1 00:00:09,039 --> 00:00:18,119 Speaker 1: Welcome to the favorite That was not Chad Millman, but 2 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 1: a better version of Chad Millman's voice. I'm black Jack 3 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:25,280 Speaker 1: Fletcher and joining me today has always on Thursday is 4 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 1: my favorite human being on this planet. Former fall time, 5 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 1: four time Major League Baseball All Star and legendary human 6 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:40,199 Speaker 1: being Paul Duca. PAULI, how you doing? Um? Got survived 7 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 1: eight days in Vegas with you? That's how I feel. Um, 8 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: I've heard you mentioned that in a couple of times. 9 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,919 Speaker 1: I'm little disappointing. You consider you my best friend? Now? Um, 10 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:53,080 Speaker 1: we are best friends? Yeah? Yeah, you want to go 11 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: do karate in the garage? Um, let's do some activities. 12 00:00:56,920 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 1: Although we did see holl of notes. Um, we may 13 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 1: be sleeping in bunk. It's in a few weeks, so 14 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 1: that is true the way things are going right now. Uh, 15 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:10,960 Speaker 1: it was a a great trip to Vegas. It really 16 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:14,040 Speaker 1: was with a lot of fun. Um. And you know what, 17 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 1: I miss you already. I miss you too. I miss 18 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 1: you too. So let's let's tell people a little bit 19 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:21,320 Speaker 1: about our excursion to Las Vegas. We were out there 20 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:24,200 Speaker 1: for eight days to cover the first two rounds of 21 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:26,120 Speaker 1: the n c A tournament. What what are some of 22 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: the more memorable moments from the trip. Paul, Well, there 23 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 1: wasn't much memorable about any memories about it. I mean, 24 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 1: actually the games were okay. I mean, we didn't do 25 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 1: bad on the games, didn't play much on the tables. 26 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 1: The horses was just wasn't clicking most of the time 27 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: were for the at least the beginning of it, and 28 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 1: it was hard to get horse bets into because everybody 29 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 1: was concentrating on, you know, obviously the basketball games. But 30 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 1: we had a great set up at the West Gate. 31 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: You got to give them a big, big shot man. 32 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: They gave us an awesome the games. Maybe any memorable 33 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: experiences with co workers or meals or anything like that, Yeah, Like, 34 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 1: I don't know how you operate, but when you know, like, 35 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: let me ask you a quick question. When you ask 36 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:21,800 Speaker 1: somebody out to eat, what's the protocol um? Generally, if 37 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 1: you're extending the invitation, I think you are buying me 38 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:31,600 Speaker 1: your meal. Okay, So are fearless leader Darren Rovel. He's 39 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:34,560 Speaker 1: a leader of nothing. First, when he works, he works 40 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 1: his tail off. I'll give him that. He's tweets his 41 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 1: tail off, well he does, I mean, and Instagram is 42 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 1: like a thirteen year old girl. Well true, I mean sellouts, 43 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:47,079 Speaker 1: not even the word when it comes to his Instagram. Okay, 44 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 1: so this is gonna be good. I have never in 45 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 1: my lifetime. Here's the thing. I've played credit card roulette 46 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 1: with with with big league players on a seven thousand 47 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:01,480 Speaker 1: r bill where you put seven credit cards in and 48 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 1: hoping your credit card does not get pulled out. And 49 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 1: so I've played some games like that where guys in 50 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:10,240 Speaker 1: this and that, But I've never played a game when 51 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 1: a guy invites me to dinner. Okay, he invited myself, 52 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 1: you and Jeff to dinner. Not only does he invited 53 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:22,360 Speaker 1: the dinner, he picks the spot. So there goes the 54 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 1: fifteen dollar uber ride. It was actually a thirtysothing dollar cabra. Okay, okay, 55 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:32,240 Speaker 1: let's add it on. Then we get there now, by 56 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: the way, Revel, Fletcher and Schwartz, and we're in an 57 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 1: Italian restaurant. Who should be ordering duca la duca Italian? Guy? 58 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 1: Do you want my twenty three in me kit? So 59 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:52,920 Speaker 1: not only does that happen, Revel proceeds to go let 60 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 1: me order. We'll wait, wait, wait, wait a second okay, okay, 61 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 1: guy invited you knew the chef, so he knew the 62 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: chef personally. They got phenomenal pasta. You're gonna love it. Um. 63 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 1: I actually like the holder my own fucking food. And 64 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 1: that's where I come from. Okay, So I got our 65 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:20,240 Speaker 1: last podcast. I get it, I get it, I get 66 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: along with it. We eat all this Italian food. The 67 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:30,600 Speaker 1: bill comes, it's three dollars. So now I've gone to 68 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 1: a restaurant I didn't want to go to. I've eaten 69 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:35,279 Speaker 1: food that I don't want to eat. And the bill 70 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 1: comes and he goes, hey, I'll cover two hundred of it. 71 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 1: Can you guys cover the other hundred? And I don't 72 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 1: think I've ever paid for a meal where I got 73 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 1: invited and ate the food that the guy asked me 74 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 1: to eat. And here's the best part about it. I 75 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 