WEBVTT - Todd Frazier 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:05.840 Welcome to the No Sports Report, a production of our 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:09.960 Heart Radio Entree Fork Media. Small note. This episode was 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:12.080 recorded prior to the murder of George Floyd and the 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:14.920 resulting global reaction in protests, which is the only reason 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:17.360 it's not mentioned. Something to keep in mind while listening. 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:25.120 My name is Jensen Carp and I'm a sports fan 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:27.240 and I'm happy to hear the NBA is back. But 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:29.000 I've been staring at the plan now for about two 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:32.480 hours and none of it makes sense. Twenty two teams 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:35.680 all at Disney World, basketball happening all day long, teams 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:38.320 playing multiple times a day, eight regular season games that 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:41.160 a playoff. Dallas might make it, they might not. Space 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:43.199 Mountain might be opened with the kids, Epcot won't be 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:45.559 Can the Magic play just so? Orlando makes sense? Have 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:49.519 any players seeing the Florida project. I'm filled with questions, 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:52.000 which is good because I can get answers as I 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:55.120 continue to talk to athletes and sports industry professionals about 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:57.240 what they're doing right now, hoping to figure out if 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:59.520 fame is competing as much as I am is watching it. 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:05.720 This is the No Sports Report. The Todd Father. Todd 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:08.440 Fraser is a major league baseball sweetheart, and not just 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:11.360 for his upbeat, positive attitude and willingness to talk to press, 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:13.640 but also because he hits dingers. He was an All 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:16.000 Star in both two thousand fourteen and two thousand fifteen 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:18.000 and won the Home Run Derby in fifteen as a 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:20.800 Cincinnati Read in his home stadium. He since played for 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:22.800 the White Sox, where he hit forty home runs and 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:24.640 then made stops on both of his native teams as 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:26.680 a born New Yorker with the Yankees and the Mets. 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:29.000 But he just signed on to join the Texas Rangers 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.840 for the season, even if he's still worry about how 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.199 that will come together. On this episode, we talked about 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:36.600 his past as a Little League World Series superstar, are 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:39.560 shared love for Dan Marley and his reasonable price on cameo. 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:42.160 We're taking this one past the Warning Track with Tod 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:55.240 Fraser on the No Sports Report from Godd Fraser to 0:01:55.360 --> 0:02:00.720 accept Press one. Hello, Todd, what's going on? I'm doing okay, 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:03.360 I'm surviving. I want to know if you are and 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.480 where you're quarantined and with who right now? Yeah, I'm 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.400 I'm in Tom Geven, New Jersey with my three kid Blake, 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:13.560 Kylie and Grant and my wife and we're just chilling 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:16.160 out in this warm weather today. Man, having a good time. Okay, 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:18.840 three kids, what what ages are we looking at? Like? 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:21.680 It's six? Kindly as four and Grant as a year 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:24.919 and a half old. Okay, this is that's an intense run. 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:27.040 What what is that like in in the house at 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.840 twenty four hours a day? You know, the four and 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.080 six year old are mostly good. You know, they'll have 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:37.079 their the meltdowns. But the one and a half year old, man, 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:39.800 because the two older ones have been around with baseball 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:42.840 and been from town to town and been out and 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:45.760 they don't mind sleeping anywhere. But now feel like my 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.680 youngest is not getting that responsibility or you know, distance 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:52.440 from home, so it's a little harder when we try 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:54.679 and do something. Uh, you know, he makes it a 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:57.959 little tougher. So we missed having the babysitter at home 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:00.560 here helping us out. But we're making to do and 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:02.920 uh we're we're up in the bus. We're making some 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:05.359 stuff out and having a good time. And uh, like 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:07.600 I said, once the weather gets warm like this, when 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.040 get outside more and enjoy the schools almost over, So 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.359 schools over on the twelfth and we'll go from there. 