WEBVTT - Baseball with Clayton Kershaw 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:05.320 Non Berg and Ron Berg and Dan talking and say 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:13.880 anything Berg and wrong back and he's not playing any game. 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:17.560 Good morning, listeners, this is Ron Burgundy and I hope 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:21.960 everyone is having a great morning enjoying the great weather 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:28.240 with a little cup of Joe. Actually, I can't fake 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:33.120 it today. I don't know what to say. I well, 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:37.200 I just it just received some news before walking into 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:40.280 the studio today. I wish I could say it was 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:46.000 good news, but no, it's pretty dark, to be honest, 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:50.559 and not funny dark like Lenny Bruce or or when 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:54.200 a kid falls down. It's just it's just dark and 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:58.120 full of despair. What's going on? Okay, I'll just say it. 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:01.720 I got some results back from my doctor. Oh my god, 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:10.000 Ron and I have an announcement. I have a cavity? 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:13.480 What is wrong with you? And yes, of course I'm scared. 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:17.040 I mean, why me? If it if it had to 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:19.440 happen to anyone, why not Carolina? You know because I 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:21.760 brush my teeth. Excuse me, I brush my teeth. I'm 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:24.400 not an animal. Well you have to brush twice a day, 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:29.679 So do you brush twice a day? Okay, Carolina, A 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:33.600 nice try. I wasn't born, do you mean you weren't 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:37.160 born yesterday, because that's listen. I'm not trying to trick you. 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.760 If you have to brush twice a day, when do 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:44.000 you brush your teeth? When do I brush my teeth 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:48.840 when everyone else does on holidays? You only brush your 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:52.480 teeth on holidays, well, not all holidays, I mean Presents 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:56.800 Day isn't really a holiday, is it? So? So I 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:01.200 brushed during Christmas or New Year's I put on some 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.800 nice slacks, I brushed the mustache with my ivory comb, 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:08.480 and I brushed my choppers. It's the holiday, so you 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.120 want to do it up, and sometimes I forget. I'm 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:14.080 not perfect. Doesn't the smell of your breath bother you? 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:17.480 You mean the smell of rare steak and aged whiskey, 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:21.880 no Carolina, That doesn't bother me, just like the smell 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:25.160 of top ramen and cold brew coffee must not bother you. 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:29.239 Take it easy. Don't your teeth hurt? They felt fine, 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:33.440 like normal teeth, with the texture of wool, And then 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:35.600 out of nowhere, I felt a pain as sharp as 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:40.400 zoos thunderbolt. So I went to the doctor. You went 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:43.600 to your general doctor, yes, Then he referred me to 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.920 a specialist you mean a dentist. Oh no, Carolina, are you? 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:50.120 Are you a cabbage survivor as well? I wouldn't call 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:54.919 myself a survivor, but yeah, what wicked webs we weave? 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.640 I think we should move on. All right? What are 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:01.560 we doing today? If anything? Well, are definitely doing something today, 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:04.160 and that's that's why we're here in the studio where 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:08.440 you're actually interviewing Clayton Kershaw. Oh right, okay, today we 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:14.120 have Clayton Kersha, the famous Croatian circus cloud. No, no, wait, 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.680 I didn't how many Clayton Kershaws are there? And I'm 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.880 talking about the Dodgers picture. Well, Carolina, I specifically asked you, 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:24.240 and I think I asked you upwards of fifty thousand 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:27.880 times to get Clayton Kersha, the Croatian circus clown. He 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:32.320 travels through Croatia in a wagon led by mules. And 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:36.600 that's who you wanted to interview, the Croatian circus for 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:39.880 the millionth time. Yes, I mean, does a baseball pitcher 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:43.200 even know anything about Croatia? I'm not sure. I mean, 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.640 maybe we just let's stay off the topic of Croatia. 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.560 It might not make sense to ask about it. I know, 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:52.160 but I when I think of Clayton Kersha, I'm gonna 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:56.760 think of Croatia. Just keep thinking about baseball, baseball questions. 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:01.400 So he's a baseball player for who the last Angels Dodgers. Oh, yes, 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:05.440 Clayton Kershaw. That Clayton Kersha. Oh he's outstanding. You're very familiar, 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:08.000 very familiar. I can't wait to talk to him. In fact, 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:20.359 we will talk to him right after these messages. And 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:24.000 welcome back to the Ron Burgundy Podcast. We are very 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:28.599 excited to have here in the studio with us from 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:32.720 the Los Angeles Dodgers. Picture Clayton Kershaw. Clayton, welcome to 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.640 the podcast. Thanks for having me wrong appreciate it. Carolina. 