1: wake up at like three o'clock in the morning and 76 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 1: I basically called Blackjack and me and black Jack are 77 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 1: both got her faces in a toilet throwing up all 78 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:03,520 Speaker 1: we ate that night. True story. I thought I was 79 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 1: having like a pendicitis. It was. It was a very 80 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 1: painful experience. It was I think Ravelle poisoned us intentionally 81 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 1: so we would be off our game for the live 82 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:14,840 Speaker 1: show the next day, and he could shine and then 83 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:16,400 Speaker 1: he took the hunter and twenty dollars and he made 84 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: a two giant fifty dollar Betsy. So that was our 85 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:31,839 Speaker 1: time in Vegas. Um, all right, so let's move on. 86 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 1: We'll get to a little bit more of that later on. Um, PAULI, 87 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,559 Speaker 1: we've got we've got the Sweet sixteen coming up. Great 88 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 1: games and he you, okay, black Jack Dadua with the 89 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 1: space traces all the way back to Sicily just wondering 90 00:05:53,440 --> 00:06:01,039 Speaker 1: with the space. Oh all right, so the Sweet sixteen. 91 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:05,719 Speaker 1: Are there any games tonight, PAULI that particularly have your interest? Well, 92 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:09,480 Speaker 1: obviously with Opening Day in baseball, got interest and the 93 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 1: Graham Tournament right now, I know, but it's like, you know, 94 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 1: we're in my wheelhouse when it comes to the baseball. 95 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 1: But he listen the n C attorney. Um, it's what 96 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 1: I sort of thought. Obviously, it's been very chalky, which 97 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 1: we thought going in right. Um, I like Oregon, I 98 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 1: do the way they're playing, and Virginia can go and stretches. 99 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 1: I get it the ender and over in the game. 100 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 1: I think it's like one eight teams area, Um, but 101 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 1: just eight and a half points. At this level is 102 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 1: just a lot of points. An Tina Altman is so 103 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:48,920 Speaker 1: good and it comes down to coaching now that they've had, 104 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:52,640 Speaker 1: you know, some time off. And I also think Florida State. Now, 105 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: I know Kanzaki can score, but if Florida States, they're 106 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 1: very big, very tall, and if they can establish inside early, 107 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:01,920 Speaker 1: I think they can hang with Gonzaga as well. I 108 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,599 Speaker 1: think Florida State ken I would lean to them plus 109 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 1: the seven and a half. The other one, I don't know. 110 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 1: I still like Virginia. I think Virginia, what are you 111 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 1: gonna do with the Michigan game? That's a confusing. Texas Tech, 112 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 1: I've got Texas Tech in the final four. I think 113 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 1: they win the game out right. Um, Tennessee I've got 114 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: winning as well. Tennessee is just such a good shooting 115 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 1: team from the floor. The seven percent from the floor, 116 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's pretty tough to shut down. What 117 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 1: I like about Tennessee we talked about that before, is 118 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 1: that they don't need to win the game from the 119 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:33,040 Speaker 1: three point line, where a lot of other teams sort 120 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 1: of do and get hot like in Tennessee can score inside. 121 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 1: And now you're right, they're very, very good. I mean, 122 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 1: like I went back in that game. I think I 123 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:44,240 Speaker 1: actually like the game under because I think Perdue is 124 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 1: gonna try to slow it down and I think that's 125 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 1: gonna be a good game. So then Friday, we've got 126 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 1: l s U Michigan State, Michigan State a six and 127 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 1: a half point favorite, Auburn U n C U n 128 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 1: C a five point favorite, Virginia Tech Duke Duke by seven, 129 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 1: and Houston and Kentucky Kentucky three point favorite. And it 130 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 1: looks like PJ. Washington will be back for Kentucky in 131 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 1: that game while he start there Houston and Kentucky Kentucky 132 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 1: a three point favorite. What do you think love Kentucky, 133 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 1: Love Kentucky? The Kelvin Sampson's over with to me, I 134 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 1: always thought Houston it was very, very good. But their 135 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 1: size is now going to come into uh focus when 136 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 1: it comes into the sweet sixteen and now Washington coming back. 137 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a slow grind game. And 138 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:31,240 Speaker 1: here's the thing I get that care Calvin Sampson is 139 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:33,280 Speaker 1: a great coach. When you give Kyla Parti that much 140 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:37,320 Speaker 1: time to prepare, he's gonna lock up Houston and Houston 141 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 1: goes and stretches where they have trouble scoring. So I 142 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 1: really do like Kentucky and I'll tell you right now, 143 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,160 Speaker 1: Virginia Tech is gonna give Duke all they can handle. 