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:14.480 And how have you been keeping them busy outside of 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:16.679 home schooling? What are you guys doing to keep them 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:19.240 at least on the ground. Yeah, I mean we have 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:21.359 some cool things on the weekend. We have moving night 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:24.560 on Friday's, sleep overnight on Saturdays. So it's kind of 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:27.160 unique what we do. Me and my wife, we switched 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.919 every couple of days home schooling. Well the other one 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:31.960 takes kids youngest. But you know, a lot of board 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:35.000 games hiding those seeks stuff, and you know, we challenge 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:37.560 each other every night. And I'm not a big guys 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:39.680 letting my kids win, you know, Um, I want them 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:42.000 to try their hardest and let them know that. You know, 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:45.120 it's not all about winning. You gotta you gotta be 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.920 a good loser as well. So you know, one of 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:50.080 those things not everybody gets the tromphy. So whatever the 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:54.360 board game or we're playing ping pong or whatever it is, um, 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:56.160 you know the word. I'm trying to learn them at 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:58.080 a young age to figure it out for themselves to 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:01.440 sen And And speaking of of competitive natures, have you 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:04.240 been able to stay in shape during this downtime? Yeah? 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:06.680 For me, I work out every other day. Um, I 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:08.640 literally just got done with the work out. Now, I 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.720 worked out perfect, try and hit two times a week 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.400 and get outside as much as I can when the 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:16.160 weather is good. In Jersey, you never know what you're 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:19.920 gonna get, So days like this, I'll probably hit tomorrow morning, 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:21.840 and uh, you know, I got a couple of guys 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.360 will throw me a live pitching to get prepared to 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:27.120 take some ground balls and where we go. Because you 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:29.920 live near your brothers who are also were in our 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:33.840 baseball players, so you're able to sort of throw with them. Yes, yes, 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.480 so my older brother Charlie, who I I pretty much 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:39.880 hit with for the for the two times a week. Yes, definitely, 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:42.599 that's great. It's very lucky. I know you're a big 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:45.919 sports guy in general, you especially basketball. I know you 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:48.960 caught the last Dance. How much do you miss the 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:52.000 NBA playoffs? For me, it's been it's been the hardest 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:55.640 part of no sports right now, honestly. Um, to be honest, 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:57.240 I'm more of a college guy. I used to love 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.440 watching the NBA back when when Jordan's you know, when 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.560 I was ten, eleven, twelve, fifteen years old, I was 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:07.560 a big Jordan's but big Charles Barkley fan. You know 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.440 the Knicks of the Old Age and the nineties with Stark, 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:13.880 Anthony Mason, Patrick, going, Charles Oakley, the name a few. 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.120 I love those games, that competitive nature, you know. I 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:20.200 you know, I watched the NBA you know championship. Don't 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:22.520 get me wrong, but I'm a big college basketball fan, 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:25.200 a big Syracuse basketball fan, and Jim Beheim is one 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:29.640 of my good friends, and I love watching those teams. Yeah, 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:31.520 I mean, I guess in the same vein having no 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:35.719 March madness, having no attorney has been a basketball in general. 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:39.320 I feel like I'm going through withdrawals. Devastating. Honestly, it 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.480 devastated because March is one of my favorite months of 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.800 the year besides Christmas. And uh that's the time you 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:47.880 get to fill out your brackets and talk to Smack 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:51.279 and hopefully your team moves on. But you know, it 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.400 is what it is. We've got something bigger than what 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:56.400 we can control right now. So there's always next year, 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.400 as they said. And I speaking of talking Smack, I 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:01.640 was proud to see you online making sure there was 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:05.520 no Dan Marley slander on Twitter. Why are people sleeping 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:09.400 on sunder Dan? Listen? People don't understand he was a beast. 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:11.640 I mean he I was a big Sun. Wherever Charles 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:13.839 Buckley went, that was the team I was a fan of. 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:16.559 And you know when he went to the Phoenix Suns, 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:18.240 the next thing, you know, I'm a Phoenix Suns fan. 