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:38.680 Are you excited to meet Clayton Kershaw. I'm so excited. 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:43.480 I just learned about baseball and Ron walked me through 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:46.240 a game. Clayton, you're a lefty. I'm a lefty. Were 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:49.320 you always a lefty? Yes? The whole time, the whole time, 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.279 whole time. Never you never thought about switching to write. 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:53.760 I thought about it, but I just didn't work. It 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:55.920 didn't work, could not work. Does that give you an 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:59.080 upper hand? Um? You know there's less of us so 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:01.680 it's a little bit more unorthodox. So it definitely helps 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:04.520 a little bit. For sure. The the left hander is 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:08.960 very valuable in Major League Baseball. Yes, but there are 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:12.560 no left added third baseman or catchers. Are you a 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.440 lefty wrong? I'm a yeah, I right lefty. So you 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:18.320 didn't play third base? I did? You did? That's why 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:20.960 we lost every game that I couldn't make the throw 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:24.839 across the diamond. You also read while you're on third base? 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.279 I did. I would read. I'd have a paperback novel 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:29.960 my back because I got base. I mean, you have to. 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:31.919 It's it's kind of a boring game if you're if 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:35.560 you're not paying attention on the action, is you know, 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:39.800 intermittent at best? Yeah, you're right. I want to write that. 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:43.000 I'm glad I fit that word in intermitted. That was 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:44.680 I have a word a day. I tried to fit 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:47.960 into my language. You were saying ardently a lot. I 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:54.080 said ardently times. Whether it's fit or not, it was 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:59.120 very intermittent. Did you play last night? We did? Yeah, 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.440 we played? And who who did you guys? We played 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:04.320 the Mets, New York Mets, and we won. I think 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:07.000 the final school was eight to five. And were you 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:08.640 at home or were you in New York? We were 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:10.600 in l A. Ok, yes, we were home. And how 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.599 are the Mets this year? Um, honestly, I don't know 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:15.440 what the record is. I think they're okay because you 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.719 don't care, right, you just play your game, Just play 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:19.720 down there, and yeah, they're a good team. I think 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.600 they'll be all right. Right, Yeah, what how many innings 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.120 did you throw through? Six? Things? I didn't throw very well? Wrong, 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:27.919 I had a rough game. Really, Yeah, it wasn't super great. 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:30.640 Well talk about thanks for asking? Yeah, no, it was good. 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:34.240 We did win. The main point when you when you 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.600 don't have a game that you feel great about, how 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:40.000 were you able to just you just gotta forget about it? Right? Yeah, 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:42.200 it's tough, you know, but as a starting pitcher, you 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:44.760 play once every five days, so you got like four 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:47.159 days to think about it and get back at it 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:51.159 that fifth day. So what's your advice to players whatever age? 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:55.440 In high school, middle school, we have a rough day, exactly, Well, 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:57.960 it's gonna happen. I think you know, everybody's gonna have 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:00.400 their bad days in baseball, right, But I think more 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:02.159 than anything, it's just about how you go about it. 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:04.760 And then baseball is a lot about how you handle failure. 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:06.640 You know, there's a lot of failure in baseball, so 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.200 it's really important to be able to compartmentalize that. And 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:12.720 um go from there. And you have a son. So 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:14.960 when your son gets older, Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna be 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:19.120 super hard on him. I'm gonna keep the pressure, keep 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.320 turn up the heat, let him know. Yeah. Yeah, he's 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:23.520 got a lot to live up to. That's good. Yeah, 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:25.520 I like that. No, I just I just want to 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:27.440 have fun, you know. I just as long as he's 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:29.600 loving baseball, he can play as long as he wants. 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:33.400 But what if he's like dad, Sorry, I like Badminton. 