144 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 1: I mean, I think people are trying to say, oh, 145 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:51,480 Speaker 1: they escaped UCF and they escape that tip. It's not 146 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 1: over yet. I think a lot of people are starting 147 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:57,320 Speaker 1: to realize that Duke is now beatable, you know what 148 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 1: I mean. After that first game when they beat Kentucky 149 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: Key by about a hundred first game of the season, 150 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 1: everybody crowned them champion. Now, little by little, people are 151 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 1: starting to crack into Duke, and you CEF almost got 152 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 1: it done with only think three. I mean, you heard 153 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 1: the u c F players on the court telling them 154 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:18,559 Speaker 1: shoot it at them to take three exactly. And I 155 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 1: think that's what's gonna happen. If you watch the UCF game. 156 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:24,200 Speaker 1: The guy didn't unbelieve that. He sagged everybody inside and said, 157 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 1: go ahead, you guys want to make twenty three pointers. 158 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:28,680 Speaker 1: Go ahead. He did a great job. What do you 159 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:30,440 Speaker 1: think about Auburn, U n C and l S U 160 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:33,440 Speaker 1: Michigan State. See here's the Auburn game. Is the trickiest 161 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:37,200 Speaker 1: game because North Carolina gives up almost eight to nine 162 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 1: threes a game. They're one of the worst defensive teams 163 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:43,200 Speaker 1: in the nation against the three, and that's what Auburn 164 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 1: lives on. But here's the thing about Auburn. They can 165 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:48,679 Speaker 1: put up a hundred points one night fifty the next night. 166 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 1: So I've understood, you know, I understand now why that 167 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 1: total has completely risen. I still the North Carolina wins 168 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:00,840 Speaker 1: the game, but this is a dangerous game for for 169 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 1: Roy Williams because Auburn is one of those teams that 170 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:06,280 Speaker 1: could beat anybody and in a given night, agreed that 171 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:08,200 Speaker 1: game in the l s U Michigan State game, to me, 172 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:11,079 Speaker 1: are two tough ones. I think, what's the grind fest? 173 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:12,839 Speaker 1: You think l s U Michigan State could be a 174 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:14,520 Speaker 1: grind fest? I do, And I think that I would 175 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 1: take the points with l s U and Auburn in 176 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 1: both of those games. I think that Michigan State wants 177 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:20,560 Speaker 1: to slow this thing down, play in the half court 178 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 1: a lot. L s U very athletic, very long and 179 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:26,320 Speaker 1: if you remember in January and February, they were one 180 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:28,000 Speaker 1: of the hottest teams in the country. Man, I mean 181 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:32,440 Speaker 1: LSU was really playing incredible. It's it's surprising they've made 182 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:35,120 Speaker 1: it to this point without their head coach, Will Wade, 183 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:38,360 Speaker 1: who's suspended. UM at some point you would think that's 184 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:40,640 Speaker 1: a factor, but maybe they're using it for motivation. I 185 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:42,800 Speaker 1: don't know, but I think they can cover six and 186 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 1: a half. Yeah. Listen, they're big, they're tall, they play 187 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,040 Speaker 1: the game very well in another team that doesn't need 188 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:52,640 Speaker 1: to live and die by the three coin shot. And 189 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:55,679 Speaker 1: I think that's key. Alright, So PAULI tell me, now, 190 00:10:55,760 --> 00:11:00,680 Speaker 1: tell the people here who's winning the national title? Well, 191 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 1: you know I had picked my final four was the 192 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:05,880 Speaker 1: a c C matchup in the SEC matchup was Tennessee 193 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:08,839 Speaker 1: and Kentucky, and then and then then Duke against Florida State. 194 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:10,959 Speaker 1: I like Kentucky, I do. I think this is call 195 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:16,000 Speaker 1: a Party's best job that he's done. Um. I think 196 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:20,520 Speaker 1: Washington winning those two games with alpet Washington it was giant. 197 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,760 Speaker 1: Now throwing him back could be a little bit funky 198 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 1: because he needs to get back in the mix and 199 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 1: back in the flow. So if they can get through 200 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:30,360 Speaker 1: the first half of that game and he gets going, 201 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 1: and and and I just I really feel like Kentucky 202 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 1: has got what it takes to maybe go all the way. 203 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:40,040 Speaker 1: And and the thing about it is, if they face Duke, 204 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 1: they're gonna remember every single part of that first game 205 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 1: in the season, and I think Duke will be for 206 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:48,439 Speaker 1: a rude awakening if they play each other. Yeah, I mean, 207 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:50,719 Speaker 1: I listen, I like Kentucky a lot. Ultimately, I have 208 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:53,640 Speaker 1: Virginia winning this thing. But UM, I think the winner 209 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:55,719 Speaker 1: of that matchup, I've got them both in the final four. 210 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:59,000 Speaker 1: I think that's who your national champion is. UM. As 211 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,840 Speaker 1: you mentioned before, Paul, today's opening day in Major League Baseball. 