Speaker 1: I got nervous. He always good nervous, right, he runs
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 2: Love that.
Speaker 3: Jason Hayward, David Ross, Anthony Rizzo. Welcome back to another
Speaker 3: episode of Level Reunion. We are here a Marquis Studios,
Speaker 3: my partner, David Ross, ih Nah Jason Hayward, two time
Speaker 3: World Series Champion, five gold gloves and all around one
Speaker 3: of the best human beings I've ever played with, teammates
Speaker 3: I've ever played with. Welcome to the show. Can you
Speaker 3: believe it's been ten years.
Speaker 4: I cannot believe it's been ten years. I appreciate that welcome,
Speaker 4: you know, coming from people with high praise in the game,
Speaker 4: some of my favorite teammates in the world and best
Speaker 4: people to be around, and we're doing it here in Chicago,
Speaker 4: so it's good to be with you guys.
Speaker 5: We go, we go way back, like Atlanta. That's where
Speaker 5: I kind of want to start with your career. I
Speaker 5: watched and probably a lot of Cubs fans. Remember, I
Speaker 5: gotta set the scene because I've never you and Freddie
Speaker 5: say coming up together, and you guys came to spring
Speaker 5: training and obviously big, huge humans coming in all this
Speaker 5: hype about what they're supposed to be and I'm getting
Speaker 5: chills thinking about it.
Speaker 1: And Opening Day you take Zaan Brono.
Speaker 5: Way back into the bullpen, and like I thought in
Speaker 5: my career as one of the coolest moments I had
Speaker 5: ever seen from a rookie with all the hype you
Speaker 5: got and how you've handled it, kind of played out
Speaker 5: your whole career who you are and how pro you are.
Speaker 1: But you just handle.
Speaker 5: Everything so easily and the expectation around you, and then
Speaker 5: you go deep deep Opening Day, Bro, you carried that
Speaker 5: well with class as you did your whole career. Man,
Speaker 5: it's like it's really looking back, it's fun to look back.
Speaker 1: On those moments and been able to watch. We were lockermates, right, No,
Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 4: Tom flew from that moment on, like from the first
Speaker 4: A B to here we are today talking about it
Speaker 4: like I've just retired. You've just retired. Fortunately we got
Speaker 4: to spend the last year of your career together. You
Speaker 4: walking off as a champion, hitting the home in your
Speaker 4: last freaking game.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. Those are the moments right there.
Speaker 4: Boy, You know that we get chills about obviously, but
Speaker 4: oh man, like your locker being next to mine. People
Speaker 4: ask me about did I ever get ship as a rookie,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, for the most part, no, you got
Speaker 4: what you gave. But if anybody was going to give
Speaker 4: it to me, right absolutely, right here. My favorite thing
Speaker 4: you always bee you replaced.
Speaker 5: We used to go to the Team Dinners in Atlanta,
Speaker 5: and we didn't have a whole lot of like high
Speaker 5: like Big Network Sunday games. We always got to go
Speaker 5: somewhere and go Team Dinners all the time. And Jay, hey,
Speaker 5: we'd order and I always did the sides and never
Speaker 5: going around and.
Speaker 1: Freaking Jay, Hey, hey, Ross, can you give me some
Speaker 1: of the crab.
Speaker 2: Grab games?
Speaker 1: But he wouldn't order himuse his rookie. He was like, hey, we.
Speaker 3: Were twenty when you broke in twenty Wow. I remember
Speaker 3: in two thousand and six we were playing in East Cobb, Georgia. Marriotta, Georgia.
Speaker 3: You're in the East Cobb astros. I believe, right, is
Speaker 3: that the time you run and I knew who you were.
Speaker 3: You had no idea who I was. And your dad
Speaker 3: was working like maintenance on the field, and my dad
Speaker 3: talked to your dad about Jason Hayward and this and that,
Speaker 3: and we played against each other. You don't remember what
Speaker 3: I do because you were a superstar and I was
Speaker 3: an one at the time. So but it was so
Speaker 3: cool to see you make your debut with the Braves.
Speaker 3: You and Freddie Freeman, we all got drafted the same year.
Speaker 3: You get drafted by your hometown team. How cool was
Speaker 3: that slash? Looking back? How hard was that?
Speaker 2: It was?
Speaker 4: Man, all those moments, even coming from an East Cobb,
Speaker 4: all the build up being in the Braves backyard.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: We watched a lot of guys do that, some of
Speaker 4: our former teammates, right, Brian McCann, Frank Core, you know,
Speaker 4: Eric Kenski. But it was it was like, welcome to
Speaker 4: the big leagues. You watch this team on TV your
Speaker 4: whole life. Now you get to go be in the
Speaker 4: same clubhouse with the Bovia Cox Chipper Jones, Like Chipper
Speaker 4: was like one of my baseball cards. Yeah, you know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying, Well, that's your hometown exactly.
Speaker 1: We used to tell Chipper we grew up watching him
Speaker 1: on Black and White team.
Speaker 5: You No, it's all coming back around, man, it's the
Speaker 5: Atlanta time was fun and being the being locker mats
Speaker 5: for all that time, watching you grow in your career,
Speaker 5: and following as I left him, went to Boston and
Speaker 5: then you know, you bounced around a little bit. You
Speaker 5: went to the enemy for a little bit, went to
Speaker 5: Saint Louis, had a really good year before here, took
Speaker 5: less money.
Speaker 1: Right, walk me through your free agent process.
Speaker 5: You're finally a free agent, bounced around a little bit,
Speaker 5: had a great year in Saint Louis, and you choose
Speaker 5: the Cubbies.
Speaker 4: So getting traded out of Atlanta, getting introduced to the
Speaker 4: business ide very young into the game. Uh, Saint Louis
Speaker 4: year twenty fifteen was my free agent. Walk here, great
Speaker 4: group of people, amazing vibes playing baseball, playing to win, right,
Speaker 4: living World championships. I'm like, this is what I asked
Speaker 4: to do, is just play to win. But you don't
Speaker 4: know how it's going to go. It goes. But playing
Speaker 4: this division was like an introduction to the Midwest. Those
Speaker 4: vibes of people who care about their teams with like
Speaker 4: a different type passion. And so getting to do that
Speaker 4: six times a year, you know, three times, you know
Speaker 4: here it really because that's when you still played the
Speaker 4: teams every time before all the inter league coming to regularly,
Speaker 4: I'm like, for one, first thing I know is like
Speaker 4: they got a lot of young guys. They're going to
Speaker 4: be together for a long time. And if I had
Speaker 4: to pick somewhere, I want to be That's ideal. After
Speaker 4: seeing what was happening in Saint Louis, it was about
Speaker 4: a kind of tear down and rebuild. We went through
Speaker 4: it in Atlanta, I'm like, I want to go somewhere,
Speaker 4: and like you don't know who's going to be with,
Speaker 4: but then you just adding everything else that comes with
Speaker 4: being a cup, like the history playing on this like
Speaker 4: cathedral of a saying lot here at regularly, all the
Speaker 4: history there. But then like yourself, then seeing Dex, then
Speaker 4: seeing Rossie come over, seeing them go get less, knowing
Speaker 4: that THEO has all types of experience, and like breaking
Speaker 4: a curse. So I'm like you, if I got a choice,
Speaker 4: like let's make it here. They know no brainer, like
Speaker 4: they're trying to win. They got a group that's going
Speaker 4: to be the guyther for a long time. Let's see
Speaker 4: if we can make history.
Speaker 1: And you've made your home here, that's how much you've
Speaker 1: liked it. Yeah, that's impressive.
Speaker 3: When THEO is selling you in the free agent, because
Speaker 3: when you're a good When you're really good, when you're
Speaker 3: a top free agent, you get the red carpet treatment,
Speaker 3: probably flew around and meet everyone. We were never that
Speaker 3: good out about us.
Speaker 2: Stop.
Speaker 3: But what was he selling you on here? Because you
Speaker 3: say the cathedral, but you don't really I feel like
Speaker 3: until you play here, you really don't understand it until
Speaker 3: you're ingrained in this culture of the fandom, playing at
Speaker 3: Wrigley every day, playing at Real really on a Tuesday
Speaker 3: in August and it's sold out, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like all what makes it special being in a neighborhood,
Speaker 3: the boat on the lake right, everything that comes in
Speaker 3: it so.
Speaker 1: Way, games is so great for your family. I love
Speaker 1: that about it here.
Speaker 3: Other than really winning, what else did he come at
Speaker 3: you with to get you to come here? Because ultimately
Speaker 3: you did take less money to be a Chicago cumpany
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 4: I was offered two hundred from Saint Louis for ten
Speaker 4: uh sixteen, that was unheard of with no opt outs,
Speaker 4: and then and the full no trade, offered two hundred
Speaker 4: Nationals with Saint Louis.
Speaker 2: They made the last offer, Colonel Fans and then let's go.
Speaker 4: The Nationals with Dusty Baker was there, offered two hundred
Speaker 4: for eight or whatever. But as far as THEO goes,
Speaker 4: that was one of the I didn't go around, bro, Like,
Speaker 4: I kind of did the thing that I've always done,
Speaker 4: just stay low key, wait to see how things play out.
Speaker 4: I'm twenty six years old, so I know at the worst, Bro, like,
Speaker 4: I'm going somewhere somebody's gonna pay me some kind of
Speaker 4: money and I have a chance to like keep going
Speaker 4: trying to win.
Speaker 2: But everything just lined up. You know.
Speaker 4: It was like, Bro, we played against you guys here
Speaker 4: in fifteen last series between Cards Cubs at Brickley, Who
Speaker 4: and so we took two out of three in Saint Louis,
Speaker 4: Like the Saint Louis side we won the first two,
Speaker 4: but the last one Cubbies won. I remember leaving the
Speaker 4: visiting locker room, getting on the bus headed to the airport.
Speaker 2: No police escort. That's a big thing.
Speaker 1: Shout out VJ.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: And as we're headed towards Urban Park, I was like,
Speaker 4: wait a minute, bro, Like we just won the series
Speaker 4: here two out of three, and it feels like they
Speaker 4: just won the damn series.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's placed rocks Man.
Speaker 2: So those things are what sold me naturally.
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Speaker 4: you talk about being a part of the regular culture
Speaker 4: the city, seeing Cubs logos everywhere on everything like those
Speaker 4: are things that I got to experience as I got
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Speaker 3: I remember so every visiting player used to come here.
Speaker 3: They used to be like, man, I don't know how
Speaker 3: you do all these day games. I think you've said
Speaker 3: it to me too, But then when you get to Chicago,
Speaker 3: when you play the day games, you don't understand. I
Speaker 3: never understood what anyone was talking about. And then I
Speaker 3: got traded to New York and the day games there were.
Speaker 3: Then I immediately realized what every visitor used to say
Speaker 3: to me. I don't know how they did all those
Speaker 3: day games because it was just a different day game
Speaker 3: in New York compared to Chicago. We're here, it's like,
Speaker 3: you play the day game, you're out by five thirty,
Speaker 3: You got family in town, you get to be a
Speaker 3: normal person. You can go to dinner nice when I
Speaker 3: was younger. When I was younger, it was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's great. You know, if you go out, you can
Speaker 3: go home by you know, eleven or twelve. Come to
Speaker 3: find out, no, you just start earlier. Still at the
Speaker 3: same time, right, yeah, So I think that kind of
Speaker 3: went against In.
Speaker 5: The boat days, we talked about like, I mean, we
Speaker 5: can get into just how generous you've been, and we'll
Speaker 5: get into that with with so much of of your
Speaker 5: fortune that you were able to make in this game
Speaker 5: and treating other people, but taking us out on your
Speaker 5: boat for.
Speaker 1: Those day games and having like team.
Speaker 5: We did a lot of team camaraderie of the off
Speaker 5: the field, and it was because of like you and
Speaker 5: Johnny Lester and guys that was like going out with
Speaker 5: Riz and just we did a lot of fun stuff
Speaker 5: off the field that was was really really valuable.
