WEBVTT - Noah Syndergaard keeps it real on Pitching analytics, Utley incident, Career Highs, Untold pranks, Setbacks & Life in the minors 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:05.240 Here we go. 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:08.600 No cinderguard right here on FT for the first time, 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:11.840 making his debut, former Todd Father teammate. Great big league 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.080 picture for a long time. Great to have you on man. 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:16.760 Look look at your boy up top here just running 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:18.560 things in the media world these days. 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:22.079 Hey, what's up fellas? Thanks for having me, god father? 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:25.880 What kind of hair? What kind of hair you got 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:26.320 going on? 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:29.240 I put on a hat because I got a good 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:31.960 sized pimple up here right now, so I'm trying to. 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:36.960 At least you're honest right now. I love that. 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:40.440 It was Harry Potter and I when I was in 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:44.199 Charlotte a few weeks ago, I had to take a 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:44.960 slithering hat. 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:46.760 Yeah, I like that. 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:49.720 So talk to us a little bit about what happened. 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:52.800 You went with the White Sox. Uh did you say 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:54.600 I'm out of here? They let you go? Talk to 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:56.520 us about that? And now what do you got going 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:57.200 on right now? 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:00.400 I mean I kind of got shafted a little bit. 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:05.319 Not that my performance was anything to brag about, but 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:07.560 there was, like I don't know how many starting pitchers 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:09.840 I had on that roster, so it was kind of 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:13.160 just the odd man out. I only got two starts 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:17.000 and I was kind of just hanging out there because 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:20.959 I mean, not competing for two years and going into 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:24.080 like the high stress environment, and let me tell you, 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:25.720 the minor leagues freaking suck. 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:31.720 Yeah, it's been a while since you've been a true 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:34.880 minor leaguer. But how much how much how much ramp 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.520 up or how much leeway or do you feel like 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:40.199 you would have needed Because if you said you haven't 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:43.560 competed really for consistently for two years, what kind of 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:46.119 starts do you feel like you'd need five to seven ten? 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:51.840 You know, I've been searching for the last three years 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:54.960 on where it all kind of just went wrong, Like 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:58.600 how I mean, I still don't have a whole lot 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.160 of answers on I mean, I do mechanically, but. 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:02.280 I don't know how I got there. 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:06.240 How I just lost the ability to throw one hundred 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:09.639 miles an hour. I still believe that it's that it's 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:12.200 in there, But the mind is such a powerful tool, 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:16.040 and the body just kind of holds on to trauma 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:19.240 a certain way. And like when I had elbow surgery 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:21.800 in twenty twenty, like I was like sick. Great, Like 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:24.760 COVID's ruining the world right now, there's not much going on. 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:28.240 It sounds like the best time to have elbow surgery. 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:32.440 But then about month fifteen, I had some kind of 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:36.240 setback to where I was supposed to throw four ings and. 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.200 I'm threw one. I'm like, something's not right. 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:43.000 And next day I got an MRI and Todd I 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:44.800 don't know if you remember Beam or car, but he 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:48.040 was the one that looked at the original MRI is like, 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:50.000 I think I see another tear to your cl and 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:51.880 I'm like, you got to be freaking kidding me, Like 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:55.760 I couldn't have done a better rehab. All I did 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:58.640 was eat, breathe, and sleep recovery. I lived in my 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:04.120 hyper bearer. I did countless ice plunges, SAWTA Sessions eight 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:08.040 really well, and I'm like, this doesn't make a whole 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.080 lot of sense. So I think that that's when my 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:12.480 body or my mind kind of went like, oh crap, 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:15.640 like we might be in some trouble here, because I 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.800 was thinking I might not ever play baseball again. And 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:22.359 I never got to recover from this surgery, and I 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:24.800 still feel like I haven't really recovered from it. But 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:26.520 I think my body just kind of went to like 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.120 big brother mode, and it's like I'm going to protect 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:33.520 you from hurting yourself again. And then I start tinkering 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:37.680 with my mechanics. I probably went to ten different facilities 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:39.520 like top notche, I went to tread, I went to 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.280 drive line. I've been to the place called Maven in Atlanta. 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:48.520 Worked with countless coaches and everyone seems to say something different. 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:53.920 And now I'm just trying to get back to just athleticism. 