212 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:06,440 Speaker 1: Any last minute future bets, any bold predictions, anything, anything 213 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:09,080 Speaker 1: kind of out of left field, we should know. I 214 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:13,079 Speaker 1: think Aaron Nola is gonna win the Cy Young um 215 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 1: for the Phillies. He had the worst defense last year, 216 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:20,679 Speaker 1: UM in baseball. Now with was Hoskins moving, they come 217 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:24,920 Speaker 1: get Harper, he's gonna get more run support. UM. Obviously 218 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:27,840 Speaker 1: he's the opening day starter UM this year. UM. He 219 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:31,040 Speaker 1: was seventeen and six last year and black check what 220 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:34,439 Speaker 1: sold me on him was that he had only given 221 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:36,840 Speaker 1: up like four or five home runs. He got up 222 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:39,439 Speaker 1: nine home runs in September on October, so he probably 223 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:41,720 Speaker 1: got a little bit tired. You know, the ball doesn't 224 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 1: sink as much um during during the summer, and that's 225 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:46,719 Speaker 1: what he lives on, his power sinker. But what I 226 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:48,400 Speaker 1: saw in the All Star Game, he chewed up some 227 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 1: really good hitters and with that ball club now he's 228 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:54,160 Speaker 1: got a chance to win twenty games. So he would 229 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:56,560 Speaker 1: be my cy young prop Um, and I think that's 230 00:12:56,920 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 1: a pretty good choice. Although you're gonna have to beat 231 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 1: suzer Graham, I get it, but I think that because 232 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:06,160 Speaker 1: that division is so tough, Um that you know, maybe 233 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:09,199 Speaker 1: shot in the graam will beat each other up. Okay, okay, 234 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:11,680 Speaker 1: fair enough, PAULI. Before we get back to the show, 235 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:14,440 Speaker 1: we need to talk about something that's very important to 236 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 1: all of the ladies and gentlemen listening today, and that's 237 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:21,440 Speaker 1: a rectile health. Men are terrible at taking care of 238 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 1: their health. Whether it's a knee injury that you faked 239 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:28,360 Speaker 1: with Washington Nationals, a bad back, or something worse. Guys 240 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 1: are usually more comfortable rubbing some dirt on it than 241 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:34,200 Speaker 1: seeing a doctor. I'm sure you've done that a few times. 242 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:38,160 Speaker 1: But there are some things, Paul, you can't rub dirt on, 243 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 1: and that is the case for a rectile dysfunction. 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Um, 271 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:33,280 Speaker 1: I didn't make the team at the spring training. I 272 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:36,800 Speaker 1: was really really upset. Uh. What you do is you 273 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:43,000 Speaker 1: travel with the team to um um the Subway Series, 274 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 1: not the Subway Series, the Freeway Series, and you play 275 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:47,280 Speaker 1: those three games against the Angels and then you go. 276 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:50,000 Speaker 1: So I had broken camp and boom, I get sent down. 277 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 1: Well the night before that he got sent down. It 278 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:58,040 Speaker 1: was me, Kevin Elstair and um one of the clubhouse guys, 279 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:01,480 Speaker 1: and we just got schnockered. I know I was sent down. 280 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:05,320 Speaker 1: I mean we were in San Francisco Opening Day, and 281 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 1: I mean literally we carried the clubhouse guy to the 282 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 1: room and I carried Elster to his room. Okay, so 283 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:19,000 Speaker 1: I get basically next morning, I'm on a flight. I 284 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:21,480 Speaker 1: gotta meet the team. I think in Oklahoma City, where 285 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 1: it wasn't two thousand, um uh, they had already started 286 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:28,320 Speaker 1: this or they usually in the minor leagues, you start 287 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:31,240 Speaker 1: your season like m M. Four or five days later 288 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:33,440 Speaker 1: somewhere in that area, so you have a little time. 289 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 1: And so I get to Oklahoma City and um um start. 290 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 1: And I turned on the game and Jose off from 291 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 1: and scratches. So Elster is playing shortstop, and I'm like, 292 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 1: you've got to be kidding me. I basically carried him 293 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 1: to his room. Well, he proceeded to hit three home 294 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 1: runs that day, just totally hungover, completely hungover. And then 295 00:16:57,160 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 1: after the game, since he knew he was gonna play 296 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,320 Speaker 1: of the next game, he called me and goes, you 297 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:05,360 Speaker 1: need to come back. I'm like, bro, I just landed 298 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 1: in Oklahoma Cities. Like we got to do the exact 299 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:10,439 Speaker 1: same thing we did last night. So wait, did you 300 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:15,200 Speaker 1: actually go back to the couldn't go back? I had 301 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 1: to play like in two days in Oklahoma City. Like, 302 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:22,120 Speaker 1: but that's that's like crazy story because Offerman, I forget 303 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 1: what happened to Offerman. He got hit either by a 304 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 1: line drive and batting practice. And like Elister wasn't going 305 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:30,680 Speaker 1: to play, he was just basically on the roster to 306 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:34,399 Speaker 1: be a defensive guy because he had some of the 307 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:36,159 Speaker 1: best hands I ever saw. If it was if it 308 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 1: was hit at Kevin Elster, you were out. So he 309 00:17:39,359 --> 00:17:42,720 Speaker 1: was a defensive guy. And then he goes deep three times. 