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.920 So thunder Dan. I mean, he's he had a great 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:24.719 restaurant out there in Arizona too, as well, Marley's. But 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.360 you know, people like to sleep on guys like that 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:29.680 because they don't get talked about much, and they feel 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:31.400 like back in the day, if you weren't Michael Jordan, 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:33.919 you weren't good. But you know, Jordan played against some 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.839 of the top dogs that we're ever going to see 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:38.919 play this game, and you know that old debate with 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:41.599 him and Lebron, and I just don't understand how people 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:45.000 can say Jordan wasn't the best over Lebron James. I mean, 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.520 let's go on just defensive stats alone. I mean, let's 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.080 not forget about offense. The guys are like nine or 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:53.400 ten time defensive Player of the Year, which people forget. 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:55.920 You know, they know he's he averaged like forty points 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:58.080 the game. But I feel like some of these guys 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.440 back in the day, would would beat some of the 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.839 guys definitely that are playing. Now, why Barkley, what spoke 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:06.120 to you from Charles Barkley? Yeah, I mean that's a 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.400 good question. I kind of let him make my game 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.960 after him. You know, it wasn't the biggest guy, but 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:12.840 I had to play down low as well at a 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.000 young aid because I was either the tallest kid on 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.480 the team or you know, I felt like I was 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.440 the mountain round a rebound every time I went in there. 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.320 I kind of kind of wanted to get all the rebounds. 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.760 And um, he was a guy that he wasn't the biggest, 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:26.520 but I love looking up to a guy like that, 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.600 and um, you know, I just that was basically it. Well, 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:31.840 you talked about your childhood. You you first entered the 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:35.160 sports world as a preteen as a star on the 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:39.680 Toms River Little League Championship team. Now, in because the pandemic, 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:41.960 the Little League World Series has been canceled along with 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:45.280 the regional attorneys. How devastating is that for you to hear? 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:48.240 Of all people, very devastating. I feel bad for these 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:50.200 kids because I remember when I was nine years old, 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.600 my brother Jeff one I said, three years guys this 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:55.280 is gonna be us. And you know, I had two 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:56.840 my buddies there who we knew we're gonna be on 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.120 the team. That was the biggest dream I wanted to 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.600 do in three years was to play in Williams Sports. 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.720 And at the end of the day, you know, if 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:08.160 it didn't happen, I think I'd be very, very upset, 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:10.520 and um, you know, I wouldn't know how to handle it. 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:11.880 So I wish him the best and I hope they 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:15.119 understand it was tough times. But you know, things do happen. 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:17.760 And how much did that experience like shape you as 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:20.360 a I mean a player, but even more as a man, 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:22.280 Like are are you still in touch with those dudes? 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:24.440 Like I just see it's such a large part of 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.320 your origin story. I talked to probably three of the 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.640 guys for sure, over over the years, and uh talk 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:34.439 about baseball and what they're doing. Everybody's pretty much scattered around, 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:36.800 you know, but yeah, we do keep in touch and 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.240 every five years we try and have something together. And 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:41.000 now we can have a few root beers here too 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:42.559 as well now because we're over the age. So we 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.079 try to get together hit a bar up or a 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:48.400 restaurant and have a good time to be your first 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:51.480 season with the Texas Rangers. Obviously spring training was cut short. 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:53.880 Does that hinder the team chemistry you were hoping to 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:56.480 build on a new team. No, Honestly, I thought our 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:59.320 team chemistry was awesome. I was there for a little 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:02.199 over a month. Everybody seemed to bond. Well. We got 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:05.400 a good veteran corps with myself included, and we've got 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:07.360 a lot of good younger guys that I want to learn. 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:10.040 I mean they want to literally sit down and pick 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:13.000 your brain, like Joey Gallo, Willie Calhoun, nixt. So like, 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:15.600 we got guys that want to learn and want to 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:19.000 be the best. So for me, I fit in real well. 