Speaker 2: But before we.
Speaker 5: Forget Atlanta, I've got to bring up I'll.
Speaker 1: Call it the cup bump. All right, cup call, there's
Speaker 1: another word, costar, you can say.
Speaker 2: It's his show, he can say it.
Speaker 5: So we had this thing and we're watching Dusty Baker
Speaker 5: on MLB Network, watching him them talking by him in
Speaker 5: inventing the high five, and I'm in the lock We're
Speaker 5: all in the locker room. I'm like, he invented the
Speaker 5: high five. I want to invent something cool. And I
Speaker 5: was like, what about the cock bump and cup bump up?
Speaker 5: And Ugler was like, I was like, if we go deep,
Speaker 5: I want I want somebody else.
Speaker 1: We're touching cups. Sure enough is the one who hits
Speaker 1: the first home run and his eyes were this big
Speaker 1: looking for me.
Speaker 2: He watched it him.
Speaker 1: That's when it started, and we started the cup bump.
Speaker 5: But then Jay Hay coming over in sixteen, we're on
Speaker 5: a bus ride and he leans over to me.
Speaker 1: His ROSSI what happened to the what happened to the
Speaker 1: cup bump? The cock bump? And I'm like, we need
Speaker 1: to bring that back, don't we He's like absolutely, And
Speaker 1: that's how that all started.
Speaker 5: And then we watched my home run in Game seven,
Speaker 5: and I watched that highlight every once in a while
Speaker 5: when it pops up, and it's just like.
Speaker 1: I'm just cockbuff and everything it was, it was, it
Speaker 1: was fun.
Speaker 5: I wanted to I had to bring that up because
Speaker 5: you were the one that brought that back over here.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 4: It's so funny because sometimes I'll see the highlight of
Speaker 4: your homwerk and then it gets to like right where
Speaker 4: he's about to get to me on deck and they're
Speaker 4: like they'll.
Speaker 2: Bleep it out. I'm like, I know, I know why
Speaker 2: they bleep that out.
Speaker 5: You're the first one I saw walking in after home
Speaker 5: run and you were looking at me like we're doing
Speaker 5: this boom so good.
Speaker 3: There's nothing better then. There's nothing better than in a
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Speaker 3: I know the story. I know this story behind your
Speaker 3: number is special to you. I know you've told the
Speaker 3: story before, But can you explain why number twenty two
Speaker 3: you wore out your whole career for the most part.
Speaker 4: Yeah, bro, I appreciate your guys asking about it, and
Speaker 4: I haven't tatted here on my neck. One of my
Speaker 4: high school teammates, Andy will Mott, he's UH from Middle Tennessee.
Speaker 4: He was a senior. He was junior. Sorry the girl
Speaker 4: we want to stay together. I was a sophomore, but
Speaker 4: my senior year he came back from UH school, came
Speaker 4: to our homecoming football game, saw his mom. His mom
Speaker 4: was one of my teachers, and she was beloved throughout
Speaker 4: the whole community. She was like team mom of the
Speaker 4: whole school, Miss Tammy Rushting. And we find out the
Speaker 4: Monday morning on his way back, he gets in the
Speaker 4: car accident, passes away, and I just remember, like the
Speaker 4: whole baseball team coming together alone first in the cafeteria,
Speaker 4: and I mean, these are things you can't make up,
Speaker 4: like the feelings that that brought and how it brought
Speaker 4: us down. But immediately we wanted to all rush together
Speaker 4: be supportive of her. And I remember going back to
Speaker 4: her classroom every day whenever I was walking through to
Speaker 4: another class like, hey, how are you good to see you?
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: When I graduated, I would come back. I would go
Speaker 4: to her classroom, sitting there like talk crap the summer.
Speaker 4: Her students feel like, hey, like, y'all better be nice
Speaker 4: to her. If not, she's going to tell me and
Speaker 4: so on. So that was routine. So once I found
Speaker 4: out I was going to be number twenty two with Atlanta,
Speaker 4: Nate mccloth had number twenty four. He'll be trained over
Speaker 4: from the Pirates, and I remember Ben Benn. Yeah, after
Speaker 4: Ben Akrey coming up to me in the clubhouse in
Speaker 4: Orlando's like, hey, Jay, like, I know you've been twenty four,
Speaker 4: you're a hoker and from high school, but are you
Speaker 4: cool with twenty two? I'm like absolutely, Oh wow. I'm
Speaker 4: like it's you know what, it's perfect. And so driving
Speaker 4: up from spring training, our first season opener was in
Speaker 4: was in Atlanta April fifth, and I stopped through Henry County,
Speaker 4: go by the high school. My fall league jersey was
Speaker 4: also number twenty two. And so if you do fall
Speaker 4: league right, like, you get the major league replica jersey.
Speaker 4: I was like, she's going to get the first one
Speaker 4: before I even get one.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: So I walk in the classroom tell her nobody else
Speaker 4: knew my number at the time, right because you keep
Speaker 4: it a secret. And I handed to her and I'm like,
Speaker 4: I want you to have this, and she just broke down.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's incredible.
Speaker 1: But that's that's nice.
Speaker 2: That's how it came about.
Speaker 4: And she had the first jersey walking in before they
Speaker 4: started the sales and like the fifth inning or whatever.
Speaker 4: So that's that's the story. I want her to do
Speaker 4: something in memory of Andy. Do it for her and
Speaker 4: then everybody else in Herrick County. They knew Andy so well.
Speaker 4: I appreciate you guys asking.
Speaker 1: Me, of course.
Speaker 3: I mean Jay Hay always was so generous for us.
Speaker 3: And we talk about all the guys on the team
Speaker 3: that were generous, right Lester Lackey, Jay being twenty six
Speaker 3: years old, being a massive veteran on our team with
Speaker 3: deep pockets, which which definitely help. But every every year,
Speaker 3: for the most part, every opening Day. I think Lester
Speaker 3: may have done this first, and then you you did it?
Speaker 3: Would you get us iPads one year? The new computers
Speaker 3: and Apple.
Speaker 5: Comparisers still have I tell the story my son, my
Speaker 5: son has stolen them. But the Apple the Apple earphones.
Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody, when you're when you're super pro in the
Speaker 3: big leagues, on opening Day, you'll buy all the boys
Speaker 3: gifts kind of wishing them, Hey, here's cheers. Do a
Speaker 3: good season year in and year out. That's that stuff
Speaker 3: adds up. But you always did it. And even today
Speaker 3: I see Jay today, haven't seen him in a while.
Speaker 3: We're both Arsenal fans soccer, fans football. They just won
Speaker 3: the Premier League twenty twenty six Champions one two years
Speaker 3: and Jayy, out of the kindness of his heart, gives
Speaker 3: me a nice little Premier League championship with a bottle
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Speaker 4: I appreciate it. Yeah, I appreciate it. Yeah, we're celebrating though.
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Speaker 4: fake it. So just happy, happy to do it well.
Speaker 5: And so that just leads me into it's so funny
Speaker 5: how these things just kind of walk themselves. You signed
Speaker 5: with the Cubs, you get all that money. I get
Speaker 5: a text from.
Speaker 3: DJ says, DJ's are traveling having secretary.
Speaker 5: That's that's that's in the Show's the show that says, Hey,
Speaker 5: mister Hayward's taking care of your room on the road
Speaker 5: all year long.
Speaker 1: He's given you a suite so you can enjoy your
Speaker 1: last year with the family.
Speaker 5: And I'm like, wait, what I do you even know?
Speaker 1: Like, huh, what what do you mean?
Speaker 5: And he goes, he goes, I'm just I'm just doing
Speaker 5: what mister Hayward said. So I call him, man, what
Speaker 5: a cool one, what a cool idea. And then you
Speaker 5: took care of me and Eric Hinsky for a suite
Speaker 5: on the road my last year, and I was able
Speaker 5: to bring my family. I had one of the sickest rooms.
Speaker 5: We shared a room in Vegas. That was the two
Speaker 5: bedrooms we'd start the sixteenth season. Oh, it was ridiculous.
Speaker 5: But man, that was like the proesst of pros. Talking
Speaker 5: about how generous you are again with gifts and then
Speaker 5: just taking care of the people who you've been around
Speaker 5: and looked up to and it impacted your life was
Speaker 5: just like super cool. I still tell everybody that story
Speaker 5: all the time. It's like it's wild man.
Speaker 3: Backup catcher getting a suite on the road.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I could negotiate the I wouldn't give me one.
Speaker 1: That's all right. I got my man Jay hay taking
Speaker 1: care of me.
Speaker 4: No, But you talk about impacting someone's life, man, I'm
Speaker 4: twenty years old making my way into the big leagues.
Speaker 2: These are my college yeares.
Speaker 4: Right, yeah, no doubt, And I'm an adult playing for
Speaker 4: my hometown team. But I'm no longer at home like
Speaker 4: I'm at work, and so getting to have my locker
Speaker 4: next to yours, like show me every day, paying attention
Speaker 4: to detail how to be a pro. I got to
Speaker 4: see you fight for guys every damn day. But then
Speaker 4: on your day, we know how it is on his
Speaker 4: start day.
Speaker 2: No doubt. Get the fuck out of the way.
Speaker 3: Angry, I'm angry. So I only signed two your deals.
Speaker 1: As I said, you just signed to your deals because
Speaker 1: your clubhouse cancer segond.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 5: I just again, I look back on that and what
Speaker 5: a great ride my last year was obviously, and you
Speaker 5: guys carrying me off the field and what I mean,
Speaker 5: that's the coolest moment ever. And we'll get to that,
Speaker 5: but like just that year in general, and how special,
Speaker 5: like each person is a piece, right.
Speaker 1: We talked about Decks and Johnny and all.
Speaker 5: The guys, like everybody matters, Lackey, Leicester Areata, just so
Speaker 5: many great dudes on that team and we're all brothers
Speaker 5: for life. But like it was stuff like that that
Speaker 5: separated this team that I've I've been on and able
Speaker 5: to be a part of the special dudes, what.
Speaker 3: Were your first impressions signing? Because you signed Cubs convention.
Speaker 3: We all went out, right, I remember all us all
Speaker 3: going out, So what was your first because I had
Speaker 3: a charity event, right, we did the laugh off for cancer,
Speaker 3: and then we all went out afterwards, and I remember
Speaker 3: you came with us, and I was pumped because we're
Speaker 3: the same age. My job on the team was to
Speaker 3: always make everyone feel welcome as fast as possible, and
Speaker 3: you're the big free agent, so it was like I
Speaker 3: was pumped, bro right away.
Speaker 4: I knew talking about like making people feel comfortable and
Speaker 4: feel welcome, like you brought that vibe, bro, Like it's
Speaker 4: very comfortable. Like for me when I saw Tony every
Speaker 4: day at the field, I'm like, nah, like this is
Speaker 4: the cobbies right here, Like these are the vibes, this
Speaker 4: is Chicago, and you wore that on your sleeves.
Speaker 1: That's what I tell him, right, you can't have a
Speaker 1: bad time around Tony.
Speaker 2: You can't have a bad time around Tony. Even when
Speaker 2: he's having a bad time, when.
Speaker 4: He's taking front of him, you still can't have a
Speaker 4: bad time around him. But I love that you asked
Speaker 4: this because My impression is we go to your chariot
Speaker 4: event after Cubs Convention, getting welcomed by the fans and
Speaker 4: everything like that, like you felt the momentum. But then
Speaker 4: we go to dinner, one of the best show dinners
Speaker 4: you're ever gonna have, get to sit down and talk
Speaker 4: with the boys, get to like lock up with Swarves
Speaker 4: a little bit, talk outfield stuff and like sword just like,
Speaker 4: I'm pumped, Bro, we got you, we got you. We
Speaker 4: got you in the outfield. Bro, Like I'm super pumped
Speaker 4: to have you, and I'm like, thank you, Bro, I
Speaker 4: appreciate it. But stuff's coming at me fast. Of course,
Speaker 4: we go out. We're all in suits and stuff, right,
Speaker 4: we're looking sharp. They'll dap it up. We have our
Speaker 4: own section at this club. But people are still like
Speaker 4: coming through like foldo videos. Yes, and I remember, but
Speaker 4: that was the first time I had been out where
Speaker 4: it's like, yeah, it doesn't matter, like we're good bro,
Speaker 4: like THEO whoever, Like they don't care.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember, I remember I said that too.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. Yeah, we're getting ready to
Speaker 4: do something special. We're gonna go out here. We're gonna
Speaker 4: go like as far as we can into the postseason.