310 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 1: So sometimes sometimes it's it's good to go up there, 311 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 1: No thoughts. Alright, So our second story is going to 312 00:17:54,359 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 1: be amusing and heartwarming at the same time. Um, it 313 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:00,920 Speaker 1: involves Paul's saint of a mother. Why don't you go 314 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 1: ahead and start out by by telling us that story, Paul, Well, 315 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:08,560 Speaker 1: a lot of people always look at me and obviously 316 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:15,600 Speaker 1: listen to me and think, um, I'm a nutshot. Well 317 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:19,399 Speaker 1: that's true, this is partly true. But one lady in 318 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:22,480 Speaker 1: my life kept me grounding, and that was my mother. Um. 319 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:30,320 Speaker 1: Sadly she passed away. And when I graduated in three 320 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 1: I when I went to Arizona State, you know, I 321 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:37,760 Speaker 1: went to the Cow League and my mom fainted, um 322 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 1: at a restaurant and sort of went to the doctor 323 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:45,360 Speaker 1: the next day. And my mom and my dad basically 324 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:49,359 Speaker 1: had hidden that my mother had cancer. So let's fast 325 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:52,879 Speaker 1: forward to you know, I'm going up and down in 326 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:54,879 Speaker 1: the minor leagues. They just made me a catcher, basically 327 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:57,800 Speaker 1: told me they were going to release me. Is my 328 00:18:57,800 --> 00:18:59,640 Speaker 1: big break. They asked me to go to the fall 329 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:05,679 Speaker 1: league because I'm basically living in Arizona. Well, I'm basically 330 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,400 Speaker 1: take care of my mom too, because she's passing away 331 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:12,720 Speaker 1: a cancer. So I went to the doctor that that 332 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:15,720 Speaker 1: night and I said, listen, you know, you know how 333 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 1: much longer does my mom have with chemo or without chemo? 334 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:20,440 Speaker 1: Because she didn't want to do it anymore, and he 335 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:23,359 Speaker 1: wouldn't tell me. So, of course, just like I do 336 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:26,359 Speaker 1: an umpire's faces, I've gotten into the doctor's face and 337 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:28,800 Speaker 1: I said, listen, I doesn't want to do chemo anymore. 338 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:33,240 Speaker 1: Just please tell me. And she basically just said He 339 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:36,159 Speaker 1: basically said, she's got two months to live if she 340 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:40,720 Speaker 1: takes chemo, maybe six days. So I told her straight out, 341 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 1: and so she says, you know what, I want to leave. 342 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:48,160 Speaker 1: So we left the hospital, um, and then we got 343 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:51,480 Speaker 1: in the hospice. So we're sitting there in her hospice 344 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:54,800 Speaker 1: and I called the Dodgers and I said, listen, um, 345 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:59,080 Speaker 1: I'm gonna you know, I can't play this the fall League, um, 346 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:02,000 Speaker 1: and this and that, and my mom interrupted me while 347 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,080 Speaker 1: I was on the phone. He goes, hang up the phone, 348 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 1: and I go Mr Blaney, who's Charlie Blaney, who was 349 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:10,159 Speaker 1: head of the mar Lakes. I said, can I call 350 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:13,280 Speaker 1: you back? He said yes, Paul, And my mom looked 351 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:14,880 Speaker 1: at me and says, you're gonna go to my funeral 352 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:24,639 Speaker 1: and you're gonna play the next day. Um. And it 353 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 1: was like, uh so surreal. I told her, I said, 354 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:33,880 Speaker 1: you gotta be kidding me. I can't play. Um. She said, 355 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:36,520 Speaker 1: this is your big break. You're going to the Fall 356 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:40,520 Speaker 1: League with all these prospects. No one thinks you're a prospect. 357 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:42,520 Speaker 1: You're five ft eight, No one thinks you can make 358 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:44,080 Speaker 1: it to the big leagues. And I know you can. 359 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:47,639 Speaker 1: If I'm not there, I'll be up in the sky. 360 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:49,680 Speaker 1: But you need to go back and play. This is 361 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:53,880 Speaker 1: your opportunity. So I remember going to Davey Lopes, who's 362 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 1: our manager, and he kept asking me okay, okay, and 363 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:01,720 Speaker 1: I said, listen, I'm not okay, but my mom wants 364 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:04,520 Speaker 1: me to play. And my mom passed away by a 365 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 1: week later, ummm, and I played, and I led the 366 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 1: Fall League and hitting that year, and then got put 367 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:14,879 Speaker 1: on the forty man And you know, two years later 368 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:16,640 Speaker 1: I was in the big leagues because of her and 369 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:22,879 Speaker 1: a lot of people. I wonder, you know how selfless 370 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,520 Speaker 1: people can be. And I look back at my mother 371 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 1: and how selfish selfish she was to say that to me, 372 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 1: and I might not have ever made it to the 373 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:35,200 Speaker 1: big leagues. Baseball and sports can be ruthless. It could 374 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:37,720 Speaker 1: I could have never shown I showed them that I 375 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:43,320 Speaker 1: could play against the best with my mom basically helped 376 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:45,119 Speaker 1: me along and pushed me along. I still believe this 377 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 1: day my mom, my mom led led lead the league 378 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:55,159 Speaker 1: and hitting that year, and not me. That's ah, It's 379 00:21:55,200 --> 00:22:00,719 Speaker 1: a beautiful story, Paul. Now it is like, listen, she was. 380 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 1: There's an article in Sports Illustrated if anybody wants to 381 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:07,280 Speaker 1: look at it. She taught me how to hit. She 382 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:11,240 Speaker 1: used to throw me white pinto beans um out in 383 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:13,200 Speaker 1: the yard. If a lot of people don't know that, 384 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:15,640 Speaker 1: I used to get people used to say that they 385 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:19,160 Speaker 1: had their kids hitting beans. She did whatever it took. 386 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 1: She knew my batting. She was my hitting coach, so 387 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:24,560 Speaker 1: she knew what it took for me to get to 388 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:27,960 Speaker 1: the big leagues, and