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:37.400 I like leather bound books. What if he enjoys be great. 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:40.200 In fact, I have some leather band books around here somewhere. 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:42.320 I also have a loaf of bread. There it is. 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.520 That's my lucky loaf of sour dough. There the listeners, 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:48.320 there's a there's a giant loaf of sour dough bread. 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:50.520 It's kind of like when a Laddin would bite into 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:54.360 a sour dough in the cartoon. I don't remember that, Okay, sorry, 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:58.400 scratch that, you know, Carolina, make it count Okay, we've 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.120 got Clayton Kershaw in here. I brought the future Hall 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.720 of Famer and you bring up a Laddin and the 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:05.920 bite into the bread and he's about to leave. You're 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:08.720 not gonna leave right now? Okay, Well we'll get back 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:11.560 to um. Let me ask you this question. What's the 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:14.400 worst city to play baseball in? What's the place you 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:17.920 hate the most? I don't know if I can answer that. Um, sure, 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.880 go ahead, let me let me. I'll throw some names 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.920 out and you can just either I'll not or Cleveland. 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:29.200 It's it's not my favorite. Yeah, it's okay, rock and 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:33.120 roll Hall of Fame. Yeah. Wait, you guys don't play 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:37.160 in Cleveland ever, do you? Very rarely? Milwaukee? I like 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:44.280 Milwaukee sleeper city, sleeper um Albany? Is there a professional 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:51.160 team in Albany? Never been all right? Ah, Miami, it's 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:54.959 it's a fun city, right The team's not great right now? 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:58.360 So the fan atmosphere lacks a little bit, like there's 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:01.120 no one there, not a lot what would you say, 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:03.839 like a thousand people in the stands. It feels like that, 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:07.520 it really does. Can you you guys can hear individual 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.040 fans It is way worse when there's less people, because 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:13.719 you can hear the youth sucks way more like way more. 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:15.840 That's what I've heard. I heard. I heard someone was 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:20.000 saying that professional ball players you can never acknowledge anything 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:22.839 that the fans say to you. You're right, but because 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:26.440 if you do, they'll know you can hear them. Yes, 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:28.560 but sometimes you can't help it. Some of it's so 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:33.040 funny though, wrong. What's the weird? Well, some of them 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:36.079 do their research, right, Like they know your wife's name, 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:39.280 your kids names. Yeah, I mean, they know where you're born. 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.840 You know, they know anything that Wikipedia has, they'll find 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.040 it and say it. And you've got to give them 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.640 a little credit. They've done their research. But you know, 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.199 I just appreciate a good old you know, you suck, 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.320 you know, I mean that's just yeah, it's good. You 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:56.080 can't can't fight that, Just say thank you and move on. 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:59.160 You appreciate the fact that they're as tough of fans 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:01.880 as you would want it. Dodger Stadium, exactly right, Yeah, 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:04.400 I hope we give it give it right, yeah, give 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:09.360 it back. You've you've won three Cy Young Awards? Is 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.360 that correct? Correct? Who is Cy Young? Does anyone know? 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:17.280 And then and and my research shows me. And so 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:21.080 in two thousand eleven, you won Baseball's pitching Triple Crown. 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:26.199 What what is that? Exactly? Wins, wins versus losses, E, 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:30.520 R A, and U, strikeouts, strikeouts. So you were the 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:35.000 league leader in all three of those. And then that 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:39.160 next year in did you just did you brag to everyone, 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:42.800 all the other opposing players like triple Crown winner last year? 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.320 Everybody I saw. I just kind of wrote it on 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:49.319 my forehead. I mean, you've been described throughout your career 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:52.000 as the best picture in baseball? Do you ever just 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:55.160 scream that at people? Like if you can't get into 0:10:55.720 --> 0:11:00.200 you know, Chili's Friday Night, I'm sorry, Mr, Do you 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:03.320 just scream at the hostess, I'm the best pitcher in baseball? 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:08.800 Absolutely great. You can't borrow that for Chilies, by the way, 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.439 it's for Clayton. You can't just yell that. Well, I'm 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:14.599 now going to say I know the best pitcher in baseball. 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:18.840 You can see that, give me a booth. You know 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:21.560 what I like about Chilies, though, is they don't play favorites. 