. But I was definitely like
Speaker 1: when I first got traded, like I was like having
Speaker 1: nightmares and like waking up thinking I was still with
Speaker 1: the field because I was like I was so set
Speaker 1: and I'm a big like like like psychology guy, like
Speaker 1: I do a lot of mental work and I and
Speaker 1: I'm a big like like cerebral like thinker, like I
Speaker 1: believe our thoughts are really powerful. So like I remember
Speaker 1: that year I was reading this book like Think and
Speaker 1: Grow Rich, and it was like talking about your affirmations
Speaker 1: and emotions, and I would just be on the bus
Speaker 1: with the Phillies, like even when we lost, I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm a World Series champion right now, right now, I'd
Speaker 1: try to fill the bus with my thoughts like everywhere,
Speaker 1: like seeing it as a Philly. And then when I
Speaker 1: got traded, I was like, what the It was super crazy?
Speaker 1: Is that where? Because I heard you get you you
Speaker 1: were the guy that gave pregame speeches in SF and
Speaker 1: it came from Yeah, I honestly I believe that I
Speaker 1: summon like a like I believe that I built such
Speaker 1: thought momentum that I was just like guided to say
Speaker 1: the right thing at the right time if I was
Speaker 1: just bold enough to do it. Yeah, and so like
Speaker 1: it all just kind of unfolded. It's this weird path
Speaker 1: of like like knowing when to say something everyone like
Speaker 1: getting everyone to chip in and at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, like unless you're about it, like you can
Speaker 1: say and talk to your blue in this face, but
Speaker 1: like if you're not that dude that's like about it
Speaker 1: and like means it and like like they're not gonna
Speaker 1: really care or listen. Goes with that. Actions are just
Speaker 1: dreams boys. Yeah, you have to act. You have to
Speaker 1: be it, Like I gotta be it. And I was
Speaker 1: literally like just I had like thought it, thought it,
Speaker 1: put in the work, done the action. Like just like
Speaker 1: I all I could would think about, like all day
Speaker 1: every day, like while we were in these runs, is
Speaker 1: like I love this team. I love this game. We're
Speaker 1: gonna win today. I would just like repeat that over
Speaker 1: and over and over again in my mind. You know
Speaker 1: the team. You always need a guy like that too,
Speaker 1: Because I was quite the opposite I was like, oh fuck,
Speaker 1: we're gonna lose. We're feeling complacent. This guy had a
Speaker 1: terrible practice. What the fuck are we doing. I can't
Speaker 1: sleep at night because we didn't get this play call
Speaker 1: in right at practice. You know, so you need to
Speaker 1: we're seeing all the worms and not the apple. You
Speaker 1: got it, you know, but you need both. You need
Speaker 1: both because you need you need an asshole to let
Speaker 1: motherfuckers know like this ain't acceptable, and you know, but
Speaker 1: you also need guys like Hunter were, Hey, you need
Speaker 1: the optimism, you need this, you know, the mindset. So
Speaker 1: I think it's a good contrast. We always had those
Speaker 1: kind of things, like I was always the bad cop
Speaker 1: when Tom was be the good cop because Tom couldn't
Speaker 1: be the bad cop because if Tom was the bad
Speaker 1: cop with some guys, they'd shit their pants, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. The guys were watching them when they
Speaker 1: were two years old. They come into the locker room.
Speaker 1: Tom says, hey, dude, you got to get to your
Speaker 1: depth on this route. The guy's like, oh shit, he's
Speaker 1: never gonna throw the ball at this. But if I
Speaker 1: go up to him say, motherfucker gets your route, then
Speaker 1: he doesn't know it's coming. From Tom and we can
Speaker 1: all play ball. Pisses him off, then he goes and
Speaker 1: plays his best ball. So absolutely, Like I actually do
Speaker 1: think that you have to have confrontation, yes, like if
Speaker 1: you actually care, Like it's like, what's your intention behind
Speaker 1: your action? Right, Like if you're like, hey, motherfucker, you
Speaker 1: got to get to this ball, it's to make the
Speaker 1: team better, Like it's to make him better. It's not
Speaker 1: like it's not like, hey man, I don't like you.
Speaker 1: It's like no, like like, let's fucking tighten this round.
Speaker 1: I know if I'm afraid to address that or confront
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of egos. It's it's it's it's
Speaker 1: professional sport people that don't want to think that they
Speaker 1: ever mess up. But someone has to know. You have
Speaker 1: to have like you have to have some asshole in
Speaker 1: the fucking clubhouse always. But how do you walk that
Speaker 1: line between being the asshole and being like this like
Speaker 1: enthusiastic motivator. Yeah. I was not that great at being
Speaker 1: the asshole, but I did learn how to approach things properly,
Speaker 1: right like or work on it, or get the like
Speaker 1: have the right good cup bad cup. Like Buster didn't
Speaker 1: mind being the asshole. Yeah, you know, like he didn't mind.
Speaker 1: His name is literally Buster, you got to be the assholes,
Speaker 1: Like well, I mean, but you know when it's coming
Speaker 1: from Buster, like he was crazy man. He sees so everyone,
Speaker 1: what everyone does, he knows what everyone's doing. Is able
Speaker 1: to manage his wife, his kids, Like it's just insane
Speaker 1: what he's able to accomplish. But he would like know
Speaker 1: what every bullpen pitcher was doing, what every position player,
Speaker 1: Like he would get mad at Belt for never trying
Speaker 1: a new bat. He'd be like, dude, try a new bat,
Speaker 1: Like you've someone in the same bat for eight years,
Speaker 1: Like you know, just like little weird things like he
Speaker 1: knows what bat you're swinging. He knows how you're stretching,
Speaker 1: when you're stretching, what time you went to the training
Speaker 1: room and he didn't even get there in time. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's leadership. But yeah, at the forms of different
Speaker 1: leadership at the end of the day, No, I think
Speaker 1: you're right. It takes a balance and you can't just
Speaker 1: have all all good, all good like like and if
Speaker 1: I even went into the message of my whole speech,
Speaker 1: that's a whole nother story like the one in twenty twelve,
Speaker 1: the one that I think actually had an impact. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like which one was that? The one in twenty twelve
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati. But do you remember anything from that? I remember.
Speaker 1: I remember the message, like the main message of it,
Speaker 1: and basically it's basically SCIENTI from the demon. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: dimmed from the demon of losing in twenty eleven and
Speaker 1: feeling that pain and being on like the best team ever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and like everyone on that that year was like in
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, this, in two thousand and eight that,
Speaker 1: because that's when the Phillies won the World Series. And
Speaker 1: then like you know, I'm here on the Giants and
Speaker 1: the like in twenty ten this and twenty ten that,
Speaker 1: and this is what the Red Sox did, and like
Speaker 1: when they came back, and I was like, I don't
Speaker 1: give a fuck what they did. Yeah, your team, Like,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what you know, what happened in twenty ten,
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, It doesn't matter what the Red Sox.
Speaker 1: All that matters is what we in this room decide,
Speaker 1: because it's right fucking now. And I was like, I
Speaker 1: made my fucking decision. I don't care if we have
Speaker 1: to win one hundred games in a row. I'm going
Speaker 1: out there and I'm giving everything I have because I
Speaker 1: want to play another day. I fucking love this game.
Speaker 1: I'm not ready to go home. Yeah, I want to
Speaker 1: run through the fucking wall me too, Like it wasn't
Speaker 1: and so like I guess, like when I look back
Speaker 1: on it, like what does that do? It frees you
Speaker 1: from trying to force it, because I remember in twenty eleven,
Speaker 1: everyone's like, oh, I'm gonna be the guy. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make it happen. But you can't force things. You can't
Speaker 1: try to force yourself to be the guy you get
Speaker 1: in rhythm when everyone's like I'm just gonna give what
Speaker 1: I got and that's enough, and I'm gonna if a
Speaker 1: walk happens here, that's enough. If it's just like going
Speaker 1: and diving for a fly ball down the line, like
Speaker 1: that's my moment. Like just be in your moment and
Speaker 1: take care of your business, and we're gonna do this
Speaker 1: together because like we want to be here, we're not
Speaker 1: because you're trying to like be the hero versus just
Speaker 1: be yourself and like it's like, fuck it, I don't
Speaker 1: care what anyone's happened. Like I've made my decision. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's such a good reminder, like you're here because you
Speaker 1: love this too. You don't get to the level you
Speaker 1: get to without the work and the discipline of love
Speaker 1: for the game. So if you think, like, shit, i
Speaker 1: would do this for fifty grand a year and I'm
Speaker 1: getting paid way more than that, let's fucking go out
Speaker 1: and have fun. Yeah, you know, yeah, Yeah, it was like,
Speaker 1: remember how fun it is to be here, and like, yeah,
Speaker 1: how do we get our best selves out there? And
Speaker 1: you got to free yourself from the fear of like
Speaker 1: what could we lose versus like this is what we have. Now,
Speaker 1: what what's Brian Wilson doing when you're giving these speech?