she just I know every mother 389 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:31,760 Speaker 1: sees something in their son, but this was different. My 390 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:35,159 Speaker 1: mom was not a person that pushed people, but she 391 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:36,920 Speaker 1: pushed me because she knew I had a talent to 392 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:40,440 Speaker 1: hit a baseball. It's a hell of a story. And 393 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:42,679 Speaker 1: your mother sounds like she was a great lady. So 394 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:44,720 Speaker 1: now do you want to hear But yes, there's more 395 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:47,360 Speaker 1: to this as they're usually Okay, so now you're hearing 396 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:51,120 Speaker 1: about this wonderful lady, the saint of a woman. I mean, 397 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:55,000 Speaker 1: she's the best. Like no exaggeration. When they say opposites attract, 398 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:57,760 Speaker 1: they do. My dad's the biggest crook in the world. 399 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:06,120 Speaker 1: My other no exaggeration church twice a week. If if 400 00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:09,240 Speaker 1: the ladies swiped corn at eighty nine cents and it 401 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:12,119 Speaker 1: was seventy nine cents, she would make the boy, the 402 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,320 Speaker 1: check guy, go check, and me and my brothers used 403 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:18,400 Speaker 1: to go please, Mom will give you the dime, like 404 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:21,119 Speaker 1: you scarred me from going to the grocery store for life. 405 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 1: So so tell us how your mother impacted your baseball 406 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:30,399 Speaker 1: career in a different way. Okay, So now here I 407 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 1: am my first spring training, Tommy Lasorda goes, hey, la Duca, 408 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 1: since you're the only Italian in here, you're the joke teller. 409 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 1: What every morning we used to get together spring training 410 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,560 Speaker 1: with Tommy. This was Tommy's thing, and you would go 411 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:50,120 Speaker 1: around and then you would introduce yourself, and if you're 412 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 1: a rookie, you'd get peppered by by all the the 413 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 1: older guys and this and that. Oh I heard get 414 00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:58,000 Speaker 1: to forty here and they'd rip on you. And it 415 00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:01,040 Speaker 1: was just like a rip session of fun session. So 416 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:04,160 Speaker 1: I got designated the joke guy. I had to tell 417 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:08,959 Speaker 1: a joke every day in front of everybody in spring training. 418 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:14,320 Speaker 1: So my mother comes home the sink of a woman 419 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 1: and drops this joke on me and goes, why don't 420 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 1: you drop this one? I said, Okay, there's this man 421 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,640 Speaker 1: that looks into a paper and he sees an ad 422 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 1: in the paper a hundred thousand acres for one dollar. 423 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:32,240 Speaker 1: He's like, you gotta be kidding me. This has got 424 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:38,040 Speaker 1: to be a miss print. Puts the paper down. Next day, 425 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:44,720 Speaker 1: same ad, even bigger hundred thousand acres seventy cents. Guys 426 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:47,640 Speaker 1: like he dropped it down a quarter. What's going on here. 427 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:53,720 Speaker 1: I gotta call this guy. So he calls the guy 428 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:57,200 Speaker 1: and he goes, Um, sir, He goes, you can call 429 00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:59,119 Speaker 1: me Charlie. My name is Mr McClendon, but you can 430 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:02,880 Speaker 1: call me Charlie. He goes, Charlie. Um, hundred thousand dollars 431 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 1: A hundred thousand acres for sevent is that true? Guy goes, yeah, 432 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 1: why don't you come out and check out the property? 433 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:11,240 Speaker 1: He goes, but there's a catch, and the guy goes, 434 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,080 Speaker 1: I knew. He goes, you have to marry my daughter. 435 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:19,399 Speaker 1: One guy goes, well, I'm single and in my mid forties. 436 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:23,960 Speaker 1: Why not. So he goes and he drives, and while 437 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:28,920 Speaker 1: he's driving he can see the acreage. It's just luxurious. 438 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:33,000 Speaker 1: It's beautiful. And he pulls up into this winding road, 439 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:38,880 Speaker 1: this giant home, and outcomes the owner, Mr mcclennan. Hey, 440 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:42,960 Speaker 1: how are you doing da Can I see your daughter? 441 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:49,480 Speaker 1: While the daughter comes walking out, He's like, oh, no, no, 442 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:52,080 Speaker 1: I can't. He's like, well, that's the deal if you 443 00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:56,199 Speaker 1: marry my daughter, and he's like, I can't. So he 444 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,800 Speaker 1: gets in the car and he pulls off, and as 445 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:02,719 Speaker 1: he's pulling off, acres are left he's just looking at 446 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:04,680 Speaker 1: the acreage and he sees this pond and he's like, 447 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 1: oh my god. He goes, you know, screw this. He goes, 448 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:10,159 Speaker 1: I'll put a bag over her head while I'm sucking her. 449 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:18,520 Speaker 1: I'm turning around. So he turns around and he goes deal. 450 00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:22,200 Speaker 1: So about two months later he buys and now he's 451 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:26,680 Speaker 1: gonna build an extra barn. So you know, he needs 452 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,159 Speaker 1: all these supplies and this and that. Well they have it. 453 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 1: So he tells his wife, his newly wife. He sweetheart, 454 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:36,760 Speaker 1: I'm gonna build some lads up here. Can you um 455 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 1: give me the ladder. She goes, get the ladder, get 456 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,199 Speaker 1: the ladder, Get the ladder, Get the ladder, Get the ladder, 457 00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:43,720 Speaker 1: and she goes, get some the ladder. So he walks 458 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:47,880 Speaker 1: up the ladder. He's like, sweetheart, I need some nails. 