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:25.040 So you say that, well, yeah, and you're gonna wait 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:29.199 fifteen minutes. Everybody cannot fault chilies for that. That's right, 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:35.400 they don't they The only democracy laugh is chilies are Um. 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:37.320 Let me ask you this, what's it like to be 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:41.160 a Dodger with all that baseball history. It's awesome, It's 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:43.080 got to be. It's great. I love it. One of 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:46.040 these storied franchises in base not on baseball, but all 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.760 of sports. So cool when you put that uniform on, 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:53.160 do you do you sometimes wet your pants? I do? Yeah, Okay, yeah, 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.439 I mean it's so many cool people that have been 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.320 part of the Dodgers. It's really special. I can think 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:07.000 of all of them, Burt hooting Um, who else? Ah, 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:13.680 mostly Burt hooton all of them, Doug raw Um, I 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:18.560 haven't heard of Doug Doug rawl Burt hooting Um book 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:25.360 who wrong name? Sorry, No, I don't. Here's here's something 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:30.000 that always drives me crazy. I don't think Sandy Kofax 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:36.560 gets enough credit. Four no hitters, a perfect game, all 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:40.360 this while being the first and last Jewish woman ever 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:42.959 to pitch in the big leagues. Why is that overlooked? 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:46.400 It should not be. I mean, no one brings that up. 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:50.040 Nobody There's there hasn't been a female pitcher in baseball 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:53.520 before or since? And and this lady, have you ever 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:55.800 seen a picture of like? I can't. I can't say 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:59.000 that I have. You might want to just google that, Oh, 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:01.760 check that out? Okay, Yeah, anyway, I just don't know 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.959 why people don't make a bigger deal. I agree about 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:10.400 the fact that you know, Sandra ko Fax amazing player, 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:13.480 one of my favorites, even though I don't know what 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.440 she looks. I couldn't pick her out of a lineup 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.040 if I had to. If if they said to me, 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:22.960 Sandy Kofax is down the building, I'd be really nervous 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:27.400 and I'd say, where is she? What sort of dressing? Sandy? 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:32.079 Raise your hand? Now? Is it true that your your 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:37.439 great uncle discovered the planet Pluto? Is very true? Yes, Clyde, Tomball, 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:40.760 Clyde is he really was? He really pissed when they 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:44.800 said Pluto wasn't a planet. He the family was sure. 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:48.720 We've got a lot of you know, we have for 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:53.480 those listeners. Clayton's great uncle was I assume an astronomer 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:57.800 or astrophysicists or something. Yeah, he discovered Pluto would be 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.640 great if he's just an insurance silver and he just that. Yeah, 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:05.520 I'm gonna call it Pluto. But he discovered Pluto did 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:08.240 and then when they said it was not a planet, 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:15.320 devastating to the my mom's maiden name Tomba family went crazy. Yes, 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:18.280 I think it's mean to take it back. I think 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:20.720 it is too. I mean what, yeah, who who gets 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:24.360 the authority on planet naming or finding? You know, what's 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:28.200 the governing body that can take that away? I don't know. 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.240 So they think that Pluto is just a ball of 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:38.200 inert gas, don't laugh, run run you know where I 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:40.560 get a ball of inner gas. After after I eat 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:45.000 a chilies. I was waiting for that one. Good. Okay, 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:49.160 got that joke in. That was good. Um. I mean 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:51.560 when you retire, do you feel like you need to 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:54.320 discover a planet? I would love to. I don't know. 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:56.960 I feel like everything's I mean, when you're out of baseball, 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.400 what is Clayton Kershaw? I think he's gonna do? Can 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:02.240 I can I maybe help you out with the podcast? Wrong? 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:04.200 Oh my god, I would love it. I think all 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:08.440 positions are Oh they're final. I could be an intern, 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.000 non paid. You know what, worked your way up from 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:14.320 the bottom, right, I'll pay to learn the craft of 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:18.360 podcasting Roun constantly threads to replace me. So I'm just 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:20.640 really need I won't take your job. I won't do that. 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:24.360 I won't do that. I gotta ask you this. So, Carolina, 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:26.760 you may not know this, but the Dodgers are in 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:30.080 the National League, yes, and the pictures in the National 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:34.200 League have to hit with a sad sack American League. 