Speaker 1: Is that ball still stuck in my back? Do you
Speaker 1: hit me with this? Shear?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: And so I'm wondering is it still there? Because that's
Speaker 1: so I'm a bit still hurt.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm sorry that.
Speaker 4: All right. Welcome to the show. Twenty one year Major
Speaker 4: League Baseball veteran, four time All Star two thousand and
Speaker 4: five ASI Young Award winner Bartolo Cologne, bien Venillos Ala
Speaker 4: Programaci and you're Gracia sport too, Temple. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 4: Bart Hello, thanks for being.
Speaker 3: Here, say that and thank you for here.
Speaker 1: Hey, yeah, you speak English. I played with you like
Speaker 1: five times. You speak English. No no Espanol on your bar.
Speaker 1: You know you speak English.
Speaker 3: I owned this thing, love, but I can't speak.
Speaker 1: I knew he could do it.
Speaker 5: He said, you know that the boys can't speaking and
Speaker 5: you and you only give me the shign and that's it.
Speaker 1: We only do what pan She was this or this right.
Speaker 3: That's.
Speaker 4: Only the fastball, Bartola. You've been tweeting a lot about
Speaker 4: the New York Mets. What is it about the Mets
Speaker 4: team that you like this year? Could get get the
Speaker 4: interest in? It is the Mets get the gustas.
Speaker 1: What do you like.
Speaker 3: Knowing, I mean I get better.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he said. Basically, you know they're playing really well
Speaker 4: right now, but it's usually at the first half of
Speaker 4: the season. Once that first half is over to kind
Speaker 4: of see, uh you know what this team really is
Speaker 4: and how they're playing.
Speaker 1: A lot of bart Are you flo? Are you look good?
Speaker 1: You look good?
Speaker 3: Yep?
Speaker 1: Could you? Could you hit right now? Could you hit?
Speaker 3: Uh? No, no, I'm playing social board right now?
Speaker 4: Oh you're playing? Could you hit with the torpedo bat?
Speaker 4: You were mentioning something about the torpedo bat? What do
Speaker 4: you think about that? Who got going?
Speaker 1: Us? Who?
Speaker 3: No? Are you okay? Look at what are you?
Speaker 4: You're learning how to play with it? Now? How many
Speaker 4: home runs do you think you could hit Quanto's run?
Speaker 4: He said, he doesn't think any. He's not a hitter,
Speaker 4: so he doesn't think any.
Speaker 6: Go ahead, crats tistas haiendo?
Speaker 1: What are you doing right now? What? What is your day?
Speaker 1: What do your days look like?
Speaker 3: No, mao.
Speaker 4: He's working with a bunch of kids in the community
Speaker 4: and obviously some different camps and and those types of
Speaker 4: things gonna getrero Uh huh.
Speaker 3: When we hold pro.
Speaker 4: With with with Pedro Guerrero's kids working with with him
Speaker 4: and some of the kids in that area. Do you
Speaker 4: miss playing the game at the partido? He said, yeah,
Speaker 4: one hundred percent. He misses playing the game. How come yeah,
Speaker 4: he said, it was his entire life. I mean that's
Speaker 4: what he that's what he grew up doing, That's what
Speaker 4: he spent his entire life doing. So obviously it makes
Speaker 4: sense that he would miss it one hundred percent. Do
Speaker 4: you think you could still play? Yeah, he said, every
Speaker 4: time he goes to Venezuela, obviously he plays out there.
Speaker 4: Do you want to play? Go ahead and go ahead?
Speaker 4: I mean sorry in the Dominican I apologize in the Dominicans.
Speaker 4: See you understand English. You could do this interview in English. Yeah,
Speaker 4: the Dominican. Of course. When you played for the Dominican
Speaker 4: in two thousand and six, what was the most important
Speaker 4: thing for you in that time?
Speaker 3: He pa, presente.
Speaker 5: I being be.
Speaker 3: La Dominicana, he.
Speaker 4: Said, putting on the jersey obviously representing the Dominican Republic
Speaker 4: on his chest, and obviously that was so important. In
Speaker 4: the fourteenth you know innings that he pitched there, But
Speaker 4: the twenty thirteen championship was, you know, something very special
Speaker 4: for him. Obviously playing uh in that, a J. Did
Speaker 4: you want to ask him about that? That home run?
Speaker 7: No, here's what I want to ask him. Do people
Speaker 7: ask him more about his home run or winning a
Speaker 7: cy Young? Because people forget he won a cy Young
Speaker 7: But only ever hear about is Bart hitting his home
Speaker 7: run off James Shields and his trot around the basis.
Speaker 7: So Bart, do they all ask you more about your
Speaker 7: song or your home run?
Speaker 3: In Miami?