459 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:49,800 Speaker 1: She's like, get the nails. Get the nails. Get the nails, 460 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 1: get the nails, get the nails. Please, get some the nails. 461 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:57,280 Speaker 1: He goes, oh gosh, this is the wrong hammer. Baby. 462 00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 1: Can you go get me the hammer. She goes, get 463 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:01,119 Speaker 1: the hammer, get the ham, get the hammer, Get the hammer. 464 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 1: So now he walks up the ladder starts nailing away, 465 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:09,040 Speaker 1: nailing away, and he hits his thumb. He goes, fuck. 466 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,320 Speaker 1: She goes, get the bag, Get the bag, Get the bag. 467 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:25,040 Speaker 1: I love you, mom. And how did that joke play 468 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:28,119 Speaker 1: with Tommy? Sort of? Oh my god, he pet his pants. 469 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:31,080 Speaker 1: He was the worst thing ever because I brought out 470 00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:33,120 Speaker 1: my best joke on the first day and I could 471 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:37,200 Speaker 1: never top it. Didn't you just tell you to keep 472 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 1: telling it? He did, He told me to keep telling it, 473 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:44,560 Speaker 1: but he the funny part of that he I had 474 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:46,480 Speaker 1: to get my dad on the phone because he didn't 475 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 1: believe my mom told it to me. And I remember 476 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 1: my dad goes, yeah, my mother and my my wife 477 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:57,240 Speaker 1: was heard that joke. And like my mom never cussed, 478 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,720 Speaker 1: she like it was just when and that came out 479 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:04,040 Speaker 1: of her mouth. Is I never laughed so hard in 480 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:10,120 Speaker 1: my life. Jesus, Polly, you gotta do it. You gotta 481 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:11,560 Speaker 1: do hey, when the manager tells you to step up, 482 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,400 Speaker 1: you gotta step up with a good joke. Well you 483 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:19,400 Speaker 1: you did just that. I remember Brett Butler, who was very, 484 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,399 Speaker 1: very religious. He stared at me for a good fifteen minutes. 485 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,200 Speaker 1: Brett did not enjoy No, you know what I told him? 486 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:34,760 Speaker 1: Go lay your bunts down and hit two eighty. Wow, 487 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,960 Speaker 1: it's ballsy for a rookie. Hey, you have to do 488 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,640 Speaker 1: what you gotta do. Listen, those guys were ruthless back then. 489 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,000 Speaker 1: The millennials now don't even get it. You used. I 490 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 1: remember when I got to the clubhouse, Eric Carrols tell 491 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,280 Speaker 1: me you keep your mouth shut to your spoken to 492 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:55,280 Speaker 1: like you just don't like that was the bottom line 493 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:58,320 Speaker 1: of the bus. You sit in the back of the plane. 494 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,360 Speaker 1: This that, this at the stuff that goes on. Now, 495 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 1: half these kids would get slapped, they would, they would. 496 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:08,360 Speaker 1: You don't even know how many guys got in my 497 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:11,320 Speaker 1: face when I was younger, Like a lot of guys 498 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 1: seem guys get choked out on busses stuff like that, 499 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,280 Speaker 1: Like these kids are whimps. Do you ever like go 500 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,239 Speaker 1: and complain about it's your hr rep Yeah right, I 501 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:22,360 Speaker 1: remember all of my my managers are like, you know what, 502 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:25,360 Speaker 1: why don't you guys just go figure it out? And 503 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:26,800 Speaker 1: then a lot of guys that I played with, we 504 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 1: used to figure it out outside of the clubhouse. Oh yeah, 505 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:35,640 Speaker 1: ye are you gotta do what you gotta do? You listen, 506 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,600 Speaker 1: if you're a leader and a guy is out there 507 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:44,480 Speaker 1: just going through the motions, and you're affecting the way 508 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:47,520 Speaker 1: the rest of the team plays and affecting that young 509 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 1: kid over there that might get sent down because you're 510 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,600 Speaker 1: playing like a jerk off and you don't want to play. 511 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,360 Speaker 1: I have an issue with it, you know. And I 512 00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,520 Speaker 1: don't care if you're out till five in the morning. 513 00:29:57,880 --> 00:29:59,880 Speaker 1: I don't give a ship. Like what Kevin Elster did, 514 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:04,720 Speaker 1: I don't care he had three home runs, so I don't. 515 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,520 Speaker 1: I don't care who you are, what color you are, 516 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:10,280 Speaker 1: what you are. I want to win. And that's what 517 00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:13,200 Speaker 1: a lot of people don't get now, because all these 518 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 1: kids are worried about their images and worried about what's 519 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,560 Speaker 1: going to happen life after baseball. Bro, you're making forty 520 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:24,240 Speaker 1: million hit the fucking thing. Instead of worrying about Instagram 521 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:28,720 Speaker 1: and Twitter and worrying about being Darren Vel trying to 522 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 1: get free ship. When you're making forty three million dollars, 523 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:39,280 Speaker 1: you don't need free ship, well said, well said, thank you, 524 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,120 Speaker 1: so so, PAULI. Before we go again, we you know, 525 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:44,840 Speaker 1: we spent we spent a lot of time in Las 526 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:47,240 Speaker 1: Vegas over the last two weeks. I mean, I think 527 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:49,000 Speaker 1: you and I have spent like eleven of the last 528 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:53,080 Speaker 1: fourteen days in Las Vegas. Um any other any other 529 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:56,000 Speaker 1: stories you want to tell anyone? Maybe about the the 530 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,360 Speaker 1: night we went out with everyone from the Action Network. 