Speaker 1: Brian Wilson was amazing, uh, and he was hurt this year,
Speaker 1: but he like he brought a lot so like, honestly,
Speaker 1: a lot of the speech came from a conversation with
Speaker 1: Hobby Lopez, who's won four World Series side arm Lefty,
Speaker 1: one of the greatest communicators. He was kind of a
Speaker 1: good bad cop. He was a guy it's like, ah,
Speaker 1: we're not fucking doing this, We're not. And he was
Speaker 1: the one that said if we don't say something, we're
Speaker 1: fucking dead because we were down oh two to the Reds.
Speaker 1: We had to play three games there. They hadn't lost
Speaker 1: two in a row since like April. Yeah, this is October.
Speaker 1: Uh And and he's like and he was like, it
Speaker 1: was the same feeling that we had with the Phillies
Speaker 1: in Game five, where everyone was just kind of like hahaha,
Speaker 1: like kind of quiet. Yeah. And it was him and
Speaker 1: Scutero and Wilson, and I was like, well, I'll fucking
Speaker 1: say anything. Let's go like what do you want to say?
Speaker 1: What do you want to say? So I kind of
Speaker 1: collected like some of their thoughts, and Wilson was like,
Speaker 1: he like got on board. He's like, you're fucking right,
Speaker 1: Like every breath I take, there's a win every hemoglobe
Speaker 1: in every he was like, He's like, all of the
Speaker 1: fucking all of my chromosomes, every cell of my body
Speaker 1: is coming to help you win. Like he was just like,
Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of you guys got your
Speaker 1: energy from Charlie Sheen Tiger Blood. I feel I feel
Speaker 1: like I feel like Brian Wilson. He was like straight comedy,
Speaker 1: but he was yeah, definitely Charlie Sheen, Tiger Budd even
Speaker 1: though I don't know if that was out yet and
Speaker 1: in a mixture of like Will Ferrell, it probably was out.
Speaker 1: I used to watch Brian Wilson's YouTube videos with the machine.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that guy. You sure that was Burrel? Was it?
Speaker 1: He would because he actually he would just do that
Speaker 1: at parties. He would just put on a thong in
Speaker 1: the head and he would just smoke a cigarette in
Speaker 1: the corner. By the way, that's the scariest dude. Girls
Speaker 1: home from the bar, and then and then just yeah,
Speaker 1: times were crazy before cell phone pictures and cameras, right,
Speaker 1: b Yeah, Like, yes, I've heard some Pat Burrell's stories,
Speaker 1: trust me, because I grew up in the area and
Speaker 1: there's some girls that I know that were from that
Speaker 1: that used to hang out with a lot of the
Speaker 1: giants games and exactly what you said I heard, Well,
Speaker 1: won't get I think he did it for a reaction. Though,
Speaker 1: like I I've never seen this. I just had a
Speaker 1: lot of friends that were friends with Burl and would
Speaker 1: just tell these stories. So it's like, I can't say
Speaker 1: that any of this is true. It's just what I've
Speaker 1: heard about Burl from some of his friends that like
Speaker 1: love him, and they just say that he's just just
Speaker 1: a wild character and just loves to get reactions out
Speaker 1: of people. So you guys were a fucking pretty that like,
Speaker 1: that's a fun team. It was a real fund and
Speaker 1: that probably helped. So, yeah, it was in Pablo and
Speaker 1: his heyday. These guys were crazy, man. Yeah, at a
Speaker 1: bunch of it looks like a movie like because you're
Speaker 1: like just the look of like Lensicumb and Pablo, like
Speaker 1: they all look like a movie character, you know, in
Speaker 1: like Major League. There were rock stars, man, and they
Speaker 1: were they. I would go out in the Marina when
Speaker 1: I come home to go visit my friends, and I
Speaker 1: was playing on the Pats and you'd see a fucking
Speaker 1: just flob of people around like a bar. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what's going on over there? Like the giants are over there? Well,
Speaker 1: Lins looks there. I was like, nah, Tim barely ever,
Speaker 1: Like he was like he's kind of I think he
Speaker 1: hit me up. Well someone hit me up with his
Speaker 1: name on Twitter and it was verified, but I don't
Speaker 1: think it was him because he kept on like hit
Speaker 1: It was weird. It felt like a weird interaction. He
Speaker 1: asked you for dick picks and you were like I
Speaker 1: don't think this is Tim Linsey. Come, that's not Timlinz No,
Speaker 1: But is he a football fan. I don't because then
Speaker 1: if he's not, then he's definitely it's definitely not timlin
Speaker 1: He's not hardcore football fan. I don't think. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think he maybe watches it. Like he's kind of
Speaker 1: like a Seattle guy. He's different than you would think,
Speaker 1: but like, well what you like, I mean, Timmy was
Speaker 1: Timmy wanted to be by himself. He's kind of social anxious,
Speaker 1: but like he's one of the biggest givers. Like he's
Speaker 1: like the softest, sweetest guy. He was like the craziest athlete,
Speaker 1: like he could. He bought Like when I say biggest givers,
Speaker 1: he bought you remember those little things that you could
Speaker 1: scoot around like that the hoverboards or whatever. He bought
Speaker 1: the whole team. He bought like fifty five of him
Speaker 1: and just gave him because he loved him so much.
Speaker 1: He'd be like running around on on one foot, like dancing,
Speaker 1: like he could just do like all sorts of crazy
Speaker 1: gymnast stuff. But like he was like the nice, friendliest,
Speaker 1: like didn't want to like bother anyone, wanted to just
Speaker 1: hang out his room play video games and smoke weed
Speaker 1: like and that's like all he wanted to do. But
Speaker 1: when he got into competition, he like fucking could not lose.
Speaker 1: Like he was just like he wouldn't even play video
Speaker 1: games against anyone because he's like, I'm I can't lose,
Speaker 1: Like if I lose, it's it's bad. And so he
Speaker 1: just like wouldn't ever play against anyone but the computer.
Speaker 1: So it was like this super nice, the nicest guy
Speaker 1: you ever met. Like he's like literally on top of
Speaker 1: the world but afraid of the world. But then when
Speaker 1: he takes the mound, he's like he's five foot nothing,
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty pounds, but he's like this ultimate killer.
Speaker 1: He just becomes a killer. Yeah, like you're fucking staying
Speaker 1: there and like I'm gonna I'm gonna strike you out,
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna whoop your ass, and just that competitive
Speaker 1: spirit that killer came out in this little sweet soul. Yeah,
Speaker 1: dude it And I didn't know he was a gymnast,
Speaker 1: but that explains everything. Why a five foot nothing guy
Speaker 1: he's not actually a gymnast, but he could just do
Speaker 1: acrobatic Yeah, but that's just that leverage strength and that athletics,
Speaker 1: like functional athleticism is huge to get you know, make
Speaker 1: that kind of power being that small. Let's get to
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. Okay, you guys are on a nine game
Speaker 1: winning streak. You're in and you're playing it getting ready
Speaker 1: for this game in the NLDS Washington National Washington Nationals. Now,
Speaker 1: what do you what's your mindset going into this? Like,
Speaker 1: are you guys thinking, you guys are you're going to
Speaker 1: the ship or you guys pissed off from the year
Speaker 1: before when you didn't get there because they went to
Speaker 1: it and you guys went to it in twelve. How
Speaker 1: what was your approach going into this series in twenty fourteen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so let's rewind twenty fourteen. So basically twenty twelve we
Speaker 1: won the division, like we took off with it, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's a different animal. Fourteen we have Bumgunner, I
Speaker 1: think bum Gunner versus Kershaw or something in LA. They're
Speaker 1: looking to win the division and crazy clutch game like
Speaker 1: like we didn't score anything for Bomb, he gave up
Speaker 1: like one maybe two runs, maybe even hit a solo
Speaker 1: homer and lost like two to one, and like LA's
Speaker 1: going nuts on us, like they're like flicking us off
Speaker 1: on our bus, like we can't barely get out of there,
Speaker 1: and so we lose. We lose the division in LA
Speaker 1: with our guy on the mound, and we're just like
Speaker 1: everyone's down. And I knew we were gonna eventually, like
Speaker 1: we're gonna eventually get to the wildcard game, right, So
Speaker 1: I'm talking with Vogue and he's like, man, we just
Speaker 1: fucking don't have what we had similar to you, Like,
Speaker 1: he's like, we don't have what we had in twenty twelve.