Speaker 4: We need to show up every day and try to win.
Speaker 4: That's all they care about. But like to put a
Speaker 4: bowl on this. We go out, we party hard, we
Speaker 4: have fun. The next morning, waking up, I look at Instagram,
Speaker 4: I see sports Center has posted the caption your twenty
Speaker 4: sixteen World Series Champs. No way, and above that is
Speaker 4: a photo of all of us out that night. I'm like, bro,
Speaker 4: there's no way that made like Instagram sports Center right now,
Speaker 4: it's January January fifteen, sixteen. Yeah, so, like those were
Speaker 4: our vibes, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Like we've been talking about that every every episode. Those
Speaker 3: were the vibes. Oh in the spring training it set
Speaker 3: the tone.
Speaker 1: Wow, well that was it?
Speaker 5: Like what so now you you meet the boys and
Speaker 5: then now you're pumped to go in spring training? Like
Speaker 5: what was your first impressions of Joe and the and
Speaker 5: the group as a whole. Obviously we love Mesa and
Speaker 5: Sloan Park and all that, but like Bussy Bussy the
Speaker 5: whole skit.
Speaker 4: There was someone to cover every detail of whatever they
Speaker 4: needed to be right, whether it's like all right, we
Speaker 4: need to step up a little bit more, we need
Speaker 4: to chill the fuck out a little bit more, Joe.
Speaker 4: Sometimes Joe'd be like, why you guys getn't here so early?
Speaker 4: It makes no sense?
Speaker 1: You know what it is great now you're right, you're right.
Speaker 4: But we'd be like, no, bro, like we care, we
Speaker 4: want to I know you care, you know, but like
Speaker 4: it was just nice to have those kind of voices
Speaker 4: of reason. But then lastly, like playing at Sloan Park,
Speaker 4: they wanted you to get him in on second with
Speaker 4: a double nobody out, We need you to get him over,
Speaker 4: and we needed a guy on the guy on third
Speaker 4: to score from like a ground ball somewhere or side fly.
Speaker 4: In spring training game one, we're expecting ABC Baseball. We
Speaker 4: need to win today at Sloan Park. Yeah, those were
Speaker 4: new vibes for me, and like it was, it was
Speaker 4: it was a cool way to be like, nah, like
Speaker 4: we're trying to do this.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Do you at what point though, did you really realize
Speaker 3: we had a good team from day one to spring
Speaker 3: training or was there something? Because I mean spring training
Speaker 3: every team thinks they're good, right, we obviously had a
Speaker 3: lot of momentum. We beat you guys in fifteen to
Speaker 3: get even more momentum we sign you was it spring training?
Speaker 3: Was there a game early on in the regular season
Speaker 3: that you felt something different or that it was just
Speaker 3: survived the whole time.
Speaker 4: I look at everything like it's one season, always like
Speaker 4: I can't help it, gifting a curse. But no, I
Speaker 4: just felt like every variable, every hurdle we came through
Speaker 4: challenge with all right, Bro, so what we lost today?
Speaker 4: Are all right, guys, we're down five, so what And
Speaker 4: the other teams would see us be that way, laughing
Speaker 4: through our struggles. We'd come back, win, win, six'. Five
Speaker 4: we're up by three going into the, eighth we went
Speaker 4: fucking by. Ten we never stopped playing the. Game we
Speaker 4: never stopped having, fun like correcting each, other and So,
Speaker 4: bro all those moments like we would, fight we would,
Speaker 4: argue AND i very much so felt LIKE i was
Speaker 4: on like one of my travel teams growing, up because
Speaker 4: it was, Like, bro three two, count we're locked arms
Speaker 4: in the, dugout no matter if we're like just like figured.
Speaker 3: Out we were just on the, base on the, base
Speaker 3: like for them to get on the base. Manifested, yeah, man,
Speaker 3: Yeah so.
Speaker 4: All those, things all those little, details like no, shit
Speaker 4: they counted it, mattered but on a daily, basis how
Speaker 4: that not, Bro like there's nowhere Else i'd rather be right,
Speaker 4: now AND i was struggling right on the offensive time
Speaker 4: and not making it about, me but like those, things
Speaker 4: focusing on, winning focusing on having, fun and like moving
Speaker 4: through the tough times and laughing at them and saying,
Speaker 4: no like we got something to, do we got somewhere
Speaker 4: to be that made it the.
Speaker 5: Best that's what looking back and obviously knowing in the moment,
Speaker 5: Too but LIKE i think one thing that stands out
Speaker 5: to your teammates that have been around you is like
Speaker 5: you never took your offense to defense or your struggles
Speaker 5: offense into the dugout or into the.
Speaker 1: Clubhouse like you came to win every day with the
Speaker 1: mindset of.
Speaker 5: Like i'm here to come to, Work i'm here to
Speaker 5: help everybody get. Better i'm here to do my, part
Speaker 5: AND i want to win baseball, games whether it's not
Speaker 5: about me like you, said like, statistically BUT i do
Speaker 5: know you as a person and being able to manage
Speaker 5: you and all, That like you put a lot of
Speaker 5: pressure on. Yourself it had to be hard coming in
Speaker 5: with like a hundred you know that much money coming
Speaker 5: your way and again another moment where you know you
Speaker 5: carry a Little it's not LIKE kb had a set
Speaker 5: of expectations that he you, know that he dealt with
Speaker 5: and put a lot of pressure on. Himself you had it,
Speaker 5: Differently AND i saw it In john in his first,
Speaker 5: year like it's hard coming into a new place with
Speaker 5: that much money and.
Speaker 1: Everybody expected you to go deep four.
Speaker 5: Times a, game, Right, like tell, me, how tell me
Speaker 5: how hard that was on the back end of your
Speaker 5: career after so much success early on in his, career
Speaker 5: he went through some. Struggles you, KNOW i TALK i
Speaker 5: think about sixteen and everybody.
Speaker 1: Mattered but the fact.
Speaker 5: Of like how you carried yourself through the, STRUGGLES i
Speaker 5: thought was like spoke volumes to who you are and
Speaker 5: that most people know you.
Speaker 4: Well the name of the game is how you handle.
Speaker 4: Failure you're going to fail more times than, not and
Speaker 4: for us as baseball, players like that can be very,
Speaker 4: cliche BUT i knew how to handle.
Speaker 2: It hated. It but moving past, that, bro, like how was?
Speaker 4: It it was like having the Biggest rubik's qub in
Speaker 4: the world and just every day trying to figure everything
Speaker 4: his baseball, everything and because of the variable for, me
Speaker 4: it was, new like to have so many day. Games
Speaker 4: this is the third new city three years in a,
Speaker 4: row going From Atlanta Saint louis To chicago and leaving the,
Speaker 4: Field i'm, like all, Right i'm going, Home like we
Speaker 4: just had a.
Speaker 2: Game i'm going. Home we got a game. Tomorrow But i'm,
Speaker 2: like wait a, Minute like the sun's still. Out you
Speaker 2: know it rained. Earlier now it's. Beautiful it's, Amazing LIKE
Speaker 2: i need to figure, out like What i'm going to.
Speaker 4: Eat there's a billion great restaurants to pick, from but,
Speaker 4: like but where DO i?
Speaker 2: Go how DO i do?
Speaker 3: It like all little, things all human elements that you're
Speaker 3: getting east to new, city new, people new, faces, names
Speaker 3: literally everything.
Speaker 4: Everything so like those things along the, Way i'm, like, yeah,
Speaker 4: bro it's a. Lot BUT i knew there was. QUIT
Speaker 4: i knew we're going to do our best to. Win
Speaker 4: and that's just, Me like how DO i move past?
Speaker 4: It trying to win and sometimes right too Hard and
Speaker 4: if you live like, that we know how it's going to.
Speaker 2: Go like you don't get a lot of good.
Speaker 4: Results so that that kind of lined up that way for,
Speaker 4: Me LIKE i, said gift and a, curse you can
Speaker 4: be trying to. Win you can want to win so.
Speaker 4: Badly but, yeah obviously like base running club house sometimes
Speaker 4: getting some big knocks there because of our lineup being
Speaker 4: so so well put. Together like every a bat was
Speaker 4: a bigger, bat you know What i'm. Saying like that's another,
Speaker 4: Thing like everya bat's a bigger. Bat like that's that's
Speaker 4: a new. Thing like regardless of how much money you're, making,
Speaker 4: bro like if you're playing on a team that actually
Speaker 4: legitimately expects to, Win like these are different, vibes so
Speaker 4: like so all, new.
Speaker 5: But but it never matters how much money you, make
Speaker 5: like that's the product of the, success like moving, Forwards
Speaker 5: LIKE i don't get in the, box.
Speaker 1: Go, Oh i'm. CHILL i got plenty of.
Speaker 3: Money, no it only it only matters when you get a.
Speaker 1: DINNER i get all the, free, free free.
Speaker 3: Meals SO i like being being one of the guys
Speaker 3: on the, team, right being the, leader young leader like you,
Speaker 3: were like we were when You what you have to
Speaker 3: learn in the big leagues is when we're winning like we,
Speaker 3: Were AND i learned this in twenty fifteen and then
Speaker 3: sixteen and. On when we win and you don't do well,
Speaker 3: personally you have to man up and go into that
Speaker 3: clubhouse and legitimately be happy for your other teammates to
Speaker 3: have good. Games and on the other, side you need
Speaker 3: to also realize that if you have a good, game
Speaker 3: you can't be the raw raw guy because there's three
Speaker 3: or four guys that didn't have a good, game Right
Speaker 3: but like, that.
Speaker 2: Nobody like that.
Speaker 3: Guy guy is the worst guy because they're so happy
Speaker 3: if they get a, hit and if they don't get a,
Speaker 3: hit they're down in the. Dumps and it's just it's
Speaker 3: such a long. Season but you were so good at,
Speaker 3: that and looking back now and talking about you taught
Speaker 3: me that because WHENEVER i would not have a good game,
Speaker 3: PERSONALLY i would literally lean on the guys who had
Speaker 3: a good game to cheer me up. Personally and that's
Speaker 3: what makes a winning team because a lot of, teams
Speaker 3: they'll come in and be like they'll. Winning you guys
Speaker 3: aren't doing. Well those guys kind of bad, eggs and
Speaker 3: it's on the good guys to uplift the entire.
Speaker 1: Team where do you feel like that comes?
Speaker 5: From like, you you obviously LIKE i know you're, here but,
Speaker 5: everybody your reputation everywhere you've Been you're loved by. Everybody
Speaker 5: you're the proest of. Pros like where did you learn?
Speaker 5: That your your mom and, DAD i know are special
Speaker 5: you know watching them be around when you came, up
Speaker 5: and they're special humans as, Well but like where do
Speaker 5: you think you learned.
Speaker 1: Just you're just so.
Speaker 5: Probo you're always thinking about others and you put yourself,
Speaker 5: second which is like not always a case with.
Speaker 4: Superstars you, know first, off my parents managers will take
Speaker 4: you where money. Won't that was like big in the,
Speaker 4: house earn everything that comes.
Speaker 1: From manners will take you where money.
Speaker 2: Money will not take. You, obviously the other cliche.
Speaker 4: Like like it's not always like what you know who you?