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:57.400 And like when I was really good, like I had 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:00.320 Dan Worthing as a pitching coach, and he kept things 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:04.040 super simple and just kind of trusted my body. And 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:07.240 you look at a delivery now versus where it was 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:11.440 back twenty fifteen through twenty nineteen, and like my delivery 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.960 changed a little bit, but like the main pillars or 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:19.679 components that allowed me to be really good didn't really change. 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:21.640 And now I'm doing all kinds of like I'm like 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:25.360 leaning back, like, yeah, it just looks kind of out 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:27.840 of whack. But it was just like I had too 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:31.240 many cooks in the kitchen and it kind of just 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:33.240 fried me a little bit. 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:38.279 Yeah no, that's I mean all this like watching you 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:42.120 watch those highlights, I remember being a hitter and being like, 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.600 oh man, how can I look like that. Do you 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.680 feel like if you just go back, do you feel 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.800 like you have the ability to just go back to 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:55.279 who you were because you were ridiculous freak, you were 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:59.320 so athletic. Do you feel like you're able to say, 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.760 everybody out of my way, I'm going to do it 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:05.039 my way, or do you feel like to get a 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:05.840 job in the. 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:06.240 Game, To. 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.040 You know, get yourself back on the map, you have 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.599 to go to all the places that you said, and 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.480 you have to be able to speak the language, because 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:19.960 I know worth them was not speaking in force plates 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:24.320 and extension rates and spin and all that stuff. When 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.200 when we played you guys in twenty fifteen, you know 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:30.680 that wasn't that wasn't happening from him. So can you 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:32.359 go back to that or do you feel like you 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.480 have to get in line with everybody and say, okay, 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:37.200 well I throw a heavy ball as hard as I 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:39.800 can up against the wall, and this is that because 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:43.560 you did all this with your athletic natural ability, not 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:48.520 with some gimmick like turn spin, throw on a knee, 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:49.320 all that stuff. 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.799 Yeah, I think it all boil down to is a 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:58.440 paralysis by analysis. So I think the like all the 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:03.160 weighted ball stuff. I think that has its benefits for sure. 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:07.200 The force plate mounds. I like that in terms of 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:12.440 like just routine, but I think you can get a 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:17.400 little too fixated on that, and like you look at 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:21.880 de Gram or Wheeler, like I'm I don't know, maybe 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.960 they've changed their routine, but I don't. Those guys like 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:28.440 just had the utmost confidence and trusted their stuff and 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.480 just I mean in between the lines, like all they 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:35.800 did was compete. And I don't think those guys are 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:38.880 getting on force plate mounts or doing any way to 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:44.040 ball programs. But that's just kind of like the new 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:47.200 age stuff, and I kind of came up when it 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:52.159 was kind of like transitioning through all like the eeditronic cameras. 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:54.599 I remember the first time they brought the editronic cameras out. 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.120 I think it was like twenty eighteen or twenty nineteen, 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:01.279 and Dave Island was the pitching coach, and like he 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:04.400 sends us like these these pictures of the grips and stuff. 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:06.480 I'm like, I don't understand, Like what is this mean? 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:08.880 Am I supposed to post this on social media like 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:13.960 my story or something like what's his information? And then 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.360 I got like really, fixated on like the track man numbers, 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.280 and I think there's some benefit to it there because 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.960 I remember one time I was pitching to Jay Bruce 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:25.040 and I think it was with the Phillies, and I 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.240 threw two fastballs like at ninety eight up and in 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.800 it like had eighteen inches of ride. And then the 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:31.880 next pitch I threw one same location, it was only 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:33.920 fourteen inches of ride and he hit it into the 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:39.520 Pepsi porch or whatever it's called now. But I still 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:42.240 have the most confidents in me to get back. It'll 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:46.720 be a hell of a success story. And you know, 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:48.680 it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.800 So I'm going to continue to try, because I mean 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:54.400 I'm in the best shape that I've ever been in, 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:59.239 like in terms of like mobility, strength, power, just appropriate reception. 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:04.040 Like I think I'm in the right path. It's just 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:07.080 you know, you never think you're gonna be in the situation, 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:09.320 but it kind of just defines the one kind of 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:09.880 person you are. 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.280 Hey, we love ripping slab packs on arena club. I 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:17.280 just ripped one in a ruby pack. Those are fancy 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:21.800 schmancy kip and I pulled a Matt Shaw twenty twenty 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:26.000 three Bowman Draft Aqua Lunar Creater Refractor card. 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:27.720 And I guess what. Guess what? 