Speaker 1: I was like, no, like we had when we came
Speaker 1: into spring training and we were like one fucking step
Speaker 1: closer to the World Series, Like all that matters, Like
Speaker 1: our only goal is to be a World Series champion.
Speaker 1: And guess what, when we make the wildcard, we're still
Speaker 1: on the path and now we get to celebrate more.
Speaker 1: There's another game, Like it does not matter who won
Speaker 1: the division, it matters what we do in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Was kind of like my mindset, and he's like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but we just we aren't. We aren't that team. And
Speaker 1: I was like, we have to make sure that when
Speaker 1: we win this wild card, even though we just took
Speaker 1: this gut punch that we realized that it's how it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter how you get A to B, we're going
Speaker 1: to be and we have to fucking celebrate this and
Speaker 1: realize that being in the playoffs is not guaranteed and
Speaker 1: it's a fucking accomplishment. So I like, and that's when
Speaker 1: the whole hundred motherfucking pence because like they brought in
Speaker 1: live cameras while I'm saying this to the team and
Speaker 1: I'm dropping, like all my f bombs can just get
Speaker 1: in the f bomb zone and uh and I'm like
Speaker 1: and and basically I'm like, when when we finally sealed
Speaker 1: our deal, we were going to Pittsburgh. I'm sorry, this
Speaker 1: isn't the Nationals, but we're going to Pittsburgh. And I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: they're pitching their ace. They pitched Cole to try because
Speaker 1: they could have won the division on the last day,
Speaker 1: and I'm looking for any mental edge. I'm like, look,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be pissed that they have to play the
Speaker 1: wild card game. They've lost a couple of them. They're
Speaker 1: gonna we're having to play on the road no matter what.
Speaker 1: But they're so we're gonna face Vocas, not Cole. They
Speaker 1: the Cardinals end up winning, the Pirates win, so they
Speaker 1: end up falling to the wild card. I'm like, they're
Speaker 1: gonn be pissed about this. We got to go in
Speaker 1: there like hell fucking yeah, Like we got bum ready,
Speaker 1: we got our ace ready, and like we're gonna fucking
Speaker 1: burn this city to the ground. Like like so we
Speaker 1: were all prepped and ready for that game. It'd be
Speaker 1: great if you actually just burn the city to the ground.
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's a it's a metaphor for like
Speaker 1: like literally understand you a couple of cities down. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you played with that same energy. So and I remember
Speaker 1: Jake Peev like he was like afraid of all the
Speaker 1: fucking the you know, the turbulence. You get a lot
Speaker 1: of turbulence in the summer, and the fucking planes doing
Speaker 1: all this. And we're landed into Pittsburgh and Pee gets
Speaker 1: up and he screams, the holy fucking they're worried about
Speaker 1: is if there's played Lynch Pittsburgh is fuck God damn,
Speaker 1: this played off the ground. I'll never forget that. And
Speaker 1: we were all like hell yeah, oh yeah, Jesus, you
Speaker 1: just got to look at the flight attendant as long
Speaker 1: as they're not freaking out. I mean, that's my that's
Speaker 1: my trick. If you see where you get your faith
Speaker 1: is through the flight attendants. Absolutely, if you see if
Speaker 1: you see them doing like one of these, I'm like,
Speaker 1: fuck this ship, we're going down. But as long as
Speaker 1: they're as long as they're looking cool, good dude. We
Speaker 1: had a teammate once and a story just broke about it.
Speaker 1: We signed this kid. He was like a guard. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in the middle of the season, we were banged up,
Speaker 1: and they bring a group of the guys in like
Speaker 1: the leaders to talk, like, all right, guys, this guy's
Speaker 1: got like a like an insane case of add We
Speaker 1: got to be on him because we need him this game.
Speaker 1: He needs to perform like it was a division round,
Speaker 1: and like just to be sure, guys, like this guy's
Speaker 1: he's a little weird, you know. So he goes out
Speaker 1: and we have him, he practices, he's all right, I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, we'll see what's up. We get in the
Speaker 1: plane and like he takes like crazy medication for this
Speaker 1: add stuff or whatever, and we get up and he's
Speaker 1: he go he has like a reaction or something, and
Speaker 1: like he's trying to get out of the plane. First
Speaker 1: week on the team, trying to get out of the plane,
Speaker 1: our trainers go and get Will Fork or I think
Speaker 1: it was Will Fork or someone like, yo, we need
Speaker 1: you to get hold this guy down. They had to
Speaker 1: like put this guy in a stray jacket. We had to.
Speaker 1: We flew back, dropped him off. It was fucking while
Speaker 1: we're in the air. And then one of our other teammates,
Speaker 1: Patrick Chung, he doesn't even fucking like flying. He flew
Speaker 1: back when once we flew there, he wouldn't fly back
Speaker 1: with our team plane. He flew back commercial because he
Speaker 1: thought there was like an hex or something on the plane,
Speaker 1: and so we got I mean, it was a fucking
Speaker 1: it was a ship storm. He's doing this shit on
Speaker 1: like on the adderall he's still taking I don't know
Speaker 1: what it was. He was on some medication with the
Speaker 1: motherfucker like they were holding him down, belting on, turning
Speaker 1: red and he's like a three hundred and ten pounds
Speaker 1: of flight on the flight's try and get out of
Speaker 1: the plane. We had to like tranquilize this motherfucker. It
Speaker 1: was it was crazy. I don't know. We used to
Speaker 1: take I used to take adderall before it. Fights with
Speaker 1: my ex. I know she would kill me if I
Speaker 1: didn't take it. But but if I popped an adderall,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I could fucking I could be like Bradley
Speaker 1: Cooper and limitless and I could hold my own you
Speaker 1: find angle? Do you know what I mean? I know
Speaker 1: that what adderall is. It's the limit. You focus, You
Speaker 1: focus like a motherfucker. We can't do it. We couldn't
Speaker 1: take adderall. NFL you have to have like a TU,
Speaker 1: and do you not allow to take adderall? You have to? No,
Speaker 1: it's it's really tough. Like it's guys take it, but
Speaker 1: it's tough to get the prescription. You got to go
Speaker 1: through the NFL doctors. But you said you had a
Speaker 1: d D. Yeah, but I had too much add even
Speaker 1: go through the fucking procedures to even do that. Ship
Speaker 1: Like I couldn't even take it to the procedure. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of baseball players that get the TU
Speaker 1: or whatever. I never had one. I just I looked
Speaker 1: like it because I drank so much coffee, but I
Speaker 1: was twitchy. How much how many coffees a day? A lot? Man?
Speaker 1: Like like six? Like easy? Yeah, easily? Wow? Just coffee,
Speaker 1: or I'll do a pot before I go to the
Speaker 1: coffee shop, like a soda, like a pot of coffee
Speaker 1: at home, I'll do like a ten cup pot of coffee.
Speaker 1: Like the whole thing is. I'll drink the whole thing.
Speaker 1: And they go to the coffee shop get two espressos.
Speaker 1: Like I'm like numb to that. Do you do you have?
Speaker 1: But doesn't that make you have your pist during the game?
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I piss in between every inning because
Speaker 1: I'm also hydrating at the same time. Yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: there's a bathroom in the dugout, you know. Yeah that
Speaker 1: makes sense. I didn't know. Yeah you don't think. I
Speaker 1: guess other sports you don't have that. Like football, you
Speaker 1: don't have that. You have to like leave the field.
Speaker 1: Oh damn, you can't go to the bathroom the whole game.
Speaker 1: I piss on, I pissed. I used to piss on
Speaker 1: the sideline. Really actually had a teammate ship on the sideline.
Speaker 1: We gotta do what you gotta do to play, right, dude, Yes,
Speaker 1: you do it. It was like you get these two
Speaker 1: little like intern trainers that like come out and put
Speaker 1: towels around you. You see a fucking New York Jets fan,
Speaker 1: like motherfucking you laughing, like you're like pissing and ship, Yeah,
Speaker 1: your asses hanging out because your pants are so hard
Speaker 1: to put on, and ship you barely get your dong
Speaker 1: out because like it's too tight, and you're like, oh shit,
Speaker 1: that does suck. It does not sound like fun. It sucks.