Speaker 4: Know but, no, Bro since eight years, Old i've been
Speaker 4: taught how to play the game right, way And i've
Speaker 4: seen that play out over and over again with winning,
Speaker 4: baseball and we won The Roberto Clement Taybor World series
Speaker 4: as the McDonough dodgers seven and.
Speaker 2: Eighteen then we went.
Speaker 4: Into like travel ball at nine years, old played in
Speaker 4: all these kind of, Tournaments Super, SERIES aau and so.
Speaker 4: On then you talk about getting To East cobb winning
Speaker 4: a state. Championship he was the best player ever you, Win,
Speaker 4: Bro like sophomore ye first, round so that was the
Speaker 4: first round and we don't know, nothing you know WHAT i?
Speaker 4: Mean but it was all those things for me came
Speaker 4: from loving, practice loving the, game and then WHEN i
Speaker 4: got to the, GAME i was, like oh this is you,
Speaker 4: know we've already been over, This like now just go,
Speaker 4: play just go have, fun like you're always playing to.
Speaker 4: Win And i've been on so many teams in the
Speaker 4: big leagues where every game it counted for. Something and
Speaker 4: the first TIME i remember the first TIME i stepped
Speaker 4: on the field in twenty fourteen With Atlanta, braves it
Speaker 4: was like the last week and half of the season
Speaker 4: that we weren't playing for.
Speaker 2: ANYTHING i was, like what are we?
Speaker 4: DOING i did not like, it and so as on
Speaker 4: the back end of my, career like began to appreciate
Speaker 4: and respect.
Speaker 2: That But, BRO i just cared about. WINNING i cared about.
Speaker 4: OTHERS i cared about the, details like the hard work
Speaker 4: the catchers put, in the relievers put, in like guys
Speaker 4: that are grinding trying to figure things, Out like all
Speaker 4: the attention comes your way when people think About Kyle,
Speaker 4: cubbs Like Tony, rizzo how Did rizzo do?
Speaker 1: Today?
Speaker 2: Right, Oh like Did rizzo come? Through Did rizzo?
Speaker 4: Failed same WITH, kb like being a big superstar, Rookie
Speaker 4: Like i've been, there done, That Like hobby trying to
Speaker 4: figure things, Out Johnny lester being him lack like all these, details,
Speaker 4: bro Like i've seen play out in different roles in
Speaker 4: my lifetime in. Baseball i'm just, like, nah, like just
Speaker 4: make sure everybody else is. GOOD i Know i'm gonna be, good,
Speaker 4: right make sure everybody else is good and we're gonna.
Speaker 1: Roll it's a unique. Quality is it's such a such
Speaker 1: a good.
Speaker 3: Quality did you have a did you have a time
Speaker 3: in sixteen where you're, like what the fuck are we?
Speaker 3: Doing from like From joe from The circus AS i
Speaker 3: would pull from Me Dexter rossy going at or clubhouse
Speaker 3: stuff where you're ever just, like what are we doing?
Speaker 2: Here every?
Speaker 1: Day and.
Speaker 2: Every every day is a good?
Speaker 3: Answer every good, answer good, answer good answer.
Speaker 4: To like when we were At Cubs con this year
Speaker 4: earlier and we had that dinner AND i was telling you,
Speaker 4: guys like, genuinely thank you for showing me how to
Speaker 4: have fun playing this, game because it's not the night,
Speaker 4: shift it's the day shift right coming here To wrigley
Speaker 4: and then enjoying the, city enjoying your, life like which
Speaker 4: are all things THAT i think are very important to
Speaker 4: talk about, me like Making chicago. Home But i'm, like all, right,
Speaker 4: Bro like we've got guys TAKING bp before a day.
Speaker 4: Game we've guys got not TAKING. Bp we got guys
Speaker 4: taking a. Nap we've got guys eating in the dugout
Speaker 4: in the third. Inning we've got guys eating. In it's
Speaker 4: a legit, circus, Bro no Dou like SOMETIME i was
Speaker 4: a nap. Guy by the, WAY i became a nap. Guy,
Speaker 4: yeah you, know like didn't KNOW i needed. IT i needed,
Speaker 4: It and so there's a, reason like things started to trend,
Speaker 4: up but you had to figure out your. Place but,
Speaker 4: like well there's so many, things like all the times
Speaker 4: we got together and met, up yeah after the, game
Speaker 4: like with with not just the, players with, everyone whether it's,
Speaker 4: families your, girlfriend people's. Dogs like we had dolls on the.
Speaker 4: Plane we had dolls on the show. Plane that's the thing.
Speaker 5: So, well and you talk ABOUT i Think joe facilitated
Speaker 5: a lot of.
Speaker 1: That we had the guys that did, it.
Speaker 5: But joe kind of kind of led us to be,
Speaker 5: like you need a life outside of, baseball like turn
Speaker 5: off when you leave this place and have some. Fun
Speaker 5: we had so many great charity events when those years
Speaker 5: were here with, You, Lester, joe like, everybody we had,
Speaker 5: big a lot of big charity events where we celebrated
Speaker 5: and had fun off the.
Speaker 1: Field let's get to some playoff. Talk, Please let's get
Speaker 1: to some playoff, talk, RIGHT i mean the, fun the fun.
Speaker 5: Stuff the year, ends, right we clench and we know
Speaker 5: we're good going Into you know we're. Good you know
Speaker 5: what was it like going in to the postseason for?
Speaker 5: You FOR i, mean you had been to the postseason
Speaker 5: number of.
Speaker 3: TIMES i don't think you had made it out of
Speaker 3: the first round right.
Speaker 4: Right, There that's WHAT i was gonna. Say, YEAH i
Speaker 4: hadn't been to the, playoffs made it out of the first.
Speaker 4: Round knows his teammates hadn't made it past the first
Speaker 4: round until The covees been to the. Postseason damn near
Speaker 4: every year hadn't been pasted the first. Round BUT i
Speaker 4: really remember this about the day we are like our
Speaker 4: last regular season, game but we were down. Big somehow
Speaker 4: we come back Like joe does like kind of a line,
Speaker 4: change get some guys in the, game and, bro we
Speaker 4: come back and win like by like six AND i,
Speaker 4: REMEMBER i THINK i can't. Remember it was like The
Speaker 4: reds whoever we were, playing and their dugouts just looking at, us, like,
Speaker 4: bro like what are they? Doing you know What i'm, Saying, Like,
Speaker 4: bro we were won one hundred and two games at the,
Speaker 4: time that was our one hundred and third, win and
Speaker 4: it's just, like, bro like y'all didn't even have to
Speaker 4: like play right. Now we just fucking, nope we got a.
Speaker 4: Game this is this is our ship as, usual and
Speaker 4: it was, business you know What i'm. Saying but then
Speaker 4: like getting into the, postseason it was a different feel
Speaker 4: in the sense of a game like you're picked to,
Speaker 4: win we go get chapping in the, deadline and you're
Speaker 4: up in the division by twelve. Games thirteen, games.
Speaker 1: Like you're the best striking baseball a, year, right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely. Yeah so just seeing everything play.
Speaker 4: Out you talked About San Francisco, giants you, know Facing. Cuato,
Speaker 4: obviously remember the hobby game ONE o eight. Off the
Speaker 4: bat barely gets in the basket unless.
Speaker 1: Like it should have been On waveland and it pictures
Speaker 1: dues in the, basket.
Speaker 4: Right so like getting something bass early in those games for,
Speaker 4: me LIKE i think it was like one for four,
Speaker 4: game but Like hobby AND i doing, something and then
Speaker 4: like setting the table a little bit for the top
Speaker 4: of the, lineup like you guys doing your. Thing but
Speaker 4: it was just like it doesn't matter what you. Did,
Speaker 4: Bro like all year it was the ball one going our.
Speaker 4: Way fans like, yeah but then the postseason it was
Speaker 4: like ball. One, yeah everything is you know What i'm, Saying,
Speaker 4: like so just just getting chills along the. Way and then,
Speaker 4: lastly like giants first, round.
Speaker 2: Believe in, right every even year my whole. Career, yeah
Speaker 2: won The World series, Yep oh that shit's. Real then
Speaker 2: getting To la.
Speaker 4: Yep well we went back To cali like the big,
Speaker 4: franchise getting it done in six games against. Them i'm,
Speaker 4: like all, right like we just knocked off two giants
Speaker 4: in this. Sport and then last year we Had cleveland
Speaker 4: like nobody took for, granted but we all know how that.
Speaker 2: WENT i won't get too far.
Speaker 3: Head it wasn't names like you're talking, About but was
Speaker 3: it looking back, now was it hard for you personally
Speaker 3: to enjoy this? Selfishly success when you weren't having the
Speaker 3: success that you were accustomed, to because it didn't seem
Speaker 3: like it as a as a. Teammate but you never
Speaker 3: know what's going on. Inside someone could be paddling like a,
Speaker 3: duck you know WHAT i. Mean so because it never
Speaker 3: seemed that you were ever, selfish but it's it's hard
Speaker 3: not to be selfish when you're not hitting your own.
Speaker 4: EXPECTATIONS i think it taught me a lot about needing
Speaker 4: to be more selfish at times and then like getting
Speaker 4: into it, again like third organization in my young. Career
Speaker 4: Like atlanta has a different type of, Structure Saint louis
Speaker 4: has a different type of, structure but like the culture
Speaker 4: here was what it needed to be to manage the day,
Speaker 4: games to manage like the national nationally televised, games to
Speaker 4: manage how much we get together and how much we,
Speaker 4: do like how you're gonna. Function SO i had to
Speaker 4: learn all that stuff and then put it. Together but
Speaker 4: as far as enjoying, It, no this is WHAT i asked,
Speaker 4: for and like that's one thing That i'm always gonna,
Speaker 4: Do Like i'm not gonna make an, excuse not gonna regret,
Speaker 4: Anything LIKE i wanted to win The World, series and
Speaker 4: so with that amount of, Sacrifice, Bro like this is
Speaker 4: what it looks. Like not saying, that like my numbers are,
Speaker 4: results but like, not, like this is how hard it.
Speaker 4: Is here you, are you have an opportunity to do.
Speaker 4: It so go figure it. Out go figure it. Out
Speaker 4: you got a, Team you've got the group to do.
Speaker 4: It nothing those things to be Worth.
Speaker 3: YEAH i mean we've all played with guys that aren't
Speaker 3: doesn't does not have this attribute as a, person you
Speaker 3: know WHAT i. Mean where it's it's so easy in
Speaker 3: baseball to be. Selfish it's so it's the easiest thing to,
Speaker 3: do and especially when you're so used to being An
Speaker 3: All star and hitting the way you. Hit your defenses
Speaker 3: never has always been a beauty base runn has always been.
Speaker 3: Great but where you're not playing your, expectations it's, like,
Speaker 3: man you can go into a hole and then on
Speaker 3: the other, side that's when the teammates need to come
Speaker 3: in to play the. Most where it's, like, no, bro
Speaker 3: this is like you, said like.
Speaker 5: WHEN i can relate to what you're talking about of,
Speaker 5: like sometimes you've got to be a little more. SELFISH
Speaker 5: i learned later in my career you, know you just
Speaker 5: want to, win but also it's, like, YEAH i want
Speaker 5: to keep playing.
Speaker 1: And hold up my end of the. BARGAIN i want
Speaker 1: to be there for the, boys you.
Speaker 5: Know AND i, know LIKE i always THOUGHT i was
Speaker 5: raised my parents is, great like be humble and just
Speaker 5: do your. Thing but also LIKE i always jealous of
Speaker 5: the guys were almost super.
Speaker 1: Cocked they always believed in, them you know WHAT i.
Speaker 5: Mean i'm, like you, know you'd be or you know
Speaker 5: some GUYS i was around just like zero for you, know,
Speaker 5: twelve and they're, Like i'm going deep.
Speaker 1: TODAY i know, it you know Where i'm, LIKE i
Speaker 1: am the worst, player you know WHAT i? Mean like
Speaker 1: that who that whole having a little bit of that
Speaker 1: selfish self.