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:29.520 I got a little offer. You get the instant offer 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.480 right away. Okay, so they're offering me one hundred and 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:34.920 twenty one bucks, sell it back and then I can 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:35.960 get a new slab pack. 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:37.280 What do I do? 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.800 I want to see this thing. Hold on, look at that. 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:40.840 That's a beautiful card. 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:41.640 You know what. 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.320 I think that's a safe bet. I think it's gonna 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:46.280 make you a little bit of money. I think the 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:49.640 more more big league time he gets, I'd almost take 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:51.680 the deal, though, I'm in it for the chase. 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:53.079 I like opening more packs. 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:55.440 I think that one hundred and twenty one can buy 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:57.880 you a couple more slabs to open. And uh, I 0:08:57.920 --> 0:08:59.480 think you keep chasing until you get someone. 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:01.600 You really but that's the best part about it for me. 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:02.520 That's right. 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:04.520 You can sell it back one hundred twenty one bucks 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:06.520 and then open up another slab pack. Use the code 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:08.720 foul to receive twenty percent off your first slab pack 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:10.480 or card purchase at arenaclub dot com. 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:13.600 Slash foul no doubt about it, And you've always been 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.200 intrigod about who you are, how you go about things. 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:18.959 You're a big component of lifting. 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.760 I love everything about this because whenever we had our conversations, 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.720 we always had good talks. And you know, anything you 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.120 talked about, I was the exact opposite. I was the guy, 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.120 let's go grip it, rip it, let's get in there. 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:33.040 You ever think about you know now, you know there's 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:35.199 so much technologies you talked about. You ever just think 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:37.640 about just getting on the mound and saying, you know what, 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:41.160 screw everything else. I'm coming. I'm bringing it here. I 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:43.800 don't need paperwork or anybody to tell me anything else. 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:46.320 Forget about the mindset. I'm going to go on this 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:48.720 mound when I get my next chance and just go 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:50.800 and get after it. I don't need numbers, you know 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:52.679 what I'm saying. You ever want to get that out 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:54.880 of your mind and just go and say, screw everything else, 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:55.839 let's get after it here. 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:57.520 Yeah. 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:01.280 I've tried just about everything. I've tried it all. Like 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:05.280 I've tried to be as like mindless and dumb out 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:07.280 there and free as much as I can not think 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.240 about anything. But when I was really good, I still 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:12.920 like thought about certain things, like when I, uh, the 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:16.560 twenty nineteen game I pitched against the Reds, pitched a 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:19.280 complete game and hit a solo home run. Like there's 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.160 like around the fourth or fifth inning, and I had 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:23.679 like this little queue where I just would tell myself 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.320 to screw my leg into the ground, and that like 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:30.080 helped me load my really fuel into my legs. And 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:32.520 then I would just think stay closed and rip it. 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:35.480 And it got to like fourth fifth inning on it 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:38.400 got to like I could just throw my eyes closed. 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:41.800 And then five days later, I'm trying that same cueue 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.560 against the Padres and it's like I'm able to repeat 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:46.520 it like one in every three pitches. 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:48.240 So it's just. 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:52.240 Now like when I try to use those cues, my 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.920 body doesn't like translate it the right way. And you 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:57.280 take one picture. I don't know how it is with 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:01.640 hitting necessarily, but you could take like one Q. I 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:05.200 might translate that cue from another pitcher differently than what 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:07.440 they might like screen the leg into the ground. They 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:10.640 might translate that into something else. I think every athlete, 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:14.720 I think, especially with baseball, because it's like such a 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:18.560 controlled violence, like everybody has their cue, but it might 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:22.080 be I mean, something completely different to another player. 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:25.640 Do you remember now, let's switch gears here a little 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.040 fitt talk about something fun. We talk about the one 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:31.320 time you had that little dust up in the first 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:35.079 pitch to Chase Utley back in the day. Terry Collins 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:38.720 come out and talk about my rear ends in the jackpot, 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:41.160 you know what I mean, Just stuff like that. Talk 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:44.000 to us about that whole situation. I know it's way 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.880 in the past, but you know, was their talks before? 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:49.040 You know, this is the guy I gotta get Did 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:52.359 you put that on yourself? I mean that video circles 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:56.280 every year, and Terry Collins is he just he had 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:58.160 your back and he was he was pumped up about 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.720 the whole situation. You know, take us back to that time, 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:03.440 and uh, you know, what was your mindset there? What 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:04.040 was going on? 