Speaker 1: How much do you hear fans while you're playing. I
Speaker 1: don't hear them as much in the game, like it
Speaker 1: on the sideline when we're like in between drives here
Speaker 1: and there. It depends on the game, you know, Like
Speaker 1: if we're playing like a scrub team, you'll you'll hear
Speaker 1: things because you're already blowing them out, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. But like when you're in the in the moment,
Speaker 1: when you're on the sideline, it's like it's procedural. You
Speaker 1: have to go through the assign I go through my
Speaker 1: plays of the previous drive. I want to sit and
Speaker 1: talk with Brady and what he's thinking for the next drive.
Speaker 1: Then you go meet over with the or the quarterback
Speaker 1: coach McDaniels and the receiver coach. It's like it's all
Speaker 1: like what are we doing? How woul do we get
Speaker 1: better next drive. Can't think about that shit. You know what,
Speaker 1: what's some of the coolest stuff that's ever been like
Speaker 1: accomplished in that part or like like for instance, like
Speaker 1: cause like I love like watching sports for inspiration and
Speaker 1: just seeing you know, you're inspired by the moment. And
Speaker 1: I remember, this is a weird one, but I'm a
Speaker 1: tyrend Matthew fan, And like when Kansas City was losing
Speaker 1: and their Super Bowl win, they were like down I
Speaker 1: think twenty one or something like quite a bit and
Speaker 1: matt and there was something that happened and Matthew just
Speaker 1: like lost his mind and I was like, oh damn,
Speaker 1: this is fucking awesome. And they obviously, like from that
Speaker 1: moment on, the defense just locked it down and they
Speaker 1: came back and won. I got to who did they beat,
Speaker 1: matt Niners? Yeah, But like I do you think that
Speaker 1: that had as big an impact as I thought it did?
Speaker 1: Did you see that game? Did you which a game?
Speaker 1: Was it? The Super Bowl? With the Niners and the
Speaker 1: and the Chiefs Niners? Chiefs? Mathis Matthew Tyrone. I think
Speaker 1: that's just players making plays in big time situations. That's
Speaker 1: subconsciously in his head from his preparation. That's what I believe.
Speaker 1: You know, everything that he studied in the game, something
Speaker 1: went wrong and he was just like hey, yeah clean it.
Speaker 1: The or then the like the information he studied all week.
Speaker 1: The more you study and the better you practice, then
Speaker 1: it's subconsciously in your head. I feel so. Then maybe
Speaker 1: it just clicked in after something that they talked about,
Speaker 1: or they got a tendency breaker on something, or he
Speaker 1: knows the snap count when the does something like this,
Speaker 1: like there's little shit like that that he probably could
Speaker 1: have got a hold of that gave him. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: it like it switched right after that. So what has
Speaker 1: there ever been like something? Yeah, so it's been. I
Speaker 1: would like to hear some of those stories. Yeah. The
Speaker 1: super Bowl in fourteen, crazy same year, uh against Seattle.
Speaker 1: We put in this play on the game when it
Speaker 1: like on the last touchdown I scored. It was the
Speaker 1: ex return. All week we were preparing for like a
Speaker 1: different coverage in the red area, cover seven, cover four.
Speaker 1: It's like a zone type of thing, and they were
Speaker 1: playing a lot more man post safety man where they
Speaker 1: do one cheat, they'd have the safety go over to Gronk,
Speaker 1: they'd leave me backside one on one and so we
Speaker 1: put in on the sideline. Yo, let's do ex return.
Speaker 1: We'll do a spin on the front side and you'll
Speaker 1: be the first read. And we ended up scoring on it.
Speaker 1: So you know, that's the kind of shit that happens.
Speaker 1: That's the collaborative effort of what people see each and
Speaker 1: every drive. Like that's what happens on the sideline. So
Speaker 1: you prepared for one thing and then you kept it
Speaker 1: fluid in dynamic to the moment, which is like something
Speaker 1: that a lot of times in baseball they miss out
Speaker 1: on being dynamic. They'll give you like a game plan
Speaker 1: as a pitcher and it's like this batter, you know,
Speaker 1: it's cold here, come here. But then like a hitter
Speaker 1: could be like like for instance, I don't know if
Speaker 1: you'll watch the game last night where gen Carlo just
Speaker 1: hit that that cutter away. Yeah, like one he was
Speaker 1: sitting cutter the whole at bat. Yeah, and like if
Speaker 1: Hedges could have maybe seen that, like you know, just
Speaker 1: like his his takes kind of showed it and he
Speaker 1: painted he put it through. I mean Francona said he
Speaker 1: left it up, but it was painted away. It was
Speaker 1: like middle of the plate, you know, not down, but yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no way you're hitting that unless you're completely looking
Speaker 1: for and that's what gets lost if you're not staying dynamic.
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's cool that it's similar in football. Let's
Speaker 1: let's get to the game though, I mean, this is
Speaker 1: an eighteen inning game. Zimmerman is is we haven't gotten
Speaker 1: through our first Well, all right, that's what this podcast
Speaker 1: really is. It's it's honestly, we like the conversation with
Speaker 1: the people about, you know, their career and what they
Speaker 1: do and leading to the game. I think it all matters. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you want to cover everything, but I mean this is
Speaker 1: this is eighteen innings. Zimmerman is dealing on you guys.
Speaker 1: I mean he is in the zone. We found out
Speaker 1: he's not Jewish, which we were bummed about. Maudulian never
Speaker 1: talking about it. Although let's just let's just say if
Speaker 1: Kanye here's the name, he's not going to be happy.
Speaker 1: So is he one of us? We don't know you
Speaker 1: but Kanye, but uh, he's He's dealing on you guys.
Speaker 1: I mean, is this is this tough as a bat?
Speaker 1: Or is this in your head at all? At a
Speaker 1: certain point, I think every at bat is like compounding
Speaker 1: on it, on it, you know, on top of the other.
Speaker 1: So you're just like you're just getting ready for each
Speaker 1: of bat and he just keeps getting you out so
Speaker 1: like you know, but our pitching was keeping it close.
Speaker 1: So you just like keep moving, keep moving. Stand in
Speaker 1: the moment, Stand in the moment. How do you a vet?
Speaker 1: He's like, what thirty eight here? Yeah? How do he
Speaker 1: was you know, smoking mirrors, throwing smoke bombs up there
Speaker 1: and yeah, that was his joke that he would always
Speaker 1: talk about smoking baby keep doing because it was like
Speaker 1: turbo sinker. It wasn't really fast, but it's just freaking
Speaker 1: smoke bob. Yeah, and he was so good at it. Amazing,
Speaker 1: amazing leader. Tim HUD's an amazing career. Yeah. I remember
Speaker 1: when he was on Oakland and it was like zto
Speaker 1: Molder and I loved the way he did his hat. Yeah,
Speaker 1: always had a cool hat, like it was like a
Speaker 1: little box here. He had to get a little you know,
Speaker 1: if I can, if I can give a cool story
Speaker 1: on Hudey. And once again, we're not on on with
Speaker 1: this with this. So when we first get him was
Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen, and I remember we were like five
Speaker 1: innings in the game and someone gets like a blooper
Speaker 1: or he walks a guy like someone gets a blooper
Speaker 1: or whatever. And then and then like we may be
Speaker 1: like something happens like just the weakest run ever scored
Speaker 1: and we're losing one to nothing in the fifth and
Speaker 1: he comes in and like this is like one of
Speaker 1: his first games, and he just freaking fires his glove
Speaker 1: into the thing and I'm like, oh God, like he's
Speaker 1: pissed at because like we it was like kind of
Speaker 1: bad defense or something. It's like, oh, he's pissed at
Speaker 1: aut hees fuck gosh, what bad? Pick me up? And
Speaker 1: what he said his bad Like that was not his bad,
Speaker 1: and it just like it got us all fired up,
Speaker 1: like because we had never seen anything like that before
Speaker 1: and it like changed all of our pitching staff when
Speaker 1: they saw that that like that that he took the
Speaker 1: l instead of blaming you get, yeah, he was like
Speaker 1: my bad boys big bayup and like yeah, and it
Speaker 1: was like totally not his fault. You know. That's I'm
Speaker 1: a big Hudson guy. Even more now he points He
Speaker 1: doesn't point fingers, he points thumbs. Yeah, my kind of guy.