Speaker 4: Get on? In Miami? More people asked him about the
Speaker 4: about his home run than than anything.
Speaker 7: Tell him tell him this behind his back? That one
Speaker 7: it doesn't count because justin Bor is too slow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the the the and the uh yeah, a J
Speaker 4: knows the pass behind the back? Yeah? They out behind
Speaker 4: your back? Where people ask him about that and the
Speaker 4: home run than than anything else. What was the more
Speaker 4: exciting play for you? The home run or the pass
Speaker 4: behind the back?
Speaker 3: That convention? Who?
Speaker 4: Yeah? He said, both of them obviously were very fun
Speaker 4: to him, but the one that he you know, likes
Speaker 4: the most was obviously the home run because it was
Speaker 4: something that he'd been looking forward to doing and hoping
Speaker 4: for ever since he joined the National League. So when
Speaker 4: he was able to do that, then obviously that was
Speaker 4: That was a big.
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Speaker 4: You want to ask him about the Mets where you
Speaker 4: know where you think he's gonna they're gonna end up?
Speaker 6: No primetoo, Kay Cambreas, what would you have changed about
Speaker 6: your career?
Speaker 4: Ken do Carrera, Carria, Cambiad. See, I'll go to Cambiad
Speaker 4: and to Carrera.
Speaker 3: He out a.
Speaker 5: Memo, apmpo, a PM we're gonna get I'll patch its.
Speaker 4: Okay, he would he would change the pitch clock. He
Speaker 4: doesn't like the pitch clock. So would you when you played?
Speaker 4: Would you want that? Kand no?
Speaker 3: No, I mean I mean.
Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, it didn't matter to him because he pitched
Speaker 4: so fast. He certainly didn't. You know, the pitch clock
Speaker 4: doesn't didn't matter to him. But that's one thing about
Speaker 4: the game that that he would recta yes, we got it.
Speaker 1: The fastball he only had.
Speaker 7: He had two signs one well three one and one,
Speaker 7: and then every once in a while he thought that
Speaker 7: was it. Other knows and then if he shook, you're like,
Speaker 7: oh no.
Speaker 1: He wants the other fastball. And then he makes him
Speaker 1: the cutter her a little slider.
Speaker 4: Once in a while, but is there something I think
Speaker 4: what Eric is asking, is there something about your speci
Speaker 4: a the career that you would have done differently? And Los
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Speaker 5: My trying I commissa strikes paraque No I've.
Speaker 3: Come into cambiado is a momental, Okay.
Speaker 4: That's yeah, it's basically obviously, at the beginning of his
Speaker 4: he threw really, really hard, but he threw a lot
Speaker 4: of balls. So the one thing that he would have
Speaker 4: liked to have done differently, obviously is to be able
Speaker 4: to throw hard, but also to just you know, throw
Speaker 4: throw more strikes. I mean just you know, have more
Speaker 4: strikes than balls, which makes makes makes sense. What do
Speaker 4: you got, aj you got to follow up?
Speaker 7: Yeah, So when I first met Bart, we were in
Speaker 7: LA and Dodger Stadium in old Dodger Stadium before they
Speaker 7: redid the clubhouse, and we were going to Japan to play,
Speaker 7: and we were in the shower and I asked Bart,
Speaker 7: I don't know if he remembers this, but he hit
Speaker 7: me that year and it was one hundred and one,
Speaker 7: and it was right here, right, I think a ball
Speaker 7: is still see he knows. And I went in the shower.
Speaker 7: We were in the shower and I said, hey, Bart,
Speaker 7: is that ball still stuck in my back?
Speaker 1: Do you hit me with this shore? Right? And so
Speaker 1: I'm wondering is it still there? Because that's the song
Speaker 1: of a bitch still hurts?
Speaker 3: I'm all right, I remember that.
Speaker 6: Do you think that's do you think that's lost? Do
Speaker 6: you think that's a lost art? Because when you came up,
Speaker 6: you threw a hunt You threw I remember every hundredths
Speaker 6: pitch of the game, you would try to throw it
Speaker 6: one hundred miles an hour?
Speaker 1: Do you think that's lost?
Speaker 6: Being able to hit somebody so that they're, you know,
Speaker 6: get off the plate? Or do you think guys do
Speaker 6: that enough in the game right now?
Speaker 4: Los Peg.
Speaker 8: Seeing but I A.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's saying it's very different now. Now it's like
Speaker 4: everybody throws a hundred miles an hour, but it's not
Speaker 4: nearly as competitive as it used to be. There's not
Speaker 4: nearly as much as much emotion in today's game in
Speaker 4: terms of that competitive five than there was when he played.
Speaker 4: It seems like everybody now throws one hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 4: It's not about backing guys up off the plate. It's
Speaker 4: just about the fact that everybody can throw that.