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:10.559 Oh Man's Harry is the best. I love that guy. 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:12.800 But I mean and also I've heard like the best 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:16.560 things about Chase Utley too, And I don't don't necessary 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:18.520 I don't think that slide was intentional. I just think 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.800 he plays the game so hard and it's such a 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:27.080 ballplayer that that's just kind of what happened. But uh, 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:29.000 you know, I was just I don't think I really 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:33.679 discussed that with anybody, and I just saw my opportunity 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:38.080 there to take it. I think when I was younger, 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:39.840 I also did a lot of stupid things that I 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:44.400 didn't really think about, like throwing over Escobar's head and 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:47.480 the World Series only I think back on and I'm like, damn, 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:49.240 like cant believe it. 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:51.320 I did it, but I just. 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:55.640 But yeah, I was so juiced in that moment that 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:58.160 I think Renee Rivera actually called it a change up 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:00.559 away and I didn't even shake. I was is already 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:05.640 going into my delivery and and then I was just 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:11.040 kind of just taken back to being ejected and I 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:12.720 didn't really know what was going on. I just walked 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:14.280 off the field and I just remember walking off the 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:17.880 field and to Grom having that little signature smurf that 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:22.000 he has, so that that was a good time. 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:26.560 Anybody that you still keep in touch with that is 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:30.400 playing during from those times, like the Grom, Harvey, any 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.560 any of those guys that you're like, hey, you know, 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.040 remember when this happened, or guys that you you hit 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.559 up on a regular especially with the Grom throwing the 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:43.040 way he's been. Have you kept in contact with those guys? 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:46.040 A little bit to grom Actually there's probably like a 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:49.440 five minute walk from from my house, but his house 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:51.880 is a lot nicer and he's got a couple of them. 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:56.280 But you know, he's got three kids, maybe like even 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:58.280 a fourth on the way. I don't really know, and 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:02.640 so I'm win Sam fortunate enough, but I don't have 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:07.319 children right now, so you know, I'm living a kind 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.600 of different life. But I'm really spoken to Harvey in 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:13.000 a while. Anytime I go up to New York and 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:14.559 I hit him up. So he's up to It's always 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:18.079 nice to catch up with him. Thank who else a 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:23.040 recent guys. I haven't talked to Pete really, but I 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:26.040 think that's super cool that he's now the home run leader. 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:32.400 For the Mets. Yeah, that's about. That's about it. Other 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:34.920 than like Michael Lorenzen, he's one of my good buddies. 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:39.200 It's difficult, dude. It's the same way for me too 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.240 as well. You know, I got a couple of guys. 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:43.600 It's I always tell people, it's like, if you're not 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:46.160 getting Christmas cards from these guys you play with, it's 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:48.360 really it's really tough to stay in touch with them. 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:51.400 I mean, that's just something I'm going along with now. 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:55.320 I really and hearing your voice and then trying to 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.520 harass you and FaceTime you and trying to get you 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.960 to say my name on the broadcast. 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:02.880 I got, I got you hit me up. 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:05.200 I got my buddies telling me to say a random 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:06.440 word on a broadcast. 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:08.960 I'm doing the gig. They're like, oh, you know, you. 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:12.120 Know somewhere randomly. 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:18.120 I'm anyway, remember the one time, and I want you 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:20.840 to tell this story we talked about this earlier fun story. 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.360 I remember you were messing with me on the bus 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:24.840 one time. I forget exactly. 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:28.360 I don't have to get in the details prior, but 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:32.840 I'm honored that I was chosen for this prank, as 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:37.840 I still recovering from that experience. But uh, I think 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:41.120 we were in me so to the the road trip 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:44.520 before or the city before, and I was messing you 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:48.720 in the lobby there, and then we went to Chicago, 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:51.880 and then I'm in the training room and Mickey calls 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:54.920 us all into the clubhouse and I think it's a 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:58.280 team meeting, and there's this huge police officer in the 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:00.000 middle of the clubhouse. He's like, I'm looking for an 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.440 a cindergard I'm like, oh God, what did I do? 