531 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:07,400 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, like I like to dance. That might keep screaming. 532 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,800 Speaker 1: I know, I don't know what's going on, So tell 533 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:11,720 Speaker 1: us tell us a little bit about that, mate. It 534 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:13,800 Speaker 1: was a fun night, it really was. It was great. 535 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,479 Speaker 1: It was just absolutely wondrous. I was up till four 536 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:22,040 Speaker 1: or forty in the morning looking for a lost woman. Okay, 537 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:24,280 Speaker 1: you want to go into a little bit more detail 538 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:30,800 Speaker 1: on that. I know, I don't really don't really, I mean, 539 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:35,800 Speaker 1: like had fun dancing on it was a complete mess. 540 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:38,200 Speaker 1: I get it. But that's part of the lifestyle. Listen. 541 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,760 Speaker 1: If I'm gonna lose two to three thousand dollars, I'm 542 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:43,760 Speaker 1: gonna dance it off. Okay, do you have a problem 543 00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:49,640 Speaker 1: with it? So I was dancing it off, okay, And 544 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:51,800 Speaker 1: you know, dancing it off with a couple of women 545 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,760 Speaker 1: by my side made it even better. And one woman 546 00:31:54,800 --> 00:32:00,840 Speaker 1: decided to go to the airport. She got it while 547 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:04,680 Speaker 1: I was eating a quarter pounder. It's also true, I mean, 548 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:07,440 Speaker 1: like you can't even make it up. Black Jack and 549 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:09,800 Speaker 1: I are losing money. Girls are going to the airports 550 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:13,400 Speaker 1: and we're eating at Denny's and McDonald's. That did happen. 551 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:15,959 Speaker 1: That did happen. Yeah, I mean it was like two 552 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:21,080 Speaker 1: thirty in the morning. Yeah. But then you're downtown looking 553 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,640 Speaker 1: for her. And then when I went, I'm looking for 554 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:27,560 Speaker 1: her on the street. It's like we were person who Honestly, 555 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,600 Speaker 1: I barely knew what she looked like. You know what's 556 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:36,200 Speaker 1: funny is I wasn't really looking at her either. Her 557 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:42,040 Speaker 1: friend was way better looking. That's your girlfriend, yes, exactly. 558 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:48,640 Speaker 1: But Maggie, Hi, mags Uh, that's what complicated it all. 559 00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:53,520 Speaker 1: It's because I'm looking for my girlfriend's best friend in 560 00:32:53,640 --> 00:33:00,720 Speaker 1: Vegas where there's eighty million girls. Good luck. I can't 561 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:05,600 Speaker 1: eat black Jack. I can't, like I can't carry everybody. Polly, 562 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:09,280 Speaker 1: I was there. I know I was walking around with you. 563 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:16,520 Speaker 1: We just we can't carry everybody like you know schwartzcan 564 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:21,520 Speaker 1: physically yes, physically yes, physically yes. Like Jeff. Jeff came 565 00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:23,280 Speaker 1: out with us that night. That was his late night, 566 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:27,200 Speaker 1: promised this one night. He gave us one night, and 567 00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:30,360 Speaker 1: he he just loved watching you dance. It made him 568 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:35,000 Speaker 1: so happy. Oh god, he love it. He even said that, like, 569 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,479 Speaker 1: his wife is enamored with my dancing, but then I 570 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,000 Speaker 1: turned her off with one of my other dances. Yeah. Yeah, 571 00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:46,520 Speaker 1: the the extreme crutch chop that you did turned her off. Well, 572 00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:52,680 Speaker 1: I mean that's just like more of like I can understand. Huh, 573 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:55,520 Speaker 1: it's more of a seduction. Yeah. I'm just showing the 574 00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:58,239 Speaker 1: thrust power that I have, Like you know how you know, 575 00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:01,400 Speaker 1: guys have like velocity and it leaves the bat. That's 576 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:08,760 Speaker 1: what I'm just trying to show. Paul, he's just showing 577 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:14,200 Speaker 1: his bad speed. I was showing my exactly my bad speed. Alright, Um, well, 578 00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:16,680 Speaker 1: I think this is a good time to wrap it up. 579 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:22,840 Speaker 1: Um wrap the show up at least. Well, that's Antonio 580 00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:25,680 Speaker 1: in the background. Loudest laugh we got from him in 581 00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:31,040 Speaker 1: a while. Antonio, did they see the song? Antonio? I 582 00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:36,239 Speaker 1: think that's Alijandro by Lady Alejandro. By the way, for 583 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,799 Speaker 1: all the people that don't know out there, Matt Ford 584 00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,360 Speaker 1: in Antonio in the background, they're the ones that are 585 00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:45,040 Speaker 1: the real magic behind this podcast. That's right, that's right. 586 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:48,080 Speaker 1: Listen to this guy trying to butter someone up at 587 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:53,440 Speaker 1: this company. What's going on with my mike? Thank you 588 00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:57,960 Speaker 1: everybody for listening to the Favorite. Make sure you're downloaded 589 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,200 Speaker 1: on Apple Podcasts, Radio, doc Um, Slash, the Action Network, 590 00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:04,560 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcast. Leave a five star review. 591 00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:07,520 Speaker 1: Um you know, maybe we'll get someone reading those at 592 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:12,480 Speaker 1: some point. Again, who the hell knows? Subscribe rate, do 593 00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:15,879 Speaker 1: all that good stuff. Thank you for listening. Until next time. 594 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,120 Speaker 1: He's Paul Laduka, I'm black Jack Leger. We'll see you later.