Speaker 5: Confidence, uh sometimes it is hard hard to. Do so
Speaker 5: we go to The World, series, right we, clinch beat The,
Speaker 5: dodgers beat The, Boys game, six big. Party we're going
Speaker 5: in The World series and you find out you're not,
Speaker 5: starting you don't start games, one, two and. Three it
Speaker 5: was really cool to hear cognit story about him starting
Speaker 5: but also like his version of, like oh, god that
Speaker 5: Means Jay hayes starting right and talking about that you're,
Speaker 5: selfish like you're happier starting and you've been our guy
Speaker 5: right or, die and not one peep out of.
Speaker 1: You you were positive as. Hell like take me through
Speaker 1: dealing with that a little.
Speaker 5: BIT i mean that that you're the dude and you
Speaker 5: don't start in The world series LIKE i do want
Speaker 5: to kill, myself you, know, like.
Speaker 4: Hey it was metaphor, speaking no, no no, doubt like
Speaker 4: it was the real is real. SHIT i got a
Speaker 4: taste of it a little bit in The giant, series
Speaker 4: not starting. Whatever BUT i think there's one thing about
Speaker 4: That i've, learned especially like later into my, career people
Speaker 4: have a hard time telling me like real news sometimes
Speaker 4: because they got to be straighted with. Me they don't
Speaker 4: want to tell me bad, news, Right AND i appreciate.
Speaker 3: That probably because he's just such a good.
Speaker 5: Person but you know What i'm, saying that's the best
Speaker 5: and do not want to tell him, this WHICH i,
Speaker 5: Understand but at the same, TIME i, bro just just
Speaker 5: come tell, me, right SO i can like go do
Speaker 5: my job and like make sure everybody else is good,
Speaker 5: now like even more, so like lean into, that right
Speaker 5: as long as you know what's going on is kid
Speaker 5: so and this is not, AGAIN i like start off
Speaker 5: that way Because joe hadn't told, me hadn't talked to.
Speaker 5: Me the lineup kind of came out, late and we
Speaker 5: know the, game we know the, field we know each,
Speaker 5: other we.
Speaker 4: Spend a lot of time. Together i'm, like all, right
Speaker 4: like it's gonna. Happen i'm probably not starting because the
Speaker 4: line of man came out, Yet like we're about to
Speaker 4: go to the.
Speaker 2: Field get to the. Field line of man came.
Speaker 4: Out it comes, out and then the first PEOPLE i
Speaker 4: see are, reporters and they asked, me HAD i talked.
Speaker 2: To the manager?
Speaker 4: Yet And i'm, like, NO i, HAVEN'T i, said But
Speaker 4: i'm sure he's got a lot of shit to do right.
Speaker 4: Now the lineup is a lineup where our team we
Speaker 4: made it, here this Is game. One BUT i haven't
Speaker 4: talked to. HIM i can't lie to you and say,
Speaker 4: YEAH i spoke to him BECAUSE i didn't want to
Speaker 4: do that.
Speaker 1: Either so that's why you're pro because you also Have
Speaker 1: joe's back in a way where you're, LIKE i know he's.
Speaker 1: Busy we will, talk.
Speaker 4: Right but, like DO i deserve to have a conversation
Speaker 4: one hundred percent, sure like especially based on like HOW
Speaker 4: i show up every, day and that's on.
Speaker 1: Who you are in the.
Speaker 5: Game there's a status aspect of who you are in the,
Speaker 5: game your, time your. Contract like as much as that
Speaker 5: doesn't people say that should, matter it matters in the locker,
Speaker 5: room and it matters to communication with well it which
Speaker 5: Is i'm.
Speaker 6: Not giving not given a, rookie, right but even you,
Speaker 6: KNOW i mean you should get the rus Should i'm
Speaker 6: just saying like there's a little bit more. Leeway Barbi,
Speaker 6: cox did he no Doub, yeah which is surprising to.
Speaker 6: Hear you, KNOW i don't remember not talking To joe, first,
Speaker 6: Right i'm tied Up World. Series surprising here Because joe
Speaker 6: is usually pretty good at communicating, overall so he must
Speaker 6: have a lot of stuff going. On but the fact
Speaker 6: that you were so pro about it says, everything because,
Speaker 6: yeah we're in the First World. Series however many years
Speaker 6: we're trying to win, one one hundred and eight years
Speaker 6: not playing game. One really the first few games.
Speaker 3: For, us it was, Like, okay we're excited For, cogling
Speaker 3: right because we got him at the deadline and his
Speaker 3: whole full circle moment he got traded because we Signed
Speaker 3: decks and we were pumped for decks and Then coggan
Speaker 3: gets shipped. Out but at the same time it's, like,
Speaker 3: bro you're a, guy, Right so that was definitely hard
Speaker 3: for us on our side to dealing.
Speaker 1: WITH i think that's the hardest.
Speaker 5: Part like looking back at some of the managing time
Speaker 5: THAT i, had was, like, yeah like.
Speaker 1: One those conversations are, worse but you have to have.
Speaker 5: Them but, two it's like you get to this pinnacle
Speaker 5: moment and my instinct and HOW i was brought, UP
Speaker 5: i was, Like i'm riding with my, guys, Right you're
Speaker 5: riding with who brought, you you, know dance with the
Speaker 5: girls that brought.
Speaker 2: You SO.
Speaker 1: I, said, GIRLS i should probably say, girl right this
Speaker 1: one girl.
Speaker 3: Probably, yeah but, yeah you're here your.
Speaker 1: Daughters BUT i, mean, yeah, okay that's what it.
Speaker 5: Is AND i just, mean you, know you have that
Speaker 5: a little bit of like that or you're, like now
Speaker 5: it's like everybody just playing the hot hand and they're
Speaker 5: a little bit of.
Speaker 1: That and it is a lot to juggle juggle from From.
Speaker 5: Joe but you get in there, four five and six
Speaker 5: and seven and the boy the boys come.
Speaker 3: THROUGH i remember what it was the game for you two, hits, right,
Speaker 3: yeah Which. OBER i remember being fucking pumped because when
Speaker 3: you got in it was like because, heart, yeah, right
Speaker 3: like want your guys that have success and THAT i
Speaker 3: want To cogglin to have success. Too but you played
Speaker 3: one hundred and forty plus that, year right got you
Speaker 3: are right, fielder, right so as.
Speaker 5: A, Catcher i'm, Like i'm gonna Need i'm gonna need
Speaker 5: the stallion out and right you know it's got five gold.
Speaker 5: GLOVES i need that dude out there because, well your. Impact,
Speaker 5: also like we can look at numbers and all the,
Speaker 5: time but we, know, uh the intangibles that help a
Speaker 5: winning environment and always just offensive.
Speaker 3: Numbers, YEAH i think too looking back is like you,
Speaker 3: said maybe a rookie doesn't deserve, It but me, now
Speaker 3: looking back on my whole, CAREER i think every baseball
Speaker 3: player deserves the upmost the highest level of communication because
Speaker 3: it's such a mental game that you're playing and if
Speaker 3: you're not getting communicated with and as you get, older
Speaker 3: it's a lot. Easier again this is not about, me
Speaker 3: BUT i hit third every day AND i was playing first,
Speaker 3: base third or, fourth SO i never knew what communication
Speaker 3: looked like because IF i had a rare off, day
Speaker 3: they come and talk to.
Speaker 1: Me. Well decks even talked about.
Speaker 5: That joe gave, hit called him in and talked about, like,
Speaker 5: hey you're leading off every.
Speaker 1: Day, yea then it. Yeh let him let his guard.
Speaker 3: Down but guys that aren't and like you Take Matt
Speaker 3: caesar or or Ol more on our, teams, Right Coglin
Speaker 3: kawasaki not so much, cost but guys that are playing
Speaker 3: that think they should be playing a little bit more,
Speaker 3: Right and then if they play and they don't get
Speaker 3: hits and then they're not talked to, Them i'm not
Speaker 3: going to play the next day and send down to
Speaker 3: where that communication is so.
Speaker 5: Key so you're, RIGHT i MEAN i tried to you
Speaker 5: try to communicate with.
Speaker 1: EVERYBODY i.
Speaker 5: REALIZED i think one of the things we did well
Speaker 5: in sixteen was the young guys that were. There we,
Speaker 5: like we didn't we didn't raz anybody LIKE kb you
Speaker 5: know it all it was all fun, Love AND i
Speaker 5: think that's the best. Way the best Teams i've been
Speaker 5: on don't hate on the. Rookies they kind of like
Speaker 5: give them a hard. Time you get some some hazing type,
Speaker 5: stuff but, like for the most, part you need everybody
Speaker 5: to feel.
Speaker 3: Well we were all so similar in A i think
Speaker 3: our infield at the, time because we were twenty six
Speaker 3: going into that. Season i'm a year older Than, jay
Speaker 3: SO i used to he has a lot more service
Speaker 3: time than, me time time.
Speaker 2: Out he's a day a day.
Speaker 3: Older, SORRY i mean big, different big.
Speaker 2: Difference one.
Speaker 3: Day he has probably seven more years of peopleague service.
Speaker 3: Time BUT i used to always tell, hey, man respect your, elders.
Speaker 1: Always how much time do you? Have it was like,
Speaker 1: Fifteen he's, like, DANG i should have played another. YEAR
Speaker 1: i love that by having anything over.
Speaker 3: Him when we go down three to, one do you
Speaker 3: really think that we can come back deep?
Speaker 2: There? Why why?
Speaker 3: NOT i MEAN i thought the same, Thing but, bro,
Speaker 3: like what was your? FEELING i like to hearing everyone's, take.
Speaker 4: Because when we have our group on the, field all,
Speaker 4: right we took care of. Business we have fun doing. It, Like,
Speaker 4: bro we, Win we're, like all, RIGHT i know we.
Speaker 4: Celebrated we didn't take any win for, Granted BUT i was,
Speaker 4: like all, right, bro what are we doing?
Speaker 1: Later if we?
Speaker 2: Lost all, right the fuck are we doing? Later we
Speaker 2: got a game.
Speaker 4: Tomorrow, yeah that's what makes game seven game seven, obviously?
Speaker 4: Right but, No, bro LIKE i knew we had a
Speaker 4: chance to, win AND i always remember after game four we. Lose,
Speaker 4: here everybody's in their chairs in the locker. Room rossie's
Speaker 4: about to walk towards the. Bathroom he's, like, hey, man
Speaker 4: like like we won three games in a row before
Speaker 4: fuck and that was. It and everybody's, like, yeah brought that.
Speaker 4: Up let's, go, yeah let's, Go, yeah we've done. That,
Speaker 4: yeah well that was A i.
Speaker 5: DO i told this With, zobris but LIKE, I i
Speaker 5: remember THINKING i didn't get to play games three and.
Speaker 3: Four this is what happens to your selfish, player.
Speaker 1: Is about, me think about, me AND i couldn't.
Speaker 5: WAIT i knew my final game was, coming you, know
Speaker 5: and kind of was in the back of my, mind
Speaker 5: BUT i wanted to start A World series game At
Speaker 5: ryman feel like who wouldn't you know WHAT i? Mean
Speaker 5: and you, KNOW i was just thinking to.
Speaker 1: Myself, like you, know anybody would give their freaking left
Speaker 1: arm to be playing A World series game At Raby,
Speaker 1: Field like don't don't ruin my day. Tomorrow you, know
Speaker 1: cats a big left hand and here comes. Daddy but,
Speaker 1: YEAH i got that From. Pedroia he used to talk like.
Speaker 5: That but it Is it was a moment THAT I
Speaker 5: i'm GLAD i said that sometimes we save those things
Speaker 5: and so reminded me of. That it's, like, yeah, man
Speaker 5: LIKE i remember what made me think about saying. This
Speaker 5: somebody through their glove and the in a log or.
Speaker 5: Something BUT i was, me was, like, bro, like forget.