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.560 My personality was there, and I'm pretty excited once we 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:23.640 do start to see how the season kicks off. Are 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:25.600 you guys doing anything to sort of keep that going 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.720 during the break keeping in touch? Yeah, we have. We 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:31.319 have some video calls that we do. We email each other. 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:33.560 We have an email pretty much every day to go 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.520 over some Scotter reports and stuff like that. Are our 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:39.640 manager Texas all the time? And uh, you know like 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.320 that just some some funny banter back and forth, play 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:45.440 some video games, out a video game challenge. I didn't 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:47.160 play because they got the three kids and I don't 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:49.959 play those games. But uh, you know, it's fun to 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.559 talk to smack and to keep the camaraderie going. Yeah, 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.000 it's better to not play against your teammates. Joey Gallo 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:56.959 has proven he is a beast at the show. You 0:09:57.000 --> 0:10:00.640 do not want to play him. He's unbelievable. I mean, uh, 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:03.160 I think he's in an apartment by himself down in Texas, 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:06.280 so he's got nothing mouse to do besides worked out 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:11.480 and get on that video screen. With all the rumors 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:14.120 of an adjusted season looming, there does appear to be 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:16.160 two player camps emerging. You appear to be on the 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:19.319 more popular side. I saw that you retweeted Max Scherzer's 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:23.160 recent tweet regarding pay cuts. Where do you stand today 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:25.360 about getting back on the field without a vaccine or 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.319 a cure or sort of like a real I guess 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.600 an offer to the players union? That quote you know 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:34.559 makes sense? Really? Yeah, I think first and foremost, it's, uh, 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:36.319 we got to think about our health when I when 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:38.280 I think about playing again, the biggest thing for me 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.320 is I think about my three kids. You know, say 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:44.080 we start playing and we go through something like this. 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:46.120 Two weeks later, we know, we think we've made a 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:48.679 huge mistake. My wife's not gonna let me live at 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:50.960 home at least for two weeks. So you know, is 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.120 there is there a plan for me to live somewhere else? 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:56.199 So I gotta four cups of money? There's all different 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:59.280 types of questions that have to go into this whole process. 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:01.480 And you know, people talk about money. Yeah, that comes 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:04.400 into it, of course, but um, there's principle that we 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.160 have to go by. And uh, it's one of those 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:09.719 things where we have a bunch of guys that all 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:11.720 have different opinions and a bunch of owners that have 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:13.839 different opinions, and we have to figure out a way 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:17.360 to come together, not only just for you know, us players, 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:20.000 but for the owners too. It's it's very difficult times 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:22.720 and I think both sides have to come together and 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.560 you know, figure it out. Yeah. I mean, I guess 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.400 as someone who's just a sports fan and keeps the 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:30.120 health of you guys in mind, it's like the one 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:32.160 that scares me the most is it doesn't sound like 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:34.600 there's any proposition for if a team has an outbreak 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:36.280 and for you being in New York. You know, at 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.880 least New Jersey and New York City, you've seen, you know, 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:42.679 the hotspots, like something has to be in place. Yeah, 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.559 I mean, what are we gonna do if, say we're 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:48.800 playing Seattle and Seattle and somebody gets it on our team, Say, 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:50.640 I get it A might not to be stuck in 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.160 a hotel in Seattle for two weeks. Uh. You know 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:56.640 examples like that where I feel like we're on the 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.120 right track. I feel like we really are, you know, 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:03.080 with getting um, you know, tested every day, staying six 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:05.240 ft apart. I know they already got things set in 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:08.200 place for the locker rooms and stuff like that. So 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:10.560 where I'm the right path, I still think it's gonna 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:12.679 take a little time. But you know, the more, the 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.600 faster we work, I think the better will be. You know, 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:18.199 time stamps are tough because when you tell somebody like 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.440 I'm getting something something worked on in the back ye already, 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:22.599 guys said it's gonna be done by October. You're not 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:24.800 done by October. I'm gonna gona be a little tick off. 