Speaker 1: Part.
Speaker 7: I got a question for you. When you pitch, so
Speaker 7: you were the best. You and Greg Maddox were the best. Okay,
Speaker 7: you would throw the inside fastball that was never a strike,
Speaker 7: but they always called it a strike. How did you
Speaker 7: get the umpires to constantly call the pitch to me
Speaker 7: that I would go like this and it would hit
Speaker 7: my jersey as it went by, and the umpire would
Speaker 7: say a strike three every time? How did you get
Speaker 7: the umpire to call that every time.
Speaker 3: They look can be there?
Speaker 4: I knew, Yeah, the the video says that it was
Speaker 4: a strike. Age the video may say that.
Speaker 1: I used to tell umpires when he would pitch.
Speaker 7: Every time, I'd say, listen, he's gonna throw the front
Speaker 7: door sinker. It's not a strike. Do not call it
Speaker 7: on me. And then you get an umpire And then
Speaker 7: I come back and I'm like, the balls this far
Speaker 7: off the plate and they're like sorry, I just get excited.
Speaker 1: I just get so excited. I can't help myself.
Speaker 7: Every time with Bart, every time, I'm like he's gonna
Speaker 7: throw it and I'm gonna go like this and it's
Speaker 7: gonna be a strike.
Speaker 1: It happened every time, and does.
Speaker 4: He said every basically, if he's pitching against you, that's
Speaker 4: what he was gonna throw to you, because that was
Speaker 4: always was.
Speaker 7: I know he hit me and he threw that pitch.
Speaker 5: Those are his two favorite things against me.
Speaker 4: When you pitched, If it was a ball or a strike, yeah,
Speaker 4: because yeah, because when you caught him. That's that's why
Speaker 4: that was happening.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, by the way, tell him my life. Last game,
Speaker 7: my last game he started for the Mets, I was
Speaker 7: with the Braves and my I thought it was gonna
Speaker 7: be my last bat and he hit me and I
Speaker 7: was like, is that really how I'm gonna end my career?
Speaker 7: Bartolo Cologne hitting me in the middle of the back.
Speaker 7: I was like, oh, that looked.
Speaker 4: Like a j who for Lance and help and say
Speaker 4: at bat to then Daniel And it was the one
Speaker 4: that he always he always threw and it just got
Speaker 4: away from him.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, right there, Bartolo. Did you ever put anything
Speaker 6: on the pelota? Did you ever put anything on the ball?
Speaker 5: No, only you say dumb chicilech.
Speaker 6: But did you ever try because you would throw that
Speaker 6: you would throw that heater and see if it got
Speaker 6: a little extra movement, or would you cut the ball
Speaker 6: anything like that?
Speaker 1: No, never, no, I'll.
Speaker 3: No nada.
Speaker 4: He never had to do it, thank god. Nothing on
Speaker 4: the ball.
Speaker 1: What was his favorite team? Your favorite team? He played for?
Speaker 3: For my dad Clevelandandland b n B and.
Speaker 5: Message away writing fanantics.
Speaker 4: Okay, he said, for his dad obviously, and for himself
Speaker 4: Cleveland in the beginning because they were who gave him
Speaker 4: the opportunity. But for him in terms of where he
Speaker 4: felt the best and and you know, a lot of
Speaker 4: success in his career obviously, was the Mets aland the
Speaker 4: piences lost Mets Sevanna your second Tom Esperat. But okay,
Speaker 4: Gusta again, what do you what do you think the
Speaker 4: Mets need and and what do you like about this team?
Speaker 5: Piano, I mean a pich mm hmm, I know.
Speaker 4: And okay, so you like the pitching Gusta Los lost
Speaker 4: Nessitan Mass Okay, he's saying that they need they need
Speaker 4: more pitching right.
Speaker 3: Now, jacquanre I.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of guys, obviously, with the season being
Speaker 4: as long as it is, there's a lot of guys
Speaker 4: that are that are going to get tired, and of
Speaker 4: course you know with the with the injuries too, there's
Speaker 4: always a need for more pitching depth. A J wants
Speaker 4: to know, Bartolo, who's your favorite picture right now? Could
Speaker 4: get get Lances Faro and.
Speaker 3: I get get the ground?
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, well get to.
Speaker 3: When when I when I when I when I came
Speaker 3: I'm a pitcher? Get that when when Momento a solo match?
Speaker 5: Are all.
Speaker 3: Segua, Yeah, he I really.
Speaker 4: Liked, you know, de Grom when he pitched with them.
Speaker 4: Obviously with the Mets, they had really good chemistry, just
Speaker 4: enjoyed one another. So if you had to pick a
Speaker 4: favorite pitcher right now, it's a de Grom obviously, who's
Speaker 4: now with the Texas Rangers? AJ, you have one more?