Speaker 5: It let's let's let's go. Tomorrow tomorrow's game five here At,
Speaker 5: wrigley this place canna be rocking.
Speaker 1: Again let's go get. It you, KNOW i think one
Speaker 1: of the coolest.
Speaker 3: THINGS i don't know if you knew, THIS i didn't
Speaker 3: know because we didn't have kids at the. Time after
Speaker 3: we Won game, Five, joe we stayed back right so
Speaker 3: all the families can treating because it Was. Halloween and
Speaker 3: if you know, that, YEAH i. Remember all the guys
Speaker 3: with kids really appreciated. That and that's again the human
Speaker 3: element That, joe in my, opinion was so good, at
Speaker 3: was letting us be dad's, first or family people, first
Speaker 3: and then we play.
Speaker 1: Baseball, yeah we go to work after you take care
Speaker 1: of the.
Speaker 5: FAMILY i remember WE i went over To dempster's house
Speaker 5: and he was all dressed up As Willie.
Speaker 1: Wonka AND i wore my swore bird sweatshirt that.
Speaker 5: HEAD i was like A schwarber, fan and the kids
Speaker 5: dressed up and we walked around people coming out of
Speaker 5: our houses like so pumped and thankful like.
Speaker 1: That that was.
Speaker 5: Good joe was so good about you, know making. It
Speaker 5: we'll plan the work schedule in the flight around our.
Speaker 1: Family that Was that was.
Speaker 2: Awesome that was.
Speaker 3: Unique speaking Of, shore how cool is that when he
Speaker 3: came back with a white series.
Speaker 4: Nice like it's it's, storable like obviously all all of the, Storybook,
Speaker 4: like no way in the world THAT i think this
Speaker 4: dude's going to be able to play again that. SEASON
Speaker 4: i saw him be here and get announced on an opening,
Speaker 4: day coming out on, Crutches like we know the we
Speaker 4: know how much it, matters we know what kind of
Speaker 4: threat he is in the. Box but there's no way
Speaker 4: in the WORD i thought he was gonna be able to.
Speaker 4: Play and then they're, like, nah he's GONNA pj From Fall,
Speaker 4: league the Fal.
Speaker 2: League to The World. Series i'm, saying, like who does?
Speaker 2: That nobody?
Speaker 3: Start nobody start right, away And i'm knock.
Speaker 1: RIGHT i hadn't seen pitches since freaking what Into March
Speaker 1: april Bro april, whatever that.
Speaker 4: Was but then also has to deal with the fact,
Speaker 4: that like the game's, here there's NO d, eight so
Speaker 4: he's not gonna, play you know What i'm, Saying like
Speaker 4: all that stuff combined with, Like, Okay i'm gonna play,
Speaker 4: Here i'm gonna get my. Chance you're talking about hoping
Speaker 4: you get another. Chance he's hoping he gets another. Chance,
Speaker 4: Right so like those three games here he didn't get to,
Speaker 4: play but like like the stuff he went through to
Speaker 4: be able to do, That i'm.
Speaker 5: Believe, Yeah game, Seven game, seven we've got to we
Speaker 5: Dominate game six and bro just the. Legendary you got
Speaker 5: to walk me. Through all, Right we're we're, Winning, rajer
Speaker 5: it's a home. Run we're all, Depressed like when is
Speaker 5: this famous? Speech when is it coming to? YOU i
Speaker 5: want you to walk me through your thoughts because you're
Speaker 5: a guy that rarely speaks up unless you really have
Speaker 5: something powerful to, say which is like a great leadership
Speaker 5: quality about. You you're all about the. Boys you're never
Speaker 5: dictating what everybody. Does but when you see something, wrong
Speaker 5: you call guys, out or if you see something that.
Speaker 1: Needs to be, said you'll say it in the best way.
Speaker 5: Possible how did that before you start coming around and going,
Speaker 5: HEY ROSSI i want everybody in the weight, Room flake
Speaker 5: to walk me through.
Speaker 1: Your thoughts and.
Speaker 5: Emotions After rajer hits that home run and you feel
Speaker 5: like we need a, Reset riz calls us ghosts in the.
Speaker 1: Dugout he, says.
Speaker 3: We were, Walking, zo we were. Ghosts everyone's white as a, ghost.
Speaker 2: BRO i believe.
Speaker 3: It we've got the winds our sales knocked out of our.
Speaker 3: Wind our wind knocked.
Speaker 1: Out of our. Sales there it. Is that's. It i'm
Speaker 1: only high school.
Speaker 2: EDUCATED i love that same.
Speaker 1: HERE i went to college.
Speaker 4: Again LIKE i knew we were gonna win, always BUT
Speaker 4: i also Knew i'm watching the right field the WAY
Speaker 4: i played. DEFENSE i pay attention to our, pictures pay
Speaker 4: attention to hitters champion through fifty five pitches in game, five,
Speaker 4: yeah oh, yeah with two at bats as a closer
Speaker 4: coming from The American.
Speaker 2: League and then we get.
Speaker 3: The game six with two bats in game, five.
Speaker 2: Fifty five PITCHES.
Speaker 3: I, remember, yeah it was he went like two and
Speaker 3: a third or.
Speaker 1: Something.
Speaker 4: Yeah so we go back there for game, Six we
Speaker 4: go up, Big we do our. THING i think that's the.
Speaker 4: Game addie Goes Grand slam, right youngest to do it late.
Speaker 5: Home run to put this put us up big right
Speaker 5: right bottom of the eighth or top of the.
Speaker 1: Night, uh top of, night top of the eighth of the.
Speaker 4: Eight, okay, SORRY i think even after your, homer who's
Speaker 4: coming in the, Game.
Speaker 2: Chappie, yeah you know he.
Speaker 5: Was already in the game, already so we WERE i
Speaker 5: remember it should have got him. Out joe was talked
Speaker 5: about that should have got him out maybe a little.
Speaker 4: Earlier, Bro but like he comes in the, game AND
Speaker 4: i think all of us are on the same, page
Speaker 4: like wait a, minute like why champion right?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 3: Yeah we need him for the mom.
Speaker 2: Eat him for. Tomorrow and he threw fifty five pitches
Speaker 2: his last, outing and.
Speaker 1: We had ridden him, hard hard the whole second half.
Speaker 4: And then in the playoffs and then in the baseball,
Speaker 4: Scence i'm, like, Look chappy through the four seamer through the, slot,
Speaker 4: okay like two. Pitches obviously the heater plays and then
Speaker 4: the slider helps off of, that but they're getting another
Speaker 4: free look at. Him and that's WHAT i didn't want
Speaker 4: to have. Happened so on game, Seven i'm, like all,
Speaker 4: right he's coming, In, like, bro they know everything he's
Speaker 4: got AND i don't know how many bullets he's got.
Speaker 2: Left look up at the scoreboard's.
Speaker 4: Doing ninety eight ninety eight for a lot of, people
Speaker 4: especially at that time in twenty. Sixteen Amazing chadpick can
Speaker 4: touch one oh. Four yeah, Right and so he didn't
Speaker 4: have the same bullets you're catching, him Which i'm not
Speaker 4: sure how many times you guys got to work.
Speaker 5: AGAIN i didn't work them. Much But i'm calling all.
Speaker 5: Heaters that's. It and Because I'm i'm thinking nobody's hitting.
Speaker 5: That we were talking about that on another. SHOWS i
Speaker 5: think it called like twelve or fifteen meters in a.
Speaker 5: Row wonder he went deep but, Idiots.
Speaker 4: But, like but those are details right That i'm watching play.
Speaker 4: Out i'm, like, man they hadn't worked. Together rossie's calling.
Speaker 4: HEATER i know what you're. Thinking but ALSO i know
Speaker 4: like they've seen.
Speaker 1: Him, Yeah raj's choked.
Speaker 2: Up that's WHAT i was gonna.
Speaker 4: Say, bro he's choked up like that far on the,
Speaker 4: bat he did everything he needed to, do had the A.
Speaker 4: B i'm, LIKE i don't have a good. Feeling watch
Speaker 4: him from right he hits the. Homer lebron's on the, screen.
Speaker 2: On the.
Speaker 4: Screen you know What i'm, Saying like like what and
Speaker 4: then and like also, ironically like in the background is
Speaker 4: like they're right the basketball arena and they won the.
Speaker 2: World they won THE Nba.
Speaker 4: Championship there from being down three to one year exactly
Speaker 4: against the best record in the. Game So i'm, like
Speaker 4: Is cleveland about to do it? Again, no they're not
Speaker 4: going to do it. Again like we're still gonna win
Speaker 4: this fucking, game but we're gonna need to chill out.
Speaker 4: Reset do you think there was a? Curse never thought about,
Speaker 4: it never never thought about the. CURSE i was, like
Speaker 4: WHAT i didn't like was.
Speaker 3: Right now because you guys weren't there long.
Speaker 2: Enough but, yeah but you played in the city that
Speaker 2: also conquered one one there, Too.
Speaker 5: Boston but it DIDN'T i popped in my, head was
Speaker 5: LIKE i couldn't shake the, like, SHIT i can't play
Speaker 5: like this last thing in my mind was him going,
Speaker 5: Deep like the last thing in my.
Speaker 2: BRAIN i felt like it could happen just based on,
Speaker 2: yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: Looks people don't understand, how especially as a, hitter when
Speaker 3: you get to, see especially in a playoff, series when
Speaker 3: you get that, look whether you get a hit or.
Speaker 1: Not it's you're.
Speaker 3: Playing that kind of mouse game for the next. Time
Speaker 3: he only has two. PITCHES i saw the. Slider, okay
Speaker 3: trust THAT i saw a. Slider If i'm A i
Speaker 3: cause the. Lefty, OKAY i saw a.
Speaker 2: Slider this is my.
Speaker 3: Fourth time facing in this. SERIES i know where that
Speaker 3: slider needs to. Start sell. Out and you could tell
Speaker 3: That raj was selling out.
Speaker 2: Us Against kloeber three times.
Speaker 3: Exactly baber was A klueber was an animal in those, playoffs,
Speaker 3: Right AND.
Speaker 5: I always thought that about our. Team the more we
Speaker 5: face the, pitchers the better we.
Speaker 4: Were and there's young, show, sure BUT na like after the,
Speaker 4: Homer i'm Not, no we're going to go right back.
Speaker 4: In we're going to school or right, away right, away
Speaker 4: we're gonna do. It somebody's on. FIRST i freaking ground
Speaker 4: to a fielder's. Choice i'm, like, NO i don't. Matter
Speaker 4: like we're still scoring, somehow some. WAY i still. Second
Speaker 4: they throw, AWAY i get the third, Base i'm on
Speaker 4: third with one. Out holves up our CO nlcs M.
Speaker 4: Vp i'm like, yeah like he's already taking the cutter
Speaker 4: guy deep this game In, CLUBERG i was, Like shawl's
Speaker 4: on The mountain cutters.
Speaker 2: Are like right, here no, Ship we're gonna.
Speaker 4: Score and then as the bat plays, Out i'm Like
Speaker 4: sadla in my, Head i'm like Sand, La. Sandla i'm,
Speaker 4: LIKE i wish you would like drop the ball or
Speaker 4: something or make a, bath throw back to.
Speaker 2: The, picture or like throw a cutter for, anything ready for.
Speaker 4: Anything and it gets the three two right three two,
Speaker 4: count And i'm still like, no like he's gonna get it.
Speaker 4: Done And, jonesy our third base, coach walks by me
Speaker 4: like kind of like head down, here, hey shrake the
Speaker 4: squeak like, that AND i, said hold, ON i, said no,
Speaker 4: job hob, up, yeah, Count and And i'm like jonting,
Speaker 4: home what you go the? Squeak and for, everybody LIKE
Speaker 4: i KNOW i have a mic, on but like just
Speaker 4: so you, know like safety. Squeaks that was the play
Speaker 4: put on from the, dugout very hard to pull, off
Speaker 4: no matter. WHAT i hadn't seen the hobby bun a whole,
Speaker 4: lot but like in this, situation big, moment that was
Speaker 4: the call with two, strikes with two, strikes and so
Speaker 4: he bunts it. Foul therefore you're out as a. Batter
Speaker 4: and now there's two down And i'm, like.