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:36.920 They don't have to hit what's called a designated hitter. 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.720 What do you enjoy hitting as a picture? I love 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:43.280 taking batting practice. Okay, so that's fun because you get 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:47.120 to hit maybe a home run in batting practice and 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:49.880 it's really fun. But then when it comes to the game, Yeah, 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:52.800 that's more difficult. It takes you out of your rhythm. Well, 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:55.760 it's just it's hard and it's hard. Yeah. Hitting is 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:58.240 like really hard, like the hardest thing to do in 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:01.920 sports in my opinion. And I don't practice a lot 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:05.360 um and it's you're facing guys that throw really hard 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:07.280 and it's just hard. It's hard to do. The batting 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:09.800 practice is fun. They throw it right there for you, 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.920 right down Broadway, as they say, beautiful stadiums. You get 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:15.480 to be a kid again, no pressure. It's awesome. Do 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:18.280 you ever yelled at the opposing picture like, hey, just 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:21.200 come on, throw it. Throw easy and I'll throw easy 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:23.360 on you. No, because then I have to throw easy 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.200 to them, and that's no fun. I gave up a 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:29.200 hit to a picture yesterday. Oh jeez, you get you 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:32.840 get ribbed in the clubhouse for that. I told you 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:36.720 how to rough game yesterday. Note for our listeners, the 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:40.440 game reference by Clayton Kershaw took place in May, not 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:44.200 in the fall when this podcast is airing. Therefore, if 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:49.520 there's any confusion, that's what happened. The game happened earlier 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:54.080 in the season. Thank you for your patience. Good thank you. 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:59.040 Jacob deGrom didn't he used to beautiful flowing locks of hair. 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:00.840 He did, he can, and he cut it all off. 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:05.080 I don't know why. I trust me. If you've got 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:09.439 a luscious mane of hair, don't don't get rid of it, 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:13.560 because once it's gone, there's a good chance it's never 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:18.360 coming back. Sometimes it grows. I never cut my hair, 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:21.800 and it never grows. It's the same link all the time. 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:26.760 It's a genetic imperfection. Oh my god, I was born 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:31.640 with this head of hair. Yes, as a baby. Yes, 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:36.119 that's so insane and the doctor was like, this is 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:41.359 one gorgeous kid. Um. How many Dodger dogs have you 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:45.680 had in one sitting? I've wanted to join the hot 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:47.600 dog eating contest. I think I would do well, but 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:49.359 I think two is probably the most I've had in 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:52.280 one sitting. Did you ever want to meet Kobe Ashi, 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:57.439 the professional hot dog eater? That's amazing. He's what did 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:01.400 he eat sixty or something like that? Yes, amazing, Caroline. 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:04.280 How many hot dogs have you eaten today? In general? 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:09.920 I've eaten three or four hot dogs. There's nothing. I 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:11.640 don't know what it is about a dodge or dog. 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.720 If you eat it fast enough, your body can't tell 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:20.720 you your fault. And that's their slogan. You really do. Um. 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:22.720 You know what. Sometimes I'll go to and all you 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:25.959 can eat sushi and just sit there for six hours. 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:27.960 I can't kick you out. I put a do not 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:32.199 disturb side at my table and they get pissed at me. 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:36.119 It's pretty crazy, and I'll just point to their sign 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:40.280 all it says all you can eat, not even a 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:43.639 time limit. You know what, don't call yourself all you 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:47.159 can eat. They've taken you out and you've been literally 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:51.760 punching in the air, just dragged out by L A. P. D. 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:56.359 But gosh, darnett if I didn't eat two th dollars 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:59.840 with the sushi. Yeah, not great sushi, not great sushi, 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:03.000 but you can't resist deal. And a lot of times 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:06.240 I'll go to the places with the be Health Code rating. Yeah, 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:08.359 I don't know why, because they're happy to have me. 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:12.760 They'll let me stay as long as they want. Um. 