Speaker 1: He's a thumb guy. He also is a dude that
Speaker 1: didn't get a ton of unsupported a lot of his
Speaker 1: and he always had a good yard. Dude, he lit
Speaker 1: up a room like he was just a funny like
Speaker 1: would just tell the funniest stories, was always laughing, Like
Speaker 1: you want to talk about like the John Wayne of baseball.
Speaker 1: It's just like fucking coolest shit man. You always have that.
Speaker 1: You always have a guy that's just cool. Yeah, regardless,
Speaker 1: he's just cool. Yeah, Like everything he did was just
Speaker 1: fucking cool and awesome. So you guys are in, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of a picture's duel. How do you how do
Speaker 1: you how do you keep that stamp? Like? Does it
Speaker 1: bum you out? Does it frustrate you? Or like you said,
Speaker 1: you compound it? Are you just waiting for the so
Speaker 1: damned to break? So let me give you the cool
Speaker 1: story of this whole game. So you know, me and
Speaker 1: Peepe were always looking for things to just like latch
Speaker 1: onto and to just go like just go bananas and
Speaker 1: the dugout because like we believe in like energy because
Speaker 1: it can get stale. And Zimmerman is just freaking dominating
Speaker 1: us and like all of a sudden, I don't remember
Speaker 1: exactly when but they pulled him out in the ninth inning. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it was back when pictures would go nine in.
Speaker 1: It was like just a walk or something to Joe panic,
Speaker 1: and like it was like kind of a borderline even
Speaker 1: Joe panic. Joe panic got a walk. He gave him
Speaker 1: the panic button. Yeah, the guy gave him the panic
Speaker 1: button all of a sudden, and so they have their closer.
Speaker 1: Was like a one something era, like, uh, I don't
Speaker 1: even I should remember his name, but I don't remember exactly,
Speaker 1: but I remember that like the last two months he
Speaker 1: like hadn't given up a run. He was like lights out.
Speaker 1: But we still like when they took him out, we're like,
Speaker 1: he's not going to finish the game. He doesn't want
Speaker 1: to win. They're scared. We can start screaming this it's
Speaker 1: like this is our game. Now he's coming out. Was
Speaker 1: this before his his dinger or after before you said
Speaker 1: before who's dying? This isn't this is the ninth This
Speaker 1: is nice. We're down a run like it's like one nothing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but doesn't do's a double. He brings the guys it's
Speaker 1: a double or something. So but they they it was
Speaker 1: just it was just a walk to Panic, right, and
Speaker 1: then I think, I think, uh Buster hits a single.
Speaker 1: Once they bring in Stop. I forget what this guy's
Speaker 1: name was, but uh Buster hits a single. Panic gets
Speaker 1: like first and second, and and then we had like gone,
Speaker 1: you know, crazy, and then Buster hit or Pablo hits
Speaker 1: the double and Buster gets thrown out at home, so
Speaker 1: the ending ends, but we tied the game. And then
Speaker 1: that's when I think, you Smiro Petit, who, by the way,
Speaker 1: this was like the unsung hero of this whole playoffs
Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen that nobody talks about. He threw six innings,
Speaker 1: didn't give up a run, extra innings, like like, I mean,
Speaker 1: you smile Petit. That season he had he broke the
Speaker 1: record for the most perfect innings thrown of all time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know what it ended on. They gave him
Speaker 1: a start. This is during the season. Nobody really knows this.
Speaker 1: I still have nightmares about it. They give Yusmiro Petite
Speaker 1: a start and he goes eight and two thirds. They
Speaker 1: pinch hit Eric Chavez, who every single hit he had
Speaker 1: gotten was the other way against US the whole season,
Speaker 1: and so at ninth inning, two outs, perfect game online.
Speaker 1: This dude's already broken the record. He did it all
Speaker 1: from being a bullpen guy, like just mop up innings
Speaker 1: and then just like he ends up having a great career.
Speaker 1: Still no one talks about because he has no sauce,
Speaker 1: no like, no flair. He just like calmly, whoops your ass,
Speaker 1: It throws eighty nine miles an hour and just dots
Speaker 1: everything little movement, just like he's just like this dude
Speaker 1: that play has a dip in plays cards. He's like
Speaker 1: just the ultimate teammate, always happy and so sure enough,
Speaker 1: I screwed over like two steps to the right perfect
Speaker 1: game right here, like we've only seen Matt Kaine in
Speaker 1: San Francisco, and Chavez leans out on a curve ball
Speaker 1: and flicks a top spinner in front of me, and
Speaker 1: I felt like, you know those dreams where you can't run.
Speaker 1: It like literally felt like time slow down and I
Speaker 1: just couldn't run, and I like dive and it's like
Speaker 1: three feet probably the two steps that I took the
Speaker 1: other way away from me. That was the end of
Speaker 1: his perfect game and his perfect run. And I'm still
Speaker 1: upset about it. And he's one of the greatest one
Speaker 1: he probably he probably didn't he's probably the kind of
Speaker 1: guy he's like he definitely didn't blame me at all,
Speaker 1: but I still to this day and like, dude, he's
Speaker 1: just like he's an unbelievable human. Just you know when
Speaker 1: that's the cool. And he goes in extra innings and
Speaker 1: gets those six against the Nationals, who were like the
Speaker 1: best team in the league. They were like the Seed
Speaker 1: just shut them down for forever, like we just kept
Speaker 1: not scoring. He kept shutting them down, Like you had
Speaker 1: a double in the twelfth I think it was, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the leadoff double. Is that a double got stranded? That
Speaker 1: must have been tough because you're like this has been
Speaker 1: going on for so fucking long. I mean that was
Speaker 1: like once again, that was a whole team of pointers,
Speaker 1: like no one's ever like you didn't get me in
Speaker 1: Like everyone was just like let's go, let's go, next up,
Speaker 1: next up. That was just it. When did you when
Speaker 1: did you know you guys were getting there? Like when
Speaker 1: did you know? Did you know that you guys were
Speaker 1: gonna come up with this winner? Did you? Or it's
Speaker 1: just kind of like like like, I mean, you're just
Speaker 1: so exhausted. This is where I you know, the whole
Speaker 1: new runner at second Rule and the regular season I
Speaker 1: think is good because we play one hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: two and like it gets so hard to hit because
Speaker 1: the relievers are coming in fresh and you're just like exhausted,
Speaker 1: and I just kept running up trying to eat bananas
Speaker 1: and like protein bars whatever, But just is there coffee
Speaker 1: brewing in the dugout? Yeah, there's there's coffee, there's water,
Speaker 1: there's whatever, But like there's nothing really bringing you back
Speaker 1: from this. You're like dead. Like when Belt hit that
Speaker 1: home er, I was just so relieved because yeah, I
Speaker 1: just had nothing in the tank. Yeah. And by the way,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna back up a little bit. After we beat
Speaker 1: the Pirates, I remember Huddy said this, and at the
Speaker 1: time I was like, oh, no, like you fed them,
Speaker 1: But like I think it actually got it helped us
Speaker 1: a lot because it kind of pissed off the Nationals
Speaker 1: and then they were I felt like they were like
Speaker 1: trying a little bit harder. But like whenever they asked
Speaker 1: Huddy like this question, they were like, you know, you're
Speaker 1: going up against the number one seed they won one
Speaker 1: hundred and whatever games, and like, how does it feel
Speaker 1: going to against to theam He's like, yeah, they're probably
Speaker 1: the more talented team, but the playoffs is what's in
Speaker 1: between your legs. And we were like, oh shit, I
Speaker 1: was drinking my bad like like and like he's like
Speaker 1: I had to. I had to show up when I
Speaker 1: pitched after I said that I could let you guys,
Speaker 1: don't it was just like swinging so hard, trying to
Speaker 1: hit homers like it just like it kind of like
Speaker 1: weirdly worked out for us. Yeah, that's some Jedi mind trick. Shit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he felt bad about it. We're like, sorry, honey, like
Speaker 1: why did you do that? But it's alright, man. So
Speaker 1: you guys, you get mad when you give bulletin board material.
Speaker 1: You don't ever want to give bulletin boar. And he
Speaker 1: didn't mean like if you know, Hodey, he was probably
Speaker 1: just like he had one. He was drinking, he was pumped,
Speaker 1: and he was just like, you know, because he was
Speaker 1: kind of the guys that just had you know, just
Speaker 1: like had the guts, had the balls, and like fucking
Speaker 1: called him out. Well, you guys officially have bigger dicks
Speaker 1: than the Nationals. Nah. I wouldn't say that they ended
Speaker 1: up one in twenty nineteen. This series, you had bigger
Speaker 1: dicks we got we got it done. It was it
Speaker 1: was you know, sometimes it's your time. Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: He said that. You didn't even know that. That's about No,
Speaker 1: that's fucking awesome. It's probably gonna be mad that I
Speaker 1: brought it up. I'm sorry, Hoddy Nah didn't get it.