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:26.880 So that's why I'm not a big believer in putting 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:29.120 time stamps on things. I'm a big believer in getting 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:32.240 it done and then figuring out so we'll see what happens. 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:34.920 Are you guys being tested now regularly or that's something 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.959 they want to start once the season starts rolling. I 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.040 think it's once the season starts rolling, So you know, 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.520 I haven't been tested. But uh, you know, they had 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:44.959 something where they gave out seven or eight thousand two 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:48.679 staff workers and players too that thought they needed it. 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:52.080 It was a necessity and that was about it. But 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:54.320 I know, you know, from what I'm hearing, they'll be 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:56.840 millions on millions and millions of tests that we're gonna 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:58.880 have and where we could be okay with that every day. 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:01.040 Did you ever think, you know, you're you're a big 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.800 sports guy like me, grew up watching it. Obviously you're 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:06.160 playing it a lot better than me at least. Uh, 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:08.880 did you ever think people would look to sports like this? 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.320 It does seem like people are like, are we okay? Okay? 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:15.439 Is sports coming back? It's almost like the second question. Yeah, 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:18.400 it's it's pretty funny because I mean, my wife, you know, 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:21.000 could care less about watching sports on TV, and I'm 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:24.199 a big google about watching it on TV. Yeah, I 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:27.920 believe in it. I think sports brings people together. It's 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.280 something to talk about it. You know, being a fan 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:33.400 of a sport, it's big time. You know, you think 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:36.520 about basically what goes into being a fan, you know, 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:38.760 a die hard fan especially, you know, when I played 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:40.600 in New York. There are some die hard New York 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.200 fans out there, and if they don't get their fixing 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:46.320 sports man, it feel like the day's loss. So yeah, 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:49.040 I definitely believe in it. And um, you know, we're 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:52.840 definitely missing. I think bringing sports together and having teams 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.120 out there is a positive and I feel like, hey, 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:57.120 if they can play sports, you know the world's gonna 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:58.760 be better. And that's just you know, in my opinion 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.040 for sure. Yeah, and you spoke about New York a bit. 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.800 You grew up in New Jersey idolizing New York baseball 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:06.640 like I spoke with Adam Odovino recently, and I think 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:09.280 both of you guys have lived out crazy childhood dreams 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:11.640 very similarly. But you you took it one step further. 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.000 You not only played for the Yankees like Adam, you 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:16.079 also played for the Mets. That's like if I did 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:19.040 a song with Rundy m C and Best Boys Dreams 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:20.760 coming true. How how big of a deal was that 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:24.400 for you and your family? Very very important. But I'll 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:26.680 be honest, I never really thought I would play friend 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:28.720 of New York team, especially when you get drafted you're 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.280 you really think that's the only team you're gonna play for. 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:35.040 With the Cincinnati Red but then getting traded to the Yankees, 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.120 I got a monster ton of guys that are you know, 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:41.760 probably of my friends of Yankee fans and Mets fans. 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:44.080 So you know, I felt on top of the world 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.800 and down switch I got both Jersey tinking about man Cave. 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:49.600 I couldn't be happer. I've been blessed along this great 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.760 growth of baseball, and uh that was probably the toppings 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.560 on the kake beside one in the World Series. Without 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:57.920 sports in your life right now, how do you feel 0:14:57.920 --> 0:14:59.920 you're getting your fix? Like even just as a fan, 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:01.520 because so many people that I've talked to on this 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.440 show are at their core more than just a player. 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:07.120 They're a fan for me. Um, you know a couple 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:08.840 of things, you know, I like to watch on TV, 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.320 the old games. I'm trying to, you know, stay ahead 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.200 of the game. I just got a system put in 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:16.760 called win Reality, which you can. Basically, it's a virtual reality. 