Speaker 2: All, right are we?
Speaker 4: Doing, yeah, essentially what are we? Doing why Would hobby
Speaker 4: why would the scenario like bro like let him swing
Speaker 4: like he's gonna sucking at the.
Speaker 2: Worst pop a ball to right.
Speaker 4: Field i'm, scoring like we saw the outfield that, Series
Speaker 4: like they kind of helped, us you, know stay in the,
Speaker 4: series they help, us you, Know but it plays out that.
Speaker 4: Way dex is coming up. Next i'm, No we're still
Speaker 4: gonna get the ship done. SOMEHOW i Know dex likes
Speaker 4: the ball coming into, him you. Know i'm, like, nah
Speaker 4: we got a. Shot that's just a bullet up the,
Speaker 4: middle freaking like maybe like one and a half. Hot i'm, like,
Speaker 4: nah this is. It lindor coming across the damn base
Speaker 4: catches it spin throwed, first got.
Speaker 2: Him i'm, like all, right, yeah but end Up hobbies at.
Speaker 4: Back before he makes the bun, attempt it already started
Speaker 4: to rain a little, bit and Then dex ab it
Speaker 4: started to rain, harder big ass cold rain drops or.
Speaker 4: Whatever but puts the ball and. Play they make the,
Speaker 4: play and we're coming. Off sky's opening. Up i'm, like,
Speaker 4: nah like they're about to pull this. Shit they ain't
Speaker 4: gonna let it Fucking they're not gonna let us like
Speaker 4: ruin the rest of the.
Speaker 1: Game AND.
Speaker 4: I know the dugout is fucked right. NOW i know
Speaker 4: for the first time all year, long everyone's not thinking
Speaker 4: the way we usually. Think BUT i, think more, importantly
Speaker 4: there's no game, tomorrow so there's no for me to be, like,
Speaker 4: nah like let it play. Out let everybody kind of
Speaker 4: deal with. Together we're going to come back strong or from.
Speaker 4: It like there was none of that. Ship it was, like,
Speaker 4: bro either you say something now you let we went.
Speaker 3: Out we went back, out And chappie got us through the.
Speaker 3: Nights that's what which, is which was a miracle in.
Speaker 4: Itself but, like if we didn't get, together like we
Speaker 4: don't at least get to have like our moment like
Speaker 4: we always. Do like that was the biggest thing about our,
Speaker 4: group was like we were able to dress shit with.
Speaker 4: Ourselves but if we, didn't THEN i didn't trust the
Speaker 4: moment going. Forward but that's When i'm leading up to,
Speaker 4: That i'm, like, Hey, rossie like you're the ONE i wanted.
Speaker 1: To tell held me in my. Area so they pull the.
Speaker 3: Tard at what point are you, saying all, right it's
Speaker 3: time you're thinking about this.
Speaker 2: Coming across the.
Speaker 4: Diamond like As i'm running off the, field, SORRY i
Speaker 4: was trying to get, there.
Speaker 3: But because we went out for a second long in the, no.
Speaker 2: We didn't go out at.
Speaker 4: All As i'm running off the field from third, Base
Speaker 4: jonesy AND i, like they're tard SO i know the
Speaker 4: range coming, Down LIKE i know they're going to pull.
Speaker 4: It So i'm like right then in that moment As
Speaker 4: i'm coming, Off i'm, like, no, no we got to.
Speaker 4: Talk and THEN i go straight to. You, yeah And i'm, like,
Speaker 4: hey like tell everybody weight? Room WOULD i tell? You
Speaker 4: Because i'm also knowing like if it's a bad, idea you're, like,
Speaker 4: nah jay fuck, That, like don sit your ass.
Speaker 1: Down.
Speaker 5: Bro you never come with bad ideas because you don't say.
Speaker 5: Much and that's why you said. THAT i was, like oh, shit,
Speaker 5: okay all, right perfect and then we all and we
Speaker 5: all head down there and get in, there and, uh you,
Speaker 5: know everybody's got a different. Version and THEN i go Get.
Speaker 5: Chappie we come. Back he's. Crying we walked through. That
Speaker 5: but Then you're, like, HEY i just want to get everybody.
Speaker 4: Together, Yeah i'm, like real, quick won't take long weight.
Speaker 4: ROOM i know it's right, there the closest point for
Speaker 4: everybody to get. Together we wait for the bullpen to come,
Speaker 4: in like you, said Like chappie was the last one
Speaker 4: to come, in because, bro all the way of the,
Speaker 4: world like literally the whole fucking, world the universe was
Speaker 4: on him in that.
Speaker 2: Moment he's.
Speaker 4: Crying you, know he's in. TEARS i, Know i'm sure
Speaker 4: a lot of guys have talked about, that but like he's,
Speaker 4: crying like gives a. Fuck obviously he gives a. Fuck
Speaker 4: this dude's thrown so much for, Us like we wrote.
Speaker 4: Him he's who he. Is we wrote, him all, right,
Speaker 4: honey you. Know and so we get in there And
Speaker 4: i'm just, like, look this is not an. Excuse like
Speaker 4: we won one hundred and three regular season. Games we
Speaker 4: are the best team in the. League we're the best
Speaker 4: team in the. Game we made it to this point
Speaker 4: coming back down from three to one because manager made a,
Speaker 4: mistake all, Right so what, like don't fucking matter every
Speaker 4: other team in this fucking. GAME a manager makes a goddamn.
Speaker 4: Mistake but, like that's not going to be our excuse
Speaker 4: on why we don't go out there and finish this
Speaker 4: game the way we, are, like this is, us this
Speaker 4: is who we. Are, like let's do what the fuck
Speaker 4: The cubbies. Do let's go play like we don't give
Speaker 4: a fuck about who's going to win or, not and
Speaker 4: let's see what.
Speaker 1: Happens that's WHAT i. Remember there was so much going.
Speaker 5: ON i just remember you talking about Playing we played
Speaker 5: for one another all year with the best team in.
Speaker 1: Baseball that was kind of like it was simple like.
Speaker 1: THAT a couple of GUYS i think you said, something
Speaker 1: a couple of guys that said some small stuff like
Speaker 1: that was that was. Powerful and then the rain was
Speaker 1: perfectly as dry as.
Speaker 3: Quick, yes seventeen minutes tears of, joy, TEARS i don't
Speaker 3: know what it, was but half to tears of joy.
Speaker 3: Now But, bert WHAT i think you talk About joe,
Speaker 3: right and we talked to him about this about maybe
Speaker 3: he kept In chappie too, long maybe he PULLED hendrickx
Speaker 3: a little too, early. Whatnot BUT i mean you were
Speaker 3: in that driver's, seat you sat on that top step
Speaker 3: making all those, decisions and it's not as easy as.
Speaker 3: Us BUT i think that the beauty of that team
Speaker 3: was we were able to speak like that, openly and
Speaker 3: even If joe was in that room and we were, saying.
Speaker 1: What the fuck are you?
Speaker 3: Doing he would he would talk back to us like,
Speaker 3: brothers and he'd walk through you know WHAT i, mean
Speaker 3: and it wouldn't be anything, like, OH i don't like you.
Speaker 3: Were it was so it was such a camaraderie to
Speaker 3: all the coaching, staff even the front.
Speaker 1: Office well everybody was. Empowered WHERE i WAS i.
Speaker 3: WAS i was legitimately pissed off after we, won and
Speaker 3: the media was trying to Blame joe for us winning
Speaker 3: The World, series Like joe left him in too. Long i'm,
Speaker 3: like what the what are you? Doing and yes we.
Speaker 3: Did in that speech there was stuff said about like you,
Speaker 3: know what the? Fuck but at the end of the,
Speaker 3: day that was the team we had and that if
Speaker 3: you didn't say, that and If jo didn't make those,
Speaker 3: moves maybe you don't talk the way you speak or
Speaker 3: or get us, together.
Speaker 2: You know WHAT i.
Speaker 5: Mean where let me tell you, So i've been lucky
Speaker 5: enough to win two and Like John farrell was our
Speaker 5: manager In, boston it's, like LIKE i don't know that
Speaker 5: he almost stayed out of the way in those, moments
Speaker 5: you know WHAT i mean like it's every manager is
Speaker 5: a little bit, different and and you, know AND i have,
Speaker 5: managed and it made plenty of. Mistakes and you know
Speaker 5: WHAT i, Learned good players cover up your.
Speaker 1: Mistakes and that's what we. Did all, Right you, guys
Speaker 1: remember what you? Said do you remember what you?
Speaker 2: Said remember in the?
Speaker 4: SPEECH i MEAN i felt like it was around about that,
Speaker 4: Now LIKE i don't remember, verbatim like right, there ten years, ago.
Speaker 3: Probably because it's like when YOU i feel like when
Speaker 3: you talk in big atmospheres like, that especially, adrenaline like you,
Speaker 3: don't you, don't you're not a team meeting, guy it's
Speaker 3: like you almost black out a little, bit.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah every, yeah, yeah ESPECIALLY i.
Speaker 3: DO i do remember a lot OF f, bombs, right,
Speaker 3: BRO i JUST i remember the passion behind your voice
Speaker 3: was just fuck, everyone, Right fuck the front, office fuck the,
Speaker 3: coaches fuck the, media fuck the outside.
Speaker 1: World, right we.
Speaker 3: Are the, boys and everything about us kind of gave
Speaker 3: us that monster reset Of and it was no disrespect
Speaker 3: to any at, all to. Anyone it was just more of,
Speaker 3: hey like you, said don't forget who the fuck.
Speaker 1: We are and then everyone.
Speaker 2: Leaving NOW i remember. THAT i appreciate that, because Like
Speaker 2: that's that's what it.
Speaker 3: Was that's the whole message behind.
Speaker 2: It don't.
Speaker 4: If you're gonna win and you're gonna go all, in
Speaker 4: like that's the one thing you have to. Have it's, like,
Speaker 4: bro like everybody's gonna do their, Job, like thanks for
Speaker 4: putting this team, Together thanks for getting us the nice,
Speaker 4: bus a, hotel what the fuck?
Speaker 2: Ever?
Speaker 4: Family thank you guys for being here and supporting. Us
Speaker 4: but like right, now like we're the all the ones
Speaker 4: that can affect it, Exactly we're all the ones that
Speaker 4: can do something right.
Speaker 5: HERE i try to put all that other negative shit
Speaker 5: out of your. Brain, Okay i've always started to ask
Speaker 5: this question WHILE i was talking about. This everybody leaves the,
Speaker 5: meeting how do you feel like after After i've done
Speaker 5: speeches and talks like to teams, WHATEVER i walk out
Speaker 5: AND i was LIKE i shouldn't have said, THIS i
Speaker 5: shouldn't have said, that or what like was there any
Speaker 5: of like relief or like like Oh i'm GLAD i said,
Speaker 5: that or just like, okay here we go moment LIKE
Speaker 5: i always thought, about like after everybody walks out of
Speaker 5: there and we start everybody started getting back in the,
Speaker 5: routine was there any moments Like i'm so GLAD i did.
Speaker 2: That i'm definitely GLAD i did. It, Yeah, no that
Speaker 2: was that was a no.
Speaker 4: Brainer jason Hamill hammer immediately after people started walking out
Speaker 4: of the room and he's, like, Hey, jay like that's
Speaker 4: gonna go down to history of this, speech, Right i'm, like,
Speaker 4: wow wow's right right away he, said you know. That i'm,
Speaker 4: Like i'm, like, Huh like what do you. Mean he's, like, not,
Speaker 4: bro just he's, Like dad was fucking, Amazing, like, man
Speaker 4: thank you for doing it, Whatever like that's going to
Speaker 4: help us out a, Lot like you're gonna be always
Speaker 4: be remembered for. It i'm my, thanks, BRO i appreciate.