Speaker 1: That's only gonna make you cool. The veteran doing that
Speaker 1: is pretty badass too. I think that's that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: So anyway, Yeah, basically belt hits the Homer. We get
Speaker 1: that w and then the other felts got a belt.
Speaker 1: That's how they got a belt. I remember when they
Speaker 1: brought him up. Yeah, wasn't he was a farm he
Speaker 1: was farmed to the giants, right belt. Yeah, I remember.
Speaker 1: He's a Texas guy. Yeah, it's a University of Texas.
Speaker 1: They had a lot of hype. He was like they
Speaker 1: hyped him up when they brought him up because I
Speaker 1: used to like, I used to read here and there
Speaker 1: about you guys, because when you're on the East Coast,
Speaker 1: you don't get it's fucking twelve o'clock when you guys
Speaker 1: come on, you know what I mean. So it's so
Speaker 1: tough and you guys go intill one. We got practice
Speaker 1: at seven. It's pretty cool you followed us though, because
Speaker 1: you know, we always we always followed obviously, we all
Speaker 1: Patriots things. We're a legendary our our strength trainer is
Speaker 1: the biggest Patriots fan of all time. And and so
Speaker 1: like I love to like talk shit to him. That's
Speaker 1: like my ultimate thing. And like because like all you
Speaker 1: would do is like Brady Brady. Brady's the greatest. He'd
Speaker 1: have these huge Patriots flags and and honestly, I I
Speaker 1: at one point, like I used to like not root.
Speaker 1: I was like always rooting against y'allah. And at one
Speaker 1: point I was finally like, you know what, this is
Speaker 1: freaking badass what he's doing. And he gave me like
Speaker 1: the TB twelve like pliabilities, like Hunter, are you working
Speaker 1: on your pliability? Man? You got he would tom would
Speaker 1: hate the amount of coffee that you does. He never
Speaker 1: touch coffe He doesn't like caffeine. It's bad for the
Speaker 1: muscle playability. Oh, it is very bad for the pliability. Okay, baby,
Speaker 1: all right, he doesn't need tomatoes though, well it's got
Speaker 1: an inflammation factor for his blood type that could not
Speaker 1: make his muscles pliable. So I'm not even anything is
Speaker 1: there was like a was it. There was like a
Speaker 1: thing that he did that I watched where he was
Speaker 1: like getting onto you for lifting weight. She's like, why
Speaker 1: are you scared? Why are you lifting weights? And you
Speaker 1: were like, you don't have to take hits, Tom, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, like we'd always get in. So I would
Speaker 1: do a lot of the TV twelve stuff because it's
Speaker 1: it's really good stuff if you you follow it, and
Speaker 1: with the soft tissue work, the diet work, but I
Speaker 1: would incorporate it. I wouldn't go balls deep, you know,
Speaker 1: like I'm doing this and this only because I had
Speaker 1: a different opinion on you know, that specific issue. You know,
Speaker 1: I needed to have muscle mass on me because I'm
Speaker 1: an explosive athlete. I'm not taking seven eight step drops
Speaker 1: and then delivering a football very hard. Can't do it
Speaker 1: and they get murdered in the pocket, I understand. But
Speaker 1: when you're exploding in out of cuts, like you gotta
Speaker 1: work those kind of things, and you know, nothing like
Speaker 1: a squat squat is what ultimately works you the best.
Speaker 1: And he would get so mad at me because it
Speaker 1: does leave you vulnerable to getting hurt in the weight room.
Speaker 1: But you know, you got to you gotta do business
Speaker 1: as business is being done. Need that squat? Yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: so I got a sweet butt. Are you a no
Speaker 1: caffeine guy as well? Then? No, I drink caffeine. No
Speaker 1: drink drinking. Oh dudd I like caffeine. I gotta be on.
Speaker 1: We have a good guest like you here. We got
Speaker 1: to get uh to the bottom of this too. By
Speaker 1: the way, when you get traded from the Phillies, they
Speaker 1: did a babblehead now four Hunter Pence, did they at
Speaker 1: least send you a bibblehead? Yeah? I got I gotta
Speaker 1: did it. It's like all the weirdest things happened to me.
Speaker 1: I don't know that it's where like the whole Hunter
Speaker 1: Pence signs, probably, but it's like I had a bibblehead
Speaker 1: day for a team I wasn't playing for. I won,
Speaker 1: liked the I won like the what is it the
Speaker 1: Roberto Clemente Award for the Giants after they released me.
Speaker 1: I wasn't even on the team and got like the
Speaker 1: good guy award. Uh, it was cool. That's an interesting conversation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: interesting conversation with far Han. He congratulated me, super cool.
Speaker 1: What would you name this game? Which the eighteen What
Speaker 1: I name that he has games with names? We need?
Speaker 1: We need y'all give games names. Oh yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: man like I'm trying to think of some some punch.
Speaker 1: What was alt you said? You said you and uh
Speaker 1: youwan was this uh published inable that had had something
Speaker 1: an energy that you connected to you said it like
Speaker 1: a couple of seconds ago or a minute ago. Me
Speaker 1: and peebe where we try to like we would try
Speaker 1: to get like yeah, we would try to use anything
Speaker 1: to mentally get edge and like and like rile everybody up.
Speaker 1: So the mental edge game. Uh no, no, because like
Speaker 1: because belt Like I remember he hit that homer and
Speaker 1: it's like the bat was too hot, like he's just
Speaker 1: like I don't know. I would just call it the
Speaker 1: belt dumper because he had a big, big booty and
Speaker 1: and like the only way you can hit a homer
Speaker 1: in the eighteenth inning that far is if you have
Speaker 1: a big dumper. That's true, that's where you're keeping the
Speaker 1: backside into it. The belt dumper. Damn belt dumped on.
Speaker 1: The belt dumper is a great name. You win this
Speaker 1: game eighteen innings? Is it? From there on? You guys
Speaker 1: are like, this is a team of destiny. We're going
Speaker 1: we're gonna do it well. So now like obviously we
Speaker 1: threw bum gunner in the in the playing game, so
Speaker 1: we're getting We won two in Washington. We're coming back
Speaker 1: to San Francisco. Bums pitching Game three. We're all pumped.
Speaker 1: There's like a weird like bunt play or something, and
Speaker 1: Buster calls to go to third. Bum throws it into
Speaker 1: you know, left field, and they score a couple of runs.
Speaker 1: We end up losing with bum pitching. He always struggled,
Speaker 1: didn't He always struggle throwing it to first or something?
Speaker 1: Was that him? Not really, but he was like the
Speaker 1: most he was like the most electric pitcher that was
Speaker 1: like deadly accurate, could hit dingers. And then like I remember,
Speaker 1: was it him or was it someone else that they
Speaker 1: struggled throwing the ball to first? I think that was
Speaker 1: a felt I felt, Yeah, it's just like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's crazy. I felt would like run it over to
Speaker 1: first because he just could not do that. No, bum
Speaker 1: was actually pretty good, but it was like he needed
Speaker 1: to like make a like crazy play. It was like
Speaker 1: turn spin fire and he just And it's funny because
Speaker 1: the reason I bring this play up, and I remember
Speaker 1: it because once again, this is where like I really
Speaker 1: enjoyed this team and the camaraderie that we had. He's like,
Speaker 1: you know, Buster told you to throw it to third,
Speaker 1: you know, like, well, how do you feel about that call?
Speaker 1: He's like, well, he didn't throw tell me to throw
Speaker 1: it into left field. You know. It was just like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, it was fucking it. Once again, he pointed
Speaker 1: at himself. He's like, you know, I threw it in
Speaker 1: the left field. I could have made the play, and
Speaker 1: and I didn't and and but like he stayed calm,
Speaker 1: we didn't panic. And I was a great teammate. Bum.
Speaker 1: He was pretty good teammate. Hell yeah, he became up big.
Speaker 1: He was he was something. Yeah from from North Carolina.