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:18.840 You get to watch or you get to pretend you're 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:21.680 in a batter's box, but goggles on and you get 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:24.560 the face against any picture you want. So you know 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:26.520 every team we played first, you know, I get to 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:29.040 see all the pictures, see the spin on their ball, 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.440 and you know, get my timing down. It's really awesome. 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:33.200 Me and my my son and I used it all 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:35.400 the time, and you know we go outside and play. 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:37.040 You know, I pitched to my son all the time 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:40.400 and try and get his focus on baseball too. So 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.360 it's basically like a virtual reality video game. But they 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:46.640 have footage of every picture in the Major's throwing and 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:49.600 with their pitches and everything. Yeah, it's unbelievable. So you're 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:51.920 in a major league stadium and so you want to 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:54.600 face now was synderguard today? You know he has the 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:58.240 long hair. Uh, all his antics are in there. You know, 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:00.880 whether he keeps his arm up or down, And it's 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:03.960 like facing a real, live major league picture with the 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:07.640 same speeds and um, you know, it's big for time 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:10.160 and it's big for seeing to spin on rotation on balls, 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:12.560 and I know pictures aren't happy about it right now, 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.400 but you know, mostly all the teams are coming together 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:16.840 and getting and I got my own at home, so 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:19.080 it's pretty cool. Well, I I feel weird that I 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:21.080 was stuck with baseball stars in my whole life. Now 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:24.360 I feel like Nintendo did me wrong. Yes, you brought 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:26.800 up some players not being happy with an unfair advantage. 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:28.840 I wanted to know you now share a state with them, 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:31.280 wondering if you think the break that the stoppage and 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:34.520 work is helping the astros or is it hurting them 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:36.840 or people forgetting what happened? Do you do you think 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:39.640 this is gonna be a break for them. Yeah, I 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:41.280 feel like they're going to get off Scotch free if 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:44.000 you wanted the truth, because you know, I was talking 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:46.920 with Sussan and Wllman, and um, you know there's gonna 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:49.320 be no fans in the stands to yell at them. 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:51.920 You know, guys that test positive for steroids, all of 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:54.400 a sudden they get crushed during the stadium, which is 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:56.920 well deserved, and um, they're basically getting away with it 0:16:57.000 --> 0:17:00.800 Scotch free. Nobody got suspended, and they're they're not gonna 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.120 feel any pain for many fans, you know, yelling are 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.439 screaming at them. So people are saying, oh, you know, 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:07.840 just you know, they're probably saying, you just let everything go. 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:10.200 You know, we made a mistake, but you know, some 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:12.760 things you just can never let go. And you know, 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:14.560 that's something that I had a chance to win a 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:16.560 World Series or make a two World Series and never 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:19.680 did because the teams cheated. So um, it's still very 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:24.000 it's still still uh still lingers. Yeah, I do think 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:26.560 there is a part of me that wonders because just 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:29.359 recently they've started to pop up more on social media 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:31.360 and they're being a little more vocal and I've seen, 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:32.800 you know, kind of the astros have been gone for 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:34.800 a long time, and I think now that they know 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:36.800 no fans are going to be around there, they're not 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:39.520 that they're being chippy, but they're being a lot more 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:43.640 out in public. Yeah. People say time as a presidency 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:46.920 heal all wounds, and uh, you know, I believe that thoroughly. 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:49.840 But you know, when we start playing, there's something that 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:52.440 you know, people are gonna forget, and that's something I 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:55.960 won't presure. Todd, as someone who's played in the World Series, 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:59.520 could you ever imagine, you know, sort of going through 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:01.560 with that big of an event in your life without 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:05.399 any fans in the audience. Yeah, I mean, listen, how 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:08.320 do you celebrate? Do you put masks on and jump 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:10.280 up and down six ft apart? You know, I don't 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:12.640 know what would happen, but I'll tell you right now, 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:14.440 I'll take that ring any day of the week, whether 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:16.879