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:14.600 The minor leagues. How many years were you in the 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:19.840 minor leagues? Clayton too, Just two years. Yeah, that's pretty quick. Yeah, 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:21.840 it was a little quick, Yeah, but it was. It 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:24.000 was a good experience. I had fun. But the minor leagues, 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:27.080 I mean it's it's you know, you're riding busses. Yeah, 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:30.920 you're it's not glamorous and not glamorous. No, not good. 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:33.280 But you get to see some places you never see. 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:37.320 Like have you ever been to Burlington, Iowa? I love it? Okay, 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:40.000 well most people I say that I've got I've got 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:44.159 a summer place there right on the lake. Burlington has 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:47.120 a lake, doesn't Well, maybe it's a reservoir, the man 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:50.160 made lakes. Maybe it's somewhere completely different, could be, could 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:52.760 be but it's it's a good time. You get to 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:55.399 hang out. And Burlington, I what were some of the 0:19:55.400 --> 0:20:01.679 other cities, Clinton, A lot of places in Iowa. Shockingly, um, Appleton, Wisconsin. 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:04.080 This is the Midwest League. And would this have been 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:07.280 uh single A double this was? This was single A 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:11.600 and and then the other league was called the Southern League. 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:16.000 And so I went to places like Jackson, Mississippi, Sebulon, 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:20.720 North Carolina. Um, yeah, just and just You're staying in 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:24.879 motels and yeah, you get what with a roommate, you 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:28.040 share a room forty bucks a day for meal money, 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:31.639 for meal money. They might it might have pushed up, 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:33.040 but it was twenty. So you're in a lot of 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:39.679 subway sandwiches and yeah subway actually, yes, all the time. Wow, 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:45.439 anytime during that stent, we're like this blows. Yeah, for sure, 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:48.800 for sure a lot. But that's why you try to 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:51.040 go fast get out of there. Did you ever set 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:54.639 a timetable? In other words, if if it's five years 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:57.600 and I'm still a double A, forget it, hang it up, 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:00.840 I'll go. Well, so I don't go to be a 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:03.480 substitute school teacher? Yeah, I see, I would have need 0:21:03.480 --> 0:21:05.000 school for that, which would have been a problem because 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:06.840 I didn't. I didn't. You went straight out of high school. 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:08.600 I didn't go to college, so that was kind of 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:10.679 my Hey, I've got four years. I would have been 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:13.040 in college. So I got four years and then I 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:15.679 would have had to think about some things probably, but 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:18.560 thank god it worked out. It did work out. Scouted, 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:22.320 how old were you when you started getting scouted? High school? Yeah, 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:25.840 but you were like a senior, junior, senior, and you 0:21:25.840 --> 0:21:30.280 get a choice. We probably were being offered college scholarships. 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:31.879 I didn't have some. I could have gone to college. 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:34.600 I was actually gonna go to Texas A and M University, 0:21:34.680 --> 0:21:37.560 and then you just decided, let's just go for it. Yeah. 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:40.159 I decided, Yeah, why not. I want to play baseball. 0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:41.800 I didn't want to go to school. Yeah, I just 0:21:41.840 --> 0:21:44.040 did it the whole time. Though. You were still going 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:47.080 to night school, right, yeah, still doing that. But to 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:50.320 to study to become a dermatologist, you don't have to 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:52.520 go to college for that. I don't think so. No, 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:57.200 I think it's the one medical fieldlogist. My dermatologist never 0:21:57.200 --> 0:22:00.080 went to school. I know he In fact, he a 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:03.479 double a baseball. Yeah. He was a catcher and you 0:22:03.480 --> 0:22:05.959 have a huge mole. Yeah, I have. I have a 0:22:05.960 --> 0:22:08.960 mole on the back of my neck. I think he 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:13.159 referred to it as a home run. I also have 0:22:13.200 --> 0:22:16.120 a cavity. We have to let that one go. It's 0:22:16.119 --> 0:22:19.080 not as bad as you and and my dentist was 0:22:19.160 --> 0:22:23.399 also a former minor league ball player, so life is 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:27.399 funny that way. Do you have a good dermatologist? Do 0:22:27.440 --> 0:22:31.200 you need one? You should see My guy sounds good 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:35.160 oddly enough. You know what his name is, Sandy. He's 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:38.080 a guy though, he's a guy. Okay, okay, which is 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:41.640 a weird name for a guy. Um, do you ever 0:22:41.680 --> 0:22:45.200 get jocketch. I'm just gonna cut to the chase. I've learned. 0:22:45.240 --> 0:22:49.560 I've learned my lesson. Yeah, um, yeah, you have the 0:22:49.800 --> 0:22:54.720 baby powder is a must. I once got jocketch right, 0:22:55.160 --> 0:22:57.760 and then I made the mistake of scratching my eyes 0:22:57.920 --> 0:23:00.639 and I had jocketch all in my eyes. Oh my god, 0:23:02.320 --> 0:23:05.720 chockic in my eyeballs. Never heard of that. But then 0:23:05.800 --> 0:23:07.720 I went to eat all you can eat sushi. It 0:23:07.760 --> 0:23:10.680 was a hell of a weekend, Oh my god. In fact, 0:23:10.680 --> 0:23:12.320 that was one of the places that had an A rating. 0:23:12.320 --> 0:23:14.320 And they're like, thanks to you, Mr Burgundy, we've gotta 0:23:14.359 --> 0:23:19.920