Speaker 1: I think it's North Carolina. Might be messing this up.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it's South Carolina. Yeah, he was
Speaker 1: like a difference. But he would be at me for
Speaker 1: not knowing that. He always came up big. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: He was a monster. And he could hit. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: he could. He could hit. It's embarrassing because he like
Speaker 1: he could hit the ball farther than any of us,
Speaker 1: and like he would like come in and pinch hit
Speaker 1: and get like these clutch hits and we're just like,
Speaker 1: how the hell do you do this? Like he wouldn't
Speaker 1: even practice. He didn't he didn't take me. I mean
Speaker 1: sometimes he would just to hit the homers because he
Speaker 1: was wanted to see how far he could hit it.
Speaker 1: What a stud He's just a he was just a cowboy.
Speaker 1: He cared more about being a cowboy than anything else,
Speaker 1: you know, with like legit, like he would be like roping,
Speaker 1: Like we went to Arizona and was like on a
Speaker 1: horse and didn't get hurt doing something like that a
Speaker 1: little bit. I think a couple of times, like yeah,
Speaker 1: I hurt doing biking. He has some motor motor biking,
Speaker 1: and that he hadn't been he hadn't been the same
Speaker 1: picture since he did that, I don't think. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's the reason, but that sucked. That sucked. Man.
Speaker 1: It's it's awesome to have you in studio on games
Speaker 1: with names, telling us all these awesome stories, you know,
Speaker 1: getting to know you, knowing and knowing the competitor and
Speaker 1: the optimistic kind of leader that you are. I didn't
Speaker 1: know you were like that necessary. I alway knew you were,
Speaker 1: you know, the fucking let's do it. But like, I
Speaker 1: didn't know you were like this, and it's a it's
Speaker 1: a pleasure having on here. Man, thanks for having me
Speaker 1: this great great stories. Appreciate you, Sam, thank you all
Speaker 1: for having me. Man, you had any plugs you want anything?
Speaker 1: Not really, I mean I'm a guy happy to be here.
Speaker 1: I mean my uh my wife would probably be like,
Speaker 1: you know plug Pineapple Labs. So Pineapple Labs. She has
Speaker 1: a coffee coffee company or else we do the Pineapple
Speaker 1: labs dot com. If you want to try some of
Speaker 1: our coffee, we gotta we gotta get some of that
Speaker 1: coffee in here. And I want to put into something.
Speaker 1: I want to bobblehead and we're gonna Phillies, the Phillies
Speaker 1: one and then I'm gonna put a little SF Giants
Speaker 1: on there. Thank you Hunter pens Man energy. He was great.
Speaker 1: He's he's got like that just straight energetic, optimistic, everything
Speaker 1: is gonna be okay. Kind of attitude would you need? I?
Speaker 1: I you know, I was not a pro athlete. I
Speaker 1: think if I was, i'd want that guy in my
Speaker 1: have to yeah, because I was quite I wasn't the
Speaker 1: like he kept on saying, I would I wasn't as
Speaker 1: bad as what he thought I was. I would just
Speaker 1: be the guy to call people out if they were,
Speaker 1: you know, not doing their ship. Yeah, because if you don't,
Speaker 1: you know, you could say you're gonna be in the
Speaker 1: moment all all you want, but if you're not doing
Speaker 1: a little ship, he ain't gonna be in the moment. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It has to be a dude who's an all star
Speaker 1: like Hunter Pans to deliver that ship. And I love
Speaker 1: this help aspect that he's talking therapy to a bunch
Speaker 1: of ballplayers like the Upper West Side. Jewing me is like, dude,
Speaker 1: this is speaking my language. You know, it's fantastic. Dude.
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe the amount of coffee he ingests, a
Speaker 1: ten cup on the way to more coffee, two double espressos,
Speaker 1: and then probably just potting it down at that's a problem.
Speaker 1: That's a caffeine problem, dude. He his tolerance, like he
Speaker 1: probably choose caffeine gum in between like his coffees just
Speaker 1: to even feel anything. Well, that's what they're known for
Speaker 1: in San Francisco, tolerance, very liberal people, a lot of tolerance. No,
Speaker 1: he was a he was clearly a coffee lunatic. I've
Speaker 1: never heard of that. I mean, that's that's for an athlete.
Speaker 1: Is that was anyone in your locker room doing that
Speaker 1: that much coffee? I was doing like pre workout drinks
Speaker 1: and stuff like. I would hit a coffee, but not
Speaker 1: like that here I would and then I would stop
Speaker 1: drinking coffee after like one or two because I couldn't sleep. Dude,
Speaker 1: I do. I was on the road last weekend, and
Speaker 1: I'm so tired by the end of the day, and
Speaker 1: so I have to do coffee to get energized. But
Speaker 1: you know, some of these comedy clubs don't have coffee.
Speaker 1: So I just in my ride or I'm like, I
Speaker 1: need Colbrew in the fridge, Colebrew at eight thirty pm.
Speaker 1: I'm up till six thirty. Then at least I was like,
Speaker 1: I was like, I fucking hate myself. We should have
Speaker 1: asked him, does he like coldbrew? Colebrew is like crack, dude.
Speaker 1: That's it's not a good idea. If you smell a
Speaker 1: cold brew in the morning, I just instantly have to
Speaker 1: just empty every valve. Yeah, I just I'm dumping for hours. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's fucking outrageous. I mean, this is called the belt
Speaker 1: dump right, the belt dumper, the belt dumper. It's appropriate.
Speaker 1: What's up, Jackie. Dan Campbell noted coffee Guy one of
Speaker 1: our favorite guys. His morning coffee routine too low, large
Speaker 1: ice coffees, four shots of espresso in each. He looks
Speaker 1: like a guy that drinks coffee. I used to hit
Speaker 1: diners with David tel and we'd be like four am
Speaker 1: and we'd be leaving and he would order a large
Speaker 1: ice coffee to go, which I've never seen anything like
Speaker 1: in my life. He would get a ice coffee in
Speaker 1: the diner, this big four in the morning and go
Speaker 1: to sleep all night with Yeah, up all night insomnia.
Speaker 1: That was it? You know? Did we hit the prop Jackie?
Speaker 1: But settle it. We hit it. We got it out
Speaker 1: of the way early. I counted three. We even got
Speaker 1: him to say it was Kyler takes issue with the
Speaker 1: way you're scoring this, but I think the time said
Speaker 1: is the game and then we went way over in
Speaker 1: the end anyway, he went back to it, right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't make these. We just embrace them. Bro. We
Speaker 1: don't make Actually we do make them. We make them.
Speaker 1: We make them too. What's the legacy for this game?
Speaker 1: The longest game ever in the history of the playoffs
Speaker 1: except for like one. Yeah, up to this point, w
Speaker 1: was the longest eight anywise, yes, hour wise, no, inning wise,
Speaker 1: it's still tied, right, Yeah, I got a little clarification
Speaker 1: on that one longest at the time, inning wise, it
Speaker 1: is still tied. Now. It is the second longest Red
Speaker 1: Sox Dodgers Game three of the twenty eighteen World Series
Speaker 1: eighteen inning, seven hours, twenty Minutesesh. Christ, that's too much, way,
Speaker 1: too much, too much baseball. It was a playoff game
Speaker 1: of attrition, it was part of a World Series run.
Speaker 1: It's what's the lasting image? For this lasting image is
Speaker 1: belt dumping one? Yeah, for the homer taking one or
Speaker 1: took one yard, right, I get. I mean that's the
Speaker 1: lasting image, and then it propels them to go on
Speaker 1: and win the World Series. I mean, if you go
Speaker 1: in through, if you go through an eighteen inning game
Speaker 1: and you get out with the win, I can only
Speaker 1: imagine the confidence that's being brewed in the locker room,
Speaker 1: especially if Hunter pences in there, you know, giving them
Speaker 1: pregame speech and brewing coffee ruined speeches. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think that was probably what slingshot at them. For sure.
Speaker 1: And this is you know, a team that I think
Speaker 1: you got to say they're a dynasty. I know they
Speaker 1: won two years apart, but it was twenty ten and
Speaker 1: they won in fourth. No, they won three. They were
Speaker 1: in ten twelve and this was for fourteen. So that's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, this is a dynasty. What's the rule
Speaker 1: for a dynasty? Because you've been a part of one,
Speaker 1: it's three and seven years that make you a dynasty.