Speaker 1: By the way, they only had him, Cyndegard de Grom.
Speaker 1: Who else was on the team? Bar was Matt's there? Then?
Speaker 7: I mean that was a pretty good staff there, Stephen
Speaker 7: Mets in twenty fifteen, Harvey Matt Harvey.
Speaker 1: I mean that's and so I will yeah, that was
Speaker 1: a good staff.
Speaker 7: But so what my question is, how come guys you
Speaker 7: look back on Bartolo's numbers two O four, two O
Speaker 7: five one, two twenty two, two thirty three, two forty
Speaker 7: two two oh wait to twenty two one ninety two
Speaker 7: oh two, one ninety four one ninety one. These are
Speaker 7: innings pitched for years that he wasn't injured. Why can't
Speaker 7: guys pitch two hundred innings anymore? Bartolo?
Speaker 3: And what and what about forty two?
Speaker 7: That's I said, two forty two, two thousand and three
Speaker 7: White Sox. Yeah, why can't guys pitch two hundred innings anymore?
Speaker 3: You know, you know my holiday? Yeah, how did I
Speaker 3: throw it? I think at two hundred and sixty two?
Speaker 3: Gaining that yea too.
Speaker 4: Bad?
Speaker 3: Okay, y'all get dealing with cent you cento YadA.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's saying, basically, now, guys throw eighty pitches and
Speaker 4: they're taken out of the game. And back in his
Speaker 4: day they throw a hundred, one hundred and ten hundred
Speaker 4: and twenty pitches. Now, if they get to the ninety
Speaker 4: or even certainly not the hundred mark, they get taken
Speaker 4: out of the game because you know, they're they're trying
Speaker 4: to protect the arm or whatever it is. It's just
Speaker 4: you know, it's obviously a very different game today, very
Speaker 4: different different time. They don't get they're not allowed to
Speaker 4: go deeper into games anymore.
Speaker 1: True, agreed, and I don't like it my decisions.
Speaker 4: Porto Tempo, thanks for being here today. We appreciate it
Speaker 4: very much. Good luck with all the clinics and and
Speaker 4: everything that you're doing. Uh in segnando los los n luego.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Gracia, thank you, thank you all right.
Speaker 5: Gafo ye, yes, yeah, I uhmeno, Terry.
Speaker 4: Terry, you've lost thirty Yeah, he's lost thirty pounds. Very good.
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: Skinny sexy.
Speaker 4: Sexy now not big sexy anymore, little sexy. Bartolo colomb
Speaker 4: thank you so much for being with the Sunfold Territory.
Speaker 4: We appreciate it. Game's changed, kids, it's really changed.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: Obviously when Bartolo played, what what am I doing?
Speaker 1: I was just looking. I was just looking at my
Speaker 1: numbers against him. I had a lot. I had sixty
Speaker 1: nine at bats off him.
Speaker 4: By the way, how'd you do?
Speaker 7: Uh eighteen for sixty nine A couple of dingers but
Speaker 7: not no. But listen, only five strikeouts, so that's pretty
Speaker 7: good because he for the end four of those came
Speaker 7: in the first six times I faced.
Speaker 4: Him, so it was so you figured him out.
Speaker 7: I figured I just wouldn't let him throw that pitch
Speaker 7: that started on my hip that wasn't a strike, and
Speaker 7: I would hit that one. But I did get him.
Speaker 7: I booked him twice Cratzy and he hit me twice,
Speaker 7: So I guess we're even.
Speaker 1: He knew, he knew. I'm telling you.
Speaker 7: I'm telling you when I walked into the shower in
Speaker 7: Dodger Stadium and I looked at him, and he looked
Speaker 7: at me, and I just said, man, can you is that?
Speaker 1: Is that ball still here? And he goes, what do
Speaker 1: you mean?
Speaker 7: And I go from when you hit me and it
Speaker 7: was one hundred and two, he'd bust he almost he
Speaker 7: started laughing so hard.
Speaker 1: It was one of the funniest things of all time.
Speaker 1: I said, I'm sorry, yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 4: Game's different now he looks good. He looks good.
Speaker 1: A little more gray. He's got a little more gray hair.
Speaker 7: His hair is a little He used to have kind
Speaker 7: of like I don't know, I don't know what you
Speaker 7: would call it, but it was like the mushroom cut
Speaker 7: where it's like went here and then it kind of
Speaker 7: went out like a mushroom.
Speaker 1: But he's trimmed it up nicely. It looks good, more gray.
Speaker 1: It was a blowout poppy, that's what they can call it.
Speaker 3: You get to blow out poppy.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's so funny.