Speaker 4: It but like we're about to go fucking.
Speaker 1: Win yeah like, that he said that though heard.
Speaker 2: That that's WHY i wanted to bring.
Speaker 3: Up we walked out of, there like it's totally. DIFFERENT i,
Speaker 3: Remember i'm A i'm a big Little giants fan the
Speaker 3: movie that halftime that coach As shay did right or
Speaker 3: or whoever the coach, was and all the, boys all
Speaker 3: the kids in the movie like one, time one, time
Speaker 3: and they all fired up and they go with the second, half, Right.
Speaker 2: This is what makes him great that's in.
Speaker 1: Everything it's a.
Speaker 3: Giant But, bro that literally because, look having the pulse
Speaker 3: of the team THAT i THOUGHT i. Had you see
Speaker 3: everyone in the ninth inning.
Speaker 1: As white as a.
Speaker 3: Ghost then the rain delay comes and we get together
Speaker 3: and everyone has a second of, reset and then the
Speaker 3: ultimate reset was what you. Said and then everyone walks
Speaker 3: out of, like, yeah we can do, it, right but
Speaker 3: we didn't have That yeah we can do it going into,
Speaker 3: that we rage took that away from. Us so then
Speaker 3: we go out and do, it and it was like.
Speaker 1: Fuck.
Speaker 3: Yeah you look back of the impact of, that of that,
Speaker 3: speech of those seventeen minutes of Where, bro when we
Speaker 3: went back To, cleveland YOU'RE i don't know if you remember,
Speaker 3: this but every time we went, BACK i sat right.
Speaker 3: THERE i sat on the treadmill the far left side.
Speaker 3: Right coglan was sitting next to, Me this guy was,
Speaker 3: here and every guy knew exactly where they were in
Speaker 3: That it's like time. Stopped AND i don't think we
Speaker 3: knew until after the fact of how big that moment.
Speaker 1: Was yeah for.
Speaker 3: SURE i mean because you even, like we play With
Speaker 3: Kipness Jason kidnis and he, said, Yeah, bro we we
Speaker 3: had a fucking speech.
Speaker 1: Too, Right no one.
Speaker 3: Talks about our, speech, right we all. Talked we all
Speaker 3: got together because FINISH i finished second. Before no one
Speaker 3: remembers the second place, finisher you know WHAT i. Mean
Speaker 3: so looking back on, that the impact of one hundred
Speaker 3: and eight years of, hope, misery all in between coming
Speaker 3: down to a locker. ROOM a lot more obviously went into,
Speaker 3: it but it was such a monumental moment In cubs.
Speaker 3: History AND i know you know, that but it's just
Speaker 3: incredible to talk about.
Speaker 5: It i'm so thankful that you had the courage to do.
Speaker 5: That that's that's WHAT i keep. Thinking all, right we
Speaker 5: win the whole.
Speaker 1: Thing last, out it's not About.
Speaker 5: Riz but he got into the, ball puts in his back,
Speaker 5: pocket and we're all, Celebrating like what's going through your
Speaker 5: mind as a world champ for the first?
Speaker 1: Time get to the.
Speaker 4: PILE i GOTTA i gotta go a little bit before,
Speaker 4: that LIKE i winded a little, bit like the fifteen
Speaker 4: second button right where nobody had more confidence in that
Speaker 4: last out than you AND kb because it's fucking wet
Speaker 4: grass all this. Shit i'm watching him feel this dawn
Speaker 4: round ball and he goes up to throw at. You
Speaker 4: he's still, sliding, yeah like on one spike. Sliding i'm, like,
Speaker 4: bro take your, time you got. Time, Yeah and then
Speaker 4: he lets it go high and you're just like catching.
Speaker 4: It Like i'm, Like i'm, like why is the putting
Speaker 4: both hands up going to catch this? Ball he's like,
Speaker 4: introde nobody had more. CONFIDENCE i was.
Speaker 3: Terrified bro details a story to, it like he didn't
Speaker 3: really want the last out ball.
Speaker 1: Said he was, LIKE i was just thinking you always
Speaker 1: think last to. Me he's, LIKE i, DON'T i.
Speaker 2: Don't he was smiling.
Speaker 3: Too he's, like you're, like, yeah where do you remember
Speaker 3: the first thing you?
Speaker 2: Did so.
Speaker 3: Because you now feel you're far, away so far.
Speaker 4: Away But, bro like when he threw the ball and
Speaker 4: the balls about to hit your, glove it was radio.
Speaker 4: SILENT i wish we could go back to that fucking
Speaker 4: moment and like freezing and like and, Listen, bro nobody
Speaker 4: was making a fucking, sound. Nobody and then you catch
Speaker 4: it And i'm, like it's. Done it's fucking. Done AND
Speaker 4: i was just, like, no like get to the. Pile
Speaker 4: didn't know who the hug what to, do fucking like
Speaker 4: throw some ship, up like go punch somebody, Whatever like
Speaker 4: it was just like everything going on in. Motion BUT
Speaker 4: i always, remember like what it smelled like in the
Speaker 4: dugout and that last in like When chappie went, out you,
Speaker 4: know close out the. Ninth we come back and we,
Speaker 4: score we go up at the, time what was it
Speaker 4: eight six at the time before we go back on the,
Speaker 4: Field i'm, like, bro it smells like a fucking bar in.
Speaker 4: Here it smells LIKE i smell, beer, liquors, cigarettes.
Speaker 1: Like it's probably every starting picture And Risen day.
Speaker 4: Students you know What i'm. Saying, like but like that
Speaker 4: was the. Smell But i'm, like, nah but like this
Speaker 4: is just who we are and how we dealt and
Speaker 4: we're about to go fucking win The World, series.
Speaker 1: All right, again it's not about. Me BUT i got
Speaker 1: carried off the. Field you.
Speaker 5: Too i've asked him and he, said just took me
Speaker 5: nice things about. ME i don't need all, That but like,
Speaker 5: WHAT i don't know how the whole thing. Transpired did
Speaker 5: you go over to? Him did he go over to?
Speaker 1: You like what?
Speaker 4: HAPPENED i believe you came to me and asked me
Speaker 4: to help. You And i'm, like, yeah no, Shit but, like,
Speaker 4: bro the same reason for the like the cup. Bump i'm, like,
Speaker 4: bro this could potentially be your life of your. Life
Speaker 4: this Is game. Seven everything did it means off Of Andrew, miller,
Speaker 4: nasty nasty, reliever nasty, closer you, go dad, center coming
Speaker 4: off the, bench all the things that are so hard
Speaker 4: to do about.
Speaker 2: It i'm a no cup. Bump but after the, game,
Speaker 2: bro you can't carry it?
Speaker 1: All that was? COOL i GOT i bet it's just, like, well.
Speaker 3: He just meant so much for me in the two
Speaker 3: years we played. TOGETHER i know how much he meant
Speaker 3: to you being a professional so and the whole rally
Speaker 3: Around Grandpa rossi and just the whole, year how it
Speaker 3: progressed for, you, right was almost such a good side
Speaker 3: story for us to pour in more to someone. Else
Speaker 3: and when you're gonna climb the top of, everes you
Speaker 3: need to be crazy enough to think you can do,
Speaker 3: it and you need to have the side stories of
Speaker 3: what you look forward.
Speaker 5: To SO i get that, picture AND i see you
Speaker 5: too all the, time just your, faces Because i've got
Speaker 5: that hang in my house what you guys. Did and
Speaker 5: it's like that photo and you guys are just like
Speaker 5: got me. On SO i just always think about you.
Speaker 5: Guys i'm like all the, time looking, like how did
Speaker 5: that go?
Speaker 3: Down did you did you think that on the? Parade
Speaker 3: we're on the same we're on the same bus me,
Speaker 3: you DAX, kb did you, think, hey what did you
Speaker 3: think of the? Parade obviously five plus million? Insane but
Speaker 3: did after that initial of us winning and seeing all
Speaker 3: the fans and the w flags and people, think did
Speaker 3: you think it was gonna be that?
Speaker 1: Big, honestly, NO i.
Speaker 4: DIDN'T i didn't know what to. Think but, like, no
Speaker 4: because it never, ended, Bro it never.
Speaker 3: Really like ten years, later it still hasn't.
Speaker 4: Ended It it never. Ended but like the amount of people
Speaker 4: that you could see never. Ended like you look. Down
Speaker 4: you start once we got The michigan abb you start
Speaker 4: looking down these side streets and you're like hello, People hello,
Speaker 4: People hello. People we stop a, bit show the, trophy
Speaker 4: this and, that like ridiculous amount of. People and then
Speaker 4: once we get off the, buses then we get on the,
Speaker 4: stage then you throw the.
Speaker 2: Backdrop Grant.
Speaker 4: Millennium i'm just, like, bro like this is it felt
Speaker 4: like the world was here right. NOW i don't know
Speaker 4: how these people got, here but they figured out a.
Speaker 2: Way to get.
Speaker 4: Here obviously it went seven, games so they had an
Speaker 4: idea like if they get it, done but like that
Speaker 4: many people believe then you know this was gonna be
Speaker 4: the time and they were there for us and Go,
Speaker 4: cubs go on the stage all, that like you getting
Speaker 4: to like address, everybody have the, ball like all these
Speaker 4: are all THINGS i, remember but like super super super
Speaker 4: cool to take in and be.
Speaker 3: There it's, awesome.
Speaker 1: Amazing all, right looking, back you got to play out
Speaker 1: your career win Another World series like? This what would
Speaker 1: you what?
Speaker 5: Advice now you're you're you've just got employed by The,
Speaker 5: dodgers right working with young? Kids what are you telling
Speaker 5: the Young Jason hayward looking? Back what are you telling
Speaker 5: the young guys that are that you're.
Speaker 1: Speaking to when you know you talk to like you've
Speaker 1: got your great foundation.
Speaker 3: Here The Academy Academy Baseball. Gademy oh, yeah, dude that
Speaker 3: thing IS i, mean, well you talk about, legacy you
Speaker 3: know WHAT i, mean that's gonna be there for a long,
Speaker 3: time hopefully forever.
Speaker 5: And impacting young young players the game in, sports AND
Speaker 5: i know that's like near and dear to your.
Speaker 3: Heart so, yeah what are you telling a Young Jason.
Speaker 3: Hayward right, Now i'm.
Speaker 4: Going to tell, him, listen, man continue to be, respectful
Speaker 4: continue to work, hard have, fun but trust your. Ship
Speaker 4: trust your ship and take care of you and a
Speaker 4: lot of people will benefit from.
Speaker 2: That, wow playing it so.
Speaker 1: Well i'm glad you.
Speaker 2: Did.
Speaker 1: Man i'm so.
Speaker 5: Thankful first of, all like being back in this environment
Speaker 5: here In chicago with you two is like At, marquis,
Speaker 5: so you, know really cool for. Us thanks To marquis
Speaker 5: for putting this on on you, know the channel and
Speaker 5: assault in the bar, yesterday walked around.
Speaker 1: Was, like look at. Me it's cool back on.
Speaker 5: There it's just like nice to To it's good vibes
Speaker 5: around here with you, guys AND i need that around.
Speaker 5: Here so it's like really really fun for. Me thanks
Speaker 5: for To colin and all The marquis people and the PEOPLE.
Speaker 3: I would say congrats on your second The World, series
Speaker 3: but you guys fucked.
Speaker 1: Us it's.
Speaker 5: OKAY i appreciate it all about.
Speaker 2: Him you, know everything's fine two. Times look where it's taking.
Speaker 3: You two Time World series, champion two Time World series,
Speaker 3: champion and be. Love that's the level of reunion. Podcast,
Speaker 3: Jay thank, You. BRO i can't wait for the reunion.
Speaker 3: Weekend thank you For thank you.
Speaker 1: Guys let's let's a wrap up good one that was
Speaker 1: a