Speaker 1: Three and eight years, I would call a team three
Speaker 1: in seven is a dynasty three and seven. That's fair. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's a dynasty. Is just pure dominance and
Speaker 1: you're dominating the sport. Definitely. I mean what we do fourteen, sixteen, eighteen,
Speaker 1: but then we went to we lost in seventeen in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, and then we went we went far
Speaker 1: into the playoffs every time. So yeah, we were definitely
Speaker 1: And so were the Giants shints they were they were
Speaker 1: owning the MLB at this time. Yeah, it was so
Speaker 1: cool to see. And I've said the Warriors are I
Speaker 1: think undoubtedly a dynasty. Dude. San Francisco has had some dynasties. Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: what a what a sports town. It's a sports town man,
Speaker 1: it's they have cool teams to root for. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Niners are a cool team to root for. We
Speaker 1: just haven't got it one. There's no Sharks love. There's
Speaker 1: a big cult following of Sharks. Sharks fans out in
Speaker 1: the in the Bay. Now those colors, I love them.
Speaker 1: They're good colors. I had a Shark parka when I
Speaker 1: was like they do in ninety five. They were like
Speaker 1: an expansion expansion team. I got it at like a
Speaker 1: good Will. It was dope. There's like five sizes too big.
Speaker 1: I got to wear it for like five years. It
Speaker 1: was amazing. Well, this is not exactly you know, this
Speaker 1: is not necessarily the exact game, but these types of
Speaker 1: marathon games definitely contributed to the changing of the MLB
Speaker 1: extra innings rule. I mean, he even said in an interview,
Speaker 1: He's like, man, I wish we would have had the
Speaker 1: guy on second rule, because especially in the playoffs, they
Speaker 1: gotta get ready for the next week, they gotta go
Speaker 1: out and play. That's such a disadvantage if you're playing
Speaker 1: six and a half hours of baseball and then you
Speaker 1: have to get up and do it again, and especially
Speaker 1: if it's in like an e limb game and they
Speaker 1: got to go play a fresh team that'd be gnarly.
Speaker 1: That's tough, that's so tough, But it make the journey
Speaker 1: so much more fun if you went and won it all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you think about it, well they did, Yeah, they
Speaker 1: did it, Jack, What do we forget? First off, Madison
Speaker 1: Bumgardner Hickory, North Carolina. Hunter couldn't remember where he was from. U. Sam,
Speaker 1: you were talking about Tony Romo taking that trip to Cabo.
Speaker 1: You were right. The two thousand and seven playoffs, he
Speaker 1: and Jessica Simpson. Jason Witten was there too, are wonderful
Speaker 1: Jerry was there. Who knows the Cowboys thirteen and three
Speaker 1: went out the next week and lost to Eli Manning. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: we all love Jessica Simpson here. Thanks for softening it
Speaker 1: up Romo and getting them ready to lose to my
Speaker 1: big blue wrecking crew here in New York. We also
Speaker 1: talked about how legendary of those hundred pence speeches were.
Speaker 1: Good news for you fans at home. You can get
Speaker 1: your own for two hundred and fifty dollars on cameo.
Speaker 1: Oh you can, yeah, hundred pence pence on cameo fifty
Speaker 1: little is that rate? Is that a good RT? Is
Speaker 1: that it's a little steep. I think, yeah, steep to
Speaker 1: get some comps. Let's get some comps, Jackie. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: we'll start a cameo. Yeah, that's about it. Heck on
Speaker 1: an episode. Let's name the game the longest game, nah,
Speaker 1: because it's not not anymore eighteen innings, because there's other
Speaker 1: eighteen in the nap game. The nap game is that, Kyler.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. It's not bad. You can take you
Speaker 1: fully could have took like a two hour nap. The
Speaker 1: two for one. I think it's the belt dumper. I
Speaker 1: think Pence deemed it the belt dumper. Yes, it's got
Speaker 1: to be the belt dumper. Yeah, I love that. That's
Speaker 1: actually I'd say that's top. Sounds like what you do
Speaker 1: after you eat taco bell, but it still works. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what are the steaks? The stakes are the playoffs? It's
Speaker 1: high it's not world series, but it's not world series.
Speaker 1: It's it's uh seven to five, all right, that's fair, right, Yeah? Eight?
Speaker 1: I go eight because it's but they had they had
Speaker 1: two wins. They were up to Oh you think it's
Speaker 1: I oh really all right? Fine, so seven to five
Speaker 1: seven five star power. I mean hall of famers in
Speaker 1: this game. Posey's a Hall of Famer, isn't he? Let
Speaker 1: me check real quick, little Bryce Young Bryce Young Bryce
Speaker 1: Young Bryce, He's probably a Holly. They always I love,
Speaker 1: I love the giants, like the Brian Wilsons and the
Speaker 1: bum Gardner. Bumgardner had an unbelievable career. Maddy Kane, he
Speaker 1: was in there. I would say eight eight five seven
Speaker 1: five seven five? Does base Are we doing this because
Speaker 1: it's baseball? Because I feel like there's a lot of
Speaker 1: World Series champs in here, There's a lot of names
Speaker 1: in here. I think the fact that it's the MLB
Speaker 1: at this period is hurting the star power. Am I wrong?
Speaker 1: I mean, you like Socrates, you know when we're wrong.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's being too harsh in star power? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean Tim Hudson's a fucking star. Yeah he's not
Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer, but I think if he's on
Speaker 1: better team. They had three. I mean, is linskmb lynskeymb
Speaker 1: is Lynskum a Hall of Famer? Probably not because he
Speaker 1: didn't have the long long but he had three. He
Speaker 1: had three. He had like a bunch of cyngs. No,
Speaker 1: I mean he's he was great. I just I don't
Speaker 1: think he's in the hall. He did it long enough,
Speaker 1: not yet. At least Hudson just missed. He missed a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he only got twelve votes. That doesn't look like anyone officially. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but there's some futures for sure. Alright eight eight three
Speaker 1: eight three eight three. Yeah. Gameplay I'm going low as ship.
Speaker 1: I'm going like two five. This gameplay is stunk. It's
Speaker 1: a defensive battle. This ship was like AMBI great pitches. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh name, I mean it's it's a funny name, so
Speaker 1: we have to get points for it's being a funny name.
Speaker 1: But it's not an iconic name. So my name, I
Speaker 1: go like four five, five eight, five eight. Al Right,
Speaker 1: got to give the Bay Area boy the nod five eight,
Speaker 1: I mean, not one of them is a great name.
Speaker 1: So we're going but we're scoring it for humor, not
Speaker 1: for like, you know, it being an epic name. Right,
Speaker 1: so I respect five eight for it being funny. The
Speaker 1: total comes out to six. I think that's fair. It's
Speaker 1: not a World series game. It's also just not it's
Speaker 1: he made me think more of the game than I
Speaker 1: did before talking to him, because I felt his energy
Speaker 1: and I and I like that. But I just don't
Speaker 1: think it's I do think we might be hard on steaks,
Speaker 1: is I mean, seven to five might be stingy, but
Speaker 1: not really when it goes to the World Series, I
Speaker 1: guess it's not a decisi. It's not like, it's not
Speaker 1: a seven. It's not a game cheven. Okay. So then
Speaker 1: that and they were up to oh fair enough, and
Speaker 1: we're talking to a footballer who no, they were up one. Oh,
Speaker 1: they were up one. Oh. They win this one, they
Speaker 1: lose the next one. Yeah, I mean I think it's
Speaker 1: pretty fair, all right, I hear it. We gave the
Speaker 1: miracle in Morgantown a seven to five. Also my Big
Speaker 1: West Virginia, we give Notre Dame TBT a seven flat
Speaker 1: gameplay wise, Lakers Celtics two thousand and eight finals got
Speaker 1: a seven. Also on steaks. Yeah, on steaks, my bad,
Speaker 1: I said, gameplay Wow, we're whack fuck. Why are we
Speaker 1: whack seven for Celtics? That was There's no way I
Speaker 1: gave it a seven if it's a lower score for
Speaker 1: basketball from the game was it? It was the wheelchairs?
Speaker 1: Wheelchair game was what like Game two the thing went
Speaker 1: to seven. He is he is biased because he played
Speaker 1: in the NFL, where every playoff game was winn or
Speaker 1: go home, So I get his bias. I just like
Speaker 1: the up the annie. I like. I like to feel.
Speaker 1: I want to feel the heat. I want to feel
Speaker 1: the stress eating at the back of your neck. I
Speaker 1: want to not be able to sleep the night before
Speaker 1: do or die. I love it. I want I want.
Speaker 1: I want to feel closed. Yeah, I want to feel you.
Speaker 1: I want to feel you inside me. Dude, do you no?
Speaker 1: But I was just getting fired there. I don't know.
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