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:07.640 And then like the video like it's I wish we 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:10.640 could play the video of it, but uh. I walk 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.480 over to my locker and I'm trying to put like 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:15.800 get dressed. I just have my shorts on, and it 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:17.840 takes me, like I'm so rattled. It takes me two 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:20.320 minutes to get dressed, and I finally handed my id's like, 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:21.440 all right, put transmind your rack. 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:23.200 You're under arrest, and I'm like, I. 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:26.360 Just went I blacked out at that point, and like 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.760 if I would have just looked around the clubhouse, I 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:32.320 would have seen that some people were not maintaining their composure. 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:34.760 Half the people knew, half didn't. 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:40.040 And so I'm just like tunnel vision and like Wheelers 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:42.360 like no, what did you do? And I'm like, I 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:46.240 don't know, man like, and then the officer says something 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:50.400 and he takes me out, puts me in this random 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:52.280 room and there's a piece of paper on the table 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:54.120 and I'll start looking at him reading it and I'm like, 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:56.440 this has nothing to do with me, and then before 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:59.600 you know, Fraser's barging in the room with its camera 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:02.920 and then the other video is like next thing like 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:04.640 as soon as I leave the room, he's just like. 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:08.639 He was together. 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:12.520 But yeah, I tried my retaliation. I tried to get 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:14.840 like Brody. I tried to make it look like you 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:19.000 were going to fail a drug test. Odie was on 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:20.760 boards with that, but I didn't really know what the 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:26.399 standard procedure was on that. But if I could have 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:29.639 added Don it would have been nice. But it was 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:32.440 like a big big brother little brother moment. And I 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:36.320 always family with the Todd father. My mom is from 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:38.840 She'll say she's running Tom's River, but she was born 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:40.440 on the naval base there, and I think they moved 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:42.960 when she was like three months old. 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:46.840 But we'll take that as you knows Jersey girl. 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:50.680 So that was Sergeant John Connolly by the way, absolute 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.840 beasts came in. He's like six seven, two hundred and 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:57.200 seventy five pounds. All Braun put him in cuffs in 0:17:57.240 --> 0:17:59.040 the locker room. I only told a couple of people, 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:01.480 so if you if you were to look around, some 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:04.120 people are like, what the heck's going on? In other 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:06.439 people like the grom like he couldn't control it. I 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:08.480 wanted I almost kicked him. I'm like, get I. 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:16.760 Wanted to out at there, but you know, Oscar, Yeah, 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:17.159 it was. 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:21.280 Those type of things are what makes the year special 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:23.240 for everybody. You need that type of stuff during the 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:25.600 year because it gets so boring sometimes in that locker 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:29.160 room as you as we all know, so fun stories. 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:31.720 When I was with the Angels in twenty two to 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:35.440 one of our young guys. But I guess things have 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:37.959 gotten a little soft over there, and they wouldn't they 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:38.879 couldn't make it happen. 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:40.240 Ah. 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:43.840 Yeah, well that's the way it goes. And I remember 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.600 locking you in the Where where did I lock you 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:46.800 in in? 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:51.080 In New York? And oh man, the sauna. 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:54.120 Remember you were in the sauna right by the hot 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:55.960 tub there in Cityfield. 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:58.000 And yeah, yeah, okay, when he's in New York element 0:18:58.240 --> 0:18:59.920 we were in on the road in the Yankee Stadium. 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:04.119 But no, you know, I I I'm gonna have a 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:05.040 panic attack in there. 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:14.159 It'd be terrible. That'd be terrible. I would fight you. 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:19.080 He was only in there for ten minutes. It wasn't bad. 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:27.920 It made me tougher. That's good. Well. The Mets, Yeah, 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:29.080 the Mets let you do stuff. 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:31.479 Do you run into Mets fans often? 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:34.840 Noah, Like, do you miss the you know the vibes 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:37.879 that that the Mets fans brought, you know, during those times. 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:41.240 Yeah, Mets fans are everywhere. I was just in Austin 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:45.160 with my girlfriend and we went to some like piano bar, 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:48.480 and when we were leaving, this guy's like, oh, my 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:50.880 mom is a huge Mets fan. I'm like, oh, you're 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:55.280 your mom or you are you can just say so. 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:57.359 And anytime I go up to New York, I'll just 0:19:57.359 --> 0:20:00.280 spe casually, like riding a city bike on the street, 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:02.680 and the people will recognize me. 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:04.119 That's one of my favorite things to do. 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:08.040 That's fun. That's fun. But if you cut your hair, 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:09.280 you think anybody recognize you? 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:15.720 Uh? Oh no, probably not. I don't know. I do 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:16.640 still stand out. 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:20.680 You're you're You're, You're an absolute monster. But the question 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:23.720